This video provides a brief introduction to Red Hat OpenShift API Management, also known as ROM. It covers obtaining an OpenShift Dedicated Cluster on AWS, managing identity providers, installing the Red Hat OpenShift API Management add-on, using the service as a dedicated admin, and using the service as a developer. So to get started, you'll need to obtain an OpenShift Dedicated Cluster. This starts by logging in to cloud.redhat.com. Once you've logged in, you can select OpenShift Cluster Management, also known as OCM. Once you've selected OpenShift Cluster Management, you'll see existing clusters for your account or group. You can click the Create Cluster button and then select OpenShift Dedicated. Next, go ahead and choose your infrastructure provider. For this demo, I'll be using AWS. Various configuration options are available for the OpenShift cluster, and these will be enabled or disabled based on your customer entitlements. A region can be selected, as can availability zones, and even instance types for your chosen cloud provider. Compute nodes can be selected, and network-side arranges can be configured to facilitate customer networking, pod density, and scalability concerns. In this example here, we're going to go with mostly the standard options, so our cluster will be public, and we're also going to use the basic networking configuration. Once you're ready, go ahead and choose Create Cluster. This will start the provisioning process, and you'll be redirected to a page that has the installation progress. It'll take a few minutes, but your cluster will become available after a short time. After the cluster has been provisioned, you'll need to configure an identity provider, as highlighted by the OCM UI. Clicking the Add OAuth configuration link will present the Create Identity Provider dialog. A few standard IDPs are supported, as is any provider that supports an open ID flow. For this demo, I've configured a GitHub IDP. This just involves copying, pasting some settings from a GitHub organization, so we'll skip ahead. Once the identity provider is configured, it will be listed in the OCM UI. Next, it's time to choose a user. Our list of users to appoint as dedicated admins. You can do this by entering their username, which in this case is my GitHub username. I can now go ahead and test everything is working as expected by clicking the Open Console link and logging in by choosing my IDP from the list. Since I'm using GitHub, I'm redirected to them to authorize the organization access, and then I'm redirected back to OpenShift. Installing Roan, the Red Hat OpenShift API Management add-on, is a straightforward experience. Simply choose the add-ons tab for the cluster in OCM, and if you have the correct entitlement, you'll be able to click Install. If you specified a custom site or range when creating your OSD cluster, you'll also need to provide the add-on with similar information. You'll also be asked for an email address. This email address will be the recipient for alerts related to the API Management service. For example, if you exceed rate limits defined by your SKU. A user with a dedicated admin role can log into the cluster and observe the managed services operators being installed. It's important to note that the managed services operators can only be viewed by dedicated admins. A dedicated admin cannot modify or delete these operators. Once the installation is complete, Red Hat applications and managed services will be displayed within the OpenShift application launcher. Clicking on the API Management link will allow a user to access the three-scale dashboard. To log in, they'll use the configured IDP on the cluster. Since this user I'm using is a dedicated admin, you can see they have full access to the default three-scale tenant. They can view developer accounts, modify the developer portal, and they can also configure SSO integrations. Speaking of SSO integrations, this provides us with a nice segue to take a look at the Red Hat SSO instance provided with Roam. The SSO instance can be accessed via the OpenShift application launcher, similar to the three-scale API management and OpenShift console itself. Login occurs using the configured IDP on the cluster. The dedicated admin user can view and make some modifications in the master realm. You can see here that we're demonstrating how to create a new realm, and also a client in the SSO portal. Let's see how these can be used with three-scale. Now that the client has been prepared, we can copy the details across into the relevant fields in the three-scale developer portal settings. And create an SSO integration. We can go ahead and test it out. And in this process also validate that the three-scale SMTP settings are operating as expected. Since part of the sign-up process involves providing our email, this will allow us to verify the SMTP settings. A short time after signing up, we can head over to our email inbox and see that the email has in fact been delivered. So now I'll switch from Firefox to Chrome and demonstrate the product using a user that is not part of the dedicated admins group. So you can see here that I'm using a different user here in Chrome than I was in Firefox. Another notable difference is that the link to OCM is no longer included in the OpenShift application launcher. Let's see what happens when this user tries to navigate to the three-scale console. You can see the login flow is the same, and it uses my GitHub IDP. However, you can see this user doesn't have access to much. They'll need to be granted access by a user that has necessary permissions to do so, such as the dedicated admin I was using previously. Let's check out Red Hat SSO next. As you can see, this user can log in and view the master realm. But many UI options are no longer rendered. For example, the users and clients are not displayed. This user can create a realm if they need to for their own application. But as you can see, the access to the master realm is restricted for them versus the dedicated admin users. And this concludes the introduction to Red Hat OpenShift API management.


Work on this important partnership compact for educational transformation within the four windward islands of St. Vincent, Grenada, Dominica and St. Lucia started in November of 2023. Today, the technical working groups in each country have so far completed several key inputs into the compact with each country, identifying a priority reform area which has transformational potential. Working chief planning officer Schnell Leos says the main objective of this second regional workshop held at the Belge Hotel is for each team to agree on the detailed content of the partnership strategy. It is heartwarming to know that this transformation was again a major commitment reiterated at the Santiago 2024 Education Ministerial held in January. Systems transformation will be effectively actioned by inclusive and resilient strategies, innovative policies and sustainable funding. The four windward islands have received a grant from the Global Partnership for Education GPE to prepare the partnership compact. Each country has drafted a first version of the theory of change which presents in a logical structure the main interventions to achieve the successful implementation of the priority reform. We truly believe that this work will lay the foundation for improved planning, improved coordination and leveraging ongoing internal and external initiatives for transformational results. Having witnessed the hard work and dedication of the technical teams this past month, we truly believe that this workshop will achieve its intended objective of working towards the finalization of the partnership compacts. Education Minister Honorable Sean Edward has expressed his satisfaction with the progress of the initiative thus far, indicating the importance of education to each of the countries of the windward islands. We are all under a tremendous amount of pressure to mobilize sufficient resources to meet all the educational goals and targets that would have set ourselves. But I am sure everybody will agree that when we come together and we allow the conversations to be a contest of ideas that there is so much more we can derive to inform the processes that we need to move forward. Each team has finalized an analysis of four enabling factors including data and evidence, design and monitoring of policy and plans, coordination, volume, equity and efficiency of funding. Chief Education Officer Beverly Deodoni says the partnership augurs well for pursuing innovative ways to improve overall education service delivery in the four islands. The enabling factor analysis and partnership compacts for the Eastern Caribbean member states of Dominica, Grenada, St. Lucia and St. Vincent and the Grenadines will support the efforts of our ministries of education to increase equitable access to early childhood education, improve the quality of teaching and learning, strengthen provisions for special education needs learners, create alternative pathways incorporating technical and vocational education and training in the modernized curriculum. She says the enabling factors will also create alternative pathways in incorporating technical and vocational education and training in the modernized curriculum. From the communications unit of the Department of Education, Innovation and Vocational Training, I am Chris Satney reporting.


Γεια σας! Είναι Vicky εδώ και σήμερα θα κρατήσω μια καρδιά, χρησιμοποιήσαμε την Καρδιά Καρδιά, από Σάιμονσα Σταμ. Η καρδιά έρχεται με ένα κομμάτι της δημιουργικούς κομμάτις. Υπάρχει και ένα κομμάτι που είναι called Apple of My Pie. Η καρδιά είναι καλύτερη, με καλύτερες κομμάτις. Εγώ αρέσει αυτή η καρδιά. Είναι και με ένα κομμάτι της ραμπονς και μπορείς να κρατήσεις τα καρδιά σας. Υπάρχουν και τα 6 x 6 πατάνες και μπορείς να δεις πόσο καλύτερα όλα αυτά τα καρδιά και τα λόγια είναι. Τα καρδιά που αρέσει αυτή η καρδιά είναι όλες τις δημιουργικές και τα λόγια, αλλά και αυτά τα κομμάτι της ραμπονς. Υπάρχουν πραγματικά 100 ραμπονς μέχρι αυτά τα κομμάτις και θα ανοίξω τα κομμάτι για εσάς να δεις τι είναι μέχρι αυτά τα κομμάτι. Τα είναι όλοι τα καρδιά που είναι βραζές για να δώστουν τα εξάγρα από τα κομμάτι σας, και τα σαν your cards και μπορείς να χρησιμοποιώσεις αυτά για τα σελίδια σας, όπως μπορείς να χρησιμοποιώσεις ένα από τα εξοχρονομικά τέprechλα μου. Και αν νομίζεις να χρησιμοποιώσεις κάποιες αυτές, βλέπεις να με αφήνουν σαν και θα κάνω κάτι από αυτά. Σε το κέντρο θα βρεις also three pre-folded white card bases. All three are white and they give you the standard card base size that's 4.25 x 5.5. And they fold at the side. Finally, there are four card stocks, they are all great for your card bases and they come in four different colors that match perfectly all the supplies in the kit. To start my card I am going to cut out this pattern paper to be 4.25 x 5.5 and this is going to cover up the whole card base. The card base that I am using is one of the pre-folded cards that were inside the kit. So while I am doing that, just to let you know that there is a giveaway on my blog. So for a chance to win this November card kit by Simon's Estab, make sure to visit my blog and enter your details. All the supplies that I am using today are linked and listed below the video, whether on YouTube, in the description area or on my blog. Now I am going to use this beautiful pattern paper, which I am going to cut out to be 4.25. I love the combination of those two pattern papers together and for the edge of my top layer I am going to use this edge die. This is an exclusive set of dies by Simon's Estab and I am going to use the smaller one. I am going to place it at the bottom of my panel and after deciding where this is going to go, I am going to make sure this is not going to move by placing a couple of post-tape pieces.  I did place the edge die in such a way that it leaves enough room so I can stamp my sentiment later on. I am going to layer one pattern paper on top of the other and just because the bottom is darker you will be able to see the beautiful scallop edge.  I am going to use a pencil to mark where I want to cut it out and I am using my paper trimmer and this beautiful combination of pattern papers can make a card just like that by placing one on top of the other. I really love this combination and by just stamping a sentiment it would be beautiful but just to take it a little bit further I decided to use one of those die cuts in the kit so I am going with that leaf there and I chose one of my die circles that is slightly larger than that leaf and I am going to create a window out of this panel. I am adding some tape adhesive at the back and I will stick a piece of transparency there. The assets that I am using for my shaker cards are either from assets that I used to use on overhead projectors or you can always use and recycle the packaging from all the products that you get at home which is something I do all the time. I am using foam tape at the back of my panel and I am going to make sure to enclose that circle with foam tape just to make sure that all the little bits and pieces that I am going to put inside my window will not go anywhere. I have also cut out a piece of pattern paper which is going to be the backing for my window. This pack is by Little Things and it's from my blog friend Lucy from Lucy's Cards and the mix is called Bright Copper Kettle. These are available from Simon Says Stamp but they are also available from Lucy's online shop in the UK. So if you live in Europe you should definitely check them out. It has gorgeous mixes of sequins for all your shaker cards. So now I am going to put the backing and my shaker window is ready and all that's left to do is to stick it on top of my card base so I am peeling off the foam at the back and I am going to add a little bit of tape adhesive and now I am going to place it at the top of my card. To finish off my shaker window I am going to stick on top that die-cut leaf. I am just going to add some tape adhesive at the back and just stick it there. So now all that's left to do is to add my sentiment. For my sentiment I am going to use the word blessings from this stamp set and I am going to white emboss it at the very bottom of the card. Before stamping with VersaMark I am applying some powder with my embossing tool which eliminates static electricity and that ensures that once I apply my embossing powder it will stick only where it's supposed to. So I have stamped blessings with my VersaMark ink and now I am going to apply my white embossing powder. Once that's there I am going to heat set it with my heat gun and if you are melting your embossing powder with a heat gun and you do have a shaker window like I do on this card make sure that you don't bring your heat gun very close to that acetate since you don't want to melt it and ruin all your hard work. And now that my card is all finished it's time for the finishing touches So I am using my wing of Stella to add some shimmer on the leaf as well as on the red accents on the card and then I am going to use some glossy accents on top to add some gloss.  So that finishes the card for today I hope you had fun and got inspired and if you did don't forget to leave me a comment as well as give me thumbs up on my youtube channel Here are some close up photos of the card today Don't forget to visit my blog and enter the giveaway for a chance to win this November card kit by Simon Says Stamp and if you need more inspiration here are two more videos using last year's November card kit You can click on any of the videos right there on your screen or if you are watching from a mobile device you can find links to both those videos just below in the description area or you can click the info card that just popped on your screen Thank you all for watching


SARS-CoV-2 nucleocapsid, N, protein is responsible for viral genome packaging. Here the authors employ single molecule spectroscopy with all atom simulations to provide the molecular details of N protein and show that it undergoes phase separation with RNA. This article was authored by Jasmine Kubek, Julian J. Alston, J. Jeremiah Sinsico, and others.


riding in the mountains with my one of my grandfather who is a working on the JB Ranch as a range rider. All of my education came out of all of the Hat Creek Valley. I was taught our where our hunting grounds were at and what time of year to go for them for deer and what time of year to go looking for berries and to harvest harvest their food for the winter. So the valley really means a lot to me. The meat is hard to find now because of all the logging that's happening, deer having to move out into other areas. Say for example we hunted for two or three weeks and never even saw deer you know see old tracks and that's about it. I mean it takes that long now to get something. I don't I don't believe that the wildlife is going to come back the way it used to be but I think we can we can keep it at a level that that the people in the area can can continue to go out and hunt and to provide to meet for their for their families. Now the Hat Creek project goes ahead and I don't think that that it's going to do the game any good. It's going to only make things worse. The berries harvesting of different berries is going to get worse and also the hunting is for sure going to get get to a level where it's almost impossible to find something. You better listen to the voices from the mountain. Trying to tell you what you just might need to know. For the Empire's days are numbered if you're counting and the people just get stronger blow by blow. You better listen when they talk about strip mining. Going to turn the rolling hills to acid clay. If you're preaching all about that silver lining. You'll be preaching till the hills are stripped away. You better listen to the cries of the dying minor. Better feel the pain of the children and the wives. We got to stand and fight together for survival. And that's bound to mean a change in all our lives. What I saw in the coast of Montana was really, I didn't know how to accept it, but I couldn't believe the size of the machinery that they were using to dig up the coal because they removed so much soil at one time. It was one scoop. It was just, I couldn't even imagine something like that happening. Trying to picture that in the Hat Creek is for 35 years. This is continuously happening 24 hours a day for 35 years. It's really a frightening thing to think about. Looking at the area, the coast surrounding was really flat. There was hardly any mountains for miles and you had these two generating plants burning up all this coal and just shooting all of the pollution into the air. We visited the University of Montana and we have contact down there, Clancy Gordon. We first worked on coal-fired power plants in an area back in West Virginia, Maryland. We were working in that area on the impacts of acid rains upon the coniferous trees that were grown on the Christmas tree plantations. And these were primarily the pines and furs that were grown there for commercial use of selling for Christmas trees. This acid rain caused a very slowness of growth, an abnormality of needles and twisting of needles and this type of thing. I would expect that there's going to be much more damage in Hat Creek than there is going to be in Colstrip. Number one, because of the high terrain, number two, because of the lack of scrubbers that BC Hydro is proposing. Colstrip has a sectionally good scrubbing system. It really removes a lot of the gaseous sulfur dioxide and removes a lot of the particulate. That's not true for BC Hydro. Research has been, they've been working on this for about 1952 on the phenomenon of acid rain transport. Most of that work has been done in Europe during the 50s and 60s. Now in the 70s, American scientists, the most Canadian scientists are very concerned about the transport of acid rains. And they've got it down pretty close. I'd say somewhere between 800 to 1,000 miles is how far that sulfur dioxide can be transported and converted before it's actually leached and washed out of the atmosphere. BC Hydro is not proposing something that will take to remove the gasses. So that sulfur dioxide gas will come out in many hundreds of tons a day at that size of plants. And that's one of the more toxic gasses to vegetation. It's also toxic to human beings at high concentrations. At this mine, we mine one seam of coal. It's called the rosebud seam. It averages about 23 feet in thickness. It's a medium grade subbytonous coal. It averages about 8,600 BTUs, a warranted sulfur content of 0.8%. It's not the best coal in the world as far as heat up or energy output, but it is a very clean coal. These are two of our coal haulers. They're Euclid 120s. They carry 120 tons of coal. They belly dump. We have 14 haulers. Our shop building. We're expanding this as the mine grows. That stockpile right now is about half full. When it's full, it will hold 95,000 tons of coal. It's divided into three zones with five feeters per zone to this underground conveyor. It's a weighing conveyor on an integrated grizzly system. And we'll convey the coal up to the top of the loadout. There's an automatic sampler. We sample each train as it goes out. So a train is constantly moving as it goes underneath. It never stops. We can load out at the rate of 4,000 tons per hour, or we can load a 10,000-ton train in two and a half hours. When we get the cars from BN, we average four train loads per day. We have been able to get as many as eight. With that amount, students, we can rotate that pile every 48 hours. So we've never had a fire. There's never been any spontaneous combustion or explosion. We work the pile with cats and keep it fed constantly into the conveying system. When they originally go in, they say there'll be no, no problem whatsoever. But when the problem starts, what can the rancher really do about it? The basic thing, he can either fight the industry or sell out. And in general, it's easier for the rancher farmer to sell out than to rather just fight through the courts the pollution problems that are being caused by that industry. So that's a typical problem in many, many areas where the damage occurs and therefore the company comes in and buys the property. And they acquire more and more property and therefore they have more and more to pollute. They're allowed to pollute more and more areas. That's to their own property right now. But it's a serious situation because it takes more and more agricultural lands out of production. And that's why we feel rather strongly about the sighting of power plants, aluminum plants, aluminum plants and so on are large polluting sources in agriculture areas. They just simply shouldn't be there because after all, you know, agriculture is the backbone of all strong countries. And without the agriculture, you have nothing. It's very hard to reclaim land, especially in an arid region such as the culture area. This is similar to the arid region around the Hat Crick area where they try not to put in the area. Around Hat Crick and the culture are very, very similar as far as rainfall, as far as vegetation is concerned. In fact, most of the same species grow in both places. One of the more interesting aspects of the studies that have occurred out there on that reclamation land is that they have put cattle back out on some of that land as well as on same weight cattle, same age cattle, so on, as well putting them on the native vegetation over there. And the animals actually gain less weight on that reclaimed land than they did out there on the native vegetation, which we found to be rather surprising. From the past experience here, what would you say that we're looking toward, like as Indian people, what are we going to be faced with? As far as the construction of any large scale construction, power plants, dams, roads, I think most of the people that are operators, pipe fitters, welders, and stuff are brought in from the outside. I don't mean outside of the country, but outside of the area, and they're there to do a job and make money, and they move on. They don't really care too much or respect the Indian tradition, culture, and cultural values. You probably should prepare yourself to deal with some of the impacts that I mentioned. A larger amount of students in your school, more demand for your hospital and medical services, your community events, affairs are going to be impacted by outsiders wanting to tend your powwows, rodeos, whatever. And also, I think just generally, there's going to be probably more crime, more drugs, more everything. It's just going to be increased quite a bit. There's no compromise with coal companies. You might as well face up to that. You compromise with the coal company and you might as well get rid of your reservation. They're going to get that coal as cheap as they can possibly get it, and they're going to give you the smallest piece of land. The government is going to give you as few privileges, as few as they can give.  What are we going to do about the Indian problem?  Well, they want to get rid of them.   So they were found in a sophisticated way, take our resources. It took millions of years to put the coal in the ground and to develop that ecosystem that you have there. And when you rip it out of the ground in one year or two years or ten years, then you're wiping out millions of years of history and then what's going to take place from there on nobody knows. I always imagine a lot of times that there's going to be a lot of four-lane traffic, a lot of planes, a lot of noise in the area after this hot creek coal comes in because they say it's going to be one of the biggest in the world. If the rivers are polluted and the watersheds are polluted then all bands are all, not only Indian bands, not only Indian people, but the people that use the benefits of the rivers downstream from here would be affected too because of the pollution that this plant would put out. Because everything, all the streams run down river and it probably goes as far as the delta down in Vancouver. You can grow almost anything here if you can apply water to it and you get a long seasonal summer. I just got no reason to move anywhere else. Would you move for BC Hydro? No, BC Hydro would pretty well have to pick me up and move me, but I'll be back. It's frightening to me. It's so difficult to compensate for large areas of land. How do they compensate for it? There just isn't that much land that's similar to this. It's rather unique this whole area here, the more heat units probably than anywhere else in Canada. We can grow things that just can't be grown in many other places with the exception of the southern states. There's a great future for this country, agriculturally. We're hardly touching it now, but we're going to see more fruit and vegetables grown, and it isn't as if they could say, well, we can't grow it here, now we'll move north. It's a very limited area that you can grow these kind of crops and we're going to run out of places to grow them in this country. That's why I would find it difficult to know how they could compensate people for this land. It isn't easily replaced. As far as the Hatch Creek project goes now, have you been approached by, say, BC Hydro and informed you on what their intentions are of the valley so far? Well, not directly, we haven't been. I'm not sure that even some of the ranchers in the area that's going to be directly affected are. I'm really not aware of that, but it's been brought to our attention through the media or word of mouth is how we have learned, and we are concerned now. We're concerned the effect that it's going to have on the environment, which directly involves people in agriculture, both with livestock, which is the main form of agriculture in this area. Plus, we've got several commercial alfalfa growers and from some of the information we've recently learned that this could be very detrimental to these alfalfa growers and they're growing this hay for dairy producers in the Fraser Valley and is an extremely important part of agriculture. And more recently, we've had some soft fruit and vineyards that are being established on a rather large scale in the area and I'm sure these people are going to be very concerned. What are some of the concerns of the people about the Hatch Creek coal mine? Well, some of the concerns are, you know, there are a number of concerns and I can just name a couple of them and one of them is in terms of the river and pollution. Pollution is a great factor that is affecting the river and which is, you know, really a detriment to our food source which is salmon fishing. That is a really important source of food and if something affects that then it affects the people's food supply. I notice that there's sawmills in the area and do a lot of the people work in sawmills? Yes, there, I think that's probably one of the major employment areas for a little over an area, specifically for our area and bridge over there we do have a logging operation and if the young trees coming along are affected by the Hatch Creek project and it burns off the foliage then we wouldn't have this opportunity to develop the forest resource again. It really does affect it negatively. The negative effects are far outweigh the positive effects especially for the people living within this area within radius of 50 miles in any given direction I think people are really going to have to sit down and think about it. I think we would be foolish to believe that the employment factors and things like that is going to be good for the community whereas we don't think it is. But as far as the coal is concerned with respect to generating the necessary energy that Canada needs from what I understand Canada isn't even going to benefit from it all this energy is going down to the states. So where is the benefit of the benefit factors? I think that the people would rather see a steady stable economy over a period of time that tells the whole story and Hatch Creek just doesn't offer that. At Construction Creek there's going to be 2,000 people brought in and what do you think the impact in these surrounding areas is going to be like Cache Creek, Cache Cove, Littlewood? I think that maybe when something like this happens like a big project like this takes place in a small area such as Cache Creek and Littlewood and the surrounding communities there's a great influx of people so there's quick clearing of land and bearing of cutting the trees and having to clear areas so they can put their houses on and there's also the factor of hunting, fishing, things like that I think this would deplete the overall stability of the way we live now What can be left in the area after 70 years and what are we going to be placed with? I guess when the Hatch Creek project has had its way and they've disturbed the area as much as projects of this type do disturb the small communities I think that probably when they leave they'll probably leave a big hole in the ground and will be left just without a big hole in the ground which was at one time probably good grazing land and good forestry land probably an overall nice place to live and it'll be just a very ruined environment and I think that 70 years down the road after that the people will still be suffering from this impact Has BC Hydro approached you in any way? They have interviewed the different branches and on the start they haven't and just in the last year they haven't bothered any but on the very beginning they held a few meetings in there but the accurate that never accomplished must you might say they practically own the whole country they do own this whole north end outside of just our place and well I imagine they've got a the largest percentage of the farming land west of the Thompson How many cattle do you have on the ranch hike? We keep 200


It's that time of the year again where consumers across the world have to navigate all these juicy booby traps set by brands to get them to spend more and buy buy buy because they come out attractive discounts that are you know sometimes almost too good to be true. I myself fall victim to some of these things and hopefully this particular video can help you curb that acquisition syndrome that you may have and save yourself some money this holiday season. If you're a photographer or filmmaker like me before you make any purchase put it through this money saving checklist to see if it passes before you click buy and I have to say that yes you know it mainly applies to people like us filmmakers, photographers however this checklist can be used on any other thing that you may be tempted to purchase or get. Now it's not just Black Friday that's any other season where you know there are discounts being thrown at you left right center. So let's get to the first one first point on the checklist is it a need or a want that's the question. Now most people can't really tell the difference if you know especially that items on sale are so affordable. A want is not the same as a need. A want is something that you can actually do without at any particular moment but some way somehow it fulfills a desire or passion or thrill you know something that's most likely to die after a day of owning it and it just becomes one other thing that you own. That's a want. A need however it's much more weighty on the skill of should I buy it or not. If you need to buy it then it means that if that thing isn't available it makes achieving some goal very difficult or nearly impossible. So you own a microphone for vlogging for example but a newer version is out there the old one gives good quality sound but a new one is slightly better then that becomes a want not a need. A need is when you actually don't own a microphone but you need one for quality sound for your videos for example. If you can do without it you do not need it. Point number two can you afford it? Very essential. Affordability varies depending on where you find yourself in the world. You know I have come to realize that you know in some countries the credit system allows you to make certain purchases even when you don't have ready funds available for it. In Ghana and most African countries most things go against you in your purchase which makes it automatically easy to be very frugal in a way. Now we don't have a credit system and purchases here seldom come with payment plans so what are you going to do? Before you make any purchase you have to have the full funds already cast for it even if you're buying online it's direct debit. Going by this quote if you can't buy two of it then you can't afford it it's really important in this season. If you have saved purposely for this particular item and you're not digging into your emergency fund to buy it or make the purchase then that's absolutely fine but first make sure that it goes through the first step of asking yourself whether it's a want or a need. Now the third thing is accessibility or availability. This applies mostly to gear or you know things that we use for projects whatever that you want to purchase depending on how often you will be using it. Is it something that you can have access to without having to buy your own at a particular time? Like for example do you have to go and purchase your own C300 mark III for a client project now or you can rent it make the money and then save for yours later. Is it also readily available for rent and does it make sense to own yours if it doesn't then hey don't go and buy it which brings me to my next point the usability of the particular item. Usability is very important you know all these points tie into one another for example you're a youtuber and that's all you do predominantly you don't do any other thing you're not a filmmaker you're not a content creator with clients that have very specific needs which in my previous point maybe you can rent for for use let's just say you don't even have plans of going pro in filmmaking so for your daily or weekly vlog do you actually need something like the aperture for example 300d when the godos xl 60w would do the same job why go and buy something like you know black magic cinema pocket 6k when you seldom shoot 6k footage for yourself personally or because maybe you saw a pro you know review it and the pro's work was really nice if your need isn't up to what is being sold then get something within your user range it's very essential we are currently still you know consuming content in 1080 mostly so the most you have to get is a decent 4k camera like the m50 or something next point on the checklist is longevity all the things that exist will become obsolete or go out of fashion at some point we've seen it we're still seeing it the evolution of gadgets and where it's going every single week there's something new that is being thrown at us and if you must make a purchase try and get something that you know will stand the quality of time or some time get something that you can use between three and five years a long-term use item which you know is future proof that is something that you need to satisfy some work or some need for a very long time like i said in the previous point if you're not using the set thing every day to make your work easier and offer value that generates returns then you most likely don't need it why make that purchase so get something that will stand the test of time and make you more than its value in a space of say three to five years that is what you need so the last point on the checklist is the resale value of the item this mostly applies to gadgets or tech products you know it's what you're buying resellable in the future when you want to you know sell it off and replace it with another some things have very stable resale value like you know camera lenses a lot of new cameras are coming and going but a good glass is always gold so do your research on that particular item the brand the need for it the general need and of course there's the accessibility usability longevity resale value and see if it works for you before you fall victim to buying something or making some purchases that will leave you broke and unsatisfied so that's it from me for today enjoy the rest of your season make sure you're making the right decision when you're clicking buy and save yourself some money if you like this video click a thumbs up and subscribe to the channel if you already haven't done that my name is Kwame i'm a documentary filmmaker and photographer as well as a voiceover artist here in Accra Ghana and happy shopping or not


Going on everyone Sam here with late sports cards. We are doing a nine-box mixer for Tom see we've got one 23 at Penini Prison Baseball to 22 at Leaf Trinity Baseball 123 Penini Select Baseball, then we've got one 23 Penini Black football one 23 Bowman Chrome University hobby 122 23 tops you wave a Champions League museum 123 Bowman Chrome University breakers delight and 123. I Mac baseball so good luck here Sorry, you're prison baseball. Okay, so no regular base shipped All inserts will be shipped no regular base on this This is a Absolutely a smorgasbord. Can you throw me a bag? Big-time smorgasbord right here Anthony Thanks, sir Here we go. I'll just scroll through the base silver Jake Bennett red wave Alfonso Soriano Andy Rodriguez That is a red Curtis mead to 199 and ice up ring Davis and Bobby Whit jr First auto jet Williams jet the Met for the Mets Nice one there Tom Now joy to cool pop a bell to 149 That is an ice of Joe Tinker Francisco Alvarez Silva pot of gold Randy Johnson and tomorrow Johnson prismatic. We got a mojo coming up here Silver Andy Rodriguez mojo Lou Brock rest in peace nice one there 11 to 25 Cardinals Lou Brock Judd the stud Fabian hyper and Kevin Alcantra Yuri Perez nice one there one of his first pack pulled autos For the Marlins and Ryan Sandberg weird. He doesn't have a Bowman first They did all weird. Yeah. He was like a top prospect for a while Must have been silver Rick Farrell Robert Moore on the red to 199 Hyper of Larry Doby and each row second to none. Hey, oh and Murphy for the Braves on the base are oh And Murphy go Wayne picking up the tea spot again. Hey going after Travis Hunter orange wave Jase young 250 the Tigers Pulsar George Brett and Pete Cormes strong. Yeah, they do look good. I like them I love I'm in basketball a lot because they do them usually want a box So yeah, they're really nice silver Sam Rice red wave Kumar rocker and Pudge pot of gold screen scope coming up one of my favorites Peyton Graham To 75 for the Tigers. I love this in the old prisms like 1718. They did purple scopes 99 those are one of my favorite of all time ever some Pereira scopes though close in Montgomery. Yeah Yeah, exactly, especially when there's a color on it I don't look like the regular base scopes or I can take it or leave it, but the Color one they were like because they do blue and basketball.  Oh, and white. Let's go Goodbye scopes Marcello, Mar So That is Harry Ford silver Silver Brennan Davis nice one there Jackson Merrill and Gil McDougal some of a hero and Fuego Bobby Whit jr. And Joe Torrey So the va David Cone another auto Robert Hassell to 99 on the youth explosion for the Nats one of their better prospects one of the big pieces of the one Soto trade with his cell from the Padres Let's go of Jacob Mellon Stroze Jason Amiga is the Martian with a pinstripe Jumbo Jersey card. There you go Tom So as well that brand Davis Try color Colton Couser and Tim Wakefield. They have Tim Wakefield. I was in this Silva Bill Mazurowski That is a unequal to eat you row pop a bell Let's take we'll save that one for the end Tri-color Gordon Grissepo Cardinals Gavin Cross and James Wood Silver Wade bugs that is a Harry Ford on the Jumbo Jersey rookie for well prospect technically for the Mariners and Gabriel Hughes All right, Tom to leave trinities of the 2022 variation. See we've got a Jesus Baez on the redemption. I think he's a cub. I believe I Think he's a cub. Maybe not. Maybe I'm getting confused and how he was there. No, he's a net. He's a net Nice one here for the Giants to 99 is Reggie Crawford the two-way player from Yukon Very nice God for the Braves. That's Owen Murphy three of 15 Owen Murphy 69 or 65 of 99. We've got a Justin Campbell This is nice Prospect patch out of Elijah Green 25 of 25 That is three-color player warm patch A lot of stitching in that and then go into a rare for the Yankees Don Mattingly 16 of 25 Donnie baseball Get the man in the hall of fame Nice one there for the Yankees Alright box number two of leaf trinity Gabriel Hughes redemption He's a Here yes Rockies Next up is Vaughn Brown to 25 15 of 25 Vaughn Brown Brooks Lee that is going to the twins nice one there Tom Michael P picking up the Giants in top update tomorrow Roy Versalinas 299 for the Braves. That's pretty sick actually. Yeah That's nasty for the Cubs. How about a jumbo patch of say us a zuki 28 of 99 with the Cubs patch on it That's kind of nasty actually congrats on that one Tom. That's pretty gross Say us a zuki and then to 15 Gunnar Henderson on The patch auto as well two really nice patch autos at the end there Of course Gunnar being a Oriole very nice All right, Tom. We will now do bowman chrome hobby Chrome University hobby as rambling man Quinn Sean Judkins and will shepherd purple mini diamonds Devon Leary to 399 Kyle McCord Antonio Williams on the first base auto for Clemson Antonio Williams Solomon de Shields Also a Michael Williams the 499 refractor first auto for Georgia Georgia and Jurian Dickey Travis Hunter Really didn't dirty on that one. He is kind of stupidly skinny though. It's weird Harold Perkins Kate Stover So it like it doesn't body him Jalen Fruick and bow next a rambling man Xavier Worthy and Dylan Gabriel Small-Mondon jr. Dylan Hayden orange shimmer Devin McCovey to 25 for Purdue and Joe Alt that is a Mackay lemon Jeremiah Hunter Tyler Neubin Keon Kelly the risers of Jordan Travis for Florida State like Corum Travis Hunter first Caleb Williams and Willa Johnson rambling man Jurian Dickey Penn State is Nick Singleton and Tariq Chappell That is a Ruben Owens to 299 on the teal Travis Buckner or Tyler Buckner, excuse me and beat Tyler Buckner X-Fractor of Caleb Downs for Alabama and Caleb Williams on the base as well a X-Fractor Noah Whittington and Marshawn Lloyd Isaiah Williams Paris Jones is a Frank Gord jr refractor first a Tray Sean Ward first For Kansas State Marvin Harrison jr. First as well for Ohio State All right, so I'm going to I'm at baseball next one. I'm at baseball All right, let's get started empty Start off 12 of 25 for the blue jays is a Cade Dowdy on the two-color patch Cade Dowdy For the blue jays Nice one here is going to be prospect patch auto 41 of 99 two-color Owen Murphy Owen Murphy is a Atlanta brave prospect patch auto Owen Murphy next up 53 of 99 that'll be going to the Guardians that is Brian Rockio. He did make his debut this year. He's an update actually as a rookie, which is pretty cool David Throw in the hits Two of five Barry Larkin that game use it is game-worn Jersey. I swung there Tom little Barry Larkin action got redemption Jordan Walker prospect patch autographs black I want to see what that's number two Makulit baseball What is the black number two? Patch autographs Photographs checklist black will be to 10 nice. There you go, Tom. That's Jordan Walker number 10 on the redemption Congrats on that one, buddy Jordan Walker and then Eight of 15 Fred Lynn for the Red Sox Fred Lynn for the Red Sox on the shadow box signature very nice One of two guys to win MVP and rookie the end same All right, we'll do UEFA museum collection next or some soccer, right? We've got pure emric album a Yang on the base car. That is going to be a David Tresgwet Jack relish Robert Lavandoski and in rush to 75 for Liverpool Nice one here is going to be 250 Pablo Nedvin 26 of 50 midfielder archival autographs for who bent this probably Nedvin Jersey auto is going to be Virgil van Dyke for Liverpool Numbered 13 of 199 Virgil van Dyke on the nice one here on the rookie Jersey for PSG to 199 Warren Zaire Emory Warren Zaire Emory Rookie reverence rookie Jersey That is Matt shoes memorabilia very nice All right, Tom will do a 23 penini black now. All right, we're gonna start off with a Mike Evans 41 of 75 I wonder where he's gonna end up. He doesn't want to stay in Tampa beyond next year. So No need any more help You're not wrong Cole come out on the base car For the Bears face looks so good in this too, man in on the base First hit is gonna be a Brock Purdy 299 on the Starlight materials He's going to the chiefs. He might he might go to the chiefs do my go to Anthony That's got redemption Josh Allen Smoke show signatures royal. Oh, man That's nasty. I think the royals are to 10. I'm gonna double check that whole leak out Tom. Let's go, dude black football smoke show Signatures, yeah, that's the that's like the cover art is the Josh Allen one Royal is number to 15 or less and I believe Josh Allen is gonna be number to 15 This is gonna be number to 15 right here. That's a massive card, dude Massive card. Congrats, Tom. Good stuff, dude. Really good stuff there and then say flowers 17 of 99 sizable signatures for the Ravens Nice one there as well Yes, I know Sean would not say that if you didn't believe that since he's a Raven and I'm here as well to be fair heavily invested in the Zay flowers All right, and 23 Bowman Chrome University breakers delayed see something big of this Tom come on Looks like we have maybe an orange potentially that is gonna be a Marvin Harrison, Jr. Early risers start off with our base cards or refractors. I should say we've got Solomon de Shields Jay Jadon Ott Montrell Johnson Jackson Arnold Ty Simpson and Devin Machabe that is a first shock right there. I believe those are exclusive to breakers the light we've got a Michael Shrig to 99 on the green for Ole Miss Gonna have a blue to 1.99 Emmett Moorhead For Boston College Got a Mitch Ligbert to 2.99 For Stanford that is gonna be a first base auto of Cade Clubnick for Clemson their starter and Then really nice one here as well Eli Houston to 1 or 499 for Alabama on the refractor first auto That will do it for your break there Tom. Thanks as always for the support buddy get him right out to my man


Hey, I'm Bryce. I'm the supervisor at the arcade library, which is home to our library of things So we have a lot of different types of items for check out guitars go pro cameras Just kind of all sorts of different types of items. It's also home to the design spot So that's where we house all of our 3d printers And our machines that have different kinds of CAD software on them and then of course it's home to alt library And with alt library we use tumblr for our blog So it's alt library comm and then we use Meetup clearly for posting Events and one of the things that I really like about meetup is that from from idea to promotion It's it can just take a couple minutes if you want it to so you can really you know put things through quickly So it's good for experimenting with different programs and kind of seeing what the the feedback is so this is a an example Of one of the programs that we're experimenting with what we've discovered is that when people RSVP a lot of times You know, it's not a good indicator of how many people are actually going to show up and attend But it's a good indicator of interest so with on-ground workshops because we're moving more in a virtual kind of programming direction We if we get ten or more RSVPs then we'll go ahead and we'll go through with the with the program So you can see from this example that we we brand things a little differently all libraries meant Or the niche that we're looking to fill is kind of that 20s and 30s Programming so as far as age group so you'll see that you know, it could be something like Beginning guitar, but instead we'll do something like you know guitar learn the bare minimum needed to impress people and animals So you might have like pick slides and power chords and different types of things and this is tied into our Library of things where we have guitars for checkout so it goes back to kind of our more Less expected types of offerings And we still weave ourselves into different community programs, so we partnered with a local maker space that they were doing a robo sumo, so we were part of that and We went ahead and we built a sumo robots and so a lot of us learn how to solder and things like that And it was really great content to put on the tumbler and then with our design spot where we have our 3d printers We went ahead and made different kind of Kind of covers for some of the the robots So again, it's tying it in to just you know different things that we're offering and it's You know excellent platform to tell our story and market things in a certain way We still Kind of jump on the wagon with certain things certain trends When they're hot and then we jump off of that wagon fairly quickly, so we recently did You know Pokemon go events we did adult coloring for a while last year so The nice thing about meet-up is that we can cycle through and kind of gauge interest a lot of times based on RSVPs and then it's You know, it doesn't take much staff time So it's just a couple minutes you can throw something out there if it gets a decent amount of feedback. That's Or or generates a certain amount of interest. That's great. If not, we just throw something else out there and see what happens And this is an example of that so sometimes it's just an idea. So we went ahead and wove this into Our our booked in offerings from it's part of our friends of the library So we have this warehouse where we have items for sale And so is the idea of building a or creating a book with a secret compartment So we just went ahead and did a tutorial on our tumbler and then posted the event on meet-up to just kind of generate You know a little more Buzz and and let people know that hey, we've we have items for sale as well We still have the traditional book clubs and we're going out to You know different kind of places to hold them so a lot of times it's coffee shops We'll go to different parts of town and hold the the book Book club at different restaurants and stuff like that something that we're trying this month is I like weaving programs into You know other events like if it's Halloween or something like that So a couple of days before Halloween will be discussing Stephen King's it but we're going to just do it virtually And we're going to kind of go old school with it because we're going to do it on IRC. So just one of those things where we're continually Experimenting with things And we've been experimenting with Seeing if users want to submit content and be part of different kind of collaborative creative projects So one of the things that kind of flopped but it was fun to do was we had this coloring book disaster Program and the idea was to weave the submissions Or print print those submissions with our espresso book machine that we have at the central library And then add that to the reference collection and that would be tied into some of the adult coloring programs But they would be original works But there was a fair amount of buzz, but I only had a few people submit Drawings, but there's a really great one of a dolphin riding a bicycle. So Another kind of experimental program we did We had a fair amount of donated cassettes that went through our friends groups And so I started saving them and then we opened up we were like, okay Let's try to do like a tape compilation or something like that So we opened up submissions for local artists to send us a track or two and then we partnered with a entity in the community that had a tape duplicator and then with the The actual cassette cases we printed those we designed them and printed them in our Design spot at the arcade library. So a bunch of different colors and everything and people that are part of that We're still actually working on it people that are part of that that submitted Their musical works and they'll get a cassette and a custom case sometimes to just looking at You know the the different tools you have available to you at your library So we kind of just fell into the circuit bending thing a colleague and I we noticed that there was we had a Like a program box that had soldering irons and then we used some Recycled wire from an old keyboard and we borrowed a drill from facilities and so we decided to take one of The thrift store keyboards that we had kind of experiment and try to circuit bend that item Which we were successful turned out kind of neat So we decided to go ahead and we have a SoundCloud page to so looking at meet-up and looking how you can kind of pull in You know different kind of users from different online communities. That's something that we look at too but so that was more of kind of you know just experimenting and and you know just kind of Using staff interests which turn into different programs. We found some makey-makey kits to in another box. So we set up book-ins and we were able to hook those up to a laptop and play the book-ins like bongo drums and other things and You know so make drawings and then when you touch the the drawing then it'll go ahead and trigger a sound things like that Which patrons really enjoyed it's that interactive element that you can't have unless it's an on-ground workshop and we also just do some You know kind of off off beat things now and again to see you know what happened So we've been experimenting with the virtual programs that encourage exercising and or maybe Investigating certain diets and things like that. So all of these programs tie into Promoting our digital collection For the most part except get fit with Rick and Morty, which is kind of an experiment And we also like tying things into like I said with like the Halloween event and and you know different virtual programs like that The new year burpee challenge a lot of people were interested in that And so just kind of these ongoing programs versus That might extend for like two weeks versus just a one-shot event So that's kind of an overview of the things that we've been trying lately So really for us alt library and meetup and tumblr We're just constantly experimenting and putting different programs out there and seeing how you know We can be creative and create more of a buzz for our library and then also doing things out there in the community and partnering with certain Entities to to bring more people in and then hopefully they they join us online But that's kind of the Overview of what we've been up to lately And now we can open it up to some questions. Thank you


Hey, everyone, welcome to today's talk. Today we have Chris Keating, user of the land. He's a longtime Wikimedian and on the board of Wikimedia UK. He's here to talk about community dynamics, specifically reflections on WMF and dynamics.  Hello. Nice to meet you, everybody. So what I'll do is I'll talk for a little while. Probably nowhere near the full half hour we've got allocated. Then hopefully we can have a bit of a discussion. If you are watching this on IRC, then, or indeed, anywhere else, it'd be great if you could save up your questions until the end of what I have to say. Then we can discuss anything that comes up. Cool. So I was invited to do this tech talk because I wrote an essay on meta called Why Do They Always Do It Wrong? And this essay was kind of the summation of some thoughts I'd been having for quite a while about the dynamics of the relationship between the WMF and the community. Having been on the board of Wikimedia UK for all five years, I've taken part in some very interesting movement-wide conversations and everything from super protective, chapter fundraising, and everything like that. And more than that, I've also worked for a number of different voluntary sector organizations which have conversations in them that have some similarities to some of the conversations that have happened within the Wikimedia movement. So I was thinking back to one of the first jobs I had back in 2002. I was working for a political party called the Liberal Democrats. They used to be big. And I was basically campaign manager for this town in Southeast England called Eastbourne. And 90% of the constituency was this bit here, Eastbourne. The constituency I was working in also included this one small village called Willington, which doesn't even have a place name on this map here. And I remember quite soon after I started there. So I was the only staff member working with a few dozen volunteers on the campaign there. I remember just after I started speaking to a guy called Andy, who was the chairman of the Willington Liberal Democrats. Now, that's this bit here, not Eastbourne, which is this bit here. If you drive between Willington and Eastbourne down this road, you will not notice the difference between them. But still, this village was in a different local authority. And talking to Andy, the chair of the Willington Liberal Democrats, he would say occasionally half jokingly when we were talking about some issue, he would say things like, well, that's if them in Eastbourne let us do it or something like that. And it's kind of remarkable that in such a small pocket of the country in a voluntary organization that has no more than 10 people taking any kind of decision within it, there was still somehow this awesome then mentality that had developed on such a small scale. Then I was also thinking about a job I had later. So I moved from local campaigning to national fundraising for this party. And part of my job was sending out, organizing, sending out letters to people who needed to renew their membership. And on one occasion, we'd managed to send the renewal letters for the Liberal Democrats in Wales on the letterhead for the Liberal Democrats in England, which, bit of a mistake, Wales has a slightly separate political identity. I knew people's noses might be put out of joint maybe. What I didn't expect was to get a phone call from somebody responsible for running one for local launches, talking, telling me how disgraceful it was that I was deliberately undermining him and all the hard work he was doing by deliberately sending out the long renewal letters. And thinking about that, that kind of struck a chord with some emails that you read on Wikimedia L sometimes. So what seemed to exist in this organization, the Liberal Democrats, or so in the Wikimedia movement, or also in a number of other organizations I've worked in, is kind of, if you read some of the communications that happen within those organizations amongst some of the volunteers, from some of the volunteers directed to some of the staff, you get a sense that some people, or the people voicing their opinions, on the one hand, working incredibly hard to contribute to the movement. On the other hand, you get the sense of kind of perpetual outrage about decisions that are being taken and essentially how long people are getting everything. Does that sound familiar? Yeah, getting some nods? Good. So this made me think, what are the commonalities between these different organizations I have experience of? Because sometimes we hear, or I hear, I don't know about you, I hear the view expressed that either the Wikimedia Foundation is particularly bad at dealing with everything, or alternatively, on the other hand, that the Wikimedia community is somehow particularly difficult to work with. And I don't think that either of those things is particularly true. And I don't think that a conversation conducted along those lines reinforces that kind of unhelpful, us and them, mentality. So this made me think, what actually is going on? Is there some kind of fundamental dynamic that is affecting the relationship between the WMF and the Wikimedia community as a whole? So basically, what I think happens in all these organizations, and in ours particularly, is that we rely heavily on volunteers to spend a huge amount of their time and energy and passion contributing, in our sense, editing articles, uploading photos, dealing with vandals, that kind of thing. The people who take part the most and who contribute the most to the kind of meta-level discussions about the future of the movement, or about whether media viewer ought to be enabled on Commons, or something like that, those people are also the people with the most emotional stake in what's happening. And they care very strongly about the questions of, so what's the future of the Wikimedia movement? What's the foundation strategy should media viewer be enabled on Commons? They also feel that those are issues that they don't have any control over. So they feel that decisions are being taken in some office in San Francisco by somebody they probably don't know. And I don't know how they can influence those decisions, or they assume there is no way for them to do so. There's kind of a power imbalance that's just created by having an organization with a staff and a volunteer community. This made me think about this what's called the circle of influence and circle of concern, which is, essentially, people care about a wide range of things. They can only influence some of them. And the fact that there are some things they can influence, some things that they really care about that they can't influence, causes anxiety, frustration, and worry. So I kind of summed this up with this sentence here, which is the Wikimedia Foundation causes worry and frustration for Wikimedia volunteers, simply by existing, which not the world's most positive way of looking at things. But I think it's an insight and one which contains the seeds of some ways to address that worry and frustration and to result in a happier and more constructive Wikimedia movement. So something else that I often notice is that it's very easy for people on the volunteer slash community side of the discussion to make some quite negative assumptions about what is going on. So I actually was talking about this bit here from the eight fundraising debates of 2011 to 2012. Is that Jeff there sitting next to Rachel? Hello, Jeff. Yeah. I'm sure Jeff remembers this just as well as I do. So there were participating in that discussion from a chapter, from the kind of chapter point of view. For months I was listening to quite sensible people telling me about how the WMF was planning to do something really bad and nobody really wanted chapters to exist and things like that, which struck me as the time is slightly too strong a way of looking at things. So I was hearing people saying, so the plan was not only to stop chapters processing payments, which OK, there was a discussion that was going to happen. Also that the chapter selected members from the WMF board were going to be removed, which there's no sign of that ever happening. Or indeed abolishing Wikipedia chapters entirely, which I put in this essay was pure fantasy. Then on the talk page of this essay, we have Nemo. I don't know Nemo very well, but for most of his contributions to various discussions, he strikes me as quite sensible, saying, actually, yeah, that was definitely really a plan and by burning the land around existing chapters, the WMF is consciously trying to kill them off. If any of you there are part of the seek for WMF conspiracy to destroy each chapter that Nemo believes in and I don't, please raise your hands. No, this is good. Thank you. But it's kind of my conclusion after years of engaging in conversation with people about the WMF chapter relationship is that the last thing on the Wikimedia Foundation's mind is getting rid of chapters. Nonetheless, there's at least one person who thinks that the only reason that chapters haven't been abolished yet is because there are other things that the WMF is busy doing. So that's what I mean with the negative assumptions and negative expectations. From an initial situation of concern, it's very easy for somebody in a position of low power and low insight into what is actually happening, I think, to assume the worst and stop worrying about questions like, oh my god, what are they going to do next? So that, too, is part of the issue. Yeah, I just wanted to kind of note this kind of spectrum of motivation levels here. I mean, on any given issue, any given community member, there's probably somewhere on this spectrum. From at the top saying, yes, wonderful, I completely agree with what's happening here. Keep it up. Well, they probably know what they're doing, too. Questioning whether the decision being made is the right one. Well, that's not how I would have done it. But the WMF is still basically a good thing. Through to questioning competence, so whoever thought that that was a good idea clearly knows nothing about the issue. Through to questioning the fundamental values of whoever they're dealing with and assuming that not only does whoever it is not know what they're talking about, but they are deliberately taking the WMF down the path of turning into the next Google or something like that. And at the bottom, assuming personal rejection and saying, basically, there's no explanation for what the WMF is doing, apart from the fact that they don't care about all the efforts I and everybody else like me is putting in and they don't care about us, which is all really quite unfair on whoever it is on the WMF side that is dealing with this issue. Again, I have a perspective on this of being not only a community member thinking, what's going on? I also have the perspective of being a staff member of a non-profit thinking, why are so many people misinterpreting what I'm doing? And I think the objective fact is that nobody at the Wikimedia Foundation gets out of bed in the morning working out how they can make life miserable for volunteers. And the objective fact is that most WMF staff are just as committed to the work of the movement as anybody else in the community. But still, we sometimes, literally, get the emails to Wikimedia L or the comments on METU or something saying something like this. Again, not all of the time. And some staff members might not notice this, particularly at all, but it's still a there are probably plenty of other people who noticed it plenty. So this kind of the rapidity with which people's individual volunteers' views can slide down this scale is basically a symptom of this, of the fundamental imbalance in the relationship. OK. So how can we do this better? For community members, the only advice I'm going to offer is that whichever points you are on this scale at any point in time, reality is probably quite a lot better than you feel. I, myself, have certainly been at all of the points on this scale at various points and various conversations I've had, but reality has always been better and yeah. But this is actually mainly addressed at Wikimedia Foundation staff and board members. So I think the real question is how do you individually and how does WMF corporately handle conversations with the movement in a way that empowers and validates volunteers? And how do we communicate in a way that results in few, if any, negative assumptions about the way things are going? So I have a checklist here, but I will try to make this as checklisty as possible. But I will talk it through in a slightly different way while I'm here. So the first thing is to identify what's going on, what you are trying to achieve, and why you're trying to achieve it in, I think, pretty much any area, a project that's ill-specified or unclear or has a useless endpoint is a bad idea and that is even more true if it's a project that involves having a big conversation in the Wikimedia movement. One example of this, sorry, next point, the next issue is how big an issue is it that you've identified? And there is limited bandwidth within the movement for lots of different conversations to happen. Is this issue an issue that it's worth spending lots of bandwidth on? A example where this, I think it wasn't the case, was if anybody remembers the Media Viewer issue back in 2011 when the Foundation Board decided that it was very important that people could vows Wikimedia without seeing images of Genitalia or the Prophet Muhammad or something like that. That didn't really go very well because it proved to be extremely controversial within the community. And it also proved to be not very well aligned with what the WMF strategy was. So that's kind of an example of it would have been much better if that particular initiative had been kind of gone through some kind of, OK, so what are the big issues in 2011 that we're trying to solve process and it would probably have come out rather lower on the list of priorities for community discussion than some of the other things. So that's step one, defining the issue, the problem that you perceive and deciding that it's something that it's worthwhile to be accessing a conversation about. The next point to my mind is taking ownership of the issue you've identified. So one of the ways to short circuit the kind of us and them mentality is if people at WMF are as clear as possible about who thinks a particular thing is an issue and why. That way conversations get focused around issues much more quickly, I think, because you supply much more context for the conversation if it's clear who's owning it. And also it means there's a name behind it and there is a discussion happening with a person or a team rather than this kind of unspecified nebulous them who do bad things all of the time. Then it's always helpful to enter this kind of conversation with a idea of what the solution is or what direction the solution should be going in. I think, however, it's important not to get too invested in your solution right away. And it's probably healthy to assume that you only have parts of the picture. This is where this concept of integrative negotiation I think is quite important. So if you're haggling over the price of a antique or something, I go in with I'll give you 20 pounds for the person telling it says, oh, I only want 100. OK, how about 30? How about 90? How about 40? How about 80? Where your only concern is to get concessions out of the other party. That I don't think many of our conversations seem to end up or start off like that. But the better way of looking at it is this integrative bargaining approach where you assume that all parties are basically collectively solving a problem together. And this is something that has improved a lot between WMF and its various stakeholders in the last few years. This is so much more of an approach that we as a movement are trying to address some difficult problems. And nobody has the whole answer. And we're going to work together to work out what our criteria are. Once we've established what criteria for success, then we'll look at what the evidence is that different things are succeeding or not, taking into account everybody's views about what the ideal outcome is. Which is kind of important because the further one takes a step back from the immediate cause of the dispute, the easier it is to identify common ground. So for instance, people are currently saying, well, WMF has to disable media viewer on comments. And it would be quite possible to have a really big shouting match about that, which is something that should definitely not happen, the shouting match. But taking a step back from that, OK, what is WMF trying to achieve with media viewer? What are people who participate in comments trying to achieve their participation? They can have a step back. Then you get to a point of agreement. And once you've reached the point of agreement, it is then much easier to work towards a solution than it is starting with the disagreement and just addressing that right away. Good. It's a good idea to define a time and space for conversation to happen. It's also a good idea for staff members and board members, indeed, to contribute with their personal views and their perspectives. Again, this comes back to the if there's an us under them, then the they is normally monolithic and unapproachable. And there being real people engaging in real dialogue, or at least saying, yes, you're coming up with some really useful points that we need to bear in mind. That in itself is immensely reassuring. I mean, if you are behaving in the way that I'm saying, if you're following this advice, then you are fundamentally behaving in a way that acknowledges the value of other people's contributions. No harm also stating explicitly that you are acknowledging that you think what people are saying makes sense and you think they have a valuable role to play in it. That's often very welcome to hear. And very much at all costs just avoid, it may be possible, to simply barge through and impose what you think needs to happen. But doing that figures every bad response imaginable for some volunteers, really, as was quite clear with the whole Super Protect issue. Good. That is probably enough of me talking. So if anybody has questions, please get them very. If anybody's reading this on IRC, please type up your questions now. Discussion, comments, questions. Hi. Hello. Yeah, Bruce from Community Engagement. So I found it really helpful from your presentation, the graphics that I think you have on some text format of this essay that is on Meta. And I was wondering if you are thinking of sharing that on the essay on Meta as well. I think that it would help sustain some of your points. Yeah. Yes. It's on my to-do list somewhere. Thank you, Chris, for your presentation. This is Hayatang from Community Engagement. Speaking of graphics, I find myself most of the time disagree with the concentric notion of the movement around the foundation, the center as a circle, and then the community surrounding it. Some people might say it in this way. Yeah. Specifically because of what we call, and I'm glad you acknowledged the notion of we and them, what we call the community is not really the community that we see. I usually see the community in multiple tiers. We have the WMF community, which is active on the media, Meta, et cetera. They're the most active and vocal members of the community. And then there's the Wikimedia community that is our editors. Most of them, perhaps, they don't know about the Wikimedia foundation or its existence. And I think the Wikimedia foundation's role in the movement is to work for the Wikimedia community and serve their needs, whatever those are. Sometimes it has to go through the negotiation process with WMF community. But essentially, if those entities are not aligned with WMF and its core community, we won't be able to serve the larger community, which is the Wikimedia community. And that's the sole existence. That's the sole goal of our existence as WMF for chapters. Yeah. Thank you. So yes, that's certainly a good point. And I mean, the community is itself quite nebulous. And there are many different communities and many different layers of community, which makes the Wikimedia movement really a fascinating place to do anything, really, because it's so nuanced. Now, essentially, everything that I'm saying is making a big assumption that the WMF should be playing some kind of leadership role in that. And that is certainly not to say that the WMF ought to be leading every discussion, showing a lead on every issue. There are some people who would probably say that the WMF shouldn't be trying to lead anything. But what I think I'm trying to do is provide some insight so that where the WMF is leading in a particular area, it's leading in a more effective manner, which is more empowering of the people it's dealing with. Thanks, Chris. I have at least three more questions from IRC. So the first one is, what to do when the participants are not willing to participate in conversations? Good question. One, I have an answer to, sadly. There's two scenarios there. Three scenarios. I've just thought of an awful one. There is one which is that potential participants are too angry to take part in a conversation. In some ways, that's probably the easiest one to deal with, because with a big enough olive branch, it's always possible to calm people down or calm down enough people. Second scenario is people don't really notice the conversation you're trying to have or don't really care about it. In which case, you know your channels for reaching different groups of community members, and I won't rehearse them all. If you have exhausted that and you're sure that you've asked the right question, then simply going through saying, right, we had a consultation of some form. It didn't quite get any faction. That may be evidence that you can proceed with caution, because maybe people don't have strong views. The third option, though, is that people have noticed that you're trying to talk to them, but don't believe that what you're doing is likely enough to have an impact that they wish to participate, which kind of, again, goes back to the point I was making about how you define your objectives and the problem you're trying to solve. So to sum up those slightly incoherent thoughts, assuming it's not because people are too angry, and if they're too angry, you will notice, then probably look again at the assumptions you're making about what you're trying to achieve and who the stakeholders might be. And if, once you've done that, you still think everything is as it should be, then I would plunge ahead and see what happens. It's one of the cases where be bold is the right rule. Thanks, Chris. Sati has a question, and you can unmute Sati. Hi, Chris. Can you hear me well? Yep. OK. So thanks so much for this talk. I really appreciated, when I first read through your essay on meta. And I really appreciated the spectrum of motivation, because I think that's been my experience as well. So it was great to see it articulated. I guess to follow up on the point you just made, it seems like when we do these types of quote unquote consultations, or requests for comment, or whatever form they take, there's always varied participation. People who you think would be engaged aren't people who you never heard of, are engaged all of a sudden. And it seems like we take two main paths, right? We do general communication, and we do one-on-one communication. I guess it goes back to the point where you said there's limited oxygen. One person might have many roles, might have many perspectives, but we can't keep tapping them across many different topics. And so how do we diversify, basically? How do we get more voice into these give input? Yep. Not sure I know the answer to that one. OK, no problem. I'll think about it. While you're thinking about that one, Chris, we have another question from IRC, and then at least one more here in San Francisco. The question from IRC is, what happens when a community member that is advising a staff member is wrong and gives bad advice? Because this happens a lot. The staff then gets heat for doing the wrong thing, and no one ever notices that they were trying very hard. And staff cannot, of course, throw the community member under the bus. I think this is a perennial problem about advice. I've been on so many training courses where I've been told, don't give people advice. Only have conversations with them about to try and tease out the answers from them, because that's the way that means that you're not inserting your own errors into somebody else's thought process. So aside from that, any community member is only ever giving their own view. And again, the way our community works, because it's so diffuse, community members have completely different views. And when you get a community member moving in to a position of authority, they suddenly become them as well. How is any of what I'm saying useful? I think essentially, if you're asking a community member for advice, you have to note that that advice comes with a big pinch of salt and whatever. Simply saying, oh, well, we asked a community member the right way to approach this doesn't avoid a staff member's responsibility for that topic. And if you approach the kind of helpful community members as people to bounce things off, rather than what you think we should do, that's more likely to be productive. OK, thanks. We have a question from the office now. Hi, this is Maria Eisen from Community Engagement. Hi. I was wondering what your views were on the dichotomy as versus them, which is a topic that comes up frequently in global studies and in global conversations, et cetera. And I actually think we had this conversation in our team with Witte Lama, where he was pointing out that we should try to avoid this as versus them dichotomy. However, I see that your essay is pretty much taken by this view, and then you also start using we at the beginning, which is interesting. Yeah. I want to read it. And so I was wondering if you see that there is no escape for our movement from this dichotomy? My view is that we can work it out somehow on what is your advice in this sense. And this is related to what Haydn was saying before. I do think that WMF is part of the community. And I do think that there are multiple communities, and we are to the movement. So if you can explain all that, that would be awesome. OK. I think avoiding us versus them communication or us versus them emotional responses to issues is pretty vital for everybody. Now, my essay refers to us versus them quite a lot, not because I think that's how things ought to happen, but because us versus them is such a natural tendency that everybody in the movement should aim to have an awareness of how easy it is to slip into this us versus them dynamic and what impact it then has. Because if you imagine we're all walking down a path littered with us versus them bear saps and ditches to fall into, being aware of this dynamic is the best way to avoid anybody falling into any ditches or any bear saps. I hope that makes sense. OK, Chris, I think that's all the questions that we have for now. Thank you so much for doing this talk. Is there anything that you want to say to wrap up? No. Thank you very much for listening. Thank you for all the questions. And if anybody has any more thoughts, please do post them on the talk page on Meta, and we can keep the conversation going there. Great. Thanks again so much, Chris. Thank you. Bye.


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I don't even know what to say boys, I got 14 day ban on Madden, my whole wheel of mutt squad, my 4 million coins, everything that I needed to complete Wheel of Mutt before, before I don't play Madden in all of June and July. Today is May 16th right, and they ban me for 14 days, and I promise you guys that I would not be posting Madden all of June and July, meaning I'm banned right up until June and July. You would think EA would want to support their largest Madden content creator, and yes that's a humble brag, but it's facts.  Is this it boys? Is this the end of Wheel of Mutt? Look at me, look at me, look at me EA, look at me, look at me, you're out of your mind. You think a 14 day ban would stop me? A 14 year ban wouldn't stop me. My subscribers, my fanbase is the greatest fanbase to exist on YouTube, FACTS! And I'll tell you why, I told the boys on Twitter, I said boys, EA is trying to stop us, and everyone is pitching in right now to rebuild the WOM squad. Number one, Nick DeMeo just hooked me up and let me use his account, which is so clutch. Now I'm not going to lie, the team is going to have to, you guys are going to have to live with me here, the team is going to have to be a little bit ratchet. And I know that does suck, but some of the players from my old team either won't be on the auction house or are not going to be attainable. For example, I had 98 Seyquan Barkley, right? Well, the 98 Seyquan Barkley you could only get if you played on Madden 18 and got Seyquan's rookie card, something like that. So it's not really possible for me to get the Seyquan on this one, so I'm going to have to do a different halfback. No matter what happens though, it will be Wheel of Mut, it will be sick, we're going to win all three playoff games, then we're going to win the Super Bowl, and I'm going to rub all of it in EA's face because they cannot stop me. I'm going to finish assembling the squad, we will come back here for this first episode in the playoffs, and then that's it boys. Are you ready to bask in the glory of what we've reassembled? Alright, check her out. Okay, so I need everybody to understand something before I hop in.  This is what they want. They want me to be upset. They want you guys to not like the series. They want us to lose and we're not going to lose. So I wrote this speech. A man's wheel of mutt squad is not determined by the players on his team. It is not determined by the overall he has made or even the amount of wins he has. For a man's wheel of mutt squad is determined by the blood sweat and tears given for each difficult game. It is determined by the attitude he brings each day by his ability to persevere and roll with the punches.   With that being said, let's overview what the team looks like right now. You know what the team basically is right now? It's like when Thanos snapped his fingers and there was only like some of the Avengers left. Like yeah, it was pretty sick that we still had like Captain America and Iron Man. But we're missing Spider-Man. We're missing some of the cool guys. The things that we can't get back. We can't get Seguin Barclay back. So we got Phillip Lindsay in here instead. I couldn't find the 92 Chris Carter. So I threw an Tyree Kill. I couldn't find 92 Gronk. So we actually got a 96 George Kittle. It's just even better. Offensive line is totally different. I'm honest. Now we also don't have some of the power-ups on some of these players. So like I got Bobby Wagner who's not powered up. I got Talvin Smith. He's not powered up. We did get Von Miller. Oh no, I need Foyuzalucan. I have to go get Foyuzalucan. That's so important. Foyuzalucan is only 14k. It's just incredible. Now I just don't have a lot of coins right now. I am working on getting more coins. But this is how I got banned in the first place was buying coins. So, you know, maybe I should like chill out. Now, another kind of a big L is I can't get 99D on Sanders. So we have 90D on Sanders. To make up for that, I got 99A on Donald instead of the 90 overall on Donald. I got Kalimax still. I don't have Landon Collins, but I got Ed Reid instead. I don't have Micah Hyde, but I've Justin Simmons instead. So honestly, this team is like a slightly better. There are some spots that are definitely worse. But there are some spots that are definitely better. So I think my last team was an 89 overall and this one's a 90. All right, boys, we've only got 250,000 coins. However, I think that'll be enough. Hopefully if I get some crazy like jackpot, then I'll make 250,000 coins work. Not letting EA win. This is going to be sick still. So our first spin is going to be a packet coin. You know what? Because I kind of did cheat and take this 99 Aaron Donald. So, okay, my actual Aaron Donald was a 90 overall and I should have powered this down to a 90. But I just got Pack-A-Punch. So we're just going to keep this godly 99 Aaron Donald.  It's beautiful. The next spin, please, this is the playoffs. We'll give me something. Team the week boss? Nope. Insanity pack. Okay, we get one Insanity pack. We can choose two slots in the Insanity pack and we can only take one of the players. Okay. So I'm going to choose two slots. So bottom left is 85 Lawrence Taylor. It's a 95 right tackle. Let's go. So I got a 95 right tackle. Hopefully my man's is not super expensive. 95 right tackle and we got a 99 Aaron Donald. Well, this is an excellent first episode back. Challenge wheel. Tell me which I have so much inspiration. I'm like, I'm pumped to play right now. Like this is what I needed to happen. Fullback touchdown. Yo, our fullback on this new, like technically new series is like a 48 overall like bronze. Like he's so shitty. All right, boys. Let's hop into this game. This is game one of the playoffs. So I need three wins to get to the Super Bowl than the Super Bowl.  What do you got? I don't think that's my team. I think that's his team. I wonder what you have, bro. Phillip Lindsey entirely unguarded over there. So not really sure why that is, but I'm just going to hit George Kittle right in the middle of the field for eight yards. This is such a weird, he's usuring the corner that's on Phillip Lindsey. Oh, I'm going to scramble with Lamar Jackson. Are you kidding? Look at all this room. Dude, and these jerseys are sick. This is a cover too, I think. Oh, wow. That was a good day. First and 10. Okay, he got. That was so lucky. All right, you know what, my friend? You're going to get one of those every once in a while. Okay, there's Odell. Now I RB right up the middle. Oh, wait, no, who is in it? Who's in at RB right now? Oh, it's John Coon. Bro, why are you in? All right. I mean, it didn't really matter that it was him, because that was a terrible throw, right? But that's okay. We're going to clamp on defense, get the ball back, and I'm still going to win this game. Come on. Second and sixth, he does go with the run play, and I'm going to get to the outside tackle made by Chris Harris Jr. The 99 Chris Harris Jr. is like the replacement for our 90-90 ensigners, basically. We got some underneath routes coming. I'm very ready for them. Okay. I'm here for this.  Okay, he actually runs it, which is odd, but okay, totally clamped. Second and 12. Let's see what he wants. I've got both of these fully locked.  Let's go!  I haven't used Ryan Shizir in so long. Let's go! I'm the two-yard line. Let's go! 99 more to the house! Let's go! From the two-yard line! Oh, I should almost... I'm not gonna, but I could almost have stopped on the one to get my full bank touchdown, but I just wanted that. Let's go! 5 wide on the two-yard line. That's bold. Big set, dude. Shizir's about to be the MVP, and we've never used him before. I'm pumped about that. Okay, crossers. Let's go! Shizir with the second pick.   Here it comes. Gonna hit Randy Moss on the slant route again, and there's 12 yards. He's running some weird defenses. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.  Let's see if he... Okay, his controller froze. Oh, Del's got it out his feet. Wait! Oh, my God. I just voice cracked. I ruined that whole play. Why did I voice it? Why, bro? I just had to crack. It was so good. What do we got next? What do we got? What do we got? What do we got? What do we got? Oh, yeah. Toss it.   Let's go!  I called it. Your cheeks. Let's go. It doesn't matter, boys. It doesn't matter how much EA wants to cut us.  All right. I got one spin on the rage quit wheel getting that rage quit right there. And then we're just going to hop right in to the next one. Let's see it. So we get a 92 overall on the team wheel. That's actually sick. Going to spin our wheel of all the NFL teams. I get 192 overall player from this NFL team. Definitely going to want to grab like, I don't know, an offensive lineman or maybe a detackle. It would be clutch. We got the Texans. I don't know who the Texans have. So let's see. 92 strong safety. Ooh, cornerback. Bradley Roby. Get Bradley Roby. 95 speed on Roby. Yo. Yes, bro. 100% doing that. I could get JJ a lot actually too, but no, I'm going to get that Roby. That Bradley Roby is clutch. Okay. 100%. Here we go. 52 overall cornerback for the rage quit wheel. And now we got a 95 speed slot corner. Way better than kind of fuller. I'm actually going to start Roby over here and put Dion at my slot because that Roby is really good. Wow. That is such a good card. Ladies and gentlemen, that's it for this episode. We pack a punch Aaron Donald. We reset the team despite EA literally banning me. However, we're ready to go. We're one and all in the playoffs. We got to go two and all in the next episode. Then three and all and then the Super Bowl. And that'll be it for wheeling them up for this season.  I love you all for watching. Thank you for sticking with me. You guys are the best in the world. You know, I love you. I'll see you in the next video. Peace out. Peace out.