All right, I'll get started. My name is James Pepper. I'm the chair of the Vermont Cannabis Control Board. Today is November 9th, 2022. It's one o'clock and I call this meeting in order. A really quick administrative update to the agenda. We are gonna enter into an executive session. We have a person who's applied for an employee ID card that has a presumptively disqualifying offense. Our staff has reviewed the case and would like to present their recommendation to us and the supporting reasons why this person has overcome the presumptive disqualification. So we would like to enter an executive session after the staff has presented all recommendations and before we vote on them. So we've even invited Susanna Davis, the executive director of racial equity and Jake Green from the Office of Racial Equity to join us in executive session. And it didn't take long, I don't think. Product registration. We have some important issues on the agenda today so I'm gonna be brief. I'm very grateful to see so many people registering their products. I can tell the licensing team that there's some frustration in the industry over the pace of our approvals. The primary reason for the backlog in our approvals is first and foremost, the resources that we have here at the board. Product registration approval lives with our licensing staff who is simultaneously doing this. They're also reviewing license applications and employee ID card approvals. And the more we focus our resources on product registration, the less capacity we have for actually getting businesses their licenses and their employees licensed. We've made the decision to shift a portion of our compliance team's workload to reviewing product registration which should help speed up the process. The secondary reason that it's been slow on our end is we have a temporary process in place which utilizes Microsoft Teams, not Salesforce, it's not very streamlined. If we get partially complete product registration forms where the test results or the packaging information doesn't come in at the same time as the rest of the form, we have to kind of piece all this together on the backend manually. There's no automation to it and all the communication aspects are not automated like they will be in Salesforce. We do have an RFP or we had to put out an RFP for the Salesforce integration for product registration. It's being developed currently, it's being built, should be done by the end of the year. When that is in place, it will cut out a huge amount of the backend work that we have to do to get product registered. So there is a light at the end of the tunnel. In the meantime, we're gonna try and get a wave of them done utilizing some of our compliance teams resources. I know that there's a question about us publishing a list of registered products. We don't have the capacity to do that right now. You know, anyone, a retailer can always ask the person they're purchasing products from to see the product registration. And you can always email us if you're a retailer looking to see if a product that you wanna sell has been registered. That email address is ccb.products.fermont.gov. Just a reminder that product registration is very important to the long-term success of this market. We don't wanna jeopardize people's licenses or Vermont's reputation for quality by getting unregistered products into the market. You know, I know people are sinking a lot of money into their operations and people want to have a diversity of products on their shelves, but you know, we need to only sell registered products. So the other updates, we have two new positions that have been posted. You can go to the Vermont Human Resources website to look at those and apply for those. One final reminder that our staff is organizing a live Q&A session. The focus of this Q&A session is on testing and inventory tracking and product registration. The date is November 21st, so it'll be at 7 p.m. And the link to join is posted on our website. Please, you know, collect all your questions about testing, inventory tracking, product registration, and bring them to that Q&A session. And hopefully we can get you some answers. Other than that, just need to approve our minutes from our last meeting on November 2nd. There, a motion? Seconded. All in favor? Hi. All right, moving through the agenda. Carrie, are you with us? Carrie's gonna do a hemp policy update if he's there. I'm gonna do that.  Oh, sorry. Oh, great. All right, brand. Carrie has already planned to do it. All right. I'm sorry, I don't need this right now. Yep, so this is just a brief update on the board's hemp policy. Last Friday, the board posted an industry bulletin on hemp and hemp-derived high THC products to our website. And that bulletin was really designed to give both hemp growers and processors in the state an early roadmap on the board's approach to hemp products that are going to be entering the market. So to start, I should back up a little bit and say that last legislative session, the General Assembly transferred the regulatory authority over hemp and hemp-derived products from the Agency of Agriculture to the Cannabis Control Board. And that specifically included the authority to regulate synthetic cannabinoids and hemp-derived cannabinoids including Delta 8 and Delta 10 THC. So what does that mean for the hemp growers and processors in the state? For hemp growers, hemp cultivators are currently required to register with the Agency of Agriculture. But at the end of this calendar year, the agency is going to withdraw its USDA approved hemp production plan. And so in 2023, hemp growers are going to be required to register with the USDA to continue to cultivate hemp in compliance with federal law. So the board is not going to oversee hemp growers. Hemp processors, however, the board does have the authority over regulating businesses that are manufacturing hemp-derived products. And we are required by the legislature to submit a report to the General Assembly in January that lays out our plan for regulating hemp processors and hemp-derived products. So this is really kind of an early conversation about what our plan is since we have not yet written our rules governing hemp producers or hemp products. So our plan is to offer two paths for hemp producers and hemp products. So first, for hemp processors that intend to produce products with less than one milligram of THC per serving, the board is going to develop a registration system that will have similar requirements to those that were administered by the agency of agriculture. For hemp processors that intend to produce products with one or more milligrams of THC per serving, those processors are going to be required to get a cannabis establishment manufacturing license. Retailers that are wanting to sell these products are also going to need to get a cannabis establishment retail license. So these hemp-derived products with a milligram or more of THC per serving are going to need to undergo the same testing, labeling and packaging requirements as cannabis and cannabis products. And they're also going to need to be registered before they can be sold in a retail establishment. As the chairs mentioned in previous meetings, our compliance team has pulled hemp-derived products from retailer shelves that were non-compliant with the rule and contain greater than one milligram or more of THC per serving. These products, the board is really viewing as being intended for the adult use market and therefore are going to need to comply with adult use market regulations. So I wanna emphasize that the board is going to go through its regular rule-making process on hemp processors and hemp-derived products and that's going to be happening in the coming months. There's going to be ample opportunity as always for the public to weigh in on the policies that the board is developing prior to those policies becoming a rule. And I also wanna acknowledge that there's like a constant evolution of cannabis law and policy both at the state level and at the federal level that could inform changes to the way that the board is going to regulate hemp-derived products. And we will continue to provide public bulletins as that policy develops. Any questions for Brent about that? No. Brent. All right, and now next on the agenda, we're gonna review advertising guidance. I think, Julie, you're gonna do that? Yes. Okay. I think I should probably put the guidance up on the screen for folks. If that will reach over, otherwise I can just go through it. It should reach. No, it'll reach. Let's wait a little bit more. Oh, there it goes. It should. And we might have to act as if that's a second screen to your right. So this guidance is up on our website now. And I thought we would go through it just to make sure that folks are clear on what's in there, highlight some things for folks to go back and look at later so that you know where to reference this advertising information because it is incredibly important that we are looking at and following this guidance and what we've laid out for ourselves as expectations. So excuse scrolling for a moment. So just to remind everyone what advertising is and what advertising is not. And advertisement is a publication or dissemination of an advertisement. And it means any written or verbal statement, illustration or depiction that is calculated to induce sales of cannabis or cannabis products. So, and that inducement of sales is important to remember, meaning to persuade or influence. So keep that in mind as we go through this guidance. So that includes anything that's written, printed, graphics, material, billboard sign, any other outdoor display, theoretical literature, publication, radio, television, broadcast, internet or any other media. And you can find those definitions right on the legislature's website in law. What is not advertising is the label affixed to the product. You know, any editorial or reading material such as like a news release or a periodical publication. So if somebody, if your local paper does a story about your store, that's not necessarily an advertisement. Educational or instructional material and the sign that's attached to the premises identifying it as the cannabis establishment. However, even though those things are not advertisements, they still need to follow the sort of general advertising restrictions which you can see down here. And sort of from here to kind of like the next, through the next page, it talks about what is not allowed for advertising content. And so here are the things that I want folks to remember. Advertisements cannot include false or misleading claims. So that means the test results have to be accurate. The THC content has to be accurate. Whatever's in the ad has to be an accurate statement. Can't promote overconsumption. Can't claim curative effects of cannabis or cannabis products. Can't offer a prize, award or any other inducements. So it can't be a buy one, get one. Can't be a sale. Discounts are allowed, but an advertisement of a discount or an advertisement of like a buy one, get one. It can have an advertisement for free samples. And just as a reminder, samples to consumers are not allowed. We do have rules around samples for vendors and employees, but not for the public. So consumer samples are not allowed. And it cannot appeal to or depict a person under the age of 21. And I'll talk more about that last one there and a little bit about how to avoid appealing to those under the age of 21. So moving through the guidance. I would just note also this is all from the statute. People trying to appeal to us about changing this is just not you're asking the wrong people. I know that there's a lot of limitations there. And these are some of the most restrictive advertising restrictions in the country. So it's not really on us to change these. We're just following the law here. That's right. And I guess I should have said at the start, the point of this guidance is to help explain what's in the statute, not to create another set of rules or policy to follow. It's really just a helpful explanation of what it is we're all supposed to be following. So moving through this, a reminder that it is required that folks include the warning label in their advertising. And as a board, we were not prescriptive about where or how that warning label had to appear in the advertising other than it needs to be clearly visible. It can't be covered by other images or as a watermark. And we have some examples here in the guidance to demonstrate that. So you can see the example on the left shows the warning label very clearly, the example on the right does not, the example on the left is okay, the one on the right is not. So to your point, Chair Pepper about the restrictions and having the most restrictive rules in the country, cannabis establishments cannot advertise products via any medium unless, sorry, I have to flip the page because I can't actually see the screen. Unless the licensee can show that not more than 15% of the audience is reasonably expected to be under 21. And in the guidance, we have a little chart that kind of describes what that means. It takes language from our rules and then kind of describes what each of those things means in a little bit more detail. So generally, the CCB assumes that 15% of the audience for all advertising is under the age of 21. And then to overcome that assumption, what cannabis establishments can do is to provide reliable and verifiable information that wherever that ad is placed, the audience meets that 15% criteria. And just to be clear, the responsibility for providing that reliable and verifiable information is on the licensee, not the place where the advertisement is placed. So it's not on the magazine, the TV station, the radio station to demonstrate that, the licensee needs to collect that information from those places and provide it when they submit their ad for approval or submit their ad to the CCB. And on the very end of this, I'll talk about how to submit those ads. Because more than 15% of Vermont's general population is under the age of 21, it's assumed that any advertising outdoors that's viewable to the general public will not be allowed unless of course, the person placing the advertisement, the licensee placing the advertisement can demonstrate that they're meeting that 15% requirement. This, the 15% requirement does not have to be met for signs that are fixed to storefront that merely say this is where your cannabis shop is. However, those signs must still abide by the general advertising restrictions that we talked about before. Those kind of six or seven criteria about what advertisements can and cannot look like, those apply to labeling, it applies to your branding and it applies to the signs outside your buildings. So social media and websites is kind of the next section of this guidance. Cannabis establishments may certainly have websites and may choose to use social media. However, the websites and social media must comply with those general advertising restrictions. So those same six or seven restrictions that we talked about before. And moving through that a little bit, cannabis establishment websites must have age gating. And so we have an example here of the age gating. And like all other types of advertising, web advertising must meet that 15% rule. So cannabis establishments cannot advertise on websites that are managed by other entities unless those sites also have age gating and can demonstrate that meeting that 15% criteria. And then the next section goes into social media and I'm just gonna, I'm gonna straight up read this because this is tricky, this is tricky for all of us. And I don't want anything to get lost in translation but this is really, really important. The cannabis establishment social media posts must comply with the general advertising restrictions. If a social media post qualifies as an advertisement, the establishment must submit the post to the board as an advertisement is detailed later in this guidance. And I will talk about how to do that. Social media posts of images of cannabis flower or registered finished product that are not calculated to induce sales of cannabis or cannabis products are acceptable. Further cannabis establishments may only promote products using links to their age gated websites. This means cannabis establishments cannot use shop now buttons that bring users to social media marketplace. So you can put your website on your social media account but you can't have a post that has like a shop now that takes you to a separate marketplace store on your social media account. Further cannabis establishments cannot sell or advertise cannabis or cannabis products in a third party social media marketplace. So you can't put it on Etsy or your buy, sell, trade websites or media sites that are out there. Cannabis establishments may use the instant messaging component of a social media platform to communicate with customers. So if a customer asks you a question you can answer it through that medium but may not advertise or sell cannabis products via social media via instant messaging. Cannabis establishments may use their logo and branding on social media. Images and text on social media platforms may direct users to the cannabis establishments website. So that's what I was mentioning before. Further cannabis establishments may use social media platforms for general consumer information and education. Cannabis retail establishments that lawfully collect customer contact information may send text or email messages only to age verified customers. So if someone has opted into something in your store where you've collected their information they've agreed to that you can send email and text messages to that person so long as they have opted in again. And any messages that qualify as an advertisement must be submitted to the board as an advertisement and I'll talk about how to submit that a little bit later. So this is a really important section and it's on page seven and again this is up on our website now. Folks wanna go there and view it. So here are some examples of acceptable social media posts and unacceptable social media posts and then a reminder that general merchandise is not necessarily advertising but it does still need to comply with the general advertising rules meaning not appealing to children and not making false claims, not claiming curative effects. Those six or seven criteria that we talked about at the first thing. So the next section of the guidance goes through how to avoid advertisements that are appealing to those under the age of 21. And this is a requirement of state law that the advertisements not appeal to someone who's under the age of 21. And that means not using toys, inflatables, movie characters, cartoon characters and I'll talk a little bit about what a cartoon is in a minute, no child friendly depictions of food or other consumables or any other display depiction or image that is designed to be appealing to minors or anyone under the age of 21. So when we're talking about not appealing to under 21 we mean certainly not using folks or depictions of a person who's under the age of 21 in the ad, not using cartoons or things that are commonly marketed to children and youth and not using items that are generally more attractive to persons under 21. When we're talking about cartoons and I think this is a conversation that we had a few months ago when we were developing this guidance. Cartoon is not necessarily like the style of artwork in this case it's the content of that artwork. So things that are cartoons in this context should not have comically exaggerated typically human features, shouldn't attribute human or super human characteristics to animals, plants or other objects and cartoons appealing to children often use anamorphic technique to give animals and inanimate objects or not other non-human objects like human identities and that in this context is a cartoon for the purposes of not appealing to those who are under the age of 21 and should not use fonts that are typically used to attract the attention of young children and youth and there's an example here of imagery to avoid. There's also some other examples of imagery to avoid in the labeling guidance as well. So there's plenty of examples of things to avoid. So moving through to how to submit ads to the boards they have to be submitted in a format prescribed by the board, they can be submitted by email generally in a PDF or in a voice or video media if that is how the ad will appear. They can be submitted to ccb.advertising at vermont.gov. For advertisements it should, what you send to the board should be exactly what you intend to be in the advertisement. So if you're sending a graphic image that should be the finished product ad that you're submitting to us to look at same with any kind of voice, radio ad or any other type of media if it's a video or what have you. What you submit should include the locations where you expect the ad to run and the dates that'll run and the reliable verifiable data that the audience meets that 15% criteria. The board will review those and we'll look at those within 10 business days. Oh, sorry to go back. Ads need to be submitted 15 days before they're expected to run and then the board will look at within 10 business days. So submit them 15 days before you intend for them to run and it will take the board roughly 10 days to look at those and then once it's approved it has to appear exactly as it was submitted to the board. So that's sort of the rundown of this guidance. Again, it's up on our website the instructions on how to submit are there. Folks around the table, is there anything I left out or should address?  You know, we have learned some lessons in the past few decades around cartoon imagery and you know, things that might be appealing to youth we're gonna try and apply those lessons learned to this space and just do the best we can to get through this. It's complicated. Yeah, it is complicated. I think we all recognize that and as a society these days we're so used to putting so much of our business and personal life out on the internet. And I think before folks hit the post button make sure that you feel like you're compliant and if you have questions, please ask them. There are a lot of folks around the state still that want to see this industry not succeed and this is something that they're gonna continuously go back towards. And it is, you know, I think New York actually might be meeting us in terms of being more restrictive. I hope for that, yeah. Well, we're certainly at the top but together we can figure out ways so I think folks can still market their products in a safe, effective way. It's the only thing I would add is that the advertising review process is not a fee-based process. The legislature decided not to attach a fee to the review by the CCB. So, you know, if the flood gate's open and we get swamps it can take a while for us to review these but really, you know, the idea is check in with the board before you put an advertisement out. It's much, you know, we will get through it. There's no, you know, there's no fee associated with this. So. Thank you. Okay. I think we're up to review the applications for this week. Okay. So here is your register for this week starting with the medical program. Here are our numbers for this week. We've been pretty steady with the incoming numbers of renewal applications and new applications. So getting through those as best we can. Moving on to the adult use license application numbers that these numbers are current as of yesterday. So looking at the total numbers, we've got 37 new applications in the last seven days. The majority of those as always lately are going to be employee ID card applications. We have gotten four new cannabis establishment applications. Three of those are small cultivator applications and one is a new retail application. So I'm going to move on to the location. This is our chart that describes the location of all retail licensees and retail applicants that are still in the queue. So just a reminder, this is all retail establishments. Those that have been licensed and those that are still in process. The team ran a new report for these retail establishments. So these numbers look a little bit different than last week's numbers. And actually what this new report reveals is that there's a little bit less density of retail establishments in the Burlington area. So you'll see that there, and this chart looks a little different too because it has the status, actually reveals the status of where in the queue these applications are. So you'll see there's only six Burlington establishments there. And I just want to make one note, which is that this report was run just on retail establishments. So it does not include the integrated license that is in Burlington that has a retail outlet. So this new report will inform the numbers that go to the website. Because I do think it's a little bit more accurate that we did out like a test application. So I think that that accounted for the difference between the number of Burlington establishments that were indicated on last week's register and this one. So I'll move on to our recommendations for approval of a license. So these are the applicants this week that have demonstrated that they have complied with all the requirements for their license that are contained both in statute and in board rule. We have first up humble skunk applying for an indoor tier one cultivation license. Subterra cannabis applying for an indoor tier two cultivation license. Somewhere on the mountain applying for a retail license. Clover VT applying for a retail license. Vermont Humphcraft LLC applying for a retail license. Emerald Rose Retail applying for a retail license. Oho Roho Cannabis applying for a wholesaler license. Ventessential Botanicals applying for an outdoor tier three cultivation license. Epona Farms applying for a retail license. And District 802 applying for a tier one manufacturing license. We also have a recommendation of the chair mentioned at the outset. This week we have a recommendation for an employee ID card. So staff is recommending approval of an employee ID card for submission number 1857. As staff have determined that this applicant meets the criteria for their employee ID card pursuant to board rule 116.4. And this is the applicant that the board will discuss in executive session today. So moving on to our amendments. We've got the same number of amendments that we had last week. Here are our social equity application numbers. We do have two of the four new applicants for a cannabis establishment license and have identified themselves as social equity applicants. So our total number and a few is up to 122. And that's where we are this week. Great. So any questions for Brent about these? Nope. All right. So we're gonna go into executive session to discuss the staff recommendation around the employee ID card approval. You know, we don't make any decisions in executive session. We just hear the underlying facts and the rationale for the recommendation. And then we come out and we vote. So I think this one will probably take less than 10 minutes, but why don't we just say 10 minutes? Yep, I think that's a good estimate. So is there a motion to enter into executive session? I move that the CCB go into executive session to consider confidential attorney-client communications made for the purposes of providing professional legal services to the body and that executive session is required because premature general public knowledge regarding such communications would clearly place the Board of Substantial Disadvantage. I further move that the Board invites Susanna Davis and Jay Green from the Office of Racial Equity into executive session. Oh, second. On favor. Aye. Aye. So Nellie, why don't we say 145 for return? Sounds good. Okay. There you go. Great. All right. So we're back. It's 146 p.m. And we're out of executive session. We heard the underlying facts of the kind of staff recommendation and their rationale. And I think we are ready to vote on all of the staff recommendations. I move that the Board accept each of the recommendations as presented to us by staff in this meeting. Oh, second. All in favor. Aye. Aye. All right. I think, yeah, why don't we shift to public comment? And I would just remind folks that we can't, the Board here cannot answer questions directly about advertising or whatever. You know, we are gonna have a live Q&A session with our staff very soon, November 21st where you can bring questions that can get answered in real time. But we'll do our public comment the same as always. We'll start with the people that joined on the phone or via the link. And if you have a comment, please raise your virtual hand then we'll shift to people that joined on the phone. David. Hey, thanks everyone. Just wanted to point out that two of the retailers approved today are also tier one cultivators. And I think that's pretty cool that tier one cultivators are finding a direct path to market. And that's my comment. Thank you. Good point. Thanks, Dave. Hello, Board. How are you today? Fine, thanks. Good. I have a couple of comments. I'll try to go through them quick. Comment one, I'd like to see a flow chart of weekly sales of products built. I'd like to see a flow chart of male-owned businesses to female-owned businesses that buy pack to lesbian, gay, bi-transgender businesses. A flow chart of employees to men to women plus buy pack lesbian, gay, bi-transgender disabled and veterans. I'd like to see a list of all license information open data set with a final executive report for business and an enforcement inspection report with the recommendations to establishments. I'd like to also see, I don't see any guidance on your website for transporting cannabis from grower to cultivator to processor to manufacturer to wholesale to retail type and licenses. And what type of insurance these people would have to carry and what safety protocols do you guys want to implant and security measures or GPS monitoring on a vehicle type of registration and the type of vehicle registration for the CCB. I'd like to see a guidance for consumers about products and harms and safety, the guidance for parents. I want to know if you're building a social equity program for people that want to enter the market but are not guaranteed a license, a flow chart of all municipalities with bylaws and ordinances and enforcement action section from Kerry because he's the leading enforcement action person. And I also think that there should be a reporting form agent reporting form for COVID reporting warms because we're still in the day and age of COVID and people still get it and that should be noted that there's some type of form that they can submit to you guys that have the COVID report. I'd also like to see a know if you guys, if it's possible that you guys are certified through the Safe Vendor Training Program and you could post up your certifications that every staff member in the CCB has gone through Safe Vendor Training. And I'd also don't know if you guys didn't see it on the website, if manufacturers in state of Vermont have to go through Safe Serve vendor training and Safe Serve for manufacturing and working with edibles and that they get certified as well and all employees have to be certified. I worked in the department in the food service industry and I had to be certified to work with food through Safe Serve of Vermont. And I'd like to know if Brent is building a leadership team under her that will consist of people like a chief technology and innovation officer, a director of research officer, a chief financial accountants officer, a chief communications officer, a chief operating officer and a chief people officer which would be human resource because we're working in the data, data, human resources. And I also want to make one more statement. I don't see any guidance on IRS federal tax, 280E that deals with cannabis on the federal levels for taxations. And this is very important because with tax and regulation and with the SHIP Act, it may change. And I know that can happen, but 280E is a federal tax where every business has to pay a tax on the federal level, which is the state and local tax levels. And I didn't see that anything in your tax and regulation recently in the tax section when I looked it up. Those are my comments for today. Thank you for your time. Hope it'll always be a pleasure to help and assist you in any way. I'd love to come work for you if you'd hire me, I'd be really happy and we could do some things so they understand the short staff. Thank you. Yeah, thanks Keith. And I know we have some of that information you requested in your first comments, so please just submit those as a public records request. Yareem. Hey guys, how are you again? Thank you very much for what you're doing and continuing to push it through. I have just a comment about the rollout with the hemp products and it has to do with lab testing. Just wanna put it on your radar that when I was starting to open up our lab, we thought about doing hemp, although we learned that you had to report to the DEA when you're doing that. Just so when we get into the Q&A in the 2021, it's on your radar. Thank you very much. Thanks Yareem. Anyone else who joined by the link, please just raise your virtual hand and if you're on the phone and would like to make a public comment, you can hit star six to unmute your phone. Phone number ending in 5077 has unmuted. Hello, am I being heard by the board meeting today? Yes, we can hear you. Oh, thank you. My name is Bill and I'm certainly very amazed and impressed by the complexity of what you have managed and gotten through so far. Congratulations. I just wanted to bring to your attention an article that appeared in the bridge of this week, November 2nd through the 15th titled First Local Retail Pot Shops Open. And let me just read you what I am referring to. This is verbatim from the article. It says upon entering the store, a customer is required to present identification such as a driver's license. This is scanned and put into a database. The customer is then allowed to shop. I don't know, maybe the board is certainly probably aware of this, but if not, I just wanted to raise a couple of issues on it that might be addressed in some later meeting or a Q&A or possibly on the website. One, there was no, I've talked to several people who have walked in and had their ID scanned. There was no identification that PII was being sent to a database. It's also a question of why is it being collected? Who owns this data? What will it be used for? And is it a public record? So those are, I just wanted to bring that to your attention in case that is a concern of some people that their PII is being loaded into a database without their knowledge. Thank you. Yeah, thanks, Bill. We'll get some information about that and talk about it at our next meeting. Okay, thank you. How do I D, do I star six to D mute? I think Nellie can actually do it for you if you're done, she can do it. Yeah. All right, yeah. Thanks, Nellie. That's it, bye. Anyone else for a public comment? All right, well, I'll close the public comment window and there's nothing else to add. I will adjourn the meeting. No. Good, all right. Thanks everyone for joining.


Good morning. Today I'm going to update you on a few things. I'm gonna share with you my empties And will I repurchase them or won't I and before I start all that I'm probably gonna do some chit chat So I will put those time things in here that if you're not interested in the chit chat You can go to the section you are and I'm also going to announce two winners But I'm not gonna put that in there because I got scammed one time So I'm not don't ever put anything about winners in my title or in the special section So as far as updates, this may be the last video I film. I'm not sure there may be one in two weeks I'll just have to wait and see. I had several questions when I talked about being Desensitized to nickel the doctor. I'm going to does not do that So just a little back history for a couple of years I've been trying to get the watchman device implanted in it in the appendage in my heart because I'm on kumitan Long story short the watchman is not gonna work. There's something called the amulet and I am being tested for nickel to see if that is an option The watchman just won't fit my area that it needs to fit and if I am allergic to a certain degree to nickel Then I have a another option and that would be to go to Springfield and have the appendage That's in my heart. Have it removed cut out. So anyway, I was so excited that I thought I was gonna be Desensitized to nickel in that I could wear costume jewelry But I can't and I just wanted to clarify that because I had quite a few questions about that in my last video I do not know. I'm gonna put it up here somewhere How long it's been since I have filmed in my very favorite pajamas and Anytime I'll wear something on here. I would say 999 times out of a hundred it is something I have owned for a very long time And I can't tell you how long I've had these pajamas and they have been my favorite they were a gift from my sister and I'll write the brand of them up there. They're a good brand I've had several pajamas by this. I think it's Carol Hoshman H-O-C-H-M-E-N But I just love them and I just thought I am going this may be the last time that I can film in my pajamas this winter So I wanted to wear my favorite and I'm not wearing any makeup on my skin. I have or Primer or anything I have a mascara and navy eyeliner in the upper waterline and my trusty Jeanneze Qua lip gloss that I've loved forever and I buy them whenever I see them and they're usually on sale Now I want to talk about my empty some of them will be boring I know they will be but I'm gonna go ahead and start with some makeup items that I finished up and and go from there I finished up the it cosmetics the jeanneze qua in the stick They have their head they have the jeanneze qua in so many different things, but I used the lipstick up I used up the Milani plum rose.  I love the Milani color statement lipsticks I finished up. I think this is color my world and this just I didn't care for it I mean it was okay, but a lot of people love it I have 68 year old lips and a friend of mine Monica McGillicuddy also has 68 year old lips and she loves hers I really wanted to like it because it is a very good company I finished up a lip pencil from it cosmetics and it is your lips, but better. I have enough lip pencils I wouldn't repurchase that I finished up a Laura Geller lipstick I don't own a lot of what I consider neutral lipstick Most of mine are the pinks to the berries to the reds So I did finish this up and use my lip line lip pencil to get it out. I finished my second tube I think this is rose julep. It's Buxom love Buxom lip glosses I store mine upside down so I can get every bit of it I take the little stopper at the end and then I just use this to get out the rest of them And if I really like the applicator, I will wash it and I'll put it in my drawer in case I buy a lip gloss And I don't like the applicator, but I have enough applicators but I would say 90% of the Mascara wands and the lip gloss wands fit in many different brands This is a Jack black lip balm with a 25 SPF. I Like it and if I needed one with an SPF if I didn't have any more I definitely would repurchase I buy these a lot for my grandsons And I think it's just a really good lip balm My last empties was like the first of September or the last day It was like end of August versus September. So I have my Summer superhero that I threw away my fall and I'll be throwing away my winter. I keep him three months I don't have any trouble with eye infections That's just been my practice that the first day of the new season these get tossed and I open a new one and I Love superhero mascara. I just put six or seven or eight swipes on each lash I don't go back in and I just I love it and I don't do my bottom Eyelashes, I just do my top But I've loved this since it came out and Susan that used to have a channel here Susan W We both fell in love with it on the same day right when it came out And I know it was in February, but it was a minimum of four years ago And with the exception of buying one drugstore brand I I just stick with it I think that they sell for $25, but I always watch for a deal And I get mine anywhere from 10. I think 10 to 11 to seven or eight dollars depending on where I find the deals But you know, I love good deals. I used up a grande brow this lasted 38 weeks. I opened it on 416 21 and Replace it on 1622 and I just use it Monday Wednesday and Friday and I really like what it's done for my brows I don't have to use anything on my brows if I wanted to be fancy I could but I'm happy with them the way they are and I've already replaced this and I have a backup And what I'll do is I'll just wait watch for a sale I will look watch for the points from Ulta and I won't do one right away since I have a backup But I will with the grand grande lash the grande lash I use Monday Wednesday and Friday I open this May 1st, 2021 and I quit using it just on 39 22 so it lasted 45 weeks. I I must have missed a little bit in there I thought I did it every Monday Wednesday and Friday But I was really surprised that this lasted that long I've already opened my new tube and that's what I'll put on my list for like three months I'll start looking for a deal if I see one before that I think I do have a discount code for grande lash and I bought all these myself But a lot of times like if you click on the link they may have a better percentage off or I'll tell you Ulta when they have If you get emails from them and they have the five times or ten times points That's where I really do very well and I may link a video in here to show you how well I did Last year the end of last year. I went ahead and replaced all three of my derma rollers I have a I use a one point zero millimeter on my scalp the zero point five I use that once a month on my face and Then the zero point two five millimeter I use that every Sunday and I haven't beefed it up to do and I was gonna do it on Wednesdays, too But I'm a slacker. I really am a slacker. I buy mine from skin diva I have a 20% off but a lot of times they'll have 25% off and I bought all my new ones when they had a 25% off sale and if you click on my link and they've got a better sale you'll get the better sale So anyway that I will tell you I saw on timeless website They now have that individual needle derma rollers and they're 1099 I haven't tried them yet, but they look exactly like what I'm using They only have the zero point five millimeter and the one point oh millimeter when I order some stuff from timeless I will give them but my five dollar off code does not work on accessories So I'll wait until I need to order some things from them And then I'm gonna try their derma rollers and I'll let you know But I was happy that they started getting the real needle derma roller and I'll put a derma roller video up here And then down below so you kind of know what I'm talking about. But I've been derma rolling for oh Six years or so. I still use the Nutri-Ox on my scalp after I derma roll And the only time I don't derma roll my scalp is the first time I wash my hair in a month You know in the in the month. That's when I use that color well dream coat So I use this every other shampoo and it seems like they last about a year I don't know if I'm not gonna quit using it. I mean Everything's going really well right now, and I'm not gonna rock the boat Shiseido razors always will repurchase those Okay, this is the Revital Lash Cosmetics volume enhancing foam. I've talked about this in previous videos. The first one lasted a hundred and thirty eight days I'm using it in two areas right here and right here. I purchase this It's over a hundred dollars and it did so well I purchased another one and my hope is that I'm just gonna have to use it in one area every other day That's my hope but I'm gonna continue using it every day right here and right here And I'm still doing the grande here. I started that on January 1st, and I'm not ready to give my Results yet. I think it's working, but I am not positive I used up my amazing grace that I have got I got for Christmas some time ago I think the year before last and I think it's lovely. I rotate several different bath products This is a shampoo bath and shower gel and what I when I worked I've had this for years I mean not this one, but I've had purchased them a lot in the past and When I would wash my hair I would at the very end I would put a little bit of it on my hair and rinse it out and My hair smelled so good people would stop and ask me Pull your hair what kind of shampoo do you use? But I didn't know if it was really good and good enough to do the whole shampoo in my hair I'm not gonna repurchase it I would be very surprised if I didn't receive it as a gift for Christmas or my birthday I'm gonna talk about this. This is a hydrating lip plumber. I finished it I took take off the top. I get all of it out I used it a couple of years ago every morning and every night and I did see some fullness in my lips I'm not willing to do that anymore. I mean, I'm not I use it. I've repurchased it I like it, but I recently ordered some of the city lips when they had a buy one get one free and I think what I'm gonna do I see a lot of these before and after pictures with the city lips You know my lips like I said are 68 years old and I want to see I've got like three different things or four different I'm gonna do some before and after and just see if any of them really do plump up my lips I'm just curious in that way. I just yeah, I'm gonna check it out. I finally repurchase the Shiseido facial cottons There's 660 I cut mine into quarters and I just like put them on drawer like this. Well, here's a whole one This is what I use. I think they retail if you just get them Not on sale for $12 and they last me all over well over a year So I will definitely repurchase these and if they're not on sale, it's fine with me I have tried some of the others that people have recommended and I have found nothing that feels as good on my skin as this And it just absorbs the right amount. It's just it's perfect for me dermatology tinted moisturizer I will repurchase that bye-bye under eye eye Cream definitely will repurchase. I bought this again. I had opened this on 315 2020 I just a couple months ago ordered a new and there was still a little bit in there But I thought well, it's had it today and I own the reason I it lasts so long is I use one drop And I just put it in my marionette lines right here and right in here And I don't want to be without it the timeless eye cream the hydrating eye cream I go through one every six months I always repurchase it and I will as long as they make it because I think that is what has helped my eyelids They're not and like right in through here. I Really do I think it's something about it. My skin likes I bought another kakai naturals I it was $38 and 70 cents my discount doesn't work anymore But I needed a new one and I use that every other night on my neck And I use it on my face one day a week when I derma roll So it one bottle last a year and a half or so it does last a long time And I really like the secret sauce and I use that at night when I need it and a lot of times if my skin Doesn't feel like I need it. I don't use it if they I've ordered something a couple of months ago I have it and I need to check my stash on this But I'm gonna try something else because I'm afraid that they make what making this and I want to have Something that I'm ready for but my skin really likes it. It just Hydrates it enough. It's not sticky it absorbs and for me it does have a secret sauce The two items that I won't repurchase This was given to me and it's a 10% for root like acid by timeless. I use their 20% I either use timeless 20% or Skin diva 20% because they have the exact ingredients in the same order and The skin diva is in a dropper bottle and the timeless is in a yellow pump. This is a 10% I used it on my neck And I used it all up that I that I Know I won't do it. I just you know what I mean I know what I'll do and what I won't do but this is a really good Option anybody that the 20% was too much and another one. This is another one that I won't repurchase. It was excellent It's a dermatology vitamin C plus E plus free like acid It has really good ingredients, but it's a lot more expensive than the timeless or the skin diva I do have a discount link and code for dermatology and I think mine's 20% off But when I ordered something a couple months ago from dermatology, they had a bigger percent off than mine So I got it. I always want you guys to get the best deal You can and now I want to announce the winners of my last giveaway I purchased these items to give away and I purchased it from BK Beauty and The first name that was drawn was Sherry Dee and she requested the brushes and this is a Lovely set of brushes. I'll show them to you real quick because I've Got them too. This is a brush. I was telling you about the 101 That I like for foundation It's the only brush I've ever liked for foundation and then there's a powder blush brush and some other brushes So that's in there and then Lisa's true Beauty eye shadow palette are both of those are unopened and those will be going to you Sherry Dee Congratulations and the next name that popped up on random comment picker picker was Joyce Summa and She received five lipsticks. So congratulations Joyce Make sure you leave a comment below and I'll let you know how to get in touch with me It is all good. I know everything that's going on in the world But I will tell you as long Personally as long as I have God in my life. It is all good. I don't know about you all But I watch you two videos to try to get my mind off things sometimes It's really rough and it's been a rough two years. It really has but it is all good I appreciate you so much and I learn a lot from all of you you have taught me a lot and and You're very very very much appreciated and I will see you in my next video. Take care To dedicate. No, I'm not but you know, it's okay Fit in all different So it but I've been doing it for many But I would be surprised if I did not read I would for my birthday and


From the ITU Headquarter in Geneva, Konnichiwa. We are celebrating the World Telecommunication and Information Society Day, May 17. Konnichiwa, Tsigawa-san, SG3, Kicho. Thank you very much, Bilal, for giving me this chance. Tsigawa-san, we are celebrating the World Telecom Information Society Day and this year the theme is bridging the standardization gap. You are the chairman of Study Group 3 in ITU that works on tariffs, economic, regulatory and financial issues that are very important to both regulators and operators. You're also a senior manager in KDDI, a Japanese operator operating in Japan and around the world. I would like to hear from you what are the important aspects of the BSG. You have been chair of over the past six years. How did the bridging standardization gap help you as a chairman of Study Group and also as a KDDI executive? In fact, as far as my position is concerned, I'm chairing a Study Group 3. It's handling tariffs and economic issues. So I really wish to need the needs from the customers and users. But unfortunately, from the parent group as Study Group 3, it's the distance between this organization and the end users a little bit far apart. So in this case, to grasp exactly the real needs of the customers and users, the existence of regional groups is very, very important. And in fact, Study Group 3 has established a regional group for the first time maybe. Among the, amongst other study groups. And we can make full use of it to absorb and catch the real needs of the end users. And as we are now intensifying this effort to have the opinion from end users through this channel of the regional group, and it's very, very effective. And when after we have started this, after we have put emphasis on these activities, the number of contributions and number of the participants have grown significantly. Mr. Tsigawa, you are also a Francophone. Yes, absolutely. And you have a number of delegates in your study commission of Africa and other Francophone countries. What do you want to say, share with your audience, Francophone? Well, maybe I am now talking about the distance between the study group 3 as the parent group and then the need for clients. And unfortunately, maybe the distance between the final client and our organization is a little bit, how should I say, distant. And to be this distance more narrow, I would like to use the existence of regional groups because they are almost as close as we are to the end user. So through this channel, we could have exactly what we want, what the end users and clients need. So the fact that you have regional groups reduced this gap in normalization from a distance point of view, from a language point of view and from a regional point of view that can be diversified. Exactly. Very good. Now I would like to propose you to say a few words in Japanese to your participation in the Japanese, including the celebration of the World Telecom Day and the information society. Very good. Voluntary. Hello Japanese people. Right now I am in the study group 3 of the SG-3. I always feel that as a standard, the distance between the SG-3 in the group and the user in each country is quite far away. In order to increase the gap, the SG-3 has a lot of regional groups, but this has been very effective, so we are able to find out what the end users are thinking and what the needs are. So as a SG-3, the SG-3 has a very high regional group. Mr. Chigawa, SG-3, thank you very much. It's my pleasure. Thank you very much for inviting me to this opportunity. Thank you very much.


Recent research has demonstrated that using spectral spatial information can significantly improve the accuracy of hyperspectral image, HSI, classification. This is because 3D convolutional neural networks, 3DCNNs, are able to extract both spectral and spatial features from the HSI cube data together, resulting in more accurate classification. Additionally, 3DCNNs require fewer parameters than other deep learning-based methods, making them lighter, less prone to overfitting, and easier to train. When compared to other deep learning-based methods, such as stacked autoencoders, SAEs, deep brief networks, DBNs, and 2DCNN-based methods, the proposed 3DCNN-based method outperformed all of them on three real-world HSI datasets. This article was authored by Eng Lee, Hao Kuai Zhang, and Chong Shen.


Myself, Deshmukh Sachin working as an assistant professor in civil engineering department of Oval Chain Stock Technology. Today, we are going to learn about a rapidly varied flow. After completion of this topic, you are able to understand what is the concept of rapidly varied flow. You can derive the equation for conjugate depths or we can say sequent depths and also you can solve the problems on conjugate or sequent depths. First of all, we will just see what is a rapidly varied flow. Last time we have seen the gradually varied flow where the parameters are changing very gradually. Now here, it is changing abruptly or you can say rapidly. The rapidly varied flow phenomenon is a very unstable and it has an inherent tendency to change itself to the stable tranquil flow resulting in the abrupt rise in the elevation of liquid surface. The local phenomenon where the elevation of water surface is suddenly rises is called as a hydraulic jump or a standing flow. Let us see this figure. The flow is coming like this.  See here, this is the water surface which is coming down, this is the collision and it rises up. The rapidly varied flow we can observe over here. The rapidly varied flow we are observing over here. Here gradually, it is changing very slowly, very slowly, very slowly. Here we can say it is a uniform flow and this is a non-uniform flow up to where it is going to become a stable one. Now as the example is hydraulic jump of the rapidly varied flow, we will see what is a hydraulic jump. When a super critical flow where the Froude's number is greater than 1 changes suddenly to the subcritical flow where the Froude's number is less than a hydraulic jump, less than 1 in the hydraulic jump. Why Froude's number we are taking? Because Froude's number is the ratio of inertia force to the gravity force. Due to the formation of hydraulic jump, large scale eddies are formed and the turbulence occurs resulting in appreciable loss of kinetic energy takes place. Bidon, it is the name of the scientist, a French engineer, was the first to investigate the phenomenon of hydraulic jump experimentally in the year 1880, 1818. This is the same figure where you can observe the sudden rise over here, sudden rise you can observe here in the section 1 and section 2 and particularly here we are going to adopt instead of energy equation where taking a momentum equation, keep in your mind. Now define a hydraulic jump, the answer is when a super critical flow changes to subcritical flow, a considerable amount of energy loss takes place with this phenomenon is termed as a hydraulic jump. Now as appreciable loss of energy changes occurs in a very short length, this is the way of the channel, it is advisable to apply a momentum equation instead of energy equation along the continuity equation for the analysis of hydraulic jump. As per Newton's second law of motion, algebraic sum of all the external forces in any direction is equal to change in momentum flux in the same direction. Therefore applying the equation in the direction of flow to the control volume, this section, equation between 1 and 2 is called as a control volume, we will get summation of effects that is summation of all the forces is equal to mass of the flow into change in the velocity. So it is rho mass density into discharge into velocity that is final minus initial velocity. From figure rho q v 1 v 2 are the density discharge and initial velocity and final velocity respectively.  See here f 1 it is in the direction of flow, f 2 opposition f 4 and f 5, this is a bottom resistance, this is the air resistance and w sin theta is with respect to this flow. Where f 1 and f 2 are the pressure forces at section 1 and 2 that is from the figure w sin theta is a component of the body force in the direction of the motion and f 4 and f 5 are the channel bottom resistance and air resistance. Generally f 4 and f 5 are very small, we are neglected and the channel bottom being practically horizontal the term w sin theta is also neglected.   Dividing the equation throughout by gamma that is we can say in many of the cases we are taking as w or we can say gamma that is specific weight.  That is specific force before hydraulic jump is equal to specific force after the hydraulic jump is known as momentum equation for an open channel flow. This particular equation is very basic equation or important equation to derive the equation for the hydraulic jump. F s that is a specific force depends on the depth of the flow cross section of the channel and discharge passing through the channel. The other equation can also be written as a 1 y 1 bar that is y 1 bar plus q square upon g a 1 is equal to a 2 y 2 bar plus q square upon g a 2. This is a very important equation. This equation is called as a momentum equation for an open channel flow. Now we will see what is the hydraulic jump in a rectangular channel? What is the equation for this? For a frictionless rectangular horizontal channel the momentum equation is the same a 1 y 1 bar plus q square upon g a 1 is equal to a 2 y 2 bar plus q square upon g a 2. This we can write as b is the width and y is the depth. Simplify it b into y 1 that is the area of 1 and remaining as it is a 2 is b into y 2. Put these values over here wherever area is there you can go for width into depth where y 1 and y 2 are the depths of the flow at section 1 1 and section 2 2 respectively. That is before and after the hydraulic jump and b is the width which I said to you therefore dividing the whole equation by b you will get this equation. Also we know q by b is a small q that is discharge per meter width. Putting these values q square for q by b that is capital Q by b square in the above equation put these values and solve this quadratic equation. Solve this quadratic equation once in y 1 and once in y 2 you will get y 1 square y 2 plus y 1 y 2 square minus 2 q square upon g is equal to 0 or y 1 y 2 square plus y 1 square y 2 minus 2 q square upon g is equal to 0 which is in y 2. Then simplify it for y 1 you will get the equation y 1 upon y 2 is equal to 1 half into bracket minus 1 plus under root 8 f r 2 square. Similarly the following equation we can write as with respect to the Froude's number where y 1 and y 2 are known as the conjugate depths or the sequent depths known as the ratio of these two. This is also relation between the pre-jump and the post-jump. Here the important thing that is q square upon g y 2 cube that we have to insert with respect to the derivation while deriving this while deriving this we should we should also focus on this what the quadratic equation and find out the ratio of these conjugate depths y 1 upon y 2. This is most important and this equation is also known as the equation for the hydraulic jump that is y 2 and y 1. For this these are the reference books. Thank you.


Next question is from Grant Satterweight. Could someone realistically run maps anabolic forever with progressive overload and still make progress? Yeah, you definitely could. The program was designed to be able to be done in cycles over and over again. Is it ideal? No. It's not ideal. Ideally speaking, when we're talking about a lifetime of exercise, a lifetime of fitness, a lifelong relationship with, you know, exercise and maintaining strength and mobility and muscle and all that stuff, then you want to train lots of different ways. Maps anabolic is excellent at building muscle, speeding up the metabolism and getting you really strong. It's not the best program we have for mobility. It's not the best program we have for stamina. It's not the best program that we have. If you start to become advanced, then you want to develop more muscle and sculpt your body. You're sculpting now. Yeah. So your best bet would be to, and this is why we have so many programs. Part of the reason why we have so many programs is to help people who have different goals and different fitness levels. But the bigger part, because you got to remember, we're trainers first, we're podcasters second. We were all trainers for 20 years. I've only been podcasting for five years. We designed all the programs because we thought to ourselves, what if somebody follows all of our programs? What are we going to have them do next? What would we have them do next? We're at the point now where we have all the programs that you would need to have amazing balance with your fitness for the rest of your life, where you just follow one after another and you'd be able to really develop an incredible physique, avoid injury, have great mobility, great strength, maintainliness, all that stuff. So you could totally do one program over and over again. But ideally, you would go through different programs. It could definitely be a frequent flyer. And I think that we speak a lot to the general average person, of how to structure something that will give you kind of continual progress, where the principles of a specificity still applies. If that's my focus, I really like getting stronger, I like building developing muscle, that's my thing, that's something that you could have it in heavy rotation, but you got to interrupt that. So that way, you still reap the benefits that it's providing. But you have to stimulate the body in different ways. And the reason why we have you kind of moving into performance is to account for your joint health and your joint stability, mobility. That's actually going to go back and contribute to your pursuits on trying to lift heavier weight and then also move through a lot of these plateaus inevitably that your body is going to recognize a pattern and it's going to be efficient with that, but you're not going to see the same type of struggle and challenge that you would if you were to venture out. And so same with trying to present your muscles in a different way and shape them a specific way so it looks what you want. The answer is yes, you can and no, I wouldn't. Yes, you can do that. If I was training you as a client, I would rotate you through the programs, very similar to how and to Justin's point, if you loved that way of training and you loved what you got from that program, it would be the primary focus, but I would still intermittently take at least at the bare minimum principles from the other programs, right? So even if I like and I would say this probably closely resembles how we train. Each of us have different modalities that we enjoy more or appeal more to, right? So we're all very different. And so we probably follow a one of our programs, like the skeleton of it most closely, the most common and most often, but then we all know that it's important to intermittently introduce all these other things. I mean, Sal, you just came off of all the unilateral training and drop squats, although you're probably Mr. Anibal.  Justin is always pulling stuff from performance and strong. Of course, I like aesthetic and split. But yet we all integrate all the other principles and all the other programs from everything from body weight to the suspension training to mobility type work. There's so much value in all those different ways of training that it shouldn't be something you forever neglect, even if you are going to follow a primary structure for a majority of the time. You don't want to neglect all the other things. Yeah. And also look at things. Look, we always talk about long term, right? The goal is not to work out for a couple of months and then never do it again. The goal, and this was always my goal as a trainer, was to get people to develop a lifelong relationship with exercise. Okay, so look at things from that perspective, right? Okay, so Adam just brought up that I stopped squatting for a while and just did unilateral work. Did my squat strength drop while I did unilateral work? Of course it did. I stopped practicing the skill of squatting. However, long term, my squat strength is going to be better than it was before because I'm addressing imbalances and weaknesses that I have. And guess what? I've been squatting for the past few weeks and I can already tell I'm going to surpass the strength that I had before here real quick because I was able to address those types of things. So here's another great example. Right now a lot of gyms are closed. So right now you may not have access to all the equipment you had before and you're thinking, oh my gosh, I'm not going to be as strong on my overhead press and I'm not going to be able to deadlift as much or whatever as much because I don't have access to that equipment. Follow a program like MAP suspension, which is just suspension trainers. Do it at home. Are you going to lose strength in those core lifts? You will temporarily, but I guarantee you when you get back to them, you're going to surpass what you did before because you're going to strengthen imbalances and weaknesses that you had that you couldn't necessarily identify because you're always doing the same stuff all the time.


Thank you Good morning Wow, thank you. Thank you so much. I am super super excited to be here When I looked at the lineup of what's happening over the next couple of days You know all the speakers all the cool stuff that's happening I was absolutely gobsmacked as we say where I'm from, okay So I think we're gonna have an incredibly exciting three days and before I start Would you mind joining me and just giving the organizers just a huge hand for putting all of this together? Absolutely amazing, and I can't wait to get started That being said I'm absolutely terrified I was standing in front of you now one because of all the speakers and all the people who are experts in their fields out there But also because I'm actually going to tell a pretty personal story About how I get involved and actually published my first open-source project when I joined Google so for many of you guys you're experts in the open-source world and What I'm thinking of doing today is actually sharing my personal story of how in the second week of my job at Google My boss asked me to publish open-source code for the first time in a language I'd never used using a service that I've never heard of before So I'm a little bit terrified What I do hope though is For those of you who have been thinking about you know contributing to open-source getting involved Maybe you know sharing my story will help you as well if you were scared as I was You know making all the mistakes and so forth to just do it Try it out, and I also want to give a few learnings that I found out as I went through my journey Okay, and in passing if I can share a little bit of detail about you know Some of the cool stuff that's happening on the open-source front in Google then I will have accomplished it We're also running a little bit late So I'm gonna try to make my talk a lot shorter so that we get to coffee break on time You do not need to take photos of any of my slides. I'll give you a github link at the end where all the links and everything are Okay, so just take photo of that Okay applause. Wow. Okay. Is that to get off stage or is that? not to take photos and Yeah, so let's let's get started So I'll talk about three things. First of all, I'll share just very quickly a few of the projects That is related to Google Cloud now These are not owned by Google Cloud and these are my personal picks. Okay, but Google Cloud where I work We do have managed services in this so they're kind of related, but they're not owned by Google Cloud necessarily, okay? The second is how do you contribute? How do you actually get involved and contribute to some of these projects? And I'll share a few of the learnings that I had in terms of you know code review Reading the guidelines, but actually most important of all has nothing to do with technology it's about my thoughts on how people feel about open-source and Hopefully by me being up here opening my heart and sharing my fears When I got involved and all the things I was terrified of Maybe it'll hopefully it'll make even one of you, you know more confident to just try it out And that's actually the most important thing in my talk. Just how can we actually help each other share stuff? So with that ado, I thought I'd share a little bit about how I think about Google. I've only been in Google for about two years I'm not an expert in all of these things But in my discovery, I found that as Google got started they created a lot of really impressive Fantastic, you know world-leading technologies to solve problems that they had at huge scale and you see some of them here, right? For example internally in Google We run everything on containers and we have container management systems called Borg etc We've contributed to a lot of container technology But what tended to happen a lot from what I can see is we published, you know leading kind of research Papers and I had the privilege of meeting Doug Cutting when he was here in Singapore last time I don't know if he's in stage, but he also talked about how you know when he created Hadoop He took inspiration from you know the MapReduce paper and so forth So a lot of papers, you know were published and the open source community you know leaders and great people took some of those ideas and incorporated them into you know extremely popular and fantastic open source projects but there's been another development as well and That is that in addition to publishing research papers Google is now also open sourcing and actually giving away a lot of this to other organizations a lot of the new products So I'll talk about a few of them today the first one is around containers and distributed systems and In the interest of time, I'll go very very quickly I'll have links to all of this in the end So don't worry if you don't catch everything But in terms of containers Google has been working on containers for a long time for internal use So if I you know internally want to deploy workloads inside of Google it gets deployed on containers okay, and As part of that Google also contributed a lot of stuff So if you look into the Linux kernel, I know there's a few Linux kernel contributors in here in 2006 You know, you'll see some contributions to C groups for example to the Linux kernel. Okay now Based on a lot of experience About running Borg and running containers at scale inside of Google, you know Google also initiated a project around Kubernetes to take a lot of the good practices of Borg but also add lots of other stuff that maybe wasn't so good and created Kubernetes and You may all know about Kubernetes, but the cloud native computing foundation, you know Organizes that right now. I believe Red Hat and Google are the two biggest, you know corporate contributors But as I travel around Asia Pacific and Japan, I meet companies from all over the Asia Pacific Rim and from all kinds of industries that are either contributing or using Kubernetes okay, and Kubernetes is obviously a project that if you are, you know, very confident and you know your stuff in Distributed systems and you like go because it's written in go Of course, you can contribute to the core project of Kubernetes My personal opinion is if you're like me who's not an expert and super deep, you know Contributed to the core code base may be a little bit hard to get into okay, but definitely go for it if you can But there's a lot of these auxiliary projects that kind of grew up around these mega projects And the one I want to highlight is the Kubernetes dashboard So that's like a user interface to Kubernetes and it's a smaller community fewer developers But most importantly My good friend Ian who's out of Japan. He's actually offered if anyone's interested to personally mentor you and get you on board into this project So if you're interested just see me in the pavilion afterwards So there are many of these kind of small projects Small in a relative sense. I'll come back to that The second area and the theme of this conference as well is around machine learning and what I'm really passionate about and We're talking about Tom Mitchell's 1997 book. I call it the blue book on machine learning It's it's it's one of my favorites I can't say I understand everything in it but one of the things that really excites me about machine learning is you know how accessible it is to everybody and somebody has already mentioned tensorflow today and Tenserflow obviously is incredibly popular. I think on GitHub, you know, it's it's the most popular kind of machine learning Environment but actually around tensorflow as well. There are a lot of auxiliary products that you can contribute to I should probably say you know tensorflow is great because you can run it on all kinds of platforms It runs on the cloud. It runs, you know on premises, etc But what I want to skip to is actually actually this Anybody know what this is It's not a trick question Yeah, it's a picture of me, right? Why am I putting a picture of myself up here actually last week? I don't know if anyone was at the tech tech women tech makers event last week Anybody? Ah, yeah one one person So we did a tensorflow workshop for the women tech makers last weekend And one of the projects that we used was to blend so using machine learning models to blend the style of A painting or an image with the content of another image. Okay, so if you think of this picture of me Okay, as The content I can then blend it with famous painters to get results like this Okay so In machine learning it doesn't all have to be super serious It can be a lot of fun as well and there's links to this project that you could play out And you could even mix different styles from different painters on your own pictures loads and loads of fun Data analytics So in data analytics, you know big data is another very very hot hot topic Inside Google Google, you know spent a lot of time developing mapper dues as we talked about but in recent years, it's actually they've been developing a lot of other internal products and Part of what happened with those internal products was an externalization Into what we call Apache beam. So it's an Apache project And we have a managed service on cloud called, you know data flow where you can run it But Apache beam is a unified programming model where you can do real-time streaming and batch processing You know with the same code base in addition to being unified you can also, you know You basically create pipelines data pipelines, but you don't have to run it on a data flow runner You can run it on a spark runner for example for batch processing or you can run it on a flink runner for you know Real-time and streaming processing so you can kind of pick and choose and in addition to contributing to Apache beam You can also pick some of these sub projects if you're particularly interested for example in spark and Speaking of spark we also have in cloud We have a product called data proc which is a managed service for running Hadoop and spark workloads Okay, so what you can do is you can get involved in this project and Create a lot of you know, you can contribute to the core But also what I find quite interesting is this project data initialization actions Because you don't even have to submit code. You can just submit configuration file initiation access initialization actions That's really tough to say That actually allows you to install third-party tools on your data proc cluster for example And it's just config files. So you don't have to be a coding expert if that's not your gig Finally, I know this is a lot of stuff and the links are at the end A lot of these projects, you know may require a little bit of core knowledge and some time to investigate But there is a lot of client software connectors And other pieces that you can contribute to and the main landing page is this one here on Google Cloud platform And I counted yesterday. There were 483 different github repos here alone Okay, and this you know includes connectors to different, you know data analytics tools It includes clients and that's not even including Projects where you can implement Google Cloud support or help implement Google Cloud support for third-party services Configuration management tools and so forth. Okay, so I guess my message to you is maybe you didn't know much about Google Cloud before Okay, or that you could get involved in projects, but literally in that ecosystem There's a lot of projects that you can get in involved in depending on your interests. So Now I've talked a lot about Kind of some of the stuff you can get involved in In terms of my personal story When I started in Google, I was asked to implement something in R I've never done R before and I was going to publish a predictive analytics Solution using BigQuery, which is a data warehousing tool and are So I started implementing this stuff and learned a lot along the way about how to get stuff published inside Google It's not as easy as you might think sometimes But I published it after a lot of sleepless nights and weekends working on it But then I was actually presenting that solution In Taipei in a workshop. So we were working through the examples in GitHub and people were implementing, you know, this R Logistic regression as it as it was And I always considered myself, you know, the outsider I considered myself the person who'd kind of faked it I cheated, you know, I kind of got this published but I kind of didn't know exactly what I was doing and kind of making it up as I went along and I always thought, you know, the people who are leading these open-source projects and so forth They're like demigods who, you know, everything know everything about everything. Okay So I delivered this workshop in Taipei and I went back to my hotel in the evening and then something happened and What happened went something like this. I Don't know if you know this Knock knock who's there? Thank you Poor request So one of the geniuses in my workshop had realized I'd made a mistake and he raised a pull request and I was like, oh dear. What do I do now? and what I realized is overnight or during that That little time I'd gone from kind of the outsider and the contributor to now being a leader For this little very insignificant GitHub repo So now, you know, how I got back to that individual was very very important What if that individual was just as scared as I was pushing that, you know, pushing that origin master time the first time What if that person had to really really really dig deep to get the courage to raise this pull request? So what should I do? How should I treat it best? Okay, and We'll get back to that in just a moment So the first thing that I started doing was to do a code review because all of you do code reviews for sure, right? Now what I would say is a lot of times if you get involved with very mature projects and Inside Google for example, the culture inside Google is very very code review heavy There's a lot of code review and people get very very detailed in the code review I got permission from my friend tepe sun in Japan He was doing a contribution to a big table client and he spent a few months going through code review, you know into excruciating detail Okay, and if you're like me if you already feel like you're not the best in Java or whatever programming language you had You know those things can be really really scary somebody really smart who knows everything about the repo Saying oh, you may want to think about changing that and changing that and changing that okay, but Don't look at it as something to be feared Look at it as a learning opportunity And if you're the leader who's doing the code review as in this case, you know Just be nice be considerate be patient and I'll give a couple of other tips as well that I learned along the way The other thing is actually out of fancy animation here. Let me try that again. Does that work? Yes, perfect Also, if you're wondering about what kind of style because in in project is often good to have similar styles right across different developers You may not know this I had no idea we had so many style guides. I'm a bit of an emacs guy So Lisp, you know is nice, but you can find these style guides and If you want to you know use those style guides for your project a very very detailed and they allow You know a very consistent interface when you're developing code my personal preference And I'm not I'm probably the worst developer in Google and probably the worst in this room as well But I always try very hard to write for readability So make it easily readable if you're sharing with others not do too many clever things Just make it simple and and readable and a couple of other tips So that I picked up as I learned, you know start small pick something You know that's on the maybe on the fringes or Something that can be done in a short period of time that doesn't require a lot of skill Some of these code bases are very very big do some homework So most of these projects have contribution guidelines that you should go and read Okay, make sure you've read everything about contributing, you know Do they prefer you emailing them directly?  Just do some homework before you you start contributing Whatever you do, I wouldn't recommend, you know Spending months creating the next great version of the software send a pull request and then you know be disappointed If it doesn't work out and finally and this is super important and actually my team does a lot of this Code is not everything. In fact, it's often a very small part of the overall projects So there's everything from documentation creating tutorials and examples arts graphics Translations, I mean I work across Asia Pacific just translating things and often is translating from Japanese Because when I search for very specific technical terms I normally end up with a Japanese blog who solved exactly that thing So I can see all the commands in English and everything else is just your bridge to me So translation is another, you know, super important contribution if you're a leader and Maybe you don't consider yourself a leader yet, but just like me, you know You don't have to be you know a demigod to be a leader You can be a small leader for a very small part if you are a leader Just realize the potential impact you have on the people who want to work with you on the project Just realize that you don't have to show off how clever you are or anything like that Just consider you can have an outsized impact on the people Many of you will be busy and it's okay to be busy. What I try to do is I send an email back I say listen, I'm really really busy It's probably gonna take me a few weeks maybe to get back to you but at least they hear something back and they don't have to wait for it and and beyond 10 drugs and it is possible I think to be honest and Kind even in a code review So just try to be nice and kind to each other is my feeling Kubernetes project has a great community expectation Guidelines document that I think is is a great example of of how to engage each other and If you are interested, this is my tiny bit of claim to fame, you know, it's not exactly a top-ranking project I think I have 70 stars or something, but hey if RMB queries your thing, you know Have a look at that stuff And a couple of appeals. So first of all, this is our stand outside So if you want to visit the Google stand come and talk to me or any of my colleagues I think we have some coffee coming up and chat to me and my colleagues about anything you want and This is the promised link So I'll stop there for a little while whilst you can take a photo of it My name is really really hard, but if you're a local My surname is roti Okay, so roti like roti Prata, roti Chennai, you know all of that and I take a lot of fast food orders. My email is roti at Google.com So if you feel hungry not roti Prata. Google, you know, just roti at Google.com feel free to email me If I'm super busy, I'll probably email you back saying hey It may take me a few days to get back to you. Okay, but do reach out if any of this was of interest I'll be around hanging out outside as well. And most of all have just an amazing amazing experience for the next three days It's gonna be fantastic. Thank you so much Thank you very much I've been roti