What's going on everyone Sam here with late sports cards rip in four boxes for Jonathan L We've got one twenty twenty three penini Chronicles hobby one twenty three twenty four penini collegiate draft picks basketball hobby One twenty three Bowman Chrome University football breakers delight hobby and one twenty three top scrum update series baseball hobby It's good luck here, buddy Let's see it as always Jonathan. Yeah, just six to go on Almanac everybody six to go on Almanac random hit style Let's go not random hit live hit draft style.  Let's see the naked debut. Joe Nathan. I'm down with that Joe Nathan. I'm down with Joe Nathan Joe Nathan elite reliever Really Yeah, 377 yeah, that seems like a lot. He got close my opinion. He got close. How long do you play for he played? 16 years, okay That would make sense I didn't say yeah fair fair Jonathan fair All right, here we go. Good luck Jonathan your sheet of rookie refractor of Ryan Walker He was in the league from Jose Azucar to 29 Wow Adley Rushman Graham Ashcraft refractor rookie auto nice one there for 99 Shea No, I didn't Devin Really? That's awesome Yeah, didn't say X amount per person there is no limit This is commenting on that this morning. That's pretty funny Did not see that no Jordan Walker. I'm the same boat is Jake. That's great though Are you quick? Are we doing mark? Hello mark? It's a pretty fine. There's a fine-looking room Tristan costs a lot. I honestly have to say Mark's entrances are the funniest entrances of anybody Ryan Rock you know what did he was I wearing yesterday? I was wearing like a Royals hat and he goes Greetings up from mark. I heard you were in a Royals hat to come in and check For some of Dylan Tate you couldn't believe his eyes green Taj Bradley to 99. There we go Let's go Alvarez Gunner Henderson for some of Kevin Kelly Yeah, this is really a raise box here. Oh, yeah, man. Jose Caballero to 2.99 One that Lane can't say Chupacara, he said Raiden Shoemaker For some Jose Ciri Caballero That's right baby, and no, it's gonna Jose C We have Josie see All right, 23 prism draft picks hobby now No, that's like a banable offense. I think no, we're not seeing how city right now There's Ricky Council silver rookie Christian Lattener to 49 nice one there Duke.  We'll Lane will handle it So when they're Christian Lattener orange pulse orange pulse are yes That's a hyper of Jalen Williams mass Buzelis to 99 and I'm in Thompson widescreen And if you are local to the area or want to visit us you can turn it in for sort credit as well Yes, Victor women Yama, rookie Yeah, feel free to us Victor women Yama to 199 nice one there. It's actually not bad at all Blue wendy that might be That's probably a mag I would say Silver of Jimmy Butler KJ Williams rookie auto Nice one there for the LSU Tigers. That was actually a pretty solid one J That was the the blue is pretty pretty good set Lundy hyper Keegan Murray to 249 Jordan Hawkins This guy's this guy needs serious water needs the next thing Get him out in the Vaughan household right now out gritty dick rookie Silver Turquoise on Smith. Did you just giggle at that? David Thompson to 99 nice one there Nuggets I would say yeah, that's gonna be for break credit for surely yeah when you send it in through the mail It's for break credit. Yeah, I'm in Thompson And Del Curry to 299 if you do it in store with us It's for store credit or if you have a lit to 25 KD mojo a latent account. We can add break credit as well but yeah, any anyone that you Send through the mail we will add break credit Jordan Hawkins and luckily for you if Jake is working the shop that day if you bring in enough You can just make them do whatever you want for like a day That'd be really fun. We decided on that Just send you home There's toast on a bowman to 149 on the red auto Scotty Barnes hyper Collin Castleton purple ice to 149 and Azar Thompson fearless silver No, no bro didn't have to say a word bro did not say a word Yeah, you do you just make Jake dance if you want like a monkey All right, we've got a box of chronicles now for you Jonathan, and we'll finish through your breakers the light Yeah, send them send them in Lee and we can give you break credit. Yeah, we just give you break credit Yeah, shoot us in the email if you're interested Lee. I'll send it over to Lane for you Anthony Solo Meadow one of five nice one there. That's sweet parallel. It's like the impact kind of on Revolution For the Pirates No, no, no Mark Gray's and Jacob Barry Ellie rookie Silas are doing George Brett on the psychedelic Nice one there for the Royals. Yeah, absolutely Lee. Thank you Psychedelic man Henry bull and Andy Rodriguez to 199 Joe Cronin nice Taj Bradley What are we doing Taj? Where are we signing? He's not your guy right there signing the right way. That's your guy He's signing the correct way Sam to 199 still a nice one. What it's 199 of 199 He's probably hired a signing on at this point You probably won there Taj Bradley came off a start Said taking it out on these order these Chronicles cards 199 Jim Rice and Mickey Mantle is Daniel Seuss act of 25 For the ace warming Bernabell to 99. Yes, cold and freezing alarm. Yes, sir The rocks coal young Ryan Sandberg gold or no green Bill Mazurowski to a five a be jets picking up a spot tomorrow Thank you, buddy. And Scott rolling again six to go on Almanac everybody Six to go This one's thick. We'll save that one. Yeah, that's Tucker Toman to 100 on the clear vision base and silver jet Williams. Oh boy. Hack Wilson Jackson holiday 12 to 25 Three colored a patch auto nice one there congrats Jonathan. That's awesome. That's what I like about these man Rose Pay good money to see that but a raccoon stole my wallet Nice Jackson holiday congrats on that one there. Sorry to laugh at you there Devin, but that's not something I thought I was gonna hear today Base we've got Barry Larkin to at 199 again. I'll send an empty box and wrapper with this All of these zenith cards have the the peeling on the bottom not all of them, but a lot of them do Unfortunately, so send the empty box and wrapper with you. Sorry about that, buddy Williams and obsidian of Nolan Ryan and that breakers delight breakers delights Sure 23 bum and chrome football breakers delights nice Marvin Harrison More is mutual insurance. We expect the unexpected Trying to trace the child laid my wallet down look back. There's a family for running away with it.  It's the one by raccoons What? Dalen Everett first Harris Jones first orange shot Caleb Williams the 25 very nice congrats on that 17 of 25 Well at USC Blue Robbie Ashford to 199 that is quite the story though Malachi Starks on the teal to 299 That's unreal We've got Tray Sean Ward. That is to 399 for the Kansas State Wildcats got Jackson Arnold first base auto that'll be going to the well going to Jonathan But he's on Oklahoma and then to finish it off KJ Jefferson. Nice one there nice one there KJ Jefferson That'll do it for your break there John think congrats is always on the hits. Thank you, buddy Do appreciate it my man. Get him right out to you


Let me introduce Jess Toss, who is in the talk. Get optimising on SCM. Hi everyone, thanks for coming. I created this talk because I think when people build their own website or hire someone to do a website for them, they often think that there's going to be a fury of organic traffic on their website, but it turns out that the internet is a pretty big place. Felly, mae'n mwynhau i ddim yn ymddangos. Wysi'n sgwr 10, nid i gyda'r sgwr ar hyn o'r pethau Canacellu'r Fiamau. Felly, mae'n typ y peth wedi bod wedi bod yn yn ôl'r cyfryd i'r cyfryd o'r cyfrannu A'r cyfrannu yr hwnnw i'r cyfrannu. Fe wnaeth yn ddangos gennym digonwys diwrn hefyd methu Cymru os yw nhw'n sgwr ychydig y cwrs maen nhw. Sgwr yn ddod o'ch cyfrannu ddim arnynno'r pethau'r prosesyleu ychwaneg iawn. Felly, unrhyw gweithasion i gael eich cyf grounds codaid, mae'n cael ei cynhyrchu cyllid y dyfodol yn cael'r cyllid cyf-god y mewn yw'r wordpress wedi causa.  So mae'n ddweud bod yw'n ddweud eich cyfnod i'r cyfnod i'r cyfnod i'r weffrifio. Yn ystod, mae'r cyfnod i'r Google My Business profile. Mae'n ddweud bod y cyfnod i'r 46% o Google searches yn cael eu bwysigol yng Nghymru. Mae'r cyfnod i'r search terms yw heddiw o'i o'r cyfnod i'r gwirio o'r clymau i Blasgov. A yna, i ddweud i'r ystod i'r search results o'r mobile a'r desktop, yn cael ei gafodd o'r cyfnodio'r cyfnod yw'r cyd-dwylliant i chi chi i gael y cyfnod ymgyrch yn ymgyrch gyd.  Felly, ychydig y cyfnod i'r website rydyn i'r rydyn roedd Rdyn, os ydych i ddyn nhw'n ddiddordeb ar y pethau yng Nghymru. Felly, mae'n ddiddordeb ar y Pethau Unedig ym Ysbytyd, os ydych i ddiddordeb ar y pethau yng Nghymru, os ydych i ddiddordeb ar y pethau yng nghymru. Yn y cwestiynau, mae'n ddiddordeb ar y pethau local yng Nghymru, felly mae'n ddiddordeb ar gyfer all cyfnodig, er mwyn iawn i'r ddiddordeb ar y pethau. As you've done that it will give you the option to verify your location and this is really important to having an impact on your ranking and building up that trust with Google. So once you choose to verify your location they will send a postcard to your address that you've listed on your Google My Business profile. So if your business isn't actually registered at that address nature will somehow get hold of that postcard that they're going to send you. The next step is to add your opening hours, if that's irrelevant to you, add that onto your profile and encourage people to need your reviews. So apparently reviews on your Google My Business page aren't necessarily a direct ranking factor, but it really helps build up trust if people are searching for you. If they can see you've got a better review score than your competitors, they're probably a lot more likely to click through onto your profile. Lastly, make sure you add some pictures to your Google My Business page as well. One thing which is worth noting is that when you take a picture on your phone, or even some cameras as well, it will store the location in the photo's metadata. Apparently Google can actually see that metadata and see where the picture is taken. So if you've taken a picture at your business location, it will scan this and it's worth adding that geo tag if you can. So once you've got your profile set up, you should start submitting your website onto local business directory listings. This is really important because it shows Google that you're a trustworthy and legitimate business. By submitting your website and business onto these business listings, you're just building up the backlinks to your website ever so slowly. So it's a really good way initially to show that you're a relevant and trustworthy business. If you are a business based in Glasgow, here are just some examples of loads of core listing sites you might want to be mentioned on. Just really basic, but just because you know a handful. One thing to note is when you're submitting your details on these business listing sites, make sure you get your name, address, website and phone number consistent across all of those listing sites as well. So it needs to be the same as it is on your website and as it is on your Google My Business profile. And also don't forget to link your socials to your website because these are backlinks as well and it all counts. So step four is make your website faster. So I think there's actually another talk after lunch today about how to improve your website speed so it's worth going to check that one out. And it's really important that you make your website as fast as possible because Google likes websites to have a page speed load time of less than three seconds. And that's because if your page loads quickly, your users are less likely to bounce off of your page. And it just wants to deliver the best user experience it possibly can to its users. So it is really important. One thing to note is that although they recommend your page speed is under three seconds, the UK average page load time is actually 5.9 seconds. So if you're bringing in under that 5.9 seconds, you're going to be much better than the average UK website. So it's a good place to start. So you can measure page speed using these two tools. There are quite a few page speed testing tools you can use. The three ones particularly tend to pull out slightly different results. So use a couple to give yourself an average and a benchmark. So once you've taken your page speed test, how do you improve those results? These are two really easy to install plugins that you can put on your website. So you've got an image optimising plugin and a caching plugin. There are loads of different versions of this plugin if you have a look. But these are two I'd recommend. And for the sake of spending five minutes installing them on your site completely for free, you can really bring your page speed load times down by a good few seconds. And for the sake of improving that user experience for a few minutes, it's definitely worth just quickly installing them on your website. So step five is change your permalink structure. So when you first create a WordPress website, it will automatically create a URL structure based around dates, which is quite messy and it doesn't do anything to help your website from an SEO perspective. So I really recommend going in and changing your permalink structure. You can use the postname structure or a custom structure. I prefer to have the category and then the postname, and this just enables you to get some extra keywords into that URL without having to do anything. So reach, change your permalink structure. And then step six is install an SEO plugin. So having an SEO plugin on your website is a really simple way of ensuring all of your pages are optimised for the keywords that you want to rank for. So there are loads of different SEO plugins, but my personal favourite is one called RankMath. It's got some really cool features. It's completely free. It's got some features which are only available with the premium version of the Oast. So I know a lot of people really like the Oast, but this was my favourite. And if you're currently using Yoast and you want to switch over to RankMath, it's got a really easy one-click import feature. So all of the data you've installed in Yoast SEO in a click, you can transfer it all over to RankMath really easily. So one of the first things I recommend you using RankMath for is to submit your site map to Google Search Console. So your site map is literally a map of your website. And once you submit this to Google Search Console, you're basically making it really easy for them to crawl and index your website. So to set this up, you go into RankMath in WordPress, post your site map settings and there'll be a big URL at the top. And you can just copy that URL and paste it directly into Search Console. There's just a site map section on the left-hand side and you can just paste it in there. And this step takes about 30 seconds. It's really simple, but it's really important and it's really going to help you rank going forward. So don't miss this one out. So step eight is then to link your Google Search Console account to RankMath to one of your keywords. So essentially this is just a really easy way. You can keep track of all of the keywords, what position you're coming in at in Google Search results right from inside WordPress itself. So to do that, you just go into RankMath, pick the Search Console tab and you can authorise your account. There's a big button which you can't miss. And just follow this step and then that will enable you to keep track of your keywords in one take. And keep track of your positions. So now you're tracking these keywords, how do you start to rank for those top spots in Google? And that leads on to step nine, which is optimising your pages for keywords. So RankMath makes this really, really easy. And basically Google has bots which will pull your website to determine what exactly your website is about, who is that content going to be relevant for and it will look in certain places on your website. And that's why on-page optimisation is really important because you're making sure you get those keywords in specific places and using a plug-in like RankMath makes it really easy for you. So these are just some of the places that Google bots will be calling. So making sure you've got your plug-in, you're using it, is really important. So to use RankMath on-page optimiser, once you have your plug-in installed, whenever you go into a page or post, in the top right-hand corner, you're going to score out of 100. And basically it works as a traffic light system. So it goes from red and birth to green and you're constantly trying to push your page up into the green zone. So if you get a score of 85 or above, this will turn green and then it means your post is ready to publish. So on this page, I'm going to rank for the focus keyword of Q Bardens in winter.  So now I'm at a score of 36 out of 100, but I'm still in the red zone. So it will give you basic steps that you need to follow to bring your page score up. So the first error I need to correct here is the focus keyword does not appear in the SEO title or the method description. And what you can do to edit this is you just click edit snippet and this is a really great way for you to change how your website is going to appear in search results. So here I've added Q Bardens in winter to the title. I've added it to the permalink. I've got it in the description and you can see there's also a colour chart in each of those areas as well. So just try and push that up into the green as much as you possibly can. This is going to really impact if people click on your website, to your website from Google search results. So don't necessarily go stuffing your keywords in there and hoping for the best. Try and make your page sound as exciting as possible so that people want to click on it and read your content. So once you've got those up to the green and you've gone through and corrected all of your areas, you should start to see that the rank map bar at the top has turned green and this means that your post is ready to publish because your page has been optimised for your keyword. It's quite difficult to get a full score of 100 on rank map. You only get a full score if your content is over 2,500 words long. So if you've not quite up to the 100 marks then don't worry too much as long as it's green. That's really great and you can press go. So once you've got your page optimised, it's really important you keep track of that keyword that you've been optimising that page for. So you can do that within rank map inside WordPress or you can log in to Google Search Console and keep track of your position in there. So before this page was optimised it was ramping in around position 14 and then once I've gone through and done the on-page optimisation it's pushed this position up to what it says 4.4 around 4 or 5 position in Google Search results. And that's really important because once you start climbing into those top five spots you're really going to notice your organic traffic will keep increasing. So this is just one page optimised one keyword. You can see I optimised the page in August and then following on the traffic just continued to increase. And so imagine if you did this for every single page across your website the results are going to increase by 10 or 24 because you're constantly optimising your pages for those keywords. So step 10 is to keep adding content to grow your website traffic. So content still remains the best way to rank your website in search results. So if you keep adding content you're going to keep adding keywords to your website and you can optimise those pages and continue growing your organic traffic. If you don't really know where to start adding content to your website I really recommend that you just search for other talks on WordPress TV. People have given some really great talks on content banning and they've given their slides with templates that you can download which are really useful. So that's a really good place to start. And if you're still really struggling to add the content to your website it's really not your thing. There are so many places where you can go now online and basically buy content to add to your site. You can find a content writer on people per hour and even if it's one blog post a month ideally you want it to be a lot more regular and even if it's just a 500 word blog post every month it's better than nothing and people can see that you're continuing to keep your website updated and you're keeping that content really fresh. So that was 10 steps. You can use to get your website off to it as best possible start. So I hope you guys have fun optimizing and thanks for listening. So first of all, thank you Jess. This is where we are going to try and brighten the screen and apologies it seems to have started dim and got dimmer. That feels much the same frankly today. So we'll light another candle or something in a way that I did but anyway we'll try and brighten that up for you. Apologies. In the meantime has anyone any questions for Jess? One right at the back. Now you need to walk now. We need to get it recorded so you're forever recorded on WordPress 2. So when a service is advertised to maintain your SEO as a monthly fee what is actually involved in that? What are you paying for and how much of that would you do yourself? It really depends on who you are get to do it for you. It really depends on the individual basis because some people don't really do anything and they'll just pull you a standard report off some rush each month and charge you for that. Other people will charge to be all to your research to get your content get content for you onto your website and start building links up to your website as well so it just really really depends on who you use and if you've got to use somebody you trust I make sure that they keep adding the content to your website for you but it just depends it's a bit of a... It really depends on the person. Anybody else? I will come to see this talk. I can't have answered all the questions. It's a very quick question. Is slides available that we can download? Yes, sure. I'll put them on my site so you can get them on that. But we'll also make sure on the WordCamp website and I don't know how long it will stay up but we'll make sure we set up the slides and set up links to them so we'll make sure we get those and thank you for that. Just wanted to ask you mentioned about buying content isn't there a danger of duplicating that content and getting people realising for that? Yes, definitely. So you have to make sure that the content is unique. So you really have to... If you want to buy it offline or offer external person it's just really worth doing your research and using somebody you trust and there are lots of dodgy people on places like People for Hours as well where they'll just use automatic website, articles, spinners and you want to avoid that as much as possible because you want the content on your site to be really good and engaging so it's difficult to find a good content so it's not easy but if you want, I haven't seen people that connect with it. So in your right path if you change the title bit does it override the title that you have manually put in? Yes, it will. So if you edit... it will just manually override what's already in there. The last one. There's a school of thought that says that if you design your website well and the content is good Google will analyse it and put up with you in the right place in the ranking. And the SEO is maybe not... If the page of the website is designed well maybe the SEO is not all that necessary. Well, I would... I do agree with you slightly but if you've not optimised your page and one of your competitors has then they're much more likely to come above you in the search position, search ranking position so I think it just depends on what your competitors are really doing. If you've not really got any competitors then it might not be as important but you may as well, it's completely free to go away, optimise your pages do SEO so you may as well get your website off to its best possible start in my opinion. Do you sort of optimise for just one word or two words? Well actually in rank class now you can add up to five keywords in that section so it's difficult to make it green actually with every single two words but yeah, you can add up to five different keywords and even if you just chose one to start with once your website is live you can then keep track of the keywords and search console so if you're thinking oh that one seems to be doing a lot better than the one I've put into rank class just go in and change the keywords and tweak your page and optimise it for that keyword that looks like it's going to start doing a bit better than the other one. Thank you. How does it... if I decide to move to my site map I'm using Google account I've already set up the business and all the configurations with that Google account. Is it just like the Gmail Google account you use? It shouldn't do really I recommend that you make any changes to your Google My Business profile or is that the same? No, I'm using it for a different company so there's another company again that I'm creating for Facebook so I don't know how can I create my business on more than one business on one Google account? Yes, you can. Not on your Google My Business page but just from your Fox Standard Google account that's got your email and you use to log into analytics and search console and have more than one business link on there and there is a theory which is that if you use your business account, your analytics and your search console and keep it all the same that's supposed to help but I don't think it'll be too much for this year so just add your business to that. You mentioned keywords but what about negative keywords? There's an example if you put if you've got 100 different types of t-shirts there's an example and you've got 100 different pages and you put t-shirt on but you only wanted one style of t-shirt to be strong I don't think I'm using the right product for this a negative keyword you just want t-shirts but if you wanted t-shirt on a cup t-shirt on a cup you don't want the cup you don't want the t-shirt how do you get away with not showing how do you put on to your site the negative keywords? Is that possible? Is this safe for you? If somebody typed into your google search t-shirt on a mug and your keywords for t-shirt Is somebody going to go to the t-shirt on a mug? It depends on a lot of different different factors t-shirt I'm guessing it's quite hard to rank for the key word t-shirt on a mug It really depends on lots of different things Obviously you can just make sure that you're using the keyword t-shirt more than on a mug but see The reason I'm asking is my business is okay is I make decorations for cupcake so I will cook cupcake, topper or cupcake decoration somebody looking for cupcake is going to come up with mine and I do cupcakes so okay I see it was a I didn't want to push mine so if you're optimising your website for that keyword cupcake decoration it's technically with the way google wrote for your website it's probably going to know that your business and website is about cupcake decorations and that you're not just selling cupcakes so if you've got your keyword set up, you've optimised your pages for cupcake decoration it should be reading it as that and you might get a few impressions or clicks on people maybe searching for cupcakes and in general if you've got the same cupcake decoration throughout your site enough it should be rankling to that keyword Does google penalise you then for having similar keywords on only pages I've got other 500 products on different pages they're all the same thing they just happen to be different it would be a different thing Are your descriptions the same or are they different they all they could be teddy bear, it could be fam, it could be giraffe, giant but they're all decorations for cupcakes and cakes so If you've got the sites like that are difficult to rank because there's so much duplicate so many duplicate products and content that's going on there so if you can make your descriptions for each one, unique it should be ok but that's basically what you have to do to make sure that each product is ranking as an individual product I've got one final question sorry I paid a company to do citations is in your opinion should I have done that I know what I feel about that If you don't have the time to submit your own website to the business director you can definitely pay somebody to do it for you there's no problem they should provide you with a spreadsheet that gives you all of the login details and it should be from trusted relevant business websites there's somebody I think they're called Citations Builder they do I think they're based in Glasgow as well and they can do citations for you but yeah you have to pay you do have to pay to get the good citations we are here point number 3 where you said you know the address on your website and the business and the customer many a times I come across websites where there is no address you just have to contact them and somebody contacts you how does this step number 2 work in that case you don't have a physical address to listed anywhere on your site maybe you have it on the back but it is not visible to the traffic so if you don't have an address on your website and you can put one on there I really recommend you put it on there if you can do that if you can't I'm guessing are you trying to rank for local search terms no global so even if my address is local in Glasgow it is not going to matter for anyone who is in France so in that case and since you are talking about foundation and building up right from the beginning I am confused how to go about it suppose what should I start with I think if you can if you can put an address on there or you can use an address I would really recommend you put it on your site because it just helps makes it look a lot more like a genuine business really good it might just keep changing keep changing there are traits who do that who don't have an address who have a contact of page then this how does that work I just want you to do well it's really for the google my business profile it's just super important to appear in local search results so if you're not trying to rank locally it's probably not much of a important factor so it might not matter as much for your website but are you wanting to put a view have you got a google my business profile no you want to have one okay so architects near me so in that case architects near me will not be in Glasgow it can be anywhere so for anybody it is their location which matters and where they are generating that search inquiry is from and even if I have a loan present or you know publishing presence and I have learned to serve that community over there you understand what I am trying to say well you can put multiple locations into your google my business listing so you can have more than one location I wouldn't really recommend kind of changing your location every week in your address and your google my business profile but yes you've got multiple locations you can add those into your profile so I recommend doing that okay time for one more I think google is obviously the big player in the search engine market but what about optimising for other search engines like duck duck go and one of that because I think some people are moving towards them from previously issues and things like that I mean it's all traffic so people are using those on the search engines so it is important and you can set it like being on the web master tools and that type of thing and you will notice people find your website that way so it is important to set it up so me on a personal level personal level I just tend to focus on google so I'm not an expert in those other search engines but yes you've got the time to put your site on there get your listings on all those other search engines then why not because you might get some extra traffic on that okay thank you very much Deedon thank you Jess


Welcome to Microsoft's 4th of September developer software meeting. Here we go. So this is the end of our sprint for this two weeks, right? All right. So let's take a, we'll go through the existing sprint and just do a quick check in on how we're doing. And after the meeting, if there's anything that didn't make it in by this sprint, we'll, you know, we'll push that into the next sprint. If in the course of going through these items, you think that we shouldn't push an item into the next sprint, then we'll note that. I want to try to minimize how much time we spend actually messing around with the Jura interface during the meeting. And so Emily's taking notes, we can actually get around to doing anything that is more than trivial after the meeting. So with that being said, if we get through all of the sprint stuff in a timely fashion, then we can talk about any other issues that are outstanding there. So without further ado, let's start with Guest. We can't hear you guys, or I can't hear anyone. That is accurate. 20-hour hate fill release. The one, the two things that I forgot to add on before were generating new images of PyCross and the Mark I. So I've added those onto there and started that, but I'll need to get rolled over to the next sprint. Those couple of bugs there, they're still outstanding because we're waiting on the process status and other stuff in core that we didn't want to merge into the 2008. So that's coming in 20.8.1. But I think the PR on that just needs a review. So they're blocked, essentially. And then the yes-no thing, I've put a lot of detail in the comments, so I won't bother going over that. But if you're interested, check out that and we might talk about it later. And then posting the images, I just need to get around to doing that. But if there's any reason, I shouldn't post either of them and let me know. So 112 and 115, you're talking about posting the Mark II images for Qt and for Qivy for the community to test. Can you just briefly go over what that's about real quick again?  And obviously we've done the work to do that because we run them on our own devices. And we've just never actually released the software to be able to run things on their own prototype. For the people that have put all the work into putting together a hardware prototype, it's giving them an easy to use image to help evaluate that. Right. So what's the feedback path for that? Like if they have comments on functionality or bugs or anything like that, where do they communicate that sort of thing? Well, I'd be putting it, I'd be putting both into a single thread on the forums. There's also the GUI channel on Minecraft chat, which is where I anticipate. Oh, there's also the Mark II channel. So probably it'd be coming through the Mark II channel unless it was very specifically related. Okay. So we're not posting these up to one of our repos or anything like that. Is there? No, no, no. That would just be in the forums and chat. Okay. Got it. All right. Thanks guys. Let's see who's next. Derek. Okay. So I got, well, you know, it looks like about half of this stuff, but it's not as bad as it looks. But I got, okay. So I did an update or I posted an update in the matter most channel for where I'm at with the, with the full assembly of the first rev of the new def kit design with the SJ201 board. So that's going to be an FDM printed prototype. So that'll be what we focus on after we get done with these laser cut ones. So I've actually got the laser cut parts all done for Chris, Ken and myself, but I'm still printing audio chambers. So that should actually going to try and print something through the weekend. So hopefully I'm pretty much done with that early next week. So I'll clear out a lot of the stuff still in progress. Yeah. I'll just get an email and point me, point me at the STLs and the SVGs for that. Oh, yes. Yeah. Actually, I need to just get them up on GitHub. I've made the changes. Kevin had some suggestions to better access the, the ribbon cable for the display. So I made those changes. So we're just getting posted up on GitHub as well. So the goal is to really get as many of the, although I have the design done for the 3D printed full 3D printed version, or at least the first draft. I really want to get the quick laser cut ones out to everybody first and make sure we get that done. Maybe even a couple extras before I kind of spend too much time on the process of a fully 3D printed one is much slower. So yeah, that's been me. Did not get to work too much on the, well, I've been, I don't know, there's something we might want to talk about afterwards is like this, the re-speaker has been kind of giving us a lot of trouble. It's like maybe we, it's becoming a bit of distraction in terms of trying to perfect it. So that might be something we discuss, discuss later. Yeah. Okay. So that's me. Thanks, Doug. So I spent the week trying to nail down this bug. I know less now than when I started, but I, as far as what the book specifically is, but I do understand our stack better. I understand from a software and hardware perspective. I understand some of the limitations of what we're using with pulse audio and things like that. I also think we have some issues with our basic image where we're bringing in codecs and modules that we don't use and that we don't even have the hardware for and they're in that chain. So that could be part of it as well. But I've been working on that and we'll continue to do so briefly. I looked at the yes-no from a couple of perspectives. So I have a couple of questions for Gez. So Gez, two questions. Are we getting back from the speech to text when it's not recognized as yes? Are we getting back? Yeah. Why EAH and the skill is not keying off of that? It's explicitly looking for yes or is it capable? Yeah. We look for a range of things that mean yes and no. So that's fine. If people say no and it translates that correctly, then it will return no. It's more if you say yes and the STT returns yes or yet or something like that, which doesn't in English language mean yes. And yes, they just got it wrong. I just went to the back end directly through a browser and gave it a bunch of yeses. And based upon where I was standing, I will get back a yes or a yeah. And so as long as we can pick up yeah, then that's not the issue. Hold on. That's with your accent as an American male middle class American male is in Florida. Yeah. So, you know, there's a much broader audience out there. And so, you know, at this point, you know, I think we should be thinking about like if it is, you know, you know, whatever guess was what was one of the ones that gets just brought up. Is there a way for us to capture that as a company and find out that it happened that in, in 6% of instances when we use the yes no skill, the STT algorithm came back with the word guess, right, which as humans, we look at and immediately into it that they meant yes, and for us to build a correction for that, right, because that's the type of thing that we should be paying attention to if we want people using the software to improve the quality of the software. That's exactly what the, the precise training loop does, right. And so I think it's just a matter of, you know, expanding our, our data collection to, you know, to those missed intents as well, right. Which, you know, certainly is on the roadmap, but we can be thinking about it actively. Well, yeah, and I'm putting the ticket that's going that I think we should think about while we're doing this because it's not specifically a word. And so it might need a little bit of, you know, flexibility around how we design a schema and stuff. But I think it's close enough to actually to live in the, in the hot word spotter, tagger kind of thing. I take a more, a much more simplistic approach to that. And I agree with everything that was said. It's just more work there. You know, with the Catholic resistances to go into the yes, no. And say, okay, J E S S is yes. G U E S S is yes. You know, anything that doesn't have an O in it is yes. Right. S is yes. I mean, that's the simplest. Well, let me hold on. Let me. Can I add in that in the ticket. So that's why I kind of, yeah. So I would, I would classify, I would classify what, what Ken just said is a Cluj, right? Which is fine if we want to get this out the door for English as quick as possible, but we has an O in it and also means yes. Yeah, I agree. I haven't really expanded to think about other languages yet. Just saying that that's how my simplistic mind works. Now the other issue is that it could be the case and I've seen this the wake word where sometimes depending upon timing, it actually snips it a little short. And while that's not too tough for a micro because it has a nice, a hard cuff or at the end of it. Yes, really does require the trailing S wedge. And if you clip it, that could be causing some issues there. So maybe it's just a turnaround time issue. I don't know. I haven't really looked at it. I just know that I went up to Google speech to text and gave it a bunch of things to see what it would come back with. So anyway, yeah, that's, that's kind of a couple of things I was looking at. I'll continue to try to take the weekend off. Also, also when you're evaluating Google speech to text, keep in mind that's not the way that we're doing the transcriptions. Okay. So the way that the transcriptions the last I checked and you can go check the code, but the transcriptions were being done through the Google translate API with the source language set as English and the destination language set as English, not through Google's speech to text interface. Isn't that interesting? Just out of curiosity, why did we do that? You may want to mark the time here, Emily, because it's free and they never noticed. It's free and they haven't noticed that we're doing it for free. Otherwise, we'd be paying them. Okay. And speech to text pure is not free, I take it. No, they have a variety of different payment plans, none of which involve us not paying them. Yeah, yeah, they wanted my credit card information. That makes sense. Okay. Thank you, Josh. That clears that up for sure. But yeah, Tuesday when we come back to work, I'm pretty sure I will continue to be looking at isolating what this problem is, but from a much more rudimentary perspective, which is I'm going to plug a custom board from Kevin into my Ubuntu laptop, and I'm going to take this one off of the Mark II and plug it directly in and see if the problem persists on either device outside of the Pi environment and then take it from there. Yeah. So yeah, I think we spent a lot of time on this particular issue and based on the lengthy discussion you and I had earlier today, I'd like to limit how much more time we spend on it given the number of things that it could be that are going to completely change with the new SJ201 design. So there's a high likelihood that it's dependent on the re-speaker board and the drivers and whatnot. And so, you know, if you spend another day on it. Yeah, that might be Tuesday and then I await my new marching order. Yep. Right. Yeah, we'll discuss that on Tuesday as well. Perfect. And that's my update. Cool. Thanks. Chris. Okay, so the new upload endpoint in Selene from uploading wake words is done. It's just a PR waiting for review. This tagging UI, that meeting is actually done. I'll move that over. Storage of wake work samples is code complete. I'm just doing some testing, but I ran into a bit of a snag because the Selene, or the precise user on the host that has all the wake words on it is set up to only allow SCP commands. I can't SSH into it or anything like that. So it uses. Talking about the upload server that currently exists. Yeah. Yeah, log into it as in Ubuntu or as Mat. I have my own user ID on it, but I still need to be able to copy them over to the precise user. So I think I'm going to, there's an RSSH restriction on the precise user that I'm considering removing because I also need to be able to, to create directories. You know, On the upload server. Yeah. Aren't you, aren't you creating and work? The upload server is getting dangerously low on storage space. It has access to the NAS. I actually had to modify my stuff to not even work off of the local drive just to do everything on the NAS. Why do you need access to anything but the NAS? I would access. Yeah. I mean, that's, I'm accessing the NAS, but the precise user. What? You should be able to write to it as Ubuntu, Mat or you precise can't write to it because it was set up to be like a service or something, but, and you could, you could certainly do that, but you don't have to use the user precise. That's what I'm questioning. Why is that a holdup? Okay. I figured I did. I like to use application users for anything I possibly can. I don't like using my own user ID for anything. It's just something I've always done and something I like, I would like to continue to do. But I don't even understand why you're on that machine. I have to copy the files over there, don't I? Copy what files? The Lake World files. They go to the NAS. Yeah. And this server has a mount point on that NAS. But don't, doesn't your salini server also have that same mount point? No. How did you get the files over there in the first place? I haven't yet. You sure did. You moved them out of the, out of the directory into your schema. That's a, I don't understand what you're saying. That's a database thing. No, I'm not. Let's take this offline. I misspoke. You moved them from Mount NAS. Hey, my cross. To Mount NAS wake words or something you called it, right? That was all manual. And I did that all on the precise host. Salini. So you did that when you were on the. Upload server logged in as you. Yes. I see. I thought you would expose that mount to the salini server, which you're ultimately going to have to do anyway, right? Yeah, we need to, we need to have a sit down and talk about the architecture because Salini's in New York on a separate network and the Mount stuffs in Lawrence on the wicked network. And there's 10 gigs of capacity between the two. So capacity is not an issue, but I think we want to think through the security construct carefully and, you know, whitelist if we are, I mean, I'm not opposed to doing an NFS mount over the internet. We need to talk a little bit about crypto, but I'm sure it can be done securely. However, I think we need to have a sit down and talk about that architecture a little more carefully. I think you misspoke when you said 10 gig, you meant 10 terabytes. No, there's a 10 gig, 10 gig a bit per second. Wow. Link, through hurricane to the Digital Ocean data center in New York. Well, I think you're right because right now, like you pointed out, we basically have three different data centers involved in trying to communicate. And just from a transmission perspective, that's probably less than ideal. Yeah, hold on. You said three. Salini's running in New York. We've got Lawrence, New York on Digital Ocean. Yeah. And then Lawrence, what's the third? Wherever the upload server is running. I don't believe that's running in Lawrence. Yeah, it is. Oh yeah, it's in Lawrence too. Sorry, I thought you were about to tell me that we had an S3 bucket at Amazon. No, no, I wasn't going to do that. I've had that conversation with this team before. So you scared me a little bit. No, no, no, but it's on a 10 dot. So it's on a sub. Alright, let's just put a pin in this. Okay, I totally agree with Josh. We need to have a separate meeting about this and discuss the architecture. I'd like to see some diagrams that very clearly delineate where things are and how things are stored and how things are moving around because we've talked about this at length and we've discussed the implementation, but still there's some confusion about things. So let's go ahead and have a meeting about that. Somebody, let's draw the diagrams at a meeting because I've got about half the knowledge and Chris has the other half. Alright, yeah, let's do something for Tuesday then. Okay, I'll do that. As of right now, I have a script that does SCPs. So I'll just stop it right there and once we decide that I'll change it or get rid of it or whatever I have to do, that's what I've been doing for the last couple of days for this because that was my assumption was that we were SCPing the files over. So that's why I wrote the script. That is actually true. That's how I get the training data from the upload server to the precise Lambda2 server is through SCP as well. So that's fine. Alright, and if I could do it, I would use SSH as a database. So I'm very comfortable using SSH for everything, but we can talk about other protocols on Final Call. Okay, so that I thought that was done. That apparently is not a little finish it next week. One thing I did want to talk about and maybe this is separate meeting to the next thing I was going to do was the SCL83, which was implementing deletion. So what happens when a user deletes their account? We've talked about, yes, we're going to delete the files physical files so that, you know, we uphold our privacy policy, but we would leave, you know, records of the files existence in the database and how all that's going to, we really want that to work before I got too far with that. Make sure I was on the right page before I started doing any coding. So we did something. Yeah, if you have any concerns about that, we should definitely talk about it before it started there. Just to be clear with anybody who is listening, we do delete the data, but it's all being done manually on a regular basis rather than automated. So just to be clear about that. Yeah. Yeah, and Chris, the pruning of the databases is super, super important having been the victim of databases that didn't prune in the past. We should sit down and look at that. Okay. Yeah, so then I didn't get to MatterMost or the WordPress. I didn't get any of that stuff. I'm a little bit of work to do in a way for a collection of extra print before I move on to tagging. This is where I am. Chris, do you have the schema done? Yeah. All the DDLs done and it's all in the database, at least the voices of my personal database. I was going to say, where is that database running? That's the only thing I'm blocked on it and get back on precise once I can select the file names from the database. Right now it's running on my MacBook. Okay. Put it in New York. That would involve a production push and I'm not ready for that yet. My PRs haven't been reviewed. When do you think the test version of your schema will be accessible to a Postgres client? As soon as we figure out the storage thing and how we're going to move the files around, then I can do a release of Selene and we can put it to test. The PRs are going to be reviewed. That raises a question for me. A few of you have some PRs out there for review. I assume that you're just swapping PRs for review. Who's going to review those? Is that going to be Gez or is that going to be Ken or did you just throw it out there and hope somebody looks at it? I tagged Ken, Christian and Ken on it. Okay. I tagged both of them on all my PRs just because of the other two developers on the teams. I didn't specifically say this person or this person. I figure one of them will pick it up or both of them. I did have a look at this one in particular, but I feel like Ken has a lot more knowledge around you guys have been in discussion around how the system should look. I mean, I had a look at it and it looks fine, but I don't know if it makes everything that you were talking about. I think you should really review that one. Chris, I don't know that I'm actually getting automated pull requests in my email. I did see a pull request. Not this one specifically. If you could just email me and yank my chain and remind me, I'll definitely sit down and take a look at it. This is the PR in this ticket here. What's the ticket number? SEL 91. SEL 91. Do you want to assign that to Ken? Yeah, why don't you do that? So my plan was to sorry, my phone. So my plan was to do a release that did the collection stuff and the moving of the collected data to the NAS. So that would be the tagging stuff. So as soon as we can figure out how we want to get the data to the NAS, then we can do a release and then we can talk about how we use the schema and all that kind of stuff. So first part next sprint for me will be finishing that up and then we'll move to the tagging. Okay, great. So we're going to do sprint planning for the next sprint on Tuesday. Our we have Monday off, right? So so we need to reschedule that Monday meeting to Tuesday. That's one thing. And then I can give you well, I was actually just going to check my email see if there's any last second updates here. Well, we do want to have that infrastructure meeting maybe Tuesday's a bit early but maybe Wednesday. Well, earlier the better because this is kind of locked until I on this part until we figure it out. No, I agree 100%. It's just Tuesday is the first day back. We have the sprint planning meeting and I hate having multiple meetings in a day and I ain't eating every day every week. Yeah, but yeah, you're right. We need to we need to discuss this because it's kind of gating factor. I mean, you know, there's no reason to have everything disparate like this because just SCPing is going to be inefficient and expensive, right? Yeah, why don't you guys have that meeting in the morning? You know, it doesn't have to be a long one and you don't have to include everybody. Well, if you get in the morning and Josh, well, that's a different issue. Chris and I can meet and come up with a wish list and then forward it on the notch for how we think it would be perfect. I'm happy to get up. There's some reasons why things are split the way they are. It does make sense, but they're all mostly financial so we can we can work things out. Alright, so Chris, you and I can meet, I guess, Tuesday around noon or whatever and discuss over the entire. I prefer Josh to be there because he's going to know the most about you know. Yeah, it's fine. Just book me something early in the morning. I'm fine. It's not like at 4 a.m., please. Maybe an hour before our normal meeting would be good. Okay. Well, let me get two hours before I know that I'm going to be set. Alright, Michael, did you want to be optionally might that as well? No, I don't need to be there. Okay. Alright. Yeah, it looks like I'm just looking at the calendar. We're going to have to bump a couple things around. I've got a bunch of stuff stacked up on Tuesday, so we might have to cancel the marketing meeting. That's fine. Or the sprint can just go on Wednesday and we can use sprint planning on Wednesday and have a small sprint. I don't... Well, we still have to, you know, we still have some things to talk about, so I'm going to guess and Derek have things we should talk about. So let's just stick with the schedule. So on the hardware front, with my last check-in with Kevin, we've got he's got two boards in the mail. Oh, hey, no. There it is. Derek, why don't you tell us what's going on? Okay, so just a little while... Wait, did I skip Derek on the go-round? No, no. I was saving this as a bonus round. I did get two boards. You haven't done your own tickets. What's that? Michael hasn't done his own tickets. Oh, yeah, right. So we got this, two of these today. And I have not actually got a chance to fire them up yet. So, yeah, that's exciting. And then I think Michael is just about ready to talk about what Kevin had shot over today in terms of progress, but we're going to send some, he's going to send something to you, Ken. And let's see. I think he's going to send the rest to me to distribute. So, yeah, I will try and get this hooked up as soon as I can. And actually, I don't think Kevin's actually tried to boot my craft on it yet. So another good thing about just sharing the PB or Qt reposes is I haven't actually sent the link over to Kevin yet. So he can try it out. Although that's not his main objective, but we can get him to at least boot it up and see what we see. So, yeah, it's pretty exciting. I'm pretty excited to actually get this thing plugged in. Awesome. Yeah, so I think that just to reiterate the plan on the hardware side, Derek's going to build up the hardware, the Mark IIs with all of the displays and a case and everything like that. And hopefully, it packages them in a way that they won't get destroyed on the way to Kevin and Chris. Well, Chris is a little bit closer, I don't know how you guys are going to ship those around. But yeah, so the idea is that Ken's going to get a couple bear boards because he's going to develop directly out of them in USB mode. But I also want everyone to get built up Mark IIs in the cases with the amplifiers and all that kind of stuff so we can test everything. So, yeah, that's what's going on there. And on the hardware side, the other things that are in progress are so we're we're doing a, well actually a whole bunch of stuff. So we're looking at the next rev of the board that will be done through a PCBA house that does all of the side so there's no manual soldering and all that kind of stuff involved. And that will allow us to increase the production volume. Those still we're talking about prototype quantities for development purposes. And then there's some ancillary boards. There's like the little USB connector board that we're going to have made so that we don't have to use a cable to connect one board to the other board. And we're also talking about a submodule for the display because the display that you'll get is going to be a subpar display right now because it's the easiest one that we can get a hold of. But we have a plan for getting an IPS display in much higher quality that actually costs a lot less money. That requires us to build our own daughter board for the display which basically includes the 24 volt amplifier for the backlight and stuff like that. And we're also looking into the camera module and how we can affordably address that as well. So there's apparently some cryptography that built into the Raspberry Pi that limits the camera modules that you can attach to it. Not sure exactly what's going on there but we're looking into it. I just pointed out I didn't go through my tickets. Do I have any tickets in this print? I hope not. Yeah, I mostly said it because I thought that you probably wouldn't have been working on them. Well maybe you did and then there's also a few because I know you're working on a lot of other things not because you're being tardy. And then there's still a couple that don't have people attached to them and I'm sure that I would never touch them if my name's not attached to it because I just go in and click on my issues every time I look at it. Well okay. In terms of the process I think we discussed this last time. I've been creating tickets and assigning them to either this print or the next print. And so there may be a bunch of issues that are in this print not assigned to somebody because I've just been dumping tickets in there because I want somebody to look at them but if we haven't had a chance to look at them yet then they'll be considered for the next print. If there's anything in this print Chris can you bring up the the Sprint? Is there anything with my name on it in particular? There is the yellow screen of death that I assigned to you. Oh well right. I mean I don't know why that's assigned to me. I don't know anything about yellow screens of death but we should definitely yeah I know you've been doing some work on that. I don't actually know if it's a bug or what it is but yeah let's put that into the next print for assigned to somebody. Yeah it's a bug in the frame. It's a bug in how the frame buffers handle it. Gotcha. Okay well that's it. Any last things people want to bring up or any issues not necessarily assigned to the Sprint that we need to discuss? No? Alright then. Well so for all of us here it's going to be a long weekend in the States and I guess that means Giz also gets an extra so enjoy your extra Monday off and talk to everybody on Tuesday. Everybody have a green Labor Day. Happy Saturday Giz.


Welcome to the show Thank you How are you doing? I'm good Are you happy to be here? Ya, I'm happy to be here Of course, it's the first time and we are very welcoming people I'm happy to be here I'm happy to be here So kindly I'm Laureate Rota Madam Kumudi Pulup Nalafu, ala Futunia Speed Pulup I'm Laureate Rota I'm Laureate Rota I'm an Afrofusion Artist from Mombasa, Kenya and I'm a business woman entrepreneur I also have an initiative that against abuse I advocate for non-abusive relationships I'm a psychologist I'm a mom ETC So ya I told you Isokofia ni mingisana Stai kwa ribo maneno Yes Before we even get to your music you said you're a mom and today I think most of the things that you do we have touched on we have touched on abusive relationships we have touched on young children posting inappropriate things online So in your case what would you do if you found your children posting such things like the videos you were showing in the morning For me I wouldn't say I'd just talk about it because it depends on the child those kids you just talk then depending on how you raise them from the word children are at a programming phase from age 0 to age 12 so if throughout that period you're just talking to them you can't start beating them at 12 but if you start beating them from the word there are two things involved it's either they get used to the beating or they will change because of the beating so you should also know your child if I'm going to beat my child how does he react because at the end of the day you want the best for them so you might find that beating your child only makes them worse and there are those who prefer being talked to so once you know your child's personality you can actually know the kind of punishment they deserve there are those if you talk to them they feel so disappointed and they can't do the mistake but there are those that if you talk to them they'll be like I can't do it again so it depends on your child's personality and how you raise them from the word so everything up it just depends on your child it depends on your child but for other people you also as a psychologist and for me as a mum since I know my kids there's some beating involved boys there are also a lot of things going on what are the boys what are the boys you know like personally from a personal experience my sons listen to their dad like their dad can talk to them and they listen and they change without the beating but for me if I talk I keep shouting and they change so I have to beat them for them to at least listen but for their dad he doesn't have to beat them he just talks to them okay interesting okay so let's get into your music you say that you do your music for a purpose and that is advocating against abusive relationships tell us about that basically there's a lot going on in relationships there's so much expectations so you find that people don't really take their time to read or listen to people talking about these things and they also don't know the kinds of abusive relationships that are out here so I figured that also through personal experiences I can talk about it through my music because it's my therapeutic way of letting out so for me it has always been through music and you find that most people learn through art in music so basically that's why I have this thing the initiative art against abuse because you find that people get a lot more through dance through music through words so my music I just want to attain people I want them to learn something and also it gets to a certain point in your life you just don't want to do things for the hype you want to do things to teach people to change people's lives and inspire people and is that achieving its purpose is your music achieving the intended purpose so far it is because you find that it might not be getting to a larger crowd per se but the few people that are inspired through music they can be able to reach out to you and be able to say that okay fine I listened to this song and it really touched a point it got to me at a point in my life when I was feeling very low and the fact that I'm not the only one experiencing this it changed me because now I knew yes I was right that this kind of relationship that I'm in is not right now they get that through the music but it's actually not right so which among your songs has inspired or maybe changed somebody that I listened to this particular song and it worked wonders for me for me I think it's like more of a balance but I think Gimidwaro has had a higher it has reached more people then there's Grateful that actually just talks about depression then there's the end is just about walking out of relationships so you find that people listen to them and depending on what they are going through they tell me I listen to Grateful and by the way this song has a lot of message then there's one who listen to Gimidwaro as much as there's a bit of language barrier they go through the description what does Gimidwaro mean? Gimidwaro means what you want generally what you want so you find that in relationships just as I said there's so much expectation from people as a husband I want you to be everything as to be my security to be everything and as a woman I require my mom to be my warrior my hero my financial everything to take care of me in every kind of way and also be the person to hold me when I'm still down so you find that Gimidwaro is about love found love lost and betrayed so I'm giving you what you want because you betrayed me that is what Gimidwaro is about then Gimidwaro is about getting out of an abusive relationship so you have to at the end of the day you have to take care of yourself and get out of an abusive relationship other than the fact that your music serves a purpose what about in the entertainment aspect? the entertainment aspect how people perceive your music when it comes to everyone perceives a song differently what about people who perceive your song solely as entertainment I think for that that's why I do Afrofusion it has a Afro vibe so that people can resonate with it and be able to relate to it because we are coming to a point where we are appreciating African culture African music so I must say that I started when I got into the music industry I started with trans music and house music people are not very receptive to it because at the time it was kapuka then when I discovered my gender and my nature to focus on through people's advice and checking out the market I was able to realize that Afrofusion music is really good music so when I got into it people were entertained someone listened to Gimidwaro and just like the beat and the vibe without actually knowing the world whatever it's talking about then also you find that I also have I just don't talk about the gang get on vibe but I concentrated maybe on Afro so it's a bit unfortunate that we are starting to appreciate more of Afro at a point where people like Beyoncé are now doing it and for a long time we always appreciated Afro from maybe say other countries let's say maybe Nigeria, South Africa for them their markets have embraced it but now in Kenya we take a lot of time to embrace our own you can't find you find that there are regionally based musicians like you find someone who sings in a particular dialect is only marketable in the area instead of the whole country but at the same time they listen to a song from Nigeria which they don't even understand the language but they are singing to it but they will be discriminative on the fact that this particular region is key but so far I'm proud of the fans in Kenya they are trying to embrace to embrace their own okay interesting which producers have you worked with and which producers would you like to work with in future someone who gets you which producer would you say gets you and you would really like to work with them if you have not yet worked with them for now I'm working with Technics he's from Umbasa so the reason why I work with Technics he gets me he understands what I'm doing I work with a lot of producers but with Technics he's that understanding producer that he will listen to you and tell you okay this is what you want to achieve and he's always there to correct you there are some producers we work with and they're like oh it's about the money you just do your thing and go whatever you want I give you but I think for Technics he just tells you this is not going to work then at least he said at least he told you we're just there for now just to say that which artist would you like to work with in Kenya maybe internationally I'm more like someone who wants to work with people in Africa so I'll just say in Kenya I think it's an IP OG, Tether Maranga I really want to work with of course Othile Brown from the rest of Africa in Africa I can say maybe Olamide and to the south I'm still thinking not sure I'm more like I have to appreciate my own first so I have a big idea of who I can work with in Kenya but not just going outside fast so West I know in Yalade, Olamide is fine with me but in Kenya I have a lot of people that I can work with because we have talents anyone that you're actually working with right now I know I'm doing solo but by the end of the year I'll have one major collab with the major artist intentional you're doing solo music intentional yeah intentional because as a brand I need to build myself instead of just jumping into collabo very fast so I need to do my own music before people need to see you before they see you before they before it is not a good idea like whatever is akil credit to what you should do people should give you credit for your hard work before you can start working with people who you believe are good at what they understand you before we get to the new music how do you juggle all these things being a mom w if you are a mother or wife. You can advocate for yourself. You can contribute to your business. I mean I am thinking about something in my head. I wonder if there is a great thing for me, about it. You want to raise your child, for me, and you have a great thing for me, about the living good and the business. My son, my wife, being an advocate, being an entrepreneur. For me it is about balance. And one of the most important things is also having a spouse who understands So he is always supportive, 100% supportive And even if there are moments I feel very low I'm like these things I'm just tired But it's the kind of guy who just wakes up and tells you Why are you feeling low? Just give yourself a spike Stop being so low because I'm here to encourage you So for me I balance because of my social circle And the support system I have at home Okay And one last one Tell us about your online business Because I mean people are venturing into Especially right now if there is corona And people are venturing into new businesses Online businesses Tell us a bit about that And advise young people about venturing into online businesses Okay What I can say is Kibanda online started with a purpose It's an online business It's a long time ago Like 2016 back then You know targeting people who can't go for shopping They can't go to the grocery store This market So the sick basically the elderly Those who need You know at that end People aren't embracing delivery services as much So targeting those people who can't go out there So we do the shopping for you The grocery shopping for you Any utilities, anything you need Then bring it to you At maybe service fee Service charge So it's been an on off thing Now that we have You know the culture in Mombasa It's a bit They're a bit rigid kind of But they've been accepting it for the follow And also let's just say At the beginning the competition wasn't that much So a bit somewhere But now we have been struggling a bit In 2020 as much as people believe That the business must have skyrocketed During this time But we find that during this time So many people Served their own online businesses So everyone was doing deliveries The groceries The whatever So there's a lot of competition But we still stand strong We're still going strong And we believe that whatever we What our business stands for The policies we have The market that we have Still believes in us So we still do deliveries And kibanda online It's just kibanda Mba umelete wa kwa yumba Kwa niwa shopping Mba umelete wa kwa yumba Interesting So kindly share with us Where people can find your music And maybe kibanda online And your other services Okay For my music It's just La Rota La Rota underscore Africa on Instagram La Rota on YouTube La Rota underscore Africa on Twitter You can also find me on LinkedIn Audio mark All those sites Just as La Rota L-A-R-O-T-A Then for kibanda online It's just kibanda The normal kibanda Swahiliwa And online On all social media platforms From Instagram To Facebook Kibanda online Yes Okay So before we premiere the new song Mimi nawewe Tell us a bit about it And anything we need to know About mimi nawewe The concept And when you plan to To release the video For mimi nawewe I actually wrote it for my husband I'll be over your husband We'll have gifts We'll have gifts We'll have them later We'll have them at the end When you are too talented You will dance moves We'll have them at the end Okay I'm sorry So I did it for him And at the time It wasn't really a hype song It was just mimi nawewe It was a slow vibe kind of song Then we decided to hype it up a bit So I did it for him And it's just a happy song


Good morning, everybody. I am going to exercise my constitutional right to line item veto this ridiculous exercise in budget futility I'm calling on our legislators to get back to Harrisburg back to the work that they left unfinished last week In the meantime, I'm vetoing their ninety five million dollar cut to education I'm also vetoing other items that they don't pay for in their so-called budget This budget that they gave me does not balance at the same time. I'm allowing emergency funding for our schools to get out I'm also letting funding go out to our human service agencies and to our counties But this is on an emergency basis only in doing this I am expressing the outrage that all of us Pennsylvanians should feel about the garbage the Republican legislative leaders have tried to dump on us This budget is wrong for Pennsylvania and our legislators the folks we elected to serve us need to own up to this They need to do their jobs This budget is wrong for so many reasons, but let me just give you a few first It doesn't add up even with the numbers presented to me by the Republicans before they ran out of town just before the Christmas holiday This budget does not pay for itself. In fact, it leaves a half billion half billion dollar hole for this year 2015-16 and a nearly actually over a two billion dollar hole for 2016-17 next year There's a reason why the outside Rating agencies have downgraded our debt. There's a reason they've done that They're telling the world what our legislators really want to ignore and that is that our financial house is a mess Second this pretend budget doesn't make the investments approved in state government should make in things like I don't know education This exercise in stupidity actually cuts education funding by 95 million dollars compared to the draconian Corbit cuts of past years it does add a modest amount in basic education funding It's true, but then it takes out over 300 million to be used for school construction By the way before they left town our legislators also neglected to provide any funding for Penn State for Pitt For Lincoln University for Temple for the Penn School of Veterinary Science and and the budget They concocted doesn't have enough revenue to leave any room for doing anything to increase funding for our state universities over the 2014 2015 levels that's level this budget is doubly frustrating because we were so close to a reasonable one I had worked patiently and persistently with Republican leaders over the past many months to agree on a compromise budget That compromise budget was in balance That compromise budget invested in our kids it invested in our schools that compromise budget also included a deal that Led to would have led to historic pension reform would have led to historic liquor reform That compromise budget actually passed the Republican-dominated Senate by a vote of 43 to 7 and it passed the House on a number of preliminary votes then Then before the final vote the Republican House leaders told their members go home. I Get it. I get it that everybody is tired of this stalemate, but we were almost there and this makes what they did all that much More unconscionable they simply left town before finishing their job They can deny what they did they can try to justify what they did They can throw around all the political nonsense they want, but the fact remains they ran off pretty quickly at that They ran off before they finished their job and they left all of us with a real mess Let's not kid ourselves. We still need a budget. We need one that actually adds up This year. We need one that adds up next year. We need one that fully funds our schools We need one that really covers the cost of our state We need to pass the budget that the Senate and the House actually passed Senate bill 1073 I'm ready to sign it if we don't get this right We will face massive cuts to education and human services and we'll see huge increases in local taxes once again and Massive additional cuts to our local schools. Anybody remember 2011 2012. We need to get it right this time So to the legislators elected to do the people's business get back to work Get back to the work of the people get back to the work the people of Pennsylvania sent you here to do Let's all of us get back to work to finish the job. You almost finished last week


The President's budget proposal eliminates public media funding. Learn how you can help at lptv.org slash action. Icy roads were the culprit in a three-vehicle crash that involved a Bemidji school bus shortly after 730 this morning. 47 students were aboard when the bus hit an icy patch on a hill on Pershing Avenue and began to slide towards Burr Street where it hit a passing pickup truck and then caught guide wires of a utility pole before then slamming into the pole. There were no reports of any injuries. The Bemidji school district says that with the weather conditions as they were, there was nothing that the school district would have done differently. There weren't anything that we would delayed school for for a couple hours. It wasn't going to change the fact that the roads are already covered with ice. All of the agencies were out putting sand at different places. This is probably one of those side little pieces that just hadn't got done yet. In two days that ice won't even be there. But that's the path that the bus takes to get down the hill. It was just too slippery this morning for us and we're not being sited with anything. It was just an accident that just occurred. Students on the bus were transferred over to another bus and taken to school where each student was then checked over again by the school nurse. If you've enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland Public Television.


Okay, so this is a live unboxing of a mystery box that I won from Harry Tornado on Instagram. Okay, hello buddies, thanks for watching. Great, let's get started. So basically he had a contest and you had to tag someone and I think share it and you got entries for different things. Well, I ended up winning so this is a large flat rate box and we're going to unbox it. And I think if I remember correctly it said that approximate value of items would be like $200 resale value if I remember correctly. Okay, so here is the actual drawing that I won on Instagram and you can see the rules there. So definitely go follow Harry Tornado on Instagram and let's get this box open. What do you guys say? All right, and I've got to have it upside down to keep his address private. So he may give his address on his YouTube channel. I don't know. All right, so let's see what we got here. We have five crowns. So it's a Rummy style card game. All right, let's see what else we have. We have these Kate Spade shoes. Now they say made in China. I have no idea how to know if Kate Spades are real or not real. I don't know if they make knockoffs. I know they're really, really cute. Are there any Kate Spade people in the group that know if this is legit? It says the size here on the side is a seven. It's a cute little wedge. They are adorable. And I mean, that part looks good. So I don't know. You guys let me know. But very cool. All right, here's the other pair. A pair of ducks. It looks like they're wood carved ducks. And then we have some darn tough Vermont socks. And it looks like they're women's. And then we have a mug. I drink cup mug, not sure. Starbucks, Starbucks coffee. So a lot of times Starbucks can do really good. So I will look that up and see what it says. It says 2010. So it's probably a retired print. All right, we have a dumbbell weight. And during the quarantine, these were definitely a bolo. I don't know what they're going for right now, but it is a 10 pound weight.  So I'm not sure. I'll have to look up comps on that. And I see only one have a low pro. I don't know what it is some sort of bag. It's a camera case. So it's new with tags. And oh, it's got some goodies inside of it. I was going to show you guys the inside and that's empty, but it's got a little pocket here. And then this is a super bright, some sort of pin. I'm not sure. I don't know. I'll have to look at that.  Okay, and we have a watch. And it is a Kellogg's watch. And then we have some CoverGirl Clean Foundation. And I'm not sure. I don't know if it's been used or not. I don't know how make I don't wear foundation. So I don't know if they come sealed or not. But we have that. And that's what we have. And then there's one more thing in here. And it is. Whoa. Aren't these a bit low? Look at that hot pink Texas Instruments TI-84 plus C silver edition. So I will have to look that one up. It powers on. So that's a good sign. And I'll have to play around with it to see how all the functions work. But it's pretty. It's pink. So we'll look that up and see what it says. And now I don't know how to turn it off. It says off and on or the same switch. It's not going off. I must be doing something wrong. Okay, so I'll look into that. Very cool. And then we have a pocket book. I don't see a brand. Let's see if there's any money in it. Oh my gosh. Just kidding. Always check the pockets guys. You never know. But I'm sure he checked the pockets. I don't see a brand on this, but it's a cute little like wristlet style purse. It says GD. I don't know if anybody knows what GD stands for. But yeah, very cool. So thank you Harry Tornado for my mystery box. And I will have to get listing these items. And then as they sell, they'll be in my what sold videos. And I got to figure out how to turn that calculator off. There we go. All right. Okay, update on the calculator. I pushed the off button and then I just sat it down and it eventually went off. So if anybody was wondering how exactly that works, because when I was hitting off, it wasn't turning off. So it must be a thing where it just kind of times out. So everyone be sure to go check out Harry Tornado's YouTube channel. If you've not checked it out already, he is also on Instagram. So check him out there also. And he may be having another giveaway. So go check it out. Okay, so I looked up a few of the items. This here is the calculator and it says they're trending for the pre-owned at around $64. Now I could go higher or I could go lower. This game, I don't know why that one said over $100 that it sold for. Sometimes things like that just happen. But this one's at about 20 bucks average. And the shoes, they look legit. This has the same bottom on it. So I think we're good on those. Here's a pair of those socks that sold for $25. And here again is his Instagram page, Harry Tornado. Definitely go subscribe. And there's a pair of dumbbells that looks like he sold. So definitely check him out on Instagram. And also check him out on YouTube. So he's got I think 40 plus thousand subscribers. His channel is amazing. And you definitely need to go subscribe to him. All right, you guys have a great day. Be sure to check out the description of the video. Like, comment, share and subscribe. Thanks for watching.


And so this year as was different from the previous years in the sense that it was a virtual meeting. And it means for a lot of people that the interaction with colleagues is different. But in spite of all this, the news that was presented as was exciting. And why was it exciting? Because I think we are now at the brink of entering a new era with immune therapies in multiple myeloma. For a long time there was the promise of immune therapies. And it started of course with novel agents like the image, linoleumites, pomeleumites, and also in a sense the antibodies like Dyrotumamap and Isotuximap. But right now we also see the start of the cellular therapies with CAR-T cells that were already presented last year, but now in a more mature state. And we also see the entrance of new bi-specific agents that I will comment on in just a while. So all this makes the whole field of myeloma very exciting even more than before because we will observe a change to new ways to treat patients. And so the EMN-02 trial has been started in 2011 already. It is a trial of the European myeloma network, independent trial, so not guided by industry. And the goal of this, the aim of this trial was to look at the role of hydros therapy compared with standard chemo in newly diagnosed patients that were transplant-eligible. And the results have been presented and also already published in June of this year with first author Dr. Kavel. The main outcome of that part of the trial was that intensive therapy of hydrosmelfolin and autologous transplant improves the progressive free survival, the response rate and has been presented now as also the overall survival. The other part of the study concerned the role of consolidation therapy after the transplant. Patients were randomized again, the second randomization between two cycles of VRD consolidation or no consolidation. All patients then received maintenance with lennoledamide and the outcome of the final analysis of this part of the trial is that the consolidation therapy with VRD improves progression free survival, a median of 59 versus 43 months after the second randomization. Also, we see a much better response rate and higher quality of response, more CRs, more stringent CRs. And this at the cost of almost no toxicity. So taken together, we also observed that the benefit of consolidation occurs across the different subgroups, the prognostic groups, like cytogenetics, ISS states and other predefined variables. This is the first trial that prospectively investigated the role of consolidation therapy in newly diagnosed multiple myeloma. And I think that consolidation will earn a place in the treatment, the standard treatment of patients in combination with autologous transplant. Unfortunately, there are no other trials that address this question. But what we observe now is that in most trials that are currently being conducted in Europe and outside Europe, consolidation is included in the treatment regimen. Yeah, so the Apollo trial is a trial in relapsed refractory patients for the first time, a combination of data to mob with pomalidomide and dexamethasone. And this study was conducted by the European Myeloma Network and recently concluded. The results have been presented now at S for the first time. The main outcome was progression-free survival. And we observed that the risk of progression or death is reduced by 36% in the group that had data to mob subcutaneously added to pomdex. So this is a very good result. We also saw that the response quality, especially the CR or better rate was much higher with data pomdex as compared to pomdex, 25% versus 4%. And also a higher MRD, minimal residual disease, negativity rate. So if we look to the specific group of patients that were already refractory to lend-a-ledomide, and this group is increasing because of the widespread use of lend-a-ledomide in earlier lines, then we can see that specifically in this group, the PFS is prolonged by adding data subcutaneously to pomdex. The safety profile was very much acceptable and comparable with the already known safety profile of data subq. So taken together, we conclude that data subq, subcutaneously plus pomdex is an effective and a convenient treatment for patients with relapse refractory myeloma who have already received one or more prior lines of therapy, including lend-a-ledomide and a PI like Bortesimid. Yeah, so there are a number of new agents that are currently being investigated and were presented as, and one of those is Bellantamap maffogotin that has recently been approved for treatment of patients with late stage of the disease like beyond a third line of therapy. This is a conjugate of antibody to BCMA with toxic agent that may eliminate plasma cells. It's very effective. So 31% response is observed in fourth line and later. And also the responses are durable. There's one disadvantage of the, and that's the keratopathy. So it affects the vision with blurred vision and other symptoms dry eyes like that. So patients who receive Bellantamap should also be followed by an ocular specialist. However, the symptoms are transient, the ocular symptoms and most of the patients recover within a few months. Again, a very effective agent, but the treatment should be performed in a very close observation with an ocular specialist. There are also other new agents in the same class like B specific agents such as teclistamap and talcetamap that engage other proteins on the plasma cell, on the myeloma plasma cell, not only BCMA, but also GPR5D. If very promising results, high response rates, almost no toxicity. And these agents have now been tested in phase one and phase two trials and will proceed to extensive testing in phase two and phase three trials. So lots of news. Also other new agents that I'm not going to discuss because of time, but I think over the next one or two years, we will see the clinical results of the use of those new agents, not only in relapse refractory myeloma, but gradually also in newly diagnosed patients. Yeah, so amyloidosis is a very rare disease. It's one of the diseases in the plasma cell dyscrasia, but rare, relatively rare. And many patients with amyloidosis are diagnosed rather late because of the difficulty in identifying the disease and because not every physician is familiar with it. So we in the European Myeloma Network conducted a retrospective analysis of patients with amyloidosis in the participating countries of Europe. And this study was conducted by Dr. Castritas from Athens in Greece, who is a highly esteemed specialist for this disease. So when he analyzed the records of patients, a total of more than 2,800 patients were collected and the diagnostic procedure is a diagnostic data as well as the treatment regimens and the outcome of treatment were collected and presented at us. And I will not go into all the details because this will be discussed by Dr. Merlini and Dr. Paladini from the European Myeloma Network. But one outstanding or two outstanding results is that we could see that botasmic based regimens are now the most widely used for this disease and this is good. So the response rates, especially in patients that can tolerate autologous transplant are also good with CRs up to 40%. But patients without autologous transplant have a much lower response rate. So there's still work to do there. Also one thing that was clear is that patients with states 3B have a very dismal prognosis. These are patients with extensive organ involvement who usually are diagnosed too late and their prognosis is bad. They have a short overall survival and poor outcome of treatment, whatever is given. So these are very important data also in order to prepare for future treatment protocols for these patients and to perform studies in this group of still unmet medical needs.