Call to order. This is the fourth regular meeting of the 2009-2010 Common Council and As customary our city clerk will read the quote of the evening. Thank you mayor When everyone's opinions are truly valued the goals of the organization can be achieved in an accelerated manner Thank You sue roll call Born your bulk Oh We have to Okay, let's try this again No TV But it's being recorded Born here bulk hours Decker Gisha here Hannah Heidemann Coth Kittleson Clayunas Montemayor Rindflash Cirque Vanderweal Voo Wongamon 16 present gings all here we will now have the pledge of allegiance led by alderman bulk I Pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands One nation under God Indivisible with liberty and justice for all Thank You Corey Okay, we need a approval of the minutes of the last Common Council meeting president porn Thank You mayor Ryan. I move to approve the minutes from the last meeting Motion in the second roll call Oh All in favor say aye opposed motion carries We will now do the swearing in of the new alderman on the council mr. Vang Nang Voo Second district and we'll put the mic on you and you'll just turn to me. Can you reach? There you go And if you would raise your right hand, please and repeat after me I Vang Voo I Vang Voo swear that I will support So what that I will support the Constitution of the United States the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the state of Wisconsin that the Constitution of the State of Wisconsin and will faithfully and impartially It will faithfully and partially Discharge the duties this charge the duties of the office of Alderperson of the office of Alderperson office office of the Alderperson to the best of my ability the best of my abilities. So help me God So help me God Congratulations, mr. Voo As you probably already know I'm very new so there's a lot of me to learn and I hope that I will look quick in the next few months So I'll be asking you a lot of questions. So I hope that you will be helping me through that the process to know more about this Do these as out of it? So thank you Okay backing up a bit here. We need the confirmation of the mayor's appointments You're by submit the following appointment for your consideration Jennifer Lurkey to be considered for appointment to the sustainable Sheboygan task force to fill the unexpired term of Regan Howlott whose term expires for 2610 signed by the mayor I move to approve the appointment Motion and second Need a roll call, please born I bulk Bowers Decker Gisha Hannah Heidemann Cough Kittleson Clowness Montemay or Rinflaesh Syrac Vanderwheel Vu and Wonderman Sixteen eyes Motion carries And all the person Jean Kittleson to be considered for appointment to the Board of Parks and Forestry to fill the unexpired term of all the person Jody Vanderwheel Whose term expires for 19 2010 this change is necessary pursuant to section 2-7 64 sub B of the municipal code Which states that one of the members shall be chairman of the public works committee signed by the mayor President Burr Thank You Mayor Ryan I move to approve the appointment Second Motion and second roll call please Bulk Hi Excuse me Bowers Hi Decker Gisha Hi Hannah Heidemann Cough Kittleson Clowness Montemay or Rinflaesh Syrac Vanderwheel Vu Hi Wonderman Hi And Bourne Hi Sixteen eyes Motion approved Public forum Madam City Clerk Yes this evening we have Beverly Randall Is Beverly here? Here That's where you will be yes And Bev can I have your if you want to bring the mic down towards you and have your home address please My home address is 121 West Union Cedar Grove Okay And you will have five minutes Okay thank you You're welcome Good evening Mayor Ryan and members of the council These days health care is on the minds of a lot of individuals whether it's the ability to access affordable health care perhaps universal coverage The high cost of medications or the advances that are being accomplished in research For my vantage point the one component that is often overlooked in the health care industry is mental health care My name is Beverly Randall and I have the privilege of serving as the executive director of Mental Health America formerly known as Mental Health Association We are a non-profit organization and have served as the county's resource center for mental health issues for 46 years And actually we are one of only two staffed offices in the entire state What we offer is at no charge or very little cost thanks in part to United Way donations Unmet mental health needs can cause many aspects of life to suffer Gone often times is the ability to wake up in the morning and look forward to the day ahead Gone often times is gainful employment or the ability to perform on a job Relationships suffer both within a family and with friends and coworkers Because mental health and physical health are so intricately intertwined There are often physical health concerns that go along with mental health needs There are drug and alcohol issues and with them increased work of law enforcement Which then impacts the court system and also impacts the rate of incarceration in our jails and prisons I'm here tonight because May is Mental Health Month, something you might not be aware of And it's a time for us to all focus on how important mental health is, good mental health is in all of our lives There are increasing stressors, we know of the loss of employment that has affected thousands of individuals here in our county And there are those who have lost their homes For those many reasons there is no better time than to focus on good mental health And what it takes to have good mental health in all of our lives Our national organization recently launched a project called Live Your Life Well And more information can be found at a website by that name, liveyourlifewell.org On that site are 10 evidence-based practices that show individuals what it takes to reduce stress and promote their own good mental health We are a resource center for the county providing information, confidential referrals, educational programs for youth in the schools and adults We have an emergency medication account, we offer support groups We have been involved in child abuse prevention activities and suicide prevention activities I want you to be aware of that because I believe with the increasing stressors in our county and city There are more and more of your constituents perhaps approaching you and looking for guidance and direction What you have in your packet that all of you should have at this point is first of all our brochure Which indicates that we're located in the United Way building at 19th and Kohler Memorial Drive where Erie and Kohler Memorial Drive intersect Our lime green resource card keeps some very important resource numbers at your fingertips And this brochure help for a hard times guide is a collaborative effort that was put together by United Way and many other partners Funded in part by city development and it is a guide for people in the community who are facing uncertainties and stress All of these items whether it's the resource card, our brochure or this pamphlet are available in quantities And probably the best way for you to access whatever supply you need would be to call our office and we would be happy to get those to you The other thing that we produce is our directory of community resources which is a very comprehensive guide to all of the agencies in the county as well as the support group Who can be a valuable tool for you. I've appreciated the opportunity to work with some of you over the years And if this information is new I would invite you to come and get to know us better again we're located in the United Way building And the thought that I'd like to leave you with is mental health matters more than ever before. Thank you That is all for public forum. Alderman Bauch has a word to say? Thank you, Mr. Mayor. As we usually do the meeting before Memorial Day, the last meeting before Memorial Day I'd like to invite the citizens down to join us in Sheboygan for the Memorial Day parade That will be kicking off Monday at 9 o'clock followed by a memorial service in Fountain Park Which will then be followed by a memorial service at the Mung Memorial down by the waterfront So Memorial Day is all about honoring America's war dead and decorating their graves There are great many veterans here in town but more especially there are three members of the SPD that are currently activated And serving overseas, John Samuels, Josh Doyle and Robert Erickson are active So again on Memorial Day as you have your brats and have your fry out Think about the real meaning of Memorial Day, which is to honor America's war dead and say a prayer for the safe return of our soldiers Thank you, sir. Thank you, Alderman Bauch. Consent agenda 4-1 through 4-20 For a motion. President Bourne Thank you, Mayor Ryan. I make a motion to accept and file all ROs and accept and adopt all RCs and pass all resolutions Second. We have a motion and a second. If I may clarify here, 4-4 Which states submitting a communication is a matter of record from Attorney Caltz-Taller Copying the city on the required notification of the owners of properties adjacent to the Brett 76 of the pending site closure To clarify this, this is a DNR environmental site closure Which means the site is going to be taken off of the list of DNR polluted properties So this has nothing to do with the closing of the business. This is a good thing that the site will be deemed clean So just to clarify that, nothing to do with the closing of Brett's. I think he's doing fine business-wise So we have a motion and a second. Looking for a roll call please Hannah Heidemann Poth Kittleson Clayunas Montemayor Rinfleshe Surrick Vanderweel Vu Wongamane Bourne and Bulk 16 Ayes Okay, motion carries 4-21 and 4-22 communications and petitions to be referred Reports of officers to 4-23 by the library director conveying the actions the library board has taken in response to the proposed Star Program Resolution in council and the related impact on continuing eligibility of the city of Sheboygan for membership in Eastern Shores library system We are looking for a motion Motion to accept and file Second We have a motion to accept and file and a second All in favor say aye Under discussion here Under discussion Alderman Bauch Thank you, Your Honor. I have a question. The author of document 4-28 tonight in our packet makes the assertion that library employees are getting a 3.5% pay raise this year Can anybody verify? Can anybody confirm or deny that library employees are getting 3.5% this year? Mr. Paul asserts that in document 4-28 and before we accept and file this, I'm just curious It's not 4-28, it's 4-29 Oh, okay, apologize 4-29, can't read my own writing So can anybody confirm or deny whether library employees are getting 3.5%? Possibly our director of finance, Terry Hansen can answer that question I'm uncertain if it's 3.5, but I'm pretty sure that is at least 3% Okay, so I just wanted to state, Mr. Mayor, as this document gets accepted and filed That if Mr. Paul is correct and our library employees are getting a 3.5% raise When several of our other city employees are getting what they're getting It would be a great time for those employees to come to the table as we talk about the STAR program and talk about how they're going to contribute as well Thank you, Your Honor Thank you, Alderman Bauch Alderman Gisha Thank you, Mayor Ryan I believe that's my information as well I met with the finance committee of the library, I've had discussions with the library director regarding this Whether it's 3 or 3.5, I too am not sure But please keep in mind that's not all of it Like Paul Harvey used to say, it's not the rest of the story There's also merit increases, much like we used to have in our non-rep pay plan That will also kick in You will find people in that department getting in excess of 5% Based on their criteria for 2009 And this is in the last half of 2009? This is beginning January 1 It began January 1 of 2009 Thank you, Vice President Gisha Under discussion, any other discussion? All in favor? Opposed? Motion carries To be referred, 4-24 through 4-31 4-32 by Alderman Kittleson, declaring Wednesday, May 20th, 2009 As let's get physical Sheboygan County National Employee Health and Fitness Day Alderperson Kittleson Thank you, Mr. Mayor I would ask that the resolution be put upon its passage We have a motion and a second Under discussion? Under discussion I hope everyone had a chance to read the resolution As you can tell this day occurs right in the middle of bike and walk to work week And we're encouraging our employees to participate to the greatest extent possible We participated last year, did very well There are traveling trophies to be won And we're just hoping everyone will just be aware of it Wednesday, May 20th that you get in at least 20 minutes of activity And that you record that I know every department I had gone around to leave tracking sheets and information So we just encourage everybody to participate in this Let's get physical National Employee Health and Fitness Day Thank you Thank you, Alderman Kittleson We have a motion and a second All in favor? Opposed? Motion carries 433 and 434 lie over 435 through 438 to be referred Alderman Bouch Thank you, Mayor Item 436 would it be I just want to make sure we're doing the right process here I think the Committee of the Whole might benefit from some of that discussion But I wonder if it should go to City Plan Commission And then if you and Alderman Hanna would consider referring it to Committee of the Whole I think that would be very interesting for us to share with the citizens So you would like this referred to City Planning? And I'd refer that to the pleasure of the Chairperson of Committee of the Whole But either to City Planning and then Committee of the Whole Or to both at the same time, whatever Okay, we have it going to City Planning already So Committee of the Whole Okay Okay, so referred to City Planning and Committee of the Whole Thank you, Mr. Mayor Okay, we are up to Report of Committee 5 To be referred 4-39 Report of Committee 7 By Building Use Committee Recommending approval of the move of the City Attorney's Office In the City Planning and Development Office To City Hall Premises at 828 Center Avenue As shown in the attached drawings We are looking for a motion, Alderman Sert I wouldn't that the report be Offs to be accepted in place time file Accepted and adopted Alderman Rinflige Thank you Working with the Building Inspection Department With the Contractor Examiners Committee I question when they have the entire space right now in that west wing If they're going to fit in the section That quarter of a section now on the lower level Has anybody done Square Footage? I haven't done, but the Square Footage Analysis and Space Use To make sure they fit in there The conference room is stuffed full with blueprints and what have you And the offices are already pretty tight So I'm hoping that someone can shed a light on that To make sure they're going to fit down there Director Bittner, can you reply to that please? Just looking for clarification that The space that the Building Inspection Department is in right now Which seems to me to be awfully congested at this point in time And comparing the two diagrams it looks like There's actually less space for them going down to the first floor Is that correct, or are there no other options at this point in time? The upper levels are much more As you would think of executive offices with spaces for conference rooms Spaces for reading the library and that type of thing The space on the first floor is more confined However, looking at how to just utilize the space As a group of employees who is a work group And they not only have their individual offices In common space where it's expected they would exchange ideas And do some working together The one verification we have is in 2006 The city actually had an architect come in And do a space study for all the city offices That space study was actually sort of part of the police department And part of the police station But also looked at all the departments in the city We do meet the criteria that was set forth in that study But the direct answer to the question is the reduction space Thank you, Bill If I may add on that there is some definite advantages To moving building inspection And the department of city development together Paul Edenders, our director of city development Is also the department head of the building inspection And moving them into the same area will definitely Increase some efficiencies in that area So we have a motion to accept and adopt And a second roll call, please Decker Gisha Hannah Heidemann Cough Kittleson Clayunas Montemayor Rindfleisch Zurich Vanderweal Vu Wongamon Bowk Bowers 16 ayes Report of committee number eight By finance recommending establishing the star program And directing all specified department heads of the city To prepare and implement a 1% to 3% reduction In their current 2009 operating budget And passing the attached substitute Resolution Looking for a motion Vice President Gisha Thank you Mayor Ryan I move that the report of committee be accepted and adopted And that the substitute resolution be put upon its passage Second We have a motion and a second Under discussion If I may Mayor Ryan I'd like to offer two amendments Thank you Thank you Thank you Thank you Thank you I'd like to offer two amendments If I may Two very Small amendments that pertain to the Very last page of the resolution When it comes down to the dates And I gave those to I gave my copy to I have a copy right now No There were dates on the Sue if I could have you Maybe read with those two changes I gave you my copy Ah Okay The changes in the last paragraph Where it says no later than June 12 That would be the 22nd And the last sentence Recommendations to be no later than July 1 That's changing to July 7 Thank you Sue If I could continue Mayor Ryan Please That corresponds to the timeline That I had only made five copies I thank older person Clayunas For making additional copies For each older man And I think that On June 22 Individual department heads Are to report to the finance Committee The finance committee then Produced a summary of those Departmental efforts and plans To comply with the resolution And then on June 30 The committee the whole will meet To discuss those various Department head recommendations And actions Followed then by a July 6 Council vote on those Recommendations and actions Upon theoretical passage On July 6 Of those recommendations The full force of those changes Then were to begin to take place Thank you The amendment That is the amendment Yes, second Do we have a second on the amendment? Second We have a second and a third Any further discussion? Roll call, please Why don't we do all eyes on the amendment? Oh, can we do a First of all, on the amendment All in favor? Aye Opposed? Amendment carries Now on the substitute amended resolution That would be it Roll call Gisha Aye Hannah Aye Heidemann Koth Aye Kittleson Aye Clayunas Siric Aye Vanderwheel Aye Vu Aye Wanderman Aye Bourne Aye Bauch Aye Bowers Aye And Decker Aye 16 ayes I can have a motion to file 442 and 443 They're just duplicates of 441 Alderman Hannah Thank you, Mr. Mayor I make a motion to file 442 and 443 Second Motion is second All in favor? Opposed? Motion carries Matters laid over Number 11 Resolution number 3-09-10 by Alder Person Kittleson Dissolving the Blue Harbor Resort Convention Center Committee Alder Person Kittleson Thank you, Mr. Mayor I would make a move that the resolution be put upon its passage Second Motion is second Under discussion Under discussion Under discussion Under discussion Under discussion Under discussion Under discussion Under discussion Under discussion Under discussion Down the road I would just Would let council know That this committee Did not meet in over a year And a half And I think that They've They at the time They did meet They took care of Everything that They needed to The Palette Enders up in The City Planning Department Has the copies also come to the finance committee so that anything that needs to be talked about concerning the Blue Harbor Resort Convention Center can be talked about there in the finance department. So I'm... Thanks Gene. Any further discussion? Roll call please. Heidemann, Koth, Kittleson, Cleannis, Montemayor, Rindfleisch, Surek, Vanderwill, Vu, Wangeman, Born, Bauck, Bowers, Decker, and Gisha. 16 ayes. Other matters authorized by law 4-44 and RC by the Information Systems Steering Committee recommending authorizing entering into an agreement for IT Services with Impact Consultants Incorporated Vice President Gisha. Thank you, Mayor Ryan. I move that the report of committee be accepted and adopted. We have a report to accept and adopt and to pass the resolution. Correct? Correct. Correct. Yes. And a second. Under discussion, Alderperson Kittleson. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I'm just wondering this, can you just tell us again how much this is costing? And is it it's in the budget? Can someone just refresh our memory on this? Finance Director Terry Hansen would be. And Acting IT Director. Acting IT Director, free of charge. And just give us a little background on why we're doing this too. Thank you. There were two positions that were authorized that are not filled in the IT department right now and from the savings of those positions with the salaries and benefits so be sufficient funds to cover this based upon the anticipated work schedule of about 24 to 30 hours a week at the rate of 120. And what's it? What was the price? $120 an hour. And the contract is also set up based upon performance measures that if the consultant is not performing to or providing the anticipated product then we have the right to terminate that immediately so. Alderperson Kittleson. Thank you. May I ask again and then how long what is the contract for? What is the maximum you're going to keep the consultant or don't we don't know or is there there is no maximum or minimum time frame? The time frame that's specified to be done with the majority of the work in mid-August and then to scale that back based upon how we need to go about implement through implementation so it's kind of a variable but I think the max on it we would spend as maybe 110,000 tops. Thank you. Alderperson Montemayor. Thank you Mayor Ryan. I thank you Mr. Hansen that you said that most of the work would be completed by August because I was thinking the 33 weeks if he did it that many hours for that many weeks would be 120,000 almost but I'm glad to hear it's less than that for a little over half a year's work but thank you. Alderman Montemayor in flesh. Thank you Mr. Mayor. Keep that in mind while we're throwing like large numbers around for a consultant certainly sounds like a job I would rather have right now. We keep in mind that unlike hiring staff where there is salary there is benefits as well as is what they're paying them hourly when they're on staff it's very tough to get rid of somebody. What's nice about a consultant is when they do the work they're done so this is definitely one way that we can look at you know privatizing if you will some of the city work that needs to be accomplished here as well so I think the information systems steering committee for other work thank you. Thank you Alderman Redflesh. If I may expand upon that a bit and just explain to the public what we're doing here when IT director Tujer Lee did a quick exit out of the city resigned and walked out on the same day he left a lot of a lot of unanswered questions as far as what he had accomplished and what he did not and this consultant is familiar with the AS-400 system that we're running the Munis software that we're implementing and he is going to map out and then entire map of our IT system and what interfaces with what and what is being served by what server etc. Right now we don't have that information so he's going to do that and then meet with every department head and get their needs that they actually need on their IT systems and then implement it after that along with the IT staff he will be reporting to IT or to acting IT director Terry Hansen directly who will be keeping track of his hours he will be working hand in hand with our four person IT staff who will be learning from him and in the same respect critiquing him and his work so that if we are sure that this work is going on and if it is not we can end the contract and the goal is in a very short period to come up with a picture of our information technology that we can improve upon it and gain some efficiencies in the city. All the person want to be our thank you again Mr. Mayor Ryan how did we come about this gentleman did we do an RFP I'm glad we're having him do this I'm assuming it's a gentleman perhaps it's a woman we came we came across him actually the city assessor which is another piece that we passed recently the city assessor software which actually eliminated it is will eliminate another position in the city assessor's office through efficiencies gained by it has a return on investment of 112% in two years this is the gentleman that introduced that so he seems to know what he's doing he's very familiar with municipal systems has worked with many of the municipalities around the state and that's how we were that's how we were introduced to him I have met with him personally a couple times Terry Hansen has has met with him on several occasions and we're confident that he will be able to do the job for us and if not it's an open-ended contract so any further discussion we have a roll call please Heidemann, Koth, Kittelsen, Clayunus, Montemayor, Rindfleisch, Zurich, Vanderwheel, Vu, Wangeman, Boren, Bauke, Bowers, Decker, Gisha, and Hannah, 16 eyes. 4-45 to be referred 4-46 a resolution by Alderman Gisha authorized retaining outside council to represent the city in the matter of Blue Harbor Resort Sheboygan, LLC versus City of Sheboygan and authorizing payment for said services Alderman Gisha. Thank you Mayor Ryan I would like to ask the council for a suspension of the rules suspension of the rules under discussion if I could call on attorney McLean to explain the need for suspension. Thank you Mayor Ryan this matter relates to the summons and complaint that's document 4-30 in your Blue Harbor Resort Sheboygan LLC is suing the city for excessive assessment of their 2008 property taxes the complaint was filed and served on our office I think on the 12th an answer needs to be filed before the next council meeting so I asked that this proposed authorization of higher and outside council be acted on tonight because it wouldn't be time to act on it for the next regular council meeting that addresses suspension part of it. On the suspension any further discussion? All in favor of suspending the rules say aye. Opposed? Motion carries. Vice President Gisha. Thank you Mayor Ryan I move that the resolution be put upon its passage. We have a motion and a second under discussion roll call please. Coth, Kittleson, Clayunas, Montemayor, Rindfleisch, Zurich, Vanderwiel, Vu, Wongamon, Bourne, Bauck, Bowers, Decker, Gisha, Hanna, and Heidemann. 16 ayes. Motion carries. Other matters? Attorney McLean. Thanks Mayor Ryan. 447 is a communication from Jim and Jolene Clonk regarding the fact that they put a planter around the city tree in front of their home to address the problems with tree roots and someone has complained. That will be referred to Public Works. 448 is a committee report by salary and grievance. Your committee met and discussed that the city continue with exchanging formerly Cambridge integrated services group, the city's workers' compensation, third party administrator, administrator through December 31, 2009 with the flexibility to change carriers for the year 2010. That lies over. 449 is a committee report by salary and grievance. Your committee to whom was referred a copy of resolution number 6-09-10 by Alder, Hanon, Bourne, establishing the STAR program and directing all specified department heads to the city to prepare and implement reductions in their operating budgets recommends they attach substitute resolution to be passed. That lies over. Can that be filed? Yes. Okay, we look for a motion to file on that then. Move. And a second. All in favor? Aye. File. Under discussion Alderman Rinflesch. As much as I want to file us because we've already discussed it. Since it's not on the agenda, can we be filed or does that have to lie over? I believe it could be filed. All the the actions already been taken by the council on the STAR resolutions. Perfect, thank you. 450 is an ordinance amending section 29-75, the 1975 municipal code so as to reclassify the position of cable TV production coordinator. The position goes from non-represented to local 1564 Ashmi. Lies over. 451 is an ordinance amending section 29-75 of the 75 Sheboyga and Missile Code so as to lead the part-time account clerk in the finance department's table organization. That lies over. 452 is an ordinance reducing the current salaries of all their persons by 6%. That lies over. 453 is an oral by the purchasing agent submitting an evaluation of request for quotations for housekeeping and janitorial services for the city Sheboyga police department located at 1315 North 23rd Street as directed by the common council. That will be referred to finance and public protection and safety. 454 is an oral by the city clerk submitting various license applications for the period ending June 30, 2010 and June 30, 2011. Referred to law and licensing. 455 is an oral by the city clerk submitting various license applications for the period ending June 30, 2010 and June 30, 2011. Law and licensing. We have a motion to adjourn. All in favor? Opposed? We're adjourned.


This time we're going to be looking at clock cycle time and latency. We've already looked a little bit at what our clock actually is and what the clock cycle is. But now we're going to look at what it actually means for our processor. As the owner of a computer, you probably know you'd like your clock to be fast. It's nice when you have a high clock speed because it feels like your computer can get lots of work done very quickly. But our clock is actually related to how much work our hardware has to do. So in our single cycle processor, we have to be sure that we can complete every instruction within one cycle. Our hardware is just designed in such a way that it expects to write everything back to registers, the program counter, the data memory at the end of the cycle. And it can only get new data at the beginning of a new cycle. So our processor can get new data at the beginning of the cycle and write its results back at the end of the cycle. But it can't really do those in between. So we're going to have to make sure that our clock cycle time is long enough to accommodate any of the instructions that we've got. We'll be interested in seeing how much time any of our instructions require. And then we're basically just going to say whichever instruction takes the most amount of time is the one that we're going to base our clock cycle around. It turns out in general, that's going to be our load word instruction. This is because the load word instruction goes through all of the really, really complex stuff in the main workflow. No other instruction goes through all of those elements. If we look at our arithmetic instructions, they'll leave out the data memory. If we look at our store word instruction, it gets the data memory, but it doesn't write anything back to the registers. Those branch and chump instructions are just a whole lot cheaper. Even though they use some of this hardware up here, the branch and chump instructions are not going to be nearly as expensive as accessing memory and the registers again. So our clock cycle time is going to be limited by how long it takes a load word instruction to complete. So if we know how long the critical path for our load word instruction takes, then we know how long we have to set our clock cycle to. The latency for an instruction is how long it takes a single instruction to complete. In our single cycle architecture, it turns out that's the same as the clock time. In this case, every instruction takes one clock cycle to complete, so the amount of time it takes an instruction to complete is one clock cycle. However long that one clock cycle is. This will get a little more complex when we start looking at a multi-cycle architecture, but we can also have a much more complex architecture that has much more variation in the latency times.


Hi, we're going to start out our jazz curriculum for guitar with just a few basics of how your guitar works and the different parts of your guitar. Now, a lot of you guys coming into this jazz program probably know this stuff, but I want to just make sure that you have a good feel for it. Probably many of you are working with a guitar with two pickups, and I'm guessing some of you know that there are two different kinds generally of pickups that you might be dealing with, either humbucker pickups or single coil pickups. Strats or strat copies tend to have the single coils, and less Pauls and less Paul copies and things that try to gain that sound have the humbuckers. This particular guitar that I'm using has the humbucker pickups on it, and it gets a little bit more of a buttery sound, so that's why I like to use it for jazz, but whatever guitar you have you can definitely use. The main thing I want you to know as we talk through this is how the tone controls and the switches on your guitar work and what they do. So essentially for most electric guitars that you're coming in with, you're going to have a volume control for each pickup, and you're going to have a tone control for each pickup. Now your guitar might be different, I'm going to show you how this guitar works and then see if you can figure out how that relates to your own instrument. Let's start with the switch on the guitar. The switch on the guitar is essentially choosing which pickup is going to be working, which pickup is going to be essentially the microphone through which the strings are amplified. The two pickups have very different roles. Typically this back pickup is thought to be for leads and for a snappier sound, a real kind of crisp, trebly sound, whereas the front pickup is more for a warmer sound. I like it a lot for strumming and for what we call comping on the guitar. So this switch will choose the pickup that we use. And just one little thing about how the pickups work and why they sound the way they do. I want you to think about the way a string vibrates when it's plucked. At the ends, by the bridge and the nut, that vibration is kind of a small vibration. It's real tight and it's close to where that string is stopped. And as it gets closer to the center, the string is vibrating on a wider rotation. So the pickup that's closer to the thin, small rotation is a much more trebly sound. And as it comes out the string and it's a wider rotation, you get sort of that warmer fatter sound. So you can think about how those pickups sound in relationship to that concept. This switch on this particular guitar, when it's thrown all the way up, is just listening to this pickup. When it's thrown all the way down, it's just using this pickup. And when it's in the middle position, it's using both pickups. So let's show you how those sound. First of all, the front pickup, that's the warmer, strummier pickup, gets that sound. The back, you can hear that difference real quickly. This is a more trebly, biting sound. This is a more warmer, buttery sound. I like this for strumming, I like this for leads. And in the middle, you get sort of a little bit of both of those qualities. In all honesty, I don't use the middle position very much at all. I like to make a decision. Am I looking for this sound or am I looking for this sound? So we've got four knobs. The front two knobs are strictly volume knobs for the two pickups. This knob corresponds with the front pickup. This knob corresponds with the back pickup. So we can make some decisions. First of all, you might just want to turn them both all the way up and use your guitar volumes all the way up. And then when you make your decision between the pickups, that will strictly be done by the switch on the guitar. If I set the front pickup's volume a little bit lower, it'll be something like that.  And then all of a sudden, it pops right out. And that's a great way to use those volume knobs to your advantage. Now let's take a look at the tone knobs and how they work. Now a tone control on a guitar is essentially a low pass filter. So what that means is this, when that knob is turned all the way up, and I have these both turned all the way up, it's essentially letting all of the frequencies of that pickup through to the amplifier. So if I play my guitar with the low pass filter all the way up, we're hearing a broad spectrum of frequencies. If I turn that knob down a lot, we just hear the lower frequencies. You hear how those trebly sounds are gone.  We hear a lot broader range of frequencies. Now in all honesty, I turn those knobs all the way up and I let the sound of the guitar and the pickup come through all the time. Let's do the same thing with the back pickup, the lead pickup. Switch. Now I turn the low pass filter. A lot of the high frequencies are gone. Back up. The high frequencies are back in. So my recommendation to start is this. Use the tone knobs turned all the way up so that they're passing all of the frequencies through your guitar. I recommend that you adjust tone at the amplifier. Your volume knobs either turn them both all the way up on the guitar and essentially use them as on-off switches, which is what I do when I'm playing. If I want the sound, I have it as an on-off switch. If I turn it all the way down, nothing comes through. So now I know when it's all the way up, it's at the volume for me.  And when you throw that switch, you're getting a change in volume as well as a change in tone.


Okay, we're back, we're live on Community Matters. We're talking about art today, we're talking about the art of filmmaking today with Hema Del Barrio. Wait, Hema. Cubero. Cubero Del Barrio. Del Barrio, let me roll it off my tongue. Hema, Cubero Del Barrio. You got it. If you didn't know, that's a Spanish name because she was born and raised in and around Madrid. She's a madrile, no? Welcome back to the show, Hema. Thank you for having me. Great to have you. Last time we spoke, it was what, a couple of years ago? Was it that long ago? And you were doing a thing on Cheesecake. You were doing a documentary film on Cheesecake in Kaimuki. Yes. You wanna talk about that? How did it go since we spoke? I made a wonderful piece about a wonderful man called Otto that has his business in Kaimuki now, Otto Cake. And I think I came here when we were about to go to the Hawaii International Film Festival. Yeah. It was really fun. It was kind of like a homecoming because Otto has always been in Honolulu. And then the film show at the Doris Duke Theater and also in San Francisco at the Roxy Theater. So yeah, it was really lovely.  And you are so creative and intense about it. How did you get involved in filmmaking? You know, I don't have anybody in my family that comes from film. But I knew when I was a young girl that I wanted to tell stories. So my entryway was journalism. Actually, I became a journalist. I went to journalism school in Madrid and I came to the US. I ended up in North Carolina. And that school allowed me to kind of starting to grab the camera and so on. But it was really in San Francisco years later when I moved to San Francisco and I met Lourdes Portillo, this Mexican filmmaker, that I started working on a film about the killings of women in Mexico called Señoritas Traviada. And I remember you talked about that. And that I realized then in the desert in Juarez that that's what I wanted to do. But that was kind of my calling. So what's, yes, calling. I, indeed, I totally, I feel that, yeah. What's your like philosophy about film? You like to do documentaries. You like true stories. What kind of true stories do you like? I like reality. I feel like I don't need to make anything up. I just feel like reality is pretty larger than fiction. And maybe because I come from journalism and I had very intense initial experiences, I really love working with people. I love the fact that you start with an idea and you don't know where it's gonna take you. I think that for me, documentary really opens me up. If I didn't have documentary, my life would probably be very small. So through documentary, I get to live the life of others. But I also know now that every time I'm doing a life about somebody else, I'm doing something about myself. I feel like we are all like mirrors. I'm always constantly learning about other people and also about myself. We're all like mirrors.  And that's gonna be on the final exam, yeah. Okay, so now let's talk about Puka Puka. And I love the title of the film, Our Atol Speaks. Which also we use the Puka Puka title, which is intentional. And it's called Tala Tala Mai To Ma To Wenua. And Puka Puka is one of the islands atolls in the northern group of the Kuka Islands. The Kuka Islands is a nation of 15 islands. And this is, if you have to place it geographically, it's closer to Samoa, but there's no transportation. There's very rare transportation that goes through Puka Puka. And Puka Pukaans have their own language that is separate from the other ones. The rural language? There's not a lot of people in Puka Puka, yeah. No, right now I think there's around like 450 people living there. But there is a great deal of migration. So there is most Puka Pukaans live outside of Puka Puka. So they migrate mainly to New Zealand and Australia. So why Puka Puka? Of all the places in the world? I know. I know. I have never heard of that place. But like about 14 years ago, I met a woman, Amelia Borofsky, who is the daughter of an anthropologist, Robert Borofsky. And she grew up in this atoll. She was taken there when she was one year old until she was like four and a half. And she started telling me about this place that she didn't know if it was real or not real. And then a few years later, I started this project about this place Puka Puka, her life, and also the life of Johnny Frisbee, who is another Puka Puka woman that grew up there. So some stories have come to me because I've read it in the news. This film that I've been working for seven years. That's your imagination, being your guide, yeah. Well, this film just entered my life and I didn't think it was gonna be a film. So this is films called Homecoming and I've been working on it for seven years. Seven years. And that's what, what was my entry point to Puka Puka? But aside from the people and looking at what it is, what Puka Puka is, how it's come to be, you have intertwined the whole notion of climate change and sea level rise. So it becomes very real and very, very current. Yeah, so you know, when I work on films, one of my challenges, or I don't know, it could be a virtue too, is that I don't make a film just about one thing. So Puka Puka is an amazing, rich place. So my feature length film, Homecoming, that I'm finishing now, is about the two women and this atoll. When I was there, I realized this is such a rich place and like many other atolls in the Pacific, is of course affected by climate change. But what's really unique about Puka Puka is that Puka Puka is outside of the capitalist system. It's its own culture and society and they have been practicing conservation techniques with nature for more than 2000 years. In 2017, I was working on Homecoming and I needed to go back to film and we got funding from the UNDP Environmental Fund that is a fund of the United Nations. And they gave me money to go to Puka Puka and what I needed to do in return was give them a deliverable of a short film about climate change. But I just thought it was just a deliverable. And then what I realized after spending six months there is that oh my God, these people have so much to offer and I'm gonna make an hour and a half film and I have so much material. So our atoll speaks comes out of filming more than 450 hours and choosing the knowledge that people have around nature and climate change. So our atoll speaks is really about climate change but not with this kind of like what is it called, catastrophic look at climate change but more from the place of like, what do indigenous people, what do Puka Pukans have to offer to us to be in nature and to live more of our respect for them? We can learn from them, we should learn from them. That's the feeling that I got. The feeling that I got is like, wow, this is such a rich place and we didn't wanna make a film that was like, you know, everything is going to disappear.  The place is really a communal film that I did with the Puka Pukan people with Johnny with Amelia. Do you run a camera? I do, I mean, I do but I also like to work with other people. So when you watch this film you will see some of my footage, you will see some of the footage of Vicente Franco, who is a really fantastic cinematographer and what really makes me happy is that the most gorgeous footage, which is the drone footage of the island. Ah, drones. It's fantastic. I was shot all by a Puka Pukan men, Coletinga, that had a drone when I got there. I got him an extra battery so we could actually get away more than 15 minutes and it's really breathtaking. So he's a cinematographer of the piece and it's really a stunning- Let's look at some clips, Emma. Okay, we got three or four clips that go through them and then you can explain each one as we finish it. Let's look at the first one. We are the children of the Oulu of the Watu of Puka Puka. As its caretakers, we listen to the moon and to the tides. At the Waivolo, thank you for looking after us. Russell, the coconut fronds. Fish for you, Merma's the sea. A father will teach his son the ways of the ocean. A mother will teach her daughter the ways of the land. We have three ecological food reserves. Motukko, Motukotawa, and Motuuta. Motukko has the fattest blue coconut crabs. Motukotawa has the juiciest flying seabirds. Motuuta has the freshest coconuts. Well, beautiful people, beautiful land, beautiful shots. So tell us about that clip. So that is the beginning of the film and the film starts with a myth of how Puka Puka was created. They believe that they come from a rock and it's a really beautiful myth. So we start with that and then which is going to explain some of the conservation practices. And what I really wanna emphasize is that when you hear the voice, the voice is the voice of Johnny Frisbee, who is this amazing woman that lives in Manoa and she's like a Puka Puka legend. Her father was Robert Dean Frisbee, was the man that introduced Puka Puka to the world. So what we did is like, as I said before, we took, I have all these interviews, we took the lines out of the interviews. The lines that talked about conservation and nature and climate change. And then we rewrote it a little bit so we'll have a narration form. And then Johnny Frisbee is the person that is actually narrating the film. So it's really, I cannot emphasize this enough, it's really not me making the film, it's really like Puka Puka's telling you what they have, what they do daily. Yeah, you're carving the statuette of the marble. Yeah, I think film is about a sculpture in action. Especially if you have 4,500 hours, you have a lot of carving to do. Okay, let's look at the second clip. The council of important people decides what and when to harvest. This is the lousy, the rules that decide when the villagers can gather and when to leave the land to replenish itself.  Next year it will be ready for meal. People connected to the land understand life's rhythms. Conserve now, eat later.  And they do actually a lot of work because they have to maintain the island. It's fishing and hunting society too. I mean, you get food from the boat and now they have solar power, they have internet, I mean, they're really in the world in the way that they want to be in the world. But it's definitely, they are following conservation practices, fishing practices, hunting practices for more than thousands of years. The clip that you saw reminded me of the fact that the knowledge is passed from generation to generation. So the grandparents teach their grandkids and that's how the knowledge is passed. Or oral history. Oral history and doing. I mean, they're really laid back. One of the things that I learned about from them is just to be more grateful and more joyful because they do really enjoy life. But they do work a lot. Like, they have a very sophisticated system. If you got into Puka Puka, they will get you in a group of men and every morning for a certain amount of hours you will have to do community work and go and hunt coconuts and get up to the trees and, I mean, and go fishing to feed everybody. I mean, it's really an alive place. If there's a lot of order. The benefit of the community. Everything, you know, you will never go hungry there. They actually include you, if you got there, they will say, okay, we're gonna give J like a caveo or two caveos or certain amount of fish or taro. So fishing and taro are the main things. And also the coconut tree. Instead of drinking water, we drink coconut. Really liked being there, didn't you? It was amazing. Let's look at the third clip, Emma. Our atto speaks. Kutala tala mai yuki tomato whenua. How long can we go Puka Puka, the island home?  We need to look at the risk of rising seas in terms of our cultural practices so that we don't lose them. We cannot allow Puka Puka to disappear into a legend of Tamade and Mataliki. Like the way Kerepasi and Tuvalu and other islands in the Pacific disappear into the sea. If Puka Puka goes under the sea, we are all under the sea. My umbilical cord is buried here. If that goes underneath, that is literally me going under the sea. We pray the international community can do something so that I don't go underwater. Beautiful, Emma. It's a beautiful place. It's really the Pacific Pacific. So I had no big waves, no surfing, I'm sorry to say. No, no surfing. And a lot of the movie is an exploration of the place and the people as an exquisite example of something we haven't seen. Something that we haven't seen and something that we could learn from. Yeah, that's the feeling that I got and that they have so much to offer. In order to make this movie, you really had to understand it. You had to observe it, you had to participate in it. You had to engage with the people. You had to see the whole place. I could have never done this film without them. So definitely, yeah. You cannot get to Puka Puka. They will not let you in if you haven't followed the protocols. And I felt really lucky because with Johnny and Amelia, they were like daughters of Puka Puka so I was able to go in and they really welcomed me and they treated me like their own. So I feel really fantastic. Tomorrow there's gonna be like, the film has gone to New Zealand. We premiered there. It was fantastic because most Puka Puka's live in the diaspora in New Zealand so we did the screenings there and tomorrow the film is gonna premiere for the first time at the Kuki Airani film festival in the Cook Islands and we have organized that the Puka Puka people will do a performance of their own, you know, drumming and dancing and then the film is opening the festival. So that's kind of amazing to me because this film is about them. And then it will show on Cook Islands' television right after. So we've seen what, three clips so far. Now we're gonna see the trailer. And the trailer is, how is the trailer different than the clips you've shown us? So as you heard in the clips, you know, you can hear the voice of Johnny Frisbee because the clip are sections of the film. The trailer, what I wanted to do was really to take you there in a kind of like a magical place. There's only a couple of lines or at all speak, you know, at the very end. And I think a quote about climate change. So the film is really the message has an urgent message of if this place, if we don't do something, if the international community doesn't do anything about climate change, we will go under and I will die with it. My umbilical cord will be buried there. So that was to me when I was trying to make a film with, when I was trying to make the trailer with my editor, Keon Lee, who is my collaborator, I was very intentional about, I wanna make sure that the wave is there and that there is a short message that is about climate change. But I also wanted to take you to this kind of like real place. It's magical, but it's real. Okay, let's see the trailer now. We are the children of the Ulu Ote Watu. How long can we call Pukupuku the island home?  Our atoll speaks. Kotalatala Mayuki Tomato Inua. That's pretty, that's pretty inviting, Hema, that really is. I wanted to mention, I forgot about the music that you hear in the trailer. So that is a recording that was done by a man that was there in the 1970s, Kevin Salisbury, who's actually helping me now with the translation of the Pukupuku and he recorded that song. And the music in Pukupuku is exquisite, like the acapella music. Homecoming, I'm gonna have really amazing music on the place, but I wanted, that is the national, that is the Pukupuku anthem. It gives me chicken skin every time I hear it. And that was very intentional to play that throughout the film.   Yeah, I made a, so when this film premiered in New Zealand the day before, I promised them that they will see the work before anybody else. I couldn't go there because there's no transport. It costs, you have to charge it up late to get there if you want to, which I did to return for my first shoot. But we organized a screening in Pukupuku. So the world premiere happened in Pukupuku. You know how in film festivals, you have to go to Sundance or Berlin? So we did it the opposite way. We started in Pukupuku. Did they like it? Oh yeah, it was very sweet. And intentionally, I put everybody in the ending credits of the film. So when you get to the end, I said, can you send me the names of everybody? So they gave me 450 names by village, by area, and also listed by men, women, and children. So I have a really long list of credits, but it makes me so happy. Then film is forever. And I think there's something about seeing your name on the screen that is kind of like, okay, well. And at some point, I can make some decisions. So it was really fun to put everybody there. Yeah, well, I hope you can go back for a long time because you may not be able to. I know, and I do want to, yeah, when I finish the feature length, I would like to go back and yeah, I mean, yeah, I definitely will go back. You know, this place was, may I say, made for you. And on the other side, you were made for it. Married you to person in a place. Well, you know, I am from, I come from, I don't come from water, I don't come from the Pacific. I come from a very, very small town, actually, north of Madrid, Medina del Campo, or San Pablo de la Moraleja, and it's very, very rural. When I was in Pucapuca and I was walking through the streets of Pucapuca, there's only one main street, I felt like I was home in my father's hometown. So that was like, I was like, what is this about? Because I was surrounded by that beautiful water and the palm trees, and definitely that's not Castilla. That's not Spain. But I feel like by making this film, the places really, and the people have really given me a huge gift.  If this film, or I should say, when this film, you know, hits the market, so to speak, then wins a lot of awards, people will go to Pucapuca, won't they? Aren't you afraid that Pucapuca is a fragile place and it's easily tampered with, it's easily damaged? So my intention with this film was to make something that will serve them. So Pucapuca is a very sophisticated society. They have a tribal system, a government system. Everybody gives their manako or their advice. So while I was making the film, everybody was informed about it and I know that they don't want to be developed. They have development, they have solar power, they function really well and it's really going to be up to them what they want to do with the impact of the film. I don't want Pucapuca to change, you know? But it's really gonna be, it's gonna be their call. I am just, I feel like as a filmmaker, I'm just a vehicle to share a message but then it's really their call, what they want to do with it. For instance, can they get better transportation for their own people? That could be a good thing, for their own people. Do they want to make hotels? They have to manage it. Just like Hawaii has to manage it. Every island community has to manage these things. I really look forward to the film to showing Hawaii because I've spent enough time in Hawaii to understand a little bit the richness of the culture and when I was in Pucapuca, I remember I was filming the creation of a pola house, of a kikau house and one of the guys came to me after hours of film and I said like, Emma, what do you think? They will think of Hawaii, of how we make homes here. And I said, Paris, your work will be in a museum. It will be at the Bishop Museum, you know? I think they have so much to offer and my hope, if they want to and they do want to, is that when the film premieres here, there could be some kind of like cultural exchange or that was really, it's a true Polynesian world. So where are we on the continuum of releasing this film? They have a premiere. They went to New Zealand to a film festival and you just came back, just came back from New Zealand. I just came back, so now... How did that go and what follows? Oh, it was really beautiful because, you know, so this deliverable became a film and then I was like, wait a minute, I talked to the fund and I said, could you give me some time? I own the film, but because of the UN, they wanted to make it publicly available to everybody. But you know how the film festival world works? I said, can you give me some time before I make it public for everybody to really take it to festivals? So I was intentionally going to New Zealand because of the diaspora. I want the film to keep showing in New Zealand, to keep showing Australia because that's where most Puka Pukaans live. We, it's gonna show here in Hawaii soon. I cannot tell you where, but maybe I can come back a little bit later in the year. You must let us know. So it's gonna be really available, but I cannot say where yet. Just yet, okay. And so my intention was that part of the world that understands, you know, the Pacific, New Zealand, Australia, Hawaii, and then go East, you know, hopefully premier also in Europe and in the US. Yes, I hope so. I'm with you on that. And then the film will be available. I think it's a really, it will be a really great educational tool. We want to create like an outreach campaign. We're really doing it like an educational plan because the film, I think, can just be used a lot in the educational market. You've alluded to, you know, what the film is intended to show. You've alluded to the kind of reaction you expect, but in a larger sense, film is media, film is communication. A film like this, especially with the sensitive issues involved and the threatening issues involved, will have an effect on people because it will show them, you know, like the end of the world. I mean, the last place, it will show them how beautiful that can be. It will show them in a nostalgic sense, in the sense of loss, what we have, we all of us have lost over the last few hundred years. You know, how would you like them? What kind of effect would you like to see happen from the film you've made, put so much time into? What kind of effect would you like? What would you like people to really take away and act on, act on, because they've seen this film? I feel like my role as a filmmaker is to shed light onto realities that already exist. Puka Puka has been there for thousands of years. So I happen to be lucky to make this film. I want people to understand that this is a very rich, sophisticated place that we can learn from, that we could maybe start being more conscious about conservation practices, about how not to waste, you know, food, about how to be more respectful with each other and with nature, how we can learn from grandparents and, you know, your parents and how knowledge can be transferred to generations. About family. Family, you know. But I want, I mean, it gives me a lot of pride to know that Puka Puka are gonna have these films about them because there's not a, what's happening tomorrow in the Cook Island is historical because they've never been documented by a film. So it's true, the beauty of film is that it lasts forever. So I think it will just, I just want you to be like immersed in it and then that you care more about climate change that you could actually, we'll create a lesson plan and an impact campaign so you actually can watch the film and then do something about it. Immersed may be a very appropriate word because Sea Little Rise is rising and the film may last longer than Puka Puka lasts. Yeah, it's hard to say, but yeah. Yeah, yeah. Well, this is a great contribution. I'm so glad you came to talk to us about it. Yeah, thank you for having me. I always love talking with you. It's very funny. The same thing, Hema. Hema Kubero Del Barrio, film maker. Thank you so much. Thank you very much.


I finally have the Huda Beauty Empowered Eyeshadow Palette in my hands. This is always one of the releases I look the most forward to every year. Huda Beauty launches one 18-pan palette every single holiday season and they tend to be my favorite that she ever launches, so I've been waiting to get my hands on this. You can pick this up right now at Sephora or Huda Beauty's website. I picked it up from Sephora, pretty good shipping. I'm very happy with it. I already did film a shop or drop on this palette when the first promo pics came out, so I go over kind of my thoughts on the color story, what I'm expecting from the palette, what I want to see from the palette, so I'll have that link down below if you are interested in seeing that. So this is like the part two to Huda Beauty where I actually have it in my hands and I get to play with it, answer my own questions and answer your questions as well. I'm always super excited about these 18-panners because they tend to be the best that she launches and she tends to kind of experiment a little bit. There are always a lot to take in because she'll throw in like an oddball formulation, she'll test a lot of new formulations in these launches as well as different kind of color stories. It's going to be a good one, it's going to be a fun one. This is the outer carton of the packaging. This palette is $67. It is also a pretty big investment palette because of the price and I can see right now, yay, the palette is made in Italy and has a 24 month shelf life. Whenever Huda Beauty palettes are made in Italy, they tend to be my favorite formulation. And then here is the palette itself, I talked about this in the shopper drop. I don't really like the eyes, I feel like in previous years, like the last two years, the packaging has been super duper cute. This one is kind of old school Huda with the eyes very simple and then here is the back of the palette as well, where it has information about the name right here, which is really cute and all of the details, social details, all of that. Very well protected, feels high quality, has a good amount of weight to it, so I'm very happy with the quality of the packaging here. I'm looking, it does not say whether or not this will be limited edition. I would say for the most part her holiday palettes do not end up being limited edition. They keep them around and then once people get tired of them, then they'll go on sale and then eventually they might be phased out of the line, but I think you'll have a while before that happens. So if you want to hold off, maybe I'm sure you'll probably be able to get these on a good discount. Okay, so let's open it up. We do have a nice mirror and the palette stands up on its own. If you need to kind of use this as a mirror to get ready. And here is the eye shadows. So like I said, this is an 18 pan palette and it has some interesting formulations in here. I think nine are going to be mattes, but they also have some metallic, some shimmers, a gel liner hybrid texture in here and then also a gel powder hybrid texture in here that we're going to mess around with. So I'm excited to swatch this. So here is the palette with the lights turned down. The interesting formulas in here are going to be these two, which is a cream formulation manifested is a kind of gel and powder eyeshadow hybrid. And then limit list right here has gold crushed flakes in there. So we're going to see how these swatch overall with the color story, I was a little underwhelmed with this. Usually she's been quite creative with her color stories for these 18 pan palette launches. This one, I feel like she kind of went a little safe and with her favorite tones, which is like warm tones and purples. Let's see if the quality is great. I can definitely look past that. I'm actually just going to go ahead and swatch the gel formulas first so that way I can clean my fingers after. So purpose is a black gel. And like I said, you can use these as eyeliners. Though I did see in her demo, these didn't seem to set down. She actually ended up setting it with a powder, which I don't love that. But we'll see if they set down. So purpose is a black hybrid gel liner shadow. And then worthy is a deep brown hybrid gel liner shadow. There's kind of swatch, Dickie. I'm putting on a little bit more for a smoother swatch. I want to see if they set down, but they don't seem deep enough for me to want to use alone as an eyeliner. Okay, let's get into it. I mean, even have a multi chrome shade right here, courageous. I'm telling you, she really plays with the textures, which is what makes her launches fun and worth it. So courageous is a multi chromatic creamy metallic. Limitless right here. We'll get into that when we get to swatches and then confident. So here's how they look on my fingers. Oh my gosh, this limitless shade. It feels like a cream. Courageous is that multi chromatic creamy metallic. It does feel really creamy, but this has quite a dark base. So it's not the most beautiful multi chromatic shade I've ever seen. I've been excited about this limitless shade because it has some gold crushed flakes in there. This is one of the shadows that she used to demo. And you can see those crushed gold flakes, but I like that it's not too sheer.  It's going to be a little bit messy, but it still gives you a strong base pigment. And then confident is a brown velvety matte. My hands look a little messy with the swatches. So if they look messy just by swatching, they'll probably be messy on the eyes with application. OK, so we're going to go into Charisma. I wonder if this one has gold flakes. Keep going and then Big Dreams. So this is what they look like on my finger. Charisma is a gold wet metallic. So it doesn't have the flakes like limitless, but I would argue otherwise. Like it doesn't have the flakes, but it still is very, very dimensional. Keep going is a latte brown velvety matte. And then Big Dreams is a purpley gray velvety matte. Oh, so this one's going to be interesting. So this like little river here is the Jowl formulation. And then you can feel the outsides are more powdery, but it feels like a true kind of cream shadow. Interesting. And then let's get into these two, which look like gorgeous, wet, metallic, creamy shades. Oh, this is a fun one. So manifest it is a copper gloss hybrid metallic. So this is supposed to look a little bit more glossy on the eyelid. But I feel like she did an awesome job with this formula, because normally the glossy ones can feel really wet and slick. I'm interested to play with this. This will definitely need to be used on the eyes today. And then we have bold moves, which is a white gold and true gold metallic speckles, very pretty, feels almost like a cream. And then do it is a copper metallic. I think I didn't dig in hard enough. That's also gorgeous as well. But these two are particularly creamy. Then we have some mattes. I'm interested to see if these all look different on the eyelid. Obviously they have undertone differences, but the question is, will we be able to tell that they're different on the eyelid? So power is a beige velvety matte, a little bit more on the sheer side going to be more of a transition shade. Get it is a soft orange suede matte. And then rebel is a burnt nude velvety matte. I think they look like they're going to be different on the eyelid. That's good. And then let's get into the final four shades. So this is a marble shade that she's launched this formula before. I'm not too crazy about, but we might test it out today. You can see it almost has like a soft shimmer satin look to it. So winner is a cool gray velvety matte. And then here's visionary, the bold and brown marble. I think she meant to say gold and brown marble. A self is a peachy velvety matte. And then legacy is a warm brown velvety matte. Well, that has a lot of pigment. And here we have it. Here are the swatches. It looks very pretty. It has a lot of richness to it, which I think those of you with medium to deep complexions will enjoy a lot. The metallics on my arm look kind of insane right now. Insanely gorgeous, very warm on the matte side. Obviously there's like this one, which is cool, but the rest are quite warm, if you ask me. And this one is cool too. Interesting mix here. I think it looks gorgeous. Swatched really nice. And it left me wanting to play because of how unique some of these textures are. So let's see if these set down. They did not. OK, interesting. Right. I'm definitely doing two different eye looks because there's a lot in here. We really want to play with as many of the formulations as we can. OK, so this first one, I am most curious about this shade. So we're going to base the look around this shade. I'm going to start off with the shade power right here. You can see we're getting a little bit of kickback, but nothing crazy. I am using my BK Beauty 201 brush and I'm tapping off the excess. And I'm going to blend this in at my crease. This is going to start off our transition shade for today. And it blends out very nicely. And then I just want to make sure it's not going to be too close in color to best self. I want to see if they each carry their own on the eyelid. Oh, forgot to mention, I do have the ABH eye primer on my eye right now. And we're going to use this on the outer half of the crease. Yeah, they look different. Best self definitely has more pop to it and more depth. I'm just using the same brush. BK Beauty a 502. We are going into legacy. So Huda Beauty loves her orangey, warm, crease shades, which I'm not always the craziest about. But I know some of you do enjoy it. I'm going to start this off in the outer corner and blend it. I wish, though, if she was going to have this many warm crease shades, maybe something even deeper would have been nice. No, I take that back. We do have confident. I mean, I know this isn't necessarily warm, but that will get the job done. Don't listen to me. So that started off a really nice blend. I am not unhappy with that. We're going to start off with Visionary. I'm using my finger. This is one of the marble shades and I'm going to place this in the center of my eyelid. I mean, I'm doing techniques that I'm very, very comfortable with so that I can really work these shades in a way that I comfortably am able to tell you the formula. And that's actually very, very pretty. It's a more subtle shimmer shade. I think it looks cooler in the pan than it does on the eyelid. But it has almost like a gold and purple shift to it. It's very pretty for every day. I'm going back into Legacy, which is the dark outer corner color that we use just to redefine a little bit. All right, let's see what Manifest is all about. I'm going to put this all over the lid and essentially I just want to see if it creases or not. So it's a little bit difficult to work out with my finger. My eyelid is so small. Doesn't that look a little weird to you? Like chunky, right? Maybe I put too much on my finger, but I'm trying to like spread it out a little bit, which is more than I would like to tug on my eyelid to do. Okay, I think, yeah, you want to go in a little bit lighter with less product because it looks weird and textured. So the less the better. It doesn't necessarily look wet like I thought it was going to. I feel like I'd almost rather just have a normal metallic shade. I'm actually going to just take my finger and get into the river part here where the actual oily part is. Yeah, see, I don't notice it giving a wet look to the eyelid. We'll see if it creases, but I don't love the texture that it laid down. I feel like, you know, if I went in with a lighter finger, I would have liked that better. It's okay. It's okay. I'm going to now use Purpose right here, which is the cream shade, and I'm going to try and use this as an eyeliner. Now, in her demo, she did set this down with powder. And if you saw, we do need to set this down with powder because they don't dry down. And unfortunately, there's not a black shadow to set this down with. You can actually probably get a really cool, smudgy look with this. So let me try that. I'm just starting it off by lining. This is an E-Sum T05 brush, by the way. And you can see as it blends out, it loses its opacity for testing purposes. I'm using an E-Sum S31. And can we smudge this out? How does this work? Yeah, see, it completely loses its shape. I don't necessarily know that I like this as an eyeliner. I'm just going to go ahead and take an angled brush from Sigma. I went into that confident shade, which is a dark purple. And I'm just going to use this as my liner. Now, you can totally use this as a cream liner if you would like and set with powder. That's not an issue at all because it did give depth. But I don't know. I'd rather just use a liquid liner. Well, the way I see it is if you want a soft liner and you want to use eyeshadow, using the cream base will really give you the opacity and depth. So that's what I'd use this as a liner. But in any other case, I'd probably just use these cream shadows as a cream eyeshadow, like base color, like the Patrick Ta. They just have so much slickness and don't set down. There's not much use for it as an eyeliner other than to define your powder eyeshadow if you plan to use it as an eyeliner that way. So there's some versatility to it, but I just don't see myself using these very often. But it is neat that it's there. When I put on concealer, I'm going to sharpen this. Just bear with me. For fun, I'm going to take some of Charisma. This is not the gold flaky one. But I want to pop this in the center of the eyelid. This one is so pretty. This one arguably might be my favorite shade in this palette. Just because it's so reflective and like micro fine sparkles are in there, which adds so much dimension to the lid, you can heavily pack it on. But you can also kind of lightly spread it out all over the eyelid. Let me put on some concealer and we'll finish up the lower lash line for this look. It's very, very simple, but it really allowed me to play with the textures. Let's finish up the lower lash line. I don't normally go as pointy with my eyeliner. Kind of liking it. It's a different vibe. Let's get into best self right here using the A502 from BK Beauty. Not going to do anything special or surprising really for the lower lash line. And then dip into legacy. And then I think it's going to be fun to go into Charisma again, which I love this shade. It's so pretty. And I'm just going to pop it like right here, the inner part of the lower lash line. You can see how it's just a sparkly shade. It's so pretty. It's a little dry, so it's not sticking to the eyelid. Amazing. But just for that little sparkly touch, right? Okay, that's very pretty. Let's just go on to the other eye. Going to apply my ABHI primer again. Okay, so the main target for this look is to go cool toned. And I really want to play with this multi-chrome shade. I think that's what we're going to do. Kaleidos S1 and we're going into Big Dreams right here, which is a nice cool tone shade. Again, quite powdery. But even though I was complaining, especially in my shopper drop, with how many warm shades there were in the palette, I'm very happy that she did add some cool tone shades as well. And that I didn't really notice as much in the shopper drop. Using this palette, I'm happy that there's these options. I'm no longer unhappy with the amount of warm crease shades. I think it's fine because we do have the cooler and neutral options. Not as many, but it's fine. That's a Hood of Beauty palette for you. Blinked Brush E3, let's go into winner right here.  So this one is clearly more gray and less purple than that first shade that we used. So we like that and it's blending out really nice. I'm going to mess around with Worthy right here, which is one of the cream shades. And I'm going to focus this in the outer corner of the lash line. And I want to set it with some powder, but I want to use this for extra definition. In the outer corner and see how it performs on top of the powders with blending. Yeah, because it just, these blend out so nicely and they don't set. So I feel like utilizing this to add depth to give the dark shade something to stick to is also a good call. And then I'm going to go into Confident. I've decided that as far as the cream shades in here go, I really like the colors that she added, but I probably would have just preferred them to be matte. Just a regular powder matte shadow. It's fine. Make sure that edges are blended, but we did get some really nice depth over here. Okay, I had to see what this multi-chrome shade was working with courageous, though I don't really see much shiftiness in here. I don't think it's that multi-chrome, but I'm applying this to the center of the eyelid. It is very pretty though, and it has a very dark base to it. And it's going nice with this smoky, more purpley look.  Not my taste, very, very dark, but it's nice. And then lastly, I wanted to see how limitless this is the chrome-flake shade was going to look, and I'm just going to pop this in the inner corner. Wow, it's a lot going on. I think this shade would be best in a large capacity instead of just, oh my gosh, I'm just kidding. I mean, I added just the littlest bit, and it's like spreading out. So a little goes a long way with this. I was just expecting to get the inner corner, but it's like the more I blend it out, the more it's giving. I guess because it was chrome-flake, it's a flake, right? And as you push it in and move it out, it just spreads out. This would be stunning all over the lid. If I had this base, I would, and a third eye, I definitely would. But that is really pretty. I actually really like this as an inner corner accent. I'm going to go back into courageous, kind of blend these together. And then I feel like I'm going back into charisma, and I'm going to use this kind of along the top here to brighten everything up. So honestly, this look is quite pretty.  I meant pretty semi-wearable kind of, but really pretty. Let me pop on some concealer. And by the way, I'm testing the new Milk Makeup Concealer. First time using it. I like it so far. Okay, I did do something off-camera that I didn't show you, but I just used some of Purpose, the cream black. It's my eyeliner. I didn't set it. So we'll see how it does, because the second I take a brush and blend this, it's going to soften out. So I got to be careful. So let's take some of Winter right here. The dark or gray. And we're going to start this off just to smoke the lower lash line. And then we're going into Confident, the dark purple. I mean, I'm pretty much using the exact same colors that I used on my upper eye. So nothing special. Courageous, which is the fake multi-crush shade. I want to do the chrome-flake shade. That might be messy. I'm going to use a smaller brush. Pick up just a little bit. Pick up a flake or two. And that was anti-climactic. Hold on. Yeah, with a brush, it's kind of difficult, especially since I'm not using a synthetic brush. Okay, scratch that. We're just going to go into Charisma. My favorite shade is Goldarant, doing that good with brushes on these small areas. What doesn't look good now will look good once we put liner and lashes on, because that's secret to concealing ugliness. So I'm going to finish the rest of my face and we're going to do some comparisons between this and a few other palettes. All right, so here are both of the looks with lashes. Now, I mean, I would say on a more everyday casual basis, not reviewing the products, not trying to get a feel for the textures. I'd go a different route than I went today. I feel like I can get some very pretty looks with this. But I mean, these are so cute, right? So I want to get into my comparison section because I have a few palettes that I pulled that this one reminded me of and that you guys asked for as well. And then I'll get into my final thoughts about the palette overall and if you think you need it. So the number one most requested palette for me to compare it to was the Natasha Denona My Dream Palette. And this is a brand new palette. This is one of the more popular ones at launch recently, also a very pricey palette. And it plays with those purple and orange tones. And I didn't even see that in the shopper drop. And you were like, Morgan, you need to compare those. So that's what I'm doing. The top is the Natasha Denona My Dream. The bottom is the Huda Beauty. The Huda Beauty looks much more textured and reflective and has more pops, especially with those golds. The golds in the Huda make some stand out. But these are definitely both a get the look kind of deal. So take a look. Top of my arm are every single shade from the Huda Beauty and Power Palette. The bottom are the close ones that I could find from the Natasha. And remember, there are three less shades in the Natasha compared to the Huda. They're really, really, really close. I wouldn't say they're dupes, but if you want to save money and you already bought the Natasha Denona, I don't think you need the Huda and vice versa. Very, very similar. But again, I don't think there's really dupes for dupes in the colors even like up here. You know, these are creams, these are powders. It's not the exact same palette, but you're going to get very, very similar looks with both of the palettes. Not in need if you're trying to save money. You can definitely go with one or the other. I did want to compare this to one of her own because the richness of it reminds me a lot of the Naughty Nude palette. This is the palette from a couple years ago. And yeah, you can see they're definitely different. The Naughty Nude has different undertones. But I'm going to show you them side by side. Pop is empowered. Bottom is Naughty Nudes. The Naughty Nude is definitely more purple, a little bit cooler generally speaking. But there definitely are some similarities. Dupes, no, but definite similarities. Just something to keep in mind if you have the Naughty Nude. I also thought I saw in my shop or drop some similarities between this wild chameleon palette. But honestly, they're not the same. Maybe just the gold, but that's it. But what I did do a swatch comparison for is the new LaFest palette that just launched. There were two shades, the center shade and then one of the very bright orange shades. I think this one right here. But there are similarities. This, with the exception of the two brighter shades, you can get a similar look with this palette. This is almost like the travel version, I would say, of empowered. So I mean, you can see we have the purple and we have the oranges. These run kind of similar right here. So I feel like the LaFest is almost like a mini version of empowered. So I got a lot of questions about Natasha Dino in a glam and retro. And honestly, they are more different than I expected. So let me show you. Because I thought that the empowered palette was kind of a hybrid, a baby, between the glam and retro. But boy, oh boy, was I wrong. I was going to do swatch comparisons. Couldn't find hardly any that matched. So yeah, no, maybe a couple of the shimmers, but genuinely could not find anything worth swatching. And then same deal with the retro. Though I would say the retro probably has more similar tones, right? With the dark purples. But the retro really doesn't have those orange shades. So there's not that many similarities either. All right. So let's talk about my final thoughts on this palette overall. As per usual, I think it's a really beautiful, good quality. It has very interesting textures that makes it stand out from other products on the market. And who is it a beautiful job? Getting into the specifics here. Not in love with the cream formulations. I just don't really like how they sat down. I don't find myself using cream shadows like this. So I would have just preferred them to be matched. But I can still absolutely incorporate them and get them to work. The other really unique shade is this gel hybrid. Personally, I'm not a fan. It looked really chunky on my eyelid. Less is more when you apply it if you want to get the look. But again, while it's very interesting and new, you can get a similar look but better with just a true metallic shade. But she has a lot of these palettes and are beautiful. I really do like the flake shade with the gold flakes in there. I think that one is super beautiful. And everything else I think is really great. In terms of color story, it's not the most unique from Hooda Beauty. She loves warm crease colors with purples. She has a lot of palettes that are within that family. So if you have a large Hooda Beauty collection and you're tired of the purple-orange looks, this is kind of no different in that way. I just feel like the textures here are amped up. So it's just a matter if you think you need it, if you're going to use it. But I mean, quality is really good. And overall, I think it's a solid palette. I'm very happy about it. Now it's not my favorite 18-pound palette that she's launched. I mean, I'm still in love with the one from last year. Just the last three years, I feel like she's really knocked it out of the park. You know, she went a little bit more unique and different. Whereas this year's is definitely a little bit more safe based on what she already has in her line. But I still very much like it. So I do recommend it if you're interested. I believe we do have the Sephora VIP event going on at the end of the month. So if you want to hold off to get it on sale, I think that's a great option as well. And I hope you guys enjoyed this review and found it helpful. I will update you in my monthly palette rankings on my thoughts as I continue to use this palette more. I will catch you guys in the next one. Bye guys, have a good one.