Live from San Francisco, it's theCUBE. Covering Micron Insight 2019, brought to you by Micron. Welcome back to San Francisco, everybody. This is Micron Insight 2019 and you're watching theCUBE, the leader in live tech coverage. I'm Dave Vellante with my co-host, David Floyer D. Mooney is here. She's the executive director of Micron Gives. That's right. Give us the story. What's happening with Micron Gives? Tech for good, we love the tech for good stories. Tech companies are really taking this seriously. This is not just lip service. Give us the update. That's right, that's right. We are so proud of our company that they established a foundation 20 years ago to give back to our global communities. And since then, we have given $115 million away and over 10,000 grants. So we have seen a lot of different opportunities in our global communities and it's just been fabulous that our company supports this good work. So you talked today about water.org, what's going on there? Why is that important and what's your role there? So what we did is we started taking a look at an organization that we have started recently being more engaged with basic human needs and the grants that those support. And when we were taking a look at really what is the primary basic human need, we discovered it really is the need for water. And there are millions of people that cannot access this precious resource. And it's just, it was really surprising to us to think we take it for granted so much, but yet it is very difficult to get. So as we took a look at this, there was a lot of information that this organization collects. And so we thought, well, this will be a great opportunity for us to utilize information to enrich life and bring in some of our advanced computing expertise along with our philanthropy to help them reach their mission even greater and faster. I mean, this is huge. I was at an event earlier this week and the keynote speaker was an ultra marathoner. And he literally, at one point, he ran 4,500 miles across the continent of Africa. He and two other ultra runners. And people were asking, well, what was the biggest challenge? Was it the heat? Was it the pain? He said, you know, the biggest challenge was seeing the challenges of the communities getting potable water. That was the number one thing that left the impression. So I mean, this is a huge global problem. It really is. And our manufacturing operations, you know, we're global and we are located in water scarce areas of the world. And so it really became, you know, it's a micron issue too. It's one of our biggest environmental issues that we talk about. And Water.org has just been a leader in this space. And it has been just fabulous to work with them. And really they have so much passion and dedication towards this. They've been able to help 22 million people already. All right, so they're lining up for the main stage. Just give us real quick some of the grants that you guys have given. Yes, so last year at this event, we announced our advancing curiosity and we announced three recipients last year. And since then we have four more. That's UCLA, RIT, University of Texas at Austin, and University of Washington. Awesome, that's great. Well, listen, congratulations, D, on all your great work. We really appreciate you taking some time on theCUBE. All right, and thank you for watching everybody back with our next guest from Micron Insight 2019 on theCUBE. Right back.


As the 2023 general elections draw close, about 150 young candidates who will be participating in the election say convincingly electorate have been like the proverbial camel passing through the eyes of a needle. The event tagged ready to run, conference was staged in the nation's federal capital, Abuja, and was organized by Yaga Africa as the European Union delegation for young political candidates to express their opinion on the electoral process so far, but many bemoaned the negative reactions they got from the electorates during their campaign. However, they remain positive that with time, public perception of youths and politics can still change with more sensitization and awareness by NGOs and CSOs. As part of what we consider pathways, we believe that candidates should understand first what's the election procedure and what are the processes involved and the essence of that is to help you effectively plan for the next couple of days. We must do so with the primary objective of deepening democracy and providing inclusive, sustainable and effective leadership. You must prioritize sincerity of purpose and blaze, as I said before, the collective interest of the Nigerian people and of the Nigerian nation above all.


What makes for excellence in heart care? It starts with one of the most amazing teams of heart surgeons and cardiologists that I've seen assembled under one roof and the region's leading technology in a new $40 million facility. This is the nationally recognized Heart and Vascular Institute of Eastern Kentucky at Pikeville Medical Center. Pikeville Medical Center revealed a new procedure for treating atrial fibrillation on Tuesday, January 24th. Atrial fibrillation is an abnormal heart rhythm coming from the top chambers of the heart where the atria, quiver, or fibrillate, which is where we get the name. Atrial fibrillation has a variety of issues that come along with it. The one we talk about the most is a significantly increased risk of stroke. There is an on average 500% increased risk of stroke in an atrial fibrillation patient. The hybrid procedure for AFib is a two-step procedure in which a cardiothoracic surgeon and an electrophysiologist work together to ablate both the inside and outside of the posterior atrial wall. Hybrid AFib procedure is one of the cutting-edge therapies for atrial fibrillation and there are only a handful of centers both in Kentucky and nationwide doing it. We are number two in the state in terms of volume for hybrid AFib procedures and we're actually top 20 in the country for patients treated by the hybrid AFib procedure. So we're doing this a lot. We are seeing some fantastic outcomes for our patients because of it as well. Atrial fibrillation is a very common condition and with an effective treatment option so close to home those living with the condition will not have to go far to get the treatment they need. For Mountain Top News, I'm Kelsey Dean.


Mönwāu, hō kātapan ennāwst waiau ʻaise kāfia ʻalaīga ʻsdīt kaūma ʻaise ʻajionan tānga tāngi ʻaise kōmā Balls. ʻēr ʻaizun. ʻajī nusit ʻaise kōmā Balls. కికికికికికికికికికికికికికికికికికికికికికికికికికికికికికికికికికికికికికికికికికికికికికికికికికికికికికికిక some legals residents also lamented the total ban of commercial motorcycles they said the ban has taken a toll on them, as it appeared to the government to find them an alternative now you can see me sweating i've been trekking for the past almost 30 minutes because otherally where i would have taken Okada from to my house, i had to trek all the way i know we have but you don't see them everywhere you don't find them everywhere so in as much as I know the positive sides of burning Okada I think they should still leave them in the interiors for us to be very sincere not all of us have vehicles that we can actually drive round so we have to track from one point to another which is I think inflicting hardship on us I think they should provide an alternative when the alternative is set then they can actually do the total ban I think there should be an alternative something else should be provided for them to make things easier for them to make life easier for them so that they find another means of living as the ban takes effect from today, Nigerians are waiting to see whether in the coming days the motorcyclists would gradually find their way back to the roads just like it happened under the administrations of the former governors of Babajidirajifashola and Akimmi Amberde Paul, George plus TV news


Some very exciting news today. Today we are launching our M. Our M is a little project We've been working on for a while here to offer a low-cost alternative to the original glass VAP cap This is like a new record for us. We've got over 5,000 glass blanks on the shelf We probably sell between one and two glass VAP caps for every other product that we sell right now That'll probably change once we introduce the M What's the M? The M is a product that we haven't really told anyone about yet The M was originally just the code name for our project to make a Metal glass VAP cap. The glass VAP cap was our best-selling device back in 2016 when we were really just kind of getting started as a company. We had to grind the section to get it to be a uniform size The idea to make a metal version came about. Initially we're thinking let's make it out of anodized aluminum Because we can get in a lot of different colors and it'll be low-cost and it won't break But after thinking about it was like, you know, we're not going to use that much metal. People love our omni Why don't we make it out of stainless steel instead? Make it super durable Make it very robust and make it out of medical grade materials. And so the idea for the M was born One of our first prototypes kind of looked like this little guy ended up with a little bit of a Triangle here where the airport was because we wanted to make it a little bit more tactile easy to feel Turned out it wasn't the easiest geometry machine Here is our first production M. The airport ended up being more of a hole with a slot and a ring that goes all the way around The condenser had black o-rings on it sort of the tip and then we had a whole another challenge We ended up with a number of parts that were dimensionally correct. They fit together. They functioned But there were some small machining imperfections or errors or maybe a chipped cutting tool or something like that So the surface finish wasn't quite as good. It's like, okay, what are we going to do with those? And that's where the idea for sandblasted M came along We just took in sandblasted to even out the surface finish a few of the 2017 M's to make them a little bit nicer and then finally just for the heck of it to show off You know how useful and interesting and durable the stainless steel is polished this one up almost like a mirror The stainless steel actually polish is really really well. We didn't have many wholesale accounts So it was almost all through our retail website dinovap.com the initial reaction was like nice We introduced them at a very low price point While we still had our glass Vap caps on the website It didn't take long the M outpaced the glass real quick the customer service was much much easier because There weren't the issues and we still had our higher end product You know the Thai wouldies which were wood and titanium and of course the Omni which is at that point in time Almost all titanium except for the cap and the condenser once we started producing these M's We were manufacturing them completely in-house with our own CNC equipment Which gave us a lot more control over the manufacturing then as we started to secure our supply chain for materials We were able to make a higher quality product at a much faster pace The CNC machines made it a lot easier to scale up than buying the glass tubes and grinding them down and and using some of the other Interesting little automation machines that we had to grind the grooves in the end to punch the hole in the side They were simpler to assemble April 2017. Did we do anything? Did we go anywhere? We were still really a small company at the time. Oh, yeah Yeah, I think in April we went to Seattle Seattle was Interesting it had been the first time I'd been there in a while. I used to live out there I think I just gave up my last business card a little little event put on by dope magazine Certainly wasn't what we were hoping for but It wasn't terrible either. The boot that I didn't have was located pretty close to where the band was I think It was very loud. We had some dry ice in the car and we just threw it on the floor just to get people's attention So we did a few demos Need to back up for round two. You're ready for round two a band? Yeah Started getting that word out there It was it was seat of the pants It was find a way scrap it together do it on as low a budget as possible after a little bit of feedback from our community It became clear that there was room for a little bit of improvement on the M


Today I have something amazing to share with you guys, a level 60 yellow cake, yes you heard that right, today I will also show you how you can get your hands on this beast too. How's it going guys my name's DPJ and today I bring you another VR3 video if you do enjoy it leaving a like really helps out and subscribe if you do want to see more. Also before we go any further for all your gaming needs no matter the platform you play on at amazing prices and incredible weekly deals check out G2A linked within the video description. So the yellow cake, where to start with this beast? Well firstly if you don't know which I'm guessing you'll probably do this was an exclusive item to the revenge of the cartiles event and probably with that OPQ system the best weapon to come out of this event is if a monist guys actually miss this event and I disagree with them actually in reality giving us these one time drop legendos which more or less become useless when levels go up like we see now, a level 60 these weapons were limited to a level 57, I mean yes they're still potent at a level 60 but what happens when the next levels come and these get weaker and weaker. So yeah I'm not really keen on limited timed legendos especially when they're this good. But for this when it did drop with the revenge of the cartiles event it was the best launch during the game and yeah it's a clv weapon, who'd afford it? Well actually not too long ago this weapon did receive a nerf dropping its damage down by like 50% which is quite a lot but the weapon is still a beast. We saw level 57 variants of this pulsed nerf dealing like 25k x 2 damage or somewhere near that number but like I said that was a level 57 the game has since moved on and in reality so have we, well that isn't actually true because today I bring you a legit upscaled level 60 version just how it would be in games if it was to drop right now on a mayhem 10 at a level 60 and we can see its damage is actually getting closer to what it was at a level 57 pre nerf. Now I won't lie to you and to be honest if you've even tried this out for yourself the level 57 yellow cake is still a monster of a weapon when using it against enemies at that level 60 plus it still wipes the floor with them. So this variant as you would imagine would be much much better and indeed it is. We can see by its level 60 item score card values its damage is closer to 40k x 2, now for sure still below a level 57 pre nerf 50k x 2 but it's a massive jump from the pulsed nerf level 57 yellow cake and while using it in game right now against level 60 plus enemies you feel it the weapon is truly amazing and it takes them out like nothing I've seen in a while. It's a must have in my opinion. So how do you get your hands on this? Well guys it's pretty simple. Join my discord where in the upcoming days I will do an open loot lobby for you guys to join and grab this item ps4 xbox all are covered. So yeah if you want to get your hands on this level 60 yellow cake you know what you have to do. I will leave you now witnessing what this thing is capable of. So yeah if the yellow cake was one of your favourite weapons but you stopped using it because of the levels of gun up well I guess this is good news for you. On that note guys we have come to the end of the video if you guys enjoyed it leaving a like really helps out. If you're new around here and want to see more boardlines be sure to subscribe and if you never want to miss a video right upload you can turn notifications on by hitting that bell button. But guys thanks as always for stopping by hopefully you enjoyed the video and hopefully I will see you on that next one.


My name is Derek Osborne. I'd like to tell you about a very special event that's taking place on the 11th of October online. It's the UPU World Leaders Forum. We'll be hearing from postal leaders from around the world who are telling us about how they're merging from the pandemic and how they're planning to stay relevant for their customers into the future. And we'll also be talking about sustainability, which, with COP26 approaching, is a big issue of our time. Our sector has a huge environmental footprint and yet can also have a big impact on customers, suppliers and governments alike. So what do we want that impact to be? There are huge questions about challenges and opportunities in the sector and you have the opportunity to join this event. Take part with your comments and questions. It's free to attend, so register now and join us on the forum or watch it on UPUTV. And I hope to see you there. Thank you.


Income tax 2021-2022, reporting rental income, expenses and loss as part number one. Get ready to get refunds to the max, diving in to income tax 2021-2022. Most of this information can be found in Publication 527 Residential Rental Property Tax Year 2021 IRS website irs.gov, irs.gov. We're looking at the income tax formula focused on line one income noting we would have another schedule basically an income statement with income and expenses the expenses basically being deductions the net then is what rolls into line one income of the income tax formula and eventually page one of the form 1040 this is the schedule E basically the income statement schedule we're focused on the rental real estate so we're going to be continuing on here reporting rental income expenses and losses figuring the net income or loss for residential rental activity may involve more than just listing the income and deductions on schedule E form 1040 so the rental income gets a little bit confusing you might ask yourself why do I use a schedule E as opposed to a schedule C they're both basically income statement types of schedules the net then rolling in to page one of the form 1040 eventually but you'll note that we had some differences between the schedule C and the schedule E notable differences including like self-employment tax for example on the schedule C oftentimes which may not always be there with the reporting of the rental income you've got the the deductibility of the qualified business income deduction and then on the schedule C which you don't see so much on the schedule E and you might have stuff on the schedule E which includes like passive activity type of rule so there's some differences between them there could be some instances where you're going to actually be using a schedule C when you're dealing with basically real estate situations so there are activities that don't qualify to use schedule E such as when the activity isn't engaged in to make a profit or when you provide substantial services in conjunction with the property so if it's not engaged in for profit then you're talking about property that might not be like a rental type of property it might be more of a a personal property in that instance and if you're talking about property that you provide for a lot of services for as well then it looks like it's leaning more towards a business type of activity that would be like if it was more like a hotel for example where you're providing services for the guests routinely instead of just providing a place of rental on a more passive kind of situation then you would think it's likely that you might have to report that on the schedule C as opposed to the schedule E there are also the limitations that made me to apply if you have a net loss on schedule E so note that the government is going to be skeptical of losses and they're even more skeptical of losses on the schedule E because losses you know the government's your silent partner but they want to take they want to be there when you make income right when you make a loss they don't want to pay you for the loss that you have or allow you to take the loss on other incomes although sometimes you can but you can expect them to be more skeptical there they're even more skeptical with losses with rental income because oftentimes when we engage in rental property we're not in it just to get the rental income but we're also in it to basically have an increase in the value of the property which is a more of a passive kind of activity and so they you can imagine they would be more skeptical that as we're just investing in the property for the property value to hopefully go up over time we're writing off losses for rental losses so they're so they might like limit the amount of losses more stringently on rental property than possibly on other types of businesses like a schedule C type of business so there are two one the limitation based on the amount of investment you have at risk in your rental activity and two the special limits imposed on passive activities so you may also have a gain or loss related to your rental property from a casualty or theft this is considered separately from the income and expense information you report on schedule E so which forms to use then we're using the schedule E or we're using the schedule C or what the basic form reporting residential rental income and expenses is the schedule E so typically if we're thinking about they've got some other property possibly residential rental property we would typically be thinking okay schedule E would be the first form popping into the head as opposed to the schedule E however don't use that schedule to report a not-for-profit activity see not rented for profit later in chapter four so if it's a not-for-profit that's going to stop us we're going to have to do some more research on that and that we'll have to treat that differently there are also other rental situations in which forms other than schedule E would be used schedule E form 1040 if you rent buildings rooms or apartments and provide basic services such as heat and light trash collection etc you normally report your rental income on and expenses on schedule E part one list your total income expenses and depreciation for each rental property basically the income statement be sure to enter the number of fair rental and personal use days on line two so that's going to help to determine whether it's a rental property like full-time rental property or how long it was a rental property if you used it for personal use then it gets a little bit more confusing for the allocation between rental and personal use if you have more than three rental or royalty properties complete attach as many schedule E as are needed to separately list all the properties so if we look at the schedule E the trustee schedule E over here and then we've got these property names ABC that we can list out the different properties if we have more than three then you're going to need more than one schedule E in order to list out the properties over three that that you have so however fill in lines 23 through 26 on only only one schedule E so when we get down to the bottom line here on the one schedule E we start to combine things together because you would think if they all qualify on the schedule E kind of calculations that we could basically combine our total schedule E incomes possibly for use of passive act to try to figure out any kind of limitations we have passive activity rules loss limitations and so on and so forth so we can kind of combine them together at the bottom of the one schedule E for that calculation that would be the general idea so the figures on line 23 a through 26 on the schedule E should be the combined totals for all properties reported on your schedule E on schedule E page one line 18 enter the depreciation you are claiming for each property you may also need to attach form 4562 to claim some or all your depreciation C form 4562 later so we're looking at the depreciation line here depreciation boom form 4562 depreciation and amortization may be necessary for the added detail related to it you can put that together in accordance and tax software of course helps us with that schedule E continued if you have a loss from your rental real estate activity you may also need to complete one or both of the following forms forms 6198 at risk limitations see at risk limitations later also see publication 925 form 8582 passive activity loss limitations see passive activity loss limitations later so if we jump on over to the schedule E here and we have a loss we've got a huge expense here and so we've got a loss then that loss that's when the limitations might be applied to it and you can look at some of these other schedules that could be applied included the passive activity loss to form 8582 and here's form 6198 at risk limitations so then page two of schedule E is used to report income or loss from partnerships as corporations estates trusts and real estate mortgage investment conduits if you need to use page two of schedule E and you have more than three rental or royalty properties be sure to use page two of the same schedule E you use to enter the combined totals for your rental activity on page one so I also include the amount from line 26 part one in the total income or loss online 41 part five so schedule E form 1040 we've got the form 4562 you must complete and attach form 4562 if you are claiming the following depreciation in your rental activity so form 4562 just to take a look at that 4562 over here is the depreciation and amortization we looked a little bit at the depreciation schedules in prior presentations so then we've got depreciation including the special depreciation allowance on property placed in service during 2021 depreciation unlisted prosperity such as a car regardless of when it was placed in service otherwise figure your depreciation on your own worksheet which is basically those other worksheets typically you're going to be using your software to help you out with those worksheets too you don't have to attach these these computations to your return but you should keep them in your records for future reference so they might not be an official form when we're actually looking at the worksheets for the depreciation calculations but they're going to be critical and we're going to want those supporting schedules in place in the event that there's questions about one of the most complex calculations we're doing here that being the depreciation so you may also need to attach form 4562 if you are claiming a section 179 deduction that's kind of an accelerated depreciation type of calculation where you get more depreciation up from amortizing costs that begin during 2021 or claiming any other deduction for a vehicle including standard mileage rate or lease expenses see publication 946 for information on preparing form 4562 schedule c form 1040 profit or loss from business so schedule c isn't what we normally think of with the rental activity but again you could have some instances when in essence it qualifies as more of a normal kind of business as opposed to the rental activities reported on schedule c's and we had all the differences that comes in play when we're thinking about a schedule c type of situation versus a schedule e even though they're both basically income statement type of schedules so generally the schedule c is used when you provide substantial services in conjunction with property or the rental in part of a trade or business as real estate dealer so now you're you're moving over to a schedule c situation again that means that you're going to have to deal with self-employment tax most likely you got that business deduction involved and so on and so forth but you might not have as stringent kind of situations with regards to the the loss limitations or the passive activity kind of stuff because you're active in the schedule c more specifically you would think is the general the general assumption providing substantial services so what does that mean if you provide substantial services that are primarily for your tenants convenience such as regular cleaning changing linen or made services you report your rental income and expenses on schedule c so you're acting more kind of like a hotel kind of situation as opposed to just providing a place for someone to rent and then just kind of keeping up with that place but not you're not really doing you know the day-to-day services on it you know like changing the sheets and whatnot but you might you might fix the the roof if it was leaking for example if it was a rental so so use form 1065 us return a partnership income if your rental activity is a partnership so if it's a partnership of course then you use the partnership form to do that so you can allocate then the income from the partnership 1065 form to the individual owners more than one of them two or more owners that would then flow through with a K1 to the forums 1040s so including a partnership with your spouse unless it is a qualified rent joint venture now when you get to a partnership situation with your spouse it gets a little bit confusing on it because you got to think about well now you got two people that are involved in this venture but they're really taxed as one person basically for federal income taxes but you still kind of have to break them out as two people at least for the allocation of the self-employment tax which is going to be applicable to the schedule c business because now you got the self-employment tax which is basically applied per person and so you got to figure out some way how are you going to treat with the partnership that is a a marital couple so in any case substantial we talked more about that when we talked about the schedule c business in general different options for a marital couple on it we might look at it a little bit more in depth here but substantial services don't include the furnishing of heat and light cleaning of public areas trash collection etc for more information about that you can see publication 334 tax guide for small business also you may have to have to pay self-employment tax on your rental income using schedule se form 1040 well that's no good why do i have to do that i don't want to do that yeah that's that's what happens when it's a schedule c but in any case self-employment tax for discussion of substantial services see real estate rents in chapter five of publication 334 qualified joint venture so if you and your spouse each materially participate see marital participation under passive activity limits later as the only members of a jointly owned and operated real estate business and you file a joint return for the tax year you can make a joint election to be treated as qualified joint venture instead of a partnership now that could be easier to do because if you do a partnership then you got to file a separate tax return and then have the k ones to flow through that's generally going to cost more and be more of a problem or a pain if you can have a qualified joint venture possibly that would be an easier type of thing to deal with this election in most cases won't increase the total tax owed on the joint return but it does give each of you credit for social security earnings on which retirement benefits are based and Medicare coverage is your rental income is subject to self-employment tax so if it's reported on the schedule see it might be subject to the self-employment tax that's usually what that's kind of where we get this the the problem that would be involved in there because you got to allocate the self-employment tax to the proper spouse so that they get the proper coverage for the benefits that they'll be receiving at the retirement time when they're going to be receiving benefits so if you make this election you must report rental real estate income on schedule e or schedule c if you provide substantial services you won't be required to file form 1065 the partnership return for any any year the election is in effect rental real estate and income generally isn't included in net earnings from self-employment subject to self-employment tax and is generally subject and is generally subject to the passive activity limits so if you and your spouse filed a form 1065 for the year prior to the election the partnership terminates at the end of the tax year immediately preceding the year the election takes effect so so for more information on qualified joint ventures you can go to the irs.gov website qualify joint ventures q j v


Solution-processed inverted bulk heterojunction, BHA, solar cells with transparent metal oxides, meox, as interface materials have gained more attention due to their better environmental stability compared to normal architecture BHA solar cells, and wet chemical synthesis methods for N-type and P-type like meox interface materials are reviewed and discussed in this article. This article was authored by Ivan Litsev and Kristof J. Brabuk.


Mae'r gair yn ymwneud, yn ymwneud. Mae'r gair yn ymwneud. Mae'n amhwytoedd yr operator. Mae gynhyrch yn ymddiolol yw Golff 7. Iel pan oedd ymddiolol Llema Fox. Charlie. Mae'r Rhubet. Mae'r ffordd i'r gynhyrch bydd ymddiol fe fyddai'r gynhyrch i'r gynhyrch ar ysgolion yng nghydroliidd a'r gynhyrch yn ymddiol ymddiolol. Mae'r gynhyrch yn ymddiol m6. Mae'r gynhyrch yn ymddiol. Mae'n ddiwedd i'r cwrtholi cwp am ystod yma i amlwg, y trofodol yn fwy o'r prydau cwp, mae hynny'n ddod yn ysgrif iawn ar y cwrtholi cwp, mae hynny'n ddod yn ddod yn fwy o amlwg ymlaen i amlwg ymlaen i amlwg ymlaen i, ac mae'r amlwg ymlaen i amlwg ar ymlaen i amlwg. Y rydd ymlaen i'r cymaint o'r wlad wedi'u gwybodol ymlaen i'r internet, Byddwch yn ddweud eich bod y bau o'r amser o amserio. Mae'r amserio yw yn ddweud o'r amserio gwneud o gwybodol cymdeiniedig iawn o teimlo gyda'r cymhwyllt yng Nghymru. Ond yn ddweud y gallwn yn ddweud o'r amserio gwneud o'r amserio gwneud o'r amserio gwneud. Yr problem yw... Yn ymgyrch, rydyn ni'n meddwl i chi ddweud o'r amserio. A ydych chi wedi gweithio i gyd y gweithio, yn ddweud i ddiwrnod a'r mynd i'r gweithio. So, we're watching TV on it at home, we're doing our banking on it, we're maintaining security systems, we're using voice communications at home and some of us are even running internet based software so we're running things like web mail, we're running things like Google Docs and things like that for all our word processing. So, we rely on the internet for an awful lot of our everyday lives. Now, the problem with the internet is that it's not reliable. How many people have BT as their internet provider? Only a few. A couple of weeks ago BT's hubs went down and the vast majority of BT internet customers couldn't get access to the internet. For them, that meant no watching TV. It meant no email access.  Life was destroyed for two days while BT got themselves back on the air. But it's not just us at home who are affected by these sort of things. Does anybody recognise this photograph? Anybody know what it was? Sorry? Yeah. But 2009, we lived up in Lancashire, we're very, very close to Cumbria. In 2009, Cumbria was absolutely deluged with heavy rain and things like that. And many, many bridges got taken out. And what you can actually see in that particular video is strung across the actual bridge are a lot of wires. Now, some of those are support wires for those three little guys trying to actually get across the water there. Others of them are electricity cables, communications cables and internet infrastructure. The problem was that an awful lot of the communications for Cumbria was wiped out when these bridges went down. And that didn't just affect us at home. It didn't just affect businesses. More importantly, it actually affected the emergency services because most people don't realise that when a police officer gets on his radio, he's not talking direct to the police station or anything like that. He's talking to the local mast and then his voice communication goes over the internet to police headquarters where it gets dealt with. So when things like this happen, then the actual emergency services can't communicate either. And they don't have a backup. There is no backup for this failure in communications. This is actually just outside Cockermouth. This is one of the big bridges that went down. But there was lots and lots of bridges carrying infrastructure like this that actually went down. Now, we specialise in wireless communications, which means we don't rely on the internet. We're communicating point to point through the air, through the ionosphere, etc. So we're not actually involving the internet in any of our communications. Our communications can be the local or it can be long distance. Right, now there we go. Unfortunately, this was done in PowerPoint. This was done in PowerPoint and it doesn't work terribly well in free software unfortunately. Sorry, we just need to do a quick reboot. Sorry, do apologise. Now, frequency is a measurement of how fast things move. So if I wave my hand two times a second, I'm actually waving my hand at what they call a frequency of two hertz, two times a second. And that's exactly if I was to be able to wave my hand at say 20 times a second, then some people would actually be able to hear the sound where the actual waves, the disturbance that's actually created. Because that's at the bottom of our human hearing frequency. So anywhere between 20 hertz and 20 kilohertz, a good hearing person could be able to hear it. And that's literally air vibrating and that's how speakers work. If you actually vibrate a speaker cone at 10,000 times a second, that's actually generating audio frequency tone of about 10 kilohertz. Those of you who are musically orientated will recognise what middle C is. That's actually got a frequency of about 261 hertz. Now these are frequencies that we can hear. So any frequencies, anything that's vibrating the air and things like that around us between these frequencies, we can actually hear. But above that, above those frequencies, we've actually got radio frequencies. Now these are frequencies that we can't hear. But these are frequencies that can carry information through the air and through the ionosphere around the actual world. And we've got six main bands to actually use and these are split up with these particular frequencies. Now these numbers might not make much sense to you. But if we actually replace them with actual descriptions, so those of us who are old enough to remember what longwave is, or cricket fans, any cricket fans amongst us listening out on the cricket on Radio 4 on longwave, so they're the low frequencies. Then we move up to the medium wave frequencies, which are the things like Rebecca listens to on Atlantic 252 or whatever it is, pop music from Southern Ireland. She's moved on, she's on the internet. Then we move up into shortwave radio, what people recognise as shortwave radio, where we've got worldwide broadcasts and things like that. Up to the VHF frequencies, which are what we use for ordinary FM radio, Radio 1, 2, 3, 4, etc. Up into the UHF frequencies, which is where television and mobile phones sit. And then up into the super high frequencies, which is where your microwaves sit. So these are all the radio frequencies that we've got available to us. Now the thing with radio waves is they travel along the actual ground. So when we're transmitting here, we'll get radio waves that travel actually along the ground. And the lower frequencies will actually travel further. So very high frequencies, like the ones generated by this handheld, will probably travel maybe five miles around here. If I get up on a hill, I might be able to get 75, 80 miles out of it. But if I was using much lower frequencies, then those signals would actually travel further. So the lower the frequency, the further those radio waves will actually travel. Now they don't just travel along the ground. They also go out into the air, into the air around us and the atmosphere around us. Now sitting above us about 50 kilometres is something called the ionosphere, which is a dense level of gases. And the low frequencies will actually bounce off this ionosphere. And you can actually see in the diagram there, there's actually the red line. That's a low frequency, sort of frequency that we're transmitting on in the tent outside with the big vertical antenna. And those signals will actually hit the ionosphere, bounce back down to Earth, and anybody in the zone where that signal hits the Earth can actually receive the signal. Sometimes that signal will actually bounce back up again into the ionosphere and we'll actually get what we call multiple hops. So we can actually transmit right the way around the world using multiple hops. The VHF signals, the highest signals unfortunately, they actually pass right the way through the ionosphere so they don't get reflected. So these sort of signals that are generated by these transmitters, they won't get bounced around the Earth, they'll go straight out into space. So I guess if you're sitting on the next shuffle to Venus in about 60 years, you may well be able to hear some of us amateur radio operators calling CQ. That's not an issue though because what we do have is we've got satellites. So those VHF signals that actually pass through the ionosphere, they can actually get reflected by satellites. So we can actually reflect those as well, but we're using an artificial reflector satellite to actually bounce the signals back down to Earth. So this is what we as amateur radio operators do and this is why we call it communicating around the world without the internet. The internet is always seen as the modern must-have piece of technology for communication. Unfortunately, it doesn't always work and this is a fallback system and this is what a lot of amateur radio operators experiment with. So not all amateur radio operators are geniuses. I'm certainly not a genius. However, a lot of amateur radio operators experiment with wireless communications. So they'll experiment with normal radios. They'll experiment by developing wireless communications and technology systems. So they'll create their own kind of thing and experiment to see if it works so that they can fine-tune it to create it and make sure it's even better. They'll use wireless to communicate with other amateur radio operators around the world. So if there was someone in like Brazil, you could speak to them. Where did we get? We got to... The furthest we transmitted to yesterday, HF conditions weren't brilliant, the furthest we got yesterday was Greece and Turkey. But if conditions are brilliant, you can get to Brazil, America, places like that. And there's lots of different areas of amateur radio so you can vocally talk to people. You can do keyboard to keyboard, so basically type into people. You can use satellites to bounce off and enhance your signal. You can use Morse code, which is basically a series of dots and dashes that are formed to create words, numbers and sentences. A lot of people actually think Morse code is a very old-fashioned method of communication but it's actually on the way out. Certainly the military have stopped using it. They made a policy many years ago stop using it. However, they're very slowly reintroducing it because they've now realized that when the satellites go down, when the internet goes down, nothing actually gets through better than Morse code. What you will find when you listen into HF signals is voice signals get very easily distorted and it's really difficult to actually hear what somebody's actually saying. Listening to a tone, a DAW or a DIT, your human brain can actually do error correction on the actual DAWs and DITs that you hear. So you actually find that Morse code actually is slowly coming back into the military because it's one of the few modes of communication that actually still works properly. There's also something called SSTV, which is basically slow scan TV where you can take still images and can you take videos? No, that's a fast scan TV. And you can use fast scan TV to send videos over the radio waves and it will be decoded by someone else. So the ISS often brings, has a SSTV, what's it called? Last year the International Space Station was actually transmitting slow scan TV transmissions and anybody with a receiver could actually hook it up to tune it to the right frequency and actually receive those signals and actually decode the actual images that would be transmitted. So amateur radio is fundamentally a hobby. It's a technical hobby but you don't have to have loads of technical knowledge to actually get started. It's enjoyed by all ages. So in October scouts do a thing called Jota, which is jamboree on the air. So basically scout troops get an amateur radio station into their like hot or into their troop and they will for a weekend they will play on the radio. Amateur radio licences will show people how it works, how to operate, what Morse code is and at the end of the weekend they'll get their communications badge. I know people as young as Biva Age, which is about seven or eight, something like that, who love amateur radio and they just need a little push into going into a course, which is really easy. So amateur radio is open for men, women, whoever and all ethnicities. The other good thing about amateur radio operators is that you're allowed to communicate with the International Space Station. So while Tim Peake was in the International Space Station, amateur radio operators were allowed to communicate with him and we were the only people who were allowed to communicate with him outside of NASA. So in schools, in some schools earlier this year, some amateur radio operators went into the schools and allowed the pupils to talk to Tim Peake using amateur radio and from what I've heard, they all loved it and I think even a few people did the amateur radio licence while the Tim Peake talks were going on as well. If you are interested in the International Space Station, we've actually got three passes, we carefully arranged this, so that we've actually got three passes over the site today. One of them will be at just past eight o'clock this evening. So if you are interested in communications with the space station, if you make your way over to the amateur radio village at around about eight o'clock-ish, then they'll be attempting to actually work the space station. They've actually switched off their voice transponder but they will be accepting data transmissions. So it's a good opportunity to actually see a ground station, a satellite ground station in action later on this evening. So amateur radio is a hobby for everyone. You can build electronic circuits, you can build antennas, you can study space weather and propagation, you can use network computers, you can transmit using videos and live TV shows, and you can walk up hills and mountains and operate from there using a thing called SOTA, which is Summits on the Air. The interesting thing about amateur radio is that it is a very, very wide hobby. It doesn't matter what you're interested in, amateur radio has got something for almost everybody used into a technical subject. If it's making things, making antennas, if it's building electronic circuits, we've currently got a guy experimenting at the moment using Arduino and little transmitter, one centimeter square transmitters, actually building handheld transceivers like these for about 20 quid using Arduinos and little 20 centimeter transmitter boards. So what's all this got to do with the floods that we started talking about at the beginning of the actual talk? Unfortunately, when the bridges did go down and the cables were broken and the internet stopped working and the radio communications failed for the emergency services, it was actually amateur radio operators that were called in to actually set up the wireless communications systems on a temporary basis while BT got themselves sorted out. That involved teams like me actually going up to the Lake District with all our wireless radio equipment, erecting stations at key places like police stations, ambulance stations, hospitals, fire stations, council places and things like that, and actually providing the radio communications infrastructure for all these professional services that couldn't actually handle the fact that a cable was broken. So I actually belong to an organization called Rainet, which is the amateur radio emergency network, and we're a team of volunteers that actually go in and provide this infrastructure. This is the last time I'm using free software. Give me PowerPoint any day. At least I know how to rack that. Right, these were some quotes from the actual, this was preparation for this particular event, and this was what was published by Rainet as to what our duties were going to be. If the bridge collapses before the cable work is complete, Rainet will be called out to pass messages between two police stations and four council locations. That was our actual brief for this particular bridge. Cell phones should still work but may be congested. This was a problem that they found at the Twin Towers in America. When the Twin Towers came down in America, the mobile phone lines became very quickly congested because it's amazing how many people want to make a phone call when something drastic happens. And as it with Cumbria in 2009 in America, it was the American version of Rainet that actually provided all the emergency communications because guess what was sitting on top of the Twin Towers when they came down? The two masks that they needed for all the communications for New York were on top of those Twin Towers. So by taking the Twin Towers out, not only did they actually cause the disaster they did, but they also took out the whole communications infrastructure for New York and it was actually amateur radio that stepped in and provided that backup service. The public have been told that if they require emergency services they can go to one of our designated four locations which were amateur radio stations and a radio operator will summon them. Rainet will be manning continuously for possibly nine to 14 days. It actually turned out we had guys up there for 21 days while British telecom sorted themselves out. So amateur radio stepped into the breach with the technology that was needed for that particular time. So while a lot of people think the internet is the bee's knees in communication, wireless communication is, at the end of the day, the one thing that doesn't fail. It's generally always working. If you're actually interested in making things, if you're interested in social networking, if you're interested in even an exciting career, there's lots of engineers here, there's lots of techy people who are already involved in the industry, but amateur radio does serve as a good jumping off point for young people that want to get into an engineering career. We're available on a stand just outside here, GBATMF, where we're running a radio station and there's also guys down in the amateur radio village which you can come and have a chat with if you're interested in any of these subjects. If you're interested in getting into amateur radio itself, it's very, very easy. The entry level to amateur radio is a two-day course with a 27-question test at the end of it and at the end of the test you know whether you've passed or failed. It's a very, very easy hobby to get into. Once you get into it, it's hugely addictive. That's the problem. I actually saw a radio, there was an advert in American magazine and it was a brand new HF receiver and the actual advert was called The Divorce Maker because once you get into amateur radio, it is really, really capturing and you really get involved with it. So that's amateur radio. Hopefully that's been of interest to you and as I say, if you want to come and speak to anybody about amateur radio and wireless communications, please come and see us on the stand outside GBATMF or at the amateur radio village. Thank you.


What if we have more than one constraint? It's important to recognize that constraints are actually inequalities. For example, to maximize the area enclosed by 240 feet of fencing, you could consider areas using less fencing. Similarly to find the shortest distance between a point and a curve, you could consider points on the far side of the curve. But with just one constraint, there's usually no reason to worry about inequalities. However, if there's more than one constraint, the inequalities become possibilities. Now, in what we're about to do, it helps to think of the constraints as resources. While in the real world, these resources are different types of things we can imagine converting one into the other. We actually do this in real-world projects by allocating cost amounts to each resource required. So our different constraint functions can be combined into a single function. Note that this by itself is not a constraint function. We'll do an example to see why. So we'll come back to our table and chair factory and say putting together a chair cost five hours of cutting and two hours of finishing, and putting together a table cost two hours of cutting and three hours of finishing. If 40 hours are available for cutting and 20 hours available for finishing, let's write the constraint functions, and let's write a single function expressing the total cutting and finishing used and explain why the resulting function is not a constraint. So suppose we assemble x chairs and y tables. So since each chair takes five hours of cutting and each table takes two hours of cutting, then the total cutting time for chairs and tables will be 5x plus 2y. Since there are 40 hours available for cutting, we then require 5x plus 2y be less than or equal to 40. Similarly, since each chair takes two hours of finishing and each table takes three hours of finishing, then the total finishing time for the chairs and tables will be 2x plus 3y. And since there are 20 hours available for finishing, we require 2x plus 3y be less than or equal to 20. Now, we can incorporate both constraints into a single function if we convert the cutting hours and finishing hours into the same type of quantity. In the real world, we often do that by computing a monetary cost. Suppose it costs $1 per hour to cut and $2 per hour to finish. Then the cost to cut x chairs and y tables will be? And the cost to finish x chairs and y tables will be? And so the cost to cut and finish x chairs and y tables will be the sum. So why isn't this a constraint function? For concreteness, suppose we assume it costs $10 per hour to cut, but $15 an hour to finish. Now imagine we've used all available cutting time, 40 hours, but only 10 hours of finishing. Our cost will be $550. But if we decrease the amount of finishing time, we could increase the cutting time and maintain the same cost. For example, if our finishing time went down to eight hours, we could increase cutting time to 43 and still spend the same amount of money. But this requires more cutting time than we actually have. And so the reason this is not a constraint is because the same dollar amount might correspond to feasible and infeasible values of x and y. Now while this new function, f, is not a constraint, it does share some of the properties of a constraint. And those emerges follows. Suppose we've optimized l. Then the resources used correspond to a value of f. And again, there's a corresponding level curve. And as before, if l is not cotangent, then higher or lower values of l will correspond to the same value of f as the same use of resources. So by exactly the same argument that gave us the Lagrangian in the first place, the optimal values of l will occur when the gradient of l is a scalar multiple of the gradient of f. And here we can introduce one useful simplification. Since the effect of multiplying the gradient of f by lambda would be multiplying each lambda i by some constant, we can just use the equality of the gradients and let the coefficients lambda 1 through lambda n incorporate this scalar multiple lambda. And this leads us to the following strategy. Suppose we want to optimize l subject to some set of constraints. An optimal value will occur at a solution to the gradient of l equal the sum of Lagrange multiples of the gradients of the individual constraint functions. Now, generally speaking, these equations are too hard to be solved by hand, so we'll focus on setting up the system of equations that we need to solve. So for example, let's set up the system of equations needed to find the minimum distance between the origin and the curve formed by the intersection of two surfaces. You might recognize that this surface is a cone and this surface is a plane, so we actually have very literally a conic section. Since we have to be on the surface z squared equals x squared plus y squared and also on the plane 2x plus 3y minus 4z equals 12, these are both our constraints. So we want to rewrite our constraints as functions, and so we'll get all the variables on one side. And so one constraint is f of xyz equals 0, where f of xyz is x squared plus y squared minus z squared. Our other surface, all of our variables are already on one side, and since we're differentiating, an added or subtracted constant can be ignored. So our second constraint can be g of xyz equals 12, where g of xyz is equal to the variable part of the expression. So this gives us our two constraints. And since we're trying to find the distance from the origin, we'll use our old standby of the square of the distance as our objective function. So we want to find lambda and mu, where the gradient of l is lambda times the gradient of f plus mu times the gradient of g. So we'll fill in those partial derivatives. And comparing our components give us three equations. Now there's five unknowns, x, y, z, lambda, and mu. And so we need two more equations, and we get those from our constraints. Again, typically these systems of equations are extremely nonlinear and extraordinarily challenging to solve by hand. So when we solve them, we'll probably use some sort of technology. And in this particular case, this system leads to a fourth degree equation, and we find two sets of real solutions. And again, if we consider the geometry of the situation, one of these points is the closest point to the origin, and one is the farthest point from the origin.


Good afternoon everyone, and thank you for joining us for today's public safety briefing led by deputy mayor for public safety fill banks Following our last speaker. We will take a few questions from the media followed by some questions that have been submitted by the public ahead of today's briefing But I would now like to turn it over to deputy mayor fill banks. So good afternoon, and thank you for joining. I'm joined here today by two guests two co-workers two colleagues Inspector Frank the jocomo who's the commanding officer of the NYPD's technical assistance response unit Which is referred to as taru and he is going to be discussing how the NYPD The FD and why the Department of Parks and Recreation and other agencies are using technology to conduct sharks surveillance near our beaches And to keep our residents safe Unfortunately, there was an attack of a shark bite and rockery beach last week and though those attacks are statistically rare We just wanted to keep you informed of exactly what the city is doing To minimize to eliminate it happening again in the future And since we don't like to focus on statistics because they only tell a portion of exactly the element of public safety Statistically is rare, but if you're the one who got bit of your family member got bit It's not real. We just want to make sure we put some sensitivity and we certainly wish The victim of that attack a healthy recovery I'm also joined today by the commissioner of the Department of Youth and Community Development Keith Howard. Keith. How you doing? All right, how you doing? I'm doing well Keith on his leadership his agency is going to take a larger role in public safety and He's going to be here to tell you some of the efforts that his agencies are going to be doing and some multi-faceted approach What does that mean? We can wait till somebody shoots and arrest them We can go take the guns off the street But there's also in addition to that and some would argue Much much more important role to be able to find out the root causes of what's causing that So we can now jump on to that to stop it from happening in the first place So it's to eliminate the violence not to just be able to have the violence take place and to be able to capture the you know capture the bag out or the bag out so and this is this like Public gun violence is not just one agency's Responsibility and typically that's fall into police departments overall And we just want the city to know exactly like the critical role that you are playing as well So when we do see that we're having statistically and we're having a violence going in a proper direction New York City for this year You and your agency deserve a large large part of that particular credit We just want the city to know exactly what you do So for those of you tuning in here for the first time the goal of this public safety briefing is to really just to keep New Yorkers You can hear directly from the administration or what we're doing what we're trying to do to keep New York is safe We certainly want to hear from you. We cannot do this alone What we're doing good what we're doing bad what we need to be improvements on What questions that you have and we want to be as transparent as possible. We want you to hear directly from us And the takeaway today is real simple share the information if you hear a tip if you hear something that you think is worthwhile Share the information with your neighbor a loved one a parent a child Just grab a text simple. I heard this text it out to someone because knowledge is power Intel is very critical So as I mentioned, there was a very concerning tragic incident that occurred earlier this week where women were swimming in Rockway Beach and she wasn't swimming far Out she was in deep sea like the deep sea fishermen She was swimming in an area where people go to the beach swim and she was a victim of a a shark attack It was a very horrific attack and we're happy that she's recovering Relatively well and that can be a scary thing to hear right like when we swim we want to swim alone Or we want to swim with other swimmers other people. We don't want to be swimming Certainly with with with sharks, but even though our beaches remain safe for our families to enjoy There was a lot of work that we put in as a city to just to be able to make sure that we're monitoring in fact and to eliminate The possibility and the mayor is real clear about this just because we haven't had an attack in New York City in 1953 That is not to rest on anybody's laurels We want to make sure that we do not suffer any attacks like that So you need to let us know what we're doing and I understand that drones right has been a very big part of what we're looking to do And since you are the expert in my PD's expert of this and you've been working with the FDMI You've been working with the parks department So I want to turn over to you now and just let the the residents of the city know exactly what you've been doing and How's it look? First of all, I have to thank the mayor deputy mayor For their support with improving taroo with technology we have actually Since the administration started we have Excels leaps and bounds with technology We are looking at the latest than the best technology to help keep public safety and keep the public safe So like the deputy mayor said about the drone So we we are using drone deployment because a drone can get up there see things Extra eyes in the sky. We can get closer to the water So we also have our aviation unit our harbour units the parks department unit the fire department all Contributing to make New York is safer at the beach So we implemented that we're gonna have drone deployments at every beach. We're gonna be at Coney Island Rockway Beach Orchard Beach and Staten Island South Beach Drone deployments will be from 0900 to dusk obviously if they extend any hours or Make it, you know any changes Us as a police department will go with those changes stay as late as we need to just to make New York is safe. Like I said, we are using all resources. We're using the fire department. They're flying with us We also have the parks department personnel with us assigned to the drone unit Because we get a lot of questions. Well, what happens if you see a shock? So the first thing if we see a shock we notify the parks department the parks department takes that and automatically Notifies lifeguards the lifeguards will shut down the beach immediately Then we will make other notifications. We will wait and follow that shock See, you know where it's gonna go And then usually if the shock goes away it's usually an hour after deciding for a mile on each side of the location the shock was So then then we'll reassess and then they will open the park the swimming again Why we're doing this? We just want New York's a no the beach will always be open this if we see shocks and only pertains to the swimming so if You know, if we see a stock shot and we're not clothes in the whole beach We're just closing down the swim portion of the park and like I said any any sightings of like since we've been doing the first Patrol in all the beaches. We haven't seen any other shock sightings except for once after the Victim was bit and we assure everybody will be out there and the drones are a vital part Because they're just given extra eyes in the sky and we also can get lower to the ground Then obviously the aviation could so Inspector these drones are the tethered or untethered These drones are not tethered and I tell it. Yeah, because if the tethered drones are just usually drones that go straight up We want to be over the water So we're using our best drones to fly over the water to zoom in with the cameras and look for anything Abnormal out in the water. So before the beach opens right before the beach opens before you're allowed to go into the water I think it's 10 o'clock, but those those hours may change We're up the drones are up there looking right before we allow people going to the beach to be able to see an absolute We're up at 0900 with the fire department with the parks department. We're out there scanning the water Also our aviation the harbor out there to making sure it's safe before they open the beaches, right? And so what we need to get the word out to is that sometimes we haven't had it So I just want to that you have sometimes When we either have to shut the beach or during the off hours unauthorized swimmers out there So no go you're not swimming out there alone, right? You could be swimming out there with the shark and if the beach is authorized hours a lot of people out there you under that Attack you're only by yourself. So, you know, we need you to follow those particular rules, right? The the hours of the beach are it's enough time if you don't go out there enjoy yourself But if you're going out there doing this or not the rise of hours you put yourself at a greater risk and You certainly put undue resources on the city because we still have to go out there to help you So please try to comply with these rules as much as possible. They shouldn't be difficult there hours We just need to comply of with them If you certainly on the beach and you see somebody in the waters during a time which they're not supposed to be Please give 311 a call or if you certainly see someone who was in danger to give 9-1-1 a call As much as you possibly can and I just really want to reiterate the inspector. It's like The public doesn't want to hear a good job, right? They just want the services of the city, right? They don't want to hear the man put money into this They just want to make sure that the services are done So I'm gonna break a rule you really really that coordination between the NYPD the FDY and a parks apartment. It's really It's really been pleasant to see because for years you just did not see the coordination that was taken place Between those agencies and the mayor has always said it's like it's all a taxpayer money It's all for the residents of the city, right? It's just we all work for new york city. The patch is also in new york city So I'm certainly very pleased. I think he's very happy about the coordination how we seamlessly working together And I just want to be able to just go on the record to be able to say thank that But in addition we get a lot of compliance from the residents, right people have been compliant They've been asking questions. They've been sending in a lot of good suggestions We have been speaking to and identifying like shock experts Throughout the the city and certainly we're going to be looking to take some trips to be able to determine since this is a Rare situation for new york city. We want to make sure that we're not behind You know the eight ball on this that we are we're getting ahead of that And as far as the drone technology We could put a lot of resources into the drone But the commitment that you do have and your members have and you know, you've given me multiple multiple presentations I see you have some of the members of your team here The city is a lot safer from the efforts that are taking place. I just want to say thank you for that. Thank you boss So everybody knows that one of the administration's top priorities is to end gun violence the mayor he ran on it He stated it all throughout his campaign And it is we have to be safe. We have to be safe. We have to be safe And one of the staples of being safe is gun violence, but let's go off This is not a like a radar. They don't necessarily go for the intended target And even if they were that still would be not good, but they fly and everybody's at risk so We have our good commissioner here And he has done a lot of work on the back end to stem the violence How do we keep the guns out of the Of the people who would be firing them? How do we change the mindsets of people to realize that? That is not the answer to any problem that you're looking to To solve and Though we statistically are doing a great job with gun violence with 274 Fewer people have been shot this year's campaign the last year 275 people right how many people are live because of what we're doing and that's fine Doesn't help if you're the victim of a gun violence and that's why I never like to overly go with statistics But the mayor always says about an upstream way, right? There's always an upstream way to do it Last week the mayor released his blueprint for community safety, which includes Almost 500 million dollars in investments to create safer communities And uh, he dumped a lot of it on your lap big guy, right? So can you let us know What you're working on your ministration is working on absolutely deputy mayor So I just want to first start off by You know just basically saying i'm proud that dycd Uh serves everyone from kenny garden to older new yorkers We like to say that we are a small agency with a large footprint dycd is integrating Violence intervention programming into our portfolio This means More coordinated services for new yorkers at risk of gun violence Why dycd deputy mayor? Our agency has a proven track record of community programming and connecting participants To services throughout the city We also have A long-standing relationship with nypd. As you know, um our saturday night lights programs uh, some of youth employment program which nypd In an amazing way stepped up this year and had a thousand young people in some of youth employment programs participants this year Last year was 813. They've increased dramatically record number We have a robust agency data collection and A demonstrated capacity to pay out Contracts expeditiously to our community-based partners I want to thank mayor adams for entrusting dycd And taking on these vital responsibility As you heard the deputy mayor say And if you also heard the the mayor say intervention and prevention are key to public safety dycd Helps address crime and violence by integrating upstream solutions into our programs including beacon programs That are running at our schools Our cornerstone programs, which are community centers that we partner with nitra Our compass and sonic after-school programs The summit youth employment program. I just spoke about that our work-loaning grow program Which deals with paid internship year-round for in school youth Our fatherhood initiative We also Contract and have amazing community-based organizations run our food pantry programs And our runaway and homeless youth Program We also are zero zeroing in deputy mayor on the top six precincts That represents 27 percent Of all of the shooting incidents citywide This includes the four oh the four two The four four and the four seven precinct in bronze And the seven three and seven five precinct in brooklyn As an agency We are prioritizing these communities throughout our programs In addition As I mentioned before our work-loaning grow program Based upon the mayor's funding has been extended to provide Seven thousand high-need students with meaningful paid Work and career exploration opportunities year-round We've also expanded our workforce programs To serve even more out of school out of work young people Now new to uh, dycd this year Is the office of neighborhood safety and the precision employment initiative this includes Atlas an evidence-based violence prevention model to serve people at high risk for Rearrest The mayor's action plan for neighborhood safety, which we call map Which targets public housing development that face the highest rate of violent crime The precision employment initiative which offers paid training career readiness and job opportunities for at-risk new yorkers And the crisis management system a network of programs and partners That promote peace community and healing in neighborhoods Most impacted by gun violence The crisis management system includes the cure violence groups A public health model which interrupts the spread of violence By engaging the high the highest risk individual and changing social norms These efforts are located in specific areas determined by a nypd data Want to give chief laboratory? A nice shout out for being so responsive to us And of course it also helps with the community providing input dycd Is laser focus on public safety? And ensuring that everyone especially our youth Has an opportunity to thrive We look forward to making every neighborhood safer For all new yorkers So an upstream prevention approach That's what the mayor wanted and that's where the funding Actually provided the additional funding that you that you mentioned and also What the gun violence task force Has laid out for dycd So you get somebody and he's involved or she's involved in the shooting and they uh, I picked 17 years of age and you ask yourself You know, I mean we can say how the person get the gun Um, and you know who gave him the gun and what was the dispute about but then it's just like the mind said Why did this particular individual feel as though this is something that was going to solve whatever issue that they had? And that's the stuff that we have to really be able to as a as a city continue to invest in Right because if you if you change the mindset and change the opportunities, you know, people don't look For that venue to solve any issues that they have but a couple things you said I want to go back on Just go into detail. What is the work on the gold program? What exactly is that program? How does it operate? So the work loan and grow program We provide slots throughout network of providers and these young kids actually work at Business and corporate and sometimes in nonprofit organizations And it's like a co-op program one week. They go to school One week they work and it targets juniors and seniors In high school. Yep Now because we're going to have uh, we're going to start to have in future Weeks members of the cure violence Network on to explain can you give her just a real quick briefing? To uh, our viewers on the cure violence program the concept behind it and how do you feel it's going? So the cure violence, uh through the crisis manager system Is 40 plus organizations Where they have real credible messengers That are out there on the streets Talking with community talking with the young people Where the goal is to try to interrupt Any type of retaliation that's going on that may happen in our communities Uh, they have already have relationships in those communities and they're able to talk to the young people to Perhaps get them to Not pick up a gun because as the mayor often said by the time that young person picks up a gun We've already lost So it's the relationship in the community is the relationship building That is key to the gobu peace model A model that originated out of chicago that came Into new york city in the past 10 years And now the mayor is looking how we can build it out provide more resources to the cure violence groups To be able to do more In those communities and fund them so that they can do more And you know just and we're going to learn more as a city about what cure violence does they are Many people refer to them as one of the unsung heroes Um of new york city and certainly when i speak about 274 few people being shot. Um, they certainly played a factor into that particular Reduction Solving these problems of public safety is not all right will not and will ever Solely or should not be the responsibility of just people just wear uniform Vital and critical is important But it's also important for those residents who live in those particular neighborhoods for us to arm them with information For us to treat them like they that we like we care for them And for give them a pathway to be able to contribute to public safety as well And I would argue that all of the success that i've seen in my time working for this city becomes a public violence That the residents of new york city Has been the unsung hero and I just want to say thank you to out there But we need to continue because this is a fight that just never ends We just have to continue to get better and better and better and better at it as we develop Into really having a city of a safety So like never ending we're going to continue to do it and we're going to get some successes We're going to get some blips down the road, but overall if we realize is that we have the same goal and work together We could do quite well and that particularly every day as well So with that i'm going to kick it to you Derek Thank you deputy mayor. We have one question Chris somerville from the daily news has his hand raised chris. You can now unmute your line I just remind her we're only taking on topic questions at this time Hello, can you hear me? We can Okay, perfect. Um, thanks for doing this. Let's just had some Um specific questions about the drones that are going to be deployed for a shark monitoring Did I understand it correctly that these drones will be flying? Seven days a week between 9 a.m. And and dusk and if so How many drones are we actually talking about that will be out there between those hours and lastly what type of cost? Will will come with that type of monitoring So we will be flying seven days a week. Um, we will be using our drone technology to to fly The cost is is that i'm using taro personnel to do it the goal eventually is So we're partnering up with the fire department and us and the pox department is our notification uh Means when we're doing it, uh, eventually the pox department will Learn to fly their own drones, but that's going to take a little Time because the fly drone obviously you have to have Certain qualifications and you have to go through some uh some training So by next hopefully by next summer The pox department will have their own drones out there, but until that happens We will be flying the rest of the summer seven days a week From 9 a.m. Till dusk Thank you Earlier this week the administration reached out to new yorkers asking them to submit questions for the officials that have joined us here today We will now get to as many of those as we can with the amount of time that we have left Our first question comes from stew in brooklyn about shark surveillance who asks How does drone shark monitoring work? Does someone have to be watching a live feed constantly? So yes, we we are Doing drone detection. I we have our pilots doing a live feed And they actually can make the term termination live on the spot And like like I said the notification is the most important thing So having a pox department person with communication with the life god is the most vital thing So having a live pilot watching a monitor seeing what's out there That's our goal to have instant response and keep the you know the public safe The next question comes from david in the bronx for commissioner howard who asks Can you speak more about ways our young people can connect with the cms programs? And deepen relationships to keep guns out of our schools and off of our streets Thank you for the question The community the q of islands groups that are out there doing the incredible work in our communities They have and part of their base Model is to do community convenings your see Some of the groups out doing Barbecuing and some of the groups will actually be out Having sporting events some groups Will do community concerts So it's a variety of different ways to connect with those groups in those communities in those districts they can Anyone who has a question on where is the nearest? Cure violence groups in their particular neighborhood. They can send me an email at dycd Connect and I can direct them to exactly what groups are in their neighborhood and what convenies they're doing And what is an email again that they should use they can use dycd connect Thank you very much. Next question is from seheath and queens about sharks surveillance who says Is the increase in shark sightings just the result of more surveillance? Well, that's actually true Um, the more we look for them shocks has always been out there. So we are actually looking for them But finding him is not a bad thing. It's all about safety. So when we find the shocks, we want swimmers to feel safe Be safe. So the more shocks we find Like like we said, it's just a question, you know, they don't You know, we don't go by numbers, but we want new york because it feels safe when we're at the beaches So we will find more shocks But with the protocols the parks department have in hand. It should make uh, you know a safe summer Next question is from kevin and yonkers for commissioner howard who asks What do you find as a leading reason for children getting involved in gangs and gun violence nowadays? So the deputy mayor can can also of course, uh, co-sign off of this Uh, what we found is that uh, uh, the young people are feeling to some degree unsafe, right? Unsafe comes from different Publications that they may have in school that spills out into local neighborhoods If you ask a young person, why are they carrying a gun majority of the time they will tell you that they feel targeted They feel unsafe And that's the reasons why one of the reasons why the other reasons why it can be anywhere from Food food insecurities to a whole assortment of different issues that actually trigger a young person to pick up a gun Thank you next our last question comes from francis in tautonville about shark surveillance who asks Through surveillance. Are there other concerns at the that beachgoers should know about is there anything else you were looking for?  They're out there. Um But safety-wise, I mean, I think the beaches are safe and we will continue to try to keep the beaches safe Thank you and inspector We just have one follow-up question from chris sommerfeld from the daily news who asks Have nypd drones already been flying seven days at city beaches Or is this a new initiative in light of the rockaway beach attack and also asks how many drones are being utilized to do surveillance So right now we are flying one drone as nypd if fd has their own drone um, and then we also have um Many other resources used we have aviation in the air. We have harbor in the waters. We have, uh, people patrolling on the ground. We have the lifeguards. We have, um Many resources out there. So it's not just the drones being out there We have all the agencies working together to make short new york safe And this is not a new initiative. This is already been ongoing. We we we did expand to Uh, few beaches that we weren't flying out so so we can cover all beaches and make new york safer But we were only flying at a couple of uh, two beaches Um, and we will continue like I said, we will continue to fly at all the beaches for the rest of the summer Thank you very much on behalf of the adams administration I would like to thank everyone for tuning in to today's briefing. We look forward to seeing you all at our next one Have a great day