volatility this week after mixed reports from the U.S. and Chinese governments about trade progress heading into the final stretch of the new of the year. Reuters reporting both sides are asking for more extensive tariff rollbacks as part of a phase one deal. And joining us now is Melissa Armo, founder and owner of the stock solution. So, guys, happy to show Melissa. We are getting pretty darn close to that December 15th tariff deadline. How big of a setback could this be for trade negotiations if we actually reach December 15th and tariffs are implemented? Well, I think it's going to be very interesting because, remember, back in October, they were supposed to implement more tariffs, and then Trump decided to wait on that. As long as these talks continue, I don't think they're going to put the tariffs on. That being said, I think at some point this deal is going to fall through in the phase that it's at right now. Like, they're acting like they're going to ink this deal and sign it soon. I never thought that was going to happen. I didn't think that was going to happen since January. I did not think a deal would get any part of the deal, not only not a complete deal, but the any piece of the deal, which they're talking about, I didn't think would happen in 2019. And there's several reasons that I think that. One, the presidential elections is coming up in 2020. My thoughts are that China may want to wait it out and see if Trump really wins reelection. And number two, right now at this point, as long as China can keep pushing off new tariffs, well, they're going to leave it be as it stands. And so far, the Trump administration has been trying to work and do that. So there's no reason to think that they wouldn't come back for December as well, just like they did in October, as long as they're talking. Even though we do see it drastically impacting the economy in the world's biggest and second biggest economy, China in the U.S. that is. Melissa, how do you trade this, that view that you have? How do you trade that? I think it's very interesting because every time the market is looked like it's going to drop off, it hasn't. I mean, we have made more record-breaking highs in Trump's presidency than any other presidency ever in the history of the United States. And there's no denying that. Whether you like Trump, whether you don't like Trump, I mean, the fact is that you can't deny the strength in the market. The market's getting bought. Now, that's not to say that it's going to keep going up forever. A lot of people, though, have missed this rally because they keep waiting for a pullback. I think there's a possibility, and I'm not saying 100 percent, but I'm saying there's a possibility that we can see a big, one more big move with a big green bar over the high sometime soon. Soon, meaning the next couple of days or the next couple of weeks before the end of the year. And then after that, you might see volatility in the later part of 2019 because of the trade deals, which means we could fall off at that point. But right now, you can't deny the strength in the market. There's no way to short this in profit. OK, well, let's say that President Trump doesn't end up signing a phase one trade deal by the end of the year. And no big trade deal is reached before the 2020 election. How do you avoid the uncertainty that executives are feeling about trade from seeping into uncertainty for the consumer? As we know, the consumer powers this economy. I think the consumer's gotten used to it. You've seen that in a lot of their retail earnings, specifically Target. Target had record-breaking earnings this week. And Target took an example of that. Usually, we're getting into the Black Friday one week from today. Usually, you see a lot of these stores have the biggest part of their year in the second half of the year. But you've seen stores like Target, they had great earnings back earlier in the year. They have great earnings now, again, in the last week. These are the, these Target, Lowe's, Walmart, these are the places that regular everyday Americans shop, not rich people, but just regular everyday Americans that buy stuff. So, again, you say to yourself, OK, well, if people are going out and shopping, then they're not feeling the pinch. They're feeling optimistic. They're feeling, they're happy when they see their 401Ks. Everyone's 401Ks, if you have one, has been increasing just by doing nothing. People are making money as far as a 401K is going, their retirement. So, there's an optimistic attitude. And so, when you look at that, you say, well, the consumers are not feeling the pinch. Even if they paid more for any products or services that have tariffs on already, you're not seeing it in their spending. Melissa, very quickly, a new wave for Nordstrom. Yes or no? The stock up 8% after earnings this morning. I didn't look at that. I was looking at Foot Locker, because Foot Locker is tanking right now. Foot Locker is tanking because it was a feel like it was actually up this morning, a little bit in the pre-market, and then all of a sudden, shoot, it went like a tank. There's a lot of volatility in the retail. Go ahead quickly. Nordstrom is up. However, I would not buy this here today. Looking at this here, it's up. It is up $3 plus from last night, but I wouldn't buy it here today. Nordstrom is one of those ones where it's kind of like, could, could, Nordstrom has to save itself, because it's proceeding, or remember, Nordstrom is luxury, luxury, luxury, luxury. So, this is a different sector compared to the targets of the world. You're better off investing if you want to invest in a stock. We got to leave it there running up against the opening bell. Melissa Armo, founder and owner of the Stock Switch. Always great to see you. Thanks for joining us.


Today's one of our favorite days, Julia. I'm excited. Me too. Let me get us started by saying welcome and thanks for joining us for another Friday of the non-profit show, brought to you by these amazing presenting sponsors that you can see in front of you on the screen. These companies exist for you, for your greater good and to help you move your mission forward in, around and throughout your community. So if you have not checked out these presenting sponsors, do yourself a favor and do that. Not now, but a little bit later. So I know, don't get sidetracked right now. And if you don't know us by now, you absolutely should, but we welcome you back to the non-profit show. Julia Patrick is the CEO of the American Non-profit Academy. Thanks to you, Julia. We have these episodes going strong. And I'm Jarrett Ransom, your non-profit nerd CEO of the Raven Group. And a little insight is, Julie and I are having a team meeting later today to in fact talk about next year. So we hope that you will continue with us on this journey. We're all in this journey together. And maybe we'll find our crystal ball or if you find yours, Julia, bring that to today's meeting. But so thrilled and honored to continue these conversations. Ask and Answered is underwritten by our fundraising academy partner. So thank you, Fundraising Academy for bringing our Fun Friday conversation. And these are questions that come in from you, our viewers in many ways. And we compile these questions and have dedicated one day a week to Ask and Answered. So maybe one of your questions that you've sent in is on our deck today, our show deck. So we'll find out. Well, you know, every day is different and especially our Ask and Answer episode. If you come to us on Monday through Thursday, you're gonna see different things. Friday is really a completely different show setup day. So let's start with Samantha from Huntsville, Alabama. I've been tasked to create a budget for our newish nonprofit. I'm at a loss of how to go about this, help. Help. This is like a week long show answer. It is. And my question is with the newish, right? Because when you file your paperwork, your 1023 application, it actually asks for your budget at that time. So Samantha, if you have not received the budget that was actually submitted with your 1023 application, there's a short form and a long form on these applications. So the difference is $50,000. If you intend to bring in 50,000 or more, then you want to go with the long form. And again, that's a 1023 IRS application. So there should be a budget already forecasted and that's essentially what it is. It's a forecasted budget. Now, I also say build a budget based off of the ideal scenario. So it may not be what you're currently working with. For instance, if you are so newish that the staff is all volunteer run and led, you may not have salaries. You may not have workman's comp. You may not have benefits. But the goal is to have that. And so I always advise any newish nonprofits to create a more realistic budget. What would be a competitive salary if you were to pay your entire team? What would be your ideal expenses, include marketing and printing and networking and professional fees? Cybersecurity. Cybersecurity, which as we learned could be up to maybe more, 20% of your IT budget. So there's a lot to think in there. And what I, again, Samantha, just to recap, what I say is to create a budget that you intend to build not based off of what's in your current checking account. Right. And I would say, Samantha, all too often I see budgets that have been created by a committee or someone like you, that's great. But then they don't dovetail to the chart of accounts or to the actual controller or part-time bookkeeper or CPA and any of that. And so I would suggest, if you're trying to figure out how to do this, find out who that provider is and they should have some templates for you and then make sure that that chart of accounts that you're looking at makes sense. Because if you don't do that, if you don't start outright, you're gonna be in conflict with your accounting provider and then you're gonna be spending a lot more money on trying to get speaking the same language. And so that's just my, my two cents, because, you know, that's good. Yeah. You know. I think that's good luck. It's not an easy thing. And that's why, if nothing else, that's why you need to talk to your accounting provider or bookkeeper or whatever, so that you start out addressing the things, cause they're gonna know, you know, like, well, wait, you forgot about rent or you forgot about, you know, whatever. So yeah. Or a loan or anything that might be out there, other assets. And I think another good point to make to this, Julia, is what we've heard so often throughout these last 18, you know, 24 months is to create a forecasted budget and then visit and review that. Quarterly. So Samantha, you're really creating, you know, a draft and this is meant to be a working document. So don't feel like it has to be, you know, sign sealed and delivered on concrete. It really is something that you should be looking at quarterly, if not monthly. I love that you said that because I think that I'm old school in that. I would have been like, okay, this is a task, get it done, and then it goes on the bookshelf. And that is so not helpful. I mean, it needs, I love that you said that, thank you. You know what? I'm the nerd.  There you are calling me names again that I love to be called. Oh, Lord. Okay, let's see what we've got here. All right, Mallory from what? I see you're making me dizzy. I know, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Mallory from Reno, Nevada. Someone on our team watched a previous episode and your guest said that we should focus on our top 30 donors when thinking about the end of the year. Does this sound right? I think that was Sherry Kwam Taylor. Yeah. Was it? Who said? It was. Said, you know, take your top 30 donors and look at the strategies that should be working for them and they are not gonna be the strategies for everybody else. I remember it was kind of like, whoa, you know what I mean? Yeah. You know, don't try and make it one size fit all, that's all. Well, and I think that's important, especially now if you joined us on the Chitty Chat Chat, we were talking about the end of year and how literally January is days away and talking about that and cannot believe that 2022 is literally around the corner. So during the remainder of this year, if you were to pull your top 30 and then if you find, you know what, there's a couple more there that are really close to that top 30 at those end, maybe an additional five, additional 10, I cannot hurt. And I would definitely make these your high touch constituents that you want to reach out to personal phone call, handwritten note, go back to your donor database, see how you have engaged and interacted with these top donors. So Mallory, if you can pull that from your system, be it Bloomerang or another donor database, you would be able to see if they've given so far this year, and then see how that compares to the previous couple of years, I typically say three years, so go back three years, see how they're giving this year compares to the previous and maybe with that personal high touch, you might be able to get these donors to come in again at a higher level before the end of the year. So top 30, that would be ideal. And I do agree, I think it was Sherry Quam-Taylor. So as a fundraising professional and somebody that's in the ecosystem of looking at a lot of nonprofits, do you think that this is a common practice that nonprofits are looking at that top and pick a number, top 20, top 30, top 50, I mean, that they have segmented enough or is this more of a newer approach? You know, I'm going to say it's a newer approach. I wish that it was something that was top of mind. You know, it's kind of that whole 80, 20 role that 20% of your donor database will actually give 80% of your funding.  So that is an acronym that states last year, but unfortunately not this. So you know, that's a lot of words to say. So we call it a libut. So if you pull the libut Mallory, you will see all of those individuals that gave last year but have not given this year, right? So last year, but unfortunately not this, that is your lowest hanging fruit. And it could be a dollar, it could be a million dollars, but right now you want to pull that libut through, to compare 12 months to 12 months and see when did they give last year, has that time already passed this year? And if it has, definitely reach out to them if you have year in giving appeals going out and you know that that's how they gave last year, I would recommend making a touch to these individuals an email, a phone call, a handwritten note so that again, they are kind of like, friendly tapped that, oh yeah, I did give to them last year and I do need to give to them again this year. So two things, I love that you, I remember you talking about libut, you had Cybut? Yeah, good job. Okay, Cybut, but I can remember the word but I can't remember what it meant. Some year, so it's some year, at some point they have given to your organization but not this year. So it's the same S-Y-B-U-N-T, so some year, but unfortunately not this. So it's some year, they were a donor and they did make a contribution, a financial contribution to your organization but not this year. So you could pull that for any year you want, Julia. You could pull it, I always recommend three, again, those three years, wanna go back five, that's totally fine too. You could do historical data all the way back to whatever your donor database shows but I would really focus in between three and five years. Okay, so then number two, since we're gonna be meeting and I'm just a little bit about guests for 2022, I think I'm going to put on the list to get Sherry Quam-Taylor back to talk about actions just for your top 30 donors. 30, yeah, I love it. It's really an interesting concept that I think a lot of our fundraisers or development directors, development teams, no kind of, oh yeah, they're a strong supporter but maybe really looking at this with a different lens I'm fascinated by it. And have your board engaged with these top 30, is there a connection there? Do you go out of your way and provide a gift? That is up in the air. I know there's a lot of organizations that will say, I don't wanna receive anything because I want my money to go specifically towards the bottom line, but there are so many organizations that do send something. In fact, I know Azu will send free tickets. So I was working with my local zoo here and they did that, which was really nice. And so there's a lot of things that are still mission relevant that you might want to consider for your top 30. Super cool. Mallory, thank you for connecting with us because... Great question. Yeah, you've got us thinking of some other things. Okay, well now you know how I feel about these questions. Name withheld from Rochester. Your favorite. Okay, let's see what it says. Can you please explain the process of a consent agenda? I'm supposed to be setting up our board meetings in 2021. Oh, I bet it's 2022. As the newly elected board secretary, and I am not sure what this means. You get the start in. Yeah, consent agenda's actually started more on the municipal side of American government governments because you'd be looking at small town councils or county boards, maybe even school systems where they just have so much to vote on. And so what they do is they kind of put it all into what they call a consent agenda. And so it's all voted on at one time. So what this does is that it frees up the board or the governing body to have more time to be strategic and to discuss things of importance rather than just rubber stamping reports and the like. The deal is this, two things. Just because something gets put on a consent agenda doesn't mean it has to stay there. Your board members can vote to remove it. And that's a very simple task. But more importantly, your board members have to be mature enough and wise enough to understand that their role is a fiduciary and they have legal governance issues to abide by and that they are going to read these agenda, consent agenda items. So to give you an idea, it might be the approval of a contract. It might be the approval of a report. It might be the approval of a certain expense for a certain expense that is moving towards a goal that maybe is a higher amount. Like, so I've seen some groups where any check that was drafted over a certain cash drawer amount, say $10,000, that goes onto the consent agenda. And this is to help avoid the opportunity for fraud. So I mean, there are a lot of different things. What I don't like seeing, Jared, and I don't know what you think, I think the CEO dashboard should not be on the consent agenda. I know a lot of people want to put it there, but my sense of it is, is it should be more front-centered. Yeah, well, I think the other big piece of this is when you use the consent agenda model, it's really important if you are preparing and setting up these board meetings, that you are setting a realistic date to send out your board packet. Because that is where I see misalignment happen too often is that it's literally the day of the meeting or the day before the meeting. We're all busy, right? And so to make sure that you give your board members ample time and the respect that they have time to set aside for this is really important. And I see that all too often in a meeting where they'll say, I didn't get a chance to read prior to the meeting. And so therefore the consent agenda is more or less null and void. And then you spend your time going through the documents then and there, which again, is just not... No, thank you for bringing that. Consent agendas we recommend at the American Nonprofit Academy seven days before the meeting starts, it's a hard deadline. Of course, all your meetings should be already out for 2022. Exactly. If you be working 16 months out dates, 16 months forward, all board meeting dates are listed. Can they be modified yet? But they need to be really, that five needs to be in the ground. And then the hard deadline is seven days. And if something doesn't get into the packet, and again, hopefully you're using portals, digital portals, we still use the word packet. A digital packet. A digital packet, perfect. If it doesn't get on there before that seven days, then two things can happen. It goes onto the regular agenda or it goes onto the next consent agenda. And it will take some training, but that means everybody that is providing data or materials needs to back it up seven days because you're right. Technically, if you're a board member or trustee and you have not read that consent agenda, technically you should not be allowed to vote. Right. And that means that you probably won't have a quorum. I mean, that's a big issue. So, okay. Off my soapbox and onto Marnie from San Antonio, Texas. What do I always say about the ladies in Texas? Oh, the higher the hair, the higher to heaven. The higher the hair, the closer to heaven. That's my, you know, mode here. Hello. Oh, Marnie, we hope you have big hair. If not, I have some great product I can help you with, Marnie. Okay, we're looking at our fund development goals for 2022 and I'm wondering what we should do on the budget spreadsheet. Oh, this is interesting. Is there a standard increase like five or 10% that we should work towards? I want to set a goal that we can achieve. Great question. So actually, when I coach my clients, Marnie, I ask them to set three goals. A good, a better, a best. Your best is your stretch goal. Your good is kind of your break-even. This is where we want to be. So perhaps your good goal could be 5%. 7%, 10% is your stretch. So good, better, and best, right? Five, seven, 10. So that's what I like to coach. And I think it makes it attainable to, you know, achieve celebration. Now we can celebrate at the good goal. Once we've met that, when we exceed that, we of course go to the next level. So I typically set internally, and also when I do strategic planning, three layers of success. And I would say let's start at that 5% at the lowest, and then go up from there. I would also say you really need to analyze your previous data, your historical data. What are your trends saying based off of your previous reports and your financials? And then also what is going on in the economy and, you know, the world at large? So even during the global health pandemic, donations and philanthropy has been on a rise. And we hope that that will continue. Market value is high. We hope that that continues as well. So people have continued their generosity. And again, you know, really looking at, okay, what has your past numbers told you? And then where are you looking to go? And I like to say grow at the same time. But I also have heard Marnie organizations truly doubling their goals, which to me is scary because I don't think that it's truly realistic. And the other thing we want to be very mindful of is our workforce, right? Our people and is it sustainable? So are the processes, practices and procedures that we need to continue and put into place to achieve these greater goals? Do we have the capacity and the resources to do that without burning out and losing our talent? Right. And I think that, you know, I think on Wall Street, the number, like a 5% increase is considered a winner. Right.  That sounds good. And it might seem like how hard can that be? That's only one major gift or whatever. But the reality is I agree with you. I think that can become really tough because we are still in flux. The other thing too, I'm wondering before we move on and maybe Marnie has thought of this or not but in the very first question, I think you mentioned the budget is a living breathing thing. You should be reviewing every month. You should be reevaluating. Would you say the same thing about your fund development goals? I would. And I also coach to say, okay, let's have a 12 year goal. And let's also forecast when funding will be coming in. So for instance, if you- For 12 months? For 12 months, you can go out further if you can but at least 12 months. So for instance, if you're writing a grant and let's say you submit the grant in January and the, you know, the document state that they make the award and the funds will come to you in April, then you can see by way of probability in previous history, you know, okay, we have a really good chance at bringing in this award. Therefore, we are going to, you know, forecast that these dollars, let's say $50,000 will actually come to us in April. So you can start to see a cashflow forecast. And that will also really help. And then of course, if anything else comes up, you know, a lot of funders were very generous during COVID and they said, use the money, however you need it unrestricted as well as we have additional money to give you. So, you know, Marnie, you might be surprised but I would go back and review this regularly, quarterly, monthly, but yeah. So I think, before we move on, I think what I really liked, what I heard you saying is that really don't just like pick a number but do the deeper dive and heavier lift and write out what you anticipate that revenue to be moving forward.  And it should be, I think a practice because otherwise you get to December and you're like, well, we had a crappy year, right?  Where do we need to shake things up or pivot or, you know, look for new opportunities? So. Like some organizations, Julia, you know, they may have pledges on the books and so that is something else to consider is, you know, are we still in a pledge cycle? How many monthly donors do we have? And so I really want to coach you and ask you to identify where will this 5%, 10% increase come from specifically? Maybe your event revenue is decreasing, right? But your major donors are increasing, your monthly donors are increasing. Maybe you have a plan gift in the way. So there's, you know, I really think you should look at this increase and identify where from your revenue streams do you anticipate that money coming from? Okay. So we have time for one more question and we're going to have to go quickly because our... Okay, so name withheld Seattle, Washington. We have an opportunity from an amazing donor to give our small staff holiday bonuses. I am Anna Quandre. Our donor wants to go out and purchase Amazon gift cards. What do you suggest? Very interesting. I know. What do you say, Julia? You know, my first thought is, and I'm probably, I know you're going to say something different, but if I am not mistaken, you need to be thinking about the tax issue because technically, and I don't know the number, I'm not a CPA, shock. But you know, when you do this, this can become taxable income, correct? So you need to be thoughtful about this. And you know, I'm all about living local, but I also think the Amazon piece, it's probably easy to do. I don't know, Jarrett. I do recall that we've talked about these gift cards being taxable and that's definitely something to consider. I always advocate for polling your staff. What would they appreciate? In the past, I've received grocery gift cards. It's nice, but I don't know if it was, again, an accounting nightmare or if those eyes and tees were dotted and crossed. I'm really not sure. So there's a lot to think about here. I think, again, going back to your team, maybe they just wanna have something festive, maybe they wanna a day off, maybe they want an extra 40 holiday. Think about that. Interesting. Well, you know, it's, I love that a donor wants to do this. I mean, I really do. And there's a part of me that says, and this is probably old school, but if a donor comes up and wants to do that, then let that happen. If you can cultivate them in other ways. And so I don't know, I'm kind of in a quandary over this, but I'm thrilled for you and Seattle, Washington. Yeah, because, you know, that's awesome. Hey, before we go, I wanna plug the nonprofit show viewer survey 2021. Look at the sexy QR code. Love it. Please take it. Take out your phone right now, hold it over in the photo mode and camera mode, and then it'll take you right to the survey. No more than three minutes, but we really need to get your feedback. I would love it. Again, Julie and I are meeting today, team meeting to discuss next year, 2022, and would love to build the episodes based off of your interest and your needs. And so yes, please do participate in the survey. It's really fun. We will talk about what we found once we get it done and all the data is analyzed, but literally no more than three minutes. You can do it on your phone. It's super easy. It helps Jared and I so much, along with our producer, Kevin Pace, to figure out, are we delivering a product that really helps you and your nonprofit? So we definitely wanna know how we can serve you. I mean, it's so hard to believe that we're moving forward. Hey, again, I'm Julia Patrick, CEO of the American Nonprofit Academy, been joined today by the nonprofit manager herself, Jared Ransom, CEO of the Raven Group. Again, we wanna thank all of our presenting sponsors. We are gonna be debuting some new sponsors, I think, in November. Exciting, very exciting. Yeah, we're really excited about that. So look for that. And wow, it's been a great week. I really loved the iBailey mini series on cybersecurity. Freak me out, but in a good way. Yeah, I know. I learned a lot. Michael Nugier was fantastic with iBailey, director of cybersecurity. If you have not checked out iBailey's website, please do that. A lot of information. And if you missed any of the episodes, they are recorded and on our archive channels plural. So you can find those and it's worth a listen and it's actually worth a replay. Absolutely, it really, really is. Wow, well, Jared, another great week. I'm so, so pleased that we could be together. And as we like to end every episode, what do we like to say? We hope that you will stay well so you can do well. Have a wonderful restful weekend. We'll see you here on Monday. And happy Halloween. Yeah, happy Halloween. Thanks, everybody.


I'm Deputy Dominguez and I'll be taking you guys for a twinkle. So we are on our way to the top top and that probably wasn't originally the problem. Yeah, the blonde hair, short shoulder. Um, did you guys get physical with each other at this point? No, just verbally arguing that way. You're not going to roll, roll again? No, I don't like that. No, I didn't, I just stacked that there. That's what you do. You live in the same building? No, I like this, the next building. Alright, do you mind if I come in? Yeah, yeah, yeah. So basically, we met with the male party who said he got to a verbal argument with his girlfriend over some stuff in their history and nobody beat anybody up or got physical with anybody. So they just really wanted us to come out and make sure that they didn't get to that level. So I try to do a traffic stop on a coin. In the area, there's a local car wash. So I turn my lights on, the guy pulls over into the car wash and keeps going. So I tap my siren a couple of times and still doesn't stop. He had no idea I was behind. I slid his car and started the car wash. So I'm sitting there like... Still trying to do a traffic stop. So the manager comes over and he says, don't worry, I got you. He lets me go into the car wash. So there's this guy in the car wash and me and we went through the entire car wash with my lights off because this guy had no idea I was behind me. So I got a free car wash. So my worst moment, a gentleman who was a veteran who had a real hard time getting the assistance that he needed, he had called us to try to get some kind of help. He didn't have any food in his house, he didn't have utilities, pay to get food or utilities. He had tried calling all different agencies and these resources but couldn't get any help. So that's also my best moment because I was able to get him the help that he needed. We were able to get him food, different utilities, things like that, resources that could actually help him. I kind of don't want to see somebody in that situation. So we're on our way to a call. One of our traffic units was on a traffic stop and they requested another. They didn't say why or what they needed. So basically our traffic unit had, he had done a traffic stop. The driver had a suspended license so he's going to arrest the driver. The issue that we were having is there was a child in the vehicle so we were trying to figure out who we could get, whether it be RCPI or somebody that the driver requested to take custody of. I'm a cab driver who dropped somebody off at their house and was concerned because he didn't know if she... So we made contact with the resident. She is an older lady. She's a little confused but nothing that says she can't take care of herself. So we'll give him a call and let him know that she's okay. Offer some resources to the resident and hopefully she'll take advantage of that. So we're back at the district. Hope you guys had an interesting day like I did. We got to go on a few calls. Got to see what our protocol is if you crash an agency vehicle. Definitely exciting and glad you guys got to ride along with us. And we'll see you next time. Have a good night.


I also believe there's a difference in fear and being scared. I actually think fear keeps us sharp. Being scared is what paralyzes us. So I do my best not to ever let fear creep over into just being scared and paralyzed, but knowing that that fear is healthy. You cannot get rid of those nerves, or the fear, you can't get rid of them. And they appear for a reason. Because maybe you need to do more work, maybe you're not ready. That fear drives you. You say, without that fear you would not be here today. I don't use the word fear, but I get a very healthy excitement. I still get the butterflies before every speaking engagement. And I'm really prepared for those. This isn't a fear of they're not going to like me or fear of I'm not prepared. I want to do the best I can to serve these people, and I want this to hit the mark. And I still get those butterflies. You get people to voluntarily confront what makes them afraid and what makes them want to avoid then they get better. They don't get less afraid. They get braver.


Good afternoon, guys. Can you hear me? Did you guys enjoy your lunch? That's good. All right, because of the projector situation, I would recommend that people on this side of the room to move to this side, because I have a lot of demo and re-show slides. So I'm not sure if you guys can see them from over there. But it's up to you. All right, so let's get started. My name is Victor Phong. I am not Brian Roche. Brian Roche is actually sitting right there. Somehow the foundation mixed up our names. So I am working from the Dell EMC Dojo. We have two goals from the Dojo. The first goal is to contribute into open source. And the second goal is to evangelize the way that we have learned from pivotal, such as pair programming, test-driven development, and CI-CD, and put that into Dell EMC and try to transform Dell EMC as a whole. So we have a blog. So if you like what you have seen, please go into our blog to check out more articles from us. The URL is dojoblog.emc.com. And also feel free to follow us on Twitter. Our Twitter handle is Dell EMC Dojo. With that, let's get started. All right, so the Rack HD CPI is the first project that the Dell EMC Dojo has worked on. The Dojo was started about a year ago. The first project that we took up is the Rack HD CPI. At that time, we have spent about six weeks in San Francisco to learn from the pivotal team. So we have learned a lot of the methodology that they practice, and we bring that into Cambridge. So the Rack HD CPI was created using pair programming where two engineers are sitting together to solve the same problem at the same time. And test-driven development, which means that we write the test first and write implementation second. And the whole CPI is created using automated continuous integration pipe nine. So you can see that on the bottom. We have a couple of levels of tests. The first level is integration tests. Second level is lifecycle. And the third level is the Bosch acceptance test for both Open2 and SandOS themselves. So what is Bosch? I'm pretty sure that almost all of you will know what is Bosch. So it's a tool designed to deploy Cloud Foundry into different types of infrastructure as a service environment. So it automates the deployment, the health monitoring, upgrading, and scaling, and cleaning up for Bosch releases. It's primarily used to deploy Cloud Foundry and also the data service used by Cloud Foundry. It's CI CD2, and it communicates with the IS layer by this layer called the Cloud Provider Interface. So at this point, I think there many, many Cloud Provider Interface out there. When I first got started, it was just ReCloud Air, ReSphere, OpenStack, and AWS. But now I think we have the addition to Microsoft Azure and also Google Cloud Platform, and I think SoftLayer as well. And of course, the RecHD. So what is RecHD CPI? It enables Bosch to work on bare metal machines. So it makes full use of bare metal machine without virtualization. It can automate the deployment, health monitoring, upgrading, scaling, and cleaning up on top of bare metal machine directly as if it's our VM. So it provides CI CD capability for bare metal machines that wasn't possible in the past. So what are some of the use cases for that? So it allows you to run Bosch release directly on top of bare metal, so it eliminates the virtualization tier. Just take that out, so that is one less thing for you to buy, deploy, maintain, scale, and upgrade. And your Bosch release will work directly on top of real hardware, so that should provide additional performance for you. The second use case is actually more interesting, because Bosch, in a traditional sense, has worked very well on top of the virtualization tier. But using the RecHD CPI, it will allow Bosch to also work on the underlying tier as well. So it actually enables you to create your own software defined data center. So all you have to do is just use Bosch with RecHD to deploy SDN, software-defined network, SDS, software-defined storage, even virtualization tiers such as Resphere or OpenStack. Then it will make everything very easy. It will allow you to create an easy button to deploy, scale, upgrade, and health monitor your data center. So what is RecHD actually? So RecHD is an open-source technology created by EMC code. It is a technology to allow the user to automate hardware management and orchestration. You can make use of RecHD by using its Resphere API. It's just client server. So you would set up a RecHD server in your data center, and then it will be able to monitor and work with your bare metal machines. So that's enough dry talks. Let's look at how this thing actually works. Can you guys see this? So let's say you have a RecHD server set up somewhere. And that is connected to a network into three bare metal machines. As the bare metal machines power up, they will send out pixie signals. And the RecHD server will be able to pick that up. Now, at that point, the RecHD server would store those nodes and metadata into its database. Once that happens, RecHD server is ready to work with those new nodes. So now a user can come in, and he can say, install Ubuntu on node one. And RecHD will be able to do that for the user. And where does Bosch come in? It's the same scenario. So now, let's say the pixie signal is sent out. And the RecHD server has picked up those signals. A user now can come in and say, Bosch init. I'm pretty sure we're all familiar with Bosch init. So that will sell a Bosch director in your infrastructure as a service. And then the Bosch director will be ready at that time. And the user can then say, Bosch upload stem cell. So the stem cell will be uploaded to the Bosch director. And after that, the user can say, upload release. So in this case, we are using Redis as an example. So the Redis release will be uploaded to the Bosch director. And at that time, we are ready for Bosch deploy. So Bosch is going to talk to RecHD and install the stem cell on one of the nodes. And then Bosch is going to deploy whatever release that you want into that node. And if the machine goes down for any reason, Bosch is going to detect that because it's keeping an active agent inside the node. So it's keeping active heartbeat. If the heartbeat goes away, then Bosch is going to assume that the node is done. And it is going to provision a new node for you. So in this case, this is automatic. And it's going to put in the stem cell again and install the version again. So let's say if you need to upgrade to a second version of Redis, you can just do Bosch upload release. And a new version will be uploaded to the Bosch director. And once you do Bosch deploy, then the new version will be installed in the existing node. Awesome. So how do we make use of this for Cloud Foundry? So there are a couple of options in this. The first option, of course, is to run every component in Cloud Foundry in a bare metal machine. But that's, of course, not a very good idea, because you have many smaller components, such as the navigator, the UAA, the Cloud Controller. So if each of those occupies its own machine, then they might not be utilizing the entire machine. So that's probably not a good idea. You could, of course, package all of those jobs into just one big machine. But then you're losing the resource aggregation that you get from a virtual environment.  So that's what we have. So imagine if we have the same scenario as before. You have the RECHD server. At this point, you can do Bosch in it to create a vSphere Bosch Director. Using a vSphere Bosch Director, you can then deploy Cloud Foundry. And using the same vSphere Bosch Director, you can deploy a RECHD Bosch Director. So the RECHD Bosch Director will be able to make use of the RECHD and deploy runtime into those bare metal machines. Now we should probably do a demo. It's because all my infrastructure is stuck behind firewall. So that's why I have to pay a video. I apologize for that. Anyway, so on the top here, you can see that there are two nodes in my environment. The first node, well, both of them have status as available. So now I'm targeting to my vSphere Bosch Director. And then I'm going to show you all the VMs that I'm running inside that Bosch Director. So this is the RECHD Bosch Director. Remember how I said you can use the vSphere Bosch Director to deploy the RECHD Bosch Director? So that was that. And then you have a very simple Cloud Foundry deployment and also the runtime. So now let's continue, clear up this. And we are going to target the RECHD Bosch Director now. Can you guys see this, by the way? OK, good. All right, so we are going to show a VMs for the RECHD environment. At this point, there is no VM at all, because we haven't deployed anything. So now we are ready to deploy something to the bare metal environments. So we are changing the runner from 0 to 1. And we're going to deploy that, just setting the deployment now. So once the deployment is set, we can just do a Bosch deploy. And Bosch is smart enough to figure out that we have changed the number of instances from 0 to 1. So now we are deploying into the bare metal machine that I have. So if you pay attention to the top, you can see that it's running like a reserve node workflow that is just telling RECHD that we are going to make use of this node so no one else can use it. And once that is finished, now we are in a provision node workflow. And you can see that the status now is changed to reserve. And Bosch is going to give the node a CID. And now the node is almost ready for Bosch to use. And now Bosch can just install the jobs into that node. And now the runner is fully running on the bare metal node. And Cloud Foundry can actually make use of it. And create containers on top of that node. And I think very soon we are going to see a CF push. All right, so now we are pushing a demo application into the CF environment. And that is going to be running on top of the bare metal machine. This is just a very simple applications that we roll. It's the dojo-snick game. You can find this in our GitHub. It's just written in Ruby. So it's downloading all of these build packs. And now it's actually running, which means that we can go into the browser to access that node. Cool, so that is the game. And you can see that it's actually running in a bare metal environment. So now what is next? In my talk from Santa Clara, I actually stopped here. But I get something more exciting to show you guys. So since my talk from the last time, there are a lot of new capabilities from Cloud Foundry. So I am going to be running a Minecraft container inside the bare metal environment. So this Minecraft demo is demonstrating a couple of things. The first one is running a Docker container in the bare metal environment. The second one is that it requires TCP routing because Minecraft is not HTTP. So Minecraft uses TCP on a custom port to communicate with its clients. And also, it requires persistence. It's because Minecraft is actually a stateful application that it leads to store its game state into a third party. In this case, it's a network-attached file system, which is EMC Isilon. So is that going to work? Imagine if we have the same environment, but with the introduction to Isilon. So a user can push Minecraft into Cloud Foundry that is going to get into Cloud Foundry. And then Cloud Foundry is going to dedicate that into one of the bare metal nodes. And it's going to be running as a container in one of the nodes. And then the game state is actually going to be stored in Isilon. So that's how it's going to work. And we will see a demo of that. Can you guys see the phones? I apologize for the phone size. Toward the end of the video, it will be bigger. Hold on. I don't know what that is. It's off, actually. Yeah, it's off. Got it. Awesome. All right, so at this point, we're pushing the Minecraft container into CF. And it's no route, no start. So how it works is we have to first push the Docker container into a Docker hub, first, or repository. So at this point, if we look at the number of servers, we have two services. We have Isilon and ScaleIO service. And then we can do a CF-bind service to bind Minecraft to the Isilon instance. I mean, the ScaleIO instance in this case. Sorry about that. And then we would have to tell the TCP router of how to route our application. So notice that it's using port 25565. And that is the default port that Minecraft server is using. So at this point, we are ready to start the Minecraft container. So it's going to create a container very soon. So we have things running now. Running, running, running. All right, so now that it's running, I think we should be ready to use our game client. Oh, we are looking at the number of servers. And now, if you look at the service, it would say that the ScaleIO service is binding to the Minecraft application. And now we can connect to the game client and give it the CF route. And that is going to talk directly into the Cloud Foundry deployment, which actually have the container running in a bare-meadow machine. And then when we get into that state, we would be able to access the game state that was saved previously in ScaleIO. So now, I'm going to demonstrate deleting the application. Actually, we'll go into the container first. OK, so if we type in ls, then we can see that Minecraft is actually pointing to the storage location that is made available by the service broker. And if we go into that directory, we would actually be able to see the game state of Minecraft, which is a bunch of gibberish, of course. But it's a data file. So at this point, we should be ready to delete Minecraft from our deployment. I really want to deploy, delete. Yes, and now Minecraft is gone. So now, if I repush the same container and attach that to the same ScaleIO instance, the same world state should exist because the game state is actually persist outside of the application. So now we're doing a CF bind service again to the same instance. And we are remapping the route for TCP. And now, we should be able to start the Minecraft container. All right, once that's started, we can join the server again. And hopefully, the game state should be the same, which is it is. It even store where was I, you know, what was the step that I was in before I delete the server. So now, we would be able to get into Minecraft again and just kind of look at what is stored in the container. All right, so if we go into that directory, we should be able to find the game state again. It's doing ls, and then eventually, we should be able to find that gibberish file, which stores the game state. So all the game state information is stored as binary, of course. And now, we can actually unbind the service and bind it to a different service. So now, we're unbinding from scale.io, right. And then, we can bind the same container with Icelon, which have a different game state and is using a different type of level file system to store the data. And if we stage the application, then very soon, we'll have a working Minecraft again. So it's running, running, running. All right, cool. So now, the container is running. Again, but using Icelon this time. And if we look at the number of services, you can see that the Minecraft applications bind it to the Icelon instance. And we can go into the game client again and connect to the world. And this time, we should say Icelon in the game state. So that's that. So now, going back to this slide. So just to recap, just to recap. So the RECHD-CPI is an open source technology. It was a combined effort between the Cloud Foundry Foundation, Pivotal, and EMC. So if you'd like to try it, you can find it in the Cloud Foundry Incubator repo. It's under Bosch RECHD-CPI release. So the purpose of RECHD-CPI is to bridge between Bosch and bare metal by using RECHD. And it currently supports Ubuntu and SandOS stem cells. And it would enable CI-CD with bare metal machines. And hopefully, one day, it would enable 40 automated data centers. So thank you very much. And feel free to follow us on Trader at Dell EMC Dojo.


As Fox News hosts continue to criticize vaccine mandates as some sort of a liberal authoritarian plot I find it really fascinating how they're all remaining conspicuously silent on the policy instituted by their employer Fox News because believe it or not the vaccine policy at Fox News is even more strict than the one put into place by the Biden administration and the White House actually praised Fox News sarcastically of course for instituting their own version of a vaccine mandate and The company was even called out by a former Fox News host Eric Bowling quote Fox was attacked from the right by a former employee Eric Bowling now on the conservative network Newsmax Bowling said Wednesday night that network leaders are pushing the wrong policies So while Fox hosts bemoan and complain about the liberals who are forcing Americans to get vaccinated They themselves are doing the same thing and that is the textbook definition of hypocrisy He said and Eric Bowling may be wrong about virtually every other issue But when it comes to the hypocrisy of Fox News's hosts, he's absolutely correct here This is hypocritical So why won't Fox hosts condemn their company's policy or even at a minimum address it well finally one of them decided to speak up Tucker Carlson, of course and What he says here is interesting because he doesn't actually condemn Fox News's policy Rather, he chooses to deny that they have a vaccine mandate Altogether this I always get a kick out of Fox News Fox News requires vaccinations for all employees Give me a break Fox News Now to be clear we just have a show on this channel That's it. We don't run the company and we would never presume to speak for the company But as a factual matter what Joe Biden just said is completely untrue. It is a lie Period we can say that with authority since we work here Every day literally alone among big media outlets Fox News defends this country's most basic civil liberties What we used to refer to is the bill of rights To cynical authoritarians like Joe Biden and the ghouls around him like Susan Rice That just can't be genuine They assume the people you see on Fox News must be pretending pretending for money or prestige or ratings or something else But they are wrong. We are not pretending at all. It's real Oh, is that so? Well, then I'm sure you'd have no problem disclosing your vaccination status, right Tucker Yeah, didn't think so. He's not going to do that because then he looks like a gigantic fraud because we all know I know it. You know it. He knows it that he is vaccinated. I'm sure he was vaccinated as soon as he became eligible He's vaccinated But if he tells the truth about his vaccination status, then after fear margarine about the covid-19 vaccines He looks like a fraud to his audience and furthermore It's really hard to believe that Fox News doesn't have the sort of a policy When there's evidence that they have this policy and Fox News themselves They put out this video Where they've celebrated their 25 year anniversary and would you look at that every single person is wearing masks every single person So Tucker knows what he's doing, but I mean he's a propagandist So what he could do is just uh pretend like he is as principled as he is in actuality and he could just say look I'm not vaccinated. We know that that's uh, you know, that's not true But you know, he might not want to do that because perhaps he has an issue with lying I mean, I lie if I'm really cornered or something I lie Oh, okay. Well, then never mind But look, maybe it's the case that checker Carlson hasn't actually gotten vaccinated We don't know because he hasn't disclosed his status yet But in the event he hasn't gotten the vaccine and he actually is walking the walk Well, then uh, here's What his life is like working at Fox News As Justin Bargona of the daily beast explains while fox has boasted that over 90 of its staffers are vaccinated It is not requiring all of its employees to get the shot Instead the company is requiring daily testing for those who refuse to get the jab or haven't revealed their vaccination status So technically you could still work at Fox News and not be vaccinated But if that's the case then you will be subjected to daily COVID-19 tests And let me remind you that that's more strict than the policy put into place by the Biden administration So osha is going to mandate that uh companies with more than 100 employees If they don't require vaccines and they subject those employees to weekly COVID-19 testing But Fox News is saying if you're not going to get the vaccination Or you're not going to tell us what your vaccination status is You're going to get tested every single day to continue working here But yet Tucker Carlson hasn't spoken out against that And you know, you can make the case that technically this isn't a real mandate since there is a test out option But Tucker Carlson says that the Biden administration's policy is effectively a vaccine mandate and that it's bad So if that is a vaccine mandate and it's draconian then by his own standards The fox news vaccine mandate or vaccine policy, whatever he wants to call it Is worse. It's orders of magnitude worse. So based on his own standards based on his principles He should be more outraged at the vaccine policy of his employer than the one instituted by the white house But yet he won't condemn fox news and now when he finally addresses it. He just denies He's lying. We know he's lying So the question is if he's really a principled truth teller Why won't he call out his employer if you're as against vaccine mandates as you say you are wouldn't it be logical To condemn your employer It just it doesn't make sense why he won't do this.  He says listen If you truly believe that the vaccines are bad and vaccine mandates are bad, then of course You have no choice. You have to call out your employer.  Take a look I think Tucker Carlson is going to quit fox news Now hear me out, okay Fox news as I've told you is running one of the most destructive disinformation campaigns. I've ever seen It's exacerbating one of the deadliest periods in american history Media matters found the channel pushed claims undermining vaccines 99 of the days in the past six months and the hosts over there are strenuously opposed to vaccine mandates or requirements, right? They let you know every chance they get Joe you canceled all medical freedom today with your broad edict and your mandates when you start diving into private business That's where the rubber hits the road. This is tyranny And it's getting more and more aggressive. This is autocracy It is the beginning of the communist style social credit system These demands are so obviously irrational That forcing you to accept them without complaint is the whole point of the exercise It is a form of sadomasochism. It is dominance and submission It's about power if they can make you take medicine. You don't want or need they've won You are theirs. You belong to them Sadomasochism spicy Tucker would willingly suffer in such submission It's why fox news has been celebrating the very brave resistors in other organizations who have resigned from their jobs Were gotten fired or placed on some kind of leave rather than get the vaccine or be owned They brought on nurses and teachers even an army lieutenant colonel But their newest champion is someone at another cable channel espn a host their name sage steel Who is now suspended from being on air partly for appearing on a podcast and going after her employer for mandating vaccines I think to mandate. I respect everyone's decision. I really do but to mandate it is Sick and it's scary to me in many ways But I have a job a job that I love and frankly a job that I need but again, I love it I just um, I'm not surprised it got to this point, especially with disney. I mean a global Okay, so as you just saw there espn's sage steel had the courage of her convictions She got vaccinated because they required her but then she went and she called out her employer's vaccine mandate even though It got her suspended which naturally made her a hero at fox news I think sage is brave for being willing to say exactly what she thinks. I agree with everything sage said I don't think it makes sense for uh for espn to be mandating the vaccine for employees I think they should be allowing employees to make their choices The irony here again is that none of these people clay travis brine killmeade to tucker carlson have shown that same bravery to call out their own network and their own employer The fox news vaccine requirement is stricter than the one proposed by president joe biden and described as tyranny and creeping communism fox is requiring unvaccinated employees to be tested every day And inside the buildings. I mean just look at this video of the opening of their newsy tc bureau Everyone is wearing masks and are most likely also vaccinated or getting tested every day because that is what their company is mandating Now tucker carlson has been the most vocal anti vaccination voice in american media And unless he just does not actually believe any of the stuff he's saying And it's all just a craven cynical act for ratings while he himself is vexed and people die needlessly by the thousands He might just be highlighting all those other people who showed actual courage As he works up his own courage, you know kind of through osmosis to walk out Because if you truly believe you are suffering under the Sado masochistic heel of a tyrannical employer Even if they are paying you lots and lots of money Even if you don't want people to think you're a total fraud Then you have got to have the guts To call out fox news or resign in protest. There's no other option. It's the only way forward You can do it. Tucker I believe in you Yeah, but he's not going to do that if he really felt as strongly about vaccine mandates as he says he does He would quit he would resign in protest But he's not doing that because tucker carlson is a disingenuous Bad faith actor and he knows his role. He's a propagandist the words that come out of his mouth I don't know how much of it he believes But either way this should prove to everyone that he's a bullshitter But fox's audience doesn't know about the vaccine policy at fox news fox's audience Doesn't know or even probably think about the prospect of tucker carlson himself being vaccinated So while tucker carlson tells them how bad vaccine mandates aren't how bad the vaccine is They're gonna listen meanwhile. He's protected At his place of employment everyone's wearing masks everyone's vaccinated or testing daily He's vaccinated most likely and so, you know, he he'll say one thing But his actions don't line up with his words And that is by definition fraudulent So, uh, it's this is really interesting I don't think this was a good idea for him to address this because it just It makes him look like a bigger fraud than he already did But still I mean, um, I think that this will appease his audience So in the end it's not gonna hurt him or his ratings, but either way if you still Think that tucker carlson is some sort of a brave truth teller you have been duped


Hi and welcome to the session. I am Asha and I am going to help you with the following question which says, prove the following and we have to prove that cot x into cot 2x minus cot 2x into cot 3x minus cot 3x into cot x is equal to 1. So, first let us learn identity 12 of your book which is cot of a plus b is equal to cot a into cot b minus 1 upon cot a plus cot p and by using this identity we can write cot x plus 2x is equal to cot x into cot 2x into cot 2x minus 1 upon cot x plus cot 2x and cot x plus 2x is nothing but cot 3x. So, with the help of this idea we are going to prove the above problem. So, this is our key idea. Let us now start with the solution and the left hand side of the problem is cot x into cot 2x minus cot 2x into cot 3x minus cot 3x into cot x. Now, taking cot 3x common it can further be written as cot x into cot 2x minus cot 3x in the bracket we have cot 2x plus cot x which is further equal to cot x into cot 2x and cot 3x with the help of key idea can be written as cot x into cot 2x minus 1 upon cot x plus cot 2x here we have cot 2x plus cot x. Now, this is common. So, we will cancel it and we have cot x into cot 2x minus on opening the bracket we have cot x into cot 2x plus 1 again these two are opposite signs. So, I am canceling we are left with 1 which is the right hand side of the equation. Hence, we have left hand side is equal to right hand side and that is proved. So, this completes the solution. Hope you enjoyed it. Take care and have a good day.


Hi Julien, I'm Kasia. Welcome to our conference. We're very excited to have you. Julien is from a company called Smartchem. They're doing some very exciting work on organic materials. Would you like to explain briefly what you do and then I'll ask you some technical questions. Smartchem firstly makes high performance organic materials specifically for organic thin-field transistors. So this is technology that was developed originally by Avicia in the late 90s, 2000, and then Smartchem have taken it further and developed some unique molecules and formulations that achieve quite standing performance for organic materials, both in terms of the key metrics of mobility, on-off ratio, threshold voltage, and also by stressability. So we believe that these materials are now ready to be used and make products such as OLED active matrix displays and sensors, and the key attributes really are the low-process temperatures, their solution-processed materials, and they can be integrated into an existing manufacturing process. So there's no big capital expenditure to use these materials. So organic TFTs have been around for some time and commercially they haven't been very successful. Why do you think it is? And do you think you bring something new to the table? Well I think the thing is it's all well and good demonstrating high mobility from these materials. But what you actually have to put together is a package that allows somebody who wants to use some for real to implement them on their processing line. And once you start doing that you find that maybe you didn't have everything nailed. You didn't have the biostressability, you didn't have the usability of materials. So I think it's bringing all of those aspects that you need to kind of integrate to create a usable product. And I think that's what probably distinguishes Smart Chem from maybe some of the headline kind of performance that you see in some of the technical applications. So what is the first market? Well definitely what's been driving initially at the development and some of the specifications was the OLED active matrix displays but that's a very difficult market and we see that there are probably some earlier sort of lower barrier entry points in distributed sensor applications. And how do you see the threat of metal oxides, technologies like Ixo and so on that have a relatively high mobility that can be processed at room temperature or slightly higher temperatures on them? Well yeah I mean Ixo is a threat. I mean there are definitely issues of Ixo around biostressability and I'm sure with some work that will be sorted out. You know one key differentiator is that the organic materials are truly flexible. You know you can withstand very high strain and they won't crack and therefore you can use quite relatively thick plastic substrates which you probably couldn't use right now with the Ixo offerings. Great, well thanks Julian. Thanks for the information.


Can someone please explain to me how the best movie, based off of any DC Comics property to come out in the last 15 years, is DC The League of Super Pets? Now I know what you're probably thinking, Glassfoot, this movie's been out for like four weeks, why are you just now reviewing it? There is no way that DC League of Super Pets is the best DC movie to come out in the last 15 years. I'm not kidding, I'm being 100% serious when I say that DC League of Super Pets is the best movie that DC has produced since The Dark Knight. Of everything DC has released since The Dark Knight, this movie is the best one that they have done. Yes, that includes Zack Snyder's Justice League, that includes Wonder Woman, that includes Shazam, that includes The Man of Steel, this is the best one, and I don't know why. Apparently, DC has decided that all of their creative minds ever, when it comes to their feature movies, and any kind of release of a film, goes into their animation department. The best thing that DC has released within the past 10 years, in my opinion, has been the DC animated movie. Starting with Flashpoint Paradox and then ending with Justice League Doom Apocalypse War. These films had entertaining writing, good character development, and were just overall really enjoyable movies to watch, especially if you were a DC fan who wanted something that was a little more adult-oriented because, oh boy, did the animated movies have a lot of blood and gore. DC has kept that streak up with the League of Super Pets. I do not know why they decided to put all their effort into Super Pets. Seriously, this movie's good, like, I don't get why this movie worked so well. Quick plot summary, I'm going to try to avoid spoilers as much as I can. DC League of Super Pets follows Crypto the Superdog, played by Dwayne Johnson. Crypto is Superman's best friend, he has been with him since he was a puppy, and they got launched off of Krypton together. They have always been there for each other, and to Crypto, Superman is his best friend, and his one duty is to protect Superman. The main conflict of this film actually arises from the fact that Crypto doesn't want to be replaced, and he feels that Lois Lane is potentially going to replace him. So he, while angry at Superman, doesn't hear when Superman gets kidnapped, and as a result has to form the League of Super Pets, which are a group of pets that were at a shelter that got superpowers when a piece of orange kryptonite fell into the shelter because the crazed guinea pig that was also at the same shelter really wanted powers so that she could prove herself to be the best person to Lex Luthor, and super evil. Basically she wanted to take over the world because the guinea pig was, like, saw herself as a scientist dude that wanted to work with Lex. So now Crypto, who does not have his powers for a majority of this film, has to work with these pets who have just gotten these abilities to try and save Superman and then the rest of the Justice League because, of course, she also kidnapped them. And this movie is surprisingly heartwarming. There are multiple points at this film where it actually takes the time to slow down and kind of have this moment of when you love someone, you will do whatever it takes to help them, even if it hurts you in the process. A really good example of this is his backstory, something I don't want to get into super heavily here, but it actually was a very touching moment in the film.  No. The jokes had thought put into them? Yeah, there's some jokes that kind of fall flat, like the whole crypto wearing glasses thing to disguise himself as a normal dog. But honestly, there are a number of jokes that work. Also, this movie's edgy. By which I mean there are cuss words in it.  There are three direct instances where words are bleeped out within the film. I'm presuming to keep the PG rating.  No, I'm not kidding. I was not expecting it and it was very surprising and it threw me off guard. Yeah, the comedy in this film works surprisingly well. There's a lot of like slapstick humor, which I'm personally a sucker for, but surprisingly the movie was very entertaining. This movie isn't just for little kids. I assume this movie is going to be something like a time waster. Something for parents to throw on for their kids to watch while they have like a dinner party or something. But no, this movie is actually good. The storytelling is really well done. Story that revolves around the idea of found family and what you do to protect them and help them. I think really works to this film's advantage at the end of the day and it's just a legitimately entertaining film. It's a very fun ride to go on, especially because these characters are well written. Even the Justice League, which are parody versions of the characters written to make little kids laugh, are done really well. It's clear that the writers of this film have an understanding of who each of these characters are to be able to make fun of them in such a way that no one feels respectful to who the characters are. Obviously there are multiple points where like Batman is the whole I am the dark brooding knight, but he isn't 100% like that and honestly Keanu Reeves' performance as Batman I think did a really good job, especially in this animated movie. Also, I have to give this movie props for using Jessica Cruz Green Lantern. Now, personally I would love to see John Stuart Green Lantern get some love in a freaking movie because he is the best version of Green Lantern. Yes, I'm biased because I grew up watching Justice League and Justice League Unlimited and he's the Green Lantern of that show. No, I will not be taking criticism for that opinion. John Stuart is the best Green Lantern and I dare anyone to try and prove me wrong. But another thing I have to give this movie props for is Wonder Woman's character design. She has muscles. Every version of Wonder Woman that I've ever seen is still traditionally like thin and the muscles don't look big. She doesn't look like she's super strong. The design in this movie actually gave her those muscles. Now it's not like you know Superman broad chest level where like it looks like she goes and does nothing but lift weight every day but it still looks like you know bigger muscles that she logically would have and I give the movie designers props for that. Every character in this film has design elements to them that work for who the character is. Hey, so I've tried to find character designs for a cyborg and for Aquaman in this little segment where I'm talking about character designs. This is the best I could do because their character designs are not readily available very easily on the internet and I don't know why that is. Probably because cyborg looks like this for some reason I do not understand why they gave him a half afro. I think cyborg's design is a little wonky personally but I do actually kind of enjoy it. They made Flash super like thin and skinny which he logically would be. I do think one of my favorite designs is Aquaman. They obviously play on Jason Momoa's Aquaman look from the DC Cinematic Universe but they also gave him his frickin' hook hand from the 90's under the 2000's which I thought is a really neat treat to anyone who's ever read comics from that period. It's really subtle and I thought it was actually pretty cool but at the end of the day if you like DC if you like the super pets especially if you like seeing good kind of jokey parody versions of characters I have to recommend that you go watch DC League of Super Pets. I don't know how I'm giving this recommendation but I am. What has this world come to? Anyway, for me personally DC League of Super Pets rolls an 18. The movie is incredibly solid, super entertaining and if you have little kids or you're an adult who's a fan of DC I would recommend going out to watch this movie and especially if you have little kids who you want to get into comic books or who are comic book fans this movie is absolutely brilliant for them. The performances are great they're extremely well done and really really entertaining especially if you have an idea already established of who these people are and who these characters are.  Now I actually didn't plan on releasing this video because I didn't plan on watching DC Super Pets I was planning on just letting this movie go and maybe when it came to like streaming or something just go ahead and watch it you know just as something to be on the background while I did other stuff. But my friend Craig from the Public Good podcast put me onto this film and told me that I actually had to go see it because it was legitimately good. The fact that it is as good as it is scares me still but if you want to hear his insight on other movies in general with his podcasting friend I'm going to leave a link to the Permanent Good podcast down in the description below please go check it out it's a lot of fun basically it's two guys just chatting about movies that they've watched and giving their personal insight on the two of them seriously you're going to have a good time if you go check it out but if you'd like to follow me on any of my social medias links to all of them are going to be in the description down below but that is all I have for you guys I hope that everyone watching has an absolutely fantastic day but that is all I have for now and until next time peace


Hey everybody, welcome back to the channel today. I'm gonna talk a little bit about a little program called do as now What is do as do as is an alternative to pseudo? so if you don't know what pseudo is I'm really can't help you because I mean Really seriously pseudo is the Program you use in order to run a you up command is root I mean, I guess that's the easiest way to say it But really pseudo is this huge mungus program that is integrated into all Linux systems that controls User permissions, I guess is the way best way to put it Um, and it's very because it is big. It's the configuration file is a huge mungus If that's a word, you know, it's hundreds of lines long Most of those are comments usually but if you get in there and you have to make you say you make a new user something you'll probably have to add Permissions to the pseudo worst file in order to give that user permission to act as root Usually they need root permissions in order to install anything, right? So the problem with that is if you get into that configuration file and you make a mistake You could break something and it's because it's it's this huge program It's this huge configuration file and it's easy to make a mistake and you really could point your system So and that's a technical term boink your system, I'm just I'm just putting that out there So do as is an alternative to pseudo and it's a very small program it's very easy to configure and We won't actually be spending very much time in this video because it's like it's just a really small program Something that you can use, you know, you know as an alternative to pseudo that keeps you from Messing around with that pseudo worst file and it makes it so that if you know if you mess up do as you're not gonna mess up You're not going to boink your system. So let me show you the github page This is the github page for do as now so to install this You really want to be on Arch Linux because the you are awesome. It's in the a you are you just do yay Dash capital S do as Or whatever arch a you are helper you're using if you're using paru or whatever that new thing is called Use that if you're still using pack a you are or whatever if you're on another Linux distribution first of all May God have mercy on your soul I'm still gonna get a lot of help hate for that But if you're on another Linux distribution, you'll probably end up having to make the Do as code yourself just using the make command and all that stuff There are a lot of instructions here on how to install it. You just get clone You can make the package once you have it installed. What do you have to do? So you can't just use it out of the box. You have to create the the Configuration file and it's really fairly easy. So let's just dump into a terminal here Which I already have one open this zoom in so that you can actually see something and we'll just clear this out So what you want me to do is do pseudo touch and then slash Etsy slash do as com now Like I said this file does not exist. So that's why we're touching it And I think it's all I've already done this I'm not going to do it again. And then you just want to do pseudo them Etsy slash do as comp and you'll get probably for your password and Then you'll get this You'll get actually what you'll get is a blank VIM document and You just have to add this to your to the file Obviously you'll need to use your own username. So this is mine. So permit my username as root. That's literally it That's the whole configuration file. You can't mess it up Now if you have other users on your computer, you would You'd get into insert mode create another line you do permit oops, Joe user as root And that's what you do, you know, and if you wanted to use another do not permit Bob user as root. That's all the configuration file. There is now. I'm obviously I don't actually have anybody called Joe user So we'll delete these two lines here and quit out of that and then you just save it And then you can use do as so what is using do as look like so in order to do this I'll need to find a command that actually requires me to Use that actually requires root permissions. So I'm just going to do the same thing. I just did I'm just gonna go do as them slash Etsy Do as comm I actually got a spell it right and then it's going to require password again. Just like pseudo would That's what and then I could go through and make Changes to this read only file which requires root privileges in order to edit. I could also do something like this I could do as Pac-man dash s y y or s y y you if I wanted to actually update And I just do this and do and then it updates just like pseudo would now The one I've only been using this for a little while one thing I will notice the one thing that I did notice about this is that it does not remember That you've entered the password so like in pseudo if you enter your password once in a terminal session It won't expire for 10 15 minutes or something not exactly the most secure thing in the world But it means that you don't have to type your password in over and over again I think that's called persistence with do as you have to enter it each time you use do as now I believe if I remember right there is let's see here Sis persists Maybe not. Maybe I've read this somewhere else Do do do Somewhere here. I was reading We're gonna get past the installation thing Create the configuration fell the configuration do as configuration fell is located here. No, I Don't know if this path here would actually work. I did not I did not install it in Slash local Etsy. I just did it in the Etsy file I'm not sure but it does seem to work. So to create a rule following the users is to do this Please note this shows good for you do as that's not what I'm looking at Somewhere along here. I've read that there is a way to Enable persistence, but maybe it's very the top Okay, I'm back. I cut a whole bunch of like Complete silence out of the video there Had to do a little bit more research so There is a way to make persistence and there is Are several other things that are interesting about do as that I didn't actually know before even before I started the video So I've done a little bit more research so It'll be good because I'll actually make the video a little bit longer because it was only gonna be about five minutes long Now we're gonna make it about ten minutes long anyway So what you're seeing here is the do as dot comp man page now Pat in a alone is a little weird because usually configuration files don't have man pages Usually a command has a man page in this case Do as has both do as you can do man do as and it will show you some stuff and you can do man do as dot comp and you you will get this and the Interesting thing here is there's some things that you can do and and some things that you'll have to do So if you are the type of person who runs a gooey command a gooey program From the command line, you'll have to do a certain thing call keep and and basically this allows you allows do as to Use environment variables and allows them to launch gooey prop applications as Root so you would have to go through and do that you can also go through and use this one here Persist after the user has successfully authenticates do not ask for a password again for some time I don't think I'm looking here. I'm not sure So what I'm going to do actually is go through and Edit mine and see how that persistence works So let's just quit on this and I'm going to do do as and then them that's Enter this here, and then I'm just going to do Permit who persists Matt good Lord cyst per cyst Okay, and then I'm actually go ahead and do Keep and as well You know right and quit this and we can close this now actually I'm going to quit this to it and then just do as and Then do Pac-Man dash s while I do that's because I didn't spell it right There we go That's the works out really well. I don't want to make sure I didn't break it now. Let me see if I can do do as Then Yes, so persists is working that I know I don't know how you can control how long it remembers your password But I'm assuming there's a way Now the last thing I want to try I want to try that keep end part. I want to run a program as administrator like I Don't know This is literally called Lou man manager. Okay oops So if I do do as Blue Man Man, sure. All right, so that keep and actually did not work. I'm probably doing it wrong but That just kind of goes through you there are options So it's not as simple as I was originally making it out to be there are things that you can do to it but if we just do do as Go back into this here again. I was in back in so you can see It's still way simpler than you know Managing a pseudo worse file and that's that's I think the whole point of this so The whole point is to make it simpler so that you don't make mistakes when editing who who has root access to your computer Because if you make a mistake you can either as I said before you can either boink your computer So it doesn't work boink your users so it doesn't work Or you could potentially open up a security Nightmare on your computer where pretty much anyone has root access Say you add every group on your computer to the pseudorist file That means everyone on your computer has complete root access to everybody else's files. That'd be a nightmare It could also, you know Open up root access to some Joe Schmo on the internet who's somehow managed to get access to your network You could literally do anything in the pseudorist file If you don't know what you're doing and it's easy to not know what you're doing because nobody knows what they're doing when it comes To the pseudorist file and that you've used Linux for years and years and years and you've you're always messing around with it Do as is just very simple. It's not hard. It's not easy to mess up It's just just the way it is The last thing I want to actually cover before before I go is how do you remember to use do as because I mean Everyone's probably got pseudo as a muscle memory kind of thing. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to show you how to add a An alias so I'm going to open up my zsh now if you're a Bash user you'd want to open up your bash RC file if you're using fish you want to open up your fish RC fish fish Dot com file, I guess I think it's fish dot com But either way chances are if you've switched to a different shell, you'll know where your configuration file is Mine is a zsh RC file And what I'm going to do is just add an alias here alias and then pseudo equals do as and That's literally all I'm going to do here That's as simple as it gets that's how you would add it You can do the same thing like like I said in bashing fish. It's just an alias and this way when I go through and do Let's put this reopen up a Terminal if I do pseudo It's going to be the same thing. See she says I'm running do as here and I just do I Actually going to have to remember how to enter my password because I'm dumb and that's how you do it very simple and that way you're using do as every time and pseudo isn't being called on your computer now somebody's going to ask Can I remove pseudo from my computer? The answer is probably yes I'm sure there's a way to rip pseudo out of your computer and not have it on there bloated or whatever Don't do that You're gonna come across some application where do as does not work or maybe do as you know gets broken or whatever and You're gonna need pseudo now Do as is great because most recent fairly recently there was a pseudo like security flaw do as probably wouldn't have that But it's good to have both. I think now This is my opinion and there may not even be a way to remove pseudo But I'm sure there is I think you can remove pretty much anything from Linux that you want to use to remove But keep them both just in case you know pseudo doesn't hurt anything You just use do as because it's easier to configure and all that stuff anyways So that is it for this video if you enjoy this video give it a thumbs up if you didn't give it a thumbs down You can support the channel by subscribing Or by hitting the thumbs up or thumbs down button, which I've already told you to do or ask you to do I suppose You can also support the channel by like us liking us on Facebook or following us on Twitter And you can also support the channel by going to patreon.com slash the next guest And thank you for watching. I'll see you the next time


Lutheran Church of Christ Nigeria organized a two-days interactive session with religious leaders in Jimeta Yola in Adama State on religious tolerance, peace and peaceful coexistence. The session tagged religious freedom, human right and peace building were sponsored by Missing Africa and Ain't Attendance, where religious leaders from Jama'at too now release them and leaders from Christian communities. We understand that living together as Christians and Muslims is very important. Therefore, there is need for understanding of the best practices for Christians and Muslims to live together in peace and also to understand what freedom of religion of belief is all about. That is why this program was convened by the Lutheran Church of Christ in Nigeria supported by Missing African. It's very important that we understand the concept of freedom of religion or belief. It is not just about either peace building or curtailing violence or violent conflict that is bordered on religion. It is about making people understand why they should respect the right of others because freedom of religion or belief does not protect any religion. It protects human beings because it is a human right. Therefore, there is need for continuous awareness creation so that people understand the need to respect the rights of other people. The ultimate thing has been achieved, which is ensuring peace, harmonious relationship and prosperity in that community. We have so many forums that we have introduced, largely even today. I assure you, you'll find the Muslims and Christian leaders meeting in a mosque almost on daily basis just to ensure peace. And we don't just meet like that. We meet on general common issues that affects every individual irrespective of who you are, male, female, young or whole. Because it's not only peace. There are other fundamental issues. Let's take for instance the use of road. Who is not using a road? Irrespective of who you are. NEWS UPDATES


So data cloud gives you a way to harmonize your data, bring data from all the different sources stored at one centralized location and get it at 360 degrees views. So this is becoming more important as amount of data companies gather about their customers in pricing. It's becoming even more important to use that data to help them better. So suppose I am your customer, you already know everything about me, then why are you asking? What is your name? You should know by by number. You should know Dinesh is calling, this is this is the product I own from you, right? You should not now in the today's world you cannot ask customer which product have you bought from me, like what is your date of birth or all the information is there in your system. So companies need to use that data to know better about the customers, to help them serve better, recommend more products which are tailored to their needs. So data cloud is going to be next big product and it will create a lot of opportunities


We just need to do three simple things. What would we do that? Me too. Now let's imagine all the things you can do while you wait. You can go cloud surfing, hay riding, gum drop picking. Hold on, hold on. OK, go. Rainbow climbing, bobble blowing, puddle dancing, jump rope jumping, leap frogging with or without a frog, or doing 3,001. So Mack, any of that work for you? Not sure, Izzy. But I made this great list with all these colors and columns. Hey, you know what I like doing? Cloud surfing, yes. No, making lists. Oh, OK. It's to making. I'll need more paper, more pens. Oh, something to list. I can come up with lots and lots of things you can do while waiting for your new human friend. And then you can add them to your list. Yes, let's create the greatest list ever. OK, you can do. Ice cream mining, unicorn riding, bubble bee racing. These simple things. Let's imagine a way to get those stars back into space. Hmm. Escaping the gravitational force of Cloudville will require a huge amount of upward velocity and... A duck. Excuse me. Two ducks? I'm not sure ducks are going to help us. How about a magic elevator?  Or a rocket ship? Right, that's it. We need to build a rocket ship. Yeah! Time to plan. Sure. Why not? Now, let's create our rocket. Maybe we can figure out a way for you to rest and have some fun. With three simple words. Imagine. Love when we do that. OK, let's imagine the most awesome bed ever. But you might need a little something extra. More pillows? More blankets? Uh-uh. More soft toys? Nope. Maybe some hot chocolate? Ooh. With marshmallows? Oh, I could do better than that. How about a whole bed made of marshmallows? Don't worry, Izzy. I got this. Oh, it's time to create. Almost done, Izzy. I created the quietest, coziest, and most marshmallow-iest bed you'd ever want. So what do you think? It's going to take three simple words. OK, let's imagine a way that we can both drive the CloudMobile. We could have two sets of controls. One in the front and one in the back. OK, we'll need an extra steering, doodad. I'll make it move, pedal. A blinker-blanker for turns. And don't forget the ding-ding-dinger. Perfect! Now let's create a shareable CloudMobile. I wish I could paint a flower as well as you bake a bluey. You can't? Yes. Let's imagine all the kinds of flowers we can create. There's the one in the base. Yeah, but would Sonya paint a plain old flower? Probably not. Or simplify it? Many kinds of flowers. Let's plan. And now I shall create my flower. We just need to use three simple words. Let's imagine how we can find our runaway toy chest. I know! A blood-hound that sniffs a telescope that can look everywhere at once. What if we stop trying to find the chest and make it find us instead? Hmm. Think about it. What does a toy chest walking around in bare feet really want in this cold weather? But I'm out of ideas. Socks! His feet must be cold by now. We just have to let him know where he can find some. Great! Now let's create a way to bring that toy chest home. Okay! Let's imagine a way to stop this juice rain. A giant? That'll keep us dry, but it won't stop the flooding. No! How about extra large straws so we can slurp it all up? Nope. Too much juice to drink. I know! A super freezer that turns all the juice rain into juice snow so we can eat it instead. Like a massive snow cone! Urgh! Too cold!  What do we do? What do you do with a bathtub? Splashing it. Play with my proper ducky. Make bubble beards. No. Is he? You drain it. Good idea! A plumbing wrench. Ooh, the adjustable gasket extractor. Ah, the reverse thingamajiggy. Cool! Nice plug!


This programme contains adult themes, mild pain, strong language and scenes some viewers might find offensive. You're taking the piss. You just put shush on my leg. Do you get it? Yeah, I get it. It looks so chubby. Look at it. What is the story behind this tattoo? Why shush? When I'm sharing something with Shari, she likes to tell me to shh. She'll just be like shh shh shh every time I speak to her. And it infuriates me. So I just thought, if I put this back on there, I'm telling her to shh, permanently. It's so bad. That was a brave move from Cameron. But how brave is he gonna be after he sees his tattoo? Give me a move, you're free, you gotta go. She means, can you explain the story behind the tattoo? The night I met Cam, he was actually hitting on my girlfriend. So the first thing he said to me was, easy, tiger. It's just a little reminder to stop hitting on lesbians. Especially ones that were taken, dear. Oh, my God.  Zoe, what is the story behind this tattoo? Oh, my God. Jordan's a massive mum, he's born. And me and his mum were fallen out, majorly, because she's so opinionated and doesn't know when to keep her beak out.  I don't care. Branded her man and slagged off his mum all in one tattoo. She is savage. You may remove your feet, you goggles. Zoe.  Potato on me. That's not funny. It's a couch potato.  Whenever I come home from work, you're sat on the sofa. You don't do any washing up. You don't wash my clothes. You never make it. Washroom.   The dickhead. Hey, that's beef.  Come and sit on the couch. Oh, I'm a bit scared that if we sit on the couch, we're replicating the tattoo. You've got to start sticking up for yourself, mate. I know, mate.   I just can't stop looking at the potato. I just think it's so cute. I want to give it a little hug. You're awesome. I don't care, you're not funny. Zoe, can you forgive Jordan for the cute couch potato? No. Get down on your knees, Jordan. You're gonna have to beg. He's got potential now. I'm really sorry. I'm calling you lazy.  And?  You're a true Wallaby now. You're an official Australian.  So, Alex, what is the story behind this photo? Ever since, like, we've been in Grade A together, we've been very competitive, and I gave them the Wallaby, so you're barking for Australia now. I'm not England. So you've branded your English best friend with the Aussie rugby symbol? I don't think I'll be allowed back in my house.  Right, come on, yous. We'll swap yous over, come on. All right, let's go.  That is so out of order. You may remove. Fuck. A minute. And? Alfie, what's the story? We all know Alex is the ultimate womanizer. The stories I've been hearing has only lasted a minute, so... The head ofness goes too far. Alfie's lucky that he wasn't at the end of Alex's fist.