there. I'm Sandy Allnock. Welcome to my virtual studio with our tour guide, Giello. He wanted to be part of the welcoming crew to show you around the place where the magic happens. And yes, in that messy place, that's where the magic happens around here.  He loves to hang out by me all the time.  He plays with his toys and he chooses bones and he takes naps there and sometimes shares it with his sister who is currently at the water cooler. She also likes to hang out by the window and watch for squirrels and cats and whatever walks by. Part one of our tour is going to begin now with a tour of the sketchbook. I have done a sketchbook of my room, believe it or not. My art teachers always said, draw what you know and so I did. I saw someone's sketchbook that was a theme sketchbook and I really wanted to do one. And when I thought, what do I have that I could fill one sketchbook with? Well, art supplies was kind of a no-brainer here since I am surrounded by them all the time. And I've sketched them in pencil first and then gone over them with a simple sharpie and then added watercolor to them. And I've written in lots of notes which I hope to look back on in a few years and find out what's changed. Which things don't I use anymore? Which things have been replaced by something else and just get an idea of where I am right now in my artistic journey and where am I headed and how are things going to be changing. As I was working on this and showed it to a few people along the way, I realized everybody wants to read all the stuff, all the notes in my handwritten scribble. So I have done something to save you from trying to pause the video and squint and try to read my handwriting, which is to put together a free class on my teaching website. And it's a class all about supplies and that sort of thing. It's not a project-based class, but there are lessons on each spread here. So every single spread has tons of information about the kinds of things that are in it. And there are downloadable things like brands of colored pencils. I have all of the colors listed with checkboxes so you can, in the PDF, just check all the boxes for the colors you have, checkboxes for colors that you want, and that sort of thing so that you can maybe send that list to Santa Claus if Santa Claus needs to know what you need to fill your stocking with. And there are some new videos in the class. It's not a video heavy class. And there are some videos that are already on YouTube that I'll be pulling into that class because I've already covered those topics. But I wanted to put it all into one place, all of my artistic stuff, my fine art side, my crafty side, my Bible journaling side, all in one place. And you can scroll through the lessons and just view the ones that you're most interested in. And there's also some creative lessons in there on how to kickstart the mojo and how, when you're creating a scene, to create something unique. When you're trying to come up with ideas for a stamp set, if you're a crafter, and you want to come up with a scene for it, how do you think through that? There's also a video lesson in there. I'm not going to show you how to edit a video, but I'm going to tell you the stuff that I do use and you can do with that what you will. I'm going to have a whole lesson on video philosophy, the kinds of things I think about when I've put my channel together and the way I've branded my own work, and you can take or leave out of any of that what you're interested in. I've covered all the mediums that I use primarily on YouTube right now, and some that I haven't. I have a ton of pastels that I want to start using more. I have to get to them. I need time. Anybody have any extra time at the time store? I could use some, so please send it to me, and I will use it to great effect. So now we're at the end of that sketchbook, and we'll start the real tour of the real room, which hasn't actually changed much since the last time I filmed a studio tour. This side of the room used to be where I ran my nonprofit out of, but I have cards on the counter in those boxes. The shelf up top is a lot of my most recent art books that I've been inspired by, and on the bottom shelf is all my sketchbooks. Yeah, I have a lot of them. And down below here, I've got all of my flat full sheets of watercolor paper and drawing papers. A couple of chairs because I have two dogs and they each need their own chair. Yeah, I don't get to sit in them much. I have a cabinet full of all of my business papers down below and my Bible journaling resources above. And these cabinets here, these drawers, I have two of them that will hold clear stamps in these clear envelopes. And that's it. I don't let myself go over having two of those and I have two drawers with DVD cases for my cling stamps, one from Art Impressions and the other drawers all purple onion. If I go over any of that, it goes in the prize box. I will not be overrun by product. So these are all my dyes. I have one drawer of dyes and then the other drawers in this section are just random things. In this bin up on top, I put all the stuff that I want to use at some point very soon. Because if I put it away in a drawer, I'll never use it. So I put it out there so I keep looking at it and thinking, I got to do something with that. And of course I have chachkies everywhere because yeah, when we are artists, we have all kinds of fun chachkies. There's a board here that I am going to demonstrate some brush testing with because I practice my brush strokes on that. And then I have flowers. I always keep fresh flowers in the studio because they just make my heart happy. So that is a good thing. And now we get closer to the magic on the bottom shelf is all my Bibles. I do have a lot of them because I've tested out a lot so I can show a lot of them on my Bible journaling channel. Up on top is my water based markers. I've got two different sets of Zig markers, a full set of Tombows. And then over around the corner is a set of Marvies. And then in the red bin is the 20 that bear my name, my 20 colors that are in my conversion chart. And then my Gemini that I use for dye cutting, little Kleenex box balanced on top precariously down here on the counter is my trimmer and that stays handy because I use it a lot behind that is all my tubes of paint above that is drawing supplies and a few just for the sake of history wood stamps really use them but through there I have a lot of card stock in plain basic colors. I don't have any pattern paper. I just use plain card stock on top of the other shelf is watercolor pads and drawing pads and that sort of thing. In the center is notebooks that have all of my swatch cards in them for different mediums. The blue cabinet has just a whole bunch of water bottles and blending tools and that kind of thing in them. Obviously gobs of pens. I have pens coming out my ears and my Copic markers that I store vertically in this container. Yes, I store them vertically do not ever try to tell me that is not possible because my markers work just fine and they're stored vertically. The sketchbooks on the left are the ones that I'm currently working through just different kinds of sketchbooks and there's a lesson all about that in the class. I have a bunch of stamps out in this bin right now because it's Christmas season and I'm working like mad on making a lot of Christmas cards. Vintage cups for my brushes. I really only use like six or eight of those but I have a ton. I do work vertically when I paint if possible so I have an easel and up above that I have a smiling dog picture to remind me to smile because sometimes we forget. We have to remind ourselves of things like that. Down below I've got my heat gun, my airbrush gun and my watercolor, my little watercolor palette there. Next we've got the quiet sharp bow stitch pencil sharpener and on the wall back here is my beautiful rainbow of hydrous watercolors which I have started to get back into. I hadn't used them for a long time and I want to start playing with them again and then my replica surface. These are kind of wipeable not washable but wipeable surfaces with different textures on them that I like to switch out once in a while and my water got so dirty I decided I had to go mid-video and change it so that I am no longer filming dirty water. There you go. That's my video setup. I've got two lights on either side and an Archon stand in the back that holds both my camera up on top and my iPad which I don't use the iPad for any of the filming. I just have it there to watch TV while I'm working and then I have a couple things holding my Archon down so that it doesn't tip over with the weight of the camera. On the floor lots of boards for painting my air compressor printers are down there. Long drawer here for lots of rulers and the like. You'll notice my drawers are horribly messy. I decided not to clean them and let you see the mess that things really are because you don't have to be all tidy in order to be creative and have a good room that works for you. Underneath is a bunch of different kinds of pads of paper. I have my drawers that are closest to me and this is the one on the left hand side is all tapes and adhesives and then we've got paints and a few things. I got a couple of punches. That's all I have for punches. I've got my ATG tape refills right there because I go through ATG tape a lot. My general everything drawer, my score pad, my ATG gun, masking tape, all kinds of sticky notes, pens and things. Watercolor stuff of all sorts, just a random smattering of everything is in there and then the drawer at the bottom is pencils, watercolor pencils and regular colored pencils and my 2to3 which I use like every day. Next up in the corner is a little lazy Susan that has lots of really nice cardstock. This is the stuff that I stamp on so I put that under there so it doesn't get any dust like sometimes the colored stuff does up above. Next is an ink drawer and it's kind of messy but I don't have many inks. This is it where I have for inks. Nothing is rainbow order notice. I just have a few inks in the drawer so there you go. I have a drawer with misties, rags, embellishments and these are from a couple of my classes where we put together books as we do the learnings. So I've got a couple of those in there and then this is my pastels drawer. I recently pulled them all together from different places around the house and went oh my gosh I have more pastels and charcoals than I know what to do with so I'm going to start playing with them. These last couple drawers are filled with things that I don't access every day and they're even more random than some of the other drawers that I have and the center one is filled with my marker refills and I refill probably every couple of weeks when I get a significant number of markers that need maintenance but the other drawer down here is totally completely random as well and I hope you've enjoyed getting to see inside my random messy drawers and my random messy studio. If you are not yet a subscriber I invite you to click that button and see three to four to sometimes five videos in a week. Sometimes they will include dogs because Gialo in Vienna love to be on camera. I also hope to see you in the My Virtual Studio free class. There's a link in the doobly-doo to go see that and I will see you again very soon with another creative video. Thank you much. Bye bye.


Welcome everyone we are so excited that you are joining us for computer science education week today we are talking about how do you build an app this is for all of our friends in preschool and kindergarten first grade and second grade and what we are going to do today is I'm gonna tell you a little bit about myself I'm Angela and I lead the community here at CESA I was a kindergarten teacher for 15 years and I have two kids that are now in fourth grade and seventh grade and normally I work in Minnesota but today I'm in California because I wanted to be at CESA headquarters we are gonna get to meet Adrian he's one of the co-founders of CESA that means he had the idea for making CESA you are going to hear the steps about building an app and we are going to answer your questions but before we meet Adrian there are gonna be two fancy words that you might hear today during this presentation the first one is code and the second one is test and if you hear those fancy words you don't have to say I heard it I heard it just have kind of a silent signal or maybe if you hear that word you put your hands on your knees and then we'll know that you heard it and I will be thinking about what some of those words mean so let's get going and meet Adrian hi Adrian hi everyone as Angela said I'm one of the co-founders of CESA and I grew up in Texas I studied art and computer science in school and now I live in California I'm so excited to be here with you today now I realize you might not all know where California is maybe you have a map like this up in your classroom somewhere where that big red arrow is is where San Francisco is which is where we are right now this is probably one of the things you might recognize if you've ever been to San Francisco or seen it in a movie but we work in downtown in a tall office building and we're on floor 7 and that's where everyone who works at CESA in San Francisco is this is what our office looks like inside this is where we all gather together and eat lunch and this is what my desk looks like and as you can see I have a computer on my desk and computers are really everywhere of course people use computers when they work but traffic lights have computers and the microwaves have computers and the airplanes have computers video games are really just computers inside and lots of different kinds of jobs use computers which is one of the reasons I'm so excited to talk with you about it today so artists doctors teachers all use computers and astronauts runners and writers need to use computers too so when we think about a computer there are certain things that can be very hard to do with a computer and when we build an app we try to take some problem that someone has and make it much easier for a real person to use so let's talk about the steps to build an app today the first step is always to take a moment and think about why you want to build your app is it to help people is it to solve a problem are you just wanting to have fun like maybe you want to make a game once you figured out what you want to do either what problem you want or if you want to just do something fun start writing down some ideas make a plan talk to people and get a sense of how your app might work and what it might do this was our plan for a very early early version of seesaw we even called it p2 it wasn't even called seesaw yet and it was very very early you can see that all you could do was add a photo or upload a photo but it was a very simple place to start once you have an idea then of what you want to do you have your plan together you have to tell the computer what to do and just like people can read books and you read the words on the page computers can also read they can't read books but they can read code and this is an example of some code this is actual code that we run at seesaw and these are the instructions that tell the computer what to do the great thing about telling the computer what to do is it will do exactly what you tell it to so you get to be the boss of the computer you get to tell it what to do computers are really good at some things and not as good at others let's talk about that a little bit so computers are really fast at math like adding and subtracting and dividing and multiplying they're also really good at finding words but there are a lot of things that you are better at the computers are let's see what those are so one is being creative computers don't know what to do they don't know how to solve a problem so you get to be the creative person who comes up with that they also don't understand what people want they aren't people themselves so they have no idea what a person actually wants so that's the first step to building an app we think about what problem we're trying to solve we make a plan we tell the computer what to do but this is just the first part right because anytime you start by telling the computer what to do remember you get to be the boss of the computer the problem is sometimes the computer does exactly what you tell it to do and it turns out it's not what you actually want what you want is for it to do something else so you have to test it and figure out what works and what doesn't and then improve it so this was a very early version of seesaw and we forced everyone to type in a code in order to join and this was too much work we tested it and we found this did not work very well so you're trying it out we're trying it out and we came up with a different idea after testing it to use a qr code that people could scan you might have some of these in your classroom and you can scan it and then you can get into your class really quickly and that worked a lot better that's an example of a way we improved seesaw after testing it after you've done this a few times and you feel like it's working pretty well the next step is to share it with everyone so that other people can get to use it this was what seesaw looked like when we first built it you can see it's a little bit more advanced than earlier but it's still not anywhere near what we can do with it today and we keep changing it right we keep changing it that was from 2015 exactly lots of has happened so that was really really a fast explanation of how you create an app and what we want to do now is we want to take some time to answer your questions and in a moment i'm going to talk to my colleague emily who has been watching all your questions coming in to to see where we should start so emily do you do we want to start with some shoutouts first and then we'll go into questions yes we have people watching from all over the united states we have some friends visiting us from washington we have miss browns first grade class from jefferson elementary school second grade class in middle town mrs gibbs class and i'm also for anyone that we couldn't shout out sending you a special message because we're so excited that you're all here but as far as questions go we have the question how do you make an app yeah great question so in order to make an app uh you have to write some code which is remember how a computer knows what to do and we have some resources that are linked to this that are simple coding exercises that you can do with your class so if you think you might want to make an app you can try those out and get a sense of what it's like there's a question coming in from miss hudselman's class why was it called uh p2 at first when you started building it well before we knew what we were going to call or even really if it was going to work or not we just needed to call it something so we just made up a name and the name didn't mean anything it was just p2 um probably there was a p1 i don't even remember but it was just something we could call it while we were working on it before we knew it would ever be called seesaw all right what other questions emily do we have we have the question what gave you the idea for seesaw and how did you decide on the name ooh great question so the idea for seesaw really came from from talking with teachers and hearing about some of the problems they ran into in the classroom and this is a great way anytime you're thinking about building an app to get an idea you don't always have to have the idea yourself you can talk to other people and hear about problems they're having and then try to come up with a creative solution to those problems the name for seesaw was really came out of a brainstorming um experience we had where we all talked about different things we remembered from school and we really like the idea of taking something that we remembered from school like a seesaw on the playground um that was playful um but at the same time it related to the way seesaw's a very visual um tool so you can see it and we like the fact that that also came up so it was a combination of those two and lauren wants to know from his Chapman's class was it hard to make an app well it's it's never hard to start um it's very easy to get started so i would encourage anyone who wants to try it to to get started but anytime you're solving a problem for another person it's hard because you have to understand what is their problem and then you try something out and you see if you really solved it or not and usually you have to do that many times to truly solve their problem so that process is often very hard and takes a long time and mason from miss williams class wants to know do video game designers follow these same steps video games or anything that you program a computer to do will be very similar you always have to think about what you want to do first and make a plan and then tell the computer what to do and test it so those things will be very much something you would encounter making a video game too i'm going to do a couple more shoutouts while emily's getting ready with her next question so we have miss rubin's class we have mr luke's class miss uh fawcete's class we have miss soulheim's class with us so many classes miss bird's class mr bird's class um all over so what should we answer next emily we had a great question come in from a kindergarten class and they were wondering if kids were allowed to make apps or maybe some ideas to get them started yeah absolutely you are allowed to you you can tell a computer to do whatever you want to do in fact it's very hard to truly break a computer so try some things out and see if you can get it to work don't be afraid um and you know an easy way to start is just make something that you want you know you can if you have an idea for a game or you have an idea of an app that you'd like then draw some sketches for it and you can just make whatever you would like i like the idea too they can just start building with stuff they have you can totally build with with stuff you have or if you have a favorite uh if you have a favorite toy or movie or anything and you want to make an app about that like you can you can make an app about anything you want so just start start being creative and see where it takes you so laura and miss kim's class wants to know how old were you when you started making apps adrian well let's see i first started learning about computers when i was in elementary school and i got my first computer at home when i was in fifth grade so you all are way ahead of me already because you all have computers that you have access to and then i just from then on in middle school and high school i learned more and more and then i studied it in college so i've been doing it for a long time but i do it because i love it and it's really fun to build things i had a class actually ask what's your favorite part of working at seesaw ooh it's a great question um i love the fact that every day we get to build something that's used by real teachers and students and we get to hear from all of you about what's working and what's not we get to test it and improve it just like we talked about earlier and then i love all the people that i get to work with at seesaw every day because the problems we're trying to solve we can't be solved by just one person it's really about the team working together and i love that which goes with this question that at least wants to know who helped you make your app it's a great question um when you're very early on you can make an app by yourself but you'd find pretty soon after that you need a group of people to really work with you so we'll work with engineers who are experts at writing code and designers who think about what the app looks like and how it works and people who are testing and then once you actually put the app out into the world then you need lots of people like Angela to help people learn how to use it and help give us feedback about what works and what doesn't so lots of different people go into making a successful app and students and students we hear a lot from from teachers when they're working with their students to say well this didn't work so well so we need to kind of make it better so we're always listening to your ideas too um emily what we have so many classes here so shout outs um boy it's a long list we have miss chapman's class miss bouchard's class miss harding's class what question should we answer here we only have about maybe one more minute but we had so many good questions it's really hard to pick but one student actually noticed the draft button and they were wondering how do we decide what new things to add to seesaw that's a great question and we want to be careful about what we add we don't want to just add lots of things and make the app way too complicated but when we hear about a real problem that someone's having like in this case we heard from teachers that sometimes students do work but there's something that needs to get fixed in it and rather than having to delete it it would be great to be able to send it back to the student to make changes and so that's where the idea for the draft button came from but we try to be thoughtful about making sure that anything we add is solving a real problem for someone that it's not just a cool feature to add but it really relates back to a problem that someone's experiencing with seesaw and maybe you ran out of time and you want to work on your your creation a little bit more so that's also helpful with that too i think one more question adrian is how many times do you think you failed while making seesaw like you've made lots of mistakes i imagine there are lots and lots of things that i thought were great ideas and then we tried them and it turned out it was not such a good idea it didn't actually work so one of the things that i've learned is to be very humble and to realize that anytime there's an idea it's worth trying so you see sometimes you're surprised something works that you think wouldn't work and other times something that you're sure was gonna work doesn't end up working but that's part of the process and that's what's important that you're always learning and not that you're always right right i think that's a great one and all the things that you're learning in your classroom today really build on the skills that you need to create and solve problems so keep working hard there and you might want to try creating too we have on our website um maybe you want to make a new class icon you could try to design that and we really want to thank you for tuning in today and spending some of your class time with us and we are excited for you to learn and share what you are doing this week for computer science education week and we couldn't get to everyone's questions today but we hope that we answered some of them and always feel free to reach out to us on twitter at cisa if you have more questions so thanks everyone for coming today thank you bye


But I want to get this tattoo on my body, which is you don't have to be the strongest person You just have to be the strongest you because I never asked for HIV I didn't want to get HIV like no one does who the hell wants to get a chronic disease You know, it's kind of opened my eyes to things that I would never have I would have never thought about before like I always said yeah I want to go back to South when I left Southeast Asia because I was I went to Southeast Asia for a month and a When I left I said I want to go back, but had it not been for HIV and dealing with I'm having to deal with I would have never thought about even going back to live for a few years and teach English as a second language Those kind of things it's it's opened my eyes to Actually getting involved and like taking care of my health even better like doing CrossFit. It's my word for 2019 is Fearlessness because it's kind of like alright I dealt with something and it's like opened my eyes to this just I want to live my best life Yep, I've been saying that too and I think that's the like the subtle blessing of Getting HIV is even though we don't want it and for me that was the biggest fear in life But if you if you take the right attitude and the right approach to it It can present the opportunity to evaluate your entire life physically health fitness Emotionally mentally your goals your dreams everything and kind of give you the opportunity to reevaluate and find out what truly matters because When you feel like your life is in jeopardy even though it's not really today It still gives you that initial shock and it kind of like snaps you out of just the humdrum You know motions of life. I think that's a powerful kind of gift It comes out of it. It's interesting you say that so That was kind of a theme Among the support group when you go down to your for your initial visit and then when you go through your Six-month follow-up and then your annual visits. So each annual visit You might be in there with people who have been in the military for 15 years You have been living with HIV for like seven of those years and they're just there on their annual visit But you might be like me where you're you know, no kidding first week second week of January Whatever it was it was my initial visit and what's great about it is in the first day You have a support group and it's led by a licensed psychiatrist But it gives you the chance to like talk to people that was no kidding one of the like same thought process went to everyone which was Crap man, like I didn't want this disease. The one thing that's taught me is let me live my life to the fullest Let me be the best person I can be and I think that's a testament to people who serve because you're already in that mindset of fighting for what you believe in and being proud of of what you're doing and So that's really cool.  I got back in my car I turned on my car music that was on my phone like Automatically, so I plan to the Bluetooth and I just like sat there for a moment And then all these emotions ran through and I was I cried hard for like five minutes But but really and truly what it is is because it's it's exactly what you just said I don't want to lose a career that I love Because like when I when I raised my right hand on 26th June of 2014 and said that I would support and defend the Constitution of the United States and then I did the same thing again on May 23rd of 2018 I truly meant what I was saying like yeah, I'm gonna serve my I'm gonna serve my country like I'm gonna do what my country asks of me if that means I have to go deploy I'll do it, you know, like When you start when you sign up to serve in the military You also were signing up to if they ask you to put your life on the line You'll do it and there's a lot of things that you have to come to terms with When you're thinking through joining the military when you're thinking through all these things because you have to think There's questions that pop and like am I okay with dying for the United States of America? And when you say yes to that question, you're like, okay, let me do my job And so then to have someone, you know, and she like with that being said like I love my job And that's kind of the that's kind of the theme that you have is when these kind of things happen It's like I signed up. I love my country. I love the military I love my brothers and sisters that are serving with me and you're telling me that like this medically okay disease Matters so much that we're gonna kick you out, you know And that's what really hits people the most is man like the military is it's a good crew it's a good job like It's not for everyone but for those that want to serve and like it's a good job and like I love my country And we all want to serve we all sign up for a reason So like let us do it like let us do what we want to do, you know Well, I commend you. Thank you for your service I commend you for having the fight and wanting to really not just fight because you're angry or you're resentful or Because that comes across in a certain way, but you honestly want to help Make change and make things easier for not only you but everyone who's gonna follow in your footsteps eventually because more More people are gonna be in your exact same shoes And if you don't do it then someone else has got to deal with it I mean, you know if I told you this you're not but you know because we're still fighting this thing man I guy just a few days ago The reason I kind of was down in the dumps is because another guy got his letter of this notice of discharge from the secretary of The Air Force and it's like man. What are we doing? And you know and it's like a double whammy too Because to to to get that diagnosis That's very very upsetting for a lot of people and then on top of that To have this whole system and structure and these people in place that are your life in your world To say you can't be with us anymore. It's like I can't imagine that because you know, I've had this thought before like man If I was like you, you know and like I just worked You know I was a bartender and like whatever else or if I was like a friend of mine who like has hiv He works for chase bank, you know when it happened. No one gave it a second thought. He just got diagnosed He has health care through his company Through chase. He's got health care. No one said anything about it. Like he just kept on living his life It's very weird because the military is one of those think places where you see a lot of social change, but you also see a lot of resentment And resistance to change too, right because like look back to the look back to like the um Brown versus board of board of education, right when segregation happened The military was several years ahead of like reintegrating units Before the rest of the country did the military moved ahead was ahead of its time in allowing women to serve And allowing women to go to the service academies and we were ahead of our time when it came Yes, there were people that had a trail like trailblaze Hope change mindsets, but at least at at least at a policy level. We were moving ahead of the social kind of norms 2011 the repeal of the repeal don't ask don't tell happened Which means service members were able to live as gala as being bisexual openly Proudly and I think I told you this before but you know when that happened if you were stationed in a state like Mississippi Where they did not allow gay marriage then you were allowed non-chargeable leave From your commander for several days so that you and your significant other could then travel to a state in which You could get married to make it legal pretty incredible This is in 2011 the obergefell versus the us didn't happen until june 26th of 2015 Like this this was four years before you know So you see that there's progress and there's social movement, but then you see a lot of issues where it's like Maybe not because now I feel like in a lot of aspects for example The ruling for the supreme court on transgender service came down for the ban on on military service You know, so it's I guess what I'm trying to say is I'm almost feel like we've gotten to a point where society in the military has kind of just Finally meshed and now the military is moving at the same rate as the rest of society. We're no longer this social justice trailblazing Institution hiv still is a huge stigma surrounding its it's as a disease and really and truly it's not a it's not a thing anymore I had a wake up call the other day though Well, I was talking to a friend of mine because we were talking about the c5 airplane The c5 airplane is the largest cargo airplane in the u.s. Air force inventory There's a joke that says If you're at a c5 or if you're the base that has c5s and c17s The c17s are always gone because they're always on the mission somewhere flying But all the c5s are there Because the c5 joke is oh, where's the c5? It's broke half the time. Well, that's not the case anymore They did a lot of revamping like they now have like the Rolls Royce engines on them and that kind of stuff But the joke is in this the joke in the stereotype of the c5 world is they're never flying They're always broken and even though they've been updated and and they're great airplanes now That stereotype of them breaking you still get nervous when you watch a c5 Do the corkscrew? Combat landing you're like, oh, I hope that that wing doesn't fall off They don't crash But then I kind of it was a wake up call for me because I was like man That's what people think about hiv because when they hear hiv they think 1980s early 1990s people in the hospital Wasting away and it also affects multiple regions of the country You and I are fortunate that we live, you know, you live in the la metropolitan area I live in the san francisco bay area like we have a ton of resources But you know, like there's a lot of people who have hiv that are fortunate like us to live in places like San Francisco la san diego new york city, um, chicago, washington dc But what about these people that are living in birmingham, alabama or, you know, val dosta, georgia We'll think of any think of a new rural town or not so progressive town Especially in the deep south or parts of the country where very Clothes-minded conservative. I don't want to think about anything But what I grew up on beliefs run wild in those areas. There are no resources I don't know if you've seen this There's a map, but we looked at the map when I was down at the at the brook army medical military the brook army medical center Was the doctor that was down there. We had a discussion about disease update where we are on research Where we are on possible cure in the future You know where we're at with new medications coming online like big tarvi all these kind of things But we also looked at the map which is from blue shades of blue all the way down to dark dark red Blue is like tons of resources tons of like Improvements tons of cases being diagnosed. It's a good thing because people are seeking treatment The dark red areas are the areas where the AIDS epidemic is running rampant because People aren't getting tested people don't have access to resources And if they do have access to resources and being tested there are two things that may Prevent them from having treatment One is stigma telling one so they just don't get treated or they don't get tested And then number two if they do get tested they are found HIV positive There's a lot of areas that doctors like if you're in a small like town Save I don't know. Let's let me pick a town. There's a place called macomb mississippi macomb is pretty small, right? Probably less than 10 000 people live in that town If you were to go and get tested for HIV and you come back positive those doctors may not even have a know-how Or a connection to anyone to get you resources to get you help and then of course it's the south I'm from the south or a small area where you're living in a town where oh my god, you got HIV And then now your name's out there You're the talk of the town and so that there's and there's just and there's yet again more issues We've got because what I'm trying to get at is like we can only do so much, right? We're trying to give awareness But it's that idea that you and I are people that people should get exposed to Right the we are happy and we're healthy and we're living a good life But the problem is you and I are the kind of people that are few and far between Because a lot of people just don't want to be outspoken a lot of people just want to keep it to themselves There are few friends know about it and and that's that's perfectly that is perfectly fine Like if you want to live that way that is fine as long as you're happy with how you're living That's great, but the problem is you know, you and I can only go so far because you and I can't be everywhere You know everywhere all the time there are outspoken individuals You know But the amount of outspoken individuals is way outweigh But a number of areas we should we need to be in we need to go talk to It's the community building that I think is So crucial and things like your idea for the nonprofit is gonna help create those things where even if you can't physically be around Us you can at least have an online community Have like-minded goals work towards the same like marathons and stuff like that So just the feeling of community can be a huge benefit to someone who Is that would otherwise be struggling with stigma and people around them judging all the time and I feel for people I feel for the members of the lgbt can be because the thing is it's not just it's not just the fact that Okay crap now i've got hib it's it's before that You know you're you're dealing with the fact that you're living as an open Member of the lgbt community in an area where even that's not okay.   He says the same thing people still question him like oh, are you really straight?    I've never even like Thought about it because like i'm straight He's like no my wife gave it to me and they and they were like, well, why didn't she show up earlier that she had hiv? And they're like because it's something we didn't even think about man Like you know and it's in and so for me mine was kind of a An interesting tricky situation and that's another thing I kind of have an issue with I will say When it goes back to the military was I went in on september the fourth To the emergency room. I remember going to sleep on monday on the thing was a second Or the third whatever it was, but it was labor day monday. I remember I had Going my mom was in town because I was taking her around the bay area Just kind of shown her the city because she never been to san francisco.  And she had had gotten sick with that and then she came to visit me It just is all so like so coincidental Because I remember I like left Dropped her off at the ascent. It was a airport. She like left I went to took a soul cycle class with a buddy of mine and I drove back home And I remember feeling more tired than normal And then I started getting sick And I woke up with like 104 fever on tuesday Didn't go to work. I went immediately to the ER I had a secondary infection as well and it was just like all of these issues and they like Treated me as if I had that virus and then I went in a second the second day I went in because I still just didn't feel better And then I was like man this sucks and then I went on friday again because I just couldn't get better They gave like they gave me an IV they like did all these things But you know it lasted about 10 days. Well, I had Had it not been for those other symptoms the fact that I was around my You know around a few people who had been sick They probably would have properly treated me for the seroconversion illness But like that was when I got that was I know for a fact that week was when my body was At that point of all right, man, you've been infected for about two weeks. Now your body's ramping up Trying to fight take control of the virus Then I felt better and the sad part was had it not been for me going back in for a routine Three month checkup. I would have never been diagnosed until like my My mandatory two-year like checkup which sucks because like because here I here I am in like a monogamous relationship I had already been tested for like tested negative like I think I'm all I'm all good right and then So I like went in for like one more three month follow-up Not even scheduled by me but scheduled by the by the public health guys Like had it not been for that like I would have had no reason to get tested because like I'm only in a relationship with one person like you any more questions, uh Not for now, but are you are you willing as uh, you get updated and as your case progresses to come back Update and kind of like track your your journey as it has as it happens Yeah, and that's perfectly fine. And um if you have people who ask, you know You have more questions or they can find me on facebook. They can you know find me on instagram or I will say though It's it's one of those things that just kind of I take I take one pill and I just kind of forget about it I don't really think about that. It's just kind of like becomes second nature I don't think I don't really think about it and even when I'm like working on these ideas and like putting together timelines and You know working on a website and working on these different things working with people I just forget that I have HIV I know that sounds crazy. It doesn't to me I don't think about it That's my my biggest goal is influence making sure people have a network of hey, can I do these things? Okay, is my heart gonna explode if I run a marathon or he's gonna be needed You know need to be replaced on at age 50, you know where am I gonna run a 50 mile trail run? And wake up tomorrow and like progress to AIDS because it's immunosuppressant like those kind of things. So like actual relevant information to what they want to What they want to accomplish But then also to like getting to a point where people just are so involved in their life And so involved in like living adventures traveling the world like smashing goals crushing an iron man crushing a marathon Whatever They just forget exactly Yeah, again, thank you so much. Thank you for your service. I commend you a million times over again And we'll be in contact and I'm so excited to share this with everyone


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Okay, so one of the characteristics of life is responsiveness. Responsiveness means that you can detect changes in the environment, whether those are internal or external changes, and then respond to them appropriately so that you can maintain homeostasis. There is a simple dance that you can do to remember all of the parts that are involved in responsiveness. And then once you know this dance, every system of your body is involved with responsiveness, which means once you learn it, you will see the same dance over and over again from now until the end of your anatomy career. Okay, so the start of the dance is going to be with the activation of your receptors. The receptors are going to grab a particular stimulus and then turn that stimulus into an action potential which travels up your afferent pathway. That afferent pathway goes into your control center where it's dropped off and turned into motor information. The motor information travels down your afferent pathway to your effectors. The effectors carry out your effect and send the message out. So now you've responded to something like a change in temperature and figured out how to maintain homeostasis. Now we're going to do it all together. You ready? Start off with the receptors. Receptors are activated. They grab the stimulus, send the information of the afferent pathway to your control center where they drop it off. There you turn the sensory information into motor information, which goes out your efferent pathway to your effectors, which send it away.


Day three, PDAC 2023 and today I have Peter Moore from Sierra Nevada. How are you? Very good Tracy, going well. I was introduced to you through an esteemed colleague, Martin Walter, and he tells me that you've got five projects that we need to know about, so tell me about them. The snapshot is we've got five projects in Nevada, we're a US company listed on the ASX in Australia, May last year and we're drilling up a porphyry and four high grade gold projects. So let me understand this correct. We have a US company that's listed in the ASX. Okay, why have we done that Peter? Because we were here, I've been here since 2010 with the companies here in Nevada Gold and we've been putting the projects together. We invested 15 million dollars in developing the projects and putting the land positions together and all that and then we listed it but we had all the assets in the US company so we listed the US company on the ASX which is where all our major investors are as in Australia. We did it through COVID which was easy to do, not part of the world. Seeing we're all trapped there. So for everybody an investor in Tellan, the ASX is actually heating up and we've got a lot of Australian investors of course looking at assets in the United States and Canada. So what should we be expecting this year Peter? What plans do you have? Well last year we drilled four of the five projects and we are continuing that program running to winter so we've got half the program done so that drilling is going to continue this year. So we should get some pretty good news flow. We've had some really good results so far on two of the projects. Good intercepts, lots of really good ideas to follow up on and one in particular, our warrior project has a pretty good sized mineral system we've identified so we're ready to keep drilling. Alright, well now I have to ask you because a few people whispered to me and said that is a big former AFL star from Australia. Yeah, okay so can I ask how a person with your background got involved in gold in Nevada? Well my dad's a professor of geology here in the U.K., in the U.S. which is University of Kentucky and he's now retired of course. But yeah I finished my football career with a law degree and studied a bit of business and arts degree and decided to abandon the law and get into the mining business so we had a remote sensing company that had a low-energy high resolution remote sensing technique that my father developed and we consulted with that for about 25 years. In recent years I've done ventures like Sierra Nevada Gold putting projects together in companies. I've been in it for about 30 years overall. That's Peter Moore from Sierra, Nevada Gold. Thank you so much for dropping by and... Great Tracey, good to chat with you and I hope the conference goes well for you from now on.


You're wondering, this is Think Tech Hawaii, I'm Jay Fiedel and we're talking about Coronaville. Coronaville, what's next? And the title of our discussion this morning is, where does COVID fit in the impeachment we've all been watching? Does it play a role in possible conviction? With our guest, Tim Epicella, Cynthia Lee Sinclair, Stephanie Dalton, Winston Welch. Welcome to the show, you guys. Regular contributors. Good morning. Good morning. Aloha. Okay. If you've been watching the impeachment proceedings, raise your right hand. What? Okay. You know, yesterday and today have been very interesting. But what the discussion is today is actually merging to me than before. And that is the Democrats portrayal of Trump's failure of remorse and his galvanization of the proud boy and other ultra right wing elements of his movement. This is actually scarier to me. We've already seen, you know, pretty much what went on the Capitol on January 6th, although we learned a lot of new stuff yesterday, but we hadn't heard about the FBI's, you know, investigation and examination of what was going on with the galvanization of the proud boy movement. So my first question, Tim, is this is pretty scary stuff. I don't know if it's as scary for you as it is for me, but they said they'll be back. They said they'll be more violence. They're just waiting for his instructions. So my question to you is, will the country survive? Will this depend on, what will this depend on? And how much will it depend on the verdict in these proceedings? Got any thoughts on that? The country will survive. I agree. It's scary. And I think what scares me the most is the reaction of Republican senators faced with these undeniable evidence, undeniable role that Donald Trump played in this whole business, and they're not willing to entertain the seriousness of conviction of impeachment. That's what scares me because if they're willing to look over this one, what else are they going to this look past? And so the country will survive. We'll get through this. I think it's going to polarize neighbor against neighbor for a while. I know I feel polarized, or if I have any family or friends that are pulling for Donald Trump on this trial, I don't want to talk to them. I really don't. And it's sad because these are people I love. But it says something about, in my opinion, their moral character and their dedication to this country and the constitution and the rule of law and the democracy of this country. So I take it to heart and it bothers me. And maybe I'll go back to losing sleep again. But to answer your question, yeah, the country's going to pull together and Joe Biden will get some of these policies implemented and passed and the country will improve and will get better. Okay. Well, that's optimistic. Cynthia, let me throw one other element in the pot. Which a friend of mine brought up in a conversation this morning. You know, if you hit two sides of the divisiveness against each other, that is the ultra-right and the regular people, the liberals if you want, but I think they're the regular people. And one side has guns and the other side doesn't have guns. One side has sworn to use the guns against iconic figures in our government and the other side won't use guns. They don't have guns. They're not about to get into violence. Does that change what Tim was saying? Will the country survive? Well, I have hope that the country will survive. But I don't have certainty that it will. I don't feel like it's a done deal. We will for sure make it because there's so many people that I hear like the report, the memo that we got from somebody that said all of the things that they're saying, you know, the Republicans are saying all this far right stuff, all of the people that I know that are far right that are still down in the south where I used to be. They still think this was stolen. They still think that Biden is an illegitimate president. And as long as that mentality continues, even with normal people, not just the far left crazy people, but the normal Republicans that still believe this stuff, how do we reach out to them and help them to see the truth of that? I don't know. But I know that we have to keep trying, right, because that is where our hope lies. Our hope lies in all of the rest of the normal people, as you call them, reaching out to those people that are still lost in a sea of misinformation. It's not an easy job, but I think we have to try. I don't know what you mean by try or what we can do. You know what we can do? We can have this program. That's what we can do. Well, so, you know, Winston, I sent around an article that really impressed me, and it was by a woman named Jean Steinberg. I think it's Steinberg. And I sent it around last night. I don't know if you got a chance to see it, but it tracks on Ann Appelbaum, who wrote for The Atlantic three or four months ago, and who compared the history of Eastern Europe with what is happening now. Steinberg compared the history of Germany, mostly, with what is happening now. And it is a very chilling discussion. And what it says along the lines I was mentioning before is if one side has guns and the other one doesn't, it's not a fair fight. And if one side has been galvanized, as the testimony came out this morning, by Trump's efforts to bring them together, to knit them together into a fighting force, an army, a movement, that really puts us behind the eight ball. And in that article, there's a list of five steps along the way to get to a dictatorship. And the second step is using violence to take over government institutions. So we're on the track that she describes. What do you think about that? Where are we in terms of survival of the country? Well, as you might have gleaned, I'm typically optimistic about things and see the glass half full when I wake up. And if I wake up on the wrong side of the bed, I get up on the other side of the bed when I can. These are extraordinary times if we haven't been sobered by what's happened by the riveting testimony and prosecution in the Senate today, yesterday and the day before. And I urge all people to go to C-SPAN or whatever. And they are watching it. There's so many hits on C-SPAN. It's heartening to hear that. Now, Winston, somebody told me today, unbelievable, that Fox News is not carrying. I was just going to say that. Is that incredible? Those people that follow Fox News have no idea what we are learning. That's right. And that was I was getting to that is that we're half the nation is watching this. The people that are tuning in are folks that although we welcome a variety of viewpoints on think tech and have all manner of politics on these shows. This one specifically, we may have certain thoughts about and we welcome our viewers that are watching to help us understand why did you believe this man and why don't you see what we see? There's got to be something after this. And this is where I'm interested in sort of moving beyond is how do we get people to even understand the same basic facts? And we are not dealing in a nation that is having the same basic facts. You look at people, independents, whatever they are, are tend to look like Democrats when they say who is president of the United States? Who's the legitimate elected president of the United States? Republicans and we'll say that the ones that have limited news sources, let's just say, have been co-opted by those new sources so that they have an entirely different worldview. How do we get to a point where we are all watching Walter Conkite again, who by the way is a little bit before my time, but you get the idea of it? That that or Mr. Brinkley or who is the other one? In any event, we have to learn how to communicate with each other to understand beyond the rhetoric what's going on. And I think the Senate has laid out a pretty convincing argument here. I haven't heard that on the other side from what's going on, what the defense will present. And their argument obviously won't resonate with us. But it'll be interesting to see how the spin is there. Our nation has seen really difficult times. Right now, we're in a difficult existential moment, I would say. We're not having blood spilled on the streets, but you're right. We're on a march to a strong man or a lack of democracy. And we saw this almost happen just a month ago here. So while being generally optimistic, I think we all need to go back to the history books, read those things. How does fascism happen? What steps can we take to prevent it? And how do we learn to communicate with people? Especially, I mean, starting with those we love. But how do we learn at the very top to reach the Murdochs and say, you won't have a nation to broadcast in to make the money from selling soap if you continue down this path? And so- I hope he thinks of that. But meanwhile, he's cleaning up. Yes. So Stephanie, one of the interesting parts of what happened on January 6th is why it stopped. And apparently it stopped because they couldn't find Nancy. They couldn't find Pence. They couldn't find Schumer. I think they've injured, killed or kidnapped them if they could find them. Luckily, they didn't. And they couldn't find the ballots. And when this was known to Trump, who I believe, I believe that Trump was in touch moment by moment, real time with the leaders who were leading the crowd, the mad crowd, tried to find these things. When he learned that they could not be found and they'd been spirited away, then he called it off. He said, go home. And that's why they went home. If the search had continued, the search had been successful for those things, I suggest to you they would not have gone home. And I suggest the next time they do this and they have said they would, they won't go home. What are your thoughts? And what does it depend on? Will the movement be reactivated after these impeachment proceedings? And assuming for a moment that you can't get 17 public senators to vote for impeachment, will that accelerate the movement? Or if the movement does impeach Trump, will that accelerate the movement? What is acceleration of the movement depend on? You are, that's a chilling question, Jay. You know, I personally thank you for that. I was fighting meltdown this morning while I was watching Fox News show the impeachment trial. And my meltdown was, as already been mentioned, is I have adult family here that I love dearly, but they're on, that's that problem of they're on the other side. And I'm starting to get viscerally involved in that. And that's my meltdown thing, is that, how to handle that, as well as just in general, the deplorable way that Fox presented, the Fox newscasters, Barbie and Ken, you know, were kind of neutral. But then they brought on the second defender of Trump is whatever his name is. I'm sorry, they're two of them. He's the second one that didn't make the... Okay, but anyway, he came on and he went through their litany of what they're going to present next. And they just can't wait till they have their time because they didn't really have their time on the opening because they were really trying to do something else there. And that that was not well enough prepared, they were limited in time. All these excuses. And then of course, what's coming on that they're going to do is to help everybody understand what's going on here, that there is a glorification of violence. And there's a disunifying theme here that's going to just put Americans one against the other. It's all decontextualized about Trump. Everything is taken out of context. And everything he said is negatively interpreted. And it's unfair to focus on these misrepresentations of his mentioning of peace and his mentioning of fighting hard, which any patriot is going to be proud of. So I miss about ready to have my mouth melt down there now you bring this up because I realized they have no, they're not open to what was so beautifully presented this morning in the, in the statements which had to do with a comprehensive review in a holistic way, what Trump had done over time to get these people to be where they were. You heard all the way back to the Michigan's and the taking of the governor and what you're evoking, what you're evoking Jay is this is a bloodlust. They have said things about blood running out of the Capitol, they did read emails about that. And it's a bloodlust so they would have maybe they would have done that. I don't know but if they haven't done it, can they be held back to not do it. I don't know that's the question here but but Tim let me move closer to the core point of our discussion, which is about COVID. We learned yesterday and today that a Trump was setting this up for a long time. It wasn't just that day it was months, and it was part of his plan to stay in power. And then you realize that he is he filed for reelection at the time he was inaugurated in January 2017. He's been running for office the whole time. He really, really, really wanted to stay in power. Okay, and now we have COVID and COVID rears its head in late January really February. He has taken certain steps steps to deny it to call it the flu steps steps to change the numbers steps to make the people feel the public feel that it's not as serious as it was. He has lied to us on many, many occasions. He has caused other people to lie to us over the entire period of the COVID tragedy. And so we find that his efforts preceded January 16. And really what I want to get to is the connection between this interaction on January 16 and his moves on COVID, because I believe that there is a connection. And I believe also that COVID this is a separate issue. COVID is in the room. COVID is in that impeachment. This is a terrible, terrible president, but I think it goes further than that. I think he was taking steps on COVID to enhance his opportunities at reelection. And he was governing everything he did in COVID to make it better for his reelection. The only problem for him was that he ran out of luck. That it kept on getting worse despite his lies. And by what November, people understood there was a serious problem. So my question to you is what do you think about that? What's the connection between COVID, which we here have followed for the whole year? And the impeachment and the feeling about Trump in the Senate discussion, in the trial and in the public? Donald Trump would have been a second term president had it not been for COVID. There's no two ways about that. Donald Trump did everything he could back in early March. You and I did a show about this in early March, basically calling it a flu. And he wanted to make sure that the financial markets were not impacted. So that's why he denied it. That's why he wouldn't wear a mask. That's why he said, don't wear a mask. Basically, we had all his rallies and the things that we saw for for nine nine months up until the election. So Donald Trump had bad timing. I agree with you 100%. And the death toll kept rising and that didn't help his election chances. And then finally, the death toll got to the point where now it was affecting the Trump states, the red states, the families of voters for Trump is they started to die. And these people started to realize that, no, COVID is a real disease and it's killing people and it's killing his voters. And so it was bad timing and Donald Trump couldn't twist twist COVID in order to get him and gain him the election. So he had to do what he tried to do in the first election that is call it a fraud. And Donald Trump did exactly that. The second he knew that mail-in ballots were going to be used. He said it's rigged. It's going to be fraudulent. He did that months before the election. And he has followed through consistently. And I just want to raise one point because when Donald Trump said, you know, go home, he didn't just say go home. He said the following. These are events and things that happen when election victory is so unceremoniously and viciously stripped away from great patriots who have been badly and unfairly treated for so long. Go home, love and peace, remember this day forever. Well, we will remember this day forever, but this is classic example how Donald Trump thinks that the people who stormed the Capitol are patriots and they're not. And by the way, those who stormed the Capitol to tie it into COVID infected a lot of police and a lot of their fellow insurrectionists. And the case numbers have gone up skyrocketed since that insurrection of the Capitol. That's what I have in my mind. Yeah, before you get off on the notion of public health, I am beside myself about the suicide of two of the police there. It strikes me that must have been a horrible experience for them and their families. Can you imagine these are ordinary working guys, policemen, all of a sudden in their lives they're committing suicide. You can imagine how they felt to go to that level. Well, I hate to say it, but I'm sure they felt they failed in their task and their duty. Suicides never, you know, it's a long, you know, it's a short term solution to a long term problem but I'm sure they felt mortified that what happened happened on their watch. And by the way, the senators the GOP senators should feel the same way that this happened on their watch. And they should be cognizant of that and they should really pay attention to these proceedings and grow a conscience and do something about it. Well, some of that must inspire you to make some thoughts, Cynthia, what do you think does my biggest thing and I've been talking about this for weeks now is how bad it is that they hung those boys out to dry the way they did. They knew there was going to be violence. They knew full well there was going to be violence. There was a report on the 5th of January that actually went out with from the FBI. They were saying that there was going to be war on the Capitol. We won't give up. These were some of the things that they had intercepted on parlor and some of these other sites that there's going to be war. We won't give in.  Nothing else will do things like that and they, and they put it out there. So, the biggest one that hit me out of all of the presentations was when Swalwell, Representative Swalwell did his, and it was about the police, the Capitol police, and they begged you can hear them for the first time you hear them radio radio in to say, We need help. We're overrun. They were crying for help for two hours. Two hours. They cried for help. I want to raise one thing with you. You know, that is clear from today. Anyway, that there will be more about that these guys are there. They're conglomerated. They're consolidated around the country. They're not only attacking the Capitol again, but also attacking state institutions. And the level of confusion, the level of misinformation is astronomical. I mean, right now, Trump is blaming Biden for COVID. He's saying Biden is doing a bad job. And there'll be more. I mean, everything that Biden is doing, Trump will blame him for everything that goes wrong. And some of it, Trump will make it go wrong. Trump will blame him for it. And, and his friends in the Senate will will do the same. So my question is, how, how can we survive if this is going on? How can the Biden government do on COVID when you have Trump attacking him this way? How, you know, it's entirely possible that we'll have a new pandemic with the variants. And that, you know, will be in worst shape in a few months, for one reason or another. How does that feed into Trump's lies going forward? I just really quickly give you what the Times report is for today on the virus. This is this morning's report, right? It says it's been a long time since the virus news was as encouraging as it is right now. So for all this, Biden's doing bad. We have the overall situation is bad. The virus is spreading more rapidly in the US than any other large country. And more than 2,500 Americans are dying daily. But it is a market difference than last year. I mean, then last month. So let's assume that for a moment. Does that help Trump or hinder Trump? Trump could say, Well, Biden hasn't hasn't really terminated the pandemic. So he's at fault for not doing that. Or is it hinder Trump by saying, you know, look what a good job Biden is doing. How is this going to play in Trump's attempts to come again to power? I think it hinders him because there's a market decline in viruses. And part of the reason they're contributing to that is that they're saying that it's the vaccines. So he hasn't even been in there a month and we've already got a marked decline. So it's pretty hard to say Biden's doing a bad job. Can I just insert he's 61% favorable. They're all clapping about that. But I wanted to just say, and I know it's Winston's turn, but I also looked at Johnson and Johnson this morning thinking about their stock and what's going to happen. The CEO of J and J is saying that what the, the variation is coming and we have no, no way to stop it. So it's just really, really chilling again. And on the other hand, there's good news at it because that might be a unification for the US because if we can't combat this virus. We have, we are going to have a lot of community over what we're going to do if it's truly deadly for all of us. So that J and J CEO probably be, you'll probably hear from him later. Well, Winston, I want to give you plenty of material to make a comment about. God bless America. I, I back, you know, the art show is extensively Coronaville and and and all of that, but it's obviously just, just so hard parcel hit gum in the hair for, for the political, you know, challenges that we face here, but you know, Stephanie's, that's interesting news. I wonder what happened to their stock when he came out with that statement. Did it go up or down knowing that we've got a lot of problems in this nation. We're facing them with the same sober, reasonable adult in charge with great people in his cabinet that we can trust to do the right thing. We have to let them do their job. The, the, the huge majority of Americans know that he is the president that he is making the best decisions on their behalf. And we have to trust in that process and having just just looking at this PTSD of the trial of the last three days, and the chaos that we faced every single hour for the last four years. When we look at what everybody did today or you tomorrow or yesterday, he's running the country he's doing a competent job, no more than competent he's doing a stellar job, especially given what he's have to deal with so let's give it some time. Let's exercise personal and societal responsibility. Let's reach out to our friends and family and try and help them understand our thinking and the gentlest way that we can so that we can come together and we don't have to have mask wars or just a bit just distractionary stuff. We've got a lot of challenges but we're, we're more than up to the task of facing them together. Yes, Stephanie, what troubled me, what troubles me is that the, there's only one article of impeachment. And it's not about COVID. And to the extent that it's in the room and hasn't really been discussed. Well, I think Jim is right on. I think that had there been no insurrection, whether Trump could have been impeached simply on the basis of his lies around COVID. No, I agree with Tim, I think COVID's been a gift without COVID. He would have had so much charge of the economy and other at other of his, what he thinks are accomplishments, it would have been hard to beat him. And now we did beat him and my energies are about how do we get the Republican people to be public servants and not self interested and politically motivated. They've been mentioning this through the presentations in the Senate that they're there to be public servants and to represent the people. And so how can we encourage people to connect with their representatives and their senators to get them to do what's obviously the right thing. I can't believe the people of every day book. Tim, I want to shift gears a little bit for, you know, final comments here. And that is this, you know, watching this is, is so compelling. Something on the evidentiary side of what happened, you know, in the course of the insurrection is compelling on how it, how Trump led up to it. And this was part of a whole plan, a scheme, an organizational arrangement with his supporters. I'm sure there were telephone calls galore all around the country.  He's got the time to call all these people and organize the skinheads quite extraordinary. So this is obvious. It's obvious to somebody in Paris or London or Berlin is obvious to anyone in Asia is obvious. They feel about what's coming out here, what's coming about out about the plan, the scheme that Trump was involved in, what's coming out about the skinheads, and ultimately, within a few days, an acquittal. How do you think America's stock looks to them? I think that shining city on the hill is not so shining. And I think the rest of the world is disappointed in where we're at. I think they're optimistic that President Biden will lead us out of this darkness. I believe that they're willing to overlook this last four years as an anomaly. And God bless them for doing that because, you know, these are our trusted partners for for decades and decades, and they're still hanging tight with us. Whereas you would think maybe many other countries and other peoples would say, America is hopeless, but they're sticking by us, there are allies, and that's a great thing. And my only hope that Joe Biden get past this and I'm sorry but until we start reading the same facts on the same page, I'm not sure we get out of this and again I don't know if that's multi billion dollar lawsuits against irresponsible media companies, or is that the FCC cracking down finally getting back to the days of Walter Cronkite, Chit Huntley and Brinkley. I don't know where that starts but until we start agreeing on the same facts and reading the same facts. I don't see a way out of this. Any other comments, Cynthia what do you got. Okay, I have an article that Winston sent me that I want everybody to know about and I want everybody to go read. And it's in Vice News, and it's by Greg Walters, and it's titled here's how the GOP could convict Trump without even voting. Apparently, the way the Constitution is written, it says three quarters of the Senators present. So, if those chicken guys can't stand up and do the right thing, just stay home. And it's an easy outform to because they can say, well it's not a legitimate thing anyway. What about Mitch McConnell Winston, all he would have to do is say, follow me boys, we're going to convict. Wouldn't that change the world? Well, you'd hope so but it's like I said yesterday, six years from now it's going to be Mitch McConnell colon D colon running for office because his party won't exist anymore he needs to stand up and do the right thing as a man as an American. As a person of conscience and meet and he's told his people they can do what they want if they held a secret vote. Zero doubt that this would be absolute conviction. Why don't why can't know why they don't. That would ensure it. Let's come in is that Tim's points are good but you know what, all of our allies have been through this. They're watching us to see what how we can do it better. Can we do it better. They all have been through it have been wars over it and have had to recover from that had to have our help. Now it's us. So let's just see what the outcome is I believe it with this country is really made up. It can be. It can be guys. Thank you Tim. Thank you Cynthia. Thank you Winston. Thank you Stephanie. Another great discussion and another inflection point in American history and in our future here on the planet. I hope to see you all in person soon. Putting it another way. I hope I will see you again in person. I look forward to it.


The manufacturing overhead budget is based on data from the production budget. We need to know how many units we're going to produce before we'll know how much overhead that will incur. You can see that the manufacturing overhead budget is the fifth budget completed in the master budget process. A common format is to divide overhead into two classifications, variable manufacturing overhead and fixed manufacturing overhead. Recall that variable costs are shown as per unit costs, whereas fixed costs are shown as total costs. So the manufacturing overhead budget takes the units produced, which comes from the production budget, and multiplies that by the variable manufacturing overhead per unit. This gives us total variable manufacturing overhead costs. We next add the fixed manufacturing overhead costs to that to arrive at total manufacturing overhead costs. Recall that we use the total budgeted manufacturing overhead costs when we determine a predetermined overhead rate. We will use the total direct labor hours from the direct labor budget in order to calculate the predetermined overhead rate per direct labor hour. Here you can see that information from those two budgets. By using total manufacturing overhead and dividing it by total direct labor hours, we can calculate a predetermined overhead rate of $29.98 per direct labor hour for this company. So let's look to see how we would do this in Excel. Notice the column letters and the row numbers will reference those as we build this budget in Excel. Here we have both the production budget and the manufacturing overhead budget. We start by linking the two budgets together by having the units to be produced in the manufacturing overhead budget linked to the same cells in the production budget. Total variable overhead costs, total fixed overhead costs, total manufacturing overhead costs are all formulas as I've shown here. Finally, some of the numbers I've just assumed because I want to keep this example straightforward.


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Purdue is proud to have arguably one of the highest concentration of faculty, staff, and student talents. Still, it takes a lot of whole village effort to win any of these centers. The two we're celebrating today. One is scale. One is the center for secure microelectronic ecosystems, ties into the Department of Defense, ties into private sectors such as TSMC, the world's leading semiconductor manufacturer. And when we celebrate these hard work and the results and impact to society by our colleagues, we also recognize that there are multiple tracks to what Purdue and Purdue Engineering College are embarking on in semiconductors. One track is workforce and education, including scale. And I think of all the existing and ongoing discussion of workforce for semiconductors in this country, Purdue is the only institution participating and leading in all of the conversations. And so as we think about our role as a public land grant institution and particularly a public land grant institution in the Midwest, wow, this is going to be the largest fab in the world and it's within 250 miles of Purdue. So it's changing the dynamic. Just like to conclude again by celebrating all of the successes and the very strong commitment that our faculty have to really ensuring that we continue to advance the state of the art and the technology and really address these critical aspects of our economic prosperity and our national security through our deep work with the Department of Defense.


How do you down-regulate at night and increase the quality of sleep? Not how do I sleep longer? How do I get knocked out better? Right? This is about increasing the quality of sleep and helping you get to sleep faster. So most people have six to eight hours to dedicate to sleep. Problem is they're either they don't fall asleep right away or it's really ineffective sleep. And so how do you make sure that window that you actually have is a lot of it starts with behaviors and setting yourself up to win to sleep. But there's also some really awesome things you can do, awesome product. If that's where you're at, but you should probably like as a consumer, there's like 10 things that you should do to make your sleep better than before you start buying products. And you should just stop doing activities, drinking late, caffeine later in the day.


Do you ever feel like you're bothering people when you post content or when you send an email newsletter? Well, this is what one of my workshop attendees said, is that they would like to be consistent in their communication with their audience, but they feel this kind of like shyness. Am I taking people's time? Am I bothering them? Well, I don't know if you feel that way. I know some of you probably do.  Yeah, otherwise you wouldn't feel shy like you're bothering people when you're posting content or sharing content. And to be honest with you, I also feel that way before I post something, before I send an email newsletter, before I click record, I do feel like, hmm, am I bothering people? Am I taking people's time? Well, because I've done this so many times, I've gotten used to that feeling. And so I'm no longer, you know, I'm no longer letting that stop me. But I definitely had to deal with that feeling more in the early days. And I tell you, if you just go ahead and press record, go ahead and write, go ahead and press publish, you will get used to that feeling. It never goes away though. That's the thing. This feeling of, okay, am I bothering people? Is this going to go well? Is this, you know, relevant to people? It never really goes away. But you get used to it and you just continue onward. So in other words, the fear doesn't go away, but we do get braver over time as we continue to communicate consistently. So let me just give you a few tips that might help you to keep going, to do this, right? You have to first remember what people are going through when they serve social media. Okay. So when you go on social media, like when you're watching this video, you don't watch this video because you don't go on social media because you're trying to be efficient and save time, right? You go on social media because you're bored. I mean, there's nothing wrong with being bored. We all have moments of boredom throughout the day. And we just need something to pick us up. We just need to, you know, something to, something fun just for a moment. And so that's why people go on social media. So people are bored. And so when you post content that is of genuine interest to them, you're trying to educate them, maybe hopefully entertain them a little bit. That is a benefit to them. Okay. So people are bored. Number one, people. Number two, people are hurting. The reason why people follow you on social media or they're subscribed to your newsletter is because they're genuinely interested in what you have to say about that topic because they are on that journey of healing. They're on that journey of transformation. So people are hurting. Remember that when you create content, you are there to try to be a bomb for their heart. You try to uplift their mind. You're trying to help. Okay. So people need help. People are hurting. That's why they're subscribed to whatever your channel is or whatever your newsletter is. Number two, number three is that people genuinely like you. Otherwise they wouldn't still be following you. Why would they still be following you if they didn't like you? Of course they appreciate when they see you. So they want to see you at the right frequency. And that's what I want to talk about next. If you're posting things at the right frequency, you should not be concerned that you're bothering people because that's what they're expecting. So if you, for example, if you have an email newsletter and you only send it like once every few months when you're trying to sell something, that's questionable because then you might actually be bothering people because whenever they hear from you, you're trying to get them to spend money. That's not a good thing. So that's why you should be consistent in service, in entertaining, in connecting.  So think about that. So for email newsletters, for example, my recommended minimum is once a month. Actually that would be my recommended rhythm. If people aren't expecting a weekly email from you, just send it once a month. If you send it less than once a month, they start forgetting why they even signed up and they'll start unsubscribing and they'll feel like you're bothering them. But if you send it once a month and in that once a month, you're sharing your best things of the previous month, you're not bothering them. You're giving them what they signed up for, okay? Social media, if you're showing up as often as other people, you're not showing up more often, like on Instagram you're showing up once a day, totally acceptable. If you're showing up five or seven times a day on Instagram, way more often than other people. On Facebook, yeah, once a day, sometimes twice a day, but generally once a day on Facebook is acceptable. On YouTube, one video a day is certainly acceptable, or even one video a week is fine. So just notice what the frequency is of the people you follow. And if you just do it just like them, it's fine, right? So intentions are good when you show up. Frequency is right. Then you just know that it's your own feelings that you need to get used to, remembering that you don't, the fear doesn't go away.  You just get braver about doing it, knowing that you've got the right intention of service and connection and that you're doing it at the right frequency. So I hope this helps. Those of you who don't know who I am, I'm George Cow, authentic business coach. I love talking about stuff that helps you to make your business thrive better and while staying true to your heart and being of genuine service to others. So I hope this is helpful. I'm always open to your comments and your questions and I'll see you next time. Take care.


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