one Chebren 1000 here. Today we're going to be putting this trailer hitch on the 2010 Chevy Traverse. We're also going to be putting the T connector for the wiring harness for the trailer. This is a class 3 hitch from Kurt. So let's get started on this thing. This one's pretty easy so let's get to it. And when you get this, take this piece of paper off. Your hardware, your mounting hardware, and instructions are inside here. Sometimes they're inside this. This is a two inch receiver. So I may have to go get my knife. I thought I had one. I do have one out here. Cool. So just take all this. All it is is just it's packing tape. And this is the way it comes. Like I said, this is a her, the her, a Kurt class 3. So like I said, sometimes they'll put your down inside here. Sometimes that's where they'll put your hardware, your instructions. I'll go over them with you. I don't need them. I've done so many of these. But this one is one of the easiest ones there is to do. I'll take you up under there and I'll show you. There's your instructions right here. Real simple. You only have six bolts. I'll go over that with you right now. So you're going to need four of these. They go up into weld nuts. That's up inside the frame. Now these washers, I don't know if you can see that. Is there like some caved or whatever? See it's like a dish on one side and it's got these little points. This side is flat. You always want to put these on like that toward the points.  Because this is this is a lock washer is what that is. Now you do have to go through the frame on this one. It's not real bad. There's two holes right up under right in the center here where this is going to go. I need a couple. What this is going to be. What this is going to do is this is going to drop down in there and technically on this will actually be like this. But I'll show you all that when we get up underneath there. Like I said this is pretty straightforward. I'm not sure about the lights. I think they're over here on this in this panel that T connector. But there's everything we need right there. I'm going to get a couple wrenches. Here's the key the T connector should fit on this. What it does is you unplug your wire harness.  I'll show you all that in a minute. I got to get a couple wrenches and then I'll put you down here on the ground and we'll get started on this thing. Okay guys now start with right here underneath your license plate. There's just there's a cover here. It's just a plastic panel and on each side there's these little plastic clips. You just turn a quarter turn and this is where your hitch is going to be. So once the hitch is up in here you should be able to put this back on you won't see it. So we're gonna move this out of the way. The hitch is going to bolt right up here. It's going to bolt right here and right over here on top of the exhaust pipe is the other two weld holes right over there. Okay now they recommend you take them which it's easy enough to do is they recommend you take these down this exhaust pipe down. I don't like dropping these unless you have to because sometimes you can cause a leak up in front by pulling this down. I actually seen a video where a guy was doing it for U-Haul and he actually dropped it down even pulled down on that moor had no support underneath it. Then he supported this side of the of the the trailer hitch on top of this thing without this being supported. If you don't have another set of hands that's okay we can use the exhaust as support it strong enough. So I'll raise the passenger side up have the exhaust support it. I'll raise the driver side up and I'll put a bolt in to support it here and then move back over to the passenger side and put the hardware in there and then lastly we'll put the two bumper beam bolts in and tighten her down. Let's go ahead and do that. That's asking for an exhaust leak guys. Don't do that. This is where these holes I told you is where you're gonna have to put your nuts and your spacers down in so okay so let me get I've got my wrenches and stuff up on top there let me grab that and the hitch and I'll bring it down here and we'll get started on it. I'll try to film whatever I'll try to film the angles I can but like I said when if you're gonna help use this to support your hitch don't take it off of these don't take it off your mounts because you can do that then you can set it up there and support it. It's not a big deal but don't do it with that muffler hanging out in space. That's stupid I worked at Fruitton Park trailers I had to fix probably one I'm gonna comfortably say and convert conservatively say one to two times a week I had to fix a problem that U-Haul did because they're not mechanics at U-Haul's that U-Haul their salesman you know they just read the instructions and try to figure it out okay so let me get my stuff okay guys and I've got you zoomed in there a little bit but well it's not really zoomed in I just got a tight shot on it because I'm gonna show you how these are gonna work okay because this is going to have to go up in that hole set like this then the bolt comes down through this and through that hole and that's this is what keeps that from spinning on you okay so you can tighten it up so what you're going to do is you're gonna take this wire it's a little piece of wire they give you now some some hitch manufacturers like draw tight which I don't like them things they're cheap yes and that's what they are is cheap when you when it comes down to trailer hitch if you can you know try to try to pay up for a hitch because you know get a curd or a Reese try to pay up for a hitch because you know you don't want your your trailer coming off alright so some of them they'll have like a tab that you bend and you hold it I will put our handle nut in I will put the bolt and provided conical toothbrush room which is a great idea but either way it's you know it's fine so what I usually do is I'll start my bolt in here into this thing right here just like that alright this thing it's flat on one side and kind of curved on the other you're gonna want the flat side down so what you're gonna want to do is put the round side towards the boat and put this wire through here just like this okay it's really fun they're gonna be a co-saber man cuz you gotta really get this wire way up inside the frame and stuff just like I said it's one of the easiest ones now I'll take them put a little bend in that bring it through that hole okay then you're gonna take this little guy or little or a little stop there we're gonna put them up in there first just like that now move them out of the way so you can get your bolt you're not supposed to have to modify these in any way but sometimes I've had to make these holes bigger to fit the boat might be that might be what I have to do on this one now okay but just be mindful that that sometimes you may have to have to make them holes a little bigger fords every time it'll say no drilling but every time you have to make that hole bigger for these nuts to go in when do the same thing on your side now we'll leave this hanging we'll leave this hang for a reason we'll leave it on here because if I'm putting this hitch up and I knock it bolt up through there it's gonna be I'm gonna have a hard time getting it back this way I can just pull it back through okay so I'll show you again the other side it's it's real simple it can be tedious if you're not good at fishing this kind of stuff but I mean it's not hard guys it's really not if you're any kind of do-it-yourselfer you you won't have any problem with this the instructions for these Kurt hitches are very very clear and easy to read some of them are are harder than others some of them you gotta pull the whole bumper cover off of the vehicle just to put you know just put a hitch on it and it's crazy some of them the hitch will go right on you have to hit your own in five minutes but you gotta pull the bumper cover off and all kind of stuff get the wiring to work to get your wiring to fit up in there okay so let's try it let's do this one again just one more time so and these are the only two on this particular vehicle that you're gonna have to do this to some vehicles you got to do it to all of them you know every bolt six bolts and if you have to you can pry that over if you want go ahead and drill it or you know pry out a spot to where this bolt goes because just don't do it on this hole but you can do it on this big square hole you can make it bigger if you want before you even start if you think you're gonna have problems there's no there's no issues with that you can do that and other one went right in didn't I may go ahead and make this one a little bit bigger yeah I'm gonna go and do that and I'll show you how I'm gonna do that hang tight just a second we'll make this one can you guys even see what I'm doing oh no my camera fell so anyway I am going to just get something and pry this open just a little bit make it a little bit bigger like I said I'm gonna leave these on here now we're gonna put the pitch up in here I'm gonna try to find an angle for you guys so you can see what I'm gonna do I'm gonna start with these two okay instead of one side to the other I'm gonna start in the center so hang tight let me get you a different angle okay so this is about the best shot I can get yet so let's try to get this lifted up I've got my wires ran through the holes on the hitch set this up there on to the said because it's still mounted I'm gonna hold this with my knee and I'm just gonna pull that wire that wire will just pull right off I'm gonna start me a knot on here don't tighten these don't tighten any bolts until you get your pitch all the way up in there now this one same way just pull that wire down off it stretches right off it's like that let me spin you around here right up here I know I may have to get a light for you guys hang on let me go get a light okay now we're gonna put our bolts in here I don't know if you guys can see that anyway these are three-quarter three-quarter head bolts now what I usually do which I've already done it with this one is take one of your bolts run up into every hole that you're gonna be using the weld nut in okay and what that does is clean it out now if you've got if you got those little rubber plugs that you got a pop outer than plastic plugs you probably won't have to do that because your threads are probably clean this one didn't so I just ran it up through there all right I just ran up through there with this one now the other side the muffler side I'm gonna I wasn't able to do that so I'm just gonna run them up in there's what I'm looking at here see and these are pretty clean so I'm gonna have to do that and these holes are slightly slotted so that way if you gotta move it around a little bit you can I don't know what you're seeing there because right up on that bend anyway it's the same as the other side I'm not gonna drop this muffler because I'm just going to use a wrench and tighten them up up there so let me get them get these two started and then I'll show you what it looks like everything's tight really raunch on them get them tight there is a torque spec but I know a lot of you guys don't have torque wrenches that's why I showed you this way just tighten it as tight as you can get it okay use a half inch drive if you can if not you can use a 3h drive I did but it's very long just make sure you got them tight now this is going to go back up in here there's those four little tabs they go up in the bumper and then you just put these in quarter turn same way with this one stick it up in quarter turn whoops quarter turn and there we go now let's see what it looks like I forgot to mention guys that these two bolts are extra that's because sometimes down here where we had to put those spacers in sometimes they will have weld nuts already in in that case you would use these two but in our case it didn't happen we had to use the spacers so that's why we have two extra so there you go so see it'll tell you here it may have existing weld nuts not present on all vehicles ours did not have them but if yours does you won't have to use those you won't have to use the spacers you'll just use these two nuts you'll use all six of these but again if you don't have the weld nuts like we didn't who have to use you'll have to use these so I just want to let you know if you got two of these extra don't be alarmed okay so this is for a Buick Enclave Chevy Traverse GMC Acadia Saturn Outlook if you have any of those it was it would be the part number is 13424 okay so that's part number for this so that's if you have any of them them vehicles there can't even tell there's a hitch on there look at that guys I know the sun's bright but can't even tell there's a hitch on that on that car that cool but I sure you there's the hits right there I had one come in the shop one time one of these it was an Equinox pretty much the same thing and guy wanted a new hitch we ordered a hitch and wiring harness and everything he come out or he brought his vehicle out when everything came in I got everything ready backed it into the shop and pulled that piece of plastic off there and there was already hitch and wiring on it so we kind of lost the sale on that one but you know you're not gonna charge a guy for that he didn't know was on there so I showed him just turning things half a turn stick that up inside put your your insert into your receiver pull what you're gonna be pulling when it's not in use put your receiver or your insert and what are your one of your little cubby holds is cubby holds all three this thing and bam put your little plastic thing on you can't even see that hitch that's pretty cool all right guys now I'm gonna do trying to get out the sun for you I'm going to do the wiring harness the T connector in a different video just in case you need to know one or the other you don't have to sit and fast forward through the part you need or whatever to the you know so I'm gonna do it in a separate short video as well so thanks for watching guys real simple like I said if you got to make him square holds a little bit bigger like I showed you I kind of had to on that one what you can also do is grind you know a flat spot off the head of that bolt don't grind the whole bolt off of course but you can grind a flat spot off the head of that bolt make it go right up in there it's fine I've done it doesn't hurt anything so anyway thanks for watching Shade Bear the myth man legend I'm gone for now Sun's bright and we'll see you guys in the next one bye bye guys and take care


All right guys welcome back to the channel if you're new my name is Bobby It is night in Bangkok Thailand, and I'm walking down the street again trying not to get run over here Guys just a quick video. I want to urge you not to go vegan Because everybody knows if you go vegan first thing that you need to do is supplement Vitamin B12 so further down the line out of sudden you realize Vitamin D3 could be an issue as well and because that is not enough DHA and EPA seem to be an issue too So what do you do you start supporting those supplement industries now? You're dependent on chemicals because you cannot sustain your diet anymore so guys if you want to go down the road of the Elimination of suffering if you will then please Adapt a plant-based diet if you must but do not supplement rather eat Muscles and oysters those things are not sentient beings You cannot compare them to animals But they deliver vitamin B12 D3 EPA and DHA Wow it's getting loud here EPA and DHA and Of course protein as well, so you do not have to rely on protein supplements such as B protein powder or Soy protein powder or any other rubbish So you can eat all foods and still be technically vegan if that is what you aspire to be All right guys just a quick tip It's just a short little video today if you liked it leave me a thumbs up if you haven't subscribed already Please do so and as always guys much love and peace


Hello, good evening all Sorry, we got late actually our taxi or driver went to some other place some misunderstanding. So we got late so Today the agenda is Firstly that I will present when deploying my end on AWS with S3FS and Second there was some presentations by AWS solution architect, but somehow we couldn't make it happen So today we have only one presentation here Before we start I want to share something about the magento meetup. We started around four months ago. So the idea is to increase the magento community in the Singapore and The magento developers can communicate each other and can share their problems can share the knowledge how we can do the things on magento and depending on development also and server related things hosting great things cloud Etc. So this month we proposed to have on the AWS centric one Also in the last to last month being organized in the Microsoft Office this month We are going to organize AWS. So we thought that it's a good idea and as I'm working in Renault's technology And we also worked a lot in AWS. So We want to share something how we utilize the AWS So let's start it Okay, I should not go to the full screen Let's do in the presentation directly. I should continue here. I support Okay, so The agenda of this why AWS? I will firstly brief about the AWS also why we should use AWS and the second thing is the auto scalability how you can make Your architecture is scalable so that can handle unlimited amount of traffic and you can How you can organize the resources in the AWS architecture? So I will share with that So firstly you may be already aware that AWS is very big it's around 45 plus services already in the market and H per your need you can utilize the services and AWS is very very Flexible you can just use the services which you want the services you do not want just do not use it So you just need if server you just use easy to service if you are need a story You just use S3 even you can use your other hosting providers and Combined with that you can use the S3 storage only so every different services is Flexible and independently isolated from each other. So you can utilize the power of services And if we talk about general purpose application web application Including Magento, you do not need to use so many only four five is enough to use so let's briefly see What services we can utilize and a general web application system first is easy to issue is elastic compute cloud. It's As you can say is operating system here You can run any operating system and it's virtual machine on the cloud Second is RDS RDS is a relational database service All you know that AWS is infrastructure as a service, but on top of that RDS Because in infrastructure service you have to manage everything at your end, but RDS database They are providing the managed service. So within the RDS it inbuilt have backup system and or update system so RDS is most widely used whenever we use the Application and RDS provides some database like MySQL, MSSQL, Oracle and PostgreSQL and Aurora also it's their database. So these kind of database you can use and can utilize Next service we want is S3 simple storage service to store the user content and Keep the user content outside of your server So you can have a scalability at your instance levels the application layer. You can have this capacity and keeping S3 outside it's safe and also on top of that you can use cloud front CDN service to to deliver your content and Fastly from nearby location of user location Second next service you can utilize a root 53 root 53 is a managed DNS service by AWS So here you can add your domain create hosted John and Point your EC2 instances or your Lord Valensor to point your site and Next cloud front. I already talk that it's a CDN service from AWS. You can fly Cloud watch cloud watch next service you can realize to monitor closely on your instances like EC2 RDS both have instances They provide free monitoring of five-minute interval Monitoring you say it is CPU utilization Network input output you can monitor those at five minute interval freely, but if you use cloud watch extended Facility there is a facility to utilize at one minute interval at some extra cost. So Depending upon that you can take some actions Like you say that if CPU utilization is higher than 80% for such amount of time take this action Like you can start new stance. You can alert send the email SMS those kind of thing you can do with the cloud watch monitoring So that's very helpful for the network administrator part Next service you can use the elastic load balancing elastic load balancing You have to use if you want multiple instances of your application That can handle the load So I will share more about this letter Elastic finish top. Yeah, so we see is infrastructure as a service But elastic finish top is you can say the platform as a service. They are providing So in this it do the provisioning of resources you can set up the resources type and it will start the resources for you monitor those and You can you can do everything like you can do as a platform as a service and You can utilize your custom AMI also even in that case, but it's a mixed model actually So it is not me. They are providing us There is many AMI you can select but if you want to change those AMIs you can just aid your custom AMI where you can set up your Operating system like linux and set up of your tools like open-office or ways, whatever you want to run So you can realize that So it works with elastic load balancer closely and easy to S3 also So these are the most important services which you can see in a general web application system Yeah, there are many more we can utilize like there is for for storage only we have the glacier for Like for the lambda is there for the mobile testing is there Like mobile farm, I suppose there are many other services we can see now I Want to share about how to think a scalable point of view how to think from a scalability point of view Starting from single box like you see only one easy to instance We have and everything is in single box like you have the always there you have your apache there You have my skill inside there. You are storing your user content there. So everything is single box With AWS you can use this like and it like similar to any shared platform or other platform So we start from this the user is directly hitting your server This diagram is actually expert at abuse architect. So regions AWS is divided into the regions. That's their main data centers Within the region there can be multiple availability zones that are connected using lands or some other thing Probably they share around five to ten miles distance with an region. So around I think eight regions We have including Singapore, North Virginia of California, Sydney and others So see firstly, this is a single box now think from a scalability you cannot a scale it so Adding the services I will add the more services like first. I added the idea service Keep out your database to RDS if you're using my school Postgres oracle you just keep out into RDS set up RDS import there and connect your application to that RDS directly There's a lot security also implemented. So you can set security group rules like only Only you're easy to can access to the database because you do not want to access your database from other side If you're working in a company you want to access ideas from your company network You just set up the IP address in the security group of ideas and only your company network can be able to access Your ideas those kind of security you can see Now think more you can add the S3 bucket For your user content your application is one but after that if it launched user edit like profile They are uploading profile images you have product product image So you can store those into S3 bucket so Then your load will be also less like your static content Even jcss static content you can offload to S3 Later if you want more a scalability you can add You can add a load balancer there and with the auto scaling policy Auto scaling policy you can set up as per your Application nature like you you you want like if your application is running your easy to instance is running 70% or more load for Less or more than 10 minutes. It's not another easy to instance So because you can start now now you can start many other instances because it is not depending upon anything It's just a pure application now database is outside Storage is outside user content outside. So you can scale here at this level So you have to start a load balancer. So the load balancer you are will be connected to your DNS So wherever whenever someone will access your domain, it will point to the Load balancer first and load balancer will see to which server the service that request should be served So you can see this way you can make your application more scalable If you want more scalability, you can do your deployment to availability zones so if even Due to natural disaster if one ability zone is down or some hardware failure one availability zone is down It should be there is one more availability zone where your servers is running and you will never let your application down in this case you can also have master and slave database one database you can make master and Secondly the slave database you can use redeplica one set pal. So it's up to you. How much scalability how much? for tolerance disaster recovery You want it's just a start. So you can see Adding more services to this you can use on the S3 bucket. I say you can use the cloud front For CDN for fast delivery of content You can use other services like cloud watch. I am role. I am role to manage finally on your resources if you are working in a group and Want to give access somebody for S3 only for easy to only you can control those HCS service you can use for its email service. You just get a SMTP utilize that and start sending emails Just like the sand grid you generally use or gmail as a SMTP huge so this this is the planning or You can do to make your application is scalable So this was general public application this applies to magento also this applies to general public application also if we talk about specific to magento, you may be all know about the magento it's a e-commerce a big e-commerce platform and many sites are hosted on that and running and In magento, we have a media holder where all the product images resides If there is users profile images inside there So only the media folder is the one which is user content after the application application in magento You can host your application in the easy to instance, but media is tied with that. So media need to be there So either you can use S3, but you have to do some programming coding To make whenever user is uploading in the back end some product images. It should go to the S3 There are a couple of ways we can discuss But today I will focus only on using the S3 FS and I will tell you why because if you do some coding efforts it will take time and If you'd like S3 FS, so let me share what is S3 FS. S3 FS is huge based file system Huge it means file system in user space It's a technology which allow any user to create its own file system without going into kernel detail So you don't need to modify kernel. You have a file system. So You can just create a folder mount any drive Generally, it supports like S3 Google Drive also. So This is a huge base file system where There is a library S3 FS and in that using that library you can mount a S3 bucket to your local folder So what we are going to do is we will mount our bucket to the media folder If you mount the media folder, it means whatever is in the bucket is in the media or whatever we upload in the media folder It automatically goes to the bucket Yeah Since S3 FS is a huge base test But let's say if my Compute mode is Windows Okay, would it still work? No S3 FS is only for Linux Only for Linux? So no Windows support? No Windows support for S3 FS library. Yeah, maybe some other library support for Windows But it's only for Linux So it just like mounting like you see some power ISO tool in the windows you see power ISO So you can mount your ISO into a virtual CD drive. You don't have CD drive, but it's still you mount It's having this e-drive or f-drive similar to that S3 is outside, but you mount here So your operating system assume that this is here. So whatever data we have in media. It will assume the data is here And that's why you don't need to change anything in the margin to recording because Whatever product images you will upload it will go to the local folder as per programming But immediately it will sync to the S3 bucket So why we use S3 FS because you can use for media folder and it's scalable because keeping outside the media folder Will have a then you will be able to scale your EC to instance like then you can start to see to instance You can have a lot well answer because both servers are running But the media both is Using mount concept of S3 FS and mounted to the same bucket So sharing the same data Storage so either you are connected to first instance or second instance You will never know which instance you connected But either instance you connected if you are uploading something user content It will going to the same bucket and immediately sharing to this whole EC to instances that way you can achieve some sort of a scalability and The main main point of this integration is no much into coding required Nothing change and it will instead for work So I can quickly show you a demo how you can do this I set up it You see I created a setup this one I just started an EC to instance and I set up much into there and In the media folder I mounted a bucket So I will show like where I am Here in the HTML Okay, let's see here. Yeah, you see This media folder you can see here, but actually it's mounted to bucket. I can show you how Let me show you firstly No, once you mounted is linked automatically It's automatically let me show you the first the demo. So later. I will mount or unmount also. We'll show you You see I have file here is screen shot and this bucket. I'm mounted here So you can see these files are this is a Reynolds demo bucket. I mounted into the media folder here So catalog folder customer folder. I already have here So I can delete one file here like I if I delete this screenshot from here Okay, doing shots showing here now remove Or even if you delete some file here like a skin shot if you want to delete here It will look from here. This is skin shot will be removed. You see this is skin shot is from here so You see this is the media folder here. You have the catalog product image edge So whatever image will go here will automatically sync to the S3 bucket and this way you can have multiple Majento instances and How I do it You see this is on the git already as 3fs and it's very easy to install actually If you go here if you started the imagine default machine image imagine machine image It's based on Santa s so you can use the power of yum yum install So you just have to install some prerequisites Which we need for s3fh to work and later you can clone s3fs from git repository directly And there is a couple of commands you can see to make it install and once it install you will need to set up your password file So generally I prefer we can have the password file the past wt file at some location and in that you have to give your Account access key and secret key You can create this access key secret key by I am roll you go to the AWS console And here you can create your user role and have your secret credential keys, which I already set up and Just it's there and there is one Commands which you can realize Let me see The command I noted Yeah So this is a simple command if you want to mount a bucket you just utilize s3fs and They show allow other renaissance demo is the bucket name at the folder name which where you want to mount Okay, and actually I already mounted so I will unmount it first So for unmount there is a command of a future unmount a future mount dash you Let's add this command Okay, so I have to log in edge Root firstly, then only it will work Yeah, it's unmounted So if you see this was the media folder if I refresh it now, there is nothing Because when we mounted it then only it will show so now it is not sync and if you want to Mount this media folder then you have to Use the command which I already shared like this one You come on copy and Just it's mounted and automatically your data will sync here Your voice will assume that your data is here and it will work like the normal much into works So it's a magic kind of thing you can see but it's actually the file system you're mounting So this is the concept. Yeah, definitely you need installation and some other but all helps are there So I'm not including that in the demo, but you can go here You can find all the details how to install s3fs how to set up your configuration there are a couple of ways you can set up the configuration and Then just mount and mount your bucket and enjoy So this is the demo and just Some troubleshooting may be because if you do it Your folder should be blank and your folder should be writable. I prefer 777 permission or appropriate writable permission Yeah, you can say the permission is not right. Yeah, the appropriate writable permission may need only but I just go with Yeah, we have a discussion in the last meetup also about this permission that The permission should be only writable or you can make the owner to Apache Then it's safe to use So this way you can utilize s3fs. This is the one way of doing the s3 integration Yeah, there are surely the couple of ways like you have s3 SDK by AWS officially you can realize that do some custom coding to handle your user content to store in the bucket and Do some path changes whenever you are referring the images and refer those images from the bucket so this is all about the Majento and firstly we talked about Scalability point of view how you think this is a start point you think start thinking How much they are a high availability you want for your application according to your client requirement or your project requirement So and later we discussed the one way of doing the Majento s3 integration. So that's all That's all from my side. Yeah, any queries. I talked a lot Yes, sure. Once you mounted your s3 bucket.  Yes, like a normal folder so we can just run sage mode Yes, you can create those settings. Yeah, you can get files folders inside that create give permission Like you do Linux permission you change the owner everything you can do But it's actually a file system s3 file system you mounted here So this is a concept of huge huge means file system in users. It's a technology which allow you to Launch or install a file system not natively supported in the OS So s3 is not supported in natively in the line expert. You can mount it here So is there any configuration on the s3 part? No, nothing You just need your access key and secret key to set up in the s3fs configuration, which I showed that by swd file you to create So access key column secret key you put it and then your s3fs may be able to communicate with your bucket So if you will mount it will show you if your configuration is wrong Your condition is wrong. Do you usually create another user for it? Basically, yeah, you can use the root user, but nobody Prefer that you create another role. I am role and give the only the s3 specific permission s3 all permission So that role if somebody can hack your credential history He have access only to s3 not your other resources of AWS So if you can use the power of that So here like the media folder yes, the s3 bucket is like Because we need it because I showed you Yeah, you can do that Yeah, you can do like whenever you upload your image you do your custom coding Integrate s3 s3 hdk of 4 php and then upload it to the bucket and where you are referring in the front end You change the path you use some method and refer the path to the s3 bucket you can do that also But my point was you have to do the efforts here. It's very easy to do without doing changes in your coding You also have the saving measures No, no, actually it is not taking any space on the on the client side on the OS It will not take any single space if you see the media folder size. It will not show any size Let me show you if you see media folder. It's zero size It will not take any single space here. It is just a reference here Not storage We have a No, no, no, it's not Internally even it's not downloading the files it just give the reference So if you access it then it download and cash it on the local OS So if you want to ask again, it is in the local OS So it's fast, but whenever you access first time it create the cash So if you're excited you mounted and you launch your site So whenever user is accessing your product images, it's downloading to the OS Or no matter which OS because you have multiple OS you can have Like using this you see you can have multiple OS easy to instances So it will download the image each user will access them Definitely for WordPress also you can use Drupal also you can use As long as you are having one single folder of user content If you have multiple user content folder, you can utilize multiple buckets You can have multiple buckets mount them multiple times. You can use that kind of time Yeah What's the minimum easy to instance type Do you think if I just want to have my Lajento in one easy to instance What type instance would be the minimum that it could handle that Lajento, because it's like You want to do and the production or just for your development production production. Yeah, production At least you need a small instance 1.2 gigabyte trim I think for a small instance. We have the nano instance. I started this instance nano instance It's only having 600 megabyte RAM Yeah, it won't for production. We should not use that because whenever you will access 20 or 50 concurrent users Majento takes a lot of RAM you already know So every request takes a lot of RAM probably like a T2 video T2 medium is very fine. It's fine. Yeah, very good. Very good. It's 4 gigabyte RAM medium instance Very good micro Micro nano will not work.  It's enough. Okay, even for our clients. We are using C3 dot 2s large 64 gigabyte RAM server. Oh, that's huge. He's huge, but their traffic is huge So we we are using for one of our client is Charles and Keith and for them We are using two instance of 64 gigabyte RAM So to production instance and then your database is all of these other ideas in the ideas isn't different That is also running 122 gigabyte RAM server Because ideas here ideas is also have its own Instance yeah, we don't know about the OS layer about that But it's an instance where you can control the instance type the RAM You can control so but ideas the minimum instance will be fine Ideas minimum instance easy start from micro. Yeah, it's also start from micro small is similar similar instance of EC2 So if you are using medium for the EC2 you should use medium for the ideas So you can do this kind of auto scaling that time because if you do you start with a small instance Even your traffic row Grows you can set up auto scaling policy in that you set up like when the load is More than 70% for more than 10 minutes Start another instance. That's all the load balance Yeah, or the load bansal level you can do also you can shut down instance like when the load is less than 30% for more than 10 minutes down the one instance because your load bansal is handling the load So which server is active it will send the load if server is down it will not send the load You can have your setting like how many minimum instance you have at least one You can have minimum through running all the time some client requires So like that you can have auto scaling and you can save the cost also You don't need to be provision all the time the high capacity which you are anticipating you can have a moderate capacity all the time and run It's for traffic So it's it's the main power of AWS. It's very flexible in this case any other cushion Be detailed ocean, it's not Claudia We have many other application on the dedicated or shared hosting or Anyone on the Azure cloud if you talk about cloud we host an AWS Azure Google App Engine and If client budget is not so high we can use the shared hosting or dedicated hosting Okay, anything else? If you want to share something, it's it's your platform. You can share your knowledge or you want to share some announcement Thank you and thanks AWS for


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He's no damn... Moosin' good. I'm gonna teach her how to drive. I'm also gonna, yeah, drive a neighbour Stefan to some place. He asked if I could drive him and I said, yeah. Also, two-point campus is out today. Exciting times. And I'm getting married in, like, one and a half week. Space. The reason he is so often on my channel is because he's one of the friends that actually agrees on being on camera. My car, guys. So beautiful. Saabu. This is where we filmed the last vlog, if you remember. People really liked seeing what Norway looks like, I guess. This is not a Norway, I feel like I say that every video. Thanks. Bye-bye. The job is to get people to take a picture of what you're doing. Two cameras, really. Leg on. Yeah. How do you feel? No. Hehehe. They're driving. But literally, you have to look behind yourself. You're not supposed to. Everybody, they were lying to everybody. But my driving instructor said no. Use your mirrors. Ah, someone is going over. Good. That guy was not. That was not very good. The guy totally broke the law. So when do you think you're going to have your driver's license? Hopefully before the winter. Good one. You look that way in the roundabout. Good. I mean, because it's practical to have, you know. And I want to drive to work. Is she abusing you? Yeah, every time. Driving to work, please. I've had my driver's license for nine years. Never crashed, not once.  Which the driving instructor said you didn't think. Which I think you should. I can't believe you're driving. My wedding is soon. Are you going to cry? Probably. I mean, not just probably. I am absolutely going to cry. There's the old church. It's the oldest medieval church in the northernmost place of the world. Something like that. I wanted to see where we go when we go. And when do you go when you go? Oh, the Adolf Canon. We're now in Beiger. Do we go this way? Yeah, but they're not getting married in that church. Can I drive to the wedding church? Yeah, yeah, sure. It was a long time ago. You go there when you go. I'm way too far away from them. Yeah, okay. This will be over the line. Good one. Did you see that bicycle guy behind you? Oh, not really. You were cutting off a little bit. Oh, was I? Yeah. Sorry. Yeah, I didn't see it, but that's the important thing. Yeah, it's an important use to have seen him.  You know what? My not-consoleor cousin, she was waiting for a disk disk this week. She said she was refreshing the site like 50 times a minute. She joined Discord too, I saw. Yeah, she used a disk disk super fun. Now it's city driving. City driving. How far have you done this before? I mean, I've done all the obligatory driving. So I've done everything I need. It's just been a while now. That's the police station. This is our city. City, city. We are in the city again. So in here, you can see a field. So you see people walking around. A lot of things. Because now we are in the city. And here we are. You hug it, you shine it with it. And then you throw it away. Traffic is beautiful when you get it. Yeah. Which is one of the outside. Look at my parking. Guys. How do you zoom? I like that. I'm just going to have a drink. Me too. Water bottle.  I disagree with that. I don't like this kind of things. For less. We are in the city now. How do you feel like the driving is going? It's going OK. It's a little scary in the town. Town driving. You think. This is like super Norwegian. No, it's not Icelandic. Yeah, but it's very like everybody loves it. The parking was good. I thought the car was good. OK, so I thought we would do first impressions on two point campus. We started playing it two days ago. I think it was released two days ago.  And I am playing it on Game Pass Xbox Series X. You say that it is loading much faster on. It's so fast. It's incredibly fast. My computer is not the newest computer in the universe. But it's in the Xbox Series X has my own experience. But it's just like instant, almost amazing. It's a bit better on PC so far. I find it to be acceptable on the Xbox. Yeah, I mean, it wasn't bad when I saw it at your place. It's not like it's small, but you know. OK, so what's your first impression of the game? I think if I'm going to go first, I think it's very similar to your two point hospital. Which was expected. Very expected. It's the same sort of formula. I would say if you like two point hospital at all, you will find something that you like in this one. Except for this is another setting, another premise, another just improved.  But in two point campus, when you have the students, they pay tuition. So you have to keep the students happy. It's sort of like almost gets a little dissimpsy. That's a bummer. But you know, it's a different time to do it. But yeah, you have to keep the students happy with like their energy needs, food, happiness, and blah, blah, blah. And if they don't, if they're not happy, they get bad grades. And if they get really bad, they won't pay their tuition. And then you don't get any money. Yeah, and they can drop out. Yeah, have you had anyone drop out? No. No, I'm sorry. Because I'm so good. You're so good. Such a good school administrator. We have the cooking class, wizardry. Have you done the night school? Yeah, you're on the night school. On the night. The night school is so fun with the jousting and stuff. I like that there are some rooms inside and some outside. Yeah, me too.  You can like, you know. It's much more improved because you have more control. Yeah, you have control of the outside area of the buildings which you haven't in the hospital once. You can decorate. It's a little like sims-y, I like it. It's just improved in a lot of ways, I feel like. And I would trophy hunting. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But there's so many trophies that are very like our achievements on Steam that are very like, you just have to do a lot. It's like, you know. They pop up no matter what you do, the longer you're playing. So what's your first impression overall then? I like it, I think, but I knew I would too. Me too. Because I love the Two Point Hospital. So I knew I would like it and it's very good. I saw some critics, critics. They said that it's repetitive. There was one reviewer. I don't think the reviewer was really legit or maybe they didn't know about that. You can make templates for rooms. So you don't have to recreate the room for your 11 to time. You make templates. Yeah, that was the thing when they added that. In Two Point Hospital, they didn't have that in the beginning, but then they added it because everybody was like, I have built 900,000 GPs offices, you know. So that's good. So I use templates now and I have created several of the rooms, some small ones, some big ones. The dorms currently I'm just stacking a bunch of beds into the dorms. But I would assume that you said they are more happy with smaller dorms. Yeah, I got a tip that said that too. That was like, people make your students more happy to share rooms with less people. So they have more personal rooms. Which makes sense, yeah. Did you see actually speaking of reviews though, did you see the IGN review? No. You should watch it. It is terrible. It's terrible.  And then he just, he sounds so depressed. He's just like, it's like somebody had a gun to his head and made him review it. He just sounds so depressed and whatever. And somebody commented, there was a comment that said, was he the only one in the office who could play a game like this, like that like management games or something like that. I was like, well, I just never trust IGN reviews. I often think that IGN reviews, they're overrated. Overrated, yeah, definitely. I don't trust those reviews. Yeah, it wasn't a good one. It definitely wasn't. I trust my own reviews. That's why I do reviews. Good stuff. Good game. When you go home, I'm gonna play. Yeah. We're gonna drive some more then, first. Yeah. Two of us said in my previous vlog, 10 times. Mm-hmm. Sprinkle content with little content. Okay. Oh, how did it go? Do you have any tips and tricks for two point campus?  Save it for when your students are like, Oh, yeah, I did that mistake. I know, I heard before I started that you shouldn't do that. That you should save it for emergencies. But later you end up swimming in kudos, so it's fine. Oh, swimming in kudos, she's fine. Fusen, now you're sluice. I'm sluice, yeah, baby. Snurre also in this vlog, yeah. Also the Winston. Yeah. Oh, cool. If you restart an earlier level, like if you restart the first level, you can restart it and you get all the kudos again. A lot, yeah. Well, I would say you need to get the happiness of the entire campus, right? So instead of putting plants everywhere, which have to be maintained, you can just propose this all around your campus. That's gonna be pretty. Decoration is very important for student happiness. Decoration.


Hello and welcome to the session. In this session we discussed the following question which says, if a cube of size 2 cm is placed over a cuboid of dimensions 3 cm into 1 cm into 2 cm, what will be the height of the resulting figure? Let's proceed with the solution now. We are given a cube of size 2 cm and a cuboid of dimensions 3 cm into 1 cm into 2 cm. That is, we are given the length of cuboid is equal to 3 cm, length of cuboid is equal to 1 cm and the height of cuboid is equal to 2 cm. We are given that the cube is placed over a cuboid. So this would be the resulting figure where we have, this is a cuboid of dimensions 3 cm into 1 cm into 2 cm, that is 2 cm is the height of the cuboid, 1 cm is the breadth and 3 cm is the length of the cuboid. This is a cube placed over this cuboid and this cube has size 2 cm, that is, this is 2 cm, this is 2 cm and this is also 2 cm, as all the sides of the cube are equal. Now that we need to find the height of this figure, now height of this cube is 2 cm as you can see and the height of this cuboid is also 2 cm. So this total height would be 2 cm plus 2 cm, that is, 4 cm. So this is the height of the resulting figure. As we can write, height of the resulting figure is equal to 3 cm. This completes the session. Hope you have understood the solution for this question.


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Now on to our video. I wanted to talk to you guys today about a really dark story within Green Lantern Comics. It has the possibility of affecting people with PTSD due to previous events from childhood. It has to do with child molestation, so if you're one of these people who has experienced that and suffer from PTSD, I would go ahead and click off now, find a different video. So fair warning. Jenny Lynn Hayden, who's a superhero known as Jade and the daughter of the original Green Lantern, Alan Scott, was Christmas shopping with her brother Todd Rice, who's a superhero known as Obsidian. Todd isn't really fond of her close relationship with Kyle Rainer. You see, shortly before this story, Kyle was the only Green Lantern in the universe after the events of Emerald Twilight. Kyle decided he was going to begin rebuilding the Green Lantern Corps. Now at this time, Kyle and Jade were in a relationship, and since Jade was already a superhero and familiar with the Green Lanterns, being that her father was the original Earth Green Lantern, Kyle offered her a ring he created to share his power. Kyle's reasoning for this was because he was planning on leaving Earth for an extended period of time to rebuild the Corps, but didn't want to leave it without a Green Lantern. So while shopping, Jenny and Todd come upon a group of children visiting Santa. It's at this time that Jenny listens to the words Santa says to the children, and suddenly has a flashback from her childhood. She immediately changes into her Green Lantern costume, kidnaps Santa, and takes him to the top of a skyscraper. See, Santa was actually Stan the janitor of the orphanage she was raised in. Stan sexually abused several of the girls there, and when he tried it with Jenny on Christmas night, her powers manifested for the first time and she was able to fend him off. Back to present day, Jenny while holding Stan from atop this skyscraper really wants to hurt him. But she's supposed to be a hero, right? So she really has a conflict of conscience. She knows as a hero if she were to cross that line, there would be no coming back.  And it's far too late for her to press charges against him. And she has no proof that would get him locked away. And even if she did, how would that give his victims any peace? Especially since the way our judicial system works, he'll be out to destroy young girls lives again within a relatively short period of time. She does eventually make the conscious decision to let him go free, but tells him that she'll be watching over him so that he never comes close to another young girl again. I found this story incredibly fascinating and really made me think. If I had been in a similar situation, would I have been able to take the higher road? Many of us would like to think we could. But being in a situation like that, our base instincts and animal like nature tend to get the better of us. For those of you who've studied psychology, it goes back to the id, the ego and the superego. The ego is your baseline without any outside influence. The superego would be that angel on your shoulder telling you to take the road less traveled. Now the id is that base animalistic instinct. In this case, revenge. I mean in all honesty, if we really think about it, how many of us would have dropped that SOB if we were in this same situation? I know we'd like to think we'd make the same decision as Jade, but then again, like the Joker says, all it takes is one bad day. Now this isn't the first time Green Lantern has gone incredibly dark. I mean we expect stories like this from Batman and maybe Green Arrow, but Green Lantern isn't really known for being a dark character, even though some of the darkest stories in DC Comics have come from the title. Roy Harper being a drug addict came out of Green Lantern Green Arrow number 85 and titled Snow Birds Don't Fly. Then in Green Lantern Volume 3, Number 54, when Kyle returned home to find his then girlfriend Alexandra DeWitt murdered and stuffed into the refrigerator, which I'll do a video on in the future. I mean Green Lantern has had some pretty dark stories. So in every issue when that oath is said, it really takes on new meaning given all the darkness that each of the Green Lanterns have had to overcome. I don't think the Comics Code Authority was in use at this time. If it was, is very sporadically. DC pretty much gave up on it because they started doing a lot darker comics.   And she had him tied up on top of a skyscraper. Just she wanted to just slaughter him in the most vicious way possible. So it it never would have been approved. Let's put it that way. But like I said, this was a very dark story. It was a single issue story. This was one that it could have gone on for a few issues. We could have seen the ramifications of this single story for years to come. I mean, how many heroes have gone that dark to where they've actually grabbed a knife and thought about slaughtering someone in a very despicable, ruthless way as payback. Not many. I could say that. But then again, you have the issue where Kyle Rainer catches up to major force who killed Alexander DeWitt and tries to kill him. But Guy Gardner stops him by killing major force himself. So really, Green Lantern Comics is it's based around darkness. In reality, we should probably expect more dark stories from Green Lantern than we do Batman, because Green Lantern is about overcoming that darkness. Technically, Superman is about giving hope to the people. But in reality, the Green Lantern Comics is really about hope. I know they proclaim willpower and the ability to overcome great fear. That's not it at all. The Green Lantern Comics are so dark and the characters have to overcome so much. It's really about hope. So anyway, I hope you guys enjoyed this video and go out and pick up an issue of Green Lantern volume three number 109. This was a Christmas issue. I know we're after we're past Christmas now and I kind of talked about this comic before, but that was more of a review. Whereas I wanted to take the time to really explain this one because though it was a single issue, it really dives into the mind of the superhero. How a superhero like Green Lantern could easily be tempted to go to the dark side. How any person facing that same situation could be tempted to go to the dark side. If you enjoyed that video, make sure you hit the subscribe button right there so you stay up to date on all things geek culture. Also, go ahead and check out one of these two playlists on the side for more videos just like the one you just watched. 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And there was this aha moment, that maybe there was something to losing your eyesight that you might have a little bit of an enhanced sense of touch. Bradford and Brian Manning, they share everything, even the same degenerative eye condition. They started a clothing brand called Two Blind Brothers, giving 100% of their profits to research towards curing blindness. As they put it, who knows, fit and feel? Better than a couple of blind guys. Brian and I are brothers. We both have an eye condition called Stargardt's disease. It affects our central vision, so it's a degenerative eye disease where you lose your center vision over time. When light comes into your eye, the retina converts it into electrical signals that are used to create the images that we see. Your retina is comprised of these sensory cells called photoreceptors. And like all the cells in our body, there's code that's necessary for those photoreceptors to operate. And if you have just one mistake in that code, bad things can happen. You can lose your vision. The cells can die. So glasses, contacts, that doesn't help us because the cells in our center vision are dead. When you shop when you're visually impaired, seeing the prices, seeing the size, seeing the brand, crazy difficult. So we run around and feel everything, like we're five years old. We had run across this awesomely soft shirt. So then we spent, what, six months looking at fabrics until we were like, this is the perfect one. This is what we want to be known for. The fact that we have technology now that lets us create designs, that lets us run customer service and do everything digitally has allowed us to create this company. Technology is gonna be such an amazing boon. We've seen it in our lifetime from literally carrying a pocket magnifier to having an iPhone that can do almost anything for it. This shirt was made by the Dallas Lighthouse for the Blind. And what they do is they employ 70% visually impaired workers down in Dallas, Texas to do all of our cut and sew. We have people who are suffering from these diseases actually making our clothing and the quality has been amazing. They've been fantastic partners. The money that's raised by the two Blind Brothers goes to really critical research in laboratories around the world using a virus to deliver the new gene into the cells of the retina. You can actually halt the disease and potentially restore vision in addition to hopefully saving vision. It is all about hoping that this year, next year, within our lifetimes, we will find a cure for these diseases and we will be able to change the world.


Hello, everyone. I'm James Mulan. Welcome to this episode of Million Dollar Gift, our series that really focuses and tries to at least identify and maybe even put some, a kind of value on something that can't really be valued in this way. And that is the volunteer energy that makes Arlington run. Today I am talking to Bob Sprague. Bob is the creator of your Arlington.com and he is a man about town, as anybody who has been to meetings or activities of all sorts or celebrations or commemorations, et cetera. Bob is there an awful lot of the time. If he's not, then one of his journalists is. So Bob, I really appreciate your taking the time to talk to us today. Welcome. Glad to talk to you about something I love. I have to say that's clear from the evidence, right? Because you have been doing this with no compensation for yourself for a good long while now. In fact, tell us, how long ago did you start your Arlington time? I just celebrated the 14th year, December the 10th, 2006. That is when it launched. That is quite a run. Not the earliest hyperlocal website by any measure. They go back to the mid-1990s, but I was influenced by a book by Dan Gilmore called We the Media, which I read in 19, 2005, just after I was laid off from the globe. And it gave me the idea, wait a minute, I don't have to be laid off. I can continue to do this. That's wonderful. Let me ask you actually, before we come back to the origins of your Arlington, take us a little bit, give us a little sense of what you were doing up to 2005, 2006, obviously you've just mentioned that you were at the globe. So tell us about your own journalism background. I won't give you the whole resume, but it goes back to 1970 when I dropped out of being a PhD candidate in English at Lehigh University and just went down the street and got a job as a reporter. And I knew nothing about it. I learned everything that I learned in reporting right from the get-go at the Bethlehem Globe times, which I was fortunate to be working for when it won a Pulitzer Prize in 1972. Connection there, I hope. I cannot say that I had anything to do with it. Hey, you were there. Some of my coworkers are there and it's exciting to work out of a small newspaper that won a Pulitzer Prize. Yeah, that is a remarkable accomplishment for a local newspaper, right? I did work for an even smaller newspaper after that called the Quaker Town Free Press. And in 1977, won a first prize in reporting for opening closed government meetings, a series of about 75 stories that led to the opening of previously closed meetings. Great to be involved. New England in 1982 worked for the Patriot Ledger, 85, worked for the Boston Herald, where I met my wife, Marjorie Howard. We were married in 89. We moved to Arlington and got married just about the same week. So you've been here since around 1989, 1990? My wife has been here since the 70s. I've been here since 89. And I left the Herald and taught for three years at Emerson College. And unfortunately, the professor whose seat I was taking came back. I had to get a job and that job turned out to be the editor of the advocate in 1994, 95. So you started in local media, obviously, in Bethlehem. And you then had quite a tenure with a number of different kinds of journalistic organizations or newspapers mostly. But then interestingly, after having some rich experience, both with the Herald and the Globe, major newspapers of the region you chose on some level to return to community media with the advocate before eventually launching your Arlington. So tell us a little bit about why you have spent so much time operating in really hyper-local contexts. I have some contrast there because I have worked when I worked at the Herald. And you're much farther away from the audience when you work for larger news organizations.  And so you have to swallow your pride and figure out what you did wrong and make it better. And I really enjoy the direct communication in addition to which I love Arlington. So I knew that whatever I was gonna do after the Globe, it would be connected to the town. And the whole story of what I've been doing is helping to explain to the town about itself. And it's really as simple as that. Yeah, simple but vitally important, you know. And the initial impetus for reaching out to you, though we could have done it at any point since we created this series, was the rumors that your Arlington may be in its last days. Happily you have confirmed that you will be operating at least through the middle of this coming year of 2021. I'm continuing. I need help. I have been doing it by myself for the most part from 2006 to 2014. About 2014, I began to pay writers and much more so since 2015 on to now. I have two regular writers, one select board and one school committee and they're excellent, but I need help beyond that. I will be in the new year looking for an ad sales person, not a great economy to be doing that. However, things are going to improve as the vaccine takes hold. So I do have a lot of confidence and optimism about what's coming next. I've also be looking for some partners. People will share the load. Right, no doubt about that. And we will do what we can at ACMI to amplify that message as best we can. Let me ask you though to look back, you said that you've been in Arlington as a resident for now 31 years or so. And that you love the place and clearly you do from the work that you do. What, just share some of your thoughts about what Arlington felt like, was like when you first moved in in 1989 and versus where things are today. When my wife and I moved here, it was just us and in what seemed like a big house on Washington Street. And since then, we've adopted two children who have grown up in this house. And when I first moved here, I really wasn't connected to the community. I did get the advocate and so I read the news, but once we adopted our first child, it was much more immediate connection to the town and the schools. Then of course, when I was editor of the advocate, you're just thrown into the middle of it. How long did you take the editorship of the advocate on? Not long enough, nine months. However, in that time, the paper won best newspaper in the country, 10,000 circulation and under. And part of that was me, but part of that was also Mark Levy who happened to be my best student when I taught at Emerson College and was fortunate enough to hire him. He now runs Cambridge Day.com, which is a partner of Earall, LinkedIn. Guess why? We're longtime allies. Absolutely. And it does seem like awards seem to coincidentally follow you around. So congratulations on that one. That is a remarkable achievement as well and one I didn't know. Well, it used to be on the paper's masthead, but they took it off. Well, that's a quite the accomplishment in a nine month tenure, that's for sure. I want to kind of push forward to your Arlington and ask you, where did the idea come from? Was it something that had been in gestation for a long time as far as you were concerned? Was it a sudden impulse, something in between? How did you decide to take that on? I guess you have to say, after the shock of being laid off from the globe and figuring out what to do with myself, I just sat down and it came to me like bling. After reading the book by Gilmour, We the Media, his, one of the points in his book is that the community can help be your reporters. So the basic idea behind your Arlington, hence the name, your Arlington, was to make it less my Arlington and more your Arlington. That is the people who would provide the information to describe Arlington to and to itself. I'd have to say that that experiment is remains unfulfilled. There's great potential out there for citizen journalism that remains to be tabbed. It's something that we- I think basic journalism can be taught. So whoever I'm dealing with here at the website, I'm always teaching. Yes, clearly you are, I'm sure, a teacher by nature. I spent 23 years teaching myself and really enjoy working with our interns at ACMI all the time both on their writing as well as how it is that they cover stories, et cetera. And it's, it is very, very fulfilling work to work with young minds who are really interested in this particular corner of the world of journalism and of the world we live in and just really kind of helping nudge them forward is it feels great, I gotta say. You took the, you know, you began the website, as you said, about 14 years ago, things have changed a lot over that course of time, over the course of time, even that, you know, mere decade and a half in that particular world. So how did you get things going?  I'm totally self-taught on the tech end. I learned basic HTML coding in the late 90s and in fact, started the town's website, which I don't know if you knew that. I didn't know that. The first iterations of the town's website, which is now much more professionally run. I did and I got files from Paul Schlichman and some others who contributed image files and put it together and it became the town's website. So I- Did you do that as a volunteer? At first, but then I did get a job as the school's information person working for Kay Dunovan. And then six months later, the town in the IT department, in the comptroller's office, strangely enough, agreed to another halftime job doing the town's website. So I brought all those files with me and we got going. Man, you have had your fingers in an awful lot of pies in this town, that's for sure. To start my own website, though, I had to learn a new language and that underlies what you see today. And that language called Jumla, a African word that means community, has kept growing through the years, over 15 years, to become a much better platform than it was when I started, much more stable. Great, yeah, I mean, you've got enough challenges just to get your work done without having to worry about those headaches all the time. You had mentioned a few minutes ago in talking about the need for and your own commitment to citizen journalism, that you felt like it's not been as successful as you would like. Do you have any idea why that is? Well, be humble about it, it's so many hours in the day. And I think where I to start this venture over again, I probably start with seeking partners to start with rather than do everything myself and then try to figure out how do I get myself out of this now? You really need help as your own little community to be more effective in the community as a whole. So in the new year, I'm gonna be seeking help. Yeah, it's only taking you 14, 15 years to figure that out, right? Just kidding. The, your conception for your Arlington, I know from talking to you over the years that it's not like you set out to make it a kind of pro bono enterprise, you know. It was a dot com from the start and a hope to make money. But it's made only a limited amount of money and the amount of money that I do make, I pay people and I put into software. Don't pay myself. Yeah, and I think that bears repeating. This is a 14 plus year effort of yours now for which you have not received any recompense. In fact, I can say that when the family has had some hard times sometimes and we came up a little short in the month, I would transfer some money over from my business account into my home account and just remember, okay, I just took a loan there. And it gets paid back eventually, but the one has helped the other. Well, I mean, it sounds like you've been very scrupulous about it, but it doesn't matter. I mean, however often that's happened, it's nothing compared to the many, many, many months now all put together that you have been doing this work basically for the benefit of the community and not for your own at least fiscal reward. Speaking of which though, how rewarding is it? Has it been for you and in what way? I simply wouldn't do this if I didn't love it and I continue to love it and I can't wait to get going every morning to who's written me? What's the latest controversy coming over the transom? How can I best and most fairly and most accurately portray it? Because even though I did work at the Herald for six years, I was not comfortable with some of their portrayal of news. I'm much more comfortable with the way the globe portrays news. That's just a personal matter. And I think Arlington as a community deserves accuracy and fairness and I try to give it to them. And when people don't agree with me, believe me, they let me know. Well, on that subject in a sense, over the course of the many years you've been in Arlington and you've seen tons of changes, but even in the time that your Arlington has been in existence, boy, a lot of different things have happened and major controversies have arisen and either been resolved or worked through in some way, et cetera. Out of all that stuff, are there a few things that either stories or situations that really stick out as having been particularly challenging for you to cover? Sure. And I'll probably put my foot in my mouth by saying this, but if you go back to 2007, when there was a controversy involving the Otteson principal and a teacher, I broke that story. And it was a journalistic feat, you might say, to break it. However, I made a lot of people mad at me about that. And I'll just have to say in retrospect, looking back over the years, this story, by the way, was settled in the favor of the school district back in 2013 and the people involved in 2007 were fired. That's a direct result of the controversy. I think in retrospect, I probably would have handled things differently than I did. I probably would. The investigation involving the school committee and two people wasn't complete at the time that I published it. I was provided documents that justified the investigation, but I think in retrospect, I might have waited a little bit there. So lessons learned. And I have to say, I'm willing to dig into things and look into things, but I'm not at heart a muck breaker. I'm at heart an explainer. And there's a difference. Oh, there certainly is. There certainly is. And I think that a lot of the time, I think that the explaining part, the sharing and disseminating of useful information, within the town, is really the best that we can do in a lot of ways. And I think we're also fortunate to operate in a town which generally, at least in my experience, which is much shorter time than yours, but at least in my experience, this town is most of the leaders and decision makers in this town, it seems to me, do their jobs responsibly enough where I don't feel like we have to be going out and digging in the dirt to find out what's really going on here. I wonder whether you agree or not. I definitely agree with that. The public officials I deal with in Arlington are among the most informed and above board and straightforward I have ever dealt with through 50 years of following journalism. So I know I come in for the criticism that I'm just brown nosing town hall, but hey, I'm just calling it as I see it and I believe they're good people. Yeah, and you've spent the time, frankly, at the hours and hours and hours of listening to the deliberations first hand in countless meetings. I think you've spent the time to earn your right to speak as a truly informed person about that. So others might disagree, of course, but I think you speak from experience and that can't be denied. All right, Bob, you were saying that you're excited about what's coming up in the new year and optimistic. Glad to hear that and to share some of that with you. Tell us a little bit though, kind of push us forward here to June and beyond. What do you see coming up for your Arlington and for yourself? I can't give away too many secrets, but I think one of the things I've concluded over the past 14 years that I've tried to do too much and there are certain aspects of town life I can't get to. And so you may well be seeing a change in your Arlington away from perhaps what might be called meeting news toward people news. Now, someone may think, okay, that's warm and fuzzy, but the fact is I've got a great writer working for me called Marjorie Howard, my wife, and she does excellent people stories and we will be continuing those. And we may be covering less meetings than fewer meetings than in the past. Now, if somebody doesn't like that, I'll say step up, want to cover a meeting for me, go for it. Right. Well, you've mentioned that you, you know, the folks that you do have on staff, so to speak, the writers that you have are that's, that is their beat. So that is their beat. And say for school committee, I would think the school committee reporter continues to report meetings going forward, particularly during budget season. This will not be a surprise to the select board reporter because I've discussed this with her. We may be doing different kinds of town stories that come out of a select board meeting, but aren't necessarily the nitty gritty of everything that happened and every vote that occurred at the meeting. Hey, we have ACMI for that. Well, it is true, right? And, you know, we will provide that, that coverage going forward in all the excruciating detail anybody could desire. So I think it's sound, you sound energized by the idea of moving in the direction that you're talking about. So I think that that sound, you know, I think that sounds very promising. Well, I hope so, but there's also a balance involved in life. And so you have to balance what you're doing at home and what you're doing in the community. And I, I favor that. You've been at this a long time. A long time now and in a bunch of different places. And as we've mentioned, different contexts, different approaches, but on the hyper local. Community media question. What advice do you have for people like our interns at ACMI who are really just starting out, but they've chosen ACMI over other internships that they could have because they are already drawn on some level to this hyper local coverage. What, what, what, what, what of your amassed wisdom? Can you, can you share with folks like them? I think that encouraging them to keep an eye on the local, which, which if they are working with you, they be by, by, to me that over, over the years that I've been in journalism that people always wanted to go to the bigger paper or the bigger organization. And there are definite advantages to paying attention to what's, what's at home. And they, young kids may not want to hear that, but I think it's true. Right. And it's clearly brought a professional lifetime of satisfaction and gratification to you. Though it is clearly also, you know, needs to be said, been hard work. So I want to thank you for talking to us today. I want to thank you for all these years. And we look forward to speaking to you again, perhaps when you start on your next venture, who knows. But we also, I do want to mention our appreciative of our own collaboration, ACMI with your Arlington, which really is fruitful for us. And, and I hope and assume for you as well. It's, it's the longest collaboration I've had of any advertiser or other media group. So we go way back. And one of the earliest stories I ever did was the story about the history of ACMI. So what it came from. Yes, that for another day. Gotcha. Your dear viewers. All right, I've been talking to Bob Sprague, the creator and the main man behind your Arlington.com, which has been serving our community really very ably for 14 plus years now and counting. This has been a million dollar gift. I'm James Milan. Thanks for joining us.


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