So today, I'm doing another pack opening. What do you mean? I mean I'm doing another pack opening, okay? What do you mean? I'm doing another pack opening, alright? Okay. First pack of the day, Steph Curry. Give me something good. Give me something good, Steph Curry. Those crazy purple cards you already know. Give me someone good. Man, Brandon Bass. I don't want Brandon Bass.  Joe Ingles, Ingles. Not Ingles. Everyone calls him Ingles. It's Joe Ingles. He's Australian.  These are the best packs. So I need someone good in the best pack. There's one gold. Please read the... Jeremy Lin. Ooh, I get 15,000 MT. I'll take that right there. Okay, let's switch to James Harden. Just for a second. If James Harden gets me a gold player, then I'll open packs with James Harden. I doubt he'll give me a gold player because...  I love you, James Harden. Andre Drummond, that's all right. I'll take my boy. I'll take my boy, Andre Drummond. That's not too bad. Let's see what James Harden can do again. Back to the normal, Tony Snell. It's the best pack. Surely you have to get a gold player when you're opening the league VIP packs, right? Oh my goodness. Victor Favrani. Are you kidding me right now? Victor Favrani in the... It's the best pack. In the best pack that you can possibly open in NBA 2K16. And you're not going to give me one gold? One gold right there. Two golds, please. Yes, a gold player. Ah, D'Andre 3000. I don't need another set up, but I'll take D'Andre John. The packs are slowly heating up little by little. D'Andre, not a bad pull. Drummond was first. Now D'Andre, who's next? Oh my goodness. I get a Louis Skull. 2K. I spent $75 because the packs for some reason cost so much money in Australia. $75 for 200K VC. And I'm getting E2R more. Come on now. I see all these other YouTubers. I see, you know, Shakerbaeg, Gento, Sub. They're all getting purple players. I'm just getting players like Sergei Barker. I'll take him, man. I'll take Sergei Barker. All right. Give me LeBron James. Who do I want? LeBron James. Who do I want? LeBron James. Who do I want? LeBron James. I'll just open this. Where else do you think Matthew is not bad? Another gold player. So I got one more pack to open. Actually, I might have been another pack after this. But second last pack of the day. The best pack in the game. As of now, I get an Andre Bletch. Robert Sacrae. That's just great. Exactly what I'm looking for. That's a 100K VC. Surely D'Andre wants to give me a rune. Do you want to give me a rune, Jeremy Lin? Matthews, do you want to give me a rune? Dre Dre Drummond. Do you want to give me something? If Barker doesn't give me a rune either. I said I was going to end this pack opening, but I can't. I can't end this pack opening. I need to continue it. Because I can't get anyone and I want someone. I'll start opening with James Harden. Two golds. Please don't be a player. It's a Josh Smith. So I got a Josh Smith on the last pack. Can I get something better than a Josh Smith? Guess not. Oh, that's what I always wanted. Why you always lying? Surgey Karrasov. Thank you, 2K. Thank you so much. I love Surgey Karrasov. Can't even say his name right, probably. Let's do a spinny, a spinny chair pack. Spinny chair pack. And I get a Matthew Dalvedova. Wrapping Australia. I'll do a nose pack. That's what all the cool YouTubers do. Let's do a nose pack. Iggy. I'll take an Andre Gadala. I want LeBron. I guess everybody's gone for LeBron. Or Durant. So I just want David, LeBron, Durant, Curry. One of those top guys. I want gold. I found that time, baby. Do you know how long it... Oh my goodness. I was about to say 200K without getting a purple card. Who's it gonna be? Let's flip around. Oh my god. That's who I wanted this whole time. I wanted LeBron James. Do you know how many times I asked for him? I finally got him. I'm that sweet Raptor logo right there. That's nice. Let's go, man. Let's freaking go. LeBron James. Welcome to the team. And I've got 50K VC left. Almost 60K. So I'm gonna end the video there. Nah, I can't. I gotta open one more pack. If I get a player rated higher than an 80, I'll keep going. If it's lower than an 80, then I won't open these packs again. And I'll just, you know, wait until another day to open the packs. And I don't get a player over the 80. I get MCW. So I hope you guys enjoyed the video. If you did, leave a like. Subscribe if you're new. We got LeBron. That's crazy right there. It's Benjamin W. Smith. We've got 50K VC. If you guys want to see another pack opening, I might buy some more VC to do some, you know, more pack openings and stuff like that. But we're out. Peace.


I am here to discuss the so-called flying saucers. The Air Force's interest in this problem has been due to our feeling of an obligation to identify and analyze to the best of our ability anything in the air that may have the possibility of threat or menace to the United States. In pursuit of this obligation since 1947, we have received and analyzed between one and two thousand reports that have come to us from all kinds of sources. Of this great mass of reports, we have been able adequately to explain the great bulk of them, explain them to our own satisfaction. We've been able to explain them as hoaxes, as erroneously identified friendly aircraft, as meteorological or electronic phenomena, or as light aberrations. However, there have been a certain percentage of this volume of reports that have been made by credible observers of relatively incredible things. It is this group of observations that we now are attempting to resolve. Our basic difficulty in dealing with these is that there is no measurement of them that makes it possible for us to put them in any pattern that would be profitable for a deliberate, custom sort of analysis to take the next step. We have, as of date, come to only one firm conclusion with respect to this remaining percentage. And that is that it does not contain any pattern of purpose or of consistency that we can relate to any conceivable threat to the United States. We can say that the recent sightings are in no way connected with any secret development by any department of the United States. We can say that the recent sightings are in no way connected with any secret development by any agency of the United States. I'll start when you throw it out. Hold it, hold it, boy. Major Keyhole, as author of the book Flying Saucers Are Real, what is your opinion of these new sightings of unidentified objects? With all due respect to the Air Force, I believe that some of them will prove to be of interplanetary origin. During a three-year investigation, I found that many palates have described objects of substance and high speed. In one case, a Polish reporter, their plane was buffeted by an object which passed them at 500 miles an hour. Obviously, this was a solid object that I believe was from outer space.


Therefore, it's time for members' statements. The member from Wellington, Halton Hills. Mr. Speaker, last fall the legislature unanimously endorsed my private members' resolution, which called upon the Minister of Transportation to partner with the Town of Halton Hills to develop a long-term transportation strategy for the town. I worked with the Mayor and staff of the Town of Halton Hills on it, and our efforts were supported by Town Council. I spoke of the possible need for Highway 7 act and bypass, the issues surrounding the proposed commercial development of 340 Main Street Acton, the Halton Peele boundary area transportation study, which could lead to the construction of bypasses in Georgetown and Norville, a study which had been put on hold because of the GTA West corridor study, the promised all-day two-way go train service from Kitchener Waterloo to Union Station with stops in Wellington, Halton Hills, the town's role in the government's decision to widen the 401 from Milton to Mississauga, and the need for traffic signals near the Sands condominium in Georgetown. We called upon the Minister of Transportation to be a funding partner and support the town's vision of building and ensuring safe and efficient transportation opportunities for our residents and businesses. In response, the ministry says we need to show that there are operational benefits to the provincial King's Highway 7 before they will determine whether or not they will become a funding partner in Phase 2 of the town study. I don't think that will be a problem. We have a new Minister of Transportation appointed on January 17th. She has the confidence of the Premier, and she represents a riding adjacent to mine. I am happy to work with her in the remaining days of this Parliament, and I have always been willing to reach across party lines to get things done. I invite the Minister to visit the town of Halton Hills and announce her ministry's support as a funding partner for the town of Halton Hills long-term transportation. Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. Further member Stainless, the member from Hamilton East, Tony Creek. Thank you, Speaker. This is a message not to the government, Speaker, but to all Ontarians. Over the years, I have heard a lot about the lack of funding for Ontario health care. Most recently, it has been the Nurse Practitioners Association, the Registered Nurses Association, and representatives from many unions, including CUPY, who I have fortunate enough to meet with to talk about all these issues. They are all upset that our nursing and health care services are really underfunded. Across the board, we see our community's nurse practitioners underpaid, a shortage of registered nurses in our hospitals, recruitment and training resources lacking, and hospitals bursting at the seams with patients being shoved into every nook and cranny they can find. I fear the day that hospitals will someday be treating people in the parking lot, I hope not. It is overwhelming to think how long this has been going on for. The Liberals have not kept their health care spending in line with inflation since the McGinty days. The effect has been a system that is failing people left, right and centre. In my hometown of Hamilton, we have been feeling the pinch. Ambulance blackouts, patient treatment in hospital hallways are becoming the norm. To make matters worse, this government has cut over 27 million to Hamilton hospitals this past year alone. Hamilton Health Sciences overall has been particularly hit hard by cuts of 120 million since 2011. It is absurd to suggest that the newest budget and the throne speech will magically erase all the horrors our fellow Ontarians have felt in our suffering. The witching hour will soon be upon us, so I urge Ontarians not to forget what happened and seek out a real resolution to the crumbling health care system. It is about time we get a fresh new government that will be bringing about meaningful action. Thank you. Thank you. Further member Samus, the member from Etobicoke North. Thank you, Speaker. For the Francophonie Week, I am very happy to speak here to remind you of the significance of this celebration for Ontario. The French language has shaped our country and Ontario for centuries, and every day, it keeps shaping the society in which we live. Ontario counts more than 600,000 Franco-Ontarians who contribute fully to the economy and the culture of our province. The Franco-Ontarian community is full of people that were born here and elsewhere. It is an example of contemporary society that is unique and open to the world. French language is very important for our province on several levels, and as a member of the International Francophonie Association, Ontario is now lending a hand to the whole world to create alliance and partnerships. Ontario is the province with more Francophones outside of Quebec. To finish, I would like to invite all Francophones and Francophiles to share the pride and use the hashtag Nouvelle-Mars. Further members? Davies, the member from York Central. Yes, thank you very much, Mr. Speaker, and I'm pleased to have the opportunity to begin by doing a shout-out. I want to do that for the Georgina advocate because last week, for the first time that I was aware and the Georgina advocate, there was a full-page front page devoted to the issue around human trafficking. I have always been very pleased with the work that my colleague from Halliburton Cork, the Lakesbrook, has done, and certainly began by making me as well as her colleagues aware of the whole issue of human trafficking. So I was pleased to see this newspaper article in my own paper because it helps all of us extend that message, the recognition that it deserves. The girl next door as truly could be any girl. It is important that we never forget that this is happening in communities across on Ontario, and I might say I noticed advertising to protect girls in public places in the U.S. as well. So human trafficking is something we all need to understand and be wary of. Thank you. Well done. Thank you. Further member Stevens, the member from London, Fanshawe. Speaker, today I rise on behalf of thousands of Ontarians who are facing challenges finding a family doctor and accessing the healthcare they deserve. On a weekly basis, I hear from constituents concerned they cannot find a local family doctor or nurse practitioner. When my office raises these concerns with the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care, they simply point to their Health Care Connect program. But time and time again, I have seen this program fail my constituents as they cannot find a family doctor even when registered with Health Care Connect. Regrettably, many of these constituents represent some of the most vulnerable and high-needs patients. Many are on ODSP, have pain prescriptions or chronic conditions and mental health care concerns. The Lennon District Academy of Medicine used to keep a list on their website of local doctors who are taking new patients. I just checked the website this morning and there are still no names listed. And even when there are, the list tends to cater to specific types of patients like pediatrics and OBG and YN. My constituents look for months. They take countless calls, cold call clinics and doctors. Sometimes they are able to get a doctor and get in the door, fill out an application and have an interview only to be told that they have been rejected. Today I stand on behalf of my constituents and demand that this government do better. Ontarians need to know they have equitable and access to a family doctor or a nurse practitioner. Thank you, Speaker. Further member statement? The member from Scarborough Agent Court. Mr. Speaker, I rise today on behalf of hundreds of Scarborough Agent Court Commuters who enjoy the recently expanded GOES transit services on the Stoveline. Last fall, Stoveline increases its two-way service to 34 trains a day, Monday through Friday. This increase enables Scarborough Agent Court residents to have a greater flexibility to get downtown whether they are going to work or coming back to home. I am delighted with the recently reduced fare for the riders of GOE Transit and the TTC using the Presto car. It is expected that the commuters transferring between the two networks will see a saving of approximately $720 per year. This is a positive change for the pocketbooks of daily transit commuters. Most recently, Mr. Speaker, I welcome the opportunity to talk to the members of the transit commuters. Most recently, Mr. Speaker, I welcome the new Metrolinx CEO, Phil Worcester, with a meeting with the Walkerboss Agent Court GOES station. I was joined by the President and Vice President of the Agent Court Village Residence Association, MP Jean Yip, and Toronto City Councilor Jim Ker-Janets and Chin Lee. With the feedback from the commuters and as well as residents, we had a robust conversation about the commitment of Metrolinx to improve community experience for more frequent train services, parking expansion and station improvements, as well as pedestrian and commuter safety. Under the leadership of Phil Worcester, I am hoping that Metrolinx will continue to partner with Scarborough Agent Court commuters and residents to ensure the expanded Stovill Line is safe, transparent, affordable and efficient. Thank you. Warnings are still available. Thank you. Members' statements. The member from Leonard Front, Atlantic and Addington. Thank you very much, Speaker. That was big on. Speaker, in 1999, almost 20 years ago, the Progressive Conservative Government introduced and passed the Taxpayer Protection Act, a piece of legislation designed to ensure that the government would be accountable to the people when creating new taxes. The Act requires that, before the introduction of any new tax, it either be included and recognized in an election mandate or that a referendum be held, so that Ontario residents and households can have a proper and meaningful say on what has become the largest part of their budget. A lot has changed since 1999. One of the greatest of these is the circumvention of the Taxpayer Protection Act by this liberal government through provisions designed to bypass this obligation and their accountability to the people of Ontario. It is for this reason that I introduce a bill this afternoon designed to restore the strength to the Taxpayer Protection Act by removing the ability for its authority to be subverted by provisions in new legislation. It will ensure that the voices and hard earned money of Ontario families and workers are protected and will force the government to call a referendum if they want to propose any new taxes beyond what they propose in their election mandate. For far too long, this liberal government has circumvented the accountability of the Taxpayer Protection Act and it is fast coming to a close. Thank you. Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker, and today is World Down Syndrome Day. So today, across Ontario and indeed across the world, we celebrate the exceptional abilities that people with Down Syndrome have. It is also a day to raise awareness where we live, work and play. The 21st day of the third month was chosen to represent the triplication of the 21st chromosome. That extra chromosome is the exceptionality that is shared by people with Down Syndrome that makes them unique and special. Their capacities are limitless. In my experience, their capacity for love, forgiveness and acceptance and acceptance we could all learn from.  So I got up this morning, I looked for a pair of mismatch socks. I couldn't find a really fancy pair of socks and then it was, I was on my way to work when I realized I could have actually mismatched them myself. So, but what I do want to say on a serious note is, because there is a really serious part to this is that often people with Down Syndrome are, there's some stigma attached to it. We assume that what we see, we limit what we, we limit what we see when we look at people sometimes and we have to realize that, and get realized that their capacities are limitless and it's important that we communicate that not only by our own self-examination, but by our actions inside our communities. Thank you. Thank you very much Mr. Speaker. I'm honored to rise in the celebration of the Cobble Beach Concours Delegance and also the Meeford Scarecrow and Family Festival as both were recently named in the top 100 festivals and events in Ontario. As the members may have heard me mention before, Cobble Beach Concours Delegance is truly a competition of elegance whose story takes back to old French society. What was originally an event of horse-drawn carriages parading through Paris, France has evolved into a pageant of antique cars set on Georgian Bay shores just outside of Owensound. I was happy to have had the opportunity last September to be at the sixth annual Concours Delegance where they hosted a striking collection of antique, classic and international cars at the Cobble Beach Golf Resort. I want to recognize Mr. Willis McLeese who purchased his Bayside land back in 1998 and helped create a vision that finally came to fruition. Well Mr. Joseph Sopisi, CEO and founder of the brand factory and Mr. Rob McLeese, son and CEO and co-creator of Cobble Beach, got together and built what is now the Concours Delegance at Cobble Beach. And Mr. Speaker, like every successful business, this one too contributes to great causes. A portion of every ticket sold goes toward anesthesia machines at Owensound Hospital as well as to Sunnybrook Hospital. Another of my writings very successful festivals, the Meeford Scarecrow and Family Festival wouldn't have reached the success it has without the visionary and founder George Potopnik and the leadership of Marilyn Morris, Mrs. Scarecrow and her organizing committee and volunteers who go above and beyond to decorate every street, light and pole in the community with Scarecrow. Since its inception 20 years ago, this popular family festival has earned multiple recognitions. Finally, I want to recognize those who make these local events happen, are dedicated in heart, working volunteers, sponsors, donors and of course their participants. It is also my pleasure and honor to recognize Carol Parsons of Summer Folk Music and Crafts Festival in George and Bay Folk Society for receiving her well-deserved Volunteer of the Year award from Festival Events in Terrell. Thank you Speaker. Thank you. I thank all members for their statements and I also want the member from Ottawa South to know that I have two pairs of mismatched socks. Reports by committees.


is my last ever Monday morning at university. Oh my God. So yes, this is my last week at university. We finish on Friday and then we've got a bit of a time off and then we start our placement the first week of September. We're all waiting for our allocations which we're hoping is gonna be today so I will record it. I think I've got district nursing but I'm not too sure whereabouts. I'm hoping it's near my house. I don't have an hour and a half trek like I've had for these three years. I'm hoping it's gonna be close to my house. It's not gonna take long to get to and it's gonna be a really good last final placement, please. But yeah, so yeah, I'm gonna finish getting ready, get to uni and I will vlog you later. So that's me.  So today we only had one lecture and I completely, completely forgot that we were told that this was gonna be a two-hour seminar and we had a guest speaker coming to speak to us. So I went into uni and I sat down and I was like, oh yeah, this is the day. This is the day we've all been looking forward to because from what we've been told, it's gonna be really inspiring, really motivating and it's gonna be a really good session not to be missed. It's been classed as mandatory on our time table. So I was excited. Now, before you do anything else, before you watch any more of this video, pause it and I want you to look up Tommy Whitelaw. He is the creator of something called What Matters To You. Sorry, I was just looking at it on here. Just getting it up for you to sort of show you. And this is the page that you're looking for on the website. Wow, my screen's really dirty. I'm really sorry, but that's the screen that you want to see when you look up, Tommy. Have a look at all of the blog posts, the videos, the video stories, letters as well. Oh my God, you need to look up this man. If you're on Twitter, follow him on Twitter, follow his stories. This is the person that come and spoke to us at university today and I think every single nurse in the whole entire world should hear and speak, hear the story and just be amazed because he's such an inspiring man. He's absolutely amazing and everything he said today, we were all just like, wow, and we were blown back by it. It was so inspirational, so motivating. It was absolutely amazing. He told a story about his mother and sort of the loving bond between him and his mother and how he cared for his mother. She had vascular dementia and it was the sort of story and the stories that we sort of forget when we're looking after somebody because we're so focused on the symptoms of somebody and we just forget that actually they're a human being and that shouldn't be happening. We shouldn't be doing that at all out there in placement and practice. One nurse, not one doctor, healthcare assistant, housekeeper, not one single person should be forgetting that who you're caring for is a human being. They have a life, they had a life before they entered hospital or your services and it's really important to find out what matters to them and make sure that you acknowledge that and look after them as a human being not as a sign and symptom. And it was just such an amazing, amazing, amazing talk and it was just right. I was sat there like, yes, yes, like nodding along because I was like, you're right, you're so right.  So that's it for today. I just wanted to say that we did have an amazing day. It was really inspiring, really motivational and I'm going to leave you with how our day ended. It was on a high, it was on a positive and here it is. Hi everyone, it's like 11 o'clock at night and my group chat for our uni group is going mental because the allocations are out for our management placements. Oh my God. For me, I knew that because I'm doing the community rotation program, I knew I was going to be in district nursing somewhere. I was just praying it was going to be near my house because every placement I've had has been an hour and a half on bus journeys and they asked for our post codes for this one. So I was praying to the high gods, to anybody that's listening to me to give me somewhere close, just for my final send off, give me somewhere close to my house and make it nicer for me. And guess what? It's two miles away. Two miles away, guys. No more 5 a.m. starts.  You've got no idea how relieved I am. Oh my God, I am chuffed. I'm so chuffed. Two miles away. I can walk that. I can walk that probably in 30 minutes. I don't even have to get a bus if I don't want to. So whether I jump on a bus for five minutes or walk for 30, we'll find out. But either way, I'm so chuffed. I'm so happy. I am ecstatic. Thank you so, so much for ever giving me this placement. Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. I'm chuffed. And yeah, that's all I've got. Tomorrow is Wednesday. I've got a day off. I'm planning to do my dissertation. I might start my poster presentation as well. Split it up a little bit because my poster presentation comes first. That is the one that's due in first. So I should probably make a head start on that because that's next month. And I wanna get that done and dusted. Not next month, sorry, September. Post presentation since September, I've got two months. And I want it done, dusted, ready so I can start practicing what I've got to say in the actual thing so that it come to the time. I'm confident. So yeah, so that's it. I just want to share that news while it's here. It's fresh. The emotions are running. I'm happy. I can't wait. And now I'm probably not gonna sleep because I'm too excited. But yeah, I'm gonna give it a go. I shall see you all either tomorrow or Thursday. That's the day of lectures. Because in Mayhem we have stolen the selfie board and we're outside taking pictures in random locations around BCU. So let's see, that was our last ever lecture for transition to qualified practitioner. I can't believe it's the last one. It's gonna be the final university lecturing vlog. It's emotional. We had a great day. We had the selfie boards. We ran off with it. It was great fun. We had a really, really good day. Causing Mayhem and mischief. We thought we would because it was our last day and have a little bit of fun with it so yeah. We ended on a high. It's amazing that we've all come so far together and these are people that you've been, have been your family for like the last two and a half years to just over two and a half years now. We've all bonded. We've laughed together. We've giggled together. We've cursed at some point in this course together. And it's just been amazing. It's been so good and that's it. So in today's lecture, what we actually did was before I started getting all emotional. So in today's lecture, we had to get into our subgroups. So at university, you will be in one big main lecture hall for all of your main lectures, but then you might be broken into smaller subgroups to do your manual handling, basic life sport, things like that. So we had to get into our subgroups and we were given the task of sort of delegating or not delegating, but deciding between us who was gonna go first for our poster group, who was going second, third, fourth, fifth, organizing our whole poster presentations for the day, what time slot we wanted and what our topic's gonna be and writing it on a piece of paper and then it's done. So mine is first. I said, please let me go first. And luckily they were really nice and let me go first. So mine is 9.30 AM on the 18th of September and my topic is delegation. So that's what I'm gonna be doing. I'm actually not nervous for this one. I think it's gonna be all right. It's quite transparent. I know what I've gotta do. I know what I've gotta say and it's gonna be amazing. I'm not really bothered about this one. I don't think many people will fail this one. Fingers crossed, I say that, fingers crossed. Don't want that. And yeah, but that's it. That'll be the next thing I probably vlog with uni work or be post presentation. Maths exam, which is coming up in a couple of weeks. End of the month, we have got our math exam, which I'm not too worried about. I think I'm all right with it because we get a calculator and I know how to work things out. So I think we'll be okay with that one. Fingers crossed, we have to get nine out of 10 for that. But that's it really. I'm going to stop talking now and it's just been a really emotional week. It's been amazing and it's really sad that it's come to the end of our university life. But now I'm off until September and we've got a nice break. I've picked up some bank shifts, some work. I'm gonna think of some vlogs to do as well between now and placement. And then when placement comes, obviously I'm gonna vlog all about it, district nursing. I'm there, you're gonna learn so much from me about it hopefully. But yeah, if you've got any ideas, if you've got anything you want me to cover, anything I haven't done yet, anything you want me to go over again, let me know and I will do a vlog for you. I'll also go through, I made a list as well of vlogs. I'm gonna go through that list because I wrote some down and just see if I've covered them all yet. If not, I'm gonna do that. And yeah, I'm gonna still vlog, don't worry guys. I'm gonna still vlog every Sunday, try and get something out there for you. Hopefully it'll be useful, helpful, especially coming up to September. I know a few of you are starting university, so I'll think of some things to sort of prep you maybe for that. And yeah, we'll see anyway. But for now it is goodbye. I shall see you next week. Not too sure what next week's vlog is gonna be all about but we'll see. It'll be a surprise. And yeah, have a great week guys. That's it guys. This is our final evaluation session of the week of university. That's it, done.  I know. So I thought I'd end it on a high and do what was our top moments or best moments of our two and a half years so far at university. Go Puget. Okay. My best moment would be at placement. One of the patient came up to me and she hugged me and she cried saying thank you. So that was my best moment. That was so nice of her. My best moments, just coming to uni and seeing everybody here. It's nice. Yeah, it's nice. I'm gonna miss that, yeah. And I'll post a group or post a group. Oh yeah, this is our post a group. I'm gonna miss this, yeah. But well, what can we do? And we're gonna miss Claire's video. Vlogging, I'll still be here. Yeah, let's make a video.  I'm gonna be easy, but you can make it. If we can make it, you can make it as well. Yeah, if we can all pass this course. Well, if you can't, ask me to get on this choreo. We're gonna all pass. Bye bye. Have fun. Bye bye. Good luck. Good luck, everyone.


Hello, yeah Hello, everybody. So thanks for having me today So my name is was seems wally. I am a cloud solution architect working with me with merantis and Today we will be talking about building a framework for a big and for decisions Before to start so we are having scavenger hunt with the merantis. So just collect these QR codes and Come to collect your prizes at the bill garden, right? I will be displaying it again at the end of the session. So It's no rush so the shopping list so basically we have met with a lot of customers and A lot of them are using so VMs or containers or both of them Of course, we have other solutions, but this is what we see the most So usually we are using VMs when we have like a lift and shift So customers they're having like servers and they just want to optimize them So they move everything to do VMs lift and shift without Doing anything. It's like minimum effort, right? And it works very good It is also used while using like a non-standard HTTP or HTTPS protocols We see that especially in the telco. I have a colleague here like telco expert He will have another session to discuss about it Especially with like seep and diameter and GTP protocol where we really we really need like point two points So this is much easier to use VMs And also it's used in order to run like different operating systems Especially like if we develop with Windows and Linux like with dotnet or these kind of things. Yeah, it's much easier So of course there are other reasons, but this is what we see on the field in the other hand so a lot of our customers are using containers as well and Especially if they start from scratch. So of course if you have a code that exists from 10 years, which is like a Buck free so you don't want to risk it and to create something from scratch But if you are new company, so of course, it's easier in order to build something from scratch and use the All the cloud native and like a depth secops Principle and these kind of things and of course you could put much more containers on the same server So it is also optimizing the servers But really what we see on the field is that people they have a lot of imagination, right? So sometimes they use Pots where they where they should use VMs, especially in the telco field So 5g is moving to Kubernetes. So everything is moving to pots and We have seen that customers are just doing like a lift and shift From VMs to pots. It means they have like huge pots Which are not cloud native, but well it works and We have seen in the other world like people that just stick to VMs So they use VMs like they are pots like Kubernetes pots It means that in case of issues they don't jump in the VM to troubleshoot it They just kill it and start a new one in case they would like to do an upgrade They just start new VMs and they kill the old VMs. They are really using in very smart way VMs like Kubernetes. So at the end, so don't put yourself under stress. So should I move to containers or not? It's yeah, it's like use your creativity lose your imagination and you could achieve a lot of things and It's the infrastructure that should follow you and not the other way around So now that we discussed about the VMs containers or both of them. So actually where to deploy? The first thing and the easiest of course would be to go to cloud So it's very easy with your credit card. For example, you could you could like deploy on cloud It's it's ideal for small deployments For startups and for irregular workloads.  So like the public cloud is perfect for them, right? So however the downside is that at the beginning it's easy and it works well. It could scale. It's like in limitless But it has a higher OPEX and people are talking about like bill shock It means that they give especially if they have like a big enterprise They like give accounts to everyone and after the end of the month, they end up with like millions, right? Also, so someone could ask question about security and sovereignty So they say that data is secure and I believe so but where is it? Is it behind your firewalls? So how many security guards you have in the data center? So all these kind of questions so someone could ask right, especially if we are government or banking or these kind of companies And also there is vendor lock-in. So it's easy, but when we start using it It's kind of hard to move away from it In the other hand we could see like on promises Here, of course So we have very good security and sovereignty.  Where is your database located, right? It has higher capex because you have to buy everything you have to rent the site or buy the site rent the It's like buy the servers You have to buy everything, but if you do the math after five years you would see like the the TCU the total cost of ownership is Lower is much lower and this is like something that we do with Mirantis We do the math the calculation and we see that people are really having back a lot of money And of course, it's yours. So you could like design it to fit Exactly what you need you put the services that you need my it's yours So the downside and I think that this is the biggest downside is that you really have to Right size it and it's kind of hard. So if you have if we have here like some infrastructure I would say responsible so they know about it Usually we go to the project managers and say, okay So do you have like some projects coming in the next one two or three years? And then you convert it in the amount of servers you need and then you buy the servers and if for example, you would need 100 servers and you put 150 it means that you are paying 50 servers maintenance cost for nothing. It's a waste of money and if you put less So this is even worse because you will go with overload So this is I think the hardest point that we see with our customers Also, you would need like to handle everything like physical site cabling cooling energy In my previous company, I could even download AutoCAD in order to know exactly where to put the shelves And also you would need multiple skills. Of course, you need like the guy who's doing the cabling is different from the Cooling is different from the energy. It's it's like a lot of people that are needed in order to To maintain this and promises infrastructure. There is a solution in between It's called like a co-located cloud or metal cloud So this is like something that we see more and more. It means that instead of deploying In cloud like AWS or Azure, whatever you rent servers on cloud like with equinix metal, for example So you have your own servers and then you put on top of them the needed infrastructure like Kubernetes or OpenStack or whatever and sometimes like with Mirantis you have Actually, we have very good partnership It means that you go to this partner and he would take care of deploying everything and you just use your cloud like it's Some public cloud. So this is very good alternative. It's between like the cloud and on-premises So you don't need to wake up very early in order to get the servers which is happening nowadays So they already have thousands of servers And you reduce the cost It's also very easy to use because it's based on APIs. So it's like a self-service in order to wake up a server You don't you don't need to go to the APMI and pixie and these kind of things You just need to go to some API in order to wake up like thousands of servers, right? And so and if you do the math, it's kind of It would lower your cost if you compare it to some hyper scalar But of course, it's a bit more expensive than On-premises network and The good thing here is there is no of under lock-in because you just have metal You just have like servers and networking and these kind of things and then you deploy your own solution on top of it It means there is no of under lock-in and about security so it is It would never be as secure as what you you have behind your firewalls Of course, but is it's much more secure than The normal public cloud because here you could have your own tenants You could have your servers you secure them like you are You could have as well your own like Private networks it means in terms of security and sovereignty. It's better than public cloud If we would like to push things further We could talk about About hybrid cloud So here, of course you gain in terms of agility It means that if you went to see this program manager saying that listen do you have project coming in the next Few months he would say no and then he comes back. He said oh listen. I have actually a project would take Like hundred servers. Yeah here if you have hybrid cloud you could like offload this extra load to the hyper cloud and this was would help you of course to Right-size your on premise cloud. It means that your on premises cloud would be used for the regular workload and if you have some project which is not Which was not planned or some peaks Especially I have seen that in telcos actually all the telco network is Sized for the peaks it's like a size for a Christmas at eight and then All the rest of the year it is like running very low which is a bit of pta So this hybrid cloud would really help you to size it correctly, right? The downside is that you need like your on-premises skills, but you need another team like handling this How to say like Public cloud it means that you need more skills and you need to maintain a different kind of environment and If we push things even further We talk about multi-clouds in this case We are having our in-premise cloud. For example, we are having not only one hyperscaler, but multiple hyperscalers It has a lot of benefits, of course for example avoiding the Vendor lock-in because as you are using multiple Hyperscalers it means that all your Development is is used to work with the different hyperscalers. It means that you do not have Vendor lock-in. It could be used as well for cost arbitrage. So today maybe AWS is Maybe cheaper you could use it tomorrow. Maybe Azure is cheaper. You could use it This is like something that I have seen in telco as well Where they carry voice so every day they switch from one carrier to another one in order to reduce the prices So they have this possibility and of course we have seen that Even with the bigger hyperscalers from time to time. It's low, there are outages So It could happen. So in this case you just switch to another one The downside of this multi-cloud is if you think that hyper-cloud is difficult So multi-cloud is even more difficult because you have to maintain multiple IPIs, multiple like monitoring systems And it's becoming very complex and everyone knows that complexity is the enemy of security, right? So it makes things even worse in terms of security This is so just to give you an idea about Key components that someone might have with the infrastructures So we see that we could have like virtualization Word you could do it for example with OpenStack, right? We could have Conturnization world we could do it with Kubernetes or swarm or there are other solutions But the idea is that we should have one single Orchestrator in order to handle all this word, right and while doing This infrastructure we should really look for LMA like a login monitoring alerting And billing and we will talk about this question in the comment slides more in detail And also so someone should not forget about About the registry repository and the whole CACD that should be secured This is the idea so at the end what's an ideal cloud? So this is like a vision So if there is one slide that you should keep in mind maybe this one So An ideal cloud is like Smaller or a downsized version of of hyperscalar which is on promises It should be agnostic to the underlying layer so today we have OpenStack we have VMware we have I don't know like a Kubernetes we have swarm but tomorrow who knows it means that While building your ideal cloud you should really keep in mind that it should be Agnostic and you should like to all your development in some agnostic way. It's very important Otherwise in five years you would need to rebuild from scratch, right? It should be also designed By having the the time to market in mind very important because this is what would give you I Would say a competitive advantage so against your competitors, right? It's always the the the time to market and in order to achieve that It's very important that it should be like with the unified access It means if I have to do something I should not be log in there log in here It should be like one access and it should be with the with the self service I used to work in some Companies in the past where in order to have your for example database a service You have to go to the networking team to to get some scopes and then to the firewall in team to open the disc ops and then to the I'd say To the DB team and there and this and it would take like a few weeks It would make it project where it should be very very easy. So it should be really like a Self-service Also, it should provide from scratch Most of the services that your company need For example, if I need like DB, I don't know like my sequel or Cassandra or whatever It should be by self-service within a few clicks I get my database should not be like a project and go into the team and it would take like weeks It should be within a few clicks so same for like backup as a service and same for VPN a service and for all the Services that you might need we could see that we could really automate them And it should be used like like directly through self-service Even the security should be automated I would say like 80% of security could go through some templates and CI CDs and like DevSecOps principle And it is it is like something that could waste a lot of time So so we should really look for this kind of automation and There is like something else which is Monitoring so we should have very good idea about what's happening in our platform So is it working well? Is it like at 80%? I should like scale it We should have all the alarms at all like levels like the The networking the servers and what's on top of it? So the full stack should be monitored and Also, there is like something which is very important But it's very hard to do which is having a true granular billing Because today if we go to hyperscalar we know how much it would cost me a project it means that I could see that like This project is costing me How to say like I would say hundred VMs. This has a certain cost But if we do its On-premises is kind of hard because we know how much the infrastructure is costing So how much the side is costing how much the cooling how much the electricity how much the servers But we we cannot know and it's very difficult to know how much really a VM or Some Kubernetes cluster is costing within this specific On-premises infrastructure and this is very important to implement And also it should be hosted So on-premises of course But as we said, it's very important that it should be Hyper cloud in order to write sizes and to offload all these peaks and the special events and in order to How to say Not oversized so in order to implement this Ideal cloud so basically you have two possibilities So either you do it yourself with specific team so you dedicate Specific cloud team in order to do that and we have seen a few customers that are doing it themself In this case, we have seen a few challenges First one of course is is a talent scarcity. It's very difficult to hire Infrastructure talents and even more difficult to maintain them. By the way, we are hiring with me notice Also, what we have seen is that Actually, we do not want to have outages. This is why our customers they take their best elements And they put them in order to handle infrastructure, which is a misuse edge And it's a pity because instead of doing like innovation and very interesting things so they are They are just stuck with infrastructure, which is really a pity and Also, what we have seen is that so as it's not there like day-to-day business. So usually So the software is outdated. It's not maintained. This would lead to outages to to to like Security issues and these kind of things and also like implementing The need that the telemetry is kind of hard so people they just implement something very easy With nodules or these kind of things which is not enough in order to view the full stack So these are the challenges we see so if you would like to do your infrastructure your own So you have to keep in mind these kind of challenges because you might run in these same issues The other alternative would be to go with the partner So like me on this for example in this case you have a few elements that you should keep in mind So the first element is a very rapid and quick deployment It means that from the time that I have all the needed requirements I have like my servers which are Connected in shell so how much time it would take to Have something up and running usually it's like a couple of days, especially if you go with the Reference architecture of your partner. It means that they tested this at their in their labs They have like hundreds of customers using this same like reference architecture So the idea is that it could be very very quick deployment This the second thing that you should be looking for is Would it really reduce the The overhead it means that We are talking about like day two. So this platform is up and running, but it needs to be maintained Upgraded we need to look for the life cycle management. So will this partner look for this life cycle management? so Do they have like automated tools? So how it is working? Would it be easy? So So here it's a I should be like a user of my own platform It's just I go to my platform and I start consume VMs containers and And services The other point is So this partner should help me to bring back my workloads today. I'm using some cloud I am in this vanderlaken So usually these partners they have experience by moving back the workload. So this partner I should so ask the right question to see whether they have the needed scripts whether they did it how is it working and Yeah, this is very important in order to help you to move back all the workload and Also, so today you may be leveraging VMs or containers, but you should look for someone who has both basically Because today you might be having like VMs, but tomorrow Maybe you would need to leverage the cloud native principles. So you would like to move for example to Containers so your partner should offer this possibility to have both at the same time So in summary So you might be leveraging like containers or VMs. You might be having like on-premises or I'd say like on On cloud or both so So just reach out We are in booth B2 and let's discuss about your journey and See how to share ideas because it's very important. I mean the most important thing is the idea and then we see how to implement it so thank you for this session and Let me put again this scavenger hand. So if you would like to Yeah, take it. Thanks a lot So Hello, everyone I'm Elvira Garcia and today I'm going to talk about how to contribute to neutron a one-on-one session I've been working at Red Hat for a year and a half and I'm going to try to get you some Along some of the key things that I think that helped me to get Introducted into the Neutron project So what is this talk about first of all, I'm going to make a brief introduction To the Neutron service and what it's rolled in OpenStack Then I'm going to list you some of the reasons that I think there are To contribute to this project or really to any OpenStack project or any open source project And then I'm going to try to tell you Some of the key things in order to get to fix your first bug in Neutron So first of all Neutron is the OpenStack networking service in OpenStack There are many different Services that allow for many different capabilities in the cloud Some of them are optional and some of them are core Neutron is one of those core components because it allows for all the wiring of the Instances that we want to deploy either VMs or bare metal and not just that it also wires the services between themselves the main components in Neutron are the Neutron server that gets all the apicals to the to the service itself The Neutron DB that has all the information about the networks that we defined because since we have Software defined networks. We need to save the state and the definition of all the routers the networks the subnets that we create and Also the plugins and drivers The plugins are you could say where the magic is it's where the capabilities are really coded and one of the most Core plugins inside of Neutron would be the ML2 plugin that is a framework for creating all kinds of Link layer resources like networks as I said before different kinds of networks and Inside of a plugin you can find Different ways of implementing that capability in the case of the ML2 plugin We find ML2 OBS, which is the open v-switch backend for the ML2 plugin and ML2 OVN too that it works with OVN as the SDN technology on the back So why I think it's a nice thing to contribute to Neutron. It's really straightforward The first reason is because you can it's not with every project that you are able to actually get interested or find a problem and just go into the codebase and Learn a bit about why something is failing or how something is working And if it's because of a problem you can even go ahead and submit a patch for that I think that allows for higher quality of the code and also for higher reliability Because there's more people looking into code than if it was closed source and There's also public peer reviewing this means that for a comic to get into the codebase There must be several people reviewing a patch and at least two core reviewers Stating that whatever you coded into the project is Right for to go inside So the next thing I think it's because you want to learn so you might just be interested into Networking for example in my case when I arrived to Red Hat and I started with OpenStack, I only knew what TCP, UDP and all that kind of really basic stuff and Once I was Here for already a year. I've heard much complex concepts like for example VLAN transparency or trunk port and


And now I'm going to turn it over to my colleague Liz. Hello, welcome everyone. So today we're going to spend some time talking about the CAP program, and hopefully giving you a better understanding of whether this will be a good program to help your institution. In today's webinar I want to talk about the program itself, the process, and the benefits of participating. And then we're also going to talk about eligibility. And then Tiffany is going to talk about funding, costs, and she's going to go through a bunch of tips for applying. So the CAP is a program that's administered by the Foundation for the American Institute for Conservation under a cooperative agreement with the Institute of Museum and Library Services. It's designed to help small and mid-sized museums by providing funding support for a general conservation assessment. CAP is often a wonderful first step for small institutions to improve the condition of their collections and develop some long-range preservation plans. So what does a general conservation assessment consist of? So it's going to be a review of all the institution's collections, buildings, and building systems, as well as policies and procedures that relate to collections' care. This is not going to be an item-by-item review of the collections, but rather more of a bird's-eye overview of your collections. The goal is going to be to help the museums determine their greatest collections' care needs. You know, we all struggle with limited time and limited money, and so the goal of the CAP assessment is to help you determine where to invest your limited resources and how best to improve the care of those collections. So how does the CAP process work? The most important thing is that this is going to be a team process. The internal aspect of that team is going to be your staff, your board members, and your volunteers. We really encourage you to get as many people involved in this process as possible. It helps your assessors get a more well-rounded understanding of your museum, and it really helps create institution-wide buy-in for the recommendations that you'll have in your report. The other members of your CAP team are your assessors. Most museums will have two assessors, one who has a collections background, usually a conservator, and one with a building background, which may be an architect, an engineer, or a historic preservationist. The two assessors will work collaboratively to create a prioritized recommendations for your improved collections care. And the assessment will culminate in a comprehensive report that will be written by your assessors and will include all of the prioritized recommendations that they developed through their two-day site visit for your collections care. So next, let's go into the process. So the CAP process is going to take about a year, and it's comprised of eight steps, and I'm going to walk you through each one of those steps. The first step is the application process, and that opens November 1st this week, and will be open until February 1st of 2019. Museums will be notified in March of their acceptance. Once accepted, the institutions will select two assessors. We provide a list of approved assessors that they can review and interview, and once the assessors are selected, the museum will provide background information to their assessors. This will be in the form of what we call a site questionnaire. We will provide the museums with the questionnaire, and it will ask specific questions about your organization, your collections, your buildings, your building systems, and also your policies and procedures. The site questionnaire will really help your assessors get to know your museum before they do their two-day site visit. And then as you near your site visit, the next step you'll see is that you'll hold a pre-site visit phone call with the assessors. The goal of this call is to introduce members of the project team to one another, and also allow the assessors to ask questions and get to know your institution, their goals, and your concerns. It will be a time for you to organize the schedule for your site visit, and it's really helpful for this preparatory phone call. You'll be able to get everything in order and ready to go before the site visit itself. Now the next step is the site visit, and this is the big part of the cap. During the two-day site visit, the assessors are going to tour all of your collections, your buildings, your exhibition spaces. They're going to look at things like the lighting, storage materials you're using, all of your environmental controls. They're going to look at your staff, the roles, and how they relate to collections' care. They'll want to look at any policies and procedures that you have, and a number of other things that are going to affect the general preservation of your collections. They may also want to meet with other staff, board members, volunteers. So it's going to be a pretty full two days. This culminates, then, in the written report, which contains prioritized recommendations for your improved collections' care at your site. And then we get to the implementation process, and staff should hopefully begin implementing the report's recommendations, and what we hope is that this report will really serve as a living working document for your institution that can really guide you in both the short term and the long term. And then finally, we have what we call the follow-up, and that is about 12 months after the initial site visit. The institution will have an opportunity to reconnect with their assessors through a phone call or a video chat, and they can report on their progress, request further advice, and address any other challenges that may have arisen in between receiving the report and beginning to do some of these implementation aspects. So let's see. Sample cap executive summary. Next, I kind of want to talk about, give you an idea of some of the recommendations that you might find in a final report. Every cap report is going to contain what we call an executive summary that serves as a prioritized list of recommendations. Though you may be aware of some of these issues already at your institution, an assessment can really help you decide where to invest limited resources and staff time. What you see here is not a complete list of recommendations, nor are they even all from one single report, but it can give you a general sense of what types of things might be included. The first thing I want to point out is how they are categorized. We think that having a prioritized list of recommendations is important so that you don't feel overwhelmed with a bunch of recommendations and you might not even be sure where to start. This example has recommendations organized by critical, high, medium, and low priority, but other reports might use immediate, short, and long term or one year, three years, and five years. There's a variety of ways in which the assessors might organize their findings and they do that based both on their own preference and the needs they see for your institution. The other thing I want to point out is that some of these recommendations, like developing a written collections management policy, they require only an investment of staff and board time, but others like you see at the end needing to have an HVAC system are going to require likely funding and more time to implement. So it's typical in an executive summary to have a range of different types of recommendations. I should also note that the summaries are much longer than this and they would often have more than just a few recommendations, but here we just wanted to share with you a few examples. So how can CAP help your museum? There are many benefits to the CAP program. As busy professionals, it can be challenging to be able to take a step back and really look at some of the bigger needs of the institution to do long range planning and that is something that CAP can really be helpful in getting you started on that process and providing that path forward. In addition, if you're interested in seeking grant funding or private support for conservation or preservation activities, a CAP report can provide the professional argument that is needed for such work. And bringing in an outside consultant to identify the need can really help in adding some much needed weight to a grant application. Having an outside perspective can also be valuable in drawing the attention of your board or other leadership and community partners to collections care concerns and help to engage them and create a sense of momentum for addressing a lot of these concerns. So I wanted to talk, we've talked about what CAP does and what its benefits are, but I also wanted to review quickly what CAP is not. We unfortunately are not, we do not provide grant funding for collections care or implementing the CAP findings. CAP also does not provide individual conservation treatments or object by object level surveys. It is meant to be a broader look at the collections and the building systems as well as your policies and procedures. So a much more bird's eye overview of your institution. The program emphasizes preventative conservation and what you can, as an institution, do to create the best environment for the items in your collection. So now that we've discussed that, I want to talk a little bit about what eligibility is for the CAP program. So you see here are the lists of different museum types. All the museums you see listed here are going to be eligible. Museums that hold collections living or non-living, such as Botanic Gardens, Arboretta, and Zoos, can also use the CAP to have both types of collections assessed. The rule generally speaking is that if you have collections and you make them available to the public, you're probably going to be eligible. With that said though, libraries and archives are not going to be eligible for CAP. The reason for this is due to our funding. The funding for CAP comes through IMLS and the museum services division specifically. And there are other opportunities for libraries and archives to apply for similar types of programs, but the CAP program is intended for museums.  If you have questions about any of this, please just give us a call. We'd be happy to talk through with you your individual circumstances of your institution and eligibility. The CAP program is funded through the Institute of Museum and Library Services, so therefore the program serves those institutions to find its museums. We understand that many of the museums have archival materials and that's okay, so long as your institution has the objects and identifies primarily as a museum and not as an archive or library, you'll probably be eligible. So let me go through the rest of the other eligibility requirements. First, you must be a nonprofit organization or a unit of state, local, or tribal government, basically non-federal. If your institution exists within a multi-purpose, public or private nonprofit organization such as a municipality or university, you are also eligible for CAP. The second is that your institution must be located in the United States, but this also includes the District of Columbia and all U.S. territories. Thirdly, your institution must be organized on a permanent basis for educational or aesthetic purposes. This means that art centers or galleries whose primary purpose is the promotion and sale of art, for example, would not be eligible for the CAP program. And fourth, the institution must own tangible objects that make them available to the public for their exhibition and or research on a regular basis. You may have seen other IMLS programs or grants that require your institution to be open to the public for a minimum number of days per year to fulfill eligibility, but the CAP program does not have that requirement. We simply say that you need to show a commitment to regular public access in your institution. The fifth is that your institution must employ at least one full-time person or the equivalent of a full-time person. This person does not have to be paid, and you may have a very dedicated group of volunteers that put in the equivalent of 40 hours per week, but there does need to be a workforce that can oversee the assessment and, most importantly, work on implementing the report's recommendations after the assessment. And finally, it must be possible for the assessors to review all of your collections and facilities in a two-day site visit. If you've never had a conservation assessment before, you might not know how to determine whether your site can be assessed in two days. What we would suggest is to really think about your whole site or sites.  Now, this isn't an object-by-object assessment, but your assessors do need to spend time visiting all of these sites. They need to be observing the environments there, talking to staff, and dealing with issues related to each of those spaces. And they also they'll be taking notes throughout the whole process to kind of come up with preliminary recommendations to discuss with you during their site visit. And they need to be able to do all of this within two, eight-hour days. So just kind of think about all of that, but if you're really unsure of any of that, please don't hesitate to give us a call. We'd be happy to walk through the particulars of your own museum and whether you think it would be possible to do a two-day site visit at your institution. So now that I've discussed eligibility, I wanted to again run through quickly who is not eligible for CAP. Agencies of the federal government, that's because of our funding source, comes through IMLS, which is a federal agency. And institutions that serve primarily as libraries or archives are not eligible, which we talked about a couple slides ago. Historic structures without collections are also not eligible. If you are just a historic building and there are no collection items beyond the building, then that would make you an eligible for the CAP program. Also, if you don't own your collections, you're not eligible. If the objects in your collections are on loan and if you are responsible, for example, for caring for collections, but they're still held in private hands, unfortunately, you would not be eligible. It is fine, though, if some of your items are on loan, but the majority of the museum's collections need to be owned by the institution. Institutions with collections that take more than two days to be assessed are also not eligible, which is something we discussed. But again, if you have any questions about any of this, please don't hesitate to ask us. And with that, I think I'm going to hand things back over to Tiffany so she can discuss funding and tips for one. So let's talk about funding. Institutions that participate in the CAP program receive an allocation to help pay for their assessor's fees. That allocation amount will range from $3,500 to $3,900 per assessor, and that's based on the annual operating budget of the institution as shown in this chart. So, for example, if your annual budget is $150,000, you would receive an allocation of $3,900 for a collections assessor and $3,900 for a building assessor. So I should clarify, CAP is not a grant because the funding doesn't flow directly to participating institutions. Instead, the allocation is paid by FAIC to the assessor's. The institution is then responsible for paying the remainder of the assessment costs. So all CAP assessors are independent contractors, and so they often perform the same type of general conservation assessment to other institutions outside of the CAP program. So they've all set their own professional fees, and we cannot, as an organization, tell them what their fees should be. So I'm going to just give you an example here on the next slide. So in this example, remember this is just for one contract with one of the two assessors. We can say that the collections assessor that was chosen here charges a professional fee of $3,900, and her travel expenses to get to the site to cover mileage and food and hotel are, let's say, $500. That assessor's total fee would be $4,400. So if the CAP allocation was $3,900, then the museum here would be responsible for the remaining $500. Last year, it looked like the average museum contributed around $800 total for both assessors to the process, but the amount really does vary. It can vary based on the location, the type of assessor you've chosen, the time of year. There are a lot of different factors involved. So if you are applying for the program and you're working on your 2019 budget, we do encourage you to be prepared and budget some cash costs for this process. I know it's difficult, but we can't tell you exactly what that's going to be. But the good news is you do get to choose your own assessor, so you have a little bit of control over those costs. Oh no, it looks like I'm missing a slide. So the other thing we want you to know is that at the beginning of this year, museums are required to show a one-to-one cost share on their cap allocation. So if you've received a $3,900 allocation for each assessor, or a total of $7,800, you need to show at least $7,800 worth of investment in the project from your institution. Now that does not mean that you have to provide $7,800 in cash. In addition to the costs that you pay for assessor fees and travel, the cost share can be achieved through staff, volunteer, and board time spent on the project. It can come from in-kind expenses and overhead expenses. We have a couple of examples on the website of how museums might meet that cost share, and I encourage you to take a look at that to show you some ways in which you might meet the match. I should also mention that all museums that are accepted in the program will also have an orientation webinar in which we'll talk more about cost share in greater detail. We'll have forms and trackers for museums to complete to help keep track of everything and to give you ideas as to what you can count for cost share. Okay, so Liz mentioned this earlier, but again, the applications for the next program cycle will open this Thursday, November 1st, and you'll have plenty of time to work on them. They won't close until February 1st. And Liz also mentioned that we expect museums to be notified of their application status in March, though I'm going to pause here and say that funding is always subject to the availability of funds in the federal budget, but assuming that everything goes smoothly, we will announce the application acceptance in March, and then all assessment activities need to take place in 2019. So if your museum is not prepared to go through the entire cap process in 2019, you might want to consider waiting and applying for the 2020 program cycle. So now I want to move on to tips. I'm going to count down the top eight tips for applying to the cap program. And to start out, you're going to need to create an account with our online application platform. So anytime after Thursday, if you go to our website with conservation-us.org slash cap, at the top of the page, you'll find an apply button. That apply button will take you to our application page. And once you're there, you'll click on that purple button right toward the bottom of the page. And that will take you to our account page. You'll need to create a new account that's circled there. Creating the account will allow you to log out whenever you want. And then the next time you hit that purple button on our apply page, you'll log back in on the left-hand side of the screen where it's just asking you for your login ID and password. And your saved application will be waiting for you. So you can log in and log out as many times as you want. When you click on that circled link to create a login, you're going to go to our account profile form. One thing I wanted to point out here is that only the fields that have that nice little red R next to them are required. We use the online accounts for a lot of different purposes. And so there's a lot of information that's collected for different reasons, but some of them may not apply to you. A lot of it may not apply to you. We just focus on those fields that have the R next to them and are required. Another bonus tip I have here is to save your password and make sure you know which email address you use to register. Again, you'll need that information in order to log back in to continue working on your application. And you also want to hold on to it after you submit the application because we use these same accounts to give you access to additional products down the road if you end up participating in the program. So save your passwords. And also on an added note, if there are multiple people at your institution that are working on the application, you do all have to share the same login credentials. Only one email profile can be connected to an application unfortunately. Okay, so after you fill out the basic contact information, you're going to end up at a new screen that asks for social media information. This is not relevant to you. You can just click the cancel button and ignore it. And then unfortunately, that will not take you directly back to the application. You will need to go back to the apply page on the CAP website and hit that purple button again to login. I wish it was a little smoother, but hopefully it's not too confusing. My other tips are much quicker, I promise. So tip number 7 is to make sure you're eligible. What I'm showing you here is a list of actual questions from the application. These are the questions we use to determine your eligibility and they should look familiar. It's just the question version of the checklist that Liz shared with you a little bit earlier. If you can't confidently say yes to all of these questions, just contact us before moving forward in the application and we'll talk through your eligibility with you. Tip number 6, and again, Liz mentioned this earlier, rally your team. If you're considering applying to CAP, this is the best advice I can give you is to rally your team around the process early on.  On the application we do require that a board director or a similar organizational leader sign your application and say that they support the process. So the earlier you can get them invested in the process, the better. I also say rally your team during the application process because there may be questions that you may not be able to answer without assistance. We ask about your annual budget for example and that may be something that someone else needs to answer for you. And then more importantly, the real work for CAP starts once the assessment report is completed and your museum has to implement the recommendations that you have. And really the earlier you can get folks on board in this process and invested in the results of the report, the better. Tip number 5, choose your project contact wisely. This may be this may seem obvious, but this is the person we ask for on your application to be the primary contact. We will contact this person with any questions we have about the application and it's also the person we'll reach out to about program acceptance. So you want to make sure you've chosen someone who you think will respond promptly and who's engaged and available in the spring, January, February, March, that's still late winter when we're making these when we're reaching out to applicants. You also want to make sure that the contact can answer questions about the collection if we have questions about the answers on the application or at least knows who to ask to get those answers. Tip number 4 is to make sure your staff time adds up to at least one full time equivalent. So on the application we ask you to list the members of your staff who work with collections and exhibitions along with their average hours per week. This is how we're double checking to make sure that you meet the eligibility requirement of at least one full time staff member or full time equivalent. Remember these don't have to be paid positions but the hours you list should add up to the equivalent of a full time position. We've had questions about what we mean by works with collections and exhibitions here. I don't mean this to be a narrow definition so we're not looking just for your collections manager, registrar there are a lot of different ways that people work with collections. They protect them as security guards, they clean them they show them off to the public in tours so you can include anyone here who really has access to the collection and some degree of responsibilities related to them. I'd also add that all of the people who you list here should be involved in the site visit later on. Tip number 3 is to answer questions to the best of your ability. None of the questions are intended as trick questions. We do our best to make the questions relevant to you no matter what type of museum you work for. But if you're not sure how to interpret a question just reach out and email or give us a call. The line is a little weird there. But tip number 2 is to be honest and don't be scared of the questions. Not all of them are eligibility questions. So I've highlighted a question here. Does your organization own all the land and building that it occupies? I point this out because we had an applicant a couple of years ago reach this question and say oh man we don't own our land so we must not be eligible I'm not going to apply. They did happen to reach out to us and we said no, no please apply. We have this question in here because if you say no you don't own the land or building. We just will try to encourage you to get the land or building owner involved in the process and to meet with the assessors and to be part of the process. So don't assume that questions are eligibility questions. And then my final tip is always as we've said throughout just give us a call with any questions you have every museum is unique and we can't address all of the specifics of every type of institution here but we'd be happy to talk to any of you about your individual concerns or questions at any time. So with that we do have some time for questions now so feel free to type any questions you have into that discussion box I don't believe we've seen any yet but I will pause for a few minutes and see if anyone has any questions. It looks like I have a few people typing so that's good. Oh yes, Maureen if we can get a recording. Yes, I will be downloading the recording here and we will put it on the website at conservation-us.org slash cap. It'll be on the apply page of the website. It might take us a couple of days to do that but we'll get it up there as soon as possible. Ruth let's see it looks like you're asking if we have a case study or an example report of the re-vamped cap process. Excellent question. We're working on a sample report as you can imagine if you have been through a cap assessment or really if you're interested in it. It's not something you necessarily want to share your own dirty laundry out there for other institutions we're creating a pretend report essentially that we can share to give everyone a sense of what the report might look like. For those of you who don't know the cap program there was a former program known as CAP that was administered by an organization called Heritage Preservation a number of years ago and it was just a slightly different process and I think the biggest difference is that in the former CAP program if your museum was not housed in a historic structure you only had one assessor just a collections assessor. We believe that every museum even those museums that were built last year have structural issues that impact collections and the building is really the first line of defense in protecting your collections. We now have every museum receives an allocation for both a collections assessor and a buildings assessor and they work together on a single report. Again that's my long answer to the question of whether we will have a sample report. What we'll do is we'll post that on the website. It's getting proofread now. I'd love to have it up November 1st. It's probably not going to happen but it will be up before the end of the year for sure. Karen, sorry go ahead Liz is going to read the questions for me so I'm not just talking to myself. The next question says one of our museums is owned by the city and leased to us. Do we need a city employee to be involved in the site visit? So need no there's somebody that you report to at the city who is going to be good to have on your side. It wouldn't hurt to have them stop by for a half hour and introduce them to the assessors. The reason I say that is if if the museum needs their support for any of the implementation activities. So if you're if your assessors say hey you need any new HVAC system the city is more likely to agree with you and support you and help fund that if they are engaged early on and have some sort of trust in the process. That's our recommendation. Every relationship is a little different so if you don't feel that would be a value to you that's fine but we would encourage it. The next question is must a cap assessment review the entire collection or can the assessor consider one sector of the collection for example the art? Oh good question. Yeah they do need to review the entire collection that's partially how we determine size otherwise every museum would be eligible because we could just look at smaller and smaller aspects of the collection but also because the assessment is intended to be focused on preventive conservation the things that they're looking at really do affect the entire collection so if they're looking at your climate control or the policies that you have in place your collections management policy those are things that affect the entire collection and so looking at just one cross section of the collection may have a negative impact on a different cross section so what might be best for the art may not be as good for the film and so they need to have a general understanding of your entire collection in order to make decision recommendations that will be best for the collections as a whole. So I have two questions here that I think are related the first is we are fortunate to have some funding on hand for our assessment what would be the best next step to write an RFP and contact conservators using your find a conservator link and the other question is does the program provide a list of qualified assessors or is that up to us to find. Great question so we so I'll answer the question about assessors first we do maintain a pretty elaborate spreadsheet of our approved assessors we have about 60 collections assessors and about 60 building assessors and we provide a lot of information about them so we don't put them on the website with all of our information and all of their information just because the spreadsheet can be a little unwieldy and we do provide a little more information about interpreting that spreadsheet in the program orientation but that said I'm happy to share the list of assessors with anyone if you want to just email me or Liz would be happy to send you that list museums who are approved through CAP can definitely select from the assessors that already exist or if you have an assessor who's met our eligibility requirements for assessors we'd be happy to add a new assessor to the list so sometimes museums come to us with a pre-existing relationship with someone who's a qualified assessor so we go through the process with them of getting them up to date on the CAP process and that's absolutely fine and then to kind of back up and answer the first part of that question if you're lucky enough to have funding on hand and want to do this outside of the formal CAP program and you're just looking to for assistance on the process you probably be best to just shoot us an email offline and we can again provide you with that spreadsheet and anything else that would be helpful so we have a question here are the assessor fees the only cost of the CAP assessment so in terms of cash costs yes whatever the assessor list as their fees are you will pay in cash again thinking about the cost share requirement there are always there's the cost of staff time which is something that you're paying for already but that is redirected into the CAP process same with board time but yeah CAP I'm sorry the assessor fees meaning their professional fees and their travel expenses are the only cash costs the next question is are there going to be slides made available after the presentation so what we'll do is we'll put the recording up on the website if you want just the slides I can send those to you if you send me an email and ask for them for approved applicants will assessor submit invoices directly to FAIC in the awarded amount great question so what they usually do is once they've completed the final report they submit their invoice to us and copy you and then FAIC pays the assessors directly for the allocation amount and then the amount over the allocation amount will be taken care of by your institution so I'm not sure if this is what you're asking but we get asked a lot if the museum has to front the money so do they do the museum have to pay for all of the costs and then get reimbursed for the allocation amount and that answer is no the assessor receives two sets of payment one from the museum and one from FAIC the next question asks what are your scoring criteria or what qualifies an organization good question so we look for a lot of things we look at eligibility primarily and pull aside all of the museums that are eligible for the program then we are looking at your your answers to the questions to try engage the need of the museum we also look at diversity in terms of the types of museums that apply on geographic locations around the U.S. we want to make sure that we're not funding only art museums in Wisconsin for example but it's kind of a holistic look at the applicants so my biggest recommendation is to make sure you are creating a good case for the need for a cap assessment at your institution and even more importantly make sure you're filling out the application correctly and that you've read the eligibility requirements closely the next question asks how can conservation.org help with getting grants for the implementation so I think maybe you're asking how FAIC can help with getting grants and the answer to that would be we do try to provide some resources for grant funding for projects related to implementation so on the website there's a resources page for cap and there's a funding resources option underneath that so we list some grants that are state grants and federal grants primarily and then just having as Liz said earlier just having the cap report can be a really great testimonial to your need for grant funding but FAIC itself does not distribute any funds related to conservation project funding so we can't turn around and help directly with implementation opportunities. The next question is asking do we have any guidelines to determine if a collection is small enough to survey in two days? Oh I wish we did. It's kind of a magical discussion that happens and probably the best way we could do this is to talk about it one-on-one through a phone call. For those of you who are concerned about the size and you do go ahead and apply we're concerned and think you may be kind of a bit too large to assess. We're not going to just throw you in the uneligible pile we're going to follow up with a phone call and say hey you look like you have a lot of stuff to assess and maybe you have multiple buildings it may be tough let's talk about it and see if we can talk through it together and see if you can convince us that it's actually possible to assess your collection in two days. So do we need to name assessors in our application or do we choose them after being accepted into the program? No you don't have the opportunity to name assessors in the application in fact we don't even share the approved assessor list until after museums are accepted so don't have to worry about that at all it's something we help with and help you think about what to consider when choosing an assessor after you'd be accepted in the program. Does the museum have any bearing on the awards? So definitely if we think the museum is too large to be assessed in two days then that would obviously have an impact and then also size in terms of diversity so we're not looking for all of the smallest museums and we're not looking for all of the biggest museums but that's one of the things that we might consider when looking at the whole range of applications and I should say I'm sorry I'm going to ask myself a question we get a lot of questions about how many cap how many museums we can fund in a year and I don't think I mentioned that today we it depends every year but we expect to be able to fund about 75 museums in 2019 so it's a good number some of our staff are on a per project consulting basis the curator for example so how would we count that with the hours and the time on the application? That's a good question I would say you would need to do your best to estimate how much time they would spend on the assessment you know that's I think a real common popular or common situation for museums especially now so I would just do your best to estimate what what you anticipate will be their time commitment during the assessment process I think that might be all the questions it looks like we have a couple other people typing could wait a second here great we can wait just another minute to see if anyone else has any questions but again feel free to send those to us directly as well and I listed this on this slide but didn't say it I personally will be out of the office conveniently November 5th through 16th but Liz will be able to answer any questions that you have during that time okay I think it looks like the selection specialists be available as assessors yes we do have specialists who focus on archaeological collections yes we do have a variety of backgrounds and again I'm happy to send that list if you send me an email I can send you the backgrounds for different assessors so you have an idea of everyone on the list but we have some living collections assessors and we have folks with specialties in a lot of different areas the selection may not be as big in archaeological collections as in other collections but we definitely have assessors who specialize in that area I think that's it then great thank you all for joining us today and I hope we'll see many of you your names come up in applications as they roll in over the next few months