Welcome back to Understanding Design. Hope you had a chance to get familiar with the interesting materials in the Module 1 Reference tab on the course platform. Last time, we touched upon how users are at the core of every design activity and how design is user-centered. In our conversation today, Professor Chakravarti and I will focus on this aspect of design. Why do designers give center stage to the user? Well, most of the arts like painting, music or poetry would put the creator's imagination at the center. It is because design is a little different from other creative fields. And we will discover how as we go along. How did this focus on the user come about? Well, for any design to succeed, it is important that designers understand who is the user and in what context the product is going to be used. This helps us to assess what is being designed and whether it is relevant for the user and if it serves the intended purpose. Take for example, our heritage lighting project. In most of our monuments, we found out that it is completely cluttered with tube lights, wires and switches and it completely spoils the ambience in the structure. We designed the special fixture which matches the aesthetics of the heritage structure as well as has the lights behind so that they are completely hidden and we have the back lighting to see the structure in a much better way. We also have put this up in display over here where you can see. This is an expression of communication design. The lighting makes it look precious, creates a certain sense of respect. Does it discourage graffiti writing, you know like Mayur Love's Neha? I wish it could, but when the ambience is better, people do respect the heritage monument. That was a site specific design which of course can be adapted to different locations. There must be other examples where the users are all of us. Yes. Let me tell you about this interesting project of mine, the common post box which is available in all locations. Yes, that is the one. This is universal design and it is available and okay for all climates and all localities. Let me now show you my case study of how we went about designing it. This has been his passion for quite a while. So here we have the new design with the combination of the aesthetic of the earlier round post box as well as the modern image of a rectangular box with good manufacturing facilities. The most important aspect in the post box was that we made it very convenient for the people. So we have a large opening where the door opens and we can actually see a large opening and you can easily pick up all the letters back at one go. So that was really user friendly for the postman. Then what is in for the users? So the large envelopes we have a large posting slot as well as for children we kept the height low so that even a second class going child could post the letter very comfortably. Let me also tell you about the materials and processes we used in this. We used stainless steel and powder coated in red so that it can work in all climatic conditions. It could be the rainy areas or it could be seaside where the rusting is very high or it could be in very very hot temperatures. That reminds me when it is extremely hot when you post it inside and if it is made of metal you could get scalded. So here we designed this posting slot with plastic so that even if a small child goes and posts a letter the hand will not you know get hurt. Now let me tell you about this postman bag which we redesigned earlier postman were carrying small letters and these letters were hardly heavy. Today the postman have very very heavy loads. They carry business post, they carry book post and because of that we redesigned the postman bag like a backpack so that it is very very convenient to carry long distances when they go closer to the homes they can actually use a sling to dispense the letters very easily into the homes. Finally we launched this box, we went to the India post and they finally said this could be tried out in the field. Oh they must be so pleased. Oh yes it was really implemented and we made some mock-ups and we gave it to them. Let us go back to the example we used last time that of designing a chair. A designer who has given such an assignment would like to know where the chair is going to be used is it for an office or for a classroom or it could be even for an old age home. This question leads the designer to the end user the person who will be actually using that chair which brings us to the context of the user. As designers we need to know exactly where the chair will be used what the local conditions are like what the environmental factors are what the user's socio-economic circumstances are. Let us speak more on the context and why it is so important. We could say that context is a sum total of all factors that affect the way the user interacts with a product or a service or a process. These factors range from intrinsic ones like user psychology user habits age, physical limitations to external ones like the user's workspace, their home the climate and cultural factors. Okay let us listen to an expert who has written extensively on user center design. Click on the next tab visit the link and play the videos.


What's up everybody, Jason here for jaskierscasevice.com. 20's went to Pidini, Obsidian football just sold out. This is a six box half case, we're picking season number five. And again guys, we got a little R&B for 12 teams. There's the teams there with the names. Good luck everybody. And of course, everybody else bought it straight up. I appreciate it guys. So this will be the fresh case, first half of the fresh case. Let's rip it open guys. So again, we have just enough time to squeeze in the second half if we sell a couple more teams after this. And then when we R&B have the remaining teams. One, two, three for the left, four, five, six for the right. And two, one, two, three. So this right here will be for the second half and potentially maybe we do that tonight, if not tomorrow. Here we go guys. And we got Chris Godwin and Achaquille Leonard. Number to 100. So that's Indianapolis Colts, Robert Rumpel and then Chris Godwin bucks to 50. That's James. Rashad Babin for the Raven. So that's the first non-numbered with R&B. So that'll be randomized in one lot. If we had a color box or something like that then that will be of course distributed out. Five out of 10, Aiden Hutchinson. Look at that. Red unbreakable. Nice one there for the Detroit Lions. Robert Rumpel, there you go buddy. We got Magnatic to 75. Rashad Penney for the Seahawks. Seahawks part of the 12 team R&B. And that is 28. Spot eight is Robert Rumpel. We got a John Randall, 11 out of 100 for the Vikings. Going to Robert Rumpel. And then Trey McBride to 99. Cardinal's going to Eric. Back there for the Chargers, going to Matt Bristow. I have a little Brock Birdie. That's a very birdie card. 40 out of 50. Not only fonts on the 49ers. All right, Carolina Panthers. Another non-numbered card for the R&B. So put that here separately. Little easy Zucanma for the Bami Dolphins going to Eric. Four out of 125. Damian Pierce, nice patch there for the Houston Texans. Part of the 12 team R&B. 48 out of 50. Spot eight is going to Robert Rumpel. We got David Bell, 13 out of 75 for the Browns. Part of the 12 team R&B. 13 is spot three, Steve Herrick. And then we got a Breece Halt to 99 RPA. For the Jets, Jets, Jets, Wayne, with that one. All right, Juju Smith-Schuster. And a Volcanics, Nick Chubb. That is 31, little spot one, Michael Robinson. And then Kansas City Chiefs is straight up to Ryan. Ryan Tannehill, Tennessee Titans, non-numbered base. That's the third one. That'll be in one lot. Chris Godwin, 58 out of 100. Brian Robinson, Jr. to 100. Joshua Santos with that one. John Davis Price at a red, seven out of 10. And Brian Robinson, Jr. to 99. Another one for Joshua. All right, nothing too crazy out of the first three boxes. So I have three more to go. All right, Samuel Womack and Majae Sanders. Carnos is Eric and 49ers is Ali Fonsa. I know nothing crazy for the R&B's just yet, man. There's definitely something hiding wrong. Jameson Williams to 125 for the Detroit Lions. Detroit Lions is Robert Runkle. Petri, 99 out of 199 for the Houston Texans. 99, spot nine, that's Chad. Asking you shall receive Chad on the board. Chad Bailey, 46 out of 75. Galaxy, Washington Commanders. That's going to Joshua and then Green Bay Packers. AJ Dillon, 47 out of 50. Matrix patch autographs. That's Raymond. Derek Stingley, Jr. 35, spot five is Ryan. And then Cam Durgan for the Eagles, 63. Eagles is Eric. All right, DeMonte Smith as well. One of the Eagles. Crystal Lowe for the Saints. 12 team R&B, 124. Spot four, Steve Herrick. Ryan Cook, 138 out of 199. Spot eight is Robert. No, actually, this is straight up, actually, right. This is going to the R&B though. 20 out of 50, spot zero is Chad. Hines Ward, there you go, Chad. Very nice Hines Ward. 20 out of 50. R&B. And at a 25, little easy, nice three color patch and autograph, Dolphin's going in here. Alrighty guys, if we don't hit a color blast or anything right here, guys, second half is going to be dumb and loaded, guys. Dumb loaded. So I feel like I have to sell that out tonight now. That R&B potentially massive, just be massive. I don't think there's going to be one here. Mac Jones, 24 out of 50 though. That's going to spot four, Steve Herrick. You know what, Chad, I honestly either buy team straight up or wait for the R&B, but that shit's going to do over, man. Honestly. And then Buffalo Bills, that's Eric. I don't think I see a color blast or a white contra here, so that means both case hits are going to be in the second half. Metchie, that's another not number card. Let's do the second half tonight, guys. Do the second half tonight. There's not a color blast or a white contra here, so that means that it's hiding in the second half. So either go buy team straight up that have color blasts. Why everybody has a white contra, but color blast teams are still a lot of them. Lamar Jackson, a 75, trifecta. If not, I'm going to run a number block, all 20, we'll just do a big R&B. 35 out of 75. That's going to Baltimore Ravens, actually. That's going to, spot five is drying. We've got a TJ Watt, 56, spot six is Robert Runkle. Little relic there for the Steelers. And then Eric Dickerson, 26 out of 50. Nice lightning strike. Rams, Patrick Davis. And the last one actually is a redemption. Let's see who it is.  Let's see who it is. Rookie Jersey Inc. Ooh, card number one. Maybe this is actually nice. Trayvon Walker Ford, the Jacksonville Jaguars. Nice. And that actually is going to spot zero in chat. Number one overall pick. All right guys, well unfortunately no color blasts, no white contras, no big quarterback, RPA, anything like that guys. So that means that second half is going to be extremely, extremely loaded. There was some nice hits that did pop out of here. They're all going to be wrong, but it seems like every first half of the case has been a little bit slow, so the second half has picked up big time. So if you guys want to give it a shot guys, let's sell some teams straight up and then I'll put an R&B up if not. Like I said, now it's going to break tomorrow, but we still got some hits with R&B. It just wasn't anything super crazy. Now we did get a couple of non numbered cards. These are all non numbered, so we're going to minimize this all in one lot. Name it number one, gets that. But go get those teams guys.  And Dice Roll, let's get a new list. Gather these names here. Roll, three and a one, two and a one three times. One, two, three. And Rob and Ron, they're going to get those non numbered base. So I appreciate you to vote, so let's do the second half, jasmiescasebreaks.com.


Are y'all excited for NBA 2K20 news? Me too, man. But we haven't been getting much of it until today. So I was kicking back, I was doing my thing, it was a splendid afternoon in Atlanta, and out of nowhere, Natex puts out this tweet. Ronnie just said he's focusing on my career more than Neighborhood, LMFAO. State your sources, Natex. Where you getting that information from? It's not a good look, I'ma keep it a being my career is not my thing. Listen, I'm an online kind of guy. So I found out Ronnie was streaming on Caffeine TV, so I tuned in. Hey, I'ma keep it a being with y'all, though. I didn't record the first five, 10 minutes. I didn't think he was gonna say all the juicy stuff, right, my bad. He was just saying things about 2K, and I was like, what? So I wanted to double check what Natex was saying, I stuck around in the stream, and this is what Ronnie said. So career mode is the thing you're most excited about? To me, I mean, look, everything's the other thing, but career is the beacon this year for me. Just cause I thought we would get back to ask about what's important to do that. Ah, see, I probably didn't think of that. He just wants to get back to basketball.  So the interesting point is, Ronnie said this same thing to me on the stream a month ago. So it almost feels like a talking point, which means it's probably an important point of focus. My career, oh my God, man. Hey, I've never played games by myself. My whole life growing up, it was either with my brother or online against other people. So I don't even like playing offline. That's not even gaming to me. But that's just me. And apparently a lot of other people because my team and the park are the most popular modes. All right, Ronnie already knows that. There's no point in me screaming that to the top of my lungs. So the stream went on and there was a lot of juiciness and some drama. Ronnie was taking shots for some reason. Nobody asked him to. He just decided to do it. Um, it's a year to year game and I don't think anybody innovates as much as us. There's another game coming out this week that doesn't sound like it's innovative very much, so. Uh, we're gonna leave it right there. Oh, you know how I feel about that? God, would I love a football game?  Ronnie, do you like streaming, my guy? Cause you're coming with no energy, G. This is your stream. Come on, my guy. Why do you boot this stream up if you don't like the stream, man? Hey, that's besides the point. If I didn't know better, I think he's talking about Mass Effect 3. Some shots of being thrown ladies and gentlemen and I'm all here for it. So Shake decided to ask Ronnie about getting more games on the park because I have a YouTube logo. I don't have to worry about that. But for most people, it takes a long ass time. And apparently Ronnie has a solution that none of us have thought about before. Yes, that's what he said. Talking about how all that stuff is gonna be handled. So this is all your speculation and I appreciate it. Right. When you see what we end up doing, I think you'd be like, whoa, I didn't even think about that. Remember, you and I have talked about this a million times. Years ago when you were at your first mighty community team up, you would have never concepted the park. You would have never concepted the neighborhood. What? This is so prolific in their innovation, ladies and gentlemen. The way they take modes that existed in previous years and then take them away from the game and then reintroduce them in two to three years. Wow, that is a prolific level of innovation, ladies and gentlemen. And yo, I didn't count, but if I had to guess huge door innovation at least 45 times that stream. So Shake asks, hey, how can we get more games so people aren't waiting on the park? He even brought up the idea of matchmaking. I didn't record this part, that's my fault. And Ronnie2k kind of whiffed. He parried the idea of matchmaking saying that's basically the Jordan Rack. What? Ronnie, do you think park matchmaking is the Jordan Rack? Are you good, my guy? Those are totally different things.  So it kind of shot me in the heart because one of the things I was most excited for was park matchmaking. And based on the way he answered the question it's highly unlikely we see something like that. All right, so how are we gonna solve it? How are we gonna, this is a big problem, right? We need people to have more games more consistently. You could hide the ranks, hide the rep. Apparently Ronnie does not like that idea. And he has an idea way better. And guys, when you see the idea, you're gonna be blown away because you couldn't have even conceived of the idea yourself. That's kind of how the whole stream went. Shake was like, hey, this could solve a problem that exists. And Ronnie was like, mm-mm, we have an idea you haven't even thought about yet. Hahaha. Ronnie also mentioned that he didn't wanna split the population of people when affiliations were brought up. Based on the way he talked about it, affiliations is most likely not gonna return. Now I'm not even a fan of affiliations like that but I see why people want it back. But based on the way he even answered that question I highly doubt we're gonna get more servers. So if you're playing in North America you can expect one NAES server and one NAES server. While most other games like Rainbow Six or Apex Legends have a server in Dallas, Virginia, Miami, LA, Portland, we got two. And that's why it's so delayed. It's not a hard fix. It literally just costs money. Amazon has all the infrastructure already. We always have innovative ways. People always go back to the past, right? Like they're always like Jordan challenges or we want crew or we want affiliations or we want whatever it is. We always have a more innovative way of doing things. I remember talking to you about what ended up being the neighborhood before the neighborhood came out and I was like, what if everybody got to play against everybody? And now what I was alluding to was the neighborhood. On a very funny point and I very much so wish I recorded this but this was before I started recording. Ronnie said and I quote, the servers have been very, very good in 2K19. That's a real quote. It's not me making that up. And yo, as much as I want to drag on them for saying something crazy like that, they kind of work. They kind of work just a little bit. I mean, they were horrible in the standard of any other game on the planet but relative to any other 2K, they weren't that bad. But I don't know if y'all remember 2K17 or even 2K18. Somehow, yeah, he's not wrong 2K19 was an improvement. That's what it's come to ladies and gentlemen. He's not wrong. Okay, so this part was where it got pretty juicy because he actually kind of answered a question instead of burying it for once. This had to do with the archetype system being different in MP8 2K20. Archetypes in a way are popular but they're also not popular in a way I get it because it's limiting to what some, like how do you build, how do you build say a Russell Westbrook, right? What is that archetype? I hear that and I think that there's gonna be innovative ways for us to handle. We wanted to get it back to the theme of this year and I'm gonna say it a million times is getting back to the core of basketball. So we should be allowed to allow you to make bills that are a little bit more authentic to basketball as opposed to just being this like strict archetype type thing. So I think the builder is gonna be something that people are gonna play a lot at the demo. So Ronnie Verify confirmed 1 million percent that that my player builder is gonna be in the demo that we're gonna get a chance to play around with it a lot so we don't have to keep creating new accounts like in previous years with the prelude but more importantly, every single year with the game it's felt like we've gone down this narrow path where you could only do one thing with your build unless it's just broken cheese like the stretch big dribbling across the court in two dribbles. I like that.  I was one of the people in 2K15 and 16 saying, yo, you shouldn't be able to do everything with a build. And people were at least the best players were but now that I've gotten a chance to experience what it's like to only be able to do one thing. Yes, please rewind the clock. I don't even want to do this no more. And apparently Ronnie agrees which is by the way a huge shift because the ongoing conspiracy was that 2K gives you a narrow career path so that you have to spend $50 each time just to try something new because you can't try what a glass cleaner is like unless you spend 50 on the build and then grind the badges and grind the attributes and then you could experience it. So it's one of those changes where it's like it could maybe hurt 2K when it comes to microtransactions and we know how they don't like that. I would show you the clip about cross play but why are you all even asking? This is 2K. They can't even do park events right, all right? They're not getting cross play in the game. Ronnie damn near verified that himself. He said they experimented with it but he doesn't know what they're doing with it right now which probably means that they thought about it in the boardroom and said, no that idea. It's horrible. It takes too much work and efforts which is interesting because Epic Games, the creators of Fortnite literally made their code open source so anybody else can use it for free. Shout out to those guys, man. Shout out to those guys. There was an awkward situation I wanna turn your attention to next.  Like, I don't like that idea. That I didn't like that in 14, I think 14.  Sorry, it's always funny to me when microtransactions are brought up because although Ronnie doesn't benefit from the microtransactions, he's forced to defend it because it's his company and it's always a very awkward tense moment in which case he dodged the question. This was an actual quote when a shakedown asked about private matchmaking to improve the rate of games, et cetera. This is a quote I wrote down. This is real. Can't do anything about people being wussies. That's what you think the problem is, Ronnie? The people are being wussies. Ronnie, if you put me on League of Legends a game I've never played before and you put me against the highest ranked guy, I'm not sticking around. That's not because I'm a wussies because I didn't dedicate my life to this so I don't wanna play it. So how do you improve the rate of games being played? You don't blame the guys that don't wanna play. There's obviously something wrong systematically with the game. All right, at the end of the day, he can't talk about much on a stream. So he's trying to deflect as much as he can until it's time to talk about some of these things. But at the same time, you can't call people wussies. That's not the right answer. And probably the last thing I wanna bring up on this stream before we get to the next news is this clip. We're gonna be really excited. 41 days left. Let's start talking about features and length. You know, first feature potentially this week. So, it's a lot coming. It's gonna be pretty exciting. All right, there you go, ladies and gentlemen. Do you know what the first thing is that's usually announced in NBA 2K? Do the Jeopardy music when I walk, when I do the Jeopardy music. Yes, correct, ladies and gentlemen. The answer is my GM, which means we might potentially see some my GM news in the next week. All right, so maybe you watched that interview and you were like, hmm, maybe they're gonna scale back on micro transactions this year. Yo, there was this article that dropped. No cap that said EA's ultimate team modes across all their games have made 28% of their total net revenue. Crazy that is. Okay, check this out. EA is the eighth biggest video game company on the planet and over a quarter of their income is a game mode. EA's live service revenue across all games represented 45% of their total fiscal year 2019, which means the actual purchase of the game was only half the money they made that year. Think about that. So when you have a fantasy about any one of these companies, take two EA or Activision, scaling back on micro transactions, think again.  For what, us measly gamers?  That's such an insane number to think about. Sorry for deflating hope, guys. All right, so this was like a couple weeks old news, but in case you didn't hear, there was a high school that just decided to leak some information. Churchland Athletics put out this tweet saying, breaking news, alert emoji. The Churchland High School Gym will be featured on 2K20 as part of the My Player Model. So excited to be a partner with 2K Sports. We'll be giving away free copies of NBA 2K20 as I... So you're not gonna be wondering, huh, why would this high school post that? Is this legitimate and what does this mean? I have all three of those answers for you today. Someone linked me and said, yo agent, check this out. Apparently 2K is gonna feature a high school again. Nah is gonna be the PIT invitational portion that takes place at my high school gym. Apparently this guy goes to the high school. He's giving us info. So it's not like actual gameplay that will feature them. It's a college tournament for college prospects who are on the cusp of getting drafted. Players like Jimmy Butler, Kyle Loquen, James Ennis, Demari Carroll to name a few played in this invitational. So they've had high schools and previous 2Ks before each year, the My Career story is different. And as we just heard, My Career is apparently to focus. So we don't even know what that means yet. So shout out to that high school for deciding to leak that randomly a couple of weeks ago. Then some more information dropped this time again on Twitter. A fan sent a tweet to LD2K saying, in the demo this year, well we have a free space, My Core, to try out our builds and dribbles if we want to be able to play with our friends there. And LD2K responded saying, we wanted to do this thing right for the fans. All I can say for now, with the wink emoji. Do you remember how annoying it was in previous years to just do that, to try different builds?  And even then the sliders were completely off so it's not indicative of anything the real game would mean. You mean to tell me we could use a My Core and test jump shots and dribble moves to see if we like a build before we spend money on it? Hold on, wait a minute, I have to stroke my beard real quick. Doesn't that mean there might be less micro transactions for NBA2K? I'm gonna keep it a being with y'all. This is not adding up to me. I refuse to believe that 2K has become wholesome or at least a little bit more wholesome. And then two weeks ago LD2K verified that L2 cheese will not be returning to 2K20, which means they must have changed something fundamentally with the dribbling system. He was responding to a tweet from Pisteria who said, I have come to the realization that this game takes zero skill. With the clip of a people on the twos just L2 cheesing to get buckets. Each year 2K promises that the skill gap is gonna be bigger and in reality it's a very difficult thing to accomplish on a sports game, very, very difficult. So will they accomplish it? I don't know. Stay tuned on the next episode of NBA2K21 or two. Two. Even developers like the czar were tweeting just FYI, even I'm like, dang, when are they 2K going to start dropping info on the game? It's like a month away from launch. We don't know a thing about it. It's 2019 ladies and gentlemen where you don't know a thing about the game but yet you can pre-order it. Hey, I'll keep it a holy thousand with you guys. I really hope my career is not the focus this year. For me, the replay value is not there. I barely make it through the first time to be honest with y'all. I'm really just trying to get to the online part of things. I mean, a whole lot of other things have happened in the last couple of weeks. They announced a soundtrack to the game. They, I mean, that might have been it actually. So I guess we just sit and wait until we hear about my GM, I guess. Hey, I'm back to making consistent videos. Even ask Ronnie. Subscribe to the channel. That wasn't Ronnie, that was me. Hey, drop a like or click on one of the four videos.  He thinks he has more Instagram followers than me. That's not cool. Instagram is in the description. Go ahead, follow that. I'll talk to you guys next time. Hey.


Oh sunny day. Oh man. Look at my papayas. Those things are doing great. All right Good that it's sunny day today because I've got something I've been doing so much grunt labor lately just dirty stuff and dig in and standing in the mud and I really want to cut some wood today on my lumber mill and yesterday I went and found this White mangrove tree that had fallen down and I cut it up into some pieces and Brought these up. I don't think termites got to any of it. Oh Nope, they did a little bit. Maybe Yeah, we got a soft spot in there. That's a that's the skinniest part though Man, there's a soft spot in here, too And that explains why it came down. All right, this is the biggest log All right No soft spots there And let's check this end this end looks Seems to be all solid. Well, at least this one is solid all the way through. That's good And this is the second one ah Yeah, maybe this is just garbage. I don't know. Maybe I'll maybe I'll cut it back a little bit and See how far this Nonsense goes Whatever though. I've got the biggest piece Looks like it's in great shape and I cut it to just over eight feet long like two and a half meters ish I'm gonna get it in here and see if I can cut some nice boards. I don't know. I don't even know what I'm cutting yet Okay, I cleared my kids toys out of here I've been thinking about how I'm gonna move bigger logs All right, I think that's lined up I think I'll try cutting the top off first Yes, try that. Oh, no, I don't want to cut that much at once. All right, let's work our way into it Good Cloud issues since this runs directly off solar panels With no batteries anytime a little cloud comes by it slows me down right now. I'm got patchy clouds, but I Haven't had to stop yet. Just slow down This is a reenactment because Jamie accidentally erased the clip for this part So I'm Jamie and I was out here cutting wood with my saw But then clouds kept kept them getting in the way of my solar panels for my saw So I couldn't do any cutting. So I went and did some digging and I was like, yeah, I'm doing some digging Oh, let me flex my muscles. Oh, check them out. Check them out. Oh check out my muscles ladies frog frog What are you doing? I'm showing the ladies my muscles No, no, no women don't watch this channel. Well, maybe that's cuz you don't show enough skin, baby Can you just stick to the script? Oh, you're fired. Okay. Okay, so I was so I was digging and like I was like, why doesn't this saw work better and stuff? And I was like, yo, I got some ideas for modifications. I've been meaning to do so I did modifications I was like, yeah, let me get this part flex my muscles. Oh Frog like and subscribe Okay, first here we are over at the blade, right and The blade did have a bit of a wobble. So as it was spinning around, you know not a lot just a little bit and That's it's just because when I made it like my daughter was turning that around while I held an angle grinder here to you know Line it up. So it didn't come out perfect. So I just took the blade off and the nut Turned the saw on so it was spinning real fast and took an angle grinder and very slowly went up till it was like Oh And at that point when it was going that meant it was smooth running So now the blade The blade does not wobble it is very straight Yeah, that was looking good So that means it cuts a thinner line now because it when it wobbled it it was cutting a line Maybe twice as twice to blade thickness. So now it's cutting half as much wood. So that definitely speeds things up the downside of that is when you're cutting a thinner line it leaves more chance for the wood to bind up on that on the blade but whatever okay and the second thing I did was I reduced the number of teeth on this blade see there's missing teeth now I just kept every fourth tooth so I cut three out kept one cut three out kept three out and this was a 40 tooth blade and now it's a 10 tooth blade and to do it I just you know touch them with an angle grinder real quick and just scored them and then they snapped off pretty easily only took a few minutes to do I mean I did it in my workshop not right here and then I put it back on and you know I knew there was gonna be some some improvement in performance but wow wow so oh so much better and it was already getting pretty late in the day so this saw runs on solar panels which are right up here so the morning Sun comes in and between like nine and noon I get good Sun on these panels and I can cut pretty good right and maybe if I stretch it if I have you know a relatively soft piece of wood I can cut till maybe like one but at that point that you know the Sun's coming in angle it's not not that much of the Sun's hitting the solar panels but I was cutting with this blade on this super hard piece of wood I just made a cut at 230 it's crazy and it went through easier than than I was doing before and I can see the difference up here is a pretty fat cut well partly this is because the wood is warping because it's wet and I cut it but the you know the old cut was almost that wide but then you can see from about here down like it's a much thinner cut that's that's the new cut and when I was using all 40 teeth this is my right where is it this stuff right now I've got other stuff on top let's get the stuff under here like this this is my sawdust you know this these little bits right but then I switched teeth and well I reduced the number of teeth so each tooth is getting a lot more wood it's you know taken off it's like a little planer now instead of instead of kind of like sanding through the wood just getting little tiny bits it's like you know slicing out chunks so now it does take more force for each tooth to cut a deeper cut each time but it's not like four times the amount of force and there's only one one quarter of the number of teeth there were before right so even if it takes twice as much energy to make a little bit deeper cut that's still gonna be half the amount of energy it needs overall because there's there's a quarter of a number of teeth and then it's also making a skinnier cut so I estimate I estimate I need about a quarter as much energy as I did before to make a cut now so I should be able to cut four times as deep maybe not quite four times as deep because the deeper you get the more more binding you get on the blade but yeah I should be able to cut a lot faster and a lot deeper now which is awesome no I can't kind of anymore it's too late now the Sun's like way over there it's not don't don't play with the same I don't want any of the blade ever remember I'm also really curious to see what the cut looks like because when I had the 42th blade it would cut a really nice smooth cut like ridiculously smooth like way smoother than I need but I think it's still gonna cut a pretty smooth cut even with with the 10 teeth so anyway now I'm just excited for hopefully a sunny day tomorrow and hopefully tomorrow morning I can come out here and just whip through some of this stuff and well it's like it's like a brand new machine oh cut through so oh so excited I hope we get some tomorrow are we gonna gonna get some forecast calls for Sunday tomorrow well let's see well we'll wait and see tomorrow


Here we go. This week, advancement opportunities will continue to look good. The CMP wants improvements to NKO and more on energizing the personnel and training systems. First, the Navy is growing its workforce, which means better opportunity for advancement all around. Enlisted sailors can also expect the role of a new detailing system with the goal of better matching sailor skills to fleet billets. It puts sailors in bills where they can excel based on their training and experience. Next, NKO is fast and easy to use. Said no one ever. NKO needs work and CMP will tell you as much, but now we can expect some improvements. CMP's team is working to improve NKO in two ways. Faster access and a more modern design. For a site we all have to use as much as NKO. This is really good news, but the process is just starting, however. So if you have any ideas on how to improve NKO that you want to throw in, send them to us here or just leave a comment. There's actually a lot of tech stuff in this edition. Defense Secretary Ashton Carter is talking about building a social media-like platform to take on the task of job assignments and troop evaluations. Think LinkedIn meets CMSID, but it's still just in the idea phase. Also, CNO is looking to use more virtual reality simulation technology to train sailors and taking that technology to the waterfront rather than just sending sailors to schoolhouses. And the last thing heads up, the FY16 Active Duties Senior Chief Board meets Monday, April 20th. So expect to see the quotas posted early next week. For more information, check out this week's wire, but that's it for this video. For the Chief Enable Personnel, I'm MC1LA Fabrizio. Thanks for watching.


My name's Regan. I work for Anthony J. Lyon detective bureau. They call me the lion's eye Sunday at 8 30 and CBS brings you Jeff Regan Investigator starring Frank Graham as Regan with Frank Nelson as Anthony J. Lyon So stand by for mystery and suspense and adventure in tonight's transcribe story The British are coming The neckties were all labeled LG for Lord Granger Only Granger wasn't a lord and the philards tied us neatly into a case of champagne suppers and our scissors complex And a man who wanted people around when he committed murder. I Just finished a double-decked hamburger and two cups of coffee at a Beverly Boulevard drive-in So I was feeling pretty good when I checked in with my boss the lion at the detective bureau The lion was holding up and admiring what I thought was a cow's tongue Beautiful beautiful. What is that next time my boy Lord Granger original is this next highest number three? Is he it's marked here. There's only one of its kind in the world Maybe because only one guy in the world would wear it. Yeah, I take it. You're not familiar with Lord Granger You take wrong the Lord Granger chain of English type men's clothing stores have a dash clothing stores is owned and operated by Kirk Kirk Granger and extremely well dressed man, but he's in great danger Jeffrey. Oh, so Granger's a new client He gives out these original ties as calling cards. He is initial as woven in at the bottom What's that Granger's trouble that's on well, you see he's going to kill a man and he's gonna what? I'm sure that's what he said and mr. Granger wants someone present at the shooting as a witness to prove It was self-defense you accepted a case like that. This is a big case Jeffrey. Here's his check for $500 There's another 500 in it if you're present when the shooting takes place a witness to murder Of course, the only reason I accepted the case Jeffrey was in hopes you might prevent the shooting Well, who's gunning for Granger is some young man, but you'll have to get the details from mr. Granger Don't worry. I will I left the lion tying a Windsor knot in his red and purple Lord Granger cravat The lion had already tied us into a case as phony as padded shoulders, but maybe he was right if Kirk Granger was gonna commit murder Maybe we could stop it Headquarters for the Lord Granger chain of shops was in Beverly Hills just off the main drag a loof and Betty British With a roll of tweed and abrasive bagpipes in the front display window Inside the shop. It smelled of fine woolens and leather I asked a doddering clerk with crumpets on his breath where I might find the offices. He finally managed I'm shy and pointed toward an elevator so conservative. It was almost invisible On the second floor. I asked an office girl wearing black watch plaid where I might find Kirk Granger being fitted Don't you know I didn't but he was I found Kirk Granger in the fitting room He was about 47 Smartly gray at the temples with a swimming pool face and the large body of a softened athlete Surrounded by mirrors and a tailor with pins in his mouth Please stand firm mr. Granger. Haven't you finished with a cummerbund? I'm attempting to stick it in sir. Well stand behind me. I can't see myself in the mirror. Yes, sir. Now that's got it Oh, you're Regan. I answer that Granger and I've seen your picture in the tabloids. That's why I called on your agent That's what I want to talk to you about Why you called our detective bill you may leave us now feeling and but we hadn't started fitting the trousers later Fielding yes, sir quite right sir as you say, sir you Want to talk standing here in these mirrors? Yes, you see standing here in this one position I can see both my sides my front and my back. Well, it's good a reason as any Would you stand to one side? Oh? Oh, sure. You were blocking the light now to business. That's what I had in mind You see mr.  That's plausible. Is there any particular evening you're free mr. Regan I want to kill the men at your convenience.  Of course, I haven't heard him. Maybe he won't be able to keep your appointment. No, he'll keep it. All right Anytime, I'm ready You mind my asking the prospective victims name James Benson. He manages my shop in the miracle mile Oh, you um, you won't mind if I have a chat with Benson.   What is it when the light falls on my head at this angle? Don't I remind you of Walter pigeon? Kirk Granger was lost in a well-tailored world all his own I didn't want to break the spell or Granger So I walked out toward the clear light of the street number one on my list of persons to see was Lynn Richards the woman in the case But before I made the front door fielding the little tailor grabbed at my sleeve with thumb and forefinger You're mr. Egan of the Anthony J. Lyon detective bureau that is completely me We all know that mr. Granger has hired you. Oh, do you know why we have our suspicions That it is to protect the person of mr. Granger act as his bodyguard as it were I'm sorry, but I can't discuss a client's business feeling mr. Egan Listen as a craftsman the tailor I know that mr. Granger sometimes uses local tweeds and has British labels sewn in them His character is of the very worst. What's your point fielding if anyone does serious harm to mr. Granger would you note details so that we the members of his staff might recount them at our picnic the day of his funeral I Couldn't promise anything, but I said I'd keep an open mind Then I asked feeling if he knew Lynn Richards. He did Lynn Richards was an employee of Kirk Granger station right on the premises In fact right upstairs. She was the girl I'd met wearing the black watch plaid Back upstairs. I introduced myself to Lynn Richards who in turn invited me out to tea I accepted graciously and we walked across the street to a small tea room Would you care for the biscuit mr. Regan? I'm sorry miss Richards, but there's no time. I want to talk to you about Kirk Granger Yes, we all know why you're here. Oh Lord Granger has an informed staff Oh, I just like talking about my employer mr. Regan But if I were to say he is something of a cat I I shouldn't be far from the point Actually, he's been very nice to me, but you've seen how he treats other people. Yes, like maybe Jimmy Benson I suppose mr. Granger hired you to watch me perhaps to keep Jimmy Benson away from me perhaps even frightened him away Do you hate Granger? No, I don't hate him. I don't love him Capable of no feeling whatsoever.  He has no right to be oh any more But he did at one time a year ago before I'd met Jimmy I had dinner a few times with mr. Granger. You don't see Granger after hours anymore. Oh, no, okay Lynn That's all I need. Oh, where are you going now to talk to Jimmy Benson before he makes his last appointment? I Got Benson's home address from Lynn I waited until he had a chance to get home from work. Maybe six o'clock and I went to his place It was a trim boxy boarding house in the older stretch of Wilshire Boulevard Front door was locked.  You want a room? I'm looking that's nice We're famous for our home-cooked meals. I am Is there a quite the kind of people we like here what's your name Jeff Regan that's real interesting How much money do you make? Oh Now let me see Where shall I look lady? Just call me mother Cole all my boarders do I'm looking for Jimmy Benson. Oh Is he in some kind of trouble? Where's his room? Head of the stairs first door to the left. See him. He checked in at 543 He was walking more rapidly than usual took the stairs to it a time. Thanks mother. Let me know what happens I knocked on Benson's door he answered Jimmy Benson was tall dark Below his straight black hair was a handsome face still soft with the youth Now it was strained and intense. What do you want? Talk with you. I don't know you Mind if I come in my name's Regan private investigator private investigator Nice room you got here What do you want with me? You're a Good friend of Kirk Granger's No, why not? He's cheap low dirty no good jealous because he's been seeing a girl in Richards What do you know about that?  You'll be waiting for you I told him to his face. I kill him if he didn't leave Lynn alone. It's no good Why won't he leave her alone Benson? You've got to promise me you won't go gunning for Kirk Granger. I I I Don't know what to do. Just believe Lynn Richards and keep your head. What? What right have you got telling me what to do? What do you know about it Benson? It's your life Okay Okay, it's my life They Maybe you're right Regan I'll call in Just before I closed Jimmy Benson's door on the way out. I heard him make a dinner date with Lynn Richards for that night So it looked like everything was gonna be fine But that was before I received a phone call a few hours later at nine o'clock On the other end of the line was Kirk Granger The night for what I want you to come to my house immediately. Don't worry. You're safe You have my home address and expect to see you within 20 minutes Okay Granger you paid for it. I'll be right out. Hurry. I want you to get here before Jimmy Benson. You think you'll be there tonight I'm almost positive. Well, you can relax Granger. Benson won't show but I will 15 minutes Kirk Granger's house was a replica of an English country house complete to walls hidden in ivy Ivy that now showed black in the moonlight. There was no doorbell just a bronze coat of arms that served as a door knocker I knocked Nothing tried the door knob. The house was locked tight. Everything was dark And then I noticed a light reflected on the leaves of a tree toward the side of the house I walked back along the path toward the light There was an open door leading to a garden. I Stepped into the light of the doorway and felt a gun in my ribs. Oh It's Yuri put the gun away Granger. Yes But you won't mind if I keep it handy that's your business I heard the noise on the path I thought it might be Jimmy Benson. Yes, you didn't want to shoot because it'd be no witness That's right. I was merely going to keep Benson alive until you arrive. Give him a chance to go for his weapon Then kill him. Why don't you forget all this Granger forget Benson? That's not the way I play Why do you expect Benson out here tonight? Intuition tell you what my intuition says he won't be here. We'll see Yeah large room When does luck? Yes, I've locked the entire house the exception of that door to the garden. We have to have air Then what helps? Hmm, this must be your study. Yes, you're observant. Mm-hmm Hey, you like mirrors vanity. I have them on every door Regan. Oh How do you like the drape of this smoking jacket? Very smart that? If you don't mind, I've just seated this desk anything you like.  You won't need a Granger. We'll see All right We'll both wait and see Granger sat at his desk his back against the wall The desk lamp lighting his harsh features and we waited both of us watching the door that opened to the garden One thing was sure Benson wouldn't show wouldn't be fool enough to But then we heard a noise outside like someone running. There's a crashing sound through the bushes. It's Benson Ranger turned in and once with movement snapped off the lights all of them But the one on his desk then there was a figure at the door Granger Where are you Granger? Shoot Benson Benson get back Benson I've been waiting for this The room went bright and red like heat lightning I ran for the light switch But now it was too late All right, Regan, you're my witness. He tried to kill me. I fired in self-defense Man lay on the floor face down. I turned him over It was Jimmy Benson And he was dead This is CBS and you were listening to the British are coming tonight's adventure with Jeff Regan investigator It started when a man named Granger hired the lion and me to witness a murder. That's right murder Only Granger told it another way He said a kid named Benson was gunning for him and he was gonna gun right back He wanted us around to make sure it was self-defense Granger was right Benson did come gunning and Granger was waiting for him Granger's aim was better. I Told that to police lieutenant candid as he stood looking over the body of Benson munching his usual candy bar Can you say you were standing right here what had happened Regan? That's right You want to fight? No, no, thanks, and Dead man Benson he came in the French door shooting he saw Granger and opened up Granger fired back Granger was a lucky man, Regan Not so lucky What do you mean by that? He had his gun ready candid real ready. He knew the score still Granger was lucky the boys shots went so wild Maybe you got something Okay, we can what's eating you can't it doesn't seem odd that Granger fired perfect shots in semi-darkness yet Benson Couldn't even hit the right side of the room Maybe Granger had been practicing maybe it's even better than that You should want to buy the candy bar angle It's your something on it candid munched and I thought But it still came to one total Granger had shot and killed Jimmy Benson in self-defense. I Was walking out for a fresh air thinking about that when I heard him Granger I want to talk to you police through with you already. It's an open-and-shut case Regan Thanks for your kind assistance leave me out of it. Oh on the contrary I couldn't have done without you you've earned the other 500 you haven't seen the coroner's jury yet a mere formality here You're eager to be sure aren't you Granger? I hired certain services as services have been rendered to my satisfaction Take the money suppose.  I tell you that somewhere somehow I'm gonna find out the truth behind a night The real truth you were here. You saw that something's missing Leave that to the police. All right. I'm in it now Granger more than I thought I'd be I'll let your money buy too much Too much what too much Regan? From now on I promise you'll get more than your money's worth. I Left the well-dressed mr. Granger sputtering over his open billfold It was pat too pat too perfect to stomach and somewhere in it. There was too much planning The land and I had thought we could stop a killing. We were too late. The only thing left to establish a murder It was the next afternoon before I got something worth working on I I drove down Wilshire to the trim boxy boarding house Where I'd met James Benson out on the steps was the person I wanted to see Mother core sweeping leaves with a battered broom Yes, oh It's you again. Did you decide on that room? I wanted to talk to you about one of your board is James Benson What's that Jimmy? Oh? Is he in trouble again? Benson's dead mrs. Call Jimmy dead. Oh My isn't that a shame? So young too Well, we all have to go sometime don't we? Would you like to see that room mr. Regan room the one you're interested in? Oh, it's very nice and airy too I could give you a special rate. Well, no wait Why you could have Jimmy Benson's room if you liked it's the best one in the house then sir Yeah Yeah, Benson's room Maybe I'll take a look at that mrs. Cole. I followed the landlady up the stairs to Benson's room Mrs. Cole unlocked the door gave me the complete tour and she beam proudly well You take just as much time as you like mr. Regan. I'm sure you'll decide on it And I was in the room alone looking at the neatness of it At the studio couch a dead man wouldn't be sleeping on at the telephone at the desk still open and then I Found plenty a date book dated 1947, but with entries made yesterday the day before a date book that had become a diary I read it the entries about Granger about Lynn Richards Jealousy raging on every page until the last entry yesterday's and that's the one that made me stop it said He says it will be tonight. He can't have her. I'll show him. I Grabbed up the date book and left in a hurry. I found Lynn Richards in the tea room across from Granger's Looked through me. Oh Mr. Regan Mind if I sit down? No, I don't mind You um You know about him Yes, I know Mind answering a couple of questions What's the use mr. Regan? What difference does it make? Well, it could make a lot. He's dead, isn't he? He had to do it Jimmy had to lose his head to go out there. I warned him mr. Regan I told him not to listen to Granger. Well, then why did Benson go out there last night? I don't know. He told me how to date with you. I had to cancel it Granger insisted. We finished some correspondence When was that? Granger called me around round seven.  Regan if I'd refused mr. Granger. He'd have taken it out on Jimmy But you couldn't make Jimmy see that, huh? I was wrong. I was terribly wrong I see that now No job is that important. Tell me about last night. You went out to Granger's at seven. What then? We had dinner mr. Granger wasn't a good humor. He laughed about Jimmy and his jealousy I suppose I even laughed too. Then you went to work. No. No, we didn't work. What? That's the odd part of it. You see we finished dinner around 8 30 and then Just before nine. He told me to go home. What did he say when he told you to go home? It was very odd. He said well, it has been a charming evening much too charming for work at all He said he wouldn't need me after all that what he had in mind. He could set up himself set up Yes, those are the words he used set up Said what up mr. Regan? Have you uncovered something? You know sometimes is a thin line between self-defense and murder My job is to find that line What made Granger certain he could out-shoot James Benson it had to be planned to be set up as Granger himself put it but how I Drove down to the office of my boss the lion, but if I thought he had any ideas about murder I was wrong If we will we'll come in my boy. I was just closing for the day lion. Can't you let that tie alone? Oh the next I just retiring it for dinner. I didn't come here to talk about ties Granger's the man of Mr. Dim Yes, yes, I read about it red bull. You were the first guy to talk to Granger He told you he was gonna kill a man. Yes, but of course I thought he said it would be self-defense Now lion did he say anything about how he knew it would be self-defense? No, Jeffrey. He just said he wanted us as witnesses. I think land He must have told you something about the job Well, you see he handed me this tie and oh by the way, did you know I cut myself shaving this morning because of my new tie What? It's a fact Jeffrey. Yeah, I was shaving when the mirror door to the medicine cabinet swung open And it showed my new tie lying on the bed, and I was watching that's it Watch what did I say something you said plenty? I'll see you later general Jeffrey. What is it? What did I say much lion just the solution for a murder? 30 minutes later, I pulled up in front of Granger's place dark Silent lonely-looking the house a huge gray shape against the expensive shrubbery.  I had the door open and was inside Quickly I moved into the big library Circle around the heavy furniture the drapes the big desk my hand felt for a light switch and found it The desk lamp threw a shaft of light down on the desk chair. That was the first step next the mirrored doors I went over to them swinging them in and out finding just the right angles always keeping in mind the desk chair with a light on it Then I had it a method for murder Who's in here? I turned off the desk light and moved away. I Heard his big frame move toward the overhead light switch. I wouldn't turn them on if I were your Granger Regan the lights might make you an easy mark making what you want in my house I found it what I wanted paid off now get out That's the way you figured it wasn't it Granger enough money or buy anything even a self-defense plea or a murder Got a gun Regan and I got evidence.   I felt his movement across the room before I saw him the dark shadows moving along the wall The occasional creek of shoe leather or the faint brush of trousers against chair He was moving in and he had a gun and I had a gun and it was dark. I Got an idea. I Slipped gently along the wall judging it carefully guessing hoping for the right spot And then I flipped on the lights Try again Granger I Your own trick Granger a scared guy shoots at mirrors and is left with an empty gun Maybe the warden will own your mirror Granger so you can watch when they strap you in the chair So Kirk Granger got a free ride in a police car and the Lord Granger chain of English type men's stores could start looking for a new owner It was after lunch the next day when I checked in with my boss the lion There was the lion not only in his brand new tie But complete with brand new double breasted navy blue pinstripe drape shaped suit And you did it You bought a new suit general and on you it looks great well after all Jeffrey we did make a big fee on this case and Our client mr. Granger was so well dressed and as head of the lion detective bureau. It's your duty to look good for the company Yes, Jeffrey. That's exactly it. It is my duty to look prosperous to uphold And of course, Eddie you'll be glad to see it too You know Eddie down at the drugstore. Yeah, let's see you owe him about 12 dollars, isn't it cigars remember and then there's Joe Joe at the newsstand in the corner Let me see you a borrowed ten from him last week. Hey, he'd be glad to see you looking prosperous Oh, yeah, and then there's mr. Johnson. He's a landlord. Yeah, I saw him out in the hall a minute ago And must be what he meant. Yeah, free. What are you talking about? What did he say? Well, they told me things must be looking up with the agency said something about raising the office rent Yeah, free quick the closet wait to hide who wants to hide get me my old suit Jeff Regan investigator is written by William Frugan Gilbert Thomas directed by Sterling Tracy and stars Frank Graham as Regan with Frank Nelson as Anthony J Lion Original music is by dick around Join us next week for another transcribed adventure with Jeff Regan investigator over CBS the Columbia broadcasting system


I think one of the things that I love about the United Methodist Church is this idea of theological humility, this idea that you can exist in one denomination and be able to disagree with one another. Now, granted, there is obviously a stream of orthodoxy, but on the outliers, we can see differently and still worship the same Christ. I had the opportunity to teach a class called Speaking with Integrity in a Divided World, and we had these completely rich conversations where we disagreed with each other on hot topics, but the amount of respect that was included in the conversations was just inspiring for me to see. And I was the one teaching the class, and I was learning from them about what it actually looks like to respect one another when we don't see eye-to-eye on certain topics. I think one of the things I love the most about the Methodist Church is how we sit kind of in the middle of everything. I love getting to meet couples, and one was raised evangelical, and the other was raised Catholic, and they're trying to figure out where they're going to go to church, and they find this beautiful medium in the Methodist Church, and they come to a better understanding of their faith through us, and they have a better relationship. I think that's one of the coolest things, the coolest interactions I get to have. We know, asking me about what I love about the Methodist Church is kind of like asking me, what is it that I love about my country or my family? I was thinking about how could I not love the place that has nurtured me? How could I not love the place where I came to know Christ? How could I not love the place where I learned that beyond a shadow of a doubt that God loved me unconditionally no matter what? And it's, I can't imagine being anywhere else, I'm a Wesleyan to my bones, and it's kind of like with the paraphrase what Peter said to Jesus, where else could I go that I would hear this type of message of unconditional love and unbounded grace in the words of eternal life. I love the theology of the United Methodist Church.  I really appreciate that. What I love about the Methodist Church is it's where I found the grace of God. When I was in second grade I started in Cub Scouts and the local Methodist Church was the charter organization for that, and so my mom and I started going to church at that Methodist Church and they taught me about the love of Jesus, they taught me about what it means to be a ministry and to be a disciple and follower of the teachings of Jesus, and they gave me the opportunity to hear God's call in the ministry on a mission trip with our youth group. And so the United Methodist Church has been important to me for as long as I can remember. What I love most about the United Methodist Church is its commitment to meeting people where they're at and giving them opportunities to follow Jesus in a way that are practical and accessible. I don't think it beats people up, I think it opens the doors and welcomes people in and invites them on a journey with Jesus in a way that I don't see happening in other churches. Just our robust connection at Lism, so one of the things that's been the most amazing about my journey in the ministry is to see the ways that people who have mentored and shaped my life have also crossed paths with other people and have mentored and shaped their lives and now we're doing ministry together or crossing paths and hopefully shaping other people's lives as well and so just to see the way the Holy Spirit continues to work in and out of this network of relationships has been amazing. I think the United Methodist have, and Wesleyans in general, have the best articulation of who the God is that we serve and the God of love and the God of grace and I think that theology gets articulated in really beautiful ways in our church and I think that's something that we're doing really right. I think my hope for the United Methodist Church particularly as a young clergy person is that as we seek the lead of the Holy Spirit and maybe finding a new expression of what lies ahead of us that we don't neglect and forget what's gone before us. I think one of the things I hope for us is that we just continue to find ways to reach out and interact with people. I have so many relationships outside of the church with friends who've been burned by the church or have just negative perception and I love getting to kind of help redefine in their minds what church can be and when they're just blown away by it I get to say well this is just who we are as a Methodist, it's like I'm not something special, I'm part of this whole larger organization that's all like this and helping them reorient their minds around what a Christian can be, I kind of hope that we continue to do that as a church, I kind of hope that we continue to find new ways to reach out to people who otherwise wouldn't want to be a part of any sort of Christian faith. I have very high hopes for the United Methodist Church, what I'm trying to learn is how to let go of what I think that future, what I would like for it to look like and to let it unfold perhaps the way God is intending it to unfold. Like a lot of us I put so much effort in trying to get the one church plan passed and like so many of us I was very disappointed when that did not happen. But I have been amazed within days after General Conference I saw the way the Holy Spirit was working in the church, it's like the Holy Spirit woke this church up and I have seen the Holy Spirit working in this church since then in ways that I have found amazing. So my hopes for the United Methodist Church is that we find some way to structure ourselves however that might look like where we can have holy spaces that would be inclusive of all people and that includes the LGBTQ community so that we could go forward in a place where everyone can find a holy space where they are accepted and welcomed and loved and celebrated. My hope truthfully for the United Methodist Church is that we would always put our mission above our model, that we would be so in love with God's vision for the world in Jesus's intent for creation that we would do whatever it takes to remove all barriers for people coming into the church. I'm very excited about the work that the church can do in the areas of education and healthcare. We have ties to strong institutions of higher education. We have a healthcare system that's really world renowned and my hope is that we can use those kinds of ideas to really be present and solve some of the world's ills. My hope for the United Methodist Church is that it will find a way despite all of the challenges that it's facing. To prioritize its mission, to really focus on and get back to the essentials of helping people become disciples of Jesus. Move forward towards full inclusion in the church. I also hope that we could, it would be great if we could consolidate the book of discipline down, make it a little bit shorter and more digestible. I think, especially given our current situation, my hope, which I know I share with a lot of folks, is that we can be the mainline church that stays united despite our disagreements, that we can be a people and be a church where people are allowed to disagree about things as long as we stay focused on our central message. I think the future of new spaces within United Methodism, within the church in general, a majority of that is going to be in the digital space. I really think that creating new spaces in the next generation is going to be asking ourselves how can we continue to engage people who aren't showing up on Sunday mornings, whether we like it or not, how do we engage those people who are coming to our services maybe once a month or even less than that? I have no idea what those spaces are going to be. I hope that I just get to continue to go have lunch with people and have drinks with people and get to hear, you know, we're kind of wanting to grow in our faith in this way and letting those spaces be defined by those kinds of conversations. I don't know, I hope we get to continue to do cool and innovative things, though. I love that we live in a day and age of social media and that's kind of changing the game. I love that I get to see Game of Thrones updates by Jonathan Grace, like a pastor is posting about things like that. I hope that our spaces are defined by what's going on in the world and how we're connecting the world with us as real people as pastors. In the history of the church it seems like at each generation the Holy Spirit opens our hearts to some group that we have failed to include fully into the life of our church. In the past it's been based on race or gender. More recently we wrestle with LGBTQ issues. In the future, who knows what the next generation of Christians, how the Holy Spirit is going to open their eyes to ways they're being exclusive in ways that we just don't even see it right now. And so we need to go forward not only to have our open hearts and open minds and open doors, but we need to also have open eyes so that we can see where those new spaces are going to be. We can see who's not in our congregations and we can see where we need to be creating those holy spaces so that everyone is able to experience the inclusive love of Jesus Christ. My dream is to plant congregations for the United Methodist Church, new churches. I think next generations of people still want worship, but it needs to be compelling and engaging and speak to the desire they have to be brought into a transcendent experience, a place in which it feels like thin space between heaven and earth. As I've approached ministry that's been my goal as well, just to be absolutely accepting, not in some cheap, universalist way, but in a way that shows the love of Christ to the people around us, that says we have this great news to share with you and it's for all people and to include all people in that. One of the things that we try to do with the Grove is to remove the obstacles and barriers that prevent people from coming into a relationship with Christ. I think it's easy to over engineer church and it's easy to over engineer what we're asking people to do, but I think the simplicity of discipleship is something that I think the Methodist Church does well and so when I think about creating new spaces, it's how do we create spaces that help people in a very practical and simple way become disciples of Jesus. Honestly, one of my passions is exercise science and working out and participating in CrossFit and CrossFit competitions and I've seen the way that community forms around that avenue and so I'm continuing in my spare time to kind of explore the intersection of Christian faith and exercise science. I think maybe the answer, at least for me and my ministry, is focusing on the people that are already around us, that are nominally Christian, but have not been involved in a church in a long, long time and reconnecting with those people. I think is really where our growth is going to happen.