And good afternoon. We have got Kevur over here. Kevur Ken Vermette, a member of our visual design group. If you don't like our wallpapers, our default wallpapers, this is the guy you'd want to kill. OK, and he's got to talk on iterative UI design. And I'll stage yours. Stay here forward. Hello, everyone. My name is Ken Vermette. I'm a web developer and graphic artist from Canada. I've been with the KDE Visual Design Group for a couple of years now. And you can thank Yens for roping me into it and me making a bunch of horrible wallpapers early on. And I've been trying to make up for that ever since. So anyways, there's this big misconception, I need to say about Canadians, that we apologize all the time. I just want to say that's flat out untrue. And we need to get on with it. OK, another thing. Sorry. I'm probably going to pronounce cute at least 17 different ways, because I'm horrible. So getting right into it, the goals of this talk. Normally with iterative design, you're talking about prototyping, testing, doing analysis, and then refinement. I'm not going to be talking specifically about how to go through this process. The methodology and the resources we have available will vary. We have an incredibly diverse crowd here from large companies to open source hackers. So instead, I'll just be talking about iteration very literally. We have an application. We're going to change it. We have some very practical things we can do to make those changes effective, not to cough our users and just go more smoothly. So we're going to learn about iteration, cadence, and how it affects user expectations. We're going to quickly talk about personas and how they affect decisions on a step-by-step level. And we're going to cover some strategies and pitfalls when iterating on our designs. And it occurs to me, flip those around, because I did that at work. First, some definitions, so we're all on the same page. Visual design, that's how your application looks. That's the colors. That's the imagery, animations. It can be lines. Anything visual which doesn't actually affect how it's used. Visual design does affect how people think it will be used and what they think the workflow will be. So this is an example of just same application, same everything. You can see that the one on the top left is the oxygen style from Plasma 4 Days. And one thing you can see in there is the pane on the left has the extra frame around it. So what this tells users is that that is isolated in some way, you can actually rip it off. You should probably use this. Roger that. So now this is going to be awkward. So with the frame, what you can do is, as a user, you can see that things are isolated here. You can actually pull that off. It will become a window. So that's a visual indicator from the oxygen style. Meanwhile, Breeze lacks that frame. And it actually provides less visual separation between the pane and the contents. So users may actually have more indicators that when you interact with that left side pane, it'll interact with the right side pane. That's just an example of how a very minor visual tweak will affect how users see design. Another note is with the Breeze style, it's less obvious that that can be torn out into a window. Workflow, workflow is the placement of the components, how they interact with one another, how they're accessed, and the optimal way to use them. Workflow affects how people use the functionality of your application. A big example of a change in workflow is with Microsoft and the introduction of their ribbon interface. Compared to menus, it's actually fairly similar. At first glance, you have your row of options going across the top, and then it drops down into the various subcategories of options. The big difference with the ribbon is that it's organized in a way that you see everything more upfront, it's persistent, and some things have more focus than others. But just that little tweak changes the workflow significantly. Functionality, what our software can actually do? You can have the most powerful software on Earth, it doesn't count for anything if users can't access that potential. For example, I won't say what project specifically, but I was having a brilliant tech demonstration with somebody some sprints ago. I was absolutely amazed by the things the software was doing. There was no way to actually access any of that power. And this is just a call graph because I couldn't think of another way to represent functionality. So functions, cadence, the last thing. The TikTok click cycle of releases where we release large overhauls, smaller updates and fixes to our interfaces. Now, a note about cadence is that visual design, workflow, and the functionality all do follow different cadences, at least if they're not deliberately synced up. So for example, with the modern design introduced in Windows 8, that exists into Windows 10, but they have completely different workflows. One uses the start menu, the other uses the tile menu, unless you go and install a bunch of third-party applications. We can exploit the offset of these cadences to better prepare and transition our users by setting expectations. And what I mean by this is that if we, for example, do a large visual overhaul to an application, users will expect that the application will function differently or have a different workflow. So if we wanna start introducing these changes, then what we can do is just simply start by adding these minor visual changes and then users will build that expectation up themselves. So getting on with it, out of definitions. These major iterations, they tend to use code names. We all know and love them, Metro, Astralis, Breeze, Material. These are ones that tend to be provided for us to use. Minor iterations for our applications should hopefully just refine and reinforce what that major iteration or revision aim to do. So if material aims to have a nice flow to it, we should try to reinforce that instead of moving away from it. When working with well-defined platforms, the overall design is usually given to us, meaning that the major iterations stick around as long as the specs do. So we get one nice big stab at getting the user interface rate and then from there, we're refining. So the first thing we should do, if we're given a set of specifications, we should try to iterate closer to them as we can. If you dislike the specification, because I know we have some people here that hate the material design in the animations, if you don't like the specs, then usually there's ways to bend. Usually there's a few avenues to present buttons. So there's ways that we can kind of try to make the interfaces that we like while still following the specs, but we shouldn't try to deliberately just break away from specs. That's what they're there for. That's what users know. And by breaking away from the spec, even though it works for us, it'll be broken for literally everyone else. When we're working without specs, web designer is what I am by trade. We work without specifications. We have HTML and we wing the UI every time. Try to use fewer unique workflows in whatever you're making. If you see a chance to consolidate your workflows, take those chances every time you can. See what two parts of your application are similar and see if you can just combine them into one single component. Codify these refined workflows into components and classes and more thoroughly reintegrate and recycle each round that might include making your own specs and saying, okay, this is how this application is gonna run so that way you can pass off your own specifications to the next person taking over your project. If you're using QWidget still, I am so sorry, but look at porting components or Windows to QML. QML is amazing, iteration is better. I was going to show some QML stuff in this presentation, but I think we're all getting pretty familiar with it and in a design talk, I'm not exactly gonna teach you a whole language. If you're getting slammed by the design process, consider using an existing design framework such as Kirigami UI. That's one you might have seen in some of the KDE plasma related talks. It's brilliant. Go ahead, use it. It'll give you everything you need. Setting the user expectations and behaviors. As I mentioned before, when people see a major design change, they often expect the workflow or feature set to change. Confident users, when they see these changes, will re-explore the application. They'll inspect you wise. These are everybody in the audience, everybody who knows how to use a computer. They see something new and be like, what can I do with this? If without instruction, uncertain or novice users, these are a lot of office people who don't necessarily know how to use a computer. They're just kind of trained and they do what they know. They're gonna recheck to know if their stuff still works. They're gonna go with what's safe. They might even reduce what they use until they can easily re-identify or re-discover whatever might have changed. And this will happen, even if the workflow has not changed at all. If you just change the visual look, sometimes they will do that. They'll go, oh, that's different.  So we have to be very careful about how we do this and we can very gradually introduce design changes if we want to make sure that if we're doing a large enterprise piece of software, something a lot of people in cubicles are gonna have to do, we can be more gradual with our changes. Major iteration strategies. If prepping a major workflow change, refresh the design, it's probably gonna happen anyways by the nature of the work. If, say for example, you're moving from just something generic on Android, say from hollow to material, everything is going to change anyway, so just simply be prepared that that's gonna happen. When changing the workflow, it affects multiple aspects of the application. So what you wanna do is you want to front load the biggest changes. So if you have a feature bulletin change like Microsoft had the Rebin there, you wanna put that in first, let people see it, know it, possibly have an opportunity to toggle it off. And over time, fold in smaller changes, maybe look at reducing to the core feature set you want to provide. So if you wanna kill your menus for any reason and go with a Rebin, then that's when you would do that. And of course, pair of visual refreshes with transitional changes to your workflow. So that's just saying, don't change the look and then in a completely separate release, change the workflow. Try to do them roughly at the same time and that sets the expectation that when a user sees it they go, whoa, something's changed, that we are not tripping them up twice. Pitfalls, polishing early designs, don't do it. Get your designs good enough when you're transitioning to something new but don't try to put too much polish into it. Get it good enough, get it looking nice, worry about the polish later. The reason being every time you iterate on something, if it's highly polished, if you put a lot of work into it we all know things tend to fall apart slightly every time and kind of skipping to the last point we don't want users sensing that degradation that a polished design is gradually falling apart. Instead, it's better to introduce with something good enough and then to gradually improve it over time so that users think, oh hey, this is getting better.  Not respecting your platform. If it's worth reporting to a platform, it's worth doing well. That being said, do assess your user base. If you're expecting 90% Android users and 10% iOS users, do one platform right first. And when you think you're confident enough to move on to something like iOS or a different platform, then at that point try to do a good job there or reuse what you have. Just at least keep it on the docket that the further you stray away from your platform guidelines the more you're hurting your users. We're gonna talk about this. Completely discarding existing designs. Every design has a lifetime. Windows 8 was a reaction to the touch screen generation of devices. Input methods change, computers get faster, we can do fancy things, the focus changes. At first, always try if you can to allow users to restore older workflows or at least something similar to them. Don't change the intention of the user interface. One of the things about Windows 8, it tried to shift from productivity to consumption and of course that's when businesses said we need to actually do real work here. If the goal is different, you're designing a different product. Treat it like a different product. Even if you can share 90% of the code base and just the interface is changing, I'm not really sure how, skip ahead, how you want to do that, but just know that if you're gonna change everything, at least treat it like something else so that you don't trip everyone. Designing for corner cases. When we're iterating or at least getting started before iterating, we can over design things. This is one of my biggest problems myself. When you tend to use pen and paper, you start thinking, oh, well, what if this happens? What if that happens? A great example of this is the floating action button from the material design spec. When you look at that button, you think, oh, that's covering my content. Oh, that's floating in a weird place. It's gonna make things crowded. It's gonna make things, you're never gonna see what's on the bottom right. Don't worry about it.  Some applications have figured out if you just add a little bit of spacing to the bottom of your lists, then when you scroll down, the floating action button is just in the void. Other applications, when you start scrolling down, they all slide down the button away. It's a little bit weird. It's a little bit overanimated, but both of them work, both technically fit the spec. That's actually a really good time. Rigidly defining the aspects of our specs. If you're working on an application, you've started nailing things down. That's an order.  It's good to define how things should work, but if it's not working out, if you have an idea and you're just trying to hammer in a screw, just stop. You can use something more traditional. It doesn't always have to be so unique. Your design will evolve over time anyways. Just look at what you may be changing. Possibly update your own internal specs. Don't try to keep going on something that's not working. Personas, iterating with people in mind. For those of you who don't know, persona is basically an imaginary user, somebody you make up. This user has goals, backgrounds, a requirement. For example, let's see. I have an example here on my notes, which I have not used once. Two mics. And the wrong notes. You might have, oh wait. Here we are, this is where my notes were. A persona can be just somebody simple. This is Alice. She wants to organize her music on the go, so this is going to be for a mobile application. This is Greg. He's a very basic user with thousands of songs, but he wants to listen to the same three tracks over and over and over again. If you're designing a music application, you might have these two personas in. So one idea that you might have to appease both of these users is possibly having quick favorites that you can quickly favorite and unfavorite songs. When you're changing or modifying the design, just go over your personas. Occasionally put yourself in the seat of the user before you actually do the get push and see if it will actually benefit those users. Ideally, every change that you do will be good for some users, at worst, neutral for others. You don't ever want to impact other personas that you have negatively. Always try to find a solution that fits everybody. If you have too many personas and you can't satisfy them all, then you might be making your application too broad. Yes. Wow, I really blew through those slides. Does anybody have any questions? What is your recommendation on information architecture? So how to design information architecture before you pull the design on top of the graphics? My apologies. I tend to like the model view controller approach, especially when using QML, that essentially solves 90% of your problems because your user interface is in one very malleable format and is well depending on how you actually assemble your program and how you actually load your QML. You can also very easily split out the code path so that you use, say for example, one QML file for iOS and another one for Android if you're having to redesign the interfaces for different platforms. Did I answer your question, let's say? No? No, I didn't. I asked for information architecture. So designing the workflow, like Bazamic is doing, XU is doing, so without doing graphics, that's kind of the flow through the applications. Okay. Yeah, I apologize. Yeah, sorry, I'm... Yeah, the way the user moves for an application as sort of how the user would preferably move through the application. Where do you want them to look, et cetera? Oh, okay. So yeah, in terms of that, it depends on your application. Generally speaking, what you want is users to have an entry point. So say for example, and again, this really varies depending on the application that you're working on. So I'm just gonna fall back to the music example. You'd have an entry point that might list, say for example, your categories, like your songs, things like that. I tend to like the drill down approach where you have your categories and then you can go in, in, in, in. But if you have something simple, you can just present it all at once. Do you use pen? Do I use pen and paper? I tend to use pen and paper when initially designing things. You can be very rough with it. You can just quickly draw your boxes, get things where you want. After that, I tend to graduate either to HTML or QML, depending on what I'm working on.  If I have anything that I can recycle, that kind of looks like it might work there. One thing that I do personally is if I have a placeholder image, I might just throw a big orange background on it, something that'll really stand out so that I know what's placeholder and what's not. But do you think about intentionally unpairing the design and workflow changes? So that you have a real TikTok release. I think Microsoft is doing it in this way, small or not a big change at all at once. Yeah, I think that's a good way to go about it. I think pulling them apart, it can brace users for changes really well when you're not doing everything at once. So if you think everything is going to change, sure it might throw off users a bit when they go from Arrow to Modern, but at least they'll know, like they'll quickly rediscover their workflows in that case. But if you do something like that, you also want to be very careful with your iterations in the future. You don't want to, say, transition somebody to a different look, and then six months later, completely change their workflow. Ideally, what I like doing is I like putting whatever big banner change in with the visual design change, and then slowly introducing components after that. But if you can't get it to sync up that way, then that shouldn't be too, too much of a problem, but it can be a little more stressing to users who aren't necessarily 100% confident with how to interact with the computer. Any other questions? We have another. But I understood just like now, you are a designer, but you also feel comfortable in developing HTML and QML. Yeah. From your perspective, what is kind of the biggest missing point from you as a designer standpoint? In QML, walk it quick. Just, sorry, if I reiterate the, if I restate the question, just myself as a designer, what do I kind of see potentially lacking in QML? Yeah, lacking. One thing that I tend to find a little bit lacking, and it's something that every company kind of builds up over time, is that initial stock of components, just you know, Kirigami kind of solves this because it gives you a nice treasure chest that you can work with, but you know, you're usually using with the same basic parts over and over and over again. You're gonna use some lists, you're going to use certain types of controls, certain types of forms. One thing that I really kind of miss is that there's no real specific form component that just comes with QML, and I know that I'm gonna have labels on one side and certain controls on the other. That's one thing I kind of missed, and it's solved with GridView, but there were some niceties of the actual QWidgets form implementation that I kind of miss. In that case, I have a question. Sure. Right. Okay, so I am a programmer. I have never used anything other than Inkscape to mock up simple lines, but as a programmer, if I'm working on a project that's small enough that I don't really need to go to another guy who's a pro at designing interfaces to do it for me, but yet I don't actually have the requisite skills or the experience with tooling to mock things up. Do you have any tips on where I should start? Yeah, so if you're just looking to start with mocking things up, what you can start with is start looking at what other people are doing. Imitation can be the sincerest form of flattery, so just look at what other applications have done. So if you're looking at designing the way your controls are gonna be laid out, and I do this too. I just top onto Google. I do an image search and I just see what other interface layouts people have going. And from there, you can be like, oh, I like that, I like that. If you have a pencil and paper, it doesn't have to be pretty. You can even just put boxes and the name of what you were looking at. And then you can just kind of, it's just for your own reference. It doesn't have to be anything super professional. But yeah, I would say if you're not really super keen on design work, but you don't feel like you need to pull in a designer, just look at other people's designs and you can even pull up an application like Color Paint or something like that or the GIMP and just literally copy, drop it into a file and slap it all together. Okay, so we have around three minutes. If anybody wants to ask another question. Yeah, we have one more. Right. I keep saying one more. I'd like an abundance, really. Just a quick side note. You said that when you make a big iteration and you give it to the users, they might be at first put up by the fact how many new things, new features there are and they might be overwhelmed by this kind of thing. And you actually believe that they are going to overcome these obstacles that they're gonna learn, they're gonna find out and everything. And you should probably tell that to my mom. No, because it ends up like this. People see new things, new stuff and they get so much overwhelmed over this that they just gonna, okay, I'm not gonna use it. Yeah, no, that was what I was kind of mentioning with the users who are unsure or were novice. Often you'll also have a lot of like office or cubicle workers and they'll be trained on the application that they're working with. I recall when I started working at this one call center, the computer test was knowing that you can hit the close button on the window. So like a lot of novice users, they will shut down and that's why I say, introduce changes very gradually if you can over time or if you're gonna drop a new big interface design, don't also drop everything in at once. Ideally there will be somebody to kind of show them if they're just going to stop but we also do have to be aware that when there is a significant change that some users will shut down in that respect and there's just not a whole lot we can do about it. We can either keep everybody on Windows 98 or we can try to inch everything else forward. It's just one of those things where there's no real solution for it. The best is to just try to hope that they can kind of keep up and that we can kind of get them the breadcrumbs to bring them to the end of the path. Okay, so I think we're out of time here. Thank you, Ken. You're very welcome.


Good morning, everyone, and welcome to our Radiant City Center downtown in Kalamazoo to Monday morning prayer. Thank you for those who are here in this room together in this place, gathered together. And thank you for those who are joining us online. I know there are some that are watching right now that have been watching since we started going online. And you're faithful to join wherever you're at. You have gathered with us in these mornings as one voice, as one church to partner with the Lord with that's on his heart. So we're going to be praying, worshiping, agreeing with God, with who he is, what he says he wants to do. So we're going to pray prayers. You're going to pray them as well. We're going to sing songs, sing choruses, and you're going to sing those as well. And we're going to be taking this hour. We're going to be praying for Israel, just in light of the war that is happening right now and how Israel has looked seemingly overwhelmed with an enemy surrounding and coming against them just as we've seen so many times in Scripture, the hatred towards Israel. But we are going to stand and agree with a God who says Israel is his own. And stand and agree with a God who has proven over and over his strength and has actually routed the enemy and has brought Israel to its salvation. We're going to stand as the church, a church made of Jew and Gentiles and pray for them. But before we do, we're going to set a posture of remembrance and thankfulness. I want to read Psalm 103, just the first few verses. And before we come and contend and remind God to pour out his spirit, to rescue, to save, we want to bless him and thank him because he is a God who does that. He is a God who has done that. We're not trying to convince him to do something, but we are agreeing with this as who he is and what he wants to do. Psalm 103 says, bless the Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me, bless his holy name. Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits.  So Father, we thank you, we bless you, and we stir up our souls right now here as your church in America. We break off our apathy, we break off our selfishness and our distractiveness, and we stir up our soul to bless the Lord, to offer our song and our praise and declare in the face of the enemy the truth and faithfulness of who you are. And we remember that you have forgiven us when we did not deserve it. You have healed every sickness and every disease, and you have redeemed our lives from the pit, and you have crowned us with steadfast love and mercy, and you have satisfied us with every good thing that comes from your right hand. So we stand with our brothers and sisters in Israel as we begin to set a posture of remembrance. We need you, we need you on earth as it is in heaven. What is happening in your kingdom, we need here in this kingdom on earth. We need your love, your faithfulness, your righteousness on earth as it is in heaven in Jesus' name. All my soul and all my soul it all that is, with it bless the Lord, own my soul and me. Bless the Lord, own my soul and bless the Lord, own my soul and me.  All my soul don't you know he is good and he is faithful All my soul don't you know he is faithful All my soul don't you know he is faithful All my soul don't you know he is good It's who you are today this morning Our worship, our worthy can rescue and save From the heavens and the earth and our praise We come before you right now hearts with yours Makes your heart with what saddens your heart With what moves your heart We cast off our own distractions and our own circumstances And as your church we align and partner with you Pro to see will there be anyone to stand in the gap Anyone that will agree with you With Israel right now being desecrated Their lands that you've given them seeing it destroyed You're saying will anyone stand in the gap Will anyone partner with me and agree with me That I have not forgotten Israel That I have called them to be a people set apart That I have given them this land and called them To be a people holy unto the Lord No one, even yourself faithful, we can open up Page after page of scripture to see your faithfulness Your strength, your goodness towards the people of Israel That you have rescued them time after time from bondage From slavery, you have rescued them time after time From occupation, from enemies You have rescued them from seemingly overwhelming odds That you have made a way of stretched out your hands With signs and wonders You have stopped the sun, you have shifted heavens You have parted seas to rescue your people This moment, this year, this circumstance is no different The same God who split a sea, who stopped the sun It turned to blood and in hailstones to fall to the earth That same God is alive and well and full of power and zeal In this time, when he sees his people dead and destroyed and surrounded When it looks like your people are surrounded by the enemy You will surround them with a shield of deliverance With shouts of praise So we're going to be praying for Israel out of Second Thessalonians 3 These first few verses out of Second Thessalonians chapter 3 It says, finally brothers, pray for us That the word of the Lord may speed ahead and be honored As has happened among you That we may be delivered from wicked and evil men For not all have faith, but the Lord is faithful He will establish you, he will guard you against the evil one And we have confidence in the Lord about you that you are doing And will do the things that we command And may the Lord direct your hearts to the love of God and the steadfastness of Christ So Father, we gather together, brothers and sisters With your church in Israel, with those who call you by name Call you Father Adonai, Yahweh And we stand with your children in Israel And we ask that from their mouth Your glory, your worthiness, and your holiness would be on display That as the enemy tries to tear down Israel That it would not look like that you are part of that tear down But that you would be seen lifted high, beautiful and glorious That your name would be put on display Faithful, deliverer, strong tower, redeemer We ask that as the enemy tries to rush into the streets That you would be rushing in, mighty to save Author of their salvation And that the word of the Lord runs swiftly Through all of the streets of Israel, in Jesus' name You always make a way It's your name be glorified, peace For me, deliverer, redeemer Deemer, you always make a way Savior, the streets of Israel A testimony of your goodness The streets of Israel It's a Jerusalem We ask for deliverance right now From wicked and evil men Who would seek their own agenda Who would seek the agenda of the kingdom of darkness Who would seek the agenda of the kingdom of the accuser Who is trying to make a way for him to be glorified Who is trying to wipe out the people of Israel Because of the enemies and hatred of God We ask for deliverance right now from wicked, evil men We believe, Lord, that you are faithful You will establish them You will guard them Where it seems like there is no way Where it seems like hope will be lost You will come in like a flood Like a mighty rushing wind Like a fire and a hammer And you will rout the enemy You will, you who can cause the sun to stop You who can turn water to blood You who can bring the ten plagues of Egypt You can come against this enemy of Israel Then come against the enemy of your people It was signs and wonders As we look upon the threats of the enemy Would you stretch out your hands With signs and wonders Healing and deliverance right now We ask for miracles We ask for deliverance We ask for favor We ask for the doors to be open And doors to be shut We ask for the enemy for confusion among them We ask for internal conflict among them That it seems like when the enemy tries to come in That something happens Suddenly, supernaturally That causes them to be routed and overthrown That the people of Israel would not turn to their own strength But they would turn to the strength of their redeemer Their deliverer The one who is mighty to save That they would call upon the name of the Lord right now Knowing that God is faithful God will establish them God will guard them against the evil one Let their confidence be put in this Let their hope be placed in the Lord Not in their own weapons Not in their own armor Not in their own strategies Not in their own buildings But their hope would be placed In the God of the Old Testament And of the New Testament and of this time The God who split the sea for them And led them through the wilderness Would you come right now Stir up faith in their hearts In the name of Jesus Do not delay Do not delay Coming like a fire Coming like a flood Destroy the enemy Destroy the enemy camp Like a fire Like a flood Coming like a fire Coming like a flood Destroy Look upon their threats Stretch out your hand Coming like a flood Destroy the enemy Signs and wonders Healing and deliverance Light Pierce the darkness We need you to come Your kingdom come On earth as it is in heaven Come like a fire Come like a flood we believe that you want to and you can't only you can bring deliverance As we continue in our worship and our praise and our song which you stir our hearts give us faith to remember and declare the power the strength The faithfulness of your name Let's begin to lift us our voices to the Lord right now as we recall our salvation our deliverance Way where there seemed to be no way despite us When we did not deserve it came in the form of flesh to take on our sin Let's begin to say thank you to the Lord right now Me to say thank you Thank you for saving me. Thank you for washing me clean for covering me with your blood Thank you for making a way for me to enter into your throne room with boldness and confidence having access to you Thank you for bringing us back together in communion Thank you for allowing your Holy Spirit to dwell inside of us Consilent and delivering We thank you to lift us all let us share your faith your soul to praise the Lord Tell your soul to shake off apathy distraction And to sing to its deliverer to sing to its Savior So in our last few minutes together As we recall The faithfulness of God as we prayed earlier and his heart for his people of Israel and as we have then Sung and declared remember our own salvation. We're going to We're gonna pray together out of Romans 10 and we're gonna do I'm gonna just set it up But I actually want us to gather together in groups of two to three to four Just some small groups. We're each take about 30 seconds each and pray for the salvation of Israel That this moment would be a moment that the crisis that is happening They would turn to the Lord that they would call upon him Romans 10 says brothers My heart's desired prayer to God for them is that they may be saved And I bear them witness that they have sealed but not according to knowledge for being ignorant of the righteousness of God and a seeking to establish their own because they do not submit to God's righteousness So I encourage you right now just to gather in groups and pray for the salvation of Israel That they would turn to the Lord turn to the righteousness of God and not to their own We want our hearts to burn. We shake off our own Circumstances that We think are a big deal and we partner with the people who are hurting Israel our brothers and sisters God would you make our hearts? burn And and burn for the place of prayer and intercession that we pray for salvation and deliverance and Breakthrough in this in this city your name. We pray amen. Amen. Thank you for joining us here Thank you for praying together with one voice. We are gonna continue to be praying here Morning noon at night Monday through Friday. You can come here in the Radiant City Center You can join us 8 a.m. Online. Thank you for joining us God bless


Hey everyone, Drew with GeoArm and I am back to talk to you about the Geo Alarm Control Panel and how to enable and disable the voice announcer arming, which is the audible voice that we'll talk to you when the system is arming. What you're going to do is go ahead and hit the hamburger icon. Enter your code, okay, then you're going to hit the arming icon. Now at this point you have two options. You can do it for staying and for leaving. Staying is for when you're home and leaving is for when you're actually leaving. I will go through staying here and that voice enunciation is going to be right here.  There's a few features in here that you can obviously go through and I'll have other videos talking about those, but specifically for the voice in staying mode, go ahead and hit that there and then you can hit it to turn it back on. Oops. All right, there we go. All right, then hit the back arrow. We'll check leaving now, okay? So there's voice for leaving. Go ahead and hit the back arrow there. Okay, re-enable it, hit the back arrow, exit out and that ladies and gentlemen is how you enable and disable voice announcer arming on the Geo Alarm Control Panel. If you have any questions or comments, please leave them below. Other than that, take care and have a great day. Please like and subscribe to our page for helpful programming and installation videos, product reviews, monitoring, products and more. Visit www.geoarm.com or call<PHONE_NUMBER>. Geo Arm, the worldwide leader in DIY security.


Decision models transform inputs, the data, the uncontrollable variables, and the decision variables, things you can control, into outputs which allow us to evaluate the quality of our decisions. Building decision models is more of an art than a science, but there are some basic steps to consider. Let's look at a typical problem. A news boy sells daily newspapers and he must make a decision about how many to buy. If he buys too few, he will not be able to satisfy the demand and will miss out on some profit. If he buys too many, he will have to lower the price to sell the papers at the end of the day and lose money. Since this is a quantitative model, we need to define our variables. R is the selling price, which is set by the publisher. C is the cost of a paper, which is also set by the publisher, as is S, the discount price. Demand D is uncontrollable by the news boy, but Q is his decision to make. Finally, QS is the quantity of papers that he sells, and SQ is the surplus number of papers, the number that he buys but fails to sell in the normal work period. To build a model, we need some basic relationships to find. Logically, R must be greater than C, must be greater than S, if anything is to make sense. And as usual, profit equals revenue minus cost. Revenue in this problem is equal to R, the price that he can sell the papers for times the quantity sold, plus the surplus price times the surplus quantity. And cost is equal to the cost of the paper C times the quantity he buys Q. If he knew the demand D, then he should buy Q equal to D, which will give him the max profit. If Q is less than D, then he is missing some of the profit, because he's got papers he could have sold, but he didn't have the papers to sell. If Q is greater than D, then he must sell the papers at a loss, and thus he will lower his profit. So let's build this model in Excel. This is one way to build the model in Excel. The way I've set it up here, I put my data up in top, and these are the values that were given in the problem statement. Usually in this case, we're given that the price of each newspaper is 18 cents, the cost of each newspaper is 12 cents, and the discount price, the price that he can sell them for, if they're out of date, is 9 cents. And those are all established by the publisher. The model is down here. The part in blue, the demand and the purchase quantity, now those are variables, the demand we can't control, but here we're assuming it to be 4,000, and I'm starting out the decision variable and saying it's also 4,000. And yellow are our outputs here. The first part is the quantity sold, QS, and it's 4,000, and it's the minimum of the demand or the quantity that he purchases, Q. And the reason for that, he cannot sell more than demand and he cannot sell more than Q. So it's the minimum of those two, and that's the formula with the sale references. The surplus quantity, SQ, zero in this case, because the demand and the quantity match, has to be the max of zero because we don't want a negative surplus quantity. And that's what you would have if the demand was greater than Q. So it's the max of zero or Q minus D, and that's set up with the formula max, zero comma and the sale references. The profit is just the formula that we talked about on the previous slide. It's the selling price R times the quantity sold, QS, plus the surplus price times the surplus quantity, SQ, minus the cost, which is the cost of each paper times the number that were purchased. And that is the formula and sale references here. You can see if he buys exactly the demand, then he gets a profit of $240. If he buys too many, let's say he buys 4,200, and you need to exercise your model to make sure it makes sense. If he buys more than a demand, then he has a surplus, and the surplus reduces his profit down to $234. If he buys fewer than the demand, it drops again, because this time he doesn't have a surplus, but he lost the profit on those 200 newspapers he didn't buy. So this is a basic decision model. All the decision models you make will be something like this. Of course, they will be more complicated with the more information you're given and the more relationships you have to build into your model. But this is a basic and it's a good place to start.


Your Coca-Cola bottler presents Claudia based on the famous play and novels by Rose Franken Brought to you transcribed Monday through Friday by your friendly neighbor who bottles Coca-Cola Relax and while you're listening refresh yourself. Have a Coke and now Claudia Well for heaven's sakes David the clock must have stopped well what clock darling the clock on the map Honestly what clock how many clocks that we got says only half past eight 830s what it is now that is impossible. It must be hours later than half past eight not according to my watch It isn't what does your watch say my watch says half past eight feels like at least ten o'clock That's because you're darned. I love hate and detest Darned I take it you don't like it. Nope. I'll bet You know the trouble with me is David. I have too many fingers for sewing businesses So what amazes me is considering how long it takes you to darn a hole in my sock just how badly it's done when you finish How do you know how long to today mama's been doing all the darning around here? Have you? Absolutely no ambition to become a wifely kind of wife trying to be measured by my darns. No absolutely none Honestly David, how do you get such holes in your feet by walking on my hand? That's that's a wonderful idea You ought to try it sometimes gloves are much easier to mend. What was you as you're spoiled? I know I haven't darned a sock since I don't know when Say, maybe that's one of the reasons I kept mama around because you made so many holes in your feet I'll have to tell mama. She'll be flattered. I wonder what mama now. There's nothing ruder than not finishing a sentence Oh, it wasn't anything darling Well back to my darning you were wondering what mama was doing, weren't you? Well, nothing wrong with that. Is there no other thing I was wondering myself. You were She's probably having herself a gale time. I hope so Oh, darn this darn Is it really only 835 I tell you what When and if you finish that sock up, I'll uh I'll play a game of checkers. Is that a carrot I see in front of my nose No, it's me Hey, listen to the wind listen to the rain You know this is the kind of night.   I know I don't have to I want to know you don't you want to be reading your Book I've already read my book. Well read it more. I don't want to read more I've offered you a game of checkers and that's fine darling.  I don't hate playing games at all You always say you do That's one. I don't want to you don't want to tonight. I haven't I got a right to know what I want. No, you haven't Well, it's nice to know where I stand in this free country I think you're being very sweet in offering to play and I am not sweet But because you think that I ought to be keeping my mind busy and well my mind is busy And I am not thinking of mama.  That's fine Certainly an agreeable little woman. All right, I know I'll offer you checkers and you refuse. I don't offer you checkers and you complain now when when have I ever complained? Well, you will someday Certainly think a lot of me don't you? I think a lot of you Is that all?  You know that David telephone. Hey, wait a minute. No, let me ask you It may not be mama. She hadn't called all day. Well, she only left yesterday and we called her last night. Well, that was yesterday David let me answer. Oh, all right.  She has no right to wait till so late before she calls and I'm gonna Hello Hello Oh, hello, mr. Reynolds No, I'm feeling all right. I I'm sorry. I sound funny Well, no one must be the connection. You know the weather outside and everything was Reynolds one What is it? I can't Oh 10 o'clock tomorrow morning Yeah, I'll tell him he'll be there Goodbye Mr. Reynolds, he says he'd like you to bring your blueprints of the schoolhouse to the Town hall at 10 tomorrow morning. You see it wasn't mama. I told you. She's a fine one, isn't she? She certainly is. Well, I'll just pay her back. I just won't call her. Why won't you call her if you want to? No, what for? It's nothing new Guys just listen to that wind. I'll put another log on the fire. Oh darling. We won't stay up that late, will we? That's still early. It's only seems so late Let's be off a cold out You know this this is A pretty big house, isn't it david just about the right size for us seems so big All those empty bedrooms upstairs just mama's room guest room feels empty upstairs It's funny what one person can do to a house Think how empty mama's apartment's been all these months. Well, there's been nobody in it to feel it was empty Old david. I hope she's not lonesome Hope she's eating right now mama's a big girl I know but she doesn't think of herself very much and she she really needs someone to think about her for She'll manage. She's always so busy thinking about other people that I I bet you she doesn't even bother cooking a lamb chop first.  But I don't want to be a mama's baby anymore david. I you're not Anyway, just because I feel like talking to mama doesn't mean I have to or Talking to mama isn't going to make you feel any better and talking to mama won't hurt you go on phones right there. She'll think I'm a dope. Well, that won't be news David, don't you hate me?  Mm-hmm.  Oh still those checkers. You have a one-track mind You know that's because I'm married to a one-track woman Hmm Operator, hello operator, please give me new york city plaza five nine eight three five Yeah, and my number is eastbrook two seven six ring three I've just been studying this darn mrs. No and what is the matter with it? It looks like a walnut David doesn't answer What doesn't answer operators ringing mama's number doesn't answer Good that means that mama's out having yourself a good time. Just like I said, you don't think that she I don't think that there's anything wrong now the darling just because mama's phone doesn't answer doesn't mean that mama's sick or that anything's wrong No, I suppose not You can cancel that call operator gosh Can't think of anything more lonesome than the thought of a phone ringing in an empty apartment I wonder where mama went To a movie. You know, she's not the movie kind of well. It's still early. She could be out for dinner alone. It's No fun darling Everything about life isn't fun, but That doesn't mean it's wrong David you're so strong and independent. That's what you think I'm not even good at pretending All day. I've been trying to pretend and And that's as far as I got and stop pretending you're with friends You don't have to wear your outside face with me, you know It's all habit. That's all it is I have two legs. I can stand on them all by myself. It's just Well, it's just that mama and I are so used to being with each other We're all each other had for a long time But david, I know it's not fair to you now. I don't worry about what's fair to me Well, this moaning around isn't fair to you whether you worry about it or not. So what are you going to do about it? I'm going to stop. That's what you haven't started Much I haven't I could kick myself around the room All right, I'll I'll I'll play that game of checkers with you mr.  He's all right. Don't get excited. He's not all right. He's crying Well, what's a little crying for a baby? Well, he should be sleeping you go back to sleep I I better go up and see what it is. You want me to ask him? Nope. Nope. I'll go up There aren't any lights on upstairs. That's all right. Don't worry. I may as well come up with you I want to get my other pipe. Now listen if you think I'm afraid to go up alone. You're crazy. I'm not crazy If you were afraid, I I wouldn't come with you. You'll make a woman out of me It's the last thing you do won't you?  Well, I'm glad you think so, darling Oh put on the light in the nursery, David. Got it. Won't the light wake him up? He could wake already.  He'll never grow up to be a man that way He will in time Now come on. Tell me what's the matter thirsty? Do you have a bad dream? Come here All he wanted was a little attention. Is that what you wanted? Just a little attention Takes after his mother He's warm now and he's all right. Put him down Certainly hope that Oh, no, that couldn't be anything to do with it. Probably just a tooth And that's the trouble with babies getting teeth everybody blames everything on teeth The baby could be getting something very serious all the prisoners say it's probably just a tooth Well, is it just probably just a tooth? I wish mama were here. Mama'd Mama'd know if it were just a tooth No birth or no death too I'm scared. What are you so scared about? I miss her so that's why she went darling Well, that's not a good reason. That's the best reason in the world If you didn't miss it, it'd be Be no point in there going. No Just because she knew you had missed it She knew she had to go too It's crazy. Sure.  I'm going to see that you like being a wife best of all When you are particularly eager to see a certain movie Others are also eager it seems and there's often a wait for seats That wait is a lot pleasanter now that you can get ice cold coca-cola right in the lobby of many movie theaters For then you can have a coke and wait refresh. Good night there, joe What are you doing down here, david? Well, I came down to do the evening chores Have to snuff out the fire and put out the lights and see that the doors are all closed Well, while you're at it be sure all your windows are well closed and your heat turned up Now you talk as if uh As if we might expect a little bad weather sometime in the near future Well, as a matter of fact, I I I did just hear that there was going to be a big storm tonight A big storm? Mm-hmm a snow storm you might even be snowed deeply in tomorrow Oh mercy snowed in I'm certainly not looking forward to that well Anyway, joe Thanks very much for the warning and I'll go to bed and sleep. That's all I know. I can do about it See you tomorrow night, joe Bye david Every day monday through friday Claudia comes to you transcribed with the best wishes of your friendly neighbor who bottles coca-cola So listen again tomorrow at the same time And now this is joe king saying au revoir And remember whoever you are Whatever you do wherever you may be When you think of refreshment think of coca-cola Or coca-cola makes any pause the pause that refreshes And ice cold coca-cola is everywhere This broadcast of claudia was supervised and directed by william brown maloney Now here's a word from your friendly neighbor who bottles coca-cola


How's it going everybody? This is Jaspy's seven box Lucky Sevens basketball mixer Given away at 2007 get it Lucky Sevens 2007 Lot better year than 2020 What I don't know what did the Lakers wanted to them seven? I know the Red Sox did LeBron Chrome PSA 10 giveaway in this one now to be done at the very end All these boxes right here and just gonna start ripping them right on the camera above my head We're gonna do the randomizer. Yeah, this is my my neck my mask that I've been wearing around my neck Have to take it off 11 times keeps your neck warm though. Yeah It's a fashion accessory jaspy brandon paste masks maybe in the future Mass with a big train on it. Heck yeah, the palm tree logo Get get puppy masks as well All right, 11 times Clinton down to JD and 11 times on the list of NBA teams one two three four five six seven eight nine 10 and 11 Dallas Mavericks down to the Orlando magic 11 times Clinton you got the Dallas Mavericks Guy you got the Raptors Justin you got the Nuggets Jeremy you got the Wizards Steve you got the Kings Summoning at the Celtics Philip K back-to-back Hawks and Knicks Daniel T. Lakers Cohen calves Clinton pistons Paul the coach. Wow the coach getting the pelicans. Good luck. Whoa off a cello pack to whoa Right with the Hornets Jeremy with the T wolves Daniel with the Suns Roger With Taser Summon with the Jazz Steven B nets Mike Blazers Paul heat Robert Thunder Wade Spurs Nick Sixers Jacob bulls Robert Grizzlies That's a nice one off the cello pack as well Philip Warriors Chris Bucks Kyle Clippers Paul with the Houston Rockets and JD with the magic so we'll give it Maybe a minute or so on trades. I did just swallow a pill and I feel like it stuck I came down really awkwardly sideways I think it's stuck in my chest You could call me a hero for persevering through this break Hey guys Jason's gonna do it. I'm on the eye emergency But no, I stuck it out I drank like maybe three glasses I ran across the street to get some goldfish. It's still stuck So I don't know if I might die during this break, but we'll see what happens Stay tuned, you know museums after this It's probably like a 30 40 minute break So around ten ten ten if you're on the west coast one ten and if you're on the east coast Rex says even though everyone's a pelicans and Grizzlies isn't the Lakers pretty much the best team to get I don't know I'd say no But you do have 17 18 stuff and they got kuzma. They got the trio kuzma heart and ball kuzma and Plants of all stuff And then yeah LeBron, I mean the bucks are a great team to get this is a Yanis 13 14 break right here 19 there is the most 1920 so it does favor the the new rookies But we also have two 18 19s in there, and we also have a nice Over a $400 box right here at 17 18, you know, Jason Taylor Celtics So it's some great mix of years here, you know 13 14 17 18 18 19 19 20 Rex went to a freaking gas station I saw that Bought a couple of these cellop bags and open up got a pink Camel was I was crazy. I was like what kind of gas station So yeah, that's that's all saying to it. No, thanks.  I mean and then you know and just be like I don't know one else will buy them But I will you know who said they Sell sports cards is Ramon had big five big five cell sports. Whoa. I was like Ramon Yeah, I was like dude. You got to get the hook up dude. I Told Jason Yeah, Jason told me I was like Jason you gotta you gotta get the pipeline of sports cards right when that Right when that guy hits just tell Ramon to take like a five minute break. Yeah, buy everything. Yeah All right, are we doing that everyone? I just found out I didn't know big five cell sports cards. All right We're gonna close the trade window a lot of teams up for trade, but no one's kind of offering What's up Nick S? How's it going? How's you night doing? Leonard what's going on everybody else? And I kept the video recording so that's good Joe's ripping on the top there But yeah, I've noticed that even 1920 LeBron base are like over 50 bucks now, right? Yeah, that's crazy Pink cow those are your multipax Mosaic has been on the rise and basketball looks like it's here to stay so Basketball and there's no new basketball release until the 26th There is a basketball release next week illusions basketball, but I don't think it is a Typical product I think it's like an online only or maybe like a hobby shop only we're not a panini hobby shop yet Decline oh They were booked up. What's up Dan? How's it going? Welcome to Jaspie's all right starting off with mosaic remember no veteran cards common shit, but all the inserts and stuff do There's a LeBron fan masters Got game James Harden Anybody see PJ Tucker drop 53 points today What turn in Michael Jordan in Orlando? Bubble to what's right there my mind and blow 53 points and then Who is he playing? We aren't there are already selling on eBay if you had to buy it now up for PJ Tucker and most likely got bought Right, so you better there was way under you better check it out on eBay. You might have to ship something Monday morning Oh TJ Warren, that's right. Jay Warren for the Suns. Yeah, no no no he got traded actually But he would be his rookies with the Suns edition. Yeah, I think so TJ Warren got traded for cash considerations. Wow, and then he dropped That's right Pacers and Then a bead he was playing against the Sixers and bead had 41 points 21 rebounds What's the last time someone got 40 and 21 all right 40 and 20 maybe like Andre Drummond or something But I don't think he can score 40 points. Yeah, I don't think drummers ever Well, not at the same time. Yeah. Oh, there's a nice Tyler hero green. It's like an old school That's like a Shaq line right there. Yeah, random like that's crazy, right? And he was plus 21, but the sixers lost by six imagine plus 21 and Well, who screwed it up who was Ben Simmons was minus 11 Al Horford minus 26 minus 26 Horford usually is like your defense. I don't think he's been that good on the Sixers this year I think a lot of fans regret signing him or their teams Your sixers fan Dan. Sorry. I mean still first game first game back Thomas Bryant NBA debut John Moran. That's nice Joe Ingalls Yeah, I like hero a lot too There's a Darius Garland. Miami's kind of crowded right now though. I got a lot of a Lot of great players Duncan Robinson the guy who starts over hero I think he had the third most three-pointers this year Duncan, that's a good team. It's a really good team to me butler. I'm out of bios a monster Kendrick nuns a monster Goren Drogage come on the bench. He could be a six-man of the year They got a solid lineup I Think they're they're dangerous. There's Damian Lillard well coached good organization. No Kelly Olanik, that's right from Boston. There's Darren Fox give-and-go was egg. He had a monster game too I think he had 39 points So be sure to check these box scores, you know, I Know Darren Fox stuff has been on the rise now So be sure to check it out. That's Kendrick none. There's Langston Galloway That's LeBron on the top cam right there. There's a LeBron to them seven chrome. I didn't see the Sun score Is there any games going on now probably over around this? This is the Lakers post games. It kind of sucks that they're playing on the East Coast because all the games are Gonna end early. That's right. There's no like West Coast like Lakers What did yeah, what did The Suns do did they play today now? Oh, yeah, I saw that game. I saw part of it I was looking for a Rui Hachimura who actually had a good game 21.8 rebounds not too bad RJ Barrett NBAW pink Camo Thank you, I separated all the four spectra packs separately Nice James Harden had a big game too, right? Think so John Morant NBA debut pink Camo very nice. Yeah, I mean Aiden's a monster If he if he was in the NBA like 20 years ago, he'd be a top five player Like if the NBA was played like, you know, 15 20 years ago, he'd be a monster even more Ooh, there's a Yanis all-stars fast break Yeah, Devin Booker's a great player too There's a nice the rookies Jason tape. That's soon. There's a gold fast break drew holiday. Very nice Seven of ten for the pelicans. It's the coach. I could use some more sleeves both variations Before you leave. Are we on the south? I'll clear for takeoff Jamal Murray. We're just hitting so many nice cards. Thank you Damn out of bio. There he is Nice one there the coach Paul Nixon There's number to 20 Wow Pink fast break auto Terence Ferguson for the Thunder. That's Robert 15 of 20 Did Aiden get suspended? I know John Collins missed 50 games last year for the Hawks because he got suspended or something like that number 155 Torian Prince Maybe Aiden got it too Ooh nice down of a Mitchell Yeah, I never know like if I believe the players when they say like they're innocent on those PED things in the NBA Because it doesn't happen too often, but I swear what's the supplement or like, oh, I have a health condition You know like I was prescribed this by the doctor Which feels like it would be a uh, it goes on the lid a pass. Yeah 193 Harrison Barnes, you think they would have like team doctors like double triple check that I went to my personal doctor Lori marketing the uh SD photo here The one sd photo and that was uh optic fast break. All right, let's do This box is left Let's do a blaster from 1819 Troy Brown jr. Freshman phenom silver. There's a michael porter jr. Insert Zana Musa Relic for the nets that's steven. Oh purple bruce brown. Nice Those purple waves that's not numbered but that uh ships to the pistons That's clinton uh covington silver green kevin love And that's it with blaster So now we're on to the high end boxes Let's do court kings believe this is 1819. Yeah There's true. Let me see if there's any base on the back here. So first one beyond is jordan mavericks jersey 50 of 99 There's a bagley out for the year unfortunately level one Kings and josh akogye level three For the tea wolves There's drew holiday John collins the marcus cousins There's joellen bead Just an insert there and erin holiday emerging artists for the pacers We got number to 99 lawni walker autograph I think one off the jersey number. Yeah two of 99 Even wears number one that goes out to the san antonio spurs and wade valentine air apparent auto to 99 and a frank caminsky sovereign auto charlotte hornets That's going to ray That's 76 of 149 All right. Now we got uh crusade Maybe a possible yannis rookie card Anything yannis it's like anything he touches turns the gold anything would be good here Not oj mayo not his teammate One yannis. There's tarence ross these cards have some chalk on I feel like it's like the old prism baseball if anybody remembers that Terrence ross It's a 349.  You see me wiping it off. Geez you could use a microfiber cloth In case anybody wants a grate. These are anything Jeff green The crusades of course ship These would be considered the veteran base in this product. There's phil pressley auto for the cell tanks That's suman tabloce velosha to 99 die cut. Yeah, I think poker resells for more than harden just because you know Harden Hasn't done much in the playoffs Um, I do think harden is kind of underrated There's dunk in there's hardaway Kyrie second year, I believe There's dad young to 249 Sorry 349 Tony kukoch ben macklemore to 99 Die cut rookie tiago splitter to 49 spurs David west Isaiah thomas kings Jesus a lot of chalk uh to 349 Tobias harris Magic steve francis for the rockets chemo granate nets There's a curry insert royalty. There's number 25 big shot robert ory And ooh nice tim duncan quest memorabilia relic Uh, 001 of 299 that is going out to san antonio spurs That's weight look at alec berks rick berry And tom chambers 349 there you go dan on the board You just said a minute ago. I'm not gonna hit a single card this side is cursed for me Geez gotta give it some time small sample size We still got a spectra and a crown rail box to go and here's another son tygerone Jared jackson jr Yeah, he did and bead we were just talking about him wiggins terry rozier number 299 Jordan pool 299 die cut for the golden state warriors There's cam reddish relic two color for the Atlanta hawks philip k And shane baddie on card menthis grizzlies edition 41 to 49 member we're also giving away a $700 uh lebron Or $500 I forget what I put in there. It's an expensive Lebron expensive Lebron So everyone has sales to start at that too All right spectra time and then we'll do all right. I'm out. Peace. Good luck everybody. She is thank you We need anything else? I sleep on your left thick on the left. No, I take a Nebula Zion from the spectra. All right, there's evan 40a. I think it's a lifetime contract rex There's cam reddish two of 25 nice There's chris paul clippers edition And there is mantra's harrell four of 99 like griffin chris paul kuzma And yannis.  What's seven years now? kawaii Leonard base R. J. Barrett. That's a nice rookie Jimmy buckets And cam reddish rookie First hit is rick fox auto icons for the l.a. Lakers 1999 rick fox That's daniel t. There's number to 99 jamlin rose icons auto Yeah, rick fox autograph is kind of weird Uh jamlin rose icons indiana paesers is roger Wow, nice to 49 Rui hachimora for the wizards jeremy port with that one 36 of 49 And yandere bambry auto radiant Oh, it's 88 of 99 that's going out to the atlanta hawks. That's philip Yeah, hachimora stuff is is very hot I like him a lot All right That was all the boxes now. We're giving away this 2007 Gemini 10 the brawn james.  They're just going to go up to value So let's take all 30 names here and roll the dice six times three to three Name on top wins it one two three four five six and final time six good luck philip k from a mosaic cello pack congrats philip So there you go appreciate everyone getting in that was the jaspy seven box lucky sevens basketball mixer Have a great night and see you guys next time


Welcome to The Journey! Today we're going to talk about how to empower your employees to be more productive. Did you know, did you know 75% of people don't quit their jobs, they quit their bosses? What? What does that tell you? That is true. Right? We, we never ever quit a job because we don't like the company, everything else. It's usually that one person, that boss that just gets under your skin, you can't deal with them so you bounce. Well, we've got a lot of tips for you on how to really empower your employees and make them happy essentially. Empower them. You already jumping the tips? Yeah. All right. So first thing I want to share just my own personal experience with my boss that I love and will keep me around is he constantly provides support and motivation and in a way that is also intertwined with some constructive criticism because we always need to be growing. Absolutely. And I think he leads by example as well most of the time. So for that case it helps me to be on the right track and it empowers me to stick around and do the best work that I possibly can. Yeah, that supportive leadership is absolutely crucial for you as a business owner and that means talking with your employees, finding out there why, why do they come into work every day? What do they care about? And you can go and have like regular schedule one-on-ones. I know in the corporate setting it's a little bit more common. Maybe in the retail or service industry it's not, but you can really wow your employees by just taking the time even in 10, 20 minutes, figuring out what they're doing, help them grow, give that constructive criticism. Absolutely. And then encourage them to think forward past the current position that they're in. That's been another huge thing that I do as a manager myself and then also the conversations I have with my bosses. Okay, this is what you're doing now. Where do you see yourself in five months or in a year? Right. And that's again any setting, any business, any company, even if it you're a small, small company, help them figure out what that next step is. And for one of my employees that next step was to leave the company and do something else that really inspired him, right? And that's okay. As a leader, you're not going to always keep them there. I still have conversations where he calls me and say, hey, I'm doing this with my team. Can you tell me a little about what you did? And it really builds them up and inspires them because they're all people, right? All right, Nealey. So I think this ties in really nicely with the next point we want to share, which is to empower individual employees. What comes to mind when I bring that up? Well, with this, it's all about the individual person and letting them shine, right? Letting them hold leadership positions with different projects. They may not be a boss, right? But they can take leadership roles, help them be autonomous with their work day and their workflow or their desk. Let them be them because then you'll really get their best work out of them. Yeah, that's one thing I noticed as I'm a manager, as I mentioned, and having really taking the individual and honing it on that with individual employee and letting him decide when, hey, you want to do a half day just to like start your weekend early? Totally go for it. Come here for it. You want to do your spin class at lunch? Yeah, let me know how it goes. Like really listen to them, their schedule, their needs, their wants and treat them as an individual that they are and express themselves. All right, so another way you can empower your employees is to really create that positive work environment. And I talked about it a little bit before with those one-on-one, but it's really opening up and treating everyone like family. I like to tell them my guides and my peers that we end up spending most of our time together, even more so than our family. Let's treat each other like family. Let's make this a place that we like to come to, right? More than a co-host. More than a co-host. Like family. Corporate. Awkward. And yeah, nearly one thing I know I like to do as a manager is keep this sort of open door policy and make it a safe place where you can share things and you won't get made fun of or shunned just really keeping that a neutral environment welcoming. Tell me what's up, right? And if people make mistakes, it's okay, right? Failure is feedback and we're not going to ever grow if we don't get out there and test things and get out of our comfort zone. So encourage your employees to fail and that's okay because they'll learn from it and they'll get better and then your results will get better. Your company will grow because of it. Empowering. Empower them. One of my favorites to empowering employees, a healthy work environment. I know I love the GoDaddy office here in Kirkland because of the natural lighting that's by the water and they have a ton of windows. It's so beautiful. I'm super jealous. All we have is just desert everywhere on the outside to look at. But also it's great to just take a break and walk outside. You can walk. It's gorgeous here to walk along the water, but maybe that's not where you're located, right? Just make a conscious effort to change up the scenery, unplug for a little bit and also eat a well-balanced meal and not at your desk. When I see my employees do that, I'm like, no, no, no. Get out of there. You have to reset and separate the two. So if you see someone eating at their desk, have them take a break, go outside, have a picnic, enjoy some natural light. A lot of the one-on-ones that I do with my guides when I was a supervisor is we just had walking one-on-ones. We got to talk about each other and figure each other out, help each other grow, but we would just take a walk versus being in a stuffy room. Next one, all about joining forces, encourage teamwork and collaboration. I know what we always say, teamwork. Makes the dream work. That's right. Super corny. And so with that, you know, think about how you can leverage your teammates, projects you can do together. So I had a sales team when I was a supervisor and what I used to do to kind of just build a little bit of competitiveness, I would split the team up in two. All right, this team versus this team. And we used to play a game called dodgeball. So how it worked is every time one team made a sale, they got to knock someone else out on the board and last team standing wins. Yeah, I loved that when I was a sales rep back in the day, that we had different teams with team names. We had flags. Like we really embraced this, the team that can moderate. And then we would do these competitions, kind of what you're talking about, which just you already love what you do and you're motivated in certain ways, but it just had a little different flair to your motivation that day to beat that other team or maybe win a really cool spiff. And you bond with some of these other teammates that maybe you don't normally talk to or go to lunch to, etc. And it just helped everyone to take collaboration to the next level. All right, so another way you can empower your employees is to reward their successes, right? We're so quick to point out criticism and say, this is how you can do better, suck less, do better, do all these things, right? But when they do a good job, you need to tell them. And when I gave my kudos, I wouldn't just say a good job or hey, that was nice or whatever else. I would say, hey, that was a great job. And then give this specific example of what they did. That way they know, cool, I'll keep doing that because that's that's right on the money. I know you have a story of your rewards and successes. Yeah, I was thinking back to when I worked with Main Street Hub, which was before GoDaddy acquired us and all the sales are up. And one of the things that we really embodied and pushed was our core values. And we had five of them. And every year, they would give out this cool trophy. It was really pretty. It was like glass for each of the core values. And it would be company wide. And so one person or maybe two would get, hey, you demonstrated this core value of maybe like taking ownership. And it was just a really cool way to keep the core values top of mind, but also reward an employee. And it felt awesome. I got it a couple years, different core values, and it made me feel very maybe feel heard, it made me feel seen, and it made me feel empowered. That's so awesome. And with these rewards, it doesn't always have to be a monetary award. Like, yes, I would love you to throw money at me all day. But just that that thank you or a great job with that specific statement, or just just doing a call out to that person goes a tremendous way. Another one of my favorites to empower your employees, eliminate the negatives, negativity, it's kills, it kills a pollutes the environment and your team. So one thing I would say and we kind of mentioned this earlier with like keeping an open door is let your employees know they've been heard. Let them know you're going to do whatever you can to neutralize whatever this negative thing that is happening or the feedback that they're giving you. Because it's a brave move on their part too. I mean, they're speaking up and that's definitely one of our core values to speak up if something is going on that you're not cool with. And then in hopes of that it'll be heard. So let your employees know you're going to neutralize that. Yeah, and negativity comes in all shapes and forms. Like if you have an employee that is constantly complaining, that negativity will spread on to the next employee, the next employee. And then the whole whole office or wherever you work just becomes this negative experience. So if that's the case, isolate the issue, right? Bring that person in and figure out what is their actual concern? Because they're complaining but do they have a valid complaint? Are they frustrated about something else and things are just snowballing down, right? Figuring out what that is and making sure that that one issue doesn't spread to everywhere else. Because then one of your employees will run into a similar issue and then that negativity gets brought up again and it's over and over and over and that's not something that you want. Isolate those quick and early and just have a conversation with that person.  All right and last way to empower your employees, update your technology. Make sure it's very easy for them to see the success that they're doing, how successful they are, where they need to be in their day, how to achieve their goals. Right and having outdated technology just holds them back from being as productive as possible. I know that we at GoDaddy did something pretty, what seemed pretty small at the time but it was a huge success. We updated our guides monitors. They were like just these normal-sized monitors and we ended up giving them these giant monitors so they can see more and do more and that increased productivity. Makes a big difference. It made them happier and it was something simple like that. But think about if you're running some super outdated software that always crashes, has bugs, it's slow, it's clunky, that employee has to deal with that all day and if it's frustrating them, they're not gonna get any work done. I know I wouldn't be. Yeah rather than empower them, it's just gonna defeat them. But that's all we have for you. 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Welcome back to our lecture series, Math 1060 Trigonometry for Students at Southern Utah University. As usual, I'll be your professor today, Dr. Andrew Missildine. In this first part of lecture seven, I want to introduce the idea of radiant measure and show that trigonometry, which literally translates as the study of triangles, trigonometry involves circles just as much as they did the right triangles, if not even more. And in this lecture, we really want to start understanding what do circles in trigonometry have to do with each other. So imagine we do have a circle. So I'm going to draw one on the screen. It'll probably look hideous, not perfectly circular. But you get the idea here. Consider the center of the circle. We say that an angle associated to a circle is central if the angle has as its vertex the center of the circle. So this would be an example of what we call a central angle of this circle. And for convenience, we like to think of this angle in standard position so that the initial side right here is the positive x-axis. And then the terminal side will terminate wherever it so chooses. So in a circle, a central angle that cuts off an arc, so this is what we mean by an arc. So this little piece on the circle itself that's kind of cut off by the angle, right? This is what we mean by an arc. So we say that the arc is equal in length to the radius of the circle. If the arc is equal to the radius of the circle, so if the distance of the radius, if that's the same distance right here, and I know this gets kind of funky because it's curved, but imagine we have a shoestring that we lay across the circles, we measure the radius, and then we also measure that same shoestring along the curve, and it's the same length, that's what we call one radian. Because after all, when you have the arc of the circle, it's also associated to the angle theta. And so one radian, so to speak, one radian, this happens, what this means here is that the arc, the arc has a length equal to the radius of the circle arc. Now, if you consider the entire arc, that is, if you take the circumference of the circle, then it's been known for millennia that the circumference of a circle is directly proportional to its diameter, you know, if you go all the way across here. Now the diameter of course is just twice the radius, and it's known that the proportion between the circumference and the diameter, if you take the circumference of a circle and divided by its diameter, this is always equal to this number pi, which pi is an irrational number approximately equal to 3.14159. It keeps on going, right? Cause this is a non-repeating decimal expansion. Therefore, if you solve for the circumference, we get a formula for the circumference of a circle, circumference is equal to two pi r, recognizing the diameter of the circle is just two times its radius right there. And so this is a very important formula for computing the circumference of a circle, but we're gonna use this to connect this idea of radiance with the degree measure that we're already used to, okay? It's not just the circumference and the diameter that are proportional to each other. Because of the symmetry of the circle, it turns out that the angle measure right here is gonna be proportional to the arc length of the circle, where that proportion is always gonna equal r. So in other words, if we take any arc, s, let's say that this thing has length s, if we take any arc, s, and we divide it by its radian measure, this is always gonna equal r, the radius of the circle, they're always gonna be proportional to each other. So if we take the entire circle, right, the entire circle, it has an arc length of two pi r at circumference. If we take the angle that gives us one complete rotation, call theta for a moment, then by the proportionality of the circle, we see that two pi r divided by theta will always equal r. We'll take this equation times both sides, excuse me, divide both sides by r times both sides by theta. So we're gonna times by theta over r. We see the r's cancel, the theta's cancel, and then we get this equation right here, theta equals two pi r over r. But since there's an arc on top and bottom, they cancel out and we end up with theta equals two pi. So what this tells us right here is this gives us a baseline, one complete rotation, one complete revolution of a circle in the radian measure is equal to two pi, okay? But then that gives us a way of connecting it to degrees because as we learned previously, the degree measure of a one complete revolution is 360 degrees. So two pi radians coincides with 360 degrees. If we take this equation and divide both sides by 180, excuse me, by 360, we divide both sides by 360, then the left-hand side would just become one degree, and then the right-hand side, two goes into 360, 180 times, that's where the 180 came from. And we see that one degree is equal to pi over 180 radians. Likewise, if we take this equation right here and divide both sides by two pi, then the left-hand side would become one radian and then two goes into 360, 180 times. So one radian is equal to 180 degrees over pi. So this gives us a way of converting back and forth between radians and degrees. This formula right here shows us how we convert from degrees into radians because you change one radian, a one degree to be a pi over 180 radians. And then likewise, this one over here tells us how to change from radians to degrees because you can replace one radian with 180 over pi degrees. Let's see a quick example of such a thing. So if we take, for example, 45 degrees, 45 degrees means 45 times one degree. And by the conversion chart we saw in the previous slide, one degree is the same thing as pi over 180. So 45 goes into 184 times, this would simplify to be pi over four. So 45 degrees is the same thing as pi over four radians. Similarly, if we take 450 degrees, 450 degrees right here, this is just gonna be 450 times one degree. One degree is pi over 180 radians. And so then we have this fraction, 450 over 180. You can divide both sides, both are divisible by 10. You can see the zero, so kind of take that out. You get 45 over 18. They're still divisible by nine. So you can simplify the fraction to be five pi over two radians. So this shows us how to convert from degrees to radians. If we wanna convert from radians to degrees, we do the same thing basically, double times by the reciprocal conversion factor. So if you take pi over six here, pi over six radians, one thing I should mention is that if the angle measure is not specified, if the units are not specified, by default that will mean radians. So you always need to put the little circle if you wanna represent degrees, but if you write nothing, it should be assumed that it's a radian measure. So pi over six radians means pi over six times one radian, but one radian is 180 degrees over pi. The pi's will always cancel out, and then six goes into 180, that'll go in there 30 times. So pi over six coincides with 30 degrees. Likewise, if we take four pi thirds, all right? Four pi thirds, if you multiply by 180 degree over pi, then the pi should cancel out. You get four times 180 over three. Three goes into 180 60 times. So you get four times 60, which is 240 degrees.  That's always the factor you use here. And to remember which one you want, the radian measures we have, typically have a pi in it, and we want the pi's to cancel out when you go to degrees. So you want, when you're going from radians to degrees, the pi should probably be in the denominator, so it cancels out with the pi that's in the numerator so that your degree measure doesn't have a pi in it whatsoever. Now, if we take some of those special angles that we've learned about previously in this lecture series, we can find the corresponding radian measure. So like zero degrees coincides with zero radians. 30 degrees coincides with pi over six that we saw right here. 45 degrees coincides with pi over four that we saw right here as well. 60 degrees is the same thing as pi third radians. 90 degrees is pi over two. 180 is pi radians. 270 degrees is three pi over two. And then 360 that started this whole conversation coincides with two pi radians.


how to balance mental health providers' resilience and wellness while caring for distressed individuals in today's uncertain time? So if I understand correctly, this is for people working in the area, how can they keep their mental health in check and well while they are caring for distressing individuals? That's a perfect question because it's actually been one of our most popular topics this year is vicarious trauma, which is around how we look after ourselves when we're exposed to people who are in distress or people who've experienced trauma. And that can come in a range of ways, predominantly from health professionals, but we've also had a lot of organizations who have first responders, a lot of advocacy and legal firms. We've even had people who are working in retail who are faced with people in distress a lot. So it's kind of cutting across a whole lot of different areas. And I think there's a whole lot of different strategies and tools you can do to look after yourself. But I think one at the core of it is this idea that if I'm helping someone else or I'm caring for someone else or I'm giving to someone else, then that's depleting or using up my energy. And therefore, I give and I give and then I've got to go away and sort of recharge myself and get myself well again. And then I go and I give some more and then I come back and I recharge and that we're sort of losing our own well-being when we help someone else. And I think we need to turn that around. In fact, we need to turn it on its head and instead see it as a something that doesn't necessarily need to deplete my well-being when I help someone else. In fact, it can actually help me to feel better and good myself. We know contributing to others is good for well-being. So this is kind of the idea that's behind the term compassion satisfaction, but it's that idea that instead of having compassion fatigue and I get tired of caring for other people, if I focus on the benefits that I get out of that, how good it makes me feel to give to others, how that builds me, then you can keep going, you know, without having to have that sort of backwards and forwards recharge all the time process. So I think that's a really new idea for a lot of people and it takes a little bit of adjustment to get there, but we know from all the research that having higher amounts of compassion satisfaction is protected against vicarious trauma, against stress, burnout, compassion fatigue, all of those things. So we need to tap into that and find the meaning in what we're doing and find that sense of fulfillment and purpose when we're helping and giving to others and that sustains us too. Which is interesting that you say that compassion satisfaction because what I've noticed here in Spain, you know, lifeguards are not held in a very status position. So every time I talk to the lifeguards, they're always complaining. I can't wait until I finish this job. I want to go home. I want to start working on something else, etc. Which to me is very surprising as an Australian. It's very surprising because we love our lifeguards. The lifeguards are amazing.  They take pride on being lifeguards. I've never heard a lifeguard complain about being a lifeguard in Australia ever. And the difference is that in Australia, they feel like they're doing a good job for the community and the community is so appreciative, which they are. We need our lifeguards, especially in Australia. And they're held in such an important status. Kids can't wait to be lifeguards. You know, we never run out of lifeguards in Australia. You know, in here, they're having to be paid and in the, not all of them obviously, but they seem to have a general idea that that's a lowly, a lowly job to have. So that's the difference, isn't it?  Well, that's, yeah, I'm going to burn out. I'm going to burn out. But if I feel, oh my God, I'm lucky. I'm a psychologist that I can have a little bit of influence on making somebody's life better and their families and their kids. That's amazing. What a privilege. Completely different attitude. And one is, what was it called? What was the satisfaction? Compassion satisfaction. The other one, compassion fatigue. Yeah, good point. Hi, I'm Amy Golding, Director of Psychology for the Workplace Mental Health Institute. We hope you liked the video. If you did, make sure to give it a thumbs up. We have more and more videos being released each week. So when you subscribe, you'll get a notification letting you know when a new one's just being published. So make sure to hit that subscribe button and don't miss out on this vital information for yourself, your colleagues and your loved ones.


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We started small three years ago and the idea was to put the awareness about injury prevention in the athletes. This year we have scientists from Europe, from Australia, from Canada, from America, so it's really growing. What is really appealing is to see that these two worlds of basic science and prevention could eventually merge. And bringing those two together is what makes this conference something that I want to come back to every year. I was really pleased to be able to share some of my experiences that I've had over the years about how to actually go about getting injury prevention in action. It's one thing to, yeah, you tore your ACL, let's fix it. But I'm more interested in making sure the athlete doesn't injure the ACL to begin with. We want to make sports safer. Sport has so many positives, so many benefits for athletes and for society in general. What we do on LTAging, to try to deal with aging-related disease, it can significantly apply to injury prevention. But now I think that this is going to open up a whole new area and that we will, as sports doctors, will have to take much better care of the athletes than we have done. What we're looking for is to really brainstorm, share our ideas, and really ultimately use this as a pillar to protect our athlete.