Hello everyone, in this video I will be showing you how to create a new user in Office 365. Now in order to do this, you will need to be an administrator, so either a global administrator or have the user management admin role assigned to you. When you first log into Office 365, you will probably be brought to the admin center. However, if you're not, you can click on the grid icon in the top left corner to open up your app drawer and then just click on admin and you will be brought to the admin center. So after you get into the admin center, the first thing you're going to do is click on users to expand that section on the left here and then click active users. This is going to give you a list of all of the users in your Office 365 instance. So to create a new one, it's very simple. You just click on the plus button right here and turn some information. So first name, last name, display name, which is how people will see this user's name when they email them or I am them, anything like that. And it will be auto populated based on the first and last name that you enter, but you can change it to whatever you want it to be. Then you'll have to specify a username. This is what the user's email address will be. You can also change the domain name that is used with that email address. So if you have more than one domain registered with Office 365, you can pick whichever one makes the most sense for that user. Then you'll have the option to either have the password be automatically generated for this user in which case it will be displayed after you click the create button or you will be able to type the password for this user. So manually specifying what the user's password will be, which is what I'm going to do right now. The password requirements are a little bit strong. So you're going to need to have an uppercase, a lowercase, a number and or a symbol. So you have to pick three of those things and use at least three of them in your password. It also cannot be any part of the actual username. So the part before the at symbol in this user's email address. Then after you specified a password or had it automatically generated, you can decide whether you want the person to have to change their password the next time they sign in. So this is useful, especially if you have auto generated the password so that they can set it up, set their password to be something that they can more easily remember and makes a little bit more sense for them. You can of course still leave it checked if you do type the password, but if you are typing the password you could technically set it to be what that user wants it to be anyway. So it's a personal preference slash policy kind of decision there whether you make them change their password the next time. After that option we can specify where we want the user's new password to be emailed to. So by default the email address in here is going to be that of the admin account that is being used to create this user, but you can specify up to five recipients for this. So you could technically have the password be emailed to this admin account as well as the user's external email address if they have one or another user within your Office 365 instance who does user management other than yourself, something like that as long as there's no more than five recipients in here everyone will receive the password for this user. After you specify where the password will be emailed you can select the type of licenses you would like to assign to the user. Now in this case this Office 365 instance only has one kind of license so I actually don't have a choice in which license I assign but if you have more than just one you will be able to pick which type of license to assign to the user you're creating. Now that we're all done entering all of that information you can just click on create it'll give you a brief overview of the user you just created so you'll see the username the password that you set or that was auto-generated and the type of license that you ended up assigning to that user. You can click on close now and if we go and search for that user we can see that they were successfully created in Office 365. Now it'll take a little bit for the mailbox to get set up but they can log in immediately and it'll just take between like five and twenty minutes to get there at the mailbox set up depending on your unit speed. All right so that is how you set up a new user in Office 365. Thanks so much for watching have a great day.


So there's an interesting issue that Xenoblade Chronicles 2 has brought to light in terms of the direction of certain Nintendo Switch games. And there's actually a thread about this on Reset Era as well that kind of inspired me to make this video and do some research myself because I own Xenoblade Chronicles 2. And apparently this is the issue. There is an emerging trend of Nintendo Switch titles treating Doct mode as the base specs performing worse undocked. Now obviously, no matter what spec is chosen as the base spec, whether it is whether developers base their building of their game around the portable mode or the docked mode, it's always going to be worse in portable mode or at least it should be because docked mode is obviously significantly more powerful. Now not so much so that it's like a whole new generation, but when you upclock things that almost doubles the clock speed of certain things like the GPU, you obviously are going to have a lot better performance in docked mode. And a lot of games, including Xenoblade Chronicles 2 has built their game around docked mode and then made a lot of sacrifices to make it run in portable mode. In fact, what seems to be happening with Xenoblade Chronicles 2 and we're not going to talk about framerate because the framerate seems to have issues in docked mode and portable mode. And that's strictly on the developers and the engine and maybe the game not being as polished as it needs to be. But what the concerning issue is here is that in docked mode, Xenoblade Chronicles 2 runs at a locked 720p. In portable mode, the game pretty much never hits 720p. Now, the footage you're seeing here is stuff I recorded. I'm not that far into the game. There's a lot of cutscenes and stuff. I'm going to try to cut the cutscenes out if anything slips in. I do apologize. It's just because I didn't have enough footage, but I'm trying to show off the difference between docked and undocked mode. And it's really hard to tell the quality differences here because you're at a camera shooting at a screen and versus obviously direct feed footage because I have no way to direct feed footage the undocked mode. But you'll see as we get out to the field that the undocked mode very clearly is a much lower resolution than 720p. Now, we do because of digital foundry, we know that it runs at a dynamic resolution, but it really never seems to hit 720p. It is sub HD, you know, even 720p HD, pretty much the entire time. And this isn't the first game to do that. There have been several other games that have done this as well. Well, when I say several, more like a handful. Now, these handful of games are, you know, big games, important games. But there's obviously other games that show the other side of the spectrum, like a Breath of the Wild, which looks to some people even better in handheld mode because of the, you know, the pixel density being shrunk down in comparison to on a big screen TV and that the performance, at least at launch, was better in portable mode versus docked mode, which was really strange at the time, although several patches have come out and fixed that performance in docked mode sense. But here's what is interesting about why people are debating about whether or not this should happen, whether or not developers should base their game around the portable mode or the docked mode. And it's based on the usage stats that were provided by Nintendo. And 30% of the users of Switch use the system as handheld only. 20% are docked only, 50% are mixed, as in they use docked and handheld equally or pretty close to equally. So I kind of fall in the docked only because of the nature of what I do here. I'm constantly recording footage or live streaming. But if you take away that aspect of my job in terms of me just playing the Switch on my own, I'm probably in that 50% spectrum of docked and or portable because there's a lot of convenience in the portable aspect. And there's a lot of convenience in the docked aspect. You know, if I happen to be in my office by the TV that has my dock, I'm going to dock it and enjoy it on a 32 inch TV. But if I am upstairs in my bedroom or if I'm outside or whatever the case, maybe I am playing it in portable mode and I love both aspects of this. But here's the thing, we have to start looking at this was always going to be a question for developers of which which aspect of the switch are you going to base your development around? There is a strong argument to be made that they should be basing when developers make games, they should be basing their game around the docked mode because Nintendo themselves has strictly advertised and continues to advertise that this is a portable home console. So what that means is the top spec range is what you should make your game around and then make quality adjustments for on the go. But there's also an equal argument and a fair argument to be said if you base the building of your game around the the portable aspect, one, you're going to have an extremely good looking portable version of the game. And then two, when you put it in the dock, you can do things like up the frame rate or up the base resolution. We've seen some games do this breath of the wild as an example runs at 720p native on the screen, no dynamic resolution scaling. But when you put it on the dock, it runs at 900p. There really isn't a lot of performance gains or anything else. It's just a higher resolution. And the question is, should they be doing something similar to Breath of the Wild or should they be doing something similar to Xenoblade Chronicles 2? Now, personally, my experience with Xenoblade Chronicles 2 in portable mode is that I think it looks OK.  Right. And this is weird because I have I'm literally recording this right now. I'm watching my my audio go here on a 4K monitor, two 4K monitors. In fact, on a 4K capable gaming PC that I play 4K games on. I also obviously will switch game at 1080p or 900p, whatever resolution it spits out depending on the game. And it's I guess I have learned that while resolution does matter, I'm not going to sit here and say it doesn't. That seems to be the sticking point here because the performance isn't any better in dock mode than portable mode, as in the frame rate is just as choppy in dock mode as in portable mode in this case. But it is an interesting conversation, nonetheless. And Xenoblade Chronicles 2, as I'm showing in this video or trying to show as best as I can, is just one example. The question is, what do you think should be a standard? And I don't know if there's ever going to be a standard. There clearly isn't a standard at Nintendo when you have Breath of the Wild targeting portable mode and then just upping the resolution for docked mode. And then you have Xenoblade Chronicles clearly targeting docked mode and then adding a dynamic resolution scale or that everything is basically sub HD and for some people really, really blurry. It brings up some interesting aspects. Now, it should be noted that this isn't new per se. I think there was some PlayStation Vita games that ran at like three hundred and sixty P and the whole point of PlayStation Vita was to run things that if it wasn't HD, at least a heck of a lot closer to HD, like a six hundred P or even a five forty P resolution, three sixty P on the Vita just doesn't look that great. And that was some things that people chastised about certain Vita games that were kind of sort of console style quality ports. It's going to be interesting to see. I think a lot of games, at least from the third parties, are going to target the higher spec range because the higher spec range is closer to what the games run like on other systems. But that's for third party, multi platform games. When you're talking about exclusives, there's a lot more wiggle room. There is a should exclusives target the portable mode and create the best possible portable experience and then just up the resolution or should they target the docked mode, which can be argued to be console mode and target the highest possible amazing abilities you can output on here and then have to get all the sacrifices possible into portable mode. It's interesting prospect. It's almost like the docked versus handheld in terms of which is better. Is switch better to play doctor is a better to play handle. The more people play doctor, the more people I handle. In fact, our first arguing with ourselves, the method is literally based around switch docked mode versus switch portable mode in terms of what user convenience and user preference is. Not necessarily, you know, which games are better in this and that. And so it's a very interesting debate. And I kind of want to bring this to your phone. This isn't news. This isn't something like new out there per se outside of the fact that Digital Foundry recently released their analysis of it, which brought further light to the fact that there's a heck of a lot of sacrifices resolution wise in handheld mode that can make the playing environment a little less enjoyable for those in portable mode. In fact, basically the argument here is that portable mode, at least in Xenoblade Chronicles 2 and a select few other titles, typically third party games are at that point where portable mode does just not feel good. It just is a bad experience. But then you slap this thing in the docked mode and you're like, whoa, OK, and obviously, you know, Xenoblade Chronicles 2 only running at a 720p in docked mode is also upsetting to some. But then you consider it's a wide open space open world and they've done a lot of really interesting things with the visuals. There is some some form of anti-aliasing that kicks in at times. It's kind of like a dynamic anti-aliasing in docked mode. It's really interesting and it kind of makes things look smoother at times and higher higher resolution than they really are. It's a really interesting trick that Monolithsoft put into this game. But I don't know. You guys, let me know what you think in the comments below. I'm very curious to see what your preference is specifically for exclusives, because I think for third party multi-platform games, it's to be expected that the higher specs are always going to be targeted and then they're going to make whatever resolution or frame rate, you know, sacrifices they need to in portable mode, but that's because they have to try to match as close as they can to the games on other systems. Whereas I'm really curious what you guys' opinions are on the the exclusive front. Should exclusives be targeting the spec range of the portable aspect and then just tossing, you know, using the extra power docked mode for a higher base resolution or maybe potentially in the games that can have a higher frame rate or should developers like Monolithsoft did for exclusives be targeting the higher spec range and then making whatever sacrifices they can to make it run portably. It's a very interesting debate and I don't know that there's going to be a clear cut answer here, but it's interesting when we're seeing that there is some people that feel on both sides of the fence because I don't know where I stand on this because I play a lot in docked mode, you know, there's obviously some bias in me that says, yeah, just make the best looking, best running games you kind of in the highest specs, then there's part of me that says, yeah, but when I take this thing on the go, if it's a noticeably worse experience, is it something I really want them to do? As I said to me, I think Xenobit Chronicles 2 is being a little overblown because when you look at the videos, even when you're looking at this video and you see the pixel density being blown up into a bigger screen format in a video, it looks a heck of a lot worse than it actually does when you're playing on the screen, but it's still an issue and there are definitely moments in Xenobit where you could tell, man, this thing is running at 360, man, this thing might even be dipping to 240p at times and that is extremely noticeable on this much larger screen than it is on like a 3DS where you know it's running at like 240p at times. Anyways, folks, you guys let me know. It's just a very interesting conversation point and I want to know your guys' thoughts on it. Anyways, I am Nathaniel Ruffalojans from Nintendo Prime and if you liked this video, you know what to do. And if you disliked the video, hit that dislike button, subscribe for more content and I will catch you in the next one.


The consistent flooding of Archer Park in Pressensburg has caused destruction to storage buildings, covered the park in thick mud, and has removed parts of the road in some areas. I met with Pressensburg Mayor Les Stapleton to talk about the reconstruction of a building in the park and how the city plans to help alleviate these problems caused by flooding in the future. We looked all the way down through here and the entire foundation started to come out from under it and there's no safety at this point. Well Jeremy, the river came through and it actually makes a circle through the park and then has to circle back and it all hits right underneath the building and we've actually losing that building. It's gone. We're going to have to tear it down. As you saw earlier, the bottoms fall out from under it so we've had to build a new building that's an additional $70,000 that we didn't want to spend. We could spend it to be more productive and now we're having to be reactive to a problem here. We've talked to lots of different groups about what can we do to help this, how can we fix the river and there's never been a real true solution. Now as we looked at the map while ago I showed you, we could straighten this out and take a lot of the curves out of it. It's going to save us a lot of hassle. Here's the river as it currently flows and this is the building that's washing out. You can see where it just comes running. It has to hit somewhere to bounce back up and around. We could do this so easily. Come right down straight down through here. It would make more area for the park. There's easier to control the floodways or anything like that. It'd just be easier of course to work all around. Well you know these people, some of them volunteer, some of them come out and we have to pay them overtime and you know we have to do it because we've got to get cleaned up. Richie does a wonderful job over here him and his crew and the fire department comes up some how. But what it all boils down to is the manners we're spending. Richie can tell you just exactly how many our skating rink is booked up. Our shelters are booked up for the summer. You know a lot of people utilize this. Yeah you know when the flood comes just a good example was the last two weeks we had to cancel skating parties. People couldn't get into the park. But you know once it goes down it takes usually four or five days to get cleaned up and back in operation. So we need to find some solution to this problem. Well you know we've tried for about five years to stabilize the creek bank and in different ways and the efforts were just impossible to save the building. It started collapsing around us so we hadn't expected and it came this particular time it's no longer salvageable so it's going to be torn down in the future and they'll get it put up in its place. We took bids on it. We advertised it there for a couple weeks. We opened it last night so it cost us about seventy thousand dollars to get what we need and it's not what we want right now it's what we had to have and we would like to have been actually bigger and you know that in the future we were looking towards that but we had to rush our progress here so we can make things right. You know there's so many entities that have to be involved. We're talking Division of Water, Corps of Engineers, Environmental and there's just so many different groups that are going to have to come to the table and try to work with us on this and you know I may get one group on board and then the other group's got a problem. If I get them all to the table and show them why they it's a landmark it's an icon here in this area you know. Our numbers keep growing every Christmas and we're up in the forty thousands on the cars and you're looking at a hundred thousand people in a thirty day span coming through and looking at Christmas lights so when you have to dismantle the lights overnight and then spend the next two or three days putting them all back out it's extremely difficult to keep that going so but we do and we keep it going but it's it makes it so much nicer if we didn't face it at all the time. And you know it's not just cleaning up but we got sanitized too. You know that's another issue because you're talking about flood water and it's just an expense that keeps growing with us and every year it seems like it's getting a little bit worse and we've just got to find a solution to it which we're looking at and we're talking to some different groups that hopefully we can get some action moving forward on it.


This video is called Solving Problems Using Proportional Parts, Part 2. In this particular figure, we have these parallel line symbols, and so that means that these side lengths are broken up into proportional parts. And so to set up our ratios, we would use x plus 3 and x minus 2, 7, and, uh oh, we seem to be missing a side. Since the entire length is 12 and part of it is 7, I know the remaining piece has to be 5 units long. So now we can set up our ratio. And then let's cross multiply to solve. 5 times the quantity x plus 3 is equal to 7 times the quantity x minus 2. Let's use the distributive property. And now we can subtract 5x from both sides. Add 14 to both sides. And so we get that x is equal to 29 halves. This next problem deals with the second theorem on the front page of your note sheet. So we have x and x plus 5 are split up. And 5 and 14 create the final proportions. Let's cross multiply. 14x is equal to 5 times x plus 5. Distribute. And then solving gives us that x is equal to 25 ninths.


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Right, I'm the messenger for Abby. Her poem is Ideal Cities after Erika Meitner. In Ideal Cities, people swing down sidewalks singing, and everywhere is wheel accessible. I stroll side by side with my friend Jonah as he maneuvers his chair, and no one stares or pushes to get ahead. In my Ideal City, the beggar on the corner remembers my name and gives me a quarter. He smiles and shows me his perfect white teeth. Kids give their bus seats to Chinese women holding plastic baskets of cabbage and fish. In Ideal Cities, artists chalk sidewalks with color. And as an ocean sweeps the sand of sandcastles, morning rains wash them clean. All coffee is fair trade. All toys are made by adults who love to play. All eggs come from free-range chickens, and all food is free of poison. In my Ideal City, the mentally ill are given clean apartments with carefully folded clean clothes and whatever services they need. In my Ideal City, women walk alone at night with their telescopes, sit in misty parks, marvel, and howl at the haloed moon. In my Ideal City, there's a museum showing what no longer exists, guns, gas stations, cigarettes, nuclear power plants, shopping cart homes, skeletal babies with tight swollen bellies. In my Ideal City, everyone listens to silence.


Is antibacterial soap bad for you? On the surface of it, soap that kills bacteria sounds like a great idea. As well as keeping egregious body odours within societally acceptable limits, it kills off bacteria that could otherwise cause serious infections if they get to the wrong place. But the United States Food and Drug Administration isn't so convinced, and this has led them to challenge manufacturers of antibacterial soaps to prove their products are safe and better at doing their stuff than plain old soap and water. But why use antibacterial soaps in the first place? Here's the deal. Billions upon billions of bacteria live, eat and reproduce in our bodies. Surprisingly, this is actually a good thing. Many of these bacteria help keep us healthy. But if they get inside your body through cuts, or profligate finger licking, or other less salubrious activities, some of them can do a lot of harm. So we're taught to wash our hands regularly, with soap and water, to keep the risks of bacterial infection low. It was probably a no-brainer then to make super soaps when antibacterial agents like Trichlozan came along, enabling them to kill off more bugs and reduce the chances of infection still further. Trichlozan has been in use since the late 1960s to prevent hospital infections, and it's been used widely in personal care products for over 30 years. So why is FDA taking action now? FDA requires chemicals like Trichlozan to be safe and effective to pass mustard. In their eyes, it's not enough for an antibacterial soap just to be safe. It's also got to do a better job than the alternative, which in this case is regular soap and water. The good news is that research indicates Trichlozan is reasonably safe for human use, but there are some niggling uncertainties. For instance, small quantities of Trichlozan can get into the human body when using products like soap. One study found Trichlozan in nearly 75% of people tested. So most of us have a floating around our bodies somewhere. But are these low levels dangerous? In the short term, probably not. But there's less certainty over possible long-term impacts, like cancer for instance. Trichlozan looks like it doesn't actually cause cancer when the stuff gets inside your body, but there are some slight concerns that it might not be good for the skin over long periods of use. Once out in the environment, Trichlozan isn't good for some organisms and it tends to hang around for a while. And when it does degrade, it can be transformed into more dangerous chemicals, although whether this is an issue no one knows for sure yet. Then there are worries over overuse leading to antibacterial resistant microbes. There's not a whole lot of evidence to support this, but there are some indicators that it could be a possible problem.  This doesn't necessarily mean that it's harmful, just because something shows hormone-like behavior doesn't mean it belongs on the blacklist. But it does suggest more needs to be known about the long-term safety of the substance, especially in the early stages of prenatal development. Of course, any potential risks, especially speculative ones, need to be balanced against the benefits of using bug-killing soap. In this case, there's quite a bit of research that suggests Trichlozan-containing soap doesn't perform better than ordinary soap and water, unless high concentrations of substance are used and there are repeated washings. This isn't too surprising. A soap and water are pretty good at killing bacteria without additional help. Of course, in a medical setting, you need every edge you can get, and here, good washing practices and Trichlozan can combine to keep infection rates down. But for ordinary people, the FDA remains to be convinced that the benefits of using antibacterial soap outweigh the potential downsides, which is why they are proposing to ask manufacturers for more evidence before giving their products the green light. In the meantime, there is absolutely nothing to stop you as a consumer using these soaps. Or not. It all depends on how you personally balance the potential downsides with the possible benefits. For more information on antibacterial agents in soaps and the FDA's proposed ruling, please check out the links in the blurb below. And don't forget to join the conversation in the comments.


What's good everybody, Jossi here and in today's video I'm going to be talking about three different keyboards that I've been using since like 2019. I didn't have all three in 2019 but these are the three keyboards I've been using since then. I personally think having multiple keyboards is nice because throughout this video you're going to see that they all offer something different, unique and I'm going to break down the pros and cons for each keyboard. The three keyboards I'm going to be talking about are the Logitech MX Keys, the Keychron K2 V2 and the Logitech Ergo K860. Subscribe to the channel if you want to see more content like this. Be sure to give this video a thumbs up. I will greatly appreciate that. Out of all the three keyboards, the Keychron K2 V2 is the cheapest. And I'd say not a significant amount of money but if you never thought about spending more than like $20 on a keyboard then spending upwards of $100 might not be realistic. The other thing I really like about this keyboard that is a pro in my opinion is its small form factor. But it still gives you all the essentials that you need for programming. I also really like the tactile, is it tactile or tactical, profile that adds a really nice aesthetic to my desk setup. I'm not going to lie and that little orange escape key just adds that perfect pop of color for the not only the keyboard but my desk in general. Honestly the mechanical keyboard typing experience is incredible. I'm not going to lie. There's something about typing on a mechanical keyboard as a programmer. Yes, it can be annoying and can be viewed as pretty nerdy but you can get different switches like I mentioned earlier that can mitigate that like clicky clacky loud noise that mechanical keyboards have when you're typing. So like I mentioned earlier, mechanical keyboards can be loud unless you go with a brown switch. I'm sure there are other switches out there but Keychron only offers three and the brown switch is definitely the quietest. When it comes to comparing this keyboard to the Logitech keyboards it doesn't offer as many features and also keep in mind when I talk about the cons for these three different keyboards it's really in comparison to each other because I think all three are great. Other than those cons that I just mentioned, this keyboard is great. It's been my go-to the past like six months and I think one of the major reasons why is because of its minimal profile and the RGB backlighting that it offers that just really sets the mood for my setup. And there's no doubt that MXKey is the king of keyboard efficiency. The reason this keyboard has a special place in my heart is because I worked with Logitech for the release of the MXKey's back in the summer of 2019. I even went all the way to Switzerland to learn more about the Master Series and was even able to go to the lab where they tested the MXKey's features. What makes this keyboard unique is that it was specifically built and designed for programmers. So this is probably the most fluid and natural typing experience offered between the three.   I usually go to this keyboard when I need to be as efficient as possible, whether that's to edit a video quickly or finish up a feature when it comes to programming. When it comes to programming, efficiency is really, really important for us programmers. Okay, so now that I talked about the specifications of the MXKey's that makes it not only unique but also that I view as pros when compared to other keyboards, let's talk about some of the things I've really enjoyed about using this keyboard. As a matter of fact, I actually have two. You can actually customize this keyboard using Logitech options, which is an app built specifically for Logitech peripherals like the MX Master 3 mouse, the Logitech Ergo K860 that I'll talk about a little bit later and of course the Logitech MXKey's. This keyboard also pairs not only functionally with the MX Master 3, which I think is the perfect mouse for not only programming, but really everything in my opinion, especially when it comes to productivity, but it also aesthetically pairs well and just the two together look really sophisticated. There's not too many cons when it comes to the MXKey's and I guess you could say that the price because it costs more than a Keychron K2 v2 but like $10 and you're getting a lot more functionality. I do wish that this keyboard wasn't so flat out of the three. It's definitely the most flat and I wish there was like a little bit better angle that would maybe feel a little bit more comfortable for my wrist, but they do have a palm rest that you can use that works great and feels really comfortable on your forearm, palms and wrists. Do wish there was some sort of like RGB lighting. I'm not really sure how that would fit the profile of this keyboard. I'm not sure if that would look okay since it's not a mechanical keyboard, but different colors like if the backlighting was different colors, I think that would add to the aesthetic and really enhance the look and feel of this keyboard. Moving on to the Logitech Ergo K860. So this keyboard has a lot of similarities to the MX Keys from a functionality standpoint. If you've watched any of my desk setup videos, you know that ergonomics is a major part of my desk setup experience and I reached out to Logitech to try out this keyboard after the MX Keys about a year ago because I was looking for a more ergonomic option where maybe my wrists are feeling a bit uncomfortable or I know I'm going to be at my desk all a day and want to save my wrists from carpal tunnel. Also this keyboard offers a lot more wrist support because of that split ergonomic key frame. The K860's curved key frame allows you to place your hands, wrists and forearms to be placed in a more natural posture. The wrist support is actually really comfortable because there are three types of comfort and support. There's a surface layer, a support layer and a comfort layer. With that being said, this keyboard is a bit bulky and it takes some getting used to that like split frame. I just, it still takes me some time to get used to, especially if I don't use a keyboard for an extended amount of time, although it is very comfortable on my wrist. I also really don't find myself being as effective or efficient programming or doing any productivity tasks using this keyboard compared to the Keychron K2 and the MX Keys. Also out of the three keyboards, this is the most expensive. So really if you're using this keyboard, it's really for an ergonomic standpoint. The moment you all have been waiting for, which keyboard is best for programming? Before I give you that answer, just know that there's no really perfect keyboard and it really depends on what you care about the most. Some people really want a mechanical keyboard and I'm going to think about like membrane type of keyboards. So then that rules out the Logitech keyboard. That I discussed in this video. And some of you all want a keyboard that is really ergonomic, so maybe the split frame is best for you. But in my opinion, I think the best when it comes to programming between the three is the Logitech MX Keys and not trying to be biased because yes, Logitech did send me this keyboard. But the reason being is because when it comes to being effective, efficient, you know, being able to customize it through the Logitech options app here and get with the MX Master three, along with all the extra features this keyboard gives you, it's the best one. It just gives you everything that you need may not have one thing that's better than all the other keyboards, but I think holistically it's better than the other two options. The ergonomic keyboard is great for ergonomics, but not when it comes to quickly like typing and getting things done. The Keychron K2 V2 is a great keyboard, but maybe sometimes it can feel a bit small and cramped for those of you all who have bigger hands, along with not having some of the features that the MX Keys offers. And lastly, the MX Keys was literally dedicated for programmers. And anyone that I know that uses this keyboard absolutely loves it. There's a reason why I have to. So that concludes this video. I hope you all enjoyed it. If you're still here, give this video a thumbs up, comment down below which one you think is the best or which keyboard you're using on a daily basis. Don't forget to subscribe for more content like this and as always have a blessed rest of your week. I will see you all soon. Peace.


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Welcome and thank you for joining us. Good morning, good afternoon, good evening, whatever time it is that you might be tuning in. We are so glad that you're here. We have Sasha Lewis with us today. Sasha is a CFRE and also one of our presenting sponsors with her company Moves Management Consulting. Thank you so much, Sasha. And Sasha will share with us today about your annual fundraising plan and hint, hint, it already exists. It's in your database. So I cannot wait to learn about this, especially as we're in Q4, moving into a new year and maybe looking to reiterate our annual fundraising plan. So this is going to be an episode. I'm pretty sure you might wanna watch again and again and again. But before we do move into our episode, we of course wanna make sure that you know who we are if we haven't quite met yet. Julia Patrick is here, the CEO of the American Nonprofit Academy. I'm Jarrett Ransom, your nonprofit nerd, CEO of the Raven Group. And we would not be here 400 plus episodes strong if it were not for these presenting sponsors. So we really ask that you do check out these companies, including Sasha's Moves Management. We are so thrilled to have their investment in the show and in the sector at large. These companies exist in your community. All of them are online and you can find them. They are all experts in whizzes when it comes to the nonprofit sector. So if you joined us for the Chitty Chat Chat, you heard a lot from our whizz that we have today. Sasha Lewis to share with us about the annual fundraising plan and all of our sponsors are just as much of a whizz and an expert as Sasha. And we're so grateful to have you back. Thank you for joining us Sasha. I always truly a pleasure to be here with you. Thank you. You know, Sasha, we tell the story every time you're on but one of the things that we just fell in love with you with when you made the proclamation and now I'm gonna call it a proclamation. We need to make data sexy. And I love that. And you have given us through the pandemic so many strategies that could help us navigate crisis. But I think the real gift is at the heart of so many of these things that you've brought to us. They've really been strategic and work outside the framework of these pandemics that we have been involved with and that we will continue to be involved with. So one of those things that you've done to really help me is to reframe the concept of data and what it looks like and how we should be using it. And so I really wanna dig into this concept about fundraising and data. And you're telling us we already have it. Absolutely. And so when we were, I was thinking through the topic that I wanted to speak about this month, it was always with the goal of how do I present something that is meaningful to nearly everybody that somebody sitting here could take and go back to their office and do something with. And then I started thinking through what it's been like working with clients over the last years, but just predominantly in the last year and thinking through what were the common questions that were coming up. And what became very apparent throughout the strategy was just how many times a fundraiser or a development director or the executive is marching forward with a plan and they really don't understand the foundation not that they don't know what they're doing because they're very skilled, they're very crafted and wonderful professionals, but when they're looking at a new organization that they most likely joined within the last 18 to 36 months, understanding its history. And then going through the data cleanup process, I very quickly begin to understand there has been a pattern to their fundraising from the time the organization has started fundraising. And so during my cleanup, I started to recognize that, well, they didn't realize they were doing this six years ago and they've been doing this pretty much every year for the last 20 years, but they called it this thing this year, this thing the second year, this other topic the third year. And so there was never really understanding of what they were truly doing.  And so by the time I'm done doing my cleanup, I can very clearly observe, let's say 20 years of their annual plan just by common coding and cleaning up the structure of how it was recorded. And so when I started to kind of come back to again, how can I share something important today? It was, let's ask everybody to stop, go look at your guests from the last year and start using those to identify what your fundraising plan is and to help describe what I mean by that is you'll hear me talk in other sessions where I say using razor's edge terminology because we most of us use it but with the campaign fund and appeal, our appeals are our strategies that we use every year to track our effectiveness in fundraising. It's the direct mail, it's the year end appeal, it's the holiday, you know, gift giving, giving Tuesday appeal that's going on. And it's today, so it's those appeals, it's those strategies. And what we need to do is we need to look at what did we record every gift in our database to in the year prior. Because every one of those strategies that you recorded to, that is your plan. You basically need to create an Excel file of all of your gift transactions. And this is in a very simple way. So it kind of is a loaded statement depending on how your gifts are coded. But if you, you know, export out an Excel file and this will be the only time I ever tell you to work in an Excel file. But export your transactions out and then create pivot charts. Look at what funds or projects you are using, what appeals, maybe you use a custom field or an attribute on your gift codes to help you track your strategy. And look for those common buckets. And then what you realize is that is your plan for last year. Every direct mail, what time you sent it out and when you recorded those donations is when you plan for it next year. So rather than thinking, oh, I need to do a fall appeal, you can go in and go, well, we did a fall appeal, we did a holiday appeal, we did an Easter appeal, we did a Mother's Day appeal. Okay, I now have my five direct mails figured out. Now I just have to work on content. Okay, we did this Giving Tuesday appeal. We did, you know, all of these different strategies and they're already recorded in your database based off of how your gifts are recorded. File, save as in a sense and look at each one of those buckets and say, are we doing that again yet this year? Yes, how much did I raise last year? I raised $25,000 from that strategy. Now my goal is gonna be 30,000. So there becomes your goal. And each one of those strategies when you identify a goal for the next year based off of how successful you were in this year, those goals should already roll up into what your overall fundraising total should be. And so you should always have a predefined strategy to help you roll up. So I feel like I got a little winded in that because I was trying to truncate a very large statement but it is looking at those gifts, looking at how they were recorded and looking for those buckets. And that again is your plan. And that's every major donor was recorded, every annual gift was recorded, every mid-level gift was recorded in such a way. And we don't have to have such an unknown feeling of well, what did we do? It's right there. Now it may not be clean and it may not be easy for you to figure out but it's still there in some manner or mechanism. Well, I love that you mentioned the 18 to 36 months for that development professional regardless of the title, right? Chief Development Officer Development Director. So nationally and statistically, I do believe that is the standard of about an 18 month window of tenure for that professional to be with the organization. So I love so very much Sasha that you're saying this pattern exists well beyond this professional and it goes on perhaps decades in the database because once you pull this out in Excel and as you said, this is the only time you're gonna take to use Excel. And I wrote this down so Excel to a pivot chart and that will definitely tell you and help you analyze, track and trend what you've done. That is brilliant. So regardless of how windy you might have been it was all worth it. And I again, I just know I'm gonna go back and want to listen to it again. Well, thank you and I appreciate that. And it really is a challenge when you think about the 18 to 24 month tenure, half the time we're just learning our donors, we're trying to be familiar with names, we wanna get the mission correct, we need to understand the organizational culture and speak and it takes 18 to 24 months to get that under our belts. And that's when we're transitioning away into the next organization. And so we have talked about this in some elements and other conversations but the human capital crisis that we have in the nonprofit industry, especially right now around the database and data entry and data management, it is extreme. But when we look to see what we can do, I'll call it beautiful, it's amazing because when we start to say, okay, development team, you may be new here, but I can already tell you what we did for the last 18 months, 24 months, here's the trends, here's the history. Now put a strategy in place to build on these versus spend the next 18 months just trying to figure out what we did because nobody knows. I mean, it's a disservice to the industry and it's a disservice to the mission and it's a disservice to the professionals that we work with. Let's be all candid. You've again heard me talk about that. So when I encourage you to go back in and again, pull at least the gift transactions out to start with, run a pivot chart if you don't know how to do anything else. A lot of great Google instructions on how to do a pivot chart and just start looking into that. If you're considering hiring a new development director and you're trying to set them up for success, this would be something I would do if you do not have a well-developed appeal structure or a well-developed strategy structure already, start to help your team understand what those buckets are so they're not having to sit there and panic about well, when do I need to do a direct mail? We've told you now what I need you to do is focus on the content and the messaging that's gonna bring the donors in so that the relationships grows. We've got the data already taken care of. You know, Sasha, one thing that strikes me is that this should become a form of behavior, a management behavior. And I love the idea of calendarizing it so that it is being done every year and we're gonna have, I think it's gonna be in jeopardy as we move through the pandemic and we see a new way of working. I mean, it's not just all of a sudden all clear as we're learning this week and go back to the old ways, right? So it seems to me that this is, you know, a strategy that we need to be moving forward on and repeating. And agreed. And I think it's actually happening quite a bit partially looking back at even just the clients that I work with. They all know how to do this now and their expectation is at the end of their fiscal year that they're gonna be able to do this kind of file save as for their strategy.  And so now we can start going, well, what can we do better? What can we now add on versus always having to react? And it's those concepts of, you know, great business practices that we forget about in the nonprofit industry. We're not the profit, we're not business. Yes, we are. We are absolutely for profit. It's just not going into our pocketbooks. And these business behaviors and analysis of, you know, where do we spend our time? What is efficient? What is working? And I was starting to go somewhere with that and I lost it in the middle of it and I apologize. But it is these business practices that we need to take to the industry because, you know, in the for-profit world we have long-understand data points and trends and analysis. And now I recall where I was going with this, you know, my clients, everybody is recognizing it and they see it. And we now recognize that it's important. And so the nonprofit industry is now saying, okay, we can't wait anymore. We can't stop and we can't wait for the, you know, and say the data will come next year. It has to come today. And so I've mentioned it, you know, a lot of the community and I work in, there is a massive need for these positions because everybody wants to do more. They're like, okay, well, we know that, you know, my director of development can do the great annual plan, but who's supporting it behind it? And I think that's a big part of what we have missed is the support and the business operations that go behind to make all of these things successful. My development director doesn't need to be the one running that CSV file or that Excel file and doing the pivot chart. They need to be working out the strategies on how to do a better job with those ones, but somebody else needs to find that information for them. And unfortunately, we're all one and the same people in a lot of times. And so it's a very interesting challenge moving forward, but I do believe the organizations that are recognizing and prioritizing it, they are already seeing extreme success and changes in the organization in many ways. So before we move on to our next question, we had somebody that asked a question, anonymous writes in, what is a pivot chart? So pivot chart is a great tool that you can use in Excel files. I believe Google Sheets may also have a similar concept, but basically it allows you to take all of the rows in a database and group them. And so let's say I have 10, a thousand gift transactions and I want to see how many were recorded to each fund in those. So I would take and create a pivot chart based off of the fund and then it would tell me of those thousand transactions on another worksheet within the same Excel file, how many went to the unrestricted fund, how many went to the volunteer fund or the program fund, and then I could see where the buckets that my dollars were going into. So you could pick funds, you could pick your appeals as basically your summary classes, and then it would group the information under that bucket you picked. All kinds of fun, nerdy data. Yeah, honestly. Let's get a little nerdy or let's go into like, what are we really looking for in these data sets and in the data points? You mentioned a lot previously when it comes to, now you know when your direct mail is and now you know when you did your annual giving for a specific campaign. And again, today being Giving Tuesday, that's something that we want to look into. So what exactly are we looking for? So in this conversation, we are really talking about the donors you already have, the gifts you already have. It's not the data mining to find new donors. But what we wanna do is we wanna go look at the gifts that we were given. And again, look for those common patterns of where was it recorded? And it's so hard to answer this because there are such a wide variety of structures to databases. Sometimes people have coatings that allow them to see what gifts came online versus offline, what gifts were coming in through workplace giving campaigns, which are the, not your employees, but the giving by other companies to your organization. And you can look at those strategies. And so again, it's the data of the gift itself. It's how many had an indicator that they were on a memorial gifts and what strategies are you putting into place? How many of those were in-kind donations and what are you doing to engage donors that are in-kind donors? Cause all too often like, that's just an in-kind gift. I can tell you multiple experiences of an in-kind donor being a 10 year, $100, how our donors are engaging with us already, we're not gonna understand what's important to them. And so for me, I really love looking at the data and trying to see it okay, are they giving through Facebook? Are they giving through PayPal? Are they giving more through their personal checks or are we seeing more donor advice funds now? All of these are data points that you should have recorded. And if you don't, when you start looking through these pivot charts and you pick a field and it doesn't tell you something and you pick another one and you're not really starting to see something, what that will help you understand is you need to start recording more information. So we need to work with your team to say, how do we get into the database if they gave this through a donor advice fund? How do we make sure that we're tracking that? How do I make sure that if we are getting tribute gifts that we're ensuring every tribute gift is recorded so we can look at it? And so if you can't find stories in your database when you start looking at that Excel file with pivot charts, then that tells me we need to find some more data and start planning to put data into your database so that we can tell those stories next year. So a million dollar question. What if we are changing our CRM? What if we are changing to these data points transfer in pretty much seamlessly? I know you mentioned Razor's Edge and some terminology there. We of course have our grateful sponsor with us, Bloomerang. So how might we consider looking at this data if we recently transitioned to a new donor database or maybe that's something we're considering for the new year? So it's one of those very kind of loaded questions because whether you're in a new database, going into the database, that conversation of how is your data structured is still present. There are a lot of great CRM systems. Again, we have examples of them here but their professionals do one job and that is what they are contracted to do which is to map first name to first name, last name to last name, fund to fund. That does not mean you used the fund field correctly. That does not mean you were using those fields as they were supposed to be used. And so that's the bigger question at hand and it's not necessarily something that these software platform professionals are intended, designed or meant to do but to ask you, is your data in the right place to begin with? And so if you have, take just the concept of our appeals or our segments or how we fundraise. I can take one client that I'm visualizing and thinking of right now that within the same year recorded the same strategy three different times because they had that many different temp people into their organization. And so it's, you know, it's that kind of thing of being able to just say pause, stop and before you do anything else, answer the root cause of the question of is it right to begin with? Yes, great. If there was an answer in that Derrida, I'm not sure. That's a hard one for me. It's hard because it is a, it's one of those things is to stop and evaluate is really hard to do, especially when you've got like that stack of papers going up. If any of you joined us for the Chitty Chat Chat, Jared was talking about an organization that was in transition or transit made just as figuring out that they're recurring gifts are having a problem being processed. And I mean, these are the things that just make us go crazy. And then I think we over, maybe overreact is not the right word, but we are so pressured and compelled to move quickly that we don't take a deep breath and try and figure out, you know, a longer game plan. It's hard to do, Sasha. It's really hard to do. It is and it's interesting because let's, if you were in the for-profit world, they would never consider doing a platform transition and no less than 18 months from the time they decide to do it to the time they execute it, no less than 18 months. You have a phase implementation plan where you go through and you go through the design, then you have a build up and get everybody bought in plan. Then you have an execute the actual plan. Now any company that does one in a much shorter time, they reap what they sow and it's a nightmare and it's a mess. And so when I hear these organizations go, oh, we decided to change our CRM system. We bought one and we did this all in the matter two months and we're converting and we have to be converted in that time.  And by the time you're done, everybody's burnt out. It's not a good experience. The new system is just as hated as the old because we didn't do the plan to say, hey, in your old system, you had these reports and your new system, here's your new reports. Let's talk about the design process. It's the end user experience. And so if I have anybody listening and if I can encourage you into 2022, do not make a technology change, transfer or change on your technology without a very thoughtful and long-term strategy of how to do that change. Because if, Jared, you don't mind me saying the transition or the change that you talked about this morning, most likely is related to not realizing that we needed to actually call every single donor and have them re-sign up for their reoccurring gift because most of the time when you transfer reoccurring gift payment processors, the donor information transfers, but not the actual authorization. They a lot of times can't or if they can't, it's a very hefty price from a programming standpoint. So those are things that we have to ask and back to what the for-profit world would do, we would go through and we would do a discovery and we would look for all of these things but we can't even get thank you letters out and we're talking about adding on new platforms and new bells and whistles and we're still trying to get a dear thank you out with actual, you know, a first name that's not friend and maybe their nickname that they gave us six years ago that we still can't get correct because nobody knows how to pull a salutation from the nickname field. They keep pulling it from the first name field. I mean, let's get our excellence in order from that standpoint. And I remember previous episodes and you've said this numerous times, Sasha, is about these bells and whistles and you just mentioned the bells and whistles just a bit earlier and stating that most organizations, you know, will say, well, this database doesn't do what we need it to do and you're like, well, let's, let's again, go back to the root cause and let's figure out does it have what we need and are we actually utilizing it thoroughly in the way in which we would like to use it? So that has stuck with me as well as the let's make data sexy and I wanna know how do we make data sexy for our entire team? How do we rally the team and get them all, you know, on board to say this is why our donor database and these data points are so critical? So it's starting with small wins and it's building confidence. We've all spoke about it. These donor databases CRM historically have not been helpful tools for the organization. They've been veins of everybody's existence because data doesn't go in well or whatever the reason may be. And so there's not a lot of love for the CRM and the donor database. And so you have to start building that excitement and that trust in small ways. Maybe it's very strategically with your Giving Tuesday campaign and appeal strategy. Did you go through and say, hey, we sent this out to X number of individuals. We were able to bring in X number of dollars through our online strategy. We saw success right here. And I know that because I recorded it and I reported it in my database with confidence. And then you repeat that for the end of the year campaign and you show them again, hey, here's the information because I recorded how many people actually we sent this appeal to. I took the time to make sure that was in the database or maybe it's again about your event. Did you add everybody that you invited? Did you follow up and updated whether or not they attended? And then what you can do and go back and say, okay, for everybody attended our event, I looked at our donations and for all those that attended, they gave 20% more than those that didn't. But guess what? If you're not recording that all in a single place, you're gonna have to pull this Excel file compared to this file and you just waste a whole bunch of time. So load it up into your database and then start allowing your database to tell your success stories instead of you trying to figure them out in an Excel file. Well, I think, to your point, I think if we don't have this data, we're not really looking at it. We have a lot of charismatic leadership and kind of gut feeling decision-making going on. And that I think is really where the rubber meets the road. We've got to be moving towards data that helps us understand how we can make better decisions across the team. And it might be painful, but ultimately to begin with, I think ultimately it will lead to greater success. Absolutely. That's a hard sell. It is a hard sell because it makes us have to look at things honestly and sometimes having those hard conversations and we're in the nonprofit industry, we want everyone to do well and we don't ever want to fire anybody and we don't ever want to let anybody go. And so we've all been in those places where we've kept that individual around longer than they needed to be. This is a time we've got to stop and we have to stop doing it because our donors deserve better, our missions deserve better and let's be candid. It's a waste of donor dollars. And so if we're ethically responsible for protecting those assets, making sure your data is correct and not wasting operational resources, to me is just as important as any other kind of integrity part of being a nonprofit fundraiser. If we're not doing good on the backend too, we're wasting just as much money on previously as well. So let's change the mindset to say, no, let's make an informed decision because this is representing how we're really spending donor dollars even though we really don't talk about it that way. Wow. A reality from Sasha Lewis. We can always count on you Sasha to really just say it like it is. Julie and I really appreciate that. One of the things that I know you've heard me say numerous times before is that our sector has been long overdue for a shakeup. And what you just mentioned, holding on to employees or holding on to individuals that make up our workforce in some way, shape, or form longer than we needed to is doing a disservice to our community. So... Yeah, it's not the easiest topic and I know we're supposed to be talking about databases, but I often see this especially in this position and role and it creates compounding problems. And it's so nice when those compounding problems go away and people enjoy their work and they get fulfillment out of the missions that we're serving. And to me, that's again, why I want to be able to help and facilitate it is let's get rid of the not pretty stuff which is the things when the database isn't working. Let's make it work so that we get to spend the time on the important things. We get to work on those mission moments and we're not spending our time beating our heads against the wall over a port or a list or wondering what our annual plan is for the year. It's already there for you. Let's just assess and move on and get on to fundraising and get on to the other important stuff. Well, it's all intertwined and I believe we all have homework to do. And first of all, it might be to Google Pivot Chart and how to do that. But I think that that is our homework for today is to pull out the Excel file that you mentioned from our database, create a Pivot Chart so we can start to visually see the representation of our data and these data points. You are always fantastic, Sasha. We are so grateful to have you here as a thought leader in the sector and also as one of our sponsors that continues these conversations going. So if you're interested in Sasha and what she offers through Moves Management, reach out to her, she's fantastic and as you can tell, really knows and loves the subject. So she is the point person that you want to contact and thank you for being here with us. My pleasure, good thanks for having me. You know, it's always amazing. I've always learned so much from you. It goes way beyond the data point. You talk about a lot of things that are structural that are value-based to our service and both Jared and I really appreciate that because those are the strategies that I think ultimately will help our sector. So we both thank you very, very much. As we thank our presenting sponsors every day, they are with us in and out helping us share the message of how nonprofits can be more effective across their work and their sectors. And we have 1.8 million registered nonprofits in this country and they're all doing a lot of amazing and wonderful things, but they need help and our sponsors are here to do that. Hey, Jared, I'm totally amped up, ready to go. I want to really think about so many of these things that Sasha said today. Absolutely, me too. I've got a lot to take back to my clients that I'm working with and future fodder for, you know, to think about later. So thank you, Sasha. Thanks to our presenting sponsors and thanks to our viewers for being here. We are so grateful that you choose to spend your time with us. As I said earlier, good morning, good afternoon or good evening, no matter what time it is that you've chosen to watch the episode, we are glad that you are here. And I hope that you'll join us tomorrow. I'm going to do a masterclass on how to finish your year strong. And then you have Ann McCauley on talking about content writing and blogging and all of those great backend hyperlinks. 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Welcome! It's great to be here. It's great to have you here for homecoming.  Freshman year, we wanted to come experience the homecoming vibes for the first time. I think the thing I was most looking forward to was the sub-show, which was last night. That was very fun. The pumping that's in some wordies I've done has been super creative. To see, like, the murals that they created with it is also super cool. Yeah, it's definitely cool to see how strong the school spirit is here, like with the bonfire and everything. So I think they definitely get, like, super hyped. This morning I'm working at Tailgate for National Alumni Association. I love seeing everybody out already before 8 a.m. I'm excited. Our son's in the MDB. He's a tuba. He's a sophomore. We come down from Kansas City, Missouri, every single home game. Just seeing all the excitement, giving high fives to everybody. The police department, all the sororities. It was just fun. It's my honor to welcome you back to the Capstone. What a privilege that we are alumni and supporters of the greatest university in the world. Happy homecoming and roll tide! This has always been a special time for me here at the Capstone. For some people it's their first experience of homecoming Alabama style. Whatever it is, you realize that when you're part of this Crimson and White family, you are family forever. Thank you guys for allowing me to come out and spend a little bit of time with you. This is a party place right now. Y'all are going to have to make sure you all get a little bit louder and get ready for a football game tomorrow because that's what we do. Glad you're with us here on a beautiful day here in Tuscaloosa. The Crimson Tide plays host to the hogs today. Here's Milrow. Loads up long, looks. Has a man wide open midfield, taking it to the house. Kobe, Prentice, touchdown! Alabama, 80 yards. Wide outs either way. Jefferson looks left, looks right, looks down because he is covered up by Crimson and White. That was Jamarian Latham for the second sack of the day. 447 to go in the half. Milrow looks as a man open. Touchdown, Alabama. Omari, nine-black. The tight end. And Alabama adds to their lead.


3 Rules of the Perfect Classroom Management It is to most people's belief that to be a good teacher one has to be an outgoing teacher in the classroom but there are many good teachers who very low-key and chilled but delivering epic classes, while another teacher can be both lively and amazing. One should bear in mind that for a class to be at its best and be the effect, the teacher must be a role model and very inspiring to his or her students. A teacher must be flexible and be able to adjust based on the situation ahead of them and this has been the reason for this summary as I talk about classroom management, what is it that is called classroom management? What skills are required for great classroom management? How to arrange the classroom, and how to maintain discipline? All these questions will be answered below. 1. The Power of Eye Contact Classroom management is an art of arranging and managing one's class, having a warm and motivating manner and being able to have a well-disciplined class. It is, therefore, the job of the teacher to have good eye contact in the classroom as it shows one is confident in his, her work and more still establishing great interaction about the teacher and the students. Man people may ask how this skill can be used in the class and the benefit it has on the kids, good eye contact with the students shows that they are well involved in the lesson and all your attention is to them as much as they have yours. Furthermore, this skill also helps encourage contribution and a talking class brings great results. It can also work as a signal to students to start, stop or get on with whatever they are engaged to, however one should remember that as much as something has its good that could also have its bad. In this situation, eye contact should be avoided during activities which are not teacher centered as they might make the students feel discouraged and nervous to participate. 2. Tone of Voice The voice is also a great factor for great classroom management. If your voice does not have the great projection, you will have problems delivering instructions or explaining to the students that are to say a great teacher should have a voice that can naturally change according to certain circumstances. E.G.U. in a class with 35 students, definitely greater projection will be required in this class. In addition one cannot mention classroom management without the mention of classroom arrangement. What do I mean by that? This is the way in which the teacher will organize the position of the students and himself depending on the space of the classroom, type of chairs in the class, language of students and students' personality. It is in human character to feel intimidated when we feel too exposed or vulnerable and this is also the same with students E.G.A. teacher teaching young learners of an Asian country language. If these kids feel too exposed to the teacher in front or they feel like they are in front of everyone else it can make them less confident or even less participative. As a teacher, one has the authority to the students for benefit of an activity, cohesion or discipline. Some of these sitting arrangements consist of the standard orderly rows, circle and horseshoe arrangement, and separate tables. 3. Classroom Arrangement. Lastly, having a well arranged class is determined by how one can deliver instructions. As a great teacher, he, she should be able to make instructions be more effective. How? This can be done by attracting a student's attention and making sure everyone is listening and not working. Furthermore, the teacher can use very simple language which is lower than the language they learn that way they will understand every command and it saves time and less misunderstanding. Moreover, the teacher can also use the same words for the same instruction e.g., everyone, sit down, listen, etc., for clarity sake the teacher can ask questions to check if the students understood the instructions and him, she can monitor the instructions from a distance. Are you ready to teach ESL students abroad? In conclusion, one can say classroom management isn't just the way the classroom furniture is put in classrooms but the backbone to an effective and productive classes factors like giving instructions, classroom arrangement and skills of the teacher has a role to play. Speak with an ITTT advisor today to put together your personal plan for teaching English abroad. Send us an email or call us toll free at 1-800-490-0531 to speak with an ITTT advisor today.


and in particular I want to talk about dual norms. This is also another way to generate norms from other norms. So, the definition is like this. If f denotes a pre-norm, what is a pre-norm? It satisfies all the properties of a norm except for the triangle inequality, need not satisfy the triangle inequality. Then the function f d of y defined as the max overall x such that f of x equals 1 of y transpose x is called the dual norm. So, notice that the dual norm is defined via an optimization problem. In order to find the dual norm at a point y, you need to solve this optimization problem where you are asked to maximize y transpose x over all x satisfying f of x equals 1. So, it is a constrained optimization problem. The cost function namely y transpose x is linear in y and it is also linear in x, but the space of optimization could be a somewhat complicated space because the set of x is such that f of x equals 1. Also, notice that because f is a pre-norm and by homogeneity of f, a pre-norm satisfies this homogeneity property. So, if you do like f of minus x that is equal to minus 1, magnitude of minus 1 times f of x, which is equal to f of x. And so, to write this optimization problem as, so this basically means that max over f of x equals 1 y transpose x is actually the same as the max over f of x equals 1 of mod of y transpose x. So, basically because of this, we sometimes also write f d of y is equal to the max over f of x equals 1 mod of y transpose x. So, both are both are equivalent optimization problems. You can write it either way. So, this is called a dual norm not without reason. It is because the dual norm of f is a norm. So, in order to show that, you need to show that this f d of y satisfies the four properties we need that is non-negativity, positivity, homogeneity, and triangle inequality. And that's where writing it in this alternative form that it is the maximum of the mod y transpose x helps because when you take a quantity and you're maximizing it over a set of points, that's always going to be non-negative. And so, clearly f d of y is non-negative. So, the other point is that it is positive unless y is equal to zero. In order to see that, if you take, so I'll just write this here f d of y is a norm. And it's non-negative obviously. And for positive if y is not equal to zero, then f d of y, which is the max f of x equals 1 mod y transpose x, this I can lower bound by choosing a specific value of y and I will particularly choose mod of y transpose y over f of y.  I'll write it up here f of y over f of y. f of y is just a scaling and it's non-negative. So, I can write that as 1 over f of y times f of y, which is equal to 1. And so, this satisfies this constraint. And so, the max over all possible x such that f of x equals 1 is at least equal to the value mod of y transpose x takes for a particular value of x satisfying the constraint. And that is this one. And this is equal to the norm y l2 square divided by f of y. And this is strictly positive because y is not equal to zero. f of y is strictly positive because y is not equal to zero. And therefore, this is strictly greater than zero. And we also have that f d of zero because if I take the zero vector, no matter what I multiply, which x I choose here, y transpose x is always equal to zero. And so, the max that mod y transpose x can achieve for overall x such that f of x equals 1 is just equal to zero. So, it is equal to zero when y equals zero. And it is strictly greater than zero for y not equal to zero. So, it satisfies the positivity property also. Sir, could you explain how f of x is equals to max of mod y transpose x because we are not multiplying anything with mod of minus 1. Nothing is multiplied to x. It is trivial actually. So, suppose in fact, so if you want to minimize this quantity, y transpose, suppose you solve this problem and you get an x where this is maximized. If you just take minus x, then obviously this quantity will get minimized when you substitute minus x. That also satisfies this constraint. And since this attains its maximum at that particular x, this will attain its minimum at minus x. So, if there is an x for which this quantity is negative and very large, by just substituting minus x, you can achieve the same large value but in the positive direction by replacing x with minus x. And that's why the two problems where one where you are writing f d of y equal to the max over f of x equals 1 of y transpose x is equivalent to writing it as f d of y equal to the max mod y transpose x over all x such that f of x equals 1. So, the mod has been done so that we always get the maximum value and never the minimum value. No, no, no. Even if you didn't take the mod, you will get the maximum value. Okay, so let me put it this way. Let's do it by contradiction. Suppose these two have two different solutions. You will get a different f d of y if you solve this problem instead of solving this problem. Then suppose this problem gave you a solution. Let's say for example, the all-ones vector is the solution to this problem. It gives you the max of mod of y transpose x. And suppose that happened because y transpose x for the all-ones vector was like minus 100. And when you took the modulus, you got plus 100. And that was the biggest value that the second optimization problem here could take. Then in this problem, I can equivalently use minus all-ones vector. And if this was getting a value of minus 100, this will get me a value of plus 100. And that will be the maximum value that this optimization can attain. So, another way, if you want me to tell it to you in yet another way, this problem that I've written here is I can also write this as, I'll write it down here. So, I can also write it as f d of y like this. Because for any x for which this attains the maximum value, if I take minus x, this will attain its maximum value. Because minus x also satisfies f of x equals 1. So, I could even write it like this. That is why it's okay to write f d of y to be mod y transpose, maximum of mod y transpose x. So, does that help clarify? Yes, sir. Thank you, sir. So, this cost function itself is linear in y. So, it's obviously homogeneous. The only non-obvious property to show here is the triangle inequality. Remember that f of x itself need not satisfy the triangle inequality. But f d of y does satisfy the triangle inequality. So, what we need to show is that if I take f d, if I take f d of y plus z, I need to show that this is less than or equal to f d of y plus f d of z. That is what the triangle inequality says. The norm of x plus y is less than or equal to norm of x plus norm of y.  So, this f d of y plus z by definition is the max overall x such that f of x equals 1 of mod of y plus z transpose times x. And I can write this as x. So, this is y transpose x plus z transpose x. And if I split this, the mod of the sum of two numbers is at most the sum of the mod of the two numbers. So, I just write that as max over f of x equals 1 of mod y transpose x plus mod z transpose x. All I have done is to split the mod across the two terms and that can only increase the value or leave it unchanged, but it cannot decrease the value of the y plus z transpose x, the mod of that. And this in turn is less than or equal to. So, I am taking the maximum of the sum of two terms. If I individually took the maximum of these two terms and added them up, that will only increase the value because it gives me more flexibility in optimizing the objective function here. So, this is less than or equal to max over f of x equals 1 mod y transpose x plus the max over f of x equals 1 of mod z transpose x. And this is just by definition, this is f d of y and this is f d of z. Sir. So, we see that, yeah. Sir, initially you told that all the properties will be satisfied for freedom except the triangle inequality may not satisfy. May or may not be satisfied, yes. So, but you are proving that it will be satisfied. No, I am showing that f d of y satisfies triangle inequality, not f of y. Okay, okay, sorry. Yeah. So, basically f d of y satisfies all the four properties needed to be called a norm and therefore, the dual norm of a pre-norm is always a norm.


We support visually impaired people across South Essex and their families and carers. We just really wanted to make sure that we were there as a bit of a lifeline to these people. When COVID came along, that's sort of an extra issue. They can't just venture out to the shops on their own. They can't socially distance due to their sight loss. So a lot of what we did was bridging that gap, getting shopping for them, going to the pharmacy, collecting their sort of much needed medicines. Anything else that they asked Basis to do, basically, we provided. We couldn't really do that without the funding from the National Lottery, so we're very grateful. We could go on all day stories about June, but she's a guide dog user. She's been coming to Basis for many years, but she is a prime example of somebody who is quite isolated. Absolutely. We're really, really excited. We're so grateful to have our work recognised, and the bench is just a really lovely way of doing that, so we're really excited to see it. I'm a community man at heart, and if anything, I have to be involved in something that's all about celebrating the unsung heroes, and that's what the National Lottery does. It's absolutely beautiful. The features we've got is the colour, we've got the dripping paint, but also we've got some dog bowls on the side. Those are for people who are visually impaired who have guide dogs and they need refreshment. Also, we've got the QR codes on there that allow the person to just scan over and have a listen to the actual story. We've got Braille on there as well, so people can actually feel the story that's being told. What I was commissioned to do is to design 12 benches for community members that are doing some outstanding work in our communities. Once you hear their stories and the passion that they have for doing the work that they're doing, every bench had to have a slight different variation just for them. Locations of the benches, we've got two in Scotland, two in Wales, one in Northern Ireland and the rest are just scattered across the UK. It was really amazing getting to meet Jay today. We're so pleased with what he's done with the bench. And especially the little saying that's on there. It captures what we are and what we do, so we're very pleased. It's beautiful. You've got a bench on your own. I don't even have a bench in Wales. Because of the players, about £30 million every week is given out to good causes. The efforts of these individuals are doing some groundbreaking work in the community, especially during this pandemic that we're all facing. If you've got community members that can go out and support the most vulnerable, all day every day we should be celebrating them full stop.


Ladies and gentlemen, Salam Mike another video welcome back a lot of good praise a lot of nice words from y'all in the past training vlog voiceover so Do me a favor comment below if you want to see kind of a weekly recap of my training weekly I know that sounds redundant, but what we do is take the whole week And throw it into one video whether it be voiceover or more daily vlog style And share that at least on once Every single week. I I just never think about posting it because my lifts aren't that cool. I ain't that strong But i'm out here working i'm out here making progress and maybe I can teach you a little something Or at least share the journey along the way seems like we've been enjoying a little bit of the teaching style videos But we're gonna mix it up today. We got a q and a i've been doing every monday wednesday friday on instagram Kind of a fitness one monday in life Business etc wednesday friday personal so if you want to get involved head over there But today we're gonna bang out some questions. I did not answer on instagram. We're gonna bang them out here. I appreciate you stay tuned next monday Like six days the 15th third street barbell brand new good company apparel dropping Uh, I probably have previews on my instagram again or third street barbell instagram Let's hop into the video how many exercise for a full body and how many is too much So we can't exactly say how many exercises is too much, but a very good starting point It depends on your frequency So if you're training every other day or let's say four times a week and you choose to go a full body style Which is a great idea eric helms is making it very popular and power lifters typically do it Just because some of their lifts overlap. It's something that i've done for years now I've mixed my compounds thrown in some accessories and done them multiple times a week What I would start with is anywhere from two to three compounds Right, maybe some kind of legs. I'm kind of push some kind of pull And then I would finish out with two to four accessories Simple simple doesn't mean you have to do an arm blaster run the rack drop set mega set Like everyone on tiktok and instagram telling you to do every single day But you can do one really good back movement like a closed script chin And you can do one really good Curl movement like maybe a preacher curl There you go back abides done for the day. It's that simple Because if you're going to be training them four times a week Having six good working sets a day is plenty if you're getting your proximity to failure for hypertrophy If you're working on that progressively overloading and the skill of the strength for the main compounds The chin up or the squat or whatever it might be Another thing is that if you're doing it four times a week, you might want to choose two different workouts and kind of Go abab. That's a really good option. So day one could be squats bench and chin ups Day two then would be a deadlifts overhead press and bent over rows So you're both getting the hinge. You're getting the squat You're getting the vertical and horizontal push and pull. It's not that complicated And then with rep schemes you can vary them A one could be lower B one could be lower. So ones ones to fives A two B two could be threes to eights same with the accessories, right? We're going four to tens and then we're going eight to 12s Boom, but a bang How much is too much? Probably no such thing if you're not working out at all and you all of a sudden try to do A thousand different exercises.  Do you do any mobility exercise before you lift? Absolutely friggin Not I Fuggin hate mobility now before all of you start to point out your favorite pt on instagram that shows you this Wibble wobble left right up down kettlebell exercise that you have to do if you want to be able to touch your toes Long term or your favorite yogi I just don't care from anecdotal evidence and even from some more practical evidence I don't think that stretching or the typical mobility when you're talking about foam rollers and bands Is necessary for the majority of lifters I think what is Highly highly underutilized highly highly underrated is simply warming up and moving We need to move our bodies more if you get blood into your muscles into your joints From general to specific meaning i'm walking i'm biking i'm Lunging i'm doing very general warm-ups all the way to the pacific where i'm doing the barbell for the movement I'm doing for higher reps We're going to be in our best place to get a position Most often than not and i saw someone post about it recently But most often not most again anecdotal from coaching thousands of people over the last 12 years and talking to some very high level professionals over the last 12 years If you have bad positioning in any lift chances are it's likely not your mobility It's likely just motor pattern and you're not getting used to that position Right so like the bottom of the squat Some people may have mobility, but chances are it's just a motor pattern on how to get down there and how to control it down there Um, I think that mobility Has its time in place. I think warming up will get you much much further And working with not only athletes power lifters gen pop for the last 12 years It's very rarely that i've seen someone go from Not flexible to highly flexible in the long term you can make very acute Changes in your mobility or your flexibility by doing some stretching Um, but for the majority of folks I just don't think it's worth the effort if you like to come in and lay down on a foam roller for an hour Before you start lifting who am I to tell you not because someone I've said some stuff like this in the past I'm like placebo is the hell of a thing.  I like to utilize my time more efficiently.  Fuck you and fuck your mobility Favorite pre workout snack now to start what's could be a long rant, but doesn't need to be I used to be very particular about how I got ready for lifting Shouted to my high school basketball coach dean stark I learned a lot of really good things about building routine from him, which I've preached to you guys about the lift itself But maybe I got a little too caught up in training And so I would try to set up everything perfectly to have the best training day every single day And some of you might think that's cool that that's like professional That's something you need but the difference is you only play like 30 basketball games a year What you're playing in high school or college so setting up 30 days over a six month span isn't That hard you can do it You can get your mind right you can get your body right you can get your routine your food your sleep How you pack your bag how you put on your shoes all that stuff When you start to train five days a week four to seven days a week for 12 years getting that perfect routine is nearly impossible As lifting weights does not pay my bills. It does not pay anyone's bills really so You know talking about the pre-workout snack. I used to love Waking up getting my whole routine I'd have a chipotle burrito about two and a half hours before training. I take a shower to kind of wake up I love taking a shower before I move or get athletic In and progress into my workout But as opening different companies as I've been traveling more over the last five years As meetings build up as podcasts build up content. We have content here instagram podcast twitch TikTok I have five different platforms that i'm posting on regularly My ability to build that perfect routine and have the perfect pre-workout snack and have my meal ready two hours before I got to go train. It's just not there anymore. So I kind of had to shatter my idea of that And not be so soft. I guess For lack of a better term is that I had to make sure I had a good workout No matter what empty stomach full stomach too much water not enough water good weather bad weather I'm tired. I'm not tired. How do I get the work in and focus in on that work? And so, yeah, I guess long story short. It used to be like a chipotle burrito two and a half hours before now As long as I get some kind of caffeine about an hour before I'm pretty happy and I feel pretty good Um, and then I just take a little bit longer to warm up again Fuggin your mobility fuggin. That's f u ggin for those that don't know we don't curse no more Um, I appreciate you quick q&a Uh, if you guys want to get involved on tiktok, but I have both names Silent mic with one k and silent mic with two k is one's my gaming channel One is my fitness one and we're doing technique reviews So if you follow me there post a nice long video tag me I'll try to do what a video with you Give you some free coaching on there. I do appreciate you guys brand new videos all the time monday next monday next video We'll be talking about and showing you guys a little bit of the launch So if you're excited, uh, if you're looking for some new apparel athletic apparel kind of elevated premium small batch Uh next week. I'm excited. I got a lot of work to do I'm looking around all the clothes are right here behind the camera.  Um, even though at the end of the day that is what I do. Um, so it's all about kind of our color palette and what we're handling here But here's one look at one of the basic teas we got coming. It's a little bit more maroonie Then this will be showing you in the camera Come on focus up little buddy.  I appreciate you guys. We'll catch you in the next one


I don't know what to do. This happened to me recently, and if you have any answers, please tell me. So, let me ask you, have you ever heard of the Lost SpongeBob episode from season 1? It aired at 2 in the morning. Few viewers were up at the time it aired, because it aired in a Tuesday. It started out with a title card saying SpongeBob's Bad Day. Then, it cut to SpongeBob walking to the tree dome, but he looked depressed. Then it cut to a few frames of SpongeBob with no eyeballs. Also, there was no opening theme instead, it showed a picture of SpongeBob crying. When SpongeBob got to the tree dome, he said, Hey Sandy, I've been waiting for you this whole time. And he saw Sandy covered in blood, dead, a mangled cut-up corpse in the ground. Her eyes rolled into the back of her head. SpongeBob then screamed in fear, and strangely SpongeBob was not wearing his water helmet. He usually wears it to go to the tree dome. Then, it cut to static followed by a demonic laughter. For a minute or so, and viewers were shown a couple of grotesque pictures of SpongeBob that they can't even describe how scary they were. Then it cut to a picture of SpongeBob, which has nose broken and one eye with his eyeballs hanging out of his head, and his other one with a red pupil. Then I heard screaming so realistic that it sounded like it was coming from my room. Then it cut to static again for a minute and it cut back to SpongeBob. This time, he was in a room with dead bodies by him and they were real dead people, not cartoon people. And then the screen turned red, re-availing a red picture of SpongeBob and Patrick. With Russian text above them and the only sound that can be heard was a demonic voice saying, Join us in yellow. Then it showed an early version of SpongeBob and creepy music was playing in the background. It showed SpongeBob's house.  The episode ended. I was shocked, I could not believe that this episode aired. I checked online and found nothing. What I want to ask is, if you were one of the people who saw the episode during the two o'clock and premiere, do you know anything about it? Please, I need answers.