Well, good afternoon, everyone. I hope everyone can hear me. Thank you very much for inviting me to give this talk about my ancestors, the reverend Anthony Hamilton and his son, William Richard Hamilton, who are both fellows and vice presidents of the Society of Antiquaries. I would like to start by waiting for an introduction to outline the reasons why my link to these two gentlemen is known. My maternal grandfather, Terek Victor Henry, feeds you, spent most of his life researching the family tree and was one of the founders of the Association of Genealogists and Recording Agents. He was also a member of the Society of Genealogists, and in 1952 he found a research journal The Amity Historian, now the local historian, and was his first editor. Terek wrote the Dictionary of Genealogy and had traced his family tree back to 1309. He was in the process of writing up the results of his family research, which he had meticulously recorded, but sadly he did not live to complete his work when he died in 1990. Tantalisingly, he had just reached 1791, which was the year before my four times great-grandfather married Charlotte Hamilton, the daughter of the reverend Anthony Hamilton and sister to William Richard Hamilton. The reverend Anthony Hamilton was born on 5 May 1739 and was the son of Alexander Hamilton, who had married the heiress Charlotte Stiles, and so acquired the Essex Manor of Holyfield in the northeast of the parish of Waltham Abbey. Anthony Hamilton was the younger son of the marriage and was educated at Harris School and entered Corpus Christy's College Cambridge in 1755. He graduated Bachelor of Arts in 1760, Master of Arts in 1763 and Doctor of Divinity in 1775. Ordained Deacon in 1762 and Priest in 1763, he became Vicar of Fulham and then in 1766 of Allset in Essex. In 1770 he became Archdeacon of London, giving up the post in 1775 to become the Archdeacon of Colchester. He was elected a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 1773 and of the Royal Society in 1777. In 1776 Hamilton became Rector of Much Haddon in Hertfordshire near Bishop's Dorghford. He also became Vicar of St Martin's in the Fields. In the 1790s he lived at 16 in Savile Row. This painting of Anthony Hamilton hangs at St Martin's in the Fields and was a photo taken by my father. He describes the journey of seeing the painting thus. I asked the verger about it and he took me on a security's route to what looked like a typing pool where it was displayed. I assume now two typing pools are no longer there so we'll have to go back and have a look and see if it's in a nicer area. This painting was by T. Kettle which is likely to be Tilly Kettle who was born from 1735 to 1786 and was the first prominent English portrait painter to operate in India. The Society of Antiquities has a copy of the engraving of this painting which is on the other side and that's by Al Duncan and that's in its archives. In 1794 Anthony Hamilton communicated to the Society an account of the gardens near London with remarks on some particulars wherein they excel or deficient upon the view of them in December 1961 which was written by J Gibson in 1691. These gardens included Hampton Court, Kensington Gardens, Sir Henry Capples Garden in Kew and most interesting for me Mr Rainsons Garden in Enfield which would have been 40 Hall in Enfield where, as Jill was saying, I was operations manager. But before I came to Kelscott Manor his description of the Enfield Garden states that it is observable for nothing but its greenhouse which it has had for many years. His orange, lemons and myrtletrees were as full and furnished as any in cases. The rest of the garden is very ordinary. In 1804 Anthony communicated to the Society the account of the discovery and internment of the heart of Arthur Lord Capples in a letter to the Reverend John Brandt Secretary. I should explain a bit about Arthur Capples. In April 1640 Arthur Capples was elected a Member of Parliament in Hertfordshire in the Short Parliament and was re-enacted MP for the Long Parliament in November 1640. On the outbreak of the Civil War he was appointed Lieutenant General of Shropshire, Cheshire and North Wales on the Royalist side. He attended the Queen in her flight to France in 1646 and subsequently aided the King's escape to the Isle of Wight and on the 27th of August 1648 he surrendered to Fairfax at Colchester and despite assurances of quarter for life and due to an attempt to escape from the Tower of London he was condemned to death by Parliament on the 8th of March 1649. The letter from Anthony Hampton gives an account of what happened to Arthur Capples' heart after his execution. Apparently the anecdotal evidence was that his wish was that his heart might be taken to his body and preserved for the purpose of being interred with the body of Charles I when the restoration of the family to the crown should take place. My ancestor, through communication with other fellows who were descendants of the chaplain to the Earl of Essex discovered that in 1703 the Earl's family moved from Haddon Hall and in assisting with their removal the Dean discovered a silver cup and cover with a written account that it contained the heart of Lord Capples whose body at that time had been buried in the council of the church in Dittle Haddon. The discovery of the cup was instantly communicated by the Dean to the family and he received directions that the cup should be carefully disposited in the vaults at Liddle Haddon. However, the Dean represented to the family that the sexton and perhaps others would know that a large silver cup was deposited in the vault upon some future occasion of opening it the cup would probably be stolen. He recommended that an iron box should be provided which would give more security and that the silver cup be sold and the money was given to the poor of the parish. This was accordingly done. Anthony Hamilton married Anne Terrick, daughter of Richard Terrick, Bishop of London on 12 February 1767. They had five children, one daughter and four sons. He died in 1812 and was buried at Loudon with memorials set up in much Haddon and Liddle Haddon churches. William Richard Hamilton his son and my four times great uncle was born on the 9th of January 1777. After studying at Harrow where he accidentally was blamed for life he was entered into both Oxford and Cambridge universities and in 1799 began his public life by becoming secretary to Lord Elgin when the latter was appointed ambassador to Constantinople. William's sponsor, Colonel Anfrusta noted he has much good sense and a great activity of mind. He is industrious and in the highest degree anxious to render himself useful.  In June 1801 he was sent by Lord Elgin to Egypt to help superintend the evacuation of the French after the battle of Alexandria. On William's advice Commander General Hutchinson had insisted in the terms of the French capitulation that the Rosetta stone be handed over to the British. The stone had been uncovered by Bonaparte engineers in 1799 when repairing some fortifications. I have two different accounts of what happened next. Hamilton discovered that the French contrary to the treaty had taken the stone. One account says that he was discovered hidden under clothes in the French general's house. Another account says that he had been stealthily been shipped. Apparently William procured an escort of soldiers and in spite of danger of fever rode out to the French transport and insisted on carrying off the precious monument. While I would love the thought of William setting out on a boat at the risk of his life from fever to recover the stone there is a written account of the affair by another Englishman in the party Edward D Clarke a minor ornogist making his third trip to Egypt who attended the difficult party with General Minu who apparently viewed the stone as his personal property. It says, we remained near the outside of the tent and soon heard the French general's voice, elevated as usual and in strong terms of indignation remonstrating against the injustices of the demands made upon him. The Rosetta stone together with other antiquaries left for England where following its arrival in February in 1802 it was deposited at the Society of Antiquaries. On the 29th of April the Society's Council resolved that a soulful cast of the inscription on the stone be taken and invitations were to be extended to inspect and copy the stone. In July the antiquaries resolved to have plaster cast prepared of the stone and dispatched together with a letter from the Secretary to the University of Oxford, Cambridge, Edinburgh and Dublin. The receipts of letters acknowledging the cast and also engravings of the inscriptions which the Society's had sent out were minited in December and in June 1803 the stone itself was transferred to the British Museum. In 1802 William Hamilton was still in the service of Lord Elgin in collecting the Grecian marbles and he insuperintended their removal something for which I have to continually apologise to my wife about. He was unborddly mentor the ship carrying some of the principal groups when it sank in a matter of minutes in a storm off the port of Circeo. Lives were saved only by men jumping from the boat onto the rocks. Hamilton spent several months supervising the diving for the marbles having by his own account procured some very excellent divers who were able to with immense labour and perturbments to extract a few of the cases from the hold of the ship while she lay in 12 atoms of water. The rest may have been recovered later after storms of two winters broken the ship up. In October 1809 he was also appointed Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and after the Battle of Waterloo William was credited with compelling the Bourbon Government to restore to Italy the words of art which he had been bereft of by the French armies. In recognition of this service he was presented with one of four ideal heads by Canova. The other three were presented to Wellington, Lord Karlsruich and Sir Charles Long FSA. The stand when he took on the Elgin's Marbles meant that he was on two occasions refused membership of the Society of Dilatante which had initially opposed their purchase. However, he was elected in 1811 and went on to succeed the artist Sir Thomas Lawrence and became its longest serving secretary from 1830 to 1859. A fellow of the Royal Society and a trustee of the British Museum from 1838 to 1858 he was a member of the Royal Society of the British Museum from 1878 to 1858. He was also a founder member of the Royal Geographical Society of which he later became president. He became a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries on the 14th of June 1804 and vice president from 1827 to 1847 as well as being director from 1809, 10 and 1826, 27. He died on the 11th of July 1859 at Bolton Row London in his 82nd year having married in 1804 and leaving six sons and a daughter. Charlotte Fitzhugh Lee Hamilton was my four times great-grandmother. Elder sister to William Hamilton and born on the 2 December 1767. She married William Fitzhugh at St George's Chapel Hanover in 1792 and she was 24 and he was a few days short of being 35. Although not so much is known about Charlotte I'm finishing my lecture with her because she is my direct ancestor and her interesting link with the painter Sir Thomas Lawrence and the actress Sarah Siddons. Sir Thomas Lawrence was a leading English portrait painter and fourth president of the Royal Academy. I've already mentioned that he was secretary of the Society of Dead Attempty and appears to have been a friend of the Hamilton family. Sarah Siddons was a Welsh-born actress best known for tragic pummits her most famous being Lady Macbeth and it is also recorded that she fainted at the sight of the Elgin Marbles when she saw them in London. Charlotte's husband William became MP for Tiberton in 1803 and at this time she was enjoying a friendship with the famous actress Sarah Siddons. John Fife in his book Tragedy Queens of the Georgian Era describes Charlotte as the wife of the member of Tiberton who for half a lifetime was attached friend and correspondent of Sarah Siddons and served and spent a year without a visit to her at a country seat bannisters near Southampton. In 1804 William and Charlotte commissioned a full length portrait of Sarah Siddons by Thomas Lawrence. It was Sir Joseph Farrington who was a member of the Royal Academy reports in his diaries being painted in March and April 1804 partly by partly by landlite. Fanny Kemble, Sarah Siddons niece thought the picture resembled some dark cow in a coal necklace. Whilst the sitter herself said that it was more really like me than anything that has been done before. Joseph Farrington reporting on 30 April 1804 said at 12 the doors were opened Mrs Siddons and Mrs Fitzhugh came and the latter was not satisfied with the likeness of the portrait of Mrs Siddons. When Sarah Siddons died in 1831 she left a mourning ring to her old friend and Charlotte Fitzhugh presented the Lawrence portrait to the National Gallery in 1843 and the picture is still currently held by the Tate. My family still have a number of items in their possession from the Hamilton family. Charlotte also commissioned Thomas Lawrence to paint a portrait of her father the Reverend Anthony Hamilton which we believe to be this one currently in possession of my uncle. He also had two portraits of Charlotte Hamilton the portrait of her as a young woman was painted by her husband who seems to have extended her necks somewhat and the older one in which my aunt has described as looking a bit of an old bat mind you she says most people would wearing something like that. My father has two books signed by Sarah Siddons a Bible and a book entitled The History of the First Parents selected from Milton's Paradise Lost for the use of young persons by Sarah Siddons. The inscription reads my dear Emily Fitzhugh from her affectionate godmother and sincere friend Sarah Siddons. In conclusion I would like to thank John Lewis, Heather Rowland and the library team and Jeremy Warren for supplying with the information from this lecture. My uncle and father for providing documents digital images and to my grandfather who passed down his love of history gene to me. I've had enormous enjoyment in discovering more about my ancestors and feel that there is a lot more to discover about the Hamilton family. However just as I was getting my head around having two ancestors that were fellows of the society my father emailed me with this picture of Philip Metcalf another ancestor fellow but that's for another time. Thank you.


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So thank you, thank you, thank you to all of our presenting sponsors. We wouldn't be here without your support. Julia Patrick, of course, is back. We are so glad to have you. Julia is the CEO of the American Nonprofit Academy and I'm Jared Ransom, CEO of the Raven Group, also known as your non-profit nerd. And my glasses are not far, especially for today as we move into our questions because this is an opportunity for those of you that are avid viewers, we are so grateful, but I really love, love nerding out over these questions. So I feel like, and we've said this before, Julia, but these questions continue to change and evolve and we have really been able to witness where you are, where our leaders are. And I don't mean geographically, I mean like where you are in the trenches. What is happening with your organization? Yes, what is happening in your head? How are some of these issues taking shape in a new way as we continue to navigate forward? So here we are. Looks like you have a question from Arnold and I will let you get us started. Thanks, Julia. So this is really interesting and I'm really interested to hear your response because you know more about this than I do. I've been hearing more of my peers using your hiring coaches to help them in their work. What is the average cost and how does it work? That's a great question. I do offer this service, Arnold, and I'm gonna, again, I mean, I wouldn't be Jarrett, I wouldn't be the nonprofit nerd if I wasn't so authentic and transparent. I have a variety of pricing and that doesn't mean that you get a discounted service, but it really just depends on what exactly you're looking for coaching on. And to be honest, are you paying it? Where are you in your career? So I do a leadership coaching that is a sliding scale and I also offer that as a pay-as-you-go. So there are services that exist that are non-binding, it is a pay-as-you-go, there could be a flex fee. And then there's really what I call more my executive coaching program that is a six month to a year commitment. Typically though, that is being paid by the organization because they're reaping so many benefits when it comes to also strategic direction, guidance, and just overall coaching. So that package, as I'm sure you have already started to count up is a little bit more costly than the individual leadership coaching, but I would ask any coach and I would ask several. What is their coaching style? How did they choose to meet? What can you expect to receive from them? And then kind of what is that working relationship? My son just started Cross Country and I loved hearing from the coach what her coaching like ideology is. Like what is your thought process behind coaching? And that is so relevant to having a professional coach in your career. So don't be afraid to ask those questions, right? Like what is your concept when it comes to coaching? What is your ideology behind coaching? Those are great questions to see if that person is the right fit for you. You know, it's interesting. I was talking to this with our executive producer, Kevin Pace, who's man. So his comment was, you know, you would never show up to play sports without a coach. And he's like, you know, even from little league to professional sports, you're going to have coaches and you're going to have coaches for different things at different times for different needs. And some of these coaches are very, very specific.  And I was like, yeah, you know, that's true to put it back into our world that it's a good thing.  Are we looking at like a hundred bucks an hour, 250 bucks an hour, a thousand bucks an hour? Like probably yes to all of that. But what is that? What should we be thinking about? Well, so again, I really believe, you know, it depends on how seasoned that individual is, right? So I myself am a specific nonprofit business coach. I work with several coaches myself. And even as you say that, right? Like I have a personal trainer coach. I have a nutrition coach. I have a intuitive coach. Like I work with a variety of coaches. I have a business coach. And I'm going to be honest, they all charge a little differently. Though I think it really depends. For me, yes, it is a hundred plus for the executive leadership, or I should just call it the leadership really, because the executive coaching is much higher and much more intensive. So. Okay, good. Well, that helps. And I really, one of the things that I really learned before we go on from you, and that is understanding what their style and their approach is. Yes. And is it self-pay, as we would say in the medical world? Yeah. Or is your organization paying? That's right. Interesting. That's right. Yeah. Well, okay, Arnold, I hope this helps. Yeah, I think that's great. And you know, it's nothing to be ashamed of, right? Like it's really, as someone had said, if you want to fast pass to the next level, I think that's a great opportunity. We also, many of us have, I think I might have mentioned this before, but like financial coaches. So there's so many opportunities to engage in a coach, but really to think of this as fast-tracking to that next level. I love that, Jared. I think that's really cool. Okay. Excuse me. All right, let's go to Boise, Idaho. I floated the idea of doing a book of the month for executive team. This would be a book that relates to nonprofit management. Nobody seemed interested. Any ideas on how to spurn some action in learning new things? Now we've had this question, or this type of question before. Yeah. Isn't it interesting? So I would love to know what the age of this person is, because book of the month, tagged learning something new. So you know what? I'm laughing because I'm not a reader. I'm not a reader. I am a learner and I am an educator and I am curious to gain knowledge. But I would be, named withheld, someone that's like, I am not interested. Because to me, I hear that's one more thing to add to my list. When am I reading this book? And if this is a monthly book club, that to me screams like, that's a lot of work. Now, I do love Audible. I listen a lot to what used to be called books on tape. So I listened to it that way as well when I'm walking or getting ready for my day. But I would really come to the expectation of what the participants would need to commit to, right? On average, and as your organization, essentially allowing this professional to read that book or listen to that book during work hours. Because I think that's really important too. So if this is something that, again, and you started our conversation today, Julia, just about we're all exhausted. We're about two years into this, right?  And so for me, it's literally like, this might be that straw that broke my back where I'm like, I'm done. I can't, I cannot do anymore. And so I share that very transparently because I'm not a reader. And I see this as a huge like additional task on top of the heap that I'm already trying to manage. But if you could come to it with a little bit more of like, here's what we would expect. Here's about the time estimate. And again, if this is something they can do during work hours, I think that's really important to mention. So that might help to get some more action. Okay, so what if this happened? What if during one of your executive meetings, you had a quote unquote guest speaker, even if it was on Zoom or whatever, who could talk about maybe the work they're doing in their nonprofit or trends or just general knowledge that could help become a discussion point that was done during the meeting? How would you feel about that? Absolutely. That would be like a better, and that would still stimulate you and still allow you to be, okay. Yes, I think so. Like again, and for those of you that watch at, you know, ongoing, I'm so appreciative, but I am definitely one of those. I love benchmarking. I love knowing what other organizations are doing. But when you mentioned a book club, absolutely not. That's an age thing. Okay, well, cool. I mean, I appreciate hearing your perspective because I would have never thought of that. But I'm also from the generation where your executive team always was reading something. Yeah. Always, and then it was always a point of discussion. And so that's a generational thing too. I think it's generational because now we talk often about, oh, I'm listening to this podcast. Let me share with you this podcast. Oh, I'm listening to this national broadcast, the nonprofit show. I'd love for you to also watch and listen to this episode. That is continued learning, right? And it doesn't necessarily mean that it comes with a spine and it goes into a bookshelf, but I do think that that is the modern, you know, we are always reading something. And I've got about four books on my nightstand. It doesn't mean that I pick them up daily. Yeah, yeah. Well, that's cool. I'm glad that you mentioned it. Name with Heldon Boise, if you're looking for some nonprofit topic books, check out our book club on the Nonprofit, on the American Nonprofit Academy website, because we do have books. And I appreciate you saying that, because it's not, and again, that's why this show works, because we don't always think of the same things. I would not have thought of that. So, okay, don't think that I'm not a reader, but I'm not. No, no, no, I get it. I get it. I mean, I think there's, you know, they always say there's like what five main ways that we consume and... Information, yes. Metastasize information, if you will. And so I think that's, I think that's a really good thing to understand. Okay, you know how I love my name with Helds? This one's coming to us from Baton Rouge. And I don't think it's Ohio. Oh, I didn't know there was a Baton Rouge. I would imagine it's LA, Louisiana. I'm trying to form a small group of CFOs who work in the nonprofit sector in my community. I think it would be great to meet and trade ideas. My CEO says it's a conflict of interest, is it?  I'm curious. So, you know, I, well, first of all, anybody in the nonprofit sector, really in business, but especially in the nonprofit sector because we're dealing with donors, donor profiles, and even contracts and grants, which can be very competitive. They get really freaked out about sharing knowledge. So yeah, I can see that, that it would be a problem. But, you know, I was thinking about, this makes me think of our friends from your part-time controller, and which is a national accounting firm, a bookkeeping services financial management, you know, information company that just deals with the nonprofit sector. And this is not the same as the for-profit sector. There are, there's literally different vocabulary. There's all sorts of different requirements, IRS filings. And so I would imagine that a CFO would get a lot of support and glean information from another nonprofit CFO, you know?  We're not gonna talk about, I don't know. Yeah, certain things. But gosh, I don't know, Jared, it seems to me that that could really help. I think that helps tremendously. I'm all for it. And I do think that, yes, having, and I don't know that the group needs, well, as I say this, I'm contradicting like, yes, I think there should be ground rules for the group, but I think any professional really needs to have their own individualized ground rules and knowledge of what's appropriate, what's not appropriate to share. I am privy to so many internal documents, so many internal constituency bases that my clients truly have to trust me and my ethics that I am not sharing that from one organization to the other. But now I could see this as a wonderful opportunity, especially for CFOs. If this is a, let's say a roundtable discussion and some of you, some of the other CFOs also have perhaps a grant report that's required and maybe it's a reimbursement, you can learn from one another, right? How have you done this in the past? What have you learned about the process? This is what I am doing. Is there a better way to do this? And I hope that your CFOs and your community are willing to share some of those learning opportunities. There's CEO roundtables, right? There's director development roundtables. There's COO roundtables. So like I think when it comes to that CFO, I think we all need a safe space to share and learn from our peers, but absolutely come to it with, you know, your professional thinking cap on. Well, and I just feel like there's so much change in nonprofit accounting. And then if you add on nonprofit finance, that's like a whole nother thing. And it's the people that are generally tied to the hip with HR. And so think of all of the HR things. And we had that one company pay core that was talking to us about some new pay structures. Earned wages. Yeah, EWA. Earned wage access. Access. Yeah. And I was like, that's a CFO issue. Me too. Yeah. Yeah, I think that, you know, and also too, I'm not to get too woo-woo, but you cannot work in a place of fear. And you know, if everybody's out to get you and you're, you know, you don't work from that place of abundance. Yeah, hello. I came in with help from Baton Rouge. I help Louisiana and not Ohio. Wow, that's super interesting. I'm just like stunned by that. I really am, but okay. Well, let's get on to the next question. So this is an interesting thing. And again, this is almost like a similar concept. We have some staff members who think it would be a good idea to find a sister type of organization and another part of the country who provides the same service as we do. We are a food bank. Any ideas where to start? Joseph from Ogden, Utah. Google.com. Yeah, well, I would Google, you know, food banks in another specific area, but then I would also do some more due diligence and go to GuideStar, one of the charity watchdog organizations and look up their 990s, because when you are finding a sister type organization, are you looking at, you know, apples to apples when it comes to financial size? Are you looking at staff size? But, you know, like just kind of all of that. Again, Joseph, this goes to competitive and generic benchmarking, which I love. I think that, you know, that love grew out of me earning my Masters in Business Administration, but I loved researching financial and business practices and operations and efficiencies, right? Like I love nerding out into that like deep level as well. So I think, yes, another part of the country, absolutely. Another country, absolutely. Like I think there's so much to learn from other organizations and what they're doing. Feeding America, of course, I think it's gonna be one of your first additional research areas is who is a part of Feeding America? Might they connect you with a sister type organization and how you can continue? And I don't know, but I would hope you would contact them and not just be voyeuristic, but actually have that conversation with them of, hey, we would just like to share knowledge and wondering if you would be willing to share in return. You know what I would say, Joseph? Find another community anywhere in this country, but find a community that shares similar demographics. Yes. So that you can have some sort of shared conversations that you can apply. So for example, if your community abuts a tribal nation, if your community has a strong tourist bent or is recreational or is rural, I mean, it might kind of give you some ideas on shared experiences that you could implement. But yeah, I think it's a great idea. You know, it's funny, we've never had anyone ask about this to that same degree, like really an organized thing. It's like a sister cities concept. Yes, I like that. The big question I get often is from individuals that want to start an organization and they say, there's no one in my community doing this. First of all, I call BS on that. Sorry, but second of all, do your due diligence to research other communities. Where is something that you want to create? Where does it exist? In that sister type organization, where does it exist? How are they managing? And I coach all the time, pick up the phone, have a conversation, see if they might be willing to share with you. I love it. I think you're right. Okay, when we don't have much time, we've got time for one more question. So we'll have to go fast. The pandemic has taught me that I have been working too much. I would like to negotiate an added week of vacation before I ask my CEO, do you have any words of wisdom? I don't want to leave my nonprofit, but I need to get some rest. Patty from Jacksonville, Florida. That's a brave thing. Go ahead. Yes. But it's great. You know, it's the compassion fatigue. And I think, Jared, I don't know what you think, but I think it's okay to say, look, I don't want to leave and I don't want you to have to try and replace me, but I need some extra time. How do I negotiate this? What do we do? How do we manage this? So that if I am of value to you, I can remain, but I can remain strong. And I don't know, what do you think? I think that's great. Ironically, I am presenting a workshop on how to avoid burnout. And that is August the 27th. I, anyway, it is online, but maybe we can share more about that later. But one, I question, if you take this week off, well, you truly take the week off, right? Because we're so guilty of checking our emails, no matter where they are. So will you truly take that time off? Or might you consider a flex schedule or how might you also engage some additional boundaries to help protect your time? I've had to do that recently. And in fact, I just reneged on a commitment that I have next week, because I said it is imminent for my personal care that I take some items off my calendar. And if there is something that you can do like that, or if you have the privilege of delegating a task or a responsibility, do use that. But I say absolutely share with your supervisor that you are exhausted and on the brink of burnout. One of my favorite, favorite, favorite people is Miko Whitlock with a mindful techie.  So I think there's so much out there, but I do commend you for this brave question. It takes courage to stand up for yourself, but you are worth it. And the organization doesn't wanna lose you. Yeah. Truly. Well, another great fryer. Jared, thank you so much. Again, Julia Patrick been joined by the nonprofit nerd herself, Jared Ransom. We've had a great, great conversation today. If you've got questions, you've got four ways to get ahold of us at least. So let us know what questions you've got and we will work with you on those. Again, our phenomenal and sincere gratitude to Fundraising Academy, they're gonna be joining us next week for our very first nonprofit power week. And so that's gonna be a lot of fun. So, yeah, we're looking forward to that. Again, thank you to all of our presenting sponsors, but you, we would not be here having such interesting conversations. Hey, Jared, have a restful weekend. I wish. I know I have a board governance training on Saturday. So that's gonna be an all day occasion. But thank you, Sunday's looking good. Shoot, sister. After, didn't you just hear yourself speak here? Yes, I know. Oh my gosh. Well, I'll let you know if I can't make Monday's episode. Yeah, I kind of feel like you should take the day off, sister. Hey, everybody, this is now more than ever to remind ourselves to stay well so we can do well. Have a great restful weekend. We'll see you back here on Monday. Thanks, everybody. Thank you, Jared. Yeah, thanks.


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So on top of that, which we'll get to this in a second you know, I got a Another mod that I got for you guys on another day, but um We got a shock mount as well too guys This is so when I do move the mic there won't be any vibrations heard You know during, you know when I'm recording podcasting or gaming, which I do plan to do as well good investment for your setup then we got the Microphone stand by pirama Which you know all these all these products that I'll be reviewing there. There's links down in the description There Amazon base links guys I am on Amazon affiliate So if you click on those things you will be helping me out because if you buy the product off of that link I will get a kickback from that. So I greatly appreciate, you know, whoever chooses those links as well Well, yeah guys, let's get into it. Okay, so we're gonna start off with the yeti x Unboxes real quick Hey guys, make sure you subscribe and hit the bell notification icon. I'd greatly appreciate it. We got some instructions on You know how to operate the the equity x Which I'll get into that later. I need to get a good unboxing table, too. That's something in the future guys Yeah, here's the main event so This isn't the The final form. I obviously got to take the mic out of this stand and put it on the mount this right here Is what's gonna make me sound way better? I really like the I really like the finish on it It looks really good. So this is the The windshield for the The the mic so that's gonna Go on here. They start over here for now So this is the shock mount guys and I'm not sure how close you can see it I'm not babe. I don't know if you want to get a little closer here, but um, you see these wires or strings right here, so if I You know where to touch it or something like that it would keep the mic in place If that makes sense So like if something were to move the vibrations would hit this then before they would touch the mic So it would be a cleaner transition and you just hear the the vibration of the mic moving This is the one by pirama There's a bunch of I think budget Mike the phone arms out there Like I think the inner gear one is a good one as well But this one I like this one because you don't see the springs on the outside I wasn't a big fan of that and it seems pretty adjustable So I can't wait to install this there's also the The the clamp as well, which I clamp on the side of that Guess you're trying to figure out way to put it. Yeah Yo guys ran into a little problem Not a big problem, but I Basically, I had to order a longer wire the the stock Micro USB to USB cable. It's not long enough So when I you know try to run the cable down, I wouldn't connect over to the other side I should have thought about that, but amen. You got to post your mistakes, too So let me show you guys what I got going on here So this is where I'm sitting right here, right and you can see that I've ran the wires This is sitting really nice. I really I really enjoy the way it looks So I got the wires which I have the audio cable the braided cable I was talking about and then this is the stock Micro USB to USB and as I'm running it, which these cable straps actually came with the the arm the panorama arm But uh, yeah, so as I ran the cable down You know, which I really like the design of this like you just fit the cables. So This cable Here guys This cable here is not At least I don't think it's long enough. Let's see. I Don't think it's long enough. Let's cuz it's like I want it to be clean, you know, I mean, so it's like if it's not clean then There's no point in doing it because I don't want to see a wire going across the gap right here. Let's see where it is It's there Um, I Could make it work, but it'd be ugly. So that's why we ordered it. Um from Amazon Hopefully to get here by tomorrow but Yeah, guys, I got a unfortunately stop right now because this is Not gonna be good cuz if I can't plug it into the computer then I can't show you guys like how it works and The different quality and sound All right guys, this is the final look of the blue yeti x I really enjoy how the boom arm is behind the monitor. So when I put it away, it's hidden also to stay tuned for Next Tuesday's video I will be talking about settings with the blue yeti x and what all you can do to set this mic up for your needs Hey guys, make sure you subscribe and hit the bell notification icon. I'd greatly appreciate it


in the 10th. Let's hear from him post game. Justin, do you think you had Grossman on that 2-2 pitch? Sometimes they're called. Sometimes they're not. How frustrating has this start to the season been for you, Aaron, just mentioned the fact that it seems like it's taken you some time to get into any type of rhythm. Yeah, I haven't pitched well, but I own that. No one's, you know, harder on myself than me. It's going to be better. Why do you think you've struggled with consistency? For a while there, I think my delivery was bad. I mean, when I got back on track, you know, I made a couple of bad pitches in the paperwork.  Next question goes to Brendan Cody. Brendan, please unmute. Justin, Aaron said that the power on your fastball has seemed to be inconsistent since you've come back. How do you feel about your fastball and where it's at right now? Well, it's not the same. That's for sure. There's days where it's been better and there's days where it's not. Sometimes when I have actually a little bit of bite on it, pitches are fouled off or swung through. And right now they're not, so I got to make an adjustment. Do you attribute that to the shoulder? I don't really know. You know, the shoulder feels good. I just, like I said, I got out of my delivery for a little while, felt like I was back in it and made some mistakes. Nice. I really miss my spot by much. Next question goes to Barthier Bayer. Hi, Willie.  How does one work on that besides just nearly repetition and getting out there? Both. Both. That's, you know, each part of it. Also, you know, looking at video, working day in day out of my delivery, just trying to feel right and make adjustments really. And Justin, you guys are always very honest about these moments. Obviously that was may have been a frustrating, you know, call or not on that strike. And I know that you're not going to blame that. But is there a lapse in concentration? Sometimes when that happens, and then the next pitch is hit out. No. Okay. I wouldn't say it's a lapse in concentration. I thought I made a pitch. Didn't get called part of the game. We move on and throw the next pitch. Randy Miller, you have the next question. Please unmute. Yeah, too. You've have great career numbers. So to be here at this spot late May and have a 60 or a with the kind of career you had. How do you deal with that emotionally? Are you set tough on you? I mean, anytime you're not pitching well, it's not easy.  You know, I've done it for a while. So I know what I can do. I just need to get back on the right track and make that pitch.


Good morning everyone. We'd like to welcome you to the launch of our earth science activities for 2018 Often in Senucia we boast that we are the country with the world's only drive in volcano And if you ask most persons they will tell you that the volcano is based in Souffre But apart from that there's very little else that we know about our island and in recent times We've we've been having More frequent earthquakes and you find that person's a little more way of geo hazards, but very little emphasis is placed on hazards apart from from hydro metasads and It is against that. It is against this backdrop that the National Emergency Management Organization NIMO and UES seismic research center has Decided with the rest of the world to observe earth science week and our theme for earth science week this year is Earth as inspiration we have a number of activities planned for this week and Mrs. Veldor Joseph the director of the National Emergency Management Organization will come to give a few brief remarks and Give us an overview of the activities for the week. Thank you This is Joseph Thank you very much miss Chalory. Good morning everyone Welcome to this media launch of earth science week 2018 a very special good morning to our friends and colleagues from the University of the West Indies seismic research Center For being here with us today and for agreeing to share your expert knowledge on the subject matter our media friends Thank you for being here and for consistently providing NIMO with the opportunity to share information and to engage the public on Various issues relevant to disaster management. Thank you to all of you colleagues It is common knowledge that the Caribbean region is identified as one which is highly vulnerable to multiple hazards Each with the potential for causing extreme devastation to our island nations Our recent and not so recent experiences Have painfully highlighted the vulnerability of our infrastructure and our people and the inevitable disruption of livelihoods and economies as a result of hazard impacts However, as is done at every opportunity I will emphasize the fact that St. Lucia's exposure to hazards is not limited to Hygiumet events and you just heard that from our moderator Despite the frequency of those events But that the island is vulnerable to a myriad of other hazards with natural and man-made Which have the potential for causing loss of lives severe destruction of physical socio-economical and Environmental assets as well as significant disruptions the livelihoods as I mentioned earlier The region's exposure to multiple hazards It's clearly recognized and acknowledged within the Caribbean brand of managing disaster risk Which was conceptualized by Cedema the Caribbean disaster emergency management agency and to which St. Lucia subscribes This brand which is referred to as the comprehensive disaster management or CDM as we say Challenges us to give consideration to all hazards not some all hazards It challenges us to consider all phases of the disaster management cycle to move away from the thinking that it's response that matters But that we need to consider risk reduction and we need to consider all of the other phases before the impact as well And it also calls on us to empower all sectors towards building a culture of safety In taking up this challenge Nemo will over the course of this week and beyond Maintain adequate focus on the geological hazards of particular interest to St. Lucia and for this we're focusing on earthquakes tsunamis and volcanoes and will Constantly seek to share information towards improved resilience of the nation I remember a few years ago at a NIMAC meeting and we were challenged by the then prime minister to Place more emphasis on earthquakes. I think at the time it was around 2016 That's when we had the boost of earthquakes in July of that year and he said I want more emphasis on earthquakes And we have tried but I suppose within the limits of our resources We have not been as successful as we would like to be but we want to take up that challenge again and to place Emphasis on hazards other than they met hazards We recognize that even when we are battling waves and troughs that we can have those quicks as was experienced not too long ago So we need to make sure that our nation is ready The observance of earth science week in St. Lucia is therefore designed to foster a greater awareness and understanding of the geological hazards and also to provide some encouragement and Motivation for adoption of preparedness measures by the public to preserve life and property We do not want to help us and saying that you cannot prepare for an earthquake There's nothing we can do because it cannot be predicted. There are things that can be done and throughout this week We will be sharing with the public Various target audiences. What are some of the things that you can do at household level? What are some of the things that can be done at community level and at the national level? What are some of the things that we are going to be engaging in? In keeping with this year's theme of earth as inspiration the National Emergency Management Organization in partnership with UESRC Will host a range of engaging activities to commemorate earth science week? 2018 these activities will take place in various parts of the island We are not leaving anybody behind. Nothing is concentrated in castries. We are going all around the island and we will target particular groups at varying times So what do we have for this week? Let us take a look and I'm going to go through the program to just give you a brief synopsis of what is planned for this week So today we have this media launch and we will also be telling you about a jingle We have we first a representative from the ministry of agriculture of edu Good morning, everyone. We'd like to welcome you to the launch of our earth science activities for 2018 Often in Senucia we boast that we are the country with the world's only drive in volcano And if you ask most persons they will tell you that the volcano is based in Souffre But apart from that there's very little else that we know about our island and in recent times We've we've been having more frequent earthquakes and you find that persons are a little more way of geo hazards but very little emphasis is placed on hazards apart from from hydro metasads and it is against that it is against this backdrop that the National Emergency Management Organization NIMO and U.E. seismic research center has Decided with the rest of the world to observe of science week and our theme for of science week this year is Earth as inspiration we have a number of activities planned for this week and Mrs. Veldor Joseph the director of the National Emergency Management Organization will come to give a few brief remarks and Give us an overview of the activities for the week. Thank you So Tuesday November 13th. We are looking at region three for school presentation And that will take place at the N triple H. R. D. C We also have a session with the Methodist school at in castries at 11 a.m. Tomorrow now the Methodist school is the one school. Well, there's the exception But that was because we had another session that we had to replace So we included a Methodist school in that in that session Tomorrow afternoon region four will be the focus That will be held at the John odd lump secondary school and again We are engaging the schools the secondary schools in that region for the presentation And then we go to the communities We are not leaving our community persons behind if you know my background You know that I'm very strong on communities and community engagement so we have one community meeting in Miku and we really want to encourage all Persons from the Miku district Miku north Miku south It's also my district. So I would love to have a full town hall a full house at the at the Miku sec At the Miku primary school to engage the team in discussions on the subject On Wednesday, we have region five. We remain in the south. So we have region five the school presentation It's taking place in Miku as well. We are looking at the Okay, I'm sorry. We have changed the venue for that. So that is taking place in denry We are at Chateau heritage with that presentation for region five And then a small group will be on straight up So you can encourage your friends to tune into straight up on Wednesday morning to have a discussion with Claudius Francis on those The threat of the geological hazards to St. Lucia that is a calling for the sake of our partners from SRC That's a calling program. So it allows us to also engage the public in discussions In the afternoon, we have region six and that's taking place in view fort at the nsdc building And later on we have a presentation With liaison officers of the Nemo system So Nemo as an organization has liaison officers in all of the agencies government ministries private sector entities And we want to make sure that these people when they speak and they speak about those hazards That they have the correct information because they are really representing the national disaster management system in St. Lucia So there's a special session for all of them. I have to say that this session is heavily subscribed We have gotten many confirmations for that session. So we look forward to that session being a very enjoyable very engaging very informative session On Thursday morning regions seven and eight we have combined regions seven and eight For a discussion We will inform of the venue for that presentation And we do also have a lecture public lecture in the south of the island at 11 That's taking place at the ports police barrack at the uona international airport That's for our persons in the south of the island. It's an open forum We have invited a number of stakeholders to join us in that session. So we do also envisage an enjoyable session in viewfort After lunch on Thursday the 15th We have a technical presentation to a level students of the view for comprehensive Secondary school my alma mater, but that's not why it was selected There was a special request from that school to have a presentation Once they knew about of science week. So we will be facilitating that at 130 to three on Thursday afternoon And then we move to schwezel for the second community meeting to discuss the issues at hand on friday morning, we encourage all entities to participate in an earthquake drill And encourage your your staff encourage individuals to practice the earthquake drill Let us try to practice the job cover hold and evacuate Let us see how well you have evacuated out of your building too often people know We've seen many cases people know what it is But everybody would just panic and we believe that if you practice enough, but it happens You will automatically go into that routine and you will do what you have practiced So we want to ensure that we begin to have more Drills so that persons are better familiar with what it is that they are required to do We will also be hosting some public education both at massive stores both in the north and in the south castries and viewport And we will be using our volunteers to man those boats to just share information with the public On the hazards that we are discussing And our final activity is a mini exhibition That we dub inspired by oath based on the Um The theme for the oath science week that we will be having at the castries city hall I have to say that we are very encouraged by the number of persons who have indicated that they would like to share And they would be willing to display their information. It is not going to be a paper type Exhibition so don't expect to see a lot of People being distributed. We want it to be practical so that persons are involved in doing things that they will remember post the the exhibition And then I think by now by the end of the week the team will be very tired and ready to go back to Trinidad So we will just have an out briefing meeting with Our authorities and then we can say goodbye to our colleagues and our friends So that is the week that is the program that we have for the week And just before I take my seat. I have to say thank you to a number of persons In particular, I'd like to highlight the The small coordinating team who helped with the planning and the logistics for all of this avalon charlie Who is with us? She's been with us persons are wondering whether she's now with nimo and not with met office But she's been with us organizing this whole thing and I really want to say thank you to you avalon bonus codra Who functions in the capacity of school safety? Officer codra has been working very closely with the National emergency management organization and he came on board to actually help us plan And make sure that all schools were involved in receiving presentations We have miss epiphan christie christie has been quite busy Sending out letters calling people to confirm making sure that the place is decorated christie You know has this little extra touch. It has to be decorated. Thank you so much christie We have maria madea maria is not here with us today Maria is in japan on training But uh, I know she's the first in spirit She kept on messaging and calling on what's up to find out whether everything is okay for the week So we're very happy That she she is still in tune with us We have others daniel joe everybody came on board to make sure that We the activities for the week the logistics in terms of moving items moving chairs making sure venues are ready I want to thank you so very much And to all of the rest of you at nimo our team from the src. Thank you so much again We really do appreciate your efforts In terms of making sure that everything Runs smoothly and for bearing if us even where we were late with our submissions So thank you very much for making sure that it all came together Quite nicely. I look forward to a really awesome work with your guys in st Losia and ensuring that all of the activities that we have planned Come off successfully. So thank you so much everyone Please join the rest of the sessions that we have outlined and have a great day thanks Thank you to mrs. Joseph for her brief comments and Highlighted the schedule for the week You see that the great emphasis that we've placed on schools The ministry of education has been a great partner in planning for science week And we have mr. Bunez kojo the ministry of education school safety officer here with us and he will give us Max Good morning everybody On behalf of the ministry of education. I want to say a big thank you for the opportunity where we can Play our part in terms of building resilience as it relates to earth and taking care of our earth My role today is that of looking at resilience among our young people And resilience refers to an individual's capacity to successfully adapt to change and stressful events in healthy and constructive ways That was written by catalino et al in 2002 young people regularly face great hurdles to get their voices heard While research and practice in the disaster and climate change community Commonly represent young people as passive victims requiring protection consequently Their capacities to inform decision-making processes communicate risks to their communities and Take direct action to reduce risks have been neglected Tackling causes and impacts of climate change has emerged as a major global challenge of the 21st century Given the potential for climate change to alter distribution and severity of extreme weather events Adaption adaptation to climate change can draw from many policies and practices in dr Dr represents a change in emphasis from human humanitarian response and rehabilitation Following disaster events towards disaster prevention and reduction of potential risks This entails affording greater attention to social economic and political factors that influence social vulnerability Rather than just the nature of the hazard and local environmental conditions Vulnerability to climate change and disasters has often been conceptualized as passive and victimhood Particularly emerging from post disaster studies that identify particularly vulnerable groups This conceptualization is common in literature linking children with climate change and disasters However a growing body of empirical research and practice is emerging that counters this vulnerability narrative instead emphasizing young people's capacities to influence and participate directly in efforts to learn about prevent prepare for cope with and adapt to climate change and extreme events young people's participation in dr and adaptation may therefore be conceptualized in multiple modes including contextualizing knowledge using analytical tools and prioritizing actions advocacy and mobilization building coalitions with parents community members and other stakeholders Conception design and implementation of projects that tackle climate and disaster risk pertinent to children's lives In St. Lucia we are exposed to natural hazards and climate related shocks and the impact of our society has been aggravated by many unplanned developments Climate change is projected to lead to more severe events such as droughts floods hurricanes and the Caribbean region in particular has recently experienced an increase number of extreme weather events In many Caribbean islands there are indications that extensive risks corresponding to high hazard events such as yearly floods and storms is increasingly affecting the infrastructure in both rural and urban areas keeping it highly vulnerable Of late we are seeing a higher frequency of earthquakes and the possibility of tsunami as a result The Sendai framework of 2015 to 2030 uses a wide-scale people-centered approach to disaster risk reduction that applies to both large and small scale disasters caused by natural or man-made hazards as well as related environmental technological and biological disasters With seven targets and four priorities for action it aims to limit the adverse impacts of hazards within the broader context of sustainable development The implementation of the framework requires strong political leadership youth engagement and commitment St. Lucia has a large share of its population being youth with young people between the ages of 15 to 29 making up around 26 percent of the population With new youth-led and youth-oriented programs flourishing and more young people utilizing information and communication technologies St. Lucia's youth are now better able to voice opinions address existing problems and shape community priorities as well as actively partake in the process of building resilience The Sendai framework for disaster risk reduction recognizes the role played by the different stakeholders especially the youth in making the disaster risk reduction process a successful one and by extension building resilience Children and youth are agents of change and should be given the space and modalities to contribute to disaster risk reduction in accordance with legislation national practice and educational curricula The school safety program of the ministry of education places emphasis on youth involvement through one youth advocacy in building community resilience two role of social media and new technologies in disaster risk reduction three children and youth education in building resilience for importance of engaging youth in drr planning processes and five role of youth volunteers in drr building resilience in young people is an important goal if we are to strengthen capacity and promote skills that help to reduce mental health problems one way to foster resilience in young people is through meaningful youth participation that is decision making by young people that involves meaning control and connectedness whilst youth participation may occur in recognition of young people's rights to be involved in all decisions that affect them meaningful participation can itself enhance a young person's sense of connectedness belonging and valued participation and thereby impact on mental health and well-being the ministry of education remains committed in involving the youth and all other stakeholders as we work together to build a more resilient nation and people and so in so doing we have partnered with the national emergency management organization in launching our jingle competition as we as we focus on volcanoes for this jingle and we have brought on board our music curriculum officer along with other music teachers and as we launch this activity we are hoping that in March of 2019 the competition will actually take place then and so it is our pleasure again to have partnered with Nemo in this venture. I thank you without our partners from the ue seismic research center this week of activities would not have been possible and so we have Dr Patricia Joseph a volcanologist with the ue seismic center who will give a few brief remarks thank you very much thank you for your kind comments mr Joseph good morning everyone the uwi seismic research center celebrates earth science week annually in one of the countries that we monitor this year we are pleased to in collaboration with Nemo to celebrate earth science week in st lusher this education and outreach campaign allows us to visit schools and various stakeholders on on island and provide information on new research and on geological hazards that can impact st lusher we hope that the messages the key messages that we present all of this week on earthquake safety and knowing more about your volcano can help raise awareness among the public and that we can encourage bright young minds in st lusher to pursue a career in earth sciences this year's theme as mr Joseph mentioned is earth as inspiration and we believe that st lusher is an ideal island in which to celebrate the steam we look forward to this week's event and hope that we encourage the public to come out as we can all be better prepared and informed for any geological event thank you very much we have a few minutes now if anyone needs any clarification on the activities planned for this week we'll open the floor now to any questions okay thank you i guess mrs joseph was very clear on what's happening this week we'd like to thank the media houses that came out this morning for our media launch we're very thankful to our specially invited guests who came to celebrate our opening of earth science week and we're especially grateful to our partners from ue seismic research center who came all the way from trinidad to observe earth science week with us thank you very much to the staff of nimo i know it has been two weeks of um yes and especially creasy i know we've put a lot a lot of pressure on you and we're very grateful for your assistance we look forward to the participation of everyone here um in the activities for this week we hope that we see you at the community meetings and we hope that we have coverage from the media especially at our school functions and our fair on friday we have a number of partners we have a number of exciting things that we're expecting on friday promotions from different companies and so on so we hope that we have um assistance from the media in promoting our fair on friday


Welcome to All Hands Update, I'm Penny Officer Jessica Bedwell. 70 years have passed since the legendary Marines of the 3rd, 4th, and 5th Marine Divisions stormed the Black Volcanic Sands of Iwo Jima, February 19, 1945. When the battle for Iwo Jima was over, 6,821 American troops lay dead as the American flag stood upon the peak of Mount Sarabachi. All Hands' magazine sat down with Wally Kenzig as he told his story of survival on that hostile Pacific Island. I can see it right now in front of me, God, I can just see them, pictures in my mind. The bodies on the beach, never forget it. War is dirty, it's brutal, it's dehumanizing, and that was Iwo Jima.


Today I have the distinct pleasure of speaking with Wajid Bubu from Guyani Metals. You just changed your name, Manganese, just made an announcement, or seven new licenses. Tell us more about these. Well, these seven licenses are very important because we believe that they are on the perimeter of a very distinct geological area, and they contain very high-grade Manganese. Everybody out there, I don't know if you know what the market looks like for Manganese, but tell us more. What's happening with Manganese market right now, Wajid? Well, the Manganese market is predominantly a steel play and a ferro alloy and non-ferro alloy play, but we are specialized in a very small part of the market which caters to the battery industry, and generally speaking, it's called the chemical part of the Manganese market, and that's what we're focusing on right now. Of course, we love batteries at Investor Intel, and some of you may not be familiar with Guyani Metals. Can you tell us, just kind of give us an overview about who is Guyani Metals? Well, Guyani is a company that started out as a gold exploration company, and that was years ago, hence the old name, Guyani Gold. Now with the new focus about a year ago, we decided to shift our business and focus on an exponentially growing market, which is the lithium-ion rechargeable battery market, and that's what we're focusing on right now. I noticed you're quite a substantial professional in your own career. Can I ask how they got you to become the president? Well, it's a long story, but the short version of it is that I was an investor, so I started out as an investor in Guyani. I believed in the vision and the strategy of the company, and most importantly, I believe in the leadership of Dwayne Parnam, our chairman and CEO, who has achieved almost $1 billion, above actually $1 billion worth of shareholder value. So that's what attracted me to the company as an investor. And then throughout my conversations with people in charge of the company, mainly Dwayne Parnam, we got to know each other and we got to learn how we can leverage each other's skill sets, and we kind of clicked, and it went on from there. Well, I as an investor love knowing when management has skin in the game, but speaking of management, we saw an appointment with someone we're big fans of here at Investor Intel, Dr. Ian Flint. Could you tell us what he'll be doing for Guyani Metals? We are very excited to have Dr. Ian Flint on board with us, and I'm sure your viewers know Dr. Flint from previous appearances on the show. He's a renowned expert in the metallurgical field in Canada, and most importantly, he's been focusing on battery grade metals for the past few years. So we believe he adds a tremendous value to our team, and he will guide our decision making process when it comes to getting to the right level of grade and properties that are required for the battery industry. So we're very excited to be working with Dr. Flint. So we've just had a name change, seven new licenses. Dr. Flint has joined your team. What should we anticipate in the next couple of quarters? Well, the company is working on multiple fronts at the same time. So we have a process, we have a plan, we're executing systematically. Right now we're completing our regional mapping and sampling program. It's going to be followed by a drill program based on the data that we get from the initial phase, and we're also talking to equipment manufacturers and trying to estimate what would it take to get this project online into production. We're also talking to multiple potential partners for joint venture agreement, whether to develop the existing properties or additional properties that we have in the pipeline. Well, we really appreciate you coming down today. Thank you so much. My pleasure. Thank you.


The most important nonverbal I think that cannot be understated in this and we see it all the time and it's why we do video work is too much positive body language. Now on this podcast it's going to be a little bit difficult for us to go through this but this is going to be on YouTube as well. So the first the front half of me is positive body language. If I was shoulder to shoulder with AJ then we would be neutral to each other and then if I turned my back to AJ that is negative body language. Agreeable people who are looking for attention, approval and acceptance tend to go full positive to everyone they speak to to such a high degree that it puts too much pressure on the person that they're speaking to. This makes the other person feel have some anxiety get on them they're feeling tension and pressure in order to perform and entertain this person they're speaking to and so for them it will be easier to opt out of this conversation than to stay in it. So imagine your Iron Man with that that magical nuclear power driven heart and that beam coming from your chest is just shining directly on the other person non-stop. That's a lot. And at first it sounds well why wouldn't I why wouldn't I want to give the other person attention why wouldn't I want to show them that I'm interested in them why wouldn't I want them to know that I'm listening but as Johnny said we again are putting all of our focus on the other person we're shining this beam straight from our chest at the other person and all it does is actually repel the other person it makes them uncomfortable it's too much of a need to please the other person non-verbally. So we talked about shrinking making yourself smaller we've talked about fully facing someone the other one that we see a lot of on our video work in X Factor Accelerator is avoidance of eye contact. So you'll find yourself unable to look people in the eye for fear of judgment for fear of being found out or maybe just general discomfort. But again what that is signifying not only a lack of confidence but it's signifying that your needs are not that important you doesn't matter where you're looking like you're just happy to be there you know it's it's making yourself small in non-verbal ways that send a signal of a lack of confidence and actually elevates the status of everyone around you to your own detriment. I think the last one I just want to throw in there is when you're in the context of this communication when you're speaking to somebody that you're interested in or you want to prove love or that you like the other part is we have the full positive body language and then we have the eye contact going on but for the person who is putting the low value person who is giving them all the attention who is giving them all the positive body language it makes it hard for them to then be at their best verbally because they're giving them all their attention the attention and pressure is feeling between the two people and on top of that to get away from that tension of pressure they tend to self soothe so they'll close off and they'll be they'll become insular. Right you'll cross your arms and rub yourself touching yourself as self soothing grabbing your phone and putting your phone in front of you to block you clutching drinks into your chest right holding your drink close to you close to your heart even so another one that I want to point out in we have one client who we we've called him out a couple times on this and he didn't realize it but again he was in such a strong state of being supplicative around everyone just wanting them to like him you actually your vocal tonality changes and it ends everything on an upward trajectory and what ends up happening is you you almost sound like you're asking a question of the other person you sound unsure of yourself you're lacking again in conviction and confidence in what you're saying and in that you're basically allowing the other person's opinions views values needs wants to hold the power in any conversation so paying attention to your behavior patterns in the way that you speak your tonality the way that you carry your body and how you are going about getting this attention approval and acceptance from others by begging for it is one low value behavior pattern that we want to avoid especially when building relationships with people seeking high value people in our life


So who has the microphone? OK. Yeah. Any questions from that side? Any comments? Anyone? Anybody wants? Just talking a little bit. Can we see the same reaction for a human? We can try. I don't know. How much do you act according to rewards? How much do you feel that your behavior is affected by rewards? It depends on the reward. OK, good. So why are you sitting here and you're not just, I don't know, visiting Venice this morning? I could have been a star. You did, OK. Too bad, bad example. Any other place you would like to visit in Italy? Rome. Rome. Why aren't you in Rome now? So I have a punishment that awaits me if I don't. So you're acting on the basis of I could gain something in the long term. I could get punished in the short term, OK. So your behavior is somehow shaped by some high-level notion, OK. Of course, most of human behavior is a highly filtered way of behaving, in which you do things for some reward that might come many years ahead, OK. So this requires a very, very different. So why do you, I don't know, any runners in the room? People who go running. Running. You don't exercise. Any other sportsmen, sportsmen in general? Oh my god. OK. So those of you who do, why do you go running? In a wet morning, Sunday it's raining, it's cold, it's damp. This happens at these latitudes. Why? Make you feel happy, OK. Something very ethereal, makes you feel better. You know that it's better for you, even if you don't experience immediately, right. At some point you get reward in signal from your body.  And then you break the knee, OK. Fine. When you're running, for instance, you also do other things, right, you do. I want to run the node at a certain length and then when I'm running down I feel tired. There are some points where you just have a crisis and you say, OK, let's run until the next heel, let's run until the next sign, OK.  This is also a very interesting thing. So reward and punishment are present in our behavior in ways that are more subtle than just getting a pellet. Anybody has a dog? When you train your dog, assuming you do, to do simple things, like just, I don't know, don't bite my son or like this, right. You do this by combination of very different things. Punishment, small rewards, which might be physical rewards. There's like, you can train about using small bits of food. But also emotional rewards, OK. They matter a lot, OK. So there's a whole spectrum of these things. So human behavior is often very much impacted by rewards in different ways, many different definitions, which might not be just getting money out of the thing, but it's more motivational, getting pleasure, et cetera. So it's a large spectrum. But rewards are there. Yeah, that's a very interesting question. It's somewhat diverging from what we're going to tackle here, because it's also a problem of behavior with many agents, right, which is something. OK, so I don't want to delve into this. It's a very interesting question we could discuss about this. But it takes us a little bit too far away. So apparently, I would say that the best answer is apparently no reward in the short term, but there might be reward in the long term for this behavior. And this might have a complicated way to be forecast, or might be some sort of a hardwired in our experience of behavior, so again, it's a very layered question. We might get back to this perhaps in the lectures. Sorry, I have a question. Here, I was a little bit skeptical. What is the reward here? Sorry, so can you say it again? But what is the reward here? So getting food is reward, or just disappearing the annoying sound. So in one experiment, it was getting the food. In the other experiment, reward, positive reward. In the other experiment, there was no food. There was just a negative reward. That is a punishment applied at all times. And the action was there to interrupt the punishment, which might be considered as a reward in that case.   Do you think that's correct? And another question is that Paul, just sorry, Paul, who thinks that punishments are just negative rewards? Who thinks that rewards and punishment are totally different things? You can think about it. The good news is that from tomorrow on, we will regard punishments just as negative rewards. So it's a simpler setup. But in psychology, it's not that easy. So that's also a reason for which we don't talk much about learning humans. And we are interested in machines and algorithms, et cetera, because there are many subtleties to human responses. And perhaps sometimes even animal responses that are more difficult to map just into a single real axis in which you get rewards on that hand and punishment on the other end of the axis. But you know, this is not a symmetric example because the reaction rate of this mouse was not the same as the reaction of those. Because it's really reactive faster to stop the voltage. Fair enough. It was not intended to be just the opposite part of it. Fair enough. Another couple of questions, and then we sum up. The second experiment was on the mouse that didn't learn anything before. The first one is on the hungry one. No, these were two entirely different rights. They all look the same. That's a problem with rights. This is not hungry. So it didn't learn anything before. They were two different individuals. They had gone through the same process, being hungry or being satiated, but two different individuals. They had no knowledge. The environment was unfamiliar to them in the same way. It's not the same. That's a good methodological point. Thank you. Just another question over there. OK? So I've perceived the behavior in a different way in base of the setting. Like, the rewards were the same in the case of food. It was the same for both the mouses. But one actually wanted and perceived it as a reward. The other one didn't need it for its end goal that was survival, so didn't search for it. How do we implement this in the machine? OK. That's a very good question. So there are two things, motivation and reward. How are these implemented in machine learning? That's a very good question. We will touch a little bit on to this in the lectures. Just keep the question alive for the moment. There are ways of doing this, of course. There are ways also of inducing attention, which is another behavior which is important. Because if you have motivation but you lack attention, you will not be able to make the associations. So all these things are something. So the basic message here is that there is a continuous flow in and out from animal behavior and animal neuroscience into machine learning and reinforcement learning and operant conditioning. All these things have been permeating the research over the years. So we have to keep in mind that these ideas were long. They are the same ideas that we will use and exploit to construct algorithms that are the same algorithms that AlphaGo uses, eventually, are there from the knowledge of animal behavior since the 20s, 20s to the 40s. Just a couple of quick questions. We have to wrap up lunch. I need my reward. Sorry, without the sector of a pre-construct reward, how the machine could understand what is a reward and what is a punishment? So you have to build that. So that's exactly the point. When you construct a machine which does this kind of job, you have to give an objective. And the machine will gauge this behavior, means saying that it's good or bad, depending on the objective, on how much it performs on that particular scale. If you don't do that, then there will be no tendency to improve on this. We had a question over there. Once I work with DFT, we were trying to minimize energy of a given system. The point is that different potentials work in this goal. So is there any way to measure? OK, it's almost the same thing as they ask. Is any measure of reinforcement or motivation not being punished in a continuous way? Let's say that if we are above a certain level of threshold, there is going to be a better learning. I don't know if it's clear. OK, so I hope I got the question correctly. So the general question I can extract is that, if you modify the way that the rewards are distributed, you can have the same outcome, the same final policy or decision that you want to achieve. And it can be faster or slower depending on how the way that rewards and punishment are distributed. That's certainly true. And it's very important in constructing machines that learn quickly. So that's for sure, and we will discuss this point. I hope this is the thing that we're looking for. Super, very last question. Yes? Can you get the microphone? Sorry. We can keep on discussing offline, but we have to wrap up the thing. It's always measurement between the present and the forward. But it's electrified and present. So it's doing like joint measurements. And we know that puts it, they are strongly correlated. Classic, they're not the same. They're just classically correlated. So it's typically said, change those methods, like put the button on the floor, and put them in single state. In that case, does the mouse learn anything? I'm really surprised, because I never thought about this. That's the first time I think about it. I don't know. Most of what we'll be doing just concerns with classical ideas where everything must be observable or partial observable and correlation rise. I never thought about this. I don't know whether there is any. I'll think about it and give you an answer. So sorry, I don't want to get short, but it's about time. Let me finish by outlining very briefly so what would be the content of future lectures. So we will have four lectures this week and one on Monday, which will be about the theory of reinforcement learning. So we will be discussing simple examples, moderately simple examples of what is reinforcement learning, depending on how good is the representation of the world that you have, how precise is the way of activating your decisions is, and how this all depends. For all this, the basic mathematical tool will be Markov chains. So if you feel that you are not familiar with this subject, there will be a tutorial this afternoon at, Mohamed, 5. Please stand up. You too. Please stand up. These two guys are kindly in charge of giving this tutorial. So please, please, please, if you feel that you are not comfortable with this, it won't be very, very difficult, but I don't have time during my lectures to recapitulate everything. So please, spend some, I don't know, 45, 1 hour, 45 minutes, 1 hour time this afternoon to keep up. And if you still have problems on the way, just let me know. We'll try and catch up with this. Thank you. Then after these five lectures, there will be two practical lectures in which you will see the same algorithms that work in AlphaGo do another more simple task in reinforcement learning. You will have Python codes, examples, coupling deep learning with reinforcement learning to produce this kind of optimization behavior. The two persons in charge of this are Mateo, who just left the room. I was the guy in the corner who talked before, and Alberto, who never entered the room. And we'll show up at some time. So there are two persons we'll just guide you in this. Then we will wrap up everything on Thursday. And on Friday, you will have an exam, which will be theoretical exam. So there will be examples taken from examples that we've been doing during the lectures. There will be slightly modifications thereof. So if you pay attention to what we do during the lectures, you should be OK. Tomorrow, we start with reacting. See you tomorrow.


Hi, my name is Amy C3. I'm a leftist housing advocate and independent data journalist, and I stream on Twitch I want to talk about my latest project though. It is a housing news program on YouTube So the show is broken down into three categories I start with the general housing story I then move to a data portion where we take a closer look at the data that is tied to that housing story and then my favorite Which is the ground game portion and the response by local activists to that issue that was presented in the original housing news story One of the goals of this program is to inform an audience of people who might be interested in joining the fight and being a part of their community taking on a role of leadership joining the DSA meeting going to a tenant union meeting and For me that would be the most rewarding part of this Program as if it did activate people to want to be part of the community movement of empowerment It's very new and very much of work in progress So I'm still working on figuring out the format of these videos But if you're interested in learning more all episodes are available on YouTube housing news with Amy C3 Thank you so much, and I hope you give me a chance


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