Asalaamu alaikum guys, welcome to another episode of the open-minded thinker show. Before diving into the subject of Jimmy Fox, I would like to draw your attention to an intriguing aspect of his background. It is worth noting that his parents aren't heir to the Islamic faith, with his father Darren Bishop embracing Islam, an adopter named Shahid Abdullah. Despite being raised in a Baptist Church environment, Fox's connection with Islam runs quite deep. However, let us not make that the focal point of our discussion today. Today we rejoice Jimmy Fox's recovery from a life-threatening emergency has brought joy to the world and jubilation among his fans. Recently he released a heartfelt video message, which I am sure many of you have seen, announcing absolutely his complete recuperation. In the video, Fox chose not to attribute his recovery to Jesus, as one might expect from someone who identifies as Christian. Instead, he repeatedly mentioned God. Before you watch him, let me remind you of what the Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, told, humble bedouin man, the repentant man for the martyr. He said, Our Lord is Allah, the one and only God, the Creator of the heaven and the earth and everything that exists. He is the most merciful and the most compassionate. Don't forget to like and share this video, subscribe if you've not done so already. Check this video out. First of all, I want to say thank you to everybody that's prayed man and sent me messages. I cannot even begin to tell you how far it took me and how it brought me back. I went through something that I thought I would never ever go through. I know a lot of people were waiting or wanting to hear updates, but to be honest with you, I just don't want you to see me like that man. I want you to see me laugh and having a good time partying, cracking a joke, doing a movie, television show. I didn't want you to see me with the tombs running out of me and trying to figure out if I was going to make it through. And to be honest with you, my sister did your diction.  So to them, to God, to a lot of great medical people, I'm able to leave you this video. I cannot tell you how great it feels to have your family kick in in such a way. And y'all know they kept it airtight. They didn't let nothing out. They protected me. And that's what I hoped that everyone could have in moments like these.  But as you can see, as you can see the eyes are working, eyes are working just fine. I said I was paralyzed. I'm not paralyzed.  But I'm coming back and I'm able to work. So I want to thank the people that let me work. And I just want to like say that I love everybody and I love all the love that I got. And man, you know, I know they talk about people crying on videos, you know, you can do take two, but I'm not going to do a take two. This it is what it is. And if you see me out from now on and every once in a while, I just burst into tears is because it's been tough, man. I was sick, man. But now I got my legs under me. So you're going to see me out. But like I said, I just want you to remember me for the jokes that I cracked, the movies that I make, some of them good, some of them may. I think I got a good one out in the songs that I sing, man. And then, you know, somebody was talking about I'm cloned. Well, check this out. Just kidding. Not cloned, man, but I'm here on earth because of some great people. I'm here on earth because of God, man. So I love all y'all. I just want to jump on here and let you know that I'm on my way back in love. Personally, I am delighted that Fox has made it through this ordeal. And I believe his recovery is the result of both medical interventions and the mercy of Allah. He was open and appreciative of this divine intervention. But interestingly, he avoided any mention of Prophet Jesus, vis-à-vis upon him. Despite being a Christian, it's not surprising. Check this out. Just kidding. Not cloned, man, but I'm here on earth because of some great people. I'm here on earth because of God, man. So I love all y'all. I just want to jump on here and let you know that I'm on my way back in love. Frankly, the reason for this choice can be numerous. And it seems unlikely that his church background is a factor as the Baptist Church tradition recognizes the divinity of Jesus as the second person of the Christian Trinity. So I perceive that Fox's understanding of Islamic teachings about Jesus might have influenced his decision. It appears that he sees Jesus as an esteemed prophet favored by God, who performed remarkable miracles by God's power and permission rather than as a deity or part of a larger tree person in one God. Now, let's examine the family aspect of Fox's experience. As we'll listen to the part of the video where he talked about his family, we can observe how his story underscores the significance of the traditional family theology in Islam. And to be honest with you, my sister did your diction.  So to them, to God, to a lot of great medical people, I'm able to leave you this video. I cannot tell you how great it feels to have your family kick in in such a way. And y'all know they kept it airtight. They didn't let nothing out. They protected me. And that's what I hoped that everyone could have in moments like these. Fox's account demonstrates the truth inherent in the preservation and value of the family unit, which is a cornerstone in Islamic teachings. The importance of preserving the family with a father and a mother at his foundation is emphasized by God's divine design. The intimate relationship between spouse, design for procreation and the advancement of human civilization holds great significance. Any ideology, governments or custom that disregard the sacred institution pose an existential threat to humanity itself. Guys, the story of Jamie Foxx serves as a powerful reminder, like a powerful lesson, especially for those with atheistic perspectives. It reminds us that God is alive and continues to work wonders. There is only one true God, Allah, who is neither part of a treaty nor a created being. He is a creator of all. Again, before I draw the curtain, I would like to remind you of what Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him said to a humble Bedouin man, Thaz. Our Lord is Allah, the one and only God, the creator of the heavens and the earth and everything that exists is the most powerful, most merciful and most compassionate. Well, if you appreciate the content we produce, kindly leave a thumbs up on the video as it greatly assists our channel. We encourage you to share your thoughts in the comments section and if you haven't already, please consider subscribing. Until next time, Asalaamu Alaikum.


This first e-lecture, about the phonological differences between received pronunciation and German, mainly discusses the segmental differences and compares the sound systems of RP and modern high German with special emphasis on the difficulties from a German learner perspective. Let us start with a classification of the contrasts between the two sound systems with particular emphasis on the RP-German differences. Most problems for German learners arise from the segmental differences between the two sound systems. These differences can be categorized in the following way. First of all, we can identify inventorial differences. That is, a phoneme or an allophone exists only in either of the two languages. For example, the rounded frontball U in German or the low frontball A in present-day English or even on an allophonic level the dark L in RP. A second group of contrasts can be defined as distributional contrasts. Languages may share the same phoneme, however their allophones are distributed differently. For example, the allophones of the alveolar fricative Sir in RP and German as pointed out here in German, we do not have an allophone in word-initial position. The third group can be referred to as realisational contrasts. Now here the phonemes of the two languages in focus might be similar, however their precise realisation is different. For example, if you look at the low back vowels in RP versus German or the realisation of the R phoneme in both languages. Let us now inspect the segmental differences between both languages in a contrastive manner in order to find out the precise remedial actions to overcome these segmental difficulties at a later stage. Now here is the German system of monophones. In the e-lecture, the sound system of German, we define 16 monophones in standard German presupposing a merger of the two front vowels e and air. So words like berries and bears are homophones that would both be pronounced as Beeren. If we now add the system of RP monophones, you immediately see that their qualities are by and large different from the qualities of the German monophones. The following contrasts can be clearly identified. There are inventory contrasts as pointed out already. There are no rounded front vowels in RP, but that's not a problem for Germans, rather for RP speakers who want to learn German. And then we have, as already mentioned, realisational contrasts. That is, the exact tongue position is different for almost each vowel in German as compared with RP. And finally we have distributional differences, but here we need examples to find out the precise phonetic context of each segment. Let us now look at each RP monophone, listen to its RP value, and produce a worst-case scenario from the point of view of a German learner. That is a scenario with the maximum deviation from the respective RP target value. Now here are the long monophones of RP. The E, as in C, is problematic for German learners in many ways. In RP it is slightly diphthongized, so let's listen. In C, Germans often slightly raise the onset of this. Well, if you wish diphthong and monophone guise it. So just like German E, so the result would be something like C. In an even worse case, the result would be Z, because initial S is absent in German. But we will discuss that later. Here is the next one. The low back vowel is not problematic for Germans. We have few problems with this. Maybe we slightly front the RP value, so in RP it would be bra. And in German it would be something like bra. Now note that I used the German R here, in this case a voiced vela fricative, bra. As I said, the worst case scenario. The next one is the mid back vowel, court. Now this is not problematic for Germans. The quality of this vowel is similar to its short German counterpart in German words like post or boss. So court. Court is not really a problem. Maybe the German value is a little bit lower. In the high back vowel U, we have the same problem as with E. Now in RP it is slightly diphthongised. Germans often slightly raise the onset again and monophone guise it, just like German U. So instead of saying two, most Germans would remember in a worst case scenario come up with two. The last long monophone is really problematic for Germans. It occurs in words such as fur. Now this vowel involves two problems. It doesn't exist in German. Thus a clear cut inventory difference. Instead it is replaced by a rounded front vowel U in many cases. And like all words, with a final orthographical R in German, the offset is the central vowel R in our worst case. So instead of saying fur, Germans might come up with something like fur. And this is a problem. So as a summary the two most problematic long monophones are the two high vowels which are both slightly diphthongised in RP. And the central high vowel which has no German equivalent. Let us now add the short monophones. Now the short E is relatively unproblematic. Sometimes it is made a little bit too high by German speakers of RP since German words like mist, biszt, kind etc. involve a slightly higher short E than the one in RP which is bit. So bit often comes out a little bit higher bit. The next one is the mid vowel E and here bet. Bet is not really a problematic. Most non-native speakers often make it too long or too low. The low front vowel is an enormous problem. This vowel referred to as short A or as ash is a problem for German learners of RP because there is no German equivalent. It should be a low front vowel. Most German learners of present day English however use a mid low A or even a mid high A instead making bad and bad homophones. So this is the target, bat. And this is what many Germans say, bet. Again, bat. Very low. The low back vowel or is not problematic. Since the vowel can be found in German in boss but it is slightly higher in German but the differences can be ignored by enlarge. The short U as in put again is unproblematic for Germans. It is almost identical with its German counterparts in words such as kus or bus. Now the wedge, the low central vowel seems to become more and more centralized in RP approaching the schwa. Many non-natives make it too low. So Germans often come up with something like but using the German central R. However, but it is a little bit higher and backed approaching the schwa as I already said. The last monophon, the central one is unproblematic for Germans theoretically because German has a schwa as well in unstressed position. However, since the word we can see here, letter, letter involves this orthographical R again. Germans are often tempted to replace this by the low central vowel R coming up with a pronunciation such as letter, letter. In summary, the short A or ash is a problem case for Germans. If it is realized with the German mid to mid low vowel as in hetter, numerous homophones will emerge. For example, we would get homophones such as bed versus bad, bet versus bat or take Batman, the famous movie figure, a man who is a bat versus bet men, men who bet which would all be identical for many German learners of RP. So my advice to all Germans is make the short A as low and front as possible. To produce the RP words bat, bad, man, use the German short A as in man rather than the mid high front vowel A as in menna. Let us now turn our attention to the diphthongs of RP and the particular contrasts between RP and German. Both present day English, RP and German have eight diphthongs, among them several upgliding diphthongs. The remaining diphthongs all occur in words with a post-vocalic orthographical R. In RP we have things like near, hair and sure. The examples of modern high German would be tier, tür, tier and tour. Whereas the R triggers a final schwa as diphthongel offset in RP resulting in a true in gliding diphthong. It triggers the central A in German making the diphthong down gliding. So let us look at these diphthongs first. Here is the first one, near versus near. Here is the RP value, near. The next one is hair, hair versus here. Note that the onset would be far too high in German. And here is the last in gliding one. In RP it is sure and Germans would most likely come up with something like schwa. So my advice to all German speakers of RP is try to ignore the orthographical R and its German low realisation. Realise the offset by means of a schwa instead. The remaining diphthongs are all up gliding. Here is the first one. The A say, say. Now this diphthong is problematic for Germans who often use the high long German monothong A instead. So instead of saying say, we would come up with something like see. By the way here in this example the initial S is also problematic. It has no alophon in initial position in German. Thus Germans might even come up with something like see. Because they have problems with words starting in S instead of saying symbol. They would say symbol, zix and super. All these are typical German problems with present day English. The diphthong A is not a problem at all by it almost exists in the same realisation in German. The diphthong OI is also unproblematic because we have a similar case in German. Of the remaining diphthongs, A is also not problematic at all. Now. Now would clearly be realised as now perhaps the onset of that diphthong is a little bit more fronted in German. The remaining one is a problem. In RP it is no. Now this diphthong is problematic because it is often replaced by the long O, the closest German equivalent. As a summary, all ingliding diphthongs are problematic for German learners of RP. The orthographical R triggers the German short R and thus makes the offset too low. Let us finally take a brief look at the consonantal contrasts. Now the comparison of the two consonantal systems can be done systematically using our classification of contrasts. For example, there are a number of inventorial differences. Now one of them is the use of this one here, the z' as in vision. It simply is not used in German as you can see here. Another one concerns the labiovela approximate as in wet, quick and witch. Again, this position would be empty on the German consonantal chart. The dental fricatives are both problematic, so thin and then would be problematic for German learners. So here is another gap in the German system if you compare the two consonantal charts. Now what can Germans do in these cases? Training, animations and constant articulation perhaps as a last resort the replacement by alternative phonemes. So for example there is maybe an ultimate possibility which is not really recommendable, but if nothing else helps you can do it, replace the dental fricatives by the labio dental ones.  So then, then, then, then could you hear the difference? Then, then, then, well almost no audible difference. Well and on the alophonic level there are differences in the realization of the alveolar lateral approximate in German. It has no dark L realization whereas in RP we clearly find the dark L in pill. And a similar case applies to the R where we have an alveolar approximate in RP, but in German we have various possibilities ranging from alveolar trill to uveolar trill and fricatives. These latter problems the R and the L phoneme can also be termed realisational because they both exist in RP as well as in German but the alophonic realization is different. Finally we have some distributional problems and these concern the alveolar fricative where we have no contextual restrictions in RP. In German by contrast the initial alveolar fricative does not exist. As I pointed out earlier on, words such as say, sun, symbol, etc. might be a problem for German learners. A similar case can be found in the realization of this one, the chair, the post alveolar africate, which exists in both languages in English. There is no restriction, no contextual restriction. In German by contrast we only find this in final position in words such as kitsch and match. In initial position it exists, but many Germans don't use it. Instead of saying schächer or schüss, they say schächer or schüss. As a result, if they apply this substitution to English words such as chin and shin would become homophones. Not a very desirable effect. Well, so much for an overview of the segmental contrast between RP and modern high German. In a follow up e-lecture, RP versus German 2, we will first of all summarize these differences here and then discuss and exemplify further problems for German learners of RP. And eventually we will suggest remedial action. See you there.


From the heart of Silicon Valley, it's theCUBE. Covering CloudNOW's seventh annual Top Women Entrepreneurs in Cloud Innovation Awards. Hi, Lisa Martin with theCUBE on the ground at Facebook headquarters. We're here for the seventh annual CloudNOW Top Women Entrepreneurs in Cloud Innovation Awards. Our third time covering this event and we're excited to welcome to theCUBE one of tonight's winners, Masha Sadova, the co-founder of Elevate Security. Masha, welcome to theCUBE. Lisa, thank you so much for having me. It's really great to be here. And congratulations on the award. Thank you, thank you.  You studied, you were a STEM kid back in school, but you had this really interesting experience when you were at Salesforce a few years ago related to security where you went, I think I see one of the things people have been missing where cybersecurity is concerned. Tell us about that aha moment. Yeah, absolutely. So having grown up in the security field, there's this saying that the human is the weakest link. And I personally never believed that. I was like, there's got to be a way of turning this around. And so I stepped back and said, what would it look like if people wanted to do security instead of had to? What would it look like if people were champions for security and not because we made them do it but because each of us were invested in it? And so I took a step back for my computer science and computer security background and dove into the field of behavioral science, positive psychology and game design and started exploring how people think and how we make decisions to see if I can start applying that to security. And would you know it? There's some really amazing findings that I came across in that space. So you were saying before we went on that a pretty significant percentage of breaches are unfortunately caused by us humans. Yeah, something like 95% have something, have a human error related to it.  And if we keep solving it with just technology, we're going to keep ending up making the same mistakes we do. We've been making for decades, but if we look at the human element and why we make mistakes and how we let ourselves learn from them and make better mistakes and also better choices, we can actually move the needle in a really significant way. So Elevate Security co-founded just a couple of years ago. Really impressive with your board. Tell us about your leadership team and the board before we get into the significance of the name. Yeah, absolutely. So it's co-founded by myself and my co-founder Robert Fly. So we have a diverse founding team. And from the very beginning, we believe that embracing our diversity in our hires would be a significant differentiator, not just the way we hire, but also the way we build our product because we're building products for employees of a whole bunch of companies all over the world. And so it was really important to us. And so to date we're 50% women, including our engineering team. And we have an all outside female board of directors, which is a fact I'm really excited to announce today. Excited and proud. So when you had this idea, excuse me, and clearly all of the data show like you said, if we keep throwing technology at the problem of security, we're not gonna solve it. What were the conversations like as a female co-founder going in and trying to get funding for this idea in something as hot of a topic and sensitive as cybersecurity? Yeah, you know, it was challenging, fundraising. I think if you asked any founder, you'd say it would be challenging. I would recommend anybody going to this. Know your stuff and stand up behind it. Know that you have experience and an idea or a brand that brings you to the table, brings something to the table and that you have that behind you. So just because several VCs might say no, it doesn't mean that your idea is not worth fighting for or coming to life. And so it took us a while, but we found a fantastic set of venture partners, Tobacus, who had very similar philosophies in the way. They both raised money and supported entrepreneurship and it's a really exciting, exciting time to have partnered with them. So one of the things you mentioned before we went on it was a card that your mom gave you. I think that's so inspiring and share that with our audience for those who might have a great idea like you did and say, I keep being told no. Yeah, just because it's hard doesn't mean it's not worth doing. If I were to have gotten to the end of my life and I didn't try starting a company, I knew that I was always regretted and that was something I definitely couldn't live without, live with. And the card that my mom sent me, it was in late 2016 and said, a ship is safe in the harbor, but that is not what ships are built for. And I realized I had to do this. I absolutely had to start this company. I had to see where it goes. And I have a unique perspective and a unique set of experiences in the world and ideas about how this really hard problem can be solved. And I want to see it come to life and I have had the opportunity to gather an amazing team around me to help me make that vision come to life and I'm really excited to see where it goes. So in terms of where it's going, humans are sensitive people. When you're talking with companies, whether they're born in the cloud companies or legacy enterprise companies and you're saying, hey guys, it's your people, we're all human, from a cultural response. What's that conversation like? Do they understand it? And how do you help them go from those really, like we were talking about boring videos and training tutorials to actually impacting behavior? Yeah, so there's two schools of thought in security field. It's the people who believe that human element can't be solved, that humans will always make mistakes, so we need to throw as much technology at it as possible. We've been doing that for three decades and it hasn't worked. And honestly, I'm waiting for that generation to move on until we get a new set of ideas in and what I'm seeing is the up and coming set of security leadership coming and saying, you know what, let's try something new. Let's try something different. And I have invested in technology and it hasn't solved it. What if we try a different approach? And the thing is, security people aren't known for our human expertise. We're great at a lot of other things, but not human expertise. And so bringing in things like behavioral science, which is known for understanding how and why we make decisions, is a perfect combination to solve this problem that to date has been unsolvable because we really haven't been bringing in expertise outside of our field, which on the topic of diversity is exactly what we need. Exactly. So what are you looking forward to as we are just about finishing the first month of 2019? Oh yeah, so we'll be at RSA at the end of February, early March, speaking about our brand new product, Snapshot. But I'm also really excited to continue hiring out our team. We are hiring tons of engineers. So if anyone is looking, please send me... Where can they go? ElevateSecurity.com ElevateSecurity.com. Yeah, and so continuing to build out our team in San Francisco and in Montreal. Congratulations on the award on this really innovative idea bringing in behavior to security. We appreciate your time and look forward to seeing more of what you guys are about to do. Thank you so much. Congratulations. We want to thank you for watching The Cube. I'm Lisa Martin on the ground at Facebook. See you next time.


20, we came up with the idea of testing a modular composting system that would capture the CO2, moisture, heat, and nutrients that are usually lost from a compost pile and drive those under a grow bed to help plants grow during the fall, winter, and spring here in Wisconsin. We'll get into the background of this idea in a minute, but what follows is the run of this test over the next two years. We started out calling this hot box composting, but as you'll see, we ran into some pitfalls and some successes and then some more pitfalls as the system was being tested, rebuilt, and tested again. I hope that the information here will be helpful to somebody who wants to use a compost system to its fullest potential in terms of energy in and energy out. This is Low Tech Video Number 26, I'm Scott Johnson, and I run the Low Technology Institute where we research ways in which we can live in a future less dependent or not dependent at all on fossil fuels. You can hear more about what we do in our podcast, that's the Low Tech Podcast, also found on YouTube or wherever you find your podcast. Or you can go directly to our website, lowtechinstitute.org for more. But to start talking about our composting study, we need to have a little bit of a story time first. So once upon a time, eight or so years ago, when I was thinking about creating the Low Tech Institute, I was looking around to find similar organizations that combined research and hands-on experimental learning and testing. And I found something called the New Alchemy Institute, which was founded in 1969 by John Todd, Nancy Jack Todd, and William McLarney to research human-scaled systems of food, water, and shelter. They were ahead of their time and tested a lot of great ideas on their 12-acre research farm out on Cape Cod. They were doing aquaculture in the 1970s, something that didn't really catch on elsewhere until recently. What you're seeing behind me here is a clip from a documentary film from the Film Board of Canada called The New Alchemists, which I'll link to in the show notes. It provides a postcard from this research outpost in the 1970. It's really cool. One of the things that they studied at the New Alchemy Institute was a composting greenhouse. Now, compost has been used to heat greenhouses for as long as there have been greenhouses. It's long been understood that composting manure is a ready source of free heat and moisture. And before the advent of fossil fuels, there was a lot more horse and cow manure available for growers to use as compost. What the New Alchemist greenhouse did was create 12 large composting bays on the north side of a greenhouse, which ran east to west. Every few days, they would empty and refill two bays with fresh manure or compost feedstock. Instead of turning the compost piles by hand with a pitchfork, like most of us do or at least try to do, they used what is called an aerated static pile, which is essentially perforated pipes underneath the compost bin that pushes fresh air into the pile. The reason we need to turn compost is to put fresh oxygen into the system so that the thermophilic or heat-producing bacteria can continue to go to work. If we don't turn our piles, they start to stink because anaerobic decomposition has set in, creating methane and ammonia. As the blower motor pushes fresh air through the aerated static pile on top of the compost systems, heat, moisture, and carbon dioxide are pushed out of it. And these are exactly the things that plants need to grow, especially in the winter up here in Wisconsin. What New Alchemy did was seal the bays off with custom-built grow beds that absorb the heat, moisture, and carbon dioxide through a bit of wood chips and then soil, releasing all of that beneficial materials directly into the plant's roots and underside of the leaves where the CO2 can be absorbed. To do this, though, they had to build a large custom-built greenhouse with a permanently installed set of bays, blower motors, and other infrastructure. What I wanted to do was create a modular version of this that market gardeners could bring into their greenhouses in the fall, grow greens all winter, and then remove again in the spring to open up more space for their usual growing activities. My first idea was what I called the hot box. So I imagine a cube measuring four feet on each side. On top of the cube is a rich bed in which greens are growing. The soil is watered and fertilized from below. Plus, carbon dioxide would seep up in the soil. The soil is warm, even though this box would have been in an uninsulated greenhouse. Inside the box is a yard of compost waiting for use in the spring. This was my central idea for hot box composting. We wanted to run a series of control tests to determine the best practices with the system, including determining the optimum aeration of the compost, ideal carbon to nitrogen ratios, moisture content, and other variables related to the system. So in the spring of 2021, this project got underway with funding from USDA's Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Grant Program. I did take a lot of footage of how the boxes were put together, and I'm playing those now. And I could go into great detail showing how they were built. But with a little bit of hindsight, I don't think this is necessary because although the idea was great on paper, I ran into a number of problems with this setup that make it essentially not worth trying. If anyone out there wants to build some for themselves and test them out, I'm glad to give you more information about how they were built. But just get in touch with me. My email is scott at lowtechinstitute.org. But essentially, these were boxes that were calculated to hold about one cubic yard of compost. We had two versions, one with an insulated stud wall, skinned with double wall corrugated poly and plywood exterior. The other was a tongue and groove single wall construction. Both were mounted on pallets so they could be picked up by a forklift or tractor and moved in and out of greenhouses, barn sheds, whatever easily. Both had a hinge mounted door on the front that I thought would allow for easy filling of compost feedstock and emptying finished manure. At the bottom of each compost bay was a four inch perforated PVC pipe to introduce air from the blower motor. Also jabbed into the compost feedstock were perforated one inch PVC pipes to allow offgassing of CO2 moisture and heat. The boxes were topped with a grow bed consisting of a half inch hardware cloth, floor supported by compost rafters, which I used because wooden rafters would have been composted in a season and rotted away. The lower portion of the grow bed was filled with wood chips, which would hold ammonia and methane friendly bacteria that would break it down into nitrates, which are more usable for plants. On top of the wood chip bed was a soil which would hold the plants. I built six each of each version of the box, which was a challenge because if you remember back to the spring of 2021, two by four prices, for example, had risen to over $12 a piece, which was not really priced into my initial budget. But I was able to build all the boxes on budget and on time, which was a shock to me, especially the on time part. If I had to modify, I had to modify the design to use less two by fours and other materials to stay on target. I spent the summer filling the boxes with various feedstocks from grass clippings and leaves to metagrass mowed down in a neighboring field. I experimented with various blower settings, which moved air through the piles anywhere from every 15 minutes to every hour, depending on the settings. Over the summer, I learned that smaller, fairly densely packed compost feedstock was performing best. With a nitrogen carbon ratio somewhere between 1 to 20 or 25 or 30, which is pretty typical of most composting systems, I did find that I had to add about five gallons of water per week to keep each box hydrated. Otherwise, the moisture was lost due to evaporation from the heat and constant movement of air. The plants growing on top didn't know better or worse for all this work, but it was summer and I really didn't expect the plants to need extra heat or moisture. And then came the fall and the real beginning of the test. The summer was mostly used just to get me used to the system and how it functioned. So I built a greenhouse and moved six of the hot boxes into it. I was expecting to move six hot boxes to the Parisi family farm later in the fall for a field test, but in short order, it became apparent that these were not functioning very well. First of all, getting enough compost feedstock was very difficult in the winter until we found that the three gates stable had a plentiful horse manure and bedding that they need to get rid of regularly. So even with the weekly influx of a yard of manure, we could not get the composting cycle started in cold weather. Because the boxes were only able to hold the yard at a time, a critical threshold of volume was difficult to meet. I tried pouring hot water into the compost to get started, but the manure just froze solid and refused to compost. Additionally, the boxes proved more difficult to load and unload than expected. I had forgotten to consider how much weight the grow bed would have had when propping open the lid to allow easier access. Because of these two reasons, this size of a hot box does not seem to be a viable way forward. Perhaps one could work that holds two yards, but such a large box would be difficult to move around without a forklift. And these boxes alone required a reasonable amount of resources to build a lot of labor. They were just more trouble than they're worth just to have a mobile unit. One might as well build a custom greenhouse like the new alchemist had instead. So as I struggled through this first winter, I had plenty of time to think of a better way. And instead of trying to downsize what the new alchemist had done into a modular unit, why not take the concept and build up from a more user-friendly design? So I started thinking about how I would design an aerated static pile to run without consideration of capturing the off gases for future use in a bed. And the idea of using simple composting bays like a typical medium scale composting setup came to mind. This is the beginning of a system that I've redesigned to try out this winter where it's built into the ground but it can be taken up into the summer and stored away with not a lot of space. All of these parts come apart. They can just be tucked together in a corner, in a barn or another outbuilding. And then in the winter, you could build them again very quickly in an afternoon. So basically what I'm doing right now today is putting together the plenum that distributes the air from the pump and then I'm going to put wood chips. And then on top of that bed of wood chips, I will put a pallet and that pallet is then gonna get wire on it to help keep everything above it. And then basically we'll have four bins because it takes about four weeks to work through the compost. And then each bin will be covered with compost and then air will be pumped up underneath. Now to catch that air, it's going to have a bladder or a tarp over it with a perforated flexible pipe that will then be directed into a grow bed. So we'll still have the grow bed but the grow bed will be in the ground. And so in a greenhouse where this is a modular seasonal thing, you could keep that pipe in the ground all summer and then in the winter, when you're ready to set this back up, you can reuse that pipe system. So it would take a very minimal install in your greenhouse. Okay, so I've filled this thing up with four yards of horse manure on some of the hottest days of the year. So that's been super fun. What I have here is a pile with, these are PVC pipes with sluts drilled in them and they are to help increase the airflow out of the center of the pile. These can get kind of dense and heavy. And so I've taken these PVC pipes and cut them, they're two feet long, and I put them down when it's halfway filled and then fill it up the rest of the way. And this allows moisture to escape in this morning. We saw all the moisture coming out of them in the sunlight. And then up top this, this is the intake for the pipe that will go under the grow bed. So this is corrugated and punctured drain tile pipe that's attached to the top here. Not only will this intake the moisture, ammonia, nitrogen, CO2 and heat coming out of this pile, but it also, being up top here, will help protect the tarp from resting on this wood that may have sharp edges. All right, so this is what drives this system. This is a Bair, B-A-I-R blower, Kodiak power KP1. It's a one horsepower 3250 RPM inflatable bouncy castle blower. And what this does is it cycles on, well, it cycles on every half an hour for a minute, although you can vary that and really depending on how much and what stage of compost you have, you need to vary it more. The more oxygen you put in, the faster that reaction in your compost is. The more oxygen the microbes have, the faster they turn it to compost. But the more air you put in, the more you cool it down. So those thermophilic or those heat-loving bacteria get chilled every time that you pump cold air in there. So this is especially true in the winter. In the winter, you might wanna use some preheated air from somewhere, if possible. But basically there's a balance and you have to find that balance and you have to experiment with that balance with your own setup. So right now what I'm gonna do is turn this on and it's going to blow air, I'll follow it with the camera through the plenum into the compost pile and then up. Right now I don't have the tarp over it so it's gonna gas into the atmosphere, but let's see. I can actually feel hot air coming out of this port. So it's definitely pushing air through the pile which is a good sign, I want that to be happening. And here I have, and here I've got what regulates this one, tells you how long it's on, so that's just one minute. And this says how often, this is every 30 minutes. You can also set it just to work at night or day, whatever, I have it on during 24 hours. When I plug this in, it should kick on and then I'm gonna cover it and this will be protected from the rain. You can use a five gallon bucket or whatever you want. That should keep out pretty much all the rain. So every half hour, this comes on, puts fresh air in there. This traps all the nitrogen, the CO2, the heat, the moisture all in this and then around the back it comes out of this port. So let's take a look. And then right here you can't feel it, but I can, here comes a good amount of air out. Nice, warm, moist air. Smells like compost. Around the bottom, I've put weight with logs and then I've covered it with soil to help seal this all in. That goes all the way around. So now I'm gonna attach this pipe, force all this air to go into the grow bed. Now that all that heat and moisture and nitrogen well it's done here, I'm gonna get a longer extension pipe so it doesn't have to go over the top like that. Comes down under this mulch. And so if we excavate out down to the pipe, we should be feeling and smelling a little bit of, oh yeah, I can feel the air coming in and push through. So that's exactly what we want. Wood chips, compost. Now this bed is getting all that moisture and nitrogen. So it was modular and it was more user-friendly since the tarp simply could just be pulled back. I didn't have to lift those heavy grow beds. I could just lift the tarp back and pull a trailer right up to the bays. It would also solve the problem of a critical mass of heat to get the compost system started since the bays shared walls and covered space with one another, the already running compost heaps could bring the temperature of the new feedstock up really, really efficiently. So I built and tested this new system thanks to a no-cost extension from the SAIR grant agency staff, so thank you them for that. I ran the system using manure all through the summer of 22. That system was very consistent and I was able to get measurements of heat, moisture, carbon dioxide, and other gases throughout the summer. So each week I come out here and I test. This is the old configuration. I'll show you the new configuration in a minute. But I popped the vent off and I put in two testers. This is a methane tester, which is currently showing zero parts per million. Today is August 28th. So I test this twice. Right now I call it passive. The bladder isn't full. When the motor runs and it puffs with air, I'll test it again just to see if I get a different reading. But right now I have zero parts per million methane. And you can hear the beeping and the crowing. The beeping is my CO2, which has maxed out. I've maxed out my CO2 parts per million. The temperature is 27, 5, and 99% humidity. So it's a little warmer than it has been and we've maxed out the CO2. So if you think about this, your compost pile is putting out large amounts of CO2, which is a greenhouse gas. Composting is actually adding to global warming. Any breaking down of carbon will add to global warming. But so what I'm doing is capturing that CO2 and pushing it under a garden bed where hopefully it's a little bit more used by the plants and things before it gets put into the atmosphere. I don't really know how much that's happening. I'd have to do a CO2 test. Anyway, beep, beep, beep, sorry about that. All right, so now we're gonna puff this and let it run through the, oh, perfect timing. Usually I have to cycle it myself. Temperature has heated up because it's pushed some of the heat out. I've lost, I've let in my pencil. All right, so I'll write that down here in a minute. Yeah, so each week I do this, as well as take internal temperatures. So I'll show you how I do that now. And now I'm gonna come through and measure directly the temperature of each pile. These were put in, that was put in two weeks ago, one week ago, four weeks ago, three weeks ago. So I just keep moving through and cycling these out with my new horse manure. So in theory, that should be the lowest temperature. I take both a compost thermometer, pH, almost a PhD, a pH tester and I'm hoping for something under 120. But I also have digital, if I can find it. So this is the digital thermometer saying 139. This is saying 112. So this I need to put into a, this I need to put into a Ziploc bag because it is, I've lost some due to water. All right, now to close this thing up. I have a trench, a trench here in front, that's full of manure on the sides. Just clean out this trench a little bit. The trick is to get this bladder airtight and you need a certain critical mass of compost to do it. So the way I found to do it that works best for me is to bring this corner around and lay it down. So now that's down in there. Same thing on this side. So I leave kind of like a U-shaped trough. Now, pull down the front and I continue to keep that trough shape so I can seal this all in. Otherwise the air escapes and you have blowouts and you lose all your precious carbon dioxide and nitrogen and heat and moisture. So, okay, and now I put these heavy pieces of wood down in there and help kind of hold it. All right, and now to seal this in, I liberally apply compost to fill in that trench. All right, let's give it a run and see if it holds. This is gonna stay inflated as it pushes all this CO2, nitrogen, heat, moisture through that pipe that comes out the back that I just reinstalled and into this grow bed. And that, just over here. So this garden bed is unplanted. But for the winter, what I'm gonna do is cover this over with a small greenhouse enclosure and then plant this. And then the heat from this compost will be blown in here constantly throughout the winter to hopefully keep the temperature up a little above ambient. I'm also gonna have to put in an intake pipe for my blower that runs through the compost because I found last winter, if I just sucked in ice cold air and it's 20 below, you're putting minus 20 degree Fahrenheit air into a compost pile, it drops that microbial activity and it drops the composting activity significantly. So you gotta preheat your air. So yeah, like I said, what I'm gonna do is run a pipe just right through that bladder and the intake then will take in warmer air to pass into the compost. So it won't cool down quite so much. I might also have to vary my blower motor speed. I found that in hot weather, I have to run the blower a little more often to maintain optimum's heat in the piles.  In the winter, I might have to run it less often because that microbial activity needs time to get its heat back up. So it's a little bit of an interplay and takes a little bit of finicky fiddling for wherever you are in your low local conditions. Right now this meter's running at 30 seconds every 30 minutes. I found when I ran it for a full minute, it was too much pressure and I got a lot of blowouts. So right now, like I said, I'm running it for a maximum of 30 seconds. If I need to vary the amount of air that's coming in there, I will put it on a faster periodicity so it will run every 15 minutes, 10 minutes, whatever, rather than a longer run because the longer run blows out this bladder. In the fall, I was able to install a new version at the Parisi family farm for testing in the winter of 22-23. The only changes I made between my first version of the system and the new one was that I did not try and put the corrugated off-gassing pipe through the tarp because that created a point of failure that I had to try and attach the tarp to the corrugated pipe. It made a mess. Instead, I just routed the pipe underground into the grow beds adjacent to the composting system. And here's a perforated pipe 16 feet long with a T in the middle that will come out of the off gases from the compost pile here, letting all the nitrogen, carbon dioxide, heat and moisture into a grow bed. I'm gonna cover this up with wood chips now. Now the wood chips cover up the pipe so that when the nitrogen and other gas-containing gases come out, they go through this wood chip pile which will become inoculated with good microbes that help convert things into plant-usable nutrients. And now I've used some scrap timber to spike down the tarp. It's gonna cover this whole thing. The new configuration, the grow beds were built right next to the ground, or next to the bladder on the ground with perforated drain tile covered by wood chips used to diffuse the gas and absorb any nitrates and convert them into nitrates. This whole thing was covered by six inches of soil for holding the plants, of course. So let's talk a little bit about what we found out. We were excited to have temperature monitors, taking readings every 15 minutes inside these boxes and we were excited to see what was going to happen. So we were excited to see what was going to happen taking readings every 15 minutes inside these boxes and inside the later system. But as you can imagine, little electronic devices being kept at 150 degrees, 99% humidity for months on, and really just meant we had little plastic electronic bricks. Before long, even buying new ones and sealing them in bags didn't help. Luckily, we had been monitoring our data with other means and can certainly report some of our findings here. Let's start with temperature. Even though the digital thermometers eventually failed due to heat and moisture, I had been comparing the monitor's temperature to an analog compost thermometer inserted into the piles each week when we were emptying and filling. And I found that the inserted thermometer was within a degree or two of the digital ones. So luckily, I had been recording the temperature of each pile each week manually as a backup because I used to work field projects and don't trust electronic systems. Instead of having just data recorded every 15 minutes, we only had data recorded every week. But the temperature rise and fall were slow and steady and therefore we can still create trend lines and talk about compost heat profiles. The system produced textbook compost pile temperature curves. As you can see here in the figure, each well-documented temperature curve is shown in gray and is partially transparent. So where the curve is darker, that means multiple curves are overlapping, meaning it's in a more common occurrence. Essentially, the darker the area in the graph, the more common the reading. We can see that the manure was emptied into the bins more or less at ambient temperature between 60 and 80 degrees Fahrenheit. And within a week or two, the pile would hit its maximum of about 160 degrees. And this is where the bacteria and microorganisms responsible for composting begin to shut down at that high temperature. It would hold at this temperature for at least a week or two before a slow fall off over the next three weeks. And by the time we're emptying the bins four to six weeks later, it's down to about 120 degrees. We also measured the temperature of the air inside the bladder, which was also warm as the piles breathed out into this confined space. And although the air being blown out of the piles would have been over 120 degrees, it was moderated by the ambient temperature of the outdoors. The bladder skin, which was really just an impermeable tarp, was only insulated by the addition of a second tarp on top, creating a bit of an airspace. So the warm, moist air coming out of the piles quickly condensed on the inside surface and cooled. The air being blown out of the bladder into the grow beds, averaged between 60 and 70 degrees Fahrenheit, compared to the ambient temperature that was down often in the mid-30s or 20s. So unlike the new alchemy setups, we lost a lot of heat through the bladder. The new alchemy setup had grow beds on top of the bins, collecting that heat passively. And this is one downside that could be potentially attenuated by a better insulating blanket over the bladder perhaps. We also measured humidity. And there isn't much to say about humidity since it was basically 99% pretty much all the time. As long as I was keeping the piles wet and as long as the compost was active, humidity hit 99%. Water was one of our limiting factors and we had to pour five to 10 gallons of water each week into each bay to avoid stalling the composting process. And once we figured this out, composting functioned very smoothly. In the hot boxes, the moisture did rise up and collect on the grow beds, but in the tarp covered model, the moisture often collected on the tarp and then dropped back onto the compost, which actually allowed us to put in slightly less water into the bays as compared to the boxes since the microorganisms that drive composting had as much oxygen as they needed. Water was our limiting factor. Also in the bladder, moisture getting up into the air could then be more distributed between the four adjacent bays rather than in the individual boxes where it was they only had to depend on them or could only depend on themselves. Now I say that the microorganisms had enough oxygen and I know that because we never found much for methane or ammonia present. We used a combustible gas sniffing detector and never found anything over one part per million. Actually, we never found anything. So this suggests that our composting system was functioning completely aerobically. And although this is good as methane is 25 times more potent than other carbon dioxide for global warming, it does not transmit much in the way of nitrogen to the plants through the air. And that nitrogen was going somewhere though and it was into the compost itself. We sent off a sample of our manure to the University of Wisconsin, soil and forage analysis lab in Madison. And we learned that our composted horse manure had about 8.32 pounds of total nitrogen per ton. That amount didn't change after 72 hours of further composting suggested that we had completely composted our feedstock. In that same time, we would get 6.35 pounds of phosphorus, 1.85 pounds of potassium plus 1.15 pounds of sulfur. It also had a whole bunch of minerals. And in the end, we could consider this compost to be a one to 0.76 to one compost as far as those composting ratios go. Now, each week, we also measured the carbon dioxide levels in the air within the bladder. And again, it maxed out the sensor at 10,000 parts per million, which is twice as high as OSHA's exposure limit. So as long as the compost piles were fully functioning, the carbon dioxide production was more than plentiful. And actually I made the joke, and obviously this is a joke, that I said, you know, don't mess with me. In my backyard, I have a composting system that will asphyxiate you, right?  And then what would happen, the compost would break down your body and in a month, you'll have completely ceased to exist. A little bit of an exaggeration. And obviously I was joking, I would never do that. But it's a fairly, it could be a lethal system is what I'm saying. So it's a little bit of care is needed. You don't want it to go into the bladder and be closed up in there. You would asphyxiate pretty quickly. So when we were just getting the system online during the first week or two and we just had a couple of bays working, we would see carbon dioxide levels in the four, between four and 7,000 parts per million. But quickly it went over 10,000. We also did test our grow beds but because of the difficulty we had in getting the systems up and running smoothly, we were far behind in the season to effectively test this component of our study. We did anecdotally transplant some bok choy into our grow beds at the Parisa Family Farm but these died and it's unclear if it was due to transplant shock, winter exposure or overexposure to carbon dioxide because we didn't have a huge amount of growing beds to absorb the amount of carbon dioxide being produced.  And that may have been what happened that we don't know without further testing. We did end up with what worked out to be best practices for our system in our location but keep in mind that these may be different for you and warmer, colder locations or different amounts or types of feedstock. So for us, we found a blower which is a bee air, one horsepower, a 1,170 cubic foot per minute inflatable castle blower. Could be run for 30 seconds every 20 minutes in the summer, 25 seconds every 25 minutes in the fall and spring and then 20 seconds every 30 minutes in the winter. If we blew any more in the winter, it would introduce too much cold air. If, however, your recycling air already warmed from a greenhouse, you could probably blow at a higher level. We had to add at least five gallons per week to each pile, especially in the summer as things ran a little hotter. We found that horse manure with straw and sawdust bedding was already the perfect mixture of nitrogen and carbon for our needs, since horses really don't digest their food as thoroughly as cows. There's quite a lot of carbon in their manure. But if one were using cow manure, for example, you'd have to throw a lot more carbon in on top, I suggest, I suspect. So we found that manure needed about four weeks in the composting bin to be largely spent and then another month outside in the pile with other manure with previous weeks to cool off or to finish itself off before putting on crops to avoid burning them with excess nitrogen. So if we are going forward and wanted to continue to use the modular type of composting system to capture the heat and moisture and carbon dioxide from the compost for winter growing, we do have some recommendations. The first is install an automatic watering system. Maybe even a moisture sensor at the bottom of each pile, which is where they dry out first because the dryer is coming in. Maybe a drip hose or something at the bottom of each pile to provide moisture on an automatic basis would help further stabilize these systems and make them less to do each week. Second, with more time to experiment with the amount of air being blown in, we could probably throttle it down until we start to see the production of a methane or ammonia, meaning that we're starting to get some anaerobic digestion, meaning we're getting, we're a little short on oxygen. And then turn the blower up just a little bit so that you're getting just enough air. Just enough air is absolutely necessary to keep the system aerobic. This would help increase the heat and efficiency of the composting because every time the blower turns on in excess of what it needs, it cools down the compost pile, which then has to regenerate the heat. It's inefficient, plus it's an extra waste of energy. Third, we did experiment with using a temperature sensor to turn on and off the blower, but we found that the sensor was not consistent enough due to difficulty in placing it. We tried putting it in the air inside the bladder, but that was too variable. We tried putting it inside the compost pile, but the internal variability of the pile itself and the small sensor could not capture what was really going on. And then we would go for long periods of the blower off or on and it would just bring the system out of whack. So it was better just to adjust the blower seasonally like I described before. Fourth, we determined that the carbon dioxide levels on the bladder was the best indicator of the system's health. And if one wanted to put an alarm on the system that indicated CO2 levels below 10,000 parts per million, you could be alerted to a system that wasn't functioning properly and needed probably more water, more airflow or more feedstock. But really, after testing the system out, I think the real solution is to just build a permanently installed composting system within the north side of a greenhouse. By building permanently, you can have a lot more control over how the system works and pushing air right into the grow beds with less wasted heat. So I wanna thank Earl Bernhard at the Green Center, which succeeded the New Alchemy Institute and Peter Moon of O2 Compost for both their technical advice during this project. And of course, none of this would have been possible without USDA's sustainable agricultural research and education grant funding. So thank you to the reviewers and the staff of that program. Thanks so much for watching and listening. Please feel free to ask questions in the comments. Reach out to me again. I'm Scott at lowtechinstitute.org. Find out more about what we're doing at our website, lowtechinstitute.org, or through our social media channels. We're on Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, as you can tell. So anyway, thanks a lot for watching. Take care.


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Welcome to JSA TV and JSA Podcasts, the newsroom for telecom and data center professionals. I'm Barb Mitchell, coming to you from ITW 2020. Joining me today, we have three special guests from NJFX. We've got Felix Sada, general manager of NJFX, Sarah Kurtz, business development manager of NJFX and Amanda Cadence, sales and marketing, summer intern. Thanks for joining us, all three of you. We appreciate having you. And I know that, you know, we're always so excited to hear all the amazing news coming out of the New Jersey Fiber Exchange NJFX and Felix, I was wondering if you could just kick things off by telling us some of the big news you may be ready to share at ITW this year. Yeah, absolutely. One of the biggest things that we're announcing at ITW this year is the fact that CenturyLink is now setting up shop at NJFX.  And we'll be at NJFX to also work with the subsea capacity from the multiple subsea cables that we have here at the the landing station. So we're really excited to have them on board. And I think it's a great news for our growing ecosystem. And hopefully we can kind of utilize this as a springboard to for the rest of 2020. Right. And you mentioned your growing ecosystem of carriers and subsea providers, always growing. I know that NJFX is uniquely known as a carrier neutral CLS, actually one of the few of those in the world. Tell us what that means for your ecosystem. Yeah, absolutely Barb. So at NJFX, since our inception back in 2015, we've tried to build up this one stop shop for all of our customers. So that idea is to kind of create a marketplace so that all of our carriers, enterprises, OTT, whoever it may be, can come to NJFX, interconnect with one another to strengthen their network. So whether it's using our terrestrial backhaul providers or one of the four subsea cables, we like to serve as this kind of optimal hub for all of our customers. Great. And I think we have Amanda here today. And I think maybe we can talk about this, the obviously NJFX is helping millennials build careers in the data center telecom space, leading the charge to encourage young people in their career paths, such an important initiative. Can you tell us a little bit about how this is working? Yeah, so you know, in this time of COVID-19, many internships have been shortened or even canceled. So the fact that NJFX has actually given me the opportunity to have this virtual position for the summer is very cool. And I think it's very adaptive that they've been able to create this position. So the NJFX team has basically included me in a variety of different assignments and projects of their daily routine. For example, I've sat in on company meetings, sales calls, I've been able to learn how to craft social media and website posts to promote new customers, upcoming events, etc. I've been involved in taking parts in seminars like this and creating video projects. So it's a lot of new valuable knowledge that I'm gaining. And it's been a great experience. Wow, what an amazing opportunity and experience. How great that NJFX is supporting this. I just think that's just fantastic.  It's not easy, you know, kind of getting accustomed to this new world. And, you know, I commend her for being open to this opportunity. And, you know, NJFX, as an organization, we're really focused on driving new leaders and creating that next generation for the industry as a whole. Sarah and myself, we've done a few different things. We've created this millennials and telecom event that we utilize as a springboard to help generate a forum for leaders, young leaders in the industry looking to find their voice and look for opportunities to grow within the industry. And now we're also utilizing that as a springboard. And we're working with the suboptic group in their diversity and inclusion program. And the focus on that is the same type of initiative, right? It's working with different organizations and members of the industry who are focused on the diversity and inclusion, obviously, but also growing out that next generation of leaders within the subsea industry, telecom industry, content industry, everything that sort of encompasses what we do.  And I think it'll be a great thing for our industry moving forward. So obviously having Amanda on board and being a part of this and seeing what we're doing helps a lot, right? And the hope is that we can continue doing this and utilizing our ability to sort of promote and generate that new leadership in the coming years. That's fantastic. It really is. It's so refreshing to hear this and so important, as you said, for the industry as a whole, as we sort of build toward the future. What an amazing initiative to hear about. Can you tell us just sort of in closing, I guess, what, I mean, there's always so many things happening with you guys. What's up, you know, for the remaining of the year? What's coming next? Yeah, absolutely. So, I mean, I guess first and foremost is the arrival of Haferu AEC2, the newest transatlantic subsea system that's coming on board fairly shortly. And obviously that will be landing at NJFX and providing direct connectivity to Denmark, Norway, and Ireland. And with other older subsea systems going away, such as TAT-14 and some of the older systems that are reaching their end of life in the next coming years, this new Haferu AEC2 subsea system is going to be a major piece in terms of shifting the subsea connectivity landscape between the US and Europe. And I'll just add, I know we've spoken about our ecosystem, and as we're always trying to grow that, now we kind of, now that we have this great community of carriers, we're looking to add some enterprises to our ecosystem. And with that, one of the verticals I'm working with is some of the US financials, so providing them with whether it's their international connectivity or diversity and resilience on their network or IP transit, we're looking to kind of move some of them into the building and start collaborating with our carriers. Wow, such great updates. We can't wait to see how this all unfolds and celebrate with you as further announcements come out. So thank you. Thank you all of you for joining us today. And thank you viewers for tuning in to JSA-TV and JSA Podcasts. Happy networking.


You've talked about best player available and I know that's music to ears and a lot of people that are your Falcon fans and Balancing that Terry with the ability to pick a guy that you actually need and I know that you're not going to pass up Someone's going to strengthen a position even if you already have a good player there You've mentioned that before how do you bow how do you strike that balance? Not just in the first round, but some of those core guys are going to be very important to you as you get Into the second and third day And even your free agency, how do you balance that as far as taking best player available and or a need player? The critical part is having that discipline and actually doing that actually move forward with that And the first part of that is free agency and making sure we work as hard as possible To feel some needs in free agency because when you feel when you're able to feel some needs in free agency Then that in the draft that allows you to really have that discipline to really take the best players on the board So I think that's the first aspect and we're going to be faced with free agency And we're going to work hard to really drill down on these players and spend a lot of time with the coaches Evaluating these players and bringing in some players that fit some specific needs And if we're able to do that then as we get into the draft look We have to be disciplined regardless of what we get in free agency But that's just when you're able to hit some needs in free agency that allows you to be more disciplined as you get Into the draft because it's all human nature And we have the needs in the back of our mind, but we have to make sure that we're disciplined in that area Conversations you and Arthur have had about scheme about how you want to tackle offensively and defensively Tickets behind the window or behind the curtain a little bit and talk to us a little bit about how those Conversations gone as you begin to blind blend your ideas together is what this team is gonna look like We've had a lot of those conversations not only with author But with with Dave we're going regarding the offense Marquis Williams regarding special teams and DPs Regarding the defense and it's really fun having those conversations Do you look at a guy like Dean peas and all the great players? He's coached and and Marquis and and and Dave they're really smart guys really intelligent just like the head coach is so it's fun having those conversations of of Exactly what they need and we're gonna have more of those conversations with with the scouting staff pro-staff college staff Them saying hey, this is the profile of what we're looking for at this position and now that being said We all we also understand that we're looking for smart tough highly competitive football players That with the right makeup, but also with the right skill set So we're looking for good players and it's about getting the right 53 So our coaches understand that hey, we're gonna go find some good athletes And and let's figure out a way to utilize them and we know our coaches are gonna maximize them So there's that balance of hey, let's let's find players that fit what we're looking for But we're also looking for good football players and that's what's important


friends welcome back to my channel and welcome if you are new here we are here for another weekly WW grocery haul this week I shopped at Fred Meyer which is my local Kroger store and I picked up so many good things and I'm so excited about what I am making for my meal plan and meal prep for the upcoming week so if you want to see my groceries what I have in store for my meal plan and my meal prep just keep watching so here's my grocery haul for the week this week I shopped at my local Fred Meyer which is also a Kroger store so let me show you what I picked up for the week what is not shown is a couple of 20 packs of Diet Coke for my husband so let's jump right in to this week's grocery haul I picked up another container of my favorite carb master milk this is a Kroger product this milk is amazing it is one smart point for a serving it is the low-fat ultra-filtered milk it is so good it's just like regular milk so it's nice to have on hand for recipes or if you're just craving some just traditional milk and then of course another fat-free ready whip I bought two last week and I still have a full one so this is my backup so that I don't run out you know that's a big deal to me so another container of my fat-free ready whip also non-fat half-and-half this is for a recipe and I also like to put this in my coffee when I use my equal sugar packets or if I brew a second cup of coffee for the day I'll put a splash of this in it for zero smart points five non-fat Greek yogurt this is for my breakfast for the week I am making a yogurt bowl which you'll see in my meal plan and meal prep that will go over at the end of this video also some mild paced salsa this was on sale for 99 cents so I picked it up just to have on hand in the event that we need salsa for a dinner recipe and I may make a salsa chicken in my crock pot so picked up the pace mild also grabbed too large and one small can of chunk like tuna my husband was requesting tuna fish sandwiches for the week so this is a great deal if you buy the large cans and a small can it can make enough tuna to last throughout the week also a big can of crushed tomatoes this is for an upcoming dinner recipe you know I love my hunts also I needed two cans of great northern beans I really like this simple truth organic brand their beans are so good so I picked up two cans of the great northern and then a can of the diced green chilies fire roasted I got the big can because the recipe actually called for two cans so this was a better deal and it's just one large can which is equal to two cans for less money if that makes any sense and then I had a coupon for a simple true spice so I went ahead and grabbed another garlic powder I'll just put this in my pantry as a backup this is the one spice I use a lot of and a good quality garlic powder makes a huge difference also like some real bacon bits this is for a recipe and then I also like to put this on salads or baked potatoes and then eggs of course I picked up a dozen of my happy eggs and then the Wilcox pasture raised with Omega 3's were on sale for $4.99 which is a great deal for these eggs they're usually about $8 a dozen so these were $4.99 and these were $4.99 so I got two dozen really good eggs for $4.99 each also some bread this is for my husband's tuna sandwiches this is really good bread and it is three smart points per slice so it's definitely something you can work into your day if you like just your traditional bread and then I had a coupon for these and I got these for the Super Bowl we're just gonna stay home and watch it and I'll put the points here I'm not sure the points on these but these are Budweiser beer battered shrimp and it looks like four big shrimp is a serving so I thought this would be kind of fun to have on Super Bowl and it does have 10 grams of protein so I'm gonna throw these in my air fryer and I thought what a fun afternoon snack lunch or dinner on Super Bowl also I grabbed the Simple Truth potato puffs these are your traditional tater tots I need this for an upcoming recipe I just had a coupon for these so they ended up being less expensive than the non-organic brand also I grabbed the Simple Truth organic natural chicken breasts these are individual wrapped breasts organic again I had a coupon so it saved me some money on these over the conventional chicken one pound of 98% ground chicken breast this is zero smart points on both blue and purple and very low on green and I actually needed this for an upcoming recipe and before we jump into zero point fruits and veggies let's jump over here really quick to these gold potatoes this is a three pound sack and I needed three pounds of potatoes for a recipe I like to buy just enough so that I don't eat them other times and also so I don't waste them so the recipe needed three pounds so that's what I picked up now everything else is zero point fruits and vegetables on all plans I got two big 18 ounce packs of blueberries these were on sale for $2.99 so that's a great deal so that will be one of my fruits this week also my Meyer lemons you guys know I'm loving these I love them and this is $2.99 for five lemons it's enough to make it through the week in my water and any recipes that call for lemon or lemon zest also some strawberries and again they're not looking so great but I've been really craving strawberries and they were on sale for $3.50 for the pack so that along with the blueberries will be my fruits for this next week two packages a bird's eye steam fresh mixed veggies one of these is for a recipe and then the other pack I just grabbed to have is a side dish with dinner five of the Fuji apples this is part of my breakfast meal prep so I got the pretty small ones just because I didn't want to overdo the fruit each day and this is actually part of the recipe for my breakfast and then last but not least a big bunch of green onions so that is my grocery haul for the week so let's jump into a meal plan and meal prep so let's go ahead and jump into this week's meal plan and meal prep this is my carry L meal planner this is what I use every week to plan all of my meals as well as what I'm doing for meal prep I love this meal planner there are several great tabs the first one is the resources tab and this is where you can write down your favorite recipe blogs recipe sites just really take notes on any of your favorite recipes and there's quite a few pages here so lots of room to take those notes there's also a baking substitutions page which I love because sometimes I don't have it on hand and this really helps me know exactly what to swap out for next is the inventory tab this is where you can inventory your freezer your pantry and of course your spices so this is a great resource as well we're gonna come back to the meal plans tab and spend a little bit of time there there's the gatherings tab and this is where you will plan out your gatherings similar to planning out your meal plan for the week you can plan out your gatherings here are the meals that you're going to be having drinks desserts things for the kids and of course all the supplies that you'll need as well as a detachable grocery list to take with you to the store I use this a lot over the holidays any type of birthday party or event that you're hosting such a great resource and then there is the notes tab as well and that's where you can just take some notes whatever you want to jot down the pages are nice and lined and they are detachable as well if you wanted to take them with you and then in the back of your meal planner is where you're going to find this fun little two pocket folder and I use this every week actually to store my recipes in that I'm going to be creating that week so very very comprehensive let's go ahead and jump into the yellow tab so we're going to go ahead and spend some time here in the meal plan tab the first thing that I want to show you is that there is a at a glance monthly calendar for every single month of the year what I use this for is to track what I'm planning on making for dinner each day of the month that way the night before I can take a look see what is on my agenda make sure that I have the meat taken out of the freezer and also make sure that I have all of the ingredients on hand so it just helps you not be able to make a meal because your short ingredients or your meat is still frozen also the other part I love is the weekly menu now again I just track my dinners because I meal prep my breakfast and lunches but there's plenty of room here for you to track all three meals that you're having each day of the week there's also the detachable grocery list I use that every week as you know it's the my grocery list that I take to the store with me and I just love this meal planner I think it's absolutely beautiful and again weekly menus monthly menus you cannot go wrong so let's take a look at this week's menu so my weeks run Saturday through Friday so we are currently in the week of January 25th through January 31st and then the month of January's over I cannot even believe it so for Saturday as I mentioned in my weigh-in video we're going to the Texas Roadhouse for dinner that's the day that I use my weekly so I never really plan a dinner Sunday I'm really excited about this I am making tater tot chicken pot pie so you're going to see this recipe in my what I eat in a day that's posted next Wednesday but hello pot pie and tater tots yes please that sounds amazing Monday I usually have leftovers because I go to jazzer size Tuesday I'm going to make a loaded baked potato casserole and again this sounds so good I love baked potatoes and to put it in a casserole form even better Wednesday's leftovers it's a jazzer size night Thursday I'm going to be making white chicken chili it is still cold here we have snow so chili just sounds really good and why not change it up a little bit with some white chicken and then Friday I'm going to be making a baked pasta and I've been liking having pizza or pasta on Friday night so that's been kind of a treat for us the last couple weeks so I'm going to carry on that tradition with a baked pasta for Friday and then on the back of the weekly menu is where I plan my meal prep so everything is convenient in one area so for breakfast this week I'm going to be making my cinnamon apple yogurt bowl I'm excited for this I'm probably going to pair this with some eggs but what a great breakfast wait till you guys see this recipe it sounds so good for lunch we're doing chicken parm meatballs with marinara okay again sounds amazing and then I'm making no bake cookies I cannot wait to share you with this recipe with you guys these are extremely low smart point delicious no bake cookies so again you'll see my meal prep uploaded on Monday so that's my meal plan my meal prep this is my carrier meal planner carrier did offer you guys a 10 discount my code is here on the screen for you this is the old cover I'm just still working through last year's meal planner but I already ordered the new cover new meal planner I'm just about through this one and I can't wait for my new one but 10 off a very beautiful comprehensive must have tool in your weight loss journey thank you for joining me on another weekly ww grocery haul I hope you enjoyed seeing all of the groceries that I picked up this week and that you are as excited as I am about what is in store for my meal plan and for my meal prep everything sounds so good I'm so incredibly excited you will see my meal prep uploaded on Monday on meal prep Monday and then you may see the other dinners periodically throughout the next few weeks in my recipe videos if you're new make sure you're checking out the description box down below you'll find any discount codes links to some of my favorite things as well as the link to join my Facebook group we'd love to have you join our community we are 13,000 strong it is such a supportive amazing 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