The college major you choose and the career that it leads to is going to have a massive impact on your financial health.  In fact, you've probably seen all the studies and articles that show that financial problems are the number one reason for divorce. And I would have to agree with this from personal experience is this was probably the reason that my parents got divorced when I was young. And through a series of unfortunate events, I kind of went down a wild path where I ended up homeless and I gotten a lot of trouble. And thinking back on it, financial issues were one of the reasons why I had such a rough childhood. And now I am in a great place. I can honestly say that I live my version of a 10 out of 10 lifestyle where I get to work remote and travel the world. And I can tell you from my own personal experience, as somebody who's been down bad, right? Like the lowest of the low, at least in the United States to now being in the top 99% of earners. And, you know, I could actually retire in my 20s if I wanted to. I don't want to retire, but I could. And I can honestly say that people that say money doesn't matter are absolutely delusional. Money does matter and study after study after study shows this. We know that money does make you happier, at least up to a point. And we also know that not having money makes you more unhappy, aka more stressed and depressed. And the way that I was able to get myself out of that down bad type situation to the point where I'm at right now is because I went where the opportunity is, right? So go where the opportunity is, is the slogan of this channel. And you can do this as well, which I'll show you how to do in this video. And whether you agree with the current, you know, financial system or not, because trust me, there's a lot of problems with this financial system, it's important to make practical decisions and control what you can. And that means it's important to consider money when it comes to choosing your college degree or your career, especially if you're planning on taking out a bunch of student loans in order to go and choosing the right degree and really choosing the right career because you should begin with the career in mind when you're deciding which degree to choose is going to put you ahead of like at least 95% of other people and probably 99% of other people who are your age. So if you really pay attention to the options I give in this video, as well as the advice that goes along with it, you are going to have an unfair advantage over just about anybody else who is your age. All right, so we are going to go over what college degrees create the most millionaires, but on top of that, I'm going to be talking about why those college degrees create the most millionaires. So if you appreciate me doing videos like this, go ahead, gently tap that like button and let's get into it. Number 13 on the list is going to be medicine. And this is actually what I did. And I believe that it's a mediocre to good way of getting rich. Now, why do I say it's mediocre? Well, because obviously it's number 13 on the list and not like number three. Now, I think they actually bunched together medical doctor with a lot of other medical related careers, but the process of becoming a doctor is really hard.  And I've made entire videos on reasons that you shouldn't become a doctor. So you can definitely check that out. I'm not going to go into too much detail on this video.  They have some of the highest stress rates, they have some of the lowest job satisfaction. And on top of that, unfortunately, they have some of the highest self deletion rates. And for most people, I actually recommend looking into some of the other medical related careers that don't take as much time, effort or money to get into. And they're also not as stressful like PA, nurse practitioner and pharmacist, for instance. But even with those, it can be extremely stressful. I mean, I think we all saw how the government handled the whole cough cough situation because as we all saw, they did a great job. Now the upside here is if you work in medicine, which I'm referring specifically to like an MD or a DO that's medical doctor or doctor of osteopathic medicine, you are going to make really, really good money. And that's why you do see it on the list. But with that being said, you're probably going to be old by the time you have enough money to actually enjoy it. And you are going to be either in medical school, which is extremely stressful, or doing residency, which is probably even more stressful during the best years of your life.  So this can be a great choice, but I think it's a little bit overrated like the way the media hypes the career up. I think it's super overrated. There's way too many people trying to go into this and they're doing it for the wrong reasons. A lot of the time because their parents want them to or they think society is going to, you know, see them a certain way or something like that. And you guys are probably wondering why I spend so much time like autistically researching this stuff. And that's because if you get this right, it's going to absolutely change your life. Most people choose the wrong career three or four times before they find the right one.  And being able to help people figure this out at a young age without having to go to college and spend like $100,000 makes me incredibly happy and fulfilled. And that's what keeps me going. Seeing all the positive comments, jumping on calls with people, doing interviews with them. It really is fulfilling. But I digress. Let's go ahead and jump into number 12, which is mathematics. So Galileo said mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe. And the president of the free world, Joe Biden, said cost about $740 million, billion dollars over 10 years. What? I think you get the point. Math is hard, even for presidents.  And this can be a good degree for you to get. So for instance, one of the most famous hedge fund managers in the world, Jim Simons was actually a mathematician. So he figured out how to use mathematics in order to basically predict the markets in the real world. And he makes literally billions of dollars a year. So he is probably going to have like $100 billion if he wants to. So yeah, if you are one of those rare people who is good at math and you actually enjoy it, there are many practical applications to it in the real world. So I'm not surprised to see this one on the list. Number 11 is going to be management. Now this is going to be the first of many business degrees that you're going to see on this list. And I think there are many reasons that business degrees dominate. And I think one of the main ones is the fastest way to become a millionaire is to start a business. Now it's definitely not impossible to become a millionaire without starting a business. You can definitely do it by investing, getting a good job, etc. But typically those are the types of people who become millionaires when they're too old to enjoy the money. Now there are definitely exceptions to this because there's some jobs that are just so high paying, so in demand that you can actually become a millionaire at a young age. Number 10 on the list is going to be political science. And one of the best ways to get rich if you have no empathy, ethics or moral compass is to become a politician. Or if you can't become a politician, just invest in the same stocks as Nancy Pelosi and you'll probably be pretty well off. But it's not just Nancy Pelosi. Nope. Over half the members of the US Congress on both sides of the aisle are millionaires. So the people who are representing the interests of common people tend to be people who have way more money than common people and so therefore can't really relate to us. But all joking aside, understanding politics, understanding kind of how countries run, how the world works is going to help you in life, whether it is getting a good job, whether it is learning how to save your money, whether it is learning how to invest your money or maybe possibly learning where there are good business opportunities. So the government, for instance, actually spends more money than any other entity in the entire world. And so one thing I have talked about before on this channel is getting grants and government contracts. So if you start a business where you secure government contracts, that can be really good money and kind of understanding how the political system works and how the government works is going to help you do that. Number nine on the list is finance. And do you want to make an ungodly amount of money without actually contributing any value to the world? Then a finance degree might be perfect for you. Just kidding, there are some types of finance that are important and necessary in society. But one thing I will say about this is that it is highly competitive, right? If you go into some of these finance roles, yes, they do pay really good money, but they also are going to make you work long hours. And it's kind of boring repetitive work a lot of the time. And it's highly competitive. If you're not hitting your numbers, you're probably going to get fired. So this can be a great option for people who are kind of like type A personalities and just love working long hours. And I would say not only is finance one of the best degrees to become a millionaire, but it's probably one of the best degrees to become a billionaire as well. But with that being said, be careful what you get yourself into. Now, obviously this one is going to probably help you when it comes to investments as well. You're probably going to be really good at budgeting, saving and investing your money. And on top of that, it does tend to lead to higher paying jobs. And a third thing is there's a lot of opportunities to start businesses within the finance industry. I would say it's probably the industry that has the second or third most opportunity. So this one can be really great. Number eight on the list is going to be computer science. And I think everybody who watches this channel knows this is a great degree. You know, if you get this degree, you might be able to create the next social media app that ruins an entire generation's attention span like TikTok, or maybe you can create the next piece of software that steals people's data and gets away with it. Just kidding. There's a ton of great things that software developers obviously do. But yeah, getting a job as a software developer in the technology industry is basically like cashing in a golden ticket to success. And with a computer science degree, not only can you make a ton of money in a job, but on top of that, you're going to be in the technology industry where there is a ton of opportunity to start a business. And software development is one of the few skills where it has almost infinite leverage, right? You can create a computer program, a website, a piece of software where you can actually impact millions of people's lives, right? One single person can create a website that millions of people visit. One single person can create a piece of software that millions of people can use. There's really only a few skills out there that give you that much leverage. So this is truly one of the most valuable skills that you could possibly learn. Next on the list, number seven is going to be an accounting degree. Yes, another business degree. And surprisingly enough, it actually comes ahead of finance, which probably surprises a lot of people out there. And accounting is not only a very solid career, but it is going to teach you the fundamentals of personal finance as well. If you're an accountant, obviously, you know the ins and outs of a business, so you're going to know the ins and outs of your personal finance. And on top of that, there are a lot of high level careers you can go into such as financial controller actually interviewed Bill Hannah on this channel. I believe he makes somewhere around 250 to $300,000 and he got an accounting degree. Plus, if you work in something like tax accounting, you're going to see a million examples of different businesses that are successful. And that's going to give you a good idea of what types of businesses you could start to also be successful, right? If you see a bunch of people from certain types of businesses who are barely getting by, they're struggling. And then you see a bunch of people from other types of businesses that are absolutely crushing it every single year, making like double the amount of money, you probably know where the opportunity is. So yeah, accounting degrees give you an advantage in so many different ways. Number six on the list is going to be commerce. And this can be called different things depending on the country that you live in. But essentially, it's how trade works on a global level. And yes, this is another business degree. So no surprise to see this one here. Business degrees tend to lead to relatively high paying jobs. The statistics are very good for business degrees on top of that, people who get business degrees tend to be better with money, things like saving money, right? And investing money. And number three, they're probably better when it comes to what to invest their money in. And then number four, people who get business degrees are more likely to be successful if they actually start their own business. Number five on the list is going to be a bachelor's of business administration. Now this is of course, another business degree, no surprise to see it here. Now one thing I will say about these business degrees is you do have to consider correlation versus causation. And what I mean by that is are people who are interested in business degrees more likely to be successful? Or is the business degree itself more likely to lead to people being successful? And the truth is you can never say for sure which one it is, but it's probably a little bit of both. Now I will say this data is from like the last 80 years, obviously, of people who have become millionaires. And I do not recommend getting a bachelor in business administration right now. I would actually say it's much smarter to get a more specialized business degree. Number four on the list is going to be a law degree. And lawyers are slightly better than politicians, but not by much.  Like actually, you know, I had a patient before who I'd see like, you know, maybe once a month or so. And every single time I saw him, he'd tell me a new lawyer joke and he would actually warn me to not trust lawyers in my life, which I thought was kind of funny. Now that being said, it's kind of not fair to put this one on the list because it is technically a doctorate level degree. Whereas almost all the other ones on the list are bachelor level degrees. And also lawyer is one of those professions that's extremely stressful kind of like doctor. In fact, I'd say it's even worse. So I made an entire video about why you should not become a lawyer as well. And you can check that out. Number three on the list is going to be economics. And this is one that you can get at the bachelor's level. You can also get a master or a doctorate level degree if you want to become an economist. This is one that a ton of famous people have gotten for some reason, like former presidents, Ronald Reagan, George HW Bush, Donald Trump, as well as investing legend Warren Buffett. So it's no surprise to see this one at number three on the list. And it's also technically a social science degree. Now there is a part of economics where they use things like facts, logic, it's natural science. And then there's the other faction of economics where they basically use idealistic, woo, woo, wishy, washy, bull, logic in order to justify whatever they believe in. And it's usually involving things like printing trillions of dollars or giving people who are already really powerful, even more power. But I digress. Economics is very similar to a business degree. But I think it sort of studies the economy on more of a holistic level. And so obviously, if you're studying the economy, you're going to kind of see like, Oh, what industries are absolutely crushing it. And then when you look into that a little bit more, you'll probably see what types of businesses are crushing it. And so that's going to give you an advantage if you want to either go work for those businesses, or you want to start your own business. And then of course, economics does tend to lead to relatively high paying jobs. For instance, you might work in finance and there's a lot of high paying jobs there. And understanding economics is going to lead to you asking questions like, why the is the government printing trillions of dollars and then sending it to other countries? Just kidding. Nothing to see here move along. Number two is going to be a masters in business administration or MBA. Now this is another one where it is not a bachelor's level degree, it is a master's level degree. And it's also a business degree. So not surprising to see more business degrees on this list. Now this is one where it's extremely hit or miss, because if you go to the right school and get an MBA from that school, I do think it can be worth it. It can open up doors for you that you wouldn't have access to otherwise. So it can be great for networking, for instance, if you go to Harvard, Stanford, Wharton, but if you get one of those MBAs that's basically like a cracker jackbox MBA, which I almost got myself, that's probably not going to be worth it. So when I was going to school for pharmacy, I had the option to actually double major and get my farm D, which is a doctorate level degree, and my MBA at the same time. And at first I was like, Oh my God, that's awesome.  And I quickly realized that the people who were teaching the MBA course had zero business knowledge or experience. And by that time, I had actually started two successful businesses. I wasn't making like crazy money, but I had started two successful businesses. One of them was selling eyeglass cleaner and the other one was a consulting business related to pharmacy. And I realized that even though I didn't know much about business, I knew more than the professors who probably only did business like 20 or 30 years ago, if at all, and they were teaching me. So they were basically just teaching theoretical, wishy washy stuff that didn't actually work when you try to apply it in the real world. So if you go to the right school and get an MBA degree, yes, you can network. Yes, it's going to open doors for you, you can get great jobs. But I typically do not recommend getting an MBA degree unless you really have researched it. Number one on the list is going to be engineering. And one thing I will say about this, I'm not surprised to see engineering here because you do make more money over a lifetime with an engineering degree than any other type of degree out there. But one thing I will say is I'm a little bit surprised they didn't separate out the engineering degrees like they did with the business degrees because you make a lot more money as an electrical engineer or a chemical engineer than you do as a civil engineer, for example, but yeah, lots of former grads that are billionaires like Jeff Bezos, Neil Armstrong, model Cindy Crawford, Bill and I, the science guy, and even Ashton Kutcher. So you see engineers representing in just about every industry out there. Now funny enough, not only are you more likely to become a millionaire if you're an engineer, but you're also more likely to become a CEO of a Fortune 500 company, and you're more likely to become a billionaire. So engineering degrees absolutely dominate these types of lists. Now you could argue, is it correlation or causation, you know, really smart people who are able to do engineering, maybe they would have been successful even if they did something else. Again, I think it's a little bit of both. But with that being said, engineering teaches you practical problem solving, which is what entrepreneurship is all about. As an entrepreneur, you go out there, you find problems that a bunch of people are having, and then you solve those problems in the form of a product or a service. Now, if you're in a situation where you're confused about what degree you should choose, I actually made an entire video that's dedicated to showing you exactly the steps that you should follow in order to choose your dream degree. And you can check that video out right here.


This episode is brought to you by BenQ, bringing enjoyment and quality to life. Yo guys, what's going on? My name is Aaron and in today's episode of Impulse, we're going to dive into Mr. Black X Worm. You guys know Worm Nation, who out there is part of the Worm Nation, but guys, Black X Worm is one of the successful YouTubers who have found camping strategies on Black Ops and Call of Duty games to be advantageous and growing audience. Who would have thought? I hate campers to be honest, but whatever works for him, it's been working. You're also going to notice something different in this episode. You're going to see everyone's comments on the last video they talked about, the Black X Worm, what they think about him. They're going to show up. So if you guys like free shoutouts on the Impulse show, you better put a comment down below on this episode for next week's successful YouTuber. Alright, let's get started. So Worm, quick question. Thunder got you started on YouTube. How did he do it and where did you guys meet? How it happened was we actually, I didn't even, I never even thought about making a YouTube channel. I was never even into watching people on YouTube.   And I was like, dude, I don't care about that.  And the first game he recorded and then the second game he was in with me. So he uploaded that video as camper of the week. And then there was such a good response to that that I sent him another video from the Black Ops 2 like catalog or whatever that you can say the videos. And then the second video went viral. And that's when I started YouTube because he told me he was like, dude, you got to do this. I was like, oh, all right. Well, dude, that's really cool. It's always interesting to see another YouTuber in a multiplayer lobby. Now, how did you know that you were succeeding and had something that everybody wanted to watch? There's one thing that told me I was going to like, not succeed because everything still happens real quick. But I had 3000 subscribers before I even had a video on my channel or anything.  I went from completely unknown. I didn't know any YouTuber's names or channels or anything. And the only dude I knew was Legend of Thunder and because I just ran into him that night, you know, and then less than a week later, he was like, dude, just get your channel. So I put Black Axe worm, my gamer tag on the channel and 3000 subs before I even had a video. Isn't that crazy? That's nuts. 3000 subs and you didn't even upload one single video. I guess again, collaboration and shout outs are kind of a big important thing when it comes to growing on YouTube. So along your journey, what's the favorite part about being a YouTuber? Well, this sounds bad, but my favorite part about it is that the level of success that I've had so far has been able to make me like piss so many people off on a grand scale. You know what I mean? Like so many people are like, you ruined the game.  Like the thing, being a YouTuber, it let me drag that really nasty person out of the dark, like that person that everybody sees in video games, but nobody's ever really capitalized on it. And like camping and trolling and all that stuff and being able to bring it into the light into such a big scale. You know what I mean? Dude, man, I cannot stand campers. I'm a hardcore FPS player, especially called duty. I can't stand you campers. Exactly. Well, that's the thing is especially when you do it so long, like I've camped in like Halo and every single gun game, it's like the thing is you just find the best spot. It's not the most action packed thing, but you're getting wins. You know what I mean? You're winning. And the best part is, though, is that how mad people get at the camper. You know, they're like, move out of the spot. It's like, oh, it's great. Dude, I'm serious. I cannot stand campers. It's not funny. Stop laughing. But anyway, what have you discovered is the biggest factor to growing is exceeding on YouTube. The way I found out personally is that just do it. Do you, you know, like don't don't worry about what other.  Don't do that. You know, like my channel is like total. It's not a heartwarming channel.  Yeah. Yeah. And it just it's worked, you know, so transitioning into something completely random pizza. Everyone loves pizza. What's your favorite topic, man? Favorite pizza topping.  So no cheese snitches get stitches. I don't do a whole lot of pizza. I calzone like calzones barbecue chicken calzones. I do love calzones actually better than pizza because I'm always finding myself folding the pizza. Does anybody else do that? Tell me in the comments below. But anyway, biggest accomplishment. You've been on YouTube for a while. So out of all the things you've done, what's the most memorable and biggest accomplishment? Getting featured on Kotaku. We got thunder and I got featured on the front of Kotaku. Or yeah, it was it was like the huge front page of Kotaku website. That was that was insanity because I remember hearing about that and like, whoa. And it well, it's a 5050 because that and then the fact that they made a worm character in ghosts and advanced warfare as bots.  And they did that with the ghosts as well. And he just the ghost one just sits around with the right shield on his back and he's got a shotgun and whatnot. So yeah, they made me like a bot. It's me. Yeah. Really, you are an actual character as one of the bots and called it a ghost. I'm going to go back now and play called it a ghost to see which bot it actually is and see if he just sits there in camps and does exactly your antics. Alright, everybody gets burned out all the time uploading videos and they're on the grind. They always know that the grind consistency is how do you grow successful channel? But what is actually your fuel or your motivation to keep uploading those videos? It would probably go into a generalization of anybody who's I always get messages from like sons, dads, sisters. They're always saying, oh, I was having such a bad day. But what, you know, and it's weird hearing this because the channel is based on like just vulgarity, easily. But it'll be like, oh, I was having such a bad time. The one that sticks out to me was, oh, I just broke up with my girlfriend from a long time and we had such a long relationship. And I was really in a rut in a dark place, but then watching your stuff really got me out of that. And I was like, whoa, that's that's really cool. Because that the whole point of it is for people to enjoy it, you know, and those those kind of comments are the best ones. But I also love the hate mail that I get. Like that's my favorite stuff. I love it. It's so good. The hate mail is is what keeps me going.  I can't can't believe you went to this level.  So it's like, it's what keeps me going. The hate mail and those mixed up.  I can't do it. A lot of people I know can't do it. So yeah, I'm with you. I block those guys and just like get to forget here. But anyway, last question. What is your guilty pleasure? Katy Perry part of me. Yeah. Oh yeah. Big time. Katy Perry. Really? Dude, I got to hear you sing it. Do it, man. Sing it for us. Don't say. Yeah, I can't. Oh, my God. Oh, that was awesome. Yo, that was awesome. All right, guys. Hope you enjoyed this episode of impulse. We got to see about Black X Worm growing on YouTube. Again, comments below. What you think about Black X Worm and comment about the next interview that's going to be on this show next week. That successful YouTuber is iPod King Koryo. Again, link in the description below. Check out his channel. Let me know in the comments what you think about him and you will show up on next week's episode of impulse. So if you like free shout outs, I'm going to be seeing you in the comments like crazy. That's a wrap. My name is Aaron founder of impulse. Don't ever give up on your dreams. You will get there one day on your awesome adventure on YouTube. See ya.


David and joku of the Browns are tight end, you know, he had 69 yards on Sunday six receptions and almost got to 10 fantasy points on fan duel and joku is somebody who had a lot of buzz in the offseason and I feel was drafted in many season-long leagues to be a tee a tee e1 Is that what we can expect moving forward? He's like ever so slightly gradually improving, but I think we still want to see more from him Yeah, I'm one of those people who drafted him as a tight end one and we have not gotten that so far yet this year Maria He is not topped 10 fan duel points yet so far this year But I think that is certainly on the verge not just because and joku got those six catches and 69 yards But because he got the volume he had 11 targets in that game on Sunday Which is the most that and joku has had this entire season and honestly the usages kind of been there all year He has had seven targets in every game except for one And if you look at their schedule going forward things open up quite a bit for For the Browns offense because they face the Ravens and again The Ravens were the top passing defense in the league entering this week based on our metric said number fire And that was before Jimmy Smith was added into the fold too So I did not expect the Browns offense to do a whole lot in this game and they really did not but you look For they've got The Chargers coming up next they've got matchups against the buccaneers the Steelers the Falcons They've got some really good matchups ahead and that could lead to a lot of good things for David and joku They do not seem to trust Antonio Calloway. It seems like he's being put on the back burner Which means that this target tree is being narrowed down to Jarvis Landry and David and joku and Baker Mayfield We know what he could potentially do based on what he did in college how he's looked through a couple of games so far In the NFL I think that he could lead this offense to be a really solid one for fantasy If we can get a guy who's going to get 20 or so percent of the targets in that offense Which could be in joku. I'm inclined to buy them So tight end is terrible right now David and joku a crazy good athlete tied to a quarterback Who could be really good in some solid matchups? I think that means that I do want to buy David and joku right now Before people realize the kind of numbers he is getting from a target perspective Right not a lot of options at tight end and for David and joku It feels like there's nowhere else to go but up and Baker Mayfield Is a positive sign for the Browns and he's certainly given them a boost given them some hope So I'm really eager to see what and joku can continue to do


If you value introversion, then you should stop trying to appear to fit in and go to events and parties that you don't want to be at. I've been drug to parties all my life. Because extroverts feel introverts need fixing. They feel we need help. As self-awareness that made me aware, I am an introvert. I celebrate that. I want to be a brilliant introvert. I want to be the best version of introversion I can be. I don't apologize for it, compromise on it, or try to appear more sociable than I really am and want to be. Self-awareness doesn't let you trade off an internal value for the sake of an external need to fit in with someone today.


Look, it is 1135. It is my hope that Chris will be able to join us. I know that Debbie is working with her to get the technology updated. So according to what I'm able to see on one of the four computer screens is that we do have a wonderful quorum and it will hopefully be joined by Chris soon. So at this time, if you would like to please join me in the Pledge of Allegiance. All right, then moving on to 1.3 public comments. We do not have anyone here for the public comments. So I'm moving on to 1.4. Would someone like to make a motion to approve our minutes of September 24th, 2020? And if you want to. This is Marilyn. So moved. All right. This is Maggie. I'll second. All right, it's been moved and seconded. Any further discussion on the minutes? All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. All right. Great. Wonderful. Thank you. As I had stated at the beginning, we are truly just here for a special session to have an opportunity to talk about our 2021 budget in light of the fact that the city is planning to pass their city budget in the next few weeks. And so I would like to kind of talk through where we are at this point with our budget and some narrative. And I would like to preface it with the fact that I feel like Garrett Erickson and I have some positive news to share, which is always a delight to do when you're calling a special session. Usually those are not for positive updates. So what I'd like to share with you right now is thank you truly for arranging your schedules to be part of this special session. At this meeting, it is really necessary for us to approve a final library budget prior to the Common Council approving their full city fiscal budget. And to just give you a little bit of a narrative so that you have a greater understanding of where we are right now, as you're aware, if you can think back on July 23rd of this year, we submitted our original library budget proposal, proposal number one. And then, more recently, the city then shared sort of a revised library budget in which there was a financial difference of about $182,000. And that then resulted in, me reaching out to city administrator Todd Wolf and suggesting that he and his, the assistant city administrator meet with Garrett Erickson and myself to sort of talk through the budgets and just have an opportunity to have some sort of understanding because numbers are one thing, but when you actually have conversation about numbers, you end up having a greater understanding for why certain decisions are made or not made. And I would like to say that it was a really positive and productive meeting. And with everything going on, we managed to squeeze this in, I believe about 24 hours ago, less than 24 hours ago, and it really gave us an opportunity to share with our new city administrator sort of the history of library budgets over the years.  And so one of the key highlights or some of the key highlights that I wanted to share with you that I think our Todd Wolf also felt was very helpful is that our library is actually funded less in 2020 than in 1996. So in 1996, our budget was 2,444,665. And in 2020, the budget was going to be 2,423,314. And I think it's really important for common council members, especially if they are new board of trustee members when they're new to really have an understanding of how budgets have been put together by our city for the various departments. And a key part of that amount, of that history of budgets is there was a five year period in which the library was frozen at the same flat rate for five years. We were the only city department that was treated in that fashion for the fiscal budgets of our city. And it was an opportunity during this great conversation that we had yesterday for Garrett Erickson to really share some key components of how our library has really become more efficient and has really been sort of the leader in variety of practices of how to manage as well as how to develop new table of organizations as well as utilize various technologies just to become more efficient with library services. And I know that all of you know that, but it was just good to point out that back in 1996, we did have 59.35 full-time equivalence of employees. And in 2020, we are at 38.75. And what was really wonderful about the conversation that we had with Todd Wolfe and his assistant, Carrie, is just them really having a greater scope of our history and what things have been done to demonstrate that we are being very responsible with taxpayer dollars. And we also were able to show at what point did the Meade Public Library actually join the city salary scale and at what point did we join the city insurance? So a good portion was just on history, which I think really gave a wonderful foundation of knowledge of where we are today. And the budget that we had proposed last year resulted in us receiving 1% less than I think it was transit and the library that received 1% less. And all of you remember, we had to then figure out how we were going to cover that and that resulted in us not being able to hire a staff person that we felt was necessary for our services. So that was just sort of the history part. And in the conversations and having greater understanding of what the city is going through, and we are all aware that we are in the middle of a pandemic, municipalities are struggling everywhere. And in having this conversation with Todd and Meade trying to really put forth the needs of the library and how we best can achieve our mission and how does that balance with the city having a $114 million budget and how monies can be shared throughout the city to the different departments so they can achieve what they need to do to provide services for citizens. The conversation was very positive and I'm really sort of pleased that as a result of that conversation, Todd was just like, it's so good to have this information and we now have an understanding of what you feel that you need for the city, but you need to understand that the city is really struggling with finances and we're just not too sure how we can really meet what you are asking for. After the conversation, and this is all within the last 24 hours, it's my understanding that Todd and his team went back and they really looked at the overall city budget and they were able to find a little bit more money to be able to help us with our city budget. So even though we had sent initially our proposed budget to you, which we got back in July and then we sent you the new updated budget that the city proposed that we consider today at this meeting, we now have a third proposal and that is the one that is on Board Docs for you right now. And in looking at that third budget, and I don't know if some of you are trying to scroll and trying to open it up on Board Doc, but I think maybe it would be helpful if, Garrett, if you just want to just maybe share what this third budget proposal option is and it's the one that Garrett and I have talked with that we think is a good one for our library board to consider today. Oh, and I have to, sorry about this, I have to try to turn his microphone on and try to see which other person he is. There we go. Thanks, Maeve. So as Maeve said, the updated budget's lower than what we had asked for and we assume that, like every organization we have costs going up, whether that's inflationary costs for supplies and books and so on as well as costs for personnel and so the city did give us the 2% to increase wages. The other thing that's going on this year that's really unique for us at the library is we have several staff who are planning to go on to the city's healthcare plan and that is money that is budgeted at the department level and so that really hits us when we have people that go on to the plan that weren't on it before and so I don't have the numbers in front of me, but as I recall, I think there were five people that were currently projecting to go on to the healthcare plan at the city and I believe, what was it Maeve? There was two family, two single and one spouse and employee, so five people and that's a significant amount as I recall, the family plans were closer to 30,000 each and so our healthcare costs are really what is driving up our costs significantly and so as we scroll through, I don't know that we need to go line by line through this, but just to say that in this latest budget, there is a proposed increase of $75,999 and that will primarily go towards wages and then if you go further into the document, there's a line in healthcare that is in the public services team, if you know our budget document is organized by our teams, our three teams, administration, public services and support services. It's the public services team that added some new staff that are taken on the healthcare, so they have one of the line items in there is a significant increase in healthcare costs and so those are some of the areas that we're struggling a bit with that we won't have covered and so that's where the discussion today for the board is in whether we want to look at some sort of, just running a deficit budget this year or whether we wanted to run an actual, come within the parameters and try and make it and equalize it out, so I guess I'll open it up if there's questions at this point. And before we take questions, so the third budget proposal, the amount that our total budget would be would actually be 2,499,313 dollars. So that is, it's definitely, it's a bit more than what we had in 2020. It is not what we had hoped for, but with Garrett Erickson and Debbie, working together they think that they can make this budget, you know, work for the library with this additional, with this addition that Todd Wolf shared with us this morning. He and his team worked last night and this morning shared the information that they were able to find some additional monies. So I know it's always challenging to talk about budgets, it's even more challenging when you're trying to do it in Zoom, but at this time, does anyone have any question or comment? Yeah, Mary Lynn, Donahue. I just want to make sure that I am looking at the right document which is 2021 MPL budget option three. Yes. Yes. And we only had two attachments, right? I believe that's where we're at, yes. All right, we're going over there. Which is good, I'm not questioning that, but I just wanted to make sure I understood that it was option three that were- Yes, yes. And so I know the document, we were debating on how to propose this, but so the first, the one that says budget proposal number one was the original ask that you guys approved earlier this summer. Proposal number two was after we had met with city administration and we were simply looking at, I believe, see at that point, there was different numbers. So they had actually just had the proposal, the 2% increase. And I'm trying to remember what else was in that one. We debated pulling that one down because it's confusing. So, but really what we're looking at, Maryland is number three is where we're at right now. So this is sort of a timeline during this budgetary process. And budget proposal number three sort of includes the amount that was shared, I believe, at the city finance and council meeting without the additional increase, I believe. So we've tried to make, this is just budget proposal number three that we are considering at this point. We were actually working on this document within the last hour, trying to just get the latest updates because this has really been changing as we talked to Todd and this team. So if it would be helped. Yes. Nate, I noticed on there, I forgot to change that 260,000 on the comments that should only be 26,064 in the comments. Where are you Debbie? It would be the account number, account number<PHONE_NUMBER>340. That's the health insurance that was on with each supervisor. Right. So that's on only be 26. Yeah. It's just a posting error that we did with us rushing to get it out. All right. Thank you for that. That's where my question was. I have a 26, sorry. And I'll reissue that to the board. So you've got a correct copy. Right. And I think one of the challenges that the city has, and it's not alone, all the municipalities are having challenges with this is the rising cost of healthcare. And what is challenging this year for the city of Sheboygan is that if there's an increase in healthcare in your department or in the library, it is being asked by departments in the library to try to fund those new healthcare costs. And so that is why we're sort of showing that for our five additional staff going on insurance that that cost level is 91,716. And so when I was talking to Garrett about best case scenario for our library and what do we hope to accomplish today, it essentially is that we consider moving approval of this budget. And I sort of made out a motion that specifies that due to the work of our city administrator last night and early this morning, finding additional money that the city is giving us an additional of $75,999 over what we received in 2020 fiscal year budget. And that would mean that if we were to adopt that, that we would, our budget would go forward with just having a, we would be running it with a small deficit due to the additional healthcare cost. And if it's helpful at this point, I can make that motion. I'll read it better than I just tried to explain it. And if someone would like to second it, then we can have further discussion to see if this is where we wanna go. So I'm just wondering, does that make sense at this point? And just so you know, for those, Kathy Norman was able to join us and she's at a computer screen, I don't know, at least 18 feet away from me. So we have another board member. So at this point, I will just go ahead and make that motion. And then we can continue to have questions and comments about where we are with this budget. So I move approval to approve the third budget proposal from the city in the amount of $2,499,313, which includes the $75,999 increase over the 2020 fiscal year budget, which will leave the library with a small deficit due to the additional healthcare costs. Would someone like to make a second for that motion? Okay, so can you just clarify who it was that seconded for our minutes? So Chris. Chris. Okay, all right, thank you. So at this time, are there any questions or comments? I have a question. Maeve, who moved it? Maeve did. I did, I said I moved. It's hard to hear with my mask on, I'm sorry, I moved. That's fine. Okay. And then Kathy Norman just has a question.  I need to turn on Kathy's microphone. Who are you, Kathy? Okay. Yeah, so my question is what is our plan? Can you turn your microphone down towards you? There you go. Thank you. So what is our plan for meeting this deficit if these healthcare costs turn out the way they're feared to? We're going to need to cut costs as the year goes on, like we do every year. And if we, at the end of the year have a deficit, we'd have to tap into reserves. So reserves are? It is, yes. That's pretty much where we're at. I think Chris had a question as well, maybe. Great. So did someone have a question? Yeah, I had a question similar to Kathy's. Okay. The deficit was going to continue to grow with the increase of costs of medical care, but you already answered it.  We have a lot of people retiring and the healthcare costs are continuing to go up. And so I don't know what the answer to it is, but it's certainly not just a library or our department's issue, it's really going to become a city issue. And we were told at our meeting yesterday with Todd that he is going to be working very closely with our HR department as your well aware, Vicki Schneider is the new head of the HR department. And I know that in this coming year, there is going to be more time spent on researching the healthcare and seeing, you know, which options are really the best for our city employees. So it is not just our library that is struggling with this. As I said earlier, it's every department, it's everybody in this building, city hall. I think we all recognize that that is a challenging expenditure and going forward, looking to see if there's some other solutions that we can all embrace. Okay, looks Mary Lynn, Donahue. Just a couple of things. I did want to let the board know, and you may already know, but because our healthcare reserve fund is quite healthy, the proposed budget will re-institute the city contribution to HSA accounts for employees. So we think that's a pretty positive thing. I just would speak in favor of this. I think it redresses to some extent the inequities that the library has endured in previous budget processes. It provides some equity so that year over year, our increases are not coming on the basis of negative positions. It's not totally positive, but, it also avoids a huge fight. And I think the 3.1% increases is fabulous. And I think, frankly, Garrett and Mayne, through their incredible hard work are responsible for it. So I'm fully in support. Any other questions and comments? Another point I would like to make that it was the conversation that Garrett, Erickson and I had with our city administrator and with the assistant city administrator, it was really informative of getting good information from their perspective as well as our perspective. And there was real interest in wanting to learn more and have greater understanding. It even resulted in the fact that we felt it was such worthy of all of our time that we are planning to meet quarterly to really talk through the budget and talk about what things are coming up so that I think all of us can be more aware of how budgets are impacting our various departments throughout the year. And so that when we are getting to the point of the fall, when we're deciding next year's budget, everyone has more information of what went into the decision-making of why certain things are prioritized in various budgets. And I think it will help our city administrator to just add more knowledge to the overall global view that he needs to have on all of our departments. So as I said, it was very positive. And the mere fact that our conversations resulted in additional work to try to find some additional monies really demonstrates to me good faith effort in trying to help us get the monies that we need in order to fulfill our mission at the library. So I think Todd will very much for working closely with us in trying to present yet another budget to all of you. So any other comments or questions? And I'm just looking for the, it looks like I'm not getting anyone waving or hand at this time. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Aye. Any opposed? Okay, motion carries. And again, thank you for being part of this meeting. We now can go on to a much, well, I would like to say it's a much lighter topic, but you know, I was telling poor Garrett, I said, you know, I think in light of where we are, I think we're gonna always have COVID-19 service responses on our agenda. So I am now gonna turn it over to Garrett and I told you this meeting was a positive one and then I'm really not too sure what he's sharing on 2.2. So let's hear what he has to say. Actually, these are fairly positive for such a bad topic, but as far as quarantine and materials go, so when we first started off in the spring, we weren't sure how the virus was actually transmitted. We were thinking it was more surface transmitted rather than air transmitted. And so we had put quarantine the first, when this first came out at 72 hours and then we ended up moving it to four days. Obviously that puts a little bit of stress on our materials that we have to store them. We're storing them in the basement and then also people have been somewhat upset sometimes because they get notifications. We've struggled with the notification piece on when we quarantine it because we don't touch it right away. It's set downstairs. And then sometimes people reach that, they get a notification that your stuff has not been turned in yet when it actually has. So the good news is the DPI just put out some new guidelines. They sent it out to the system directors who sent it out to all of us on September 30th, saying they have now changed the guidelines based on science from the CDC. And our stuff is now being, all of our materials are now being quarantined just for a day. And so they go downstairs for one day and then they're back up. And so that will help with our circulation numbers as well as some of these issues that we've had with certain patrons being notified that their stuff has not been turned in and so on. So I think that's a really good thing for us. A nice development. And then the other thing that I just wanted to mention briefly was that with the Congress passing the CARES Act this summer, earlier this summer, there was quite a bit of the grant was available for municipalities to use to pay for certain equipment that was designated because of the virus. And so just a couple of things that we've done with that, we have purchased two Hallison Foggers and they're sort of like, they look like almost like a garbage can shape, kind of a rectangle shape. Basically they spray, like if you think of kids that are sick, you put a vaporizer in their room, it's sort of like that very fine spray. And what it does is it sprays a whole room with hydrogen peroxide, which is 99.9% effective in killing these viruses, including COVID. And so we are using that now. We just received that a week or two ago and we've started to use it. It's a very simple way to basically fog a whole room and clean it up. And so when it can even be used, that the mist is so fine that you can use it in an office space or with computers and so on. So we are using that now. We've started off with our restrooms and stuff, but it'll really save us some time as opposed to hand cleaning everything. So we're pretty excited about that. The other kind of a high, more of an expensive purchase was the, we're getting new office furniture, which the board approved a while back. Now what we've added to that is glass shields in between the cubicles. And so that can help us with transmission of stuff through the air. And so that was about $14,000 and the foggers were approximately 28,000. So we were able to put that back as to get reimbursed through this federal carers money. And so that's effective safety equipment that we didn't have to pay for. So that's pretty exciting for us. So, but we think we're doing a better job of cleaning and keeping staff safe, I guess, is the bottom line. So, yeah, that's what I have to report today. We do have a meeting next week again, so. And I think all of you are aware that just looking at our Sheboygan County public health department numbers that Sheboygan County is sort of struggling with the increase in rides of positive cases in our surrounding area, in addition to the prison population. So I just hope that all of you continue to be healthy and safe. And I'm hoping that we can all sort of work together to slow down this curve and just keep our community safe during this pandemic. If I may jump in there too. And so Todd Wolfe and I did have some discussions about that, we're hoping that if it gets a lot worse and we have to close down or to go back to a phase that the library and the city would announce at the same time since they are joined rather than having us go first, you know, on city. So that is the thought that he agrees we should do this together. And really we're just didn't just again, we're keyed in on those hospitalization numbers. The capacity of the hospital is really the key metric that we're watching. So and so far that's been fairly stable. It's been around 10, 11, 12 most days. Any other questions or comments about the COVID responses from our library? Well, I Kathy Norman. Yeah, so I've heard in the community care just about a couple of bad encounters at the library. And last time you shared that your staff was taking some heat trying to impose the mask requirement. Has that gotten any better? Cause I keep thinking about it and feeling like I want to protect library employees from having to bear the brunt of, you know, people getting really nasty. It's not changed that much. I mean, it's day to day, every day is different. But some days we do struggle with certain people and you know, we have people that test it. And I think the real problem is, is there's just a lack of consistency across the community and what organizations enforce versus don't. And then I think if, you know, my own take is that if people get used to organizations that don't enforce and then they come to ours and then we do, then it makes us look like bad guys. And so I mean, we're really trying to do it just to keep people safe, staff and public. And so I mean, we think we're doing the right thing, but some people do get pretty heated over it. We are still getting people who are very grateful that we're providing free masks cause not all organizations and businesses are able to do that. And so the wonderful organization, who are they that are helping us? The Sheboygan mask makers. So talk about a wonderful organization that did not exist in 2019. This is a new one and it's really made such a positive contribution to our community because people are enjoying their creative endeavors. I've never seen so many different fabrics used as mask material and our citizens are greatly appreciative of those donations. Anything else from anybody? Well, our next meeting will be, oh, you know, next week. So we will see all of you next Thursday on the 22nd at 3 p.m. Would someone like to make a motion to adjourn? Motion to adjourn. Oh, love it. All of three of you. One of you can be a second. Oh, maybe Marcus will be second. He just popped up. So any further discussion? All those in favor, please say aye. Okay. And aye. Any opposed? Thank you all for joining us today and may you continue to be healthy and safe.


Hello, good morning, Evan Franco and good morning everyone. I am Emanuela Mazzonis, I have assisted Francesco Bonami in creating the Mi Family project. And today we are here with Evan Franco Mates, who I want to thank you first of all for being with us, and for having accepted to participate in this online conversation that is part of our public program in the Mi Family platform that has been launched at the end of October. And today we are at our fourth appointment. So before I start my questions, our conversation, I would like to give a brief introduction to the public about Evan Franco, who are dual active since the early 90s in the art world. They have exhibited under a pseudonymum that is still active if I'm not wrong, 01001 etc.org. It's an internet domain whose mysterious identity fits perfectly in an era when digital languages and the role of the web. We're just starting to enter the contemporary art scene. You are both fascinated by the evolution of the digital world and the way internet has changed the methods of social and political interaction between individuals and also the effects that the web has had on artistic production during the last 30 years. So you always have used the web to reveal stories. You actually did it in a very interesting approach because you still and copy data and images, you use also fake names, you change identities, and all the while adopting transparent strategies without hiding behind the web, always revealing what was your aim and your project. So now considering the globalized society and this ever changing society and generation, what difference do you see between the 90s and today? And how do you think was internet interpreted 30 years ago and how much this interpretation has changed today if you think the interpretation of the internet is really changed in the last 30 years? Well, thank you, Manuela, and thank you to Francesco Bonami for organizing this great show. Thank you to Susan Cotter and all the team at Moodam. Well, the internet in the 90s was of course very different from what we have today. It changed so much that it's almost unrecognizable. In the beginning, the internet was decentralized and distributed. It was pretty much built and maintained by its users. So, for example, we had our own server in our bedroom, which was to our works.  We were young, we were isolating, trying to make art and we suddenly found ourselves in a global network of like-minded artists. Without any connections, without much resources, we could publish our works and gain visibility. One of the first works we did was called Life Sharing and for three years we openly share our home computer, making its content accessible on the internet. All our artworks as well as private material, including emails, texts, photos, bank statements were freely available for viewing through our website. Consider that social media didn't exist at the time and so personal data were not a currency yet. So it was a reflection of this first, more exciting, perhaps more utopian atmosphere around the internet and free software ethics. The internet we have today is quite different. It's very centralized with a few small giants owning most of it. All our posts, photos, emails are constantly being captured and archived indefinitely and analyzed for commercial or political purposes. As artists we try, I think, to respond to these changes. We try to visualize these contradictions and to create works that embody them. So in the 90s we were obsessed with visibility. Today we're interested in quite the opposite, invisibility with Joel and what we call the peripheries of the internet. Thank you. Very interesting explanation. And I think it is very also linked to my second question, which is related to one of your recent project, because as you just said, Eva, you use the net if I can say the dark net as your space to create art. And now if I think about a time out of joint that is an online exhibition that you recently created, if I'm not wrong, for the Yerevan Biennial, that is actually taking place completely on the dark net on the net. You described this project as a remote location and periphery of the internet. So I would like to ask you a little bit more about this project also in relation to what you said just now that you are looking now for invisibility. Yeah, time out of joint is an exhibition, an online exhibition we created for the Yerevan Biennale taking place entirely on the dark net. We borrowed the title from a novel by Philip K. Dick about the nature of reality with ordinary people experiencing the world unravelling around them. Actually, we had this idea of creating a show on the dark net for a long time. But when the pandemic started, it suddenly felt almost urgent. All art exhibitions worldwide where and still are to a certain extent installed as a ghost exhibitions without being seen by visitors, perhaps never to be seen. Yes. We wanted an exhibition that took invisibility not as an unfortunate setback as a flaw, but simply as a departure from more traditional formats to bring the audience to a place they're not probably familiar with.  A place that's a bit harder to find that works mainly on word of mouth, but where you might discover something unexpected. For the show we commissioned the new works by six artists, Joshua Ciderella, Cluster Duck, David Horvies, Blood and Yoller, Amalia Ullman and 2050 plus studio. The new works were added periodically over the duration of the show, and they were available to be seen copied or reused. Some were specifically created actually to be taken away, other to disappear after the show. The dark net reminds me very much of the 90s internet we were talking about before the pre social media internet. It's an uncharted territory, it's very different from the surface internet got very familiar with on the surface time is past. Everything is meant for immediate consumption and satisfaction. The dark net is also moving, but it operates at the slow speed pages load without brush. Think of slow as something positive, like slow food, as opposed to fast food. It's anonymous it's free of commercial constrictions and it's full of possibilities. I think for attention is what we do online anyway on the dark net, you don't have any of the tools to quantify success. There are no likes, no shares, no cookies, no comments, no recommendations, there's only content. Someone might find it frustrating, like, am I going to know how much views as my video. But we actually think it's very liberating. It's almost Zen in a tree falling in the forest kind of way. It forces the FOMO out of view. So time out of joining is an exhibition to visit from home and without brush. It's an experiment in the attention economy. Maybe the fact that you have to wait for a minute to see a photo load. If you know this photo will be erased afterwards in the case of David Orbit's work, we make you look longer. So is it possible to create a content that would put a viewer in a more contemplative mood online.  So it's an exhibition proportional to buffering time. Now I will jump one second to the other question I will come back to the question about our project and me family platform because you just talk about the dark net. And one of my questions was about your definition of dark net so we said that. You can say that in your work in the fact that you are stealing data putting that visible you are raising questions that are very difficult to answer for the public for normal person that are not very into I think the web and the dark net. The questions are who is controlling our data how and where the data are recorded and monitored and stored for how long for example. What is this cloud that we think is protecting and storing our data if they're really protecting so you said in one interview and many times that the cloud is the real dark net. However you already told us about the dark net about the fact that is only content this is really interesting to me. I'm not very much informed about the dark net. I'm honest because I'm not using it I'm not specialized. But what you said about contemplative mode slow speed I think is very interesting to know more to understand more about this. I don't know if now Franco you want to define us what the dark net is a little bit more I know that ever was already very exhaustive about this but I don't know if you want to add anything else. Well the dark net is a network that runs parallel to the Internet so it's not separate from it. It's just on a different layer. Yes. Kind of like the seven and a half floor in Spike Johnson's movie being John Malkovich. Okay. Remember that movie. Yes. To access this network you need a special software for example the tour browser. The dark net is just designed to let you communicate anonymously. That is no longer possible on the surface Internet in which our every move including this conversation is being monitored and archived. The dark net is largely presented in mainstream media as a marketplace for drugs and weapons and pornography. But it is also a platform that allowed free speech for activists in oppressive regimes during the Arab Spring for example. Or the revelation of whistleblowers like Chelsea Manning. The fact that it's anonymous does not only free from surveillance but also from advertisement. Yes. Like was able to say there is no quantification economy no data mining no profiling no cookies. There's a very interesting issue here regarding the terminology because terms like dark and transparent are being used in a very misleading way often on purpose. The Internet we are very we use every day is considered transparent. It's colorful and sparkling and its interface is very familiar to us. It's comforting almost as a matter of fact we spend most of our time in the same few locations you know Google Facebook Instagram and Amazon. A handful of companies fill up our time online influencing what we see and how we see it. But despite the rhetoric of openness you know sharing and transparency the way they actually work is incredibly obscure. It's mysterious. Contents are constantly monitored and filtered. Our personal data is traded between unknown parts to predict our future behaviors and possibly influence what we're going to buy or who we're going to vote for. For example, if I were to ask you where are your photos. What are your videos. Where exactly are they located and stored. You will know it. Yes, they are in the cloud. Yeah. Where is this cloud. It's not lightly hovering over our heads. They're likely stored in a huge gray windowless warehouse somewhere in the Utah desert heavily patrolled a place we cannot visit. Although all of our photos and memories and arts are stored in it. So in a sense the cloud is the real dark net. Yes. Thank you. It was a very clear explanation and we could keep talking about this I think for other two days because it's a really interesting topic and very actual and it's an issue that we are all facing. Our generation but everyone young kids, old people at the moment are also using the internet and anyway they're in contact with the dark net so the whole world is completely involved in this. So maybe next time we will organize another conversation only the dark net. Now I would like to continue our talk and I would like to mention the work we selected for our me family platform which is entitled Ricardo and cut from 2018. We can say a contemporary portrait you have realized gathering images from a personal phone. You actually offered to buy through a real call on social media. So for $1000 Ricardo this person this guy, he agreed to that his personal data could be transformed into a real art project. So through almost the 3000 images from 2004 to 2017 the life of this person is unfolds progressively. Now if I'm thinking about another project of yours that we actually included in our in the catalog of the exhibition family which is the others from 2011. There is a different approach, I would say you appropriate 10,000 images from people's personal computers and you decided to then include this images in an exhibition space I remember when you describe as the way we should install it you said, possibly you had to install it in a wrong space, which was a very interesting way to describe the installation detail of the piece, and you did an operation that actually anticipated of many years the disclosure of Edward Snowden, and at the same time for told the disappearance of the separation between public and private life. So, in both words, you are raising questions that are related to exhibitionism voyeurism also the self that is shaped in the digital area. I would like to ask you a little bit more about this new projects and the difference that you see between the two. That's an interesting question. Well, these two works probably reflect the changes we were talking about earlier. The others was created 10 years ago. We exploited a small software error through which we found thousands of private photos of people who were sharing them, likely without knowing it. This is a video slideshow with all the photos. We chose this slideshow the beginning because it's the traditional like vernacular way to show photos. And as you said in the museum, the projection is always wrong. It's wrongly placed, for example, on a door is wrongly rotated is wrongly keystone, as if my mom set it up. If you look at the photo, there is not much difference between these supposedly private photos and what we post on social media every day, you know, from the edgy to the banal. But they're not all photos of teenagers party. There are also some very dramatic lives. For example, that of a woman who has been beaten and she's documenting her bruises. And you cannot but start wondering what happened. Who did it? Did somebody else ever see these photos other than me? So, you know, the work is addressing how ubiquitous these powerful technologies are becoming and how on the other hand, we don't fully understand how they work, how they can be, you know, at the same time, empowering and rendering us more vulnerable. In a sense, all the Internet's like, in a sense, like how on the Internet, you don't own yourself. It's like it's the Internet that owns you. Well, Ricardo Ancati's, in a way, a follow up to the others. It was commissioned by the Wee Museum in New York, and we could say is the work based on our digital memories. Through an online open call, we found one person, Ricardo, who would sell his use bone, including all the photos and the videos contained therein, knowing that these material will become public. Like in the others, we created this live show or the phone contents that anyone can see, by the way, on the Moodams website for the Me Family exhibition right now. The final video is one hour and a half and covers 13 years of Ricardo's life. We kept all the photos without editing them in chronological order and without filtering or judging. We have manually changed the duration of each photo to emulate the pace at which we usually swipe through our phones, but the difference is very, very subtle, almost unperceptible. And we added this Jean-Marie Rosson, each man, he's the thing he loves, looping in the background. However, these photos have likely made it their way to the internet. The majority remain unseen, like most photographs nowadays. They accumulate on digital devices or remote cloud servers. They are ignored even by their author to be only forgotten and replaced by newer photos or newer devices. Thank you. I think we can actually quite conclude because unfortunately we are running out of time, but before, I would like just to ask you my last question, which is about a solo show. You had the possibility to install at the moment considering the difficult situation everywhere in the world, so you installed this solo show of yours at the Photo Museum in Winterthur in Spitzerland. And is if I'm not wrong, the first solo show of your work to be presented in a museum context, featuring a new commission that will become also part of the museum permanent collection. So I'm interested in knowing from your point of view how important it is for you to be exhibited in an institutional frame, respect to use the net as your art platform, art display. Yes, so yes, we were lucky to install the show, which will open, likely, like, early March. So we're just waiting for it. We worked on a follow up of Riccardo Ancarte. So that's, it's called Hanna Ancarte and that's the work that's been commissioned by the museum and it's now part of their collection. There are a few new works in the show, perhaps the most striking one, and you really need to go and see if you want to experience this, experience it. It's these strange bright yellow cable tray that crosses all the spaces in the museum, physically connecting all the works in the exhibition, making this infrastructure that is usually invisible, very present. It's on a very low waste level and accompanies the museum visitors, sometimes gently, sometimes closing the doors and forcing the viewer in different paths. I think Franco wants to share this. Oh, thank you. I can see it. I mean, I wish we could all have the opportunity to go and see the show in person. Right. In a sense, this thing is a metaphor of how the internet is reprogramming our lives in an unperceptible way. We like to say that the cable tray reprograms the museum. So to go back to your question, parts of the works are exhibited in the museum and parts of them will appear online, complementing each other. For example, there's a new sculpture called off cat, which is this small taxidermy sculpture based on an online meme for which we will publish a high rest photo under public domain on Wikimedia. Oh my goodness. There is a new series of videos called the box and they will also appear online on this art educational platform during the duration of the show. So to sum it up. It's not only an exhibition of images. It's also an exhibition about image circulation, emphasizing where the images come from. In our case, most of the inspiration comes from our wonderings online and where they go, and especially who is looking at these images. Thank you. Thank you very interesting. I really wish we can have the opportunity some way somehow to see the exhibition. If it's going to open, I hope so in March for how long is going to stay? Do you know? Until the end of May. It's a long run. So luckily. Luckily. Yes, luckily. So, actually, I see the timing and they think we run a little bit out of time, but it was very interesting and I want to thank you both, Franco and Eva for this conversation and I also want to underline to the audience that is following us how interesting again is to explore your digital world where I think we can all be able to learn remote elements of the net we can discover. I think in my opinion is that through your work we can discover the other side of the coin revealing aspects of new technologies. Word where sometimes we can feel loss or I can feel loss but other times we can find a guide towards unexplored direction so I think that thinking about contemporary art that would say that the strength of art of contemporary art is to be inclusive of all kind of production, not to being exclusive. And I think that in your work, we can find this inclusion. I would like to invite the public who is following us to set in a way their minds to be open to the net through the immersion in your projects in your work with another approach and approach of discovery and of inclusion. So I wish to everyone to start this exploration, especially with the work that is in our platform. So Ricardo and I cut and of course with all your other projects that people can find in the net. So thank you very much. And I really wish you good luck for the show. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you. Bye bye. Bye bye. Bye bye. Bye bye. Bye bye.


Welcome back teachers. In this last video, we bring one more exciting strategy for you. In this video, we will learn about the FLIP classroom model, its benefits and how you can use Khan Academy to implement FLIP learning. To understand the FLIP classroom model, let us first see how we teach in a traditional classroom. We will divide the steps involved in three stages and we will see what happens in each of these stages. Before the class, during the class and after the class. In a traditional classroom, before the class, the teacher first plans how to introduce the topic to the class. During the class, the teacher explains the concept and will assign homework to students. During this time, student listen and understand the teacher. After the class, student go back home and then they complete the homework. A FLIP classroom on the other hand, flips this entire process. In the before part of this class, the teacher first shares relevant content with the students as a home assignment. Students read, listen or watch the content given at home. They learn at their own pace and can go through the material as many times as they want. In the during part of the class, the teacher devotes time to the hands-on group activities to strengthen and go deeper into the concept. Students are guided and supported by teachers and peers as needed. In the after part, students are given quizzes to check for understanding. In the next section, let's try and understand what are the benefits of using FLIP classroom approach. The first benefit of the FLIP classroom is that it is a learner-centric model. In this model, students can study at their own pace. They may go through the article or video shared by the teacher as many times and at any time that they want before the class. In the FLIP classroom, since the students are introduced to the concepts outside of the school, it frees up the time of the teacher inside the classroom. This presents an excellent opportunity for the teacher to plan for different forms of in-class activity such as peer learning, project-based learning or any other activity-based learning. FLIP classrooms allows the teacher to use the in-class time to provide much more personalized support to the students. Since the students have already gone through the content at home, they could come prepared with any questions they may have. With so many advantages, we are sure you would definitely consider flipping your class too. Let's see how you can do that using content available at Khan Academy. One thing you need to ensure before using FLIP classroom strategy is that all of your students have access to some form of device to access the material assigned by you. It could be a smartphone, a laptop or a desktop computer. If some of your students do not have devices at home, then you may want to make school computer lab available to them. Khan Academy has ready content that can be easily assigned to the student as per their need and your teaching plan. Here is how you can implement FLIP classroom model using this content. We will follow the same three stages that we have seen before, before the class, during the class and after the class. Let's say I am a teacher of class 4 and I want to teach the concept of multiplication by distributive property to my students. So before the class, I will go through the content available on Khan Academy platform and check for suitable material that can be assigned to the students. Here on the topic of multiplying using distributive property, I found a 6-minute video. I can watch this video and confirm if this is the content that I want my students to go through before the next class. I will go ahead and assign this content to my students. Students will need to watch this video before they come to the next class. They can also make their notes. During the class, after I teach the concept, I would want the students to work in groups to solve practice questions. This will ensure that the students who need additional support could get it first from their peers before I step in. During the class, I would ensure that all my students are able to solve these questions based on the learnings from the class. After the class, I will assign a practice quiz on Khan Academy to students. The score from this quiz will help me understand how much mastery students have achieved in the skill. With this video, we come to the end of yet another milestone. You have completed Khan for Educators Advanced Course.  Do complete the exercises and articles and take the unit test. Thank you for your commitment to make free and high quality education available to your students anytime and anywhere.


There are a lot of challenges because when they are looking at the organic fair trade market according to them They say there's only a 15 to 20 percent market. There's a 20 percent demand for this Now these companies are getting going ahead with the certifications, you know They got certified the fair trade certified and now they have to keep renewing these licenses every year And when you say you're a fair trade company, you have to ensure that all your dues to the employee is paid on time You're giving them fair wages. There's fire and safety and security and things like that Now the companies from their point of view. They're saying is if they have to follow all these practices They want a better market for it not just a 20 percent market share because the conventional market is so huge That is very easy for companies to say I don't want to get into all these certifications I would rather do the conventional business, you know So it is the responsibility of the brands and the end consumer That's you and me to show some responsibility and support these suppliers who follow the gods fair trade up Cycling recycling processes. I think that would benefit a lot


The President of the United States and the Vice President of the United States. Please be seated. Today as this bill becomes law, America ends a period of decline in her vast and world famous transportation system. Because of the prompt and bipartisan action of Congress, we can now ensure for our children a special part of their heritage, a network of highways and mass transit that is enabled in our commerce to thrive, our country to grow, and our people to roam freely and easily to every corner of our land. This bill was possible because of the contributions of so many senators and congressmen, many of whom are standing here today. Without their leadership, cooperation and determination, this bill would never have become law. Anyone who's driven the family car lately knows what it's like to hit a pothole, a frustration, an expense, a danger caused by poor road maintenance. Wolf-full tales of highway disrepair have become part of the trucking lore. Bridges are crumbling from under us in many of our older cities, while growth is being stifled in our newer ones because the transportation system can't cope with the expanding population. Overall, we have 4,000 miles of interstate highway that needs resurfacing and 23,000 bridges that need replacement or repair. Our cities need new buses, new or rebuilt rail cars and track improvements that will cost $50 billion during the next 10 years. Common sense tells us that it will cost a lot less to keep the system we have in good repair than to let it disintegrate and have to start over from scratch. Clearly this program is an investment in tomorrow that we must make today. It will allow us to complete the interstate system, make most of the interstate repairs and strengthen and improve our bridges, make all of us safer and help our cities meet their public transit needs. When we first built our highways, we paid for them with a gas tax, a highway user fee that charged those of us who benefited most from the system. It was a fair concept then and it is today, but that levy has not been increased in more than 23 years and it no longer covers expenses. The money for today's improvements will come from increasing the gas tax or the highway user fee by the equivalent of a nickel a gallon about $30 a year for most motorists. The repairs and construction are expected to stimulate about 170,000 jobs with an additional 150,000 jobs created in related industries. Another provision in this bill adds up to six weeks of unemployment benefits for people who have used up all their unemployment insurance. Such badly needed assistance will put more than half a billion dollars into the pockets of family budgets of our long-term unemployed. While the action we take today will bring some relief to those of us who so want to work and yet cannot find jobs, its principal benefit will be to ensure that our roads and transit systems are safe, efficient, and in good repair. The state of our transportation system affects our commerce, our economy, and our future. That's why I'm pleased today to sign House Resolution 6211, the Surface Transportation Assistance Act for 1982. It will help America enter a brighter and a more prosperous decade ahead. And so saying, before the bridges fall down, I'll get this bill signed.


Okay. I'm from Colombia. I'm a chemical engineer. And now I am in the United States to improve my English. Where in the US are you calling from? I am Maryland Bethesda. Maryland Bethesda? Not far from here in Washington. You're close to us. That's right. You can just... Yeah. And I saw in your location that Washington DC. Yeah. We're in Washington DC. What do you do in Bethesda? I'm here like a third. So how do you like taking care of kids? I like, but my kids different because my kids are teenagers.  So I don't chat a lot of time with them. So I am just the driver. Oh. It's okay. It gives you more time to yourself. Yeah. But sometimes it's good, but sometimes it's boring because I need to improve my English. I need to talk with someone. So they are always like playing computer or in their iPod. When I want to speak, that is like just a little things worth and pass out. Well, but are you picking up any teenage slang that you have learned from the kids? From the kids? Yeah. I heard some different words like what does mean, but more like when they are playing. So I think that they play online with other guys. So they say that love expression that sometimes I don't know what it is. Do you read a lot? Because that's one recommendation I can give you to help you with your English. Just try to read what is magazines or newspapers and try to write as well. Because if you're not having conversations on a daily basis, at least you're getting English practice by reading. Even if it's simple books, it doesn't have to be anything scholarly. Just read. A little bit a day, yeah. And there's so much stuff on the internet to read and listen to together. Captioning. Close captions on YouTube videos. Yeah, I like to read the articles in your page. Because I can hear the pronunciation the same way I can read, so it's good. Oh, that's good.


The Book of Affirmations by Noah St. John Many people are already familiar with positive affirmations, which means repeating positive phrases of how you want to be, like, I am amazing, I radiate charisma, charm and grace, everyone wants to be around me, and it's quite obvious from many of my videos that I am a big fan of affirmations. I believe affirmations have their use, but I am also realistic enough to know that often times, affirmations are just not enough to achieve the success and the results we want. So I will teach you how to start changing your life by asking a new kind of question. In the midst of taking a shower one night, Noah St. John came up with an idea to start turning affirmations into positive questions. So instead of saying, I have so much money, for example, you would instead ask, why do I have so much money? Noah called these affirmations. So why are affirmations more powerful than affirmations? Well, pay attention to your mind right now. Did your mind try to search for the answer? It seems that the human brain automatically tries to seek solutions to a question, like it's part of our DNA. On top of that, there is a problem with affirmations. For example, try to say, I am a millionaire.   According to Noah, how you currently perceive reality is your CPR, and what you want to change is your new desired reality, or NDR, and in this case, becoming a millionaire. The intensity of that voice represents your belief gap. That is the difference between your current and desired reality. So to close this gap, Noah believes we should start asking questions, preferably beginning with why rather than how. How questions provide a method, and why provides motivation. He says we all have the how of doing things, like hugging a cactus, or picking a fight with Chuck Norris, but we don't have the why. He says if we ask, how did I become rich? Your mind would probably be stumped and simply tell you, what are you talking about? I don't know. On the other hand, why questions assume that what you want is already true, and will activate that part of your brain that will seek to make it so. So while Noah says there's absolutely nothing wrong with how questions, he believes why questions trump how questions any day. But it's important to make sure you're only asking empowering questions. Many people, whether consciously or unconsciously, ask themselves disempowering questions like, why am I so fat? Why am I so broke? These questions can make your life go crashing downwards, so always try to replace these with positive questions. It's also important to understand that every problem at its root is a question or a series of questions. For example, global warming. How can we stop destroying the planet and still live the prosperous lives we want? Wait. How can I lose weight, be healthy, and still enjoy the foods I want? Money. How can I make more money without sacrificing my family, my values, or my freedom? Even Einstein said, if I had an hour to solve a problem and my life depended on the solution, I would spend the first 55 minutes determining the proper questions to ask. For once I know the proper question, I could solve the problem in less than 5 minutes.  And some people made fun of it because it only got around 50 views. But what people didn't realize is that I made that video mainly for myself. I knew that if I asked these questions enough daily, it would lead me to the right answers. And now, 2 months later, my views have gone up thanks to asking the right questions. Now of course, I have no plans to stop asking myself these questions. Also, Noah's The Book of Affirmations was one of the things that really inspired me to make the 7th step of my infinite loop system to be evaluate and evolve. That is to look back at my day and ask myself questions like, Why am I becoming more productive? Why are various areas of my life improving? How can I improve my infinite loop system? Now, Noah doesn't believe affirmations alone will lead to results. In fact, he has a 4 step system consisting of desire, belief, action, and result. But the overall message of his book is to start asking empowering questions. So regardless of your goals, whether you want to improve your wealth, health, relationships, or whatever, remember to begin by asking the right questions. And before you know it, you'll be experiencing your new desire reality. So my question for you is, why will you begin to start using affirmations today? Thanks for watching. Hi, I'm Aaron Tupaz with Positively Brainwashed. And if you liked this video, then choose one of the following. You can either A. Subscribe and like. B. Listen to the share bear over there and show that you care. C. Watch my latest video. Or D. Tell me to lock myself in the cage.