Hello, everybody, and welcome to another hobby-cheating video, and today it's time to potentially ruin a very expensive model. But have some fun along the way. Let's get into it. Uh, the strict techno-mancer that is Vinci-V. Let us get to the technique and learn it Vinci-V's time. Game's workshop was recently nice enough to send me this big bad boy, Usharon, uh, the Moortark of Delusion. That's what he is. He's the head of the flesh-eater courts, the Summer King, uh, super cool guy. And I love Usharon. I always thought that was such a cool character. And in fact, one of my more favorite pieces of art, uh, in Sword of Warhammer, is of the Summer King of Usharon. I'll show that to you on the screen right now.  And then the actual model came out, and he's all hunched over. And, and his entire back is fur, and when you're moving around the table, it looks like you're moving around, uh, a triple or a furby or something. So, I just wasn't into it. Despite that, I really love the, the base of the model. It's so good. And I love Usharon as a character. So I thought, hey, let's challenge ourselves. Let's chop this guy apart, completely remake him from the ground up. Uh, cut up, re-slice, re-sculpt every part of him, and, uh, see what we can do. So today, I'm going to take you along on that journey while, uh, I don't know, we try to see what we can actually do. So, uh, let's head over to the desk and let's start potentially ruining a model. The first thing I had to do was actually figure out how this guy goes together and what the pieces were.  When you're going to be doing a massive conversion project, it's important to understand how the thing is eventually going to go together, what pieces you have to work with, what's going to need to be cut, what order they're supposed to be assembled, and so on. So I looked at the instructions, looked at the sprues, kind of got a mental model of how this guy is supposed to go together, and then started plotting out in my head how I was going to change it. The next step after that was to start basically from the ground up. And so I had to begin with his legs. His legs are really, really crouched because he's so down low, so that is to say his legs are really bent. So the first thing to do was to basically cut them and then re-extend them back together. Now because all of that extra space isn't modeled, because if the two sides of the leg push together, there's effectively nothing in the middle there, that meant there's going to be these giant open gaps in between, but that's okay. We can cover that later. When we're initially doing conversions, you just want to get the pieces stuck back together. So oftentimes you'll see me working sometimes with sprue goo and sometimes just with good old fashioned super glue, just CA glue. And the reason for that is because I might need a piece that has barely any connection left after I've cut it apart to hold for long enough for then me to get green stuff in there. And so as I'm taking the legs and I'm cutting them open and standing them up tall, I also want to be constantly working them against each other to make sure they're in the right position to where like he's going to be standing not completely whopper-jawed. So you also want to make sure that his feet will end up flat on the ground. So it's constant little adjustments. Don't worry about having big giant open spaces when you start doing conversions.  It's fine. Now, after the legs were there, the key was to start building into the torso. And this presents a bigger challenge. The torso section is, again, because he's all crouched, I'm missing huge sections of the torso. I knew I didn't want to use the giant fur cape because it just wouldn't fit. So that's gone. So he has no back. He also is missing most of his abs. But fortunately, he does still have to have hips and those connect to the legs. So we can tape kind of the hip joints, reposition the legs, re-sit the torso down on top of it and start getting the basic humanoid shape of the model. Now, even though that's going to leave a huge amount of open space, again, that's all right. We're just trying to get the shape there. We can constantly fill in as we move along. But we want to make sure we're getting everything in rough position and getting the upper torso and the shoulders in place will allow me to then move to the arms and the head. We can worry about what we're going to do for a back and all of that later on. That's for future events to worry about in this project for now. It's just a matter of getting him in position. As I moved through the arms or the upper shoulders and then into the arms, yet again, I had to significantly change things. His arms are not in a position that I wanted them in. I want him back and rearing and as though he's about to swing his mace. So once again, the arms were mostly put together. I didn't have to actually cut them apart too much. Again, they're fairly folded, so one of the arms had to be chopped and then that left an open space, but not a giant one, not like the legs. And the other arm was kind of more or less how I wanted it. It was just in the wrong horizontal position. And as I move it around, these models are very much meant to be fit exactly where they're sitting. So that is again going to leave a gap. In these kind of events where you've got this sort of thing happening, you want to make sure that you again, attach the thing with superglue and you deal with the open spaces later. So the first part is effectively we're building a little maquette. That's the best way I can describe it. We're just getting the rough skeletal outline of the pieces we can use, cutting away anything that doesn't fit, and we'll re-sculpt the rest later. Now there were going to use lots of different tools to do that as you'll see. But the important part was just to start cutting stuff away and getting it into position. And in fact, I had to re-sort of move the arms a couple of times as I would place it and then not be happy with it and replace it again. Alright, so now that we have that in place, the other next problem to deal with was the hand on the arm swinging the mace. As it sits on the model, he's like holding it up like almost like the queen would hold her scepter. Like the queen of England. Which I just didn't like at all. It's such a passive stance. It's like it's the stance of an old lady. Not a giant delusional monster, right? I understand he's a king and he thinks he's blah blah blah. I don't care. I wanted him to look terrifying. And so the next goal was to figure out, okay, well like his hand is very gripped around that mace. What am I going to do? This is actually one of my favorite conversions that I did. I actually, his hand was confined to the sort of grippy part of the mace. So what I did was cut away both sides of the mace and then simply flip them. So now instead of him holding it towards himself, he was holding it away from himself. And then it was just a matter of repositioning the hand on the actual model. So again, I had to slightly reposition the hand, cut, trim a few things. But I got it into position to where now he's fully in the backswing of the thing. And as we go through this video and you see footage, you'll notice that several times pieces will move. Like a leg will be in a certain position and then it will be in a different position in a future clip. And that is because as I'm moving this, it many times became necessary to then further break something off of what I did, which is another reason why like superglue or a minor attachment in these early stages can be good because that becomes easier to snap. And then I can reposition it, cut more away, shave more away, sand more away, whatever I need to do to get it back into the new position that it now clearly needs to be in as we build out more of the model and we see sort of his whole form and how he's going to actually sit. All right. The next step is tricky. So he's got all this open space on his torso. We got to deal with that. And so we're not going to, I'm going to use green stuff for this. You could use green stuff. You can use milliput. You can use air-drying clay. There's lots of things you could use. I'm just going to use green stuff. It's what I have and what I'm fairly comfortable with. And when it comes to reshaping the torso, we don't want to fill that entire empty cavity with green stuff. That would be insane and expensive and completely wasteful. So instead we're going to use an old trick, much like paper mache. We're going to fill the torso up with foil. So I take just some standard like foil, you know, like cooking foil, like what you use to wrap up cookies.  And the cool thing about foil is you can keep compressing it and shoving it down and flattening it and stuff like that. Once that's in place, then all I need is a thin layer of initial green stuff over everything over the front gap on the torso and on the back. Now with this first application, I am not worried at all about muscle structure. That's not relevant here. We're not trying to make back muscles. We're not trying to make abs. We're not trying to get the shape of the back. We're just putting down a solid surface for us to work on. That's the most important thing. So as we're dealing with it, we will build the muscles out later in the next step. But for now, we just need to get that space flat and nice to work with. So I put it on there, cut some away, smooth it down. It doesn't need to be hyper smooth because we're going to lay green stuff over the entire thing. So if you've got some fingerprints in there, stuff like that, who cares? But what we can do when we're all done is kind of sand it. If any of the foil sticks through or anything like that, you can just sand it down to get a nice smooth flat surface once the green stuff is dry. With that green stuff dry, now we go to the next step. And the next step is to start building out the muscles. And the way I like to do this is not trying to put on a big piece of green stuff and then, I don't know, shape all of the muscles. Maybe that's how some people work. I can't get my brain to work like that and I never find I get the right balance. So instead, the way I find it easier to work is to roll out little snakes of green stuff. You just take it and flatten it out on your cutting mat. Then you cut it into pieces and either flatten it or roughly make it into the shape of the muscle structure. So making a couple abs or something like that, just like an ab shape. We know what an ab shape is. It's like kind of this rough, square-ish shape, sort of a... And same thing with the back. And if you ever want it like back muscles are not hard. I used an anatomical reference here. Just you look up like muscles, literal muscles, or you look at other models. Our friends like Larry the Ogre. Ogres have very defined muscle structures and back muscles. You can always just reference other figures you've got that are shirtless, I guess, any sort of barbarian model. But we're going to place the green stuff directly on the model where that muscle is meant to be. Then we're going to get out our silicone shaping tools and we're going to smooth it down, push it down, work it roughly into space, and integrate it with the previous layer of green stuff. Basically start smoothing out the edges, flattening it down, stuff like that. So every time I'm working these muscle structures, I'm using multiples of the clay-shaper tools, these silicone tools, to flatten out and to get the muscles roughly into the shape I want. By the way, if you don't have a set of these tools, there's a link down below where you can find them with an Amazon affiliate link. You can pick those as well as the other tools you'll see me using here with the green stuff up. Next up, as we've got them kind of worked with the clay-shaper tools, we need to go to smoothing them down and actually getting them flat. We've got to get rid of bumps and fingerprints and stuff like that. And your silicone tools just won't really be enough for that. They're not going to get it ever hyper smooth. That's when we've got to go to metal, dental tools, effectively. So these are used for a variety of purposes. But for our purposes, they're going to be how we completely smooth and shape all of our green stuff into position. And so what I'm going to do is just take the big flats or the other parts of the tool that are appropriate here. And we're going to basically run it over those surfaces and really get everything nice and flat and where we want it. After we've gotten the rough shapes hued out with the silicone tools, now we can use the metal tools to get it nice and hyper smooth so it looks integrated with the rest of the model. If you're ever trying to create individualistic sort of flows in the muscles, then you can also do that here with these tools at the end. Once the green stuff is hardened, so if you need to create some muscle connections or like some tautness in the muscles or torn skin or anything like that, you can do that by working as the green stuff has slightly started to cure, but it's still relatively soft. Our next step is now that he's coming together, we want to find some other bits to adorn him with. I didn't want him just being like having a big open back one because, you know, my back's okay, but it's not great. I'm not the best sculptor in the world to be honest. You know, that is definitely true. I am not good at it is really what I'm trying to say. But if I can do, that's why I'm sure if I can do this, you can do this. So I wanted to find some cool things to use. So we dive into our bits box and I found this extra big cloak from the Keeper of Secrets, cutting that in half and then sort of repositioning it gave me a great cover for the back, but also looked very regal. At the same time, I was able to find bits like some jeweler's chain and I'm able to take that jeweler's chain and connect the cloak to the actual armor plates as well as connect to the, put that sort of around his neck so it looks like it's actually hanging on him in some way. It's not just fastened into his skin. So jeweler's chain and stuff like that's really relatively cheap to buy and mash. You can get it from any local craft store from Amazon or anything like that. And, you know, your bits box can be a great trove even when you're dealing with a big model like this.  But in fact, it's just literally a human skeleton that he's carrying around. And so we can use these additional bits to hide some of our sins from earlier layers.   So there's just infinite possibilities for you to hide your sins from your previous layers. Now came the sort of final steps, which is like adjusting the head, getting the hair on him, doing some final green stuff, touch ups. You can always keep working on top of what you did. You don't ever have to be completely satisfied with one layer of green stuff. This project took quite a while. This was probably a week of work because of all the drying time in between. I wanted to let things set and cure and then work over top of it. And I think that's one of the things that people often get wrong.  And it's like, well, that's not going to happen in one blob. You know, so as I did this, I kept adjusting pieces. For example, on his right arm, he has this big cutaway in his bicep where I think basically the mace is supposed to sit. But I didn't have that anymore because I had repositioned it. So I realized quite late into the project that I had to put a new bicep there and made sure it fit with the armor plate and so on. Multiple times I would sand or cut away or have to shave things down to make them all fit with, you know, how the model was now repositioned. That's fine.  And that's all perfectly fine. So once we had him all together, then it was just a matter of some final finishing touches.  So like reshaping his knees and things like that to make sure it was good. He ended up breaking off his leg one final time and repositioning it just to make sure it looked right after what you see here. And yeah, all in all, I think he came out pretty cool. In fact, why don't we take a look at what he looks like painted. So here he is, all painted up. I used the little executioner guy on his base because he took up so much of the base normally and then now he's kind of, when he's actually up and standing, he takes up so much less of it. So I wanted some more visual interest on the base. So I thought the executioner guy could be a nice little, you know, his servant that's on the base. I think this dude came out pretty cool and pretty fun. And it's cool to have like the only catech, or cataclysm, good night, the only usher on in the world that looks like this.  It's super scary. I'm not going to lie. Like several times throughout this, I was like, well, well, I'm probably just ruined that. But we got to a relatively cool place. Is it perfect? No. I wish he was gripping the mace a little tighter, but I couldn't really figure out how to do that. I should have cut the thumb on his left hand off and brought it, because he's in sort of like a pose where his thumb is very tucked in because of how he's normally has that arm. I should have snipped that off and brought it up. So he was in more of like this kind of a stance. His hand looks a little weird.  Like there are issues, but it's still cool. Like in the end, I'm not taking this guy to competition. There to be a cool model to use on my table.   It's, it can be scary. And, you know, you could mess up and be in a place where it's not easy to get it back to where it was. But I say no risk, no reward. It's fun to make things that are yours and just yours. If you liked this, give it a like. If you've got any questions about how I did this that I didn't cover in this video or explain, drop those down in the comments. I always answer every question and comment asked. I very much appreciate you watching this. You know, subscribe if you haven't already. Share this video. 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The decision to establish an American space station in the 1990s has had some exciting consequences. In particular, there is renewed interest in using the space station to help us return to the moon in order to build a permanent lunar base. America's exploration of the moon ended 12 years ago with the flight of Apollo 17. Astronauts Cernan and Schmidt successfully completed a series of three EVAs and brought back 250 pounds of lunar rock samples. During the 12 years following Apollo 17, NASA's goals for long-term space exploration have been redefined. At a recent scientific conference in Washington DC, plans for a manned lunar base were discussed in the post-space station era. The lunar base is one of the more obvious of the bold, exciting goals we can reach through the space station doorway. The goal of a lunar base has long been our vision. The exploration and settlement of the space frontier is going to occupy the creative thoughts and the creative energies of major portions of generations for the indefinite future. With the success of the space shuttle in providing new space capabilities, transportation, scientific facilities, and satellite launch, retrieval, and repair, we are ready for the next step into space, a manned space station. The space station will serve as a staging area for other major space activities on the moon and beyond. All this technology we will have with the space station takes us virtually to the moon. We see the first base, the very first thing to go down will probably be something very much like space station modules which will be carted to the surface and buried. The transportation system will be such that there will be largely unmanned vehicles, derivatives of orbital transfer vehicles that will go from Earth orbit to lunar space, and then a lander which will go between lunar orbit and the surface of the moon. The moon may become an important source of raw materials for use in space. This lunar base concept shows a vehicle mining lunar surface material. Moon rocks are more than half oxygen and could supply this vital component for sustaining a lunar base and a space transportation system. Other important elements, aluminum, titanium, silicon, and iron also exist in quantity on the moon. The lunar base would serve as a springboard for spacecraft to explore our solar system. The moon also provides scientists excellent conditions for astronomy, no atmosphere, frequent periods of total darkness, and low amounts of radio noise. If a commitment is made for a manned lunar base in the 21st century, then it is NASA's hope to make it an international effort for all to benefit.


Fourth of July is a time for fun, sun, and good food with friends. Service members stationed on Navy Support Facility, Diego Garcia celebrated Independence Day with a variety of activities sponsored by the island's morale, welfare, and recreation department. Everything's getting everyone out, be active, we're on islands, beautiful out. So there was a run this morning, beach volleyball today, picnic tonight, so it gets everyone to enjoy that atmosphere a lot more. With sailors and airmen on Diego Garcia, maybe thousands of miles away from their loved ones, MWR provides a taste of home for those deployed around the world. We all just really appreciate what MWR does here, especially being away from home. We can kind of lose sight of why we're over here in the first place. Petty Officer Andrew Lavin, Diego Garcia.


Income Tax 2021-2022 Child and Dependent Care Expenses Credit Line Instructions Part Number 1. Get ready to get refunds to the max diving into Income Tax 2021-2022. Most of this information can be found in the Form 1040 Instructions Tax Year 2021 IRS Website IRS.gov IRS.gov we're in the second half of our income tax formula looking at the credits down below noting that both credits and deductions are good, but if you had a dollar credit and a dollar deduction, the credit would typically be better because you'd get the full amount of the dollar of credit as opposed to the dollar deduction which would be decreasing the taxable income, the tax being calculated on it. Credits can be put into two main categories, either non-refundable credits or refundable credits. The non-refundable credits not taking the liability below zero, refundable credits can and therefore if that was the case, you would get a refund, but it's not really a refund at that case because it's kind of like a benefit program if that was the case. Also note that some credits might have a non-refundable portion and refundable portion to them. We're on the second page of the Form 1040 looking at Line 31. The credit would roll into Schedule 3 and then roll into the second page of the Form 1040. This is the Form 2441, the Child Independent Care Expenses. So we're looking at Line 8. If your filing status is married filing separately and you meet the requirements to claim the credit for child and dependent care expenses, you must check the box on Line 8. So jumping over to the form here, we're on the 2441, Line 8, you can't claim a credit for the child and dependent care expenses. If your filing status is married filing separately, unless you meet the requirements listed in the instructions under married persons filing separately, if you meet these requirements, check the box here. We noted that's kind of a more of an unusual case. Most people here have the B. For 2021, your credit for child and dependent care expenses is refundable if you or your spouse, if married filing jointly, have a principal place of abode in the United States for more than half of 2021. So back on over, we're going to say then that we have, by checking the box, you are confirming that you meet the requirements listed earlier under married persons filing separately. So that's that kind of unusual exception. Line B, for 2021, your credit for child and dependent care expenses is refundable if you, that refundable meaning you get that benefit of it possibly being able to take the liability below zero and get a benefit even though, even in that case. So or your spouse, if married filing jointly had a principal place of abode and the United States for more than half of 2021, this means you or your spouse, if married filing jointly must have your main home in one of the 50 states or the District of Columbia for more than half of the tax year. So then your main home can be any location where you regularly live. Your main home may be your house, apartment, mobile home, shelter, temporary lodging or other location and doesn't need to be the same physical location throughout the tax year. If you're temporarily away from your, your main home because of illness, education, business or vocation, you're generally treated as living in your main home during that time for purposes of this calculation. If you meet these requirements, you must check the box online be, if you don't check the box online be your credit for 2021 is non-refundable and limited to the amount of your tax. So in other words, if I check the box be here when it finally rolls in to the 1040, it's down here. The credit is down here in the refundable kind of area, whereas if I was to uncheck that box, so now I've unchecked the box, then just box here, then if I roll into the 1040 and go on over, now the refundable credit is rolling in up top in, in the non-refundable area. So, and that means that it could be limited, it won't take the tax liability in essence below zero. So for most people, or it would be beneficial to be able to be able to check that box if you meet that requirement. And that would be the case generally for most people. Can be continued, military personnel stationed outside the United States, US military personnel who are stationed outside the United States on extended active duty are considered to have their main home in one of the 50 states or the district of Columbia for purposes of qualifying for the refundable portion of the credit. So if you're outside because of the military, then of course you want to be inside for the purposes of the credit because that would be more beneficial and that's the general case. For this purpose, quote, extended active duty in quote means any period active duty pursuant to a call or order to active duty for a period in excess of 90 days or for an indefinite period. So additional information for more information included rules for people living in American Samoa, the Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, Puerto Rico or the US Virgin Islands, see frequently asked questions at irs.gov slash CDC see frequently asked questions and form 1040 N.R. filers should also see the instructions for form 1040 N.R. for additional information about claiming the refundable credit tip form 2441 and these instructions use the terms refundable and nonrefundable when discussing the credit for child and dependent care expenses. The term refundable means the credit isn't limited to the amount of your taxes. So even if your credit exceeds the amount of the federal income tax that you owe, you can still claim a full amount of your credit and the amount of the credit in excess of your tax liability can be refunded to you. In other words, it wouldn't really be a refund in that case. It might be more like a benefit program because you're not really paying in taxes possibly at that point in time, but you're getting money. The tax system is giving you money rather than refunding an overpayment of your tax liability. So the term nonrefundable means the credit is limited by law to the amount of your taxes. So if you check the box on line B, your credit is refundable and it is reported on form 2441 line 10 and on schedule 3 form 1040 line 13G and you don't enter any amount on form 2441 line 11. If you don't check the box on line B, your credit is nonrefundable and you may not enter on schedule 3 form 1040 line 13G, the amount from line 10. Instead, you enter the portion of the line 10 that you claim as a nonrefundable credit on line 11. So that's what we basically just looked at when we checked off that box and didn't check it off on the tax return. In line 1, complete columns A through E for each person or organization that provided the care. You can use form W10, dependent care provider identification and certification or any other source listed in its instructions to get the information from the care provider. So this is what a W10 looks like. It's a dependent care provider's identification and certification. So we've got the information up top, the name, the address, the provider's taxpayer identification number and so you can find this on irs.gov, irs.gov. So if you don't give correct or complete information, your credit and exclusion, if applicable, may be disallowed unless you can show you use the due diligence in trying to get the required information. So you need the information. If you get wrong information, then you could get in trouble and they might remove the credit unless you could show that you did your best, did your due diligence in order to get the proper information. If we take a look at the line 1 here, so this is the form 2441. Here's part number 1 where we have the persons or organizations who provide the care. So we got the information. We just made up a place here and there's the address and there's the identification number that we would need. And then check here if the provider is your household employee and then the amount that was paid. So then we have, if you have more than three care providers, check the box above line 1 and attach a statement to your return with the required information. Be sure to put your name and social security numbers, the SSN, on the statement. In this situation, all the lines on line 1 form 2441 must be completed with information for the three highest paid providers. The attach statements must provide the same information for the additional providers not listed. So we might have multiple people that were paying. There's only three listed on the actual form. So the attach statement may optionally include the full list of providers including the ones already listed on the form, but you should indicate which providers listed on the statement are also listed on the form. So if you had neither a qualifying person nor any care provider for 2021 and you are filing form 2441 only to report taxable income in part three, enter none on line one column A. Due diligence. So what does it mean to get your due diligence in order to get this information to properly report the ID number of the provider and so on? You can show a serious and earnest effort due diligence to get the information by keeping in your records a form W10 completed by the care provider. So if you get that W10, then you did basically what you could do at that point in time. You've tried to get the information. If it's wrong, then you kind of are showing your due diligence or you may keep one of the other sources of information listed in the instructions for form W10. So if the provider doesn't give you the information, complete the entries you can on line one. For example, enter the provider's name and address so you might not have the number in that case. That's usually the thing that will be missing if they won't provide you that number. Then you know that's that's the problem. Enter a C attached statement in the columns for which you don't have the information then attach a statement to your return explaining that the provider didn't give you the information. So if they say, hey, I'm not going to give you my social security number. For example, if it was an individual or my EIN number for whatever reason, if it was a business, then and you still want to take the deduction, you're going to have to tell the IRS. Hey, look, I can't completely identify this person. I tried, but I couldn't. So caution, I don't list the ineligible related individuals as a care provider in line one. No credit is allowed for any amount paid to your spouse, the parent of your qualifying child or a person to whom you can claim as a dependent. So the person that you're paying for the care cannot be your spouse because the IRS is basically saying, well, you can't be paying your spouse for the care of the child, the parent of your qualifying child. So if it's not your spouse, but the parent of the qualifying child, also IRS is saying, no, that doesn't count for or a person whom you can claim as a dependent. So if they're another child or some other dependent on your tax return that you're paying to take care of another dependent on your tax return, can't typically do that.  They'd have to be non dependent and so and over the age of 19 or older by the end of the year and he or she can't be your dependent. So columns A and B, so enter the care provider's name and address. If you were covered by your employer's dependent care plan and your employer furnished the care either at your workplace or by hiring a care provider enter your employer's name in column A and enter next enter CW2 in column B because that information might be pulled from the W2 information. Then leave column C, D and E blank, but if your employer paid a third party, not hired by your employer on your behalf to provide the care, you must give information on the third party in columns A through E. So we're looking here, the care provider, the address, identification number and if you hired them and then or check here if the provider is your household employee and then the amount paid is what we're looking for. All right, so then column C if the care provider is an individual enter his social security number so if it's just a person they don't have an EIN number then this SSN social security number or individual taxpayer identification number the I-10 otherwise enter the provider's employer identification number. So if it's a company or a business they would have an EIN and they would probably be very very vocal about the fact that you know they have their EIN, you might be able to write off the care that they are providing if they're in the business of providing this kind of care to parents who would typically benefit from writing it off. So if the provider is a tax exempt organization enter quote tax exempt end quote in column C. U.S. citizen and resident aliens living abroad if you are living abroad your care provider may not have and may not be required to get a U.S. taxpayer identification number for example an SSN social security number or EIN employer identification number if so enter quote L-A-F-C-P end quote living a abroad foreign care provider in the space for the care provider's taxpayer identification number if you lived abroad in 2021 your credit may not be refundable see the instructions for line B earlier. Column D check the box in column D if the care provider is your household employee so now you're employing them as a household employee if you pay someone to come to your home and care for your dependent or spouse and you can control not only what the work is done but how it is done you may be a household employer and you may need to file schedule H form 1040 household employment taxes with your tax return and pay household employment taxes so that's a whole another issue that if they were a household employee the iris might expect to kind of see that here so for more information on household employer's tax responsibilities see schedule at H form 1040 and its instructions and publication 926 household employer's tax guide column E enter the total amount you actually paid in 2021 to the care provider also include amounts your employer paid to a third party on your behalf it doesn't matter when the expenses were incurred don't reduce this amount by any reimbursement you received so we're going to have the full amount that was paid here and we're not reducing it by the reimbursements that might come into play at a later point which we'll see in a future presentation possibly


My name is Tom Tutton. I work with Aspect or Autism Spectrum Australia. We're a national autism-specific disability organisation. It's a good question. Why am I here at the Western Sydney Wanderers? It's one of a range of initiatives that the Wanderers have. So autistic people experience the sensory world very differently. Sometimes that brings great joy, so you'll see people really overwhelmingly happy with certain sensations and some of the toys and fidgets that we have about simply bringing joy to people. But equally, the world can be quite overwhelming, so what we might enjoy in terms of flashes of light or cheers can actually be perceived as being almost painful to people. And this quiet room here at the stadium is another one of those kind of initiatives. It's not a big change from the main experience, but what we know is that it's more controlled, it's quieter, there's some support from staff. Inclusion is really important. If you imagine that you've spent a lot of your life finding it hard to get into things that most of us take for granted, it's quite isolating.  So it's important that everybody in our community is made to feel welcome, and I think that's very much what these initiatives are about. It's providing a few small accommodations so that everybody feels that they can come somewhere and be safe.


Hi everyone, I'm Melissa Druckweis here, co-founder of Diverse by Thinking Initiative focused around raising the level of action to meet the level of conversation around diversity and inclusion. Chief Customer Experience Officer here at Adaptation, a startup in New Hampshire focused around user experience and enabling great user experience for our customers through technology. So I'm here to talk to you today about why Diverse Team is crucial to startup success and I want to just lead off by saying we could slash the startup right out of this title and I promise you, you would still have some relevant information to walk through today. So I definitely challenge you to stay focused around the key facts and steps in the process and not really focus around the startup board here. I put this here because it is relevant and a lot of the statistics I'll share with you today are focused around that of startups, as well as my own experience from Diverse by Thinking working with startup leaders and business leaders in general, as well as working at startups. So all those things come together to really provide you the context that I'm coming from, but so relevant across whatever business context you are experiencing today. So let's get started. You know I love this quote, because I think that one of the things we think about diversity is the differences across people that's obvious right like different diversity you get it. What I think is amazing about this is how those differences come together so together is the key word here. It's really around everyone bringing their unique perspectives to the table together and really I want to leave this here for a minute and let you ingrain this because it's so important for us to think about how we think differently and how we invite diversity of thought and we talk about that a lot here at Diverse by Thinking, obviously based on our brand it's super important to us. And we take it really seriously. And it does mean sometimes difficult conversations. And that's really the tough part about, you know, leading a diverse team and creating a diverse team is it's not as comfortable because we always are drawn to people that look and are comfortable with us because we're human and that's human nature. So I invite you to be open and have an open mind around being uncomfortable and really that's what today is all about. So your first step in this journey is defining diversity in your context, you know I talked about taking startup out of the nomenclature if that's not your context, I say the same about the different dimensions of diversity. So diversity has many dimensions as we like to call them here at Diverse by Thinking, and you know probably the most de facto ones that are always talked about in fact some of the metrics today even around startups are also against these de facto dimensions of diversity, age and gender. Why, because they're easy for us to see and measure. That's really the reasons. They are the prevalent ones and for sure they're important as a woman in the technology industry I find the gender ratio alarming and so it is very important for us to focus on those things. But make sure you understand what's important to you specifically because maybe you're an all female team, or maybe you have quite a gender balance and gender isn't the diversity that you're focused on. So you really have to know what your starting point is and then you need to define that you know what are your goals, I've seen some great goals over the years like, we're going to be gender diverse, you know 5050 by 2025. And it's amazing, I support that goal. But is that the right thing for all businesses, it really depends on your outcome and like where you want to get to. So be clear on that and write it down. I can't stress it enough. Just have a conversation and leave the room write it down just like your mission statement it's really important this is critical to your business, and you need to build a roadmap around it so step one is understanding what are you trying to get to, you know what's your destination. So you can work your way back from that. So define it in your context. And once you have it defined, you got to start right away, you don't want to recruit diversity debt for those technologists here today. It's very similar to what we know and don't love as technical debt right and I've experienced it to I've had my hand in creating some and really technical debt is the shortcuts we take to get to an outcome or a deliverable date or a customer commitment. And maybe we're not so proud of it right they are shortcuts after all, but we had to do it there was good reasons business and justifiable reasons for doing so. We often say we'll go back and adjust it over time and we'll invest in, you know, the heap of technical debt that we're under but we don't, we build on top of it, and there's no difference really here in diversity debt, you'll just build on top of it. And so that's why I'm always like just don't accrue it, like if you can if you can avoid it, definitely avoid it right like know that it's a thing, call it by name there's a thing called diversity debt and start right away so that you don't accrue the diversity debt, because that makes it a lot harder. It's not impossible though so if you're, if you're part of a small team in a corporate context. I'm not trying to discourage you it's possible to, to prioritize and get out of diversity debt, but you need to be really intentional about it and I think that's, it does get harder, it's not impossible but it's definitely harder so you know best to not accrue it and start right away. So where do you start you definitely start at the top right, it's probably no surprise that your leadership team, regardless of the size of your organization is the face of your organization to the rest of the world, that's to your customers. So they attract who is attracted to you. And that's because they are the voice and the brand and thought leadership that's out there talking at conferences, much like this one. And they represent who you are as a company.  So they immediately take themselves out of a target addressable market for you. That's not awesome for your business right that's obvious there's business loss there because those people are just deselect themselves as your customers.  They also look to your leadership team two thirds of job seekers today look at diversity is like a top reason to go to a company or not go to a company. So definitely matters when you're attracting talent to have a diverse leadership team. And also affects your bottom line I mean this is something it affects obviously the direction of your company, especially with startup founders right like what what is the roadmap. How are you going to prioritize how do you get to product market fit. All of those things are affected by your leadership team so the more diverse the better decisions are going to make create the more representative of diversity of thought they'll be, but I might surprise you that companies that have more diverse leadership teams and founding teams are better evaluated like they have a bet they're worth more to say simpler 65% better evaluations for teams that have ethnic ethnic diverse founders. And I think it's about 63% for for gender diverse founding teams. So your leadership team matters also in the bottom line. So it's really important to start at the top and look at that and also challenge where you're recruiting leadership, and could there be someone just right under your nose that you could create a pathway to elevate them in order to get that diverse leadership team. So you've defined it. You know you need to start right away and you know you need to start at the top, and you should start with hiring and but don't stop there and also evaluate your recruiting process you know things like your job descriptions I have a gender decoder here there's other decoders this happens to be one that we've used and it's also free. We've seen great results with it. There's also some that are that look for biases around race and other and other aspects of diversity. So definitely check those out and look at how you could use those against your job descriptions your website, lots of stories I could tell around people that have done this and the surprising results including us. And don't stop there right so make sure that you're building a more holistic process around recruiting in general where you're inviting a more diverse group. That's part of screening your job descriptions, and then ensuring that when they get to later stages that they get it, they get to later stages. So what we've seen, and what data has shown us is that if you use there's a thing called the Rooney rule if you're familiar with that but essentially says like once you get to the second and third stage of hiring, your, your pool is is more, you know, diverse like again depending on your definition of diversity like all the 5050 pool. And what we've seen historically and what what studies show is that the candidate that's the right candidate is, is that that represents that element of diversity so be intentional with it. You get to start with it but then don't stop there right because now you've invited them into your team. So you need this is where inclusion comes in and I've come to say quite frequently lately. There is no diversity without inclusion. So what does that mean it means inviting people to your organization to your team, whatever your context is, but not helping them feel that they belong doesn't create an inclusive environment and they inevitably will leave. So you haven't really satisfied your goals. It's sort of vanity metrics at the front that you were able to recruit, and maybe did the work up front, but how did you make sure that you invited diversity of discussion and that they were able to bring their authentic selves to work, because bringing their authentic authentic selves to work is bringing their best selves to work. You're getting the best value from them. So what we see is you know be curious and by challenge and amazing things happen innovation comes from challenging each other and diversity of thought. It doesn't come from complacency and, and everyone being comfortable around the table and nodding right it doesn't come from group think. So, it might surprise you as well that companies that are inclusive are 1.7 times more innovative. So they're actually considered the most innovative companies. So hopefully it doesn't surprise you now that I told you like inviting challenge and creating the diversity of thought leads to innovation. I mean that's where innovation is born. It's when different things come together and maybe unexpected ways. So just just know that part of that again it's it's the right thing to do so that you keep people within your organization but as well as they feel like they belong, but it's also good for your business. So you know I mentioned the beginning when you define diversity know where you're coming from also know where you're going and what progress you're making or not making. And so you need to get real about that again write it down. You need to track this this is a business plan. This is an outcome you're trying to reach you've set a goal and a definition, you're building a roadmap through hiring and your recruiting process and screening things as well as building inclusive processes around creating a culture of belonging. So measure things measure these things because that's the only way you're going to know if it's working or not working. You know what was the last five hires you had where they all female where they all mail. What were the last five promotions within your organization. What did they look like according to your definition of diversity and dimensions of diversity in general. And what were the last five people that left. And why do you think that was is there something that you didn't do on that inclusion side to invite them to feel like they belong there. So where is the work needed is the work needed in the front end is it work needed, you know, to keep them, you need to measure to understand where you need to improve. So I'm going to recap real quick. You need to define diversity for you avoid that by starting today start at the top. You know, invite the challenge and create the, you know, inclusion and discussion of, you know, different perspectives, measure so that you know where you were in the progress you're making and this is a continuous process constant change. It'll strengthen your company in the long run but diversity is not a promotional thing it's not a fad, and it requires work. If you want to check out more and see what we're doing with diversified thinking we'd love to talk to you. So if you have a snapshot of that, talk to us about challenges you're having in this area. And, you know, specifically around inclusion we're really interested in what people are doing and what they're not doing and where they're where they need help. So really happy to be here and look forward to hearing from some of you to talk more about this in the future.


Live from San Francisco, it's theCUBE. Covering Micron Insight 2019, brought to you by Micron. Welcome back to Pier 27 in San Francisco. I'm your host, Dave Vellante with my co-host, David Floyer, and this is theCUBE, the leader in live tech coverage. This is our live coverage of Micron Insight 2019. We were here last year talking about some of the big picture trends. Derek Dicker is here. He's the general manager and vice president of the storage business unit at Micron. It's great to see you again. Thank you so much for having me. You're welcome. So, you know, we talk about the superpowers a lot. You know, cloud, data, AI, and these new workloads that are coming in. And this, I was talking to David earlier in our kickoff. How real is AI? And it feels like it's real. It's not just a bunch of vendor industry hype, and it comes in a lot of different forms. Derek, what are you seeing in terms of the new workloads and the big trends in artificial intelligence? I think just on the front end, you guys are absolutely right. The role of artificial intelligence in the world is absolutely transformational. I was sitting in a meeting in the last couple of days, and somebody was walking through a storyline that I have to share with you that's a perfect example why this is becoming mainstream. In Southern California, at a children's hospital, there were a set of parents that had a few days old baby, and this baby was going through seizures, and no one could figure out what it was. And during the periods of time of the seizure, the child's brain activity was zero. There was no brain activity whatsoever. And what they did is they performed a CT scan, found nothing, checked for infections, found nothing, and can you imagine a parent just sitting there dealing with their child in that situation, you feel hopeless? This particular institution is so much on the bleeding edge. They've been investing in personalized medicine, and essentially what they were able to do was extract a sample of blood. From that sample of blood, within a matter of minutes, they were able to run an algorithm that could sift through five million genetic variants to go find a potential match for a genetic variant that existed within this child. They found one that was 0.01% of the population found. A tiny, tiny, call it a less than a needle in the haystack. And what they were able to do was translate that actual insight into a treatment. And that treatment wasn't invasive, it didn't involve surgery, it involved supplements. And providing this child just the nutrients that he needed to combat this genetic variant. But all of this was enabled through technology and through artificial intelligence in general. And a big part of the show that we're here at today is to talk about the industry coming together and discussing what are the great advances that are happening in that domain. It's just, it's super exciting to see something that touches that close to our lives. I love that story, and that's why I love this event. I mean, obviously, micron, memories, DRAM, NAND, et cetera, et cetera, but it's, this event is all about connecting to the impacts on our lives. You take that, I used to ask this question a lot of, when will machines be able to make better diagnoses than doctors? And I think, a lot of people say, they already can, but the real answer is, it's really about the augmentation. Machines helping doctors get to that, very, a small probability, 0.100 or 1%, and then being able to act on it. That's really how AI is affecting our lives every day. Wholeheartedly agree. And actually, that's a big part of our mission. Our mission is to transform how the world uses information to enrich life. That's the heart and soul of what you just described. And we're actually, we're super excited about what we see happening in storage as a result of this. One of the things that we've noticed is we've gotten engaged with a broad host of customers in the industry, is that there's a lot of focus on artificial intelligence workloads being handled based on memory, and memory bandwidth, and larger amounts of memory being required. If you look at systems of today versus systems of tomorrow, based on the types of workloads that are evolving for machine learning, the need for DRAM is growing dramatically. Multiple factors, we see that. But what nobody ever talks about, rarely talks about, is what's going on in the storage subsystem. And one of the biggest issues that we've found over time, or challenges that exist, is as you look at the AI workloads going back to 2014, the storage bandwidth required was a few megabytes per second, called tens of. But if you just look every year over time, we're exceeding a gigabyte, two gigabytes of bandwidth required out of the storage subsystem. Forget the memory. The storage is being used as a cache and it flushes. But once you get into a case where you actually want to do more work on a given asset, which of course, everybody wants to do from a TCO perspective, you need super high performance and capability. One of the things that we uncovered was, by delivering an SSD, this is our 9300 drive, we actually balance both the read IOPS and the write IOPS at three gigs per second. And what we allow to have happen is not just what you can imagine is almost sequential work.  By actually having a balanced read and write model, your ingest times go faster. So while you're working on a sequence, you can actually ingest more data into the system and it creates this overall efficiency. And it's these types of things that I think provide a great opportunity for innovation in the storage domain for these types of work. Right, and that's what's requiring new architectures in storage, right? I mean. Yeah, I mean, so one of the things that's happened in bringing SSDs in is that the old protocols were very slow, et cetera. And now we've got the new protocols within NVMe and potentially even more new protocols coming in into this area. What's Micron, how is Micron making this thing happen? The speed that's going to provide these insights that have happened? It's a fantastic question and you're absolutely right. The world of standards is something that we found over the course of time. If you can get a group of industry players wrapped around a given set of standards, you can create a large enough market and then people can innovate on top of that. And for us in the storage domain, the big transitions have been in SATA and NVMe. You see that happening today. We can talk a little bit about maybe a teaser for what's coming a little later at our event. In some of the broader areas in the market, we're talking about how fabrics attach storage into infrastructure. And interestingly enough, where people are innovating quite a bit right now is around using the NVMe infrastructure over fabrics themselves, which allows for shared storage across a network as opposed to just within a given server. There's some fantastic companies that are out there that are actually delivering both software stacks and hardware accelerators to take advantage of existing NVMe SSDs, but the protocol itself gets preserved but then they can share these SSDs over a network, which takes a scenario where before you were locked with your storage stranded within a server and now you can actually distribute more. It's amazing difference, isn't it? That potential of looking at data over as broad an area as you want to. And being able to address it directly. And having it done with standards and then having it done with low enough latency such that you aren't feeling severely disadvantaged, taking that SSD out of a box and making it available across a broad network. So you guys have a huge observation space. You sell storage to the enterprise, you sell storage to the cloud everywhere. I want to ask you about the macro because when you look at the traditional storage suppliers, some of them are struggling right now. There aren't many guys that are really growing and gaining share because the cloud is eating away at that. You guys sell to the cloud, so that's fine. Arms dealer, whoever wins, may the best man win. But at the same time, customers have ingested so much all flash, it's giving them headroom. And so they're like, hey, I'm good for a while. I used to have this spinning disk, I throw spinning disk at it, at the problem to give me performance headroom. That has changed. Now, we certainly expect a couple of things that that will catch up and there'll be another step function. But there's also elasticity.  And you'd say, well, wait a minute, if the price drops, won't people buy more? There's no question that they will, it just didn't happen fast enough in the quarter. All these interesting rip currents going on, I wonder what you're seeing in terms of the overall macro. Yeah, it's actually a fantastic question. If you go back in time and you look at the number of sequential quarters when we had ASP decreases across the industry, it was more than six. And the duration from peak to trough on the spot markets was high double digit percentages. Not many markets go through that type of a transition. But as you suggested, there's this notion of elasticity that exists, which is once the price gets below a certain threshold, all of a sudden new markets open up. And we're seeing that happen today. We're seeing that happen in the client space. So these devices actually, they're going through this transition where companies are actually saying, you know what, we're going to design out the hard drive cages for all platforms across our portfolio going into the future. That's happening now. And it's happening largely because these price points are enabling that situation. In the enterprise, a similar nature in terms of average capacities and drives being deployed over time. So it's, I think the last time we saw each other, it's one of the most exciting times to be in the memory and storage industry. I'll hold true to that today. I'm super excited about it. Well, I just bought a new laptop. And I have half a terabyte today. And they said for 200 bucks you can get a terabyte. And so I said, oh wow, I could take everything from 1983 and bring it over. Interestingly, it was back ordered. So I think, wow, am I the only one? But this is going to happen. I mean, everybody's going to have, you know, make the price lower. Boom, they'll buy more. We believe that to be the case for the foreseeable future. Do you see yourself going in more into the capacity market as well with SSDs? And I mean, this drop must make big opportunity for... Yeah, actually, you know, one of the areas that, you know, we feel particularly privileged to be able to engage in is the use of QLC technology. This is, you know, quad level seller four bits per cell technology. We've integrated this into a family of SSDs for the enterprise. We're interestingly enough, we have an opportunity to displace hard drives at an even faster rate because the core capability of the products are more power efficient. They've got equal to or better performance than existing hard drives. And when you look at the TCO across read-intensive workloads, it's actually, it's a no-brainer to go replace those HDD workloads. In the client space, there's segments of the market where we're seeing QLC deployed today for a higher capacity value segment. And then there's another segment for performance. So it's actually, each segment is opening up in a more dramatic way. So last question, I know you got some announcements today they haven't hit the wire yet, but what can you, show us a little leg, Derek. What can you tell us? So I'll give you this much. The market today, if you go look in the enterprise segment is essentially NVMe and SATA and SAS. And if you look at NVMe in 2019, essential we're in crossover on a gigabyte basis, right? And it's going to grow, it's going to continue to grow. I mentioned earlier the 9300 product that we use for machine learning, AI workloads, super high performance is a segment of the market that we haven't announced products in to date that is a mainstream portion of that market that looks very, very interesting to us. In addition, we can never forget that transitions in the enterprise take a really long time, right? And SATA is going to be around for a long time. It may be 15% of the market and 10% out a few years, but our customers are being very clear we're going to continue to ship SATA for an extended period of time. The beautiful thing about Micron is we have wonderful 96 layer technology. There's a need in the market in both of the segments I described and that's about as much as I can give you. All right, don't bet against data. Derek, thanks very much for coming on theCUBE. I really appreciate it. You're welcome. Thank you. We'll be back at Micron Insight 2019 from San Francisco. You're watching theCUBE.


Hi, everyone. Thanks for joining us and welcome to our presentation, Teaching Hard Histories for Racial Healing, the Lynching in Virginia curriculum. In our session, we will share the challenges and complexity of grounding our teaching and curriculum and social justice work. And in our presentation, we will explore how the project center student agency and authorship will discuss the role and purpose of publishing content openly and reflect on the importance of sharing our work with a wider community to cut across the oppressive disciplinary silos that make up our current system. So who are we? We are a multi-disciplinary team from James Madison University. The Teaching Hard Histories for Racial Healing project is the culmination of all of our work and efforts, which are in different phases. The initial research and digital scholarship project, Racial Terror in Virginia, is the result of John Luca Defasio's research and teachings on lynchings in Virginia. Throughout that project, Kevin Hugg, director of digital projects, supported the development of the database, the website, and data visualizations that are now being used as the basis for the lesson plans that JMU masters of teaching students are developing. One of those students is Alia Stone, who we hired as a curriculum development project coordinator and as part of the core team. These students were enrolled last spring in a teaching methods course with two college of education faculty, Ashley Jaffe from social studies and Mary Beth Consien from English. As the curriculum project took shape, our team reached out to other library staff for their expertise. Elaine Kay and Nicole Wilson, who are instructional designers, and Kirsten Lodinia, who is a digital project specialist, were added to the core team several years ago. We also work with Liz Thompson, the open education librarian on the parts of the project. Now that you have met the team, let's see how the various parts of the project fit together. This is the visual framework we use to clarify the role of critical digital pedagogy in developing an interdisciplinary project focused on community engagement, social justice, and activism. Throughout the presentation, we will share specific examples of how critical digital pedagogy, or CDP, is leveraged as a framework to make decisions at multiple levels of the project, including course design, team purpose and makeup, finding resources, and developing workflows. Each circle represents an aspect of the work that came together to construct the teaching hard histories for racial healing project. As we work together, it has been critical to honor the labor experiences and needs of the various stakeholders and project requirements. For example, the lifecycle of the racial terror website started well before the curriculum project and continues to develop at the same time our team is growing the hard histories project. By centering the teaching hard histories for racial healing project without erasing or consuming the individual circles, we can better demonstrate how our team has used the tenets of CDP to make choices for each individual circle as well as the project as a whole. Two of the key tenets that influence the project are the need for many voices and a commitment to open publishing. In this first section, we will provide context and details about the experiences and work in each circle. Over the past several years, John Luca has led a research project called Racial Terror, lynching in Virginia, which encompasses the years from 1866 to 1932. This digital project examines one of the darkest yet almost forgotten pages of American history, the lynching of thousands of people in the US South between the end of Reconstruction and the 1930s. While a small number of victims of mob violence were white, lynching was essentially a form of state sanctioned terrorism against African Americans. In fact, very few lynchers ever faced trial and almost no one was ever indicted for these crimes. Lynching was a key institution in the preservation of white supremacy in the Jim Crow South. This project on lynching in Virginia started as a data collection effort as well as a pedagogical tool for undergraduate students. In the spring of 2017, John Luca taught an advanced research course during which six senior JMU students collected and organized hundreds of articles from historical Virginia newspapers detailing all the known lynchings that occurred in the Commonwealth. The website John Luca compiled with the help of Kevin Hegg, an undergraduate research team, tells the story of the 115 known lynching victims in Virginia. Moreover, the racial terror website stores and makes available more than 600 historical newspaper articles reporting about these lynchings. In addition to being a pedagogical tool to spark conversations about racial violence, collective memory, diversity and inclusion, this project also serves as a way to honor the memory of those who died without the benefit of due process in a land that takes pride in being a nation of laws. In the original framework, you may have noticed that the library's support is outside of the three circles and is also included in the faculty development circle. We wanted to highlight the role of our digital projects team, including instructional designers and not only providing technical support, which has been critical for the success of the project, but also leading the coordination and organization of the work while still centering equity in the process. As one of the instructional designers on the team, I focused on facilitating meetings, building connections and relationships, and pulling in other team members or colleagues to grow the team and work. One example of the benefit to this work is the creation of flexible norms for meetings. By documenting our work in multiple ways and by ensuring that all voices are elevated, the team has been able to better articulate our story. Despite all kinds of twists and turns, we have been able to make significant progress on developing this critical curriculum, supporting our faculty, students and the teachers doing the hard work and advocating for institutional support to support the project financially. The group has discussed many times the value we have found in leveraging instructional design, collaboration and relationship building throughout the process. In the fall of 2020, Dr. Kansyan and I designed and implemented a racial terror lesson plan assignment in our graduate level social studies and English methods courses. The courses included 48 master students who wrote approximately 25 lesson plans using documents from the racial terror website. Each lesson plan highlighted one of six thematic cases found on the website, including the case of Shedrick Thompson, which will be shared by us today. The person who created this particular lesson plan is Allie Stone, Curriculum Development Project Manager, which will be shared later in the presentation. The lesson plan assignment asks students to use multiple established curriculum frameworks such as the College Career and Civic Life or C3 Framework, the Inquiry Design Model, IDM, and the Virginia Standards of Learning to support the framing and development for their lessons. The goals of the lesson plans were to change the narrative of how US history is currently taught in Virginia, to transform social studies in English teaching and learning, and to develop a framework for and methods that center equity, diversity, inclusion, and justice in middle and high school classrooms. With these goals in mind, the social studies and English graduate students use the Inquiry Design Model format to create inquiries that told the story of one individual who was the victim of lynching in Virginia. Students use documents, narratives, and graphics featured on the racial terror website to construct their narratives. They also use poems and music on the theme of lynching with excerpts from adolescent literature to address contemporary themes of police brutality and racial injustice. Our team consisted of seven graduate students, three outstanding students from both English and social studies, with Alia Stone at the head of the team. They met frequently to select the strongest, most powerful lesson plans from the ones submitted and to refine and polish them into lessons that subvert the narrative and focus on the fight for justice and equity. They agreed to format the lesson plans into inquiry design models, a format that half the team had not yet had the opportunity to work with. Through workshopping, peer review, and teamwork, they were able to seamlessly transfer each lesson plan into the IDM. The work that we have completed is the culmination of the efforts of multiple talented educators, and we feel that it is truly representative of JMU's ability to turn out justice-oriented education professionals. Throughout the course of the project, our group has wrestled with, explored, and committed to the importance of this work being shared as an open resource. And as we prepare this conference presentation, we are still grappling with the challenges of publishing openly as an act of activism for students who are now looking for jobs and education in a political environment where DEI work can be seen as an asset or a liability. As we work through the choices of where to publish, how, when, and what it means to share this content openly, we center our conversations around the values of openness and the role of CDP. In recent years, a diverse group of voices has come together under the tenets of Open Scholarship and CDP to build a shared understanding of how these frameworks can influence our work. One key distinction between CDP and other approaches to education is the insistence that teaching is political. We cannot separate education and politics. This core tenet is directly exemplified in the Teaching Hard Histories for Racial Healing Project. Its members are connected to state-level bodies that legislate education practices and state-level commissions that are confronting racist policies, memorials, and history. We are all members of a state institution with a responsibility to engage in political and civic work. Our students are going from JMU into communities where they will teach in a highly politicized atmosphere. Rora Boss states that because of its historical roots and critical pedagogy, CDP and those that ascribe to this work hold values that are anti-racist, anti-patriarchal, anti-capitalist, and anti-fundamentalist. The project team continues to hold these values and make sure that each decision and aspect of the project aligns with them. In Morrison Stommel's 2018 press book, An Urgency of Teachers, the author state that CDP upholds values that centers its practice on community and collaboration requires invention to reimagine the ways that communication and collaboration happen across cultural and political boundaries cannot be defined by a single voice, have use in application outside traditional institutions of education, open and network educational environments, must create dialogues in which both students and teachers participate as full agents. These quotes are from Chapter 1. The work of CDP also demands that we consider the equitable distribution of power in all aspects of our work. For this project, that consideration was intentional and explicit in each of our individual roles in the design of coursework and in the development of student project teams and more. So what does CDP look like in action? From the beginning of the racial terror website, Jean-Lucca has welcomed others to engage with the research on Virginia lynchings in creative and scholarly ways. This has allowed the production of new knowledge including the development of curriculum materials for high school teachers. The education faculty who taught the methods courses reflected deeply on how power is distributed in their own classrooms and what this meant as they framed the project for future teachers. The learning experiences of the pre-service teachers and graduate students were grounded in authentic and open authorship and also served as an opportunity to explore and evaluate the role of open resources in our current education systems. As a team, we have developed workflows that respect schedules. We have honestly acknowledged power relationships and distributed the labor needed to move the project forward in a way that leverages each of our skills, our experiences and access while always including all voices and acknowledging all contributions. So once they decided to publish the lessons plans under open licenses, the next practical question was where to publish? We discussed several options including publishing the lesson plans on the main project website. In the end, we decided to publish in the OER Commons for several reasons. OER Commons is a highly traffic site for people who are searching for OER. It offers an easy publishing platform via their open author tool and finally it allows for easy collaboration among a large team like ours. On this slide, you can see an example of one of the lesson plans. We are working on publishing the content to OER Commons right now. The platform itself offers everything we're looking for in terms of making the content accessible and also allowing us to clearly map the material to specific learning standards. Before we publish the content, we want to wrap up an important discussion within the team about the online identities of people who helped create the material. The question we need to answer is how do we safely share content that is unfortunately considered controversial by some? Liz Thompson and Kirsten Lodino worked together to provide a workshop for the students that walked them through the necessary steps to prepare their content for publishing on OER Commons. The instruction included information about using templates to create a uniform look for the content, a primer on Creative Commons licenses and guidance on how to choose which license to apply their content as well as information about what publishing content on OER Commons entails and why the platform was being used. Students were able to use this workshop to ask questions about the platform and Creative Commons licenses in order to gather the necessary information to make informed choices for how to share their content. John Luca approached the digital projects team in the spring of 2016 requesting quote a website for a class project unquote. Our team frequently responds to such requests. We create and manage around 100 new class websites each year. These are active typically over the course of the term and sometimes we're used in subsequent years. John Luca's website has been active and growing now for almost six years. If you have a browser open, please follow along with my guided tour of the website. It is located at sites.lib.jmu.edu forward slash VA lynching. The URL is on the slide you're now looking at. This is a WordPress site hosted by a campus press. The landing page, as you can see, contains an introduction to the site and a word cloud of Virginia counties. If you click on one of the counties you will see a list of lynchings that took place in that county. There are a few key features of the website that we would like to highlight as they support teaching and scholarly uses of the site. An important feature of the site is commenting. While comments are moderated, everyone is invited to participate in conversations around the content presented on the site. Moderation is used to prevent spam and inappropriate contents. John Luca accepts almost all contents. Probably the most important page on the site is the victims page where each victim of a Virginia lynching event is listed along with basic information about that victim and the lynching. The victims table is sortable and filterable by any of the column headers you see. Users can also download the table as an Excel or CSV file and use it in their own research. Behind the scenes, data that is used to populate the victims and articles tables is stored in Google Sheets and connected to air tables. Air tables are then embedded in the website. Air tables provide an easy way for visitors to interact with data sets. Visitors can drill into more details associated with a particular lynching event in several ways. From the victims table you can click the link in the read more column to retrieve more details about the lynching and its victim. The details page contains details of a particular victim and the associated lynching event. In addition to demographic information about the victim and general information about the lynching event, visitors are invited to read a short narrative about the lynching and review primary source documents, mostly historical newspaper articles related to the lynching event. These newspaper articles are aggregated in a Google Sheet and shared in an embedded air table on the articles page, which I invite you to explore on your own. The final key feature of this website is an interactive data visualization dashboard. This dashboard was authored in Tableau and then embedded on the website. As you can see, if you click on the data vis link at the top of the website, the map and bar chart are directly connected to the Google Sheet that stores the victim's lynching data. When that data is updated, the visualizations are automatically updated. Visitors to the dashboard can explore the distribution and demographics of the lynching events, both spatially and temporally. The controls on the right side of the dashboard allow the user to filter the data by sex, race, and decade. The time slider across the top offers users the ability to drill into a specific date range. I will end this section of the presentation by noting that the website also holds news and events related to the website and John Lucas Research and essays centered on lynching in Virginia. Most, if not all of these essays reference data presented on the website. Future plans for the website include a page that will hold the directory of lesson plans with links to the OER Commons platform. On the screen, you'll see reflections from our whole team. We chose to share these as a way to include all of our voices and experiences thus far with this project. Overall, each team member has learned, found ways to contribute that are meaningful, and recognized the incredible value in this critically important work. We are all committed to the success of this project because we believe in the power of amplifying stories, truth-telling in history, and education as part of racial healing. As we keep moving forward, we continue to look for venues to publish and share our work across multiple disciplines. We are exploring new funding avenues, and the next phase of the project includes the development and funding of a professional learning opportunity for local teachers who will integrate this work into curriculum and into their classrooms. The core team is building partnerships with local schools and teachers. We are conducting an ongoing needs assessment to determine what would be most valuable and supportive for in-service teachers. Part of our goal is to be sure that we can compensate the teachers for the time and work required to adapt and implement these lessons. Not only is a way to value their work and time, but also an important part of building allies in a project centered on activism and social justice work. We also continue to refine our goals, expand our team of collaborators, evaluate our work, and find new ways to use the lessons and provide development opportunities for teachers and teachers in training. Thank you for viewing our presentation. We invite questions from you all at this time. We also have the contact information provided for the various members of our interdisciplinary team.


Hey, what's up all you beautiful people, it's Ashley here. Now, I don't know if you've seen my latest video or not, it's called definition of OCD. However, as stupid as I am, I realized that I missed out an important factor when it comes to talking about OCD. Special thanks to the lovely person who posted a comment on that video about it. Since I am making this super quick video to explain about primarily obsessive-compulsive disorder. Now, it's a less-known form or manifestation of OCD. There are actually fewer or no observable compulsions.  It can also be a frightening impulse that causes the person to have extreme anxiety because it is totally opposite to their closely health beliefs or morals. The sufferer understands that these fears are unlikely and might not even happen, but the anxiety that they feel will make the obsession feel so real. The person will begin to ask themselves, am I really capable of something like that? Could that really happen? Is that really me? You know, even though they realize that the fear is irrational and because they do realize that it causes them even further distress. It ends with trying to find some sort of reassurance through mental searching. Now, even though this disorder has to do with thoughts and not behaviors, there are two types of cognitive behavioral therapy that have been proven to be very successful when it comes to treating this disorder. They're known as exposure and response prevention and cognitive restructuring. I will put the links of where I got all my information about primarily obsessive-compulsive disorder in the description box below. I hope you've enjoyed this little video. The link to definition of OCD, the video that I've done previously, will also be in the description box below.


Over the last 30 years. Over the last 30 years. Over the last 30 years. Over the last 30 years, one of the most important lessons that we've learned is the impact of trade on growth is much less direct than we thought it was. So, for example, before we were looking at developed countries and developing countries. They would trade together and that would lead to development in both countries. However, today we know the way that we need to look at this is a little bit more nuanced. So, for example, there are differential effects among sectors and among skill groups. And in fact, we've even gone further and we're looking within sectors and within skill groups. And we're seeing that there's much more lumpy effects of trade. So, it's not quite as straightforward as we thought it was 30 years ago. The second thing is the rise in importance of South-South trade versus North-South. So, 30 years ago, it was perfectly legitimate to look at the relationship between the North and the South. But today we know that's much more complex and that's not exactly how trade happens. So, South-South trade, particularly when you're thinking of China as a growth poll, is particularly important for developing countries and has a much different impact than the North-South trade way that we had analyzed before. The third difference that we've seen over the past 30 years is that the impact of supporting factors of trade matter as much or more than, in some cases, liberalization itself. So, 30 years ago, liberalization itself was the goal. But today we know that liberalization is not going to benefit growth and development and poverty reduction in all cases. So, take the example of Tonga, which is one of the ADB's member countries. And Tonga has a very liberalized trade regime, has fairly high poverty as well. However, one thing to remember is they didn't have internet access until about five or 10 years ago. And until 2013, it wasn't affordable. So, in 2013, they completed the submarine cable at the price drop by 60%. So now, if you're an exporter from Tonga, you can actually access buyers, which was the limitation before. Over the next 30 years. Over the next 30 years. Over the next 30 years. Over the next 30 years. One thing that I think will inform research and policy is a different definition of what it means to be developed. So, for example, in our Pacific states, we're moving towards a policy of niche product exports. And the reason is, when you're very distant, the only way you can be competitive is to export a very high-priced good. This won't lead to structural transformation, but it will lead to growth, jobs, and some other positive impacts that we're looking for in terms of development. The second thing is the rise of China. And a lot of our developing countries looking towards China as a way to move forward. Now, a third way that we see research moving forward comes from better analysis that's available for the poorest countries. Now, one thing that's been a problem throughout time in trying to analyze the poorest countries is the lack of data. A lot of countries don't have input-output tables. A lot of countries don't report trade data. So, we do funny things like use proxies or mirror data. This is not great, but increasingly, and particularly over the past five years, we've seen additional data on some of the poorest countries, which enables us to have a much more precise analysis of what's going on and to enable us to better target policy.


Here we are at the Intuit website. Intuit being the owner of QuickBooks. That's at intuit.com. We're looking to set up our free 30 day trial. So we have a sandbox to be working our test company file. Remember that your other free option to practice with QuickBooks Online is the QuickBooks Online test drive file. To find that option, I think it's easiest to just type into your search engine QuickBooks Online test drive. But we're going to be on the Intuit website. Intuit has multiple softwares that they own. I'm going to go from here to of course the QuickBooks software. Remembering that there are two major categories of QuickBooks software. Desktop and online versions. Their main sales page for QuickBooks will typically be pointing towards the online version of the software. But it still looks a little bit different than if we go directly to the online sales page. So I would typically go all the way down. You can see you don't have like the free option right here doesn't indicate that. But if you go all the way down to the bottom, then for a long time for many years they have had their products listed at the bottom of their page. And if I go into the products and look at the QuickBooks Online product, I get a slightly different sales page than just the QuickBooks overall sales page, which does have this try it for 30 days option right here. And if I toggle down, you also see it in this toggle option down below. Now if for whatever reason that sales page changes and you find it difficult to find the free 30 day trial on the Intuit website itself, I would recommend trying just as we saw with the QuickBooks Online test drive, just typing it into your favorite search engine, and then looking for the browsers that have an extension of Intuit.com. And maybe sometimes it might be easier to find it that way than actually on the website. But this method has been applicable for years now and a way that you can find it pretty much the same. So now you've got this toggle button that toggles from the free trial or not having the free trial. Now if you toggle it over it's quite scary because it doubles all the prices down below, right? So what we want to make sure that we're doing is planning what we're going to use the trial for. Are we testing out the company file that we're using the trial for so that we can later purchase it or because if we lock ourselves in to putting the data that we really need and putting new data into the system for that 30 day trial then we're pretty much locked in to continuing to use that particular software. So what we want to plan on doing is using the 30 day trial as a testing period and then if we want to purchase the software possibly start another company file or look at our purchasing options you know at that point in time that's going to be our plan here. Now you've got the different software options below the simple start the essentials the plus depending on how big your company is one of these options you know might be better or worse notice they're highlighting the differentiations between the options over here the main things that are going to be important is that we want to be dealing with inventory or possibly we might have inventory needs if you have inventory needs then you're going to go up to the plus which is most popular unless you have more advanced needs where you're going to go into the advanced needs if you have just a service company business and you don't need a lot of different users that's when you might be able to step down from the plus to essentials in the simple start but the plus is the recommended most popular option and so that's the one we want to practice with in our free trial so I'm going to toggle this over to free trial I'm not going to let it scare me that it jumps up to the 85 a month I'm going to choose the option and I'm not going to let it deviate me from taking the trial period so now it has the payroll now I think you can actually add the payroll as a free 30 day trial as well so that you can possibly practice with the payroll but it's not something that that we're going to be really working on at this point if it is something that you want to practice with possibly you can get access to the payroll which is a whole nother world and of itself you can do a whole courses multiple courses on different payroll settings and whatnot but I'm going to go ahead and continue without it that's like an add up or a step up kind of feature from like a marketing standpoint and then I notice here you've got your free your free trial for 30 days so it's still on the free 30 day trial if you don't have an account then you could set up an account with into it now if you already have an account you might still be able to get access to the free 30 day trial because even though you have an account and possibly a company file you are setting up a new company file and therefore you would have to if you'd have to pay more if you had if you were running the two company files separately so we're testing out a new company file which hopefully we can get the 30 day trial on or we need to set up an account so that we can do our 30 day trial that's our plan now notice it may ask for your payment information like credit card information pay pal or bank transfer or something like that but hopefully we still have it on the 30 day trial so it's not going to be billing me for it but that will lock us in if we don't cancel it you know before the 30 day trial period is over so that's going to be we'll need possibly a payment option possibly to run the 30 day trial and of course we're going to if we do that need to basically cancel the subscription which into it is a is a big company and whatnot and so you should there shouldn't be any funny business going on for the most part for to be able to cancel before the 30 day trial period is up okay so for the company address I'm going to put in an address of a house I looked up on Beverly Hills and then of course you want to take a look at the terms of service and make sure you're in alignment with the terms of service now we're going to provide just the basic information we need to get the company file set up some of these items we're going to skip through because they're not essential to first setting up the company file and we can typically go back into them and adjust them later so welcome I'll we're glad you're here tell us what you you need help with and so on and so forth I'm going to say next out what do you call your business I'm going to call this test company file company file 100 and we're going to say next and have you been managing your finances no matter where you're coming from we're here to help so nothing I'm I'm getting started this is kind of for informational purpose purposes internally for Intuit so I'm just going to pick some an item here QuickBooks desktop if you had QuickBooks desktop and you were transferring then you can go through the option of basically transferring the data file spreadsheets or pen and paper and it might help you to kind of walk through how to get up the new company file so in other words you might have a company file if you're setting up a QuickBooks file where you had no prior company file you're setting it up from scratch or you might have a prior accounting system possibly QuickBooks desktop possibly you know peach trees sage 50 or pen and paper and whatnot in which case your question is do you want to be importing all that prior data in some way shape or form into the QuickBooks system or kind of cutting a line drawing a line in the sand at the end of the year or something like that and just entering the balance sheet in essence so that you can go forward into the current year so I'm going to go ahead and say nothing so how long has file been in business so I'm going to go and say under a year and this is probably for mainly internal purposes I don't think this is going to have an impact on the creation of your statement they're gathering data here generally