Welcome to this edition of Abel Denoneira, the one and only program that focuses on the needs, concerns, and achievements of the differently abled. I'm Lauren Seiler. I'm Aileen Seiler. And on this program today, we will focus on the learning network and also shockwave. With us to discuss this important issue and the importance of Washington County Mental Health Services is Mary Kay Casper, coordinator of supportive employment and community integration. And also Wendy Casperlanco, instructor for Washington County Mental Health and the Learning Network. Thank you for joining us on Abel Denoneira. Thank you. Thank you. Why don't we start? What is the missions and goals of the Learning Network? And we want to thank you for having us on the show today. We're really excited about that and the opportunity to talk about how important the work is that happens at Washington County. And the Learning Network is a program within the developmental services area of Washington County. And it is an extensive program that occurs during the daytime for our individuals who live with intellectual and developmental disabilities. And the mission is to provide a wide variety, a very diverse variety of activities, programs, classes, events, opportunities to go on trips for community integration that will offer everyone the opportunity to network and develop friendships, to gain a better understanding of who they are in the world and their gifts and their potential, developing skills that will help folks become more independent, to have fun. You know, part of the mission is to have fun and to learn about yourself. Well, when you say classes, since we're talking about instruction, what type of, and you're an instructor, what type of classes do you offer? College classes or classes in itself? These are more informal classes. We have a couple of different kinds of classes. We have drop-in classes, which go on all day, a couple days a week. One is an open studio for artists to use different media to come in and explore, but it's not just for artists, for everybody. You might want to try it. I am reminded of one of my kids came running, and I think he was about 12. He said, Mom, Mom, I might be a really good tennis player, but if I never played tennis, I'd never know. Mom, Mom, I might be a really good fireman, but if I never had a chance to put a fire out, I'd never know. This is what we do, is we try to give people the opportunity to try things. Or visiting a firehouse or something along those lines. Well, come in and put a brush in your hand and see what kind of art you can produce. Drop in, take a pen, take a brush, take a pencil, maybe take scissors and glue and fabric and just see what you can make. We don't have the facilities for that yet, but we're working on it. That's a little messier than we are set up for. There's also opportunity within those open studio times to write stories, to develop poems, spoken word, anything that's really connected to being creative in your creative expression. That is really important to developing us all in a way. It helps us to grow and to be able to share a story. A lot of the folks that we work with, they get to have that opportunity to tell the world what they are. They can take out the stresses of the day, the stresses of the week, because media is art. For example, Mon Pillar just went through poetry, or poetry month. Why don't you explain to us about the poetry, because all the media went to your facility and taped some poems or a poetry day. Explain a little bit about that. A couple of weeks ago, we were invited to participate in poem city. For Mon Pillar and through the Kellogg library. What happened was, again, we have a number of individuals that are writing such incredible poetry, sharing who they are in that way. Rachel at the library said, yes, come and do a poetry reading to actually open up poem city for the whole city. That was really great too. So for months, I think the people were working on writing the poems that they wanted to share. After all that time of preparing, we had the poetry reading and it was amazing at the Kellogg library. I think for most of the folks, and correct me if I'm wrong, Wendy, this was the first time that, I mean, I've never sat up and stood up in front of a group of people and shared a poem. So it was like, it was really amazing to listen to what people did. Just imagine my hatred towards it. Look this time, only at my heart. Oh, I pour it out. This prison does not define me dry as it may. Oh, people hear me. This soul within will find its way out. I'm pushing, I'm pulling, pushing through my hate, pulling out my love. Love is in here. Love. Love will conquer hate. Love always wins. So with my love, I go to battle. You may not see it, but this raging war inside is real. One day it will end, but for now I go. With love as my sword and shield, I will conquer. My name is Helen Fragrance. My poem is about two, two lovebirds. Once upon a time was a lovebird, and it was a bluebird and a robin. They make a nest. They had a little baby girl bird, and they was happy to be together. My little love story was lovebirds. I hope you love this story. My little lovebirds, I love you very much. How long has the learning network been in existence? So the first incarnation of the learning network was about eight and a half years ago, and we have gone through some changes since then. It's very important in developmental services to put the person who's getting the support services in the center of the choices and the plans and to give them options so they can make those choices, and that's really what we're all about. And now we can do more of that. We rotate our schedule every month, so we have new classes. We have repeating classes like the open studios. We have exercise classes that go from month to month, but get varied. Those are really popular. We do a movie once a month, and that's not a class, but it's an opportunity to come in and share an interest in something and have some lunch together and talk to your friends and your peers and show a movie. And we show a movie. Okay.  I remember going up, going to a recreation room for people who special needs the self, and she also, if you don't have the socialization, then you're just in a box, right? Which brings us to this. The new administration, where I'm talking about the current presidential administration, is cutting so many programs for people with special needs, or you name it, he's cutting it, the arts. How important is it to have programs like this? So we kind of want to send the message, you know, in your opinion, if programs like this get cut, where do we go from here? Well, hopefully we don't get cut. I mean, my understanding is that with some of the laws or the policies that are being developed, that they are taking into consideration and individuals with living with disabilities so that that isn't being cut as deeply as some of the others. But I think that we all need to keep speaking up. We all need to march and go to events and speak to our legislators about the importance of these issues. I mean, one of the things that the Learning Network supports as well as within the division of community developmental disabilities is that we want to build leadership among the individuals that we work with so that they're advocating for themselves too. And so we have the Friends Helping Friends program that continues to be an important part of that. What exactly is that program? It's an organization. It's a self-governing organization within, yes, of individuals with developmental disabilities that it's like a governance group. And this is your self-advocacy group. Friends Helping Friends has been, oh, it has to be more than 10 years that it's been a group. They're a local self-advocates group with folks with intellectual developmental disabilities. And they send a representative to the Green Mountain self-advocates with their headquarters here in Montpelier, which is this statewide self-advocates group. And speaking up for themselves, of course, is the best way to get your message across. And sometimes speaking up is done. I've taught classes called speaking up. And sometimes it's about going to a class where you are part of a team doing something else like playing Scrabble and just getting the opportunity to practice speaking up. So we try to give a range of opportunities, plus Mary Kay is our... Because being a strong advocate is extremely important. No offense to agencies. A lot of agencies sometimes don't know what the person needs. Ask the person. Can I say Vermont does a good job? Yes, Vermont does an extremely wonderful job. But then there are some people, because when we were at the State House for the Disability Day, there are people that spoke there that faulted or cracked sometimes. And agencies like Washington County, which is a wonderful county to be in, but Washington County Mental Health deals with that and helps people speak up for themselves. Because if you don't speak up, then people are going to know, okay, this person needs that. But you have to ask. It's like the old example. Going into a restaurant and asking someone, what do you want? Well, if a person is challenged and asks the person, just don't assume that that person wants something. Right, exactly. Any more to add to that advocacy? Well, I think that... I mean, Wendy's spoke so eloquently about it. I think that the folks meet on a monthly, sometimes twice a month to gather together. And you mentioned about socialization. That's another way to network with each other and to spend time with each other too. Because they're going to support each other in being self-advocates too. And we need to support that. We need to offer as many opportunities as possible for people to get together so they can talk to each other about what the issues are and to make plans to deal with stuff. What was really the main reason why the learning network started? Because was there a reason behind it? Because there was a lack of socialization? I think if you look back historically, going back 20 years, there were a group of what we call day programs in developmental services across the state. And people would come to a centralized location. And then they would fan out from there to go to work. Or some people went directly to work. Some would work in groups. And the model has changed in the last 20 years. For the better. Well, they weren't necessarily sheltered workshops, although we did have things that were kind of like that 20 years ago. And certainly 30 years ago, yes. They recently shut them down. I don't know if they closed them. And let me say amen. But people would come in and we had different locales. We had a locale where people went to do sewing. And a locale where people went to do a variety of activities. It's 20 years ago now. But that had kind of all stopped. And the idea was that people would go into the community like everybody else does. And they would get the assistance they needed to live as independently as possible, to go to church and go to the Legion and go shopping and whatnot with the least interference from their support steps. And that is, in fact, still our mission is to listen and ask the questions and then pay attention and try to make that happen. But there was a lack of things to do. You can only go for coffee so many times in a week. You find that in a lot of communities. I mean, it's not, no offense to New York, it's not like a huge city. So you'll have to find a place, you know, go here, go there. But in bigger cities, you have more of a variety. It just depends. Now, your title, you deal with employment. I'm going to get to this. Talking about socialization, sometimes being on a job, you get socialized. If there's no time to socialize, if the boss says no, you know, not to socialize now, then you go to work. What types of employment? You don't want to say who, but what types of employment, just Washington County or with your position, or if someone is interested in, let's say, working for a restaurant or working for a hospital or something like that. So can you go into some of that? Sure. And I also want to, if it's okay to speak a little bit, because employment and the learning network, I tied to it in terms of what you said around the government. These programs that we offer help to build self-reliance and help individuals to grow into who they want to be in the world and to be successful and to have careers and to contribute to society in the way they want to. And if the government is understanding of that, they would see the value of contributing to that and putting the money into it. You spend more money if you're not going to support programs like this. If we support programs like this, then we are creating communities where everybody gets to contribute and be successful in their own independent way. And I think the learning network does that. We teach about independent living skills around budgets and address for success. Wendy does all these great programs that helps our individuals to realize all kinds of things about their lives and to become better at what they're doing. For example, you teach somebody or have a mock interview, how to dress for a job, shirt, tie, you know, certain things, have your resume ready, that type of thing. You know, just an example. When I was at my former station that I freelance for, I would mentor people with special needs through agencies and they would come to me and I would teach them how to be a reporter, how to write a story, those types of things, you know, how to dress for camera, so on and so forth. So these are important skills to have. And today's job market, yes, employers have to be sensitive to people with special needs, but disability in a sense goes out the window. You're here to work. What can you bring to the table to work here, you know, that type of thing. So they've worked. We have someone with a developmental disability can do any job that anybody else can do. Yes. What type of jobs do they get? Well, what type of job do they get? So you can have, we have people that work in full-time careers. I mean, for instance, at the state house, you know, people that want to work in convenience stores or work in higher education.  If there's an opening or do you help them find it? How does that work? I see some of the work is very hard to find these days. Yes, yes. So if someone is looking for a job and they're a part of our particular program, we will, like any career counselor or job counselor you find any place else, we sit down and do interest evaluations and assessments. We say, what do you want to do? What are you interested in? What kind of skills do you have?  And we have a whole system of supporting individuals to apply for positions and to go to interviews if they want. You know, whatever the individual wants or needs around applying for and getting a job, we want to be there for them.  Do you go with, well, my question, my next question would be, did you go with them to the interview or not? Or how does that work? It all depends on what they're asking for. We ask them, do you want us to be there? Do you know, what needs do you have around that? We will take them to the interview and we'll even sit in on the interview if they want. Most of the time we don't because it really is their interview. And most of the time, it's competitive employment just like anybody else. So a lot of employers don't want us in the room. So again, it all depends on the needs of the individual. And we do a lot of prep ahead of time for the interviews. So do you provide, because I've been a job coach as well, right? Do you provide job coaches on the job? Or how does that work with you? Again, it all depends on the needs and the abilities of the individuals. We do provide job coaching, which is our philosophy is to support the person to be successful. And that means on the job, depending on what the job tasks are, or the environment, we would just be there to support and motivate and encourage and assist a little bit depending on, again, the ability of the individual that we're working with. Everything, again, is based on how to support success and working with the employer. Like if something comes up to provide an opportunity for the employee to have a voice and saying, this isn't working at work, or this is working, and how can we adjust the situation in order to help for success. So in terms of you being an instructor, so you would basically, like with the mock interview stuff, you would have a class on that, or how would that work with you? Two things to keep in mind. One, it's not practical to do a class for one or two people. So often there are individualized services around things like interviews. And that person would have an employment representative that would work with them on that one-to-one. If I had four or five people, I might do a class. Okay. So Haloney, you've been working for Washington County. Like what is your experience, like where, obviously you have experience working with people with special needs. So in your past, Washington County, so would you say that your experience from the past brought you to Washington County, or how did you end up working for it? I have a circular resume. My first job out of college was teaching high school for a number of years. Then I became a parent and I took a break. And then I worked for Vogue Rehab, the State Department of Vocational Rehabilitation Part Time. And then I got a job for Washington County Mental Health. I didn't go back into teaching until about eight years ago, where I had an opportunity to teach once again. So I've had several different hats for Washington County Mental Health in the last 25 plus years. But I have come back to home again. And you have to have a passion to work with special needs. Which brings me to this, what are the misconceptions around people with special needs when you first meet them? Because... That is such a good question. So if I'm sitting there with somebody who takes a minute to speak their mind, and I'm in that restaurant you referenced earlier, the wait staff might come up and talk to me. And I might look at them and just point at the person I'm with, redirect them to speak to that person. And they may not... They may pick from the menu by pointing to it rather than speaking what they want. That's fine. That's a way of communicating. That's a way of communicating. They might bring an iPad and type what they want. That's another way of communicating. Sometimes it's just redirection. Or an augment of device, for example. Because I've been around Massachusetts. So what misconceptions do you find? Well, I mean in the misconception there, I think the individual couldn't speak or doesn't have the ability to communicate with individuals that they're with. Another misconception is that they don't have the skills or abilities to have a job or to contribute or to live independently, which is a big misconception. And we need to demystify these myths. It's not true. I have folks who get support services that teach classes with me. And who are you going to listen to if you are receiving services? Me? Or the person who is also receiving services? It makes sense for the person who is also receiving services. So in the last of this first part, because we're going to do a second part to this, what are the future goals of the learning network? What future goals do you have that, of course, you want to continue the learning network? Right. We want to grow. We want to be able to impact as many individuals that want to be a part of the learning network. That's really important. We're actually looking to change the name of it to really, again, reflect that we're evolving and growing and impacting as many people as possible. And the other thing for me is making it accessible, like providing the opportunity for anybody that wants to participate. I don't want money to be a reason why. And so finding other opportunities, other funding sources that can support the learning network is really important. Going after grants are other resources, donations that will support the work. I think the other thing is growing some of the programs that we have and providing, again, providing a lot of diverse opportunities, that it's not just one thing that we're doing, because anybody has different interests and passions. And so how can our program reflect that? Okay. Well, I'd like to thank you for joining me in this first part of Ableton on Air with Washington County Mental Health and the Learning Network. For more information on Washington County Mental Health Services, you can log on to www.wcmhs.org. Or if you have an emergency, a mental health emergency, you can call<PHONE_NUMBER>. That's<PHONE_NUMBER>. Thank you for joining us in this edition of Ableton on Air. I'm Lauren Seiler. I'm Lauren Seiler. See you in the second half. See you next time.


Hi everyone, Joe for jaspyscasebreaks.com coming at you with a quick two box break of 2021 Topps major league soccer sapphire edition two box Random tee break number four one spot gets you two teams sold 13 spots comb it up a couple teams right here Big thanks to this group for getting into the action Robert Joshua and Josh Proust and there's all the teams right here. Good luck Let's roll it randomized names and teams six and a four ten times one two seven Eight and tenth and final time After ten we've got Robert down to Joshua six and a four ten times for the teams one two three nine and 10th and final time After ten nice, we've got the New York Red Bulls up top and the Vancouver White Caps on the bottom. All right Robert with the New York Red Bulls Joshua with FC Dallas So the two of the big teams on top right there Robert with Toronto Josh with a bunch of teams right here Joshua Colorado Atlanta NYC FC Chicago Seattle National Portland, Philadelphia sporting KC DC United CF Montreal and Cincinnati Josh Proust. You've got LA FC Joshua with the New England Revolution Robert with the LA Galaxy. That's my club right there Joshua with Minnesota Robert with the Combo Austin and San Jose Josh Proust with Columbus crew and Josh weed lets you have the rest real salt Lake Houston Dynamo Orlando a city inter Miami and Vancouver White Caps Let's sort by column B And we're going to pause the video when we come back We're gonna see if there's any trades and then we'll have the break stick around All right. Welcome back ladies and gentlemen a Little bit of trade chatter, but in the end no deals are done So the list remains the same on Wednesday the 27th of October Time is flying by boys and girls All right, let's pop this open Nice, thank you. Yeah, that'd be great. It's just not prepared for this break Still too early for me All right, I'm gonna turn this on there you go. We got there you go. That's this guy right here Today's Wednesday my my early start day, so It's not enough coffee yet Good luck with the MLS ladies and gentlemen MLS playoffs Coming up pretty soon. I think I think the rest of the league just has a A few games left a few matches left When we start into the MLS playoffs playoffs in any sports pretty entertaining an all-card ship here, of course. Oh, this is nice There's Ricardo peppy Who in international duty recently? For for our men's national team the US men's national team He's been playing pretty well future star of American soccer Plays for FC Dallas Josh Idlitz with Dallas not Dallas not in the playoffs, unfortunately But so we won't see him in the playoffs, but I'm sure we'll see him in International duty more often 35 out of 99. I think a lot of qualifying matches for the World Cup Coming up over the next few months Here's one for Minnesota. Yeah, Gregus Josh Idlitz with Minnesota United We've got some nice gold coming up here. Nice I owe a canola Akinola 29 out of 50 Toronto FC That's gonna go to Robert the sapphire design is always really sharp and we've got an autograph nice for the LA Galaxy Jonathan dos Santos No fan of him Pretty solid player LA Galaxy. That is Robert Runkel with the auto nice He's pretty good. I think the LA Galaxy are kind of a which is my team I haven't been to a match in a couple seasons, but I believe They are firmly a mid table team in the West. Yeah, they're fifth Out of one two three four five six About 13 teams. So yeah, they're right there. They'll be in the playoffs Next box. I'm not sure how the MLS playoff structure Works Yeah, the MLS playoffs will we'll start her in in about November. I think top seven teams will qualify I Think the top teams conference champions receiving second round buys And I think it's a it's it's a home and away sort of situation a lot like what we see in like the champions league let's see what Yeah, it looks like a Home and away sort of situation with aggregate goals. Maybe something like that I'll have to re-familiarize myself when it happens. Or no, maybe it's just maybe it's just one and done It's a little more exciting actually Yeah, the second box. We got another two boxes in the store ladies and gentlemen Go and get it We got Michael holiday of four Orlando, I believe That'll be for Joshua 45 out of 99. Yes for Orlando and behind Josie outdoor is a redemption For the Colorado Rapids. That's Andre Shinne Sica Colorado Rapids for Joshua Edelitz And a free top loader. We got a Kai Wagner 68 at 75 for Philadelphia Joshua aspect here Nice chicharito. There's a nice Caden Clark right here too for New York Red Bulls That is for Robert There's a little confusion yesterday on my part on the Caden Clark situation he is I Mean he came up in the Barca residency Academy Was with the Minnesota Thunder for a couple years then the Barca residence Academy then went to New York Red Bulls too Then was on New York Red Bulls officially Was transferred to Red Bull Leipzig So as an 18 year old going to a European club, that's pretty amazing But there I think he's back on loan with New York Red Bulls He's allowed to finish off the season here before he officially moves to Leipzig So he's supposed to be pretty good. That's for Robert Runkel And we've got an Alvaro Barriel Pitch prodigies this one's will be actually be numbered. Yeah 88 out of 99 and there you go Ladies and gentlemen pretty nice break of MLS Sapphire edition and you've seen us do enough sapphire baseball editions where you know the quality of this set all-card chip probably worth looking up Most of these if not all of these just to see what kind of value they have they may surprise you I'm Joe for Jasper's casewrakes.com. We've got another two breaks inside the store Jasper's casewrakes.com So I'll see you next time for some more MLS. Bye. Bye


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It's always during the spring They bring around the bees to pollinate all the orchards But they carry a month of my driving on interstate 5 in November in December, I guess So I'll see I would be why I Do not get the apiary like experience that you get bees Had bees stuck in my grill and my windshield wipers everything Where's Bellbot Right here. You know your Bellbot your chat client by oh Man, oh Did you have a falling out? You ready to get started. Yeah, let's go ready Roger. Yes, let me hide Quality content thrives for the support of those who benefit from its creation If you gain value from the Daily Tech news show consider joining others like me who provide support learn how to help at DailyTechnewshow.com slash support This is the Daily Tech news for Monday August 22nd 2016 I'm Tom married joining me today as she does most Mondays miss Veronica Belmont from deep in the heart of San Francisco Oh, that's where I left my heart Did you find it? You're there? Have to look far. I shouldn't have left it here though. Bad idea Of course Veronica calling us from her new job. Well, it's not even that new anymore. It's still new wish This is week four. I guess. Yeah.  I'm an old pro You're an old pro with the growbot But we're gonna be talking a little bit about self-assembling machines something they're researching out at MIT in a bit Sony is raising the price of a PlayStation Plus membership from $50 to $60 a year So you should know that if you're a Sony Plus Person now here are some more top stories Android new get is out of beta and available for Google's Nexus devices the Pixel C tablet and the general mobile 4g That's one of their Android one phones If you don't have one of those yet to wait for your carrier to sign off on it It should roll out to the Google Nexus is over the next couple of weeks I did not get my new get on either of my devices yet I have a 5x and a pixel C but hoping to get them later today You can jump to the front of the line if you sign up for the beta programs It's not like you can't get it, but otherwise if you're just waiting for it to get pushed to you You're gonna you might have to wait The L of G v 20 will be the first phone sold with new get pre-installed that arrives in early September New get let's take action right from a notification. So they can answer emails stuff like that It bundles notifications from the same app Added a new look and customization options to the quick settings drop-down. Wibbit widget. Wibbit Wibbit and of course the big attention-getter is the ability to see two apps side-by-side just like in Windows 1.0 See two apps at the same time also a data saver mode that lets notifications through but doesn't let large downloads through Easier on your bandwidth cap and starting with new get updates will download in the background and alert you when they are ready To install that is actually my favorite feature of this update because whenever I have to update Android it always it seems like it takes forever It really doesn't take that long but because you have to wait for the download and then the restart and everything This will be nice. That is a delicious looking update got to say. Mm-hmm full of new giddy goodness I like new good. I don't know understand people who don't but that's a topic for a different day Fast company reports Apple has acquired health data company glimpse which puts medical records and health details into a secure bundle Customers can choose to share with doctors caregivers and researchers if they so wish Glimpse was founded in 2013 by Anil Sethi a former Apple systems engineer So coming back into the fold. Yeah, and I believe he was an engineer in the 80s, too So this is this is not somebody who was just there a couple years ago left and boomer-ranging right back Also, I feel like we should point out that glimpse has two eyes Leaves that it what it's got two eyes Leaves But I think I think this makes a lot of sense because go ahead.  You're you're on it Okay, I was gonna say this makes a lot of sense considering that we're all like a lot of people are wearing Apple watches these days I shouldn't say we all because it's actually a very small fraction of all the people out there But I would like to be able to use some of that data in some kind of meaningful sort of way So this would be a great application of that data Yeah, Apple's trying to do this already like allow you to share your measurement data with your doctor allow you to share it with researchers and so Acquiring a company that not only does that but you know with all of the intricacies of HIPAA compliance and everything else Figures out how to navigate that world and allow you to have all of your medical information I mean personally that would be nice to just have it all under my control not that it isn't under my control But it's not in one place So so being able to have that option and then you know I guess my only regret is I would like to be able to use other devices with this than just Apple devices, but Yeah, that's not gonna happen. Yeah, not in this way The Wall Street Journal has sources who appear to confirm the legitimacy of a leaked picture of a new smaller version of the PlayStation 4 Sony has a press announcement scheduled for September 7th in New York where it is expected to announce a 4k capable PlayStation This is the one that they have said we're going to have a 4k PlayStation its project name is Neo We don't expect that to be the final name of the product But we'll find that out on September 7th and the Wall Street Journal says They have been ramping down production of the original PlayStation 4 So it looks like this slimmer ps4 will replace The original ps4 in the lineup and we'll get to meet that on September 7th is the way the rumor goes Are you looking to upgrade?  This doesn't mean there's gonna be three play stations It's very traditional right for them to come out with a slimmed down version of the PlayStation as far back as the ps2 They've done that so it doesn't surprise me that they would do this at all It's interesting that they want to do it at the same time as the 4k because it Psychologically says well the original PlayStation 4 is no longer available. So if you have that that's the old one now We have the slim one and the 4k one Gotcha. Yeah, I still don't have a I don't have a PlayStation anymore But maybe someday maybe this will be enough. Yeah I mean with a lot of people are looking at this and saying well, wait a minute I'm upset because I bought an original PlayStation 4 two years ago And I don't want to have to replace my console and Sony has promised you won't have to you should still be able to play All of the games that you could on the original PlayStation the original PlayStation They have said should work with PlayStation VR But it's that envy right of like oh, maybe I want to get an upgrade if you don't have a PlayStation though is 4k enough to swing you over. Yeah, that's a very good question. Not for me. I'm still happy with my PC Speaking of which Microsoft announced it has acquired scheduling tool Jenny or Genie and will integrate it into office 365 It launched a year ago and uses natural language processing to interpret email and automatically create calendar invites The existing service will shut down September 1st. Yeah, so they're getting rid of the service That's gonna be said eating things. They took away my sunrise calendar Now they're probably gonna combine this fold in folded into this for the new office 365 Taking all my stuff man, but I like the idea of being able to use this and you and I both know the heartache of trying to schedule a large in meeting with people in various parts of the world Who all have different schedules and the promise of genie is we can just read those emails and come up with Potential schedules and send invites like it's supposed to be that good as AI Well, you know Gmail already kind of does this also So I guess this is kind of Microsoft answering that in a way And being able to integrate that kind of technology as well, but yeah Gmail is pretty good They it doesn't ask to send out invites yet But it can definitely interpret that there are dates and times within an existing email and see if you want to add those To your calendar So this is kind of taking that one one step further and this is supposed to work not just an outlook either It's supposed to work on whatever email service you use to So I'm curious what this ends up being when it's moved into office 365 and Yeah, like you say, I'm a little sad to see it go away I would I would try it today if they weren't going away on September 1st now Not a lot of time. Yeah Netgear is the latest to market a multiple router solution to Wi-Fi coverage the netgear or be system combines one router and one range Extender to provide coverage. They say of up to 4,000 square feet They do it a little differently than say Eero or some of the others where those are mesh networks This is not what it's doing is it has a 2.4 and a 5 gigahertz radio for Wi-Fi like a Wi-Fi router normally does But it also adds a third 5 gigahertz radio that is used for the range extender to communicate directly with the base station And that supposedly allows better optimization So you don't need more than two in most cases the base two pack will cost you $400 And they will add single add-on units if for some reason you do find out you need one and that will eventually be sold for $250 Yeah, not not super cheap. Although. I don't really remember how much some of those other offerings are going for Comparatively speaking, but yeah, it seems like everybody's looking for a solution to this this kind of problem right now Yeah, they're all around 300 400 dollars and it's funny the netgear folks are like Well, the cheap routers these days aren't any better than the router you have So if people are gonna buy a new router anyway, they're probably going to be willing to pay more Because they're looking for an upgrade rather than just replacing the router they have because routers I mean they break sometimes But they're they're pretty long-lasting So places like Eero or Luma is another one that's out there usually are around three or four hundred dollars So so this is the new world of hey, don't buy just one router buy two or three Like the three pack of Luma is $250 and and and we won't you won't have dead spots anymore That's that's the big promise is it now like everyone just decided that that the original routers just like well You know what this is just never gonna be good enough So we're just gonna start adding routers onto the routers because we just can't come up with a solution that fixes all the problems You've got an Eero don't you? Yeah, we do and it works. It works great. Yeah, I've been using mine for a while now and I have noticed fewer problems over time I mentioned this before on the show, but when we first put it up It would need to be rebooted every so often. Yep I'd have to turn my wi-fi off and on every so often because it wouldn't my phone wouldn't pick up on it Yeah, they're a little weird like that, but it has continually upgraded itself and learned Which is supposed to do because it's a mesh network and I I can't think of the last time I had any kind of issue with it You know not that you mentioned it me neither So I guess it's getting better. Well. Yeah, it's kind of weird because you don't know if it really got better Or you're just not accidentally not having those issues Or did you just get used to them? But yeah, I I think the Eero and the Luma are better bargains. They're they're cheaper than this I'm curious to see some tests in the real world of the orbi system Because if the Eero and the Luma would both have fairly good reviews are cheaper. Why would you bother paying more to only get two? And no idea really better. Yeah Reuters reports as sources say Samsung plans to start selling refurbished smartphones as early as next year The phones will come from returns by customers who signed up for one year upgrade programs No other details of the plan were reported though Yeah, Samsung is Realizing what everybody in the phone industry is Lee realizing is it's a commodity market So if we want to keep making money, we need to be able to resell our phones when people trade them in And they're probably still in pretty decent shape. But yeah, people keep upgrading so quickly That's a lot of electronic waste too So I'm kind of glad that they're finding out a solution for for you reusing some of these products Definitely Did you hear that uh, they're looking into making the olympic medals in tokyo in 2020 out of reclaimed smartphones? No, that's cool. At least in part, right? Interesting. Yeah So that that that is an issue as the upgrade cycle has remained pretty fast It slowed down a little bit. That's part of the commoditization of smartphones But it's mostly that most people have phones So you're not getting these scads of people who didn't have a smartphone before suddenly flooding in And samsung has been doing very well selling smartphones of late and they don't want to lose that edge So they're looking at a way to boost the numbers It interesting to me that it took them this long to do it apple started selling refurbished phones quite a long time ago As as did many other manufacturers Would you be disappointed as an olympian to receive a recycled phone medal as opposed to a gold plated probably What is it like nickel or whatever? They're actually making the medals out of well, yeah I mean I I as long as it's still got the same gold on the outside that the current one has Shouldn't it be should be good should be better Can I like how I've read a very inch? Yeah, that'd be good. Can I use it as a wi-fi repeater? Yeah Will it be a range extender for my euro? Yeah What were you gonna say you read something? Oh, it doesn't matter I was just reading an interesting story about how um why photographers take so many pictures of the olympians biting their Their medals and it used to be to prove that it was like But you know gold is actually softer than a lot of the other metals So if you bit a gold medal too hard, you'd actually leave a dent in it But that's how you would prove that it was gold So, um, they're asking them to damage their medals essentially. Yes. Yes Well, thanks to all those who participate on our subreddit You don't damage our show you make it better buy your votes or your submissions Get on over there to dailytechnewshow.reddit.com and join the folks like another jay martin Saucy tech steve io flying spatula. I'm the man 90 cap and kipper teaglass 1976 and more Let us know what you want us to talk about at dailytechnewshow.reddit.com and that is a look at the headlines So fastcodesign.com that's fast companies design spin-off has an article from meg miller today about self assembly It focuses on skylar tibets. He's a research scientist in MIT's department of architecture and co-director of the self assembly lab Those of you who follow ted talks very closely have probably seen him before he's done a few ted x-talks And he's been working on self assembly as a concept all the way back to 2011 and before The idea is to develop materials that can assemble themselves Uh, he says a simple set of responsive building blocks energy and interactions that can be designed with Nearly every material and machining process available So he's talked before about 4d printing Which is kind of a buzzword for using 3d printers to print materials that can then grow and change on their own So you print out something flat and then In real in the real world it can turn into A three-dimensional object when you need it to like most of the demos he throws in water. Did you see the table? Yes, yeah, yeah the flat pat furniture So you basically just like give a little touch or pull it up and it snaps right into place No assembly required And a lot of these these technology elements that they're putting together Kind of they put them in this tumbler as you said and and they kind of snap together using a system of magnets And so you just drop in three different pieces roll the tumbler around and eventually the phone kind of puts itself together And this of course takes out some of the human element Though they have been thinking a lot about ways to protect The electronic elements inside of the phones in order to make sure they're not damaged during the process Obviously something that's a a very iterator iterative I did a rod process. Yeah Need huskies for it for sure. Yes Um, but I think it's it's it's cool. I I'm still having a hard time kind of figuring out Like like the flat pat furniture that makes a lot of sense to me The cell phone one doesn't seem to make as much sense to me I'm not really sure why this is exactly a better process. I guess Cutting out people in the long run will will save money and and time perhaps and I guess, you know Time is money. So companies obviously want the process to to take less time and save more money But it I don't know it seems like a not very Effective way of putting together gadgets to to put them in a giant tumbler and then hope all the pieces come together Well, if it were just hope I would a hundred percent agree with you It is varying magnets and they they have demonstrations that show them being done Where I start to get skeptical is there still needs to be some assembly of the pieces like I said It's only three pieces per phone So you are saving some assembly by being able to do this and a lot of Manufacturing installations have tumblers for various reasons. So it might not be that costly to set up But I want they're not self soldering They're not like yeah, and and and the magnets have to be good enough to keep them together So I'm wondering just how much savings you would have What kind of quality these phones would be I I know it's really easy and I know loads of you in our audience Are quick to take potshots at stuff like this Because of these objections and a lot of times it's you're you know, I'm the one pointing out This is just a proof of concept. Yes, they haven't worked out all the kinks to it But it shows that you can eventually do it I I I would feel more confident if this self assembly A laboratory Had come up with any ideas that are at least close to the public over the past several years I think they started their lab in 2013 and still a little early So I don't know what to think part of me says look They're just doing the research to figure these out Of course, they're going to look a little clunky because these are the first prototypes of these kinds of assembly Look at that table like you said earlier that one's something that could get to market soon Give them five to ten years And the concept of self-assembling products boggles the mind because things could even adapt to various locations and be able to have Multiple memories and and reconfigure themselves based on where they are I would like my makeup to self-assemble in the morning. That would be great on your face on my face On my face I think that for me the furniture is really the killer app of this whole idea Because I I think they worked with Ikea on some of the design processes But I love the idea of going to the store buying one of these like a flat pack bed Being able to cart it home really easily and then just you know Touching it in a certain way and it turns into a fully formed You know functional bed that I didn't have to spend hours painstakingly putting together so knowing knowing Having the pieces know where to put themselves would be amazing and even the self-lacing lacing sneakers Which was another example that they gave in the article. That's that's pretty useful If that that's a useful uh case for this kind of technology And I'm sure there's many many others um And uh, but I think big companies will will definitely be interested by the idea of somehow finding ways to to cut corners in the manufacturing process And reducing the number of of human potential error in in the Uh in the process as well Yeah, I don't know. I think we're always out. It definitely has the potential to to Make manufacturing more efficient more cost effective and just plain simpler And the fact that they're working with Marcello Coelho studio means they've got high quality designer Involved on this But it also to me because they have a high quality designer in on it Means they're at the very early stages of these these type of technologies And you need to have them make good demos to get research funding and all of that. I get it But I guess you know what it is I really want this to be a trend right along with internet of things and self-driving cars Like self-assembling electronics self-assembling anything Sounds like an amazing thing that could change so much of what we do It would obviously have impacts both positive and negative on the workforce But it could it could make things work in ways that we never would have imagined them Because we just pull something out of a flat pack and it and it puts itself together self-assembling tents Yeah If you go out backpacking and you don't want to spend a ton of time setting up camp Like that would be great. I would love something like that. I'm trying to think of like assembling tents Refolding it and sticking it back in the bag. It came in perfectly. That would be great I'm trying to think of like really great use cases for this kind of stuff And for me like the the big ticket items like furniture make make a ton of sense Yeah, I'm just that alone And the idea that back in the day We used to have to have these big schematics with all of these steps that you would take to not only put Together your furniture but all kinds of other things and that could just go away And in the future people are like, oh, well, yeah, you just pull it out of the pack and you tap it and then it turns into the thing You want uh That could be a normal thing and yet as excited as I get I start to pull back because There have been a lot of self-assembling prototypes and and we're in that battery technology stage Which is that hey, it looks great in the lab But we have yet to see it hit the actual streets yet And I'm not saying it will stay in the lab the way battery tech seems to have gotten stuck, but Hopefully Let's get to uh instead of a pick of the day I want to point uh some folks to our our own blog here at daily tech news show dot com We have some folks writing for us, uh that do a great job Bringing you entertaining and informative posts outside of the main show the weekly tech views by mike range Comes on saturdays at daily tech news show dot com He says when you want your tech news without all the annoying accuracy Check out weekly tech news, uh, he writes a really funny Take on a summary of all the tech news of the week I find it quite enjoyable having gone through the show every week with the details To get mike's take on it and after you read that keep an eye out for sikani writes column your private driver Uh, there'll be one of those this afternoon about the ride sharing industry told from a person behind the wheel Sikani's been on the show before he is an uber and lift driver. He also drives For ups and and fedex and places like that. I'm not sure which one he drives on so I shouldn't shouldn't save names But he does drive freight delivery and this week. He's talking about the class action settlements With uber among other things so check that out at daily tech news show dot com as well Insider info. I love it. Yeah inside the car info on uh on self-driving so some laughs Some smiles some insider info. It's all at daily tech news show dot com Um a different mike wrote in to make the case for component hd video We were talking about losing the uh audio jack from your phone. How where's your stance on that veronica? I'm I'm bitter I'm I'm a little bitter. I have to say I I will be purchasing a new phone My phone has decided to uh, it's starting to kick the bucket for some reason I'm not really sure what's causing it, but it is slow as all get out and I cannot make it fix itself Um, so I'm I'm in the market for a new phone But I am upset a little bit about these new changes potentially because I love my headphones. I love my existing headphones I don't want to have to buy new headphones. I know they'll probably give us some when you buy the new phone Perhaps but I'm I'm not super happy about it. I don't want an ear dongle Yeah, well and another person wrote in and pointed out several people wrote in and pointed out Even if they give you the phone The headphone if you get an apple you might need a lightning jack And then if you want to use it anywhere else you might need usbc Even if everybody standardized on usbc wouldn't you still have that problem? So that's that's another issue here Whereas everybody uses the headphone jack and the headphone jack works everywhere. It's going to be a pain It's going to be a pain for a little while for sure Meanwhile, we we were talking about that on friday and someone had wrote in saying would you want composite video instead of hdmi? And I sort of changed it in my mind from composite to component video because yes No, I wouldn't want composite, but that's like saying do would you want mono audio instead of your your headphone jack? But component video however I find to be quite satisfactory because it is easier to port around for the same reason I like the headphone jack so back to mike Mike said hdmi is actually a terrible video standard that only works over short distances Has no error correction built into it while this won't apply to most people's home tv setups If you're going to wire ceiling mounted projectors, etc You can very easily run component video hundreds of feet without issue But hdmi is limited to about 50 feet with the best quality casing possible Anything longer than that requires additional equipment like repeaters to achieve a longer run that works reliably There's some great write-ups about hdmi at blue jean cable's website that go into great detail about what's wrong with the hdmi standard He's got a link to hdmi cable information at blue jeans cable, but also he says check out What's the matter with hdmi a great place to get started? I I can't agree with more hdmi is so nice sometimes when it works Yeah, but it's so frustrating when it doesn't Gosh, I've forgotten about blue jeans cable. I love that site. It's great a great resource Yeah, absolutely and and and if you're looking for cables A place to go check out as well So, yeah, thank you to everybody who wrote in I I think we're mostly in agreement. There were A couple of people emailed in saying they like the idea and I've read one of those emails But for the most part people still want the headphone jack Maybe we're all just luddites and we'll be all happy Maybe apple will switch to usbc and eventually we'll all say oh usbc is great. I don't know. Why ever was against it Well, yeah, all that happens eventually But there is that pain period where you're have to everything nothing works together And I feel like we're about to go through that and you keep losing your adapter I have so many adapters, dude. Do you think this is a total side question? I just came up with do you think we'll ever get to a point where we won't need an adapter I'm looking right now at the laptop. I have in front of me which has a Thunderbolt to ethernet adapter on it I know that I have a Thunderbolt hdmi adapter Down there and now I'm thinking I might start needing usbc to headphone jack adapters in the future Do you think we'll ever get I have a power adapter for my own for the magsafe changes. Yes Well, we ever get to that point where everything is like so standard And computers are so commoditized That will have computers that don't need adapters. It's all gonna be wireless. Yeah, it's all gonna be wireless We're not gonna have to worry about any of it soon Gary said about the audio He's like just go bluetooth and a couple other people said that too You know, I didn't I didn't believe it, but ryan switched to to bluetooth headset and he loves it They need to fix and we mentioned this last week They need to fix being able to use your bluetooth headsets easily with more than one device though Yeah, yeah, but yeah if we could get like a really good wireless protocol Without the lag without the interference issues. I'm asking a lot We'll get there. We'll get there. I'm sure we will. How old will we be like 70? I think I'll be 70 too old to enjoy it Yes, exactly But oh what? I remember headphone jacks. Do you remember headphone? That's what it'll sound like. I'll say no, Tom I don't who are you? Uh, thank you Veronica Belmont for joining us at always what you got to tell people about Oh Geez louise. Um, I don't know. I mean, I started this great new job at robot So if you have a big slack team and like to give your teammates appreciation check us out at robot.io I'm on twitter at veronica. Uh robots there at trygrobot and uh, sorden laser at sorden laser dot com Nope, that's not right. We are while we are at sorden laser dot com But we're also at sorden laser on twitter on twitter. Yeah, if you like sci-fi and fantasy check us out We'll be uh, we'll be kicking off a new book that I need to pick by the that's right I was supposed to get on you about that. Yes. Well consider myself Got gotten on. Yeah, or something. 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I think so I like that one you guys good with that one I am All right, I gotta I gotta blow this popsicle stand. All right All right, Veronica. Thank you. I'll see you guys later. Bye So, uh, what Veronica didn't want to tell you? Well, I don't know if she didn't want to tell you But what we didn't mention earlier is that she forgot to get the room she normally gets So she had to get a temporary room and they told her well, you can have a big kick down at any moment So she was a little under the gun there, uh, if if if you noticed She was she was waiting for that door to open and never did thank goodness So we we've got that all taken care of she's all booked out. She'll be fine from now on Out route down dead spot route route route route route route Rural route That's what we say for rural route row route fowler. 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I think you'll have to wait till after labor day for the sexy stuff to come back up Well, yeah, once those announcements start to come back um September 7th you got ps4 and possibly a an apple announcement if all goes well What if apple went into biotech and one of the first products they do is like like a genetically modified apple That that could also like an actual apple apple Uh-huh, they could uh, I don't know.  Yeah, so like say like I see so you need your Set regimen of pills and whatever that you take you just eat an apple It'll It's using your news on the melon. Are you using the apple apple? What would they call it you can't use macintosh because that's an actual variety right and well and actually they They would have problems with their trademarks if they got into the business of fruit. I believe Because the way they get away with calling the apple mac a mac is because they don't actually do fruit What if they did uh Like the was the was variety. Are you eating an apple was no i'm saying like even if they don't call their apple a macintosh As soon as they start selling apples. Oh, I see macintosh can come and start going Well, what if it was a subsidiary they spun it out into its own there you go.  Well, did you hear the dropping store? From the name of the apple stores. They're just going to call them apple Not apple store It makes much difference to be honest I'm Is it because Is that a branding it has to be like is that like you don't call it kmart store? I guess mart is built into it. But yeah, but you don't go to apple You go to best buy you don't go best by store So yeah, what they're trying to do is get you to say oh, I go to apple Yeah, but but apple is already a noun for an object No best buy there wasn't a best buy object. Yeah, i'm gonna sit on the best buy. No one said that I'm gonna get in my best. I'm sure you could think of another example like burger king not burger king store Yeah, but again burger king burger king. What was burger king before? Was was there an actual burger king? Perhaps there was Okay, well, no, you're telling me you can't think of an example Of a store that is named after an object without the word store in it I mean like train target. You don't say the target store. You see it. Just say I'm going to target. Thank you bio cow I'm going to apple now Well, it sounds weird because we're used to calling apple the company apple chilies Or perhaps chi-chis So what what is a chi-chi? I think it's uh slang for something It's a celebration of food. It's what it is cracker barrel. Thank you wafalophagus It does sound weird though I mean because you like i'm going to apple I think that means you're going to one infinite loop, right? You're going to the headquarters of apple Not gonna work. It's not gonna work Well, it's already done And it doesn't know I mean it's done, but it's not gonna work the way they want it to work Well, how is it gonna work? Well, it's not gonna work well. Tom. It's not gonna work. I don't know. I well, I'm not convinced that they want you to change I think they just want To make the branding sleeker so they don't have to use the word store and all their stuff I'm gonna core this apple And i'm outside of an apple store. I'm gonna core this out.  I don't know it could could very well be a genius play or this could be the That watershed moment where everything where all of apple's fortunes suddenly go downhill Mark my words has to be either does it yes No, you're right.  This is the make or break moment We'll launch them into the stratosphere or not really destroy them.  Well, it may not be that bad or it may not be that good. No, take a stand Take a stand. We're at war Be a man Uh, sometimes The it's not waffly It's tasty Well, then maybe they'll call their uh Their high-end like so like best buy has magnolia, which is their high-end like home entertainment They could have apple pie Which could be like a high-end. I don't know like Workshop for stuff, but it's p. I like not yeah, of course. No, I was already I was already there with you It would have to be p. I That's their that's their education. That's the genius bar One of these days I want to take one of those geniuses and actually make him take like a an IQ test See if that Yeah, walk out and beat master both confirming that apple store.com and store.apple.com now just result to apple.com Take one of those geniuses see if they can get into men's uh, and see how many people actually pass and get into men's uh Because if they don't if they don't then I'm gonna say that's see them for false advertising He's not a genius at all. He's just intelligent He's really intelligent. 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What's up guys, welcome to today's video. So I've got a really cool tutorial plan for you guys. I'm gonna walk you guys through a haircut step by step, but what makes this one a little bit different than normal? So occasionally in the mail, I'll receive some kind of hair product or something to make a video with. So today's definitely gonna be unique because I received a package, a random package that included a mannequin that was pre-color. So this mannequin was colored by Mary Cromings, who is an international platform artist and educator for John Paul Mitchell Systems. She's also married to Robert Cromings, who is the global artistic director for John Paul Mitchell Systems. And those of you guys that have watched this channel for a while, you know my history with Robert Cromings. Holy moly. Yes, that was me 16 years ago. And the package came with this note right here. So it reads, Matt, it's always a pleasure for me and Robert to work with you. I colored this mannequin for you to cut. Can't wait to see what you create, Mary and Robert. So no pressure, but I wanna make this thing look cool. So I'm gonna walk you guys through. I think you're gonna love the haircut that I put together using this mannequin. So the color is super fun. I'm assuming that they use Paul Mitchell Pop XG for the yellow tone and then the white tone. I'm not really sure. Maybe she can jump on and explain that to you guys. But I love the placement. The placement was really cool and creative. It was definitely all around that front hairline was the white color. And then throughout it, sporadically, there was white tones that kind of popped through. So what I wanted to do is take this haircut, open up the face to really showcase that white hair color and have that pop through. And then also kind of showcase through texturizing the white pieces that went throughout. So it was really fun to take a look at a color technique and add a cut to it without actually knowing how she placed the color. Just kind of looking through it, seeing how I wanna do enhance it. So I hope you guys enjoy this technique. It's gonna be super fun to walk you through it step by step. So let's get started. Here we go. All right guys, so as we get into this technique, I wanna walk you guys through this sectioning first. Sectioning to me is the most important thing that you can do because it's gonna make you more consistent in your execution. So let's talk about the sectioning. Left hand side parting, back to the crown. And then I kind of comb the hair over to the front of the head and I let it start to part itself. That's basically gonna take the hair that wants to be in the top and it's gonna keep it on the top and the hair that wants to fall at the bottom, it's gonna keep that on the bottom. Then I twist away the heavier side, breaking that in half from top to bottom, that way as well. And now we're gonna work a sliver of a section in the side. Basically what I'm doing here is I'm taking away where that white hair color was because I wanna get a little bit creative with the texture of that. I'm also keeping a disconnection underneath because I'm gonna play with that length in the dry cut later on. So we're gonna work through, I'm gonna twist that up and away and that's really just that part side gonna be able to create a ton of movement, create some shorter layers in there. We're almost gonna get a shag effect within the layering. So now I'll create my disconnection.  For me, braiding just kinda keeps it separated, keeps it nice and tight. Sometimes hair can slip out of a clip but it doesn't slip out of a braid as easy. So I'll just braid that off and away. So now we're gonna go from that crown point that we created earlier and I'm gonna draw a line down to behind the ear and that's gonna start the sectioning for the right hand side and then I'm gonna comb that up and away and meet the point right up in that temple area or that recession point and draw my line there. That's gonna create the second sliver section which we're just gonna create some disconnected layers within which is, it's a fun way to create a ton of movement in a haircut. So now the final thing that I'll do is separate that disconnection on the right hand side. Same thing that we did on the left. I'm gonna braid it through to get it sectioned off. So now I wanna talk about this tool because it's very special to me. This is our brand new TriRazor by Free Salon Education. It's the tool that we came up with. We designed, we got the patent for, well, patent pending. And so I wanna show you guys how this thing works. So we're gonna use the 100% cutting side first. So I'm gonna take a two inch wide section in the back and I'm actually gonna work down the hair. I wanna find where the head wants to curve and that's where I'm gonna start my layering technique. So what I wanna do is just softly go into the hair, start cutting those layers and then slide the TriRazor down the hair ever so slightly.  So just combing everything down, light tension in the hair and then just let the TriRazor do its thing as you slide it over. Now don't push too hard because obviously you don't wanna push through unless you do. So you gotta make that choice. So then I go through, cut the perimeter line, keeping that nice and shattered for now. You can always cut that with a scissor if you want it to be a more blunt line but look at those layers already popping with just three sections. Now we're gonna work through our left-hand side, I'm gonna work vertical partings, traveling guide from the back to the front, so just bringing everything over to it. Now watch what I do with the guideline, right? So I grab a guide from the back where I started those layers with the TriRazor and now I'm gonna comb everything up and just with a swipe, just like you're swiping a credit card, you create that first line. Now I grab my subsection and now I'm going to scoop and pull my guideline to the new section. All right, so now we finished up the left-hand side, now I'm gonna comb out that disconnection. We're gonna play around with that later in the dry cut. The last thing I'm gonna do on the left side here is just swipe through and create my outer perimeter line. So again, you could do that with a scissor if you want to, that's up to you and what you're trying to create. Now we're gonna do the same thing on the right-hand side as we did on the left, working through traveling guide. Make sure that you're pulling that guideline to the new hair. Notice how I scoop underneath and I pull it up and then I swipe just like a credit card and get my line. So I'm just gonna work my way through this section and then we'll start working on the top. All right, so now we finished those layers on the right-hand side. We're gonna mess with that disconnection, like I said, in the dry cut later on. So let's move into the top. The inspiration for the top comes from Robert Cromings himself, which was a pop-top technique back in the day and how you would do that technique is you'd basically take the entire top of the head, pull it forward and then cut it all at once. I'm gonna do a very similar feel to that, but I'm gonna break it up into a few sections and I'm gonna work to create a nice angled line for my end result. So nice vertical, slightly vertical, slightly diagonal line towards the front and then I work that tri-raiser with about two inch passes up and down to cut my diagonal line. Now the fun part here, I comb the rest of it all forward and I use my Texture 50 side, which will remove 50% of the hair and I bounce that from ends to mid-shaft, just work it back and forth, creating invisible layers and a nice light feeling to the ends of this haircut. So look how easy they are to kind of manipulate and twist and style out. All right, so now we're just gonna go through, tap off those ends using the tri-raiser and we're gonna start our style using Paul Mitchell, quick slip, this product's not only gonna give you a soft hold, it'll also speed up your drying time as well, which is super valuable in the salon when we're trying to get through each guest throughout the day. So now I work that product through. Another little tip here is after I work it through with my hands, I like to brush it through to make sure I get the product on every bit of the hair and now I'm gonna start my blow-dry, a nice little flat wrap to start it off. This is gonna help get me control with the base and help smooth out the hair. I'm using my Ergo Diamond Head Paddle Brush that's available on Shop FSE, which is our website. And then once I get the hair about 80% dry, go in with Paul Mitchell Hot Off The Press. This is a heat protectant, so it's great for that hair that starts to dry up a little bit. You wanna add a little protection to it before you add more heat and get that hair dry. So number one way to damage your hair is to not use product when blowing it dry. Obviously, as professionals, we know that, but we need to tell it to our clients as well. So I go through, now I got my Ergo Round Brush. I'm gonna work that hair, get as much volume as I can throughout the top. Like I said, I wanted to showcase that white hair color that was popping in the front of this. So that's how I'm gonna do that, is use the style and the cut that we did. So now look at that, look how beautiful that white color is going through it. I'm gonna use Paul Mitchell Express Ion Style Plus to iron out that disconnection. And then we're gonna finish this off doing a dry hair cutting technique on the disconnection. That dry hair cutting technique is one of my favorites. It's called the tease cutting technique. So what I'm gonna do is half close the scissor as I push in and it's gonna help create a nice soft bevel to the end. So you'll see it's moving real fast, but I'm half closing as I go into it and that's adding layers, adding texture to that disconnection. So we're gonna work our way all the way around the head and I'll show you guys how this pops out in the end result.  So what I wanna do is I'm gonna go in, I'll do that, I'll do a little bit of slide cutting around the face to break that up a little bit, but just that kind of the peaceiness of it. And then I go in with Paul Mitchell Spray Wax, which is my all-time favorite product, just to add that flexibility and that texture and then finish it off with a little bit of iron work, kinda twist it out some of those pieces, just bringing this whole style to life. Obviously you could style this perfectly straight, you could style it with a ton of wave to it. I love showcasing all the texture and you can really see how that money piece that Mary put in there just really pops throughout this cut. So volume in that fringe, I hope you guys like it. I loved doing this video. This is one of my favorites. I hope this gets to happen again, but I hope you guys liked it as much as I did creating it. Let me know in the comments below if you have any questions. Subscribe to the channel, got a ton more content like this coming out all the time. So guys, thank you so much. I'll see you on the next video. 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I want to talk to you about getting excited about using the phonemic chart and the phonemic script to teach pronunciation in your classes. And I can see some faces already are like oh no, really. But trust me. Trust me ok it can be fun. First I'm just going to talk to you through a couple of advantages of using the charts and script in your classes. I'm going to describe a couple of different activities that I've used that I find really effective and engaging. And now I know not everybody really likes the chart and I know there's loads of debate about accents and all of this kind of thing. And I know then there's other people who are absolutely terrified of us. I was one of those people two years ago, but I'm all right now. I've been through versus. And ever since I just started using the chart in my classes, my classes, they're so much richer, they're so much fuller. I have so much more fun. The students have so much more fun. They are begging for more. And most importantly, their confidence has gone through the roof in terms of pronunciation. And that's my first advantage is that it empowers our learners because we're giving them a tool that will help them to understand pronunciation, to help them understand what's happening in their own minds, and then as a result it's going to build their confidence. It provides or promotes autonomy because we're giving them a system that they understand and that they can use in class with their fellow students or with their teacher, but also at home when they're studying. So for example, if they want to record new vocabulary, it's more memorable for them if they're not just writing out, oh, this is the meaning of it or this is it in an example sentence. This is how I pronounce it. So now I can actually speak it. I can use this in conversation. It's also fantastic for them for grammar. So when they're learning their grammar, they can also mark out the pronunciation of it as well. And it's more memorable because they're discovering. They're not just listening to somebody say, okay, the word is vegetable, not vegetable. Vegetable, say it. And that doesn't help them. It doesn't really help them because they need to figure out what's happening in their minds. They need to discover that. And when they discover, they're going to learn. And when they're learning, it's more memorable. Next spelling, which is kind of...some people kind of disagree. I feel that there's two advantages in terms of spelling. One, it shows them how phonetical that English isn't and that they need to be able to... that using the chart and phonemic script will help them. And the second is that it does actually help discover patterns in spelling. So for example, if you look at the sound of, you might see that the majority of words that have the sound of are spelled with o. Some have an a like want or wash or watch. And then some are spelled with a u like Australia and Austria and things like that. So it's good for them that they can discover these different patterns. It provides a visual stimulus. So it's making that, yes, it's physical, but that they can kind of put something visual on what their mouth is doing.  And you don't have to necessarily use symbols. You can use...there are different methods. Some people use pictures, Pierce Messon, for example, has a kind of a method that's based on the science way. It's called pronunciation science. And it's based on the science way to teach pronunciation. And their chart is a series of different colour patterns. So it's completely different. So what we're doing is we're just making a connection between what we're doing in our mouths and being able to put it down. And finally, it's not only a great tool for the students. It's fantastic for us as teachers. So when we are introducing a new vocabulary, a new grammar, it's wonderful. In terms of error correction, it makes our error correction so much more effective, so much quicker, and so much more memorable as well for the students. OK. So before you start, I find it's also important to decide what are your goals in terms of pronunciation. We have to remember that it can be divided into two. We're not just teaching them the chart. We're not just teaching them pronunciation to produce. We're teaching them to be able to listen, to receive information, to understand information. And in terms of productive, it's very important we want to aim not for perfection, because what is perfection? We've all got so many different accents and ways of speaking. So what we want to do is make our learners intelligible, make them be understood by other people. And that's the biggest thing. So intelligibility is the name of the game. OK. Yes. Before you begin, if there's anybody who's not familiar with the chart or with teaching pronunciation, it is fun. Believe me, it is fun. And I guarantee you, if you just take the time to inform yourselves about it, you will be able to use it. I remember I watched the video, this video here, Adrian Underhill. He has an hour-long video on YouTube about introducing the chart. This chart changed my life, literally, because my career took a completely different direction from when I learned this. But if you watch Adrian Underhill, he has a video on YouTube, and after that it will all be clear, the chart, the pattern of it, why it's that way and how it works, and you'll actually discover a lot about yourself and how you speak. If an hour is too long for you to sit down, Macmillan and Adrian Underhill have created a series of 35 videos. Each video is approximately 30 minutes each, and it breaks the chart down into sections, so it's made more manageable chokes. There's an app by Macmillan again, and it's called Science, the pronunciation app. It's amazing, and it's literally, if you get the one, there's one that's only like four or five euro, if you buy that one, it's brilliant. A vision when you're waiting for the bus, you're on the bathroom, you're in the bathroom, or whatever. Literally, it really helps you yourself to become more proficient. When you are bringing the chart into the class, don't throw it at your students, because remember we want to build their confidence. We don't want to terrify them. Start building it slowly, introducing it slowly. The first game that I absolutely love is Phanemic Hangman, and it's based on the regular Hangman, except with bonus, okay? So it's great. Now, again, this one is great when you're first starting. It's really good if you want to, if you're using, if you want to recycle vocabulary. I like to use it after like a listening, and when we've extracted vocabulary or chunks of language from listening, from reading, even if you want to recycle the vocabulary, or just a vocabulary lesson. Basically, the best thing to do is you put your students in pairs. You can give them, depending on what level of agency, you can give them, or you can, the words, or you can get them to pick out which words they want to remember the most from the lesson. So then they have to take the words, and either decide for them, put them into Phanemic Scripts, okay? And very simply, then you'll match them with another pair, and then the other two teams will play Hangman. But instead of using the regular letters, they're using the signings. So they're saying, okay, is there a, in there? Is there a, in there? Is there an off in there? And it's great because it's really connecting the symbols with the physicality. If you want to make it more difficult, you are more easy even, you could give them the words already in script. And I suggest maybe at the beginning, maybe just give them two or three words, okay? If they're more proficient, you can give them more words. But what was the other thing I was going to say? Ah, yeah, don't leave it to the last 10 minutes of class because it takes a lot longer than 10 minutes, okay? And they really love it as well, so they will take their time with it. So do give it a proper 20 plus minutes in your lesson, okay? It's not just an add-on, you know? There you go, that's fine. The next one then is phonemic back to the board, which again is adapted from the regular back to the board game, yes? You know when you have two teams, and one person sits with their back to the board and you write up a word. Except when you write up a word, you're going to write it up in phonemic script. And then the two teams have to, they have to, first of all, they have to figure out what is the word. And then they have to go about explaining what the word is or the expression. But the two tips is, number one, it is quite challenging. So make sure you kind of, you need to make sure that you've used the script and the chart a lot in your class and your students are quite familiar with it. And the other thing is, maybe get the students to put their hand in front of their mouth, because if they're like... You know, and the other students can then kind of see what they're doing with their mouth. So get them maybe to cover their mouths, just from experience, yes, it's a good idea. And the final one is songs. And it's kind of... I was kind of trying to think of a different way of using songs to help with pronunciation with the script. And basically, it's kind of two, again two levels, kind of an easier version and a more difficult version. And the first one is you'll take out a certain target language from the song and in brackets beside the space you'll put down a phonemic script. And then the students have to decide for what the word is. And they have to check to see if they got it correct. The slightly more difficult version of it then is if you take out your target language you put it into script and you put it at the box at the top of the song and you just leave the spaces. And then they have to decipher the different words and then they'll have to read through and figure out where they think those words go. It's a really good idea if you use this with words that have a lot of rhyming so that it'll help them look at different sounds and spelling patterns. And then again you can if you want it afterwards you can take out the words and have a look at... If you pick, for example, if you pick a song that has words that all have similar sounds you'll be able to pick them out and have a look at the different spelling patterns that are there. And... Yes. So remember it's about building our students confidence. We want them to... We want them to be confident about it we want them to enjoy it and we want them to be intelligible. That's what we're aiming for. Not a perfect model or whatever. We also... Build it up slowly. Don't throw it at them. They do build it up slowly because you want them to believe you that it's fun and that it makes life easier for them. And it does. I had a student last year I took over an advanced class and I started using the chart the same way as I always would and he was like, wait a second. Nobody told me this when I was in beginners it would have made everything so much easier and he went crazy and he absolutely loved it. Take the time to inform yourself to learn a little bit about it I know people either don't like it or find it really scary and it really isn't that scary but anybody can do it. So just do take the time to figure it out and enjoy it, yes, have fun. Once you do start messing with it and playing with it in class you will see that your students love it and that you love it and you won't want to teach anything else because that's how I feel sometimes. And finally I just have two references there from Robin Walker and from Eda Ward from earlier on if you want to get a touch this is my email address, this is my blog and my Twitter I'll put the presentation up on my blog and maybe on the ELTR and Facebook page if you do want to take notes because I know it went really quickly when you have 12 minutes and thank you.