Have you ever walked up to somebody and you just have a bad feeling around that person? Like there's just a feeling of something's not right. This can be a rich episode just so you know. Today we're going to be talking about the law of attraction, what it is, how to use it and how to actually attract everything that you want into your life. Now, before I dive into it, I understand. This might seem weird and woo woo and I completely understand that because I'm a very logical, sensible person. But when I go through this and I'm very analytical as well, you're going to see what I mean by how the law of attraction works, whether you happen to be woo wooing or whether you happen to be a very analytical science based type person. This is going to make sense to you no matter which one you are. I'm going to teach you how to use the law of attraction to get what it is that you want in your life. Now I'll tell you this. I've been using it now for about 15 years and I can tell you this, no matter what your stance is on the law of attraction, it works. If you take notes on this, if you use it, I'm going to teach you how it works, how to use it in your life and how to get what you want in life as well. On a basic sense, this is what the law of attraction says. It says that you can attract anything that you want into your life, but you need to believe in it to your core. And if you believe in it to your core, every single cell in your body, then you will get whatever that thing is. But that's the secret to it. Is that you have to, you have, you have 50 trillion cells in your body right now, right? You have to get all of those cells to go towards that one thing. And the way that you control your 50 trillion cells is through the central voice, your thoughts. And that's what we're going to go into. I'm going to go much more in depth, but basically you will attract into your life, what you think about the most. That's the easiest way to think of the law of attraction, but we're going to go much more in depth than just that alone. Now you may have seen the movie, The Secret. The secret is on the law of attraction. I think it's a great movie. It's a great book, but I think it leaves a lot out the way that the secret seems to be for me is I'm going to sit down, I'm going to figure out what it is that I want.  And it's just going to the universe is just going to bring it into my life. And I think that that's part of it, but it's missing a lot. And that's what I want to dive into. And there's no real explanation of how it works. So it makes it a lot easier to believe in something when you know exactly how it works, because then you go, okay, yeah, I can get behind this idea.  Right? So it requires you to, yes, the law of attraction, but also it requires action. You got to do something. So we're going to dive into that. And to understand the law of attraction, we must understand our bodies as they are. Our bodies are molecular structures that are vibrating at a massive speed at all points in time. So you can look at my hand and my hand seems like a solid object, but my hand is not solid. It is actually vibrating. If you were to be able to look at my hand through a microscope, you'll be able to see all of the trillions of cells in my body, all of them moving at a specific rate, whatever that is. If you look at anything that you can see in your physical reality, everything is a vibrating structure. My desk, this podcasting mic, the camera this recording it on my computer, this recording this audio, everything is vibrating. It's just that everything is vibrating at different speeds. And we're constantly vibrating. Everything is the difference between my body and my desk though, is that my desk is one constant speed, one constant vibration. My body changes depending on my thoughts and my feelings. So, you know, I'll give you a perfect example of how this is going to make sense to you. Have you ever walked up to somebody and you just have a bad feeling around that person? Like there's just a feeling of something's not right, right? That is your body's vibration and their body's vibration coming into contact with each other and they're not in alignment in some sort of way. That's called destructive interference. If you want to go deeper into it, right?  I know it sounds weird. I get it for those guys that are analytical. Our fields coming together because your vibration of your body doesn't just stay within your skin, right? So we are in alignment. If I'm vibrating at a certain rate and that person's vibrating at a certain rate, I'm going to have good feelings. That's where the phrase good vibes come from. That's also where the phrase bad vibes come from. As you can tell whether something's right or wrong, you can tell whether someone is right or wrong based on basically how you feel. Now, in order to understand how the law of attraction works, we must understand two separate things. Number one is our conscious mind, which is the mind that you hold all of your thoughts in. And the other one is then your subconscious mind. So we're going to get really deep today. I hope you're ready, right?  Your conscious mind is only about five percent of your thoughts throughout the day, right? Everything you think about, and you can only hold one thought at a time.  It doesn't know this is true. This is false. It just takes all of the information and stores it all away as if all of it is true. It doesn't decipher the information. It doesn't think about it, any of that stuff. But what's interesting is that your subconscious is in control of about 95 percent of your thoughts, your feelings, and the way that you see the world as well. So it's really important before we dive into the law of attraction, a little bit more in depth is to actually understand the way your subconscious mind, which nobody tends to talk about when they talk about the secret, and they talk about the law of attraction, how your subconscious mind actually dictates the law of attraction in what rate you're vibrating it. Now you have to realize this, the subconscious mind once again just takes everything that you say and automatically stores it is true.    If you think, oh, I'll never attract the right man or I'll never attract the right woman or, you know, all guys are players or any of those types of things, those thoughts will then store into your subconscious and you will take actions that line up with what your subconscious believes in. So after years and years and years of thoughts being away, being stored away from your conscious to your subconscious, you will develop a paradigm. A paradigm is what you believe is true. And it's usually the subconscious. You don't even think about it. It has shaped your life throughout the years. This, your program from your childhood is where your paradigm, your, that's actually what dictates what your paradigm is going to be. So if your paradigm is a child, um, if it shapes the way that you view the world as an adult, it's everything. It's what you believe. It's what you don't believe. It's what you love. It's what you hate. It's the language you speak.  So let me give you an example. If you were born poor as a kid, right? And your parents always got in fights about money and your parents were always in debt and they said stuff like money doesn't grow on trees and money is the root of all evil.  Then your brain's going to take that and take that and take that and take that. And then it's going to consciously stored into your subconscious. And now you've got a paradigm just around money itself. Uh, I have to screw people over. I'm never going to be rich and successful. You know, um, I have to do bad things to make money. Money is the root of all evil. Money doesn't grow on trees. Now I've got a paradigm around money, which is going to change my perception of the view of money of the world. It's going to change my thoughts around money. It's going to change my vibration around money. And it's going to dictate the way that I either attract money or don't attract money or the actions that I take to go make money or the actions I take not to make money. So if you're poor now, as an example, if you're rich now, as an example, if you're good in relationships now, if you're bad in relationships, all of those are guided by your paradigm and those were all programmed into you at some point in time when you were a kid. Now that being said, when we're looking at the program and we're looking at the conscious and the subconscious mind, we're looking at the paradigm. It's not something that you can just change overnight. It's not just something that happens quick and easy. It takes time, but believe me, it's worth putting time into it to actually start figuring these things out. Right. So ultimately what we're trying to do is we're trying to, in its simplest form, we're trying to affect and change all of the results that we have in our life. We're trying to affect our and change all of the results around our money, making more money if we want our relationships, having better relationships, our happiness, our joy, our success, everything. And it all starts with what you think. Right. And what you think, whether it's good or whether it's bad, goes into your subconscious and will eventually produce whatever results you want in your life.  Right. And all of your results typically line up with your paradigm. So let me give you an example. There's gonna be a lot. I promise you, I told you this is gonna be a big, this can be a rich episode just so you know, do you know somebody who has all of the education in the world? They have, you know, degrees falling off the walls and they're getting another degree and another degree and another MBA and all of this stuff, but they just can't seem to succeed. They just can't seem to figure it out. Do you know anybody like that? Have you ever heard of someone like that? Why do you think that is? Because they think that education is going to change them, but it's not. What actually changes and needs to change is their paradigm because they can get all of the education they want to in the world, but the paradigm hasn't, hasn't changed. Now, what does this have to do with the law of attraction? Your paradigm is in control of the frequency of vibration that you set off into the world, the frequency and the vibration that your body is at.  And when I say change your frequency and your vibration, the easiest way to think of it is this, you know, if I'm inside of my car and I'm going for a drive and I have the AM station turned on in my car, my car will never pick up an FM station if I am tuned into an AM station, right? It won't happen because I'm in an AM station, not an FM station. So the same thing happens where if the law of attraction, the way that it works, if I have a poverty mindset, if I have a poverty paradigm, if my subconscious is being run by, you know, these poverty thoughts and monies, the root of all leave, you have to screw people over and you have to work all day in order to become successful. If I have that poverty mindset, then I'm going to send that it's in my thoughts, it's in my body, I'm vibrating a poverty mindset frequency, I'm going to send that out to the world, right? So an example of that would be all of the people, places, opportunities and things that could get me out of my poverty mindset. I won't even notice them. Why? Because if someone comes in that could change my or an opportunity comes in that says, oh, this could get me out of my poverty mindset. I'm not even going to recognize that it's something that could help me. I'm automatically going to push it away the same way that if I meet somebody and I'm not vibrating at the same frequency as them, I'm going to get bad vibes. So for instance, I might have a poverty mindset and the best freaking investment opportunity or the best business idea can come into my awareness, can come into my field, can come into my, you know, I can literally be sitting there and talking to somebody who's got the best business investment that can make me millions of dollars. If I'm vibrating is at a negative, you know, poverty mindset, I'm not even going to take that thing as an option. I'm going to be like, no, this isn't right. It doesn't feel right, which is usually how you can tell, you know, the frequency. It doesn't feel right. Why? Because I'm vibrating at poverty. If abundance in wealth comes into my life and starts to vibrate, I'm not going to be in line with it. There's going to be a part of my body that says, no, Rob, don't do this. Don't do this. Don't do this. Therefore, I will reject that person. I will reject the opportunity. I will reject everything around me that could get me into my abundance. That could get me into my wealth because I am at a poverty mindset. It makes sense if I'm vibrating at that frequency of poverty, then anything that's not lined up with that poverty, I'm going to reject. It's crazy, isn't it? You know, so what happens is we have to get ourselves on a quote unquote money-making frequency. We have to realize that our programming of money is the root of all evil.  Whatever it is that is your, your, your frequency, the station that you're turned into, the same way that if I'm on an AM station, I won't be able to pick up an FM station. If I'm on a poverty frequency, I'm not going to be able to pick up an abundance frequency or a wealth frequency. It's simple. It makes a whole lot of sense, doesn't it? Remember, the difference between myself and my desk is that we're both vibrating, but I can change my, my vibration. I can change my frequency. I can change the station that I'm turned into, right? So you will attract whatever vibration or station that you're turned into. And you can only listen to that one station. So if I'm on a poverty mindset, I won't be able to poverty station. I won't be able to get the abundance and, you know, abundance and wealth frequency. If I'm on the scarcity one, let's go to another one.  Maybe she even say it directly to you. Maybe you overheard her talking to friends about it, right? And then you grow up and you get into a relationship and maybe get cheated on.  You start to actually think so many times over and over and over and over and over again, men are cheaters, men will screw you over. You can't trust men. You know, this is just an example. It could go the other way for men to women, women to men.  What's going to happen is you are eventually going to to create a paradigm around that you're going to go from your take it from your conscious thoughts stored into your subconscious mind, which is going to change the frequency that you're vibrating yet. And that's why so many people like, I don't know why I keep dating men that are broken. I don't know why I keep dating men that are assholes. I don't know why I keep finding people who are screwing me over, who cheat on me, all of this stuff is because we tend to attract into our life whatever it is that is going to line up with what we believe is true in our conscious mind and our subconscious mind and our paradigm. We are going to attract those things into our life.   It just makes sense, though, doesn't it?  I'm only going to be attracted to the people who reinforce my paradigm of the way that I see the world. So that's why, you know, someone comes in, they could be really good for them and you're like, why don't you see your friend, maybe? And you're just like, why doesn't she like him? Like he's perfect for her. Why? Because he as a really good man doesn't reinforce her belief, paradigm, consciously and subconsciously of the world of men or assholes, men screw you over, men or cheaters. Why does she always end up with those types of people? Because that's what she believes in a thought and at a cellular level that men actually are. This is what meditation is for. This is what going out and actually becoming aware of these things is for is so you can start to reprogram yourself. You realize what station am I tuned into? What station are you tuned into?  Because whatever station if I'm tuned into ninety eight point seven FM, I'm only going to get ninety eight point seven FM. I'm not going to get seven ten a.m. If I'm tuned into ninety eight point seven FM. So I've got to pay attention to man, what do I actually consciously and subconsciously think is true about money, about business, about relationships, about wealth, about happiness, about abundance, about scarcity, all of these things, because that's going to dictate where my body is vibrating at. And if something vibes with me, which is usually going to, you know, that's called constructive interference versus destructive interference, then I'm going to actually understand that I'm only noticing and attracting things into my life that line up with the way that I actually truthfully deep down at a cellular level, believe the will, the way that the world is. So that's why you can consciously want success, but then you're not taking any action. That's why you can consciously want to have the best relationship, but you're screwing them all up or finding the wrong person. That's why you can consciously want to have a successful business, but you're freaking sleeping in and you're bringing the wrong business partners in and all of these things are happening is because you have to become aware not only just of your conscious thoughts, but of your subconscious thoughts and your paradigm around all of that, because that's ninety five percent of what you think about. And it doesn't happen overnight. Like I can't just go, Oh my gosh, you know what? I'm going to change my frequency and I'm just a different person. You know, you can try to work on it every single day, but you have to rise. You have to literally brainwash yourself into believing that that's why I have an episode, you know, that's, you know, brainwash your your way to success or you have to brainwash yourself to change your paradigm. And that's brainwash yourself to be successful.  So if you don't see results right away, it's not to be it doesn't mean it's not going to happen. It just realize it takes time for you to reprogram yourself. If you're thirty five years old, you've got thirty five years of programming. It might take more than a couple of weeks to start to switch your programming, start to switch your paradigm. And remember that we're all programmed from a young age. So our job now as adults is to go back, look at what our paradigm is, look at what our programming was from a young age, ask ourselves, does that line up with the future that I want for myself? And if it doesn't, then I need to consciously change it and also subconsciously change it because my it starts with my thoughts, which is my conscious mind, they're stored into my subconscious mind. That changes my vibration, which then changes what I attract to my life. That's why if I have a poverty mindset, once again, in a great business opportunity comes into my awareness, comes into my life, I will be like, no, it just doesn't feel right. It's not that doesn't feel right because it's not right for you. It doesn't feel right because it's actually not vibrationally matching where you are. It's too freakin abundant for you for where you are right now.  Think about that for a second.  If you want something in your life or you tuned into that station, if you want something in your life, you need to be tuned into that station so that you can start attracting it into your life. You know, the one thing that I don't like about the secret is that it acts like, you know what, if I want to have the best relationship in the world and attract the best man or the best woman into my life, I need to sit there and I need to meditate it into my life and meditate and meditate and meditate and eventually that man will just show up at my door.   The missing piece a lot of times is that you have to actually get up and take action. Okay, I'm going to program my thoughts, my feelings, which is my head, my heart, my body, to go and find this person that I want or to find that wealth that I wanted, find whatever it is that I want. And then I'm going to get my physical vibrating body and put it out into the world to be able to actually go find these things. That's what I always find is missing when people talk about the law of attraction is what I like to call the law of action.  You got to do something. You got your mind you're working on your mind but is your body out there in the actual physical universe going where you can talk to the people of the opposite sex, right? Around people who happen to have the business that you want. So if I want to attract the perfect woman into my life, right?  I'm just ready to ready to stop playing games. I want to attract her. That's what you're thinking, right? You can meditate on her all day long, but she's not going to come knocking at your door.  How do you feel about it? Are you starting to actually feel that maybe a real relationship is something that you're you're going to settle into like is your body at that vibrational frequency and it sounds weird. I understand the vibrational frequency and all that stuff. But you can ask yourself, do I feel ready to attract the right person? Do I feel ready to bring in the right person into my life and you can feel in your body the relaxed state that it can get into. Then your physical body, you've actually got to leave your house, right?  And what happens is whether you realize it or not, the same way that you're vibing with somebody, they also need to be vibing with you. So you might might find somebody right now and they might be the perfect person for you. But because you haven't changed your vibrational frequency, to them, it doesn't feel right. So if you work on yourself, that's why they always say if you want to if you want to find the perfect person, become that perfect person first, because then you're going to match them vibrationally. And then it's going to be good vibes between the two of you, constructive interference versus destructive interference, aka bad vibes. So you can't just meditate that person into your life, right? Same way that if you want to have a million dollars in a bank account, you need to program and consciously think about this money that you want to make and you've got to consciously brain watch yourself and to believe in that this is actually true. But then you've also got to get out and go make the money. The money's not just going to show up and you're not going to just, you know, ding dong, FedEx is here to bang, you know, is that is at your front door and they just drop a million dollars in cash. No, you've got to physically and mentally work on yourself so that your vibration is at the right frequency so that therefore you go out and when the right opportunity or person or place or thing comes into your life, you go, that's it right there. That's the thing that I was working for it. And it might not, you might not think it's right, but it actually feels right.  So when they say attract things into your life with the law of attraction, this is what it's talking about. What you think about will be stored into your subconscious. Your subconscious will change your vibration. That vibration is at a certain frequency and you will only line up and get things that line up with that, you know, only get things that line up with that frequency.  If you think you're going to be wealthy at a cellular level, deep down, you'll eventually be wealthy. It's going to come to you.  You're going to find only those people. But if you switch it around and you truly believe that the right person for you is out there, as long as you get yourself out there, that person is going to find you. You're going to find them. And when you do find, you're going to match vibrationally, which is how the law of attraction works. Do you want to go back to dreaming or do you want to go to actually creating your dreams?


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want to learn about stocks, cryptocurrencies, NFTs, and the metaverse, join RichTV.io. How's everybody doing today? I'm your host Rich from RichTV Live with our very special guest, David Vinokarab, the CEO of Fandify Technology Corp. How are you doing today, David? I'm good, Rich, how are you? I'm doing fantastic. Very excited to have you back on the show again. And I'm a big fan of Fandify Technology Corp. And my question is the company's been working on its prediction platform and fan engagement. Can you give us an update on the platform and how the beta launch is coming along? Yes, it's been a long time coming. So what we've done just since the start of the summer, we started our pre-beta signups. So what we started doing was engaging across all of our social media platforms, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Discord, et cetera, build up those communities, create some demand ahead of the beta launch. So we're running a campaign right now, a contest to get people signed up. We've already hundreds and hundreds of people signed up for the beta. The beta will be going live on November 7th. I encourage all of the viewers to go to fandify.com, sign up for that beta, be part of the first go-to-market steps for the company. We're really excited. We are activating partners that we've signed up in the past that have had a first look at the platform, if you will. So we're reaching out to their databases of users. We're gonna have steady news flow about a number of other partnerships that we're gonna be announcing over the coming weeks as well. And we're excited to be going live, frankly. Well, congratulations. Super excited to see how that gets done and how it gets rolled out. Now, a lot of companies this last year have had a difficult year with the market conditions. Can you tell us what has fandify been doing to help build shareholder confidence and increase the company's value? Well, certainly, yeah. The winds of the market have been blowing in everyone's face, other than if you're an oil and gas company. Us being a technology company that's launching a new platform, a unique platform. I've been stressing to the team that we have to make sure it's smooth and as efficient as possible to lunch. We'll talk about some of our user acquisition metrics after the launch, but even using our proceeds as efficiently as possible, we're still well financed from our earlier financing a couple of years ago. We're very fortunate that the technology that underpins our platform, that's something that was built before. So we've really been tailor making the use case for eSports, for sports, for fan engagement with the built and proven technology. And the recent additions to our team that have experienced building out communities in this free to play game sector, this isn't their first time they've done that. We're fortunate to have to have some very experienced people that have built out platforms, similar two hours in a way, into a couple hundred million euros of revenue, our advisory board, they've been a fantastic resource for us in terms of giving us feedback, that could bode well for us with the user bases that they'd have access to. You know, when you're rolling out a technology product, it's all about the user experience. So we've been laser focused on making it fun, engaging and just adding value to our partners, right? We're not trying to build a ground salt for a new use case. We're trying to enable existing communities of users to enjoy our platform, to increase the engagement of those partner platforms that should lead to, you know, significant lower customer acquisition costs. You gotta be smart, spend your money well and rely on the experts that you have access to. So that's what we've been doing. Love what you guys are doing. Now, Fandify also operates an NFT platform. Can you tell us a little bit about that and what kind of NFTs will be available through its marketplace? Yeah, so what we're gonna be doing with the NFT rewards module is that we're gonna be rewarding fans based on the content silo that they come in from. So whether it's eSports, sports or individual content creators, we want to empower those content creators to reward their fans. So whether that's someone that makes the most predictions, that is the loudest cheering fan or the most engaged fan on their platform, we'll be able to track those use case metrics, report those back to our partners and then work with them, their brand sponsors to create calls to action. So whether it's a unique collectible from an event, from a team, from an individual player or whether it's a use case NFT that is redeemable for something such 10% off for some merchandise or a unique fan experience, all of that will be enabled through the ecosystem that we've built out in terms of the data tracking capabilities. And at the end of the day, it's always nice to be rewarded for your engagement as opposed to just sitting at home and watching TV. So you wanna create unique ways for people to share the rewards by sharing their fan engagement with their favorite content creators. Fan engagement is huge. And I know I'm a huge fan of NFTs and sports and I'm all about it. So really excited to see what you guys are going to be able to do moving forward. Now, David, what would you say are your top three upcoming milestones for Fandify?  That's gonna be happening in around November 7th. We're gonna be announcing new partner activations between now and then and beyond then. And then we're gonna be expanding into sports as well for the real-time predictions. So these are major initiatives and evolutions of the platform itself. So we're not hoping to have three separate initiatives for one initiative built on top of another one, on top of another one. As I said, in just the first several days of the launch of the beta, we've had hundreds of people sign up. Next step is thousands and the goal is millions. So we've got a very busy fall ahead of us and we're really looking forward to it. That sounds like huge, huge, huge growth and exciting goals to achieve for sure. In your opinion, is Fandify well-funded for the time being or will you be looking to raise some funds in the near future? Yeah, as you said earlier, Rich, it's been a tough market. We did our last financing just about a couple of years ago and we're still well-funded. Our last financial statements came out at the end of September. We still showed $1.8 million in revenue our burn rate is around a couple of $100,000 a month all figures Canadian, which is very important. And we have some money that's gonna be coming in for more and so we have a number of warrants outstanding that could be in millions of dollars. Once the platform goes live, we're ready to generate revenues from day one. So we're looking to offset our capital needs with some revenues as it starts to trip away. We have to, as you say, walk before we run and run before we fly. So we built a platform that's engaging that has opportunities, not only for revenue generation but for affiliate revenues under revenue programs. So, and that's another reason that I think makes us a compelling use case for our partners is that not only can they increase their fan engagement but it's a new revenue stream for them as well. So we wanna be one of those picks and shovels if you will of the fan engagement industry that allows people to engage with their fans better, create new revenue streams. And as I said, the platform's built more or less. So we're really not anticipating any increased development costs as they are. But again, with a platform that's going to evolve over time, some strategic partners wanna come in and help us develop the platform and scale the platform that certainly something we'll consider, but short answers were good for cash. Very good. And is there anything else you would want investors to know about Fandify Technology Corp today? What would I would like investors to know? I think that, you know, given where we are in the market valuation of the company, I think there's tremendous upside for investors over the next weeks and months. You can hold this accountable for, you know, the plans that I'm talking about today, you'll see progress or see users, people will be able to log into the platform, see the community that we're building, see the partners that we're working with. And then when you consider that the gaming industry, video gaming industry is a couple hundred billion dollar year industry, plus sports, which is in the tens of billions of dollars, plus the overall creator economy, you know, I think the platform that we were building out has the opportunity to touch hundreds of millions of people that can affect tens of billions of dollars of revenue. And again, you know, over the coming quarter, two quarters, three quarters, investors will see our progress towards that and hopefully that gives me confidence to invest in the company and we're all shareholders and we all want it to succeed and that's what we're all working towards. David, what is the best way for investors to get in touch with the company if they have any questions about Fandify? Well, you can email us at info at Fandify.com, F-A-N-D-I-F-I.com, those come to me, I'm happy to speak with shareholders at any time. In terms of signing up for our beta, go again to Fandify.com, there's a sign up button right there to get numerous contest entries, spread the news to your friends and reach out to us at any time and I'm always happy to speak to shareholders. Very excited to see everything unfold here with Fandify. Thank you so much for joining us, the CEO, David Vinokarov. Now I must remind you that Rich TV Live is strictly for information and education purposes.  In saying that, we want you to put your attention to Fandify symbols, FDM in Canada, FDMSF in America. We believe this is a project that's a growth company that is undervalued, under-appreciated, under-exposed and thank you for joining us today, David. Thanks for your time, Rich. 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what's going on guys it's your boy dpj here today with another destiny video and today I have some quote legitimate inside source contact leaks destiny to information but before we get into the video if you guys do enjoy leaving a like is much appreciated can we reach 4,000 likes that'll be absolutely epic if we could also if you guys missed a post on Reddit of where this information came from I will link that in the video description too if you do want to check it out now basically someone posted I think it was yesterday by the name of quote cool inside leaker that to me already looks dodgy he dropped some information on Reddit regarding destiny to you and what he claimed was from a legitimate inside source contact from bungee now I'll read through what this guy states on Reddit and I'll give you guys my opinion on it okay so I'm quoting the guy right now I am in close contact with a bungee employee currently working on destiny to in some capacity that is the sole source of this information take it with all the grain of salt you'd like getting into it and what he states about destiny to they are not completely rebooting our characters my source described it as a clean slate but not a full wipe apparently our garden will still retain their memories accomplishments etc up to this point but we will not carry over any gear weapons and items there will be three new sub classes from the jump the existing classes will be reworked including new abilities perks and visual effects the game may face a delay into quarter one 2018 my source didn't get too specific but hinted that they are having some issues with a new engine that they are using and possibly some hang-ups regarding narration a slash staff it will be 60 frames per second powers of the darkness will be introduced into gameplay my source didn't elaborate on this rage will be bigger longer and much more interesting in terms of mechanics moving forward ships will no longer be cosmetic only no further details given they are implementing some kind of transmogrification feature it will be on PC a UI overhaul more customization features coming ever verse will not be as prominent as it is now there will play a new role in the overreaching story the speaker will be central to the main storyline new non-guardian races will be introduced and that's all this dude states his source gave him so let's go back and take a closer look this guy's name is inside leaker I mean that questions that begs attention before we've even got into the damn post inside leaker with a name like that nobody's gonna take you seriously I mean it's just that killed it for me before you even got into the damn post but still reading through some of the information he states he states the game will be on PC which we already know about he states the game will be in 60 frames per second I mean this is a next-gen only game PS4 PC and Xbox one only if this game don't run in 60 frames per second I will cut my dick off he states that there will be three new subclasses but no further information was given he states that the old existing subclasses will be reworked raids will be bigger longer and much more interesting which should be the case considering it's a sequel sir and the speaker will basically play new roles ships will no longer be cosmetic only a new non-guardian races will be introduced I mean if you go back through ready over the past six months all of what this guy stated in his post has already been mentioned on previous posts it's like he's gone back through the past six months of ready he's jotted down the best points and ideas people have made and put them all into one big post I mean there's actually nothing new here in terms of information I mean like obviously raids are gonna be bigger obviously they're gonna be new subclasses obviously it will run in 60 frames per second obviously it's coming to PC we already know these things there will be new customization that's obvious as well it's a new game and there's been so much information and speculation about them rebuting our characters and just like this guy stated I've seen this and ready a million times before there's no new information here in my opinion the legitimate inside source contact at least gives us something to speculate about is it gonna be a bar theme story was that gonna be a main attraction to this game is it gonna be a cabal raid give us something we want to know don't give us points and ideas other people have already made months ago this to me it's just a massive cry for attention nothing more it's nothing more than a guy trolling inside leak and my ass but seriously killed it for me though as well is the fact he said ever verse will not be as prominent the way it's kind of staying it is is though is trying to overhype destiny to which is nothing more than what this post is basically what I mean here is saying ever verse will not be as prominent is basically saying that Michael transactions will not be as prominent in destiny to as what they are in destiny one now this in my opinion is completely false the way destined to has built up now Michael transactions are massive parts and it's a major source of revenue for the game for both Activision and Bungie they're not just gonna completely eliminate it they will probably rework it to suit us like they did I mean like the dawning wasn't perfect but it was a lot better than the shitty event we've got before I mean if they rework it it can be fine but there's no way they're gonna get rid of Michael transactions I mean whether they keep it cosmetic only who knows but I can guarantee you Michael transactions will be in destiny to and this what this guy states about ever verse not being as prominent is nothing more than trying to overhype destiny to trying to get us excited for it which is nothing more than what this post is I mean like we ain't already excited for destiny to already we don't need shit like this this in my opinion is nothing more than a cry for a tension a troll doing his best to troll absolutely everybody and I ain't falling for it now I don't know about you guys I mean I'm already hyped for destiny to I love destiny one I don't need more hype for destiny to I ain't falling for this bullshit but what you guys think about this let me know down below in that comments section until I see a legit met something new an image or something like that I believe in what people are posting unless it comes from someone who's built up credit within the destiny community I believe in nothing but let me know your opinion on it down below in that comments section hope you guys enjoyed the video thanks always forced up in bye and I'll catch you guys on that next one


All right, so we're gonna get started. This is our last portion of the day. We have decided to have everybody up here as a panel. We also have our Georgetown crew virtually participating. So we're all here for answering questions, but we're gonna start off. So we thank you all for participating in the breakout sessions. I heard that there was some really robust conversation in every single room. So we're sorry that it couldn't last for three hours, but we, in the interest of getting you out on time, or at least close to on time, wanted to come back here. And I've asked each of our presenters and leaders of workshops to think about two different questions and share those with us here as a group, sort of as a little bit of a report out from your sessions. And then we're gonna open it up for questions. So the two questions I posed to them ahead of time were what was one major takeaway from your group? And then what was one big question that came up in your group? So theoretically they could have been the same thing and they could have been different. So I will open it up to whoever would like to jump in first. We can start. Dina's gonna do the report out for our group which was the state and local plans group. So just kind of top level report out. I think one of the major themes that came up for us in major takeaways was how important community engagement is in this whole process in terms of creating a positive vision of what spaces could be with local communities, the importance that there's state funds available and federal funds available if you have community engagement and for the success of projects in general for a BIA program to have that bottom up support. And kind of a related question is we had a big question was where's the line between making structures more resilient in place versus helping folks relocate and the importance of community engagement in both of those processes and working with the severe repetitive loss properties. This came up in doing a buyouts that had kind of the top down strategic engagement of where it was most intelligent to do a buyout and to do it collectively with blocks of homeowners so that you could get ecological restoration and avoid blight and also though to have that bottom up support. And I think another question that came up was even when buyouts are the preferred option how you engage a constituency that might not be interested in a buyout, people who for no other reason than they don't wanna move, even if that is the decision that as a local government you've made or that you've prioritized this area as being well positioned to accept buyouts, how do you work with people who are not interested in participating? We can go next. So our breakout group was looking at integrating climate resilience into codes and standards and similarly a takeaway was how important it is to motivate and get the right constituents in the planning board meetings and how it matters to have regular citizens in those boardrooms talking about what they care about and what motivates them in addition to the standard nonprofit groups that show up in favor or other lobbyists that show up in against projects. And multiple people reference the Consensus Building Institute as a great resource that had either funded projects to enhance conversations, community conversations around climate change or just as a resource for doing those kinds of facilitations on your own, apparently their website is a great resource. A question, it was hard to choose, although a lot of questions came up but something I took away was that people are interested to tap into what behavior really motivates people because ultimately as important as laws and regulations are and I'm a huge advocate for them as a lawyer, ultimately many people are just trying to figure out ways to get around them and so really thinking about what behavior, what motivates people and then tapping into that is something that we need to be doing more on the horizon. And just to follow up on that, looking at what some of the effects of the more forward-looking ordinances and regulations that we have put in place, for example, requiring boards and commissions to get education here in Rhode Island, what will that have an effect on what the decisions actually are? I think it's a really big question for us to look at as we've moved down the road. Very good, I took more from our discussion that I was gonna, we were gonna do one question. In our group we discussed the infrastructure and some of the legal liability and interestingly what came, one of the main issues that kept cropping up again and again was really a lack of local government capacity on the part of many of the 39 different local governments in the state to be able to have the staff and resources to really dive into these projects and into these inquiries even because it was noted there is quite a bit of data actually available but who has the time to use it? And so I think there was all, a plug was put in for Rhode Island's Sea Grant and the legal program. You were wrong, and Roger Williams. But you've got your work cut out for you. Were there any other, Thomas, in your group with that sort of lack of local government capacity, did anybody identify partners that they had used that had been, that it had been very helpful to engage with to help build capacity? One of the things that was discussed and I thought this was great was kind of a some budding potential work between Rhode Island's Sea Grant and the League of Cities and Talents. And I think that's a great idea because we were kind of talking about who are some of the actors that might be useful in trying to bring together some resources and maybe increase the collaboration to some degree between local governments to help overcome some of the resource scarcity on the staff side. I didn't plan that question. I didn't know he was going to say that. So we want to open it up to you guys to ask any questions that you have remaining for the day. We have all of our panelists here, so it's also a good time to potentially ask a question for a breakout group that you weren't able to attend. So if there are any questions, just raise your hand and our folks will come around. We are going to try to get you on mic just because we are recording. I was just kind of wondering, is there one state or one community that really seems to be at the forefront or a model to look forward to on these issues? I think that that question would be really well handled by our Georgetown folks. Did you guys hear that question?  Hi, can you hear us? Yeah, can you hear us? That should. So is the question, what is a good locality or state with the model for community engagement specifically? Yup, and I'm thinking about how you have your adaptation clearing house and that you probably have some ideas. So I would say on a broad scale, and it's also included in our clearing house, the example in Louisiana, the LA SAFE program that we shared is a really sort of bottom-up process and their website as well includes a lot of guidance on how they sort of conducted a long-term community engagement process, processes with different series of meetings, ways to engage sort of underrepresented communities. For instance, by holding meetings in different locations so people would have access to them, having translators, making meetings really interactive. So that's a good model that's getting a lot of traction in the adaptation community which is part of the model. I think the challenging part on the community engagement side is that the LA SAFE program was done through one of the National Disaster Resilience competition grants where they specifically required local governments and state governments that received those funds to do engagement and they gave them the flexibility with the funding sources to be able to do robust community engagement processes. Oftentimes that funding is not available. Like local governments can't pay for things like translation services or food. It's difficult for them to post meetings and off hours because of staff constraints. So I mean, I think that's the big next challenge is how do we take these best practices for engagement that we're learning from some of the NDRC and RBD projects and actually apply them in the real world and find the funding sources needed to do that kind of deep community engagement where community is actually driving the project results and they're seeing the outcomes of their engagement because that's the quickest way to lose trust with community is if you're promising them that you're gonna do something and then you don't actually implement what they, the vision that they say that they want. Those would be the kind of caveats I would put on using LA Safe as a model is that there oftentimes is not that luxury to do that kind of community engagement and they don't have the funds to do it. So yes, use it as a model but you gotta figure out how you're gonna pay for it. Thomas, did you wanna add anything about like your work with community engagement? I guess, yeah, I might wanna mention a small town in the state of Florida because I know a lot of the towns here are not very large so we've been working with a small community called Satellite Beach and it's 10,000 people. It's a barrier island they've got no place to move to and they have done a great job. They've done a really wonderful job of engaging their community and they've got a handful but maybe five key people both in the state in the local government and community members that have really been a driving force and I think that really goes to show that for community engagement the presence of just one, two, three, four key people that have some energy can really be an impetus and so we were able to work with them to get some funding streams, some modest funding streams. They put a lot of that into community engagement and that really helped them actually move forward and now we're looking at drafting some policy recommendations for them and with any luck I think they may actually adopt some of the most long term forward thinking ordinances in the state of Florida and within the next year I hope but yeah, public engagement has been a key part at one point about three or four years ago they had a public media and they advertised in big bowl letters outside the community center climate change meeting and nobody was doing that at this time and they did that, they had a couple of people show up that tried to make it sound like there's all scientific hoax and kind of one, we've all run into these people but at one point the community actually just started clapping to basically shut them down because they kept trying to interrupt the meeting and it was actually beautiful because it was two people out of 70 and the rest of the crowd essentially finally just got tired of letting them take over the time and shut them down. Okay, we had other hands, yeah. No, sorry, yep, go ahead, sorry. Okay, I'm Steve Long with the Nature Conservancy in Massachusetts, so one of the strategies we use with the communities is using nature-based solutions, restoring floodplains, removing dams, making sure wetlands are functional and working on loading shorelines but we often run into legal challenges and I find that laws or ordinances will either inhibit or prohibit or sometimes encourage nature-based solutions so I just wanna hear people's thoughts on that. I know there are no silver bullets but how do we go about making sure that those barriers and inhibitions are addressed and removed? Let's just start. I mean, I can talk about that from the Florida perspective. Again, there's been actually one champion that's really made a big difference in the state of Florida but a lot of the challenges, it's not intentional, obviously. I mean, like the Florida Department of Environmental Protection, it's a lot of their rules that have been real impediments to greater use of living shorelines in the state of Florida and also Corps of Engineers and again, it's not intentional and with the Corps of Engineers now, there is a general nationwide permit that makes it easier at that level if you fit within certain circumstances and that was done expressly to promote the use of living shorelines but there are actually permitting concerns. For example, if you've got an eroded shoreline, you tend to have an escarpment and for a living shoreline function, you need a long, low slope. Well, so what are you gonna do? From the Department of Environmental Protection, or DEP's perspective, they don't want to allow that property owner to bring in a bunch of fill and create a long, low slope from the current escarpment because from DEP's perspective, that's state-owned land you're filling. Why should we be giving property owners state-owned land? So there are some issues there of public interest but again, I think Florida DEP and many departments are working to try to find some ways to address what you're talking about. I would just add that another tactic is to look at state-revolving loan funds and how those monies are spent in capital improvement projects, money to expand it so that it's not just brick and mortar concrete projects but nature-based investments can also be funded through that money and I know in Vermont, they just passed a law last session where basically capital money from the, or sorry, state-revolving loan fund money that is going towards a project, they can tag on a natural resource-based project for basically zero interest. I don't know the specific details but just an idea of. I would add that a couple of years ago we did a project with your colleagues in Connecticut actually looking at local ordinances and state laws in Connecticut related to living shorelines and in Connecticut, the state has specifically endorsed the use of living shorelines where appropriate but permitting is still a challenge for those. In part, my understanding is because the permitting agencies and the folks there don't have as much experience understanding whether and where it's appropriate and evaluating engineering designs for a particular project on the one hand and from a project proponents perspective, finding an engineering firm that can move from a gray infrastructure to a green infrastructure perspective has been a challenge as well. So it does feel a little bit like a teething sort of situation where it's gonna be rough for a while even after you get it into the law before sort of models start to be accepted by everybody in the supply chain as it were. Woman in blue has had her hand up for some time so let's make sure you get her question. Thank you. So I have volunteered as a committee member for two towns on Cape Cod and working on these issues and so my experience has been that either coastal property owners or people who are looking to own or develop coastal property have a lot of money and a lot of resources to hire lawyers and so for the town perspective the threat of litigation is a deterrent to engaging in an adaptation or a retreat project or new ordinances or codes or even holding to a controversial order of conditions under the Wetlands Protection Act. And so I'm wondering are there organizations that can help back up towns when they make a determination so with either funding or help with legal expertise or even just hand holding like helping them put that particular case in context with what's going on and adaptation issues across the state or the region. This came up at a symposium I was at a year ago and everyone was thinking, wow that would be such a great thing a sort of community defense fund to be able to hire lawyers to back them up. I don't know of, I don't know something like that. A lot of the resources available here are kind of like non-advocacy and so it's hard for a lot of the university related resources to step into that role but it is a need that I have heard voiced before. Yeah, so I'll just echo Elena's comments. Most of us represent institutions that engage in non-advocacy or engage in advocacy in very specific arenas. We are available for some of the questions about understanding some of the background of the issues but we wouldn't be able to get involved when it's actual litigation that you're about to be looking at but that's certainly something that we can take note of to keep our eyes open if that is a resource that's available that we could point you in the direction of. So now we're training all these good law students? Well, we are also training lots of great law students who can become your attorneys. Any other comments on that? Does anyone know? Surf writers has helped different... You guys hear me? Yeah. Surf writers has stepped in on a couple of the cases like the Texas case on their rolling easement statute. They were an intermediary but unfortunately the Pacific Legal Foundation is often on the other side and providing support to the landed moneyed interest to help them sue and have help to get some of this negative case law on the books that is serving as the big hindrance. But the other thing that I would point to is there may be clinical programs at local universities that do more of the litigation. I think most of the people in this room are more on the law and policy side. We don't litigate but there are clinics that a lot of the state universities that do environmental litigation and that could be a potential place to look for assistance on the litigation side if it comes up. Yeah, I would agree that's a fabulous point, Jessica. The one thing I would encourage is in something this controversial, if you can find a clinical program that's preferably at a private university, you're much better off because the state university clinical programs, they have to be careful because the legislatures control their budget and as you noted, very often you are dealing with property owners that are very well connected. So and that has happened in some with environmental clinics at state universities on frequent occasion where their budgets are threatened or programs eliminated due to the litigation they've engaged in. We have time for a couple more questions. Hi, Tracy Sylvia, CRMC permitting section. One of the, a few speakers today brought up some of the permit re-openers or rolling easements and different ways to look at managed retreat. I'm thinking of some of the cases that have gone on with the wetlands mitigation banks and other issues as to what legal concerns are there and at what level would these types of things be envisioned to be put in? Has anyone actually done them as far as sea level rise impacts and moving things back other than just recommending you do it in your permit review? Has this actually been implemented? Have there been lawsuits from it? Has anyone familiar with any of that? And is it better at a local level, a state level? Both. So you're looking for specific examples of managed retreat rolling easements. Is that a good? Yeah, if people are actually doing that related to sea level rise, and I'm speaking specific coastal development, sea level rise and taking out a sea wall if X amount of, we have performance standards in the permits that we issue, and then at certain times they may have to do something, but as far as literally saying you need to pick up and move back or take out, I don't see much of it yet. And it's been managed, it's been listed as an adaptation option in some of these policy discussions and plans that cities and towns should look for. Is anyone actually doing it yet? And if so, where, at what level, and if not, why? Katie, did you want to weigh in? I know you've done a lot of research and work on managed retreat. So in regards to specific examples of sort of rolling easement programs that would sort of be tied to any environmental factor, like for instance inland migration, I'm not aware of any sort of specific examples in practice. The State of California Coastal Commission, they currently have some draft, so it's not obviously final residential guidance for their local coastal programs to consider how specifically for residential development, how they can incorporate sea level rise into their planning. And they have a specific sort of component of that that would look at, encourage local governments to create like a managed retreat program. And sort of the driver of that would be sort of a beach width trigger, so based on erosion. And they would ultimately, in this draft guidance, sort of tie the potential removal of structures to a minimum beach width that would go forward. So there's concepts of that that I've seen like in draft guidance, but I'm not personally aware of any sort of actual examples of that in practice. Thank you. Tracy, I just add, as you know, Roy Carpenter's speech might be one of the better examples of this, and that suggests, and for those who don't know what I'm talking about, this is a privately owned beach association where they've been moving their homes back over time. And it suggests that private beach associations might be a way to get at some of this through taking government out of it. And not that that's super easy to do, but. Thanks. I had a question, I think sort of threading together a couple of comments about sort of what motivates people and some other themes that have come up. And so I was thinking back to the question of sort of where do instances of liability or potential liability come up and thinking about in communities where they might be providing, the municipalities might be providing tax incentives or doing any site prep work to try to draw development into their communities, whether or not there's anything, any examples people have seen where that's been raised as an issue or something that might be able to be used to encourage municipalities not to provide tax incentives in certain areas or not to do site prep work or anything like that that might be inadvertently drawing development into areas where they probably shouldn't be. So we get hard questions. Complex question from MIT. I don't think this, I'm not sure if this addresses your question, but we are seeing some legislative efforts to get governments to have to disclose where grant money is going and do some analysis of whether that is a climate smart investment or not. And so it's just sort of like public right to know theme and where are tax dollars going? And if we're giving money to build structures in hazardous places, we want to know that. And also requirements in RFPs put out by government entities and specifying that climate change has to be a component of the proposal and you have to consider an X, Y and Z way. I think Alaina's right, we've seen it more on kind of the other side, which is you have to let us know whether or not you're considering climate change, not you have to consider it. And I want to just add that from Florida for many, many years we've had in our state planning law and it's required every local comprehensive plan that there be language included to the effect that we will not subsidize development in high hazard areas. Great language. Don't see implementation of it for the most part. And it's been there, like I said, in state and every local plan for decades. Let's see the implementation, then I'll be happy. I'm gonna ask our speakers to remain up here but I'd like to thank them all for their presentation and rather having them shuffle off and do concluding remarks, we'll just do them from here. We want to thank you all for coming out today, especially with our first snowstorm of the year.  We heard from some really amazing speakers about some really challenging issues and we're definitely not stopping this work and we hope that you aren't stopping it too. So we want you to know that we are here and we are resources in different capacities. You'll be getting a follow-up email from us that will have a link to our webpage with presentations from today from the speakers that wish to share them and also a link to the video. So if you missed the morning portion, you'll be able to see those presentations and please keep us in mind as you're moving forward with thinking about your climate adaptation and your resilience plans. I'd like to thank our co-sponsors, the Law School, Rhode Island Sea Grant and the Georgetown Climate Center, especially the Georgetown Climate Center for staying on all day. Thank you also to our two law student volunteers, Carly Romano and Cody Catterford going up and down with those microphones. And a big thank you to the team here at Roger Williams that really put this on. So Reed Porter, Melissa Shalik, and especially Sarah Matherson and Chelsea Horne who are not in the room right now. They're doing all the behind the scenes stuff here. And a big huge thank you to all of you for actually coming out and spending the day with us and thinking that the issues that we think are really, really important are really important to you as well. So with that, I have one other tiny little point which is that we noticed that there are a lot of Roger Williams Marine Affairs alums in the audience. So we'd like to invite you to a formal, an informal happy hour at Aden's at five o'clock tonight. Everybody else is welcome as well, but you're just gonna have to hear about how great our program is if you show up. And so with that, thank you so much for coming out. We really enjoyed the day.


Hello everybody welcome back to another Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2021 tutorial. This one I'm going to show you how to flip or rotate an upside down video. You can also have a regular video that you want to flip upside down. This one here you've got a puppy dog here playing in the grass as you can see here but it's upside down and I don't know why it is. Maybe you had the camera upside down maybe you've been day drinking not going to judge.  If you don't see it window make sure there's a check mark beside effects. Now go into effects and type in the word flip I know how original. You'll get two options a horizontal flip and a vertical flip. A horizontal flip is useful if you're on a camera and you're using those bar thingies but anyways let's go ahead and use a vertical flip drag and drop that onto the track. When you do that that is it. It is done. I'm going to go and show you a second way. I'm going to command or control zed so we're back to the upside down world and the second way is you can go into your video in your effect controls and you will see a rotation option. This allows you as well to rotate it. That said you will see that I get some black bars on the sides and the top depending on the rotation. If you do decide to do this rotation I'm going to recommend you do this here. I'm going to go and change this from fit to about 50 percent. No we're going to go to 25 percent part of me and the next step is you want to scale it up. I'm going to scale this video up to about let's go to 150 and see how that goes.  Oh yeah you still see the black bars okay so I'm going to scale it to we're going to scale it to about 180. Let's see if that does the trick. Rotate, rotate, rotate. No we're going to 200. Sorry guys we're going to 200 ish and then you'll see here that if I start to rotate when you do it this way you don't see the black bars it's at 200 percent so that's the other way to rotate the video without the black bars. The first way works best though guys thanks for watching there's a ton more stuff coming up stay tuned


Hi, I am Juan Pablo Burítica. I'm from Bogota, Colombia, and I live in New York City. When I first accepted to give this talk, I was the VP of engineering at a music company called Splice. There, I led a distributed engineering team focused on building tools and services that helped musicians make more and better music. A month ago, I joined Stripe as the head of engineering for Latin America. Now, I'll get the chance to help build financial infrastructure for startups and developers in the region with the team I'll get to build. This next talk is about something I hold very close to my heart. I've been building communities and teams for quite some time. A long time ago, I had a boss who said our company was like a family. At the time, I didn't really get why that statement rubbed me the wrong way, but it did. Today, after having led a few teams, I understand why I felt that way though. Families aren't famous for being the most functional organizational structure. I could have begged my mom to put my brother on a pip because he kept leaving his dirty clothes on the floor of the bedroom we shared. But my mom would have never gone along with it. Believe me, I tried. So when we're dealing with family members, we lower our boundaries and tolerate things we wouldn't usually because we are family. I'm not the first person to notice that families are not a great example to mirror when you're building engineering teams. Netflix is famous for calling it out in their culture deck. I don't think my boss was ill-intended when they thought of our team as a family. But I've learned to recognize it as a flag in the culture of organizations or teams I encounter. It usually leads me to ask more questions. Another common analogy used to talk about teams is sports. Sports teams give us excellent examples of what collaboration can look like. High-performing sports teams achieve incredible feats when they work together. So when I was trying to think of ways to shape my principles around building teams, I thought about sports. There's some excellent metaphors about teamwork. But the biggest problem I had was I was terrible at team sports. It's not because I was a poor team player. I was just horrible at playing most team sports, not all of them. Just those you play with other people. That's why I loved skateboarding. The only one I'd be letting down would be myself if I couldn't kickflip. Imagine growing up in Colombia and not being good at playing football. I'm not joking when I say my friends would fight over who wouldn't have me on their team. But don't be sad, it was actually good. It meant I spent some of my research time at the library working around IT to try to get SimCity installed. So now I get to keynote next to someone who has been to space, just like the big nerd I am. But sports weren't something I could base my leadership principles on. And families aren't right either. What then? Outside of computers and science, music has had an enormous influence on my life. Now, if you ask my partner Melanie, she'd tell you that those screams I'd listened to shouldn't be qualified as music. And in some cases, she'd be right. But there's something beyond those screams. I played my first show when I was 13. Somewhere in the middle of Bogota, Colombia, I stood on a stage and I screamed at the top of my lungs, right next to four of my best friends. I looked at the mosh pit and I felt like I belonged. The hardcore punk community gave me something I didn't have before. It was a place where people from very different backgrounds and shared values came together towards a common goal. Some people worked towards animal liberation, others towards increasing social and political awareness, or even fundraising for benefit causes. DIY as a subculture comes from punk. This is where Tutorial Zines come from. I am who I am today. Thanks to the communities that I've had access to. I learned JavaScript thanks to all the jQuery contributors who took the time to write tutorials on their virtual zines or blog posts. Without being conscious about it, I started building teams around principles that were very natural to me. Community principles. I used everything I learned from putting shows together in Bogota to start a few community conferences in Colombia. At the same time, I was granted the opportunity to build high-performing software teams for startups. I'd like to share with you some of the community qualities I've tried to replicate in the organizations I lead. Maybe these can help you build healthy organizations of your own. The first of these community qualities is collectivity. Many of the challenges a team faces can only be solved collectively. We're not talking specifically about the business problem that the team is supposed to be addressing, but rather obstacles that the organization faces from within. For example, I prefer to lead and belong to teams that aren't homogenous. Lack of diversity is a collective challenge. As a leader, I am responsible for shaping the organization, but it isn't something I can do alone. This doesn't mean that I ask the only woman on my team to convince others to join us. On the contrary, it means that everyone in the group understands the problem and actively works to change it. So when we are solving collective challenges, we come together as a community to work towards them. The next quality I value is education. The communities I admire invest heavily in the education of all of their members. This is how they grow together. This is where, as I mentioned before, the DIY movement comes from. Learning how to tackle technical tasks and sharing expertise gives tools to everyone. Hardcore punks, or punks in general, wanted other people to learn how to print t-shirts, how to organize shows, how to record, how to share cassettes. DIY scenes were the beginning of tutorials. As a manager, I have to create the space and provide the resources for community education to happen in my company. Whereas open-source communities rely on volunteers, and so can music communities, my business shouldn't. It's a business in the end, and everything we do is for the sake of the business. So by combining the community's spirit of education with the business resources, we can provide support and foster community education, which leads to a better team. Communities also characterize themselves by their shared culture. They create an identity, and they shape it from their values. Communities at work can bridge cultural gaps by creating a culture of their own. Emojis, memes, and anecdotes are all artifacts that connect members to their community. For example, you can all agree that when you use the tomato emoji, it means that some behavior needs to be talked about. You need feedback. It wasn't cool. Someone didn't take it the way you thought, and then that little emoji takes meaning, and it can help everyone communicate around something that may have been uncomfortable before. If you show this to any of the engineers that I hired at Splice, they'll know exactly what it means. It's an artifact that we created from a phrase we coined in our first onsite. We met in New Orleans, and we agreed that we wanted a team that was supportive of everyone. The bass, not the bassist, is a supportive instrument. It carries the rhythm, and it has no ego. It helps everyone else shine. It's what we wanted our team to be. I've come to value communities that care about me, especially when I am someone who tends to be different. I am an immigrant. I don't play sports. I don't like the music everyone else does. The JavaScript community is a great example. The Borough GIS community is in New York City, providing it with a place where I can learn about a beautifully terrible language that I love. It has also become my backbone as an immigrant. I haven't just been accepted. I've been embraced. Many of my friends have come to learn and support the place where I come from. I love to provide this experience of support to everyone I work with. Belonging helps us work better. Another quality I value from communities and try to replicate at work is the concept of community leadership. The authority of being an engineering leader or a manager doesn't confirm me engineering knowledge. On the contrary, it removes me from the context of building software. The only way I can get a deep understanding of the challenges that my team members face is by building trusting relationships with them. This helps me learn and also make better decisions on our behalf. I've also learned I'm not the only leader. The authority over the technical domain belongs to everyone who writes code. Every line of code is a decision that they are making on behalf of our collective. In the end, creative workers are problem solvers and have come to appreciate punks who don't take my authority for granted. I like to think that even though I am frequently wrong, we are collectively right and my team members will help me see it. This way of leadership can be challenging for people who favor traditional management structures.  But it's worked very well for me. I like being questioned and pushed on every decision I make for the business or for our team because I may have blind spots that my team helps me realize, identify and usually fix. An additional quality I appreciate of communities that value learning is how much effort they put towards making it safe to make mistakes. If you've ever sat through the intro of BrooklynJS, which is almost 30 minutes, you've witnessed firsthand how much the organizers emphasize on being a welcoming environment. When we feel safe, we can focus on solving problems other than those that affect our safety. Here's where I show you the Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs diagram. You laugh because it says Wi-Fi. And then I highlight that after basic physiological needs, safety is the most important thing in the pursuit of self-actualization and learning. When we're building software products, we embark in a process of continual learning. And this requires that we make many mistakes.  I know I have. But if our workplace mirrors a community that values safety, then it can foster a learning environment where asking questions or making mistakes in the pursuit of learning isn't just honest. Communities that value safety are also very quick to correct behaviors when new members threaten to safety. They build the language to give feedback when new individuals come from places where tending to be constantly right is the norm. You can think of these reactions as the immune system for our team. Since our community cares for its members, it also develops non-threatening ways of giving feedback that could otherwise lead to conflict. For example, I gave my team at Splice an emoji of my head that they could use whenever they felt like I was getting in on their business. I should be trusting them instead, and they could use the emoji reaction to tell me this. Finally, the way healthy communities foster and value less glamorous work is something I admire. Members take on tasks because it's the right thing to do for the group, and they have to get done. For example, door duty at a hardcore show. You'll inevitably miss a band or two, maybe even your favorite, but you know it is necessary. In return, the community may compensate you by giving you a free ticket. At work, managers aren't always in a position to take on all of the administrative tasks needed for the operation of a team, so community support can lend a hand. If you go down this path, I recommend that managers ensure that there's an equitable distribution of any administrative work. Randomizing may be a better idea than asking for volunteers. I've been fortunate to have the chance to build organizations filled with wonderful humans. I like to think that the community environment we've built at work is one of the main reasons why these talented engineers chose us in today's competitive environment. But you have to ask them. The one thing I can tell you, the supportive culture beats startup perks every time. I believe everyone deserves an opportunity of doing their best work in a supportive environment. And I hope that what I've shared today helps you shape the teams you build or join into supportive communities at work. If you'd like to learn more about my work or have any questions, you can follow me on Twitter. Thank you for having me and thank you OpenJS for the invitation.


Welcome back to the Dominic Dolls show presented by Buffalo Wildwings. I'm Sam Murray, joined now with Stevenson Men's ice hockey head coach, Dominic Dolls, and coach. Started the weekend with a 2-2 UCHC tie versus Elmira on home ice, and then traveled to 11th ranked Hamilton. Shout out for the first time this year. Talk about your team's performance over the weekend. Well, I think the Elmira game, yeah, back and forth, pretty even game. And that's in the three times we've historically played them. That's really essentially what it's been, you know, a lot of just back and forth, pretty evenly matched, both fairly young teams. And just everybody kind of tried not to make a mistake. And I think that we got more of the same of that on Friday. And Sunday was a tough day. We've kind of talked a lot about it now already as a group and just kind of not happy about our performance and our work ethic. And we had a great opportunity there to make a statement. And we didn't. So it's a little disheartening. But that's what we play the game for, to kind of get back going this week and move forward. Yeah, special teams. The power play started red hot to begin the season. Cooled down a little bit, but still 25%, which is, I would say, a pretty decent percentage. But you haven't scored in the last three games on the power play. How do you go about correcting that? I think it's just we've been getting opportunities, which is a good thing. And you don't want to squeeze the stick too much to kind of overburden it. But we need to go to the tougher areas more. And that's really why we're not scoring goals. It's why we're not scoring goals 5-on-5. We're not willing to go to the dirty areas and get around the net and earn second and third chances. And that's really what we've kind of talked about for a little over a week now. And that's if we want to get back to scoring goals, that's what we're going to need to do. For us to be successful, we're going to have to outwork these teams, especially now as we start to really get into the thick of things. Schedule-wise, we're going to have to get to the net. And we're going to have to win some battles around the net. And going back to Sunday, that's what we didn't do. So I think even for the power play, if we want the power play to get kind of back on track, we got to get to the net. Well, you have an opportunity this weekend, a pair of games versus Buffalo State non-conference games. You played them twice last year, split with them. They're unbeaten four of their last five. So what do you expect from that matchup coming up? It's going to be another tough matchup. I mean, they were consistently a top 15 team last year. They've got some guys that can play. We went up there last year, and we struggled the first night. And we're a little bit overwhelmed. And then to our credit, I think the second game last year kind of got us going and got us on track. And we were, I think, down 2-0 going in the third period and battled back and scored four goals in the third to win. But I think the guys know, when we talked already about it, this is a top team.  And we need to get to work here this week to prepare for that. Well, Koutry, was she the best to lock in both those games? And we'll see you back here next week. Sounds good. Thank you. For Coach Dominic Dahls, I'm Sam Murray. And this has been the Dominic Dahl Show.


That didn't work. Oh, I got half of it.  So this last week, we took our little family to Hawaii. If you've been to Hawaii, you know that there are ABC stores everywhere. Now I love the ABC stores. The only problem is things are rather expensive there. And then I went down the baby aisle just to check out the formula $40 for a tiny can of formula. It was nuts. So I thought it'd be a good time for another $5 dinner video. Now just realize I live in a very small town in Northern Utah. And so my prices might be very different, but hopefully these prices are somewhat the same as yours. All right, the first recipe I'm making is our easy lasagna. Now I know what you're thinking. There's no way I can make lasagna for $5. And you're right, it does cost a little bit more money. The thing is it can feed you for two meals, possibly even three meals. So it's a total of about $10 and we're gonna split it into two meals making it about $5 a meal. And first gonna start with oven-ready noodles. Now these were $1.68. Next I have spaghetti sauce. This is about 24 ounces. If you can find a bigger one, that's great. But I was trying to stay under $2, so this is $1.95. Next up is our cottage cheese and ricotta cheese. The problem is is that they didn't have ricotta at my store. Either that or they weren't sure what it was. So they only gave me one cottage cheese. I actually have another one in my fridge and I'm gonna use two cottage cheeses. But if you have ricotta, I suggest that. The cottage cheese was $1.98. The ricotta was $2.16. Next I have about eight ounces of mozzarella cheese. It's a little cheaper if it comes in the block you can just shred it yourself. Now these six eggs came to $1.32, but I only need two of them. So this is gonna be about $0.44. Okay, so into this bowl we're going to add our cottage cheese. If you have your pint of ricotta you can add that now but I need to add more cottage cheese in. It didn't come in the grocery order. Then you're gonna add your two eggs and because the original recipe calls for Italian sausage we don't have a ton of seasoning. So I'm actually gonna add a little bit of Italian seasoning into my cottage cheese and then mix that all up. Okay, so you're gonna grab a nine by 13 pan and you're gonna put a little bit of the spaghetti sauce on the bottom. Then just spread that all around.  I like it better if I can just put it in there and not have to worry about it and it will, knowing that it will cook all the way. Next we're gonna add a half of the cottage cheese. That looks about half. The good thing about lasagna, measurements are okay if you mess up a little bit. You might have a thicker layer, but really, no one will know. Next I'm gonna add about 3 fourths cup of the cheese because we like lasagna cheesy, right? Then we're gonna do about half the can of spaghetti sauce. Now, usually you would have meat mixed in here, but to keep it under $5, I could not find a way to get meat in here. So we're just doing sauce today. Then you're just going to repeat the layers. Now my mom would usually top this with another layer of noodles. I just don't have a ton of noodles so I'm actually just going to finish and just top it off with about a half cup, whatever is left of my cheese and we'll just cook it like this. Now we're gonna cover this with foil and cook it for about 45 minutes. Then when it's done, you're going to take off the foil and cook it for another 15 minutes. Woo-hoo, all right, lasagna is done and it looks amazing. So usually for my side dishes of lasagna, we like either like a garlic bread and like a Caesar salad with it, super simple, super easy. I like it. Yeah? Mm-hmm. I like it. I give it a thumbs up. Okay, and two thumbs up out of this one. I'm out of five, awesome.  Whenever we wanted breakfast for dinner, this is one of my mom's classics. I kind of forgot about it until I started looking through six sisters recipes and I found this and I got so excited. I don't know if my kids have ever tried this but it was a staple growing up. So we're gonna start with the butter. Now the butter was 398 but we're gonna divide it by four because there's four sticks and we only need six tablespoons. So that came to 99 cents. Next is our cook and serve butterscotch jello. This one was $1.24. Then if you have brown sugar, you're good. If you don't, the brown sugar was at about $1.70. We're gonna divide that by six. There's about six cups in here. So brown sugar comes to about 30 cents. And the last thing is these frozen dinner rolls. Now there's different kinds you can get but this one was 484. There's 36 in the package and we only need 18. So we're gonna cut this in half. So the total for this one is going to be 242. The original recipe calls for walnuts but that took me way over my budget. So we're gonna skip the walnuts and just make the butterscotch which I'm sure my kids will like even more. So my total for this one was $4.95. All right, so I'm gonna take 16 of these rolls and put it on a glass plate. Now you want these to thaw so they're not frozen. My secret is to throw them in the microwave for about two minutes. It will get them to the perfect temperature.  If you don't have one of those you can also use a bread pan.  You're gonna do this to eight of the rolls. Now once you have eight in there you're gonna take your butterscotch pudding and sprinkle half of it over top of your somewhat thawed rolls. And again we're just gonna eyeball about half but just can't make it even across all of them. So I'm gonna set this aside just for a second.  Then to your melted butter you're gonna add about three-fourths cup of brown sugar. Mix that all together. Then you're gonna take half of this and pour it on top of your pudding and your frozen rolls. Now you're just gonna repeat the process. Okay now here's the tricky part. These have to rise until they're about the level of this so you can do it overnight so about eight hours or you can do it in the morning and then they will rise all day. Then you cook them when you get home and it'll be quick, quick dinner. All right, I was running out of time. I should have let this rise a little bit longer but you know, you do you. So it rose for about three hours and then I had to cook it. So once it's all cooked, we're gonna separate the edges so it will flip and pop out a little bit easier. All right, ready? One, two, three, flip. Oh, I got half of it.  Man, so much caramel in there. Let's learn from my mistakes. Spray it with cooking spray. A lot more than I did. Well, that is supposed to look beautiful. Let's just pretend. Let's say it's pretend pretty. Here we go guys, there we go. Next time I'll use a little bit more spray. It's stuck a little bit but it still tastes delicious. Now to serve it this, I'd usually serve it with like some vegetable omelets and then have fruit on the side but whatever you choose is gonna be good. Okay, monkey bread. It was really, really good. I liked the caramel in it but it wasn't that. I'll give it a, see how it's fried.  This recipe is not only really fast but it's really easy. So you're gonna start with black beans. These are only 78 cents. Next we have white corn tortillas. I like the white corn but if you like yellow corn tortillas, that's great too. These came to $1.98. And last but not least is our fiesta blend or whatever you can find. I was looking for shredded Mexican cheese but fiesta blend is close enough and this came to $2.22. Now the total for this recipe is about $4.98. It will serve six. So that makes it about 83 cents a serving. You're going to first rinse and drain the black beans. And I'm gonna add my black beans into a bowl. We're gonna add a little bit of seasoning. So we have one teaspoon of paprika and one teaspoon of cumin. And just mix that all together. Okay, my skillet is hot. I kind of like to work as fast as I do skillets because then it just doesn't take as much time. I'm actually gonna make like little quesadillas so we're gonna spread these babies out. I would like to have a little bit of cheese on the bottom. They'll all stick together. Then I'm gonna add a little bit of black beans. Now after the beans, we're gonna add a lot more cheese. I'm gonna add your tortillas right on top. Now you can make these small and fold them over but I think it's easier to make them quesadillas. So that's what we're doing. I'm gonna put these babies over. It wasn't quite as brown as I wanted so I'm actually gonna leave them on here a little bit longer. Once they're done, pretty crispy on both sides. I had a bomba. Now sometimes side dishes can be hard. So one of my favorite side dishes with this is to just have a bin of vegetables and a bin of fruit that I just keep in the refrigerator. And I use it for three or four meals throughout the week. You just pull out your sides and it makes like a whole lot easier when it comes to side dishes. That's really good. I'll give it a five out of five.  Yeah. Oh, yum. All right, if you want more $5 videos, I have plenty right up here for you. And I'll see you guys next time. Bye.


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