Welcome to the non-profit show and happy Friday. We are excited you're here. It's another episode of the non-profit show, another ask-and-answer, and that means that we have so much gratitude always, but especially on Fridays, to National University Fundraising Academy, because these people, the trainers, the representatives, they come and they spend their Fridays with us to really dive in deep into these conversations. So I'm Jarrett Ransom, your non-profit nerd CEO of the Raven Group, but most importantly, Jack Alotto is here, CFRE and trainer at Fundraising Academy, very involved in the sector. Again, if you joined us for our green room chatter, you were hearing a little bit about one of his lifetime mentors that he's getting to see this weekend, but Jack has so much investment into the sector. And I love, I mean, I love you, Jack, but I love also the commitment and dedication that you put into the CFRE certification because you are so dedicated to helping all individuals achieve that responsibility. So thank you. Thank you. And it's an honor for me to be on with the non-profit nerd. Nerd used to be a bad word when I was in high school, it was a bad word, but when it's on you, Jarrett, it's a compliment. Well, thank you. Yeah, and it's a compliment when I say it too, because you're right, I used to have this negative connotation and I'm like, no, no, it's a compliment. So we also want to compliment our presenting sponsors and extend our gratitude also to these friends of ours. So a shout out over to our besties at Bloomerang American Non-profit Academy, again, Fundraising Academy at National University where we've stolen Jack from today, non-profit thought leader, your part-time controller, staffing boutique, non-profit nerd and non-profit tech talk. These companies day in, day out, they're here to support you, they're here to support your mission and to help you do more good. So to help you do more good, check them out because they really are amazing. We only play with amazing people. So everyone here is amazing. Speaking of, the latest and greatest is this amazing app. So you can, on your smartphone, here it is, on your smartphone, you can scan the QR code and upload the app. And so just a few hours after today's live conversation we're having right now in this very moment, you will get a notification that this show, this broadcast has been updated. And if you also stream us on broadcast or podcast, we're still there, so don't worry. You can find us on those platforms as well. Okay, my friend, Jack, are you ready? Yes, let's get going. Well, you know how this works. So I'm gonna read the question aloud and for our viewers and listeners, maybe this is your first time coming to us, but these questions come from you.  We save them, we reserve your questions for every single weekday on Friday, hence the Friday ask and answer episode. So these come in from our viewers around the nation. So name withheld and LA wants to know. I am the development director of a successful mid-sized nonprofit in the Western US, hence the LA. I have been asked by a similar nonprofit in the East to consult on their fundraising efforts and their strategies. Is this a conflict of interest? Take it away, my friend. So here's the thing, I do not think it's a conflict of interest, but what I think is a more important thing for this organization is to have a code of conduct. If your organization, your board has developed policies about conflict of interest, about code of conduct, then you would look to those policies as a way to answer this question. However, in my opinion, I do not think it is a conflict of interest, but there are some things, some codes of conduct for consultants that I did find. So here's the one thing that I find, safeguard confidential information. For example, this organization in Los Angeles, you cannot share your donor information in a consultancy with any other organization unless you have the donor's permission. So that is the number one thing. If they think that you're gonna give them a consultancy and help them find donors from your own database, that's a no-no. The other thing that I think is really important, and Jared, you're a consultant, you know this, I'm a consultant, I know this. Don't accept a consultancy if you are not competent in providing the services. That's really important. A lot of consultants I see, they say, hey, oh, there's this RFP for a consultant shop. I need the money, I'm gonna go for it. For example, in my own life, I'm not an expert at plan giving. I would not be a consultant for an organization that needs somebody who really knows and understands plan giving. The second part of an ethical consideration for a consultancy that might help this question is don't advertise services you are not professionally competent in. And I see a lot of organizations, a lot of consultants that do that. So we wanna avoid those two breaches of ethics. And finally, as I said earlier, look in your own code of conflict of interest policies if you have them. And the other thing that I highly recommend, and I'm sure you'll agree with this, is to review the AFP code of ethics and professional standards. And some of those things operate with integrity whether you are working within an organization or you're providing consultant services to them. Have be transparent, be truthful, be trustworthy. All of those things are important in any relationship with any nonprofit. I don't know what I could add to this, Jack. That was phenomenal. Great. Yeah, all of it. And you're right. I always go back to the code of ethics from AFP. And I remember when I started my consultancy, really that was when I had so many organizations asking me, well, you can bring the big donors, right? And I'm like, no. And really talking about, yes, I'm very privy to a lot of information from a lot of different organizations. I've been in their donor database. I've talked about strategies for major gifts of some of their larger donors. I never take that information to another organization, right? And that is a big thing. So I love that you go back to the policy of the organization and then overall code of conduct. So I think that is fantastic. I also, and I know you do too, Jack, come from a place of transparency. So I would certainly share this with my supervisor, let them know that this has been a request. You know, when you use the word consult, I'm curious, if this is, you know, like, you're taking on a paid opportunity or if they're simply looking for a conversation. I think that's different. I was actually recently asked to have a conversation, not a paid consultant consultancy, to share how essentially the Benevon Breakfast works, Jack, right? Like how do you use fundraising breakfast to an organization that's never done one before. And so I'm simply going to have a conversation, 30 minutes, maybe 60 minutes, and give them the lowdown of here's how it works, but it's not a paid gig, right? And so I really do think, name with help, you know, looking at this from a standpoint of, is this a paid opportunity that they're asking you for or is it simply, you know, a collegial favor that they're asking? So all good insight from you, Jack. So thank you for sharing. You're welcome. Yeah, and we wish you the best. And, you know, I do think that the more we share with one another, we can learn from one another. So I'm all for sharing Intel, but not intellectual property. That's right. Absolutely. Well, hey, I love this name Tanner as I share, this is my son's name, but he does not live in Memphis. So Tanner and Memphis wants to know, we are looking into putting more funding towards internal professional development and training. How much per person should we dedicate to this and should it differ from department to department? I realize this is a broad question, but we really need some help with the first time investment. This is a great question, Tanner. Yeah, it is a great question. And you know, you know, in the green room where we're talking about some of our favorite mentors and some of our great favorite supervisors. And I think one of the characteristics of the supervisors who I had, who I really appreciate them mentoring me was when they said to me, Jared, Jack, I want you to give me as part of your annual review your professional development goals. Tell me what you want to do to grow professionally. It could be CFRE. It could be learning more about plan giving. It could be being great at an annual giving campaign. I think that the way to deal with this question is to ask your staff to give you their professional development goals. It might be plan giving, as I said, if it's finance and it doesn't have to be just in the fundraising department, let's say the financial department, ask those employees to give you their professional development goals. Then when you get all of those, if it's in social services, ask them. Maybe they want to get a new master's degree or something like that. So when, and if you really want to keep your employees, which is also something in this question, then give them the opportunity to grow professionally. I worked for some large organizations that had very rich budgets around learning about fundraising. Those organizations, I would absolutely avail myself to every training opportunity, even if it was just a webinar or going to an AFP webinar or some other webinar that's put out there or reading blogs or whatever it was. So if it's in finance, maybe they want to learn more about financial metrics, let them go to a professional development. Then once they give you their professional development plan, look at your budget and just determine where you want to spend that development, that professional development budget. Is it really important that an annual giving officer learn more about major gifts and put your money in there or getting their CFRE? One of the questions I get all the time is CAP, Chartered Advisor in Philanthropy. That's something that a lot of development professionals are getting right now, go for it. I say yes. Yeah, and I also say yes to being a lifelong learner because there's so much to learn. And I believe we're never done, right? We're constantly evolving, we're learning something new. What's the latest trend? How is technology changing what we do? There's so much. The other thing, shameless plug is the Fundraising Academy has a portal that you can go to, it's free. There's tons of information there, the nonprofit show, free tons of information there. And so I do think regardless of budget, and I love your answer, Jack, and when I'm in that position, I do always say what are your goals? Like where do you want to be? Who do you want to be when you grow up and how can I support you? And I come from it as a place that it's like, it also might mean that we're developing this person and they don't stay here. But for me, I see it as we're doing the best for the person, for the community, for the sector, for the nation and the globe at large. And so really like uplifting and empowering this person regardless of those attachments to the agency. But I will go back to, there's so many free resources out there, another shameless, I'm doing a webinar July 19th with fundraising academy. And so again, there's so much information out there. So I love your looking at this because I do think it absolutely needs to be a line item in the budget. You mentioned the nonprofit show. Yes, it's free. But here's what a development supervisor can do. Can say to Jack, Jack, yes, I'm gonna give you that time on Fridays to go to the nonprofit show or to go to that fundraising academy in July. And you're not gonna be disturbed. Don't worry about doing anything, just attend that. That's also part of professional development. Time, giving your employees the time to do those things. Yeah, I'm so glad you mentioned that because that is something often overlooked. Yeah, okay. Well, I just got back from Chicago. So Bryce, I'm not sure if we met, but your question we're gonna answer right now is do you have any advice on what an annual pay raise would be for a C-suite nonprofit executive? We are thinking about a flat 3%, but we are also concerned that this amount won't help with our staff retention. Oh, pay raises, Jack, what are you saying? So the first thing I say is I do not like across the board pay raises. Okay. And I'll tell you why, and you may have a different opinion. Pay raises should be based on performance. They should be based. Some of your employees are going to outperform other employees and a 3% pay raise may not aid in employee retention if they feel that they have done above and beyond. Pay raises, in my opinion, should be based on job performance and performance should be based on their job descriptions and the goals that you and they and you or you and they have put together for that year. That's how I think you really, it's really, I just really don't like these across the board pay raises. It's great, it's very equal, it's egalitarian, but if you are an under performer and you know you're an under performer, you say, hey, I don't have to live up to anything. I want to get that 3% or if you're an over performer, you're going to say, why am I working so hard to achieve my goals when I am not being financially rewarded? So it's a double-edged sword. Yes, across the board may help with some employee retention, but I'll tell you what, I don't think across the board pay raises will help with others. The other thing is 3%, sorry guys, we have an inflation rate much higher than 3%. At least the last time I looked. Yeah, I know. So I don't really like the number even. So anyway, those are my opinions. I'd love to hear your opinion on this. Yeah, well, I'm going to give it to you, Jack. So I love hearing yours and I respect that. Recently I was working with a client and here's the thing, they grew from $1 million to $10 million, right? And a lot of that had to do with CARES Act funding and just really their mission was in the epicenter of like societal turmoil. So there was a lot of money coming to this organization. They were adding money to their infrastructure, their capacity, their retention, the culture, right, all of that. So what we did, and I was very privy to this and involved is we looked at the entire payroll and we said, okay, we can do up to 12% of a pay raise. Everyone will get 5%. Like that was the flat kind of like cost of living. Everyone will get 5%. Managers get to decide on that other 5% based off of performance. So someone could get our, sorry, up to that, let's say that 12%, right? So there's still a little bit more of a leeway. So someone could get that base five if they're not performing. Everyone gets that base five, but then you've got this other points, if you will. And so we really left that up to the supervisor of the team to say, okay, based off of their performance, I'm gonna give this person the whole shebang and they're getting all six, seven additional points, whatever. Some might be, I'm gonna give them two because there's still opportunity for improvement, right? But that was very much, we started at what is the equitable pay raise across the entire payroll. And then we did merit base, our performance base rather, above and beyond that. But here's the other thing I wanna mention. If you're doing like a 3% or a flat rate, the other thing you have to consider is compression. And so if one person is coming up at 3%, right? And then someone else, if you don't have much of a bandwidth, then you're really not changing the dynamics of the pay. And I have to be honest, even though you say and you ask people not to talk about pay, it's talked about, right? And then- Yeah, absolutely. It's talked about. And then it's also, I love the public knowledge, right? And that comes from a DEI lens. When we post a posting, a new job post, I affirmatively agree we have to post the hiring salary. And I actually, Jack, will not even share on LinkedIn or with anyone a job opportunity unless it has the pay range, right? Yeah, I agree.  And especially if you're concerned, right, about retaining your staff, you need to be concerned about that 3%. Well, I like your pay model better than the one I gave. I'm conceding that to you because it has that part, which I think is really important, incentivizing employees and telling supervisors they can incentivize their high-performing employees. That's good. Yeah, and it's giving them the ability, right? Like you can give them all 6%, 7% or you can give them somewhere in between. So I just learned that, so I'm happy to share. Great, thank you. Ooh, this is a double doozy. Name withheld, state withheld. Okay, some people within our state nonprofit association are thinking about setting up a subgroup of nonprofit marketing professionals to meet and exchange ideas every month or maybe quarterly. Oddly enough, this is causing quite a bit of drama within the state association. We don't want to take dues or anything like that, but are coming up against some bad feelings. No wonder this is name and state withheld, Jack. So state associated, this is a membership organization and memberships thrive and survive because it gives benefits to the members. So the first question I have, well, I have lots of questions like, why is this causing a drama? I have no idea. What's so, you know, I think it's great that a group of marketing professionals want to form a subgroup. You and I belong to one of the largest association, AFP. And AFP has many subgroups. How bad would it be if we didn't have LGBTQ plus subgroup or African-Americans in fundraising subgroup or Latin X subgroups? You know the thing about these subgroups? They educate us. They educate the wider association. So I'm not against a subgroup for me, but I think they have to look and see why is this causing such a drama or bad feelings? It's so, it would be so great for us to hear from a marketing subgroup. Let's say this association is a fundraising association. Marketing and fundraising are so related. I would like to, I can't think of any reason why we wouldn't allow them to have a subgroup. Yeah. Subgroups bring perspectives to the association that we might not have. I'm all for it as well. I don't know where the drama is coming from. I can only imagine, Jack, that perhaps, and I'm putting words in mouths, perhaps the drama is coming from the association wants to monetize the subgroup. But here's the thing. People will automatically gravitate towards people of like-mindedness, right? And so, I mean, we even talked about this, right? Like we talk offline, outside of this, even though we connected through the nonprofit show. I was a part of a grant writing subgroup that was a break-off of AFP, right? Ironically, you mentioned AFP. So I just think this will naturally happen, but here's where I want you to focus is when someone says, oh, how did you meet each other? You say, well, we were a part of X, Y, and Z Association, and then that's really gonna come back to the benefit of the association. So again, I can only imagine the drama is back to perhaps the monetization of a subgroup and maybe even having some controls, right? Of what that looks like. I just think like-minded people will connect with like-minded people. That's right. And if they wanna form a subgroup, let them do it. It's fine. I really don't know the drama. I really don't. And maybe- I would love to know. Yeah. Now, slide into our DMs and let us know the drama. Yeah, totally. We wanna know what that is, but yeah, I'm all for it. And I think people will certainly come together, converse, support one another, maybe even consult on similar ideas just as a previous question was about the West Coast, the East Coast. Like there's always, I think, to support each other, but hey, Jack, we did it. Another set of questions from our amazing viewers across, I'm gonna say the globe because let's be honest, this is expanding beyond the states, but Jack Alotto, CFRE and trainer at Fundraising Academy, so very grateful to have you here every single time that we get to have you. Again, thank you to Fundraising Academy at National University for having these Fridays and also to our other very supportive partners. So thank you to Bloomerang, also American Nonprofit Academy, back to Fundraising Academy at National University, where we just had Cultivate on June 1, and there will be another Cultivate next year. So stay tuned to that, make sure you get their information. Also thank you to Nonprofit Thought Leader, your part-time controller, Staffing Boutique, Nonprofit Nerd and Nonprofit Tech Talk. These companies, day in, day out, support us, but mostly they support you, all 1.8 million registered non-profits across the U.S. So it's really been a pleasure. Well, hey, it is Friday, Jack, and you've got some traveling to do. Yes, I do. And you know what I'm gonna do when I get off? I'm gonna get that app. I didn't really said it was live. I have my phone right here. What? And I'm gonna sign into that app because later today, I'm gonna be able to see this show. It's gonna pop up. It's gonna give you that notification. I love it because as our viewers know, there's some days that I'm not on. I was just traveling, as I mentioned, I know in Chicago and speaking at a conference and I still got those notifications. So make sure you definitely do that. So Jack, always a pleasure. Thank you. Thank you. And to all of you that joined us live, thank you. If you're watching the recording, thank you as well. And as we end every single episode, we invite you to please stay well so you can do well and we'll see you back here next week. Have fun, Jack. Safe travels.


Coming up on DTNS Google polls podcast addict from the play store a Samsung funded startup developed a fake window with natural sunlight And Aunt Pruitt explains mirrorless cameras in advance of the Canon R5 mirrorless body This is the Daily Tech News for Monday, May 18th, 2020 in Los Angeles. I'm Tom Merritt and from studio Redwood. I'm Sarah Ling And I'm the shows producer Roger Chang as I just mentioned Aunt Pruitt host at twit of hands-on photography and hands-on wellness joins us. Good to have you back, Amp Thank you for having me source team. I really appreciate y'all Thank you. We appreciate you being here. We were just talking with aunt about collecting couches Rogers not me. We were talking with aunt about Rogers collecting Get that wider conversation and understand the truth a good day internet patreon.com slash DTNS Let's start with a few tech things you should know Uber is closing 45 offices laying off through 300 3000 rather employees and rethinking its freight and autonomous vehicle technology Uber said it's laid off 3700 employees earlier this month Uber rides are down to 80% while Uber eats delivery food delivery is up 52% Amazon will reopen its French warehouses Tuesday If you remember Amazon closed down the French warehouses about a month ago after a court ordered it to reduce Operations in response to union complaints as part of its agreement with three unions Amazon will slowly bring workers back in Starting with 30% Tuesday reaching full staff by June 2nd Microsoft announced that minecraft sales surpassed 200 million with 126 million monthly players the company said that new players increased 25% last month while multiplayer sessions increased 40% during that time Microsoft acquired minecraft maker Mojang back in 2014 for 2.5 billion dollars and reported 100 million in sales in 2016 Developers of the Edison email app confirmed a bug that caused iOS users to see email messages from other accounts Without needing their credentials Company said it was not a security breach and appeared only in the latest update to the iOS app In other words, they're saying it wasn't a hacker who did it They're saying it was a bug and it has since been rolled back at us instead affected users were notified of the bug Logitech announced its update to its security camera line with the circle view which features a redesigned IP64 rated body and operates only through Apple's home kit like Logitech's circle 2 camera The circle view can record 1080p video across a 180-degree field of view with infrared footage at night up to 15 feet away The circle view is powered through USB and includes a button to off the camera and microphone The circle view goes on sale later in May for $160 Anika Asian review source says chip maker TSMC stopped taking new orders from Huawei in order to comply with new Export rules from the United States TSMC called the report purely market rumor But did say it's working with outside counsel to interpret the new US rules US under secretary for economic growth Keith croc Said the US does not anticipate giving TSMC a license to sell to Huawei at Huawei's annual analyst summit Huawei rotating chairman Kuoping said we expect that our business will be inevitably affected Huawei's other options outside of TSMC for making chips include China's SMIC or perhaps Samsung Butterfly network has developed a diagnostic wand with an ultrasonic chip inside that can connect to an Android or iOS device to monitor COVID-19 patients lungs remotely The $2,000 wand could be used by patients at home while doctors interpret the scans and results are comparable to mid-range $70,000 ultra saw ultrasound machines Google's meat video conference service became free earlier this month and has now passed the 50 million install mark in the Google Play Store By comparison it had 5 million installs back in March and Insurance dispute in Cullen County District Court in Texas Monday picked a jury to hear the case by video conference Officials believe that this is the first virtual trial jury trial to be held in the US during the lockdown The jury will be will hear a Summary jury trial a condensed version of a case where results in a non-binding verdict to encourage mediation and the FBI announced it has unlocked an iPhone 5 and iPhone 7 plus of a shooter in Pensacola, Florida Without apples and systems or breaking encryption the FBI says it developed its own tool to unlock the phones. They did not Tell what method they used to get them open All right, let's talk a little bit about a singular moment in time Sarah Let's During an MIT event Microsoft president Brad Smith, perhaps you've heard of him said that quote Microsoft was on the wrong side of history when open source Exploded at the beginning of the century and I can say that about me personally He was talking about himself Smith has been a lawyer at Microsoft for more than 25 years Microsoft is now the single largest contributor to open source projects in the world a full Linux kernel will ship in a Windows 10 update later this month Man and I don't know about you, but I just called 1998 me and I didn't believe myself when I told myself this had happened No one would have seen this coming back in not a soul Yeah, there's really not much to say here other than like yeah, you were But but also good good for acknowledging it I mean Brad Smith was a lawyer on a lot of those cases where Microsoft was suing open source companies trying to prevent them from Being able to operate by by throwing patent law around in what a lot of people felt was was just an anti-competitive Sort of matter and my how things have changed A lot of it has to do with such an Adele coming in and changing the philosophy of the company But some of it was even changing before that even under Steve Palmer. So we're seeing just a few less GNU pitchforks Yeah, I wonder how many there's always something that Microsoft as big as they are is going to do to annoy people But yeah, I think overall you're right if you were pitchforks because Microsoft is participating there They're not only participating in in Linux projects They're participating in the chromium project and all kinds there's there's loads of examples of other projects and by and large Not that they're perfect, but generally it seems like they're being a good citizen in the projects that they are participating in Podcast addict says its app has been pulled from the Google Play Store and had its ad serving suspended For violating rules about COVID-19 if you remember we talked about this before the Play Store policies now prohibit Referencing COVID-19 or related terms in metadata unless your app is from an authorized government or health agency This is to crack down on fake apps that are that are spreading this information Podcast addict is not a misinformation app. It's an app that just delivers podcasts It is probably being punished for having Podcasts listed in the app that mentioned COVID-19, but we're not sure Podcast addict is making its APK available for side load while it tries to appeal this decision Which creator Xavier Guillemond says we'll take up to seven days and he's gonna be missing out on revenue every one of those days It's not a first either podcast addict was previously demonetized for Acute being accused of linking to podcast with explicit content But again, they were just linking to the podcast that people linked to Some of which had explicit content in that case Google reversed the course on the decision rather quickly We're waiting to see if Google will pay attention to this and reverse course on this faster as well Is this more of a Google AI? Mess up if you will where it's just sort of scraping and looking and thinking Probably argued that yeah, it's like why are we still getting targeted? I mean if if we're not being targeted explicitly because you know of the company that we are this wouldn't be the first time Yeah, it does sound like an algorithm, we don't know that but it does sound like an algorithm just looked at this app and yanked it down They got an automated notice that said you're in violation of this policy It was the COVID-19 policy So they were very specific about what the violation they were accused of was but not specific about what in the app Caused this to be the problem now if they were to follow normal policy, they would have to change the name of the app resubmit it Without violating the policy which would lose podcast addict all of its play store history It's had my download count all of that which would and branding right which would be devastating So one would think that I can't imagine anything the podcast addict was doing would Would justify that kind of punishment at worst. Maybe they had COVID-19 in their meta tags and shouldn't have You know, but even that I think would be just just take the meta tags out And we'll put the we'll put the app back up. You shouldn't be banned for life for that but if they're serving up podcasts that are Providing great content around COVID-19 information. Yeah, yeah They're doing a good service and those different podcasts They have to set themselves up with SEO information with For us their tags and so forth because that's the right thing to do to make sure that they're seen by everyone So again, all of this just sort of confused me. It just sounds like yet another Algorithm problem, you know, well and and to your point like was this just an AI issue Maybe it was at what point can a company, you know, like a Podcast addict be like you just We we lost out on a lot of revenue because of some issue that happened You know behind the scenes that you're not telling us about And a podcast addict isn't big enough to get the same treatment Spotify would get There's not a there's not a personal representative that goes well, hold on a minute We don't want that to happen. Let's let's talk this out So they're they're having to wait for the press to mention this and get Google's attention, which is unfair To podcast addict and hopefully by the time you hear this recording if you're not listening to it live This has been resolved and we'll follow up and talk about it if and when it is Oculus Quest will now bring its experimental hand tracking system out of beta up until now A hand tracking has only worked for the main menu and some built-in apps the games waltz of the wizard Eluxer and the curious tale of the stolen pets as well as animated films gloomy eyes and the lion will launch with hand tracking on May 28th Developers can start submitting apps with hand tracking that day as well So you're gonna start see more of the stuff. Yay. Very excited because I have an Oculus Quest other updates to the quest include PlayStation scan Which helps automatically detect obstacles and the ability to change the default boundary color Facebook says that it sold $100 million of Oculus Quest content since launch of last year that matches the $100 million across all of its VR platforms announced last September So play space scan to help make sure, you know, you've got a nice mauve boundary line for you or or or the or the cool or that the tracking the hand tracking which is most exciting to you, Sara I would I don't know um I Don't know. I I it's probably the hand tracking. Um, I I I don't I don't dislike What options I have now, but it is Pretty limiting it is limiting You know what what your hands can do and what you have to sort of like I don't know you have to sort of learn how to use your hands a very different way in order to like Enjoy the Oculus Quest, which is fine, but it isn't it's never felt Like it is I don't know it because you're having to hold those controllers, right? So it's just is it unnatural?  It's it's fine. It's learnable, but it always felt a little limiting to me, so I Always thought that they were doing a great job putting out a product That's not half baked the way Google tends to do it But this all of these updates sound really good and and I would have opted more for the Detecting the obstacle feature because I'm tired of stuff getting broken in my house because I'm stumbling over it and things like that Well, yeah, and that that play space scan. I mean the beauty of is it makes it easier I mean you can still manually set up that space and try to make sure you're not kicking things around But busting a shin and the more it's a pain the more you're gonna miss something, right? So it's good to have that stuff Samsung has spun out a startup from its C labs incubator that makes an artificial window that delivers the benefits of natural sunlight It's called sunny five and it outputs the full spectrum of natural light And can be programmed to mimic sunlight by changing the angle throughout the day Including programmable scenarios like sunrise dawn dusk and sunset This will be great on the colony ships We take when we leave earth and travel through the space Samsung claims the product can even help users synthesize vitamin D indoors without the negative effects of sunburge Sunburn or aging now that's a claim that has not been validated, but it'd be interesting if it's true It's controlled by an app, of course, and it integrates with Samsung's smart things, of course because it's incubated by Samsung The startup will launch soon as an independent. So right now it's been in the C labs incubator The news is it's going to be spun out as its own Samsung backed company and hopefully we'll we'll get to see some actual products Rather than just the prototypes and demonstrations They were showing off a previous version of this at CES, but what they've got now looks cool in a video There's a lot yet that has to be proven in real life, but it looks interesting I mean, I think that you know a lot of these sorts of things people go Oh cool vitamin D great for humans I was just having a conversation with a friend earlier today about the fact that his plant was dying And he didn't know what he was doing wrong and so we're like looking at photos And I was like, I don't know maybe you need to like put it in a different corner kind of thing I think that the artificial lights You know humans aside There are lots of of ways that this could be very cool And that's pretty much the only Positive I see in this is something for helping to keep plants alive in the home when you have issues with actual Natural light, but from a human standpoint We need we need to go outside. We need to go outside in the air Even though there's a bunch of creepy crawlies flying around and stuff out there But that's that's what helps brings balance and keep balance in the force if you will You know, we got to have all of that feel then some of that energy from the Sun to help us stay in that state of Homeostasis. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I think that's that's the right term I mean people have a vitamin D deficiency in general these days because not going out enough Certainly this might help with that but it's not gonna help with what you're saying ant Which is like there are other benefits of going outside and maybe you should just do that But when we go outside we put on sunblock and all that so I don't know There's definitely some therapeutic things for people who can't go outside This could be beneficial or like I was joking earlier, you know space travel Being able to make it more natural and in fact, you'll get if this works the way they're describing You'll get better sunlight from it than you would get through a window because it's the full spectrum Whereas your window filters things. That's why you can't just keep the sun You know the shades open and get the same amount of vitamin D. Well, and you know Over on the east coast and I don't know if you ever went through this I guess you were you were far enough south, but you know, I I know people who have You know During the winter that it's depression mode sad. Yeah Disorder that's right. So I mean, you know when when it comes down to this it's that's actually helpful Yeah, yeah, when there is no sun out Which you know and and some locations that that happens for for big stretches throughout the year So it's it could be good for that as well. That's a really good point. Yeah In a letter to customers Apple retail chief Deirdre O'Brien announced that Apple has now reopened 100 retail locations globally with plans to open up 10 more stores in Italy and 25 more in the United States this week Reopened stores perform temperature checks on employees require face masks for employees and customers Limit occupancy to maintain social distance and are deep-cleaned nightly. Some stores will also offer curbside pickup and drop-off. So How does everybody feel about this? Are they doing the right thing? Are they are they taking the right precautions? Are you ready to go back when a store opens near you? I Have no problem with this I'm not an Apple customer by any stretch of the imagination But I have no problem with this because they're getting people back to work and Apple is paying attention to detail from a Standpoint of safety and trying to keep everybody, you know, healthy and whatnot. That's good And they even gonna, you know, keep a lot of people out of the store if they need to the same way our regular Supermarkets are doing I think this is a good thing Yeah, it seems like these are the right precautions They're even going to provide masks if someone shows up without one for some reason They'll have them on hand for folks. So they're they're trying to make it as seamless as possible Same token. I never like having to go to the store if I don't have to anyway So this this may not be the reason that I'm not gonna go But I'm not gonna be rushing back to this or or a lot of other stores if I can get stuff online But that also was true in February for me So it's just you know, I didn't like the hassle of having to go park and all of that. What about you Sarah? I mean, honestly, like listen, I love a good Apple store And I am an Apple customer, you know, I'm However, this is such a great example of like, oh if they just went away forever. Does my life change? Nope Doesn't in fact, it was like kind of inconvenient for me to go to an Apple store as it was Not inconvenient for me to buy something online Now they talk about this curbside service service offering I wonder how that's gonna go because People by nature are not very patient and then from from what I've always been told is the whole appointment Aspect of Apple store seems to be a bit of a hurdle to try to clear So now you're gonna add curbside assistance meaning someone's got to be at point a on time And then the Apple representative has to get there on time in addition to dealing with other stuff on the inside It just sounds like a Charlie Foxtrot weight. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. It does I well, unless it's just You order it for pickup and instead of going into the store to pick it up You just say like, oh, I'm here to pick up my thing rather than having an appointment If it's sort of first come first serve and they're like, okay Great, we'll bring it out to you because I mean I've done that at the Apple store Where I order something and pick it up there and the only difference back then was I would walk into the store and tell Somebody and wait at a table here.  Well, we'll probably not change is I will wait 20 minutes Because this is gonna be busy even if they're especially if they're limiting the number of people who can go into the store Right. Hey folks, if you want to get all the tech headlines each day in about five minutes Be sure to subscribe to daily tech headlines calm Well, we couldn't have an prude on the show without taking advantage of his wealth of photography knowledge the biggest thing I think you were saying on your radar ant is the r5 mirrorless body from cannon coming out. All right. Oh, yeah, definitely I know you're eager to see it. See if it follows the pattern of Taken heat and then getting a firmware update and get some love Before we get to your thoughts on the r5 specifically though Talked to us a little bit about mirrorless cameras How how is that different from a digital SLR? Talk to you about mirrorless cameras specifically me. Yeah. Yeah, all right Well mirrorless cameras are Essentially exactly as it says it's a camera body that does not have a mirror in it That helps out with the actual exposure our traditional digital SLRs have a flip-up mirror that pops up and down every time you click the shutter Light passes through and closes back down so on and so forth. This is a bunch of mechanical mumble jumbo You just remove that in the mirrorless bodies and it allows you to shrink the the actual form factor of the body down In addition to that physical form factor change and you get some added benefits such as an electronic Viewfinder instead of looking through your viewfinder and it's just glass And it's just the optics that you're dealing with to see if you're in frame and so forth with the mirrorless side They're able to computerize it a bit and let you see if you're properly exposed If you're under exposed and see a lot of other beautiful stuff really dumb question Why weren't we always dealing with mirrorless cameras this entire time? Well, there is a cost to these things. I mean that happens over time, but of course now The process is getting a lot less a lot less cumbersome for these different manufacturers So the cost of mirrorless are going down for the most part with the exception of you know, the latest one from Sony and this rumored one to our fire from Canon Supposed to be pretty expensive But I doubt it's going to be pretty expensive because they already have a $6,000 camera body out there They're not gonna do us like that again, you know Why is there such big interest in shooting video with the LSR or or with mirrorless cameras? Oh Portability portability you have a lot of independent filmmakers that Yeah, they would love to have that red red weapon the beautiful cinema camera and or the Ursa from black magic But the form factor on those are a little bit chunkier and heavier and not as easy to move around with But you know, that's one of those prices you pay for when it comes to having quality over convenience But if you can put those same types of smarts into a smaller form factor and give it in a nice price point That's something that the independent folks are going to jump on quickly All right, so I get I get it Mirrorless cameras allowed you to do some direct digital stuff that you couldn't do if there was a mirror in the way And it's now gotten cheap enough that it's it's not a big cost prohibitive thing We've had a couple of of of cannon ours as I was mentioning earlier that you were saying Have gone through the love hate relationship.  Oh, there was there was so much I'm such a good boy too. Yeah, it was uh, I It doesn't pick up in a second. I will say from my from what I when I could read There's a love hate relationship because there's a love and hate relationship with a lot of Photography enthusiasts for cannon. They feel that they're a little too traditional They don't move as quickly as the Sony's as the Panasonic's when it comes to adopting new technologies And they feel that they have been a little slow to adopt a lot of the features that the competitors have Oh, so and right Roger jumped in when you froze right there, but he's basically saying it's it's the it's the cannon high expectations That that feel that a little bit Yeah, and there's truth in that a lot of the Talk behind cannon is there lag behind the folks of Sony and Nikon and things like that and and in a Since they are but it's no different from Say the Apple versus Google or the Apple versus Microsoft Apple tends to wait on a lot of things and when it's time for them to to announce something or launch something it's usually a better version of the technology that Company ABC has already put out, you know, and that's just what's going on here Can it's gonna get better Sony's gonna get better two years from now And this is just gonna be a beautiful cycle for the consumer So before we wrap up here, tell us, you know, what what is the status of the r5? And and what's your best guess at what this will do with what has generally been a decline in the consumer camera market? Well, the r5 is supposed to be out this week But you know with everything going on with the virus things are slowing down I've spoken to Representatives at Canon in there, of course, they've been tight-lipped But they all tend to say the whole yeah, we're still on time. We're still on time with it getting out this month So hopefully we'll see it by the end of the month But far as just the the market for cameras changing so much You have to blame these smartphones the pixel the the iPhone 11 the cameras and these things are just outstanding From a consumer standpoint, I'm not gonna shoot everything with the pixel I can But I don't want to there are some things I want a bigger image sensor to do a particular task Is there something that you gave up with? mirrorless cameras that is akin to what you might be giving up if you switch to a phone In my opinion No, no, I think you're gaining more you're gaining more Because for me a lot of photography is based on feel that that body has to feel right in my hands versus You know carry in the phone right and a phone is comfortable in my hands, but for shooting photography I want the girth of a camera body in my hands Just what that feel solid. Yeah, gotcha. Thank you, man. I appreciate that. I feel like I understand a tiny bit more. Thanks I'm glad I It's it's are you going to get an R5 I guess that is my intent Yeah, I hope to get one as soon as it's available to me, but yeah, that's my intent I'm ready to go the the mirrorless route. I wasn't too keen on it previously But I played around with the ESR and I liked it and I said well I'll go ahead and get it and I just about got it last year But then all of these rumors popped up about this next generation coming up. So I said I better wait As it always is you can join in the conversation in our discord lots of photography conversations pop up there as well as the Larger tech conversation you can join by linking to a patreon account at patreon.com Dtns. Let's check out the mailbag. Oh, let's Jason aka husky Caucasian I guess Maybe doing some baking at home all good on last Monday's show Jason says you discussed online voting This reminded me of a project that Microsoft is working on called election guard It's still in its earliest phases of testing isn't designed for voting online just yet But I can see the potential for it to pivot in that direction It was tested earlier this year for a small election in Wisconsin the basics as described on their website are as follows election guard is a way of checking election results Checking if our election results are accurate and that votes have not been altered or suppressed or tampered in any way of Individual voters consider their vote has been accurately recorded and their voice has been correctly added to the final tally Anybody who wishes to monitor the election can check all votes to that that they have been correctly tallied to produce an accurate and fair results All right, we'll keep an eye on election guard. I've heard of a few bits about it But like you say, I've heard it's you know very early days of testing. Thank you Jason Yes, and thanks to patrons at our master and grand master levels including Wendy Hernandez de Grache Daniels and Steve Ayadarola also thanks to Aunt Pruitt for being with us today And it's been too long. Hopefully it won't be too long since you're with us again Let folks know where they can keep up with your work. Oh sweet. Thank you all so much You can follow me over on Twitter at ant underscore Pruitt But I'd love for you to check out my show hands-on photography and hands-on wellness over on the twit network That's twit.tv slash hop and Twit.tv hop twit.tv how easy easy to remember those are good. Those are good URLs Thank you, and I now everything I know about mirrorless cameras. I've learned from you I could I could I could honestly say that at this point. I can put that on my LinkedIn now. Yeah. 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Hey, everybody, welcome to the Waldoch Way. I'm Jessica, and today's video is going to be our mid-year update. So in case you have forgotten, I will link up here what we said back in, I believe it was July, that our plans for third grade were going to be. And I won't say that it's changed a lot, but a lot of things have changed since I said that. So when I made the plans for third grade, we didn't know that Kevin was actually gonna be coming home full-time to be with us. And so some things have changed because of that for the better. He's taken on a few subjects and a few things that he's been teaching, and our lifestyle in general has changed. And that's caused some things in our homeschool to change. So today I'm gonna be telling you all about those changes, give you an update of where we're at, kind of what we're doing really good at, what we're failing at, and what we hope to do differently in this second semester. So the biggest thing that's changed since Kevin has come home is our schedule. Our routine is still the same. Luckily, we've always kind of had a really good flow to our day, and that is that whenever Emily wakes up, she does whatever I've strewn for her, or she will play quietly with something, and then we do our morning basket together, and then we would do our table time, and then lunch with either a show, a podcast, or an audio book, and then we would move on to whatever our afternoon activity was. Well, with Kevin coming home and me and Emily being night owls, everything has shifted even later in our day. So it's just a little bit different than it was. The only thing that's really changed is our lunch and table time have switched. Normally, we are waking up, doing our morning basket, and then doing lunch with a show or a podcast, and then our table time, because like I said, everything's moved a little bit later in the day, and then we still do our afternoon activities, which are either doing something together as a family or one-on-one with Emily, or afternoon classes that Emily takes online. So that hasn't changed a ton. It's just kind of been bumped backwards a few hours. So we are night owls, and we prefer to stay up till like midnight to 1 a.m. and sleep till like 10 or 11. If we're being honest, it's kind of my dream schedule, so I am totally okay with that change. Our one thing for this year was art. That's what we decided on as a family, and we really all kind of banked on the fact that Kevin coming home full-time meant that that was gonna be an easy one for us, but guess what? It hasn't been. We have totally flopped at our one thing so far this year. Now, we have plans to change that because luckily we're only halfway through the year, and we can try to rectify that and get in some more art in the second half, but we have literally done one chakrasa lesson the entire first semester of our homeschool year. That's it.  Kevin is obviously always doing art for the Wallach way, but we just haven't done any art in our homeschool, at least not very much. When we had planned for that to be our one thing. We just haven't gotten a whole lot of it, but it's kind of been a weird year. So we're totally chalking that up to, oh well, let's try to do better. For math and language arts, our original plan was to do the Evanmore Daily fundamentals and then supplement with the math and language fundamentals when needed and also supplement with things like Life of Fred and some activities and the Right Star Math games. And that worked really well. However, we have decided that it's time to shake things up a little bit and a few new things have happened. We have found Knight Zookeeper, which has been excellent for Emily in her writing. She absolutely loves, and I have seen her blossom as a writer, even though she's typing. It has just been great for that. She missed her Grammar Galaxy story, so we've gone back to Grammar Galaxy and she wanted to try out teaching textbooks when they switched over to the new 4.0. So she's been doing that for about two months and really enjoying that as well. So we're still in doing some of the Evanmore either Daily fundamentals or we're supplementing with the math and language arts when she needs extra help on a specific concept. But we've also added in teaching textbooks, Knight Zookeeper, and we have returned to the Grammar Galaxy stories because she loves them so much. And as an auditory learner, she just soaks up so much out of just the story itself. So that's what we're doing right now for math and language arts. And then of course, with a ton of books and games as well. For history, my plan was to do a minimum of one who was unit a month. And I am super proud to report that that is one thing that we have not only done, we have gone further than that. We have done one to three every month so far. So that is like the one thing that we have actually done that I said I was going to do and I'm thrilled about it. The who was units have been so, so perfect for our homeschool because we can dive in and out, we can add more, we can let Emily choose, follow her lead with it. They've just been perfect, absolutely love them. And I love, love, love how easy they are to incorporate. For geography and science, my plan was for us to do traveling the world and we are still going to be doing that. We just haven't started yet. We will be starting that now in the second semester. What we were able to do though was do a ton of traveling the parks and then actually travel to a handful of the parks. So that was really fun to be able to learn about them and then to actually go travel to them. Another thing that we have done is added in holiday fun around the world. And that is because if there was ever a year that needed more fun and celebrations, 2020 was definitely it. And we had so much fun learning and celebrating together that we've actually extended that and we're trying to make that around the world like the whole year. So we are growing that curriculum as we're doing it with Emily and we just so excited to be able to celebrate and have fun together while we're learning as a family because we love celebrating the little things. So why not celebrate the big things and learn a little bit about cultures and the way they observe things at the same time. Next we have science. Now I had planned to design this huge zoology unit for Emily but that was before Kevin came home. And then Kevin came home and they actually have started doing like a STEM science thing once a week and it has been so fun to see them enjoying doing that together. And I found a really, really awesome veterinarian class on out school for Emily. So it was introduction of veterinarian and then advanced veterinary medicine, I believe one, two, three, four and five which will carry her for like three or four years if she takes all of them. She loves the teachers. They're long like 12 week classes and they've just been so great. So between that and what Kevin and her have been doing on their time together which is like subscription boxes and science kits, that's really what we've been doing for science. Plus there's a lot of animal science mixed in with traveling the parks and traveling the world. So that's kind of what we've done for science so far this year. All of the subscriptions that we signed up for at the beginning of the year have all been hits. Everybody loves them. So we will definitely be keeping those around. The letters that we're receiving are letters from afar, writings from the wild, the heritage letters and the American heritage adventure. So between those four we have world geography, American geography, American history and animals and that's kind of like a little bit of everything. And then the subscription boxes that we've been receiving are universal yums, my zoo box and the Kiwi tinker crate as well as we recently in the last two or three months signed up for the land of story books. So between those we have again, world geography, animal science, STEM and literature. So we are really enjoying all of those and they just kind of add that extra a little bit of pizzazz to our homeschool. It's really awesome to get something in the mail to be able to open it for it to be a surprise and for it to be things that we can enjoy either sitting down and reading together or sitting down and doing together. And then last is online classes. Emily has been taking a ton of out school classes. I will have the link in the description box down below so you can see all of the classes that she's taken and enjoyed so far this year if you're looking for classes for your little ones too. And she's also really enjoyed her Lego classes. She absolutely loves doing Lego with Miss Bethany every week. I love that they are following along at Password to Adventures in their Lego class. So it's really cool for me to be able to hear them learning about something I wrote and the different topics and I like that she's able to build things based off of those. So she is kind of redoing part of Password to Adventures. She's reading that book independently now which is so awesome each week as she does the Lego class with Miss Bethany. And then we still have our subscription to Chalk Pastel, No Sweat Nature Study and Squilt and we absolutely love them. We haven't done nearly as many as I would like this year. All in all, with all things considered, I think the first half of our school year has gone really well. Things I would like to change in the second half of the school year is I would love to get to more of our classes like Chalk Pastel, No Sweat Nature Study and Squilt Live. I would also love to be getting in more art period. And then another thing that we have or I have decided is very important to me has always been important to me and that is kind of the adventuring together, going on adventures. When I read Greta Eskridge's Adventuring Together book, it really made me realize though that adventures don't have to be grand, which I had kind of put in my mind all of our adventures on hold because of the pandemic. And reading that book really reminded me that they don't have to be huge in order to be important. So, or memorable and make connections, like there doesn't need to be this big grand thing for it to matter basically. So that's another thing I would really like to start doing more is doing adventures, even if that's just, you know, going to one of our state parks right down the road or going to whatever things happen to be open that we can go to like museums, art things, you know, whatever we can do, I wanna try to do. So that's the things that I would like to change in the second semester. I would also like to get in more read-alouds. We've been getting in quite a few, but I don't feel like we're nearly where we normally are this time of year in the past. And that might just be, you know, because things are different this year. I'm not really sure, but I would like to get in more read-alouds too. But other than that, I think this year has gone really well. We're on track for what I wanted us to be on track for, all things considered. And I'm excited to see where the rest of this year leads. I would love to hear about your year so far. So how is your homeschool year going? Has it been at all what you expected? Are you where you hope to be? Are you enjoying the things you're doing? Have you changed things in the second semester? Let me know in the comments down below.


And now, tonight's presentation of Radio's Outstanding Theatre of Frills Suspense Tonight, we bring you the story of a fantastic theft of a million dollar pearl necklace We call it the end of the string So now, starring Stacey Harris, here is tonight's suspense play, The End of the String The necklace consisted of 61 perfectly matched pearls It was insured for $650,000 and was probably worth about a million I got to know about the deal because Sam liked me, I guess, because in Boston, I wasn't competition Just a nice young fellow who was trying to get ahead in costume jewelry That's why I happened to be in his private office when the parcel containing the pearls arrived I told you, young fellow, you were going to see something this morning That's what you said, Sam Yeah, I like you.   I'm up for adoption Hey, smart. Come over here, to the window You ever see a million dollars? Like in the necklace you told me about? With it, in the package? Yeah, the same How come you have it delivered by mail, Sam? Isn't that risky? Uh-uh Sam Heiler's no dope You get a messenger to carry it from Detroit to Boston, what happens? Somebody gives him a crack in the head Registered mail, this they don't touch Yeah, I'm glad to know about that I'm just liable to send myself a million bucks Don't worry. Someday, maybe you will Hand me the scissors that will do on the desk Sure Here Thank you Hey, fancy ceiling wax, stamp I'm very impressed Sam Heiler, SH impresses the customers And I don't get anybody fooling with the parcel That's something you've got to learn, Mark In this business, you've got to pick and choose your agency, you know, in the other cities Mine, I know like sons, all bonded What was the necklace doing in Detroit? Customer, couldn't make up his mind So I had my boy there send it back to me You see, tomorrow, the next day, the customer will be screaming for it I'm better off in costume jewelry There's too much strain with that stuff Switch on the light, would you? Okay Now, young man, what do you think of this? You are going to see something Oh, no, Sam Sam He keeled over For a minute, I thought he was finished, but he'd only passed out from shock And I knew why Inside the box wrapped in cotton And enclosed in part of a newspaper Were eight cubes of sugar A million dollars worth of nothing In half an hour, the office was alive with uniforms Oral Sam just sat on the couch A wet towel on his head Staring over at the box on his desk I felt really sorry for the old guy I figured it was about time for me to go But that's when Sam woke up a bit And so did a Dartmouth-type cop from headquarters Mark, you're going? Well, unless there's something I can do, Sam I'll say it before you go Yeah What did you say your name was, sir? Hendricks Mark Hendricks Do you know anything about this? No, not much I was here when Mr. Hyler opened the box That's about it Uh-huh You and this business, too? Costume, Jory I have the office downstairs in the front Oh You were in here when the mail came? No No, I came up a couple of minutes later Didn't see anybody around in the hall? No, no, I didn't Well, Mr. Hyler, you say that the same postman's been on the route for five years? Every day Yeah Mark, you go ahead Thanks to stay And look, Sam, if there's anything at all I can do, huh? Well, maybe you could wait a little Sure, Sam, I'll stick around How do you feel now, Mr. Hyler? I'm all right, I'm fine I wish I was dead Okay, I want to get a couple of things straight You took the mail, Miss? Miss Cummings Yes, same as usual The mailman come into the office Nobody with him? That's right Nobody else in here? Only Mr. Hyler Mr. Hendricks arrived a few minutes later You'd already given the package to Mr. Hyler? Yes Okay I want the name and the address of the sender and then when the postal inspector gets here we'll go on from there The cop's name was Kale The postal inspector, Shira Between the two of them, they covered everything I hung around because Sam wanted me there and though nobody said anything I had the feeling that until they got through I was going to be around because they wanted it About 12 o'clock, the mailman was brought in He was really shaky The kind of guy that looks guilty just for living I tell you, I don't know, I'm sorry Listen, nothing like this has ever happened Mr. Hyler, you tell him I told him already Mr. Hendricks Oh, sure, I'll give you a clean bill You see Oh, looks like nobody said you switched packages All we want to know is where you stopped between the office and here I made all my stops Okay, we'll start in this building Did you put the mailbag down anywhere? No How many offices? Four No, three No, four Five, but next door it's empty All right, it's four Where'd you stop first? Mr. Hendricks, he's in the front Yes Did you put your mailbag down? Maybe just for a minute We talked about the game last weekend But nobody was around Nobody touched the mailbag That went on for another half hour They tried to catch him up on the point of leaving his mailbag unattended But he swore up and down he hadn't taken his eyes off it At three o'clock they quit I went back to my place and caught up on my own mail A couple of bills a free dog food coupon I saw Sam a lot in the next couple of weeks He took the dropping into the office before going home and taking me out for a drink No, no, no You're my guest I pay for the drinks Now look, Sam It's embarrassing You never let me think about you In the hour of need you were there I can trust you Sam, these are bad days for me, Mark I need a friend Sure, Sam, I know The insurance company called today Huh? Yeah, they're offering a reward $50,000 for information I added ten of my own $60,000?  Nothing The post office traced the package from the time it left Detroit Nobody touched it What about while the necklace was in Detroit? Well, like I told the police I trust my boy there He put my seal on it and he mailed it We checked I trust him, but we checked, too Sam, what about that seal? I mean, you're sure the one on the fake package was yours? It's my seal, the same The police examined it I don't know Somebody got a hold of it, I guess But yet they couldn't There's only me and the Detroits from what's got one and they're kept in the safe My boy, you know I'm gonna retire Come on, Sam Insurance will cover the loss You're not too badly off It'll take years I know that company Mark Years It's a funny thing about money You don't have a lot so you wish you had more Then when you've got more you want more than that so you won't go back to not having any Trouble is, where do you stop? The next day I caught Sam's secretary as she was leaving the office Oh, Jeannie Hi Hi Where have you been? All around Are you in a rush? No Want to take me to dinner? Yeah Yeah I got a date, but I'll break it Oh, great You know, you must be one of the compensations for being broke Can I use your phone?  I will I will Well, that's enough homework for a while Oh?  You have got something on your mind If you say no, it's okay If you say yes, you can't back out I love to say yes Come on, Ginny, I'm serious So am I It's about Sam Heiler's necklace Oh Who do you like more? Your boss or $100,000? I'm loyal You know that Yeah, I know Two Which one? Money Sam, too, depending Okay, I'll take a chance I want to show you something Deal's still on Mark, it's the necklace Yeah, beautiful, isn't it? You are listening to The End of the String Tonight's presentation in Radio's Outstanding Theatre of Thrills Suspense Chances are the average man in jail would be pleased and reassured to learn that his wife was safe at home but not the gentleman in the pokey in this week's episode of 21st Precinct Having jammed the lock on the door to his home prior to his arrest, he is startled and not a little dismayed to realize that his long-suffering wife cannot get out of the house to bail him out even when she wants to For engrossing drama with an extra good measure of human interest and humor don't miss this diverting story on 21st Precinct when it is broadcast this Friday night over most of these same stations And now we bring back to our Hollywood soundstage Stacy Harris starring in tonight's production The End of the String A tale well calculated to keep you in Suspense She sat looking at the necklace and her mouth opened and shut like a beautiful blonde fish Then she noticed me staring at her and she got a hold of herself reached for a cigarette and lit it Honey, Mr. Highler is the only one I've ever seen hold that necklace Huh? It's not heavy Yeah What are you gonna do? What I've been trying to do ever since I got a hold of it Paddle it Oh Trouble is I don't know where to start and that's where you come in Here, take it back No What do you mean no? I couldn't help you I mean I don't know anymore about where to get rid of it Well then you But if you did know I couldn't Wouldn't make any difference, I just couldn't It's worth a million I figure we could get 200,000 maybe more Split down the middle, that's That's a hundred thousand dollars, Jean Tax-free But you'll be caught, so will I No, no Worst of it's over How'd you do it, Mark? Well, it seems to me I've told you an awful lot already If we can't make a deal, let's forget it, huh? Aren't you afraid I'll tell Mr. Highler? No No, because if you did you'd have to prove what I've told you That wouldn't be easy They wouldn't find the necklace around here And besides you You wouldn't get a hundred thousand dollars Why'd you pick me? Well, Sam works with people in the business You get his phone calls, answer his mail Wouldn't be hard to find out who handles this kind of stuff You could even ask him if you're careful That's all I'd have to do Find out where to sell the necklace? Not another thing Good Now so I won't keep you up tonight I'll tell you how I worked it This wasn't done overnight Sam's been telling me for a long time about that necklace But how'd you know he was sending it to Detroit? And when did it come back? Empty office next to yours Do you ever hear of wall mics? Induction coils to pick up phone conversations? Oh That's it Let me turn that thing off You couldn't have got a hold of his seal All the packages have a seal on I didn't have to I got friendly with a mailman He always stops to gab when he brings my mail About a month ago I saw a package addressed to Sam That wasn't the necklace? No, but it was an important package Had Sam's seal on it So I got the mailman interested in some costume pieces For his wife And when he was looking at them I took a wax impression of the seal Had a stamp made from that Just like that? I heard Sam talking to his agent on the phone Two days before the necklace was mailed from Detroit I knew when it was going to arrive So I made up my own package with the seal Switched them when the mailman stopped by How'd you know what the box looked like? I was in the office when you were wrapping it To mail out to Detroit, remember? And I thought you hung around because of me Oh, sure Sure, you're pretty good in Sam We agreed not to make any contact with each other Until she had some word for me I'd worked it out pretty well I hoped that she wouldn't be suspected If she did ask questions about fences In Boston or New York And I hoped she wouldn't lose her nerve For the next five days I sweated it out alone The necklace was safe I didn't have to worry about that But you're never really happy When a million bucks is lying around You gotta borrow a hundred to pay a rent Then one evening just as I was getting home Hello Hello, Mark Hi, where are you? Downstairs Oh, come on up I wanted to see if it was all right There's somebody with me Oh I thought I'd do a little work to earn the money I found a man, called him myself Does he know what it is? Not yet Are you sure he's all right? I think so Yeah Okay, come on up Mark, this is Mr. Larkin Mark Hendricks How are you? Mr. Hendricks Can I fix your drink? Never drink, thanks Sit down Jeanne, you want to get me a scotch water? Yeah, all right Thanks Jeanne tells me you're interested in jewelry I represent an outfit that buys and sells In the market to buy right now? Might be Depends what's being sold Sure From folks we don't know We usually take stuff on consignment No, that's out This is a cash proposition only Uh-huh You have much call for pearls? Not much Of course, for special customers Once in a while we buy them How about a pearl necklace? Might be interested You got it? Not on me, I can get it though How much you want? $200,000 For pearl? That's worth a million You're crazy It's insured for over $600,000 The Highland necklace? You got that?  You're working backwards You should figure how to get rid of it Before you lift it Nobody's going to touch that necklace Wait a minute What's the matter?  Maybe you'll change your mind Whatever I want to look at it for I wouldn't give you a thousand for it Nothing You better get rid of that thing Any way you can I'm telling you Nice to have met you, folks And I'd like to ask you To please forget my name He was gone Just like that Genie stood there Holding a couple of glasses Looking at the door There wasn't anything to say So we didn't try After a couple of drinks Though we felt better So one guy was afraid to handle a big item There were others We'd go after them Genie and I got to know Most of the fences in the east During the next month We'd only have to say pearls And the door would slam Word gets around I was getting a little scared So I decided on another plan We had to be even more careful About getting together So Genie met me on a lunch hour In the public library We went to the reference room And walked down to a back aisle Listen, Mark Let's forget it, huh? What do you mean? We can't sell it We've tried Let's forget it What are you going to do with it? Just drop it in the bag? I don't care Just so we get rid of it Look, we've gone this far We can't just Excuse me Yes, certainly We've gone this far We can't just get rid of it Then what do we do? The reward What? What happens if we find it? We get the reward, don't we? That's $30,000 a piece No, I won't do it Listen to me I'm not going back to those $1.98 earrings I don't care about you You do what you want But I know we can get $30,000 each Out of this That's a lot better than nothing Is it better than prison? We won't get caught, Genie I promise you I've got it all figured out Like you had it figured out to sell All right, I was wrong I admit it This time I'm right I'm afraid No, no, look It's simple There's nothing to it They'll never know Are you sure? Let me give you the idea Then you decide Okay I guess a deal like this Is something like poker It's hoping you'll pull an inside Straight flush Which doesn't happen very often And the stakes are a lot higher I made it sound real easy to Genie, though I was to go to Hyler Tell him I'd been doing a bit Of private eyeing on my own And that I'd had a tip Some punk had seen a guy Put a small package In one of the lockers At the south station That was what I was supposed to know I'd paid said punk Fifty bucks for the information We set it up like that Genie took the necklace and a package To the station on her lunch hour I thought it best not to see her after that And I waited until the next morning Before I went to Sam And told him the news A college boy type cop Collie was at the office Ten minutes later Who was this fellow, Hendricks? Well, I told you I don't know I was snooping around I made a couple of contacts Yeah, and the pearls Are at the south station Well, if they're not I spent fifty bucks for nothing Mr. Collie, why do you waste time?  Thirty-six That's what the guy told me We'll find out Look, Collie I don't like the way you talk I'm just trying to help If you didn't get the reward First, that's not my fault, you know Uh-huh Thirty-six Thirty-six I'll get the attendant over He'll have a key No, no Wait a minute Look, it ain't locked Well, Hendricks Mark, think Maybe you forgot the number, huh? No No, I didn't forget That's what he said, thirty-six There's nothing in it It's empty Well, Hendricks Well, I I guess I'm out fifty dollars Yeah Too bad What had she done with it? I couldn't get to the office I couldn't be seen with her But I had to know What had she done with it? I waited all day Until she finished work Then I was waiting outside her apartment When she got home Jean, now listen When do we get inside? Okay, okay, where is it? Here, take it Why didn't you do What I told you to do? Why didn't you put it in the locker? I did Why didn't you put it in the locker? I can't put it in Yesterday Then this morning I heard Mr. Heiler talking to Collie About you and me seeing So much of each other I was afraid they were beginning To suspect, so I went back To the station and took it out again I was trying to do you a favor Can you slap me?  Suspense In which Stacey Harris Stard in tonight's presentation of The End of the String Next week We bring you a story Of a mother, a father, A locked door and a baby We call it The Cellar Door That's next week on Suspense Suspense is produced and directed by Anthony Ellis Tonight's script was written by David Williams The music was composed by Lucian Morrowick and Rene Gerrigan And conducted by Wilbur Hatch Featured in the cast were Benny Rubin, Mary Jane Croft, Larry Thor, Jim Nusser and Jack Krushen There may be two sides to most stories But where a story of crime is concerned Is only one place to be And that is on the right side of the law Unfortunately for him The nice looking boy finds himself On the wrong side of the law When the FBI in peace and war Next goes into action To track down an impulsive killer How they link the handsome youth To the ugly crime is a story in itself A story you want to hear Tomorrow night Over most of these same CBS radio stations on The FBI in peace and war Stay tuned for five minutes On CBS News to be followed On most of these same stations By The Jack Carson Show You hear America's favorite shows On the CBS Radio Network


Hi, my name is Ryan Guy and I'm Tori Schimpf and today we're here to talk to you a little bit about how to give an impromptu speech So first let's go ahead and talk a little bit about why this is important There's a lot of different type of speeches that you can learn when you first engage in public speaking But impromptu is one of the most useful in the real world first as you practice giving impromptu speeches It requires you to be able to organize your thoughts quickly This means that you have to be able to make decisions about the information that you present So again, that's a way for you to practice your decision-making skills Likewise, due to the time constraints, you have to learn to prioritize the information that you put forward as you get better at expressing your ideas and most importantly as you get better at this you develop a skill that you can use in a real world such as in meetings or just everyday conversation So impromptu speaking works in the following ways first of all You'll start off with a random quotation and once you get this quotation It's your job to decide whether you agree with the statement It's making or disagree with that statement in the speech that follows You will explain why you agree or disagree in three main points as you talk about these main points You'll want to use examples The way that your time is split up is that you get two minutes to prepare and five minutes to speak So the overall the format of the impromptu speeches as follows You start off with a hook an attention getter that grabs your audience's focus and Basically gets them to pay attention to you for the rest of the presentation After you've gained your audience's attention, you go ahead and state the quotation After you state the quotation very quickly and concisely you explain what the quotation actually means From there you take a stance. You either I agree with the quotation or Disagree then you choose your main points and preview them in a sentence From there you move into the body of the presentation Where you talk about those three main points and three main points can be a variety of things We'll go into more detail in a bit But it might be things such as a movie that proves the quotation true theory or a background of historical event Once you've got through the body of the speech, which takes up the bulk of the time You then move into the conclusion the conclusion is relatively simple But for the most part consists of summarizing what you just talked about and finishing with style The introduction The first part of the impromptu presentation is the introduction and typically takes between 30 and 60 seconds Over the next few slides will walk you through the introduction So that you know all of the important parts that should be concluded with it So the first thing that you want to do in the introduction of your impromptu speech is to gain the audience's attention There's a lot of different ways to do this But some of them are for instance telling a quick story make sure that it's less than 30 seconds But people tend to latch on to narrative. So that's a really good strategy You could say another related quotation to what you're going to talk about Especially if that quotation has fidelity and is something that your audience has heard before You can use a startling statement or statistic to kind of shock your audience into paying attention to you Or give the background on a current event that your speech is going to relate to last but not least you could in this place Only give a personal experience that relates to the conversation that you're about to have After you've gained your audience's attention, it becomes time to state the quotation You should state the quotation exactly as it was given to you at first That way your audience has an idea of the topic that you were given to create this speech From there you want to spend a little bit of time interpreting the quotation This is the place where you tell your audience what the quotation actually means My suggestion to you is keep it example I've seen a lot of novice and promptee speakers that make a huge verbose interpretation Of the quotation and all that really does is muddle everything up and make it more complicated than it needs to be So my suggestion is when you read the quotation Simplify it down to four or five words and get it at the core of what the author was trying to say So for example, if you look at the quotation on the right of your screen The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers But above all the world needs dreamers who do by sarah bann bratak So here we've got a long kind of quotation that could mean a couple of different things and Ultimately you need to put in what it means to you So for me, I'd say what the author was trying to get at here is you should be creative But follow through from there you're able to move on with the rest of your presentation So once you have gained attention Stated the quotation Interpreted what the quotation means Now you're ready to go ahead and take a stance and either agree or disagree Now there's a bit of strategy that goes with this step in your promptee speech My suggestion is that you should take a stance based on what it's going to be easiest for you to come up with examples That either affirm or deny that stance So for example with the previous quotation If you're interpreted the way that I did is the world needs people that are creative that do you might want to take a Negatory stance and say like no we have to disagree with that and then give some examples from either fiction Or popular culture about people that needed to just focus on their creativity and not be drawn down By the need to produce something in order to be successful Or you could flip it and go the other way and talk about how there have been great creative people That also have done amazing things inside of that and affirmed that quotation Once you've taken a stance, however, you can move into the final part of the introduction And preview the main points that you're ultimately going to talk about Again a hint here keep it simple if you get to verbose It's ultimately going to muddle up the beginning of the presentation So if you've chosen three main points, you might want to say something along the lines of hey first We're going to go ahead and look at this followed by this and finally this and at that point You're done with the introduction and ready to get into the body of the speech The body of your speech should take up the bulk of your time You should spend about three to four minutes here and over the course of the next few slides We'll talk about the key things that you need to do in this time So first of all the body is the area where you'll talk about your three main points So these are the examples that you've developed One thing to know is that you should spend equal time on each of these So maybe that means a minute each or a minute and 15 seconds each When you're developing your examples one thing to keep in mind is that the best points are specific instead of general So for instance, if you're talking about history, don't talk about history in general but identify a particular specific moment Additionally, good examples are generally unique So it's either something the audience hasn't heard before or if they are familiar with it Maybe it brings a new perspective to it and finally Good examples are varied So you should try to demonstrate a range of different areas that you're talking about So maybe something from literature, maybe something from popular culture or maybe an important political figure As you speak, you should put effort into developing each example so that your listeners get some background on your points Don't assume that your listeners already know for instance about Martin Luther King Jr But go ahead and give them some of those basic background details that make him a significant figure As you're coming up with your examples, you can draw from multiple areas Like historical events, famous figures, innovative technology, popular culture or whatever other areas interest you You should use examples that illustrate your interpretation of the quotation So make sure that they actually speak to the point you're trying to make Finally, as you're working your way through the body, you should keep the speech moving by using transition statements These happen between each main point and serve much the same purpose as the preview statement In that it clues your listeners in to where you've been in the speech and where you're going So that means the ideal transition statements review what you've just talked about And briefly preview what you're about to talk about These should be kept simple and statements like now that we've looked at that Let's move on to examine this can serve you very well Once you've wrapped up the body of your speech, you're going to spend another 30 to 60 seconds concluding and finishing things well in the next few slides We'll give you a couple tips at how you do that effectively So first the conclusion The conclusion is very similar to the introduction in that you're going to do some of the basic things just in opposite order So for example, as you move into the conclusion, you should give your audience some sort of a hint I usually like a break light statement. So like so today We talked about this and let's wrap up or if you wanted to even be more simple than that You might say, all right, let's go ahead and conclude this thing Once you get into the body of the conclusion, three key things you should do First go ahead and either restate your quotation or interpretation So again that your audience is familiar what the whole topic was of your presentation From there review your three main points just like the preview of the speech You want to keep this simple and concise and finally end with impact When you want to end with impact, it's important as we talked about before That audiences tend to remember the first and the last things that you talked about So let's make this catchy. There's a variety of different things that you might try One, if your speech took on a more persuasive tone, you might want to end with a call to action Basically encouraging your audience to do something or think about something differently Or you might try leaving your listeners with a thought-provoking question Give them something to ponder as they go about their day Or you might want to tell a story similar to what you might have done in the introduction Now the best endings tie back to the intention-getter Some of the things that you might do inside of this is, for example, if you asked a rhetorical question in the introduction You might want to answer that question in the conclusion If you gave a statistic in the beginning of the presentation, you might want to tie back to that as well Or if you told a story in the introduction, you might use a technique called the story sandwich To tie that up in a neat and creative way and that is what we're going to talk about next The way a story sandwich works is you open with a brief anecdote and in your introduction You would tell only the first half of that story, get your listeners interested, but leave it at the moment Then in your conclusion, you'll come back to that story, finish it, and give your listeners the satisfaction of finding out what happens We're going to hear an example of what a story sandwich will sound like So in this example imagine that I was giving you a speech about local humane societies Hello everyone Moments before I came into this room today. I was given some news It turns out that a local animal control officer found a small Orange tabby kitten named Penelope wandering the streets and took it to the local humane society Unfortunately due to budget cuts the humane society no longer has the budget to keep these animals alive for very long And if in the next few minutes Penelope the kitten is unable to be adopted then she is going to have to be euthanized At this point you would continue with the rest of your introduction and the body of your speech And then finally when you're ready to conclude you'd come back to finish the story So at the beginning of this presentation, I shared with you all the story of Penelope the orange tabby kitten and her sad fate Moments ago as a doctor walked in the room Euthanasia in hand and prepared to inject Penelope the kitten A family walked through the door looking to adopt a kitten just like Penelope and so Fortunately Penelope was saved. However, not all kittens will share the same fate. So I implore you Take action support your local humane society Now that you know about the major organizational structure of an impromptu speech We have a few extra tips related to delivery First of all you can think of impromptu speaking as the cocktail conversation of public speaking You can have a charismatic storytelling tone If you're a nervous speaker take a few deep breaths beforehand to relax And if during the speech you find yourself stuck go ahead and pause to collect your thoughts Often these pauses seem longer to you than they do to your audience and sometimes you even come across as more thoughtful You can use your quotation as a touchstone for staying on point if you find yourself wandering during your speech So go back to it just as a reminder of what you're really trying to say Additionally one last final tip is to say quotation instead of quote Quotation is the noun and quote is a verb in order to be grammatically correct. This is a good practice Well, thank you all for your time I hope you have enjoyed the presentation and we wish you the best of luck as you move forward And try to give your first impromptu speech


All right. Next question is from Mickey M. Fit. Is it normal to feel some soreness when going into a new phase of training? Or does that mean you took the workout too far? These days, if I'm consistent, almost every single time I do get sore, and I don't get sore very often, but the times I may get sore, it's because I moved into a new phase. So it's pretty predictable. Like if I change the rep range from low to high, or I go from straight sets to super sets, or even just changing the exercise, you know, let's say I'm practicing barbell squats and getting really good at them, and I train them for a long, long time.  The first week or two of doing them, I tend to feel sore. And I just think this has to do with the fact that your body's not used to it. And you're going to anytime you're, when your body gets really good at something, it gets very good at it. And it also reduces the damage that whatever you're doing can potentially cause. That's part of why you get good at it. Your body's adapting, trying to prevent damage. So when you try something different, it's a new skill, new movement. And you're more likely to cause damage. Does that mean you overdid it? I don't think so. If you're sore for like two days, three days, yeah. But if you're sore for like a day, that's normal. And that's why there's a really hard question to answer, because it really depends on how sore are we talking about, right? Like, I'm sore right now. I've been really inconsistent the previous two or three months. My consistency's ramped up the last couple of weeks. And so I kind of feel sore all the time right now, you know, between whatever I'm hitting, I definitely am, I was just telling you guys the day I was like, it's been a while since I even did ab work and it didn't take very much. And like my abs are super sore from what I thought was very little work. So there's definitely going to be that if it's new, changing the phase, you haven't done an exercise that exercise a long time, you're, you know, 99% of the time you're going to be sore. But if it gets, it's, I look at it for myself, like, if it's debilitating, if it keeps me from doing normal movements or like it's, I'm so sore to the touch, I know I way overreach. Like I don't mind feeling a little bit of soreness. Like I worked out that's a, I think that's a really good feeling because you, in order to adapt and keep growing, changing, right? We want to feel, you want to be overreaching or stretching a little bit. But the common thing is that I think most people hammer themselves and they really overreach. You just barely kind of want to overreach, right? So being sore a little bit, okay, but you're the only person that can really gauge how sore you feel from this workout compared to what you normally feel like. Yeah, I think that's why it's, it's nice to have a coach taking you through programs initially because they do a lot better job of gauging that if you're unfamiliar with what that looks like. Because personally, I've definitely had to go through a lot of, of hellish, you know, workouts where I totally overreached and realized that, oh my God, like that just hammered me. I can't do that and replicate that again. And so it's like, you know, going through that myself, then I know what signs and things to look out in the workouts in terms of, you know, whether or not this is, this is going to be like adequate amount of load or reps or volume and, you know, and then also see how they rebound the next time. Well, you guys, I'm sure do this and I do this at least now. Like I'm so aware of like what that feeling feels like in the workout that for example, I had, you know, the other day I was like, you know, I'm just going to throw, you know, 135 on my back, I'm going to do walking lunges for five sets. That was going to be my leg training for the day.  Like so. I calm down. You're familiar with the feeling. Right. I already felt like I could tell how pumped I was. I could tell how tight I was. I could even start to feel that burning sensation. Like I'm going to be sore from this already. So even though I had written down that I was going to do five sets, I didn't because I knew that this was going to be enough to definitely get my body to adapt and change. There was no need for more. I think the big problem is people go into a workout or they'll try a new phase or change it. And what they're trying to do is see how much they can take. That becomes the mentality like, oh, I can do more. I can push more. That's the wrong mentality. What you want to do is go into thinking how much do I need to do to get my body to respond? That's all. If it's new, you don't need to do, you don't even need to do as much as you were doing before. So in other words, if I'm, here's what happens to me. Let's say I'm training and it's five weeks and I'm in a low rep phase. At the end of that five week period, my intensity is pretty high in that low rep range. Then when I move to a high rep range, I don't match the same intensity that I had in my low rep range. It's a lower intensity because it's a new stimulus and I can feel it. I can feel it in my body. I go easier than I was before. And it's because I'm going into the workout with the mentality. How much is going to be required to get my body to change versus how much can I do? How much hard, how hard can I go?