Okay, so when I first started using Tiling Window Managers, I was an i3 user and i3 is fairly easy to get a hold of and fairly easy to learn and fairly easy to customize. So there's not a ton there that I would actually consider difficult once you've got the hang of learning how to manage a Tiling Window Manager. At that point in my Tiling Window Manager career, I considered DWM the pinnacle of the difficult Tiling Window Managers. I always looked up to it like as if it was the most hard thing to configure in the world because I had no idea how to even install it. At that point, I hadn't even really ever built anything from source, it was just not something that I'd ever done. So I was a complete and utter noob when it came to trying to learn how to install and configure DWM. So with all that being said, I know for a fact that a lot of people who want to try DWM can kind of be overwhelmed with the idea of using a piece of Secless software and installing it for the first time, installing it from source for the first time, and it can just be overwhelming and kind of off-putting and might drive you into the arms of something like Awesome Window Manager or Q-Tile or something like that. And honestly, that'd be kind of a shame. It's not that those Window Managers are terrible or anything. It's just that I think DWM is really good and that you should give it a try. So what I thought I would do today is talk about five things you should do after you've installed DWM for the first time. Now, if you haven't got to the point of installing it yet, I do have several videos on how to do this and I will link those in the video description and I'll try to put a card up there but I probably will forget. So just check the video description if you don't know how to go through and install it yet. There's my dog running out. Well let's say you have it installed. What should you do next? The first thing you should absolutely do is back up your DWM folder. Any changes that you make to DWM or any of its related software should be backed up prior to you making any more changes. So for example, let's say you start on patching, which we're going to talk about next, and you make a patch and it fails or it corrupts something or it doesn't build properly and you have no clue how to fix it. The best thing you can do for yourself is having a backup of the prior time where your DWM worked. So there are a couple of ways of doing this. You can just do the old fashioned way. After you've built DWM for the first time and you have it up and running and you know it works, copy your DWM folder to somewhere else with a different name and then if something goes wrong, you can always go back and get that folder, copy it back into wherever you're storing your suckless stuff, rename it to DWM, recompile and you should be good to go. Or if you're familiar with how to use Git, you can use something like Git in order to push it up to GitLab or GitHub in order to monitor the changes as you go along. And then I highly recommend, and this is not something that I'm very good at following the advice of myself, but I highly recommend every time you've made a change and you know it works, push that up to your GitLab or GitHub or make another copy of it. Just in case that way if the next change you make fails or corrupts something, you can always go back. I highly recommend it's probably the most important tip of the day every time you make a change that works back it up so that you know that you have a working copy. So once you've gotten into the habit of doing that, the next thing you should do is change your key bindings. Now, let's take a look at DWM here. Now, this is a very fresh install of DWM. I've changed absolutely nothing. I mean literally nothing. I've just logged in and opened up OBS. That's all I've done. So the first thing you need to do after you've learned how to back things up and made some changes is to change the key binding. So by default to open up a terminal is Alt, Shift and Enter. Now this is only going to work if you have ST installed and built. So if you do not have ST installed and built, ST is another piece of suckless software. If you do not have that, you're not going to get a terminal when you press Alt, Shift, Enter. You will get absolutely nothing and won't work. If you're in that situation and you don't want to build ST, you don't want to use it, you can actually get around this by going into the source code and changing a variable to whatever terminal you want. And I'll show you how to do that here in a second. But I highly recommend to use ST at first. Install it so that you have it as a backup just in case you need it. I mean, there's very, it doesn't take up any resources at all. It's a very, very small, minimal program and ST looks for it. Now it's not the prettiest program here. We can zoom in here. Zoom in is control shift and page up, by the way, if you need to make it bigger, which I'm assuming most people probably will. So I highly recommend having ST here at the beginning. We can, we're going to change that default terminal here in just a second. But just know that if you are pressing Alt, Shift and Enter and nothing happens, that just means you don't have ST built or ST installed at all. So once you've got to this point here, what you're going to want to do is go into wherever you downloaded DWM and built it. So in my case, I created a folder called suckless. And then I cloned DWM into that directory. So if we do an Alice here, we have all of my DWM stuff that you normally see. Okay. Yours may be in a different place. You may be, maybe you cloned it in the home directory. Maybe you cloned it in a download or something. It doesn't really matter where you cloned it has no impact on how this works at all. I just happen to be more familiar with putting it in a directory called suckless. That way all my suckless stuff is together. So actually, if I see up a level here and I do an Alice, you'll see that I have D menu, DWM, SL status and ST all installed. Now that's another thing that I should talk about before we jump into the key bindings. You're getting a lot of extra tips here. This was only supposed to be five, but make sure you also download and build D menu because by default, there's no way to launch programs unless you, you launched them from the terminal. You have to have some kind of program in order to do that. And by default, DWM looks for D menu. Now if you want to launch a program, the way you do that, do that is alt and P. And as you can see up here on the top, D menu opens up. So if I wanted to open up brave, I just type in brave and whatever that's D menu. Now you can obviously change that later on, but by defaults, you have to have D menu installed. And I'm not even sure that DWM will build without D menu. I may be wrong about that. I've never actually tried to build it without D menu because D menu is just something that I've always installed. Now I don't use it personally. I use Rofi, but I always keep D menu installed because it's a good backup, right? It may seem like bloat to have two different launchers, but it's good to have two. I release. It's good to have DWM there just in case something goes wrong. Okay. So we're going to CD back into DWM here and we'll do that LS again. And what we want to do first is remove config.h, okay? This is just a habit I always do every time I do something because when you're patching stuff or making changes or whatever, and then you go through and recompile, if you don't delete the config.h, it's not going to change. So for example, if you add a lot of times you can make changes to the config.h and it'll be fine. But if you do a patch or something and it affects config.depth.h, that change won't filter down into an existing config.h file. So I just always remove it. It's not going to hurt anything. It'll come back after you recompile. So then what we're going to do is vim into config.depth.h. So this is actually getting back to the second point of what I was actually planning on talking about. And the next thing you want to do is change your key bindings. So the first thing you'll want to do is right here on line 48. It's line 48 for me. It might be a little bit different than you, but it should be around there. You'll see this line here, hash define, mod key, mod one mask. Now you don't have to change this. If you're perfectly fine using the alt as the modifier key, keep it this way. Alt is mod one. In this case, I want to change it to the super key. So I'm going to change that one to a four. That way the super key is the mod key and the alt key goes back to just being the alt key. Now I know a lot of people like using alt, a lot of people like using super. Change it to whatever floats your fancy, whatever you're used to. You could even potentially change it to something else if you wanted to do that. Personally, mod four is what I like to use. So once you've done that, then you can go through and change your default terminal. And you can do that on line 61. Again 61 for me. It should be very close for you. You're going to be looking for the line that says static const character, or C-H-A-R, and then a asterisk term command. And then equals. And then you're looking for the word ST. So that's what you want to change. So in my case, I'm going to change this to a laprity. And you can change it to whatever terminal you like. If you like GNOME terminal, if you like console, whatever. As long as you know what the class name is, you can do it. In order to find the class name, you can use a program called xprop. You type in xprop, hit enter, and then click on the window that you want to know the class name of. And then if we zoom in here, you can actually see the class name is right here. And in this case, the class name is ST-256 color. For our purposes, ST would work just fine in DWM. If you wanted to stick with ST, as you saw, we changed it, but a laprity has a different class name of just the laprity. So another thing you should know before we move on is to close a window by default Alt Shift and C will close a window. So once you've made those changes and any changes you want to make down here to any of your key bindings. So let's just say you wanted to change it so that the terminal popped up with just mod and enter. So you want to delete this part here and then make sure you don't delete any comments because those got to stay. If we made this right now, we have a problem because there's actually already a mod return here already. So we want to change this line here and then we're just going to add shift mask we're going to do pipe, shift mask and what we're that's just basically changing those two around. So the zoom functionality is mod shift return and we can go through and launch a terminal with super enter, which is what I'm used to. So and I always like to keep this stuff kind of lined up. So that's just a little bit of a OCD thing. So once you've got that, once you've made your changes, any changes you want, just make sure as you're going through and making changes to your key binding that you're paying attention to what key bindings are already there so that you don't have any duplicates because if you have duplicates chances are either it won't build or the key binding just won't work. So once you've done that and get out of the insert mode or whatever terminal or whatever text editor you're in exit out, save an exit and then what you're going to do is make and then pseudo make install and that's how you change key bindings. It's really simple. Now the next one on the list is patching and I'm not going to show you how to do this because I already have a video on how to patch. So if you don't know how to patch chocolate software, I highly recommend you seek out that video. It'll be linked in the video description. I will try to remember to put a card up there somewhere and you should go watch that and how to patch because that alone took about 15 minutes. So I'm not going to go through and teach how to do that in this video. But the next thing you should do is go through and select your patches, learn how to patch it in and go through that process of kind of customizing DWM to the point where you're happy with it. It's probably the hardest part of using DWM because patching can be kind of a pain in the butt. There are a couple things you should keep in mind. The more patches you use, the less likely you are to get things to run harmoniously together. If you use something like DWM Flexi Patch, you'll be able to get more patches working together than you will if you do this on your own. But just know the more you add, the more failures you're going to have and the more tweaking you're going to have to do in order to get things to work properly. So what I would highly recommend you do is choose the five patches that you absolutely have to have, start with those and then add them one at a time after that. So I would also recommend you to go through and add them one at a time. So go through, add one patch, recompile and then log out, log back in and make sure it works. Then do another one. Same thing. Also remembering, after every time you've done a successful patch, backing up that DWM folder so that you have a working version of DWM just in case the next patch you do messes something up. Also, as I said before, remove config.h before you compile every time. That way, any changes that happen to config.def.h will go through and propagate into whatever config.h is created once you've compiled again. So patching is probably the most important and the most hard part. And like I said, I highly recommend going checking out that video that I link to. It's a fairly good video. There are also other videos if you don't think it's a good video, but there's several people who have done videos on how to patch. I have one. That's why I'm going to link to that. So the next thing on the list is auto start. So here's the thing that DWM does not do that almost every other window manager does and that is controlling auto start. It has nothing to do with auto start at all. Now, there are several ways you can do auto start. Now, before I jump into it, let's talk about what I mean by auto start. Let's just say you want to set a wallpaper.  So you're using a program called like Faye or or nitrogen or something like that.  But in order to do that, the window manager has to know to start that up. Now you can do this in any number of ways. If you're using an excellent RC file, you can put all of your startup programs in there and it'll work fine. That's a perfectly valid way of doing it. It's more suited towards people who are using something like Arch or or a headless version of Debbie and Arbuntu, because most of those people aren't using a login manager. So if you're one of those people who use start X to get into your computer, chances are you've also messed around with an excellent RC file and you can kind of figure out how to do the auto start thing by yourself fairly easy. So if you're not one of those people who uses an excellent in an RC file and you would like DWM to manage your startup applications and scripts itself, you can go through and do a patch called auto start. I will link it link to it in the video description. And I highly recommend actually doing it this way instead of excellent just because there are certain rules you have to know in order to use the accident RC file and you don't want to mess things up. It's not actually that hard, but if you're new to it, using the patch is actually better. Just trying to keep things separate. That way if you have multiple window managers, you don't have to worry about things conflicting or whatever. But anyways, install the auto start patch and then you create an auto start script in a dot DWM directory in your home directory. There are detailed instructions in the pan the patch page that I'll link to in the video description. It's very easy. Any before, which you probably have done in the last step, this patch here will just allow you to go through and manage your auto start stuff like setting wallpapers, starting pi com, starting sxhkd if you wanted to use that, starting MPD, anything right going through and making sure the SL status works. So if you're going to go through and use something like SL status to manage your stuff in the bar, it needs needs to be started from some kind of auto start file. So that is actually a very important step if you are moving along towards creating a functional version of DWM. Okay. So the last one on the list is the funnest one, the funnest, the most fun. I don't know. I'm a writer. I should know words. It doesn't matter. The point is the point is the last one is the most entertaining and the one that I enjoy the most. And that is choosing a wallpaper and ricing. Now I have a couple videos on the channel, which again, I will link in the video description on how to go through and actually rice DWM. I highly recommend you watch those videos, but I also highly recommend you to go through and just explore again, making sure that you're going through and backing up your DWM directory every time you make a change. That way, if you do something wrong or mistype something, you have a working version to go back to. I can't stress that enough, but go through and choose your wallpaper, get that set up. And then there's a program that you can auto start using the previous tip to make sure that your wallpaper set every time DWM starts. That's fairly easy thing to do. And then comes the bar and the borders and the colors and all that stuff. Now, when it comes to the bar, eventually I'm going to go through and do a video on how to actually use DWM bar and all of the complexities that kind of go with it. I can't cover today. It's simply take an hour. There's seriously too many ways of doing it. So I'm just going to name three. So if you want to go through and just do your own script to your own bar script, you can use use something called exit tool. And there are tutorials online on how to do that. If you want to go through and do it that way, you can use a program called DWM blocks. That is a little bit more configurable than say SL status. But you have to go through and basically have all of your own scripts. It's also the only program other than the pure bash option, I suppose, which is the exit tool route. If you use DWM block, it's the only option allows you to have mouse interaction with stuff in your bar. And when I say stuff in the bar, I mean the stuff on the right hand side of your bar where all your time and temperature and whatever go, right? So if you want to have mouse interactions, look up DWM blocks and give that a try. I found it a little bit more complicated simply because again, you have to have all of your own scripts. So if you want to display the time, you have to have a script that displays the time. If you want to display the weather or something like that, you have to have a script that displays the weather. And that's just the way it is. It's all customizable on your own. If you're not interested in having all your scripts and having them be your own, I highly recommend using SL status. That's what I do is kind of the lazy man's way out. It has a ton of built in scripts that you can go through and use and put in your bar without actually having to have the script itself. Things like a network up and down speeds, time, all that stuff. It also allows you to display your own scripts if you have those as well. That way you can be as creative as you want with the bar without having to have all of them be your scripts. So SL status is probably my recommendation for most people. If you're not into scripting. So those are the five things you should do after installing DWM. I'm pretty sure there was more than five things there. But who said I knew how to count? I obviously didn't say that. So if you have any questions, you can leave those in the comment section below. I will try to get back to you and answer them. I try to help people who have questions on the stuff that I cover. If I miss it, you can also join the discord where I'm pretty much always at. So if you have questions, you can join there and I can try to answer your questions there or somebody else might chip in and give you your answer. You can follow me on Twitter where you can also ask questions. If you want to, I'm at the Linux Cast on Twitter. 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I wanted to talk today about the rise of the left of, you know, the, if you will, the leftist view of economics. This is spurred by an op-ed that was published by Noonan, Peggy Noonan in the Wall Street Journal over the weekend.  She's a good writer, but very confused philosophically. But she's actually about this. She, in discussing how it sholts, you know, the CEO, former CEO of Starbucks, run for president or what looks like he might run for president. She says, look, this is a guy. He's got a great story, right? He's a kid from New York, real working class family, you know, wasn't handed anything, didn't get a million bucks from his family. Family went through real hardship, real challenges. And here he is. He builds a company. The company is brand is so well known. Everybody pretty much in the world knows about it. He's created 238,000 jobs as of 2007. And he's changed the world. I mean, Starbucks has changed the world. It's changed the way we drink coffee. It's changed the way we think about coffee. It's changed.  And he presents himself as a physically conservative, socially liberal. And, and Peggy Noonan says, you know, that, that's a losing proposition. Nobody's interested in physical service. If take physical services pro free market and socially liberal, put aside the socially liberal for a minute, but let's think about the, the physically conservative. She says, and I'm quoting Peggy Noonan here, America's headed left economically 2008 changed everything deeply undermining faith in free market capitalism. One of the great sins of that time and of all the years after was that the capitalist themselves in their vast killessness couldn't even rouse themselves to defend the reputation of the system that made them rich and their country great. In any case, the most significant sound in 2016 was Trump's audience cheering his vows not to cut entitlements. They would have cheered even louder if he promised increases to entitlements. And Peggy Noonan is absolutely right. Trump governs. Trump advocates. Trump is a man from an economic perspective of the left, not a free market capitalism and entitlements is probably the best example of that. He is not about cutting or reforming or phasing out or privatizing entitlements. He's not for privatizing our healthcare system. He's not for privatizing anything. So reducing a little bit of regulation and cutting corporate taxes, which again, nobody really debated the virtue of cutting corporate taxes. But he's not an advocate for the market. He's not an advocate for free markets. He's also for tariffs. He's also for telling CEOs and telling business from what and how to do things. So, you know, I've talked a lot about Trump. I'm not going to talk about now. The Huffington party or those who support Donald Trump are not pro-free markets. They have moved dramatically to the left of free markets. I've even an understanding of free market that was, if you will, the Republican Party of 10, 20 years ago. And on the left, what you're seeing is the rise of Elizabeth Warren, the rise of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the rise of Bernie Sanders, the rise of even more radical leftists. You're seeing a dramatic shift further out to the left and the middle, the Democrats who used to be somewhat physically conservative, somewhat free market, they were dying breed. They don't exist really. And even they have moved to the left because that's where the political party is. And if you're going to get votes, if you're going to win elections, that's what you have to play to. So I think it's safe to say, as Peggy Noonan argues, that the country, there is, why? Why has this happened? Why has the country moved so significantly to the left? Now, Noonan states one argument that you hear a lot, and I've made this argument, and that is that we failed significantly in 2008 and afterwards in portraying the crisis as caused by statism, as portraying the crisis as caused by government and refuting the idea that the crisis was not caused by capitalism, not caused by free markets. Indeed, we should have been arguing the case that there was no capitalism, that the crisis was a crisis of the mixed economy, as indeed it was. And she argues that the people who really didn't defend it were the capitalists themselves. And we know this. It was the bankers and the businessmen who refused to defend capitalism. And it was the politicians and it was columnists like her who did not defend capitalism because they don't know what capitalism is. They don't have a clue and they can't defend capitalism. They don't know what it is. And to the extent that they think they know what it is, they can't defend it. Capitalism at the end of the day is the system of self-interest. Capitalism is the system of the pursuit of happiness, your happiness, the individual's happiness. Capitalism is the pursuit of the individual's self-interest, both in the producing side, on the work side, on the productive side, and on the consumption side. So it is, it is that self-interest. It is that pursuit of happiness, that is pursuit of individual values that nobody, including Peggy Newton, nobody can actually defend. Nobody is willing to defend. Nobody goes out of his way to defend. Indeed, they're uncomfortable in defending. At their best, they revert to an Adam Smith-like defense which says, yeah, everybody pursues their self-interest under capitalism, but we know self-interest is no good. But if you add up all these pursuits of self-interest, it makes society better off because of innovation, because of risk-taking, because of entrepreneurs, because of business, job creation and all this. So capitalism is good because of that. So it's the Adam Smith argument. If you add up all the vices of all the individuals pursuing their self-interest, you get a better society and the standard for goodness is a better society and therefore capitalism is good. Now nobody buys that.  It's true as far as it goes that, yes, from a material perspective, capitalism produces the best society, but people are concerned with morality and what you're telling people morally is that people are committing sins by pursuing their self-interest over and over and over again in everything that they do in life and that somehow this is washed away by the invisible hand that gives us a richer, more prosperous society. Again, that is not a defense that can work, but that is the defense of Peggy Newton and everybody else who tries to defend capitalism from the right. Everybody else, the libertarians and the conservatives try to defend capitalism.  Do you know this defense that they give? People are so irrational. People are so ignorant. People are so depraved that you don't want to give them too much power. And of course, the beauty of the marketplace is that nobody has that amount of power. And again, but this is the argument, as I called it, the argument for depravity. So human beings irrational. That's why you don't want central planning. No, it's because we're rational, you don't want central planning. It's because we have individuals that are rational and we as individuals therefore the only ones who can make value judgments for ourselves. It's not a lack of rationality on the part of the central planet. It's not a lack of information on the part of the central planet. It's the fact that he can't be us. It's the fact that every individual is rational. Every individual can make decisions for himself and the central planet cannot be every individual and he cannot make choices, cannot make value judgments for individuals. It's the fact that we are competent, the fact that we're capable of virtue, the fact that we can pursue our own lives, our own happiness successfully that we don't want in central planning cannot work. A supercomputer cannot value for you. A supercomputer doesn't know what your passions are. It doesn't know what your values are. It doesn't know what makes you happy. Only the individual can be inside his own head and know all that. Only the individual has a context in which he can evaluate that. Rationally, of course, objectively, of course, but objectivity, how can an external party be objective for you? How can a third party tell you what your values should be? Central planning is not about human depravity, the inconsistencies of central planning, the impossibility of central planning. The impossibility of central planning is a consequence of the capacity of every individual to pursue his own self-interest, to be rational, to choose his own values, and that those values cannot be predicted. Why? Why can't they be predicted? Well, because we have free will, not because the central plan is not smart enough, but because we have free will. And you can't model free will. You can't replicate free will on a computer. You can't do it better. But again, conservatives, libertarians, many, many people out there, you know, they, that's not their defensive capitalism. That's not their approach to capitalism. That's not how they think about capitalism. So the world has moved leftwards. The world has moved leftwards. Not just because we didn't defend capitalism in 2008. You know, I did. I, I, everywhere I could, at every opportunity I could, and every event that I could, on every TV station that would take me, on every radio station that would take me, I tried to defend capitalism as best that I could. But I was alone voice, voice out there. The, the, the conservatives, the libertarians, and the business community did not defend capitalism. And to a large extent, they did not defend capitalism because they could not, because they did not have the tools, they do not have the tools, they do not believe in capitalism. They do not believe in self-interest. They did not believe in egoism. They do not have the moral basis on which, or the epistemological basis, the philosophical basis on which to defend capitalism. And that's why we moved to the left. Moved to the left because, yes, all the problems are being blamed on capitalism. 2008 was blamed on capitalism. And there was no defense. But I would say there was no defense after the Great Depression, other than Ayn Rand, maybe Milton Friedman of Von Mises, but basically Ayn Rand. After the Great Society, after the inflation of the 70s, how many people stood up and said, no, no, no, the Reagan revolution is not capitalism. It's just a refinement of the, of the mixed economy. And then by the financial crisis, yeah, Alan Greenspan said, this is a failure of capitalism. This is a failure of markets. George Bush said, we have to abandon capitalism in order to save it. And it's over. It's over.


Start the video today. I just want to send a special shout out to Dominique a.k.a. Ms. Toot 7. She's a fellow youtuber and I just want to say thank you to her because she gifted me a ring light a DIY ring light which I absolutely love I'm actually using it right now for this part of the video so I just want to say Dominique I don't know if you want me to say your name or not but Ms. Toot 7 thank you so much for the ring light y'all she did not have to do it but she is just a sweetheart that she gifted me this ring light and it is definitely a blessing and it's definitely going to help with my channel she saw a need and she wanted to support and just show love and for that I'm really grateful and very thankful to her for that just a very sweet lady she is a fellow youtuber and I will put her information below and I'll turn it on but she also gifted me the tripod as well and this is the ring light this is again a DIY ring light and the great thing about it is just as good as a regular ring light and I'm gonna turn it on so this is what it looks like turned on and I'm gonna kind of put the camera behind it so you can kind of see but never mind the face because like I said I'm working on my skin so never mind all of that you know focus on the light so we focus it on but I want to show y'all and I got it kind of prop I do have something to put the camera on to put behind the ring light but I'm just holding it for now but I want to show y'all just kind of you know what it looks like please go check out her channel she's all about natural hair which she has the most beautiful natural hair she's all about vlog she's all about nail art and she's all about crochet so if you interested in any of those things please check it out she has a really she has a lot of really great content so please check out her channel so once again Ms. Toot 7 Dominique if you're watching from just Janine thank you so much for the DIY ring light yes I'm using it yes I love it and again thank you so much alright guys let's get this video started back to my channel it's just Janine and in today's video I will be doing something a little different that I haven't done in a while which is a recipe very quick and easy recipe which is the Texas caviar and for those that don't know what Texas caviar is it is basically a chunky and crunchy salsa and it's good for any side dish it's good for just snacking it's very healthy it's very delicious you know get-togethers barbecues picnics what have you it's just a very nice easy recipe that you can just easily make it goes a long way it makes a lot and everybody will sure to enjoy it so I want to show that to you and how I make it and the ingredients and everything right now so follow along with me alright so what we have here I'm just gonna show you the ingredients of what we have so the first thing we have are the chives for the recipe and you chop these up you also have your black eyed peas which you will drain these and rinse these off because you'll only use the peas not the juice then you've got your diced chilies these are mild I think yeah these are mild right there and then you've got your shu peh corn and we've got our tomatoes and onion and we have our green onions we have our zesty or our Italian dressing you can actually use any Italian dressing this is the one I happen to pick up which is the Tuscan house Italian but you can also use zesty Italian as well and then of course we have our tortilla chips which you can get any tortilla chip that you want or choose what you say all right so my mom is waiting for the food to be done and yes she's starving too so we're gonna get right to us I'm gonna show you the recipe and how I make it right now just finished making the Texas caviar so as you can see here we've got the finished product so basically all you're just gonna do is just mix it up after pouring everything in the bowl you're just gonna mix everything make sure that the dressing is fully covering all of the ingredients you're just gonna put this in a refrigerator for two hours to marinate that's it make sure it's nice and chill and then you just serve it with the um you have a nice little snack so it's healthy it's delicious it serves a lot as a matter of fact my sister just took some on her way out so it's actually a little low because I gave her some on the way out but yeah that is the Texas caviar and it's really really good y'all I'm telling y'all it's great for the summertime just hot summer days when you want something just cool and crunchy nutritious and that's a good snack to go to Texas caviar very good so thank you guys so much for stopping in and just watching my video today on the Texas caviar and I hope you guys try it out tell me the comments below how it turns out how you like it so if you like this video please give a thumbs up please comment and click that subscribe button it's just Janine bye


Hello everyone. I'm Sanjay Gupta. I welcome you on Sanjay Gupta Tech School. StudySalesForce.com is my website or video library to learn Salesforce. In this video, I'm going to demonstrate one scenario. So here I will be querying accounts created in last week. I need to populate total contacts like which are associated with accounts. So I will be creating this field total contacts. So we need to count number of contacts which are associated with account. If there is no contact associated, then we need to populate zero. So with this demonstration, you will get to know how we can apply parent to child query in Apex. So let's jump to org. So first I'm going to create that field. So simply I'm opening account. So now here I need to click on fields and relationships. So let me search for total contacts. No field is available. So I'm going to create a net new field. Yep. So it is available. Now I'm clicking on new. Selecting for number field. Clicking on next. So I'm labeling it as total contacts. Clicking on next visible to all the profiles clicking on next will be available on all the page layouts. So this way I created the field. Now I'm moving to developer console. Right. So let's first implement pay into child query. Right. So right now both are standard objects. Account and contact and account and contact both share a lookup field. So if I take you there. So I need to go to contact now. So searching for contacts. So in context fields and relationships, here you can see this account ID field is available, which is look up to account. Right. If I click and open this. So here you will find this child relationship name. So if you read this help text, so it says this field defines a relationship between this object type and a parent object type. Right. So so the child relationship name is used in SOPL queries on the parent object type to refer to this object type. For example, contact has a lookup field for account. The child relationship name for the lookup field on contact is contacts. Therefore, you would use contacts in account queries to refer to contact records whose account field references a given account, accepting the default value safe. If necessary, the name can be changed later. Right. So if you want to query all the context, those are associated with the account altogether with a single query single SQL. In that case, you need to use this child relationship name. So though this is a standard field, you don't need to create this child relationship name. Whenever you will be creating a custom field, then it will be created like at the time of creation of that particular lookup field. So now I'm going to use this here. So select ID name. So you need to use this bracket. Then again, select ID, let's say first name, last name, then from and here you need to write contacts. So instead of contact, you need to write contacts, then from account where created date equals to last week. So this way, and these are like capital letters I'm using for best practice. So if you write them in small letters, so they also works in that case as well. Right. So if I click on execute, yeah, it is giving an error. So yeah, I just forgot to put a comma here. So, clicking on execute. So here you can see it is not showing anything. But we are created date equals to last week. So maybe this week. No. So I'm taking last month. Yeah, we have various records. So here you can see account IDs then account names and then you can see contacts. So these are contact IDs then first name and then last. So this way all the data we are able to fetch now using this SOQL I can perform my operation that I want to do. So here I'm going to create a method public static void count contacts. Now I'm creating list of account ACC list equals to and then I'm pasting the square. Right. So, okay, so this query is available. I'm just splitting it so that we can leave it carefully or properly. So select ID name. These are fields of account. And this is basically parent to child query. So this is important if you want to apply parent to child query. So pay into child SOQL. Right. And this is child relationship name. So I already told you like from where you can find this. So it is available. Now what we need to do after implementing this SOQL. So all the data will be available into this account list. Now we can apply if condition. So if not ACC list dot is empty. If it is not empty, then I can iterate a loop over here. So account ACC then ACC list. Now inside this loop, I need to implement the logic so that I can update that total count field. Right. So, okay, I need to use columns in here. Now ACC dot total count underscore underscore, sorry, total context, not count equals to ACC dot context dot count. So this way you need to use this method. So ACC is the instance which will be having each account. Then all the context you can pass through through this context. Now if you want to count this list that is context, so you can simply use count. Right. It is showing some error. Let's see whether we are able to use size. Yes, we are able to. So instead of count, you need to use size. Right. So if you see some error, so this way you can test other methods as well. So after implementation of this, so you just need to check null again. So ACC list dot is empty. And then you can write update ACC list. Right. So this way, everything is available here. I'm just saving this code so that I can execute it. So this time, what I'm going to do, I'm just adding count contacts underscore underscore C as well and I'm clicking on execute. Okay, total context. So here you can see it is blank as of now. Right. Now I'm going to execute my code. So you will see the effects. So name of method is count contacts. Clicking on execute. Again, I'm going to execute this SOQM. So here you can see this field is updated on account with respect to the number of contacts associated with that account. So here you can see no contact is available. So it is zero. Here we have one. So one, if there are two contacts or two. So this way all the account records are updated automatically. So this way, I guess you understood how we can apply parent to child SOQL if we have that lookup field as standard. Right. If we have that lookup field as custom. So in that case, we need to do like we need to do different things with this child relationship name. So that I'm going to demonstrate in my another video. So this is basically parent to child SOQL on standard objects and the standard field that is lookup to account. So I hope you understood whatever I demonstrated here. If you if you go here and search for particular account. Let's say, yeah, if we open any account, so you will see that total contacts field available here and it will be having the value populated. So both from UI, you can check or through the packet through SOQL you can also test whether your updation performed or not. So this is all about the demonstration related to this scenario. If you want to watch more Salesforce related videos so you can visit study salesforce.com. Thank you for watching this video.


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Welcome to this abstract, we all know that bio oil from micro algae is an area of current research interest. The process of making bio oil from micro algae is quite simple to describe, nevertheless there are no commercial plants across the world that utilize this process to produce bio oil from micro algae. That is essentially because there are very many challenges to this particular process. If we focus on the upstream side, we can consider getting sufficient cell concentrations as well as getting each cell to have a sufficient amount of bio oil in it as two major challenges. In this particular work, Kavya Menon, Ranjani Balan and I have looked at some aspects of this. Now, let us look at stress. People have considered various kinds of stresses to improve the yield of bio oil or the productivity of bio oil from micro algae. When we think of stress, the first thing that comes to mind is its relationship to the reactive species. In this work, we focus on the reactive oxygen species and especially the hydroxyl species and the super oxide species. In fact, we propose to use the specific level of these reactive species or the amount per cell as quantitative markers of stress irrespective of the means that are used to create this stress. One of the first questions that comes to mind is the reactive species react very fast. So, if the reactions are so fast, how can they be considered as markers or something? Nevertheless, we have found that these have provided us very useful quantitative information in our studies done earlier. This difficulty can be resolved by considering the pseudo steady state aspects and since these reactions are so fast, you can consider them to be at pseudo steady state levels in comparison with the kinetics of slower processes such as metabolic processes or growth process. In this work, we have considered two conditions that are perceived to cause stress. One is different nutrient levels and also different frequencies or wavelengths of light causing stress. The model system in this particular study is Chlorella vulgaris. Cell concentration was a specific hydroxyl and specific super oxide reasonably linear. Something interesting happens in the case of neutral lipid levels too. Let us just look at neutral lipid levels versus specific hydroxyl levels. When all the data are put on the same graph, there is a relationship that we see and there are other interesting results in the manuscript. The findings provide a step for us to rationally design the stress based strategies for improving bio oil yields from micro algae possibly. And personally, there are more interesting results such as questioning what exactly stresses the very notion of stress. Kavya, Ranjini and I warmly invite you to read the paper. In fact, we have made special efforts to make the paper easily readable. The title is Stress-induced lipid production in Chlorella vulgaris relationship with specific intracellular reactive species levels. And I need to acknowledge the funding that was provided by the Department of Biotechnology Government of India, the Department of Science and Technology Government of India and the Divashree Fellowship by Shrikumar Suryanarayan, a distinguished alumnus of IIT Madras. Thank you for your reading.


Hello friends, I am Sanjay Gupta. In this video, I am going to demonstrate you how we can find out some of positive and negative elements present in a matrix by passing a 2D array into function. Before starting, you can note my information, you can follow or subscribe my YouTube channel through the URL youtube.com slash sanjaygupta underscore tech school. You can download my programming app TechMS which is available on Google Play. Now I am going to implement the solution of this problem. So first time including a header file stdio.h then I am declaring a function. This statement is function declaration. So here you can see name of function is thumb, its return type is void and it will receive an argument that is 2D array of integer type. Then I am defining main function inside this main function. First I am declaring a 2D array then IJ variables. Now I am implementing printf which will display the message enter elements on console to receive elements from user. Now I am implementing nested loop. So here I will be providing row indexes and J will be providing column indexes. To receive these elements, I am applying scanf then m percent aij. So this is the reading process. After completion of reading, I can call some where I am passing a matrix. So this is function calling and then I am using return zero. So now I have implemented the complete main function definition. After that I am defining definition of sum. So here return type is void and I am receiving an argument that is 2D array. So this block will be known as function definition. Inside this function definition I am declaring some variables. So IJ variables are declared and S1 and S2 are initialized with zero. Now again I am implementing nested loops. So here I will be providing row indexes and J will be providing column indexes. Now inside these loops I am going to implement the logic. So I am checking if aij is greater than zero. So if this condition is true, then number is positive. So I can add S1 equals to S1 plus aij. If this condition is false, then I have to check if aij is less than zero. So if this condition is true, it means number is negative. So I am adding it into S2. So this way I have implemented both the logics. If aij is greater than zero, then aij will be added into S1. Otherwise it will be checked whether aij is less than zero. So if number is negative, then it will be added into S2. After completion of both the loops, I can print the addition on console with the help of printf. So sum equals to percent d then slash n negative sum equals to percent d then S1 comma S2. So this way I have implemented the definition of sum function and the program is implemented properly. Now I am going to execute this code. So here I am entering some positive and some negative values. So now you can see the result. Positive sum is 16 and negative sum is minus 14. So now check it. Positive numbers are 1, 4, 6, 2 and 3. So 1 plus 4 is 5. 5 plus 6 is 11 then plus 2, 13 plus 3, 16. So positive sum is correct. Now add all the negative numbers. So negative numbers are 3 minus 3 minus 5. So minus 3 minus 5, 8 plus minus 2 minus 10 and then minus 4. So minus 14. So a negative sum is minus 14. So you can see the program is working properly. So this way I have passed a 2D array into function for calculating sum of positive and negative numbers present in a matrix. So I hope you have understood how I have implemented this code in front of you. If you want to watch more programming related videos, you can follow or subscribe my YouTube channel through the URL youtube.com. You can download my programming app TechMS which is available on Google Play. Thank you for watching this video.


ngs that I'd love to be able to share with you guys I thought so okay so one just responding to a health question around the advancing EC of the profession work that we're doing in Vermont I mean that is continuing to move forward what we've what we're that the task force and other the sort of the team of consultants and staff and early childhood educators are working on this are right now is really thinking about how do we do the outreach again because I think where we landed right is the unifying framework came out in March 2020 right so it came and then COVID hit and so it wasn't a time to talk to anybody who's not deeply engaged with this work about the unifying framework so it's actually you know in reflecting on it the fact that like we've been able to like keep the workforce elements of it with the training and you know the decision site you know looking at each of the elements and developing consensus actions and getting feedback going through COVID it's actually it's pretty great that we've been able to do that and have that level of engagement but it hadn't been a moment to get the get the attention of our legislators maybe to folks that are again are one layer out from like the core early childhood educator folks obviously we know the leadership within state government and CDD has completely changed over during that time so we're now in this moment for advancing where we're like oh okay we we can't keep pausing on the stakeholder outreach and engagement piece of it so that's something that we're we're working on and trying to think of you know how do we do that in parallel with the you know with this legislative agenda and our public commitment so that's something that that is on our minds there I had like oh gosh okay I've got a few things I wanted to to to I guess key up for you guys so about some of the work from money you see is doing that I think is going to interesting for you and overlap to do so one is just I want to is just a pure plug which is that this year actually is Vermont AYC a 50th anniversary and so 2022 is the first conference was back in it was apparently in 1972 so so it's going to be a big year for Vermont AYC so that which is exciting but we are having a what we're calling our like anniversary kickoff next wednesday to sort you know 45 minute sessions again just to sort of introduce people to sort of like the new Vermont AYC and you're oh welcome and we hope you'll you'll spread the word about that and in that we'll be talking about some engagement opportunities for that anybody can take part in the let's see in terms of week of the young child right that happens in April every year we happen there happen to be a volunteer who is really excited about sort of getting started on that this fall Bobby Rosencrest out of who lives in the upper valley and she has got you know pulled together a group to begin drafting a proclamation from the governor around the week of the young child and so we have some draft language for that and to get the governor to do a proclamation you have to have people that serve as your entities that serve as your recommenders or references and so my hope is that my request to Vermont Head Start Association is whether you be willing to serve as one of our references I'm happy to send you guys an email afterwards with the language of the proclamation and just we can get it in writing but I wanted to flag that for you guys and we're also hoping to thinking about for you know we're happy to have Vermont AYC sort of serve as a little bit of a hub for information around the week getting on child this year so if there are local events that are happening we'd love to be able to sort of compile that and share that so that when we're hope would be there's an event with the governor around the proclamation that we're also being able to promote all of the other events so I'll keep in touch with you guys about that the next thing is the annual early childhood education conference and so I just want it just a thank you it was so great to have so many members of the Head Start community be part of the conference and be part of the planning committee and specifically Sarah and Renee who are on this call so really appreciated that for the last fall we have started planning for next year already and I think it may have been elsewhere in your agenda to begin thinking about both where members of the Head Start community are going to be supporting again this year but just wanted to say thank you and I think next year should be great as well and again it'll be this time to it will be the 59th anniversary of our money at EYC the conference is right now we have the Hilton and Burlington books let's hope we can do that and we'll get but we'll get the information to save the dates and things like that sooner than later there and then the one other another opportunity and I kind of made a face when Sarah mentioned the loan repayment program the student loan repayment program and that's because we haven't officially signed the contract with CDD that we've reviewed it so theoretically I'm not supposed to announce it yet but the student loan repayment program it should be contracted very soon and there is going to be a there could be a lot of like policy decisions to be made about that the legislation is great and clear but there's like lots of little stuff around how does it actually play out in terms of who is and so we're going to need to have an advisory council for that and we'd love to have somebody from the Head Start community serve as the advisory council for us as we're setting those policies and procedures and making sure that they reflect the needs of the Head Start community so I wanted to flag that I can send an email that sort of has links at like the official request in there but I wanted to just flag all those things for you guys great thank you Janet you know that's also such important work you know really really is if we can I know these burdens on our staff it's just so much better so great okay we're down to the last couple of minutes so I do want us to support the Vermont AYC week of the young child and I hope everybody else does too so I think that is something that we should certainly join in on and really think about how we can all celebrate that together both locally and statewide it really you know is a wonderful opportunity to highlight the work that we're doing and to get representatives and to visit our programs you know to get people to know what our programs are all about so I'm sure good stuff will come out of that great anything else for many because sorry about that I was saying I sigh because it's exhausting we're in our third year and what you're doing is so important but it's unrelenting and I just don't know how you do it you know I don't have young children I'm not saying I'm not on the front line but you know I think I was like a lot of people to where we went through we put our head down and we really just did those first two years of COVID we got through Delta and whether we were entitled or wise to think that we turned a corner I think most of us did you know and you had that feeling that you had put those blinders on one step at one foot in front of the other stay with it and do what you have to do and then finally you know we've got some relief and then we got hit by Omicron and of course we're right now in the peak and the only thing we can look forward to is the mounting evidence that the peak is here and is going to start going down quickly and but I think what's happened to you know so we hope for that but I'm just I'm speaking myself but I'm really interested in hearing from you because your work is so much more demanding because you're you know you're coping with kids and families that in addition to having all the exhaustion of getting through it there's the incredible stress of the transmission of it and of course anytime a parent gets a call that their child is sick then they thought they had a work plan and suddenly they don't and the incredible stress between that conflict of wanting to do your work and not let folks down who you work with to the obligation that you have to take care of your family it is it is it's exhausting and I think we will get through it you know I do think it's coming down and I think we're adapting but I also think we all have to understand how exhausting it's been and of course the work that you do is so so important and of course you're dealing with people who are really stressed out about their kids don't quite know what to do so in addition to in addition to the you know all your responsibilities you have to contend with the anxieties that the people you work with have so anyway that's all my way of saying thank you so much for everything you've done and and I just want to say as a Vermont citizen I really admire the work that you do you know our work is to try to get resources so that the the programs you have that make such a difference for kids that we can sustain them we can build them and very very very importantly we can pay livable wages to the people who do this really really important work and you know and build back better which we did pass in the house that is on you know hanging on by its fingernails in the Senate because we've got only 50 Democrats in 48 or 49 or for it we need 50 because we don't have a single vote on the other side there's really important legislation in there that finally starts investing in families I mean it's universal pre-k and just you know you guys I don't want to pretend that I'm telling you something you don't know but that early education is so critical for the well-being of kids particularly from low income families but they're going to get that stimulation, that education, that social engagement is so so important and it's a and it's important in parents because it's it's a more daycare it's more the parents are confident that their kids are well taken care of and they they can work the other thing that's so important is the child care you know it's it's really quite shocking that our country is the only major industrialized country that doesn't have it basically a universal the universal system of affordable child care and again you guys know this but a young couple with two kids or just think what it's like if it's a single parent pays 30% of their income that's if it's a couple with two incomes and every the young couple has that discussion about should one of us drop out of the labor force because it'll be less expensive than paying for daycare and you know under a bill back better that 30% would go down to 7% and just just think of what that means to a family who is trying to figure out how to pay the bills at the end of the month and they're short so I regard this is really profoundly important and you know if you're hearing some frustration in my voice it's because there is frustration in my but my voice you know these things that I just mentioned pre-k and in child care you know whether you're a parent who voted for Trump or you voted for Biden really doesn't matter you want your kids to be educated to be safe and to be secure so us committing ourselves to child care is not about what your politics are it's about how all of us love our kids and also in bill back better there's an acknowledgement that you can't have a commitment to the kids without having a commitment to the labor force the folks who do this very important work and that means that we've got to have we've got to get the increasing increase wages to a little wage and that was a commitment in bill back better and you know I know how tough the staffing has been for you all that's true all around but I think it might even be more acute for you and unless we are able to get some additional funding it's going to be tougher and tougher it's as simple as that you can't ask people to do important work for nothing and for less than a little boy who's just not not right so my commitment to you is that I'm going to continue working with Patrick and Bernie to do everything we can to get this long overdue legislation passed because those that those resources that go into educating our kids and that has to include resources to pay for the educators is really important to the well-being of those families at the well-being of our communities and the well-being of our country I believe that and by the way the bill back better is paid for you know this is not put on the deficit we're asking you know if something's really worth doing I think it's worth paying for and we have revenue measures in there largely from the higher income folks in the very well off corporations that have been doing economically quite well even during COVID so we're going to hang in I want you to know that I'm going to do everything I can as your representative in Washington to get this legislation passed and I want to express my gratitude to you for your endurance first of all and the importance of the work that you do thank you very much and I look forward hearing from you and hearing your comments and answering any questions that I that I can help with very good thank you so much and you know you brought up the speaking points that we want to share with you too so I think we were going to turn it over to Paul first Paul Berman who's a friend of Head Start but I past director and Paul I think you wanted to make our first right sure thank you Betsy and welcome congressman Welsh and thank you thank you for your service supporting Vermont supporting our population all the great work that you do we really appreciate you you know as Betsy mentioned I was a Head Start Director in Champlain Valley for many many years now in private consulting and training but I remain on the board for Vermont Head Start Association and you did hit on some of the themes that we wanted to share with you today and we're very fortunate to have a little bit of your time we wanted to talk about workforce which I will lead off with we wanted to talk a little bit about eligibility and who we serve and we also wanted to talk about the big picture of the early care and education system in the United States today so some pretty meaty topics I'll lead us off just with a few quick thoughts on workforce which you referenced and so I think I would begin by saying you know generally speaking Head Start has higher standards around credentialing of the people that serve young children and their families and generally has better wages than other private providers however we have not closed the gap with K through 12 and we'll get to that in terms of our third point around the big picture early care and education system but Head Start as you know is the only fully publicly funded birth to five program throughout the United States and what we'd really like to see is compensation benefits and credentialing for the Head Start workforce on par with K through 12 and in fact I think if we were there we would start to solve a lot of the workforce crisis issues at least within Head Start who as you know are serving the most vulnerable kids and families across the country but we would also set a standard and a direction for the rest of the field and the last thought I would share with you on this is this piece that I'm referring to now around these changes for workforce in Head Start in terms of credentialing and compensation and benefits this in my view this does not require legislation this is within the purview of the administration and specifically the US administration for children and families and the federal office of Head Start I can see some slight restructuring but basically we've got the money within the system we couldn't do this overnight but if we set ourselves a timeline and said over the next several years we're going to get to a place with credentialing and compensation and benefits on par with K through 12 I think we'd be on our way to turning the corner on the workforce crisis issue that makes sense I mean essentially what you're talking about is integrating zero to five into the education system through high school I mean that yeah and of course holly evidence is that the sooner you do it the better the outcome right so no that makes a lot of sense to me yeah absolutely and I'll defer to my colleagues for the next piece but I'll quickly say you know as I said you know when I the third point we wanted to talk about is the early care and education system the big system sort of inclusive of Head Start across the country and the dream of public funding you know for the entirety of the system but this first point is really just about Head Start specifically in other words not looking to necessarily new money or legislation but looking at the existing Head Start system across the country and saying you know with some restructuring we could get to a place of credentialing and wages that is on par with K through 12 within the existing system so Head Start would be the national model and and it really I think it's a little bit of a shame that it we currently don't have that parity with K through 12 within Head Start seeing as to how it is a federally funded and regulated system so that's that's the first sort of ask that we wanted to share with you today okay thank you thank you very much yes thank thank you great thank you Paul next we wanted to turn it over to Deb and Deb is going to make another point around our programming and eligibility thank you and welcome Congressman Walter I echo everything Paul said and his introductory comments it's it's great working with you it has been over the years and we look forward to to doing that into the future so on the idea of Head Start being a comprehensive high quality national program it would be wonderful in my mind if the services and the programming that we deliver could be offered to all families not those who are determined to be income eligible and those that currently qualify for the program under those income eligibility guidelines certainly are the neediest of our needy families but as you can imagine and as you've alluded to there are many families out in our communities now who could certainly use our services and there are some that are just barely over that breakpoint that should be in our program that we're unable to serve because they're not income qualified including sometimes some of our staff you know we're hoping that the services that we deliver that begin when we have a pregnant mother and stay with that family until the time the child enters kindergarten really could be expanded so that we could we could offer that to more you know kind of raise the bar I can speak from my own experience here in Brattleboro that we have classrooms of course of all head start early head start as well so infants and toddlers of children who have a great kneel deal of stress and trauma and they're all in one classroom and it has sort of a cyclone effect and as we begin to look at partnering with other programs with families of other economic you know they have the families are not they're not eligible for our program but certainly they're in a public in a you know private program and we blend those children we're seeing better outcomes for our interesting yeah tedious children and so our ask here is that we could bump that bar up ultimately I'd like to see it removed but that we could begin to raise the bar on the income eligibility requirements well you know I actually do in general favor universality you know there's certain things that are very essential in a society and when they're all shared it's beneficial to all of us so I think that's a very worthwhile goal I mean that's supposedly how it is with elementary and secondary education right so right with pre-k and you know that integration of people is helpful for all of us and starting to understand each other so you know that's a big goal but I think a worthy goal but we could really seriously as Deb is saying really look at our income eligibility and raise it to a minimum of 200% versus 100% that it's at now it's an anti-poor system we know it's an antiquated bar the bar of poverty is not figured at today's rates we know that but really looking at 200 to 300% income eligibility would allow us as we know we've been fortunate during this pandemic to see many people get increases and in compensation which is great but someone who went from $12 an hour to $15 an hour may not be eligible for our programs anymore but they're the same family doing the same job dealing with the same stressors we need to really look at that sooner versus later and at least raise the bar from 200 to 300% income eligibility Ryan I I'm sorry sorry that the I was just going to say you know we we see other federal programs that it seems like typical is 200% of poverty and we're still at 100% of poverty which is just a quite low bar I mean there are a lot of people that are 125% of poverty and really need our service and I know that and you see it and and then where you've got that cutoff it's so painful for those families that are just on the wrong side of the cliff and they need those services desperately so yeah thank you for that advocacy well we're fortunate in Vermont that we have a higher than federal minimum wage here we know that Massachusetts you know many states are going to $15 an hour we're trying to get to $15 an hour but it would be great to use SNAP as an example for our eligibility families and make them automatically eligible so I followed up on that port that point with Deb but I'm going to let Paul finish up our third point here and we just really wanted to make that point very clear so thanks Paul thank you sure thank you and thank you again congressman for all you do for Vermont and for the nation really but the last piece we wanted to touch on which we have referenced here in this conversation is this big picture around the early care and education system in America and I'm going to contrast this momentarily with the first point that was making around the workforce specifically within Head Start where I think we could make enormous strides without legislation by working with ACF and the Office of Head Start and again we would look to you and our congressional delegation for that leadership in making those sorts of changes within the world of Head Start and the workforce for Head Start but the bigger picture is around what you referenced this need for universal publicly funded birth to five services throughout the nation and when I think about it and you mentioned this you know many other industrialized nations first world nations take care of this population from birth to five I don't need to impress upon you this is the most critical age group this is where we're going to get the biggest return on investment is by serving children birth to five and Deb is a big advocate for going to prenatal you know starting before kids are born and I think a lot of the societal problems that we face today I'm just looking at the COVID pandemic right you know resistance to vaccines to masking the this huge campaign of misinformation that people seem to be susceptible to in many different venues there are so many societal problems that we encounter as a result of not having a universal publicly funded birth to five system in this country this will require legislation right this is this is where this is the tougher lift I think but we need to get there as a nation I think we need to get there sooner than later and I think the return on investment ultimately you know for folks who want to see it economically we will be a more globally competitive nation we will be a more highly educated nation we will be a less racist nation a more equitable nation it all begins with this investment in birth to five it is long overdue I've often said to folks can you imagine if if K through 12 was not publicly funded can you imagine right if it was just the wild west of like you got to go find a private provider for your fifth grade child you know if that was our system in America it would be a disaster we have this we have the same kind of disaster but we have failed to fund the absolutely most critical years of the child's development and then we have all these societal problems and we wonder where they came from right so we need to start having this conversation as a nation and we look to you and our delegation for this leadership you're on mute my friend thank I said thank you very much for that I totally agree I mean that's a that's a great analogy you know go find your five-year-old a provider of fifth year fifth grade education oh my god yeah no it's a mate that's great right so what can I say I love being with you all it's tremendous well we are really thankful that you will continue to serve us and represent us and hear us so thank you so much I don't know how much more time you have to give to us but we could continue this conversation I'm just thoughtful about your schedule yeah no I think I have to go now but I think Brooke is going to stay on I will I will stay on Congress and Walsh just need to leave but thank you all for for meeting with him and Peter yeah thank you guys and by the way call me Peter Brooke let's not get too formal with these folks here all right and we do have you know a week of the young child coming up in April we do encourage people to come and visit our centers we hope by then we'll be a little bit more open to the public maybe but we're always happy to do outdoor visits too so stay well Peter let's look into that yeah I'd like to do that and those are always great visits yeah yeah so stay well and we really appreciate your time and I appreciate your time and your work thank you and hang in hang in bye bye bye bye bye Peter okay great so um I see that we also have Nikhil is that how you pronounce your name yes hi Nikhil from Senator Sanders office also joining us to continue this conversation so um so thank you very much for spending time with us today so it was really nice to hear from Congressman Walsh that he agrees with a lot of the platform pieces that we're here to talk about and if we want to kind of dig into them a little bit we can dig into them a little bit more with both of you or if you have things you would like to share with us as far as the build back better you know where that is at right now and how we can support and advocate for its passage which we all agree would make a big big difference to Vermont you know Vermont has made up of 600,000 neighbors right we all eventually run into each other or see each other here or there or anywhere and at the same time we are all trying hard to do the very best we can and um you know we know we need that federal support that federal support is key and very important to the work that we do and so so great Brooke or Nikhil would you like to share any of your input sure yeah I can give a little bit of update on our end and happy to also answer any questions and go into anything you'd like just a quick introduction my name is Nikhil Goyal senior policy advisor on education children for Senator Sanders some of you may have been in touch with our former outreach representative Katerina over the years and since left the office but I've been helping as well as Beth Stern so you can feel free to reach out to either of us for Senator Sanders I I've been a lot a lot of my work has been in the field of public education actually went to Goddard College for undergrad a number of years ago and I've done a lot of work in the progressive education space over the years and have also taught in the NYU prison education program as well and so I think probably just to give a little bit of an update on Build Back Better and what we were working on so you're aware of some of our advocacy on the hill you know the senator put out a $6 trillion reconciliation framework back in June and and we would argue that that would be perhaps the most transformative piece of legislation since the New Deal or the Great Society and you know that was encompassed a lot of key priorities and I know folks across the country have been advocating for for many years and unfortunately you know $6 trillion did not have the support of the full Democratic caucus you know roughly 40 senators were behind that and so that figure was negotiated down to $3.5 trillion but we still did not have 50 votes for that bill we had two remaining senators, Senator Sinema and Senator Manchin who did not support $3.5 trillion and so that $3.5 was negotiated down even further to $1.75 and as you sure you saw Senator Manchin as indicated he does not support the current version of Build Back Better and so it's not dead yet it's still you know it's still alive in some form we're still fighting for it we should have some better sense of what that looks like in the coming weeks but it's you know we are still very committed to seeing the major provisions of this bill enacted and I don't need to explain it to all of you but you know that this would be transformative for for children for families for communities across Vermont and the rest of the country but I you know I represented Welch and talked a little bit about some of the aspects of it but you know the areas that I've been focusing on first and foremost have been around early child care and pre-k as well as some of the early childhood provisions as well as helping out on the child tax credit rollout and the structure of it but I would say that you know the challenge that we faced when during negotiations is that we had to try to fit this these two massive programs child care and pre-k within a limited budget allocation and so we originally had them both running for a 10-year permanent basis in our 3.5 trillion plan but then had to cut it down to six years in our 1.75 trillion dollar plan because of center mansions and center sentiment demands now there is some talk around running all these programs or some of the programs at a permanent basis that is still yet to be seen I know center mansion has indicated some of that that he'd like to see permanent programs and and fortunately he you know we haven't seen too many concerns around child care and pre-k and so we're hopeful that those will be something that will end up in a final version but you know we'll have to certainly see on that the good thing is that West Virginia has a very robust pre-k program it has it reaches almost every eligible four-year-old and almost and trying to increase the number of three-year-olds and so I think that's part of the motivation that he has of why he's been supportive of that program and Congressman Welch had also mentioned the the head start wage compensation in the bill and so there's a roughly 2.5 billion dollars that we've been pushing for from fiscal year 22 to fiscal year 27 that would increase the wages of head start workers and educators and so it is our you know goal that that remains in our in the legislation and hopefully can increase in the future as well and the other aspect in terms of head start is that it's not so much with Vermont but it states that don't opt in to the childcare slash pre-k programs there is some money to expand head start in in certain communities as well and so that is something that you know we are certainly committed to the challenge is because of the limited allocation as much as we would like to do it in every state we have to focus on the states that aren't going to get any of the benefits of the two programs in the first place and so the other challenge is around the state opt in because as you can imagine a lot of states are not going to participate in this program and you know the wonderful thing about head start is the direct federal to local I think that to me is a really amazing approach because it actually ensures that children are not left children families are not left out due to the winds of leadership at the state level every every child eligible child can potentially participate with the resources so so those are those are just a couple of the issues that we've been working on and I you know I've spoken with a number of folks about the limited cost of living increased over the past year I know that's been a major concern and and something that we are closely tracking for the upcoming fiscal year and so please keep us in the loop on how that develops because I you know I know those are with rising inflation that can really eat into into costs and wages as well but I you know I think our philosophy is always is the idea of a cradle to grave agenda how do we address and provide the critical supports for families children seniors and communities from all the way from pre-birth to end of life and so that is our that is our mission whether it's expanding medicare to include dental vision and hearing or providing childcare to every child in America to me it's a very holistic vision as well so and we you know we are we I certainly I think the senator shares your support your ideas around universality he always you know has been a leader on on universal programs I think they you know not just from a from simply a a human human point of view it's also beneficial on the administrator point of view so you're not to deal with all the paperwork and the and the forms and the eligibility standards I know that can be extremely burdensome and and and hassling to to families and providers so that is something that we are certainly supportive of and I did appreciate the idea that someone mentioned around if snap eligibility can be one of the metrics to get into head start you know interestingly enough we were actually looking at that for child care because the way the unfortunate thing is that there are some very punitive work requirements around the child care program and we were trying to see if we can amend that so that say you receive WIC or you receive SNAP or TANF can you also automatically be eligible for the child care benefit and so I see some transferability of that idea to head start as well so if there's any other ideas on that on that wavelength you know let us know I'd love to learn a little bit more about that so I'll stop there and happy to answer any any any questions or great thoughts so I see Paul Paul wants to get in on this super super quick response and the kill within the head start world in in the statute the head start act as well as in the regulations there is language that provides the authority to the office of head start to interpret eligibility based on receipt of other public assistance the office of head start central office in Washington DC has decided to interpret that clause very narrowly to limit the population that is eligible for head start specifically based on TANF eligibility but we have argued for many years that if a family is eligible for other types of public assistance outside of TANF funded benefits they should absolutely qualify for head start to date I have not seen the office of head start look at that existing language and say there's a mechanism here for expanding eligibility it already exists it just takes the will so you know this would not apply to the rest of you know to programs outside of head start but that mechanism exists within head start today so you're saying currently TANF recipients have that is how head start nationally is operating the program well no TANF eligibility is one of sorry it's one of the metrics one of the metrics right so you can either qualify strictly based on income you can qualify based on foster care status receipt of public assistance which OHS has defined very very narrowly right or homelessness right so those are essentially the four different bases you know upon which families can be eligible but we have argued for years advocated that OHS in DC should look at this public assistance clause and not define it so narrowly in fact years ago in Vermont we had a we had an agreement you know with OHS locally in Boston that if families were eligible for child care subsidy what's what today is the child care financial assistance program in Vermont they would be automatically eligible for head start the Boston regional office of head start for years honored that and then they backtracked on it and said well no that's not the way DC is interpreting it these days so again this exists today you know if our if if you know if if Senator Sanders and our delegation congressman Welch and Leahy you know can can advocate to OHS this could really make a huge difference you know in terms of services for kids and families now I really appreciate that so you know I'm happy to talk with with Brooke and our colleagues about any ideas around that I know we were certainly exploring that for child care this child care program and build back better and so I'm sure there's definitely some opportunity there to to weigh in and I think you know the I'm curious do you know if that if in previous years before TANF if that included AFDC if that was on the books that if that was a metric yeah I couldn't I couldn't tell you that Nikhil I you know I know TANF I think is mentioned specifically but I don't know that I've seen reference to AFDC okay yeah I'm gonna I'm looking for the citation right now just so you'll have it oh yeah yeah I'll put my email in the chat as well so you know feel free you have anything excellent very good thank you for your thoughts and your follow-up on that and really good conversation around eligibility so wonderful Brooke did you have anything else that you wanted to add to the conversation I think Nikhil did a great job that was covered pretty much every base that I wanted to touch on as well and I just wanted to reiterate what our office is really concerned about as well and what Congress and well should mention too is just the universality of universal pre-k and head start and the eligibility as well I think that is huge and that is definitely something that we'll continue to look look at and I I'm sure Nikhil and I will continue this conversation as well and with our offices but no I think I think so one of the points I wanted to make sure that we were great one of the points that I wanted to make sure that we were clear about is that every few years you get this push and pull between Department of Education and HHS about who should be overseeing head start or how head start should be fit into the system you know we feel strongly that under HHS we have good support for the broad comprehensive services that we do we want parity with salaries compensation benefits you know I wanted to make sure that we were you know saying that we wanted to become part of that you know Department of Education system per se to get there but we really need to look at salaries and compensation for our staff there's lots of reasons why aren't people coming to work these days but the number one reason for our staff is that they can find jobs in the public schools they can find jobs lots of other places that are paying them more and they have to consider that when they're deciding to you know go back to work or stay at work so we need to make sure that they are compensated at the professional level that we all know that they are working at so good other points anybody else wanting to make just one quick point just because I know just so you're aware of what we were advocating as well we did try to see if we could get some of the head start performance standards especially around the health screenings and wraparound services and parental and community engagement within the pre-K system and so the issue as you surely know is that the costs of those services and programs is quite extensive and so that was we we were trying to see if that could be applied within Build Back Better but the CBO school I think would be quite too high for our two senators from West Virginia and Arizona so but I you know I just just to say that we are very supportive of those programs and recognize that that those really make a big difference at the early ages excellent well thank you so much for your time today it really makes a difference your advocacy really makes a difference it's really you know continues to be I know we are filled with pride with our representation on the national level and thank you for the work that you do locally to help us get our message across to everybody so we are fingers and toes crossed and excited for Peter to become our next senator I know that so so very good and and thanks for having having me and I I would love to chat with some of you individually and learn a little bit more about your programs as well and so I may reach out or again you have my email as well so yeah please do and then Sherry has all of our contact information and can share it with you too yeah I would reiterate that same sentiment as well I think I've been in touch with most of you but I would love to hear you know revamp those meetings again and hear from what you all have and thank you for having us and thank you for meeting with Representative Welch I know he was really looking forward to this and he likes checking in with with you guys and visiting the Head Start Centers and and just learning more about what you do on the ground level and and kind of what you're doing on a higher level as well great well thank you let's all stay well and we look forward to seeing you again in the near future great thanks


Welcome back to another product review. And today I'm going to take a look at design your own anime and manga characters step by step lessons for creating and drawing unique characters. I got this about a week ago and I got a ton of how to draw books and I should look at them more because I still can't draw and having to be honest, I love ordering them. I love going through them, but do I go and practice every day? I don't. I should. But anyway, this is the book from the back spine. Let's take a look at this here. First page. Got your contents, constructing a character, simplifying forms for gestures and poses, drawing hair, clothing and accessories, conveying dimension, emotion and character, pets, chibis and sidekicks. I don't know if I pronounced this correctly. A lot of these words I'm pronouncing for the first time out loud. There's a lot of words I'm reading, but I'm never pronouncing anything. Exercise design and draw a character. So we got the intro, constructing a character. Basics of line. See, the thing is what I love about these type of books is that I look at them and they're fascinating. I love them. Especially when you have comparisons between muscles and form and structure, especially simplifying things like this. It gives me the illusion that if I go through this, that I will actually be able to draw. Now I don't think I can't. I just have to go and do it every day and practice just like I do it with animation. But for some reason, I haven't really gone into it, but I love stuff like that. When you have really the simplification and showing different perspectives and how you would approach it. I think what I am missing is definitely being able to visualize in my head, you know, the structure, how the bones and the joints and muscles and how all of that is constructed. But I think I just need to practice to be able to visualize everything in 3D in my head, kind of like this, you know, in blocks. I just, I'm not there. For me, I don't even know if I could draw this. I'm not thinking in three dimensional form and planes, maybe yet. I really need to get into this, but, you know, stuff like that is to me, just this will not happen anytime soon. But I love it. Especially stuff like this. I really should start with just blocky shapes like he has simplifying forms for gestures and poses. It says simplifying, but I would already have a problem with that. So I should really technically go back to basics and just go through these. Sometimes I also get kind of into like a how to start paralysis. Like I have so many books. These are cool. I love it. But am I, you know, I need something that's just this for like 100 pages. I feel like should I start with this? Is that going to be too advanced for me? So then I end up getting another one and then never drawing anything. I do love this, though. It's fascinating. It's funny how you can draw your folds. I love this how and where it wrinkle. It's great. I think the presentation is really cool. Lots of cool details here, stuff like that is neat, especially since that will be quite a pain in CG if you just want to animate it, but I think that is very cool. And I would love to be able to do it. Now, just like I tell my students, well, start with the basics to a bouncing ball, but don't just do a bouncing ball once. You got to go through it and animate that a couple of times in a bouncing ball with a tail and you have a squash and stretch and everything. It's kind of the same thing that I am not applying to my drawing practice. I'm not like, oh, I want to do step one and then I want to be able to do this. That's just not quite how this works. And I know this and I should really practicing this, visualizing the 3D form in my head. So I know that this is a three-dimensional form and these are how the forms go around the lines and everything. But I'm not even like, I'm barely here, but I'm not even here. This is already more form than I can muster in my scribbles. It's cute though. I do like this there. It's like a character's backstory. It's cute too. It's great. It'll pose. And then you got pets, sidekicks. It's awesome. Super cute.  But yeah, stuff like that, just tubes. I should really just get into this and draw every day. You got your aniliform and humans. These are kind of cool though. Look at that. Cool hand poses. And then you have your exercise list. What to do and how to proceed. Like I wouldn't even take me years just to get this. I love it. But I thought this is cool. It looks cool. The procession is cool. It's not huge. As you can see, you can page through it fairly quickly, but I think it would be really cool refresher for some intro for others, something massively overwhelming for myself. I thought this is a pretty cool one to take a look at it. There you go. Design your own characters. That is it. And if you got it, let me know in the comments. Was that helpful? Did you, when you got this, you feel like that's a cool design book, but I prefer another one. Maybe leave a comment with, if you really want to start learning just general characters, not just, you know, anime characters, like something that's more general to learn destruction, the form. Leave me a comment. Let me know. What would you recommend so that a complete novice like me could get into practicing drawing and just learning the form and all that stuff. I'm curious. Do you draw? Let me know. Comments. To learning how to draw and all that good stuff. I'm Eric Hears. Hope that was helpful for the page through. Hope you like it. Hope you buy it. And that is it from me. Thank you for watching. And if you're still watching, thank you. And maybe you'll like these and you like other stuff on my channel. So browse through. If you like it, you can subscribe. Help my channel grow. And that is that with the page at the end. Thank you for watching. And I'll see you in my next upload.


What's your choice? As a fight on the school corridor, do you ignore it or do you deal with it? So in schools minor incidents are common. Remember ignoring them implies acceptance, so that you know popular phrase if you ignore it you can don't it. So ignoring these moments whether they're tiny or enormous fosters a culture of leniency. So addressing them even briefly sets behavioural expectations. So there's a good piece of psychology, the psychology persuasion or bystander's uncertainty, how simple interactions acknowledging them and addressing minor issues can reinforce school standards. And if you're first to the scene you have other adults around you not sure not sure what to do often allocating a specific task helps resolve the issue much quicker. So imagine the impact of every teacher who consistently manages these minor incidents then we can really dramatically improve the behavioural capital across the school much quicker. So next time don't overlook a minor issue, address it to foster a culture of responsibility, click the link below to see a little bit more about the psychology of how we can all improve behaviour across the entire school.