Welcome to Rational Politics though today we should probably call ourselves Rational Promo. I'm joined at the table by Marsha Martin who has been on the Longmont City Council for four years.  Marsha is going to be explaining a lot of this to you in her show. Marsha, welcome to the table, so nice to see you down here. Thank you Nigel, I'm really delighted to be here and have a chance to explain what you are talking about. Yeah, I mean some of the things that you mentioned like I know that a lot of people think a council has the ultimate power and you explained to me, no it doesn't. No it really doesn't. So what Longmont in particular is organized is as a weak mayor system. That means that the city is really organized like rather diverse corporation whose CEO is the city manager and the city manager has all of the power of hiring and firing the city staff, the people who get things done in the city and of carrying out the statutes of the city, the statutes that we inherit from the state of Colorado and the statutes that we inherit from the federal government. He's in addition charged with carrying out the policies that the city council makes from time to time. Most of the time the power is here even then because his staff does stuff brings it in the form of a justification and a statute to the council and only then does the council decide. Now council can also introduce policies of its own but no matter what it takes four votes on the council to make any new policy go into effect. Interesting. So Marsha tell me when it comes to the city council what are their top priorities because I don't think people really understand how the infrastructure all fits together. So what does the council really look for first? I think that the council I've never heard of a council who did not share the same essential priorities of making the city work that the city manager has. That's keeping the lights on keeping the water running when you flush the toilet whatever's in there goes away and it does not poison the river right you know all of that stuff making patching the potholes which is always you know what cities do the worst and in this climate there's really no way to do it well and the city council has has the thankless job of balancing those priorities. A lot of city council members or a lot of city councils really have had trouble facing the fact that they have to let the infrastructure fall apart or they have to raise rates that the residents pay for the maintenance of that infrastructure or they have to ask the residents to vote for a tax for themselves to pay for a bond issue on the to pay for updates on the infrastructure and neither of those none of those are nice choices right right. Langmont is a really well run city the internet never goes out the electricity never goes out the water didn't go out during the flood of 2013 and um and when you flush the toilet whatever's in there goes away permanently permanent yeah and it doesn't poison the river and the waste treatment plant is being upgraded right now and that's why we people we had to raise some fees that's right and unfortunately the council has to make those decisions. Langmont is a really green city a majority of the voters are concerned about climate change they're concerned about wildlife and and preserving the wildness of the area that we live in preserving a wild life um and some of those people don't care how much it costs they just want that to be the top priority but at the same time we have a really large number of people who you know who don't get to the end of the month with five dollars more to pay on their utility bill right so the kind of policy decisions that the city council makes the most often are well how do we solve that problem we could for example charge a low electric rate to people who use only a little electricity and a higher rate to people who use vast amounts of electricity because presumably if they're using vast amounts it's because they can afford to right or they can afford to insulate their house or you know there are those people have agency and options whereas the people who are at the low end of the income spectrum don't have options right and that's what we did for example the last time we considered upgrading or updating our grid and increasing the electric rates to pay for it we did it on a on a tiered basis and then we put in a special rebate so that really low income people got paid back at the end of the year right for some of their utility fees to be honest i'm really happy to be living in this town because i think you're doing a tremendous job as a city as a city i'm not going to say city council as a city there is a difference and there is a difference and i'll tell you why i cannot remember the last time my power went out i can't remember it it stayed on solid next light our high speed broadband i i it's never dropped out in in oh how long have i had it now three or four years absolutely remarkable yep um let's quickly talk about 15 minutes with marsha martin okay this is going to be your new show yeah um the hourglass is looking really good why don't you give us just a very very brief introduction to your show all right okay what you're going to be talking about it really frustrates me when i don't know how things work and what i have found oh as as a city council member is that lots of people don't know how things work and when you don't know how things work it's sometimes hard to tell what the right approach to making them work is and i would say that in in not just in longmont but in most cities and and at all levels of government for that matter the thing that government is worse that is communicating with the public and giving them the understanding they need to get along with the system and that means people don't uh don't get access benefits that they're entitled to get um they get tangled up in in some system you know where they incur a fine that there was no reason for them to incur a fine just because they didn't know they were doing anything that could be could cause a fine you know um and if somebody is infringing on you know their personal territory their property rights whatever they don't know what their recourse is and most people care you know most people will say oh well this doesn't seem bad enough to call the police for so what do i do and a big part of the city council member's job is responding to those people and say well you know this is what you do and it's going to take about this long if you are patient and you tell them these four things you should get a satisfactory response it's really hard to do you know that going to the city website and searching for yeah whatever you're searching for it's really often very hard to find and so i really have tried to make a mission out of communicating those things to people one-on-one when it's the only way i use social media a lot and i hope that 15 minutes will be another outlet for that kind of information i'm really looking forward to hearing you discuss the topics that you've just covered because after four years on a council i'm sure you've got some rather interesting little stories to tell i'm sure you've got some rather interesting little stories you cannot tell but we'll talk about that privately no actually we won't because even when we're not rolling i cannot tell you cannot tell oh i know yeah anyway marcia thank you so much for coming down for cutting this promo with me oh it was been fun it's been a lot of fun talking to you like this you're not an idiot you know oh trust me when it comes to government in america i'm an idiot i understand the parliamentary system i could give you a rundown of that top to bottom i've lived here since 81 i haven't got a clue what they do in washington well i would rather be in parliament because then i could say anything i wanted and hit people with sticks oh prime minister's question time you'd be absolutely dynamite anyway order yeah um so everybody look for the new show coming to the c-i-t network 15 minutes with marcia martin you're gonna learn a lot about how local government works and i think you'll also discover that what marcia talks about also filters up to the top look for this new show i'm niger leaves your host signing off marcia thank you very much bye everybody it's been great talking to nigel thank you


I'm on my way. He, um... How's your school? I'm on my way. I haven't had breakfast with him yet. We have a back-to-back meeting. We have a shower here. We know. The guest seats. We miss it all week. It's good. It will try it. It will try to make it feel safe. I mean, I trust you. I haven't liked it either. He says, It's the beginning of the world. That's what he said every book. It was the beginning of the world. And it's like, I bet so. Yeah. Well, we're a bit long, but it is such a weird thing to do. It's a weird thing to do. It's a weird thing to do. It's a weird thing to do. It's a weird thing to do. It's a weird thing. So we're here. A lot of people are here. Hey! It's good. See, guys, it's hot dog shoes. We're going to create a play. Together. In the lobby. It's a real life. It's a real fast week. I'm going to show some of the product. There's people all over. It's okay. It's okay. So what we're going to do is we're going to do some work for 45 minutes and then we're going to do some diet work for 15 minutes or so. And we are actually going to work again and have opportunities for your questions to me about your creative process. You're going to be together. And we're going to be trying to pull together. And it's a lot of fun. We also have a lot of work to do. So I'm going to throw up something to do with you. A question where I can't do anything. So thanks for your support. We're also going to put an end to having some things to help us choose you guys. You can do three equations that ask all of you what you work as talking hashtag for you to be going to the halfway and you'll begin to set a watch for our phone. No, no, no. Let's do 40 since it's our we're already in battle. We're 40 minutes for those four skippers. And that same time review, we have actors that we really love and they do some great stuff. People start thinking about our situation. We'll have just this flag and that's how they write it. And that's how they generally integrate phone language. I know exactly what you're talking about. You've got a pretty guy. A pretty guy. Mike Lee. Mike Lee. Mike Lee. Mike Lee. Mike Lee. Mike Lee. Mike Lee. Mike Lee. Mike Lee. Mike Lee. Mike Lee. Mike Lee. Mike Lee. Mike Lee. Mike Lee. Mike Lee. Mike Lee. Mike Lee. Mike Lee. Mike Lee. Mike Lee. and they don't show up and they don't ask to come out for a day. You know, because the charismatic person, all the actors, the directors, the peace service, we didn't want to go over. And if you have already, the liberation responsibility, someone's got your responsibility, and I'm going to tell you about it. This is what it should be about. We had a dinner, so someone started to work, and they jumped in and started to help, trying to have an old time game, and a lot of action going into the background. So I'm going to be up on the line to write it into the first floor, or what type of action I'm spying is open to us. But I know this is what we were talking about. You know, a lot of things we had to work out about. How is this spying going? This is a gesture. Oh, but, you know, we need that extra line because we're going to have to put the world into a grand cage at our stage. And I want to say to you that I was the king of the great state, the psycho-army issue, I've read some of that, but if I did it, I do did it, that's solid, that's solid, that's solid. And I never did it. So that requires more work, what was going to be done, and just, you know, what the work was going to be like. Because a lot of the African people can't ask about it, and it's important to them. And that suggests that you guys would too, but if you were in the temporary, you don't want to be gone, and it's just hard, you know, for all. Now, I think this is sort of a moment when I'm going to show you the flag. You know what I'm going to show you? I'm going to show you the flag. The moment and the shape and the flag. Thank you. Thank you. The story of the moment, this is the hard part. I see that the folks have fun with it. So the hard part is kind of hard, and so this is my first time. I'm sorry. Enjoy it. Enjoy it. Yes. I'm in. Here's the point. I have the first draft. It's maybe a good draft. That's amazing. It is. I have something that I feel like I really like, have been working on, and I want to bring it to that next stage of getting feedback on it, getting people to, you know, hear the parts that don't make sense when they're not just in my pages. And I guess I'm wondering how do you open yourself up when you know it's not good enough yet, or you know that there's going to be so much that needs to change. I know that over a hill that I thought was the summit, but just saw a lot of that happen. That's really great. That's really great. Wow. He said that point now. The finishing draft.  You want to open yourself up and process it up to others. Have you, so that we want to do something about the finish? I would. Because it was a cool draft and the finish was yesterday. So let's say you have people that play. Music. So you're going to be responsible. Yeah, I'm working with them. And the music's not totally that yet. Okay, that's great. So you have them you really look. So you have them to talk to. Have you talked to them and really look at them? Okay. Okay. To the back. To the back. And make a list of everything you need to work on. Listen to what is not right. Listen to what is not right. Make a list of what works in your mind. Make a list of what's out there and then choose what is an active friend who are making better friends than they are actors. You know, and then you have three actors.  You know, you can hang out on your apartment and have your meeting on it. You need a little team. You need a little difficult strength. I think that. And then get their feedback from the most friends that we can't go ahead and have interviews tonight, last 10 meetings and if you have a drama show or a friend you want to see, you can go back and over and talk about afterwards. So take those tests. There are a few tests that they're managing. Okay. You're going to invite some actors and maybe you're going to talk to them later. I shouldn't have a photograph soon. I guess it's really interesting because it's not in the place where it's finished at that time and it's been a short timeline and it's all people who adore me that are really excited. But it feels like it's getting very official because the company's never done this before. They've never nurtured one of their short plays and so I'm very nervous about it. I'm excited about it and how you are. If you have any thoughts on how to take this form I think it's on writing it so that it's public reading. So that it's what for the public reading? I don't want to just hear it for its performance. They're doing a public reading and we go write it. And I want them to feel good about that but I don't want it to solidify this story into something like this and stop it to just commit to any old direction because I want it ready. Did you hear everybody? Did you hear those questions? Did you hear everybody? Did you hear everybody? Did you hear everybody? Did you hear everybody? Did you hear everybody? Did you hear everybody? Didn't you hear what she said? Why didn't you hear everybody? When did you hear everybody? That was the warm-up line. We're all working on � there are many good stories that are self-sufficient and such images too.  Her hair is the best one. Many times your orbital was blown upside down while you were in Specifically Even if you have to support a lot of rights groups, you can get a very good talk with them also. You can tell them what's going on. This is Bob, and this is Bob, and I am the other way around. My bosses are now, they're not in the community. Okay, so it's literally a minute, okay, and if you want to talk right afterwards. Great. Total working product, the seventh tone. You should make it so it's festive, it's fun. You know, it's a total working product, it's fun to make it. It's a total working product, it's fun to make it. Seven pages, it's a long time.    Yeah, they can't get it all out. You should make that with the game, it's fun to make it. Even though you're part of your vision, you know what it is. It's the very end. Good, good, you don't want to log in. So, we're working right now, just to get it. Good, okay, don't worry about it. Yeah, that's right to say. It's just totally fine. You know, it's a little bit for the last time. In the end, you know, the log is there for you. You know, it doesn't have fun. It doesn't have fun. It doesn't have fun. You know, the other way to go is to talk back. Have questions with your audience. Say, I'd like to, you know, we didn't break into the game and show and, you know, talk back, it was like 10 minutes. You guys can do whatever. Say, anybody's taking talk back? I think you can at least three questions. That's what's going on right now. Just talk back a little bit. You're great. Okay. Enjoy the game without seeing my game. You know what I mean? We two, and someone asked you about something in when you played and you said, after eight years ago, I had no idea. You know, and I just thought, to have the damage work behind you, then you can't really understand what you're doing.  It has to be. It's a little, like, crazy.  But how do you personally know when something's done? Do you get it in? Do you get it in any time? Right. Right. Right. So, um, here's what we're doing. Oh, jeez.  One, it's going to stand next to me. You know, there's a counter-potential. The character's where it is. There's a lot. You said that you're going to play. And that's kind of what I'm writing. And it's something you've felt all the time, but they don't know what to do. You write it until you can feel it, and you write it until you can feel it, so you can feel it. And that said, these are the covers that I have to talk about around the community. You know, we're going to have time and I, we're going to have time. We're going to have to pressure it in the next day. And if you were talking about, you're a point in play-up, you're going to have to do this moment just a couple of different things we already have in our class. So, you're going to manage a slide, spit,覺 cable, and change the color of the new or judiciary. You're going to have to go lighter. And it's kind of like the original structure. So, we're going to have time to get to it. So, that's what we're going to talk about. So, but here's a note I'm writing I don't know if they're going to have to develop these people for the real needs of their servants. You know, being like their partners, it wouldn't have to happen. You know, it wouldn't have to, it has to be, but it all sets. But what do you know? It's just, you know, it's perfect. And it's a good quality of work. Well, I have a general question. Yeah, I don't even know if it's general. So I'm in this wonderful city and, you know, I know all these wonderful people now. And I am so gun-shy about asking people for the real needs of my work. Like, I'm just like, if it's not class, like in editing, I guess I'm saying, how do I, how do I get that done? How do I get, like, I'm in prime position and I would hate to spend two views here and not ever have anything views. So it's, it's sort of, I don't know how to do that. Like, and I think that's something we get in our program. So it's just, I know it's me, which I'm really good at. But I don't, I'm always, I always feel like I'm imposing on people. I'll read other people's work. I'm like good at that, but I don't, like I'll end up a script doctor at this rate. Right, right. That's a good question, that's a good question.  So can you separate things?  Yeah, I feel the same way.  It's not about your feelings. Right. It's not about your friendship with the rich shop family. Like in that kind of way, the rich shop family is not the way. I've been shocked that that's another show. Okay.  Where I've asked one, I've had an experience where I've asked someone to read my work. Yeah. And I've never heard anything else.  Right. So I don't think it was because the piece was just so bad that they never, but they just never did. Right. And it's just like that, I think that experience kind of scarred me to ask people to read, to read, to write, to paint, to write my work and to take on it. Right. So one, you have to ask, if you see some people out there in the world who you think would be the responders of your work, and you want them to read your work, you have to ask them. Okay. The reality of the, you know, the reality of the world, if you're right, is that the one who will say, who can't say no, will say, sure, read your work, read it because they don't have time. Nobody has time. Right. Got you. No question. A person who takes care of someone, I don't know if that's what I'm going to say, but if he wants to say no to your faith, I'm going to be in trouble. I mean, it's not true. But if someone will say, can you remember what I was going to say? No. I can't. Nobody. Yeah. And so I have that with me. I don't know the person. It doesn't matter personally. Right. When the person asks and says, I'm sorry, I still don't know you. Right. But it's not about the person asking and saying no to your faith. It's about the animal. It's not that bad. Right. A lot of people have that goal. A lot of people will be going, I'm sure. That's right. I'm too happy with the person. Yeah. See, the place is amazing. You see that. A lot of people might listen to you, but they might not. They might not. They might not. They might not. They might not. They might not. They might not. They might not. They might not. They might not be able to see what's on my hand, but they can't read my thoughts. So it kind of has, you know, if you're probably under work. Right. And a lot of people are asking if it's a question of where you're at. So we just had a hand with people who are staying out. And hand with them anyway. You know, you care about what they're asking. So just in a quick way maybe you just have to start you know... Is it like isn't too much to do something like okay I'm gonna give you this play and if you don't feel like you can read it by this day, I can understand it and I'll ask you to help us, like is that your rationale? Can you actually be able to go by if you don't want people to say the same thing at the same time? Crap. You know, I mean, if you just live in an armband or have a meeting and you can't play with me, you can't do the right thing about the innovative role I'm doing so much. Yeah. You're helping me to say no. Right. Don't help me. Guess what? You know, I mean, you know, don't help me while I'm at it. You okay? No. Could you be my play? They say yes. I say you. That's it. You're helping me to go do that to myself. You know what I'm saying? If you're not an all-in-one player, that doesn't mean no or no. If you're not, in fact, you're just an all-in-one player. You're doing your job with me. Yeah. Your job is to write a play and write about the game with people. And I'm going to read it and then I'll actually go. Okay? That's okay. Your job is to be an all-in-one player. You need to take care of yourself. Okay? You see? You need to say that you're not an all-in-one player. Yeah. Care for them. Care for them. You can call them and say that you had a chance to get it. You got lots of that. Yeah. And if they don't want you to call them an all-in-one player, tell them this is not a good one. And I'm going to take a clue. I said, no, I'm sorry. I can't just show my potential. And that's the muscle that we all exercise, including you. We all have to learn. And think about that. You stay in rest. You need to stay in rest. I'll be sure to do that. Think about it.  If you think about it, maybe you want to say a second time. Okay? Okay. One. Sometimes I can't tell if I'm writing a character or if I'm writing a version of myself. Yeah. It's more like... Maybe now, because we need to be in a way that's what I think it needs to be, right? To have, like, me personality. I'm not sure. I'm not sure what you're going to sound like me, if I have to say that. Why don't you just follow the lead if you know it's too much? You just follow the lead again. Right? What about the question again? Do you feel right about writing it? That's another problem. See you next week. See you next week.


Thank you, Professor Wan, for a great introduction. My name is Keiko Tanaka. I'm going to present how can industry initiative help promote open education. I believe this is a lightening talk with Pecha Kuchia style. So I will try to go with the training second for each slide. So last year I was able to visit Milan for the first time to attend OE Global 2019. So for those of you who have met me, you can spot me here and there. I am assistant professor at the Kyoto College of Graduate Studies for Informatic, the first professional IT graduate program in Japan. And I normally lecture on media and communications. As we experiencing this COVID-19 and I have my focus slightly moved on to doing a lot of cooking. More specifically, I've started cooking a little bit more Chinese home remedy type of food. And when I do, I try to re-envision the food I ate in China when I had a business trip there. But sometimes I extended family, although I don't have a Chinese language ability, my extended family in China sends me these things that I don't know the name of it. But I try to figure out what it is and try to cook this healing soup. But even though if you own these materials, if you don't know how to use it and you don't know the name of it, this is very likely this is astragas root. I hope that is correct because I try cooking it. But if you don't own, if you own it, but if you don't know the name for it and how you cook it, you can't make use of it. And this is a very healing for me, even though it is only partially scientific, it's very stress relieving. So enough about soup and I'm going to move on talk about hiking industry initiative how promote open education. So in 2016, the president of the school that I belong to established a new industry association called Information Technology Federation of Japan, bundling more than 50 society of all these Japanese IT industry groups responsible for four million employees across the nation. So it's an umbrella organization and they formed this to as they were facing this huge skill gap in Japan. Japan is facing a huge talent deficit in IT and estimate says that more than 789,000 item talent is needed by 2030, but it's not being filled. And we don't know how to fill them. They've been trying to warn you for the deficit for a long time since the 80s, but it's never been filled. And here's what is happening when you go talking to the people in the industry, they care about talent, they care about achievement, they care about training, they care about competency. Just that's, they really care about trying to find talents, you know. However, when you as I work in the education sector, we have a completely different set of language when we care about students and textbook and program and a gradations and curriculum development. And it's as if that we don't talk king, we are not talking in the same language. So, the IT associate industry of IT industry has put together and a concept to explore the idea of I competency dictionary, I competency dictionary is a skill framework developed by the Japanese information technology processing agency, a quasi government organization. So they put together this skill framework consisting of tasks and skills. So, because this is a matrix of tasks and skills, you can look at the task and see what skills are needed to achieve the task. So, ICD is a reference framework for IT professionals in Japan, developed by the information technology promotion agency, a quasi government organization. So industry are now use making news of ICD. So, most of skill frameworks and skill standards consist of skills. In reality, often cases they have tasks inside side, which is why things are really complicated. So ICD put the task aside against the skill set so you can use ICD to look for a particular profile of a job and see what skill sets are needed using the dictionary. The IT industry association prospects that we want to have a e-learning that associates I competency dictionary. So I competency dictionary can be used in every aspect of human development, human resource development. If you have a job profile, you can look at the dictionary, I competency dictionary and see if what tasks that need to be achieved, what tasks need to be done in particular job profile. You can look at education and see the particular course can be matched with a particular element of skills or tasks in I competency dictionary. You can also look at the qualifications and certification and see, because in IT, there are all kinds of different vendor qualifications and vendor certificates, and we don't know which one is how transversal. But if you can look at in the I competency dictionary, you know what are the elements that contained in a qualification. So ICD sort of becomes the catalyzer for the every stage of ICT professional development. And it may not seem like this has anything to do with opening up, opening up education from learners perspective, if you want to be a data scientist, for example, you try to figure out what task this person is going to achieve and you start from there. And then, if you want to become a particular figure, you will start choose from various learning providers, it may be schools like formal education, or programming boot camp, or it can be online courses. But as long as competency is aligned in every learning provider provisions, you can sort of see what education best fits. And same thing goes to credentials. If you don't have to have a degree, it could be a badge as long as it represents a particular competency demonstrated by the learning outcome. So this creates a perspective where industry can sort of recognize the learning outcome with as long as the competency is aligned. So information technology Federation of Japan proposed in 2019 that they want to push for competency alignment using ICD to education in the field of IT, as well as expansion of online courses. This is a proposal that is publicly available online. I am not representing them, I am referencing to it. And just this year, last July, released a new agreement with Japan's online MOOC provider and Information Processing Society of Japan to collaborate on industry academia cooperation to accelerate the supply chain of talent development. So competency alignment is, is accomplished in every aspect, every stage of ICD professional development, it will create room for open recognition and open validation and catalyze formal and non formal learning. So there is still a lot to explore. I still don't know how we can strategize on credentialing. I don't still don't know how we can promote the use of iCompetency Dictionary to be used in industry as well as education. We don't really have the, the scheme there yet, but as an concept, the competency alignment help enable open education without really even advocating it. And I hope this is kind of like a translation of tasks and skills and industry and education, just like I needed the book to figure out the ingredients to cook a soup. So thank you for listening. Thank you very much.


Hi, beautiful. Touching up your double process, platinum blonde, bleach hair is difficult. As a hairstylist even, you need years of experience to really get your retouches perfect. And people doing a double process, root touch up on their own head at home with zero experience is horrifying. Today, we're watching people do just that. I'm very doubtful that people can actually do this themselves because even me, I have done my own retouches many times and it is not easy.  Sometimes I change my look so fast that when I see myself in these videos, I literally don't know who it is.   God, getting that right out of my hair was like a process. I do have blisters on my head. Whatever it takes though to get blonde, baby, I can do it. I will do it and I will always do it. Up first, we have a video from Hannah4CA. Hannah, it's been a while since the relaxer melting your hair. I hope we aren't gonna make a similar mistake today and melt our hair with bleach this time, but then again, maybe you will. These roots, they can't take it anymore. We got our bleach, we got a bowl, we got gloves, aluminum foil.  You are going to have a time bleaching this and if you overlap your hair, it will break off. I can't stress that enough, you guys. Overlapping on a double process is a recipe for total disaster. So hopefully she doesn't do that. And why, hold on, why are we whipping out the aluminum foil for this? And basically I'm gonna go for a highlighted look so that my roots can continue growing out and it won't look as choppy. Oh, no. If there's one thing more difficult than doing a double process retouching yourself, it's bringing yourself from a double process back to highlighted so that your hair grows out nicely, if that makes sense. It takes a lot of talent and take low lighting and highlighting and all kinds of glazes and toners and things that make it all come together perfectly. It is such an art form to make it look great. I just don't think you have it in ya. I'm sorry. We're gonna take our powder, we got three scoops in here and a bowl. That is the biggest bowl for a lightener I've ever seen. I love it. And that means we need six of these and we're using a 30 volume today. Okay, if you're using foils, you definitely don't need 30 volume. 30 volume can be very extreme with foils and it can really damage the hair. I don't know, 20 volume might have been better but it's hard to see things through the screen and what's going on and have, yeah. Awesome. And I'm gonna use a comb. What's going on? Mix that all together. What? A comb?  I'd rather you use a spoon. We're gonna start at the bottom and then we're gonna go to the top. I don't know how I'll be able to see the back of my head. See, this is the hard part.  You gotta use mirrors but then everything's reversed and it's really confusing. It gets messy and complicated and it's just really all around difficult. But I'm glad she's starting at the bottom of her hair and working her way up. That way her hair doesn't go into the lightener accidentally when she works from the top down. It's way more messy working from the top down and working from the bottom up. This is what we're working with first. Move the aluminum underneath. I am so interested to see what she's about to do and how this technique is gonna work. I'm going to weave through my hair and then I'm going to put bleach on parts of it. This isn't gonna work, like literally at all. For me, I would probably do a very heavy full foil on her. Weave out that hair, get it in there. In between those foils, I would low light, okay? Because we need to add dimension back to her hair to make it look like it's a more natural looking color growing out of her scalp rather than a dull process with a harsh line. But otherwise, if you don't do all that, you're gonna end up with like still a hard line because all her hair is right now colored, completely solid. So to break that up, you're gonna need to do a lot more than just weave some foils in there. It's not gonna break up that line. We are going to though, just like we're crocheting. Oh God. We have a kind of section. Hannah, no, don't tell me this is the technique. We are taking a huge horizontal line and just weaving through it in chunks.  It's just gonna be a disaster. Got some bleach on my hand and I'm just gonna try to get as much of the brown as I can get. Oh, I don't know. So this is the part that I pulled out and I'm gonna wrap the aluminum. Yeah, I think that's good. I am mortified. And now I'm gonna add another layer of aluminum right there, separate this. I can't even believe she's still going forward with this. Like this is one of the worst applications I've ever seen of lightener. Like it doesn't even make a little bit of sense. I'm sorry, Hannah, I'm not being very nice today but like I just, I can't even understand what was going through your head.  It's just gonna be crazy. Oh my God, it's like I weave nothing changes.  In this case, I would recommend a small one. And then when you pull all the hair section up you then weave through that section. Not while it's laying down on your head, okay? You wanna take every other piece, do a weave. Honestly, I'm trying my best. I know it doesn't look like it but I really am trying my best. Babe, babe, let's do better. Let's make our best better. I don't know if I have like much more to add to this.  I don't know how she's even gonna live with this. I'm so scared. We just weaved our way through highlighters on the roots. I feel good about this. Anything is better than it being a line that is brown to blonde. Literally anything is better. Everything is not better. It's not. I can't see. How's that look? It's so bad. And no. We have the roots that are blonde here and then it goes brown and then it goes blonde again. Where is the face framing?  We want that part blonde. So obviously we got some good orange tones going on. We got a little calico action going on there. We got some orange to some brown to some blonde. Oh my God. This is bad. Look at her root. It literally has a blonde stripe black blonde. Oh my God.  L'Oreal Paris and I only have two minutes to leave this in my hair. So I'm gonna wash it out now. Oh my God. No. Not the purple shampoo. Purple shampoo doesn't fix all of our problems. I wish it did. It doesn't though. And I'm really upset about it. The fact that it doesn't. But purple shampoo can only do so many things and it's really good for what it's good for. But like you can't expect everything from it. It can't carry the world of hair color on its back anymore.  I know I said that it couldn't get any worse. This is what we're going with right now. I mean, I don't know what the back looks like but I know other than seeing a professional, the best thing I could do is to re-bleach and just do it all. But I am honestly so terrified of my hair falling out again.  Like a money piece moment because that'll make it look like your hair has been done.  You can also kind of smudge that line with a toner, the line between your black hair and your blonde hair. But that's also kind of a risky thing if you don't know how to formulate a toner correctly and I don't know if I want you to get into all that.  It'll look great. Don't ever do that again though. Up next, we have a video by Mona Lisa. Today I am going to be refreshing my hair dye. Oh God, another really tricky situation. I'm going for the color that my hair already is which is really dark and on camera. It even looks like herb. Okay, well luckily she's not trying to make it really blonde. She's just trying to make it kind of like this orange color, orange-yellow-y thing. Okay, so she is going right in there. She's starting from the bottom and working her way up. I have to say, as she works through the hair, these sections are gigantic. They need to be way, way thinner. Why is this section huge? How are we getting through all that hair? What? Wait a damn second.  Also, I see overlapping going on. My worst fear today, I don't want to see the overlapping going on. Few things. Put more lightener on the hair. We want it to be like coated in white stuff, you know. We want to take thinner sections. We want to work on the hair one side of the back at once and then the other side at the other time.  My brain is just too powerful, works too fast. My mouth doesn't move as fast as a lot. This is what four quadrants looks like. Start like this, work from the bottom, take really thin slices and paint those roots, okay? Get in there, put a lot of lightener on there and you'll be perfectly good. Maybe, just don't overlap either. I don't know. She has an interesting technique going on right now. She's kind of like painting the top and then sectioning out underneath as she goes up. I don't know, man. And a lot of it is already processed, so I'm getting nervous at this point and like really, really wanting this part to hurry up and heat up and clearly with how much anxiety I'm having about it, it's gonna heat up quickly for sure. If you really want this to process evenly and perfectly and great, you should work in four quadrants. Remember which ones you did first, second, third, fourth and then rinse it out so that every section is processed for the exact same amount of time. That way, you don't end up with half your head at a great lightness and then half of your head orange because things have to process the same amount of time. Okay, so this is what I'm looking like.  I think I'm gonna give my hair a breather. What are those stripes of brown I see going through your hair? Whoa. Oh, some parts are really blonde. Some parts have stripes, some parts we missed. God damn. Whoa, whoa, um. Oh, I see breakage, I see breakage. I'm gonna start with the hair dye and sort of do it in a layered way so that if I have to, it could give an ombre look if I feel like this isn't enough. So I guess we're not gonna try to perfect anything. We're just gonna straight up go in with the toner and try to make it all work. Try to blend it all in and make it pretend that nothing ever happened. What I would recommend you to do, except this is gonna be very hard to do yourself, but I would go in to all those brown spots and get them nice and even.  Touch all the spots with some lightener, some 20 volume and lightener. Go in in your sections, rinse it off at the same time.  It's not cute. Okay, so this is all I got. This is a lot. And I believe she's going in with permanent color on top of her already bleached damaged hair.  Ah! Ah! This part is decent. Okay, well that's where the video ends. It actually got worse. I'm so sorry this happened to you. Fuck, that was bad. Wow, we are seeing ultimate fails today. It's been a while since people like really, really messed up their hair, but these people, the banding, the blonde and the orange everything was just really bad. Next time you need to be way more precise with your sections, I can't stress that enough. I hope your hair is better now. Up next we have a video by KMMA at home. Let's see if she can finally get it right. So today what I plan to do is touch up my roots. You can see that they have grown out a little bit. Where? What roots? I literally don't see any roots.  I do wanna keep the darker root. I really like the way it looks. I almost wouldn't be ready to touch up the roots yet, but because I'm new to doing this and I've heard that if you let the roots grow out too much, you're gonna get that orange banding. But you have highlights. You don't have a double process. So you're not gonna get banding even if you roll your hair out very long and then do the highlights. Like you're not gonna get banding with the foil highlights. You are gonna get banding if you had a double process and you let it go for too long, but you don't. I am using the Schwarzkopf Blondly line. I have 720, 30 developers, some spray bottles, I have foil, I have my bleach, a whisk. Listen, she is stalked up on every single tool she could possibly need. I'm impressed. But can she pull off the retouch on her non-double processed hair that has highlights, but I don't know. Like a Mohawk section and then I have the two on the sides of my head. Is that like an eight quadrant sectioning moment going on? Quadrant is four. I started in the perimeter of each section being sure to saturate it while trying my best to avoid overlapping the lightener onto previously lightened areas. When I finished the perimeter, I began to slice through each section adding a little bit to the top and bottom and just kind of thoroughly making sure that I was using enough bleach. The technique is for sure there. Like this is very good what she's doing. However, she's not until a process. So I don't know why she's doing it all process when she has highlights. I just don't get it.  I don't, would somebody make it make sense? When I did reach the front of my head, I decided to use foils because I was still using just seven volume and I needed it to go a little bit quicker. I needed some heat to kind of help move the bleach along a little bit. Where did the foils come in? How did the foils get there? We're now painting lightener through the whole head. Oh, I'm so lost. So I decided to stop when I finished the sides and was going to just do the top section in a different process. So that way I could get this stuff off my hair. Before I did that, I did a super weak bleach bath. As you can see here, I added water shampoo to seven vol that's been sitting for a while. I think she's trying to make herself back to dull process plasma from the highlights. I think that's what's going on. Everything looks pretty lightened except for the top, which is the part I didn't touch. So I was happy with the sectioning I did today. Remember, I didn't touch any of this top. Oh, what? So why are we leaving the top like that? I've never seen something like this before. Very interesting. I did do the sides, which will need definitely some touch up. Oh, the missing spots that get everybody every time. There's so many missing spots. Our hairline has the dark spots, the back has the dark spots. So what I began with first was adding bleach to any areas that needed to be touched up, including areas that were really dark so that could start to process. And then after I finished that, I had this brilliant idea that I was going to Mohawk highlight the top of my head, thinking it would add sort of some dimension and lightness to the root. What in the hell? Just bleach the whole thing. Stop with the artiness. Just bleach the whole thing. Just go for it at this point. Look at the tap. It was horrifying when I came out, but there are some highlights, so those worked. I decided to bust out the bleach again, go over any spot that is still dark. Yes! Yes! Good idea. And in an attempt to make it look better, I went in with a root shadow. Also a great idea. This might be getting better. A toner for the ends to get rid of the yellow, and it doesn't even matter what I used because spoiler alert, I ended up redoing it. But here's what it looked like. It looked really nice. It wasn't bad at all compared to the train wreck that had happened. This looks good! She somehow did it! But look at what it looked like in the morning. Look at that bright orange section. Oh no, we gotta fix the bright orange now. It's just like, do something, fix it. Do something, fix it. Okay, so she's toning it again. She's trying to get rid of that orange part, so she has to go a little bit darker, like level seven on the root, which is just so confusing to me because she's just gonna end up with the same hair she had before. Let's see. Here is the finished product. I definitely think it's a lot better. It's a little bit dark. It'll be nicer when the tone kind of fades. It's kind of like double toned right now. I'm pretty happy with it though.  You ended up with more roots than what you started with. I thought the point was to get rid of the roots, not add more. Your hair looks good. I'm just very confused in that. What happened that entire time? I'm very confused. Well, you ended up with something very workable and cute. So I guess good job. Yeah. So don't do that. Don't do what they did. All right, and that's all I gotta say today. If you wanna check out my hair care and my hair color line, you can do so with the links right down below or go to xmodelhair.com. That's all for today, guys. Thank you for watching. Don't forget to live your extra life, and I'll see you next time. Bye.


Today we're opening an obnoxious Celtic Guardian 10 from 2004, and some other awesome Yu-Gi-Oh! packs. What's up guys we're back with another epic video. Today we're opening a ton of awesome old school packs. We have a couple of first edition tactical evolution. We have a first edition Legacy of Darkness. Five Crossroads of Chaos, maybe we'll get that Ghost Rare Black Rose. And then we're opening the 2004 obnoxious Celtic Guardian 10. This should be a pretty fun one, but first we have a giveaway. I'll be giving away these three cards, Spellbinding Circle. We got the Gaia and the Blue Eyes Ultimate Dragon.  Let me know what you want to see pulled from these packs. First we are going to start with the Legacy of Darkness and the Five Crossroads of Chaos. These were bought by RobertD on Ruxen34.com. So let's see if we can pull them something good. All of these were purchased on Ruxen34.com. So you guys can go check those out. We do have a lot of tactical evolution available right now. So if you guys want some of those, check that out. Here we go. We have an Iron Chain Blaster. Let's see if we can get that Ghost Rare Black Rose. I've never pulled that. That would be insane. I would love to do that. We've got a Nettles Bamboo Scrap. Tiger Dragway. Does this... I think it does have an extra. I'd have a foil after maybe. Yup, it has a super rare. Hanewata Super. This card looks really clean. I don't think it's really of any count in terms of value or playability, but it does look really nice. Just that very clean background I really like.  That's a good start. Let's go into the Second Black Rose Dragon Pack, aka Crossroads of Chaos. Always want to call it the cover card is the name. So I think it was the... Let's do three. I can't remember exactly. It might have been the fifth or the sixth. Where is the actual float? We have Psychic Jumper. We have Factory of 100 Jinzos. Then we have Wall of Ivy. Teleport. The Synchro Sterak. Nettles. Lineage of Destruction. Okay, so I did... Yeah, I did get it right. Miracle Fertilizer. And the Psychic Trigger. Another super rare. Back to back. That is not bad. Back to back foils in Crossroads of Chaos. They are not guaranteed back then. The set came out in 2008. So they're extremely old at this point. Let's see. Two for two. So both supers. Let's see if we can step it up into like an Ultra Rare or something like that. Let's see if we can pull a Ghost Rare and Ultimate Rare. All of it is available. Secret Rare. There's tons of rarities in this set. Horsetail. Fragrance Storm. Morphotronic Cameran. Revival Gift. Healing Wave Generator. The Copy Plant. Cactus Fighter. Okay. And we got three for three. Oh, an Ultimate Rare Seed of Flame. I said always Seed of Flame. Oh my goodness. But we'll take that. Ultimate Rare is actually insane. I think it's usually the Ultra of this. So pulling an Ulti is actually really awesome. An Ultimate Rare Seed of Flame. It looks really beautiful too. Okay. He's officially three for three. He has three packs left. That is nuts. What in the world? Three for three. What a start. Maybe we can go and open every single pack in this video with both will. It's possible yet unlikely. We have Gozen Match which is like a $4 card. That's a great start to this pack. Okay. Cool. We got a Gadget. Driver. Confusion Chaff. Fragrance Storm. The Gozen Match again. Morphotronic Cord. Chronicle Girl. DNA. Check out. Psychic Life Transfer. Okay. That's cool. And... Okay. Morphotronic Engine. So the first one that did not have a foil. That's actually insane. Still two more packs to go. We've got one more Crossroads of Chaos.  So far we've already got an Ultimate which is pretty crazy out of only five packs. Okay. Let's go like that. We've got Morphotronics coming up. Let's do three. Let's save that Ghost Rare for last. Factory of 100 Genzos. Jade Knight. Gadget Holler. Morph Transition. Morphotronic Cameran. He's the camera man. We've got the Cord. We've got the Morph Transition again. Okay. That's weird. Turbo Synchron. That's cool. And... Ah! Iron Chain Snake. So we're going to end 0 for two. Well, not end, but for the Crossroads. But that's not bad. So three out of five is still insane. Let's go into the Legacy of Darkness pack. Can we pull something crazy? Let's do this. Alright. One, two, three, four. Because there's only a rare or a foil in this one. Because this is 2003 we're talking about. Nearly 20 years old at this point. Dragon Manipulator. Life Absorbing Machine. The Illusory Gentleman. A Legendary Ocean. Faint Plan. Skullline number two. Dragon's Rage. Euryukishn Clown. And the A-Forces. Alright. Just the A-Forces out of that pack. But still, three out of six started three for three. Ended 0 for three. But overall, 50% is pretty good. Next up we have the Legend. EX Gamer with two first edition tactical evolution packs. This could have a ghost rare rainbow dragon in it. That would be pretty insane. Let's go. If we pull that, we will go crazy. Because that's first edition and everything. Let's do, I think it's probably four, but we're going to do three. We have Venom Shot. We've got the King Pyron. Creature Seizure. Cool Hut for Geminis and Normal Monsters. Volcanic Rat. Snake Whistle. The Ojamanite. I think it's worth a couple bucks. Or Lizard. Trap Reclamation. Is that it? Wait, is that it? Crystallis Pantail. Okay. Yeah, I think that there's not both in this one. This was 2007, so I think back, I think it was 2008 when they started it. When they started adding both rares and foils. Oh, look, Gift Card. This is actually worth a lot. Let's put it like this, because we're not sure how it'll be. Reverse of Neos. We've got the Gravatic Orb. I think Gift Card was worth like 15 bucks at one point. I don't know if it ever got re-printed. So if that's a $15 card, that's awesome. Shield Spear, one of the best cards ever. Venom Cobra. The Flint Missiles. And a Blazewing Butterfly. So there's a super rare out of the second tactical evolution back. So a Gift Card, which could be worth a lot as a common, and a Blazewing Butterfly. Not a bad pack. Finally, we're opening the Amnoxious Celtic Guardian 10. This was bought by Carl M. He also wanted me to shout out his wife, Hannah. So shout out to Hannah. Hopefully we can pull you guys something awesome, and hopefully you guys have fun watching this. Let's get into it. Alright, I think I can just rip this one. Yeah, because the tin wrapping is pretty loose, which is kind of weird. But it's not weird for tins. It's just weird in general that they made the tins have loose wrapping. Some people always think that, or ask me, like, hey, is that weird that it has loose wrapping? I'm like, no, it's actually normal. It just seems odd, you know what I mean? Okay. The Promo. Let's see if it's in nice condition. It's always in these plastic things, which are difficult to open. Alright, we have the Amnoxious Celtic Guardian. The front looks good. Seagrare looks beautiful on this card. I love this card. Looks really cool. Let's see how the back is. Looks clean on the surface. Okay, corners appear to be pretty good. So that's a nice condition. Amnoxious Celtic Guardian. That's a good start for the tin. Inside we have Ancient Sanctuary, Invasion of Chaos, Dark Crisis, Magician's Force, and Veronica Guardian. This is an incredible lineup of tin packs. Let's start off with the Ancient Sanctuary, and let's see what we can pull. There's some pretty cool cards. Enemy Controller is one of my favorite ones. Of course, Dark Magic Attack, Burst and Destruction. There's what you call the goat card. It's like a... It's a common card. It's the Knight of Salem. There we go. I finally got it. Bean Scorpion. Labyrinth of the Nightmare. There we go. We got a Labyrinth of the Nightmare pack, even if we didn't get the open one. Regeneration. Regenerating Mummy. Weapon Change. The Kick Man. Alright, Sword of Soul Eater. New Bean Guard. The Backfire. Draining Shield. So we just get a regular Draining Shield. This brings back so many bad memories from Weevil Decks and Duel Links. Next up is Dark Crisis. Inside we could pull Skill Drain, which is now a $30 rare, I think, because it got unlimited to three, basically. So it is insane. If we can pull that, that's a big value card. Hopefully we could. I mean, it's just a regular rare, too, so that would be pretty fun. We got the Guardian Caste. Checkmate. We're playing some Chests. We've got the Final Attack Orders. Outstanding Dogman. This is one of Chelsea's favorite cards, because she loves the dog. Keldo. Sakuretsu Armor. A very good comment. Not worth a ton, because it's very easy to get. Rod of the Mind's Eye. Blindly Loyal Goblin. Okay, and... Oh, thought it might be Skill Drain. It was a trap. Dark Scorpion Combination. Still cool, but it's not the Skill Drain we're looking for. Peronic Guardian. Inside here, we could get Metamorphosis, which is a $15 comment. There's also a Trap Dust Sheet, which is several dollars. And many other good comments. I think Terraforming's in here. There's Book of Moon as a Rare. There's just... Let's see if you can... Trap Dust Sheet. There it is. That's like $8, I think, as it near meant unlimited. We've got the Reversal Quiz. There is the... What is it called? Question? Yeah, it's that card. That guy. Buster Rancher. Poison Mummy. Here it comes. Wait, Trap Dust Sheet. Oh, I'm insane. That was crazy. Okay, Gravekeeper's Curse. Can we get the Metamorphosis in the same pack? Banner of Courage with the Curse of Aging. Trap of Border... I did the... I did the trick wrong. We got the Super Rare Trap of Border Racer. This card's actually not that bad, I guess. It's kind of weird. It's like a worst barrel behind the door. Okay, it's not good, but it's like a side deck, I guess, in old school. Pretty cool. We're on to the final two. The Big Two. Invasion of Chaos. Magician's Force. Let's go for IOC. Can we pull the Black Hills Soldier? We opened the Flood Gates the other day. We've opened two now, which is pretty crazy. Let's see if we can do it again. One, two, three, four. We have the Gale Lazard. DD Borderline. Spatial Collapse. O'Jama Yellow. Neo Bug. That's a big card. Salvage. The Silphied. Fiend's Handmare and Will It Be. One of the big ones. BLS. DMock. Here we go. Insect Princess. No! It's like the most disappointing Ultra Rare, but it does... It's pretty nice artwork. I mean, it's a nice looking card for sure.  Oh, Insect Princess. But still, very cool to get an Ultra Rare out of IOC. We'll take that. IOC is a weird one because it has so many big cards and then so many kind of like, dud cards. They're still really cool. Definitely nostalgic for a lot of people pulling that Insect Princess. Let's get into the MFC Pack. Now, here's where we could really go crazy. Can we get DMG? I'm still not even sure if you can pull these out of these packs, but maybe you can. If you can, I would love to find out today. Let's go. Old Vindictive. That's another great common card. Good start. Mass Driver. Okay. Yep. First episode ever of Auction Series. Poison of the Old Man. The Aitsu. Look at this classic guy. He seems to be very unreliable, but he might have incredible potential. Why did I start shaking right now? That was weird. Okay. People running about. The Spell Absorbing Life. Magical Plant Mandragola. Hidden Book of Spell. And... Dark Blade the Dragon Knight. Not even the Dragon Knight. That's the different card. That's Rise of Destiny. That's Dark Blade. The regular guy. Okay. Cool. If you guys enjoyed that video, make sure to subscribe for more epic content. Shout out to TCGTrustCards.com for a show to manage you, Stanley, Mike, Nance, Mimic, Gecko. To make up for it, Farley, G-Raider, Daxter, and Ian Moosa. 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The first relationship is the one that we almost always take for granted and forget about. And that's the relationship you have with yourself. Are you self-aware? Are you self-discipline? When you make a mistake which is inevitable because you're a human being, do you have self-compassion? Are you able to move to the next play? But more importantly, are you making the time to do the things that you know you need to do to fill your own bucket? Notice I said making. You'll never find the time for anything. Not when you work as much as you work and you have your families and you have all of your other commitments, you will never find the time for anything. You have to make the time to fill your own bucket. Mentally, physically, emotionally and spiritually if appropriate to you, but you have to make the time to do that because that is the only way that you can become your best self.


The We Are Criminals exhibit in Grand Rapids gives you a peek on how living with a criminal record can be part of your life forever. For this week's in focus, Haiti Clotter shows us how an exhibit makes you rethink how you view a criminal. We Are All Criminals is not only a bold statement but it's also the latest exhibit at the McCrossty Arts Center in Grand Rapids. It's based on an organization founded by Emily Baxter that challenges society's perception of criminal records. 75 percent of the population that doesn't have a criminal record and asking those of us who may have committed offense but not been caught to reflect on that and think about how our lives might have been different had we been caught had we been charged. Thief is just one of the many labels criminals may have to live with for the rest of their lives. It also sparks a conversation about second chances when that person is seeking employment or housing. Looking at people as an entire as a whole individual and not just at one part of their story in one moment in time that uh doesn't define who they are. What's your story? That question is answered by visitors who share their personal experiences and allows them to reflect on their past. Anonymous individuals tell stories of crimes they got away with like criminal damage to property or burglary. The photographs were taken in the participant's home office or crime scene. Everyone makes mistakes but not everyone has to be reminded of that mistake every day. Some of the art featured our submissions from individuals serving time at the Minnesota Correctional Facility in St. Cloud. It can be a means for them to express what they've been through or where they're going and just help them to cope and maybe to help somebody else to understand what they've been through or what they're going through. Organizations such as Grace House and Itasca Community College also help bring we are all criminals to the community. You can view the exhibit until the end of the month. For this week's in focus in Grand Rapids, Haiti Clutter, Lakeland News. If you've enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland Public Television.


She's the author of a brand new book called Pretty Peg.  If that's not good enough, it's set in Oakland. All right, please welcome Skye Allen. So this is my book Pretty Peg. And I wanted to read a scene from the, it's kind of between the two main characters. So I thought I should tell you who they are. Josie is a 17-year-old girl. She's our hero. And Nicky is an elf. And they have been in and out of the fairy realm. And there's a magic puppet theater that makes a small appearance in this scene. We were at the corner of 43rd and Key Street now, my street. I watched my yellow high tops turn the corner. I didn't stop them. She's going to know where I live now. All I'm doing is bringing this fey problem home, like it's not already there, I thought. When I looked up, she was in front of me again. I stumbled and rocked on my heels to catch myself. She put her hands out as if to steady me, and they rested on my upper arms. I glanced down at the long fingers of her hand on my left bicep, the way the blood bustle snaked around the middle knuckle. I'm no good at saying what you do to me, she said. Oh, I thought. I breathed in fog and the cinnamon smell of her hair and wondered why I couldn't feel my feet. But you used me, I said. It came out in a whisper. I said, I was sorry, she said. She was searching my face from maybe two inches away. I could feel her breath on my mouth. Timothy said, you had a girlfriend, I said.  May the lady forgive me, she said. What about never give your heart to the fey, I said. Just an old saying, she said. Her hands slid up my arms. We were between streetlights, arms length from the dense jasmine hedge that hid most of the black Victorian house on the corner from view.  She ran a finger and thumb along my right ear, and I took a shuddering breath to steady myself. She doesn't have a girlfriend. She likes me. This is where she wants to be, I thought. How did you know I was at the Winter Queen's Theater Place tonight, I asked. Neil tried to follow you. Blossom found him at Tilden Park and sent him home, she said. I hope you people didn't get him in even more trouble. He was already grounded, I said.  I felt an electric charge through the thick fabric. I have to go home, I said. I felt confused. I needed to go sort out my feelings before this went any further. I pictured the blinking fluorescent tube over the kitchen sink and the cold metal of the door handle when I would go into the bathroom to run the taps and drown out the sound of scales. The pile of textbooks next to my laptop and the dirty dish architecture that must be in the sink. I was going to make banana waffles and write my Spanish essay and I am with Neil. I needed to do something normal, no matter how much my body was telling me to pull Nikki in until there was cinnamon on my tongue. Uh-huh, I'm coming with you, just to the door, she said. Her hand hooked into my elbow. Oh, well, maybe I didn't need to be alone to sort out my feelings. But what if Laura came home after all? I'd have to introduce them. Piano, savant, sister, meat, non-human, non-what? Girlfriend? She was definitely not my girlfriend. Date? Was there anyone else who dated elves? Besides my sister Margaret, of course. Me and her, we had our own little fetish group of two. I felt a little twist of emotion that was missing her and fear about what would happen to me if I got more involved with the fey. Too late, so too late, I thought. So, you know your sister's okay, right? Nikki asked.  I'll call her again, but yeah, I said. I didn't look at Nikki's face when I said it. I was afraid of what she'd see on my face, the thought that we were headed to my house together and there was no one there. I didn't slow down when we got to the driveway, just ducked under the wet Camelia bush that covered half the front door. Through the big picture window, I could see the lamp on in the living room behind the ancient couch. I was glad Laura had left it on. I was still creeped out. I dug my keys out of my bag and leaned against the sticking deadbolt until it ground open. You mind if I look around, Nikki said? And she was passed me into the living room, head raised and sweeping the corners of the room with her eyes. Are you like my bodyguard now? I thought I had all this magic protection and stuff, I said. Josie, tell me honestly that you believe your own home is unknown to my winter kin. You have to understand who you are to the folk. A spy of the winter court found you just tonight. He had orders to, I know, I saw. I said, I put my palms up, I give. She grand, one front tooth crossed the other one at the bottom corner. I should have asked. Your person and your clan are safer than they were from any kind of fey mischief, yes. But it would put my mind at rest to see for myself that your sister remembered to lock the back door. She said, you did ask, I said.  I wondered how she knew Laura was so absent-minded. Nikki strode into the kitchen, kneeling at the back door with her hands on both sides of the knob. She bent her head and seemed to be concentrating hard on something I couldn't see.  But all she did was duck her dark head in and pull the door closed and turn toward the staircase. More up there, she asked. No doors up there, but yeah, I said. Had I made the bed? I did a frantic mental inventory of what was displayed on the shower rod. I remembered at least one hideous off-white bra with the lace all-pilly and gray. As soon as Nikki had taken most of the stairs, two at a time, I dove for the bathroom. There was a post-it shaped like a pot of gold stuck to the middle of the mirror.  I'm at rehearsal, L. Was it possible that I had left the house earlier tonight without going into the bathroom?  I texted Laura, you're still there, right? I pushed open the door to my room and stuffed the laundry that was on the dresser under the bed. A drift of crumpled mail and hair ties crested up against the puppet theater. I swept it all into the top drawer and skidded my palm across the remaining dust, but that only accentuated the sticky coffee ring. On the puppet theater stage, Paper Josie stood front and center with her round arms flung wide. She was smiling an open mouthed smile. I didn't think she'd been smiling before. I fist bumped the tiny orange heart on her t-shirt with a knuckle.  Oh God, she heard all that speed cleaning, I thought. My phone rescued me from eye contact by ringing. It was a text from Laura, yes. Can I get you something to drink, I said, as I set the phone down on the table? Suddenly I was 10 years old, having a friend over from school. The table was covered in dusty mason jars and the newspapers under mom's pottery wheel were moldy. I looked at the piano, where I knew the wood under that peach shawl was cracked and the wall covered in Grant family photos above that. In every one of me, I was grinning so wide my eyes almost disappeared into my fat cheeks. I cringed. So what time does Laura get home? Nikki asked, ignoring my question. She's gonna stay over at her teachers, I mean at Professor Hills. You must have heard us on the phone, I said.  I never eavesdropped, she said and her voice was a little unsteady. I'll make coffee, I said. It was 10 steps to the kitchen from the hallway where I stood. She stopped me as I passed the table tugging on the end of the stretchy scarf that was still around my neck. I don't need coffee, do you? She said. She twisted the scarf at the level of my navel. If she pulled it tight, it would choke me. I let my fingers meet on the fabric above hers. I was before at that revel thing, I said. I knew I was stalling. That was peach crazy, that wasn't me being crazy. And that music, when we, oh, you mean when we kissed? Fae musicians will dance you to death if they take a mind to. They can make you do whatever they want, she said. Her eyes were down, fixed on my wrists. I looked into the crisp forest of curls at her hairline. When she looked up, we were close enough that I could feel the heat from her skin on my face. She murmured to my mouth, doesn't seem fair. I was the one who closed her mouth with mine. I was not a virgin. I had checked off the technical side of the hookup with Isaac Washington after the sophomore winter ball. We picked each other because he wanted to get rid of his virginity, and as far as I was concerned, he was so soft and giggly, he was practically a girl. I was pretty sure boys weren't what turned me on even back then. In the two years since then, I had kissed exactly one girl. It was during service week for spring break when I spent every afternoon with my California history class painting the rooms of four Habitat for Humanity projects with the same donated mud yellow paint. Megan came with her church group. She was a junior at a private Christian school, and I was not the first girl she'd kissed.  I still mentally traveled to a half finished construction site whenever I touched myself. Now, Nikki's fingers hooked my jeans where the scarf met them. We kissed with mouths closed for a breath or two until I felt the dart of her tongue, and I lost my balance and groped to the side for the table. Cinnamon, cigarette smoke, and something else, something warm and organic that was entirely her. Her hands crept across my shoulder blades and then up along my neck to rake through my hair. I felt heat drop a plumb line through my body, and there was a direct channel from where she was licking my neck to whatever was happening between my legs and my cheeks were burning coals, and when her hands strayed across one nipple and my legs stopped holding me up, and she stepped in between them until my weight was held up by the table. I thought, this is happening right now. Thank you. Thank you, Skye Allen. Skye has copies of Pretty Peg for sale, so you'll be able to buy them off of her at the end of the show.


Hi, welcome to Learn WordPress. In today's session, we are going to take a closer look at the site editor and template editor. If you have installed a block theme such as 2022, you will notice that the customizer has disappeared. But when you make your way to appearance, you will see an option namely editor. And when you click on the editor, you'll be taken to the site editor, where you are able to modify templates, template parts, and also customize the style of your whole website. The site editor provides a template list view, as you will see on the left, allowing users to navigate between templates and all the different template parts. This is an important piece of the site editor puzzle. You will essentially be able to edit the design of your entire site. In order to return to your dashboard, click on the site icon or WordPress icon top left. How to edit styles. When you click on the template, you can make your way to the styles icon top right. And here you have the ability to change the style combination of your theme. And you can change the typography, colors, and layout of your entire site. And if you look down further below, you also have the option to customize the appearance of specific blocks for your whole site. Global styles therefore help users change the style of their site without having to edit individual blocks or pages. Let's see how it works. Firstly, you can browse styles that come with your theme. And if you click on typography, you will be able to manage the typography settings for text, links, headings, and buttons. And you can also change the colors for these elements. And when you make your way to layout, you will notice you even have control of elements such as padding and block spacing. How do we manage templates via the site editor? Templates are groups of blocks combined to create a design for a web page. Here you will notice there is a range of templates that come with your theme, built-in templates. For example, the page template that displays a single page, or the index template that displays posts, or the 404 template that displays where no content is found. To modify a template, you can just click on the template on the right or on the edit at the top of your template list view. And when you click on the plus icon next to templates, you will be able to add a variety of new templates, even a custom template that can be applied to any post or page. Let's open the page template to gain a better understanding of how a template works. A page template usually includes a header template part, a content area, and specifically the post content block that pulls in the content from the page that it is assigned to, and then a footer template part. When you create a template, you get the best use when you separate the reusable parts from the dynamic part. The dynamic part is the content part that will change for every page that uses this template. Remember therefore, you don't add content to the page or index template. The content of a page or post will be pulled in by the post content block or the query loop block. The reusable parts are the static parts of the template that will stay the same. For example, the header and the footer. Please also note that when you go to the browse mode, you can click on manage all templates at the bottom. And here you are able to add new templates, clear customizations, or delete custom templates. Since we have looked at the page template, let's go and visit a page that has been assigned to the page template to see what it looks like from the front end. So let's make our way to the dashboard and open up the page first, the about page in this case. As you will notice, I've added some dummy content and in the sidebar settings, we can see that this page has been assigned to the page template, which is the default template. If we preview the page, we will see the design and structure we created with our page template by using a header and footer template part. Next, let's talk about managing template parts. As mentioned, a template usually has a header and a footer and these are called template parts. When we view our template parts, we will see template parts that we've created ourselves and ones that have been provided by our theme. To create your own template part, click on the plus icon at the top. And when you add a new one, you have an option between general, header and footer template parts. General template parts are not tied to any particular area and remember to give it a descriptive name. Lastly, let's talk about the template editor. The template editor lets you edit, create and assign templates to individual posts and pages. So let's say I want to assign a custom template to my about page to have a different look and feel than my other pages. First, we need to create a custom template and of course, name it appropriately. In this case, my about page. Now we have a blank template to work from. So the first thing I'm going to do is insert a header and I will select a header template part that I already created and then below the header, I'll post content block that will pull in the content from the page which it has been assigned to. And then lastly, the footer. And I will choose a footer template part that I already created named black footer with social icons. Something to take note of while we are here is that template parts are unique blocks with a sync nature and they are now outlined with a different color in various parts of the interface to help you identify when you are editing them. Now we can make our way to our dashboard and then open up the about page and if we open up our sidebar settings we will again see that this page has been assigned to the page template. But we are going to change that now by assigning the custom template that we just created. Once we have assigned the new template we can click update and make our way to the front end of the website. And now we will see our home page still has the original header and footer template parts. But if we click on our about page we will see that this page now has the design of the custom template that we created. The last thing to mention is that when you are in your template editor you can create a custom template from here as well as edit your template in template editing mode. We trust you now have a better understanding of how to use the site editor and template editor. And visit Learn WordPress for more tutorials and training material.


Everybody this is Christian Buckley doing another MVP buzz chat and I'm talking to you with Simon. Hello. Hey, how's it going? So Simon, for the folks that don't know you, who are you, where are you and what do you do? As you'll gather from my millifluous accent, I'm based in the UK. I'm now a two times MVP based up in the north of England in Yorkshire for those that really want to know. And what do I do? Well, actually, I'm retired, which is a remarkable thing. Is it retired with air quotes? Yeah, it just means I actually work really hard and get paid for it these days. But I had two companies, all tech companies. I started my first cloud two, getting on for 15 years ago. And that was a SharePoint consultancy. But we think we were the first company in the world to actually do an so-called in the box SharePoint solution. So that's how we cut our teeth. So I started my career in SharePoint and SharePoint Saturdays with all that community activity there. That's probably where I met you originally, Christian, in one of those talks. I think so. I think, was it Naughty Ham or one of the London ones? Could be any of the above. I was in the crowd and then eventually on stage, a lot of them. Yep. Well, that's cool.  So what's your other project? So you mentioned, because you did one, I was interested because you said you got the SharePoint one, would you get that shared background? But you also did one that was in the healthcare space. Yeah, actually, effectively, it's spun out of cloud two. Microsoft came to us with this great idea that they thought was a SharePoint solution, or get into a detail. That lets GPs or other healthcare professionals get expert advice from consultants or specialists as an alternative to sending people to hospital. The good old Microsoft Health team thought, that's been a great SharePoint solution. It just wasn't. It was actually much more like an office communications server solution. And that's what we originally built it in. Then we threw that technology away. We couldn't quite do what we needed it to do. We built a bespoke platform, proper platform for doing these advice and guidance consultations. We're actually, I'm coming to the end of that now, but over the course of the last eight to nine years, I've been running that company. We've stopped 80,000 patients going to hospital. Wow. So I think that's just as a side note, very exciting. So I'm actually an advisor for a startup that I met through as a regional director through the mentoring program through the Microsoft for startups program. That's in that space. They've got a platform that they've built there. It's growing very quickly in the US, but that's a, I mean, this is a completely different topic and my daughter's in healthcare. So I have a little more passion around this topic. We talk all the time about how to fix healthcare and the astronomical costs here in the US. And so one of those things being able to do to kind of pool your doctors, your help and the guidance and almost add the community layer to help each other as preventative medicine. Like, I don't know why we have not been doing this before. And so it's taking off. I should introduce you to Kike, the founder of that company. We could do a whole podcast series just on this. Oh yeah. It's a great space. You can't write my opinions on this on the back of an envelope.  But yeah, we should talk about that more. That would be very interesting. And I'm always happy to help because I'm retired. I have free time now free time to go and help again other startups and anybody that can pick, you know, pick from our knowledge. I've spent basically all my career one way or another in the health, health industry. I was in the medical device industry before getting into tech. And at one point I was in the probably the top 50 or so wound care experts in the world. Well, that's an interesting conversation to have. No, that's that's another, again, I know a little bit about the space because again, former business partner, who's now actually a patent attorney, he was ran the IP team at Google and also at Uber. He's now with the with the law firm doing that, but he started also in the medical devices was so Dr. Michael me and who is at Stanford. Was that okay. Yeah, there you go. Yeah, for medical device. So yeah, so he started that space is funny he went did his I think he did his in like AI and neural networks, his actual PhD but his masters, I'm getting probably messing it all up if Michael ever watches this but you know, but but you got into that the IP side of things. No, it's it's interesting though. You know, one I think you say about technologists, you know, sometimes I look at like family members will ask me it's like, well you've kind of gone between different industries is it yeah but I've always been in tech. And the things that I have done for those companies and product and program management roles and eventually as an evangelist. And it's funny, my undergrad is in marketing my then I've got an MBA, and yet only until the last few years have I truly had a marketing role. You know, so it's funny isn't that I mean my undergraduate degree is in physics, physics and chemistry actually my postgraduate in physics and chemistry as well. Yeah, I also would say I've always been in tech it's not always been in computing tech. But in the broader, you know, the broader technology space it's always been what I've worked on. And, you know, currently information technology in its various guises is a really good set of tools for addressing the world's problems. And so I'm using a lot of that at the moment, but it's not just about, you know, binary stuff is all the physical stuff that comes out of that.  And there's some interesting stuff going on to be able to make it easier for people who are developers and coders, but don't want to learn about robotics to be able to interact with robots through a common common framework. That's a whole conversation as well. Well, that's, yeah, that's interesting. From in parallel to that, sorry, folks, we're going to get really nerdy here, but worked for years in the manufacturing sector, high tech manufacturing, where we were doing something very similar. So leveraging trying to build common, you know, language using XML to communicate between these disparate, you know, manufacturing platforms with kind of to be able to to kind of create this, you know, this this communication hub across all of them. So it didn't matter what you went if you had proprietary language or proprietary system, but you can still, you know, go to this service hub and communicate with all of the other platforms and systems and tools that you needed. And you just need something similar you need to abstract that out for robotics so that you can plug in do whatever you want proprietary, the AI models, yet have a common way in communicating. Exactly. I mean, I'm old enough to remember when you couldn't do that with printers.  Yeah, drivers, where and then windows, etc. come along and actually abstract you just talk to windows it talks to all that we need to do. Yeah, that plug and play which never 100% worked and certainly work anymore. Yeah. But it's really interesting.  And one of them is, AI has had no agency. And here I am now, a couple weeks later, talking to a robotics company about giving AI agency. But the really interesting thing they said was, Oh, that's the problem to solve. We just physically prevent the robot being able to do bad things, even if the AI tells it to.  As we build out the tools that this that the robotics can can use these artificial life forms. We don't add an option to the list of games chess. We don't add global thermonuclear war as an option. I think solve a lot of problems. Yeah, adding that to the menu that the robot can select from. Yes, that's me. Yeah. It seems like a reasonably sensible approach, doesn't it? Well, so I always like that. So you were you've been in a space long enough. What was your path to becoming an MVP? Why did it take so long for somebody that's been so involved and created a company doing things? Because what was your what was your path? Well, I guess it's because it never occurred to me that I could or should be one. I mean, I'm not. I'm clearly in the technical space, but I don't write code. I don't build servers. I'm more of an information architect. And my particular skillset has always been understanding the technology and how it interacts with business. That's that's always been my space. But then another MVP, Simon Doyle and I, amongst others have been running what's now the M365 North user group in the UK. We've been running that for nine years now. And we just did that because it seemed like a really cool thing to do when they needed to be one in our in our region. And I've been doing that. And then through that we got involved with Mark Anderson et al. and got sort of into doing this majority model for Microsoft 365. We've done a lot of work on that. It's really potent stuff. It's changed the way I think about business as well as tech. And so we were at the European Collaboration Summit a couple of years back, the first one post pandemic that we could go to. And we were chatting with yet another Simon, because there are loads of Simons in the MVP world, Simon Agrin about this stuff. And I'd already done some work with him about how they could adopt the maturity model. He went, so how long have you been an MVP? I went, I'm not. We went, well you should be. And the following day he recommended me. And it was kind of like that.  And I guess it was probably April or something last year that I got my MVP. And I was absolutely thrilled. And I'd never sought it. And I think one of the majors have probably a great MVP is they don't do it to become an MVP. They do the community work because they want to do the community work. And suddenly somebody says, here's an MVP. Exactly. It's a reward. It's the icing on the cake. It's not the cake. Yeah. And I think you find that. And Microsoft does a good job, I think of sniffing that out from people that are trying to become MVPs but aren't doing it for the right reasons. You know, they're changing their behaviors rather than recognizing the behaviors that already exist. Yeah. And I think that's a great model. I mean, again, I'm thrilled to have been nominated and then be re-approved in my second year. But I think what's probably most valuable is as an MVP, I then get to be asked to do stuff or can get people like you to come on to our events in a way that we couldn't when we weren't MVPs. So we can actually use it to leverage more community activity, which I think is great. It also means I get to go and talk at a lot of conferences and I love that. Yeah. And that's something to be said for folks that are not MVPs and looking at how do I get more people to join our user group or to participate. We want to schedule an event. We want to get started. It's like, well, one of the ways you can do that is go find your local MVPs, get to know people in the community, get involved. And that's how things evolve. I had the same thing for a couple of years. I was the chief evangelist for the software company, for an ISV partner in the ecosystem. I was speaking at events. I mean, thankfully I worked for a company that recognized the value of the community activities. I was never in a sales. In fact, I've been in this is my first sales role here this year in my lifetime where I've got a number based on something, but I'm on the partner side, not in direct sales. But for all that time, it was never expected, okay, Christian's going to go speak at that event. And from that event, from Christian's activities, we'll have this many leads and this many customer. I never thought about that. I was there purely to talk about the technology, be an advocate for my company's technology, to talk about the art of what's possible to help identify gaps and whether people could fill those gaps themselves or my company's products can help fill those gaps. I mean, those are the conversations that came out of that. But I was just always very neutral talking about technology. You can be biased. There are plenty of MVPs that all that they do is talk about their company's products and services, and that's fine. But contributions are primarily neutral. So there has to be stuff that you're doing that is, in fact, there are MVPs who lost their MVPs because their only output was for their company blog about their products and services. And that stuff doesn't count. Yep, quite rightly too. Yeah, I was never very good at directly promoting my own company stuff. It's probably why I'm not a millionaire. But hey, yeah, I'm still retired. So it's not gone too badly. But I think it's really important that people need to be honest and educational. You know, I think one of my great heroes as a physicist is Richard Feynman. If you don't know Richard Feynman, go look him up and remarkable American physicist. But he was a remarkable educator, and there's a lot to learn from people who whose passion is transferring knowledge to others so they can carry the torch further than you can run. Yes, it's funny, as you said that in my I thought of, you know, one of my so I started as a my first major was industrial design so I always have the design in the back of my wife just actually graduated here. After, you know, 30 plus years of marriage finally went and finished her degree in the degree program that I started in the beginning of my which I ended up leaving after three years. I had a design degree, the same university, but I had a professor who I hated him when he was my professor was grading my work. But once I had that relationship, you know, we became really good friends, kept in touch years later went back and visited campus and he was very much about let me show you this cool thing and I don't know if you've seen like the, the new The Last Dark the Indiana Jones movie. Yeah, so you know his office that had like the aisles with all the artifacts. Yeah. Professor Sindrich had a similar office racks of stuff but it was designed stuff and books, but you walk through to the back past these rows to get to where his little desk was. We had all these design elements artifacts around him. He was very much like a design architect or archaeologist. But that, that kind of passion I mean that that really instilled in me that I that that idea of learning about the pieces sometimes they don't always fit. You don't know how they'll they'll fit together, but it's amazing how my interest in technology would broadly how that's led again to these similar roles but in very different technology areas. And that but that they as they kind of come together. It's, you know, I got involved in knowledge management information systems in the early 90s. And so many of the issues, working with IBM and HP technologies and then not even getting into Microsoft technology, the enterprise side until I had personal computers, but into until the, you know, 2005. That was a is a big shift. But so much of what I learned and what I, you know, built my career on was relevant to everything that we're doing today. Yeah, there's there's a skill to managing information and knowledge that you can intuit your way through we be taught but it's a really important skill. And I think the first, the first intranet I built was was for the medical big international medical advice company, and that was built in Lotus domino and notes. I'm sorry. Yeah. Yeah. It goes back away though. Yeah. Well, hey, it was powerful and what it what it did. It's one of the reasons why I mean if you look at the path again, all the things that they did. The huge influence that Ray Ozzie had coming over to Microsoft led to so many of the different pieces. I think it would have never happened. Had it not taken that path with I mean I discovered groove when he launched that when he split off and did that. That was during while I was working on my MBA. We were using an FTP server to share files to communicate with each other. And then suddenly we switched over to using grooves and doing like modern collaboration video chats. You know, all of the social tools as well as the file collaboration, which evolved into, you know, it influence your point. Right. Yeah. Absolutely. Yeah. Yeah. Remarkable. And yeah, we got to take that for granted. Yeah, you and I remember a world where that just didn't exist. Yeah, it's, yeah, these kids these days they have no idea. Yeah. No, it's funny. I love shared one time but my daughter who was born in 92 and I don't know why this is we were doing a trip from California, driving across Nevada to Utah. And I remember we stopped at a gas station, and my daughter is like pointing out across to the desert behind this gas station out this this this lonely stop. She's like, what is that over there? I'm like, what's what I'm peering off and like, what, what are you looking at? She's like, right there. I'm like, where is it behind? Is it behind the pay phones? She's like, the pay what? Yeah. It's like, what is that? I'm like, what do you mean what that is? It's a phone. She's like, why don't people just use their cell phones? Yeah. Yeah. It's funny. I was like, you're not that young. I was like, you've seen a pay phone before. She's like, Nope. And it made me then look when we back went back home and there were I just I thought I could swarm their pay phones outside the grocery store. Nope. Nothing at the school like that is all of it was already gone. So she just had no clue what that thing was. So, Yeah, all of the all of the the classic British red telephone boxes in the UK. Most of them are still there, but they're all either defibrillator stations, or they've been turned into community book exchanges. Oh, really? I thought it was just there for people for American tourists to take selfies. Yeah, they kept them mostly for American. Yeah. So, well, Simon, really appreciate your time and talking. I'm sure I'll see you once or twice more this year. You're going to be at ESPC. I'm not. But there is a chance I might be at North American Summit come April. Oh, okay. So I could be down in Texas and that's where I'll I'll definitely be there. I'm helping on the coordination side for that. Well, I know Don very well. So, yeah, I think we've got a sneaky plan. So chances are I'll be there. Oh, very nice. Yeah, so we're very excited. So I'm excited to see that move and to grow and stuff. So for those that don't know what we're talking about the North American collaboration summit, which is the first week in April next year in 2024 down in the Dallas, Fort Worth area. First second week. I'm not quite sure. A lot of mine spoke to Don. Somewhere early April. Yeah. Sometime around the eclipse. So a really good time to be. Oh, yeah, really. I think the eclipse is on the 8th or the 13th or something. It's going to reach down that that. Oh, yeah. All the way along the Western Seaboard. Okay. All right. Well, I'm sure there'll be a watch party. So, well, thanks for folks that is folks that want to connect with you, reach out to you. Where are you most active in the socials? Where can people find you? Oh, I mean, you can easily find me on LinkedIn, of course. Simon J. Hudson on Twitter or whatever it's called this week. I've got to call it Twitter. Twitter. Yeah, whatever. But Simon J. Hudson on there or just Google me or Bing me. Bing chat. You'll find me on Bing chat. Oh, there you go. Yeah. All right. Well, thanks a lot, Simon. Yeah, pleasure, Christian. Wow.