Hi, and welcome to our session. Let us discuss the following question. The question says, by using the properties of definite integrals, evaluate the following. Integral of log 1 plus tan x from 0 to pi by 4. Before solving this question, we should know that integral of fx from 0 to a is equal to integral of fa minus x from 0 to a. The knowledge of this property is the key idea in this question. This is a solution. Let i is equal to integral of log 1 plus tan x from 0 to pi by 4. But the key idea, we know that integral of fx from 0 to a is equal to integral of fa minus x from 0 to a. So by using this property, we get i as integral of log 1 plus 4 minus x as a is equal to pi by 4 from 0 to pi by 4. This is equal to integral of log 1 plus, now using formula of tan a minus tan v, we get tan pi by 4 minus tan x by 1 plus tan pi by 4 into tan x from 0 to pi by 4. This is equal to integral of log 1 plus 1 minus tan x by 1 plus tan x from 0 to pi by 4. And this is equal to integral of log 2 by 1 plus tan x from 0 to pi by 4. Log a by v is equal to log a minus log b. So this is equal to integral of log 2 minus log 1 plus tan x from 0 to pi by 4. Now this is equal to log 2 into integral of 1 from 0 to pi by 4 minus integral of log 1 plus tan x from 0 to pi by 4. Let's name this equation as equation number 1 and this as 2. Now on adding 1 and 2, we get plus i is equal to integral of log 1 plus tan x from 0 to pi by 4 plus log 2 into integral of 1 from 0 to pi by 4 minus integral of log 1 plus tan x from 0 to pi by 4. Now this is equal to log 2 into integral of 1 from 0 to pi by 4. We know that integral of 1 with respect to x is equal to x. So this is equal to log 2 into x where the lower limit is 0 and upper limit is pi by 4. Now we will first substitute the upper limit. By substituting upper limit, we get pi by 4 log 2 minus. Now we will substitute the lower limit at the 0. So we have 0 into log 2. And this is equal to pi by 4 log 2. So 2i is equal to pi by 4 log 2. This implies i is equal to pi by 8 log 2. Hence our required answer is pi by 8 log 2. So this completes the session i and take care.


Okay, so on the agenda today we have Action Item Review, we have, I guess Todd, you're going to do an update on the election? Yep. Yep. All right. And then we've got two proposals, one for the explorer. And either part or Dan or myself will present that. And then we have another proposal that I'd like to have Bawa introduce. We don't have to, we don't have to approve it because this is the first time we're all seeing it and there's haven't been a lot of opportunity for people to review it, but certainly we can let Bawa do the introduction and then we can pick it up again next week. And then we'll have work group updates unless there's anything else that we should cover. Okay. I think that's it. So Action Item Review, so updates on the hackathon, Todd, the preparations for the August and then the October? Yep. So a couple things for the August hackathon that'll be the 24th and 25th, that's about two weeks from right now. In the chat window I'm pasting a doc where we can start building out some agenda topics. If work groups are interested in holding a dedicated session during those two days as part of the virtual hack fest, please get in touch with me and let me know what time you're looking to do that just so we can get everything slotted in over the two days, call in details, et cetera. I think one thing that will be helpful that the group noted from last time was having a more defined set of topics that people want to walk through and be a bit more focused from that front. So I think if we can just take a quick minute now to maybe brainstorm some of the things people would like to accomplish during this time, whether it's from the projects or whether it's from the technical community, that will help us start to build out a better agenda for it. Okay. Well, so from a fabric perspective, I think we want to do a repeat of what we tried to do the last time and that is to encourage people to come and build an app or build some chain code and then we can have some of the fabric experts available to help either with remote pairing or screen sharing and so forth to get people off the ground. So I think one of the things that we didn't have the last time was possibly enough of a socialization of that, but I would like it to be focused on building stuff with the fabric. I think it's in a position where with the developer release that people can actually start writing code, whether it's chain code or working with the SDK and so forth and I think that's where we'd like to focus. Great. We'll get that noted and slotted in. First from the community or from Sawtooth or any of the work groups? Yeah, on the Sawtooth side, I think we probably have, we set up a similar objective to facilitate getting people up and running with Sawtooth and maybe making a simple transaction family kind of like we did on the prior virtual hack fest. And then we're also planning on doing some restructuring, I don't recall if we've actually sent anything to the mail-in list, but there's been some discussions on Slack where we're going to be doing some repo consolidation and package renaming. So if we don't get to that before the hack fest timing, then that might be part of the collaboration that takes place during that. So it sounds like we're in very similar, I wonder, Todd, I don't know if Brian is on or not, but maybe we could somehow or other leverage the LF social media outreach to raise awareness. Yep, sure thing. Hi, this is Vipin. We had mentioned something about actually building a use case which was the DVP, but unfortunately the small group that got together for this purpose, most of the people are not available for the August hack fest, but we will continue to work on it otherwise and then try to spark interest in the community by putting it out there in the demo and other groups so that we can build some kind of momentum around it because we feel that we need to actually build use cases that make sense, at least to us, to the financial community. Maybe there are other use cases out there that people can work on, but we would ideally try to work on it on one of the variants under the umbrella, which would be, the first thing would be fabric, then we would also like to try to do it on once we get it to try to do it on Sartout Lake, but this is the general idea, but obviously since we won't be available during this particular hackathon, we just want to put it out there that we want to do this. That's all. It's Richard here, that triggers a couple of thoughts in my mind, so I haven't been involved in the DVP discussions here, but if you could loop me in or tell me where to go, I'm happy to add some comments there, it's obviously something that we've been looking at very closely as you'd imagine and I guess as you know, we do foot in both camps as part of our work. It'd be great if we could inject some of that into this as an aside, not directly related to DVP, but to requirements more generally to serve ones aware. One of the working groups within the R3 consortium is getting close to finalising our paper on interoperability and given that it talks to DVP, but obviously it also talks to what we're trying to do here. I'm currently going to do the process of figuring out what's IP, what's IP, I have to jump through to see if it's something that we can contribute to this server, not directly related to that, although it's surfacing now whilst I've been in my time. Thanks. Well, the question is, you know, DVP could be, well, without, I mean, your definition of interoperability is, you know, not meaning, you know, there's sort of, let's say, debate about what exactly interoperability means, but in the beginning, it would be just DVP on a single chain. There is a write-up. Oh, indeed. Actually, sorry. Yeah, you're absolutely right. I completed two things there. I was just, for efficiency, I was covering two topics whilst I had the microphone. So yeah, very old news, confused. Interoperability was, I was raising that as a separate topic and not saying that was related to DVP. Sorry for the confusion. Okay. So as far as DVP is concerned, Jeremy has a use case. Jeremy Dritton, quite a bit of, Jeremy and the use case team, I believe, have quite a bit of work on it and they already have something on the requirements of a work group already put together this DVP use case to some detail. Of course, you know, it may not be complete. There may, you know, we may need to do some more work on it. But in the end, the point is that we want to build something that is relevant to the business. I mean, it's great to have technical background like, for example, the explorers, the various languages, the hardening of the consensus, separation of consensus and smart contracts and so on. And identity, of course. But, you know, we might not be able to do it completely because of one of our stumping blocks, but then we'll take that to the various other working groups and say, look, you know, we're not able to do this because this particular aspect is overlooked or not complete or maybe there's a way to do it and you guys can tell us how to do it, you know, those kind of things. So I think it is more of an exercising of all of the parts in order to come up with some use case. That's what we're talking about. Anyway, I don't want to hold up a discussion on the HackFest because this is not directly relevant to this particular HackFest because none of us can really participate because we are on holiday during that period. Thank you. One additional HackFest note I wanted to add, this is Brian. So we're, as I think Todd mentioned, we're hosting a hackathon with A.B. and M.R.O. on the two days prior over the weekend and it's intended to be promoted fairly widely locally and it will be an actual competition with teams and actually some prizes and it will be focused on Hyperledger. So what we're hoping is that at that hackathon we can pull people who seem to be even more interested than usual and more in depth, the most in depth of the people that we meet there. Hopefully we can pull them over to the HackFest the next few days. I also would extend this as an invite to anyone attending the HackFest to also feel free to either participate in the hackathon or simply come in and observe and participate that way. Todd, I don't know if there's anything else to add on that. No, I don't think so. So the one thing that was expressed in the chat, Satoshi was asking whether or not there would be potentially opportunity for people to get together at the LF if they were in town for the HackFest at the LF. So I think Oshima-san's question was about LinuxCon that's happening in Toronto as opposed to Linux Office in San Francisco. Oh, I must have misunderstood, okay. We can check with the Linux Foundation Events team if there's space at LinuxCon. It's late, they're likely isn't, but we'll certainly ask. Any other questions, comments on the HackFest and Hackathon? Okay, I think the next topic was the release taxonomy. Brian? And could somebody paste a link to that in the chat? Yeah, and again, it's waiting on me. I've not yet updated that document yet to reflect. Oh, okay. So easy to pass, a little on from that. It's still waiting on me. If anyone else would like to volunteer to help with that, it probably isn't that hard. It's just a little bit of time reconciling what is the SimVar standard with what's been proposed in that doc. But otherwise, it is still on my tool. It's just not with the crisis date and other stuff we've had. Okay, that's fine. Any volunteers for that? I could maybe take a little bit of time to noodle on it. All right, I guess it'll be me. All right, so why don't you add me to the action and Brian and I'll try and at least bat it back and forth once before next week. Sounds good. Next up is the election. All right. So for the election, I think we've talked about this the past few weeks. But just to remind everyone, let me paste this into the chat window. One second. So from a timeline standpoint, shortly after this call will open the nomination phase for the steady state TSC that will be open for about one week. All the information will be included in email. After one week, we will move to the voting phase, which will be open for about one week as well. And then we'll announce the results of the steady state TSC from there. We'll move into the TSC chair election with a similar timeframe and process. The only other thing is, and I'm going to paste it into the window here as well. We have pulled together a list of everyone that's eligible to nominate themselves and run in this election. We've shared that on the TSC call for the last four weeks. I believe it's also been sent out to the TSC technical discuss list as well as posted on Slack. Please be sure to go in and review. If you do not show up in this list, but should be, please send me a note immediately so we can get you added and make sure that you should be on that list. There's a couple emails that popped up at the end that we didn't have names for. And we just wanted to make sure that anyone that should be in this nomination election process are included. So for those reach out to me as well. Otherwise, about 30 minutes after the TSC call ends, we will use this as the official list to kick off the nomination phase. So just checking with the TSC. Are there any objections to moving forward with this as the list and getting the nomination started shortly after this call? Okay, I mean, I think a couple of those are Intel and I don't know if Dan or Mick can figure out who that is. I suspect some of those highlighted in blue at the bottom are just duplicates of someone's actual corporate email. But please do double check. Otherwise it doesn't sound like there are any objections to moving forward with this as the official list. So we will get this kicked off shortly after the TSC call. And Todd, if you're on the list, can you nominate other people from the list for the election? Typically we do self-nomination. I don't think that that's explicitly stated in the charter, but I will go have a quick look now. But other projects, it's always typically self-nomination. If this group wants to consider something else, the TSC can decide that. I personally would probably not nominate someone before talking with them, but I do find it's a good way to indicate to give people some confidence that they should consider it. There are certainly people out there in the community that aren't on the TSC yet that I will be approaching to see if they are open to it. And I just would encourage others to put their name in even if they're on the fence just because it's a core part of how this process works and how this community works. And it's a really valuable thing to do. So no need to change it. I hope that the folks feel encouraged to go for it. Excellent.  I think next up is the Explorer Proposal. Parta, Dan, or Chris, I'm not sure if one of you wants to take over the presenter role and share anything, or if you'll just be speaking to this. I mean, I don't think there's any presentation at least, but the proposal is available. Dan and Chris, if you want, I can just stop for a few minutes to the proposal. Yeah, please do, thanks. Yes, thank you. All right. So the proposal is it's written and co-sponsored by Dan, Chris, and myself. This was initially discussed a couple of weeks back and we had a question from TSC to give a presentation about what this is developed. The idea is I think quite simple and obvious. We need some kind of explorer to get insight into what activities are going on in the network, what transactions are taking place, and the data available as well as the chain codes and transaction families that are deployed to the network, and the network status itself. And we could think of more functionality, but this is the initial functionality that we have included in the abstract. And this will be a web application initially with the king of developing as a Node.js application that will be useful for everybody. And IBM and Intel and GTCC all three independently developed explorers. The idea is to basically unify them and in all the efforts and work towards one single explorer that can work with any backend blockchains of it. So it's fabric or Intel for the click. So as part of this project, we are proposing to create a new basically blockchain explorer project and contribute all the source code that's available. And start the development basically by unifying it and making a professional look and feel of the application. GTCC, IBM and Intel all three companies are committing full time resources to ensure the success of this project. And we also basically welcome participation and contribution from the rest of the community. Yesterday I sent out the proposal in the email as well as Dan posted the proposal to the wiki. So I hope the community had time to look at the proposal. Dan and Kristi, do you guys want to add anything to it? No, that was well done. Thanks. Dan? No, nothing further. Okay. I mean, certainly from my perspective, I think this is a really important and good opportunity for us to start working on something that isn't just sawtooth or just fabric, but that is valuable to both. And I think it's sort of the start of how we start bringing more collaboration, which I think is a very positive step. We have a little bit of T-crossing and eye dotting over on the IBM side to get the code ready to come across, but we're pretty close. Yeah, I agree with all those points. I think it's going to be pretty straightforward for the very common set of APIs for querying things like blocks and transactions. But the interesting parts of this project are going to be when we start exploring what do we do at the point that you've got more unique capabilities in one platform or the other. So I think that'll be a nice place for seeing how we address that and how that can be put into a unified explorer. Anybody have any questions for either part of Dan or myself? This is Mike. I do have one question. Is your intention, is the focus going to be, is your intention to focus on the kind of interface or by that I mean user interface? Or is there an intention to use this as kind of an excuse to start standardizing APIs, external APIs that we could use? I think it's a little bit of both, Mick. At least my personal perspective on this would be that we focus on enabling a single tool that can introspect on the respective blockchains inside the STL and or fabric and potentially other things through a pluggable way, but that we can also look at that and explore, okay, so what would it take for us to start standardizing what the API should be or could be and thinking about implementing that in sawtooth or fabric and or whatever. I don't think it's a requirement, but I do think it's a, as you point out, it's sort of an opportunity for a bit of an excuse to go off and start working. I mean I can imagine a few different approaches. One is sort of a back-end plug-in thing which allows each one to go off on its own and the other would be to really encourage commonality and those and trying to push towards at least thinking, at least using this as a way to explore opportunities to unify those interface systems like a really good thing and it will be a useful tool. Well I think that I think what is likely to be the case is that as we start down the path of providing sort of a pluggable back-end to get the information that there's even differences on the front-end potentially and so then I think that's an opportunity for us to sort of step back and think about where this is heading. Yeah, I have a question. This is Wipin. I mean just to contribute to this particular discussion. Is this the first tool that is sort of integrating an approach to looking at the multiple variants that we have currently to, of course, but is this the first tool that is in that vein? Well the change tool is, I don't know, I may come up further. You've gotten with Greg in thinking about adapting a change tool to the Sawtooth transaction families. But I think, you know, when we were talking with Greg about the Saver chain tool, I think the stated intention would be that there's potential that it could be more generally useful, although that wasn't its initial design point. Sure, but to bring it back to what, again, bring it back to what Mick was saying, basically this gives us an opportunity to standardize at least the read-only interface and the beginnings of what Richard was talking about before, which is the interoperability situation. Because, you know, like in several instances we've had any kind of relay tool like a BTC relay from Bitcoin to Ethereum for other kinds of interoperability. The reading is the first part and then once the read is accomplished from one or the other, then we would need to write into the, you know, suppose you're in fabric and you read from Sawtooth Lake, then you could actually do something to write, to transform that read into a write into the Sawtooth Lake, read from fabric right to Sawtooth Lake. I think that would be a function of more of an SDK than just a blockchain explorer that's really much more of a way of visualizing what's going on inside as opposed to something that's actually interacting. Yeah, but it all starts with the read, which is the explorer, what I'm saying. I'm not suggesting the explorer is going to write, but the beginnings of an interoperability tool would start with the read. Anyway, I think it's a great effort if it lays over both systems and it can also bring together a synthesis of, you know, in terms of the interface as Mick was mentioning, if it makes it more, you know, common somehow, the interface in terms of the read, listening to blocks, listening to transactions, get blocks, you know, these kind of things. Anyway, that's all. Thank you. Okay, any other? Just a comment from me, not directly related to the things. I don't have anything to contribute to the blockchain explorer, but I think it's a really useful piece of work and thinking about both Sawtooth and fabric at the same time will be the right way to go. Just as an anecdote, we're doing a lot of thinking about user interface requirements on the core site and exactly the same discussions are coming up. Essentially, you end up getting down to effectively traditional requirements gathering user stories, what are the different constituencies. And for me, a blockchain explorer might be the gateway to many other scenarios, but the story of show me what's happening in my node or show me what's happening in the network, allow me to reason about what's happening. It's not business related, it's not business orientated, there's no business in quotes value there, but it's absolutely critical one to developing the platform, allowing developers to use it and giving people confidence is what you think. So it's clearly necessary. Any other thoughts? If none, Todd, can we put it to the question? So we'll do a quick vote, just walking through the list here. So first, Stan from CME Group. So voting for the unified API or just to initiate the project? Just to start the project. Definitely, yes. Stefan? Yes. Parda? Yes. Hart? Yes. Oshima-san? Yes. Chris? Yes. Mick? Yes. Dave? Yes. Richard? Yes. Yeah. Haji? Yes, definitely. Alright, so that passes unanimously. Thank you. Awesome. Okay. I'll work with Ray to set the repo up and then part, I guess, you probably have the first code drop and the IBM one. And I guess Dan will work on getting the Intel ones. Yeah. Yeah. Peter in corporate process solicited no as a maintainer in that doc and he's got access to all the code that we need. Okay. Super. I have to switch headsets because my headset is dying. Okay. Can we hear me? Yeah, we can. Yeah. Okay. Sorry about that. Okay. Next up is Bawa who's got a proposal for a Python SDK for the fabric. Okay. This is Bawa. I'm glad to be here. And can you see my screen? Yes, I can. Oh, great. The proposal is about Python SDK for the hybrid fabric. So why I want to have the proposal. Currently, if we want to interact with hybrid fabric, there are several methods including using the CLI tools, the commands and REST for API. But both neither way is flexible for programming. So, and on the other hand, we know Python is a very popular language. It's ranking top file within the top file in both GitHub and table index. And currently, we have the SDK written with no GS. And it's also will be cool if we can have a Python one. Okay. And this is what it may look like. We use several simple codes. Then we can do some operations like to connect with the hybrid fabric. And we can get the information from our blog. And we can list the existing chain. And we can also do the operations with the chain codes like typically the deployment and the invoke and also the query. So actually the project is started in several months ago. It's April this year. And it has been verified and used in several real web services. So the main functionality is basically we have finished that. But there are also several to-do tasks including authentication and also the registration. If this proposal is accepted, we will be glad to follow the existing SDK style. And maybe we can also let it to support the Google RPC framework. Okay. Welcome for any comments. So my understanding then is that this is working against the REST API presently. Is that correct? Yeah. Currently it's only for REST API. Okay. All right. Because that is actually technically it's deprecated. There's discussion about essentially removing the REST API capability from the peer, but relocating it into a node interface that then uses GRPC to interact directly with the peer node. And of course that hasn't begun, but that's the stated intent. So the other question I had is actually one that was raised by Keith. I don't know if he's on the call. I think he's in a workshop today. Which was that I think he was hoping that potentially the Python SDK could basically mirror what the Node SDK is doing. Obviously with Python idioms and so forth, but I think at least from my perspective anyway, I think it would be useful if we could at least align them. Yeah. Any thoughts on that? Is that your intention, is my question? Yes. I guess your concern is to support the GRPC, right? Yes. Well, number one support for GRPC and number two, because that's where we're sort of focusing our attention going forward. And then the second point is in having a sort of consistency between the Node SDK and the Python SDK, at least as sort of an exit criteria from incubation. Yeah, yeah, we can follow the style. We can support the GRPC. Actually, I'll put it on the to-do list. Okay. Okay, thanks. Any other comments, thoughts, questions for Bella? Okay, I think, and again, there's a few people missing from the fabric projects like Greg and Sheehan and others. But I think what we should do is, the proposal is out there. I'll send a note to the list to remind people to please review it and add any comments and so forth. And we'll take it up again next week. Okay? Thanks, Baja. Oh, sure. Okay. What's up next? I think it was actually work group reviews, rather. Oleg, are you on? Yes, I'm here. Good morning, everyone. So, requirements for the group. We continue working on use cases. I'm working on a global QIC database. There's work going on for, we came back to the e-voting use case as well. There was a good presentation of art option demo that turned into a good use case document as well. We finished the certification use case. And overall, I think we're closing in on most of the, I mean, on canonical use cases. And the last call, I asked the group to start dividing responsibilities and actually start finishing the main requirements document. Because the corpus of the use cases is pretty much closing in, so we should... So, what's the timing look like for that then? What are you thinking? I can't gauge yet, but I can assume a few weeks. Okay. Especially with people being on vacation and being in summer. Yeah, well, right. Okay, thanks. Thank you. Any questions for Oleg? Okay. Just one last note. Within the requirements for a group, we also discuss building prototypes or POCs demo applications. So, I'd like to make a call to the wider audience to propose use cases and use cases that can be easily turned into demos. We want that we can build and demonstrate that certain use case works well on the blockchain. Especially in the financial industry, since we're preparing for cyber conference. And we need to bring something there. I think actually, when we had the face-to-face, we had a meeting to talk about... That was, I think, a general session to talk about the cyber demos. And I think, and Brian correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that the conclusion that we came away with was that it's probably, at least for the demo that we highlight in the booth. Obviously, everybody who's got a booth there is free to do what they... You know, they're free to have their own demos and so forth. But I think for the LF hyperledger booth, the thinking was that we would have more of a video of a demo rather than a demo itself and highlight some of the capabilities, but without having to actually sort of subject the demo staff to have to navigate through a complex blockchain scenario and so forth. Yeah, a combination of a short video rotating on the monitors to kind of grab people passing by. And one or more basically animated slide decks or other animations that could be talked through with somebody more interested in a particular use case. It just felt it seemed like it would be more robust, but I hate that word. Reliable. Then, you know, and inserting blockchain visually to banking executives walking by might be a challenge in a more compelling way. So just something that was here again was the biggest number one goal. Yeah. Okay. All right, next up is Ram. Hi, folks. Yes. So we're starting separate architecture doc to start documenting our work. We're meeting at 11 am PDT today for a working session on that. Since we meet biweekly on a regular meeting, there's no other major update this time around. Thanks. Okay. Thanks. Dave. Hi, yes. I'm just posting the link to our wiki. So we met yesterday. And if you recall, you know, last week, I updated the TSC that we have made the draft 2.0 version available. The link is there. And so yesterday, you know, we typically start off our meetings by reviewing feedback. And the one thing we noticed was that we hadn't received any feedback. So we were contemplating was that because everyone is so happy and satisfied that it's a perfect white paper and there's no feedback for improvement, or maybe they just didn't get a chance to take a look at it. So, you know, we did spend a little bit of time talking about how do we get more people to take a look at it. And one of the things that, you know, we did note that, of course, Todd's minutes include the link in there. And in the top level read me for a hyperledger project, it's referenced there as well. But, you know, obviously not everyone, especially TSC members have commented on it. And so we're, you know, we're looking for some feedback on what would be the best mechanism to make sure that people are reading through it and, you know, giving us some sort of feedback around that. And one of the ideas that was floated was that, you know, if we do, in fact, want to show this to the board. And, you know, earlier on, I think one of the objectives that we had identified was that we did want to present this to the board and members and make sure that they have seen it and are in agreement with what's outlined there. But before we did that, we wanted to make sure that everyone in the TSC has had a chance to read through it and, you know, are comfortable with how we've kind of outlined that. So that's just, you know, I wanted to bring this up and, you know, try to get some ideas and some feedback on how best we should go about doing this. And also, even possibly, you know, can the Linux Foundation help with some marketing or, you know, once again, once we think that it's ready for broader review, that, you know, how best we can make sure that it's getting some visibility and some feedback so that we can adjust it to meet what the community is comfortable with. So I want to kind of leave that out there for people to kind of think about. I think, you know, also, you know, I will follow up with emails to Chris Yu and Todd as well on this, just so that, you know, maybe we could even, if we do get some ideas, we can talk about them in a broader audience, you know, our present suggestions and see if people are comfortable with that.  Yeah, August is a tough time of year for getting a lot of feedback. My son was married, so I was like, no, no, no, I'm just off. So I think maybe the thing we should do is schedule a walkthrough, frankly. That's oftentimes the best way to either focus people's attention to get their comments in and then we can just sort of go through, you know, sort of section by section and address the comments and that also tends to sort of elicit new comments from the slackers among us. But I don't know, what would people, is one week enough or do they think they probably want two weeks to... And actually, two weeks would coincide with our hack fest and maybe the thing to do would be to schedule some time then, a block of time to go through it and get to the point where at least the TSC members are comfortable. Yeah, that sounds like a great idea. Or is it my headset? That is me, sorry. Yeah, no, no, I was saying, I think that sounds like a terrific idea. We could schedule a walkthrough at some period during the hack fest time and just maybe send out reminders to people, maybe try to get people to commit to accepting an invitation to participate or at least providing some feedback if they can, if they're going to be busy on other activities during that time frame so that we can discuss among at least the working group members their feedback. Yeah, that sounds like a good idea. Okay, super. So let's do that, Todd. Can we put out a doodle poll for what would be a good two-hour block to focus on the white paper during the hack fest? Yep, we'll do. Thank you. All right, perfect. All right, good, yeah. And then just the other couple of little minor updates there. So we went through, pretty much resolved the comments of our own. The only things that we have kind of pending right now is expanding the glossary. So we're kind of scanning through the entire document, picking out terms that we feel would be useful if we could throw them in the glossary. You know, difference between blockchain and distributed ledger, for example, is one that comes up quite a bit. And there is an important distinction, as Mick and Hart were pointing out during the call yesterday. So a couple of minor things like that, but other than that, we feel that we've incorporated the feedback that we have received today. And yeah, and just basically, you know, I appreciate getting some more reviewing. And I'm sure there's a few things that could be added to make it a better paper. The other thing is, you know, we are looking to create a latex version of the document, something that we could, in GitHub, in the hyperledger space. That way it would be easier to, you know, to monitor what sort of edits and updates have been done. So, but we envision they're keeping both of them somewhat intact. So we'll keep the Google Docs version, and then we'll also have a latex version of it. And so that's something that we're planning on adding. And I think that's it for the white paper. All right, so then just a reminder or a plea to everybody to please review the white paper. Certainly the TSC members, because we're going to ask you to approve this, and then we'll be sending it up to the governance board. And so it's going to have your name on it, people. And so I would strongly encourage you, if you haven't been directly involved in the development of the white paper, to please do a thorough review to make sure that it reflects your perspectives. And then Todd, I guess we'll have a doodle poll and we'll find a couple-hour block to actually sit down and we'll just sort of go through section by section, address any comments, and see if we can next, but I'm getting it past the TSC. Thanks, Dave. Thank you. Where did my window go? There it is. Next up is Christopher Allen. I didn't think I saw him on. Okay, so I think he's off. And then lastly, it's me. Continuous Integration Work Group Update. And so the GERA transition, I think is pretty much done. I think there's still Greg's Fabric Chain Tool to be migrated. But he's on holiday, so I'm sure he'll start working on that once he gets back. I know he and I had a chat about that. But I think that for the most part, Gary is up and running and operational. Certainly for the Fabric, Dan, I don't know from your perspective whether everything is up and running, but certainly from the Fabric perspective, I think we're good. From the perspective of Jenkins stuff? The Garrett, used to Garrett for the SCM and obviously Jenkins as well. Yeah, so we haven't made any Garrett changes as of yet. We'll be looking into that. One of the things I alluded to earlier is... Excuse me? I think somebody's not on mute. Okay. One of the things I alluded to earlier is we're looking at doing some repo consolidation, which will make any sort of CI work a little bit more manageable. Right now we've got interdependencies between the repos, which occasionally come up on commits where we need simultaneous commits between the repos. The guys who've done the Jenkins magic here would have to do a little bit less magic to support that more going forward. So we're going to get through that and then see where that leaves us. Okay. And then thanks, thanks, Dan. Then the other aspect of the tooling transition is JIRA, and we've been discussing this week from a Fabric perspective of just sort of doing a cold restart over in JIRA and for people who have issues out on the Hyperledger Fabric repository that if they still care about them that they should just copy them over manually into JIRA and close the issue in GitHub. And then after a week or two we'll go through and the maintainers will triage what's left and either close them or copy them over if they're still relevant. And so I think that's... Well, I haven't had any negative feedback yet on JIRA, but it's starting to get use and so I think it's wearing good shape there. The one remaining piece of the puzzle I think is the wiki. And there's a couple of different thoughts out there for the wiki. And one of them was... And again I really appreciate the sort of the cross-team discussion with Sean weighing in from his perspective on how to deal with the documentation and the wikis. So we have a couple of different suggestions. One is to use something like MediaWiki or Confluence and another one would be to just leverage Markdown and publish using the Read the Docs as we are with both of our documentation that would give us a little bit tighter control over things. And so we could certainly do that. There's an ongoing discussion in the mailing list about that and I would encourage that it continue. But we're working with Rai and the Linux Foundation team to figure out what the right and best approach for dealing with that is. One of the situations we have to deal with is where we're going to host the documentation if we do this or getting MediaWiki or what have you stood up. So we're working through the wiki issues and hopefully we'll get that resolved over the next week or so. And so that's what I have from the CI perspective. Any questions? Okay. So I guess we're at end of job and people can have a half an hour back. Alright, thanks everyone. Have a good weekend. Bye.


Welcome back to the channel, everybody. For those of you who are new around here, my name is Michael, aka Dr. Cellini, and I'm a board certified diagnostic and interventional radiologist in New Jersey. Today we were going to devote the entire video talking about all mistakes that young doctors make. And I just wanted to touch on a few, maybe like three, maybe four, maybe five. We'll see how the video goes. But I think it's important that we bring these mistakes to light. And hopefully you don't make the same mistakes that a lot of my fellow Dr. colleagues have made, especially in their early career. So let's go ahead and get into it. Hey, what's up? Hey, hold on. Let me finish this video real quick. Two seconds. Okay. Now this first one may not come as a shock to you because I harp on it a lot on my channel. And that is the number one mistake that doctors make when they just finish medical school residency or even fellowship training is that they don't have a plan for those dreadful student loans. The reason I harp on this topic so much on my channel is because it's arguably the most important topic and a lot of people don't really spend time learning about it, which is a huge mistake. Student loans are essentially of the utmost importance when you finish residency and start your career as an attending. The reason they are so important at this time is because this is the time where everything changes. Your income based repayment plan may balloon based off of your new larger salary and or you may have been actually deferring your loan payments until you have a higher salary job or a real paycheck. And you may be thinking to yourself, Michael, why do some people defer their loans in residency? Well, I thought the same thing too when I was thinking about this, but it actually does happen. And here's why. The main reason is essentially to be able to survive as a resident. And I say that kind of ingest, but it's partly true because think about living in a very large city like New York City, San Francisco, LA, et cetera. Any large city where the cost of living is very high when you only make around $50,000, the taxes are usually higher in these cities as well cuts into your bottom line. And sometimes you can't really afford to just survive or even afford your next meal. So what do you do in this circumstance?  Unfortunately, this is the system we are raised in and some of us have no choice. Now I didn't defer my loans for the reason I just talked about. I didn't want to accrue even more interest than I already have. And I would give that advice to anybody, just do whatever it takes, get a part-time job, anything, just don't defer your loans. It makes your life way worse going forward. So just try to pay it off or at least participate in some public service loan forgiveness program. But hey, it's an option. And sometimes people defer loans, regardless of the circumstance.  For example, will you be participating in a public service loan forgiveness program? Do you plan on working for an academic or non-profit hospital doing Ford or will you refinance your loans like I did? And all the more reasons to focus on this before you finish medical school and residency is because you need to pay attention to the current economic climate as you never know when those interest rates are going to go up like they currently are. Or to add on a little further, will you be using an income-driven repayment plan like PAYE, pay or repay? And if you've never heard of these acronyms, well, you're the one I'm talking about and you need to open a book or go on a website and start doing some research. The second mistake I see young doctors mating a lot is mating unwise purchases based off the promises of their future money. Now I can't tell you how many times in medical school and residency I saw colleagues by designer bags go on extensive lavish trips because you just put it on a credit card. Who cares? You'll have a good job doing Ford. You'll be making the big bucks one day. Who cares? Right? Wrong. That's very wrong. I think Dave Ramsey would blow an aneurysm if you heard someone talking like that. Somebody ought to smack you.  The most common thing we see as physicians is buying a brand new fancy, fancy car as soon as you finish residency because heck, you deserved it. Right. And I know what you're going to say. Wait, Michael, didn't you buy a fancy car when you finished residency? And the answer is, yeah, sort of. Let me explain. For one, my car was not new. It was used. Secondly, let's not forget that I moved to New York City from North Carolina. And when I did that, I sold my car that year and I did nothing with that money except leaving in my account and I used that money to pay for my new car or my used car. Plus I had a little extra on the top and that's how I got my car.  It's just setting yourself up for disaster. Back when I was at University of Georgia, I remember seeing the college football players that were planning on signing for the NFL going forward and a lot of their agents would buy them like 80, $100,000 cars as like an advance and sometimes some of these players would get injured and have career ending injuries and they wouldn't make it to the NFL. And then they're stuck with this $100,000 car. They have to make either a payment sign, sell it or get rid of it somehow. I don't know, but you see what I mean. The whole thing is you're planning on your future, but you never know what the future holds. So always try to plan on the safe side of things.  And the third mistake I see these physicians make is not getting disability insurance. Now we just kind of touched on a career ending injury and imagine going through all this training 14 years in my case and then you have one career ending injury and you can no longer practice and you have all this student debt looming over your head and you can't pay it off. This is where disability insurance comes in handy and I know if you're a current resident you hear a lot of people talking about this topic and you probably have like no idea why they're talking about it, but it's very important, especially in residency and here's why. The main reason is that a lot of hospitals and residency programs have connections and deals with current insurance companies on getting disability insurance.  They just give you disability insurance. No questions asked before you develop any complications or chronic illnesses or whatever. The other reason is because it is very cheap in residency to get a nice supplemental insurance and a lot of the programs you are currently in and residency already have a disability insurance. I think it pays like 60% of your salary usually, but it's nice to have a supplemental insurance just in case it hits the fan. Plus a lot of these insurance companies have special stipulations and they know you're going to be a doctor and get a better paycheck going forward. So they have certain stipulations where you can adjust your disability payment or the amount of disability you want as soon as you hit attending hood, especially in my field and a lot of other surgeons use their hands for pretty much everything. Without them we cannot do our job, which means we cannot get paid for our job, which means we did all of this for nothing. I personally have a six month emergency fund set up because if absolute hits the fan, I know that I can cover my life for six months. I calculated every single monthly expense I have and multiplied it by six and I set that money aside in a high interest account and it just sits there and it's for dire times. It's all about planning for your future, disability, emergency fund, everything I'm talking about is planning for your future to make sure you're set up for success. The fourth mistake I see a lot of doctors make is that they aren't using retirement accounts to build their wealth. Now it's obvious that in residency and those of us in medicine have virtually zero personal finance education, which is very odd considering we are amongst the highest earners in the United States, but that's all the more reason why you should take it upon yourself and learn it by yourself. And part of that financial education is planning for your retirement. Your 20s are actually the best time to start planning for your retirement because it allows plenty of time for that money to grow throughout your lifetime. One of the biggest things you can do in residency to save for retirement is open a Roth IRA. Now I'm willing to bet a lot of you all have never even heard of a Roth IRA, so I'll explain a little bit for you right now. A Roth IRA is a post-tax retirement account. That's it. Next topic. You use money that you've already worked for, that you've already been taxed on, and you put it in a retirement account. You can invest that money in whatever you want. Stocks, bonds, Tesla, whatever you want. In a Roth IRA is post-tax money like I mentioned and that is completely different from the 401k or a traditional IRA which uses pre-tax money. So the difference is come retirement, a Roth IRA, you've already paid taxes on it and you will not be taxed when you pull out that lump sum for retirement. For a traditional IRA and 401k, you will be taxed upon pulling those funds out for retirement because you haven't paid taxes on it yet. Makes sense, right? The reason a Roth IRA is so important in residency is because it has an income limit for people that can use it. And the one advantage of making a smaller salary in residency is that you can contribute to the Roth IRA. There's actually a cap on the income for people who can invest in a Roth IRA. So like for me, I can't invest in a Roth IRA sort of. In 2022, the IRS is capping the annual individual income at $129,000 or if you're married filing jointly, the cap is $214,000. So if your annual income falls below these two thresholds, you can contribute $6,000 per year to your Roth IRA. Now I know that doesn't really sound like much but trust me, compound interest is your friend and this is why it's so important to get started earlier rather than later. Now, did I take part in a Roth IRA in residency? No. Why did I not take part in a Roth IRA in residency?  So you should not be like me. But mostly it's because I didn't have any extra income and I definitely didn't have $6,000 laying around extra that I could contribute to a Roth IRA. The reason I'm telling you this is because it's much easier said than done. But it's still very important. Now even though I am above those income limits I mentioned prior, I can still contribute to a Roth IRA but I have to use the backdoor Roth IRA technique in which I basically open a traditional IRA and I transfer those funds to a Roth IRA and it's called a backdoor Roth IRA. But we're not going to talk about that today. The point of this whole thing is to start saving for retirement early and use all these tools at your disposal because they will help you so much. The fifth and final mistake I see a lot of physician colleagues make in residency or as a young doctor is buying a house. You know at first glance starting residency after medical school, you just want to get that house with your wife, maybe a dog. It may sound like a good idea and it might be but a lot of the times it's just not. And obviously I have nothing to get home buying because as I mentioned many times I've bought a lot of homes in my day but I never bought one while I was in training. And this whole topic is not because I don't think home buying is good in residency. I think home buying for the wrong reason is not good in residency. Many people in residency buy homes because they think they will have a lower payment per month versus renting. And a lot of the times that's just not true. If you're doing it because you think you can get a lower break on your monthly mortgage versus renting, you may not be factoring all the other expenses into the equation such as property tax, closing costs, transaction fees, appraisals, inspections, etc etc. And let's not forget about those costly repairs. What if your roof starts leaking and you have to replace the whole roof for like $10,000? Well your whole year maybe two years worth of difference in income paying mortgages versus rent is completely null and void. All this stuff can very quickly add up and make your mortgage plus expenses way higher than it would have been if you just rented an apartment. I also think this decision varies widely depending on the city you're in because the housing market is different in every single city. But I will say after working like a daughter in residency the last thing I wanted to do was come home and have to worry about repairing my house. Residency is hard enough as it is and a lot can be said for just keeping everything simple in your daily life outside of work. And again I think building equity while you're in residency especially if you are in a long residency is not a bad idea but you have to be owning a home for the right reasons not just because the monthly payment is lower than rent. So that officially concludes five common mistakes I see physicians made in their youth or their early physician hood. Hopefully you all learned something and hopefully by watching this you won't make some of those mistakes. I mean you're already ahead of the game having just watched this video. It's basically get disability insurance and open a Roth IRA. That's it. As physicians we have the ability to set ourselves up for financial freedom and financial success but you have to stay on track and avoid as many mistakes as humanly possible. You're always going to be making mistakes along the way but the goal is to minimize those mistakes. So that officially concludes this video. Make sure you smash the like and subscribe button and follow me on Instagram and TikTok if you don't already. Leave a comment below and if you have a question leave a comment below as well and maybe I'll answer it. As always I'll see you all on the next one. Bye!


So now we're going to look at the magnetic force on parallel wires. To do that we're going to review a few equations we've already taken a look at. One is the B field, short for magnetic field, along a straight wire. And that's this equation here. And just as a quick reminder, the I in this equation stands for current, and the A in this equation stands for distance from the wire. Now we're going to look at the force on a wire, just given by this equation. Now I have to have a current here too, but the B field is an external B field. So it's not the magnetic field created by the current in this wire. It has to be created by some other current. So that brings us into our parallel wires case. So here I've got two parallel wires. In this case they're both pointing in the same direction. But you could also have one of these two wires flipped around to the left. That would be just fine. For convenience, I'm going to label them I1 and I2 to represent the two different currents. And these two wires are separated by a distance A. Now if I wanted to find the force on wire two, then I would need to know the current in wire two, the length, and the magnetic field. But since it has to be an external magnetic field, this is actually the magnetic field created not by wire two, but the magnetic field created by wire one. So what is that equation? Well, current one is going to create a magnetic field. And again, since it's separated a distance A, I've got current one and A as my two values that go into this equation. Plugging that in for my B1 into my original equation. And noting that I've got a nice 90 degree angle, so the sine of theta part can simply be reduced to one. I've got I2L mu naught I1 over two pi A. Now to figure out the direction of that force, I have to come back up to thinking about the magnetic field around wire one. Using a right hand rule, you should be able to figure out that it should circle around wire one in this kind of a direction where it's coming out of the page above the wire and going back into the page below the wire. So that means down here at the location of wire two, it's going into the page. So I use my little green X's here to show the magnetic field from current one on the location of where current two is, is going into the page. Now I can look at my right hand rule. Well, my magnetic field, my fingers of my right hand have to point into the screen. My thumb has to point towards the right, the direction of current two. And that's gonna cause me to have a force that's going upwards. Now I can do the same sort of thing, but look at the force on wire one. And again, that's gonna depend on current one, but the magnetic field created by wire two, which is a very similar equation. And plugging that in, again, I get something that looks like this. I can do the same sort of thing with directions for the magnetic field created by current two. Where I see that I'm out of the page above the wire two and into the page below it. So that means I'm actually coming out of the page at the location of wire one. And if you use your right hand rule, you would see that the force then is downwards. Now I'm gonna take these two things and sort of put them together. I had the force on wire two upwards and the force on wire one downwards. Now here I've just taken my equation and sort of rearranged the factors. But you can flip back to the previous slides earlier and see that these are indeed what I had for my previous two equations. You'll also notice that these two forces are exactly equal to each other, but opposite in direction. They form a Newton's Third Law pair. So in general, the force on either one of the wires in a parallel wire pair depends on the current in each one of the wires. It depends on the separation between the wires and the length of the wire. We'll often see this equation rearranged slightly, where they actually talk about the force per unit length. And in that case, it just depends on the currents in the wire and the separations between the two wires.


but I keep seeing between 2028 and 2032, but it could be as far back as 2035. I know who knows, but it depends a lot on how quickly we ascend here on this planet, but which I think is gonna be dramatic in the next few years. But as far as larynns connecting with planet Earth, I do think that will happen once the Galactic Federation has a direct involvement with our governments. My understanding is our governmental structure throughout the entire planet is gonna change dramatically in the next, it's actually happening as we speak. The current government is actually crumbling and the media has kept us facade of, oh yeah, everything's fine, everything's normal, but it's not, it's crumbling. And


St. Lucia is drawing significant interest in the international marketplace as a result of participation in Expo 2020 Dubai. A highlight of St. Lucia's presence at the global event was the activities celebrating the island's 43rd anniversary of independence, as well as the St. Lucia Business Forum. St. Lucia's Business Forum at Expo 2020 Dubai showcased the island as an ideal choice for investment. The Business Forum engaged potential investors and heads of some of the country's leading investment agencies in discussion on the opportunities available in St. Lucia. Developers on island also provided insight into their experience. Leading the delegation was Honourable Dr. Ernest Hiller, Minister for Tourism, Investment, Creative Industries, Culture and Information, accompanied by Minister for Commerce, Manufacturing, Business Development, Cooperatives and Consumer Affairs Honourable Emma Hippolett and Honourable Richard Frederick, Minister in the Office of the Prime Minister with Responsibility for Housing and the Local Government. Honourable Dr. Ernest Hiller expressed his satisfaction with the outcome of the forum. The developers actually came sat in on a panel, shared with the audience why they chose St. Lucia, why they went to St. Lucia and I thought that was fantastic. Some of the accounts that were given, some of the testimonials for St. Lucia. And then we had the CIP, which was for me one of the, you know, certainly the highlight of the day in terms of St. Lucia's citizens, explaining why they chose St. Lucia, what it has meant to them. We took the opportunity to also speak of some of the potential changes that would be made to the program. And I think that they went very well. It was quite exciting, the diverse, you know, groups of persons that were represented here today. And all in all, I believe it was truly worth it. I think we had quite a few developers there, quite a few investors there. And it certainly showed the level of interest that there is in St. Lucia. Minister for Commerce, Manufacturing, Business Development, Cooperatives and Consumer Affairs Honourable Emma Hippolett highlighted the strides made in St. Lucia's manufacturing sector. In the area of manufacturing, our manufacturers continue to excel in the respective areas of business, winning international awards in rums, spices, sauces and foods. I'm hoping that you'll have an opportunity to taste some of these products. I am certain that after tasting, you would remain faithful clients and ambassadors for St. Lucia. Similarly, our sporting teams and famous athletes like Darren Summy in Cricket and Laverne Spencer in High Jump have put St. Lucia on the world map. Coming out of the business forum, housing Minister Honourable Richard Frederick Indigita that the country has attracted the interest of potential investors. I thank God I'm here because I've already met with a representative from the Raj Group of Companies. They specialize in a housing type that is relatively cheaply built but can resist all the natural elements and basically they're saying look they want to partner with St. Lucia to put down some houses that would reach the affordability index that we are looking at. So I'm quite happy to be here. All the technology will follow. He promises to let me have everything by tomorrow and as long as it is something that will bring relief to our people, I'm all in for it. The business forum was held on the 21st of February 2022. From the Government Information Service, the Mighty Mark reporting.


Welcome everybody to the Jenkins Pipeline authoring SIG meeting for March 6th, 2020. This is the US meeting at 9am Pacific time. My name is Markey and I am one of the leads for the SIG. I have other members on member on there on the call. So, we do have a code of conduct so I will just say be nice to one another, even though there's two of us and I don't think Devin and I are going to be mean to one another just wouldn't make sense. I will go ahead and share my screen. So we can start the meeting. And we'll go ahead and go over open items real quick. The first open item we had was comms. There was an email sent out to the SIG mailing list, kind of giving an update of what we've been working on for the last meetings iterations. There was also a blog post that was submitted, sort of doing the same thing. And then there was a Twitter update sent from the Jenkins Twitter account. So those are done in terms of personas. I had an open item to ask some questions for the David persona, which I completed. I know there were some other action items for people. Did you do any, Devin. I just added some questions. What was your persona. What was your persona. Lisa. Okay, thank you very much for that. I'm trying to see. Trying to see if we had any other open items. Did that. There is no other open items. I will go ahead and do. Open floor. Do you have anything you want to talk about. Nothing for me. Probably makes sense to wait till next week to talk about the persona stuff with more people. Still just you and I, there's nobody else. Well, if you don't have anything else, I'm going to give you the rest of your morning back. All right, take care Mark. He sounds good. All right, have a great Friday and I will talk to you next week. You do take care.


Your Coca-Cola bottler presents Claudia based on the famous play and novels by Rose Franken Brought to you transcribed Monday through Friday by your friendly neighbor who bottles Coca-Cola Relax and while you're listening refresh yourself. Have a coke and now Claudia It's me mama How did you get back? I thought you'd call for Fritz to pick you up in the truck. There's a taxi right in front of the hospital I was going to take it only as far as the bus stand, but before I knew it. I was home It's a nice taxi driver.  I'm fine mama. I don't need any hot tea. You drink it It's raw out, isn't it? Is it? I like it better out than in the house feels so empty flatterer Be careful Claudia. Don't sit on my knitting. I see it Funny how a house can just change with the way a person feels Yesterday morning it was pouring in and yet it was so cozy and cheerful David and I thought there wasn't a happier house in the whole world. There isn't and the accident and now it's Empty usually is David never comes home before 6 30 or 7. It's only 4 o'clock now It's knowing he isn't coming home. Not tonight, but soon Could be worse. Of course it could How's Bobby fine? He took his orange juice like a man babies go right on as if nothing happened I think I'll go out and see him He'll make everything seem normal sit where you are. You haven't told me about David yet. Oh But I saw him. I wasn't I was loud in his room for 15 minutes He sort of was dozing most of the time was able to speak a little He apologized for being such a dope is to let another car hit him.  Of course he will Said he was doped off his headache. That's the concussion. I Never saw David look the way he looked Terrible for a man somehow they're not built to Lie still in a hospital bed. Oh, he'll be up and around and home before you know it. I'll know it. All right Anyway, mama, there's no need going around being so gloomy. Who's gloomy? I am like a clock Keep telling myself how lucky we are The important thing is that he's going to be all right Hasn't lost an arm or a leg or anything important. He's going to lose a little time. That's all Well, if I just can't get along without him for a couple of weeks, why it's just too bad for me You'll get along. Of course. I will Promise David I would so I will Well, now I guess I will have a cup of tea Dr. Barry called while you're out. He did he wanted to tell you It's all right to go over to the hospital and visit David, but you'd already gone. Oh, he says you're so wise He's ready to turn the entire case over to you I'll keep my eye on David, but he better keep his eye on David's collarbone I would know where to begin with a broken collarbone. He told me you're not supposed to begin with anything David will just have to be quiet for a few weeks. Oh, he's gonna love that Practically impossible to get David to take care of a cold So can you imagine what it'd be like to get him to take care of his collar bone? I dread the day he comes home to Convales only we should go tomorrow. I know what you mean Time What about it I have so much of it all of a sudden it keeps right on going all we have to do is eat You're going to be wishing you had twice as much time running back and forth to the hospital You have a nice long evening ahead of his mama you and I Just like old times before I was married better than old times you forget I have acquired a grandson along the way Did you ever thank me? What should I thank you for for barbie? I thank David He never told me lots of things.  I told you many times that never did any good Maybe I'll take up knitting I Think mama Now I know why you've knitted all these years to keep you in sweaters and socks Then to keep your husband in socks and now to keep my grandson decently clothing three days ago I would have believed you but I Know better now. Well if you're so smart Knitting is for women who wait Keeps their hands busy so their hearts keep still for a woman who's done so little waiting You seem to know a good deal of it. I learned fast. I learned so fast. I'm Starting to appreciate you mama. It's about time. You never did thank me for all those sweaters. I knitted you Nor for all those years you waited. Oh don't make my life sound so tragic Claudia It's been a very full one not because of life because of you. I Wish I were more like you I'd be absolutely useless without David good for nothing all I could think about would be not having him Never be able to To make up my mind about anything women aren't like that. I hope you'll never have to find out But women aren't like that. Mrs. Norton Fritz come in. Do I disturb you? No, of course not. I don't have a thing in the world to do except. I want to go up and see the baby Her birthday has just gone up to pay them. How is mr. Norton? He's going to be all right Fritz. I Saw him. Yes, I know. It's going to be a little while, but he will be all right He didn't seem to be too uncomfortable just sort of sleepy He wanted to know how everything on the farm was and he sent you his regards you tell him we miss him He knows well the important thing is he'll be well soon In a week, maybe when he's stronger a birth and I if you don't mind we go to visit him He'd love it just as soon as it's possible. I'll tell you good Mrs. Norton I know you have much to worry about not at all the worry is all over but There are a few things that we should talk over. Yes Mr. Norton will be away a little while yet.  We don't have to worry about that. Thank goodness There's a thousand dollar bonus David got last week. Wasn't it lucky mama? I just didn't happen to spend it yet.  Isn't it still sickness costs money I know and so I was wondering if you think we should go ahead with the work on the barn Well, I don't know exactly what you and David had planned. Well, we were building a new section The old part of the barn is in very bad condition. Yes We are building a new small part very modern with all the necessaries to have a cow and equipment And the workmen they are supposed to come tomorrow So that is why I speak to you now I do not like to bring you more problems than you already have don't apologize for it I could telephone them and tell them not to come if you think so it was It was quite a feat getting him in the first place. Wasn't it? Yes labor is difficult to arrange for these days No, and we have been trying to get the workman for weeks already Supposed to come tomorrow not supposed to come they come I Telephone them make sure this afternoon and then I think to myself Is it good to go ahead and I say I better ask Mrs. Norton. I see it costs money soon It will be winter, but we could postpone it until the spring well fritz Do you know exactly what they're supposed to do? I have the plans mr. Norton made they are very clear How David loved to be able to supervise it himself Certainly had his heart set on this barn I think the only competition you'll ever have to be jealous of Claudia is a cow. I don't blame David mama They have such soulful brown eyes Well fritz I wish I knew what to tell you well, I better call if we decide no I'm sorry, please stop apologizing. It's not your fault that I'm taking such a long time making up my mind. It's It's a new part to play How long do you think this work will last? Several weeks at least but it is not the time so much. It is the expense particularly now I know just trying to think what David would do if he were here he were here This wouldn't have become a problem so used to sort of letting him decide all the important things Well, I guess I have decided I'm sort of a little embarrassed to Tell you what I've decided whatever you say mrs. Norton, you know best. I hope so Well, I think we should go right ahead mr. Norton's had his heart set on this for a long time and he'll have it We'll manage somehow If you feel the workman can go ahead with the plans David's drawn up and that this is the best time of the year to do it I think we better just go ahead fritz and keep our fingers crossed My daughter's never heard of the word caution. Oh, don't think I'm not quaking in my boots. Mrs. Norton I think you're very wise. You do fritz. Yes caution is fine, but trust is better Also hoping the barn will be a beautiful surprise for mr. Norton You and I we will watch it grow for him But I go now on telephone those workmen if they do not arrive right on the nose of the hour tomorrow I will tell them what's why I bet you will and you bet right You're looking awfully sober mrs. Brown just thinking Mama did I do the right thing? So difficult deciding without David if you decided not to go ahead with the work Then you would have decided without David this way. I think you decided very wisely. I'm impressed even What's there to be impressed about I wonder if it's brains or instinct brains or instinct what no matter how Mupra pretend to be you always end up doing the right thing. I don't pretend to be done I'd rather think you pretend but Claudia for once you decided the right thing. Yes. I think I did You see I don't want David to feel that without him things stop or or even that I stop Bad enough is being sick and feeling useless and helpless, but I wanted to know that the things he wants will still be I'm going to go right on Mama right on the way David and I would have together because We're going to be together again soon Independent I'm strong now. He'll be proud of me and it'll be better than ever Say mama I have to stop acting as if I'm a widow. It's it's crazy taste of it never hurt a wife That's what I am David's wife Hey, I'm his son's mother, too Do you realize I've been home 15 minutes now? I haven't kissed Bobby on the brow yet Mom are you coming up careful Claudia careful of the stairs one member of the family isn't in the hospitals enough Careful of the stair. Do you hear me? Oh? that child If you're planning a party whether it's a big formal affair or the most casual sort of get together There's one thing that's bound to go on the list of refreshments, and that's ice-cold Coca-Cola Coke is served at the most elaborate debutante parties It's enjoyed equally well wherever people sit down the chat or play games in city town or country home or everyone Everywhere welcomes the pause that refreshes. Oh, mr. King just a moment before you go on. Yes, Mrs. Brown It's good to get a man's opinion when the man of the house isn't home Do you think Claudia decided right about the barn? I certainly do Life does go on accidents or no and the more it can stay on norm the better Claudia will manage and David will love her for it. That's the way I felt But men they're liable to feel different not so different same as his brown Claudia must be very lonesome, isn't she like a lost puppy? Well tomorrow we'll see her with David again when she visits him at the hospital. It'll be like old times. See you then Every day Monday through Friday. Claudia comes to you transcribed with the best wishes of your friendly neighbor who bottles Coca-Cola So listen again tomorrow at the same time And now this is Joe King saying or of war and remember Whoever you are whatever you do wherever you may be when you think of refreshment think of coca-cola Or coca-cola makes any pause the pause that refreshes and ice cold coca-cola is everywhere This broadcast of Claudia was supervised and directed by William Brown Maloney And now here's a word from your friendly neighbor who bottles coca-cola


What they gonna do with me now? I'm still a twerk in the town, getting the sisters, I'm hooking them down. Reaching the smiles and the frowns and gang up. Grem, niggas on that sweet shit, so I am never beefing, told them niggas leave it. Y'all, it's still girl Breanna Imani, and I'm here with the wonderful, Zany Sona. And we're coming to you with Talk of the Town for another interview. So how you doing? How you feeling? Feeling energetic. As you- Jitters. Oh, the jitters. Okay, I know you just had a birthday recently. So happy related birthday. How was that? It was good, it was wonderful. I'm 19 now, you know, new year. Well, not a new year. New year, new thing. Oh, that's really exciting. So let's get right into it. So how did you get your name, Zany Sona? So where did that come from? Long story short, I tried, I tried the first part of my name, Zane, and I was wild, and so you feel me? People started calling me Zany's off that one experience, and it was just like, wow. And I just, I just went with it. Okay, cause I'm not going for it. I didn't know your name was Zane, so I didn't know if it was like Zane, like something. Okay, so that's good to know. Okay, so what brought you into rap? Well, I have ADHD. So to cope with all the energy that I have, I channeled it into reading and writing lyrics. And the writing lyrics, I took it a step forward when I found out that I have a good voice, like a natural singing voice. So at what point was that? How old were you? I was, wow. I was like 12, 13. Wow, so you started from young. So, okay, so you were 12, 13 when you found your voice, but then what got you into the studio? I ain't going to lie, my brother, J.B.Z. He got me, for me, he was telling me it's time for you to take it a step forward and do bigger things. So he got me in the studio. I was recording on the laptop. I was doing everything myself. Nice, so do you think that if it wasn't your brother and somebody else told you, or would you have done it regardless? He was just waiting for that push. I was looking for the push because I needed to really hit myself in the studio. I was just on a laptop with headphones. So it was staticky and it was a lot of errors with how the tracks were sounding. But now they sound. Well, we hear it. We know they sound great. So, okay, so you were in the studio. So what happened to those tracks that you were recording on the laptop? Did they ever get released? Are they still in the stash? Yes? Yeah, they got released. They was on SoundCloud, I had to take them down, you know? I don't know if people would hear that now.  That feels like crazy. Okay, I feel you, I feel you, okay. So like, how did you feel after your first like actual studio session? So outside of the laptops, like really stepping in a booth, like doing your thing, how did you feel? Ah, I ain't gonna lie. I felt, I felt good because I heard how I sounded behind a mic. And it was like, yo, this is really you. Like it's not no, you can't really hear me. I'm low, like everything is, I sounded great. I did not know I would sound like that. Like I always, what's the word I'm looking for? Underestimate, I estimated myself, I was, feel me?  So, I mean, it makes sense why you were getting to the booth and really hear yourself. So that's what really motivated you to like really get out there, out there, right? Okay, cool. So, did you think that you were gonna get as far as you have so far? No, that's the grace of God. God is my number one person I go to when times is rough because it was times before I hit big numbers where I only, I would drop a song and I would hit like 500. And I would think like, oh my God, this is 500. So, you feel me? I thought that was the highest I could do, but now.  I see, it's running up, it's running up. So, okay, so you told me your song was released. So, were you encouraged before your brother or even after your brother? Was anybody else like on you about keeping up, being consistent? Cause like I said, you have a very consistent team. But people out there, like his team is very consistent. They're very on top of things. Shout out to the team.  My aunt and mother, they always said, since I was like seven, you got a voice to use it. So my aunt put me in the church choir and I was in the choir singing. Not, I didn't want to sing, but you know, I was singing. So they was always like, you got to do more. You got to show the world your talent. And I would be like, no, no, no. But different people, other than them too, like I would be in school singing down the halls cause I'm known in school for music. And in middle school, fun fact, I've been in the same high school in middle school for all, all years, six to 12 and the school started. Like I was, I'm the founding graduating class. Oh wow, okay, shout out to them. So they know me for music and they would hear me singing. They would be like, you got to show the school or you got to, and I would be like, nah, I was shy. Okay, so two follow up questions on that. The first is, so are you still in school? Did you graduate? I graduated. Okay, I saw, and I think it was Miles' video. Yeah, Miles. And you had like the cap and gown on, okay. So I'm like, okay, I think he graduated, but that's cool. And then I also see that, you know, you said you were in the church choir. I know you'd be posting a little videos in the stool and you'd be singing along. I'm like, okay, I hear the vocals in there. So like, okay, I know you rapping stuff like that. So would you ever do like a track with you just like, and then flexing those vocals? I remember when I got a couple vids, like snippets of me doing songs in the snow where I just hear my vocals. And I'd be thinking to myself, like, you just need to go in there, record a song, don't have nothing, just record a song and just drive it. But it's like, I have to get accustomed to hearing that. Cause when I'm used to hearing is me in the stool, little bit of auto-tune, little bit of tweaks here and there, and not just zen, not just zen. I feel you. Okay, so what do you do outside of rap? I do different things. Like I'm good with computers. So, you know, I'd be on a web. I'd be helping different people around the neighborhood with their computers. And okay, well, you know, I'm just good with electronics. Also, I like to code. I like to do different things. Oh, nice, okay. Okay, he's multi-talented, y'all. So like take me, let's say we're on a day with Zanny Svanes. What does that look like? What's a typical day in the life? Typical day?  Then I decide, like, what's on the agenda for the day? If it's nothing to do, I'm gonna play my game and rock out and chill, you know, watch Hulu, watch my shows, feel me? Other than that, I'm busy on the road, interviews, different things. Right, okay. So now when it comes to your creative process, what's that like?  You won't even believe that. I don't write. I just, I hear a beat, I start playing around with it, using different tones, seeing which voice that I have different voices, you know? I can always switch it up. Oh, let's get to the point. So you know, I be switching it up, seeing what sounds good here, what sounds good there, and I'll just start talking. So you do it all while you're in the studio. So everything happens like organically while you're there. That's pretty dope. Okay. So I know you have a few videos out. I'll save my favorite for after you answer, but which one is your favorite of the videos that you? The celebrity. The celebrity. Why is that your favorite one? It was me and all my peeps, all my whole team, everyone there. We all was filling ourselves. You know, my birthday had just passed, we all filling ourselves. And we all just went shopping for the vid and we just kept playing, like the plans we had for it went how we're supposed to go. We always together, like I like moments when I'm just feeling the family vibe with the team. So for me, that vid was more.  Like my favorite video was Trip, because I think it was a lot, it was different.  So it was like, you know, that was something different. Cause you know, I feel like today I'm used to a lot of videos, you know, everybody with their bras and they, but it added something different. So I thought that was pretty dope. So I mean, I was looking and I saw you drop like four videos within the last year on YouTube. Wow, I didn't even know that. And so I'm looking like, okay, were these prerecorded? Cause I mean, of course we still in the middle of a whole panoramic out here. So, you know, it's, it's, it's interesting to see that you came up with so much content, you know, in that short amount of time. So how was that working for you? Like did the pandemic, you know, mess with your creative process? It did, it did. It pushed a lot of things back. We had a lot of things going. We planned and they all got pushed back due to the pandemic.  I wanted to shoot a video on time to do it. I looked at the time. It was empty. It was deserted. Deserted is the right word. So you know, I work around things. Like every, it's always going to be an obstacle. Never expect the plan to go a hundred percent down to the plan. It's going to go off the rails. So we just work around it and keep going. Okay. Well that's cool. So all right. So on your Instagram bio, you say you're the hottest underrated artist in Brooklyn. That's a fact. What makes that so? Why, why is that? I'm different.  And I know a couple artists that are underground, just like myself, that they don't do drill. And we need to be heard. I'm underrated and underground. So you know, a lot of people don't know about Zany's For Nice. And when they hear me, it's like, why are you different? Are you from New York? Are you sure? And I'm like, yeah, are you from me? People don't even believe in it cause of all the drill rappers that we have. So I bring the difference. And the more people I put onto my music, they realize the same thing. Like you're underrated. Like you need to, the whole world needs to hear Zany's For Nice. Yeah.  Like, you know, like you said, it's outside of the whole drill scene. You know, we really deep into that right now. But it's definitely something new, something fresh, especially from someone so young. I mean, like it's, it's cool to hear. So that's cool. So speaking of sound, who would you compare your sound to? Like artists in general or? Artists in general. Yes. I've always gotten a juice world. And that's who I would say, cause I really love juice world. I agree. I definitely agree with that. Okay. Anybody else? Juice. I would say a little bit of Uzi. I got my Uzi moments. Okay, okay. But if you really listen, like, I'm in my own lane. Like I'm me, really. That's what I can say. Cause I don't really, I listen to other, a lot of artists is like, my team, they can tell you. I listen to every artist.  I listen to everybody. So when I listen to other artists, I be like, wow, like, I don't sound like, I can't catch the artist saying the bars. Okay. Well, that's great.  So that's great to hear. So what has been your favorite collabs so far? That I have. That you have, yeah. I don't even know. Like, what do you mean?  It's on Apple Music. So the records are there. I saw them. So I know you have a couple to choose from. So what's, what's, what's your favorite? Collabs. I ain't gonna lie, one of my favorite collabs is with this Philly artist who might as well. I did a song like two years back and I dropped it on my second EP. The first EP's not there. I took it down. Okay, okay, okay. I did a song called Topic. And it was just me being a topic of every conversation and everything. Cause you know, like right now, I'm the topic for me to talk to the town. You talk to the town. And I did a show for Fresher. And I performed and I was talking to him. I had the jitters and I'm talking to him and he's talking me out the jitters.  He performed before me. So I'm listening. I'm like, oh, you're nice. And I sent him the verse and he was like, I ain't gonna lie like we got something. I mean, and he sent it back. And I'm listening like, oh no, it's different. I never, I've never collabed with an artist out of state. So that was my first out of state collab. And I'm just like, I'm digging a Philly vibe from him. So I know that was definitely a win for you. That must have felt great. I can only imagine. So, okay, so you collabed with him. Who's somebody that you would want to work with in the future? Give me three. Three people that you'd like to work with. I know I'm gonna give you a New York artist and two other artists. Okay. Stunning Ambino. Thanks. For me, he got those vibes. I can see y'all working real well together. I would say, I wanna do a track with what is her name? Her. What is her name? Her. I just don't think I heard it. Heard. Nice. And personally, my favorite artist of all time, G Herbo. Like, I need that Herbo feature. Okay, okay. So you have a variety of different sounds in there. I like that. It's not all one type of sound. So that's definitely really cool. Do you have any inspirations in music? Anybody you look up to? G Herbo is one, like, I don't know. A lot of people might not say this, but he's not, he's from Chicago. It's similar to New York. And it's like, I can relate to a lot of the stuff he was putting out in 2013 when I was in middle school. So I felt all that. And he's a big inspiration of me making music. Cause the first type of music I was making, it was a little bit drill. And I had switched over once I started playing with my vocals. But another artist I would say is an inspiration that I really like is, hold on, hold on. I like Ice Cube. I like old school, I like old school rap. I like old school music a lot. I was gonna say, I saw one of your interviews, you mentioned Teddy Pendergrass, and I was so shocked. Like wow, okay. I listen to that every morning. Cause that gets me in the mood. He's staying a cultured artist. He know his music y'all. Okay, so like, what's your support system like?  It's great, it's great. I wanted to quit music a couple times and a couple of my brothers was like, you know, you can't quit, you got it. You just a couple more steps from blowing up and just don't give up. And I needed that. Sometimes, you know, all artists go through it, but they be like, no, I'm not getting nowhere. These songs aren't gonna go nowhere. And just hearing somebody believe in you make you believe in yourself. Right, right, that's very true. So what's some advice about the music industry that you got that you still follow to this day or you've seen to be true, you know, as you progressed in your career?  That's like the top thing, I hear that a lot. Can't trust nobody, because growing up, it was hard to trust people, because a lot of people I've had either passed away or they better my life. So, you know, trusting is hard. And to trust a complete stranger that I look up to, they're a regular person, but you know, they can tell me anything, and they got all these contacts, and it's just like, nah. A lot of time, they just be talking, and when it's time to follow up, they go. So I know exactly what you mean by that. Okay, so is there anything that you wish that you could tell yourself when you were starting off as that 12-year-old recording on a laptop, starting his career, is there anything that you would tell yourself, like now, that you think would help you? I would have to tell myself, just keep going. Just literally just keep going. You are on the path to success, because I always, I never knew that I could take it this far. I never knew I would even be sitting here doing this interview. This is just a blessing. So I would just be like, keep your faith, and keep going. Okay, well, that's the great words of advice, I think. It's no regrets, no regrets. And so, okay, so what has the highlight of your career been so far? I have a lot of 100K on the video. I had a 100K a couple of years ago on my song Drugs on SoundCloud. But seeing that 100K on YouTube, it's like a stamp, like, you there, you got a 100,000. Right, right, you got people too, then. People like what they hear, clearly. The numbers speak for themselves, so. Okay, so where do you see Zanny Svaness in the next five years? What do you think is next? In a mansion at Calibas. A mansion, okay, that's not really saying much. You could be in a mansion at Calibas, doing whatever. So, doing what? Where do you think you're gonna be career-wise? What do you think? I should be having a couple of sold out tours. Probably international, you know. My son, Abel, you were international, like two, three years. So it's possible in five, like, be international overseas doing shows. But still, that mansion in Calibas is chilling, you know. Gotta have a VKD, but I'm just talking about the VKD. Not all the work, but it's a lot of work gonna be put in in five years. Of course, of course. Okay, especially if you wanna mansion in Calibas. That's a fact. All right, well, is there anything else that you would like for the people to know about you before we wrap up? Any new projects coming out that you wanna shout out? What's going on? I got a couple things in the motion. Project, to be determined, you know. We don't know the day. What is that coming? Okay, okay. Songs, next song, real soon. For me, just run, trip up, get through streams. Run, trip up, y'all, you heard. Get through streams and trust me. Project, song, real, real soon, I promise. Okay, so now shout out your Instagram, shout out any social media handles, anything you want the people to have. Zenny's for Nice, IG, Facebook. Zenny's for Nice everywhere. You know Zenny's for Nice is the brand, like. All right, well, you heard it here first. So once again, it's Brianna and we're here with Zenny's for Nice. And that's it for our Talk of the Town interview.


Apart from film and traditional TV, video content creation has grown to become one of the best mediums to consume information, learn on the go and also be entertained. Technology has also advanced to the point where creating content is literally in the palm of our hands with our phones and other small cameras. However, if you want to produce a certain level of cinematic quality for your Instagram and YouTube with consumer to prosumer level equipment, these are some absolute essentials you need to get to make this happen and where to find it in Accra Ghana. Usually I make my purchases online from two websites which I've listed in the description box below. However, in this case, a friend of mine hit me up to get some equipment and we ended up at Toodoo, which is more like a hub for such equipment if you want to browse these shops in person and get a good bargain as well. So let's get to the list. So in order to create beginner to mid-level quality content, you need these things. I'm about to list and you can get all of them at Toodoo. The first one is the camera. There are many options and brands to choose from but if you are looking for something with an interchangeable lens which is also relatively affordable and shoots 4k then the Canon M50 is a great choice with a kit lens 14 to 55 millimeters. It goes for about 4500 to 5000 depending on who you're buying it from and where. And don't forget to get your SD card otherwise nothing else will work. Two, tripod. A tripod is the most basic support you can give your camera to get stable shots unless you are on the move where a monopod will be coming in handy for yourself. Get yourself a decent tripod which is somewhere between 250 to 400 grain SSDs but they are bigger ones, higher end ones for professional use which you may not need at the moment. Light. Light is what your camera needs to see. On its own the camera can capture some decent footage however if you are going to rely on let's say daylight then you're going to be at the mercy of nature and it's important that you have light that is continuous and daylight balanced for that natural look which is also why you need some form of diffusion. A diffusion umbrella can help, it's affordable. Alternatively if you want to get a softbox you can get that as well but if you want to go cheap cheap cheap then a good ring light will be your friend. Now the light comes with a light stand so like a tripod you definitely need a strong light stand to hold your light steady and that is key because some setups tend to be heavy and you don't want your light to tip over in the middle of a recording and a good light stand should be heavy duty. Ideally a C-stand is a good place to start but the prices of a C-stand it's not too basic and it's not really necessary if you can get a really good one which cost about $180 to $200 and then we can go to the microphone now. Now bad sound is inexcusable and if you are a beginner and you get your sound good then you're good to go. If you're going to be doing traditional vlogging something like the road video micro it's a good buy but if you want to be recording talking hairstyle vlog like I'm doing now then you may need some kind of extender to be able to boom it close enough as you speak. Now the extender cable is about $80 and you need a mic stand to boom it close enough to you as you speak so I guess microphones should be accompanied by a mic stand if you're going to not do traditional vlogging so these are your absolute essentials for creating video content and you can get all these items are to do in Accra. So if you have any comments you can post them in the comment section below if you haven't already subscribed to the channel please do that and do like this video if you really liked it it helps a lot I mean YouTube is going to suggest it to other viewers if it has a lot of likes so subscribe to the channel like the video and I'll cut you again on the next one peace