you watching Beyond Grenade today, and welcome back to another Foundation Friday. If you're new to my channel, I post foundation reviews every Friday, and I post curly hair product reviews and tutorials on Sunday, so make sure you click that subscribe button so you don't miss any more videos. Now today I'm actually going to switch it up a little bit. I will admit I've been playing it pretty safe with my Foundation Fridays, meaning I've been reviewing drugstore foundations that I know already have a good rep. I've heard something about them being good for oily skin, so that's why I wanted to try those first to give you guys some options so you could fix that oily skin problem now. But today I'll be reviewing my first high-end foundation via Sephora Sample. I know it's not the cutest way to be reviewing foundations, but this one is the Kat Von D Lock It Foundation. This one is about $35 at Sephora, so I made sure, as you should too, if you're going to buy any high-end foundation, get a sample first. This is a free little sample you can get at Sephora, and you could try it out before you spend that much money on foundation. But the main reason that this is still in a bag is because I decided not to buy it. If you guys saw me on Snapchat like a little while ago, when I used this foundation, it made me a hot, oily mess. But it was so highly praised. Everybody loved it. It's people's holy grail go-to foundation, so I wanted to try it. But if I did have the bottle, let's just pretend that I'm actually holding it, it says it would be a full coverage foundation with a matte finish, 24-hour wear. It says it is going to give you a total matte coverage that stays waterproof, fade-proof, and transfer-resistant all day long. I didn't experience any of those, but full coverage. So before I completely ban it, I'm going to try it one more time to see if I did something wrong. I want to love it, but it's just going to have to prove itself today, okay? So let's figure this out. So I am going to be trying a different primer than the first time I used it. This is going to be the Stay Matte by Rimmel. And hopefully this helps mattify it, because the first time, I don't know, I don't know. I will be using a damp beauty blender to apply this, and now I got my little sample. This is the color 66, which is deep, oh, snap. Look how thick this is. This is creamy. Nothing's coming out. It actually looks like Nutella. That's what I would compare this to. This is known to be full coverage. If you're looking for that sheer look, this is not going to be it for you. It's definitely thick, but I personally love full coverage. And this is probably the reason why I wanted to love this foundation so bad, because the coverage is amazing. But I don't think it's going to last, but we'll try it again. I will be optimistic. But now I'm going to finish the rest of my makeup. There we go. This is my full, completed face. Now this foundation does claim to last for 24 hours. It's supposed to be matte, and it's currently 2 p.m., so we will come back in a couple hours and see how well it actually does. Do you guys see what I see? Look at it. This is my skin after eight hours of wear. This would be you at the end of your full work shift. I look like I took a nap in a pan of grease. You literally could fry chicken on my face. All right. This is the deal. This is actually how my face was the first time I tried it. And I thought after the first two hours, like, you know what, it's looking pretty good. Maybe I misjudged it. I did end up running an errand today that was like walking distance. That was like a quick trip outside. But for the most part, I've kind of been like in a cool environment in my apartment all day. This is not even like going out and about running errands, and I'm this shiny. It's definitely not a 24-hour thing. You could add a dash in there, maybe two to four hours. This is eight hours. You want me to go 16 more hours looking this crazy? All right. Now, usually my normal oily skin, I only get oily right here and my forehead. But like my entire cheek and chin is glistening. I look like a Krispy Kreme donut. All right. I've seen enough. Let's go ahead and blot. Just get to the blotting strips, and of course, they're all gone. But luckily, when your skin's as oily as mine is, you have several different packs in every purse. But let me go ahead and blot and see how it does. Oh, chow. Oh, snap. I'm going to need two sheets. I'm going in for the second. I'm going in. All right. So this is all the oil that came off of my skin. I had to use two different blotting sheets, and this one's like covered in makeup. And like I always say, these are only supposed to be picking up the oil. The makeup should be staying on your face and only removing the oil. I'm not blaming the sheets. I'm going to have to blame the foundation for this one, but this is, this is insane. I mean, right now it looks really good. I'm super mattified now, and I have my full coverage face still, but you saw what I looked like. So that is my complete conclusion on this foundation. If you have dry or normal skin and you actually like this foundation, please leave me a comment. I would love to know who this foundation works on. If you also have oily skin and you've tried this foundation, let me know what your thoughts are. I will be trying more high-end foundations very soon. I just don't know which ones I'm actually going to buy. I hope you guys don't mind me doing more samples, especially if I don't like it. I do want to do more high-end foundation reviews because if you spend about $5 on a foundation from a drugstore and you don't like it, okay, not really a big deal. But if you're spending like $30 to $50 on one bottle of foundation and then you don't like it, I personally would like to know that information. Feel free to leave me a comment. Let me know what foundation you want me to review next. I review new foundations every Friday and I post curly hair product reviews, tutorials and other fun stuff on Sunday, so make sure you hit that subscribe button to give me a thumbs up so you don't miss any more videos. You also can follow me on all social media at Ms. Bianca Renee on Instagram, Twitter and Snapchat. I hope to see you all next week. Thanks for watching Bianca Renee today.


Good morning, everyone. Shiver 1,000 here. Happy Mother's Day to all you mothers out there. That came out right, didn't it? Happy Mother's Day. All you mothers out there. It's about 8 45 a.m. I'm going to uh just kind of got my John Deere coming at one o'clock. So hopefully it's hopefully it's not raining too bad. It has been apparently sprinkling this morning. It's supposed to rain all day. You can see on the vet or maybe not. Maybe you can see on the truck windshield there. So it has started sprinkling. There you can see it. I think it has sprinkled a little bit. It's weird because it's kind of rain drops on the truck and on the vet, but not on the not on the concrete. It's supposed to rain all day so I don't know. A little gloomy and gray. So, see I just thought I'd vlog with you guys for a little bit today. At least till... I mean I got some room right here. I could work on it so we can check it out. But uh kind of go over it. The main thing is I hope it's not locked up. If it's not locked up, I'm pretty confident I can get it to run. However, how good it runs, I... Well, the story is he took it in to have something else done to it. It was running when he took it in. I asked him. I said, the last time you had it running wasn't knocking. He said no. He said the engine ran fine. He took it in for something else. They called him and said it wasn't worth putting money into because there were shavings in the in the oil. Metal shavings in the oil. And it didn't run after they got it back. So I don't know what they did to it. It sounds a little fucking... I don't know. It sounds a little screwy to me. You take it in for something else that's running fine. Then they don't want to work on it.  You know. Something that wasn't even related to the engine. So I don't know. So I don't... I have no idea. You know. So we just have to see. Hopefully it's not locked up.  It's been sent for years. You'll see. When you see it, you'll uh... You'll know what I'm talking about. It's pretty rough. But I don't know what engines on it. I really didn't look at it that close. That dad just kind of walked around.  So I don't know what horse it is. I have to see. You know. So yeah. So I'm just doing a little vlogging right now. And when it gets here. You'll see it come in. And we'll do a rock walk around on it. And maybe. Maybe we can try to. If it's not locked up. We'll try to get it running. If it is locked up. I'll show you. We'll do some tricks on it tomorrow. To try to get it to uh... To unlock. So if we can. If the engine's absolute toast. Then you know. I'll just part it out. Or build something out of it. You know. But you know it's got. I think I remember seeing two coils on it. Stuff like that. So I can part it out. And make my money back. But I figured for 50 bucks. Sometimes you got to take a chance. You know. 50 bucks. It can be worth 500. 50 bucks. It can be worth five dollars. Who knows. But uh... Sometimes you just got to take a chance. And I felt comfortable with 50 on it. I wouldn't win any higher. But I was telling her it was funny when he said 50 last night during the live stream. I was like. She said that's what she told me. Because she asked me. She said where would you feel comfortable at. I said I'd feel comfortable taking a chance at 50. She said well off from 50. I said well see if he wants to sell. Or see what he's got in mind. And he had pretty much the same thing in mind as me. So. All right. Well. I'll kick you back on when something else happens. We'll finish my cigarette. And uh. Monkey's still asleep. Or mom's still asleep. So. All right guys. I'll be back with you. Tractor's here. He probably just escaped. He couldn't get that son of a gun. I'm engaged. I can't remember how you did it. Oh for the drive. Yeah. Yeah. I was like. There it is. Well it had a needle over there at the bottom. Okay. Must hang on. That was me and you. Yeah. The back. So we strapped into a tree and I pulled out. This is my curve. I think yes. My park manager. This is his son. Look at these things. And then that's uh. A ten out of mine that I. Steps on. Steps on. Sure. They look so much alike. Well he gets in trouble. He ends up being licensed for some reason. Right. Good mechanic. Listen. You got a job to do. And you don't feel like doing it. You know whatever. He's worked as a mechanic down here at A1 for years. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. He worked at Frank's. Yeah. Frank's pretty good at A work on A.  You're right. Oh what if you do. Oh what if you do. Oh what if you do. Oh what if you do. Oh what if you do. Oh what if you do. Is this going to say that? Got another wire. It's like the second where she was prepared to be. Hit his jaw right here. But those little turtles don't back that good. But here it is. Here key. I might have a key for that. If not we can hot wire it for now. That's a throttle. This is you know what makes it turn left and right. Well let me see if I got a key. I just want to make sure that this thing is not locked up.  I'm not seeing many shavings in that at all. Actually what I'm seeing is is normal. There's what it is guys. I'll give you. It's a twin track 2000. Like I said it's a little on the rough side. It's got some belt issues which they're not cheap but they're not real expensive either. Apparently this can come off. This deck will come off and also it's got this wheel on the back. See this is what I'm concerned about. That it's gotten water into it. Into the carburetor. I didn't see any water down in the oil. But if there's any water in it's probably sitting on top of the pistons. So I think what we're going to have to do first of all is let's see if it's locked up or not. We'll see if I got a key. If not we'll just have to we'll jump across and see if we can get it to turn. I don't know which one of these is hot and which one is negative but just have fun when it goes to the ground. There's a plug wires. There's a plug wire twin cylinder. Not sure what size it is. That would be that's not a v-twin guys. That's an opposed twin. That means it's kind of like the old Volkswagen engines. Only it's a two cylinder. One cylinder is this way and one is that way. To where the v-twin is like a v8 or v6. Okay so let me see what let me go get the battery charger and see if I got a key. We'll find some way to bump it over. We'll check it out. Oil is not mounted in. I don't think this one has to be grounded. So I think it'll all right like that for now just to see right now we just got to find out if it's locked up. Okay so let's uh let me go get the battery charger. This looks like... What is that? How is that thing? So here's one of the plug wires. That went over that way. Over two. That cylinder it's cut right in half. Almost looks like somebody cut it but it may have gotten into the seat and pinched and cut. That could have been an issue. Let's get some stuff out here all right. I want to show you a couple things. The engine is not seized up so that's good. Also this is the key out of my tractor which had an extra one on it. So we're good there. Choke cable of course is locked up. It's going to need some penetrating oil. How much of that I got? I just dropped the camera. Anyway here we go. We've got we've got a key that works. This is out of my tractor and it has an extra one on it so good. So anyway the choke cable is locked up of course. Here's the choke cable and it is not seized up. So it feels like it's got some compression and the battery charger out here we're going to plug it in and we're going to see what we can do with this thing. This I believe this is to unlock it to tow it okay which I didn't have it unlocked. He couldn't remember how but that's how you do it to unlock it if I got a port or tow it. So these are the hydraulic pumps there and there for left and right. I'm not sure how the PTO works. This is the PTO here so it just tightens that belt. See that thing moving. What I'm going to do is I'm going to take this belt off to clear off of it. It's twisted anyway. Like me it's a little twisted. All right let's um I don't know if I can get a full revolution on that or not but it is turning so I can't turn it any further than that. Let me get the battery charger plugged in let's see what happens. All right we've got it hooked up okay so I'm going to flip this on the charge that's on 40 EMP. That might be enough just to see if it'll okay that might be enough to see if it'll crank it over. Let's find out. Watch that pulley right there. It's not locked up. Let's do 200 EMP start. I need to check this puppy for spark. I'm not seeing any spark so could be could be a coil issue it could be a number of things. Could just be rust in it. I'll be right back. Let me get my spark tester. We're going to we're going to check it for spark down here at the coil. All right I'm looking you guys probably seen me use this before. I'm looking for spark right there on that thing. No spark. Now I got to get my test light which I forgot. I'm going to check some of these wires. I'm betting that what we're going to have to do is we're probably going to pull this side off pull the side cover off and check and say I don't know. I can't remember if this has got points. I think it does.  Whatever it is got a condenser right there. I'm not sure what this is but we're going to get a test light and a multimeter. Okay in order to get down to the flywheel where the points are at we'll have to pull this whole side cover off here. I'm not sure where it goes out up in here but we got to pull this whole side cover off to get the side cover of the engine off. So what I'm going to try to do I'm going to try to pull it with her John Deere over there behind the vet so I can get some shade. So that's where we're at. I've done some testing here. Now it is I don't know I have to do some research it is reading gnomes on this on the coil so I don't think the coils hurt but it did feel a little warm so I don't know that could be the issue but I'm thinking the points may be stuck I don't know. We're just going to have to see so I'm going to try to get this thing over there by myself so hang tight guys and I'll be back with you. Okay guys here's what we're looking at. I did get it to get sparked but there is no compression so what I'm going to have to do is I'm going to have to well have to pull the heads off and see I think it's a sticking valve and I think we can fix it just by pulling the heads off of it. I'm going to try to crank it over a little bit maybe put some oil in the cylinders but I don't think that's going to do it so what I think I'm going to do is I'm probably going to going to start with this head I'm going to try to do it without pulling this whole side panel off over here. I did get a couple bolts out but I really don't want to pull that side panel off if I don't have to I think I can get down in there but I'll have to see so let me see if I can get let me see I've got a little this here I think there's only one bolt holding it now um I'm going to take that off see if I can get to the head bolts now if I can I'll pull the head off okay guys see all that down under there that's water it came out of these bolt holes I've got one bolt left on this head so I thought I'd go ahead and take it out so you can see let me get you on a stand I did break one should have took a little more time with it probably would have came out but one of them did break one of the head bolts which I don't think it's going to be too much of an issue for me because it was turning so I think I'll be able to get it out okay all this water in here I'm surprised any of them came out one of them did pull some threads on the way out we'll just have to inspect that once we get this off of here I believe I do have a bolt to put back in it good thing they weren't any longer I wouldn't be able to get them out of there without pulling the engine out I don't want to do that I would like to get the engine running however make a hell of a go-kart engine all right let's look at the head first oh yeah that's some water and stuff in it look at the cylinder there's the cylinder I know for a fact this one didn't have any compression because I uh I put my hand over spark plug hole and uh couldn't feel any compressions let's turn this over uh-oh the piston is not turning guys this engine is roached the piston's not going in and out not good the valves working however I was going to mention that too but I didn't want to I didn't want to jinx myself I was going to say well it could have a burnt piston or something but that is weird if I'm going to be pulling this engine out or not I mean is it really worth it you know I mean it could be overall it doesn't look the greatest but everything seems to be in good working order except for the engine so I was hoping it was a stuck valve very unfortunate it's not I just wonder if just wonder if the other side's the same way so I feel something feel some suction through the carburetor there but let me get you over here maybe see a little bit better there's the piston should be going in and out right there there's your valves uh valves are working I'm damn I was hoping it just a stuck valve I'm not sure what I'm going to do with it I may just part it out but before I do I'll probably go ahead and pull that engine and we'll see if it's through a rod or or something I know it didn't throw a rod through the block because it's still full of oil um this piston it's shot it's shot it's not stuck I won't say the piston it shot them betting it's something to do with a rod I don't think the crank broke because no the crank didn't break I'd say it's a rod but it might be worth pulling out and checking out um I mean it's definitely worth that but I could sell I could sell the hydraulic system off here for a couple hundred bucks pretty easy so there we go so there's monkey I'm monkey all right so I want to say she bear the myth man legend are you hungry yeah okay I gotta go make supper so all right guys thanks for watching appreciate it we'll chat at you soon bye bye say bye monkey bye


as a cyberspace officer. Thank you Major Ronald. Next we have Chris Conway. Chris Conway is the director of city services for the city of Montgomery, having spent 15 years with the city. He's worked in everything from transportation to public works to neighborhood services, but my favorite tidbit about Chris is the fact that he's a college football referee and he's actually refereed for the Clemson Tigers so I like him a little bit more. But he's also an announcer for Auburn basketball. Thank you Chris. And last but certainly not least is Laura McClendon. She's the vice president, strategic initiatives and federal affairs with the Montgomery area chamber of commerce. She spearheads everything from economic strategy for technology and innovation, but she also does a host of other special projects. But Laura has a wealth of experience and federal affairs and from her time working on the hills she brings the wealth of knowledge and policy and government affairs. She also happens to be a USC grad, but we still love her. Please. Now that you know a little bit about our panelists, let's talk a little bit about what we want to get into today. Montgomery was recently awarded a smart city readiness challenge award winner and what that means is we've been recognized as an area that's really taking initiatives to push their city forward. It's huge for us because now it gives us not only a stamp and some credibility to some of the initiatives that we've already been doing, but it opens many doors for a lot that we can do and that we want to do within our community to not only improve our diverse economy, but also to improve our educational systems and then also use technology to improve everything that we're doing across the city. So a couple of questions I want to start off with and I'll start with you major Brian. Can you give me an example of a project that you may be working on now or have worked on in the past that will be considered smart? Most obvious answer right now is the Maxwell Air Force, can you hear me in the back? Maxwell Air Force Base is involved in Enterprise IT as a service so we're working with a lot of commercial partners right now to better streamline the technologies they're bringing on and bringing network services to the Air Force on Maxwell and on Gunter Air Force which is a great example. How about you Chris? Yeah so the city of Montgomery I'm forced to use with the city of Montgomery so we've tried to apply technology to our sanitation service. We partner with a company called Rubicon. They basically turn those trucks into roaming data centers because they drive every street Montgomery at least three times a week so why not use them as kind of an additional eye and ear for what we do in public works. We've used artificial intelligence to grade our streets through robotics another program that we've had and so through machine learning it takes kind of the human bias out of rating those streets gives us a number gives us a benchmark to go by to say okay we've got 15 million dollars worth of need we only have three million dollars to spend so how do we make those choices and so this gives us some good information to make those choices and that's been really one of the things that we were initially recognized for in terms of just being able to go out there and embrace innovative technology to see how that might apply to some mundane things that you wouldn't necessarily think about. How about for you Laura? Yeah so as Cherise mentioned I work at the Chamber here in Montgomery and one of the things that's definitely important to us and hopefully that you've had a good experience with while you've been here is kind of the user experience with our city and our community. So one of the things that we've done specifically as an organization is work with several partners throughout our community to provide a free public Wi-Fi system in downtown Montgomery. I've done a couple things I mean obviously that provides kind of an added amenity for the end user that's walking through our downtown area but we're also kind of testing some things that might be helpful to us like using it as a platform to reach additional visitors just this week we're actually through a simple glide app that uses Google Sheets we've actually put a system in place that allows people to directly engage with us once they connect to that free public Wi-Fi system they can either submit a direct inquiry or they can actually reach directly out to our staff members that's a test that's certainly something that has only been up and operational for about 36 hours but hopefully we'll learn some things off of that and then we're also kind of using some some data that we're getting off the access points to understand where some of the the traffic flows are you know our how much connectivity are people using in certain locations versus how many connections do we get in another location so as we continue to look at downtown as an area that we sort of refer to as a living lab what can we learn as an economic development agency a business association but also an organization responsible for that visitor experience here at Montgomery so Laura and Chris you both mentioned the living lab and you mentioned some other initiatives that have been deployed locally in Montgomery last week we actually held a smart city workshop anything that you would say that you really learned from that workshop that you can actually deploy and or implement as you're executing what you'd like to do from a smart city aspect well I think we learned a lot of things from the workshop we definitely had a good forum to have stakeholders in a room not just from our local community but some additional stakeholders from across the state in the region from the living lab perspective I think one thing that that we learned in our session was who your end user is I think it's about identifying problems and then deploying solutions we kind of got a little bit of criticism for what we meant by living lab I think in the beginning stages it was big organizations trying to deploy solutions to learn something about a solution they're already providing or a solution they want to provide I think feedback we learned is that that end user you know is it that organization or is it the individual citizen and so I think we really learned we have to maybe target different solutions to different audiences and get feedback in a more streamlined way so I mean that's that's what we did kind of that's what we kind of learned from our feedback in our individual session I think it's more just who are you trying to serve with a solution and how are you getting how are you getting to that end result I think that was probably the biggest takeaway for me yeah I think that was the same thing for the city of Montgomery because when we try to put a solution out there say our open data portal or any of those types of things that we have out there on our website or on an app that we might be trying to think of we're just trying to take a best guess most of the time in terms of what people might want to see and so what we did kind of learn from sitting around the table with the stakeholders and the end users is to really get a hold of what it is they actually want it turns out it's much simpler than we thought so the information that we put out there is you know it's it's a ton of information and they really only want small pieces of it so I think that's you know what we learn is that we have a lot of information and we certainly want it to be transparent and open to everybody but sometimes it can be a little bit overwhelming and so we need to simplify that to some extent and then they can kind of ask questions as they go thank you another question and this is for you major problem as we look at military installations that are in given cities and the communities around them other than enterprise IT as a service what are other areas where you can see we can leverage what's happening inside the gate so what's happening outside the gate so back in 2017 we restarted it was the first one that we have had since 2010 and then we're planning for the one that's coming up in 2020 so in 2017 we were able to use facial recognition technology partnered with AT&T we were able to mostly use it in that case for an accurate crowd count I can see that being leveraged a lot with the city and facial recognition potentially with the police forces as well as if there's any any other partnerships that are going on potentially even someday being able to use it at some of the gates so as we have installation access knowing that we can trust the technology in the future to to have gate access would be certainly a manpower savings and then like I said partnering with the city potentially in the future another thing that we talked about is in 2018 the base used a partnership with IBM to use drone technology to fly over our airfields and map some of the runways and identify where we needed construction crews to go out and that was a lot of manpower savings to look at that imagery as opposed to sending people out and and identifying every step of the runway so partnering with some of the things that the city is doing to look at their streets and their technologies is definitely a potential savings of a potential area that we can can cross over thank you so now that we've talked about some of that crossover from a public private partnership what would you say are some of the biggest barriers to actually putting a project in motion being able to implement that Laura I'll let you tackle that one first yeah well funding I mean funding and expertise are always your two biggest barriers so I mean for an organization our size you know we're we're kind of a small non-profit I mean we're not small but when you look at something as big as the Air Force we're small so you know looking at how do we leverage the staff that we have the expertise that we have to go out and do some creative things and innovate when it may not be something that's our core business or it may not be something that's exactly our primary mission but it's something we see as furthering that mission and how do we kind of align our staff and the expertise we have on hand to go and do some of these things that may get us somewhere down the road but in the immediate day-to-day it doesn't seem to totally be clear what that immediate benefit is going to be so I think um I think you have to kind of figure out all right how are we going to take these incremental approaches to solving some of our big challenges or going after initiatives that are going to get us information that we might not have gotten if we didn't take that chance um but you know we don't really have this robust you know IT department in-house that knows about you know AI or knows how to architect IoT or you know any of that stuff so when you're looking outside of your organization and I could see this being something the Air Force might struggle with too to some degree is you know where do you get that expertise how do you trust the solution how do you accurately accurately vet um kind of who's bringing that solution to the table and then um how do you fund it and so we've gotten creative with partnerships and kind of leveraging resources from various different organizations that can bring different pieces of this to the table and uh we haven't really done a lot of pilot projects but I know that the three of us have talked about the use of pilot projects and I know earlier in um the AFITC conference it might have even been I don't think it was journal homes but there was a speaker earlier in the conference that kind of looked at pilot projects so it's maybe not the best way to get to a solution but I think it is a way for organizations to at least try some things and then learn okay what do we need to look out for when we do this again or how do we need to kind of adjust our approach on this so funding and um expertise and um I'll say expertise on the technology side but also expertise even on the contracting side um some of these things look different than things that we've done as an organization in the past so how do we pivot as an organization to support some of these things that just look totally different than what we've done before same question Chris uh probably the barrier that we have is you know we're a local government so we have a built-in bureaucracy in terms of how you how quickly you can make a decision and where when you're talking about uh technology and uh smart initiatives and those sorts of things the technology is moving so rapidly that if you take you know too long to make that decision then you may have missed out or you may have not gotten the backbone of the infrastructure that you needed at that time so uh just kind of strategically working through that and that's really what the smart city readiness uh challenge was all about for us uh was really setting a roadmap forward in terms of what we needed to have in place to be able to react to some of these things that are changing uh because uh you know what we do today is probably going to be significantly different than what we do a year and a half from now so we just need to be prepared for that all right now you spoke about some of the challenges uh that you have to overcome in order to put a project in motion major brawn i think we could say that the air force has taken some strides in being able to overcome some of their usual challenges that they have in implementing projects they move the needle forward but where else do you have to go in order to really be able to implement some of the things that you all are trying to do so the the really great thing i think about maxill air force bases that our leadership team for the last few years has been willing to take some risks in areas that other bases and other air force and military installations haven't been able to or haven't been willing to so um so like i said we're we were willing to bring in atn t and ibm and try out some projects i think that's the right way ahead you know there is our pilots the correct way to to go about doing things it's tough to say we certainly have our our own bureaucratic challenges within the air force and the federal government as well um being able to try some of those things and taking some risk initially um acknowledging it and then and learning from that can still be challenging so i think that's the place that we really need to to look to overcome those things and that how do we how do we learn fast and fail fast and then spread those lessons worldwide so we have 108 installations in the air force so if there are things that we can try here um and then we need to roll back and then try again and do it the right way that's one of the reasons enterprise it as a service is coming here to to max well because we were able to to leverage some of those lessons learned um roll backwards and then roll forwards and spread those to the rest of the air force as we as we move out so that's probably the biggest challenge um is funding in different ways and then taking what we do on one small installation and then spreading that around the world thank you so the city and chamber and then our military community here has always had a strong partnership in being able to not only execute several events but also executing several initiatives as we look upon what we're doing from a smart community and smart city standpoint what would you say where would you say we are from a collaboration standpoint and i'll let you take that chris uh so i've been involved with you know some p4 initiatives with the air i think in terms of where the city sits and where the air force sits in terms of being willing to collaborate you know we've put all of those people together uh in the disciplines that that that mesh together and so uh i think that's been a really good thing for the city of Montgomery and max well air force base and so just continuing that open dialogue so that you know right hand left hand right foot left foot everybody knows what's going on uh so that if there is an idea out there uh oh well that's that's something we were also working on and we can all partner with that uh i think that's been kind of the way we see it yeah or yeah i mean i agree with chris i mean chris and i have worked together extensively for the last year and um feel like we know each other well and i feel like we've got great partners in our community that are engaging on this topic it can be a little bit nebulous at times because what's the end goal so we've tried to put some structures in place that help facilitate the conversation um as chris has mentioned a couple times the the grant that we won or that the recognition that we won from the smart cities council back in april that was a result of a process that the city helped put in place formed a committee to help plan around that brought in i mean everything from our public school system to participants from the 42nd air base wing at maxville to you know the chamber and various different corporate partners and so it was a very collaborative intentional effort and i feel like to really share best practices and experiences and understand how you know we can all move forward together i think some of those things have to remain in place and so um i think we've made a lot of progress in the last year on that front and just have a really great relationship and line of communication with the city and all other entities involved thank you laura and major brawn um as we talk about collaboration from a private public partnership standpoint see it as though your only base hasn't been Montgomery and you've been in other communities and we'll continue to go on to other communities as well where do you see how the city and chamber can really play a part in that type of collaboration to not only replicate it at other installations or other communities right so so like they both mentioned i think that we're we're partnering better here in Montgomery than any other base that i have seen certainly i mean as the members of the military we are absolutely part of the community and interested in the success of all the school systems in the success of downtown we live here just like everyone else we pass through and have shorter sense of time but we're certainly interested in in good schools for our children we're interested in a safe downtown we're interested in making sure that both the city and the state and the country are set up to to move forward and and keep the leading edge wherever we go so i think that this is probably the best place that i've seen partnership for comparison my my previous duty stations are in Colorado Springs which is also a very military heavy community uh Dayton Ohio also also very heavy in the military community so there's there's just a lot of really neat collaboration that's going on here and so i look forward to taking that to wherever i go next as well thank you so now i'm going to open it up for questions now that you have an idea of kind of where we're going from a smart city and smart community standpoint what questions would you have for any of us that are here today so i'll ask one so uh you you mentioned how the military cares about education obviously that's a big issue for Montgomery so how can kind of the smart city the tech fleet piece the military player role in in helping solve that problem that's a great question so i will off the top of my head say that i know there's only one junior rotc in the Montgomery high school systems i think that that's a way that we can leverage some of the military experience um mostly junior rotc instructors are retired military but if they're willing to come here and and take their 20 plus years of experience and and bring that in the the nine through 12 grades i think that would be helpful there's a star base which is a um i may be around this in middle school but elementary middle school science technology research area that the local schools come on base it is field trips and the teachers there are exclusively doing stem things for some of the local students i think there are there are other ways that we can leverage some of those partnerships i know they brought some students from local universities on to the base recently to talk about what happens in the airfield um and flying technology um and then we also sent people down to the biscuit stadium when they had a big racket launch a few weeks ago so i think that there are things that are going on i think junior rotc is one area that i can see a lot of growth happening i know y'all have mentioned some of the the projects that they're working on in stem and in different technologies for the local high schools and i think that's something that we can continue to support and hopefully grow that support in the future yeah so one of our tracks at the um smart cities workshop that we just did last week on tuesday of last week um the focus was education and workforce and so there were several initiatives that were part of that that approach because we do understand it's a critical area in this community in particular but things like um you know spreading cyber patriot cyber patriot programs to additional schools in our area um looking at some things that we can do to continue to infuse stem but also one of the things from an infrastructure standpoint that alexa smiths who's with our public school system worked on um was access to connectivity for students who don't have access to broadband or other forms of connectivity to do their homework or do some additional um learning exercises that they may be assigned in school so we've worked with the city i believe to get some additional resources out to community centers and look at other critical locations where students can have access to some of those resources that they may not have access to otherwise um so it's a little bit of a too pronged approach it's infusing additional programs into some of the systems that don't currently have some of the programs it's utilizing um partner organizations that can provide experiences and expose students to things that they may not otherwise be exposed to and then it's an actual you know access to those connectivity that connectivity that they need basically to to do their homework and to kind of engage in a in a higher way obviously there's some institutional things that we're working on as a community as well but when you look at how can smart community play into that i think we're definitely taking a look at how that works i'm not the expert on that necessarily but there are definitely people in the community that are trying to be there great question oh um going along with what you just said i was stationed in south korea for a year and they were just ahead of the game when it came to wi-fi and um oh goodness how did you guys come up to that conclusion try to provide a free more accessible wi-fi do a focus study group because i think that's a great idea and i'm just curious about how you guys got that focus group or just came back conclusion like wi-fi you know it kind of evolved over time um very early on i mean this was probably three and a half years ago that seed got planted by just several very engaged members of our community and um i'd like to say we came up with it on our honor you know realize that that would be something that would be kind of this platform for so many other things but really it was just um we engaged a lot of different people who had ideas about how we could make Montgomery better or some of the things that were missing that could actually provide an amenity to people visiting downtown and so we really kind of listened to that feedback held on to that idea and realized okay if we do that there are several other things that we could use it for or things we could layer on top and um i just i think it was really i think we've got a community that that is engaged and that listens and um i can't tell you who actually came up with it i think it was just several different citizens that came forward so any other questions season is there a discovery process that like the three different entities share to like understand like the desires of say like airmen citizens and you know business leaders and then cross-bond to see what the you know commonalities are is there a reason that or is it just the its kind of a shared discovery process y'all are both looking at me so that's not yet we have created um what we call the smart community alliance in Montgomery and so it initially uh was several different organizations who specifically were working on particular projects that sign in the mo you and kind of created this charter of sorts that this would be the forum of collaboration between all these different entities so i think the goal would be to continue to grow that out and bring in additional partner organizations to that conversation because it's not a contractual obligation or anything like that it's it's really just really a loosely constructed forum for these conversations so far they've met quarterly the groups met quarterly and so we're actually due for another meeting but the whole planning committee around our smart city workshop that the city spearheaded kind of played that role as the forum for a while until we we did the workshop so i think that the beginnings of that are in place but it definitely needs to be um kind of flushed out more and it definitely needs to kind of grow legs to a certain degree so the the framework's there but i i don't think we're quite there yet as far as um being a well-oiled machine on that front yes if uh you mentioned that you had some resource constraints if you didn't have those resource constraints so well from the city standpoint you know when we talk about the living lab concept and just having a fully connected uh Dexter avenue and commerce street and entertainment district uh in our mind there's no reason that the entire city of Montgomery wouldn't be fully connected like she said there are you know pockets and holes that don't have the same access to certain amenities that others do and you know just if you're dreaming yeah we would love to have everybody completely connected and able to use all the technology that's out there so do you have a dream project made to run on Laura i've been rocking my brain so the mission primary mission at maxwell is air university and so having a fully dedicated access to the dot edu system without some of the air force um unique ades if you will to to some of those um educational resources i think that would be huge um putting on a gunter hat and being able to to leverage technology and and move forward at the same paces microsoft or google or amazon would be phenomenal i know that they just changed one of their models to delight the customer as you know that's their vision and and that would be amazing and so um i look at finances is one of the biggest constraints to how are we utilizing technology and making sure that everything is connected within the air force and yeah that's probably our biggest constraint and if i could if i could have it my way everything would work all the time yeah same i mean i think we're really blessed in in Montgomery to have this incredible relationship with the air force and we have these kind of two cornerstone emerging projects that are happening inside the community outside the fence line with the mgm works project and the best-been project that's coming out of the peo at gunner and so as an organization that directly tries to support and um will support those activities but also just general economic development and well-being and quality of life of our community i mean i think i'd have to echo the connectivity and the um systems working properly all the time um echo you know it may not always be our role to provide a certain solution as the chamber of commerce of course but i think just dreaming for the community writ large i think having all those things be able to interconnect so that we can better deploy resources to you know some of our education partners or some of the areas of our community that haven't been as well served for one reason or the other um but then of course our air force neighbor um that's that's the goal that's the dream is having that infrastructure in place to be able to do that affordably any others so from a parting shot standpoint you all talked about some of the challenges that you've had what you've had to overcome but you've also talked about it if you could have your dream project what would that be when you think about your most critical area for not only the organization in which you serve but the community that you're within what would you say is that number one critical area of need from where you sit in your one do you have an easier question i think that was too hard i'll jump into it and then go in so i i think more than technology relationships are what really make a community a community so using technology to create a smart city i think that's fantastic but it it's only going to be as good as the people who who are behind the scenes and how strong those relationships and those partnerships are not just between you know the team of commerce in the city and the base but all the other companies right hundai that's here getting there buy-in it's it's about all of the partnerships that happen within the community that really make it worthwhile and making it better for the future generations so it's not really a technology answer but i think it's a personality and a relationship answer no understand completely laura um probably um well expertise is is big you know we're we're kind of figuring this out um you know i see joe green from our team is sitting here and i think joe's learned more about this in the last five years anybody but you know that's not this isn't my background this isn't something that i intrinsically know so you know when you're going out and trying to get to a solution that solves a problem or that makes sense for your organization or you know that represents a risk you do have that doubt of well am i understanding this solution enough to really even know how to ask the right questions or do i really have the right people on our team that know anything about what else might be out there you know is this technology five years old and i'm just hearing about it or is this really something that makes sense to go after and use and so i think i think expertise is certainly a challenge and from everything i understand that's a challenge across the board with many different organizations of many different types in many different places i think you know human capital is huge but also you know having having people that you know have kind of are willing to experiment but also have that knowledge base i think that's a challenge i think the biggest challenge that we face uh as we deploy i'll talk about open data and information that we have is uh misinformation so we're trying to get out true information you know the correct thing you know all the all the information that we have available to us and we are just forced to basically react to an onslaught of misinformation you know because everybody out there thinks they know exactly what's going on and as soon as they tweet that as soon as they put that on facebook as soon as they do whatever now that becomes actual information that is not correct and so now how do you put that back you know how do you put that back into right how does that toothpaste get back in there because now it's out there now everybody believes something that's not true and so from our standpoint you know as much as we try to put good information out there we're just faced every day and every minute of every day with that's not true and here's what's really happening and all that sort of thing so i think from our standpoint we think oh this is great we get this information out there and people you know know the real story behind what we're doing they'll appreciate it so much and uh but their skepticism and all these other things that we have to deal with so that's probably our biggest challenge is the more information we give the more you know we actually create controversy with it thank you thank you all as we wrap up today i think everyone that really needs to realize that as a major defense community we have a wide array of mission partners here in Montgomery but we're keenly aware very aware of our need to include our military counterparts as well as how we plan for being a smart community hopefully you'll have an opportunity to really walk away with some key takeaways today on not only what Montgomery's currently doing but where we're trying to grow and build from a smart community standpoint we look forward to you not only participating with us in the future as we continue to build out and to grow those programs like Laura discussed uh TechMGM did release a glide app please stay tuned to that join and connect with us uh Stephen talked about the ability for everyone to really have an active role in how we grow a smart community that's how you do that by connecting by having the relationships and by leveraging those so stay tuned for more to come from a Montgomery smart community standpoint and we look forward to connecting with you through TechMGM thank you for coming this afternoon


Mae hyn yn unig phobl i'ch bod yn gyflaen i'r ddeunydd fel y gwbl Cymru. Beth ddych yn dda, ydych yn yn y tynnu'n mynd i fynd y ysgolion umgarwch gyda'r cymniaeth a'r cyflaen arall, felly y gallw i. Mae'r credu. Mae'r pa i, ond mae'r gyflaen o'r collegiau yma yn gyflaenol saysu. Mae yna mewn ddweud eich mynd i fantasticydd cill quartersol, a'i cefnodd i'r argyffeb. Mae eich colleg sydd yn cefnodd. ac mae'r cyd-dynion i'r ffordd yw yn iawn i'r projeg yn shagwrs ar gyfer ymlaen a'r ffordd yw'r blaen ymlaen oherwydd mae'n rhaid i gael ei bod yn gwneud hynny yn ei rhan o'r cyfrifu ac mae'n rhaid i'n rhaid i gael eich bod yn y rhaid i'n rhaid i'n rhaid i'ch gweld i'n rhaid i gael eich bwysig a'r bwysig yw'n rhaid i'r hunain i'r cyfrifu ei wneud yma'n gweithio Dw i'n ddwybod i'r fitnod o'r argyffredig iawn o sydd yma, iddo i'n dweud i'r parerau. Mae'n amser, ond yn ysgolon i wedi gwneud 15 óot, y Farchiologiol archipeligod. Y dyn nhw, fe yna'r ardu cyfan gwyllus ymweld i ddur y gyflogant a'r archiologiol. Felly nid yn ymdweud dod ddweudio arwad a'r data. Pryddiwn i'r ddeill o'r methu a'i fyrraedd o unrhyw o'r enghraith o'r methu, yn cael bod y rhaid i'r ystafell ..y'r cyfliadau yn edrych ar y mychwilr, y tufaloedd cywlaeth tua... ..y'r cyfliadau cyfalwyr ymlaeniau? Mae usual ymlaeniau. mae'r ddweud er mwyn i roi'n seffaith mentir.. ..maen nhw'n sgwr fânwys.. ..y gwybod o gweld, mae'n ysgryfa'r prydu mwy. Mae'ntillogio'n bywyd yn dyma'r gwych... ..a wgwysig o'r casfurau'n yr ydy o'r mewn. Dwi ddweud yng Nghymru... ..y'r ymlaeniau'n gallu gweld... mae'r ddweud yn bwysig, mae'n meddwl yng Nghaerffordd ac mae'n meddwl i ysgrifennol a'r ddweud yn ysgrifennol. Mae'n meddwl i'n meddwl i'r gweithio'r gwaith, yn gweithio'r gwaith yn y gwasanaethol, ond mae'n meddwl iawn yn ei gweithio'r gwaith yn ddweud y gweithio'r gwaith a'i gŵr yn gyffredigol. A'r cyflwyno maen nhw, ar y gweithio'r cyflwyno, yn gallu y sectionol, those are the sorts of concepts that those that standard was covering. When we moved, I moved further, I did some more work and luckily got joined up with these chats in force in Crete, Martin Durer and many others since working on the CDOC CRM and okay they have more complex ways of doing this as you can do, I'll even just reading the things, the concepts that they're talking about and the identifiers but you know at the simplest level those conceptual entities are in that model too and that's kind of semantics you know in a nutshell I think. So moving on to that so the sort of work that then became the basis was some of my AIHRC funded work with colleagues and then was moved forward in in sort of the earlier work of Ariadne which is now Ariadne Plus and will continue to be used in that. This idea we start and other people have been talking more about this in terms of trying to search for concepts within some of our data now in particular the work we are doing was not just looking into the data in databases where you've got quite structured data but I just wanted to highlight this work which is more used in something called natural language processing where you're actually trying to pick out those entities in free text and that's I think sort of where it links in particularly with the nature of this particular session where we're talking about corpora and large text information spaces where we have to try and find at least pull out the sorts of information that we might be looking for. So this was just really just given a flavour of how that stuff used as I mentioned obviously CDoC CRM as a as a course of international standard used widely now based in museums but now we've developed more extensions for an archaeological extension for instance it's called CRM archaeo that's been used in Ariadne. People like the Getty Institute well they're there they used to develop for cabris which has also been turned into linked data which I'm going to talk about a little bit more. This was just actually I think that was just a highlight of that text so I should have put that earlier so you can see the sorts of things that it's starting to pick out concepts like time places objects how those linked together it's not just the simple sort of key matching it's actually more complex things like coins objects found below the pavement that date to a certain date and those are the sorts I think of questions and ideas that really as an archaeologist leave inside all this technical stuff that I've been doing for years that's actually the reason behind why I started doing this is to try and answer questions like where are you know where are examples of the coins that came from that particular period can I search across lots of resources to find them but to do that as Julie and I sort of thought I pointed out you need infrastructures and again this is where I think you know the importance of this without you know we will we I do want to talk about some of the philosophical epistemological issues behind so you need to look up when I say that behind this but we have to structure we have to try and provide some tools to enable I think people to want to discuss though who want to look for that information and pursue those sorts of questions so this is something that came on the back of work using the ontologies doing that and developing the idea that we could at least surface these particularly vocabries I call them heritage vocabries the kind of uh lists of words that the archaeologists and heritage professionals commonly use so these are just the examples that come up from from my work from a historic England perspective my colleague Peter's lurking at that from Historic Environment Scotland who are somewhere on there I hope that they're probably under their old name the Royal Commissioners Scotland but forgive me for that Peter um and he will be familiar with this one because this is work that he was very close involved in in terms of one of the crucial things about this I think from the you know European context is how we oh that's very doesn't do that on mine do you care yeah that was really quite exciting that broke everybody up okay uh the main point was to look at this idea of persistence which I think is again some of the some of the previous speakers were starting to look at this idea of what how we future proof in these ideas and to what extent by using the structures and the structures that we're providing in the infrastructure I've got to move on quick it's obviously given me a thing I'm taking too long the main point about this was behind us that we we incorporated other languages in this label it's the right one it just being a vocabulary that worked in English this enables us to sort of start going away um the main point being this sort of multi-lingual search which is obviously something that Julian and colleagues in Ariadne are going to use more and more but it's this potential it's not just us putting these things up to say right these you've got to use these it's more about this mapping process the potential of people to do the semantics to sort of say well that one looks like the sort of thing that it might and we have finds of that type but actually we call them something slightly different but but they are we are talking about the same sort of concept or much more likely as well that there will be concepts which are similar but because of cultural differences we don't want to mediate all the cultures into one sort of label we actually want to be able to map lots of different cultural references through through a kind of spine of potential searching tools so this this again this is just again tripped down memory lane for me but i think one of the challenges though is as we do this is for me and I love to surface this issue that actually understanding who is then using these things has become quite difficult personally I know that there are people like these people that do oceanographic research down in Antarctica who have used some of our terminalities just in their in their link data to match up things to do with types of boats and types of historic boats but there are people using it all around the world but the next challenge for us is to really kind of understand not just what archaeologists are doing with this but also I think how what other domains related domains like biology in terms of human remains environment science climatologist who I was in a session very interesting session before I came here or climatology work and how they want to use some of the historical data but they need it in a form that they can actually find it and then when and they kind of know that there that our data is when we're talking about certain things we're talking about the same things so they can use it finally I get to a new slide to Julian cheer Julian up this is just really again to show that that this is an ongoing process I've been doing this now longer than I'll confess to I think on tape but we are now finally hoping to plug we'll be plugging these in to this online resource this one Oasis has actually been running in the UK since at least 2004 in various bits before that but it's now a system that after 15 years it needs upgrading and as I think my friends and journey was saying about the you mentioned the point about don't type in the words by hand well I'm afraid that you know for 15 years people have been typing when it came to us because we had these we had these the sore eye but they would you know the web at the time we developed this the web the web facility that the actual online technology just wasn't good enough to actually have the whole of the for sore eye up online so we still had to do it but finally now the technology has moved on and we can just reference the link data so here's just this this is a sneak preview of this system which they will be out in March 2020 won't it Peter but again just to make the point that semantically this is looking at event types if you see we're off again in the in the wonderful world of bright purple or something or other it's looking at the excavation and obviously it's referencing the point because it's linking out to the heritage data terminologies again and we actually people just click on it and that links you in so in the time remaining what is it I would like to just think forward a bit because one of the lovely one of the issues again this is the the real point about the sort of semi controlled nature of people typing in and even in the field work I know for myself you know when you're recording something in a dirty muddy hole you have to say it's kind of ready brownish but for people doing the work with the computers that's a nightmare and as this chap said he found a reference to snuff because this stuff you know what snuff is probably but who knows what colour it was and the point being in 150 years or more time is anyone going to actually sort of I mean I doubt I've made that link data persistent and there is this fundamental thing that it's a persistent uri and it will persist but the technology I'm convinced will change in terms of how that is persisted in the same way that we have to plan to migrate our data our data archives our digital archives and one of the agencies core strategies is migration it's not just preserving it on a disk it's actually keeping that data alive and so I think that is is probably something that I want to think about from the from the point of view perhaps coming back to the first the first set of questions is to what extent is our data sharp fantastic this is the sort of thing that I am at and start thinking about now sort of projects that we're looking forward to and hopefully I'll be getting some money to do some of them in terms of sort of how we're going to preserve things like you know not just not just the link data which is something that I have a strategy but but all the other sorts of information which I'm trying to categorise in this very amorphous thing called heritage data and how how will we actually keep some of that alive and again that raises this question of the more the the internet is amalgamating the cultural differences what are we going to actually choose to keep alive again I think I'll skip through this in the time available raising questions around sort of data analytics as well which I've just wanted to surface in terms of because of those control vocabaries I know that there is some responsibility behind that that's the sort of stuff that people are going to start doing the analytics on and it is an important responsibility as well that we actually do think about how we want that data to be used and plan ahead responsibly now obviously you know we can we can do some of it in terms of creating the infrastructure and the systems to to to make those things possible but there are responsibilities in terms of actually making that work in a way that is suitable to different audiences and that's why I'll put that middle one up there again to some of the whole question of how certainly the linked the linked open data is going to work also has a responsibility to everybody who's maybe not so interested in how the technology works or anything else but it's more interesting in just answering some of those questions but if you want to answer the questions that you have you have to be I think prepared to share the data you have in a way that allows other people to question your data and I think that in some ways is still a big challenge for our sector and with that I will stop thank you


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