artifacts of the computers that were before now becomes more and more interesting because the people that could actually operate them are disappearing. What it takes to build up a museum, how to operate it, how to finance it, how to make it happen, is something that our next speaker is going to talk about probably I would assume from what I've seen. So please give a very warm welcome to Bert van Akker. Thank you. So I don't know if I'm going to walk so maybe I'll walk or maybe I don't know yet. Yeah as I said as my introduction my name is Bart and I'm the founder of the Home Computer Museum. We're based in Helmond in the Netherlands and we have actually mission so we stated the mission for ourselves. It's on the screens right now and it's not this one is flickering but preserve and share the history of the home computer for and with current and future generations. That's what our mission is which means we have a lot of computers. So let's see if this works. Does this work? Does this work? Okay I have to walk. So how it all started? I said I'm Bart and I'm a collector and this message is approved by my therapist. I can now freely talk about it that I am a collector. Well actually as you can see on the pictures this is how my garage looked back in 2016. No a car didn't fit at all. I used to I'm a drummer so I created my garage was used to be a studio I insulated and everything but it ended up in 2016 that my drum set was permanently permanently in my car because it didn't fit in my garage anymore. Actually I even had computers stuffed in my wife's walk-in closet so it was crazy how much computers I have. However at this moment I don't call myself a collector for the simple reason a museum director cannot be a collector. A collector is doing nothing than collecting and a museum director should do something else than collecting at least in my opinion. So as I said in 2016 I got the idea of a computer museum and the reason I got the idea is because I visited two museums one in England and one in the Netherlands. Both museums had the problem it was no interaction at all. Meaning that the computers were off or not working or and a computer I mean it's just an object it's not supposed to be nice I guess. There are computers that really are supposed to be nice but most computers are not supposed to be nice. They're objects to work with so why present them in a way that they're not used to. I mean computers should be working right that's my opinion. I didn't see any stories I did have a limited information about a computer but other than that there were no stories why is this computer made who were the people using those computers. That was that's what I found interesting about a computer. I mean computer is just a thing with plastic and metal and all that stuff that's in a computer but more interesting is the story behind the computer. Why is a computer made why who were the people using those computers and I missed that all in the museums I visited. Also I found in one museum I won't call it name but it's in England. I found misinformation I mean if you see an Amiga 1200 and the science says Amiga 500 you do something wrong. If you see a Tandy TRS 80 and it says created in 1979 that's also wrong it's 1977 and I know that as a collector but people who are not collectors and people who are not very deeply interested in computers or know about the history of computers go to a museum and see this information and assume a museum is right and that's really bad. I actually from the same museum I got a book which is even worse. They actually printed a book very expensive book and there's information inside which is wrong. There's an Amiga 1000 stated all information about an Amiga 1000 and they printed an Amiga 500. I mean how hard is that to correct the right computer. So that has to be changed in my opinion. As a collector I came to these museums and was like this has to be changed. So first thing I did was try to collaborate. I tried to collaborate with the museum in the Netherlands to say okay I have this you have don't have information it's you don't have the stories can I help you can I help you in any way to give you the information or to make it nice to make it a visible museum that not only for collectors like me or maybe people here but also for my wife. She should enjoy it as well. I tried to but it was no use. I couldn't he didn't want to at all. He's I don't like saying it that much but I think he's a hoarder. It's all his and it's not he's not able to to share if information. So that didn't work out and I wanted to wanting to do something that actually matters and help people. There's a little bit of history about me. I have a sister who's who has autism and it was discovered on pretty late age. She was 20 and then it was discovered that she was she had autism and before that before that age she was just a hard learning child. That's how it called back then. So in 20 years I had experienced one somebody with autism without any label on it without a sticker that says you have autism. When it was discovered I had a girlfriend as he studied psychology and I was really interested because I all my life I was helping my sister. So when it was discovered and my girlfriend at that time was studying psychology. I think I thought I should do that too. It was my thing. However I was studying if my technical information so studying computer stuff and I figured OK I should finish this first before I do something else. But I think I'm smart. So what I did was just read all the books from my girlfriend. I have a little bit of head start already. So I did that. But yeah I didn't do that at all. The reason is the relation ended and my girlfriend at that time she changed a lot. And apparently if you study psychology the first two years of your life will be finding your own problems and try to fix that. She never returned from that. So instead of finishing her study she actually ended up in a closed hospital. She's now fine again. I guess I don't have much contact with her. But that was also one of the reasons maybe I shouldn't do that. I was happy with my life at the time. So don't try to you know poke in and try to fix me because I was fine. So yeah. However I became a system administrator. Got into Linux. I actually did security for a while as well. But I ended up with voice over IP. And in my work I found a lot of people doing exactly the same as my sister was doing. Having a form of autism. And I also noticed that a lot of managers a lot of companies don't know how to act with how to respond to those people. It's a lot of communication. It's only about communication. And so in I accidentally tried to be in between a sort middleman without I was a system administrator. But I tried to be the middleman. I tried to help those people to have this miscommunication fixed. As I say I speak fluently autism because I have 20 years of experience in that. So actually helped a lot of people staying in the company.  I kept a lot of people from that. And I'm pretty proud of that. So yeah. This was I wanted to do that as well when I started with the museum. I wanted to help people and apparently in the IT I couldn't do that that much. So that was also one of the reasons I started the museum. And the third reason my wife asked me as I said I had my the walking closet of my wife was stuffed with computers and she didn't like that anymore. I am also I'm I'm I used to be a musician. I'm still a musician playing in bands and all kind of stuff. And also doing business. So I tried to make a company from a band.  So my wife was used to me being away for like 75 weekends. Mostly every weekend I was away with bands and I quit with that because children. So yeah.  I had 35 back then.  Why don't you do anything with that because I was used to do you know making companies not that successful but I was making companies. So yeah my wife was one of the the causes as well to create this museum. So yeah that that was the plan. Let's make a museum because why not. I mean I was here and nobody else was doing what I was thinking of. So OK let's do that. So but a museum is a terrible business plan. I mean I don't know if there are any people from companies in here but or any managers directors or anything. Founders. But the museum is a terrible business plan. It depends on external money. I mean every company that is relying on external money is not a good company especially if it's only one. I worked at a company that had one big customer and that customer was saying maybe we should shop for another one. Yeah that was a problem. I don't want that. And I see a lot of museums completely relying on external on subsidy on external money money. They don't make their own and I don't think that's a good idea because if you have external money that means somebody else is making decision if they give you money. And what if they decide something else. What if they decide OK no we're not doing that anymore. So let's do something else.   It's always nonprofit which is not a problem. But most people think if it's nonprofit it doesn't it means no revenue and that's wrong. A museum is a company so it should have revenue in my opinion. It depends on goodwill. Goodwill of people volunteers you name it. It depends on people trying to help you which I love. I don't say you shouldn't it is one of the facts. And most museums it's not a business model. It's like OK we have subsidy. We ask for subsidy. We ask for money. We ask for funding. And we just you know put a lot of stuff in make it nice make information and that's it. And we'll keep it going as long as the money flows in. But there's no business models no retainable business model in that. So so I wrote a business plan because it was a terrible idea. That's how I am. So this actually a screenshot of my business model of my laptop of this one. But I made a photo of my I don't I don't. So the business plan first in one point zero and I could tell you it's still one point zero. We haven't changed. It should be an interactive museum. Computers should be on working. They have tools to be used. So it seems to be working. Plus if a computer is working it will stay alive. Everybody here knows that if you keep a system off for a long long time the batteries will die and eventually batteries will leak.  Hard disks will fail especially the rotating ones. They will fail. Rubber will just you know completely this this mental and meaning that it can't be read anymore. It can be used to to read data. So interactive means computers should be on computers should be working meaning the life will be prolonged. Simple as that all electronics should be on because it makes their life longer. We should be independent. I don't want to be dependent on anything. I don't want to be dependent on money external but also I don't want to be dependent on me.  Not planning to but something happens and I will die. And if I die should a museum then dissolve. That's weird right. So now we should continue. So we should have something independent of us that as well. I want to help people with autism. One of the main reasons I started I want to help people. I want to have good storytelling. People should have a good story to walk through have a good story to read and have all the information. I'll do a lot of research as well. Find the information. But is this information we can find. Is that correct information or is it just bogus. Quite recent example. One of the museums stated on June 5th this year that Apple existed for the Apple now the Commodore Pet was released 45 years ago. Yeah something like that. The Commodore Pet was 45 years ago. On June 5th was 1977 the Commodore Pet was released according to them. But if you did a little bit of research you know it's wrong because the Apple 2 came out on June 5th. The Commodore Pet came out in October that year.  We should have good future proof. I've seen a lot of museums fall down. Doing you know a museum is dying. People there are museums that do things that nobody is using anymore. Nobody is actively remembering obviously a castle. It's not that it will dissolve suddenly. But yeah it should be future proof. It should be able to continue for at least 100 years by itself. Not depending on external money etc etc. And we have a clear focus. Because calling it a computer museum is quite broad. Right. You need to the big IBM 360 and AS 400. And you need a lot of building for that. A lot of space. Especially if you want to have it interactive. I don't. You need to sort of supply that you have here over in this entire camp. It's not fun. Plus people. I don't think people really remember working with an AS 400. Some of them. So I had a clear focus and I wanted to have a museum about the home computer. Computer that people used at home. There wasn't any. At least not in Europe. So I came up with a business plan. Consisting of three pillars. As I call it. The first pillar. Is collection. So we have a collection part. Showing everything that. We can do anything with the collection. Collecting itself. Obviously showing it. Going to fairs. Going to MCH. Care. Is helping people. Helping people with autism. Helping people with a distance to the labor market. Because we broaden it a little bit in the years. Care is helping people. Just helping people. Going back to work. And commercial. We also have a commercial branch. And commercial meaning. We do services. What we can do in the museum. Think of data recovery. Reading all media. Something like that. Nobody. Who can read a five and a quarter inch here. Yeah. Good. Zip disk. Yes. This. Still. Very good. But if you read the data. If you have the data. What can you do with it. Can you open it in something modern. Maybe. Maybe not. And that's why we come in. Because we have all these old computers working with the original software. So we can just open it in the original software. So that's commercial. We also offer repairs. Since we want an interactive computer museum. We have to have knowledge of all these computers. Right. So we have to repair them because most of the computers we get. Are broken. We get them. Or we'll blow up. If we try to use them. So we have to make sure we can repair them. But why only use it internally. Why not use it externally. So that's exactly what we did. We just opened the computer repair shop. And in these times a computer repair shop by itself is not really feasible anymore. It's not a business unless you do it like huge. But yeah. Nobody is going to a shop to repair the computer anymore. It's just you know you return it throw it away. Whatever. Or repair yourself. But you don't go to a shop anymore. It's not the 1990s anymore. Or 80s. So. Yeah. We do that. And we still have a lot of people you know don't know how to reinstall windows. Sure we'll do that. Or reinstall a Mac. But also Commodore 64 that's broken. We also repair it. And we always repair. We never replace. We try to not to replace. But obviously if we have to spend six hours to repair a Commodore 64 then you could probably get another one that's probably cheaper than. And no cure. No pay. Simple as that. There's also a commercial stuff. We also sell computers. Old refurbished computers. It's also where we sell old laptops. Business laptops. We sell them. One of our biggest customers is called Stichting Leergeld. It's a foundation that gives laptops to poor families. Poor family that has a child obviously that goes to school and needs a laptop. But they counter for the laptop. So we give them a laptop. And that foundation pays us 150 euro. Not much. But what we do. Also the social service the work agency. If you have somebody who's unemployed and needs to follow a course for their work for their new work and don't have the money to buy a laptop. There we are again. We can provide those laptops. And since March this year we also do that for Ukrainian refugees. And nobody's paying that for us. But we just give them away. Somebody comes in. We give them away. And apparently we're the only one in the Netherlands who does that because we're in Helmont which is pretty south. But we get them from all over the Netherlands. People from Ukraine come to the museum to get a laptop. And it's a it's a normal laptop. It's just you know second to seventh generation Core i5. So Core i7. So they're really decent laptops. We install Windows 10 on it or Windows 11. If they possible. Install English, Ukrainian, Russian languages so they can use them. And there's warranty on it as well. They return it if it's broken and we just repair it. It's that simple. Thankful. We have a lot of companies sponsoring laptops to us for that. Especially for this reason. And we also sell them so you can also go to the museum and buy a laptop. It's always below the 300 euro. Because we have shops nearby that sell Chromebooks for 300 euro.  But a normal consumer goes either a new laptop or a secondhand laptop for 300. They go for a new one. Then six months later they return to us because their laptop is broken. But that's another story. So that's that was the business plan. And I wrote it down. I just did that. You saw it. I just made a word document and I wrote it down. And back then I was still using open office. I guess I don't know. So that was the end of 2016. And then 2016 and 17 started. I had a plan. But I need a building. And it needed to have some requirements. I mean we can't just have a building for a standard house has to be a good building. And I wanted to have a specific inner city center. I didn't want to be on an industrial area or so. The reason is I. The reason is museums why on an industrial area. It's really hard to get to. Usually they don't have a train station nearby or you have to go with a bus. Secondly if I go to an industrial area it means I have to provide food for people.  And maybe they're hungry. So that means I have to provide food. And I'm not a cook. So no I don't want to spend money on that. So no I stay in the city center. If somebody's hungry go outside there's plenty of food over there. That's their job. So I want to be in the city center. And I wanted to rent. Not anti-crack I don't know in the English term but temporary. So if I don't want to. The simple reason again I don't want to have a three weeks notice. So like you have to three weeks and you have to get out of the building. And that's not very nice to have in the museum right. Especially if you know how many stuff we have now it's not fun to move anymore. Really. So I came I had this this idea I wanted to have a decently sized building. At first I asked for 1500 square meters but yeah they didn't have that. So I asked to the city city of Helmholtz because I reside in the city of Helmholtz and yeah why not. So I go into the city of Helmholtz. And they had a plan. They had a big building in their mind where they could host four museums in. There were two other museums in Helmholtz that were getting out of their building because their building was there down. And they thought of the idea. OK we have this to build two museums and then the home computer museum and they found something else for a museum. Great. Great idea. Good this plan. One big building. Multiple museums. I think it was good idea. But yeah it was the city city council is not going to work. They didn't and they just put in more build more people and more. Eventually I think we were 15 companies in the same building and the building wasn't any bigger. It was a building that already existed and was empty for a long time. So yeah I ended up with like maybe 100 square meters. I was like now it's going to happen. But yeah the city was still you know this is going to happen. This is going to happen. So at some point I remember it was in October and I was talking with with one of the people from the city and she said to me maybe you should start already. With the museum. So OK. I was like yeah sure let's do that. And now we still speak a lot. She meant back then that I should start promoting it on the Internet. But I was already ahead of that. I was already doing that at the time. So my key was OK I have to rent a building. So I did. I read the building. I didn't want to rely on anything. So I just started. I just went ahead make some phone calls and found an empty building 500 square meters in the city of Helmholt. And it was. That's me. These are screenshots from YouTube. So yeah. So this was an empty building. It was completely empty. No power. No floor. It still had a wall in middle in the building. And it was empty for multiple years. Used to be a solar thing. Some bathing studio or something. And they went bankrupt and they just removed everything that was copper. So you can imagine that all cables were just trashed off. So it was a mess inside. So we got this building. By the end of 2017. We got a key for building. We went into the building. We found out there was no floor. So we called up the the owner of the building and said there's no floor. How can I use this? All right. There's a floor. Yeah. OK. We will make it sure that you get a floor. Oh perfect. So I figured out. Let's do six weeks from now. So I calculate six weeks or something like that. So I calculated a few weeks and I came up with 17 March of the 17th 2018. That will be our opening day. So I put it on the internet and somebody else would I put it on the internet. We are going to open. We have a building and we're going to open on March 17 2018. Cool. But the building owner wasn't that fast. Actually she was so slow if they were so slow that 10 days before our opening they poured down the floor and there was no electricity. There was nothing in there. So in 10 days we built a museum and I don't know if this is going to work. Yeah maybe. Maybe it's work. Yeah. That's me again. So I'm going to skip through it easy because can I skip through it. No yes not. No I can't get through it. Can I skip. No I can't skip. I don't have any sound. I don't need sounds. Nevermind. Now it doesn't work. It. Yeah it's. I don't need sounds. OK. Now I'll leave it on. I'll just tell about it. It's working apparently. This is our intro. Do I still have time. So this is actually what happened between March 9 and March 17. As you can see the building the concrete floor was made on Friday 9 of March. And as we said we opened on March 17. We everybody and everybody knew that we were open at that of we're going to open at a time our sponsors and I still remember our biggest our only sponsor actually came in while we were doing this and he said to us.  We worked every day every single day from eight in the morning to two in the night with a team of about six people. And I can tell you after the yeah the last day I had pain. I had pain in muscles. I didn't know I had those metals. It was incredible. I couldn't this was doing this was painful. Just standing was painful. It was crazy. So it's it's on YouTube. You can find it. So I'm not doing this because yeah I'm a museum director so I will tell I will talk. I could talk for hours. If I if you're ever in the museum don't ask me to to do a tour because I can talk for eight hours and yes I did that already. So anyway that's a as you can see it's very empty. The lights it was just this was with one screw the lights were bolted to the concrete to the ceiling. There were cables hanging everywhere but we managed. We were open on March 17. We were open with twenty five computers that were working. Oddly enough all the computers from the 90s were broken but we were hoping that all these computers at that time I had about four hundred computers in stock and there was cattle around in several storage units and in my garage at home and but we had with 25 computers working we were open and people could enjoy and we had a great day that day and I slept a few days after that. But yeah we had 10 days of building and we started and in by the end of 2018 I'm still holding nothing but at the end of 2018 we were nearly bankrupt because we didn't have any budget at all.  That was it and again no electricity so we had to really do every electricity. We had to go from the from the box all the way and we had to do with with high power and it was crazy. There were no lights. We had to pay for that. There were no walls just to make it nice. There was nothing but we managed to do it for some somehow but by the end of 2018 we were we were nearly bankrupt actually we were bankrupt on paper but since we were still communicating with the people who we are owning money to they kept us open and they kept us because we were still you know asking everybody asking the city to help us out because there were no not not enough visitors. We didn't have any budget to make to make any commercial outings or anything. There was nothing so we were just sitting in and we didn't know anything and I was really in doubt of throwing the towel in the ring. I was just you know giving up almost but my my other founder Patrick said you can't stop now. You've become you came so far and you can't stop. Also I did I still stopped working because this museum took up all my time. I stopped working. I didn't have any income anymore. I didn't have any benefits. I just completely stopped. And yeah so by the end of 2018 my savings were completely gone. I was in debt a lot. The museum was in debt. We were two months or three months behind on rent to the building so it didn't it wasn't nice. Thankfully another company went bankrupt in the same street as we are and the company at that time was repairing computers. So we heard that we found out that they were bankrupt or that the the city in the city was close was closing down the my com for the people who know from the Netherlands. We heard this this company was closing down so we went to that to that company and said I've heard you closing down and told us yeah we're closing down. This morning we heard that we have to go away by 12. They heard that morning they have to go away by 12 to the entire building had to be empty was impossible to do. So I asked him very polite we are good friends with them. We had an agreement. They were wearing the new computers we were repairing the old computers that was our agreement with we did. So I asked them is it OK if I put up a sign over here. And they said no no absolutely not. We are not allowed to put any signs up. But I'm away on quarter to 12 and I don't care what happens after that. So at 12 exactly two papers on the front door if you look for repairs go to the home computer museum and we picked up all repairs from that shop went to the home computer museum and that's how we survived. That was our thing that we could survive. So there's also yeah. More than full our full time work. We had I worked easy 72 hours a week easy the entire year. Well actually I'm still doing that most of the time. Yeah. See I'm not even half in my presentation yet. My god. We had a first major story I'll come back at the story. It was an August and for some complete co-incidence I I ended up sitting next at a bar at a cafe in the city a small city near the near the sea. We just I went there with my family was a good day. Nice weather. And I said OK I've been working for 72 hours a week. Let's do a day off for me for one day. So that morning we went I stopped in my car with my family and we drove to the sea to see sure and we sit there at some random bar and I had a shirt on and in the back you can see the old brands and the guy next to me said to me can I ask you something. Yes you sure. I see the brands Acorn and Sinclair on there. And I said yeah I'm from a computer museum. Yeah yeah I'm the first importer of the of the Netherlands of Sinclair and Acorn the guy was sitting next to me literally. How you I can't I can't figure that it was sitting there. So we started to talk and he also import imported laser he imported Acorn he imported a lot of brands and his brother-in-law was the first one importing IBM into the Netherlands. This was a guy that was completely unknown on the internet but he was very key to the role of computers in the Netherlands. His name is Paul Pardom. He still lives. He's very nice bloke and so we got to make but the thing is he sold Sinclair. He sold Acorn. He gave up all with importing that and he kept only one company one company alone and that is laser laser computers. That was he was the only guy in the Netherlands importing laser computers. Actually they were made in the Netherlands the laser computers. And yeah that's also Katja Schuurman was back then some kind of famous girl from a soap series which is still going on by the way. And and he was telling he wrote he made sure the song was written for her and he booked her and yeah that's how Katja became famous and laser computer became famous laser computers at some point was the biggest in the Netherlands. And after a while he gave up a lot of competition from the Chinese market. Dell American but but Acer and all that kind of brands. So he sold his company laser computers sold in late 1999 and the guy who took it over.  That's his simple and laser computers gone. The thing is you can't couldn't find this information at all. His name was completely he doesn't have linked in. He doesn't have any social media. He's completely offline basically. You couldn't find this information. And we have proof obviously. So what we did is we let him share this story create this entire story how he became the importer of laser computers. And that's what we published on our website and we are still the only one who published the full story of laser computers. So that was the first story we did that in 2018. So 2019 we weren't bankrupt. So that was good. And we started to have a stable income because we were helping people. We were helping people with autism helping people with this to labor market and the Dutch government gives money for that. So we had stable income. We had volunteers as well. It was a great system and we still have that same system. And we had the first contact regarding a new building because the current the building we rented was only for two years. Because when we started to rent it the city told us after two years we have this major building the big building with the four museums in ready. But in early 2009 to 18 just after we opened the city decided yeah you're not coming in that building. So but we had to do anything else. And yeah the landlord really wasn't pleased with us because we were still behind with rent. So there was no chance we could ever had a successor longer rent period. So we need to have a new building and it happens that the building next to us which was much larger and much better street was empty. And we could got in contact with the landlord the owner of that building. And he was enthusiastic about it. I have 10 minutes. Great. I'm still in 2019. There was no no and we want the average price. That was a big one. We won the heritage price by the end of 2019 because our combination of social cultural entrepreneurship. That's the reason why we got the price. And it was not decided by a judge it was decided by the audience which was quite easy because they had a voting system and you ask a computer museum for voting systems. Yeah we can fix that. So this is our new building. The entire yellow part is completely us. Thousand ninety square meters and we moved in by the end of two thousand and nineteen and we were closed for the entire month of January 2020 and we figured out it is a good day to open on the second of February 2020 and we opened that day and we had a YouTube coming over it was great and a lot of people were enthusiastic about us. Yeah then Corona and stuffs happened. We moved to a new building. We opened on the second of February 2020 and we were closed on March the 15th. Yeah that wasn't a great success. But since we had some time on our hands we had didn't have any visitors. We started to repair on our status and status is a Dutch cut computer. It's a really big computer and yeah there's not there's no information at all. No schematics. No documentation. No pictures. No videos up to then. And we had to we took on the challenge to repair that to get that machine booting again just because we can.  We saved. We managed to stay afloat as a company by selling laptops. We sold in three weeks more than 100 laptops to the foundation that gives to poor families because suddenly home schooling became something and we had to deliver laptops. It was like the McDonald's at our place in the front they were giving out laptops in the back they were installing laptops and I was doing the administration to send bills. It's a crazy time but we in three weeks time we had so we sold more than 100 laptops. And we started to do the Dutch heritage. We received a hole born which is a Dutch computer. If you happen to be in the retro village we have the whole born over there working. And we started to do Dutch heritage because the home computer stuff you know it's great but we needed to do more and we find the Aztes which is also a Dutch computer and we have two computers. So that's what we did. And instead of complaining about how it's it's terrible that we have no visitors we decided to go on the internet and we took basically we took over all social media. We have every social media can find us except for I forgot the name. I might we got all social media and we are actually the by far the largest computer museum on social media. By simple every day a picture with a nice story. That's what we do. Every day. So despite we are closed for four months. Not my one month do one month was closed because we were moving not to the pandemic. Despite that we grow we grew in revenue we grew in collection and we grew in volunteers. We grew in everything which was completely strange because we are a nonprofit organization without subsidy and we grew in 2020 in a year that we everybody was complaining that everything went bad. Despite that we had less visitors than in 2019. And by the end of the year we had a very hard time but we were saved by the sponsors people getting a year subscription. And in 2020 we were given the largest collection boxed PC games. We counted them there are twenty two hundred PC games in our museum and we got the largest collection CDI in the museum. So twenty twenty one. Yeah I'm going a little bit fast because I'm getting out of time. We were more we were more close. We had six months we were close in twenty twenty one. We had less visitors than in 2020. We became a member of the network digital heritage and the. Meaning that we are now. For museums and for other companies. We are reading old media and converting the data to a modern format. That's what we do. We became an example of social entrepreneurship by the National Office of Cultural Heritage. So that's what we also are. We got our status working. And at this moment we are the only one in the entire world that have working status. Standing and we had a massive growth on social media. The only thing we don't have I came up with the only thing we didn't have we don't have currently is an only fans but it's only social media we don't have. Yeah by the end of two thousand twenty one we were again nearly bankrupt. That's that's our thing by the end of the year getting bankrupt. But we're saved by sponsors donations and adoptions you can adopt a computer in the home computer museum. Then we make sure we give him fresh power every day. That's what we do. You can pet it and you can come and visit it as well. We became an essential museum for the preserve of the National History. So we are officially yeah Rijksmuseum but basically we can't go bankrupt because if we are nearby bankruptcy then the Netherlands will take us over and fire me. But yeah that's so we don't do that again. And we covered a lot of data. Yeah this year we opened the CDI collection. It was planned in 2020 but yeah there was something happening in the world so we didn't open. We opened the CDI collection. We actually have the largest CDI collection in the entire world. Both hardware and software. All the all the CDIs are currently are archived already and shared. That's what we also do. We open for everybody to come in and actually share the data. Three. He didn't tell me he had a three. On September 25th we have the opening of the game collection PC box game collection which is actually in the Guinness World Record and we will try this year to have that set again in the home computer museum because the old record says 1800 and recounted and we come out to 2200. So yeah we need to fix that. MCH it was the first time for us and we love it here. So we hope that we come back the next time. And I think everybody will like it likes us too because we have a lot of people coming in our tent and our visitor numbers are getting better and better. It's not still on the place where we want to be but I think this year will be doing that. Yeah and I was already out of time with this. So why are we important. I think I told that pretty much. We do preserve the history. We actually tell the stories. We make sure everything is working that the knowledge is kept how things work. And what we can learn about the history is the speed it went. We went from 1977 with a computer that was four kilobytes of memory. We went to a thing that I mean this is a computer. Everybody here has a computer. And what we learn in our computer museum is that every computer has its own story. And we actually found that a lot of people now who are in the musician or music industry started out with Atari because we found the link between Atari and becoming a musician. And that's very interesting. There's a lot of history to be found in the computer museum history about people history about technology. It's very interesting. And yeah I have one minute left. So I was I was already out of time to create more slides. So I'm fine. Yeah. That's not interesting. That's a lot of go go go. This is what other people say about us. And the fun thing I we have eight hundred and eighty nine eight hundred and eighty nine unique computers in our collection and the total registered items is thirty thousand five hundred and fifty five that's registered items not keyboards not mouse but really like a monitor or a computer or a particular piece of software or documentation that's all of you register. Yeah yeah yeah yeah. Yeah questions. We're in the retro village. Thank you very much. But that was I would have given you six hours for this talk. It's not it's not. I can feel it. No problem. Yeah. So thank you very much. Unfortunately we are out of time. We will definitely drop by either the retro village or at the museum and please everyone please give another warm round of applause for pop. Thank you very much. Thank you.


Hello friends, welcome back to another episode here on the channel. If anyone new to the channel, my name is Lee, also known as Osiris. And in today's episode, we're going to be featuring a Ho Ho team as we continue on with our VGC Series 8 content. Ho Ho, one of the Pokemon that we haven't actually featured on the channel yet, which I'm a little bit surprised about, and it's nice to finally be able to kind of feature a team build around Ho Ho, the fire and flying type. It's quite unique to the restricted pool of Pokemon that we've got. And it's kind of one of those restrictors. It kind of stands alone from the other ones where it has the ability if you're able to remove certain threats to it to create like wind conditions just on its own, because a lot of Pokemon do struggle to hit it for super effective damage. It's got a lot of issues, though. Obviously, a big weaknesses to electric to water to big prevalent kind of forces within the format at the minute. So you need to be able to deal with those quite nicely. And I really do feel like Lapras is quite a nice partner for it. Now, a lot of the times you're going to be maxing Lapras, so it means you're not maxing Ho Ho, getting the most kind of optimal play out of it. But at the same time with the screen support, Ho Ho can still perform when it's not maxed. Obviously doesn't have access to that speed control that you do have when you are maxed. But on the other flip side of it, Ho Ho can then come in and act as your max morn and you're not relying too much on the Lapras if you don't need to. But they kind of pair quite nicely together. Obviously got that common rock weakness, but we've got plenty in the team to kind of deal with the rock threats, you know, things like lander just don't want to go up against Lapras and other rock threats that we're going to see Nile Ego or things like that. Obviously we've got good checks for those throughout the team. So I feel like the team's quite nice. Hope you enjoyed today's episode. As always, there will be a poker piece down below in the description if you want to check that out, the details, try it out on showdown and then be my guest. And if you stick around till the end of the episode, as always, we'll be throwing up the rental team after we've had a couple of games and kind of pilot the team and show you how it functions. So like I say, hope you enjoyed today's episode friends. Let's get into it and see who our first match is going to be against today. Okay. Up first today, we have a team of Charizard. Tocall, Kalorex, Ice Rider, Raichu, Wimzikot and Dragapult. So an interesting build. You've got kind of sun and ice here, trick room mod from the Kalorex. You would imagine trick rooms on there. Maybe trick room Wimzikot. You can't ever discount that. It doesn't get access to it. And then good trick room support with the Tocall, but other than that, you've got kind of a really fast mod with the Charizard. Good support from the Raichu, providing kind of support from opposing electric type threats and things like that and Dragapult. An interesting choice as well. I think Hort always got a really good match up here, you know, in general, even if the trick room goes up, we've got an incredibly good match up. We've got to utilize our intimidated support well, but I think, like, do we just lead Urshifu? Oh, because like one of the things we could potentially do here is pressure the Dragapult, which I could imagine may be leading from my opponent's side of the field. The other thing is Raichu as well. Raichu gives us a nice option with fake out support if the Wimzikot does come out, especially against the Charizard. I think what we'll do is we will bring Urshifu and we will bring Landerous. Do we need anything else? No, I think we'll be all right with those.  Anyway, with the Assault Fest, gives us a little bit of support there. They've got a really good check to it in the Colorex Ice Rider and it's not something we can kind of underestimate, but if we can get a Sacred Fire as going, maybe get some burns on the board. It will help us a bunch. So, let's see how we kick off in this first one. These kind of like hybrid fire type teams are always kind of awkward to play against, but we are going to see Colorex and Dragapult. I wonder if there's... I do suspect something like... I like Switch here from the Dragapult. 100%, you know? So, we could just Max and then... Or we could just Sacred Fire into the Colorex, you know? Or we go Max, Airstream, get a Speed Boost, and then we'll probably not outrun the Dragapult, but Max flares not a bad option as well. I could just... I just have this feeling that we're going to see an ally switch, you know? I really do. I'm going to play to it, actually. I am going to play to it, and I'm going to nuzzle into the Colorex slot. Ah, we're not going to do it. Okay, well, let's see. Let's hope that we see an ally switch. I think we will, you know? The other thing is we could potentially see Trick Room, but like going along the lines of getting a Trick Room up in front of a hall, or I think you need to play the ally switch, unless you've got something like Reflect on Dragapult, of course, which I don't know how likely it is, because Will always tends to be the more kind of leaned upon option. There we go. Okay. Here we go. Friends. It's what you get. It's what you get.  I mean, we timed out with Raichu, so... Regardless, it would have been nice to get the nuzzle off into the Dragapult like we kind of initially said, but this should be enough to get rid of the Colorex here. Oh, it's not. Ha! Oh! So we're helping Hand and Raichu could be an option, and this is always the thing, you know? When you're playing a team, if you're looking at options for just improving the team in general, helping Hand here would be a big thing, because now the trick grooms up. It makes things very difficult for us to kind of go forward. Although, is the Colorex going to be able to pick up the knockout onto Hall? I don't think it will. And are we going to see another ally switch? Potentially, but also potentially not. I need to switch in Landerous here.  But if they go, well, they're going to have to go max ice into Hall, you know? I think that's their best option. Clear Body Protect and Dragapult from the Intimidate. Helping Hand. Okay, Glacial Lance coming out. Glacial Lance. So we will lose Landerous, and we take an absolute chunking from our Hall, which is not ideal, but we will be able to remove it this time from the field. Yeah, just getting back to the point is when you can identify things in matches, and you know, like, it's quite useful when you think, right, okay, Helping Hand here would be the, be the one option there. Just get rid of the Colorex. And there'll be other similar situations where that kind of comes into play as well, you know? And just kind of like realizing that really does help the team out a bunch. Okay, Tocall going to come in. And Urshifu. Well, we got the Sash on Urshifu. We can max Quake into Tocall, because we'll be able to take an attack with Hoho from the Tocall. It's whether or not we want to kind of double up into Tocall this turn, or if you want to go after the Dragapult. Like, the Dragapult to me doesn't really worry me too much, you know? But it's always good to kind of get rid of it if we can. You could always Sucker Punch the Tocall as well. The issue with the Dragapult is I feel like it potentially could switch out. We don't want to time out here, so that's the other thing. What have you got in the back? Like, I don't think you've got anything. I think maybe we could just Wicked Blow into the Dragapult. The Sash allows us to kind of take at least one attack. Yeah. And then depending on what my opponent's last Pokemon is, I'd imagine the Dragapult might be Sashed. Maybe Sashed? Who knows. Hoho might be able to get at least a recover off before the Trick Room ends. Because we'll be able to take an eruption or a heatwave, whatever the Tocall's got now. Wicked Blow, we just need to be able to take down the Dragapult because it's still going to be able to do a decent amount of damage. We do see the Cobber Berry on it there. He's able to take that Wicked Blow. It's just a little bit unfortunate because Dragon Darts could come out here and cause us a few issues. Willow Wisp, okay, still not the worst. And Ritesh, you're going to be our last Pokemon to come in, which isn't great, but it's not the end of the world. We do have Faker at support. We can utilize, I guess. We're going to have to take a turn to recover, I think, with Hoho. And I think it's kind of better, honestly, that my opponent's got. Yeah, because I think what we do here is recover and then fake out into the Tocall. Because I don't think you max the Tocall at this point. I think, well, if you've got in the back something like Charizard, I think that's what you max this next turn. So, get the fake out and then we'll get the recover off, which should give us a little bit of a chance to close this one out. Cause it's going to be difficult. I'm not kidding, no one, this is going to be difficult to close out. We've kind of burnt our max turns and my opponent hasn't burnt theirs, you know? Something like Charizard's in the back, it makes it very difficult to kind of... We could Earthquake, we could Earthquake. How many turns of trickery have we got left? We need to see. Cause we still have. We still do have our air balloon. But it's likely that we're going to lose it here, you know? Where we could just Sacred Fire and then he re-input. We could just Volt Switch, you know, into Tocall. If Raichu can survive this turn, I'm not confident we will. Okay, well, I like Switch. Again, pulling it out. Pulling it out of the bag. Yeah, I think we go down to a heat wave with Raichu. Oh no, Raichu taking it, so... Sacred Fire isn't going to be enough. Yes it is. Volt Switch is going to be enough to get the dragon pull on the health that it's on. I don't think so. Be kind of nice if we... Ah, we do. Okay, so if it is that Charizard coming in next, then we've got a chance because we've got Nuzzle that we can utilise on Raichu. And we still have the option where we could maybe get to proc our weakness policy depending on what comes in. Dimension to turn back to normal Raichu sitting in a decent position. The great friend Charizard. Okay, well, it could be worse. We need to recover here and we need to Nuzzle. Is Eerie Impulse better than Nuzzling though? I think it probably is, you know? I think Eerie Impulse is probably the better option. Putting it down to minus two rather than minus two speed. It could come to backfire because critical hits can become a part of this. But, okay, the Protect here is super fine, super fine. Because it gives it the opportunity for Ho'O to get all the health it needs back. And I think that my opponent needs to really concentrate on getting rid of Raichu before the Ho'O. The burn not going to take us down. I think we've got one more burn in us as well. So they need to take us down here. We brave bird. I don't really want a brave bird, you know? I want to cut her. No, I think we brave bird, I think we brave bird. If we get the Eerie Impulse off, I think we'll be fine. Because we just need to stall the Max turns out really, you know? That's the big thing for my opponent because they've got the Max turns. The nice thing is if they go for the G-Max Wildfire, the residual damage isn't going to be able to really dent Ho'O too much. We put it down to minus two as well. I don't think, have they got the Sun? I don't think they've got the Sun anymore. So I think that helps us out a bunch. They're not going to be able to summon the Sun. Eerie Impulse coming out and making things a heck of a lot easier for us. And then if we've got Room the next turn, we can always, oh, we take that like a champ. That just tickles. And Raichu going to be able to stick around for the next turn as well. So that is ideal. So we're going to be able to get the Nuzzle off, Recover. And then we're sitting in an amazing spot. Two HP, oh no, four. Miscalculated. Okay, we'll get the Recover and we'll go for that Nuzzle. You know what? I think Raichu as a support in pretty much most formats it's allowed to kind of be available in. It's so underrated. It's so underrated as a support Pokemon. I mean, nothing tells a story better than Wolf's 2016 World Championships when, you know, Raichu in those sets and that team was amazing. And we get to see it do a little bit of something in this one, which is always nice to kick us off with the day. Very good game to my part. And we'll jump into our next game of today's episode. Okay, up next today, we've got a Metagross, Whimzacot, Incineroar, Varysian, Kalrax, Ice Rider and Rotom Wash Team. Very interesting team. You've got a nice Firewater Grass core there. An interesting one that you don't generally see. Interchanging with the Grass type. Obviously, we've got the Incineroar, Varysian and Rotom and then see that Whimzacot can kind of come in and cover the Grass slot for the Varysian when it's not so optimal. The thing that I would say here is you've obviously got a beat up combination with the Varysian that we need to be very careful of. Varysian does get access to Stone Edge. So that could be really problematic for us. I think initially we need to lead Raichu and we need to lead Ho'ol because the problem with the Whimzacot coming out here and having kind of a free beat up turn on to the Varysian would shut things down for us super quickly on our Ho'ol. What else do we need? What else do we need? We need probably Landerous. I think we definitely need Oshifu in this match. 100% helps us deal with so much stuff. And maybe Rillaboom, you know. Maybe Rillaboom, maybe Landerous. Is the Intimidate going to be useful? Probably. But I feel like Rillaboom, it's tricky, it's tricky. Rillaboom doesn't have a great matchup against the Metagross, but yeah, I think we'll go Landerous. Yeah, because Oshifu can help deal with the Rotom. And the Rotom isn't as much of a threat with Raichu because the electric type attacks are kind of, it makes it a little more difficult for my opponent just to click that Thunderbolt or Max Lightning button as long as Raichu's kind of on the field. So, let's see. It's going to be tricky. Lots of things to think about keeping in mind when we're playing and not kind of get a little bit complacent because that's always the way. We are going to see Varysian and Rotom come up for my opponent. Now we can stop a nasty plot here. We can just go, I think we probably nuzzle and Max Lightning into the Varysian here. We need to because we can't allow the Varysian to Max and get a Max Rockfall off. And it is four times weak to Flying, so it should go down to the Flying type attack. Unless it's got a sash. Which hopefully it hasn't. It does give the Rotom the opportunity to go for a nasty plot as well. So we need to be a little bit careful there, but we do have Eurea Impulse. We can kind of bounce back on the next turn. Yeah, I think we go nuzzle and we go because we don't want to fake out into that slot in case the Varysian Max is, which it quite possibly could. I think we're going to see that. Let's see. Does this plan work out? Because if we get this turn one right, oh wow, wow. It's Rotom going for the big old Max, which is fine. It's going to Max Vortex into maybe even Raichu, you know, but I would say more likely to go into Hortor, which we should take. The rain's not up. We've got decent special defense and it'll just proc our weakness policy. We'll get the speed boost as well. And then the next turn we've got Eurea Impulse. We can throw out onto the Rotom. The issue would be is if the Whimsical comes in with Tailwind, which could complicate things a little bit, but we'll see how we go. Nuzzle. There we go. Don't have a lumbary. Whatever you do. Geyser. Yep. Big Geyser. Ooh, it's nasty. It's a big old chunk of damage, isn't it? And the rain is going to get itself up onto the field. A weakness policy. So there's no doubt. Even if it's got a Cobra Berry, it's not surviving this. It's no surviving. Life or Brought, which is interesting. Yeah. Now the problem, like I say, is that the Whimsical coming in and throwing up Tailwind, which gives us a few issues, but we do have the option of getting Max Guard and then Eurea Impulse into the Rotom potentially. But does my opponent pick up on that and target the Raichu instead? We'll see. They may not have brought the Whimmy, though. Metagross is what we like to see. What we like to see all day long because we can go Eurea Impulse. I don't know if we... I'd like to get rid of the rain. In all honesty, I would really like to get rid of the rain. But I don't know if I want a Max Flare. Because the Rotom can only Max Geyser. I wonder if an Eurea Impulse and then a Max Quake is a better option. It's just we'll probably end up propping a weakness policy on the Metagross this way. But we are plus two. So I'm just going to go for it. I'm going to go for it. I'm going to get rid of this rain. We're going to Eurea Impulse. We're going to take minimal damage from this Rotom. And we're going to try and nuke this Metagross. We're not going to be picking up the knockout. I very much doubt it. Not on the rain. Very close, though. Very close. Now you have to get rid of the Raichu if you are the Metagross now. But I think you're probably slower than Rotom, potentially. Yeah, with a more offensive Rotom, it makes a lot more sense. Now we should take minimal damage here. Minimal damage. Yeah, that's great. You love to see it, don't you? You do love to see it. All right. Well, taking a bit more chip. Earthquake coming out. We've got the Eberloon, I think, on the old Raichu. Because...  What a cheese item it is as well. And now we've got the opportunity to Eurea Impulse again. And I think this time we'd probably go for a Max Quake. Do we just allow the rain to stay up? I mean... My opponent got in the back that could potentially come in. Nothing with a ground resist. No. And it's likely that if anything comes in, I think it might be the Incineroar to get an Intimidate onto the hole. Or so if we can catch up with a Max Quake, you know, it helps. Rotom's on minus four now. Doesn't matter if the rain's up. Honestly, it doesn't. And I think the hole is pretty safe this turn. Getting the plus one's quite nice. Come on, Rotom. Tickle us. Tickle us a little more this turn. Come on. Let's see how much damage we've let the rain go. Let you have the rain. So let's see how much you can do. Minus four. Kind of technically minus five. It's a bit more than what I thought, but still in the rain taking it. Taking it like a champ. And we've got the opportunity now to recover off. Go for another Eurea Impulse. The Rotom's locked in now. They've not got any options to switch it out, which is great for us, you know. Not so great for my opponent. The problem is obviously the calorax coming in makes it complicates things for us for sure. And we don't have that super effective damage that we can kind of throw out onto it. And also we have to worry about potentially a trick room, which is never, never ideal. What have we got in the back? Urshavu Landeris. Not ideal if a trick room goes up, and I will like be the first to admit that. We need to burn onto the calorax. And I don't know if a recover is going to be what we kind of need. I mean, let's Eurea Impulse the Rotom again. Do we recover just to take a Glacial Lance, which could be, I think we recover. I think we recover. We try and keep Horto alive. The Glacial Lance shouldn't take Horto down after a recover. And I don't think a Hydro Pump plus a Glacial Lance will be enough. Interesting that the calorax went before the Rotom as well. Oh my God, that does so much damage. Okay, that's a bit of a problem. Chill in near boost. We don't like to see that. And a Dark Pulse. We take this though. Keeps us in the game. Just about, just about. And now we can get Urshavu onto the field, which makes, gives me a little bit more, makes me a bit more relaxed getting something like Urshavu out for sure. Because we can just double up into the calorax. Yeah, because the Rotom at this point is like no threat to us whatsoever. We just Sacred Fire and Wicked Blow. Okay, how dare you Rotom. Spoiler fun like this. The Wicked Blow will take it down and we still got to turn to Wicked Blow the next turn. The problem is though, the scarf on the old calorax is causing us a few issues, isn't it? Yeah, and I don't know if the Sucker Punch is going to be enough to take it down. Now that's a problem because it goes to plus two now. Huh, ally switch. Why have you ruined that fun? You didn't want the Rotom. We don't. Yeah, I don't know. I don't think we're going to be able to do this now. I don't think because Landerous just goes down and Urshifu Sucker Punch will not be enough to get there. I don't think. I don't think it's going to be enough. Yeah, we just go down. Yeah. This is really disappointing. Scarfed.  What is this? What is this? We lose, we lose, we lose. Ally switch has saved my opponent's bacon there. Yeah. Scarfed Calorax Ice Rider. Well, well, well. Fair play to my opponent. I didn't see it coming. Yeah, and that is it. Saved their bacon. We want to look out for friends. I'm not going to take. Ah, you know what? I think the mistake was not getting the sun up. Well, we couldn't have got the sun up even if we tried because then the Max Geyser was always going to surpass Super Seedus in the end. We needed to nuzzle with Raichu. We needed to nuzzle and not Eerie Impulse. That was the player. And at that point, do you suspect that it's scarfed? Calorax? No, never at all. I want to have a look at the, the, the, the, like the usage of scarf on Calorax Ice Rider. Okay. Scarf is not even on the list of items. So yeah. Anyway, best of one situations. It's always going to catch you out. But that's the ladder for you, isn't it? Anyway, very good game to my opponent. We'll hop over now and get you friends, the rental team. I'm a bit sad that we couldn't finish off with two wins today, but it happened sometimes. Okay, friends. Here is the rental code for today's team. It is the whole team that we've been featuring today and had a lot of fun with. Honestly, I hope if you do try it out, you do enjoy it. I think it's a really good concept between the Lapras and the whole didn't really get a chance to see the Lapras today. Unfortunately, but I think it is kind of matchup specific where you're going to see that combination. I do like the combination in general. I think they compliment each other very well. Obviously they have that conflict between who wants to Max and who doesn't. But I think Ho-O can really perform well where it doesn't have to Max, especially if it's got screen support. You've got the weakness policy there. Lapras helps disrupt a lot of the things that give, you know, Ho-O a lot of issues and kind of vice versa. So they do work well in tangent together. You could even think if you wanted to adapt this team further in your own ways is think about maybe Perish song on Lapras. It's definitely an option there rather than going for the full offensive kind of support like Clare Barron that I've went for here. I just feel like the screen support is really pivotal. But one takeaway from this is obviously that the Raichu and Ho-O combination are just very strong together and they kind of compliment each other. To not end, the air balloon is a bit of a niche item because you can see sashes on Urshifu. I think it's generally better fitted there and the assault vest, which would be another option you'd consider on Raichu is taken on the lander, which again is better on the lander than the Raichu. And personally, going assault vest on Raichu means that you don't have access to Eurea Impulse which we've seen through the games today how pivotal that can be as an option to just shut down end game situations or shut down those big Dynamax Pokemon that your opponent relies on so heavily. Anyway, without going on further anymore I'm going to wrap it up there. Hope you enjoyed today's team. Just a reminder that the poker face is down below in the description. Have a great rest of your day. Thank you as always for tuning in. Take care of yourselves and I'll catch you all for another episode very soon. Until then, as always, take care and bye-bye.


Hello guys, so in this video we are going to download Visual Studio so that we can work with Xamarin. Let's go to the Google and download Visual Studio for Xamarin. Let's try with 2019 and open this first link, Microsoft. So download for Windows. So we will go for the community edition. So we don't need to pay anything. So if download does not begin, so it is begin. Start it, just click on this. Ask for yes. Just wait for this and continue. So make sure your internet is connected because everything will be downloaded from the internet. Okay, so based on the internet speed, it may take time. So once it is done, you will be able to see this window. Okay, so here we need to work with the Xamarin. So go ahead and look for Xamarin. So do we have Xamarin over here? So simply go for desktop and mobile support. Yes, I just call it from here. And here you can see we have dotnet desktop development, dotnet for Xamarin. This one you need to select basically. Okay, so nothing else. So if you want, you can change the location where you want to install. So I just keep it on the default location. Go for install. And again, it will take some time. So make sure your internet is connected. So it is approximately of going 2.39 GB. So let's wait. So I'm going to skip some part of the video so that we should not wait for long to being downloaded. Okay, so it is downloaded. And installation is still pending. Let's wait for the completion of installing packages. Okay, so almost installed. Okay, so almost done. Let's wait. And it is started. Okay, so simply click not now, maybe later. And you can select your theme, whatever you want. I'll just go for the default one, whatever selected. So once it is done, you will be able to see this. So from here, you can create a new project. Just go ahead and click on create new project. Now here you will be able to see a lot of templates. So we can either select for the language, platform or types. So from the types, you can go ahead and select whatever you want. Project types and select for mobile over here. Do we have mobile? Yes. So go ahead and select this zembrane form. Next, and give your app name. Let's say first underscore zembrane underscore app. So I just keep it on the default location. Let's go ahead create. So make sure you select both. If you want to go ahead and work for both code visas. Allow if asked for the firewall permission for the zembrane. Allow, assess, create and wait. So it will take some time. And once done, you will be able to see this window. Okay, so this is your all about your project files. And here what you need to do once you go here, you must have the emulator. Let's go. So we don't have emulator here. Simply go for device manager so that we can create a new emulator. If asked, click for yes. Okay, so simply you need to accept this SDK license. If asked, hit yes. And it is opening this device manager. So here you can see we already have one device coming over here, which I have created earlier in the previous video. If you have seen the video for installing Android Studio. Okay, so I just create a new one over here. It might have conflict with that one. So simply create a new one. And you can change the properties, whatever you want. So I will just keep it default and create. So my motive is just to run the app. So it will ask for this packages to be installed simply agree for by accepting. So now it will take some time to download this version of Android 9. Just wait downloading. Okay, once it is downloaded, it is going to create one emulator for you. So once it is created, you will be able to start it. And once it is started, you will be able to run. Once it is done, you can hit the start button. When it may ask you for firewall permission, if asked, simply hit yes. Okay, so this is your emulator. You can close it for the prime being. So you can see this emulator is by default selected over here. So what you need to do is you just simply click on this run button. Once your device is started, that gonna run your default Xamarin project. So once it is started, you can simply hit this run button. And wait processing, creating a build to make sure your internet is connected. And depending upon your device configuration, it may take time. So once the build is generated, it would be installed on this device. So this is the default app you can see on the screen. So that's all for this video. Thank you.


Hello, welcome to the Donahue Group. It's a new year, 2008, and we're delighted that you can be with us for a fast-paced half hour of conversation on local issues. Joining me today is our daunty band of, daunty, daunty band, daunty band of commentators. Sorry about that. Ken Risto, social studies king for the Sheboygan area school district. Tom Pineski, standing in for Lee Sherman-Dreyfus today. And Cal Potter, former state senator. We have a fair amount to talk about. It's a new year, it's a political time for nonpartisan elections in the city and the county. And the state, as a matter of fact- And national, really, because our primary for local elections will also be the presidential primary in the state. That's true, although we have not too many primaries going on, but in any event. Plymouth has a mayoral election, too. And we could just say right off the bat that Plymouth is certainly an interesting political climate with four people running for mayor, Mayor Pullman, who was certainly a newcomer and I think represented some change in the Plymouth area. And maybe like Mayor Perez, that kind of change wasn't as welcome as it could be by the people who weren't as changeable. I don't know, but in any event, it'll be interesting to see how that plays out. And I don't even know who's running other than Jim Flanagan, long-time alderman out there. Peter Elrich, council member, giving up his seat to run for mayor. Oh, is that right? And Dale Nidal. He's also, I believe, on the city council. On the city council, yeah. Okay, all right. And it'll be interesting as our time goes on to see who jumps in the race for mayor in the city of Sheboygan, although that's a year away, so. By a lot of gossip around that. Oh, I know. Speculation. I think everybody except Miss Manners is running for mayor of the city of Sheboygan, but in any event. I'm partial to the name Flanagan, having been my mother's name and my son's middle name, so, in any event. But we think. Real issue oriented, isn't she? I actually think Mayor Pullman has done a nice job from when I'm able to determine. Getting a little bit more local, the city council races are in place. The Sheboygan Press is lamenting. Oh, I'm sorry, I thought I poked you. The Sheboygan Press is lamenting the lack of contested races. In fact, it appears that Jean Kittleson's race is the only one that is being challenged. Or the only race where there will actually be an election. And. Isn't the first district ever race or did somebody drop out? That's true. There are two people running. Richard Manny is not running for reelection, so it's not an incumbent versus a challenger. But it's Ed Zurich, as I understand it. And who is the former HR director for the city. And Daniel Hill. Daniel Hill, I don't know. Anybody know Daniel Hill? That's your district, so I don't know. You're gonna figure out all that stuff. Yep. Wait till they come to your door. Come to the door. Invite them in. There we go. Let's talk politics. There we go. Bob Ryan has no opposition. Jim Boren has no opposition. Mark Hanna has no opposition. Gene Clionis has no opposition. So. And I think that's not as unusual as people may have thought. It's just in the last few years that there have been a lot of races and a lot of contests. My own theory is that the city council has spun into such disruption. It's kind of like the school board used to be years ago. You'd have to be crazy to run. I mean, I don't mean to be rude about this, but you say the wrong thing and there's a John Doe investigation being conducted by the district attorney. There's an ethics investigation being conducted by the city council. The police department does hours long investigation and these are all based on people being kind of rude to each other, which is certainly not a thing that we should approve of. And who says what to whom? Within your shot becomes an issue and people say, I don't need that in my life. I can see why there aren't very few people running. I think people are just saying, I don't need that in my life. I think people are willing to serve, but they find maybe more satisfaction out of security they have is running for a church council or something else rather than the city council where you're under the microscope or in spotlight. And not always fairly from what I've been able to determine. And there does seem to be some civility missing, but even given that a whole lot seems to be made of the certain lack of civility or... Some of it might be due to the news media today. Everybody wants to be the Washington Post and expose the Watergate scandal.  They didn't even mention whether somebody had an affair or whatever they did under their own time because it was sort of given that that's not part of the political arena. But today, I think everything seems to be under the watchful eye of the media and maybe reporters don't say, well, maybe that isn't worthy of print or airtime. They just put it out there just because it's a very competitive media today. I don't know. A couple of years ago or three or four years ago, we had a large number of people running, a lot of interest, three or four candidates. And I think this is a cycle. You just go, great interest, a lot of candidates run, the some win, some lose, they don't run again. And then there might be a lull. And then maybe at the mayoral election or shortly, there'll be another group of people running again. Could be just a lull. It could be... They're all waiting for the mayor's race. They're all waiting for the mayor's race. But it's not... We do have some new people that took out paper. So that's kind of nice. And I guess a couple of them are gonna be unopposed. Silas's wife is unopposed. I thought, well... That was nice, kind of just, you know. Just changed places, you know? Instead of me staying home and cooking dinner and cleaning the house.  You never tread it, you're household. So they trade places. And then I think we got the two in the first and the sixth, Jeremy Decker. I don't know who that person is. But he's unopposed. But he's unopposed, but he took out paper. So you got some people running, not the volume that we had. And maybe it's just kind of a lull. And then next year, there'll be a lot more. I think part of it is when you look at some of those folks, the incumbents who aren't running, they're all relative, well, they're all new. Yeah, they're all new. Except for Kittleson. And I think most of them have really stepped back and really didn't participate terribly much in some of the circus. I know that Gene Kittleson didn't say much in that whole discussion of censure and non-censure and all that sort of thing and ethics investigations and whatever it might be. Certainly Gene Cuyunas didn't say much. I mean, with the exception of Alderman Ryan who put himself on the front page with some pretty less than diplomatic comments. I'm surprised that there wasn't somebody coming out of that district given that episode. Not because he did anything wrong necessarily, but it was just simply a little bit of an embarrassment. And I'm sure that when Bonnie Serta runs, they'll be, I would imagine they'll be someone. Well, no, that's it. She is not running. Well, she's not running. And she's in the sixth district and that's it. No, Bonnie, I'm sorry. Who may, excuse me, who's the woman who made the intemperative career? Vicki Meier. Vicki Meier, when Vicki comes up, excuse me, I'm sorry, not Bonnie. Sorry, Bonnie. Vicki Meier, I'm sure they'll, that particular contingent of Alderman will find someone in her district to run. Oh, I'm sure Barbara Tyshinsky will run again. That could very well be. That could very well be, yeah. Vicki Meier, Tyshinsky by not a huge of a close race last time. Yeah, relatively close. And so it'll be interesting to see how that works. I know one individual was approached by Alderman Hannah to run. And this individual was New Year's Eve night, so. You know, perhaps this individual was just feeling the effects of the new year, but he said he was going to run, maybe he wasn't aware that there was filing deadlines and things that have to be done. And he may have missed it, but he said he was approached by Alderman Hannah and Alderman Ryan to run. When I was first on the council, I think it was the deadline, first Tuesday in January. I think we had a council meeting on Monday, went to the bar with Eddie Darko and Tim Lorenz and they were just shooting the breeze. And he said, I think I'll run for mayor. I said, and we said, yeah, go to it. Next day he got his signatures, had to turn them in and he ran. Yeah. He got ahead one day and he ran. Who was this? Eddie Darko. Eddie Darko, okay. And he ran against Susha at the time. Okay. But it just happens overnight.  Sure, I've been thinking about it, I'll run. That's usually what you need. If you've been thinking and running around in your head, somebody actually brings it up and okay, you know, it's not just a loony idea I've got in my head. Yeah. It's actually, other people are thinking about it as well. Same way, yeah. Another value of taverns, is that what you're telling me? It's been a lot of great political work done in taverns. Yes, yes. For a long, long, long time. Long history. I'm sure Mitt Romney, Hillary Clinton, wish they had spent a little more time in taverns recently. Well, certainly not, Mitt. In any event. County board, there are at least, as I understand, three districts where there are no candidates at all. Which is somewhat surprising. I think you'd think someone would have, particularly with retirements, they might have said to their neighbor at the tavern or someplace, I'm not gonna run, maybe we ought to have somebody, you know, sort of cultivate somebody who is of like philosophy to take your place. At least, that's you think you'd care enough to maybe look for somebody, but I don't know. Maybe it's the impending of those four years off, decline in the number of board seats, and they're gonna go from 35 down to 25, isn't it? Right, yes, yes.  So maybe that's a deterrent as well, I don't know. Well, I know that we had spoken about it on an earlier show, but I mentioned the loss, in my view, of Bill Jens as county board, former county board chair and county board supervisor. And I would just reaffirm that loss because I think Bill was a fine, fine supervisor. But there are two people running for his seat, so that'll be a contested race, which I thought was interesting. Ken Conger, who I think did a fine job as the representative in the Kohler area, is not running again in Jeff Dickert, who is the superintendent of schools for the Kohler School District, is the only candidate. And so he'll be on the county board. And I think that's an interesting concept. I guess I always think of superintendents of school districts being a little more apolitical than that, but it'll be... As busy as heck that they can't fit in to something anything like this. The fact that they have day meetings, they don't have night meetings, do they, as a county board? Oh, yeah. I mean, the county board meets during the day, doesn't it? It does not anymore. Not anymore? That was a big issue. Okay. See, I don't even know. Most meetings are still... Many of the meetings are in the afternoon. Yeah, many meetings are in the afternoon. And that's for younger people who are working full-time. Exactly. And if you're in the townships, maybe you think I'd like to run, but I can't do it. And I think a whole lot of work in the county system does get done in the committee context as opposed to in the meetings themselves. So I think that's a, it's a very valid point. But there was that one election cycle when people were angry about the county board meeting in the afternoon and county board supervisors getting health insurance. And I can't tell you how many years ago that was. I don't really remember, but I know there was a big turnover, maybe 10, 15 years ago. So I think that's interesting. School board, again, no contested races. Barry Samet is filing again. David Gallinetti for his third term. Maeve Quinn is retiring after three very fine terms. Just one of the best school board members I think we've ever had. And she's been on for nine years. But a young woman who I don't, I have met, don't know very well. Jenny Pothas, I think is the name. Actually lives in my neighborhood. Her children go to grand school is going to be, is going to be running for Maeve's spot. And it appears she's uncontested. So school board races really often are not contested. When I was first on the board, certainly things were more stirred up and there were more people running. But I think people perceive the school board as being a huge amount of work. It is. And it is, it is. And recently I think it's been perceived to be a workable body. For a while there we had that split between conservative and liberal thinkers. And I think there were people who said, that's not how a board should be constituted. It should be for the benefit of the system and kids and so on and not philosophies and how you can advance your philosophy. And then the other thing is, we're talking about the board is you have Jeff Squire leaving early. My understanding is he's taken another job outside the community. And his seat is one of the two that are given to the outside of the city of Sheboygan. And so that the board will have to fill that vacancy and they're, you know, Alliantay, former principal who lives outside the city of Sheboygan. You have to be outside the city of Sheboygan again. He's put in papers and I heard there are others, but I've not heard names. So the board's gonna have a variety of... There's a school board, a point then, the full return. That'll be on January 15th and I think five people have applied. Tim Ebenreider. Oh yeah, Tim Ebenreider. Oh yeah, Tim, no problem. Paula Klotsin, Paul Erdle, who I, as I understand, used to be on the school board and I just don't know the gentleman at all. And Susan Hine, who's the wife of Dan Hine, who's the chair of the town of Sheboygan. So... Paula Klotsin would be a wife of a Sheboygan area school teacher, which is interesting because I would assume she would have to abstain from any votes on contractual issues. Right, and that we've had a number of employees, or school board members whose wives are, well, Ron Rinfleisch's wife is an educational assistant. Dirk Solomon's wife was a teacher, still is a teacher in the school district. I think there have been a couple of others. So yeah, they do not vote on those contracts. Okay. But that's about it, so. Well, the only Paul Erdle, is it Herdle, H-E-R-T-E-L? I think it's E-R-R-T-E-R, okay. Then I don't know the... But I could have that wrong. I know Paul Herdle is with big brothers, big sisters. Yeah, that's coming up. That's coming up next Tuesday or a week from Tuesday? January 15th. So that's a fair amount of interest. And of course it's always easier to get appointed. Yeah, you only have to campaign with a few people. Yeah, and they've done it late enough in the cycle that you don't have to run right away. I think the cutoff date is November 1st, so if you are appointed after November 1st, you don't have to run in the following April election, otherwise you do, so. And I think the timing of that wasn't accidental. That may be? I'm pretty sure. Yeah. That the announcement from Mr. Squire and the announcements were designed to make sure that that individual had to run in spring. Since we're focusing on this. I can't prove that, but I hear tell. Well, there you go. I am just focusing on the school district, which has a number of charter schools. And I mean it's really a big push in the Shabuagan area school district. Court of Appeals recently handed down a published decision about online charter schools. And I believe, does the Shabuagan area school district have an online? We have, starting this year in online charter school. Ask Ken to just talk a little bit about it. The online charter school in Shabuagan really primarily serves really two groups of people. One is students who are oftentimes expelled or suspended. I know the public often thinks that once we expel a student or suspends them, we wash our hands of them and they're on their own as far as in education. And that's not the case. The district is always required to at least offer educational services to kids and parents. If they choose not to take them, that's certainly their choice in some respects. Well the district, just so we don't have anybody up in arms, the district doesn't have to pay for those. Correct. And so, but in any event. And because they're off of our roles, we don't receive any state monies for them either. So there's the balance there. And we've created, the district has created a charter school that's primarily geared at those kinds of students or students who really prefer not to go to inside the four public walls of education. And there was a hope also that some of our homeschool parents who don't want their students necessarily within a public school, traditional public school setting, would also come online. And we have about 27 students, I believe, something like that. In the online program. On the online program. Somewhere around 20 to 27, somewhere in there. It varies. All ages, all grades. Primarily right now it's high school. It's just high school, nine through 12. There are some plans to push it back into the middle school as this program gets up and going. It's housed for people interested over at St. Clemens. There is a face to face component. In fact, for a lot of those things. So the students learn online, but once a month they report back into a teacher who's on a sub-organized licensed teacher, an employee of the sub-organized school district. To my knowledge, the last time I looked, there's only one student who's not part of the Sheboygan area school district area. Someone outside that district who is in that program. Which kind of leads you to the court's decision because the court was looking at Northern Ozaki County school district or something like that. Has an online charter school of several hundred, 600 students. And the court held that it violated three laws. First of all, there wasn't substantial enough supervision by teachers and there was more burden placed on parents to homeschool their students. That's perfectly acceptable in Wisconsin to have homeschooling, but a district can't receive state taxpayers' money and then allow parents to do the teaching, the substantial portion of the teaching. And also, it also violated the open enrollment law and the charter school law. Because charter schools are supposed to be accepting primarily or almost always students within their own school districts. And this one substantially is not. And the employees, the teachers that are online working with these kids are also not Northern Ozaki County teachers. I think this case is gonna hopefully resolve some of the questions that have been out there. When are aides paid? What constitutes a teacher and student-teacher contact as well as the open enrollment question. Because when you're dealing with an online program, it's quite substantially different from the seat time and the hours and staff requirements that a regular school is under. And do you make this cash cow for some districts who just wanna put something online because they have other budgetary problems or do you wanna make sure that whatever's offered is ultimate in quality for the kids who are participating? Right. I know it's easier for school districts, I think for school board members to actually vote to expel a student in the Sheboygan area school district now because there is a charter school that will allow these kids who normally can't have anything to do with the school district to be enrolled in the charter school. I think they call it the Success Academy. Right. And when I was on the school board, I always thought it was, you'd have students who would do terrible things so they could not be in the school district. But to cut them loose, to me, just seemed to be planting them in a criminal. Society to do terrible, more terrible things. Oh yeah, and our own homegrown criminals because these kids wouldn't even have the guidance of however little it might have been for them of a school system. And not to say that they should, and there were times when the behavior was so bad and the safety of other students was really of paramount importance. But now you've got students who can do this online school and they're actually in a school building. And I think it's a good second chance, but I don't know what impact this case will have on it. Oh, you're talking about the case. I was just curious about can an online student, you know, a home school student decides to go online instead of go to the school, can they participate in a school's activities whether it's forensics, theater, sports? That's an interesting question. That is a really interesting question because our district has created a variety of charter schools. I mean, and they're all, as far as, they're all equal in the eyes of the law. Of course, they're all charter schools. Now in the case of Etude, which is over housed in the same building over at St. Clements at the moment, I'm told that those Etude students are allowed their half time at North and half time at South. And we have one or two students who do wanna participate in interscholastic sports or forensics or debate or whatever, and they are allowed to go, because they're half time at North and South, go back to North and go back to South and participate as if they were a full-time North or South student. But it really is, as a former coach, WIA, it's really more a WIA issue because they have very strict rules about students participating in sports in a school where they're not a student. So it'll be interesting to see if, and I don't know if the district has had those conversations with the WIA when it comes to face-to-face, which is one online charter component and the Success Academy, which is the other online charter component. Most, you know, typically in honesty, Tom, the kinds of students who are in those programs generally are not in the least bit interested in participating in interscholastic activities. But someday, somebody will wanna be in a musical or somebody will wanna be in forensics or debate, not necessarily varsity football. And it'll be interesting to find out how that all happens. I think there's gotta be an answer for that because I'm sure that issue has come up before, just a little bit. Well, it's coming up in homeschooling. And in many districts, school boards have been very benevolent in allowing them to come in for the simple reason that it sort of bridges the maybe negative perception that some parents might have of a public school. The kid could come in and be in a play or take some type of activity in a public school. They might find out that the public school isn't the enemy that they might have thought and their kid is actually benefiting. And maybe somewhere down the line, the kid will then full-time enroll or part-time enroll in the school district and it'll be better for everybody. Some years ago, I think it was St. Dominic's or I think it was St. Dominic's, but it was one of the parochial schools. Didn't have enough students to, I think it was basketball. And they were able to participate over at Urban. Understanding is these people, of course, pay taxes like everybody else. And so they were able to work out an arrangement where those students were able to participate in a, and of course, you have Lutheran and Kohler here in the community. Shboy and Lutheran and Kohler have combined to put enough guys on the field to have a football team. So there are examples where- I didn't know that. That's a joint team, as I understand it. Is that right? The city and the county should be able to work together like that. Otherwise, Kohler, given the size of that school, just couldn't put a football team on the field. And I think Lutheran faced a similar situation. Situation, okay. Yeah. Well, it'll be interesting to see, I'm sure this matter will be appealed to the Supreme Court and I think it is a likely case for the court to take because I think it certainly has statewide importance. Which will set the stage for what the legislation should be to recodify how we handle these kids. Exactly, exactly. And I think for some students, online education is sort of the last best chance. I think it requires, though, a pretty disciplined student. Reading skills must be high. Exactly. Patience. Exactly. I mean, I think it's hard enough for college students to do it. So I'm not quite sure I see how high school students, but at least for those expelled children, I think it's pretty important to have some connection to some sort of education. So we're gonna swing back and the city, happy new year. We have a new fire department ambulance service. It appears that at least day one and two were okay. And... Well, yeah, I figured the fire department was gonna do an excellent job. They do good work and anything they they put them, you know, apply themselves to, but I just didn't think it belonged to the fire department. That's all. So I know they're gonna do a good job. Well, it'll be so interesting and I'm sure it will be an issue in the next mayoral election. And it may even be an issue in this aldermanic election, but will the fire department make money?  And so I think an honest look at the books will be... And how many people will actually dial the Orange Cross number who live in the city simply because philosophically, they didn't approve of the switch? My view is if you're in a 911 situation, you better just call 911. But the number is out there. Well, we're wrapping up, it's 911 right now. Thank you for listening and we'll see you again.


Good evening everyone and welcome. This is Melissa with the Stock Swishing. I'm here today to review WFC this had earnings on Friday morning and It gapped So first thing is first. Let's look at it At 8 a.m. It reported it first gap down. This is somewhat unusual a stock will make a move in one direction hard Then it will flip Which this did into the live day in the opposite direction So you could be watching it and it's gapping down at 9 o'clock It was no longer gapping down. It was neutral by 9 15. It was gapping up. Look at this. This really flipped This doesn't happen all the time. I mean it doesn't happen all the time. It's very rare. I didn't trade this but it was a great example of Volatility Volatility which is what you get in earning season So I watched this in the morning to possibly rate it for a gap down. It was hovering in this area then it flipped Right into the open and went from gapping down to gapping up. I moved off of it. I had other things to watch. I liked better But this is a great example of what earning season brings It's called volatility. It's momentum the stock then opened and had a rally and you could have bought it You could have bought it in a gap up. You could have rated it then Right into the open 15 minutes you had to get set up or see it and watching and see that it flipped Now let's go to the one minute chart and see what you could have made on this Again gap trading is made for the morning trading any person that trades gaps should be in and out of trades very quickly In my professional opinion Here was the setup. I ended up doing jpm, but this worked out as well too Jpm had a bigger target You could have gone along right in here and gotten the rally and been out So you could have made you could have made actually dollar 20. Look at that So in 15 minutes, you could have made a dollar 20 in wells fargo All because of the gap all because of the volatility you would have had to know what to do Know what to watch how to take the entry where to put this stop. No to even watch this Be okay with going long and after it was originally gapping down as you see here This is all stuff That's the benefit of being in the live trading room with me to direct you what to do and and you've got minutes You've got seconds You've got minutes to make the decision to decide and and in that time frame You've really got to decide what you're doing in the day But all you need is one move like that and you can make money day trading daily And that's pretty much what I do Look at the volume in this to the close here. Look So an example of a gap in earnings season wells fargo wfc I did jpm instead because it had a larger target and was smoother And easier to do but this definitely had the move It definitely was a good gap. You definitely could have gone along it You would have had to know where to enter and where to get out If you'd like to learn how to do this, you can email me at melissathesoxwish.com for more information To sign up for the next golden gap class, which is january 28th and 29th. Have a great weekend everyone