For this segment of What's Neat this week, I want to discuss carving foam. I do this every single day, and honest to gosh, I take for granted thinking that everybody knows the tools that you're supposed to or that work well for carving foam, so today we're going to discuss that for a few minutes. I'm working on this layout right now, and I've got a contour and smooth out this hill. And the best way I've found a rough cut is to use this rasp.  So you can get your hand in it, get your knuckles in it, and this is used for the heavy carving. So if I want to take down this hill, which I need to do and smooth it out, then I'll take this rasp and it takes out very large sections of foam all at once, so I can make everything match up the way it's supposed to. Then in order to do the final carving on a scene like this after I get it all smooth, is to take a Stanley small handheld shore form planer, and what this is great for is doing is smoothing contours, it's really nice to blend in scenery, and it's fast. I buy these about one every two to three months because once they get dull they really slow down, but now this one's sharp and it works good. When I'm doing my main carving on a scene, and that's after I've stacked up brand new foam and I'm ready to carve it, I always like to use these pruning saws. These are my main tools for carving foam, the pruning saws, I've got two different sizes here. I like to attach them to a very sturdy handle, and these are great for doing very quick carving, which I need to do on this hill right here. I want to take out large segments at a time, you don't have a lot of waste that way. Look at how nice that works, and then I'll go over that with the final smoothing, and then we can get the hills to blend together. Eventually this is just going to be one smooth hill with constant gradients throughout. Now I'm going to talk about some other tools that we use for carving foam. This is a hot wire cutter, I got these from Walther's, they sell them in a set of two, so you get two different sizes, a 6 inch and a 12 inch. I don't really use them for carving scenery, but for doing really heavy carving on foam these work good because they work very quickly, you get a lot of smoke, and it gives you a hard skin after you're done using it. So this is a useful tool in the event that you want to cut foam and you don't want to use the jigsaw. I really like the jigsaw the best because it works for me, but you can really create it with something like this and do some major fast cutting. That's one type of hot wire cutter. There's another cutter that I really like, and that's a small hot wire cutter, and what this is good for is as soon as you hit the button, she heats up really quick. The other day I was installing a trestle on a foam diorama. In order to make the final good cuts, I use this tool. It's a lot slower, but it's very precise. So it allows me to get in and make the cuts, for example, when I was putting the trestle, and it works really good for that. Very small detail cutter, comes with a couple different size tips, shapes, so you can do things that you couldn't ordinarily do. Another good example of using this is when I make my cuts into the sides of the diorama for installing electronics, so that everything is just the right dimensions for the plexiglass to go in with the switches on it. So, something I wanted to cover, there's another thing that I do when I'm doing major carving, where I've got lots of foam to carve. I pull out the electric battery-powered chainsaw, and I use that and just cut right through foam very quickly with that, or do the end, the tip, and just do rough cutting with the tip. Multiple tools to use that would be good for you to look into getting for yourself to make the job a lot easier, no blisters on the fingers. It just makes it all better. So that's the tip for this month's What's Neat This Week Carving Foam. Hang on, I'm doing a lot of major work to the layout right now. I'm making a lot of changes, ripping up track.  And if you'll remember in the old days, just 15 to 20 years ago, we would use a level, and we'd take the longest level we could find, and we'd run it up the wall and draw our straight lines the best we could. And what I'm using now, as you can see on the wall, is a red laser. And I've got it set up right now at just under a 1% grade, so I can raise some narrow-gauge track up over the top of my switch yard over here. And what's interesting about this is the fact that with this straight laser, this is not a very expensive tool. I think I picked this up from Sears a few years back, and I want to say it was $50, maybe $75, it wasn't very much money. And these things are worth their weight in gold, just for drawing the straight lines of our bench work along the walls.  But with this laser tool, I've got my grade drawn. All I'm going to do is follow the line with a magic marker and start attaching wood to the walls, and I'm in business. So check out lasers if you haven't done that already. They're magnificent tools for us model railroaders for doing our bench work. There's times when you're sitting there laying in bed saying, oh, what are what Ken Patterson's doing at 3 o'clock in the morning? Well, let me show you something kind of cool I'm working on tonight. I've got a diorama set up outside, and what I'm doing, I'm sitting here working on a photograph in total darkness. I've only got the outside lights on just so I can film this segment of what's neat. But what I'm doing is I've got a flashlight here, and I've wrapped masking tape around it, and I'm recreating a photograph for soundtracks that demonstrates Rule 17. Rule 17 is where the prototype railroads have to dim their headlights when the locomotive is sitting in a siding and or a main line trains coming at the locomotive, and they have the tendency to be able to dim the headlights. And you can easily perform this function by pushing F7 on your throttle to, in fact, dim the headlights on your locomotive as per Rule 17. So I'm doing a photograph tonight to try to illustrate and demonstrate how this works. And also one other tip is you push F5 to turn off the ditch lights because you don't want to blind the other locomotive that's coming at you. So what I've got here is I've set up a scene outside where I've got the Union Pacific locomotive coming right at, sitting on the siding as the Amtrak train is running past. And I took this flashlight with the tape wrapped around the lens like this, and I was able to just direct the headlight of the Amtrak train using this flashlight wrapped in tape so that I could create the effect of the headlight of the Amtrak train being, you know, lit up, brightened up again. And at the same time, the UP train is sitting here with its headlight dimmed. So just kind of a neat thing. And here's how that photograph came out. I've actually shot a couple different takes, and this is the one that looks the best. But just in case you ever ask, I wonder what Ken's doing at 3 o'clock in the morning. This is kind of what's going on. I'm creating good segments just so you can watch during the daytime. So that's that segment. This is all I wanted to discuss on how to do Rule 17. To start this segment of what's neat this week, I want to show you something that's kind of cool. At least it's kind of neat to me. As a lot of you folks know, I modeled where I live. I built a model railroad diorama of my property and where I live here on the bluff of the Mississippi River. And this is a diorama that I've recently torn down because I've torn down a great section of my layout. But this is in fact the area where I modeled. This is where I live. I've got about, I want to say, 12 feet modeled here in HO scale. The bluff is about 150 feet high. It's 450 down in the bottom plane. And it's about 652 right at the top of my neighbor's home on his bluff. You can see that I've modeled my piece of property here. And I relied really heavily on GPS and laser meters to be able to get all the dimensions. And I also relied on Google Earth and plotted this out all on foam and then simply carved it out of the foam, copied the topography, copied the prototype pictures very exact. I had an attorney take me up in a helicopter once for one of my courtroom models and so he flew me past my property and that allowed me to see what it looked like from up in the air. But this is a real accurate description of what it's like to model as what we call one-to-one in HO scale where I'm actually modeling it exactly the way it really is. As closely as I could. And so this is what it looks like outside. Now that I've torn it all down, I'm going to section out my home, keep that section and then put the rest up in the garage and just use it for various photo shoots as time permits. But I just wanted to share this with you. This is a portion of my layout that I've recently taken out and I was really proud of it when I built it. But it takes up so much room on the insides that I'm really happy to have the open shop space now to either build some narrow gauge or to just have enough room to work on two or three projects at the same time. But this is what I wanted to share with this section of what's neat this week, the bluff that I built along the Mississippi River. I've got another great warm day for doing photography and today for this segment of what's neat this week I'm working on this bluff section again. Only today I'm trying to get some era-specific shots. I've got some Missouri Pacific F units which are absolutely perfect for the Missouri Pacific, the old DeSoto mainline that used to run through here. And my father's shot some really neat black and white shots 30 or 40 years ago on the mainline behind my house here. And so I'm just trying to recreate sort of that effect of those photographs today on this diorama. And so far I'm really liking the results. I'll show you this shot that I've got coming up here. But what I really want to talk about today and I've been requested this in the viewer email in the comment section of our video. And that is how do you specifically use the Helicon Focus? And that's a program that I picked up out of the Ukraine out of Russia on the internet and you can subscribe to it yearly or you can buy a lifetime usage license in order to use it. Again it's called Helicon Focus and what I generally do when I use that program is I'm taking my still camera that I use, you know my still digital camera and you focus through the plane. Now what does that mean? What that means is on purpose you want to set up the shot where you focus just on the background trees first or if you've got a great day with clouds and you want those clouds you focus on the background clouds first. But what you do is by focusing backwards and that's how the program works is you've got to start from back here and focus your way forward. So you'll take a picture of the trees focused here then you'll move in another foot or two and focus the point of the bluff and then you'll move in a little further and so on and so forth until you get about six good shots or seven good shots focusing through the whole plane of the shot. So let me walk you through that process. I'll shoot a photograph right now of these units. We'll look at how that came out and then we'll go inside on the computer and we'll enter the photographs into the computer and I'll show you how everything gets sandwiched together and becomes a completely, totally in focus photograph. It's as if you used a pinhole lens only everything is sharp. You don't get that fuzziness that we used to get from those old pinhole lenses that we used to make. Let's go on and I'll show you how this works. Now first I'm going to walk through this photograph and take you through the process real time of actually shooting it. I've done this a number of times on our video in the past but I've only explained it with a little bit of text. So let me put the camera into position and let me go over here and get this shot. I've got my camera set up at its lowest aperture so I'm set up for f22 and I'm going to be shooting quarter second exposures on this because the sun is just right for that. I don't have to do any reflection today because the shot's just right. And what I'm going to do is I'm going to start focusing on the furthest details away on the bluff shot and shoot through the process of six photographs as I do this. So now what I'm doing is I'm setting up my shot the camera's ready to go and I'm focused on the furthest away point. In order to know I'm starting a helicon focus shot I always put my hand in front of the camera so that I can have a point of knowing where the exposures the stacked photographs will be on my chip. So now I'm shooting the photograph focused on the furthest point and I'm actually working my way in looking at the freight cars through the lens and I'm focusing closer and closer. So I've got three shots I'm at four shots and I'm focused right on the number boards right now and then I'm going to focus two more pictures on the foreground bushes I'm right here and now I'm at the bushes closest to the camera and that gives me the shots that I need. So what we're going to do now is we're going to go inside feed these into the computer and I'll show you how quick this process goes it's very simple and very fast. Okay, I've come inside now and I've loaded the chip from the camera into the computer and what I want to do is I want to open up the helicon focus it's called Helicon Focus 6 here on my screen the program opens up and it asks me what file would I like to choose and I want to go to open images here and I'm looking for there they are and there's our Pacific shots we just shot I'm going to pick one, two, three, four, five, six, seven images and I'm going to open them and here's what the shot looks like blurred what I'm saying is this is what the shot looks like where it's out of focus and it's not a very good shot as you can see from this image on the screen right now now what I want to do is I want to simply have I've got all these files uploaded into the system I want to hit the little green button up here called render and now what it's doing is it's taking all the images it's sandwiching them together right before your eyes and then here's our winning shot right here it looks really good if you look through the whole thing this shot came out absolutely in focus and it looks error correct for the location and every bush from the foreground to the background and all the little details are in focus as if we used a pinhole lens so that's essentially how you use Helicon Focus pretty straightforward, pretty simple but it's magic when it comes to improving the quality of your photographs it's just an absolutely wonderful tool so if you're looking for something like this this is what I would suggest Reynolds in the studio and Dirk started a new layout an HO scale layout that runs around his bedroom that's just up the alley who wants to build something that's small enough to fit into one room and you've been working on this layout now for about six months tell us about the progression what have you done? started with the round wall and it just didn't cooperate it just was not working so I went back to the modular design it had to be in a bedroom I live kind of college style in a room and I wanted to run a train around so I also have to consider my door that opens up so that's got to be like a bridge and I just basically took everything out started over from scratch built every module had to measure everything out ran into some design flaws ran into some design problems my back part of the room those modules had to be done first because you can't move them once once you've got them so these two had to be finished first I got my dad to help me putting up some Walther's background scenes on wood put that on the wall but what I had to do in this whole thing was that I can't put something on the wall so whatever I have has to be put on something and then that has to be put on the wall and I have to keep holes and things of that nature small because we do have to sell the house later on you know this almost sounds like a what's neat this week field trip let's go take a look at what Dirk's building in his bedroom size layout New Mexico, Arizona for the desert scene I'm looking to go into a little mountainous region but I don't want giant mountains I just want calm hills the bridge scene is modeled after an area in say New Mexico where you would see a bridge that goes over a dry river bed the micro engineering girders were used we also have the Walther's bridge track which had to be done in two sections the bridge piers themselves are actually made from knock they are made out of paper the scratch built wood around the outside is a protective piece so in case when the water does rise it's going to bring down a lot of debris and that will protect the piers from getting hit the micro engineering bridges also have the micro engineering bridge feet applied to them I have a lift out section in order to gain access to my room I have door hinges underneath on both sides I don't have to use my pins because this is very tight fit all you got to do is put a hand underneath and lift straight up and it comes right out I built the layout I built this one as I do the others as a learning curve to learn the hobby and learn the craft I'm wanting to get to the prototypical stage of it but I can use this also to test equipment as I'm learning the ditch track system I now have that incorporated also so this is my learning area well Dirk this is a pretty nice layout it's just the right size for your room and for testing your equipment so thank you very much for allowing us to intrude and sharing this with us thank you for coming over and let me show it I am Ken Patterson and if you've been watching my Facebook page in the last seven days you've watched me build this diorama used for getting outdoor run-bys on video and the whole purpose of this diorama is a new video that I'm introducing to kenpatterson.com on how to build shelf layouts it's pretty much a design video and a theory on how to go about the design of shelf layouts where I show you how to work a shelf layout into a permanent home layout and then I show you how to work the same shelf layout into a 12 by 5 foot layout that would easily fit into any man's cave in this video we cover all subjects of construction which can be used in any scale but we do it in an HO scale and I happen to be using narrow gauge trains for this video where we cover the topic of building the diorama itself laying the track on the diorama we then go into the wiring the wood finish on the sides we cover the construction of four different types of structures three laser kits, we do a train station then I do show the construction of a freight depot and then I also show the construction of an engine house we also cover building a turntable an operating turntable that you operate by hand but it's fully powered so the trains can go on and off of it so in this video there's a lot of subject matter that's great for the modeler scenery, fake fur all the subjects that are necessary to build a really nice railroad layout are covered in this video so check it out at KenPatterson.com the new shelf layout video is now available for download for this segment of What's Neat we've got Michael Buddy again with something really sweet now usually Mike Buddy is always bringing over an auto rack or something special that he's made and the fact is when you look at art most artists paint on a canvas but we cannot paint on a canvas to speak in that our canvases are 3 inches high at about 35 feet long so what I thought on this would be to actually show one of Mike's entire freight trains that he's weathered and scratch built the auto racks on in its entirety with a little bit of editing to make it interesting so with that let's introduce Mike Buddy and Mike kind of tell us about your train that we're about to see and what you've done to this alright, well yeah this is a model of a dedicated auto parts train like the Ford Fast the Kansas City into Colorado so this represents a train going back to the factory with box cars full of auto parts flat frames full of auto frames and empty auto racks to be loaded up with new vehicles so there's no full loaded auto racks on here it's all parts, cars, full of parts and empty auto racks pretty impressive model man we really appreciate the fact that you share this with us so now let's enjoy that gorgeous run by


Welcome everybody to Unfiltered, Pastor David, welcome. You know, before we get started, Pastor, I want to encourage anybody that has any questions that you'd like for us to answer, possibly answer. Leave your comments in the, in the, in your, in your, your questions in the response or comment section. Because today's question, Pastor, comes from somebody who's been watching. And before we start, I wanted to ask, you were race Catholic, correct? Yes, of course. So your entire life as a young man up until... Up until I was 20. Your race Catholic. So the question is, can Catholics be saved? Well, the answer is yes. All men can be saved. I mean, the bottom line is, is that Jesus died for all and those who come to faith in Christ, obviously they can be saved. I think the problem as it relates to that is that Christ can be hidden in Catholic theology. And that makes it difficult. Because when you begin to examine Catholic theology as it pertains to salvation, the, the official stance of the church as it pertains to coming to faith in Christ and having a relationship with God through him and all of that is kind of, it was not kind of, it's very muddied because Jesus Christ and God the Father and the Holy Spirit are very much presented in many ways as in a very orthodox way. I mean, so the things that, that I learned as a kid going through Catechism and all that God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit, as far as I can remember from Catechism classes and Confirmation classes, I can, I was being pointed to the true Christ. But what happened is it became muddied by, by the theology as it relates to how you're saved. Because in Catholic theology, as I was taught that there's what is called what we call baptismal regeneration, meaning that when an infant is water baptized or being initiated into the salvation experience. And so you have the God, Father and God mother who stand there by proxy proclaiming faith on your behalf in, in general. And, and so you are brought into the, the faith through water baptism. And later on, you receive the other sacraments, you know, communion and confirmation, confirmation being with the Catholic Church basically equates with the, the baptism, the Holy Spirit and all the confirming your walk with the Lord and all of that. It's all muddy because the rituals that, that I was taught in the Catholic Church actually obscured God and didn't, didn't reveal him to me. So Catholics can be saved if they believe in the genuine Christ, meaning the one who not only died on the cross and paid for their sins, but is the only mediator between God and man. If you believe as a Catholic that your good works, your works that are done through your, your penance and, and through the rituals that are observed in the church, the sacraments that are presented to you as, as a means of God's grace and all, and you're saved through observing these regulations, then that obscures what grace actually is because that becomes a works righteousness situation. And on, not only that, but you also have an obscuring of, of others in the church, for example, Mary and in other saints. And what you have is Jesus in actual theology is the one mediator between God and man. Jesus is the only way to the Father. But as a Catholic, you can again be obscured in a relationship because you put the mother of Jesus actually as a co-mediatrix as someone that you would speak to so that she can take your request to the Father. So she becomes a, what they call a co-mediatrix or a co-mediator. And that obscures who Jesus Christ is as the only way to God. And, and I know Catholics can get upset at this, but, but it's factually true. And what happens is you begin to give honor to the mother of Christ rather than full honor to God. And, and God said, I am the Lord, that is my name and my glory. I will give to no one else, neither my praise to graven images.  You only go through Jesus Christ. So with all of that said, can a Catholic be saved? Yeah, if they have a true and genuine faith in God through the grace of God by faith in Jesus Christ. But if they believe that they can be saved because they're received all the sacraments and they go to confession and they attend church in holy days of obligation and observe the various feast days and, and you add all of this works righteousness. No, Paul would say that isn't the way that you're saved. He'd say because you're being saved by works rather than by God. Romans chapter 11 verse six says that very clearly. So can a Catholic be saved? Yes, if they have faith in the true Christ, if they receive Christ as Lord and savior, if they understand the grace of God, it's unmerited favor and that faith in Jesus and he alone saves them. Then of course, all men can be saved if they if they actually believe that. Amen. Pastor, thank you so much for that. Because the question that came in and it looks like some of the responses people were trying to respond to that. So thank you for clarifying that. And once again, if you do have any questions for Pastor David, you can leave them in the response section. I want to invite you guys men. We have our men's barbecue tomorrow evening at 6 30. Unfortunately, we have no more hamburgers, but you can come for the teaching and worship. Invite you guys to come out and join us. And then on Sunday, it's Acts chapter nine, Acts chapter nine, the Acts chapter eight. Acts chapter 26 to 40. Yes, you're fired on fire. Hopefully, I have an evangelist come speak to me, right? Baptized. I can get baptized, but anyways, we look forward to having you guys come out 8 30 and 10 45. Thank you again, Pastor David. Thank you guys. God bless you.


Hey, this is Brett, and this 2018 GMC Sierra 2500 Crew Cab Short Box Denali is stock number 13499Z. I am here at Summit Automotive in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. Your new and used heavy-duty truck headquarters. This 2018 GMC Sierra 2500 Denali has the 6.6-liter Duramax diesel engine. It's the L5P engine, which puts out 445 horsepower. It's paired up with the Allison 6-speed heavy-duty transmission. This truck has been fully-safetyed and inspected by our service shop. Has a fresh oil and filter change. All the fluids have been checked and topped off, and this truck is 100% ready to go. I'm going to go all the way around in this video. Inside underneath, start it up. Take a look under the hood to give you the most accurate representation of the vehicle as possible. Dark, slate, gray, metallic is the color, and I shoot all my videos in 4K. So if you have HD capabilities, turn them on right now, because it is your best way to check out the quality condition options and cleanliness of the truck before seeing it in person.  No dents or dings in there. Cab and doors are all in very nice condition as well. And the front fender is in really nice shape too. If you like the video, you can subscribe to my YouTube channel, which is youtube.com slash Summit Auto. Click the bell notifications and you'll get updates on the videos I do each and every day here at Summit Automotive. This one comes with the very nice 20-inch chromed alloy Denali rims. As Cooper Discover tires on here, these are LT265-60R20s, and they have, I would say, 70-75% of the tread left on them. Frame and underbody is in nice condition. Front fender, once again, no dents or dings. This one does have the HID headlamps, LED running lights. We'll turn all those lights on at the end of the video. Has the factory fog lights, front painted bumper with the Denali package, front bumper parking sensors as well as well as the chrome tow hooks, and the chrome trimmed grille. This one has the true cowl induction hood that is fully functional. I'll show you how that works in just a minute. And the hood is absolutely perfect and see any dents or dings on there. Passenger side front fender is in nice shape as well. And the passenger side front rim, no major scuffs or scrapes on there. Now as you go down this side of this 2018 GMC Sierra 2500, take note of how clean that body is, how reflective and mirror-like that paint is. I take these HD videos so if you are far away or even if you're close by and you just cannot make the trip down, but you're still interested in purchasing the vehicle, you can see the truck, hear the truck, and have confidence in the vehicle that you're looking at before you even get here. So when you do get here, there's absolutely no surprises and you can make a smart and informed buying decision from wherever you're at. If this video helps you make that buying decision, let your salesman know that you saw the video that it was helpful and that Brett sent you. Back rim is absolutely perfect as well and the back tires have just as much tread as the front tires. Frame in underbodies in really nice shape other than by the welds there. A little bit of corrosion, but it's too bad as all the remaining factory exhaust and it's very nice and clean all the way underneath. Lower rockers and cab corners all look very good as well and it does come with the factory chrome step bars. I did want to show you that graphite metallic. It's got a little bit of blue, a little bit of green, grays in there, even a little bit of purple. Cool color. Coming around to the back, our dark slate gray Chevy calls it graphite. Coming around to the back, rear bumpers in great shape. Those have the back of parking sensors, rear bumper steps, full towing package, which includes a receiver hitch, four pin ends, seven pin wiring. And that tailgate is in absolutely perfect condition as well. It does come with the truck's port soft roll up tonneau cover. Didn't see any major rips or tears on there. Has a shock down assist and it comes with a nice bed mat. This one does have LED bed lighting up there. And the box has a little bit of light duty usage, but nothing too bad. That bed mat is in nice shape. Tailgate lifts up nice and easily. So it does have the easy lift assist tailgate. And for full disclosure, this back rim is in excellent condition as well. Down on the rest of the side of the truck, cabin doors all look really good. It does come with the telescopic tomeirs, built-in directional signals, LED side lights, built-in directional signals on the side there as well. They do telescope out like so. They fold in like that.  You get the bucket seats in the front. Both of these seats, I believe, are heated and cooled. Yes, they are. You get the Denali stitched into the headrest. And once again, no rips or tears in there.  You do get tilt and telescopic steering wheel, power windows, locks and mirrors, memory driver's seat. And these mirrors do power fold in. I always like showing both sides so that you know that both sides are working properly. We'll take a quick look at the back seats. They are just as clean as front seats, no rips or tears back here. And it does have the latch child safety system for any child car seats you may have. Fixed glass rear window with the built-in rear defrost. And that headliner is absolutely perfect. These seats do fold up for extra storage. And you get the all-weather floor mats back here. Keeping your carpeting looking like new. Those seats go down like so. Side curtain airbags, inside and bottoms of the doors all look fantastic on this truck. Take a quick look at your VIN sticker, as well as your tire and loading information sticker. Just to get that out of the way. Hop inside, check out the miles, the radio and everything that this truck has to offer on the interior. You can see that this one has an amazing 72,350 miles for how nice this truck is all the way around. That's pretty good mileage for a truck this nice. Digital speedometer, digital instrument cluster. And that instrument cluster is very nice and clean. Comes with the heated leather-wrapped steering wheel. That's in really nice shape as well. Bluetooth and information center controls on the right, cruise controls, heated steering wheel controls, and forward collision morning controls on the left. Just come with the Allison six-speed automatic transmission with the optional tap shift. And this one has the GMC and tele-link system. You get the factory navigation system right there. There's Highway 41, so that is working nicely. Get AM, FM, and Sirius XM radio capabilities on here. You also have your projection manager. We can project your cell phone to the screen and the CD player right there.  That's for your LED side lights, your LED bed lights, and your cargo lamps. Parking sensors, lane departure warning, and your factory exhaust brake. Two USBs, two 12-volt power points, and a 110-volt, 150-watt plug-in. I get a nice little storage area right there. This one does have the wireless cell phone charge pad. And you get dual glove boxes right there. Pass and your side format and seat are in excellent condition. I don't think this truck's ever been smoked in. And the headliner is in fantastic condition. Once again, up here you get map lights. This is for letting you know that this one has the Snowplow prep package. On-star and SOS buttons in the rearview mirror. We'll start it up and take a look under the hood. Also check out all those lights in front. Starts right up. No check engine lights or anything like that. I didn't want to show you that the backup camera is working nicely. There are those LED side lights. They are super bright. And I would personally like to thank you for checking out the video today. And hopefully from this HD video, you've been able to verify the quality condition options. And of course, cleanliness of this truck all the way around inside out. There are those HID headlamps and LED running lights. They are very bright, look really good. Under the hood we have 6.6-liter DeraMax diesel engine. Engine bay is very clean. It runs very smooth. And once again, this truck has been fully safe and inspected by our service shop. Has a fresh oil and filter change while the fluids have been checked and topped off. There's the emission sticker. And this truck is 100% ready to go. So that air comes in the hood right there, goes down the side, right into the air cleaner. That's how that cowl induction hood works. 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Welcome back to Kids Fun Science. My name is Ken. Today's experiment is walking on water. As always, adult supervision is required. What you need for this experiment is a boogie boards, a lake, and a volunteer. The first experiment is just running off the dock with your bare feet and here we go and you can see it comes in right about the end of the boat and the last foot hits in at the end of the ladder and goes straight down from there. It goes about a foot but that's just about the momentum that's taking him that foot sinking the whole entire time. So it's not really walking on water but more force of running off the dock at this point. But he did make it about a foot. It comes in about at the end of the boat with one foot and then maybe the end of the ladder platform with the other and went straight down from there. The reminder that the water is about 50 degrees so it's very very cold. I'll do this in the name of science right so I was able to get my son to do this. So it's pretty cool. So the second experiment we're going to duct tape boogie boards to his feet to see if that's going to help him walk on water. So here we go. He's taken off an attempt and there it goes. It looks like he got a little bit in there so we'll see it in slow motion here and we're going to see where he initially gets in and where he is going to to see if he gets any steps and able to walk on water. So we got him starting up here and he's going to take off and we're going to see if he's going to be able to launch a little bit faster here. So of course we want to do in slow motion so we can see the progress to see how far he goes. Good old duct tape is going to be able to hold anything there. So he got a couple boogie boards. He's taken off into flight not as much momentum as he had otherwise. This time he comes a little bit short. You can see he's about a foot back of the boat so he's starting about a foot farther back and then as we continue to go we can see he's starting to take one, two, maybe about two and a half steps. There's one, see it again, two. He's still up. He hasn't sank. You know he's still going forward and then he starts to pull that half up and the board gets a little bit sucked under and now he's starting to go under but he's passed the platform so it looks like it is having the boogie boards did help. He was able to have a couple different steps there to be able to walk on water pretty impressive. So the water temperature was about 50 degrees Fahrenheit and 10 degrees Celsius. It was pretty cold and so it was a success though. We're able to walk on water using the boogie boards at least two and a half steps so that was a success. So we're going to try it one more time. My son weighed 125 pounds and we're going to see if weight has to do anything with a factor so we're going to try it with myself and I weigh 185 and we'll see if that has anything to do with it. So here I go. Also I am not as brave so I took it off in the warmer water which was about 75 degrees a lot better and so taking off here it's got a little bit more duct tape this time but we don't have any boat to really measure me on how far I'm going to go but I don't think I'm going to go too far here. So as I come off I'm doing pretty good at first and when I hit the water it starts to go under pretty quick because of the weight and then I do the splits which is probably not a good thing for moving forward and everything goes downhill from there. So having a little bit of extra pounds on there doesn't help the theory of walking on water but I hope you enjoyed this video remember to click thumbs up and to subscribe and thanks for watching.


Hi everyone, it's Courtney Act bringing you all the ins and outs of gender terminology. It's so much easier than you think and it's kind of important to how we think about ourselves and others. You shouldn't expect every gender diverse person you meet to be an ambassador for who they are or how they identify. I mean after all we're just trying to get our Starbucks order correct and get on with our lives, right? So it's worth taking some time to school yourself so as not to get an F in common courtesy. So here are some Courtney facts. First things first, gender and sex are two different things. Simply put your gender is about what's between your ears and your sex is about what's between your legs, although it's a little more complex than that.   Gender basically refers to each culture's traditional social roles for men and women. Gender comes in two parts, your gender identity which is how you feel inside and your gender expression which is how you choose to present your gender to the world. Words like man, woman, boy, girl, trans and cis all refer to someone's gender. Now let's get to it. Cis gender is a term you've probably heard a bit more of lately and it describes someone who is not transgender. It comes from the Latin prefix meaning on the same side as. If you're cisgender it just means that your gender matches the sex you're assigned at birth. You have lady parts or boy parts and you're just hunky dory with how that turned out. Transgender, first of all the word is transgender, not transgendered or transgenders. A common mispronunciation but it means that how you feel on the inside doesn't match how you look on the outside. Some trans people might take hormones or undergo surgery to bring their bodies into alignment with their gender identity but not all trans people can or will take those steps.   An intersex person is born with sexual anatomy or chromosomes that doesn't fit the traditional definition of male or female. We used to use the word hermaphrodite to describe intersex people but we don't anymore.  A gender fluid person is someone who doesn't fall into the binary be it the cis concept or the trans concept. They prefer to simply be seen as a person who will choose to live and look in whatever manner they feel is true to themselves. They might look traditionally like a boy or like a girl or somewhere in between or none of the above. Their physical appearance might change too like me. I identify as gender fluid sometimes I'm a boy sometimes I'm a girl and sometimes I'm just me. Now remember with all of these things that it's about respecting and learning about people if someone says that they prefer to be called he or she or they or whatever. Respect that and do it. Do you know how many people I know who use their middle names instead of their first names or reviews to be called Matt instead of Matthew? I mean you'd respect their wishes and address them how they want to be addressed so just do that for everyone. I hope you've enjoyed my little gender 101 and I hope I've answered some questions. If you've got any more ask them down below. Let's start a conversation. Bye.


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TheCube presents KubeCon and CloudNativeCon Europe 2022, brought to you by Red Hat, the CloudNative Computing Foundation and its ecosystem partners. Welcome to Valencia, Spain, and KubeCon, CloudNativeCon Europe 2022. I'm your host, Keith Townsend along with Paul Gillan. And we're going to talk to some amazing folks, but first Paul, do you remember your college days? Of vaguely, a lot of them are lost. I think a lot of minds are lost as well. Well, not really. I got my degree as an adult, so they're not that far of pass. I can remember because I have the student debt to prove it. Along with us today is Kenneth Holste, Systems Administrator at Kent University and Marcel Hilt. Seeing your manager software engineering at Red Hat, you're working in the office of the CTO? That's absolutely correct, yes.  Tell us a little bit about the research that the university does, like what's the end result? Oh wow, that's a good question. So the research we do at university again is very broad. We have bioinformaticians, physicists, people looking at financial data, all kinds of stuff. And the end result can be very varied as well. Very often it's research papers or spin-offs from the university. Yeah, depending on the domain I would say, it depends a lot on... So that sounds like the perfect environment for cloud native, like the infrastructure that's completely flexible, that researchers can come and have a standard way of interacting, each team just uses resources as they would, they're nirvana for cloud native. But somehow, I'm going to guess HPC isn't quite there yet. Yeah, not really, no. So HPC is a bit, let's say, slow into adopting new technologies. And we're definitely seeing some impact from clouds, especially things like containers and Kubernetes. So we're starting to hear these things in the HPC community as well. But I haven't seen a lot of HPC clusters who are really fully cloud native. Not yet at least, maybe this is coming. And if I'm walking around here at KubeCon, I can definitely, I'm being convinced that it's coming. So whether we like it or not, we're probably going to have to start worrying about stuff like this. But we're still, let's say, the most prominent technologies are still things like MPI, which has been there for 20, 30 years. The Fortran programming language is still the main language. If you're looking at compute time being spent on supercomputers, over half of the time spent is in Fortran code, essentially. So either the application itself, where the simulations are being done, is implemented in Fortran, or the libraries that you're talking to from Python, for example, for doing heavy-duty computations. That backend library is implemented in Fortran. So if you take all of that into account, easily over half of the time is spent in Fortran code. So is this because the libraries don't migrate easily to distributed, to out environment? Well, it's multiple things. So first of all, Fortran is very well suited for implementing these type of things. Right. We haven't really seen a better alternative, maybe. And also it will be a huge effort to re-implement that same functionality in a newer language. So the use case has to be very convincing. It has to be a very good reason why you would move away from Fortran. And at least the HPC community hasn't seen that reason yet. So in theory, right now we're talking about the theory and then what it takes to get to the future. In theory, I can take that Fortran code, put it in a compiler that runs in a container. Yeah, of course, yeah. Why isn't it that simple? I guess because traditionally HPC is very slow at adopting new stuff. So I'm not saying there isn't a reason that we should start looking at these things. Flexibility is a very important one. For a lot of researchers, their compute needs are very peaky. So they're doing research, they have an idea, they want to run lots of simulations, get the results, but then they're silent for a long time, writing the paper or thinking about what they can learn from the results. So there's lots of peaks and that's a very good fit for a cloud environment. I guess at the scale of university, you have enough diversity in users that all those peaks will never fall at the same time.  But this bursty thing, yeah, I guess we're seeing that more and more. So Marcel, talk to us about redhead needing to service these types of end users. That can be on both ends. I imagine that you have some people still writing the Fortran, you have some people that's asking for objects-based storage. Where's Fortran, I'm sorry, not Fortran, but where is redhead in providing the underlay and the capabilities for the HPC and AI community? Yeah, so I think if you look at the user base that we're looking at, it's on this spectrum from development to production. So putting AI workloads into production, it's an interesting challenge and it's easier to solve and it has been solved to some extent than the development cycle. So what we're looking at in Canvas domain is it's more like the end user, the data scientist developing code and doing his experiments, putting them into production is that's where containers live and thrive.  So the software development and the SRE, the ops part, done. But how do I get the data scientist into this cloud-native age where he's not developing on his laptop or in a machine where he SSHs into and then does some stuff there and then some Swiss admin comes and needs to tweak it because it's running out of memory or whatnot. But how do we take him and make him, well, and provide him an environment that is good enough to work in the browser and with an IDE where the workload of doing the computation and the experimentation is repeatable so that the environment is always the same, it's reliable so it's always up and running, it doesn't consume resources although it's up and running where the supply chain and the configuration of the modules that are brought into the system are also reliable. So all these problems that we solved in the traditional software development world now have to transition into the data science and HPC world where the problems are similar but yet different so it's more or less also a huge educational problem and transitioning the tools over into that. Is this mostly a technical issue or is this a cultural issue? I mean, are HPC workloads that different from more conventional OLTP workloads that they would not adapt well to a distributed containerized environment? I think it's both. So on one hand it's the cultural issue because you have two different communities, everybody is reinventing the wheel, everybody is some sort of siloed so they think what we've done for 30 years now there's no need to change it and that's what thrives and here at KubeCon where you have different communities coming together, okay this is how you solve the problem, maybe this applies also to our problem but it's also the tooling which is bound to a machine which is bound to an HPC computer which is architecturally different than a distributed environment where you treat your containers as cattle and as something that you can replace, right? And the HPC community usually builds up huge machines and these are like the gray machines so it's also a technical bit of moving it to this age. So the massively parallel nature of HPC workloads you're saying Kubernetes has not yet been adapted No I think that the parallelism works great it's just a matter of moving that out from an HPC computer into the scale out factor of a Kubernetes cloud that elastically scales out whereas the traditional HPC computer I think and Kenneth can correct me here is more like I have this massive computer with one million cores or whatnot and now use it and I can use my time slice there, book my time slice there versus the Kubernetes example or concept is more like I have 1000 cores and I declare something into it and I scale it up and down based on the needs. So Kenneth this is where you talked about the culture part of the changes that need to be happened and quite frankly the computer is a tool it's a tool to get to the answer and if the tool is working if I have 1000 cores on a single HPC thing and you're telling me well I can get to a system with 2000 cores and if you containerize your process and move it over and maybe I'll get to the answer 50% faster maybe I'm not that someone has to make that decision how important is it to get people involved in these types of communities from a researcher because researchers very tight knit community to have these conversations and help that C move happen. I think it's very important that community should let's say the cloud community, HPC research community they should be talking a lot more that should be way more cross-pollination than there is today. I'm actually, I'm happy that I've seen HPC mentioned that Boots and Talks quite often here at KubeCon I wasn't really expecting that and I'm not sure it's my first KubeCon so I don't know but I think that's kind of new that's pretty recent. If you're going to the HPC community conferences there, containers have been there for a couple of years now something like Kubernetes is still a bit new but just this morning there was a keynote by a guy from CERN who was explaining that they're basically slowly moving towards Kubernetes even for their HPC clusters as well and he's seeing that as the future because all the flexibility it gives you and you can basically hide all that from the end user, from the researcher they don't really have to know that they're running on top of Kubernetes they shouldn't care. Like you said to them it's just a tool and they care about the tool works they can get their answers and that's what they want to do how that's actually being done in the background they don't really care. So talk to me about the AI side of the equation because when I talk to people doing AI they're on the other end of the spectrum what are some of the benefits they're seeing from containerization? I think it's the reproducibility of experiments so and data scientists are they're data scientists and they do research so they care about their experiment and maybe they also care about putting the model into production but I think from a geeky perspective they are more interested in finding the next model and finding the next solution so they do an experiment and they're done with it and then maybe it's going to production so how do I repeat that experiment in a year from now so that I can build on top of it and a container I think is the best solution to wrap something with its dependency like freeze it maybe even with the data store it away and then come to it back later and redo the experiment or share the experiment with some of my fellow researchers so that they don't have to go through the process of setting up an equivalent environment on their machines be it a laptop be it a cloud environment so you go to the internet download something doesn't work container works you said something that really intrigues me you know concept I can have a let's say a one terabyte data set have a experiment associated with that take a snapshot of that somehow I don't know how take a snapshot of that and then share it with the rest of the community and then continue my work and then we can stop back and compare notes where we had a maturity in a maturity scale like what are some of the pitfalls or challenges customers should be looking out for I think you actually said it right there how do I snapshot a terabyte of data it's that's that's a terabyte of data it's a terabyte of data and if you snapshot it you have two terabytes of data or you just snapshot the like in Git you do a okay this is currently where we're at so that's where the technology is evolving how do we do source control management for data how do we license data how do we make sure that the data is unbiased et cetera so that's going more into the AI side of things but dealing with data in a declarative way in a containerized way I think that's where currently a lot of innovation is happening what do you mean by dealing with data in a declarative way if I'm saying I run this experiment based on this data set and I'm running this other experiment based on this other data set and I as the researcher don't care where the data is stored I care that the data is accessible and so I might declare this is the process that I put on my data like a data processing pipeline these are the steps that it's going through and eventually it will have gone through this process and I can work with my data pretty much like applying the concept of pipelines to data like you have these data pipelines and now you have Kubeflow pipelines as one solution to it to apply the pipeline concept to well managing your data given the stateless nature of containers is that an impediment to HPC adoption because of the very large data sets that are typically involved I think it is if you have terabytes of data just you have to get it to the place where the computation will happen just uploading that into the cloud is already a challenge if you have the data sitting there on a supercomputer and maybe it was sitting there for two years you probably don't care and typically at a lot of universities the researchers don't necessarily pay for the compute time they use like this is also at least in Gantt that's the case it's centrally funded which means the researchers don't have to worry about the cost they just get access to the supercomputer if they need two terabytes of data they get at space and they can park it on the system for years no problem if they need 200 terabytes of data that's absolutely fine but the university cares about the cost the university cares about the cost but they want to enable the researchers to do the research that they want to do and we always tell researchers don't feel constrained about things like compute power, storage space if you're doing smaller research because you're feeling constrained you have to tell us and we will just expand our storage system and buy a new cluster wonderful to enable your research it's a nice environment to be in I think this might be a Javons paradise problem no you give researchers this capability you might you know you're going to see some amazing things but now that people are snapshotting one, two, three, four, five different versions of one terabytes of data it's a good problem to have and I hope to have you back on theCUBE talking about how Red Hat and Kent have solved those problems thank you so much for joining theCUBE from Valencia, Spain I'm Keith Townsend along with Paul Gillan and you're watching The Cube the leader in high tech coverage


What was the first dabble into testing your product, making sure you guys had something that was worth investing in and spending all your time, you know, obviously so much time and resources. But what was the first step? I'd say the first step. So we started planning in 2018. We sold our first cup of yogurt march of 2022. So this was four years of research, many different business plans. The last business plan that we officially jump started with was a 120 page plan that we presented to the bank or family or community. And so although we didn't officially try the product, we got to try a trial batch about four months before launching. And that trial batch was 14,000 yogurts that we couldn't sell. So we pedaled it around to different opportunities we wanted to connect with.


When my son was in his junior year, he'd always expressed that he wanted to go to college, so I started touring colleges with him and seeing how expensive it was. And as a single mom, you know, I don't have a lot of options. A friend of mine said, you know, Diana, I have this store, I have a smoke shop, I need somebody to come help me put it together. So I said, sure, I'll come work for you part time. Within like a month, he changed his mind. He said, I want to sell the store. And I was like, well, you can't sell the store because I'm working here and I don't want to work for someone else. So can we talk about maybe possibly me buying the store? I emptied up my savings account. I received a small loan from my parents. You know, and customers would come in and they would always ask, do you guys give cannabis here?  Do you have any edibles? This, that. So I started to educate myself on what this beautiful plant did and Lit City was born. Based here in the Columbia Heights neighborhood of Washington, DC, Lit City is part of the district's thriving gifting industry. Nine years ago, the city passed initiative 71, making it legal to possess up to two ounces of marijuana for personal use. The law also created a loophole allowing stores to gift their customers small amounts of weed, as long as they also buy another item, often at an exorbitant price, such as an 11 word motivational speech for $60 or a $95 Spiderman sticker. We came up with a banging recipe for brownies. We named the brownies Ants College Fund Brownies. So you leave a donation, you take the brownie, and it became such a hit, because I was like, this is my son's college fund brownies, and this is what's going to put my son through college. Four years later, my son did graduate from Clark University and was the Massachusetts. Any store can get into the business of gifting weed, no license required, making DC home to one of the most vibrant cannabis markets in the country. Gifting shops also happen to be majority of black and Latino owned. Since Congress has authority over DC's local affairs, gifting is a way for this city to circumvent a federal rule that prevents it from legalizing the sale of recreational weed, as 21 states have done since 2012. Ironically, this system functions better than most regulated cannabis markets because, other than the gifting gimmick, weed is treated pretty much like any other good that consumers can just walk into a store and buy. Meanwhile, in states like California, recreational marijuana is so heavily regulated that sellers are struggling to turn a profit. And many consumers would rather buy in the black market because prices are so high. So what's the DC government doing with this successful model for recreational weed? Trying to shut it down. I'm Terrence Wright, owner-operator of Mako DC. I also serve as the chairman of the I-71 committee. We're a group of business owners who want to see the district do things right, from a compliant standpoint, from a safety standpoint, and from a product standpoint. Early 2000s, 2002, I started working for myself in the real estate field. 2008, I was indicted on a federal charge. I played guilty to male fraud, abiding in the bed. As I spent my 19 months, I became friends with other guys who played guilty or had cannabis charges.  And when I saw the opportunity here in DC, I went for it. Medical cannabis is legal in DC, but up until recently, the district had an onerous regulatory system that capped the number of dispensaries that were allowed to open. Purveyors also had to pay an $8,000 application fee, which had to be renewed annually at a cost of $16,000. Gifting shops make buying recreational weed so easy and convenient that dispensaries barely had any customers anyway. So the relationship with the police was always good from the start. What happened, unfortunately, was that a shop opened up next to mine. They didn't have their stuff in order. They weren't, I'm assuming, paying taxes. I pay taxes. I pay employee taxes. I have a business license, a certificate of occupancy. So this other business, because they got rated, I was also kind of caught in the crossfire as well.  Everything is done in a discrete manner and they leave and they're happy and they don't have to, you know, announce to the world what they're doing because, you know, it's a personal choice. I have been rated by the police three times. However, I was never prosecuted or reigned or any of that. So I was able to conduct business, you know, open up my shop like the next day or two days later. The U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia has declined to prosecute almost everyone arrested at gifting shops. But a new bill signed by the mayor in January will impose $10,000 fines on any store found gifting and $20,000 if they do it again. These stores can also have their business licenses revoked. The bill will also empower DC to find commercial landlords who rent space to gifting shops. Greg Wimsat and Damien West are the co-owners of Mr. Nice Guys, a gifting shop with four locations in DC. Their stores have been rated six times and they've been arrested and released without charges three times. The trouble often starts with a burglary attempt. The reason why we have bars on these windows, we've actually had it where we get robbed, our security system calls the police. Not only we have broken our store front, we have to deal with the police. Instead of helping us, they agonize us. They'll get a search warrant and take everything. And I'm just coming down here to secure a location. So I opened the door. It was already a cop inside. They dragged me in, tell him, you know, beat it and locked me up. They came in early one morning and they took all of the days worth of merchandise. They took all my CBD products, which was very disheartening because CBD is very expensive. They took cannabis, destroyed the door. Obviously they had to come in. I wasn't going to go ask for my stuff back. I mean, I understood what was going on and I also understood that I am doing business in a gray area. So it was like, you know, just know my place.  I'm like, technically every marijuana entity in the United States is a gray market business because it's federally illegal. You have to do all these little, play these little games with them to be able to operate business. So the police say it's a gray market business, but I'm just as much as a gray market business as the medical business that has a license. If the gifting shops get shut down, will DC residents still be able to get their weed legally or will they go back to buying on the black market? Although the mayor's recently passed law will lift the cap on the number of dispensaries allowed in the district to obtain a medical license, store owners will still face significant red tape. For one thing, applicants will have to prove to the newly created alcoholic beverage and cannabis administration that there's enough consumer demand for marijuana in a particular neighborhood before they can open their doors. The bill also grants the agency the discretion to reinstate a cap after one year. Gifting shops may apply for one of the new licenses, but doing so means taking a big risk. According to the new bill, if their applications are denied, they'll be ordered to shut down within 30 days. Medical dispensaries work really hard to ensure that we are shut down. Grace Reader is the former executive director of the I-71 committee. She says that many DC area residents would never consider patronizing a dispensary. Essentially, they claim the reason they're not doing well is because of these gifting stores. Instead of addressing the root causes of the issue, which is a city like DC with so many federal employees, don't want to register for a government database that says they need medical cannabis, especially when it impacts a security clearance or other things. Unlike gifting shops, anyone who wants to buy from a medical dispensary has to register in a government database, which could create problems for the DC area's 200,000 federal employees. That's really where the gifting stores come in is, you know, there's a lot of people who don't want to say, I use medical cannabis. Federal law technically prohibits medical marijuana users from buying a gun or living in federally assisted public housing. Though, since the passage of I-71, the DC Housing Authority hasn't evicted anyone on these grounds. I fight back for those who don't have a voice. A lot of returning citizens feel like we don't have a voice. Seventy-some percent, the same numbers that reflect from 2014 are in favor of us staying open. So why would you rate us? The fact that council continues to try to write legislation to shut our doors or to enforce is crazy. Imagine that Georgetown student who indulges in cannabis, now she has to go to the 7-11 or a street dealer and she doesn't know what she's getting. Those are the things that I fear. This is the reason I try to keep our doors open. There's a danger that DC will become more like California, where the illicit market for weed is now twice as large as the legal one. Licensing regimes can also be discriminatory, whether intentionally or not. Washington state has granted 558 recreational cannabis licenses and 4% went to black applicants. And when people come into the I-71 stores and they get whether it's Monco or Lit City or whomever, they get their experience. They get what they pay for and that's what you want. You want people to say, hey man, this is dope. This is hot. I feel the energy and when people leave reviews, they talk about the customer service, but they talk about the experience. That gifting experience was great and I think as a whole and as I continue to advocate, that's things I advocate for. Let's take the stigma and stench. It doesn't have to be sterile because it's the culture, it's the earth, it's the apparel, it's music. It's the culture of cannabis. The last thing I want is to close my doors. You know, I don't want to have to submit an application and wait to see what happens and are they going to approve me? You know, and if I do get approved, what does that mean for my store, for my customers? Does that mean that I'm going to have to take people with a medical license to come in here? You know, I have employees that have families to feed. You know, I have to pay rent. I don't want to have to go through all of that. I want to be able to still serve the entire community as I've been serving them till now.


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Hello, and welcome to this week's Wednesday webinar on digital resources. This is Molly Ashoff, and I'm the ESU-8 Digital Learning Coordinator. I'm going to start with resources that are available to you either by ESU-8 or ESU-CC throughout the state. These resources can be found on the ESU-8 webpage. Some of you have already linked them to your home pages and that's wonderful. You come to the ESU-8 landing page that's www.esu8.org and you just scroll down past our picture there to the DL and media resources here. First one I'm going to talk about is the World Book Web. If you just click on that, I've got it pulled up right here. This is what you see. We have all these modules in it. Just as a reminder, I know I've given webinars on this before. The early world of learning, everything is read out loud. For your pre-K, your preschool, your kindergarten, first grade, non-readers yet, you can stick in some earphones, put it on and everything that they mouse over is read to them. So it has a lot of great early language development, reading comprehension, there's games in there. It's great for that. The kids is like your lower elementary encyclopedia. There's also a lot of ideas for science and social studies there. The student and the advanced are the world books online, the two levels. You can decide there's not a cutoff of what students should use which one. They both work the exact same way. But I want to go in and show you how students can create an account and then save their research to that account, which is really valuable, especially if you want to go paperless and you don't want to just print everything when they're doing research. We'll go in here and just start with a search. You can come over here and see what's in the headlines or if you go here, it'll take you into the site. I'm just going to put something into search here. Let's search trees, all right. So I have 1,608 articles, encyclopedia articles on trees. There's maps. There's tables. If I click the More button here, there's the dictionary. There's sounds, images, videos, all of this research has been found for me. So I'm going to look through here and I like this article right here. I think I'm going to check it out. Sounds in here. It can be read to me. I can double-click a word and it'll define it. There's deciduous. It defines it for me. So I like this article and my teacher said, I cannot print my research. I need to save it. So I'm going to come over here to my research and if students haven't created an account, they just go in. They can use an email. That's what I use. They can use just their name. The password can be a number if there's something familiar with them. And so then they log in or create a log in if they haven't done it before. All right. I am going to create a new project called Trees. Now my back end, I'm trying to head to my article, one more. Here's my article. And now that I'm logged in. I want to save it right here under the wheel and I can save it as a PDF. I can also save it to my Google Drive if you're using Google Classroom. That's a great thing. Or I'm going to pick my project and this one was on Trees. Did I not save that? All right. Let's start another one. Now let's go here and see where I put it. Oh, here's new project 13. That's the one I wanted to call Trees. I must have not saved before. Submit that. And if we look, it already exists, there is my article on deciduous trees. I can add notes to it. I can delete it. I can add books. But this is a great easy way for kids to keep their research all in one spot and not have to print and maybe find a lot of articles and then kind of decipher what you're actually going to use when you're doing a research project. So once again, that is in both the World Book Student and World Book Advanced. I'll run through these quick timelines. You can build your own timelines or use the timelines that are created there. Ebooks are primarily nonfiction books that you can use. There's also on the lower elementary pre-K, there's some that actually are interactive and we'll read to them. Discover is science, social studies, it's a little bit of everything. Dramatic learning is a great place to go in and get some readers theater, some little plays, early peoples, social studies. We've got a couple of the modules in Spanish, a couple of them in French. And then down here, we have a science power and a social studies power. These are online science and social studies curriculums. They're already set up, everything, the vocab, the pre-test, all of that is within it. So if you have Chromebooks in your fifth, sixth, seventh grade, these would be excellent for that or any kind of a device. But it's already all in there. You just enroll your students, you build a class, enroll your students and then they can progress at their own pace. All right, it's back to our home page and that was World Book. And I want to click on snap. Snap will help you search everything that I have including the tangible kits and stuff for checkout. But once we get logged in, and if you can't remember your login number, it's your building number, the first digits are and the last digits are your identification number. Password should always be orders unless you've changed it. If you are not sure what your number is, just contact the ESU either myself or Linda Miller Thompson and she can help you find that. So I'm going to sign in. And I know when I sign in, it doesn't take me to the first home page, it takes me to my overdue checked out items. But this is what you should come to. So if I put trees in here, it's going to search everything including if I had a kit on trees or something like that. But I just want to look at Learn360. Learn360 is the streaming videos that we provide for you. And you can do a search, you can search, advance search and be more specific. But I'm just going to pull this my plate. I want to show you what it looks like when you get into a video. Here's the video and it is 27 minutes and 15 seconds long. If I don't want to watch that whole video, I can come over here and it's broken down into segments. Maybe I only want to watch this minute 45 on food and food components to reduce sugar. So then I would just click and queue up that part. I also can come over here and make my own segment. Maybe I just want from two minutes to six minutes and it's not over here segmented that way. I can create my own. Something about this too, I can share it right into Google Classroom. I can email it or I can come up here and get the embed code and put it in my web page or just a link that I can get out to my students. As long as they're in school, it's IP recognized so they wouldn't have to log in or anything. If you send them the embed code or the link, they would get right to this video. If you've got special needs students, you can print a transcript so they can highlight as they're watching or you could highlight the important things for them. All right, the other thing I wanted to show you, I have created a hyper doc right here with digital resources. So if you go to this Google shortener right here, this go.gl backslash gm3v uppercase w uppercase t it is case sensitive. That will take you to this document. All right, you can get snap here, see those. But I have also kind of broke this out. A lot of this is the world book or the learn 360 but it's broke out by grade level. So you can check those out, those are all links. And then I've broken up some digital resources into curricular areas. These are cross curricular, a little bit for everyone. If you haven't used the teaching channel, that's excellent. Nebraska Access is an amazing resource brought to us by the Nebraska Library Council. And if you are doing research with your students, especially high school students, you really need to be using this. If you want more information on that, there is a webinar previously posted or I'd be happy to come and show your classes how to access Nebraska Access. So we have social studies over here, there's math, language, art, science, all of your content areas should be covered with some sort of digital resource. Check those out and if you ever have any questions, remember you can always get ahold of me by calling the ESU or by emailing me at M-A-S-C-H-O-F-F at ESU8.org.