Want to help out with your holiday gift guide recommendations? Record a 30 second audio clip of yourself explaining what the gift is and why it makes a good tech gift and email it to feedbackanddailytechnewshow.com with the subject line tech gift by Monday, November 22nd. Coming up on DTNS, Microsoft gets all 1998 about browsers. Dear Apple, the government is not like all your vendors and why the chip shortage just won't go away. Oh wait, chip shortage. This is the Daily Tech News for Monday, November 15th, 2021 in Los Angeles. I'm Tom Merritt. And from Studio Redwood, I'm Sarah Lane. And I'm the show's producer, Roger Chang. Joining us, technology contributor to ABC News, author and host of the Tech John podcast, Stephanie Upfrey, welcome back. Hey, good to be back. Thanks for having me. We were just talking about Crocs and Uggs and wired headphones and all kinds of new trends on our longer version of the show called Good Day Internet available at patreon.com. That is where you can join other patrons. We'd like to give a big thanks to Ken Hayes, Philip Shane and Paul Boyer today. Let's start with a few tech things you should know. Bloomberg sources say that Huawei plans to license its handset designs to third parties under its Exnova business unit as a way to gain access to components blocked by sanctions. Potential licensees include China Postal and Telecommunications Appliances and also TD Tech. Huawei engineers are reportedly redesigning smartphone electronics to use Qualcomm or MediaTek processors rather than its own high silicon chips. Twitter acquired Threader. It's an app that lets you compile Twitter threads and share favorites. Threader currently works by tagging its account in a thread with the word compile to get a link to a summarized article of the thread. Threader co-founder Marie Denis will help build out the company's reader feature that is part of the Twitter Blue subscription. Samsung released its Android 12 based one UI4 update to the Galaxy S21 series. That's less than a month after the OS shipped to Pixel devices. The fastest that Samsung has ever shipped an Android update. The company plans to roll out the update to older Galaxy S, Galaxy Note and Galaxy A devices as well as foldables and tablets soon. We don't know exactly how soon, but soon. The company also announced the Galaxy Watch update that adds the fall detection feature from the Galaxy Watch 4 to the Galaxy Watch 3 and also the Galaxy Watch Active 2. On November 16th, Sky TV and now subscribers in the UK and Ireland will get access to ad supported content for Peacock for the first time. That's NBC streaming service. Peacock will be available outside the US for the first time. Sky platforms in Germany, Italy, Austria and Switzerland will get Peacock content in the months following that. No word on if a standalone Peacock service will launch in Europe. Google Photos now allows users to remove specific people or time periods from memories as well as rename memories or remove single photos. The feature was developed with input from transgender and non binary individuals to give people more control after over how old photos surface. All right, let's talk a little more about a topic that has a very reasonable man very upset and I'm not talking about myself. Paul Therat calling for the Justice Departments of Europe in the United States to investigate Microsoft over this. In Windows 11, searching for something in the Windows start menu opens search results in the Microsoft Edge browser with Bing, even if you set another default browser. So several third party workarounds cropped up, including one called Edge Deflector, which used Microsoft Edge protocol links to redirect users to a browser of their choice, their default browser. However, Microsoft has now confirmed that an update to Windows 11 will block app developers from accessing protocol links, meaning that workaround will stop working. According to a Microsoft statement, this is absolutely on purpose. Here's the quote. Windows offers certain end to end customer experiences in both Windows 10 and Windows 11. The search experience from the task bar is one such example of an end to end experience that is not designed to be redirected. When we become aware of improper redirection, we issue a fix. While Edge Deflector has a modest user base, Mozilla now offers similar functionality on Firefox and the Brave browser added a workaround feature in its roadmap. But neither one of those are going to work the way they planned. Firefox has said, yeah, the way we're going to do it isn't going to work anymore. This is like 90s era of Microsoft stuff, right? The whole, this wouldn't really bother me that much. If you sort of understand what's going on, I would say, Microsoft big company, they're always trying to do that to you, right? But the company is saying, here's the fix that we're issuing because these third party alternatives are unsafe for you. That's what gets my goat a little bit. Well, the thing for me is like, isn't this the same concept as having an app store on a smartphone? Like, it's your platform. It's your hardware in the case of a smartphone. It's your ecosystem. So when you're talking about, like they said, these end to end experiences, it's their task bar in their software. Shouldn't they be able to direct you the way they want? I mean, when you're talking about IP, this is their intellectual property. And if they want, I mean, I get the idea that, okay, what's the point of having a default browser if you're not going to let me use it? However, this is also a ginormous sort of ubiquitous operating system that they have a right to sort of manage as they see fit. So I kind of see both sides of this. Sure, sure. No, you're absolutely right. Microsoft has the right to do this, right? I don't think you can argue they don't have the right to do it, but it's annoying as heck, right? Because it's one thing for you to have a workaround to something and then an update breaks it and you never know, like, did they break it on purpose? This happens with Apple all the time, right? Or were they just fixing something else and it broke that and they're not going to bother to make sure that this workaround works. This is Microsoft avowedly saying, yeah, yeah, we're all about an open platform. Set your default browser. Have alternate app stores, third-party downloads. Oh, except for the taskbar. No, we will actively spend engineering resources to stop you from working around that. Which is also one of the things the company touts is like, this is an extremely convenient way to look up things. Use this. Are that many people using the taskbar for search? I literally have never used the Windows taskbar for search. My browser is always open on my machine. So with 30 different tabs in Chrome. So I literally only use the taskbar to find software that's already on my device. I'm not using it to actually do any sort of active search. I didn't realize this was such a big deal. And like, are this many people using the taskbar for search? I mean, I'm sure there's a few out here. I guess we'll hear from the people who do now, right? But yeah, I don't think it's that widespread. I don't think that's a big deal. Plus, it's also not changing the search engine. It's just changing the browser. Right. Well, this also might be weird to you. Moving on. IBM announced its Eagle Quantum Chip on Monday. That's a 127 qubit quantum processor. IBM claims it's the first quantum processor that cannot be simulated by a classical computer. You might say, well, what's a classical computer? Those computers are slower at certain things than quantum computers. But even so, a supercomputer could model how a simple quantum chip works until now. IBM says a classical computer would need more bits than there are atoms in every human on the planet in order to simulate Eagle. That's a great way to describe how fast it is. The matrix. IBM also says that the increase in power comes from a design that puts all the qubits on a single layer and control components on other layers. But you might want to know, okay, sounds great. What can it do? Quantum volume is one metric for that. That counts not only the number of qubits, but how they interact with one another. The more interactions, the more complex operations the chip can execute. But IBM didn't release a quantum volume for the Eagle. So we're in early stages here. That's because it's an exploratory system and it doesn't guarantee uptime performance or quantum volume. IBM also doesn't claim quantum supremacy. That's the idea that a quantum system can solve problems that a classical computer cannot. Members of the IBM quantum network, which include academic institutions, research labs, startups, and also private companies, can try out the Eagle on the IBM cloud. Yeah, so this starts out sounding like a big step forward in quantum computing. And I think it ends up sounding like a smaller step forward, but still a step forward in quantum computing, right? Well, the whole report just seems way premature. You don't have anything really. You don't know how to measure it because the supercomputers are too slow. There's no way to quantify what you're actually doing and how fast it can actually go. So why don't we kind of hold off until we know how to measure whatever it is you're trying to measure? I mean, it all sounds very impressive. When you throw the word quantum in there, it just automatically makes it sound very impressive. But then you start reading farther and you realize that they have no way of judging how good this thing actually works. So it's kind of like... But yeah, they've got one metric. We can't take current computers and simulate it. Okay, that's a real valid metric. But that's it. And so the rest is like, hey, if you're a member of the IBM quantum network and you're engaged in quantum computing research, go mess with it. Try it out and see what you can do with it, right? I think that's great. But yeah, it's a small step. There's a little bit of this that, you know, how companies kind of go like, you don't have to be right. You just have to be first. There you go. That feels a little bit what the ego quantum chip is to me. And it probably, I'd have to believe that, you know, they wanted to get this out there first with all the metaverse conversation that's happening. We're probably going to need this type of computing to make that a reality in any way that's going to matter to most people. So, you know, if they can get in bed with Facebook or, you know, whomever and say, yeah, we got the chip that'll make it happen. Like you said, I agree, sir. It's like, let's just do it first and figure it out on the back end. Well, back in September, Apple announced it will let residents in eight U.S. states store digital state IDs and driver licenses inside Apple wallet. That's because they've got partnerships with eight states. They would like it to be more, but they don't yet. CNBC, however, obtained memorandums of agreement with four of those U.S. states in this initial launch, Georgia, Arizona, Kentucky and Oklahoma. Those documents show that Apple is basically treating the states like it would any other vendor, which sometimes makes sense. Other times it does not. It means Apple maintains a lot of direct control over how the feature is rolled out, but no control over how it's operated. One of those I think is better than the other. Apple maintains control over when the feature is launched, what device it rolls out to, which really means you can only roll it out to Apple devices. I think that you could make a bigger deal out of that than it is. I mean, shocker, Apple will let you roll it out on iOS. State agencies must maintain their own computer systems for issuing and validating the IDs and reporting on compliance. I think that's good, too. You don't want Apple running the state ID system. You want that fully under control of the state. The state also has to designate project managers to answer Apple's questions, which seems reasonable. Neither side makes payments to the other. The contract also requires states to market the feature with a digital ID proactively offered to new license holders. Apple also gets final review and approval on marketing efforts. This is where it starts to feel like, well, wait a minute, you know, the state of Kentucky is not like, you know, I don't know, Belkin or something. This is a little weird. States can only terminate the contract with Apple with Apple's consent or for cause, which also seems very restrictive. Georgia and Arizona are going to be the first two states supporting drivers licenses in Apple wallet. Stephanie, what do you make of this? I don't think there's any way our data doesn't get used in some way other than what we expected to get used in. Because it seems like, you know, from the article, and we talked about this a little bit on the Tech John last week, but it seems like from the article, the benefit to Apple is more people buying iPhones because now you have this capability of storing your ID information on the phone. I don't think that's a good enough reason to buy an iPhone. I mean, I have an iPhone, I love iPhones, but if I didn't that wouldn't be the thing to put me over the top to buy an iPhone. So I think there's going to be some other ulterior motive here for Apple to do this. And even if there's not, it just opens up that potential can of worms. I mean, we saw this back with the domestic terrorists and the police needed the information off the phone and that whole thing in the back door that they wanted Apple to build. Like you're just giving them more ammunition to be able to request that kind of information. So, you know, I personally won't be storing my ID on my phone. I don't know about anybody else, but like I don't need anybody to have a reason to need to hack my phone for even more data. I actually, you know, when this when the feature potentially was going to roll out to people like me, I was like, great sounds awesome, you know, while it gets smaller every day type thing. I'm not in one of the states that we're talking about in this particular conversation. But it's tricky because in some sense, I understand the tone that has been taken with some folks saying, hold on a second taxpayers are paying for Apple to have all this control where it should be in the control of the state. And there's a lot more to it than that. I don't necessarily think states themselves could responsibly roll out something like this without the help of a company doesn't have to be Apple, but a company that has the infrastructure, you know, server capacity, you know, all of the brain power behind it. But it does get a little weird when it turns into, yeah, it has to be on, you know, our own hardware, and we're going to be managing a lot of, you know, what may or may not go wrong with this. And it's kind of, I don't really know what the solution is, but it seems pretty par for course for a company like Apple, but I don't what is the alternative. Yeah. Well, I think you, you would want something that's a little more open standard and doesn't leave out the 70% of the population that has an Android device. I think that that's a big part of it for me. I'm a little less skeptical on this and I'll probably regret it and tell Steph she's absolutely right one day. But I don't think Apple's motivation is to collect data here. I think it really is to just say, hey, look how cool and advanced our stuff is, which is why they're saying the state should run it, the state should do it will help, but the state should be in control of it. Because I think they don't want your data on their phone on their servers. They want it to just be on your phone. And there's a whole other argument to be had about whether you want to do that or not. And I think that's that's perfectly fair as you may not want to jump into this. I think there is a secure way to do it. I think there needs to be a lot more transparency around that and a lot less control by Apple around that. That's where I end up anyway. Folks, where do you end up? Send us an email. Our email address is feedback at dailytechnewshow.com. Wired's Will Knight has an excellent review of the chip shortage up in an article called why the chip shortage drags on and on and on. We have been talking about the chip shortage for almost two years now and there were times when we thought, oh yeah, by November 2021, this should all be clearing up and it's not. Now, Will Knight's write up is absolutely worth a read, but let's sum up some of the points here. The economy shut down back in March 2020 and nobody knew what to expect. It turns out people shopped a lot online. We know this now. They shopped for electronics. Sometimes to distract themselves from lockdowns in the pandemic and other times because they needed to work from home. Worldwide, chip sales fell 12% in 2019 and were expected to rebound around 6% in 2020 and 2021. There was a huge drop briefly in early 2020, but sales grew 29.7% between August 2020 and August 2021. Nobody could have expected that. That was driven not just by people buying laptops to work from home or Nintendo Switches to play Animal Crossing, but 5G rollouts and cloud computing expansion on top of all of that. A flood of orders outpaced the ability of chip makers to ramp back up from standstill, the worst hit being automakers who really thought people would stop buying cars and instead people returned to buying cars a lot faster and in greater numbers than anyone expected. Cars are among the products that use a lot of chips made on older processes and those factories are fewer because older stuff isn't a growth industry, so there was already a tighter capacity. There was more demand than capacity for pretty much all kinds of chips though. The consensus was, you know what, that was a blip, we just need to work through it, catch up, and we'll get back to normal. Except all kinds of things kept getting in the way. COVID breakouts at factories, unusual snowfall in Texas, floods, droughts, fires, all slowed down the factories catching back up. Still, that would have just delayed the recovery if there hadn't been the toilet paper phenomenon because lots of companies worried about the chip shortage started ordering more chips just to be safe, making the chip shortage worse as demand increased, making it harder for the fabs to catch up. And the U.S. restrictions against Huawei caused an extra amount of panic among Chinese companies who began stockpiling chips just in case they were next on the list. Fabs are now at capacity. Gartner estimates in Q2 2019, fabs operated at 76.5% of capacity. In Q2 2021, they're at 95.6% capacity and they probably can't get any closer to 100% because you need to be down for maintenance. So you might ask, okay, so we add more factories. You can and many companies are, but those take years to get built and then to come online and start building chips. Intel's new fabs are expected to come online in 2024. That's three years away. Companies are going to want to build new fabs that make advanced chips, too. So that factory will have a long, happy, profitable life. They're not going to want to make a fab to build the old chips the automakers need. So automakers aren't seeing the hopeful increasing capacity for a lot of their chips, although Sony and TSMC are building a fab for older components. That's expected to start making chips in, guess what, 2024. Some companies have invested in new capacity for older chips only after they get a two-year commitment to buy the chips from their customers. And some companies don't want to invest in making new factories at all because they expect the demand will end at some point and they don't want to get caught building a factory they don't need. All of this is made more complicated because logistics is still snarled from the change in demand patterns. That's the thing that causes ships to get backed up, offloading goods in a port. China just announced that integrated circuit output fell for the second month in a row because of logistics issues. They can't get the parts to build the integrated circuits. They got production capacity. They just can't build them. They can produce ICs. They just don't have a steady supply enough of parts and equipment to make it at the levels that they should. So, there you go. That's where we're at. And I don't know that anybody knows the way out except to just keep pushing forward, I suppose. I mean, the easy, you know, listening to everything that you just said, Tom, the easy answer is like, all right, we got about three years for this to shake out. But I thought one of the most interesting points were companies saying, yeah, but then when demand plummets and we've, you know, spent all this money on fabrication that all of a sudden people don't want. Companies don't want to do that either. So there's like a hedge and bet stuff. There's a whole thing of that going on. Yeah, there were a couple things that stood out to me. Number one, the hoarding of the chips because I know there's somebody with a warehouse somewhere probably in China that has, you know, a jillion chips just sitting around that could be used and could alleviate some of the pressure on the market. So how do we sort of mitigate that? Is there a way to mitigate that?  There's something I don't know. The other part that I thought was really interesting was the price gouging on the older chips. It was a part of the article where it said those older chips that used to cost a dollar are now costing $150 in some cases. So how do we deal with that as well? You know, I know it's capitalism. That's kind of what it is, does what it does, but, you know, can't we figure out a way to regulate that somehow, at least under these, you know, extenuating circumstances and get some relief that way?  Like, are there things that we can use and do and that don't work? We have literally, it just really brought into stark contrast our complete dependence on these chips at this point and the fact that nothing's getting made, none of our devices are going to work. Just the idea that this kind of thing could hamstring an entire electronics industry and it's just boggling my mind right now. Yeah, that was another thing the Wired article pointed out was some companies are promoting their older models because they have fewer chips in them. And so it's easier for them to make those at scale because of that. So don't be surprised if you find like, you know, a couple years old model of a toaster or rice cooker or something out there because it's easier for them to make that. My smart fridge started making really weird noise this morning. And I was like, Oh, no. Here we go. Oh, no. Well, in the pursuit of thinner smartphone bezels, everybody wants it to be thinner, faster, stronger. We've embraced a lot of camera module styles and the notch or the hole punch, whatever you want to call it is one of the things that has some some folks have been trying to figure out. Last year, ZTE released the axon 20. You might remember it was trying to eliminate the problem entirely with an under display camera so you had no notch at all. The problem, though, was that the quality of the images wasn't very good. Soon after the axon 20 Samsung released a similar under display camera with the Galaxy Z Fold three quality problems. Hmm, still there. However, a handsets released this year seem to be figuring out the problem with the Xiaomi mix for and the ZTE axon 30 both offering camera quality that's at least possible. It's not abysmal. It could be better, but it's getting better. This isn't just phone makers though using better sensors or fine tuning algorithms. The first gen taking on this tech used a lower resolution idea of the screen to allow light through. Aside from poor quality, this also made the camera area pretty noticeable on a light background. Not everybody's going to like that either. The newer phones actually shrink the sides of the pixels on the screen, but keep the number and the resolution the same. This seems to let in more light and reduces its visibility. So the photos look highly processed, but not bad like flip phone. Xiaomi and ZTE aren't the only ones invested in this area. However, Microsoft's Applied Sciences Group is also working on under display cameras to help users maintain eye contact during video calls. And it obviously depends on where that camera is that you can't see behind that screen to do so. Yeah, that's the thing that caught my eye because I think the people who don't like bezels are very loud. But I don't think that many people really hate the hole punch, really, really hate the notch. I think most people are like, whatever, it's fine. I'd rather have a good camera. But then when they mentioned, man, if you can get under display cameras good enough where I don't notice a difference, and then it just takes away that weirdness where you're like, oh, I should look at the camera. So I'm making eye contact. If you could just naturally look at the screen, that's kind of cool. It's really not that big a deal for me, but it'd be kind of cool. I get that. I'm with you. Yeah, it's like, okay, I just, it's funny when I always have debates with people about whose cameras better iPhone or Samsung or whatever. It, for me, at least in the past now, I think we're sort of in the noise with comparison. But in the past, I always got hung up on how much image processing Samsung did to their photos. And I'm like, they look so good because they're kind of artificial. And a lot of the what you're going to get with this technology, at least in the near term, is going to be due to image processing. And I'm not, you know, any sort of photography purist or anything like that. But that idea just, you know, strikes me as something that is not something I would want to have in my photos. So until they can figure out, you know, how to do this with a little less of that. I mean, I think that's, that's just par for the course for any smartphone camera. But it seems like that's, you know, 60% of what's going to get you this photo on the under, under lens, under screen cameras. So until they figure out that part a little bit better, I'm like, and like you said, the notch is not that big a deal. I've never understood why it's such a big deal. I get that if, if done well to say, hey, look at my phone, there's, there's no camera. It's hidden and it, and it takes beautiful photos. You'd be like, that's awesome.  But until we're there, I don't want that feature in order to have subpar photos and or videos. Or, or, or a screen weirdness, right? That seems a bigger deal. Like if the front facing camera isn't as good, but it's good enough, I'm probably okay with it. But if you, there's like a big gray circle in the middle of my display, like no, no, don't sacrifice my display for that. And then they were talking about how like in the area around the actual camera lens, they'll have fewer pixels there, but not anywhere else. And it's like, so what if I'm watching Netflix? Like, is there going to be a little spot on my, on my screen while I'm watching a movie that looks weird compared to the rest of the screen or whatever? So it's just, yeah, they don't have enough of this figured out to make it. I'm just going to keep trying to wipe it. You're like, what's that spot? Looks like a fingerprint forever. Yeah. All right, let's check out the mailbag. We got a nice one from Brandon who wrote and saying, I just wanted to let you know I really enjoyed Science News Monthly. I need to pay more attention to the science news in life. 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I'm be sitting right there With your cappuccino Tracy Morgan who is best known as a superstar standard comedian and actor best known for his television work as a cast member on Saturday night Live has been able to snag some pretty luxurious real estate including a whopping $14 million mansion in Alpine, New Jersey prior to this massive upgrade Morgan had previously owned on almost 4,500 square foot mansion that boasts six bedrooms and six bathrooms increased skilled New Jersey and that was sold in 2019 for $1.2 million not too shabby, but early predictions tell me that his most recent purchase. Well, that takes the cake We'll take a look at Tracy Morgan's former home Which featured his very own wine cellar and enormous rec room and his most recent $14 million splurge that comes complete with an elevator and his very own bowling alley. That's right folks Tracy Morgan has a bowling alley in his new house in these videos We don't reveal any addresses, so please do not show up at any private residences because it is not safe for anyone Tracy Morgan's lucrative career has led him to a net worth of 70 million dollars Tracy's first big break was in 1996 when he became a cast member of Saturday Night Live from here Morgan rose to fame for his Emmy nominated Performance as Tracy Jordan on 30 Rock In fact the role was a loose caricature of Tracy's real life off-screen persona and was widely loved by critics and audiences It wasn't always smooth sailing for the superstar comedian during his sophomore year Tracy discovered that his father had contracted aides as a result of Hyperdermic needle use his father's condition worsened and Tracy was forced to drop out of school to take care of him after his father's passing Morgan briefly sold crack to support his new wife and her two young children Morgan's best friend told him He should be doing comedy and after his friend was murdered he listened to him and went to become a successful beautiful comedian You see kids dreams do come true then in June of 2014 Tracy was involved in a collision in New Jersey in which a Walmart tractor trailer rare ended a minibus that Tracy and several other Comedians are riding in after a show Morgan's friend James McNair died in the crash and Tracy suffered a brain injury broken nose broken leg and broken ribs Morgan was in a medically induced coma for two weeks and in a wheelchair for several months after the collision But he has said that after seeing his 14-month-old daughter take her first steps That inspired me to get out of my wheelchair and take my first steps while Tracy Morgan's family friends along with his fans Devastated he has since made a full recovery and continues to dominate in the comedy and entertainment industry It only makes sense after years of struggling that Tracy would treat himself to a $14 million mansion that features a basketball court and cinema for him and his family to enjoy Not a boy Tracy. 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Let's get into the video In 2011 Tracy paid 2.2 million dollars for a six-bedroom six-bathroom and 4,400 square foot home in Cree skill, New Jersey He initially put it on the market for 2.2 million in May 2018 But took a loss eventually selling it for 1.2 million in March 2019 the beautifully maintained contemporary home sits on a well Landscaped acre lot boarding a six acre preserve as guests enter the home They are greeted with roaring vaulted ceilings throughout allowing tons of natural light which give the house an airy and roomy ambiance The home is decked out with elegant mahogany floors and a sunken living room with a fireplace and a massive wall of glass This roaring wall of class overlooks a Tennessee crab orchard stone terrace Which is surrounded by an enormous swimming pool and spa the new gourmet kitchen was just designed and it features custom cabinetry Granite countertops and it's decked out with wolf and sub-zero and meal appliances The second floor features a spacious master bedroom and for guests lucky enough to visit three additional bedrooms and two-fold baths The finished lower level has a wine cellar for those that fancy a chardonnay in a large rec room with an abundance of games Tracy don't mind to do it big along with an additional bedroom soak in bath and storage room the home features a sauna Perfect for relaxation while it appears Tracy Morgan's previous home was a pretty luxurious This place does not hold a candle to his new mansion in 2015 Morgan paid 13.9 million for a 22 room mansion on two acres of property in Alpine, New Jersey I mean it's hard to compete with a 22,000 square foot home that boasts seven bedrooms and 10 bathrooms and Features a basketball court bowling alley movie theater and several giant fish tanks upon entry guests are greeted to gleaming stone floors It's stretch across the home's enormous traditional foyer an entry space just fitting for comedy royalty an elegant Wide stone staircase leaves from the entryway to the home second floor and the white banisters compliment the traditional style and aesthetic throughout the mansion a Safety chandelier rovers above the two-story great room the space comes complete with elegant herringbone wood floors while Tracy Decorates the space with the utmost lavish you fold search furniture He still makes sure there's plenty of room for entertaining two floor to ceiling windows edge a large traditional fireplace and in the formal living room Relavish crown moldings decorate the walls Traditional antique furnishings are scattered throughout and are bounded together by an abundance of natural light released from massive French windows A formal dining room boasts two safety China cabinets a buffet table and a sparkling crystal chandelier Tracy really likes his chandeliers the room is complete with gold drapes framed and a set of French doors that lead out to a luxurious Green balcony the impressive abode comes complete with a fully equipped kitchen and that opens up to a double height breakfast room and Terracotta tile floors the elegant kitchen island provides more than enough counter space to cook and entertain while raw wood Cabinetry brings a warm vibe to the space perfect for Tracy's family and possible SNL reunion Now we cannot commence this house tour without talking about some of the most amazing features of this mansion first off Tracy has a humongous tank in his backyard and several throughout the house including one that cost a whopping 400k to install this massive tank includes an eel seven sharks two stingrays and a ton of fish like same some for the rest of us For guests looking to shoot some hoops. Don't worry. Tracy has got you covered. Tracy is a huge basketball fan and supports the New York Knicks So why not install your very own double height basketball court in your home? The court features a custom mural of some of his favorite Knicks players, which is really dope Now while the indoor basketball court is pretty cool Probably the coolest feature of all the features Tracy's very own private two lane bowling alley in his basement This is the perfect place for him to hang out with his family and in the multiple living buddies that he has along with Tracy's hot tub and pool the dig also features his own movie theater and games room and wait for it He even has a billiards table with a shark tank built into it watching over our 3d Florida ceiling sculptures of three of Tracy's heroes rat pack members Frank Sinatra Dean Martin and Sammy Davis, Jr. Tracy really knows how to kick back and have some fun. Alright, so I think I'll bring this house tour to an end here We got to take a look at Tracy Morgan's home including that massive $14 million pad in Alpine, New Jersey with that tank filled with seven sharks after seeing that fast little bodey snack What did you guys think was it everything you would expect out of Morgan personally? I would have really had a hard time deciding on where I would spend most of the time like that bowling alley or The basketball court. 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Okay. Good morning everyone. Welcome to this class on church and ministry administration. I have started the recording of this class so people can make this available to other people. All right. So welcome again. Why don't we someone just pray and we will get started in this course. Could somebody just lead us in prayer please? Thomas, would you like to pray? Yes, we can. Go ahead. Father in Jesus name we thank you for this wonderful time of God. You are so good. You are so wonderful a daughter. As we step into the Father we are only new things. Holy Spirit we need your grace. We need your help to understand the things of God. We thank you for this wonderful time. I'm going to each and every one has to grasp the things of God. Astasis as well. Let me understand and we connected in the spirit and understand the things of God. Thank you very much. Okay. Welcome everyone. I just wanted to introduce the course to us and we will get started today in our first lesson on this course. I've just put out the the course outline also the notes for the first lecture. Let me just share that with us. So this is PC310 church and ministry administration. This course outline or overview has been put up in the classwork section. You can download it and just look through it. What are we going to do in this course? Why do we have this kind of a course on church and ministry administration? We are all aware that although the ministry work is ministry of the word and the spirit it also requires in a good organization administration to be able to have the church or the ministry whatever we are doing so that we can be effective and have impact for the kingdom of God. So while a lot of the courses have dealt with the spiritual side teaching us important things we also felt that we would have to deal with some of the practical side of ministry in the terms of administration, organization, media, technology. That will be another course that we have in the third year and so this is one of those practical side courses that address the practical side of ministry. So if we can combine the two the spiritual and the practical we can have much impact, great impact for the kingdom of God. So what we're going to do in this course is we're going to talk about the organization and administration of the church or ministry. A lot of what we will be talking about is from a church context but all of these things will apply to any Christian ministry. So even if it's not a church, a local church type ministry, if it's a Christian ministry doing something specialized, maybe a youth ministry, maybe music, maybe counseling, maybe taking care of children or something different. It may not be necessarily a local church, it could be some other form of Christian ministry. A lot of things we learn will apply to all of them. Now we are going to learn from others as well as share with you a lot of what we are doing here at EPC Bangalore and we know that certain details may differ from place to place, how certain legal things may differ from the way it is in Bangalore to another city or another part of the world. Those differences will be there but in terms of organization, administration, a lot of these lessons and learnings can be used anywhere in the world. So some of the things we'll cover we'll talk about the importance of good administration, what are the objectives, how do you set up that legal entity, we call it a trust, a church trust and governance, what kind of an organization structure do we need or what are structures that we could think about? We talk about having policies, guidelines, we'll talk about systems and processes that run in order to run the organization. We'll talk about managing people, working with people that is staff and human resource management. We'll talk about creating culture and the importance of culture and how that affects how the church functions. We'll talk about finance, accounting, budgeting, legal side and then running projects. The planning and the coordination of various aspects of ministry, we'll talk about ministry teams, volunteer teams and the culture in the church, so workplace culture versus church culture. We'll talk about executing projects, making use of technology and how we can be excellent and all of these things. So we're kind of trying to develop a full framework here where you think about these things and apply it to the ministry that you are doing. Not all of these things will come in place from day one but as you keep growing what you're doing, the ministry or the local church as that grows a lot of these things will be necessary. We'll have simple assessments along the way as we go in September, October, November and you're familiar with the grading system already. I will keep giving you these course notes as PDF documents as we progress. There are of course there are many books that you could look at in terms of church administration but I would refer you to two of these books. They are a little expensive. You have to buy them in US dollars and on Kindle so if you're interested you can but I will be drawing important content ideas from these books along with things that we are sharing from our own experience here at all people's church so if you can buy it or get these books it's fine, if you cannot get it don't worry about it. I will be sharing ideas from those books as part of the course notes as well so don't worry about it and many of you are familiar with our own publication The House of God. We have a few chapters that address administration and so on. Let's get started first of all by talking about the importance of good organization and good administration. Why should a church or a Christian ministry think about having good organization and good administration? We'll also look at some excuses people make. When I say people I mean Christian leaders, pastors, those in leadership, those who are leading Christian organizations, some excuses that that we commonly run into as to why people neglect in a good administration, good organization, so we'll address some of those things. Now let's look at things first from a biblical perspective and then from a practical perspective and then we will close by just addressing some of these excuses. So when you talk I want to think about organization and administration from a biblical perspective. Is there a biblical basis for us to emphasize good organization and administration or is that only for management schools and business schools and not for the church? Is there a basis, a biblical basis to talk about these things and I just want to bring our attention to a few things we see in the Bible. You could probably add to this list. I'm just highlighting a few things.  So we see this in creation itself, the way God went about creation. The first chapter of Genesis, there's a certain order, there's a certain sequence in which God himself goes about doing things. On day one he did this, on day two, day three, day four, you know there's a certain order in that and in all that God created we see order, we see design and we see things are very organized. Of course there's a lot of creative, this is creation, therefore it's a tremendous expression of God's creativity but we also see order and design and organization in everything, in all of creation and that is what science does. Science is a study, it's a study into the creation of God and trying to understand, trying to discover the design, the organization and the amazing things God has put in there. Now when you look at at a high level, you look at the universe, the sun, the moon, the stars, everything is very organized, the earth is rotating on its axis, it's revolving around the sun, it's going on and on and on and because of its position, because of its angle of inclination, because of its revolutions, we have weather conditions where all of these things, everything is in order, it's not chaotic. So it tells us that God himself is a God of order, design, organization, creativity and let's read that for Scranton's 14 verse 33, we'll read a few scriptures, I will only reference these passages as we go along but could somebody read for us, 1st Corinthians 14 and verse 33, please. So Paul, of course, we understand the context here in 1st Corinthians 14 but Paul is pointing us to God and he says, you know, God is not the author of confusion, so he's talking about how the church service is running and what people do in the assembly of believers but he's saying God is not the author of confusion, but he's a God of order, he's a God of peace as in all the churches of the saints, all the assembly, the gatherings of all believers, so everywhere in all gatherings of all believers saints, there's got to be an expression of who God is that he's not the God of confusion, but he is the God of peace, order and tranquillities, he's that kind of a God. So what we must understand is that order, design, organization, things being in proper place is really an expression of who God is, it's an extension of who he is and that's for Paul is saying even in the local church when people gather there's got to be order because that's an expression of who God is. Now when we go through the scriptures, we look at some of the old, some of the new, we see time and again the Bible highlighting the importance of organization and administration, delegation and so on and I'm just going to, you know, highlight some of these things. In Exodus 18 is a classic example, we, as many of us are familiar with this, you know, Moses is leading this huge nation of people and he is, you know, he's sitting there to also care for them and Jethro, Moses' father-in-law sees what's happening. You know, could somebody please read for us from Exodus 18, verses 13 and 14 please. Exodus 18 verses 13 and 14. So all that Moses was doing for the people, he said, what is this you are doing for the people? Why do you alone sit as judge while all these people stand around you from morning to evening?  They probably had lots of, you know, maybe different issues, different things, challenges, problems they're having and they're all lining up for Moses to solve it and Moses' father-in-law sees what's happening and he says in verse 14, what are you doing? Why are you sitting all by yourself from morning till evening to solve these people's problems? And then Moses' father-in-law explains to Moses, why is this Moses saying Moses, you need to find people that you can appoint as judges or, you know, delegate this responsibility to them so that they can, you know, take care of all the smaller issues. If there are matters they cannot handle, let them bring that to you. You know, so here's a very classic example of somebody advising a leader. Moses is the man of God, he's the prophet of God, but in terms of organization, he was not doing what was right and he didn't have anything. He was sitting there by himself trying to solve all the people and so his father-in-law comes and says, Moses, you know, you need to delegate. You need to have more leaders under you. You need to have more people who can help you do this work. So create, you know, what we would, in modern terms, we would say delegate, have leaders, have a team, have an organizational structure. You know, we would use all these terms today, but that's basically what Chetro is telling Moses. Moses, you have these people and help them do the work for you. Same thing, you know, in Numbers chapter 11, so if you just quickly look at chapter 11, we're not going to read the whole chapter. Moses himself reaches a point where he says, you know, oh Lord, I am not able to lead all these people. Numbers chapter 11 verse 14. Numbers chapter 11 verse 14, can somebody read that? I mean, we could read the whole chapter, but I'm just picking up one or two verses. Numbers 11 verse 14, can somebody read that? I am not able to bear all these people alone because it is too heavy for me. So, you know, in this chapter, Numbers 11, if you read the whole, you know, full chapter, you understand the context, but the people are crying out to Moses for help once again. And Moses goes to God and says, God, I cannot handle this anymore. That's too much for me. And then in verse later on in that chapter, basically God tells Moses, Moses, I want you to find 70 people, 70 leaders, find, you know, point 70 leaders, and I will anoint them and they will help you take care of the people. Okay, so once again, same thing. And God is telling Moses, have more people, have an organization, have leaders under you, delegate responsibility, and God will empower those leaders to do their work. And it's very interesting that God is telling Moses, you need to have this. You need to have people, you need to have organization. And God says, I will anoint them to help you do the work. And so this is one great example where that speaks to us about the importance of organization, the importance of administration in order to do the work of God. We'll quickly look at some other examples in Numbers chapter 10, if we just flip back a page on a chapter, Numbers 10, you know, as the people, again, you need to read the whole chapter to understand what's happening. But, you know, we see here Numbers 10, that as these people are making their journey through the wilderness, God doesn't say, you know, everybody just get up and walk at random. You know, God instructs Moses to organize all of them by their tribes around the Tabernacle, right?     No, you're going to move in a very orderly manner, tribe by tribe. The way you direct them is through the blowing of the trumpets and, you know, and you move in a very orderly manner. So again, you find that in doing something God wants us to do, there is order, there is structure, there is proper administration, so on. Quickly, we can make mention of some other examples, there's about worship in the Tabernacle. And of course, God told Moses to build the Tabernacle. But then he also said, you appoint priests and Levites for various duties in the Tabernacle. Certain people are designated to do certain tasks. So even in the worship, priests handled certain tasks, Levites handled more of the maintenance type of work in the Tabernacle. They would take care of that Tabernacle. And the same thing, when you read about David, during David's time, he had a huge, excuse me, a very elaborate, you read about this in First Chronicles 25, a very elaborate system put in place in the Tabernacle. Because in David's time, David had instituted 24-7 worship going on. So for a period of about 30 years, there was worship going on continuously non-stop in the Tabernacle. But in order to do something like that, he had about 8000 people working in the Tabernacle. There were huge teams of worshipers, musicians, singers. There were huge teams of people to do the work, physical work around the Tabernacle.  If you read the details, you'll find there's about 8000 people and they were all highly organized.  And so this was a spiritual work, which was worship to God. But if you look at the details, it was extremely highly organized and well-administered. So in order to do the spiritual work, there was huge organization involved and good administration involved. And similarly, I'll just one more example from the Old Testament, is the book of Nehemiah. In the entire book, you read how Nehemiah went about rebuilding the walls of the city of Jerusalem. I'd given him a vision to fulfill that. But then when he went in there, he got various people involved, you know, different, and he organized them around the wall and given the different parts of the wall to build. And they were all organized while some were working, others were protecting them. They were looking out for those who are doing the work. So another example of proper organization and administration, Nehemiah was carrying out a vision, God had put in his heart. But in order to do that, he got people involved, he got different kinds of people involved, and he got them all very well organized so that the work could take place. So just some examples in the Bible where we are seeing the work of God being done, but through good organization and administration. Now, of course, when you come into the New Testament, something that you and I are very familiar with, we see in the evolution of the local church, the church that began in Jerusalem very soon, it comes to a place where the church needed dedicated people to handle administrative tasks. So in Acts chapter six, when they had to serve food for the people, the Apostles said, you know, we need seven men whom we are going to point over this business. So let's go there to Acts six, and we will just look at there in Acts six. And we could read that. Okay, verse three, please. Acts six, we just read verse three, somebody could read that for us. Therefore brethren seek out from among you seven men of God, the patient food of the Holy Spirit, and with whom we may appoint over this business. So the Apostles realized that while they were focused on prayer and the ministry of the word, the spiritual side, they needed people who would come alongside them and take care of the business of the church. In this case, it had to do with serving food to all the people who were there. So they said, you know, get seven men, but these seven men had to, you know, they had to be of good reputation. They have a good report that before the Holy Spirit and wisdom, they needed, they needed certain criteria here in order to do the simple thing of serving food to the people. And later on, as we progress in the growth of the church, you come to First Timothy three, there it's very clearly identified. You know, Paul talks about bishops, he talks about deacons. Bishops basically are spiritual elders, those who are involved in the spiritual side of the ministry. But he also mentions deacons. Those who are handling the administration, the organization of the church, the practical side of things. So he said, you know, the church needs both. We need elders, we need deacons, we need people who will handle the affairs of the church, the work of the church. And in Romans 16, you know, Paul is referring to a lady who was handling the work. So let's just go to Romans 16. It's interesting to read. Now let's read verses one and two, please. Romans 16 verses one and two. I command to you who pay our sister, who is the servant of the church in Canterra, that you have received her in the Lord in a manner worthy of the saints and assisted her in whatever business that she has made of you for indeed she has been a helper of many and of myself also. So Paul is recognizing and recommending Phoebe. But what is Phoebe? Phoebe's work. It is, you know, what we would say today, we call it administrative type of work. She is handling certain things. You know, he is a business of the church, but she is a helper. She's an assistant. She is serving the people with what she's doing. Right.  So we see in the life of the church itself that there are people who are involved in spiritual ministry, but there are also people who are handling the organization, the administration, the practical things that need to be done in the life of the church. Another thing that we do understand here in the church as a body is that there are gifts and ministries in the church that are specific to helps and administrations. Right. So first of all, the church is a body. That means it's a system. So when you look at a body, let me just stop sharing and just look at the screen for a bit. Okay. So when we look at the human body, the body at the lowest level, let's say, we start up with the cell, but cells are grouped together to form various tissues and organs. And organs are specialized in their function. And then several organs work together. Now we have systems and processes in the body. Actually, we have your skeletal system, respiratory system, the vascular system, and different things that happen in the human body. But all sorts of the cells are grouped together and they form eventually form organs, which are specialized. So even so the church is compared to a body. So therefore, the church also should function. The church wants to function. It should have this kind of specialization. It should have this systems. It should have processes for the proper functioning of the spiritual body, the body, which is the church. And what we also find is that in the church, God has placed certain gifts that he has given to people, which are very administrative in nature. So if you look at Romans 12, Romans 12, and then we are looking at verses six to eight. In Romans 12 verse six to eight, I'll just mention this. He says there in verse seven, he uses the word ministry. Ministry is any kind of service. So even if somebody's serving as an usher, as a deacon in accounting, in doing something, in promoting, in promotions, in media, they are doing service. So that's included here in this word ministry. This is just verse seven. And then in verse eight, he talks about those who lead. So you could lead anything. You could lead a group of people. You could lead a certain area of ministry. So that leadership ability, whatever it is and how it is expressed, is a gift and a function in the body. It's a leadership. So we see here that service, ministry or leadership are gifts given in the body, and they need to be put to use. Same thing. And I just want to point out here, in 1 Corinthians 12, and I think this is important, 1 Corinthians chapter 12, and let's read verse 28. 1 Corinthians 12, 28. Could somebody read that for us please? And God sets some of, some in the church, first apostles, secondary prophets, thirdly teachers. After that miracles, then gifts of healing, helps governments, diversity of tongues. Okay. So, notice in verse 28, what Paul is saying. He's saying, God has appointed, so this is not man appointing, but God appointing.  And of course, he mentions in apostles and prophets and teachers and miracles and gifts of healings. But then what he says, he mentions, helps administrations. So this is where, you know, it's slightly different from what an apostle does, or a teacher does, or a prophet does. It's helps. Meaning, any kind of service, assisting, you know, somebody assists in media, somebody assists in technology, somebody assists in any other way, helps. And administrations. And he says, God has appointed these. So in the church, there are people whom God has put to serve in this capacity as helping in the ministry, as administering. The word administering, the administrations is interesting. It's talking about somebody who navigates the ship, you know, like the person who is in charge of making sure where the ship is going. So there are people who help with that kind of work. Of course, you have people who are apostles and prophets and teachers and evangelists and they're doing their work, but you also have people appointed by God who do helps and administrations. God has given them that grace and given them that familiar with is that when Paul, he writes to the churches, and we read that verse, 1433, but you also find this in other places where Paul says, you know, the church, there has to be order in the church, the way the church functions, there has to be order. So what we have done right now is we've just kind of scanned through the Old Testament, scanned through the New Testament. We've seen that in the functioning of ministry, in the functioning of what God wants done, there has to be organization, administration, order, and that it is part of what God wants among his people. It's not foreign to us. It's not, you know, just for people who are in secular, what we refer to as secular organizations, but it is there part of ministry or part of what God wants to do. Let me just continue to share my, share the document with you and just speak from that. Okay, I'm just sharing this Word document, you know. So let's talk about the practical side. You know, we just, we looked at it from a biblical side, the importance of good organization and administration, but let's talk about the practical side. From a practical side, you know, there is a need or there's an expectation from people today that the church must be organized and efficient.  For example, if somebody wants a letter from the church, they need to get it in a timely way. If somebody needs, you know, there are a lot of administrative things that they need help with, maybe a letter for school admission, a letter for, you know, various things for marriage and you know, so on. They expect the church to be organized, to be efficient and to provide that kind of service. Or even in a service, when they come into a service, a church service, they expect things to happen properly, you know, or in a church event, there is expectation from people that the event should be organized efficiently and so on. So we cannot say, you know, you know, we cannot avoid that. We have to be organized to be efficient. Secondly, what from a practical side, when you look at it, people are eager to serve with their skills, they're willing to volunteer. So in most churches, people want to contribute in some way and they feel that, look, you know, I have certain skills. These skills may not be that of preaching and teaching and, you know, what we call a spiritual ministry. These skills may be in something that's more of administrative in nature, that may be more like helping, but I want to serve, I want to volunteer and I want to contribute towards the life of the church and so people are eager and so we need to, you know, give them the opportunity and welcome that.  They're using technology more and more, the way they interact with people is changing. So the world also, you know, if we are going to reach people outside the church, we need to be able to reach them in ways in which that are relevant to them. And so the church needs to, you know, upgrade itself in terms of the use of technology or other things that will help it reach and help it be relevant to those outside the church. So from a practical perspective, organization, administration becomes a necessity. It's no longer, you know, this now, so let's look at this lecture, I guess, looking at what are some excuses, you know, that people in churches, ministries make for poor organization. How would we respond to that? I mean, I'm just putting this out there so we can think about it, right? So once, sometimes people, you know, especially if a pastor or a spiritual leader, they would excuse saying, look, you know, we don't have proper training. You know, we have been to seminary, and to bother college.  But we were not trained to run an organization. We were not trained to lead. And we don't, we were not trained to handle technology. We were not trained to, you know, do these things. So sometimes that becomes an excuse that pastors give, you know, okay, we were only trained to preach the Bible, teach the Bible. But we were not trained to organize a church. We were not trained to run a accounting department or oversee an accounting department, so on. So that lack of proper training becomes an excuse that Christian leaders could make. Of course, our response will be, well, you can have other people. I mean, one is you can learn some of these skills. Secondly, you could have people who have the skills, you know, to come and help. Connect to that, another excuse, you know, leaders make is, oh, we don't have skilled people, you know. We don't have the means to hire skilled staff. And if you want somebody, you have to pay for them. We don't have the means to pay for them. So therefore, the church is lacking in the organizational administration in that area. But, you know, I think the response to that is, look, there are lots of volunteers, there are people who are willing to volunteer in that area. And so if you announce that you want volunteers, there may be some people who can help in some of this area. So eventually people will come and they will, you know, help. And it's a good way to help people be a part of the church because they feel that they can even contribute to the church through the skills they have.  You know, how can you have people who have quote, unquote skills that are not spiritual be involved in the life of the church. But that's where we can point them to the scripture and say, look, the scriptures say that there are people whom God has appointed who serve and helps and administrations. So it's not just people who are doing, you know, apostolic, prophetic, pastoral type of work. But even those who are doing helps and administrations, God has appointed them and they can come along and be part of what's happening in the life of the church. A fourth excuse that we may run into is, you know, people say, well, we want to focus on spiritual things. We are a spiritual ministry. Let's not get distracted into doing organization and administration and so on. But then in response to that, we have to help them see the value of good organization and administration that actually if you have good organization and good administration, it can make the spiritual ministry even more effective. They can help the spiritual ministry reach further and wider when you have good organization and good administration. Just two more things we look before we close here is, you know, sometimes we say, people say, look, look, we don't want to become, we won't have a spiritual atmosphere. We don't want to become corporate like, because when you have an organization, when you have administration that you, you know, you need to have a lot of policies and processes and so on. Then it becomes like a corporate. It's no longer spiritual atmosphere. Then that's where we need to look to God and say, look, God himself is a God of order. He's a God of organization.  Lastly, some people say, well, this is God's work. You know, he doesn't need our help. He'll just get it done. You know, why should we set up an organization? Why should we, you know, do all these kinds of things? This is God's work. He'll do it. It is true. It's God's work, but he works through people. He works through organizational structures. And you're having great examples in the Bible.  So it is God's work, but he's working through people and he works through, you know, the organization, the administration we do, they become channels of God's work in us and through us to help others. Okay. So I have kind of shared on the importance of organization and administration. I just want to see if you have any questions, comments, thoughts before we close. Anybody, you want to say anything, you want to ask anything, any comments? Okay. So we will kind of, I think we should have more discussion. I see the comments on the chat, but we will, you know, engage in a little bit more discussion as we go along. I think I did all the talking today. I didn't give you a chance to interact, but we will do that next time. Okay. All right. Thank you for listening patiently. And let's, you know, wrap up, let's close in prayer and we will pick this up next week. And, sorry, do we have another class on this? Yeah, later this week on Friday, we'll pick this up and take it forward. Okay. Could somebody please close in prayer? We will dismiss. Sharon, you want to close in prayer? Thank you Jesus for this one, please. Time to prayer. Jesus, I thank you for you, for our pastor, for our APC ministry, for our Bible college, father, whatever we are learning, father, that we are in our ministry of God, in your ministry of God. Thank you, Holy Spirit, for leading us. Thank you. Thank you, God, that you are in our class of God. Thank you for your presence in our class of God. Father, I'm praying that the blessing of God bless our ministry of God, who are in ministry of God. Father, I'm praying that the blessing of God bless our class. And, Father, I'm praying that whatever we are learning about that should be used in our ministry. Father, I'm thanking and submitting this class into your hand of God. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen. Thank you. Thank you, everyone. Well, see you Friday. God bless you. See you again soon. Bye.


Okay. Hello everyone. My name is Kasper. I'm going to talk about using Inkscape and a plug-in called SVG to Shenzhen and to export to Keycat to create printed circuit board designs. I just want to get, I have a little presentation prepared about all the different layers of the PCB so I want to kind of know if I should skip through that quickly or like how many people know what the different layers of the PCB are. Okay. So I'm going to go through this relatively quickly. The base layer is like a fiberglass layer, FR4. You get it in different thicknesses, 1.6 millimeter is probably the most common. You can get different substrates as well but most PCBs will be FR4 fiberglass. On top of that you have layers of copper and the process for making PCBs really is to etch this copper to get your design onto it to have the connections that you want. There's an image missing because of the internet. I don't know which layer I skipped but you, oh this is, there we go, cool. So in the industrial PCB process you have many of these copper fiberglass layers and you have quite an accurate drilling and another a solder mask layer and a silkscreen layer as well. So the mask layer is kind of like the color. When you see PCBs the color of the PCB is normally the mask layer. You can get a transparent mask as well and then obviously there's a lack of color but you can get quite a lot of different colors and you can do multiple masks as well to get but that's quite expensive. Silkscreen layer is where you put some information. It's normally white on green. All of the references for the components are normally in silkscreen layer but you can also add your little personal touch. In most people I do that. You have a lot of different drill sizes but normally on a board you want to keep, you don't want to make it too complicated for the manufacturer and use loads of different drill sizes if they're just slightly varying.  So what you want to give to the manufacturer are GABA files which they specify all these different layers. And to make that you can use Keycard. Keycard will export to these GABA files. So what we've been doing, me and friends of mine and just a lot of people around the world actually, if you're home etching you can just draw onto a transparency or draw onto paper and then get it onto a transparency somehow and then use the lithography process to do home etching. So really you can draw PCBs if you want to and you're careful enough about where you're drawing the connections and you're able to kind of process that mentally. You don't need cuts of and Mark does really cool workshops as well where he scales up components in these kinds of transparencies or these laminated bits and they're 400% bigger than in actual size and you can then use that to draw your PCB in big and connect everything up and it's a really nice creative method of doing PCB designs. And I've done this as well and I've got a little design here that I can pass around for like it's a little oscillator. Unfortunately I forgot the battery otherwise you could hear it as well. We can pass this around and there's another version of it where it's actually I exported it to the professional manufacturing service and it has a mask and silk screen layers as well. So but that can also get that's quite kind of labor intensive to prepare all this and do it behind and scan it and then we would use the bitmap to component tool and key card to get everything in. So we wanted to have a different process for using these graphical tool like Inkscape and still be able to draw PCBs in there. That's already half my talk so I'm going to just show you this. So we're going to start Inkscape. I'm going to start key card in the background there. So this extension is called SVG2Change and actually a fork of the bitmap to component tool. So it uses that to process the layers. The first thing we're going to do is just prepare the document. The sizes don't really matter. It used to have to be square but not anymore.  So what it's done now is it's given you in Inkscape all the different layers that key card uses. So we'll go into the edge cut layer and we'll just draw any kind of shape. Obviously we'll do a nice rectangle. No, sorry. Let's do some kind of spiral and just see if we can do another spiral and make this actually into an outline layer. So what we have to do with this, we have to make sure this is all kind of one path. Combine this path. So that's now one path. So this is our edge cut layer. We just need to make sure it's properly connected here. Because it has to be for the outline layer you want one complete path. We just need to make sure it's connected properly, properly connected there. This is going to be manufacturable. What you see is if you have the mold, the PCB manufacturer is, when you do something weird like this in an outline layer, because it's like such a fast and cheap process now, they will probably not get back to you and say, so there's something wrong with the way you've done the outline. They will try and do it. If you look at the fingers of the mold, because the routing path I chose there was really too tight for the CNC mill they used, they just drilled it where I had said there should be an edge like that, because they can't do that. So it would be interesting to see what they did with this. So now we'll export that. We'll say export to Kecad. So you can either here do it as a PCB design. The output would be a Kecad PCB, or you can do a module, and we probably don't have time to do the module bit. So this is a little bit awkward, but this is due to the limitations of the Inkscape plugins. I don't know if this has changed the new versions. We'll have to look at that if we can do this better. But we will say, can I have to know where you're going to put this? I'm just going to say I'm going to put this into this example directory. And by default, when you don't save your SVG yet, the name will be drawing. It's everything in Inkscape. When you start off, it's just drawing. It will be renamed as well. Right, right. So now that's gone here. I've already got this open, I think. I think it's overwritten this, hopefully. Nope. Okay. Let's just make sure. I normally don't use this desktop. So it's a bit... Oh, wait. I don't have it here. So let's just remove this. And try the exporting. Oh, maybe I didn't even press export before. Yeah, so there's a new PCB here. And it's not there. All right, something's going wrong, unfortunately. So the trouble with the outline layer is really, it needs to be one kind of path. The other layers, we can get, maybe I can show you this quicker, because the outline layer is actually much a little bit trickier than any of the other layers. Because in these layers, anything you draw, it doesn't matter. You don't have to convert to path or do anything like that in Inkscape. You can just draw whatever you like, and it will be... It doesn't... The colors don't matter, so you can make it pretty much any color, but it just goes... It converts it to a bitmap and then uses that bitmap to make the PCB layer. So if it's above any kind of darkness threshold, this will be turned into copper layers. So let's do something a little bit more fun, maybe a star in this. So that whole star will be... We're on the front copper layer here. We've drawn the star and we'll export that here. Let's open it again. It's still not worked. What is going on? Yeah, and I deleted the file and opened it again. So I had deleted this and then done the export. It's the demo effect. There we go. Look at that. So from there, the path that the most useful bit is then going directly into the 3D view and looking at what this is going to be. This doesn't look manufacturable and generally, I have these rulers over there. I wanted to pass out, have a look. That's my phone. Oh, that's the mic. So just to kind of finish off, because I'm probably out of time on it. What's my time? How's my time? So when I first send off this PCB ruler, the email I got back is, it's crashed our CAM software so you can run into trouble like this. But really when it's so cheap you can kind of play around and see what kind of test the limits of manufacturing. Yeah, so this plug-in was developed by IOC aka Badgeek and I think it's really, for me it's like how I kind of always wanted to design PCBs and I would like, if you enjoy working this way and you use it, support IOC on Patreon and I'm going to move to my second talk. Thank you.


Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Crowd, thank you for watching. So today is world card making day so I thought I'd do this little bonus video because I don't tend to upload on a Saturday but I had to mark the occasion and I thought I'd make a really nice fun fold card. So it's a slightly different size than normal, this ends up being a seven by six so I did use the envelope punch board to make the envelope okay. So that's how it will be and then you open it up and you've got best wishes there and I'm calling it a pop out z-fold or a center panel z-fold card because basically I've just popped out the center and that's it. It's really really straightforward yeah it just I think has a really really nice profile so it stands up like this so I have it so that you can I've kind of pull it out a little bit just so you can see the best wishes you can have it completely kind of square on like that and that looks really nice as well because that flower sits perfectly in the center of the card like that but if you kind of just go out like that you get to see the the sentiment you could have a sentiment coming out of here and have lots of more flowers down there you can obviously decorate this entirely how you like you have lots of room on the back I do need to just put my panel there I'm going to do it on this card but I didn't do on this one here so I do need to finish that off oh try not to squash your your little flowers there but yeah it's really really sweet so let me show you how to make this pretty quick card as well okay so for the small flowers I have used the bright rosa flower border dies and then for the main flower in the center I've used this one I've used it on about three or four cards now beautiful the center pop out card has been so popular so many of you make that one and I use that for this and it for that one it looked beautiful you've got all the decoration there and I did say these also could be used for snowflakes if you layer them up and use the smaller ones here and stuff so yeah you can certainly use your dies in other ways so the paper pad I'm using is the winter rose by first edition and the great thing about this is there are I'd say maybe half the papers do have a Christmas image on them but the rest are just a pattern or this floral which I used on that card so you can use them all year round so it's a beautiful paper pad as always they always do the textured card stocks you've got look at the pheasant one I can't wait to use that but then at the back you have all your double sided which are great for your backgrounds so I've already pulled my papers out but that's the one I'm using and then for that best wishes vertical sentiment I've got this one here which is the floral friends and it's just the best wishes there which I've already gone ahead and stamped so I've done all of that off camera because again that's pretty self-explanatory you'll know how to do that so with the dies to get the flower you cut the very large one so the one with this piece here you just cut that off it gives you little markers to follow then I used basically all of those then I cut this this frame here to do the background and then this one here is your detail which you cut with that and then these are all of these pieces here and here and then the circles in the center and you get this big flower and they're the smaller ones from the other ones you just layer them all up so you are going to need to do the maths and layers in a moment because yeah once once we do this bit it's together in minutes really so this is a piece of ten by seven and along the ten inch side you want to score it two and a half five and seven and a half okay then along the seven inch side okay so I'm going to line it up first of all two and a half now I have scored these because if you're cutting if you score first and then cut it actually makes it a bit easier to cut through the thicker card stock because you've squashed the card but all you really want to be doing here is that two and a half start from that score line and just draw a pencil line down to the last score line okay that's at the two and a half marker then I'm going to slide my ruler along to four and a half and again do a pencil mark from that first score line down to the third or score it or put it in your trim out and cut straight away but I like to show it this way because you know it doesn't matter if you don't have a trimmer you can still do it so you can see my two pencil lines there okay right through the middle we're now going to cut down through those so I've just got a metal ruler and my knife I'm just going to line up that there very carefully and then you're just going to cut all the way down again you're just cutting between the first score line and down to the last one so you'll have this score line in the middle there and again I'm going to cut that one there okay so now you should have that there I'm just going to go over and rub out the pencil okay and then what you want to do is this so there's your card it's going to be like this this first score line you want to fold so it's a mountain then you want to start pulling this piece out which will form this to fold like that and this will all go in like this so you're now you've got valleys here but this is a mountain because you're pulling it out the last score line you're not actually going to do anything with you're just going to leave it and then just fold it right across and just re-burnish all your score lines and there you have that as that center z-fold pop-out piece okay and then that will obviously be going on here right in the middle and you can see straight where how it comes together so now you just want to start doing your mats and your layers so I've got these three because I'm going to have one there one there and then one on the back and then that one I'm going to have where I write something so I'll be able to stamp something on there at a later date so those are going to stick there I'm not putting anything on there because this is going to cover it okay if you don't have something big like this and you just want to cover um you know like so you might put a nice little sentiment here or something this piece here for the the green so so the mat so that's two and a quarter by one and three quarters and then the pattern paper is two by one and a half you would need two pieces of them I'm only going to have the one because that's going to go there and then this one's going to go on this side piece here okay that's those and then you want four pieces because these are going to go here one two three four and these are all one and three quarters of oh no sorry so the green is two and a quarter squared and then the pattern paper is two inches squared that's right because these are two and a half inch squared squares so you can see where they all stick there so I'm going to go get all those mats and layers that stuck down okay next I want to stick this down now that's the reason why my envelope is bigger because this overhangs because whatever you have central here is going to overhang so if you do just want to keep this within a five by seven envelope then you just want to stay within that section there and I mean I could have that like this but then you see that side there and then it opens up like that okay so if you would prefer to have it that way you can do so what I would do is do a mat and your layer on there just so you don't have that kind of white bit but you can certainly have that just in the center but I do like to have it like that I just think it looks a little bit different so I'm going to have that stuck there now I'm going to use some foam just because I don't know I quite like to lift it up a bit more so I'm putting the foam actually on here and then once that sticks down so I'm lining up my points of this within this section here so I'm going to have it about there I want to make sure I also come in within that one two three four five six yeah that's fine so stick that down and then just just secure this in I'm just going to pop a couple on the back of this that way it just stops that bit bending so we scored all the way down so now that just stays within that right angle it can't go anywhere else then I've got these little flowers here that's all come out everywhere so I'm going to pop one about there and then I've got my best wishes and the way I've done this is that when this closes down I had it so that it kind of again sat perfectly you know with that there underneath so it should just line up anyway because I've lined everything else up okay so this should sit in the center there um I don't I'm not going to give the measurements for this because not everybody's going to have this at all you can see there I've just stamped it and then cut really close to it and then just done a little frame with the gold mirrored cardstock so let's just pop that down over there yeah perfect like so and then I've got a couple more little embellishments that I'm going to just pop along here add a little bit of more sparkle and there you have it I think it looks really nice it's just such a quick cut I know I don't obviously a lot of that off the the camera but it really honestly didn't take any time at all just those mats and layers are so quick and even the flower doesn't take long to die cut at all so they have it so happy world card making day I hope you manage to find some time today to make some cards or even just this weekend to get in your craft room or your craft space and just create something really nice so I 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Let's move on here to the Patriots because they are coming off a buy and they're almost never on the main slate So it's pretty easy to forget that this team exists at least for me But they're facing a past funnel defense a defense that encouraged you to pass against them in the Eagles So we got to dig into this offense specifically since they added Muhammad Sunoo If we look at week nine against Baltimore They had Edelman Sunoo and Ben Watson all play 100% of the snaps Philip Dorsett was at 99% Nobody else played more than 42% so this actually does help narrow things down the backs are all gone for me But I do like the the pass catchers Sunoo in that game Had 14 targets Edelman had 11 and nobody else had more than five Watson was a guy with five door set had four and Sunoo. It wasn't just like bunny targets He got some downfield work, too He had three deep targets there Edelman door set and Watson each had one Edelman had four targets in the red zone while Sunoo had two And then Watson and Dorsett had won a piece So clearly this offense is gonna revolve around Sunoo and Edelman Which is really fun in this spot because Sunoo is only 5,800 dollars And he seems to have a blend of both floor and upside I think that he's cash game viable there and probably one of the first receivers I would turn to the same is true for Edelman. He's a bit more expensive at 7,400 dollars So a bit tougher if you're paying for Christian McCaffrey door set 5,300 dollars I have a bit of a fear of what could happen here if he loses snap to Nikhil Harry who is active The same is partially true with Ben Watson at 49 if Ryan Izzo and Matt Lacoste are able to return But I think that they're both considerations. I just feel less certain about them than I do Sunoo So Sunoo to me I think really is a priority at 5,800 dollars and Edelman needs to be in our player pool, too So Brandon, how do you feel about this Patriots passing offense in week 11? I like them I just wanted to ask you before I really got into it Does it matter to you that Tom Brady's not been great this year? Um Like should that be a thing for us? Like I know is I know I understand they traded for Muhammad Sunoo For certain reasons, but right I mean, I keep my Tom Brady takes for 2019 to slack. So I'm just kind of doxing me here a little bit But um I I think that He's been a he's been good enough in plus matchups and I consider this a plus matchup Like if you look at the teams where he's faced bad pass defenses 22.96 against the Giants 24.92 against the against Washington 20.14 against the he's had 20 fandal points every time he's faced what I would classify as being a bad pass defense I don't put Baltimore there anymore because of Marcus Peters because the guys came back from injury Cleveland had Denzel warden greedy Williams there. So I think that I classify the Eagles as being a pat a bad pass defense And so that makes me feel better about him and in turn Sunoo and Edelman So that that's my answer took me a while to get there, but I'll go to that Yeah, I mean, I'm not I have nothing against Tom Brady. I have nothing against what you just said But against bottom half pass defenses and Philly's 21st Brady's average 0.16 passing that expected points per drop back Which is above the league average over the full season, which is 0.10 But against bottom half bottom half pass defenses the average is actually 0.18. So he's been Below average by that measure his success rates also below below average against bottom half pass defenses. So I probably just overthinking it. No, I don't I think it's fair to mention that he has been Not Tom terrific this year Yeah, and like I know that the weapons haven't fully been there and I understand that they traded first Sunoo because they needed some help Um, but yeah, I mean regardless. I'm still in on Sunoo and Julia and Edelman. Yeah, pretty heavily. Um Go ahead. I'll I don't know if I'm gonna make either a core play, especially Edelman at the price. Um, I think I probably like A few other receivers right around 58 to like 62 more than Sunoo But I wouldn't fault you if you went with Sunoo number one there. I think he is my number one I think he's a core play for me. Um John Brown is the one guy who gives me a little bit of pause of putting Sunoo over him. We'll talk about him later on too But I think that Sunoo is a going to be a core play for me And when I when we talk about or at least when I talk about Tom Brady's, you know Lack of efficiency. It's not a shot at him. It's because their left tackle's been out for most of the year They didn't have their center at the beginning of the year or they don't they won't have the rest of the year either because of blood clots I believe uh, so it's not An indictment of him It's an indictment of the surrounding system as a Jared Goff fan. I feel obligated to mention quarterbacks Their play is dependent on the system around them and Brady's surrounding talent isn't that great right now