Hello. Thanks, Irene. My name's Noah Veltman. Do data visualization at Netflix when I'm not drawing title cards from 1990s sitcoms on New York Times graphics. Thanks, Amanda. And today I want to talk about shapes. And specifically a sort of humble little shape animation puzzle that I ran into and the kind of journey of discovery that it led me on. And that journey starts here. So Amelia mentioned North Carolina when she was talking about gerrymandering in districts. North Carolina is in the midst of a lot of litigation around their court districts. And last year there was a new proposed plan. You can see the proposed new map on the right versus the current districts on the left. This is from something by a great journalist in North Carolina named Tyler Dukes to let residents look up their address and see whether their district had changed. And I saw this as a non-North Carolinian, very much not the target audience. And I was interested in the sort of overall effects. I didn't have a specific location I was interested in. I was finding it very hard to keep all this information in my head at once. Looking at both these maps, 30 or so shapes toggling back and forth, I couldn't really get it. And I thought this might be a fun time to use time as a third dimension and animate the transition between these two states. I am a big believer in a little bit of motion as a great narrative device. So let's say you paid close attention to Rob's talk. You're now a master of geospatial data and map projections. You log on to D3 Express. You just heard Kai's talk, so you're now ready to render your stuff in Canvas or SVG. And you get your data, and you plot the old coordinates, and you get the new coordinates, and you give it to someone like D3 or some other animation library, and you say, OK, animate this for me. What you're going to get is probably something that looks like that, which is like I see like knowing nods from people who've really experienced this problem. And this is not great. It's not really the effect that I had in mind originally. It's got this kind of weird Picasso effect, and it's very hard to keep track of what's actually happening. So this is like the beginning of the infomercial where the world is in black and white, and everything is terrible, and we have to find the solution that gets us out of it. I should have made this slide black and white, actually. So to start towards the solution, we need to talk about the concept of interpolation. And interpolation is basically a fancy pants way of saying coming up with a value between point A and point B. And there's a related concept called tweening that many of you have probably heard about, short for in-betweening, which refers to generating in-between frames of an animation to create the illusion of continuous movement. So if you were an old-timey Disney animator, you might be drawing like 60 pictures of a fox to make some sort of animation. But if we're doing, say, a D3 canvas animation, or D3 SVG animation, it might be more likely that we're saying, I have a dot that's over here. I want it to go over there. Please do all the math for me. I don't want to do it. And interpolate the x value from 0 to 100. And it will take care using request animation frame that Kaia mentioned to get all the in-between states of that dot as it moves. But something that we have to get on the table early that I'm going to kind of come back to is that there is very rarely one correct way to get from point A to point B. And as an example of why that's true, imagine you had a red square that you wanted to gradually animate into that blue square. What's halfway between red and blue? The answer is that it depends. So depending on what color space you're using, Kaia mentioned lab. There are many others. You could get very different results. These squares all start at that same red. They all end at that same blue. They all change gradually. But they all take very different routes to get there. Take another very ordinary example. The old saying we're all familiar with, there's more than one way to interpolate between a horse and a chair. This is from an amazing paper called Zoolomorphic Design by this guy, Noah Duncan. It is full of incredible diagrams about how to hybridize animals and household objects. He's actually written two papers on that subject. But getting back to shapes, so to start with a simple example, imagine you've got the square on the left. You want it to turn into the square on the right. You plug that into an animation library. You're probably going to be happy with the result. You'll get something simple because it's a very straightforward way to interpolate from the beginning to the end. You've got four corners. They're moving to four other locations. It stays a square the whole time. But we start to run into trouble if you want to turn your square into a hexagon. Because you've got these four corners that correspond to four points on the hexagon, then you have these two very lonely points that have no partner on the other side. And this is what is known in the academic literature as the correspondence problem. But you can think of it as the apples to oranges problem. Essentially, in order to interpolate between two values for the purposes of an animation, first they need to be the same kind of thing. And a square and a hexagon are not the same kind of thing in the way that matters. So if you were to plug those in, you'd get something like this, which is what we saw in North Carolina.  And it's not great. It's not the worst thing, but we can probably do better. And in order to do better, we have to introduce the undercover hexagon. So the undercover hexagon is a dapper, well-traveled hexagon with many disguises. What I mean by that is by adding two points to the square that do not change the shape, you have turned it into a hexagon. So it still looks like a square for the purposes of your animation, assuming you're not actually drawing those dots. But from your computer's perspective, this is a totally different shape. Now you can get this smooth animation, which is probably much more along the lines of what you were going for. This technique of adding these invisible points is also useful if you're dealing with curves and straight lines, which is another sort of correspondence problem. A trick that you can do is basically decompose the thing that you have that's curved with a whole bunch of points to turn it into like a 100 gone that still looks curved, as long as you don't look really closely, but you can now animate it smoothly. There's a second problem that we also have to solve, which is that the order of the points matters. It doesn't matter to you, the viewer, the shapes will look the same, but it matters a lot to your computer. So right now, the shapes will start in the upper left and go around clockwise. But imagine that the first point in your destination data starts in the upper right. Now the way they match up, your computer is going to do something like this. It's not really what you had in mind, I would imagine. If they were up by 2 instead of 1, the whole thing would invert and flip upside down like that. So the solution to this is pretty simple. We test every possible starting point until we find one we like. We change the order of our data in a way that doesn't affect the way it looks. And in terms of what starting point you like, there could be a number of criteria for this. The rule of thumb that I think works pretty well is to say, pick the starting point where the points will have to travel the least. That all is being equal. The most natural animation will be the one where the points don't have to travel unnecessarily far to get to where they're going. So to recap with a more arbitrary shape, to show that this doesn't just work with squares, you first add these dummy points. And there are different strategies you could use, but I just evenly space it along for now. Then you pick your best starting point by testing every option. You see it's evaluating the way the points might have to travel in each version. And then once you have that, you can get a pretty smooth back and forth animation. Not perfect, but considering how weird those shapes are, I would say good enough. So if you can apply that to North Carolina, you know, end up with this. Much smoother, probably what you had in mind originally. You can now see what's happening with different districts, see which ones are going from very complex to much simpler outlines, which ones are moving a lot or a little or changing size a lot. There's one district, the gray one, you'll see actually flies across the state completely as no overlap with where it currently is, which is interesting. I took the same technique, and I used it to compare electoral cartogram layouts. I thought it was very interesting that different news organizations all took very different approaches to the same design problem. We've got hexagon, the daily coast, like turning the mountain west into a giant gulf is a very interesting strategy. Hexagons, these sort of slanted diamond shapes squares, smaller squares. Adam Pearce is here somewhere. After I had published that in North Carolina, I think he mentioned that he had used a similar technique for a project for Bloomberg about Florida's Fifth District, although I guess he sort of lovingly handcrafted some very artisanal polygons. As a maybe cautionary tale or counter example of what happens if you don't do this, this is a 2013 Guardian Australian election results map. And when you toggle back and forth between the kind of cartogram that Emilia mentioned yesterday and the geographic map, because the shapes don't correspond at all, you get those jumps and everything kind of explodes into these weird fragments. I went too far. We're not on the quest yet. These are all map-y examples, but this general idea of animations and correspondence comes up in a lot of visualization context. One very ordinary way that it pops up that I think is pretty common is if you have two line charts with different numbers of data points, the way that you would animate between those can go wrong in a lot of different ways. And Peter Beshai, who was also here somewhere from Boku, has written a nice library to address that problem called D3 interpolate path that I would recommend. So now we're on this quest where after I did this North Carolina project, I started wondering, like, this worked pretty well. Seems like sort of a crude hack though. Like, I just kind of was just sort of guesswork and I wanted to see what else was out there if there was some more formal like full solution in like the academic literature or something like that. With the criteria that I wanted to be able to throw any two shapes at it and have it just work and look good and like have to make no decisions. And so these are sort of my three criteria. So if we go looking for prior art on the subject, if I say morphing, a lot of you might think of something like this. Probably not something exactly like this, but like this kind of animation where you've got this image morph that where the two images both deform and then also crossfade to get this illusion of a transition. So this is an interesting kind of subfamily of morphing techniques. There's a foundational algorithm called the Bayer-Neely algorithm that's very cool. The paper is like surprisingly readable for an academic paper. Also like makes like a bunch of gratuitous references to the movie Ghostbusters for no reason. But it's kind of disqualified for our purposes. A, because it's really concerned with pixels and raster data rather than vector shapes. But more importantly, it's not automatic. So you see here, someone has had to go in and outline the matching features of these two faces in order to make it work well. So it fails that first test. So it's out. But before I move on from image morphing, I have to show my favorite thing that I found in this whole process, which is one of the pieces of software you can use is called Phantomorph. And if you go to their website, they have like a morphing hall of fame of things contributed by their users. And there's one which is a YouTube video. This is the only thing I need sound for, by the way. I told them I needed sound and it's only for this. It's like three and a half minutes of orangutans turning into other orangutans. All set to this song. Kiss me by six pence and I'm the richer. How am I in time? Can we watch? We can't watch all four minutes, but. So I'm just gonna stop that. But I recommend you watch it all in your free time. And animals are a recurring theme as you get into more like Google scholar deep cuts on shape morphing. You find like everyone has their like favorite animal to use as their demonstration. There's turtles turning into wolves. There's a penguin that turns into a dolphin. Cow turning into a deer. There's like a really weird 3D demo that's a woman turning into a triceratops. There's an elephant turning into a giraffe. There's a paper that's like very chicken heavy and also has this dancer. It's actually by the I think the same author as cow to deer. My favorite is this matrix that's like all possible in between states of a horse and a brontosaurus. That's like very formal. I mean, it's got scales and everything. So but as I was doing this research, I came across a paper that was very intriguing to me called 2D polygon morphing using the extended Gaussian image by this computational biologist at MIT named Manolis Cambicillus. And without going into a lot of detail, the basic idea is that rather than just thinking about points moving to other points, you deconstruct a shape into something called the extended circular image, which is about its angles and its weights. And you use those to decide what the in between shapes are gonna look like. And so you get a different effect that to my as kind of looks more natural in some cases. Unfortunately, it turns out it will not work if your polygons are concave. It will only work if your polygons are convex like the one on the happy polygon on the left. So it fails that second test. So I kind of gave up on it. But it did get me thinking whether thinking about a shape as a set of points was missing something, whether I was losing something that mattered and how to approach this problem. And as an example of why this might be true, imagine you've got this T on the left and you wanna turn it into the T on the right.  You would probably just turn it upside down, which is not something that the sort of naive point-to-point method was gonna do. This is the second half in the academic literature. You've got the correspondence problem and the second thing you have to solve is called the trajectory problem, which is what path are your different parts gonna take on the way to their destination. I mentioned that the Gaussian image thing was written by a computational biologist. As you research shape transitions and shape analysis, you run into a whole bunch of biologists, which makes sense because they have to do a lot of measuring, quantifying, comparing forms of physical things. And there's the whole discipline of morphometry. And in the old days, that was like measuring a bird's beak or something like that. This is from a book about 100 years old called Ungrowth and Form. That was like a structuralist biology text that showed how you should think about different species in terms of their geometric transformations between them. I think it turned out to be totally wrong, but the pictures are very cool. In the modern sense, though, this is very algorithmic. There's these whole disciplines of computational biology, computational anatomy. I think there was just a conference. I saw someone tweeting about a conference on Sunday at Harvard that covered some of this stuff because you have to deal with problems like we took a bunch of 2D scans of a bone and we need to try to infer the shape of the whole bone from only those scans, which is the same kind of problem as an animation interpolation problem. And I ran into a family of techniques that was interesting called Percrustes analysis. So Percrustes analysis is basically to address the problem that, if you want to compare the shapes of things, first you have to control for all the things that don't matter. So these four hands have pretty similar shapes, even though the actual coordinates of the hands are very different. They're in different places. They're turned at different angles. Some are small, some are big. Different Euclidean transformations in math speak. So you want to adjust for those first and then compare the shapes. And you can do this by a process called Percrustian superimposition, which is a three-step process.  And then whatever differences you have left over are actual differences in the shape of the two bugs, rather than just the angle that you happened to photograph them at or something like that. Side note, does anyone here know the story of Percrustes? I had assumed that this was just named after a statistician like Lisa Percrustes. And then it turned out it is actually the Greek myth of Percrustes. He was a roadside bandit who would tell travelers that he had a magic bed that could fit anybody. And then he would lure them in, and it turned out it was just a normal bed, and he would stretch them out to make them fit in the bed. And some statistician in the 70s thought this was the perfect, not morbid at all, name for his statistical technique. But I thought that this technique, this sort of three-step process, might be interesting in the context of animation of taking two shapes and saying what if we control, what if we separate out those three parts and animate them differently? So that's where you would get this sort of effect on the top, where you animate the rotation separately, the scale separately, the translate separately, and then whatever's left over, as opposed to the bottom, which is what we were doing with North Carolina that just thinks of it as a list of points and doesn't care about anything else. And in this case, I would say it probably looks more natural, but it turns out it works for almost nothing else. And the reason being that these techniques, it took me far too long to realize this, but it turns out that these techniques are really designed for when you already know your shapes are very similar and they have common landmarks. It's like you have two butterflies and you say these are the wingtips, and then you compare them. It's not meant to compare like North Carolina's old District 5 to North Carolina's new District 5. So it will formally work for any two shapes, but it will look really weird unless your shapes are already almost identical. So after all this, I ended up pretty close to back where I started, and I was working up a demo to kind of clean up the code a little bit. I like using US States as demo shapes because they kind of run the shape gamut and you've got like tall, skinny, short, fat, square, not square. And here you can see the yellow points are the original vertices and the pink points are the invisible ones that are getting added just for animation purposes. And I thought, the more shapes I throw at this technique, the more it really does seem to work in all but the most extreme case, and I was pretty happy with it. But there was a problem which is you also have Michigan and Hawaii and Alaska, not pictured, which I had no idea how to handle those because they're like our beloved multi-polygon states that don't fit into this idea of turning one polygon into one other polygon. And I had been very satisfied and I was suddenly not satisfied at all and I could only use 47 states in that demo, I just had to leave them out. And so now like the quest was revived where what I really wanted was a technique that I could also just throw multi-polygon combinations of shapes into and it would work.  What would that look like? And as I thought about it, I thought, well, what I would probably do in the physical world and presented this problem is break California up into puzzle pieces that fit together in some way. So when they're all together, it looks like California but you can also break them apart into as many pieces as you need. So I took a crack at this and there's a four step process, this is step one. You draw some sort of grid over your shape, your one shape first. I use something called a Voronoi diagram that Kyle also mentioned just cause I wanted it to look random and blobby but you could use squares or hexagons or whatever you want. Once you draw that grid, you assign one cell for each of your destination shapes. So we've got eight Hawaiian islands, there's now eight different colors, each assigned to one cell. Step three, they take turns claiming a neighboring cell. This is sort of like the islands are playing a game of risk and California is the game board. And it's nice because you can distort the rules to preserve relative areas.  It is most of the land area of Hawaii. Step four, you merge them back together into single shapes and clip them down to the coastline instead of that weird jagged edge. Then you can animate this. So now you have California one piece turning into eight pieces. Thank you. So I think this is cool, I was certainly very happy to get it working. But there's a catch. It will not always work, we're not done. For an example of why, look at this close up of San Francisco Bay. So you've got these purple cells and these orange cells, this is all fine, nothing's breaking the rules. But when you do that last step and you clip them, you now see the golden gate, that little gap, has separated the purple on the top from the purple on the bottom. They used to be touching, now they're not one shape anymore. So now you're right back where you started and you have shape problems. You have two shapes and you wanted one shape. So this is not guaranteed to work, it depends on what your input shapes look like and what kind of grid you draw and all these things that you can't necessarily control in the moment. So I thought about this some more and I realized I had a sort of Eureka moment that I shouldn't be trying to carve up California from the outside in, I should be trying to carve it up from the inside out to guarantee I stop at the border. And then I remember there's an awesome way to do this already and we've heard some references to this yesterday. People talking about WebGL. A lot of triangle love. I love triangles. Your GPU loves triangles. There's a method called triangulation that's used in a lot of computer graphics work that says we need to break up a 2D polygon into a bunch of triangles that fit together to make that shape in order to do things like cool 3D meshes. A triangle is like the atomic unit of a shape. And the fact that this is a common problem is awesome because it means I don't have to do any work. People have already figured out how to implement this in JavaScript and make it very fast. There's a library called EarCut written by someone in Mapbox that I love that I used for another example. I moved out, I stopped picking on California. We're gonna mess with Texas for a second. So you take EarCut and you say, here's my one big shape.  And you have way too many triangles, but that's okay. Once you've done that, step two, and the only other step is one at a time, merge one into one of its neighbors, keep doing that until you're down to the number of shapes you want. It's like 99 triangles of beer. And you get down to eight, and then once you're down to your eight shapes, you have what you wanted. You can now animate back and forth. Texas, turning into Hawaii or California, if that's your thing, it's my thing, clearly.  Here's another just totally gratuitous demo. Toph Tucker, who's here, tweeted something about this that I did not understand at all, referencing some math thing that sounded cool. But it's more just random states to get an idea of how this works in practice. So that's kind of as far as I got. The puzzle I'm now wrestling with is, what would you do if your shape was a donut? You have a hole in your shape. And what would that look like for that sort of animation? And I can sort of think of two possible approaches that might work for this, depending on the situation. I'll call them the cut and the wink. So the cut is where you would make a little incision at the beginning of your animation from the outside of your donut into the middle. So now you no longer actually have a shape with a hole, you just have one that looks like it. And now you can kind of push the hole out to the edge, like an air bubble, you're like squeegeeing out of a screen protector or something. So that's one approach, you get one sort of look. There's also the wink. And the wink would say that you move the hole with your shape, and then you kind of like blink it out of existence as it moves. And this is not that hard to figure out if you have two very simple shapes, like a circle and a triangle, but do this automatically for any weird shape where you don't know where the hole's gonna be or what sort of path it needs to take. Seems very complicated. I haven't gotten very far on it. I'm working on it. I'll let you know what I find out. I wanted to close with a quote. A lot of people are closing with quotes. I haven't quoted anyone. So I was reading all these academic papers where I was clearly not the target audience of these authors. I didn't understand most of the words, lots of Greek symbols, and also lots of things that were very impressive, but also really complex, working towards some definition of success that didn't really make sense to me. That was some formal criterion of correctness that only a mathematician could love that didn't apply to my real world animation problems where I just had a blob. I wanted it to be a different blob. And then I found this very refreshing sentence. This is actually the paper with all the chickens in it and that dancing guy. And near the end of the introduction, there's just the sentence that's just dropped in with no comment that just says, the solution presented here is a heuristic whose justification lies in the fact that it generally seems to work rather well. So they don't say anything about, here is the mathematically approvable reason why we did this right. It's just like, this seems fine. That chicken looks like a good chicken and you should stop there, which is kind of now how I feel about this after going through all these steps. I feel like you should not follow in my footsteps. You should instead keep in mind that all that really matters is getting the right effect in your visualization that you want and it's okay to do weird tricks behind the scenes and like hitchcock cuts and shapes kind of hiding in different ways to get the effect that you're looking for. And that's pretty much all I have. This talk has been very light on code as in there was none. But at this link, I've got links to like a bunch of live demos of a lot of this stuff to a lot of academic papers that I either mentioned or ones I didn't mention. I don't think there's a direct link to the orangutan video but there is a link to the morphine gallery that you can find it from which is probably the most important. And a couple of other things on there. If you have questions, we have like maybe two minutes but also just come find me or if you have questions, comments, ideas, complaints, corrections, I would love to hear them. Thank you.


Hello, everyone. We'll get started here in just a couple of minutes. Feel free to, if you would like, to utilize the chat to introduce yourself. And yeah, we'll get started here in just a second. I've gone ahead and enabled the chat. So everyone should be good to go and we'll give everyone one more minute to join. All right, so I'm gonna go ahead and get it started. Hello, everyone. Welcome to the first webinar for Cincinnati GIZ 2022. My name is Lisa. I'm the Senior Community Engagement Manager here at Mighty Cause and I'm really excited to kick off this year's event with you guys. So just for today, things that we're gonna be covering on this webinar, we're gonna be going over just some general fundraising challenge basics about the overall challenge, getting started on the platform, things that if you are a returning nonprofit, things just reminders and things that you can utilize as you're preparing for your campaign, we'll also go over the leaderboard and prizes and rules this year. And then at the end, we'll save everything for questions and answers. You can feel free to utilize the chat or the questions and answers tool in the Zoom panel. And then this training is going to be recorded so you can, we'll have access to this later. So I'm going to pass this over to Ivy at the Cincinnati Magazine and she'll be able to cover some of the basics about the challenge. Thank you, Lisa. Hey everyone, Ivy here with Cincinnati Magazine. We are so thrilled to be back again for the seventh annual Cincinnati Give Challenge. As many of you know, we started in 2016 and to date we have raised over $1.78 million for organizations just like you. So I am absolutely thrilled to have you join this webinar because it really shows you're committed to making the most out of the challenge.  So I just encourage you to check out all the resources and the toolkit on the Cincinnati Give site as well as reach out to myself or the Mighty Cause team at any time if you have questions as you move along. But as you know, the Cincinnati Give challenge is really or the campaign is really two parts. It's our annual guide to giving and it is the Cincinnati Give Challenge. And you do not need to participate in our annual publication if you don't want to or can't afford to. Everyone is welcome to participate in the challenge as long as they are 501 to C3. But we obviously encourage everyone who's able to to participate in the publication because it is a phenomenal way to share your mission and tell your story to our readers. So just a reminder, the guide to giving comes out the very end of November right before Thanksgiving. It goes to all of our subscribers with our December issue actually, which comes out at that Thanksgiving time. And it's really a great way for you to promote yourself right before the challenge begins but it's also a resource that we know our readers use throughout the year. So please say you can go ahead and go to the next slide. We've incorporated a ton of benefits with the guide to giving. So the advertising opportunity for you if you decide you'd like to go ahead and participate has the rate has stayed the same since we started in 2016 and that rate is 3,700. And what that includes is the full page spread that you see cancer-free kids is the example we're showing here. And as you can see, it includes a full page profile on the left hand page and then a full page ad on the right. We will work with you to create the profile. We send you a really simple form that you fill out. It's all digital. You fill it out, send us some photos and it will include things like your mission, key services, ways that our readers can get involved with your organization, ways you need help. Obviously leadership information, board of directors, contact information and we pair it with a full page ad that runs opposite. If you are participating in the challenge and I hope you do and you do the guide to giving you get a ton of additional benefits. I think Ivy, your connection, maybe, I'm not sure if I can hear you. Hi, but someone will be able in the chat. Let me know if you hear Ivy or if she's also disconnected for you. I think she's gonna try to come back on in a second. Well, give her another second and she'll be able to finish talking about the opportunity with the guide to giving and then we'll start going over some challenge basics. All right, so we'll just continue and then if she comes back on she'll be able to finish up talking about the guide to giving. So as Ivy talked about a little bit the overall challenge is 10 days long. It starts on November 28th at 5 p.m. So the key thing to know, I think Ivy's actually back on so I'm just gonna go back. I'm not sure if we can hear you. So I will just continue with the challenge basics and Ivy can let us know when your audio has been updated. So we'll start at 5 p.m. Oh, there. Hello, can you hear me? Yes. Oh my gosh, I am so sorry. It's all good. We lost our internet connection at work so I'm calling on my phone. I promise we won't lose internet connection during the challenge. I promise. I apologize for that. Where was I when you guys were unable to hear me? I think you're still talking about the guide to giving. Okay. I specifically wanted to talk about all the benefits that you receive tied to the challenge. So I think that the couple of biggest ones if you are in the guide to giving your direct URL to your challenge page will be included on the bottom of your profile. So that's a direct way to send people right to your page. Also, we obviously at Cincinnati Magazine view our very best to screen that from the rooftops that the challenge is happening and we drive as much traffic as we possibly can to the Cincinnati gift site. And part of that is through a pretty aggressive social media campaign. And as a guide to giving advertiser, at least one of our social media posts will be a dedicated and boosted post about your organization specifically with a direct link to your challenge page. And last but not least, Lisa will get into this later on in the presentation about our bonus challenges. But we have a specific bonus challenge and earmarked prize money just for those that participate in the publication. So there's extra opportunity for you. So we've really tried to beef up the benefits over the years to make it as valuable as possible for you as an organization. In addition, you do get a bonus full page ad that you can run at any time next year in Cincinnati Magazine. So this is really great if you have a specific event or other campaign during the year that you want to promote to our audience, you can pick when you'd like to run that. So I do encourage you if you have any questions about the publication, the deadline technically is today but we are not laying it out until next Wednesday. So you still have a little bit of time but I'd be happy to chat with you one-on-one if you have questions or concerns about being a part of the publication, questions about artwork, anything like that, I would be happy to answer that. So I just wanted to share that. Again, I'm sorry my internet dropped out but I want to turn it over to Lisa now because I know the focus of today's webinar is really on getting started with the challenge. So I will turn it over to you, Lisa, so you can continue on. Thanks, Ivana. You were able to get back connected with us. So yes, as we were talking about the overall challenge, I think the key thing to remember is it is a 10-day challenge but it starts and ends at 5 p.m. So you just want to make sure you set those times on your calendar that that's when donations can start getting collected and that's when it will end. So anything before, after those times and dates will not count towards the challenge. Ivy spoke a little bit about the guide to giving and that component of the challenge and we'll also be going over all of the prizes that are available and there's over $36,000 in prize money available to participating nonprofits this year. So for those of you that are brand new to Cincinnati Gives who may not have participated previously, overall a fundraising challenge like Cincinnati gives is an opportunity to compete or you can also in a different way collaborate with other nonprofit organizations to win prizes with leaderboards and bonus challenges. The collaboration comes in the ability to spread awareness for your community and as well as your overall mission and work for your specific organization. It's an opportunity to shine a light on Cincinnati organizations and all that you guys do in the community. So in order to participate for Cincinnati Gives if you haven't done so, you want to make sure that you do register if you have participated last year you do have to re-register again this year. So you want to make sure you go ahead and complete the registration form. And then next, which we'll be getting into is you want to start building or customizing or updating your organization page on the platform. After your page is complete you'll want to get into the planning out what exact fundraising campaign you want to create and how you want to promote on social and as well invite your support network onto your page to help raise your organization funds which we'll all talk about today and as well as the next webinar. So let's get started. So as I mentioned, you want to make sure that you do register your nonprofit it is a easy and quick form to fill out. So really relatively painless to complete. Once you're approved, you will receive an approval email. So you will know the status of your organization as well on the overview section of your organization page.  So if you have any questions about what your status is you can always check there as well. So as a kind of reminder and introduction to the platform for new organizations or returning organizations, a little bit just about the dashboard and where you can find information on your dashboard for your organization. So first things first, to see your dashboard you do have to be logged in as an administrator. So if you are on your organization page and you don't see a dashboard you want to make sure that you are logged in with the right email address that you're logged in with an email address that is set up to be an administrator. Once you're logged in you will see your dashboard on the left hand side and it's broken down into some key sections. So one being your overview. So that's just going to tell you your registration status is going to also share with you your to-do list and it will have any key announcements about Cincinnati gives and as well it'll just give you key metrics just a quick glance into the last 30 days related to your organization. Your organization page is where you're going to be able to actually edit your page and make any updates that you want to the content language, the images, et cetera. Fundraising tools will provide you all of the tools that you need to build additional peer-to-peer fundraising pages, ad matching grants, et cetera. Reports will have access to all of your donation reporting. Checkout will allow you to customize your checkout flow so your thank you page, your donation form and your donation receipt. And then settings is where you can add and remove administrators. You can also update your social card for links for Facebook and Twitter, et cetera. So we'll get into all of those sections in a second. So for brand new nonprofits, customizing your organization page is probably going to be one of the most important things that you do for this year's event. For returning organizations, it's really important to revisit your page and make sure that it is telling the story that you wanted to tell this year. How has your nonprofit changed this year? What is your overall theme for this year's campaign? What is your overall goal for this year? What images you wanna change or replace? Because this is going to be the main place that donors come to make their donation. So it's really important that it's updated and matches your branding and it has the language and content that you want on it. So at the top, you can edit your banner image by selecting the edit banner image tool or you can utilize the quick edit tool at the very top. And you can also add your organization's theme color so that color is shown throughout your page. The banner image is 16 to three ratio. So it is rectangular. And one thing to know about the platform is that it is mobile responsive. So what does that mean? That means that depending on the size of the device that's looking at the page, the image will change. So if it's on a smaller device like an iPhone, the image will shrink to fit those dimensions. If it's on a huge desktop monitor, it's going to widen to fit those dimensions. So we typically for the banner image, recommend not using a banner that includes text because it may be cropped or may display differently depending on the size of the device using it. But it is rectangular. You can also just get a crop of an image if you want to and you can add an overlay as well if you want to for your banner image. So at the bottom below your banner image and your logo, you'll see the ability to update or change your page metrics and your goal. So your page metrics is the date that donations are being calculated from. So you just want to double check this section so that it's set to the correct date, which should be November 28th at 5 p.m. So that any donations starting November 28th at 5 p.m. that's when they're going to start calculating and you're not including any donations from last year or from previous years. As well in this section, you can also update your goal underneath. So if you do have a new goal, you can add that goal in and based off the date that you set for your metrics, it will update that percentage automatically. So as you start receiving donations, that percentage and that thermometer will update live. So I spoke a little bit about making sure that your page is up to date and sharing the content that you want this year about your organization. And you can do so in the about section of your organization page. And so this is right underneath that goal and that thermometer and your metrics. So the inline text editor has the ability for you to add photos as well as embed a video and add any additional texts that you want on your page. There is a custom tab. So if there's additional information that you wanna share. So for example, if you are planning on having live events or you want to have a volunteer shout out section, whatever that may be, you do have a section another tab that you can utilize if you want to. So as you were editing this section, you just wanna make sure that you are clicking save so that you are saving the work that you're doing as you are editing this area. And as I mentioned, if you're returning nonprofit, wanna make sure that you're just rereading that language if there's any stats or anything that needs to be updated that you're doing so. Below your about section, this is where you can add visually the representation for your organization through your media gallery as well as the ability to connect to Facebook and your Instagram gallery. So the media gallery, simply you would embed from your computer or I'm sorry, add images from your computer dropbox or Google drive, et cetera. So this is a curated gallery that you can add images. And if you do wanna connect with Facebook and Instagram, you can do so through the Facebook gallery and Instagram gallery sections. When you're doing that, you just wanna make sure that you are the browser that you're utilizing is already logged into the right accounts that are tied to your organization Instagram and Facebook accounts. Sometimes browsers can auto save your personal login. And so you may, if you're having trouble adding your gallery, you may wanna try a new browser making sure that you're logged out of your personal one on your browser and logging into the right one. All right, so as I mentioned, the report section of your dashboard is where you're gonna find all of your donation information, all of your donor data. So as an administrator, you will receive email notifications for every donation that is made. If for some reason you are not receiving email notifications, first things first is you wanna check your user account settings to make sure that you have enabled email notifications. If you are still not receiving it, you wanna make sure that you're also checking your email network and system. There are some email networks that may block emails from us or it may just be going into spam, but you should be receiving email notifications when donations are made. So within reports, donations is where you can find all of your donor data. So online you'll be able to see the donor's name, their email address, the date of the donation and their amount, and as well as if it's tied to a specific campaign or not. If you are looking for additional donor information, you can download the report and you'll get a detailed report that will tell you if they cover fees, their address information, et cetera. As well, disbursements within your report section will provide you a breakdown of all of the disbursements that have been made to your organization. By clicking on a specific disbursement, you can see a breakdown of that disbursement. So you can review the actual calculation of how that net came to be. So you can always reconcile your deposits and as well when disbursements are made to your organization, you will receive an email notification, but you can always come back to the section to review these disbursement breakdowns. So for returning nonprofits, one report that will be really useful for you this year is your donor retention report. For new nonprofits, this is something that you can utilize next year when you're participating in Cincinnati, again, it gives next year. So your donor retention report is going to give you a snapshot of all of the donors that your organization has not yet or has retained this year. So it's a really great resource if you are starting the challenge and you wanna see, okay, so far, how many donors have not given to our organization this year that donated last year? And that's an easy list of people then you can immediately download, you can export that contact list and immediately communicate to those donors sharing, hey, you donated last year, here's how you can support our organization again, et cetera. So with this report, as I mentioned, you can choose whether you just wanna see all of your retained and not retained donors or just your non-retained donors and you can download that contact list. One thing to note about this is that it does go by email address. So if a donor uses a different email address than they did last year, then it's not going to really, it's not gonna recognize that it's to the same donor. So as you are editing the overall content on your page, you are making sure that's all up to date, you also wanna make sure that you were reviewing the overall checkout flow of your donation form. So this can be done in the checkout section under donation form. And this is where you can see the ability to edit donation levels or add donation descriptions. Adding donation descriptions is a really great way to reinforce your impact. For example, saying $10 provides a backpack to a student is much more powerful than just saying, support us for $10. So this gives you the opportunity to add more donation levels or to add descriptions. And it also has the opportunity for you to add a custom question if you would like. So if you wanna ask, are you interested in volunteering for a nonprofit? You can add that type of question and also make that a required question or an optional question on the donation form. If you're returning nonprofit, you do wanna, I definitely encourage you to go back in, double check the donation levels, the descriptions, anything that you wanna change within this area so that it's up to date for this year. So after a donation has been processed after they've gone through your donation flow, they've clicked donate, it goes through success, a thank you page immediately pops up for that donor. So they will see a thank you for donating page and what you have the opportunity to do is edit that language that is shown to them. So your thank you page, which is also in your checkout, gives you an inline text editor and you can add as well, embed a photo, a video, add a hyperlink or call to action. If you want them to subscribe to a newsletter or go back to your website, et cetera, you can customize this section so that you are directly thinking the donor and sending them or showing them the content that you would want after their donation is processed. In addition to the, oops, sorry, in addition to the thank you page, you also have your donation receipt. So your donation receipt provides you the ability to add thank you language on your receipt. So the receipt is automatically sent to the donor to the email address that they provided. So that is all automatic, all of that legal language, that's all automatic, you don't have to be worried about that, but if there's anything that you want included at the top of the email, any thank you language, in addition to that legal tax receipt information, you can do so through the donation receipt section and it's well that section provides you the ability to send yourself a test receipt. And we always recommend sending yourself a test receipt just so that you see what it looks like and you have an idea of what the donor will receive as well. All right, so one of the things that you wanna start thinking about, which we'll get into more into the next webinar, which goes into more about the strategies that you can utilize is matching grants. So if you do have a matching grant that you would like to enter onto the platform, that can be done through the fundraising tool section on your dashboard. There are various different types of matching grants that you can enter. Once you are on your matching manager, you simply click create in the top right and then you will see the ability to add all that information about your matches. So you'll add how much that match is for, the grantor if they wanna be anonymous, the title of the match when you want it to start and end and then as well the type and any conditions associated to the match. As I mentioned in the next webinar, we'll go through matching grants in more detail, but there are several different types of matches including, you can have what's the most popular which is a one-to-one match matching 100% for donation or you can also have a different type of match such as a cumulative threshold match, which is, let's say the match is, if we get 50 donors, we will receive our match or if we get 10 donations, we receive our match. So there's a lot of different types of matching grants that you can add onto the platform. How the grantor chooses to fulfill that match is up to you and the grantor. However, offline donations do not count towards any leaderboards and prizes. So that is something to consider as you are thinking through your matching grants and we'll get to the rules in a second. And the last section on your dashboard are your settings. So if there is any individual that has left your organization or has been added to your team, you can add them to your organization page by going to settings and clicking admins and then adding them as an administrator or removing them as an administrator if they're no longer there. So I definitely recommend going to your admin section just making sure that that information is updated and that all the correct individuals that need to be administrators are so. Within your organization info, this is where you can update your legal address and as well as your legal name if for any reason your legal name has been updated or changed. One thing to note is that the legal address and the legal name, that is something that is only shown in the backend. So if you have a DBA but a different legal name, you don't have to change your legal name. That again, that's only for the backend donors won't see your legal address, your legal mailing address or your legal name. They will only see the display name that you provided and as well as the display address that you've also provided on your organization page. Within your disbursement settings, you can add EFT or update EFT if you have new banking information. When you add EFT information, it does go through a banking verification system automatically. If it passes the banking verification system, you don't have to make, don't have to do anything else and it will automatically tell you that it's approved. If for any reason our banking verification system can't verify your banking information, you'll be asked to add a way to check or a bank letter to confirm the banking information that you've provided. Our team will review that and then we'll approve it or ask for any further information. So it's a pretty seamless process and you'll always be updated or notified on what your EFT status is. Lastly, if there's any other settings that you need to utilize for your organization, for example, if you need to update your URL or you wanna customize your social share, which refers to data. When you share a link on Facebook and there's an automatic text and image pops up, your image card, if that's something that you need updated, those can all be found in general settings. All right, so some things that you want to make sure to review because they will be really helpful as you guys start getting started for Cincinnati Gives is signing up for future trainings or the next webinar that will happen for this event. This is also where we'll have this recording on the toolkit as well, but also you'll see FAQs, basic how-tos. So if there's any information that you're curious about, you can always just double check if the toolkit has an how-to on it. You'll also find templates for email and social media there and any logos or photos that you may need for your communications, for your marketing, for the event. So let's go over the prizes and rules for the event because there's a ton of prizes that are available. As we mentioned, it's a 10-day challenge. So for the grand prize, that will account for any donations that are made through those 10 days. So again, starting at 5 p.m. and ending at 5 p.m. First place will receive 10,000. Second place receiving 6,000. Third place receiving 4,000. Fourth place receiving 1,500. And fifth place receiving $500. The bonus challenges, there are several different bonus challenges that we'll go through. So bonus challenge, the meet your match challenge is the $1,000. The small organization challenge is $1,000. The profile organization bonus is $1,000. The greater Cincinnati bonus, which is brand new is $1,500. And the Giving Tuesday bonus is $2,500. So just to break down a little bit some of these. So for the organization profile bonus, so organizations that purchase a profile in the 2022 Guide to Giving are eligible for this meter board. The eligible organization that raises the most during the entire challenge will win an extra $1,000. So your purchase has to be done by October 5th, but again, speak with Ivy if you are still interested in purchasing your Guide to Giving spot. For the Giving Tuesday bonus challenge, that is the organization that raises the most during actual Giving Tuesday. And the greater Cincinnati Foundation bonus, organizations are eligible for this specific bonus if they are eligible with these specific criteria. So one organizations who are committed to reducing racial disparities to achieve equity and organizations that are driving change with the strategic focus of affordable housing, economic mobility and racial justice. And eligible organizations that raise the most during the entire length of the challenge will then win the $1,500. All right, so just to go over then each of the bonus challenges which will be broken down depending on the day. So bonus challenge one will be for December 1st and will start at midnight and end at 11.59.59. And it's going to be the two organizations that have the most unique donors on the first. So the key thing for that challenge is that it's the most unique donors on the first. Bonus challenge two will be December 2nd and it will be the two organizations that raise the most money online and also will win two tickets to Cincinnati Magazine's Saber event. Bonus challenge three will be December 3rd and it will be the two organizations with the most raised online from Friday, December 3rd through Monday, December 6th and each will win $500 plus a full page ad in Cincinnati Magazine. And the two organizations for bonus challenge four will be two organizations that raise the most online on December 7th will win $1,000 and then bonus challenge five will be on December 8th and it'll be the organization to raise the most online. They will win $500 and have $2,000 to spend in a digital ad spend on Cincinnati Magazine.com. And just some rules about the overall event. So all organizations that are participating in this event must serve the Cincinnati area and as well they must be a 501C3 nonprofit. Participating organizations are eligible for one grand prize and two bonus challenges. So if you win two bonus challenges you'll automatically be removed from winning any other bonus challenges. So that's the max for organizations that can win. Organizations cannot donate to themselves. What that means is that you are more than welcome to make a personal donation to your own nonprofit. However, you cannot use your own nonprofit funds to make a donation to yourself. If a donor gives you a check and you wanna make a donation to yourself that is against the rules. For the grand prize you must have at least 10 unique donors to be eligible for the grand prize. So you can't win by just having one donor make a large donation. And as I mentioned previously offline donations do not count towards any prizes or leaderboards. So you are also more than welcome to enter offline gifts on your page if you want that included on your org page metrics so that your donors or for your own reporting you can keep it all in one place. But for overall prizes and leaderboards offline donations won't be counted. So a couple of reminders for everyone. The Mighty Cause Support Team is available to help answer any questions that you may have. So you can contact them at supportatmightycause.com and we'll help you guide you through the registration process or updating your page. The next webinar will be on Wednesday, October 19th at 1 p.m. You can register for that webinar on Cincinnati Gives. And as well, if you are unable to make it a recording of that webinar will be posted on the site or if you wanna email to you, you can still register and then that webinar will be sent out to you. So I'm gonna leave the rest of the time for any questions anyone has. So feel free to use the chat or the Q and A tool. So registration will is currently open. So again, if you haven't registered your organization yet you wanna make sure that you do so as soon as possible and get that out of the way it's a really easy and simple form to complete. So there's a question in the chat. Does Cincinnati Magazine get access to our donor data? And if so, are they available to use in any way? We wanna make sure our donor data is secure. I will pass that off to ID. So in regards to Mighty Cause, the platform provider of Cincinnati Gives, we do not do anything with the donor data that your organization collects that is just for you to utilize. But I will let Ivy, I can pass that off, question off to her and she'll be able to answer that question for you and all that her knows so she can directly be in touch about Cincinnati Magazine and donor data. So there's a question about how do you find your giving page to make updates? So if your email address is set up as an administrator for your organization if you log into the platform with that email address through the login menu you should see the ability to go to your organization dashboard. If you don't see that when you're logged in, you can, if you have a link to your page from last year, et cetera, you can go to your page and request admin access and then we'll be able to approve you or you can reach out to support at mightycause.com and we can help give you access to your page. But if you're set up as an administrator all you need to do is log in and then go to your login menu and you'll see your organization name there and you can click that, it'll take you there. Okay, I don't see any other questions popping up. So I will go ahead and end the webinar here if there are no other questions. So this webinar and the slide deck will be added to the toolkit on Cincinnati Gives. So if you do wanna reference that you can always go back and download the PDF or review this video. And as I mentioned, please feel free to reach out to our support team. We're always here supporting nonprofits and especially during this crazy giving season. We wanna make sure that you guys are ready for the challenge. So please do reach out with any questions. Please let us know if we can do anything else and I hope you have a great day. Bye.


Next is the approval of the minutes from our last Common Council meeting Alderman Hammond. Thank you, Mr. Mayor move to approve. Okay. Thank you for that motion in support. Is there any discussion on the minutes? All those in favor, please signify by saying aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion passes. There are no direct resignations. There are no council appointments, and there's no confirmation of council appointments needed. So then we'll go on to the public forum. City clerk. Yes, we have two this evening. The first would be Collin Catchell. Can I get your home address, please? 321 Bluff Avenue. Is that better? I'd like to speak one last time, and I believe you all know what the topic pertains to, the Armory. The Armory battle is ideological. The battle is not only local, but national. Anything shared for the public good or quality of life has to be demonized or destroyed in order to make room for private profit. The sooner the Armory is down, the sooner we can forget about the fact that this public service was ever provided for 65 years. I feel like I have never failed at something I put my mind to except for trying to make this city a better place. My parents always told me to leave the world a better place, but that seems to be impossible in this town lately. The Armory Foundation was full of positive professional individuals who were blatantly pushed to the side to make room for private interests. I believe the Armory Foundation was pushed away because you knew we would succeed. That is why we were not allowed a short-term lease this spring, summer, and fall. If we would have been successful, it would have been extremely difficult to convince the public that demolition is the best option. Never again will a group come forward publicly with as much momentum and positive support throughout the community as we had. This is good though, because we all know the city operates best in a closed session. To preserve, improve, and provide enjoyment, that was our mission and business plan. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that an event with 3,000 people times $10 equals $30,000. Enough to pay for all the utilities for an entire year. We had two national venues planned in a range that always sell out. The first venue had an initial cost to bring in of $30,000 plus $5,000 for security and staffing. Tickets were $30, and the show sells out to 4,000 spectators. This comes to $120,000 minus expenses, the net profit is $85,000. Yes, it's a giant concrete cash register that we now want to sell for a dollar. Is the city just penny-wise and dollar dumb? No one could ever give an exact number of what the heat costs were, except for the fact that the heat costs were always exaggerated. $22,000 was the largest figure under city operation in 2006 given by Alliant Energy. Yet taxpayers have to spend $900,000 to make the Boston store another green space for concerts. It would be stupid to have a concert in the Armory right now. $900,000 could have run the Armory for another 30 years, at $30,000 a year for heat and electric utilities. The Armory will now be a building, well won't be there, but it will be a building built to build kayaks and sailboats, which will be non-profit with no property tax income. Is there other land available in buildings? Yes, but this battle is ideological. The military heritage of Alliant Energy building is perfect for this. It's already on the water across from the yacht club storage and large enough garage space for boat construction. The statement by the Seas that they thought about using the Armory, but didn't want to compete with Blue Harbor or Weill Center, is straight to the point. Our vision was never about competing, it was about complimenting and to be multi-generational, multi-purpose and a multi-income facility, just as it had been since 1942. I have a better option to save the city money. Let's sell the marina for $2.1 million since that's what we still owe. Then citizens won't have to pay $300,000 every three years for docks. To top it off, the money was taken from the Eisner Road Fund, and this is where residents had to pay for the road directly out of their own pockets. How about we have the private boat owners pay for all the upgrades, docks and dredging, and then we'll see what the real slip fees become. The marina is continually becoming welfare for the rich subsidized by the public. If we can lease the quarry for $1, sell the Armory for $1, why can't we sell the marina for some real cash? Chicago sold the Skyway, we can sell the marina. Five years ago, I ran for our aldermen on the premise that no one loves the city more, and now the direction the city has taken over the past five years makes me embarrassed to call this home. The council needs to slow down. The city is being treated as if it has to make quarterly profits. Let's think about the long-term consequences of our decisions next week, or the week following. How are you going to track young professionals if you're going to push away their ideas and make this a great place to visit instead of a great place to live? Please promise the citizens that you will walk through and tell them that the building is in such poor condition that it needs to be torn down, and if so, why was it in premium condition in 2007, and no one is held responsible for neglect? There will never be another Armory Foundation. Soon the wrecking ball will be swinging for six weeks this summer, and then all of us can drive by and stop thinking of all the great things that could be taking place there. We all know that next week the vote will be 15 to 0 to do just that because that's how this council usually votes. And for anyone interested, I can have shirts available that say I sold the Armory for a dollar with your name included on the back. Thank you. Thank you, Colin. And finally, we have Jason Peters. Jason, could you come up please? Hi. Jason, can I have your address please? Here, it's 1225 Kaufman Avenue. Kaufman? Correct. Okay, and you will have five minutes. Hello everyone, I'm Jason Peters, member of the Armory Foundation. And last February I spoke to most of you here. And although I'm probably against the decision you will be making shortly this month, I do respect all of you. Since you've all been elected from the majority of the Shboygan citizens, except you, Mr. Immordial, you are not elected. And nothing against you personally, but I do not see why a city this size needs your position. And we're talking about budget cuts all the time. The roads here in Shboygan are terrible. With the money we could save by limiting your position, you could hire two full-time workers full-time working on the roads. But I digress. I also read in the December article of Shboygan Press, Mr. Bateman, the owner of Shboygan Spaceport, calling the people of the non-profit group to save the Armory as crazy. You know what? You was right. I was crazy to not be a person to sit back and just whine about things that are wrong in Shboygan. I was crazy to try to improve the city of Shboygan. I tried to improve it with the group of Shboygan Armory Foundation for multi-generations and, more importantly, multi-income families. You see, Mr. Bateman, he called me crazy for loving a city I was born and raised in. I'd like to ask him how long he'd lived here. Call me crazy to try and better the city with multiple options, multiple incomes, and how long have you taken taxpayer money to use the Armory with no income going back to the city? As Mr. Ketchel just provided, we as the Armory Foundation were to take profits from events we held there to give back to the city. It was a cash register that could have helped the city. It was a win-win for everyone. I told you all last February that we're people on the council that were here who wanted to turn the Armory into bolt storage. Well, I could have been wrong. It wasn't bolt storage, it's bolt, whatever. Now, 11 months later, I am either a profit or a man who can see behind the curtain. The reason why some of you did not give the Armory Foundation a chance to lease the Armory from February to October 31st is because you know we would have succeeded. And people in Sheboygan would have been happy. But some of you I still feel are trying to create a Wisconsin Dells East tourist attraction town. And I will say good luck with that.  But then please try to fix the roads without taxing the citizens even more. Because during Christmas, I just got back from Jamaica and the roads here might be slightly better. In closing, you vote in your heart what you think is right. But I do know this. It was reported a long time ago that the Armory would cost $250,000 to demolish. Yet you found out the Boston store is costing $300,000 of taxpayer money to demolish. This is an Armory we're talking about. Keep selling everything that is nice in Sheboygan for a dollar. Keep trying to turn Sheboygan into Wisconsin Dells East. And soon you will be left with a ghost town for nine months out of the year. Sheboygan was once a great place to live. Some of you are turning to a great place to visit. Thank you. Thank you, Jason. Thank you. Next we'll go on to Mayor's announcements. First of all, I'd like to wish everyone here and around the city a happy new year. Our cleanup for Christmas trees began today.  I'd also like to note that the application by Two Rivers Manitowoc Port Washington, Sheboygan to establish a NOAA Marine sanctuary was submitted by Governor Walker to NOAA. The full application is available on our website. And there's also a copy at the library for people to view. And I'd like to thank City Planning, Tourism, and our tourism partners for all their work to put this application together as well as our fellow communities that we're applying with. Okay, then we'll go on to hearing. Item 2.1 is a hearing which will be held this evening to amend the city zoning map to change the use district classification for the property located at 502 North 14th Street from class in our neighborhood residential to class NC neighborhood commercial classification. Is there anyone wishing to be heard? Is there anyone wishing to be heard? Is there anyone wishing to be heard? Alderman Hammond. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I move to close. Okay. Thank you for that motion and support. Any discussion? Seeing none. All those in favor of closing the hearing, please signify by saying aye. Aye. Opposed? Hearing will be closed. On the consent agenda, it'll include items 3.2 through 3.8. Alderman Hammond. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I move to accept and file all ROs, accept and adopt all RCs and put all resolutions and ordinances upon their passage. Okay. Thank you for that motion and support. Is there any discussion on any items on the consent agenda? Seeing none. All those in favor, let's see we have to call a roll on this one. Fifteen ayes. Motion passes. Next we'll go on to reports of officers. Items 4.1 through 4.9 will be referred to various committees. Under resolutions, 5.1 is a resolution by Alderman Bellinger-Bitters, Warren Carlson, Damro Dassler, Donahue Hammond, Heidemann-Hurman, Koth, Lissard, Matacek, Thiel, Vanakren and Vanderweel, urging the governor and the state legislature to enact the League of Wisconsin Municipalities Partnership for Prosperity Agenda. Alderman Hammond. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I move to put the resolution upon its passage. Okay. Thank you for that motion and support. Is there any discussion on the resolution? Seeing none. All those in favor, please signify by saying aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion passes. Item 5.2 through 5.7 will be referred to various committees. Under matters laid over, item 6.1 is RO number 200 of 1415 by the City Planning Commission to which was referred General Ordinance number 39 of 1415 and RO number 191 of 1415 to amend the zoning map property located at 502 North 14th Street from NR6 neighborhood residential 6 to NC neighborhood commercial classification and recommends that the ordinance be passed. Alderman Bellinger. Thank you, Mayor. I move to accept and file and pass the ordinance. Second. Thank you for that motion and support. Is there any discussion on the motion? Seeing none, will the clerk please call the roll for passage. Fifteen ayes. Motion passes. Item 6.2 is resolution number 121 of 1415 by Alderman Hammond, Bellinger, Donahue, and Koth authorizing entering into the contract for the purchase of two JVC pro HD cam corridors for TV 8. Alderman Hammond. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I move to put the resolution upon its passage. Sorry. Thank you for that motion and support. Under discussion, Alderman Boren. Thank you, Mayor. Is this an upgrade in technology? Is that why we're purchasing these things? Does anybody know? Alderman Hammond, did you want to answer that? Sure. Yes, they're new and I think Mr. Augustine is here if you have further questions, but these are new cameras for TV 8. Does that answer your question? That's fine. Thank you. Thank you. You're welcome. Any other discussion? Seeing none, will the clerk please call the roll. 14 ayes. One no. Motion passes. Item 6.3 is a resolution number 122 of 1415 by Alderman Hammond, Bellinger, Donahue, and Coth, authorizing a transfer of appropriations in the 2014 budget to establish an appropriation for the purchase of JVC pro HD cam corridors for TV 8. Alderman Hammond. Thank you again, Mr. Mayor. I move to put the resolution upon its passage. Thank you for that motion and support. Any discussion on this motion? Seeing none, will the clerk please call the roll for passage. 14 ayes. One no. Motion passes. Next, we'll go on to other matters. City Attorney, 7.1 is an aro by the City Clerk submitting various license applications for the period ending December 31, 2015, and June 30, 2016. That'll be referred to law and licensing. 7.2 is an aro by the City Clerk submitting summons and complaint in the matter of Daniel Gilbertson at all versus City of Sheboya. That'll be referred to the finance committee. Next would be in order, Alderman Hammond. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Move to adjourn. Second. Thank you for that motion and support. All those in favor of adjourning, please signify by saying aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion passes. We stand adjourned. Thank you very much.


It's really hard for this mare to work a cow slow so this is really good for her. She would feel that in her you know she just wants to she wants to overdo like Kara said at the beginning and that's better that's a way better thought process like said to me this mare what you're going to want to be very very aware of is is the first move on a cow because her thought process is faster than most cattle and so you want to make sure that you don't get that one big jump if the cow doesn't move and so but as a lot like my metallic cat mare that we don't have here she's same way like you've got to kind of contain that and and also reward the good thought process right so as she starts to do that you don't want to just keep hammering like Kara said keep pulling keep doing all this stuff you want to reward the fact that she slowed down and thought about a cow the way she should like these kind of mares I know I do with mine I'll let them sit and then I'll go work one more cow on them and so that they have to start and stop because sometimes that first move is so important and it and it's very hard for these kind to control that adrenaline and that that first move that they make like even the first cow is trying to cut she's like you know you could tell she didn't want to go up there um so that's all of these problems are really good problems to have on on one yeah very good you can never have a horse that's too cowy to that tries too hard right you can always help help those kinds and and one thing on her like I have it and both mares are real touchy like you don't have to kick like they they want to go with cow they want they want so I'll take my spurs off and I will ask actually it's always an interesting thing to see somebody work them for the first time too which I have attended I love the hotter mares I'm gonna kind of let her find it here just kind of let her get comfortable kind of wanted to turn a little bit quickly there I'm gonna take my right foot right here and where she kind of wanted to take that hip I'm just gonna hold that hip hold that hip right there make him draw and then come landing and that mares real diligent about the way she lands but then sometimes she doesn't set her feet up super good she lands good and then she's just she's maybe a little too still and then she doesn't move her feet as quick as she should kind of like Cara was saying you know something I need to work on with her too is making her make sure that she she's like she's comfortable landing now now I need to get her move her feet a little bit quicker back you know I think going through the process of the colt works I think that will probably fix itself I wouldn't I wouldn't do much right there because she's got such good intentions that I think a cow will


I'm here for more systems and this is a unify pro aggregation switch I've been testing this for roughly two months right now and so far no problems at all works quite well It's relatively quiet. I did take it apart. So we're gonna talk about what's inside and What all comes in the box so far though? No real issues at 25 gig no problems switching at 25 gig between devices I was actually using this for the last couple months for some of the storage testing and some of those videos I've released in the past if anyone was paying attention those devices happen to be connected at 25 gig through this device and Uplinked at 10 gig to several other devices and nothing I threw at it really gave it any trouble Matter of fact even doing that never really raised the temperature to the point where it got loud The four fans in the back that it has are relatively quiet They're standard fans with standard little connectors nothing too special about them But I didn't run into any issues before we dive into the details of this review first If you'd like to learn more about me my company head over to Lawrence systems calm if you like to hire short projects such as network consulting There's a hires button right at the top if you want to support this channel Other ways is affiliate links down below to get you deals and discounts on products and services We talk about on this channel now Saying products and services in affiliate links. You'll find none for unify. This is something I purchased myself This was not provided by a unify at all or any affiliation with them We're also not a unify reseller So if you're looking to buy it head over to the unify website and with that Let's start right here on the unify store page the skew for it is the usw pro aggregation And it is currently listed for 899 here in the US and it is listed as in stock That's important because here in 21 2021. We've had plenty of supply chain issues So as of September 2021, it's in stock and that's the price They have all the other details in here that it's got the 28 10 gig SFP plus ports the 425 gig SFP 28 ports and also offers support for the usp RPS DC input We'll get to that in a second the other thing that's important to know There's no management interface on this it does require the unify software to find networking trolley software Which you can download for free and host yourself. You will need version 6.1 2 5 and later now on to the Couple quick questions one of them is layer 3 routing that's in the name and title of switch the unify switch This particular one does support layer 3 routing, but it's very rudimentary and basic I've actually covered it before and I'll leave a link to it in a video over here on To this part right here the redundant power system. I've reviewed this before and I don't think it's a great product The problem is kind of well Let's just explain it with only one power supply being in here And obviously there's a concern and we haven't really had any unified switches that have had power supply problems but still that is something that goes bad just in general a lot of switches and Unify solution was not to put two power supplies the traditional method which is used by many switches, but to use this connector on the edge here for connecting it to the external Basically another rack-mounted power supply that could power multiple switches at once a lot of the new unified stuff supports this The fatal flaw with it and to my knowledge this has not been changed since I did my review of that device is If the power supply goes out in this particular device the redundant power supply system kicks in and takes over and we'll let it run Until you power cycle this if this has a bad power supply or any switch on that has a bad power supply the Unify redundant power system does not power it up it only maintains power if a power supply fails kind of a weird failure mode and Also from a cabling standpoint the cabling that connects these is really bulky and awkward to try to get it tied up to the switches I don't know. I didn't think it was the greatest idea It's way easier and more common of course just to put dual power spice in Alternative options because not everything in this price range is going to have dual power supply That's actually when you start talking about the other enterprise level switches They are substantially more expensive especially when they come with like a hotspot power supply You can just buy two of these and that's really anytime something and as this was designed to be a very core Central part of your network or maybe you have all the uplinks from your other switches around the network It's probably worth it just to have two of these because power supply is one factor But there can be other factors where hey, it's electronic things go wrong firmware updates go bad So I would probably recommend having another one in stock an important detail I wanted to highlight back here on their page is the four SFP 28 ports don't support mixed speed at 25 gig mode once you set these ports to 25 gig these four on the end They all have to be 25 gig or they can all be set to 10 But you can't mix and match 10 and 25 and one the other ports It's fine. They will negotiate between 10 gig and 1 gig But these ones all have to be set to 25 if you want any of them to work at 25 And I'm glad they have it right here. It's just hopefully save somebody some troubleshooting Issues if they were running into that problem of wanting to use one of the ports on the end or the 25 gig are for an uplink at 10 Gig it won't work unless all of them are at 10 gig. Like I said, just Important little don't want to overlook it detail Now on to what comes in the box you get the cool little unify and don't want to dump them out here But couple four rack nut cage nuts and four screws to mount them You get some screws for the rack ears. You get the rack ears, of course You get a 10 gig cable not a 25 gig cable. I was a little disappointed, but at least I have one here it is a 10 gig SFP DAC genuine ubiquity here and it works perfectly fine at 10 gig Just why didn't they put a SFP 28 cable and it would have been nice But at least we do have the rack ears the mounting and if you don't want to put it on the rack They do give you the little rubber feet things as the little black thing is here So you can put feet on the bottom of it and avoid scratching it up like I've already done be it by sliding it around I kind of gouged it. Yeah, this side has a little gouge in it there Probably should have put some feet on it because while it's in testing I did not have the rack ears on it because it's one more thing to take off to Get the lid off and that noise is because yes, the lid itself is all metal. This is a metal design It comes apart relatively easy, but not too complicated one thing. I really like though is the power cord It's one of those fabric wrapped power cords. I don't know they feel a little nicer a little bit more premium But the cool feature is if you're wondering, yes, it's a normal power connector a common one But it also has this feature. So if we put it in and then we flip the little lever Don't try this at home kids I've done this now in two videos where I've hung things by their power cords I like things that make it harder to pull off the power cord Accidentally, so that's a nice feature that comes on some of the newer unify switches this one included. All right now on to the software All right, we're running unify controller version 6.2 point 2 6 I run this on my own stack and my own system So this is at my office and hosted actually Debbie and if you care what the back end is This is not on one of the cloud keys, but should work fine if you are using one of the cloud keys Now let's look at the devices We'll filter for pro I actually have two of them on here one adopted and one not we're gonna go ahead and do the upgrade and adoption and This is typical. They don't always ship them with the absolute latest firmware I usually do the update of firmware prior to adoption While we're waiting for this I will mention that this does have the on-screen display on the front of here that will tell you the IP address This is on the same network as the controller So it sees it and is able to adopt it. I don't have to type in any IP addresses here Also, as far as sound goes these actually are relatively quiet This is with both of them running. That's all the DBs were getting out of it. So relatively quiet I'm actually gonna say they're quieter than the other one right here the US 16 XG whichever review before I was actually shocked at just how quiet these are compared to even that So they're relatively quiet device. I'll leave a link to the review. I did of the 16 XG Right while we're waiting for that one to finish updating and then adopting Let's talk about the one we already have adopted and I've been doing all the testing with Interesting is when you're looking at the cables plugged into it This one has one of those QSFP tech RJ 45 to 10 gig adapters it does work with those and It works with the deck cables the interesting part is when you plug the cables into here like the 25 gig ports which Does not tell me what's even plugged in the bottom one here is actually plugged in via fiber An FS comm adapter and this is an FS comm deck cable I'll leave links those if you're interesting in those particular cables But it does not know which ones are plugged in and it's not a problem with the FS comm cables It's whatever you plug in to the SFP 28 ports. It doesn't seem to label them I don't know if this is something that can be fixed in firmware later But it's something of note the ones I've tested with so far. None of them have actually displayed anything as far as the Functional like if it's a deck if it's a fiber, but it does right here. It gives me all the information gives me the input output current voltage compliance of what it is and It does the same for the deck. Yeah, you can see for each one of these It even gets a serial number and part numbers But nothing when it's plugged into the 25 gate kind of interesting And I know someone always wants me to run this test and it's easy enough to do This is a the super micro server I have and a Dell server that I have I'm just gonna run I perf test They're just on the same network adjacent to each other and it's now running through So it's going from three dot two to eight to three dot two three two and yes It does work at the full 25 gig a second. I didn't have any issues Setting it up getting it to work Nothing special I was doing to get the speed out of there. I mean 23.3.  This is all done without setting jumbo frames or anything else This is just standard default settings. No special options done No problem getting the speed out of it and each one of the devices I connected I have a few things connected as I said, I used them for some of my storage videos no issues at all Now the other one has now finished its firmware update We'll go ahead and adopt it into our network And it's as simple as that to get these added just like any other unified switch as far as that goes nothing special Now one last thing to talk about is this right here I think it did not have this feature when it first came out Someone had commented that it was only able to do six when you were setting this up for Actually aggregating the ports together, but now it supports more than that So it starts with that port and can go all the way for example from three to port 17 So we could create a really large aggregate group on here a few people have commented and it was a discussion I seen it some forums I believe it was not actually my forums where someone had said you could only do six but a firmware update later Updated that the firmware as of now that's available in September of 2021 allows us to take and we can start for example at port three Go ahead and edit this one drag it over here profile overrides aggregate and Go all the way up to port 18 if you want so you can do a lot more port style than you could before now You can also and we'll cancel this real quick You can if you want to go over to these ports here and do the same thing actually uncheck this box go down to the bottom and profile overrides Aggregate and you can be between 1332 so you can aggregate these ports together as well So you could bond all 425 gig ports to get a hundred gigs if you needed it So a couple extra options you do have in there and it like that It also has that reminder. I brought up that was in a documentation of SFP 28 ports don't support mixed speeds at 25 gig mode, but they do support aggregating them together I didn't really test this because I don't I mean I could connect it I guess to the other switch with all the ports, but I wouldn't be able to put enough bandwidth I don't have enough devices here to shove enough bandwidth between all of them to make it happen But either way it should work perfectly fine I don't really see a reason why not but it look at the specs to see what its maximum switching capacity is Final thoughts on the product if you like the unify ecosystem and the unify controller platform as we do specifically In relation to we like the switches. We like the access points. We do not like the routers We do not like any of the routing udm pro usg usg pro insert whatever the new one that may be coming out We're not big on any of those but as far as their switching goes we find them to be quite reliable Relatively reasonably priced. They're not the absolute cheapest thing you can find, but I think they do a pretty good job We've got these deployed in quite a few places not many of these Specific pro aggregation switches because they're relatively new, but we do have some projects upcoming. We're going to deploy these We've consulted with a couple of times with people who have been using them and didn't have any problems for their particular use case Read through all the documentation spend a little bit of time in the forums if you have a More than basic use case or you have some really in-depth layer 3 routing requirements that you're hoping to do Is as I said in the beginning the layer 3 and it's kind of rudimentary with unify It's more of a checks the box to make the marketing people happy But doesn't give you some of the advanced controls you're going to find on a really High-end enterprise switch, but of course you're not paying the high-end enterprise switch price for a unified So uh, good and bad with it as always If you like to buy one you head over to unify directly We are not a reseller of unify and unify did not send me this I did buy it as I said in the beginning So there's no real bias other than I guess I'm biased because I like unify and we deploy a lot of it And we've had great success with deploying everything from ap's and switches that the routers the routers are terrible Don't buy it. Don't buy anything from unify as far as routers go. I just can't recommend it They're better than I guess home user stuff But I see that a lot but people keep buying them and keep asking why they won't do the thing that they hope They would do and yeah, anyways, I won't rant about that. All right. 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