There is a very useful device that can be used at home to evaluate asthma severity. By using the device routinely, patients can learn about their normal lung function when they are not having any symptoms of asthma and then repeat the test on a routine basis in order to detect any problems with breathing even before symptoms develop. Using a peak flow meter is kind of like having an early warning system for asthma and every patient should have one. It is like having a thermometer if you have a young child or having a glucose monitor if you have diabetes. By checking the peak flow readings, the patient is able to give the doctor more information about lung function between appointments. The peak flow meter is very easy to use. The following are the steps in using a peak flow meter.  Standing up is preferable. Make sure that the indicator is moved to the bottom of the scale at zero.  Take a very deep breath. Flow into the peak flow meter as forcefully as possible, completely emptying the lungs. Note the readings. Then re-zero the scale and repeat this process twice, recording three readings. Record the best of the three readings in the peak flow diary or log. The patient should breathe out from the diaphragm, not from the cheeks.   Reading should always be taken in triplicate, and the best of the three used for the reading. This is because techniques is very important. If a patient coughs or the tongue gets in the way, then the reading might be incorrect. Repeating the process three times decreases the risk of recording a bad reading. Patients should talk to the doctor and pharmacists about peak flow monitoring. The healthcare professional can provide additional information concerning how to establish the personal best peak flow, so each individual knows exactly what their peak flow readings should be when they are not having symptoms. This allows the patient and the physician to have a point of reference when the peak flow changes. Good morning. It looks like your doctor has prescribed a peak flow meter for you to use to monitor asthma, and I've actually selected one called an asthma mentor for you, and this is yours that I'll be giving you. I want to show you how to use it at home to make sure you're familiar with how to use it appropriately. It's very easy to use.   Not like that. You want to do the, okay. You're going to blow as forcefully as you can, and you're going to do it three times in a row, and you're going to take the best reading of the three. The main thing is that you want to make sure that you're standing up or sitting up very straight when you use it. You want to put the mouthpiece of the pete flow meter in your mouth. You want to wrap your lips around the mouthpiece, and make sure you don't get your tongue in the way, okay. So I'm going to show you how to do it, so you breathe in. You blow out as forcefully as you can. That time I did around 400, okay, then you just take your finger and move the red indicator to the bottom of the scale before you do it the second time. I'm getting better around 420 that time, okay, then move it down and do it a third time around 400. So if you take the best reading of those three, my best pete flow for this reading would be 420, and I would actually record that in my diary that your doctor gave you to record your pete flow readings, okay. So let's see if you do it, and let's see if you're doing it correctly.  So you're getting around 340. So take your finger and move it back down to the bottom one more time, okay. You're getting better too, you're up to 420 that time. You're getting the hang of it, so move one less time, very good. Around 440, and so you would actually record 440 in your diary, and then you would check it as often as your doctor has indicated, usually you check it three times a day.  It's kind of like an early warning system to see if you're having trouble breathing. Okay. Do you have any questions for me? No, that's pretty straightforward. Thanks very much. Thank you.


When you give up a play, the only thing that matters is what you do when you come back to the next play. What do we preach about? It's everything we talk about, about not worrying about the last play. You can't do anything about the play that happened before. That's the exact example we're talking about. Offense, we talked about getting off to a fast start. It didn't happen. You guys kept plowing, pounding, getting them tired. We scored touchdowns in the red zone. You guys fought through. OK, we're 50%. We were 6'8 on third down in the second half. That won the game. That won the game. Whatever happened in seven games, we're in the same spot we were last year. And we're ready to go. We got to keep improving. That's what this league is about. Who can improve week to week? Who can get healthy? Who can come back, understand the situations, and keep going? Hey, look, check this out, bro. We enjoy winning, man. Like I told them, we're early this week. I'm leaving who I came in this with. Let's rock the game. Hey, hey, tights on three. One, two, three.


All right, I'll kick it off. Hold on. I was checking to check it off. David likes a good prop Needs a good steam or iron, but otherwise we'll let it pass So we're gonna talk about the Fort Worth lab and I get to kick it off I've had a goal for a number of years That envisions a group of employees working at a corporate level that combines data analytics and Budgeting or how we allocate our scarce resources and public policy analysis all with the idea of answering the question for you city council and our Citizens in our community How are we making Fort Worth a better place? In our organization, we have a large number of plans. We collect a lot of data We have a large operating and capital budget And we measure a lot of activities. I Think there is magic though when you combine all of that and Then have a bunch of curious people that ask public policy questions like Has the increase in spending in street lights and pavement markings made Fort Worth a safer place and has traffic and pedestrian accidents gone down Or we've added a number of civilian response positions in police to handle Lower priority activity How is that? improve the availability of time for patrol officers or How can we improve the 911 system from the time the caller calls us to the time the responses by their side? And it is also about looking into the future like how will artificial intelligence drones robotics Effects service delivery and how we deliver services in the city of Fort Worth in The past we've had a department It was been named budget management budget and research performance and budget and most recently planning and data analytics I asked mark McGann mark McDaniel look at where we are Look at where we need to be and then tell us how we're going to get there So we're making the recommendation of and we're calling it Fort Worth lab and Mark's going to describe what that means. I Think it's a great visual though Right. It is about Exploration, it's about learning. It's about analysis. It's about cause and effect And most importantly, it's about making Fort Worth a better place Not only today, but tomorrow next week next year Next decade and the generation that follows So this is our idea of how do we take all of what we already produce which is plans data measurements and And turn it into useful information for you our city council and our community mark Dr. Mark take it away. Thank you. Dr. Cook So Good afternoon mayor and council It's a pleasure to be in front of you after three months being here And talking to a lot of folks here on the ground in Fort Worth and also talking to a lot of my colleagues around the nation that are part of the my network and my previous life And a lot of the different associations that have also helped to contribute to this and you'll see that as we proceed through the slides Mark apologies to interrupt you, but I'd like for you to introduce for those watching and those Maybe that know who you are and your background and why you're so critical for this role Oh, thank you. David somehow suckered you into it Thank you, mayor. So mark mcdaniel Been in city management for 35 years Managed cities 8,000 population up to 1.3 Million and with the with Dallas And then I got the opportunity to come here to fort worth after speaking with David When I was recruiting to fill this position that I'm feeling right now on an interim basis And so my my career has been built mostly on city management But also with an emphasis on performance improvement and budgeting and fiscal analysis. Thank you. Thank you So we always like to tie back to our vision and mission whenever we begin a new journey And our vision as you can see here does mention that we'll be the most livable and best managed city in the country And so fort worth lab Definitely has that vision in mind Then we look at our mission. It's also about working together to build a strong community And the way we have structured and formatted the fort worth lab is definitely What makes it different perhaps than other efforts in a lot of collaboration, particularly among all departments and all staff We always like to also remind ourselves as staff as we begin a new effort About the strategic vision priorities that you all established here recently As you see on the slide here all three of them supporting the quality of life So what's next as we've talked about it's the fort worth lab And so it's building municipal systems capabilities to explore analyze and learn from data And the why is really important to talk about as as well. So why why would we do this? I think mr. Cook really articulated it well, but It's also enhanced and meaningful public engagement. Uh, that that's the fuel for this uh to make it work Uh collaboration among departments as I mentioned just a moment ago And also making sure that we have our eye on the ball in terms of the council's strategic vision priorities And then better tools to develop and use data analytics So you'll see in a moment where we're bringing in some resources to do that And then looking at our performance trends so that we can begin to what we call bend the curve in a favorable direction As we see trends develop over time Also in enhanced transparency and accountability so that we we own The work that we're doing and then just better informed consideration for both long and short-term decisions So making that happen as has been mentioned the planning and data analytics will be Transformed to become the fort worth lab through the realignment collaboration of people tools and systems before I go into uh the driver, which is really the public engagement and and Hearing from the council and others stakeholders I want to talk a little bit about leadership which will make sure that this is sustainable over time So, uh the whole effort reports up through to the city manager And we want to introduce a corporate advisory board So if you think about fort worth being a really a multi-billion dollar corporation with several thousand employees I think we can learn some things from the private sector Which I have done in in a prior life For them to advise us on best practices in the private sector and how we could apply those in the public sector Now we know we know that government can't necessarily run like a business But we do know that we can borrow best practices from the private sector and use them and you'll see some of those in a moment So the idea here is that uh, mr. Cook would would appoint C-suite executives, uh from Large some of the largest employers in fort worth to serve on this board They'd meet at least twice a year to hear about what we're doing and make suggestions about how we might Further improve the way that we're running as a as an organization The other really critical piece here is the staff leadership steering committee Will be meeting once a month and we'll be talking about the deployment of these strategies the pace that we're we're proceeding at And just all the strategies involved to make sure that it's going to work And also so that they own it and they have a stake a stake in it Then the chief transformation officer Will report up and run the lab on a day to day basis So you don't see this title a lot in public sector. You will see it in private sector And we're we're pleased to introduce it here to to really be accountable for making sure all this works So on the left hand side, this is really the fuel that drives the engine Is all that feedback mechanism? Whether it's the council telling us what your key priorities are and those driving budget decisions and the way we do business on Business planning or it's the community with our traditional surveys, which we still do and we're about to launch another one here in a while Or the traditional town hall meetings, right? Those are still part of this Now if you think about budget comprehensive planning the bond program, those are all public engagement Efforts we want to make sure that those dovetail and that they're working together And that we are kind of cross pollinating information for those efforts and doing it all out of the lab And so we'll also be using a lot more robust platform software platforms to get Feedback from people that perhaps we don't hear from all the time And that will then complement the citizen surveys So I'm going to start going into each of these components First of all, we talk we start with strategic foresight and future shreds So this is working with an outside firm with the Alliance for Innovation Fort Worth is actually a member of this organization So we already get some of their studies and this is looking out as The city manager mentioned 30 50 years from now What does service look like not just in the u.s. But around the world and how service delivery Could be provided for for in the future And then talking to a lot of stakeholders Maybe inside the organization even outside the organization here in fort worth And really discussing what if you know, what if we could do this and how would that work and what sort of technologies out there now So there's a it's a group of futurists That can look at a variety of topics and we're toying with what that first one might be I would envision doing about two of these a year And so we've looked at a number of service areas that we might want to Really hone in on and so, you know, we do a lot of studies now like the matrix studies and the gateway study or city gate studies But that's really about the here and now It's not about what is that service delivery look like 20 30 40 50 years from now And how can we position ourselves now to be able to really take advantage of those new technologies Whether that's artificial intelligence or just a new way of doing things The next piece is data analytics. We do this in the organization Some of our better departments at this or I would say are probably police and perhaps Transportation and public works Experimenting with a lot of tools. So we're we're contracting with the firm called delivery associates This is a this is a firm actually out of the uk, but they have a lot of presence in the us And so they provide us tools And then they train us how to use those tools and it's kind of turn Teaching us how to fish right so after they're gone and then we can still use those tools And what we what we anticipate here is a multi-phase program where we're taking a few departments a year And walking them through the use of these tools helping to train train them in the use of these tools Um, and then you'll see that next with priority based budgeting as well So the first three departments that we're focusing on are police Transportation and public works and we want to use an internal service. Um, so we're going to use human resources To help them to analyze the data and use these new tools in different ways that we've never used before It'll also really start looking at things like predictive analytics and Transportation and public works is already experimenting with with with some of this now About where they need to focus their maintenance dollars or where they may anticipate You know street lights going out that sort of thing The next piece is priority based budgeting and this is moving away from that traditional line item approach where we're really Talking about putting things in front of the council decision packages that are about Does this meet your priority and to what degree does it meet your priorities? So we can rank each of those decision packages in that way So when we ask the departments to submit their budget, they're doing them in alignment with these priorities And so we'll have a firm resource x help us with that again teaching us how to do it So that we don't we don't have to have them on on on board all the time They're kind of a lab partner so to speak for now And so they'll help us prioritize and allocate mapping those costs back to the strategic priorities So the listening sessions that we had with all of you To interpret for us with the what the priorities meant That information will then go into this help us to to prioritize each of these in that way The next piece is what we already do in terms of comprehensive planning And we're as you all are very well aware We're about to launch on a very public effort haven't done that in about 20 years as far as the extent to which we want to engage the public In developing the next comprehensive plan That rfp is already out on the street And we will ask the council to select A service provider mid-summer and then work we will likely begin in the fall So this is what eric and his team has traditionally done But but we're going to go beyond that in this next block So we want to take on the coordination of the bond program still, you know in orchestration with William and his group and Dana and her her group and others on helping to develop that and and Provide all the input that they normally do But then we also want to develop a strategic investment plan. So it's taking All the plans that we have today not just the comprehensive plan, but also area development plans the village plans Tiff plans pit plans water and sewer plans layering all that together And then making recommendations around where do we get the most bang for our buck and be strategic about the investment of our infrastructure So eric and his group along with the budget team We'll be doing that and i'm so excited about this because we're finally marrying the comprehensive planning function with the budgeting function, particularly on the capital side Uh, we're also going to be and I think you're aware of this because it was an ir earlier Look at using Some tools for fiscal analysis around land use decisions So when you have a zoning case or land use change you have some idea about fiscal impacts And so we're looking at providing that information as well out of eric's group This next piece is strategic planning at the department level we'll call it fort worth stat This is a program that you'll find in the nation's largest some nations largest cities where It's a really kind of a quick Review of every department in the city at least twice a year When there's not, you know, you're not fighting a fire in some emergency and it's not the budget process So you can really focus on what's happening And this is where you'll have their SWAT analysis their goals that align back up to the council's strategic priorities You'll also have actions to achieve those goals and what's the dollar amount that might be associated with that So that when we're putting the budget together We've already already know about what the departments might be bringing to us because we've talked about it In these fort worth stat meetings or we call them turn the curve or bend the curve meetings And there'll be statistics statistics statistics in there That we'll be able to to monitor over time and look at those trends And so the new lab will help the departments who develop these strategic plans or the fort worth stat plans The next piece is sunrise reviews This is a kind of a knockoff if you will on sunset reviews I've done sunset reviews in a prior life. They're negative. You never really eliminate whole programs You just really evaluate them and see what you could do better And so we're calling them sunrise reviews because it's about new beginnings and looking at the way we do business And how can we do it differently to make it even better? And so we'll identify opportunities for these maybe two three a year that we'll conduct through the fort worth stat meetings and also through the data analytics And other ways of getting this information up through either the leadership or from employees making suggestions even um The next piece is lean six sigma and the parallel organization Fort worth has a history of the use of lean six sigma I know that we've all heard the staff stand up here and talk about whether it's in lauren's group or You know another group development services how they're using lean six sigma to improve processes Uh with the employees who are closest to the issues understanding them better conducting the analysis And so this is really taking it to a whole another level and deploying it in a whole different way and supporting those efforts that are already happening today But going beyond that and it really enhancing that program across the organization. So let's just say for example We take Two cohorts through the process. Maybe there's 10 to 15 that are in that process per year We teach them how to do lean six sigma But they start their training with the project It's not they go through all their training and okay. Now you have a project They start with the project from the very beginning. So they're starting to make an impact from the very beginning with their project Um, once you get to kind of a critical mass with the number of employees that have gone through this program The mindset on looking at ways things are done Really changes they start looking at it in different ways and said, why don't we do this and why do we still do it this way? And so it really begins to take on the life of its own and move the organization Not just the leadership pulling the organization from the top the people in the from the middle of the organization or even the bottom Pushing it up and forward In an in all in the same direction And that's what I mean when I talk about that parallel organization where you've got this group of people that are really Developing some energy in the organization to move all in that same direction and the last piece Is a As a first in the nation we're working with the government finance officers association of america To deploy a fellowship program around rethinking budgeting And so their initiative on budgeting is is really it's the two differences that I that major differences are number one over the top public engagement So that you really understand what your citizens want and number two Would be The whole idea of party-based budgeting so that it's not just that line item budgeting. It's really about Funding those things that are most important to you as a community And so we'll bring in some fellows each year gfoa will will provide a curriculum And these will be a one-year fellow and hopefully some of these individuals will come on full time with us Not just in the lab, but every department's got budget staff And so this would be a great pipeline for some real talent and some energy Around that in the organization So here's the implementation. We've already we're already bringing on strategic partners To help us with this that I mentioned earlier whether that's delivery associates or alliance for innovation or resource x Um This position that I'm holding now. I'll start recruiting for my replacement that'll fill the position full time in may And then we're realigning our staff to make make sure that we are able to to pull this off And then we'll phase in those each of these components over time And then here's again a timeline in terms of what I just described and we're kind of layering in the proposed budget process


Okay welcome everyone to the Ask the Expert and I'm going to tell you we have two amazing experts here with us today for the Amazon Web Service on behalf of TechSoup and all of our employees here we want to thank you for being here just a little bit of housekeeping you probably used to this but if you have a question please put it in the Q&A you could type it in the chat room as well I think we'll be able to manage the chat room as well but we love putting questions in the Q&A and if you think that question you said oh I was going to ask that same question why don't you go ahead and give it a thumbs up that'll put it at the top this is being recorded so it'll be sent to everybody who's registered within 48 hours so if you hear something you're like you know what what did he say you don't remember we'll be sending it out to you if you need the closed caption go ahead and tap the CC button at the bottom of your screen it'll turn on the closed caption for you so enough about housekeeping I'm going to get right to our speakers we have today Jamie Gluck he is the Global Program Manager at Amazon Web Service with the focus on empowering nonprofits big and small with resources they need to use the cloud technology for mission impact thank you so much for being here Jamie and we also have Mike George he's a senior solution architect I love that title at AWS with a passion for working with organizations to understand their technology needs and then solutions to welcome to both of you thank you for being here with us today one and thank you so much Aretha it's a pleasure to be here for those near and far I saw we had someone from Mexico and the Philippines and Oklahoma all over the country so thank you so much it's a pleasure to be here my name is Jamie Gluck and Aretha said I'm a Global Program Manager with a goal to help nonprofits big and small leverage AWS technology to achieve their goals so that's all today is about helping you as the nonprofits make the most of Amazon Web Services so let me quickly share my screen and we can jump right into things all right so again welcome to the first session we're going to be spending about 45 to 60 minutes really understanding how to use Amazon Web Services to achieve your goals I'm Jamie Gluck and I'm here with Mike George and in terms of an agenda oops let's see give me one second I want to make sure I am sharing the correct screen Mike can you give me a thumbs up if you can see my screen yes I can but it's just in regular mode it's not in presenter mode or anything okay we'll take for what it's worth so in terms of an agenda I'm going to talk about our AWS nonprofit programs all of the different programs that are available to again support your organization to make sure that you have the resources that you need to succeed on the cloud then I'll pass the mic over to Mike so he can run us through a little bit of some best practices when it comes to security and cost savings on AWS and then ultimately this is all about you so we're going to save the most time for some Q&A this is an opportunity for you to ask questions be it about the credit program perhaps about a specific Amazon Web Service solution and and really we'll speak to your questions to make sure that you leave with the information you know to achieve your goals so with that I want to go ask people to jump into the chat box and just give Mike and me a little bit of a sense of your familiarity with Amazon Web Services give us a plus one in the chat if you have used Amazon Web Services before if you're currently active in AWS and know how to leverage the products now give me a plus two if AWS is more new to you you might have heard about it perhaps but you're really here to learn more you've just heard that AWS exists but you don't really know too much about it so again plus one if you're familiar with it and plus two if you're not so familiar with it let's see I'm seeing some plus two okay I see you David with a plus one and a half which sounds like we've got some a lot of plus twos which is excellent this is the exact place where you want to be ask those questions help you better understand and build on that foundation of your current understanding of AWS to learn even more so if you did plus one excellent glad to hear you have that experience and plus twos you're also in the exact right place so in terms of an AWS nonprofit programs these are the programs that exist that are able to help your organization almost self-service so I'll put all of the links in the chat but I'm going to highlight them one by one really quickly so the first one is the AWS nonprofit credit program if you are a plus two and you're not yet so familiar with what AWS is or how you can leverage AWS to achieve your mission then this credit program is perfect for your organization as it provides $1,000 and AWS promotional credit to nonprofits all over the world all shapes and sizes to really help you get started and get familiar with the services and solutions so again I'll put that link in the chat but you should absolutely leave knowing that there's a credit program that can help you get started on AWS with a thousand dollars already in your account another program I want to highlight is the AWS imagine grant program so this grant program it awards up to a hundred thousand dollars in cash and credits and it's launching again in May 2022 but there are some incredible videos that can help you be inspired about the ways to leverage AWS to achieve your nonprofit's goals and really just get all those good feels about the ways technology can help organizations succeed additionally I want to highlight the upcoming AWS imagine nonprofit conference so you certainly want to save the date it's happening back in person on March 22nd through 23rd in DC of next year so we have the page the save the date page up and running I'll send you that link and you can learn all about it and I would love to see you there and then the last bit of resources that I want to make sure you know are available is that any nonprofit no matter its shape no matter its size no matter its mission area has the opportunity to speak with AWS experts directly we have an entire team set up dedicated to supporting you and your mission and your use of the cloud so I'll put that link in the chat but you just should know that if you have a question and there's no dumb questions if you have a question and AWS experts are here to answer your questions and support your use of our technology so with that said I am going to pass it over to Mike to talk a little bit about some best practices some introductory knowledge to help you succeed on AWS I think you might be in it Mike yeah so um I am trying to see if I can move my screen over really quick well that's fine are you able to see my my yep okay okay so are you able to see my screen that says multi-factor authentication yeah okay all right so what I wanted to do is I noticed in the chat that there were a bunch of twos two and a half's around you know even a three around how much you know about the cloud so I wanted to talk briefly about what AWS does at a high level and then I'll talk about two best practices the first is going to be multi-factor authentication and we'll talk about how to control some of your costs but first of all let's talk briefly about what AWS is AWS is really on on-demand delivery of IT resources via the internet with pay as you go pricing okay so what does that mean well you think about the the old days when you needed to get IT resources you had to invest a lot of money up front to get you know a database a web server or what have you you'd have to put those in a data center there was a lot of cost to do all of that so AWS allows you to get all of those things but on an on-demand basis so it acts a lot like you know when you flip a switch in your home to turn on a light the power company sends you electricity so you know you just get power to that light exactly when you need it you pay only for when that light is on as soon as you turn off the switch the power goes off you don't pay for that anymore that's very similar to how AWS operates you can get IT resources again with this pay as you go pricing so you pay for when you use it there's no upfront investment or anything you have to make you just pay for what you use okay so we can go into a lot more around the various services that AWS offers but that's basically what AWS provides at a high level so let's talk then about really I think the two best practices that the two most important best practices that we see people should really look at the first is multifactor authentication so multifactor authentication is something you can turn on on your AWS account and maybe you've used multifactor authentication on on other accounts that you have if you've ever used a multifactor device like google authenticator microsoft authenticator duo i mean there's there's a handful there's a semantic authenticator so there's a lot of different authenticators out there and you may have seen this where you have a an app on your your device that you can pull up and it gives you this one-time password that expires after about 30 seconds and you can use that as a second source of authentication to log into a website it's a great way of helping ensure that your your account is secure and what it allows you to do is if for some reason someone is able to get into your account like they can guess your password well they can't get in if you have multifactor authentication enabled because they have to also physically have your device in hand to be able to see this the six digit code that changes every 30 seconds so it's a really good way of making sure that that your account is secured so we really you know highly highly recommend that people set up multifactor authentication in their AWS account so let me show you how to do that so i've logged into my AWS account here and i'm going to show you just screenshots because if i go into the identity and access management console in my AWS account there's a lot of really sensitive information here that i don't really want all of you to see so i've got a screenshot and i've i've hidden some of the things that that i want to have you know be secret but within my AWS account i just type iam from the the search box up here and that takes me to this screen which is the identity and access management console once i hit this page i can see really the security recommendations that the iam console recommends i take and you'll notice that the the one in the middle says add mfa for yourself that's gives me a prompt of turning on multifactor authentication for my user you'll also notice that there is a big add mfa button so we recommend that all customers go in and click that button once you click that button you're taken to a page that looks like this where it shows your security credentials it shows that there's a lot of information there like you might have access keys enabled you might have other credentials set up but at the very bottom of the page you're going to notice another button that says assign mfa device so you go ahead and and click that and if you click that that takes you to a page or actually you get a pop-up that looks like this where you can assign an mfa device you can assign a multifactor device and for most users we recommend that you you just leave the first option selected that says virtual mfa device and if you have a so once you pick that you pick the you click the continue button and it will take you to a page that looks like this where there's a qr code that you can scan it you can scan this with a variety of different apps that exist on your phone like you can scan it with othly dual mobile last pass authenticator microsoft authenticator and semantic vip once you scan it it will give you that that that code that expires within 30 seconds you just once you see that code you type in the first code into this mfa code one box you wait for that code to expire and a new code to appear you type then the second code here in this mfa code two box and click the assign mfa button and that's all you do from that point on you have multifactor authentication enabled for your account so every time you log in it will ask you to enter in the the code from your authenticator application so super super easy and it makes your account super super secure okay the next thing i want to talk about are aws budgets and to show you this i'm actually going to log in to the console and show you what this looks like can you all see my screen that says aws management console yes okay great thank you so to set up so so to set up a budget alert well let's talk about what a budget alert is so cost control are one of the major things that we want you to get on top of within aws we uh if if you're using things within aws and and you end up spending money through the aws console we want to make sure that you understand exactly what is costing you money and you have controls in place so that you can reduce your spend on aws so we recommend that you set up budgets and a budget is exactly what it sounds like it is a mechanism that allows you to track how much money you're spending on aws you can set this up to be a recurring thing and then you can receive automatic alerts when you cross certain threshold so let's show you how to set that up so i'm here within my aws console and from the top here i'm going to click my name and i have an option for my billing dashboard i'll go ahead and click on that and once i click on my billing dashboard it shows me you know how much i've spent in my account so far and i can see how my costs are broken out but i have an option here on the left hand side that says budgets so i'm going to go ahead and click on that and this takes me to a page where i can create a budget so you go ahead and click this this orange create a budget button and what you once you've done that you have then a couple of options of the kind of budget that you would like to create in most cases we recommend that you create that first option that's that is selected the cost budget this allows you to manage your costs based on a specified dollar amount and then you can receive alerts when you cross certain thresholds which i'll show you right now so go ahead and i'm going to go ahead and click this next button here at the bottom and this now allows me to set up a budget amount and you can see basically that i can set my budget amount i can scope that budget down if i want and i can then add in data like the the name of my budget and add in thresholds so first of all i can pick the period for how how often i want this budget to be valid for you can see i have a daily monthly quarterly or annually budget we find in most cases that monthly makes the most sense i then have the option of specifying whether this is a recurring budget or an expiring budget so in some cases if you have a grant that you receive and you want to make sure that you don't exceed that budget before the project is complete you might want to do an expiring budget in my case i'm just going to worry about a recurring budget where i want to i want to make sure i don't spend more than a certain amount every month i can pick my start month and i can pick either a fixed amount or i can have a different amount per month i'm going to go ahead and just keep a fixed amount and i'm going to have a total monthly amount of a thousand dollars now your amounts may vary you your amounts may be ten dollars fifty dollars a hundred dollars or fifty thousand dollars just again just depends on the kind of workloads that you're running so i'm going to have a estimated amount of a thousand dollars i have some options here where i can filter my budget so that i can make sure that my budget applies to maybe certain aws services or i can have it apply to all aws services i'm i'm just going to leave this alone right now so this will apply to every piece of spend within my account i can then give this a name i'll just call this my budget i'll go ahead and click next and i have an option now of creating alerts you can see that it says no threshold alerts created but i have an add an alert threshold button so i'm going to go ahead and click that and i want to set up a couple of alerts and i find that this is really valuable to have a couple of thresholds oftentimes if you have an alert go off when you've exceeded your budget that's great that there's value there but in many cases it's that's too late at that point right if i have a monthly budget and i blow through that budget on day three uh you know i'm that's a that's a problem so i find that it's often really really valuable to set alerts at you know the 50 percent level the 75 percent level and the 100 percent level you know i with at the 50 percent level i'd expect to see uh an alert around halfway through the month likewise with at the 75 percent level i'd expect to see an alert uh you know around the the third week of the month and if i start getting those alerts earlier then i'm expecting i know that i'm likely going to exceed my budget and i need to slow down my spending in certain areas likewise if i uh get those alerts later than i'm expecting then i know that i'm behind budget and i might want to increase my spending uh or i might want to you just keep it where it's at if i want to reduce my costs so i'm going to set up three alerts here i'm going to set up a threshold of 50 percent and i'm going to just put in my email here i'm going to add an another alert threshold and then i want another alert at the 75 mark i'll put in my email and i want a third alert at the 100 mark so i've got my three alerts in place i'm going to go ahead and click this next button at the bottom and i can now just review everything that i've got so i've got three alerts alert one is at the 50 threshold alert two is at the 75 threshold and alert three is at the 100 threshold and there are more advanced options that that you can implement at this point if you have if you already know what amazon sns is and you have sns topics that you have people subscribe to you can send that alert to an sns topic if you don't know what i just said you don't need to worry about it i'll click this next button and this gives me a page where i can review what i've set up and everything is okay here so i'll go ahead and click this create budget button this will take just a moment and right now my budget's okay i've spent less than a thousand dollars but if uh you know we're on the 10th of the month and at some point once i hit that 50 of spend i'll receive that alert and then i can tell you know am i am i spending too quickly or you know basically am i on track here so that's how you set up budget alerts so with that that those that was that was the demo that i wanted to go through excellent thank you so much mike really appreciate it um some kind of best practices if you're new or relatively new to aws you should know as mike just described there are ways you can manage your budget and absolutely ways you can manage your security so we had a couple of questions come in um during your presentation mike and i want to just put it out there those that are in attendance this is your time to get your questions answered by aws experts we are here to listen and hear what might be a current obstacle a potential future obstacle what has happened in the past even again i remember we saw a lot of plus twos meaning you're not very familiar with aws so i'm sure you have questions and now's the time to answer to ask them but um as those questions come in can you speak a little bit about the budget so we had current about is it possible to make it so that your service can automatically shut down when it goes over the budget while the man intervenes and restarts it or how does that work in terms of what happens when you overcome or surpass a budget yeah that's that's a great question so by default the budgets won't shut down anything that you have running but there there is additional functionality that you can implement through aws lambda and through other mechanisms to to begin shutting down things within your account if that's something you wanted to do there all are also a number of solutions in our solutions library and there are third party solutions that help with that as well for example in our solutions library we have a a solution that automatically shuts down ec2 instances on a nightly basis and then turns them on in the morning so ec2 if you're not familiar with that is our virtual machine solution so if you have a workload that only needs to be running during business hours this is a good solution that you know shut things down at the end of the day and then turns them on in the morning so you're not paying for compute that's running during the night that nobody's using so so i guess to answer the question yeah there there are a lot of options there but that's not built into budgets out of the box excellent yeah i think you use that appropriately there in terms of the flexibility and the multiple different types of options correct great question and in terms of that answer just to reiterate there's a lot of different ways you can maneuver it we have another question about mfa talking about the phone right like what happens if you lose your phone how can you how can you leverage mfa yeah so ideally whatever you're using for that your mfa device you don't want to lose uh that said it is possible you could lose your phone if you do lose your phone or if you lose basically your mfa device there is a process to reset the mfa device but as you can imagine um because the mfa device is is really you know a very important piece of the security of your account we do make it we do make it i'll say non-trivial to reset uh an mfa token so you know do the best you can to not lose it if you're worried about losing your phone we have customers that will buy a physical token like a yuba key or something like that and use that as their mfa device and then they'll lock it somewhere where they know they won't lose it some of our our larger customers will use something like again like a yuba key for their mfa device and then they'll lock it in a safe deposit box at a bank so there are options there but just keep that in mind you really want to find an mfa device that you're not going to lose excellent thank you we have another question from carol which is a great one asking what services do you think will benefit non-profits the most and if i can just add on to that what are those services lend themselves to solutions what are the services and the solutions that you think are most advantageous for nonprofits yeah this is uh this is a big question because i think it really depends on where you are in your journey so i i work with some customers that are very very new in their journey you know they they don't have a lot of it expertise and then i work with customers that that have over a hundred developers on staff so you know some of the needs for one customer might be very different for another customer if you're new to the cloud if you're new to your cloud journey then things like s3 which is our object storage is a great solution to look at s3 can also be used for static website hosting so if you have a static website that you want to host it's a great way of hosting it with with little cost and you know very little technical expertise needed on the other hand if you're a lot more advanced we have solutions like amazon pinpoint and amazon personalized amazon pinpoint is a solution to to help you stay in touch with some of your members through email or sms or push messaging and it allows you to essentially give the right message to your users at the right time in the the way that they want to receive it you can integrate that with machine learning tools we have like amazon personalized where you can really customize these messages that are going to your end users so for example if you have uh you know some users that tend to be more interested in donations and other users that tend to be more interested in the latest events you can tailor the messaging that you're sending to them so that they're getting that right message and so you're not sending a donation message to someone who has no interest in donations and likewise you're not sending a what's new message to someone that has no interest in that they just want to you know donate to your cause so again there are there are a lot of solutions there and like jamon mentioned earlier we'd love to talk with you in more detail about some of the workloads that that you're doing so that we can help guide you in your journey through the cloud absolutely great opportunity for me to resubmit that link it's now in the chat it actually lends itself nicely to the previous we had about the two thousand dollars that used to be offered for the credit program that's now one thousand dollars and ultimately the reason behind that was that it allows for us to serve more nonprofits over the same amount of time and when we were able to do that and make that change what it allowed for us to do is open up other opportunities of support and I encourage you to reach out to this link that I just posted in the chat there are other ways and other credit programs that are still available for your organization this is certainly one of them but by engaging in a relationship with AWS again we have people ready and willing and excited to speak with you it's then that we understand your specific needs and can offer the resources be in credits or cash or IT support that can help you bring those ideas to fruition so before I go on to the next question I want to ask those that are here and relatively new to AWS I saw again a lot of clues at the beginning AWS is relatively new to you what excites you most about thinking about amazon web services or the cloud for your nonprofit are you excited about the innovation opportunities are you perhaps excited about the cost savings is it maybe security so go ahead and put it in the chat would love to hear from you kind of again what was it about getting that email that let you know that AWS is having this ask the experts that enticed you to joining would love to hear from a couple of people meantime I'm going to go to another question Mike this is for you and Ferdy is an IT educator from the Philippines explaining that a few weeks ago that they encountered so much traffic to the website that it started to perform poorly can you speak a little bit about elasticity and what AWS can provide this Ferdy and their organization to help deal with changes in the volume of visitors to their website and ensuring it maintains performance throughout those fluctuations and this is a problem so this problem is not limited to you know this one workload that Ferdy mentioned we we see customers struggling with this type of issue all the time where you either have spiky workloads or you suddenly get a large influx of traffic you know we noticed a lot of our customers that either are in education or other things that were affected during the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic it seemed like overnight many of our customers experienced large influxes of traffic and they weren't sure how to deal with it so there are a number of ways that that we can support this first of all we we recommend that you make sure that your solutions are elastic and scalable so if you're running on ec2 again which is our virtual machine offering make sure that you're running in an autoscaling group autoscaling groups can be configured so that they can automatically scale out or scale in your workloads depending on your traffic you can also use things like amazon cloudfront which allows you cloudfront is our content delivery network offering and what this allows you to do is allows you to reduce the latency between between your application and your end users so if you have a worldwide audience cloudfront can can cache content nearer to your end users rather than have them come all the way to the US or to you know wherever your your whatever region that you're you're using in addition to that you know cloudfront is like I mentioned it's a great solution for for caching content it's also a great solution if you've got any sort of streaming content that you want to distribute around the world so that's you know the first part of that answer that there are a lot of solutions but we definitely want to look Ferdy at your specific workload to see what was causing the problems and there may be other things that we would suggest as well sick so yes out Ferdy you're speaking to the right people that link again is in the chat thanks so much for that information Mike and we're seeing a lot of feedback in the chat at the moment about cost savings I want to pinpoint one particular I believe it's David that's currently spending $700 a month on their hosting bill so how can they maximize their cost savings and that's their primary goal can you speak a little bit about what an organization who's currently paying for a large amount of hosting on site and how and why they can move to AWS yeah absolutely so again it really comes down to that that comment I made earlier about the on-demand of IT on-demand delivery of IT services with pay-as-you-go pricing so when you look at the the things that you're you're paying for you need to think about you know is this is this workload something that I might want to turn on or off are there you know so there's that piece that could help you reduce your cost there are also things that AWS provides for example some of our machine learning services which become a little more advanced or we have cost center solutions that a lot of customers we see might end up paying you know large amounts of money for these when they're not using AWS services but then as you move to AWS services because of our economies of scale and because of you know a lot of other factors that that just based on how we operate we're able to provide these services at a really low cost and and just by virtue of moving to some of these services can save customers a lot of money what and thank you that Mike and I saw David you were talking about spending on AWS and I can even speak to that that there are not only a lot of services within AWS to help ensure that you are optimizing your spend as best as possible but again I keep kind of going back to this point there are resources available with AWS live people like me and Mike who can look at your AWS account with you and optimize your account to ensure that you maybe you only need to be spending $650 maybe it's $65 I'm speaking directly to David in the case that they're currently spending 700 we encourage you to speak to an individual reach out to the team and we can take a look under that hood and make sure your environment or your AWS usage is optimal as possible. Hey Jim one thing really quick on that if I could just add something of course one service that is often overlooked that we recommend customers look at is trusted advisor trusted advisor is a solution that exists within the AWS console and trusted advisor will tell you basically that the the health of your AWS account and it will part of trusted advisor will look at things that are underutilized like do you have underutilized EC2 instances do you have EBS volumes that aren't attached to anything you know these are all sources of cost within your account it looks at a number of other things and when you look at trusted advisor it'll actually make proactive recommendations on you know you really should turn off these things here if you can and you know these are some areas you could save money so that's trusted advisor would be something I'd look at as really like the low hanging fruit of making sure you've got some of those obvious things taken care of to reduce your costs and then once you've done that then we can look at your workloads in more detail to help you reduce that further. And we got a question as well about S3 and I want to call S3 is one of an AWS services they're using it to hold their foundation's off-site server backups and their question it was from David asking if it's eligible for the AWS nonprofit credit and the answer is absolutely yes the vast the vast majority of AWS services are covered by the AWS nonprofit credit program so definitely scroll up and in fact I am going to resubmit it here so we have all of the resources and this credit program is waiting for you to just take advantage of and then one other question and then I'm going to go back and look at the chat to make sure I'm covering everything was that what type of AWS support is free and I think it's a very good question right like having these conversations with AWS experts like myself and Mike what's it going to cost and it's a very valid point but the good news is that it's free we have an entire team dedicated to having these conversations exploring ideas with you at no cost this link I just sent you says speak with AWS you'll just want to click it and then at the very top it'll say I believe start a conversation that'll get all rolling and having these communications between you and AWS and absolutely no cost just as an advisor to make sure that you're using the cloud the best to your ability I think that's a great point I mean definitely you know James you get that point if we do we definitely have options that do cost money like if someone wants support to help build solutions you know we have professional services you know we have more advanced support offerings depending on what you need but but you know talking to me we're talking to another solutions architect that's always going to be free excellent we have another question from Marie speaking Marie B alluded to change in leadership over at her organization Mike from your perspective what are some ways that someone with can help convey the value of cloud to either a new type of leadership existing leadership what are some best practices you've seen so the question is understanding the the value of moving to the cloud and how to consider that to leadership and maybe what resources might be available for Marie then pass on her leadership yeah we have a lot of this actually we have all of this material available on our website where we on the aws website just aws.amazon.com where we we talk about the value of the cloud but just to go through that you know pretty quickly there are a lot of a lot of reasons to move to the cloud you know the first is cost savings you know customers typically trade capex for op-ex by moving to aws and that op-ex spend is is cheaper than if you were to do it on your own again because of our economies of scale we're also innovating at a faster clip than than our competition i i want to say you know last year we we released what 2500 plus services on aws and anywhere our rate of innovation is increasing every year what this means for you is that you don't have to put in that that hard work of building these things you can you can leverage what aws has already done we we like to talk about the term undifferentiated heavy lifting and and we define that as really the the muck that you know the work that you have to do that doesn't differentiate your organization from anybody else so managing a server for example you you might be doing it at a non-profit or a charity but you'd also be doing that if you worked for any fortune 100 company so again that's not work that differentiates your business and we oftentimes have the attitude of if it's not differentiating your your business or helping drive your mission forward you shouldn't be doing it and by leveraging a lot of the the managed services that aws offers you can get away from that undifferentiated heavy lifting some some other things that that we have is again because of our rate of innovation because of how easy it is to begin working on aws it's easy to begin experimenting and potentially innovating with your mission so you know you think about the the olden days if you had an IT team where you said i want to experiment on something i need a server oftentimes it would take you know days weeks or even months to get a server spun up in you know the cloud you can have a you click a button and you can have a server that you can experiment on immediately and if that experiment doesn't work you just decommission that server no harm no foul you know it's it's really really easy to do these kinds of things you know the the last thing that really comes to mind is our global presence where we have the we have a concept of a region made of us region which is a physical location where we cluster data centers and then we have logical groupings of those data centers we call an availability zone in each region we have multiple availability zones which again constitute again each each availability zone is two or more data centers so you know just by moving to aws by following our best practices you're spread out across multiple physical data centers which is likely already better availability than than most organizations have and it's also important to note that our concept of a region and an availability zone is different from our competition so for many of our competitors they consider a region to be one data center or maybe even part of a data center you know and again for us that's not good enough a region is a physical grouping of many many data centers so so you know you're going to have higher availability on aws and we have regions worldwide so you can deploy your workloads to the area that is needed the most jimin is there anything that i left out that comes to mind that was excellent mike really robust a lot of information i'll emphasize the point that you made at the beginning is that the website as much as i hate telling people to go to the website it really is the all-encompassing resource to arm you all with the information not only to educate yourself about the value of aws for nonprofits but moreover to help spread that message to leadership to promote adoption so um thank you so much mike that was perfect i uh want to just make a last call for a digital question i want to call out kirk we definitely have your question it's a little specific to your account so i'm going to encourage you to reach out to our aws team through those links i sent through earlier but i just want to say i hear you and i see you and last call for information i also want to fair my link in um you know i am a huge advocate for you all um and and i can represent aws on behalf of the nonprofits team so just want to make myself available if you have questions about aws moving forward hopefully we've given you tons of resources to mull over and to think through but additionally just wanted to share feel free to connect with me i'm happy to do whatever i can to make sure you get the information you need um so marie great question what is the website that we're talking about to go to i'll post it one last time it's not exactly ws amazon.com it's more specific just for nonprofits it's the one right in the chat there so um thank you all so much really appreciate it i'll pass it over to aretha if you don't mind pulling things out but again on behalf of aws for nonprofits thank you all so much for your time we're here to support you and thank you for the incredible work that you're doing you're really the champions here doing the the hard work so it's a pleasure next time yeah thank you guys so much make sure you fill out the survey make sure you take care of yourself


The military individuals behind the Karan-Burnin videos circulating online in Ukraine have made enemies out of Muslims across the planet and authorities in Kiev must bring them to justice if they don't want to re-enrelations with the entire Muslim world. This is warning and this is what is the opinion of religious leaders and academics from around the Muslim ummah. On the basis of resolution number 1418 of the Human Rights Cancer which condemns any action aimed at insult or discrimination on religious ground, one can hardly expect such a step in a conflict zone blinded by the fog of hate and bitterness. So I expected that people should fight the war or defend themselves as we are being told in the media rather than adding Karan-Burnin into the already messed up situation. That's really bad. Whether this is propaganda or not, the truth is that the battlefield in the Donbass is saturated with all kinds of people, especially mercenaries from across Europe. Obviously there is a likelihood that some of these might have hate against Islam, no one can say. But there is a great news, ladies and gentlemen. Yeah, sometimes the best way to respond is not by directly confronting the people who are doing this. Sometimes you have to use more subtle means of getting your message across and bringing about change in society. If an incident like that happens, if you handle it the wrong way, it just blows out of proportion and the conversation changes. People become now more interested in the reaction than the original action itself. Because that's why they do it, right? That's why they burn the Quran. It's usually far-right groups or individuals who are doing it and they have an agenda, right? They want you to react in a certain way. Yes, and then Muslims comply. Whatever message they were trying to draw attention to just becomes more overblown and their goals are met. They achieve their purpose that way. We have to be wise as Muslims and recognize this to be happening. One thing that will help us to be wise is to recognize that it is the way of God that he has created such a world in which there will be positive messages and there will be its contrary. The Quran says, for example, in the sixth chapter referring to what was happening with the Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him, the opposition that he was facing and so on. The Quran says, Thus we have placed for every prophet an enemy that comes in the form of satans from among humans and jinn kind. They will inspire each other with speeches, like decorated speeches. So the Quran is already acknowledging that God knows this is happening and he's allowing it to happen this way and it will continue to happen in this way. Assalamu alaikum brothers and sisters. Welcome to another episode of the Open Minded Thinker Show. Please like and share this video widely. Don't forget to subscribe to help us grow better. The good news is that the Russian and Chechen army have been given the go ahead to deal with anybody, soldier or civilian found burning the Quran or other secret objects related to any type of religion, especially Islam, whether of Christianity or Hinduism. In fact, the head of the Russian Chechen Republic Ramzan Khadrov has offered a generous bounty for the prosecution of purported soldiers who were caught on video desecrating the Quran. The footage which he reposted shows two men in what appears to be Ukrainian military uniform using pages from the Muslim holy book to start a fire. Speaking to a newsman Khadrov insisted that merely issuing a formal condemnation of the Ukrainian actions that recently been pages from the holy Quran would not be enough. The Russian official stated and I quote, I announce a reward of five million rubles for arresting the culprit. He added that the bounty will be twice as high should the desecrator be captured alive. While I fully support this move, I would encourage the banners to instead of burn, they should take out time to look through the book to see for themselves what really contained in them. Let's face it guys, the act of burning the Quran in a world zone is highly controversial and deeply offensive action that's widely considered to be wrong on many levels. There are several reasons why this act is morally wrong and why it should be avoided at all costs. Firstly, the Quran is a secret text for Muslims and burning it is seen as a direct insult to other, to their religious belief and practices. This action is highly disrespectful and offensive to Muslims and it can create deep feelings of anger, resentment and division, especially in a war zone where tensions are already high. Secondly, burning the Quran can have serious political and strategic consequences as it can be seen as an act of aggression or provocation towards the Muslim community. Thirdly, there are already tension in Norway which is also Europe and burning the Quran has undermined the efforts of those who are working to promote peace, reconciliation and understanding in the Dumbass region which has so far been destroyed by war. It can create an atmosphere of distrust, hostilities and make it more difficult for people to come together and find a common ground so after the war, what next? We're in Rinkerby on the northern outskirts of Stockholm. This is a predominantly Islamic community and we've come here because I wanted to meet members of the Turkish Swedish society to ask them how they feel after the weekend's events. Undoubtedly, we are uncomfortable. In general, the majority of Turkish society feels uncomfortable and disturbed here. If we look back to what has been happening during the last ten years, we can say that this discomfort has now reached its peak. Haki Korkmaz has lived in Sweden for 45 years. All his five children were born here. But he says social cohesion is deteriorating as Europe's cost of living crisis worsens. Unfortunately, the latest incidents prevent us from feeling safe here. With laws enacted and anti-democratic practices against foreigners, it makes us feel that one day they will expel us from here. Turgut Korkmaz agrees that Islamophobia is a growing problem. We have some fears here. We have a mosque next to us and we are afraid that they can come and damage our mosque. Turkish Swedish societies from all over Sweden are gathering on Tuesday afternoon outside the Turkish Embassy for prayers. They say it's going to be a show of respect to the Koran in the very spot where it was disrespected on the weekend. Ultimately, burning the Koran in a war zone is a highly inflammatory and divisive action that can have consequences for both Muslims and non-Muslims. It is important for individuals and groups, military or civilian to avoid this action and to wep towards promoting peace, reconciliation and understanding in the dumbest war zone. Well, I think we should live it like that. God will pay everybody in their own coins. Asalaamu alaikum. Please like, share and subscribe.


So we're here at the Toradex and hi. Hi. So who are you? I'm Brandon Schibley from Toradex and I'm an FAE and I'm going to show you our upcoming module the Cleabree IMX7 featuring the yet to be released free scale i.MX7 SOC. So this is IMX7, this new free scale coming out. What's kind of cores inside? So this particular one it's the dual so it has a dual core Cortex-A7 with a Cortex-M4. So dual A7 with the M4 so it's an upgrade from the IMX6 Solo-X right? It's different. Yes this will be the next generation using a Cortex-A7 versus the single core Cortex-A9 in the IMX6 Solo-X. And that's even more performance the right kind of performance and power consumption everything. Yes so the Cortex-A7 is a little more power efficient it's going to be in this case it's available in both Solo and dual core and of course it has a Cortex-M4 also on the same chip so we find that there's going to be some very exciting applications that our customers use and can use this for. Cool and what kind of other cool stuff are you showing here? So we're also showing Windows 10 IoT. So today my name is Daniel I work for Toradex2 in Seattle and today we show off the first time in the public Windows 10 on our ARM module so that's NVIDIA Tegra 3 and we run here a face detection video and I mean this is Windows 10 or no exactly so we have to be specific you can click on it actually that will end the program you can stop it but I mean there is a mouse I can show you more later but to be specific it's Windows 10 IoT Core so it's the smallest version from Windows and you can already get it you can download it now and use it on a Raspberry Pi or on a Dragon board and that's and we really show it on a module which you can use for an embedded product so Raspberry Pi is very fun you can play around but with us you can actually do a product and then go into a high volumes. So IoT version of Windows 10 what's the function in IoT version of Windows 10? What's possible? What's possible is you have a smaller memory footprint so you can get it down to this module but it has the universal Windows platform so you can write one application run it on these small devices but you can also run it on a PC you can run it on a tablet you can run it on a phone you can even maybe run it on an Xbox so there's one platform and you can deploy everywhere all the Windows tool like Visual Studio and everything it works. This is like the Metro apps right or what kind of apps is it? Yeah they call it Metro they call it now a universal Windows platform UWP applications. It's not an XD6X file? No, no it's a yeah it's really ARM I mean it's ARM Bionaris you can use .NET and we have .NET native so instead of having the intermediate code you can really compile a native ARM code so for example we have the same the same app you see here it's a one-to-one here here on my phone and if I have it enough that it detects it so you can have it on a phone or on a module or on an x86 so it makes it very easy to move stuff around. Which NVIDIA 3 you say? Yeah this is NVIDIA Tegra 3 and one of our modules.  Yeah we have some older modules from Marvell but at the moment it's really NVIDIA and free scale and then we have a big ecosystem with our partners from Qt we work with Microsoft we do a lot of Linux stuff we still have a lot of Windows CE where we also very specialized for example we can boot Windows C in less than half a second we can also boot Linux pretty fast around two seconds. And everything you sell is $24? No that's our lowest-end module it's a 10k price and it's for the free scale Vibrate that's Cortex A5 if you Cortex M4 actually that for $24 only has the A5. Alright cool so that's the stuff happening what is over here? Here we show a Qt demo with our Vibrate we have 61 so that's Hedrogainus Multicore and A5 and M4 and runs Qt and actually a special on that is normally Qt 5 and higher needs OpenGL and here we can make it run without OpenGL because this module doesn't have OpenGL and you can see I mean it's this very low-cost module but then you have a nice animations here. Nice and it says from Seattle Washington so you have office in Switzerland and Seattle? All the codec's are in Switzerland that's my funny accent is from there but here in the US we are in Seattle we ship from Seattle we have support in Seattle but we also have offices in China, Japan, India, Vietnam, Brazil so how's the business going there's more and more projects happening yeah there is more and more going there are new exciting products coming out here you see some stuff some of our modules and they're all pink compatible so that's very special about Toradex you're very committed to do pink compatible so you can use NVIDIAs or free scale or different free scales and they all work in the same carrier board. And which one is that? That's IMX6 running in our little bit bigger form factor like that actually that module running there under the heatsink and yeah that's from our partners Qt so that's a Qt is very popular to use with our modules so you able to customize and develop stuff for people we actually we really focusing on the modules and then our customer and our partners they design the carrier board so we say we focus on the module we do the operating system and then everything around we have an ecosystem to help you with that or you can use one of our standard carrier board and it's full open hardware so you can go our website now you don't even need to buy something and you can download the full Altium design files and modify it for you. But you can help them develop the carrier board? Yeah we definitely help them we do schematic reviews we have a developer website with over 800 articles we just the next few days we will put up a forum so yeah we definitely help you okay because if you're not successful we will cannot buy a SLEO these modules in volume so we very committed to help you


Everybody welcome back to another Premiere Pro Tutorial. I'm going to show you how to get that distance. The audio was captured from a distance so it's not right in your face. It's got a little bit of reverb. Let me show you what I'm talking about. Let me show you the the first one. It's a little loud so just brace yourself. That's the original sound. Now let's look at the distance sound. So that's what we're going to do and that's pretty it's subtle but it gives a real good flavor to your video. So let's start from scratch. Okay at the beginning you'll see here I've got some footage here. Nothing's applied.  This gives you a few options. The one we're looking for is convolution reverb. Drag and drop that onto your audio track. Once you do that go to your effect controls panel go to convolution reverb. You'll see a few things here that what we're looking to do is a custom setup. So click on edit beside custom setup. When you do that we get a couple options. The first ones are presets and then you get impulse and then a whole bunch of sliders. So for presets switch it from default and what you want is the one I like to use is distance source although you can try a bunch of these different ones but I find distance source to be the best one. And under impulse you actually want to choose either large bathroom or you can actually use an endless tunnel but let's go with large bathroom for this one but again I do suggest that you play with the parameters and try and get it to sound what you want it to sound like. But let's go with this for now and I'm going to go with the default and now I'm just going to click on this X and now it's applied. Now listen to what we got. We've got that distance reverb sound and we did it in about 60 seconds. That's how you do it in Premiere Pro.


We could learn to find more about it. This is an excellent book and we did not have a chance to do every single photo analysis of every photo, but we showed you might even want to look through this book to see even more. So if you're wondering more about your picture, this would be the place to do it.  In 1924 is when they really started happening in the United States. So in 1924 it started making these kids doing illegal things. They said no, they have to go to school, they have to get an education. So, out on the timeline, what do you think we should put out there? Child labor laws started in 1924. A few states had them before then, but not all the states did. So if we put that on there then we'll say in 1924 we know these things happened before or after that. Before or after that? Before. Because after 1924 were they allowed to do that anymore? No. Alright, lots of people have things that they would like to say. Right. Possibly could have lasted longer, couldn't it? Yeah, true. Zach. I have a question with that picture. It's in children that work and it's in that picture. Right, we have a guy in the reading group who's reading the book called Children at Work. And a lot of those pictures, you're right, are Lewis Hine's pictures in your book and guys are reading too. Great connection. That little square box on the corner is that girl on this little girl right here. They just did a close up on her, didn't they? Yes. I have a question.  If you were a baby, you mean? Well often, if you notice this lady right here, that's her mom. So they took the babies to work with them. If they were babies, they might put them like in a little tap-hoof thing and tie them to them like in those blankets. Have you seen those before when a mother holds a tie on to them? They would take the small children with them. That's why when they were old enough to do something, they started working too. On the front, is that like someone taking off those bottoms? Yes, it is. It's a doctor. You're correct. Yes, they were. Right. So women are still working for some equal rights, aren't they? Didn't come overnight. Just like if we learned that any amendment just changed everything just like that. No, people had to vote for it. It took some time. So you're right, the laws started there. But then they had to start enforcing them to get it to stop. Like the 16th amendment, Abraham Lincoln, he was, I mean the 13th amendment. I was thinking of his president. You were thinking of the year of the president. He was the 16th president. You're right. Slavery is not illegal in America. It took like three years or something or even more to change that law. Yeah, because what started happening then? Segregation. Yeah, segregation. And how long did segregation last? A hundred years. Right.


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Hey y'all, welcome back to Conversations with Carrie. So good to have you here. If you have not already, please make sure you subscribe, turn on your notifications, all that kind of jazz, because listen, I'm trying to bring the word and a few book reviews, but I haven't read a book in a while. But anyway, listen, if you want that word, go ahead and subscribe to Conversations with Carrie, okay? Really excited to come to y'all today. As you see, I'm in a different place. I'm at my parents' house in Texas and y'all just got lit up by mosquitoes, literally just got lit up. So anyway, I need the Lord extra right now. It's like they love all this chocolate. What can I say? But today, I am coming to you to talk about David. Y'all know, I think my last video, I'm talking about how much I love David. I love me some David. There's so many lessons there, but I'm taking it back a little bit. I'm taking it back to a lesson that I think all of us learned as kids, if you grew up in Sunday school, because me and my family were professional churchgoers. Yes, we had Sunday school, which was before the actual Sunday service. So yeah, we was in church all day. But going back to David and Goliath. I love this story because there's so much here. And I was thinking about how when I read it as a kid, it was all about, you know, David and Goliath, this big giant, this like young shepherd boy.  And I wrote about this on my blog, carrylead.com. But I thought, you know, for some of y'all, we like to have the conversation.  And this is taking place in first Samuel is first Samuel 16 and 17 kind of tells the full story. But I really want to talk about really the how David defeated Goliath. And again, we all know, you know, he's used a slingshot and like with this huge giant. But when I want to talk to you today, it's about a couple of things. One, I want to talk about Goliath, his role as a giant and how the Israel light army was so afraid of him. And as I think about this again, from adult eyes, I kind of get it. I get what the Israel light army was facing. Like here's this huge giant who comes every day and every night for 40 days and 40 nights. And let's be very clear when we're facing giants from the enemy, don't they seem to taunt us day and night? Like when you first thing you wake up in the morning, you thinking, Oh, I slept so good.   You're never going to do anything better. Boom.   And for those of you like, okay, I'm normally good in the morning, but it's in the evening when I want to wind down and I want to rest. And the first thing he says is, well, why don't you go ahead and smoke that? Why don't you have go ahead and drink that?  Nobody loves you. You don't have any friends.  And here we go morning and night. We're being taunted on a regular basis from the enemy. And so I get why the Israel light army ran and fled because to them, they're like, Oh my gosh, this, this huge giant that we can't defeat here. Here he is out here dressed in bronze armor for head to toe, incredibly menacing and incredibly scary. And they probably trembled in fear on a regular basis. And when we're facing our giants, that's what we do sometimes. But I love David. I love the story of David because here comes this young kid on the scene delivering some loaves and some cheese as brothers and to tell his daddy like, Yeah, the brothers are doing well.  And he's like, what you're running for? Like Philistine, which come on with the disk, David, you know, I'm going to keep it holy. And I say what I'll probably used to say. But I love the devil. It's like, who is this to defeat you right here right now? Let me show you how I do. You come to me with swords, but I come to you with the word of God. And that's just it. And it says that David, when he went to go gather his, you know, to go to meet Goliath, he gathered five smooth stones, you know, we have these giants in our life. And we can gather our own five smooth stones that are grounded in the Word of God to defeat that giant. Because let's keep in mind, it only took one shot. It only took one stone to defeat Goliath, you know, as the Israel, Israel like army is running and they're scared and they're thinking like, Oh my gosh, how are we ever going to defeat this? It took one stone. So let's talk about what those five stones could be because this has really blessed me. And I'm going to look at some of my notes. So you're going to see me looking down. But David was such an example of what he said of like, how do we defeat our enemy? So I imagine as he was picking up his stones, he was like, okay, first I'm going to pick up faith because I believe that God is who he says he is and nothing can separate us from his love. And keep in mind, David had already been anointed. He was like, I'm here to do great things. So no, I'm picking up my stone of faith per first, put it in his pouch. And then he had evidence. Saul came to David and was like, young boy, how are you going to defeat this giant? He's been a warrior since this youth. And David was like, Oh no, I got evidence because when I was out there protecting the sheep.  So no, I can defeat this giant. I've already defeated the enemy before. I can do it again. So we have to have that stone of evidence. Again, pick that up, put it in your pouch and then courage. I love this one because when you think about that, I was reading the Bible and it says that Goliath was actually only like, like nine feet nine inches tall or something like that. So really the only person who was actually capable or even well suited to defeat to Goliath was actually King Saul because Saul, they said he should stood head and shoulders above everybody else. So he was the tallest. He was also the king. He was also in charge. So he could have gone and actually defeated Goliath. But you know what? No, instead David was like, I got this and he didn't bother trying to put on the doubt that his brother had talked to him about. He didn't try to put on Saul's armor. He was like, no, I'm going to put on the courage because it's not by strength and it's not by might, but it is by the Holy Spirit that we can defeat our enemies. Okay, we can't do it in our own strength, but we can go with the courage of the Lord who is with us to defeat any enemy. So again, that courage stone, put it in your pouch and then confidence. You know what? I consider myself a confident person, but that's not because of my own making. It's because I know who I am in Christ. And again, he didn't let the fear that he was seeing from everyone else. He didn't try to be like everyone else. He was like, you know what? I'm confident in being set apart. I'm confident in being different and I'm confident in being who God has created me to be. So I'm a goal in faith of my confidence that comes from the Lord and I'm going to defeat Goliath. So again, confidence, put it in your pouch. And then last, I would say the fifth stone is worship. David was a worshiper and he understood the power of worship. He was already called to soothe King Saul when he had an evil spirit come on him. David was sent to play music for King Saul to soothe him and so the evil spirit will leave him. So David knew the power of worship and sometimes you have to know to know to know. Even I don't care if you can make a joyful noise into the Lord singing and sounding the mess, but there is power in your worship. There is power in your praise.  And again, it only took one stone.  I don't want to downplay that because I know what it's like to face some things. Listen, your girl is single and they want them to husband for a while, but that's all right because I know that I can pull out, I can pull out my stone of faith and be like, Lord, I know who you are. He who promised is faithful. So I know that you're going to do what you said you were going to do. You have put this desire in me for a reason. So I'm going to, I'm going to sling my, my, my stone of faith at that giant and though they can be defeated. And some of you are dealing with the giant of a negative doctors report. I get it, but the Lord has kept you. So therefore pull out your, your stone of evidence and sling that bad boy. He says the Lord has not only kept me healthy, he's kept me alive during a national pandemic where people are still out here dying from it. So let's be clear. You can defeat that giant, that, that giant of health issues because he's done it before he'll do it again.  No money. Pull out your stone of courage to know that you were set apart for a reason. Pull out your stone of confidence. No, the Lord has made you as you are for a reason and you don't have to be like everybody else because there's only one you. So you can walk with your head high knowing that you are loved by the almighty and sling that stone of confidence, honey, and knock down that giant. And I also, if some of you are dealing with a giant of depression, you feel like there is just a darkness over you and you cannot see your way out. Honey, pull out the stone of worship and worship your way out. Let me tell you, turn on one of my favorite stations, it's Pandora John Peaky or turn on some Elevation worship or Maverick City. I mean there's so much to choose from and sing your heart out. You may not have that kind of voice. Do whatever you need to do and get your worship out there because that will lift that spirit of heaviness. That will bring the sun shine and I do mean s-o-n shine into your life so that you can know that I don't have to wade in this darkness. No, I can sling that shot of worship and know that I'm coming out of this. Listen, it only takes five smooth stones, but only one.  It's not as big as you think. And again, I don't want to downplay it. You have been given the tools to overcome by the word of God. Okay? Your stones are in here. It's all rooted in the word and the enemy cannot defeat this word. I'm telling you.  You are someone whether you're new or young in Christ or you are mature and you've been doing this thing for a while. Either way it goes, you sling your shots of faith and courage and confidence and evidence and worship and watch those giants fall in your life. I promise you will defeat those giants. So quick and easy, y'all. Just want to come over here and give you a quick word. Thank you for tuning in to Conversations with Carrie. Make sure you like and subscribe and then also check out carylee.com. I got some more encouragement over there. Be blessed.


Let's do some Python on hardware. We've got news and reviews and more from the newsletter. Some good projects in the newsletter this year. So this week, we cover a lot. So in addition to CircuitPython A210 release news, you can check out the notes. News in the industry for those who design Python on hardware. Renaissance bought Altium for $5.9 billion, more consolidation in the industry. So Autodesk has Eagle CAD and Renaissance has Altium. And KeyCAD or KeyCAD, depending on how you pronounce it, is free and open source. Some of our folks at Adafruit use KeyCAD. We're moving towards it. We have a lot of stuff in here. Yeah. Eagle, obviously. We'll see what happens in the industry and what folks use. So is there any other ones that people use that are going to get gobbled up already? KeyCAD, but I think that isn't owned by anybody. It's another popular one. Altium is very popular. A lot of people use KeyCAD. Yeah, that's kind of the one, right? It's like the number one most pirated. And then, yeah, OrCAD is used by some people as well. But I use Eagle CAD. And then Eagle CAD is kind of going away. It is. The 2026 is the end date. And I'm slowly, slowly, you know, I just wanted to get all these revisions done and I didn't want to take two things. So I wanted to do the revisions. Now that revisions are done, I'm kind of looking again at KeyCAD. Yep. Telegraph interviews have been up and about the upcoming stock IPO that is Raspberry Pi going public. Hands on with the bus pirate, some Python packaging and Rust, you have another Raspberry Pi or five review. Helen is interviewed by the embedded FM podcast. Really good podcast. Check that out. And then all the projects, this was a neat one. This was that Radio Shack, you know, 101. We do it, yeah. And how we added the Pico. Our popular post of the week last week was the Raspberry Pi alternatives. We also talked about Blinka on the show last week and more. And then we have some custom firmware. We've got some work today by the way. Workload again. Like hot news, by the way. If you're like, I want to get it back. But let's talk about, you wanted to talk about there was an update. Yes. For Memento. Yeah. So Memento specifically, this board had a little bit of a bug in CircuitPython9 beta one and earlier that made it so that if you were using the internal file system, the CircuitPy drive and you dragged really big files, you could accidentally crash the board because it thought that it had a three megabyte drive, but it actually doesn't. It has a one megabyte drive. And so it gets very confused. Good news, it's not going to damage your hardware. But what you should do is if you have a Memento and you are running, if you've installed something before CircuitPython9 beta two, you'll have to erase the file system to kind of reset the board. Or you can install the factory firmware reset over again. If you've never installed CircuitPython before, as long as you install beta two or above, you won't get that bug where it accidentally thinks that it's three megabytes, but it's not. Again, it doesn't damage your hardware, but we want to make sure you don't crash your board because that's sad. You don't want to crash your board. But thanks to Jeb Blur and Dan Scott who fixed this super fast. Okay, great. It's all part of our newsletter. You can go to AdafruitDaily.com, sign up for that platform on our newsletter, or you can read it online. You can read on GitHub or you can do an RSS feed. It's all part of AdafruitDaily, a completely separate site, so you don't have to worry about getting spammed. We promise, but what are promises anymore? You have to prove it. You have to prove it, yeah.