I'll be flustered, I've got to work in a foreign environment during the service. Are we all right together? Yes. Okay. Well good morning and thank you for coming in on what is day one of the 2014 National Road Safety Campaign Program, a very important day for us in terms of road safety as will be the next few months for road safety. This year for the first day of the campaign there have been zero fatalities on Queensland roads, which is a great outcome in terms of the overall road toll for the year, which is trending in a very positive way compared to previous years. I'd like to acknowledge and thank the motorists of Queensland for the contribution they've made in terms of road safety, not only in this particular program year, but also more broadly across a couple of years. But this year is going very well and I thank the motorists of Queensland for what they've done. And Stuart said to me that it's looking like it will have the least amount of road deaths in recorded history this year, if it goes, it keeps going like we are. That's right, the road toll year to date is 221, which is 48 less on a year to date comparison to last year. It's also significantly less than the 2010 year, which was the best year in recorded history. But we asked motorists not to drive to the road toll, but to drive to the road conditions and every day should be a day for road safety, no matter what activity you're doing on the road. And about this, Mates Motel, is that something that you... The Queensland Transport and Main Roads are running a program called Join the Drive. It's been running over a few years now, it's a very successful program. Part of the program for this year is Mates Motel, which you can access through the Join the Drive website. What it's saying to people in Queensland is if you have people coming to your residence for a party or get together over the next few days, few weeks, plan your stay and plan their stay with you by declaring your home a Mates Motel. Make your mates welcome and keep them off the road if they've had too much to drink. Scheduled operations by police and targeted for drink driving or speeding or things like that? We're focusing on the fatal five this year, but predominantly over the Christmas campaign where we've got a great interest in drink driving and also in speeding. This week in Brisbane we saw a man detected for driving at a blood alcohol reading of 0.34. That's almost seven times the legal limit. That's not acceptable and that man will need to explain his actions before a court. We've also seen in recent days people travelling at excessive speeds and speeds which in my opinion are not justifiable. People doing 40 and 50 kilometres over the speed limit according to the sign zones. So we would ask people to drive to the speed limits, drive to the road conditions and absolutely don't drink and drive. What do you think about those people about that do have a drink on Christmas or New Year's and then still go ahead and risk it? We all know what the road rules are and what the limits are for drink driving. If you're having a drink, don't drive. If you're unsure whether you are over the limit, don't drive. Find another way of getting to where you need to be. We will have special programs in place over the next 10 to 12 days and then more broadly through to January, encouraging people to drive according to the conditions and to detect people who are taking the risk of drink driving. Mike, I wonder if you're leaving for quite lengthy drives this afternoon after work to get to places for Christmas. What do you implore them to do in terms of having those risk breaks? Well, the recommended strategy is to take a rest every two hours. Queensland is a very diverse state. We have many visitors who come to our state at this time of year who are not used to the driving conditions. We would ask you to manage your fatigue. Take a rest regularly. If you've been driving for a long period of time, take a longer break. If you're feeling fatigued or tired, don't set off on a long journey until you've had a proper rest. If you're driving in our roads, manage your fatigue and manage your safety. Are you disappointed at the number of positive roadside drive tests already? Well, we'd like to see nobody tested and go over the limit. That's absolutely why we do the testing, is to encourage people to drive to the conditions and to drive to the standards that we expect. We see many more people tested than we see detected for drink driving, but we do get concerned when we see so many people detected. We see one man was detected for driving at 0.34 in the last few days. We're just unacceptable and I would suggest that most Queenslanders would see that as poor behaviour and would not accept that as a reasonable standard of practice. What about the seven positive drug tests at this day? Looking at last year's figures, there were 0.54 tests, already 37 tests and seven positive. We've been doing considerably more drug testing in the last few months than we have done previously and we intend to expand that program into 2015. We have a lot of work going on behind the scenes with regard to drug testing. There's absolutely no doubt that if you are impaired, whether it be through drugs or through alcohol, you increase the risk to yourself, to your passengers and to other road users. If you've been using illicit drugs, don't drive a car.  Great, thanks for your interest. Thank you very much.


In this video, we will show you how to perform a column. Before you perform a column, you will have to have done a TLC of your product and have a good separation on TLC. If you do not know how to perform a TLC, watch the video about tin layer chromatography. If you want to perform a column, you will need the following pieces of equipment. First of all, you will need a column. In this column, you will have to fill with a couple of ingredients, some cotton, sand. In this case, we will use silica gel, but you can also do alox columns. You will need to run the column with a solvent. You will have to decide which solvent you have to use, or it's in your manual. In this case, solvents come in glass bottles. We use pentane and diethyl ether. You will need to mix your silica and your solvent. For that, it's handy to use a big beaker. To accurately determine the mixture of your solvents, you can use a measuring cylinder. To add solids to the column, it's handy to have a big funnel. We want to put some pressure on our column. For that, you can use a mill adapter attached to a small balloon which you can press and then you will have pressure on your column. To attach the balloon to your column, use a fitting clamp. And to collect the fractions at the end of your column, you will need a test tube rack filled with test tubes. And of course, you will need your crude product, which you want to call. We already placed the column in our fumeut in the shot and we placed it with two clamps, one on the top and one somewhere in the middle. Make sure these clamps hold the column tightly so it can't go anywhere and it is not tilted to any of the sides, backwards or forwards to have a level flow through your column. At the bottom of the column, we placed a tiny bit of cotton pressed down with a long rod and this is to prevent any of the sand or the silica that we are going to place in here or any other solid face that you are going to place in here from leaking out the bottom of your column. And above the cotton, we have a layer of sand to have a nice equal bottom layer of your column. Now that we have prepared this, we can continue to prepare the rest of the column but before doing that, make sure that you check by TLC that your product that you want to isolate is at an RF value of around 0.3 in the element that you want to use. In other case, it's the red spot or the top spot for those that are color blind and the blue spot is at the bottom and that is our impurity that we don't want. Now we will continue with making our column. By first putting a layer of element at the bottom to prevent the sand from getting disturbed and after we placed the element in, we can add our silica and silica is a very free flowing powder and you can load it into your column in two ways. You can either load it like this in a dry form but that won't give a good packing and it will cause a lot of dust and this dust is quite harmful to your lungs. The other option would be and the better option to use is to make a slurry of your silica using the elements that you want to use and then pour that slurry into the column and then let the liquid drain to bit the backer piloting as we will show you now. We prepared 500 ml of our solution that we're going to use, our elements but Bosn always make sure that there's enough solvent around in the lab that you can actually finish your column before starting your column. Use a small pipette to fill the column with a layer of elements and make sure that the tap at the bottom of your column is closed while doing this because if it's not closed it will run dry. When you have a layer of about a centimeter that should be enough and we can now load the silica into the column. So we have our silica and their elements and you just mix this until you get a slurry-like consistency. To help mixing you can use a spatula or the backside of a pipette or just swirl until it's properly mixed. So now that our slurry is properly mixed we can pour it into our column and for that we're going to use a big funnel so that it will not stick to the sides of our glass preferably and be careful when pouring this but still pour fast enough that you actually pour in the silica and sometimes you will have to refill the beaker with a bit more elements to actually get the silica that you wanted to go in to go in. As you can see the silica is slowly settling down in our liquid but there's still a bit of silica on the top which you can rinse away with a small pipette and some of the elements. As you see the settling will take quite some time and we can improve the settling time by opening the tap and applying some pressure but make sure that when you're doing that the silica never runs dry of solution. As you can see we let the liquid drain until just below the layer of the silica and now we'll place our compound on top of the column. We dissolved our crude mixture in a minimum amount of our element and we will place a tin layer depending on how much you have of course on top of the column. Try to not disturb the top of your silica layer while doing this. Now that we placed our compound dissolved in a minimum amount of element on top of our column we can open it and let it run into the silica and while it's almost in you can rinse the sides of the column with a tiny bit of element and also let that extra bit of element flow into your column. Now it's in the column, close the column and cover the top with a small layer of sand to prevent any compound going back into the element that you will place on top of your column. To do this use a funnel for solids and the sand and a small layer is enough. Now you can first carefully fill the top layer with element and when there's a small layer of element you can pour in the rest of the element. Now that there's a small layer you can pour in more element and open the tap at the bottom. The first 60% of liquid volume of our column will be just pure element because it was just mixed with pure silica. So we can collect that in a large earlamire and reuse that to flow through it again. After around 60% of this volume, so that is about this which is a similar amount that was on top of our column now, is run through we will start collecting our fractions. But now we will just push through 60% of volume. Make sure you always top off the solvent before the sand runs dry. Now that around 60% of our volume has run through we will start collecting fractions. In our demonstration that you see here we have very coloured fractions and it's easy to see where they are. But in most experiments you're trying to separate a colours compound from another colours compound. We can fill these test tubes for whatever volume you like but make sure that you don't overfill them and the liquid flows out. As soon as you are around halfway to three quarters full exchange it for the next one and place it in order in your reaction in your test tube rack or you could number your test tubes. In this case we can clearly see that there is a very yellowish tint here which is probably one of the fractions. Then there is this bright red fraction which we could also observe on TLC and then there is this blue fraction which we also could observe on the TLC and we would like to have pure red compound at the end of this column. In this case we are doing flash chromatography so we are applying pressure on top of our column. This is because when you are doing this fast so you want to do this in one go there is no chance or lower chance of diffusing of these layers into each other so by continuously going on and collecting our fractions not stopping in between we will have the best separation possible as we will now demonstrate in the following montage. When you think you are done collecting fractions make sure you leave a tiny layer of element on top of your column and close the tab. So here you can see the fraction that is collected and you can clearly see that the color changes from light yellow all the way to darker red and then now in this way more dark red at some point the dark red goes through colorless here and then the colorless goes from light blue to dark blue and then all the way to light blue again and the last fraction I collected was almost colorless there is a tiny amount left in the column but for now that is okay. Now we just have to identify from these fractions which contain pure compound and you can do this by running TLCs of every fraction or every other fraction to see which fraction is pure and then when you identified all your pure fractions combine them into a big flask use the rotary evaporator to remove the solvent and identify what you isolated by using any of the analytical techniques When you are sure that you have your product isolated in your flask you can empty the column by opening the tab and pushing out the liquid using the balloon make sure that you collect this liquid in Erlemire for the one case that you actually did not isolate your product yet when the column is completely dry or at least dry enough you can hang it upside down in your fume hood over a beaker and leave it there overnight and then the next day the silica will have dropped out of your column and you can throw it away in the solid waste bin and clean the rest of the column with some acetone and ethanol at the waste fume hood this is how you perform a column


Good morning, I hope everyone is as awake as I am for some reason my body decided that 4 a.m Was a great time to wake up. I disagreed, but we couldn't settle my name is dirk hondel. I'm Freshly not quite freshly at the ember. I'm the chief open source officer for the ember and I'm Linus and I have Been around Linux foundation for the last seven years, so not so fresh anymore Seven no, it must be Whatever the little nation was founded in 2007 and before that you work for OSDL Anyway, clearly. We are well prepared for this morning Numbers numbers speaking of numbers 4.8 RC 3. Where are we? This looks to be a fairly regular release 4.7 was smaller than traditional well, not traditional Lately and that was I blame it on just being summer in the northern hemisphere, which tends to slow things down a bit the Poor Australians will just have to take a break with the rest of us But but 4.8 looks very normal our Development really has been fairly smooth lately. We have a very regular schedule for releases and And everybody knows how things work by now. I mean, we've only been doing it for the last ten years this way And things are looking on track, but we still have at least four more weeks until the actual 4.8 release Anything exciting in it anything noteworthy? I'm actually right now when it comes to exciting things. I'm looking at 4.9 So I know some of what's coming up for the next merge window So 4.8 to me is already old news because all the exciting stuff was merged in the merge window For 4.9 we have What I've been surprised about is that we were still doing low-level stuff We're still doing For a while there it looked like we're only doing drivers and we're only doing file systems like new file system every like clockwork several times a year and And then something changed and now we've been doing low-level stuff like really low-level People are rewriting assembly code changing how the stack layout is things like that So that's to me exciting to most users not so much, right So of course I I had to start with something else But everyone expects us to talk about 25 years of Linux now the critical question What is the correct date to celebrate? Is it really August 25th when you wrote the email or is it the first release or I? Think August 25th. It's probably the correct one because the first actual release was not public so When I released zero point zero one which was September Seven or fifteen or something like that So two three weeks from now I wasn't quite happy with it, but I told people that I'm going to release So what happened was I I made a release on a public website But then are at that point FTP site But then I didn't actually announce it publicly and I just emailed the people who knew and had shown interest And I've lost all those emails So I don't actually have an exact date except you can go back and find a Copy of the original tar file and look at the date in the make file and that's how I think it's a I forget Which date it is but but the one public announcement was obviously The August 25 one and that's the one that I think most people use and certainly likes what I should use this so I This of course this email has been shown many many times and I'm always amused by your predictions in that email and And the the accuracy that you have shown you said it's not portable and we today support 80 different architecture something I don't think it's 80, but it's a lot of architectures. Yeah More than anybody else You said you would never support anything but 80 hard disks Because it was what I had Well, I mean you had to realize the the background there is that it was a completely personal project And I didn't really I mean I expected other people to be interested from a theoretical standpoint like Okay Students all operating systems might want to look at okay Here's another operating system that we can look at right that was my expectation which meant that the kind of hardware I had was The only hardware that he ran on and it wasn't even the kind of hardware it was literally things like for the first two or three releases You not only had to have an 80 hard disk like I do you had to have the same 80 hard disk as I had because the geometry of the hard disk was Hard-coded in the source code right which I mean you could have a different 80 hard disk But you just had to change the numbers to match how many sectors you had So the first releases were a bit Unpolished So so when I started at 011 you already Supported any MFM drives, but if you had an RLL drive, so the the run length Compressed once they were small inconsistencies. Well, I wouldn't even say any MFM Drivers are still most of what the kernel does and the early drivers were Slightly less complete than what we have today. Yes, but that is why the early code was 10,000 lines of code and now we're at 17 million lines of code plus documentation Yeah, so when when I started I first thing I did was I printed out the sources. I do not recommend you do that today But my very tiny font very time But my favorite prediction is always this won't be big and professional and obviously you were correct This is all pretty amateurish Simple sorry Jim no offense. Yeah, no it took a while though I mean it really did take a while before it turned professional and some of us still struggle with it at times So what are the highlights or the low lights of these 25 years The highlights are really hard to even mention because I mean there's most of it has been really really good But this has got to have been the moment where you said, yeah, this is it. This is awesome aren't there these The moments where I really went this is awesome were actually that I remember like clearly have been When I've been struggling with something That just took forever Like I was struggling on the same thing for weeks and nothing worked And most of those that were actually very very early on the reason nobody's saying does operating systems from scratch is that When nothing works it is really really frustrating But then even the slightest sign of life makes you go wow I Really mastered this machine when you the first character shows up on the screen ever and the system does nothing else Right you're really pumped because you actually get got a character on the screen Wow, right completely useless, but that those Early times were actually some of the most like memorable for me when when nothing really worked and you go from from that Nothing to to something Later on and these days I'm actually most happy about when process works because I don't write code anymore So I don't have any code I can be proud of because I send off emails to random people and say hey This guy reports a bug. Can you you're the expert in this area? Can you fix it? So I don't have code that I can be proud of I'm making things work I can be proud of when when The release process really works and people People get things done and we don't have a lot of issues That's that makes me happy these days, but that it really has been working very well for for a while low lights We've had some Most of them have almost none of them have been about technology I mean we had we've had difficult times When things really didn't make progress Some people who I mean the developers in the audience may remember who if you've been around for long enough Power management was such a bummer for so many years and we really struggled with that And it took years and years to get it to the point where You could just take a random laptop and suspend it and resume it and you would just assume that it works That was very frustrating But on the whole low lights on the technical side have not been a big issue I mean you have frustrating issues that come up and are hard to debug but but most of the low lights have been really the social and and especially again the Development side when the process doesn't work. I mean if you go back 15 years ago, we had huge process issues. We really had During the 2.4 series we We really I'll take blame I screwed up the memory management and and we had this situation where during a few releases We completely switched around which memory manager I think Andrea might be here somewhere he he ended up fixing a lot of things and it was very very very painful and and and that I Still remember as a low light and as a this is not how we're supposed to do it but but for example Switching over to bitkeeper. I mean everybody Has heard about how bitkeeper was a big failure and how that grew ha ha one when I had to go off and Make get to work, but bitkeeper actually was a big savior for me personally because the situation We were in from a process standpoint before bitkeeper was such a disaster And and people may not realize because a lot of people Linux people have come in fairly lately But but 15 years ago We were going from there was a fair amount of commercial interest But it was still fairly early and and our processes at the time Were geared towards the pre-commercial interest Models that we had when we had a lot of of individuals at universities and our kernel was much smaller We had maybe 10 to 50 developers and then all these big commercial companies come in and now we have hundreds of developers and lots of new code Lots of problems that we didn't have to face before and our process was just a mess And it was very painful and that was probably the only time in the history of Linux where I was like This is not working and and I felt like Like in retrospect. I look back and say that might have been the moment where I just gave up Right and but that was 15 years ago and we had problems after that But literally for the last few years the release schedule and everything has been so smooth And and we have thousands of people involved and it's working. I mean don't get me wrong We still argue. I mean there are arguments where we're not all happy people. We don't love each other. I I I suspect a lot of developers really don't like each other but quite often even if there's not a lot of Happy Love feelings. There's I get the feeling that there's a lot of respect for the technical side and things are working very well In ways that things have not always worked I find it interesting that you mentioned that so did you ever really consider walking away from it saying and done? It's never been at that point There's been a couple of times where I Decided that we had Had big enough arguments that I took a week when I just actually it never ended up being a week But I decided that I'm I'm walking away from the computer. I am too angry at the people involved This is actually not lately this most of these go really back 10 15 years ago And and I decide I will be offline for a week because I can't I am just not Able to take this anymore and usually the next day I'm back and things are better But but it's been a couple of times that has happened where where I felt like this is This is not fun. This is not worth my time But but it not not in the last 10 years at least but I mean if I if I look at the 25 years of the next development Overall the the amount of success that that we made as a community the What we've created is impressive and to to look back and say I can't really think of any lowlights that alone is impressive The other well, I mean I can't think of it, but but they have been very rare I mean they have not been it. It's been a great community. I really I mean we're We're actually somewhat famous like the kernel mailing is this famous for not being a great community, but that to To a large degree it's been because people then highlight the bad things going on and if you actually it's People are so nice in general people are I wouldn't say polite very many people are never ever polite But but people are like you can just feel the fact that people want to work together and want to make a better system And that really makes for a great community But as a as a kernel community over the last 25 years There have been challenges at least challenges that were talked about One of the ones that always came up and I remember this in the early days when SMP was introduced was the question of fragmentation. How do we keep one single kernel? What's your thought on the technical debt in the Android kernels by all the different vendors that are so far away from from mainstream? I mean I used to be worried about fragmentation and I used to think that it was inevitable at some point Part of that was obviously the history of Unix where Everybody who was looking at history Unix and comparing Linux to traditional Unix was like saying It's gonna fail because it's gonna fragment because that's what happened before and we've seen this and why even bother, right? and There I think the license made a huge difference Me and the FSF we don't have this loving relationship, but I love the GPL version too I really think the license has been one of the defining factors in the success of Linux because the the whole Enforced you have to give back Has meant that the fragmentation has never been something that has been Viable from a technical standpoint Fragmentation can still happen due to social issues or just My biggest fear was that fragmentation would happen due to different markets where Originally when SGI was pushing Linux into Thousand core machines and RSMP was kind of wobbly even on eight CPUs I mean it was it was good if you had to it was okay If you had four eight was kind of pushing it really obvious and then SGI comes along as it Yeah, we have this 256 CPU machine and next year we want to put it on 1024 and long term more and I say They wanted to talk to me about how to manage this and I told them that yeah You should just go off and do your own thing because we're not there You should do your own big iron version of Linux and and sell it as SGI Linux And it's fine, right and they did to some degree, but they kept moving things back and The standard kernel also kept trying I mean that's where the license comes in that the code is out there And you have all these people who can try to merge it back because anybody can't do that and and we ended up just improving to the point where our Limits from the standard kernel went away and the SGI people were really happy to try to push their code to us so that they'd have less maintenance headaches with all the changes they did and And and that experience just convinced me that even if you have completely disparate machines and and Target markets we really can have a same single image from the source code standpoint and Right now we're seeing you mentioned Android It's not I don't think it's a huge deal the biggest problem with Android is that in the embedded market on the cell phones people are used to You have this odd dichotomy where the hardware is the newest of the new right? there's a new chip coming out and Three weeks later. There's a prototype phone and two months later in some parts of the world There's actually a phone on the shelves with this new hardware by by hardware manufacturer, but they have this Model where software tends to lag by much more than that so the software versions are often like two years old or a year and a half old because that's what they had and and Hardware developers are really excited about new hardware, but they just want to run the old software And then they hack it up to work on new hardware So that has been some of a problem always in the embedded space and now in Android But but even that is actually getting better So you mentioned the the strength of the GPL many new kernels have shown up in the last couple of years Mostly geared towards really small devices the IOT space. So Zephyr by Intel Now fuchsia by Google they're a bunch more and one of the interesting Commonalities that they're all under BSD or MIT, right? Do you think that what a do you think they're interesting be? Do you think that one of them could grow up and become a competitor for Linux or replace Linux? So I I think they're interesting just because I it's where Linux came out of to like small devices Riding tiny kernels that only were very limited and and I think it's it's always an interesting space and it's the only reasonable space where a new operating system can really make a big impact because the complexities of an operating systems tend to be in in all the hardware support and Flexibility of supporting Lots of different use cases. So if you start off you need to start off with something small and then today that means IOT At the same time the reason I think they show up under the MIT License or BSD or Apache is that most of their time these projects are started by companies and The flexibility for them to use something like a BSD license that allows them to do anything They see that as a big Upside and I think that if you actually want to create something bigger and if you want to create a community around it The BSD license is not necessarily a great license. I mean, I it's it's worked fairly well but You are going to have trouble finding outside developers who feel protected by a big company that says hey Here's this BSD license thing and we're not making any promises because the copyright allows us to do anything It allows you to do anything too, but but as a outside developer I Would not get the warm and fuzzies by that because I'm like oh this big company is going to take advantage of me While the GPL says Yes, the company may be maybe big But nobody is ever going to take advantage of your code It will remain free and nobody can take that away from you and and I Think that's a big deal for community management. It wasn't something. I was Planning personally when I started but over the years I've become convinced that the BSD license is great for code You don't care about The for code you want to make like this is I'll use it myself if there's a library routine that I just want to Say hey, this is really useful to anybody and I'm not going to maintain this I'll put it under BSD license But I mean I do want to whenever licenses come up I want to always say that hey this is a personal issue some people love the BSD license Some people love proprietary licenses, and you know what I understand that I'm like if you want to make a program And you want to feed your kids It used to make a lot of sense to say that you want to have a proprietary license and sell Binaries I think it makes sense less sense today, but I really understand the argument So I I don't want to judge. I'm I'm just kind of giving my view on licensing That's why we're here. So do you ever look at the sources of these other kernels? Do you know I you know it's on the BSD I can look I can no no I actually used to and not really I used to try to let's put it that way back in the very early days of Linux I forget what it was and but this is This was some issue I had and I tried to figure it out and I had just Hit my head against the wall for a long time and I said, okay I mean BSD is out there. I can go and look what BSD is do and I don't know how much time I waste that trying to follow somebody else's code I mean for a complicated problem, too. I mean it was obviously complicated enough that I had Had issues with it and I like how do I solve this? So when you have a complicated problem like that the worst thing you can do is look at somebody else's code It doesn't matter how much comments it has. It's not going to clarify things for you It's like you need you need the background to understand source code, right? So I made the mistake once of saying, okay, let's see how anybody else Solved this problem and I found it I Found it not useful for me and maybe it is useful for others, but I just I decided now It's actually easier to just read up Like a paper or a book about this OS design and try to actually understand the problem instead of Looking at somebody else's code and get it that way this may be personal But after that I just After one bad experience. I decided no I'd rather read Literature than read source code I'll read my own and I really want people to read their own source code You don't just write it you read it and try to understand it afterwards, too But but reading another project source code is really really hard So which projects do you look at the sources of besides the kernel? Um honestly The last project I looked at the source code of was Z mailer Which is a old mailer program that is still used by Veejer the kernel mailing list and nobody else and it hasn't been maintained for ten years and or more and So the only way to figure out problems is to look at source code And I did figure out a few problems and we fixed a few issues on the kernel mailing list with email authentication issues we had so I Think it actually is useful to look at other projects code if you want to fix a bug in that other project I mean that is how we get most of the kernel developers is they a Lot of bugs are really easy to fix. They may be one-liners, right? You don't look at a protest code to write your own you look at a protest code because you want to fix that project and you start out small and in 25 years later you find out that you are a big maintainer That's how we all start. Yes, so so let's talk a bit about this big maintainer thing One thing that I find fascinating about the the Linux development process is it's completely unique in its scale in its velocity Do you think this is? Something that other projects or even companies for in-house development can learn from the way Linux does things with the clear maintainer roles with the tree structure with the timed releases and all that We don't actually have clear maintainer roles Really, I mean I doubt anybody here can really even Google and try to find a maintainer ship Like traditional org chart for Linux. Maybe somebody has tried to do this I would guess that maybe you would find it on LW and you would find it from ten years ago John Corbett probably try to make an org chart for Linux and and that's why he's bald now but So the only people who think we have a clear maintainer There's two classes of people who think we have a clear maintainer ship roll one is the outsiders They my guess is that from the outside this all looks very organized, right? It we have releases on Every ten weeks it looks very organized. It's very smooth and then the other group is the the people who have been around forever and they just know who maintains everybody not because There's a documentation not because we have an org chart.  You just know Oh, it's a driver Bug bug Greg about it or David handles networking and if it's wireless you go to something else, right? So So we have maintainer ship rolls, but they're not they're actually and I think it's nice that they're not like an org chart Because one of the downsides of org charts. It's all the politics You want to be upright because it makes you look good and and so you have the jockeying for position And when you don't have an org chart and you can't really show off your position in the org chart to anybody Some of the politics goes away. That's how many of here work for large companies and know about company politics Some people at least admit to this But the other thing is we're actually way more flexible when it comes to things and and people have been trying out different models like having Two or three people work as maintainers of one subsystem We now have one subsystem that is playing around with having two maintainers, but 15 people who can actually commit which is Sounds a bit odd and we don't know if it works, but Maybe it will work. We've we've tried a lot of these kinds of experiments with maintainership and And I wouldn't say that most of them work But the ones that a lot of changes that on the surface look completely crazy Do actually work really well after you give it a few iterations and you kind of Make the obvious problems that you didn't think about go away So we have this fairly fluid org chart and it's been it literally has been changing and and and it's it's not even a Hierarchy I would say it's more of a network of people that sometimes it goes across Boundaries just because you can email doesn't really care who you said it to yeah I always love it when you send your patches to some other maintainer Oh, yeah integrate them so that later you can pull if if I write code It depends a bit on the area sometimes I will just commit it myself because it's some trivial fix and I just I'm on a schedule. It's like something stupid that needs to be reverted for a Release then I will commit it myself, but quite often I will like say hey this is my my fix and I'll send it off to the real maintainer of that area and Maybe most of the time they commit it right so I I seldom get rejections, but but If they want to improve it, that's fine, too So we are almost out of time I For very current reasons I have one last question and I've asked this question of Linus a few times when we've had these Conversations and I usually phrase this conversation What happens if Linus steps behind the bus what happens with Linux and of course yesterday as we walk back from dinner He steps behind the boss. I'm like no and so What what happens when when when there is no Linus anymore? You know, I'm fairly careful even when people are I think it would have been a bigger problem 15 years ago, maybe even 10 these days There are so many people who could take up the work the mantle most of the people who could do it wouldn't want to do it I think right they they've seen enough that they say yeah now It's better to let Linus handle it because there is going to be conflict and then I don't need that headache But there are clearly I mean there are people who have been around for almost as long as I have been and There are people who are universally trusted and do a lot of the work right today that could step up So but my traditional answer is hey, I won't care so And on that very helpful note Thank you very much Linus. Thank you everyone All right Let's give a standing ovation to this man 25 years to continue to do the same job That's enough. I made him uncomfortable so But I couldn't resist. Thank you guys. Thank you so much


What's going on you guys welcome to the single guy channel today We're going to be talking about tinder now I haven't posted a lot on dating apps on this channel and the reason is is I don't really use them that much okay? I tend to talk to girls in real life and just go outside and talk to a girl on the street or talk to a girl at a Bar or you know there's other places okay, but dating apps are extremely popular and they're popular for a reason So I thought I'd bring in an expert on the subject someone who knows exactly what he's talking about someone who knows tinder Like the back of his hand who does really really well on it So this guy's name is Damien. He's from the school of attraction I'm super honored to have him on this channel And he's going to basically tell you the ins and outs of how tinder works and how you should use it in your life Now before I turn to him if you guys are in San Francisco again I'm going to be doing a talk tomorrow at 7 p.m. At the Hilton and Union Square I would love to see you there if you want to go there's a link in the description down below click on that link and Say you're attending and I'd love to see you and meet you Gotcha. Take it away Damien Thank you so much for the intro Lloyd and hello to everyone from the single guy channel and hello from Australia Today, I'm going to be talking to you guys about tinder. I know that tinder can be super frustrating But the truth is when you know what you're doing tinder actually doesn't have to be so hard or nearly so Frustrating so very special for you guys right now I'm going to be sharing five ways that you can double your tinder matches right now So let's get started So the very first thing that you need to be paying some attention to is your tinder radius This is a very overlooked feature on tinder Because what tinder does that when you first create an account it actually creates a massive radius search radius for you in Australia It tends to do about 50 kilometers in the United States It depends it's funny tinder works differently in different areas But it'll tend to do is sort of about somewhere between 30 and 50 miles, which is way too large Now why is this search radius large and why do you want to keep it small? Well, it all it all comes down to your match rate see tinder rewards Tinder profiles the guys profiles who get a lot of matches So the percentage of women is white right of the versus swipe swiping left the higher That is the more attractive women it's going to show you and the more women are going to get to see your profile And that's really important of course for your match rate So what happens is that if you're you got a search radius of like let's say 50 miles Well, most women are going to have somewhere between 15 10 to 15 maybe 20 miles on the very very far end as their search radius And so what's going to happen is you're going to see a lot of women on your tinder who are never going to see you back So you're going to be swiping right swiping right swiping right on all these women and none of them are ever going to see you Because you're outside of their search radius, but they're inside of yours So you know if you've ever used tinder gold you'll see this as well If you use tinder gold you notice a lot of the women to match with you are frequently not a lot Some of them are frequently outside your search radius. They're way too far away. They still match with you That's because they're generally less attractive women who are increasing the search radius to try to find a guy So yeah, you want to shrink that down if you shrink it down You'll get a much higher tinder ranking sort definitely really important to talk about more of that shortly Number two and this is a real common mistake with guys and girls They tend to use tinder all throughout the day like whenever you're bored you speak up your phone I'm going to use tinder. You just you know go all over the place On your way to work or on your way home You just pick up the phone start swiping on tinder at lunch because you're bored But actually there is by far a best time of the day when you should be using tinder And that is about nine o'clock at night what I tell guys is used into between eight and ten And then and then you know only swipe between eight and ten sure you could have conversations with women outside those times But why is that the most important time? Well, because tinder usage is the highest the peak at about 9 p.m Now this changes slightly again from city to city, but on a worldwide level. It's about 9 p.m Why you want this is that you actually want women to be online on tinder for two reasons first of all When you're swiping women's profiles Tinder will tend to show you women who are online at the same time you are right now So if you swipe right on a woman and she's far more likely to be online when you're there now if that happens She's on her phone swiping. She sees a message come up saying she's got a match Right, so she's far more likely to get a notification that you've mentioned So while she's actually on her phone and using it and that's really big But more than that you want to catch women while they're online because if you've ever had the really frustrating experience of Talking to women or trying to talk to women on tinder But they just don't seem to reply and then you you try and that it just fizzles out and nothing ever happens That'll happen far less if you can catch them online and now you can't know for sure when they're going to be online But you can have a good guess it's probably gonna be statistically around 9 p.m So that's the best time of day to be using tinder So you want to be doing a swiping any conversations around that time of day to get the best match and the best conversation response rates Number three another one I see a huge amount of from guys because this rule only applies to guys No selfies on tinder selfies are a massive turnoff to women I've read a million theories about why I've talked to tons of women there seem to be no strict correlations But they just generally don't work. I mean nine times out of ten There are exceptions. I've seen selfie photos that women seem to love but basically don't Now for a lot of guys this can be frustrating because you don't have a lot of great photos some guys do right I'm lucky I said tend to have lots of photos around the place taken by the people a lot of guys don't This is gonna be a problem for your tinder You're gonna need to go out with some friends go out with a tripod and set your phone or your camera on on a timer But you're gonna get out have to get shots that aren't selfies because they're a huge turnoff real simple That'll kill your tinder ranking and reduce your matches dramatically The fourth thing you need to consider doing is regularly resetting your tinder account. Now, what do I mean by resetting? I mean deleting your entire account and creating it a fresh from scratch all over again See what happens is I mentioned that tinder has a ranking system now used to use an illo rankosit ranking system Which I've talked about before but that's a style of ranking used for chess games and tennis matches and stuff not important Uses a different ranking system now, but it still uses a ranking system So what happens is that when you first create an account you are ranked as being very high and you can only go down from there That's why you usually find when you first create an account you get lots of matches Then it just dies off So you want to if you notice that your account has started to drag off to die off It can be really powerful to delete it and start again because you'll get a higher ranking But what's more than that is that what I highly recommend you do is you shuffle around your photos change the photos put in some new ones Especially your first photo But you've got to think that what some women have seen your first photo and gone not left if you just change it to something Slightly different some of those women who swap left will now swipe right and then it less likely to recognize you as that same person They already swapped left to so really really useful tactic is to move those photos around so that hey You pick up a different demographic of women along the way Really great feature. However, you don't want to use it too often So you never ever want to reset your profile more than once a month More than that can lead to shadow banning and banning on Tinder Which you don't want to have happen trust me because it's really hard to escape from and Number five and is this maybe the most important? I think it could be this could be the most important of all these is that your first photo has to be the most Attractive version of you possible think about think about going to buy hamburger, right? If you walk into McDonald's and you walk into your local corner fish and chip store How good do the hamburgers look on the McDonald's menu? Like how awesome do they look versus how awesome do the hamburgers how not awesome do the hamburgers? Look at the fish and chip store The truth is that the fish and chip stores just have like mom-and-pop photos that kind of look okay But not amazing McDonald's photos look absolutely drool worthy yet when you get the burger The truth is a little bit different now I'm not suggesting you lie about what you look like but I'm suggesting that is critically important How good you look in those photos in other words the best version of you that's humanly possible So how can you work this out? Well first of all you want to have a bunch of photos to choose from? Don't be too judgmental on yourself because I found before that some of my best performing photos of photos that I look at and think Are you kidding me? This is what you like women. What's wrong with you? Anyway? Don't be too judgmental throw up a bunch of photos use an online site called Photofear.com now this site is absolute gold What you do is you upload a bunch of photos to this website and you can get them rated by other women like women across the board You want to wait till they get about 30 or 40 votes on each photo and that's going to tell you not just how attractive women find Your photos they're going to tell you how intelligent They think you are based on those photos and also how trust whether they think you are based on those photos So it'll give you a really great insight into how women are interpreting What kind of man you are based on what they see in the photographs because based on that what you want to do is take the Very best photo you've got and make that your number one because remember when women are swiping They're not looking through every guy's profile. They're looking at your profile If your number one shot doesn't grab their attention, they're going to swipe left They're not going to bother looking they're not going to bother reading nothing you're gone So that photo is the most important part of your entire tinder profile and you want to get that spot on So, yeah, don't use selfies try to try to amalgamate a number of different options of yourself to facial expressions different Clothing different backgrounds throw them up on photo feeler and choose the one that gets by far the best So those are my tips for today guys. Hope you get something out of it I also want to let you know that a something very special for you guys right now I have a tinder photo cheat sheet basically 21 point guide to Finding the very best photos that you can and for your tinder profile What's good in a photo? What's bad in a photo if you're gonna go get photos?  I'm Damien from the School of Attraction YouTube channel go ahead and check me out I look forward to seeing some of you in my future videos Lloyd back to you bud All right, how's it going you guys? Thank you so much Damien guys If you're wondering how to get your tinder profile looking good I recommend you hit that guy up check out his YouTube channel. He also does consultations too. He's done mine He's a great guy. He knows what he's talking about and hopefully you saw from this video. You got a couple good tips Again guys, I'm gonna be in San Francisco tomorrow So if you're there, please come meet me would love to see your pretty faces link is in the description below Thanks a lot you guys good luck out there


Good evening and welcome to Byline, a brand new public affairs show here at Amherst Media and it's sponsored by the League of Women Voters. You'll see this program every Friday evening at 8 o'clock beginning on January 4th and you'll see the same show rebroadcast on Monday evening following that 30 minutes before the council actually meets and they won't meet every week but they'll meet frequently and this particular show will be broadcast then on Friday January 4th and again on Monday January 7th and in between you can see it on Amherst Media's YouTube channel and probably on other social media venues as time goes by and people start picking up on the availability of this broadcast and the purpose of this show is simply to provide an opportunity for us to get to know much better the legislators who represent us both here in town on the newly elected and sworn in and organized town council and also our newly elected state representative Mindy Dom and our newly elected state senator Joe Comerford and we hope to in the first let's say three months or so it's really going to focus a lot on trying to get to know these individuals better because as in the case of the town council we all had to have the opportunity to vote for three at large counselors so we probably know a lot more about each of them than we do district counselors outside of the district in which we live because we each got to vote for two district counselors we probably did a pretty good job figuring out who they were but we may not know much about the district counselors in the other districts and after all they all have an equal vote and their decisions and their work will affect each and every one of us whether they represent us directly or indirectly as they serve on the council from a district and similarly with Joe and Mindy we want to get to know them better and what's going on in Beacon Hill so this public affairs show will broadcast every Friday night and the following Monday night with the same broadcast and when the town council is in session Amherst TV will cut right to their meeting upon the completion of our show not that our show will take precedence over the meeting but it just so happens our 30 minute show will proceed the town council meeting and so with that backdrop we get to welcome our first guest Lynn Griezmer and Lynn is elected at a district council level and but she also has the distinction of having been elected the first president of the Amherst town council which is a significant honor and a significant responsibility because everything the council does in this first three-year term is going to set precedent and people are going to look to those actual rules and decisions but also the informal things that go on and it will really help set the tone the direction and create the precedence for how counselors are going to think of themselves how they're going to work together and how the community is going to interact with them and then how the community is going to view the council so very important three-year period and your job is an extraordinarily important one and it's great that you're retired and can work at this job about 80 hours a week because that's probably what you're going to need is that about right Lynn I'm trying to keep it to 20 trying to keep it to 20 okay well good luck with that thank you I know you're very responsibility oriented person so you'll do whatever it takes however many hours it takes because that's in your nature and speaking of that let's begin with a little bit of background so I know and maybe other people in town know that you worked at the Donahue Institute at the University of Massachusetts and you are also at the senior level in the UMass president's office doing some work on economic development but your real sort of publicly known role in the university is with the Donahue Institute and you were a program officer there and researcher and then you became the director somewhere along the way right and when you took over it had about a budget of about two million dollars somewhere two to three two to three and you work with communities and state government doing research and programming and training and helping them do a better job at what they do but the other distinguishing characteristic was that your budget when you retired was now at twenty million dollars so I'm going to say tenfold increase that's a pretty remarkable accomplishment especially when you think about the work that you guys were doing because you were trying to help our democracy run better what did you get from that whole experience that you're bringing to the table at the town council one of the things that actually goes even beyond early my early years in my professional life which spans almost 50 years is I really just love to do startups and organizing how people proceed with if you will big efforts and this is a big effort and so what I bring is that experience of how to look at something how to listen to different people and how to then put a structure that allows this council in this case to be able to make decisions and move forward in the interest of the town excellent so team building yeah organization structure what other skills from other life experience are you bringing to the table well I think the other piece another piece for example is I've had a long involvement with the Amherst survival center and what that has allowed me to do is truly understand a lot more about the region but specifically Amherst and understand that Amherst is not made up of only people who are if you will have lots of resources in fact Amherst is one of 50 communities in Massachusetts that have are at the lower poverty level and so there's a lot of need in Amherst and a lot of voices that are not heard hidden poverty hidden poverty and a lot of voices that are not heard and so I think one of the things that not only do we need to be listening to those people who have always been vocal in Amherst but we need to be figuring out how to reach to the many many other people who don't always feel they have a voice and yet they're affected by our decisions and by how the town will move forward excellent now we learn forever right we certainly we're always learning so in this job what new skills and growth do you hope for yourself will evolve over time as a result of you serving on the council and now serving as president of the council I think the interesting thing for me in this is you know as you mentioned I've spent a fair amount of my time with the University of Massachusetts this executive director of the UMass Donahue Institute but then also as associate vice president for economic development but when you're in the council you're actually there making decisions that will affect the economic future of Amherst and that's different than the roles I've played in the past where I've been more working with other people who were making those decisions and now it's really how do we get to those decisions how do we weigh those decisions and politically how do we sell those ideas excellent and so let's let's focus now on your role as president so what's your philosophy about leadership in this situation that you're in if you look at state legislatures and city and town councils you see all different models of leadership some are very directive some are encouraging and creating some direction but not directive some are facilitators and consensus builders what's your job as president of the council and what's your philosophy of how to lead in the situation in which you find yourself as president I think I fall in the latter two more of a facilitator more of a trying to find consensus and build on that as we start tackling in these next several months some of the bigger issues that the town is facing what you'll see is that I'll be listening to the various council members and what they are saying and what they feel and then I'll be trying to wave or weave my way through that with something that I think hits the major issues that most of them are interested in you know we have some things coming up in our agenda in the next month or so where I've already been in that role we're actually in this case trying to listen to both what is the town already done what are the experts on our town staff know and what do people in the community who are experts in various areas also know and then how do you mesh that together in a way that forms the kind of structure that will allow Amherst to embrace and move forward what do you look for from the other counselors in terms of how they work together and what role can you as president of the council and your vice president in your absence what can you do to contribute to the dynamic that you think is the ideal dynamic for how the council should be working together well first of all it's it's a terrific body there are just on that council in addition to myself 12 extremely talented and very very interested people prior to us being sworn in and apps actually during a lot of the campaigning as well I met with various with every one of the counselors I tested out what their interests are I have pages and pages of my notes from those times and looking for opportunities for where each of the counselors can themselves take a leadership role on an issue on a couple different issues and I think we'll see that happening we're already seeing it we see people taking advantage of various meetings around town of committees and so forth and council people will show up because they're in the process of being educated and so in addition to the education it's also then helping each counselor find their place where they can provide leadership they can be the expert person for the council and maybe with another counselor as well so I'm hoping that's the way the council moves forward and I think we have the right body to do that so you see all of the counselors actually as elected leaders absolutely and your job is to help them be the leaders they were elected to be by helping them by by by helping bring to the table their specialties and their and their skill sets in their capacity and their interests and their interests are you also a referee oh yes talk about that well I think referees often have to you know again do a lot of listening and find the middle ground and you know there's we've already had situations in our council meetings where it was apparent that we could not come to a consensus in a way that we could move a certain committee forward as a standing committee and so we're taking it back off the table we'll discuss it at a future retreat and at that point we may or may not go forward with that committee but it's referring between people for example say we don't have any need for that committee and other people who not only say I want that committee but I want to be on that committee so that style that you're describing sounds like you hope it's ready for prime time right you get it on the agenda you go to the meeting you find out that it isn't quite ready for prime time and there's no harm and no embarrassment and should not be taken so to set it aside temporarily go back and do some more work and then bring it back to the table so you don't have to get it exactly right the first time but by the time you finally vote and make the decision that everybody lives with you hope that it will be the right the right course right and kind of dynamic you want to try to set up right and of course because we are a public body we because because we are the legislative body we have to do everything in open meeting right and you know it's as you know from your many many years in politics if you don't like watching process then this is not the place for you to be big so they're not patient enough to listen to everybody until they've had their say but also if you're not willing to say I'm not gonna repeat it but I agree with what Sally just exactly so that you can get all the ideas on the table think them through and make a decision right that's great you've only had one controversial really controversial vote so far on the council and that was the vice president yes if I got that right the others were pretty routine and most of them were unanimous or close to unanimous and so pretty I think on the issue of whether we would move from 7 o'clock to 6 30 we had a 9 to 4 about a 9 to 4 about the only one where there might have been more of a sense of a split okay sometimes the easiest things end up being the hardest things don't they but in the case of the of the vote on the on vice president you you voted to break the tie so this opens up another area which is you know in some legislative bodies the presiding officer doesn't vote except to break a tie in others they can vote anytime they want but they usually only vote to break the tie and in others like the Massachusetts House of Representatives the first light that goes red or green is the speaker of the house so there are different styles and different modes how do you see as president of the council and understanding that it may set a tradition and a pattern going forward what's your view about when the president in the Amherst town council votes or doesn't well the Charter is very clear the president can vote at any point and on all votes so we don't I don't have the prescription if you will of only breaking voting to break a tie I and in fact as we now have recorded votes for all of our votes and part of the attachments to the minutes will be actually each of the votes and who voted which way you will generally see that I will vote however on that particular instance I was hoping that the council the rest of the counselors could come to their decision seeing that they were not going to I cast my vote for the person I felt was most suitable for the job at the time and the decision to vote most of the time is because I represent my district they need to know where I stand and while we all represent either a district or we're town-wide we're all part of Amherst and Amherst needs to know where we stand on issues so I have no problem with recorded votes great it's very transparent it's consistent with the direction of the Charter and the direction of the community when they voted for the Charter so kudos to you that you see it that way now let's let's go to a structural question here you've got to name some committees there are four or five standing committees we've actually approved the three standing committees and they are in fact finance which is a huge responsibility as are the other two the second one is really around it and it's not dictated in the Charter the way finance is but it's really around communication outreach and appointments and I would see that as the committee that really embraces community engagement works with counselors on how we do our district meetings works with the town on how we do our town-wide forums making sure that we have the kinds of materials and the kind of support we need maybe we all want to talk about it the same thing at some point during our required district meetings although many people counselors are already planning more than two a year and then the issue of appointments are issues because many of the appointments are now made by the town manager as the executive branch if you will either appointments of department heads or appointments of committees and so vetting those appointments and so forth will be important for that committee and then the final committee is really around governance organization and legislation and while we have an ad hoc rules of procedure committee already functioning they've met once the meeting again on the 15th of January and we've had this terrific work that's been done by Bob Ritchie and two other people on that committee on the bylaws we still have more work to do on the bylaws we still need to pass the bylaws and so you've got several other committees like that that either will have town counselors on them or there'll be committees that the council creates and then either they will have counselors or they will be what are called multiple member bodies okay excellent and so much of the work in the next well at least three to six months and really fair amount of the first year to two is really around structure and organization and all of that putting those pieces into place actually I don't think that's true okay I think that what we've done is spend the month of December in our three meetings getting the minimal structure we need and what people will start seeing on the 7th and our subsequent meetings even though we're only required to do one a month we are scheduling to a month is you'll see a starting actually talk about the issues and sometimes those issues will need to be referred to committees standing committees sometimes they'll need to be taken back for additional information and sometimes you'll see us having to vote so for example at this next meeting on the 7th the the recommendations or the options that we might look at for the station road bridge will be coming up and that's not organizational that's doing the business of the town so what do you think that's really encouraging to hear that you're going to get down to issues rather quickly so what percentage of the time let's say in the first year do you think will be around organization and structure and function and training and education so that people really understand the role and use it to the greatest to the best extent possible etc etc how much time what percentage of your time do you think the council is going to dedicate to that 20% that's fantastic so that means there's going to be a lot of issues that can come forward and you guys can start working on either creating policy directions or creating structural mechanisms to pursue them which might be some ad hoc committees and study groups and task forces and things of that nature well that's fantastic what else is going to be on the agenda on January 7th well we're working very hard to bring forward a proposal to create a committee that for now at least the working title is energy and climate resilience so it's under the broad umbrella if you will of sustainability Amherst has as many people know been going through lots of transitions going all the way back to John Musanti's untimely death and transitions in town leadership and then the transition in the actual form of government while we have done a lot in the area of sustainability we're actually now behind many other towns and so it's going to be very important for the council to look at this issue decide how to move forward form the appropriate kind of structure to help do that and engage lots of citizen input into that it's a issue that is very very important to several of us on the council some people are more knowledgeable about the area that are on the council than others but I think you'll see at least a very good discussion on Monday the 7th if not the adoption of a charge for a committee and the creation of a committee but if we don't do it by Monday it'll be by the 28th of January when will your standing committee appointments be finalized the there is a requirement that the oh the standing committee appointments standing committee appointments those I'm hoping to finalize on Monday on Monday the 7th the 7th okay very good so those of you who are watching on Friday evening the 4th get ready a lot of big announcements and big news right because that's going to be a very important set of decisions that you have a unique responsibility to make and you can do it in any way you choose you can consult with people but it sounds like you've done a pretty exhaustive job of collecting people's knowledge interest skills desires things they would like to contribute and so you've got a pretty big knowledge base you can use even with that knowledge base I went out with a individual email to have people make their first second and third choice for standing committees and also for the other committees where we have town council representation given there are 13 members given there's 13 slots do you have to fill in and the all the standing committees each each standing committee has five so that means a few people are going to get two appointments that's right but not everyone no but they might be on a different one they might be on an ad hoc committee or or something else doing capital planning or the budget uh commit the budget review there's any number of so everybody's going to have work to do yes no question about it including me okay we we have I think maybe a minute or two so I just want to ask you marijuana yeah town meeting select board a bunch of decisions got made a direction got set where are we on marijuana here in Amherst and what do you think might be happening coming down the road well there's been three different vendors have been selected for Amherst at this point there's the option of going back out for additional application should the council decide to do that and there is a precedent been set by the review process in the past I think the other piece that's going to be very important is to look at the impact of it on our town and in that process see if whether or not we need to do some tightening for instance the select board shows not to put in place a licensing procedure but we may at some point say we feel we need to have a licensing procedure and again all of this is being done in the big umbrella of the statewide board are there any projections on the revenue side if Amherst builds out the vision that's already been put on the table for marijuana in town I have not seen those projections so I will not speak to that stay tuned it's going to become a big issue in terms of what to do with that money assuming that the money starts flowing right so thank you Lynn for joining us and I really appreciate hearing some of your thinking behind the work that you're doing and how you're going to work with your colleagues to shape a council in which each member of the council gets to fairly represent their own constituency whether they were elected at the district level or town-wide and that they're each going to be able to play a meaningful role in the work of the council a lot of work ahead and I want to congratulate you again on your election and wish you great success for all of our sakes and thank you stan for bringing your many years of political and public service to this show oh thank you very much happy to do it and thank you all very much for joining us and remember this will be broadcast twice on Friday evening at 8 p.m. and again on Monday at 6 p.m. and that will be the pattern every week we will have a show and we want to thank the Amherst League of Women Voters Amherst Media our producer Faith Gregory and Jim who's behind the camera and another person who's behind another camera I regret I don't know your name but thank you very much for your work so thank you all for joining us and we'll see you again next week


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If you've been around my channel for a while, you will know that I too am under the impression that Turkey is a potential global superpower, with its base of operations being in the Sunni world in the Middle East. Turkey will already undoubtedly run into geopolitical standoffs with China, and especially Russia, but one country that I haven't mentioned in my video yet is Iran. A nation of nearly equal size and global standing, Iran could very well be the only country that can stop Turkey's expansion before it even begins. Iran already carries a lot of weight in Middle Eastern geopolitics. For quite some time, Iran has been engaged in proxy conflicts across the Middle East with two countries in particular, Turkey and Saudi Arabia. Proxy conflicts have arisen in Libya, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, and Yemen, just to name a few, with several of these conflicts, most notably the Syrian and Yemeni civil wars, still going on. Iran mainly pursues its interests under the guise of securing the interests of Shia Muslims.  They are fighting against Turkish forces who also have backed the Syrian opposition in the civil war. Similarly, Hezbollah, powerful political and Shia Islamist militant force within Lebanon, is supported by Iran, much to the behest of Turkey. Outside of the Levant, Iran holds significant influence over Iraq, following the deposition of longtime Sunni dictator Saddam Hussein. Iranians supported Shia political factions have ruled the Iraqi government since, and as a result the two countries have grown closer, giving Iran the opportunity to spread its influence into the country. Yemen also finds itself locked in a proxy conflict, as the Saudi-backed Hadi government fights against the Iranian-backed Shia Houthis. Military conflict is not the only form of proxy conflict in the Middle East, as Iran seeks to gain political influence over majority Shia areas within Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States. Qatar was an interesting case in 2017, as its fellow Gulf State countries severed ties with it after alleged support for terrorism, but the main issue was their suspicion of the country's strong ties with Iran and enemy states of these countries. But what does all of this mean? Iran may have a hand in supporting certain groups in these countries, but how can they secure their interests in the long term? The most important thing Iran needs to do to gain global power is to stop Turkey's expansion before it even happens. There are three factors that will determine who controls the Middle East, geography, culture slash religion, and economic slash resources. Both Iran and Turkey have geographic and demographic advantages over the rest of the Middle East. Their mountainous terrain shields some from invading forces, while giving them the ability to project their power across countries with flat terrain as they can easily move their forces across it. Speaking of which, the two countries have a much larger population than the western Asian nations, both having around 85 million people, while the most populous flatland nation is Iraq with just 41 million. This is not to mention the vast difference in the military cohesion between Iran and Turkey and their Arab counterparts, who as you can tell are trapped in seemingly endless conflict. Turkey and Iran also have similar issues they have to overcome. Their social cohesion may be strong in comparison to the Arab nations, but that does not mean that these countries don't have their fair share of social issues. Both Iran and Turkey are ethnically diverse, with Turkey having a large population of Iranic speaking peoples, most notably Kurds, and Iran having a large population of Turks, mainly Azeris. These issues are compounded by a degree of distrust among minority groups against the majority groups, especially with the Kurds against the Turks, some of whom have taken up arms against the Turkish government. Many Azeris would also like to see their ethnic lands reunited with Azerbaijan. Turkey's problem is more severe in the long term though, as Turks have a significantly lower birth rate than the more rural minority groups in the southeast. Both countries also struggle with economic issues, most notably inflation. According to TraderEconomics.com, the inflation rate in Turkey for June 2021 was 17.53%, while in Iran it was significantly higher at 47.6%. Both countries also suffer from unemployment, with Turkey being around 13.2% unemployment, and Iran having 9.4% unemployment. The pandemic did not majorly affect either country's unemployment rates. Perhaps the greatest struggle for Turkey and Iran is that both countries need the same regions under their control to reach great power status, and one country's growth into these regions automatically becomes a hindrance for the other. If Turkey pulls Syria and Iraq deep into its influence, Iran is effectively blocked from expanding by land to the regions it wants to capture under its influence, that region being the oil-rich Shia-populated areas of Saudi Arabia. Turkey wants these lands under their control too, as well as for the other oil-rich Gulf states to be in their influence. Their control of Iraq's Tigris and Euphrates rivers makes things exceptionally complicated for Iran, as Turkey's dam building projects in southeastern Anatolia give them tremendous influence over whether or not Iraq receives its main water supply. Though Iraq is currently closer to Iran, these projects within Turkey give it a much greater say in the survival of the Iraqi state, pulling it into Turkish influence. If war is to break out between Turkey and Iran, Iraq would most certainly be one of the powder kegs for such a conflict. In a similar manner, if Iran can deepen its current influence over Syria and Iraq, Turkey is effectively blocked from much of its potential to expand its influence. Both countries realize this issue, and this is why they are putting so much effort into these countries. Putting these contested regions into their sphere of influence would greatly help either country's suffering economies, but these factors that I mentioned only give one country the opportunity to seize these resources. This is why things could get so tense. Iran's good relations with China and Russia could also have a great hindrance to Turkish expansion into Central Asia. Turkmenistan, having a long border with Iran and historical Iranian influence, is a great contender to join Iran's bloc. If they are successful in establishing their influence in Turkmenistan, Turkey will have a much harder time expanding into the rest of Central Asia due to this geographical link being cut off. The Iran-Russia-China axis at this point would completely secure Central Asia under its control, though resource wars would inevitably cause some trouble in the future between these countries. I've explained much of this in my previous video, so if you haven't seen it yet, go check it out. The bilateral relations of Iran and Afghanistan will also be important in the near future, giving Iran another window into South Central Asia, and Iran can have a much easier time establishing relations with whichever government ends up controlling the country due to the exodus of American troops. In essence, Turkey and Iran are future competitors for regional and economic influence. If one country is to become the dominant in the region, the other is destined to fail, due to both the geographic and economic mitigations that would result. Thank you all for watching. Be sure to like, subscribe, and share this video with all of your friends. Let's get to 5,000 subscribers by September, so please share my content with everyone you know. If this can be achieved, expect even better content from this channel. Come take a look at my new Patreon and Discord server, and I'll see you guys next time.


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You're welcome back. It's still the plus politics on plus TV Africa. The all-progressive Congress, APC, and the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has asked the presidential election petition court in Abuja to dismiss Peter Obi's petition, challenging Mr. Bola Tinugu's victory. Mr. Obi was the presidential candidate of the Labour Party. He came third in the 25th of February presidential election. He and the Labour Party, who are co-partitioners, are seeking to upturn Mr. Tinugu's victory as Nigeria's president-elect. Tinugu, who was APC presidential candidate, polled 8.8 million votes to beat Attiku Abu Bakar of the People's Democratic Party, who came second in the race. Both Attiku and Obi, and three other political parties, with their candidates, are contesting the outcome of the presidential polls, alleging irregularities ranging from INEC's failure to upload elections results from the polling stations in real time to its IRF portal. Meanwhile, the Independent National Electoral Commission will conduct supplementary elections in 2,660 polling units across 185 local government areas of 24 states tomorrow, which is April 15th. Elections for 26 governorship, 104 senatorial, 329 national, and 935 state assembly seats had been concluded and winners declared. According to the Commission, all outstanding governorship, national and state assembly supplementary elections will be held where they were previously suspended due to hitches like violence for which the exercise was declared inconclusive. Well, joining us to discuss this is Taiwo Olakbadi, a broadcast journalist and public affairs analyst. Good evening and welcome to the program, Taiwo. Hello, good evening. Thanks for having me tonight. Okay, it's interesting times. Just before the elections, during the elections and now after the elections, and maybe in some parts as the case may be, it is before the elections because elections were cancelled. We are going to have supplementary elections, so it is another round of elections that is going to happen. And right now, first of all, how confident are you that INEC might even want to use this to redeem their image? Do you think they will do better in these supplementary elections than they did in the main elections of February 25th and March 18th? Can you hear me? Hello, can I? Sorry? Can I go on? Yes, go ahead. Okay, the bottom line is that there is no perfect election in any way around the world. Even you recall that the U.S. elections are not being presented by this. At the point, the candidate of the Republican power president, Donald Trump, was accused of trying to hatch the election through the Christian experts. So, if we had the situation where some leaders are saying that the election is not real, that's their own view about conduct of some INEC. But really, that is legal. It is also a legal move by any political party or candidate that failed to agree or failed to cheat at that election, to approach election participants to seek the best, rather than go violent, or want to concrete law and order in the country. And even at the level of an election presidential tribunal, if the outcome is not achievable, we can still take the matter up to the Supreme Court.  But in the case of the petition 5, the Labour Party cabinet, I want to quickly draw reference to the election that brought in President Donald Trump in 2015. The power president, Donald Donald Trump, was the first to congratulate President Bwari in the way the announcements of that election did not become true. It was Donald Trump, in the same way the results were quickly published. He was not going to win that election. And at that point, even members of the political community were meeting on how to say no. That's an obvious fact. They are going to the tribunal, they are going to appeal, they are going to speak to the state. But in that time, in this wisdom, all president Bwami was congratulated. And that was how any move that the political community to find an appeal, to win that election was all paid by the actions of the United Nations. And I want to say that even the current president, he was told that he congratulated for this presidential on three occasions. So he also appealed, believing that he won that election. But the tribunal did not rule. He still approached the United States court with the Supreme Court. And in the same manner, the outcome was not favorable. So back to the liberal party community, what kind of saying Mr. Peter would be? He has the right. He has the right and has the right. He was not going to win that election. Can you hear me, Taiwo? Just a moment, Taiwo. Just a moment. My question is not whether people should take any other means to address the issues on ground. My question is, do you think INEC will do a better job in the supplementary elections than they did in the main elections? That was my question. Do you have confidence that there will be an improvement or it will still just be the same way it happened in February and in March? Okay, we are likely to see that happen tomorrow. Where we are in the supplementary elections, two states, two gubantara elections, I was declared head of the district by INEC. That's the Adamawa and the city. And we're so harsh on the national assembly and the house of the assembly. So, at the moment, INEC has chosen to give us an upgrade to INEC and about $330. Also, there's no money left. So, we have criticism out of this, and we have more than $970. So, that's your question. Where we had the preliminary election, I was sure that from last week that from Nigeria pointed out to INEC and when INEC got back to the drawing board and conducted in March, a change from next election. We record that the government met with them two weeks after the presentation. Because of the fact that INEC said they are going to reactivate the machine. In order to meet the standard of the Congress, they have to respect that election by one week. And many Nigerians, political parties across party lines, commented on INEC that there was an improvement in the conduct of the government situation compared to the spread of the 23rd presidential election. That does not mean that the 23rd presidential election was not so successful. Because there was a stable improvement in the conduct of the government. But INEC had to take some time to also go back to the drawing board. Look at the last week, look at the stage. Of course, look at this on the field. And they were able to meet again. And I'm hoping, going by national commission, I tell the commission, I said that there is no election. I hope INEC will move on to the presentation because it's the final act of the 23rd presidential election. By the time we have this election tomorrow, that means we have considered the election cycle 23rd general election in the country. Okay, well, just give some pointers. Tomorrow the elections will hold. If you were to advise, what are some of the things that you would want INEC to do in these supplementary elections to give it more credibility and all that. From your observation of the previous elections, what would you want them, even if they can't do everything else, maybe two or three things that you feel that they must take into consideration as they go into the elections tomorrow. Okay, for tomorrow's presidential election, I and INEC must ensure, number one, that the staffs that we also have been participating in the election arrive at building units, to collect some material, as an operator to be there as early as 8 o'clock in the morning because I know that a lot of electorate will also get to their community because they are some of the clubs they are involved. So early arrival of building units by island in the American main must ensure that the elections stay at that building at very low. The other one is to ensure that we have a machine that works according to the issue and shows that if we have to have some of the things that we are doing we shouldn't be in the building unit in the state, give us, we are not working in the building unit, there will not be a case that no elections. We are expecting that people also work with us. Another factor that we also ensure that people also come out and participate, is for us to also have a kind of grant that is made for states of drive and property through the elections and after the elections because in a case that people are fed like a their lives are not cured, the property are not cured that would also lead to so far a party at that election but if there is maximum deployment of police in every police there are these searches of black and property and if they are covered allegedly both are elected to come out and stand and vote for every candidate I think this is some of the necessity of this election to see as there and continue tomorrow. Okay, well, salient point, arrival of materials on time, security and beavers must work. We do hope that the supplementary elections will be such an election that will give INAG a better image than it had in the other elections. Thank you so much, Taiwo Holakwade for coming on our program this evening. Thank you so much for that. Okay, we've been talking with Taiwo Holakwade a broadcast journalist and a public affairs analyst on the issues that on the issue of the supplementary elections coming up tomorrow. We do hope that you had a wonderful time watching the program today. That's where we wrap up. But as we leave, we'll leave you with highlights of the week. My name is Nyam Ghul Aggadji. Have a wonderful weekend. We have good leaders. We have good leaders who are very good in managing things. And I want to say this directly to every Nigerian out there. We have good leaders. Not that we have leaders, we suffer from leaders. We have good educated people. But the problem is, we lack visionaries. You see, to be a visionary, you don't have to have all the education in the world. You just have to be a man of purpose, a man of intention and a man of goal. And that's what we're lacking. We have good leaders. We have good leaders who are very good in managing things. And I want to say this directly to every Nigerian out there. We have good leaders. Not that we have leaders. We suffer from leaders. We have good educated people. But the problem is we lack visionaries. You see, to be a visionary, we lack visionaries. We lack visionaries. So what we're lacking? Because Nigeria is the most educated people in the world of Africa. And I can assure you, there's no part of part of the world you will go. You will not say a bargain level of educated Nigerians. In fact, in America, one of the top minority educated people in America are Nigerians. Same in Europe. So we're not suffer from lack of educated people. In Nigeria, we're not either. So it means we have educated people. We're not suffering from leaders. We have leaders. We have great pastors. We have great imams. We have great kings. It's not we're suffering from leaders, but visionaries. Like Moses said, I've been to the mountain top and I'm that. I have seen the glory of God. We need visionaries. He said, I'm taking you to a place that's flowing with milk and honey. We need visionaries. He said, when the people who came back, who went to spy, when they came back, they said, some naysayers. And the other said, what? He said, place flowing with milk and honey. This is why I can't wait for the noise around all elections to move on, because there's a lot more to watch. This is the period where we should be setting agenda for whoever the new, I mean, the new administration setting an agenda, putting out the markers, the things that we're going to watch, taking out, you know, all the manifestos and all the talk and marking and asking, okay, is this happening? This is the time to do that. So yes, civil society played a critical role. And I dare say, even on elections, they as much as challenging as it was to get real time underground information, especially because of the challenges that happened with IRS. The grievances that were filling the mouth content and make things just terrible. So that is what has set the tone for what we're seeing now, where people are in an unprecedented manner. Some are even saying that the inauguration should not hold. That's how bad people feel. So I think what set the tone for this is the amount of vote that have been created before the election and how much of an anti-climax the elections itself then turned out to be and how those hopes were attached, you know, hope deferred, making the heart sick, the holy good say so. The worst thing you can do to a human being is to take hope away from them when the republic less is as good as their debt.  This functionality of the state and functionality of the system, the this primary government for me today is the current government is, first, it must create that economic broad economic base where every economy, economy, functionalities are working. The banking, the agricultural sector, the oil and gas, there should be more openness and transparency in terms of how we deal with the people You cannot, and the exchange rate for us, for example, if I tell you the losses we have made is terms of insurance, how much money we have spent, in terms of trying to do our security system of insurance abroad. Imagine what the exchange rate is and what you have here, the dollar exchange rate that we show abroad with the lawyers and other companies abroad because some of the policies we cannot keep here, all that we've seen not having much of an insurance in terms of paying those heavy risk when they come. You have to treat them abroad and imagine what that would cost us.