Being welcome to the 2021 Workforce Development Symposium hosted by the Sheboygan County Chamber of Commerce, I am Deja Martinez, the executive director, and I am so happy to see you all. And we've got the most beautiful view of fall colors behind us. Thank you to Pine Hills for hosting us for yet another delicious breakfast. And Jonathan is somewhere, and he is phenomenal. So when Jonathan walks out the doors, we'll all clap for him because I don't think we celebrate how awesome he is enough. And he makes sure. There he is. Yay, Jonathan. But every time I show up and say, I don't know how to do this, Jonathan finds a solution. So thank you, Jonathan. So we are going to just get right to it.  We have a wonderful lineup of speakers today. Before we get started, I want to say thank you to our sponsors. They make sure that we can continue to provide, develop, and implement this type of programming for you all. So Gapes Construction, thank you to Masters Gallery Foods, thank you to Sargento. Those are our three platinum sponsors for the day. So we can say thank you and give them a round of applause. Our gold sponsor for the day is Rockline Industries. Thank you, Rockline. And then our silver sponsor for the day is Johnsonville. So thank you, Johnsonville. And with that, we have a special message from Ms. Laura Kohler of Kohler Company. Hello, everyone. I'm so delighted to be here as part of the Workforce Development Symposium and as a fellow business leader in Sheboyton County. I'm especially excited to introduce a topic to which I'm extremely passionate about, diversity, equity, and inclusion. As we consider our role in strengthening our business and the communities in which we work and live, our action around fostering a more diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment becomes ever more important to sustain and build for the future. The murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis in June of 2020 was really the wake-up call that we needed as a company and as a global brand to remind us of our role in supporting our associates and supporting our communities in the work of DE&I. We went out, talked to our associates, and learned how to better support them and learned how to message to our communities and our world really how we feel very passionately about supporting diverse associates in our communities and in our workplace. In fact, Delight Customer is our first and foremost cultural belief at Kohler Company. And we believe this really leads the way in the thinking around DE&I. We really believe our ability to compete and thrive in a global workplace and a global marketplace requires us to become even more diverse, equitable, and inclusive as a company. Our customer expects the best innovation and the best service. And we deliver that by getting the best diverse talent to apply their strongest thinking to solve the problems in front of us. The customer wants our teams to challenge one another and represent their point of view from the design of the product, development, marketing, and so on. So we need that creative diverse thinking to deliver our very best. And we empower our associates to boldly innovate to serve our customers as well. And to get there, we know our DE&I journey will take intentional leadership, ownership, and advocacy. It requires each of us to step out of our comfort zone and be aware of our bias, get involved in our thinking, and press forward in meaningful action. And that's not easy to do. It's not just one person's job. At Kohler, everyone is a leader, from an individual contributor to a top executive. We all have a role to play in achieving our mission rooted in gracious living. And it's an expectation too that we treat one another with dignity and respect. We foster an environment where associates can bring their whole selves to work and support them to achieve their highest potential. Having a sense of belonging is what makes this all sustainable. With belonging, those who live and work here will lay down roots, they'll buy a home, they'll send their children to our schools and they'll participate actively in our community, adding to the enrichment of our culture that only builds over time. You see, when we focus on and build belonging in our workplace, it not only benefits our business, but our community as well. Sheboygan can be a major hub for business and known as a great place to call home when we all work together as a team across our industries to build belonging. So as you think about your role and how you can influence, I would like to leave you with a few questions. Are you using your influence to guide specific and actionable goals around DE&I for your organization? Are you fostering an environment where your associates can take action, get involved in affinity groups or business resource groups who will create opportunities for connection and education community and drive strategy within your organization? Are you developing strategic partnerships and relationships with groups that represent and serve underrepresented communities? Have you looked at your internal policies and processes to ensure they are designed with equity? And finally, are you growing in your own personal journey of DE&I and role modeling the behaviors you wish to see across your organization and encouraging your teams to do the same? As leaders, we must use our influence to build cultural intelligence. That will recognize, respect, and value and embrace all of our differences for the greater good. Thank you all for your time here today and being a champion for inclusion and belonging in our community. Morning, everybody. I recognize lots of faces in the room, but for those of you who don't know who I am, my name is Tammy Flora. I'm the Vice President of Human Resources at Masters Gallery Foods, both in Plymouth and in Usberg. So I welcome you here today. We're excited to be a sponsor for the event and I'm really excited to hear what the keynote speakers have to say, but I have the privilege of introducing our first keynote speaker, who will be speaking on the challenge of finding workers in Wisconsin, something many of us are facing. Our speaker has been the Employment and Training Division Administrator for the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development since June of 2020 and previously led the Office of Business Opportunity in Equity Compliance. Winning numerous state and national awards, she also has served 23 years in the military. Please join me in welcoming Michelle Carter. Good morning. Good morning. I have to figure out how to manage. I'm not usually scripted and I usually talk loud, so I'm gonna just work with me a little bit, please. So again, thank you very much for inviting me, although I was the second choice. They wanted our secretary. Our secretary doesn't need Amy Pahachek, but our secretary really does regret that she cannot participate, but I promise you that we are very interested in any opportunity to engage business and really bring in our local partners to make sure that we are fulfilling our mission. So I want to tell you to look in this book, please, because I don't want to use a PowerPoint. I feel like sometimes that can be a little restrictive, so if we go to page five in the book there, that's, I'm gonna follow that PowerPoint. So if you need to, if you're thinking, what did she just say? You can go back to that, and so that'll be a reference point for you, okay? So the challenge of finding talent. So overall, the trend in the workforce is that we have our growth is declining. Wisconsin's labor force may actually decline by 2035. So the retiring baby boomers, right? The slow population growth, I mean, we've been talking about that for a while. The division that I lead is the division of employment and training, and we actually have a labor market analyst. We have a whole section of economists that are constantly looking at the data, and we've been saying for a long time that the labor shortage was coming. The numbers of people getting out there in the workforce was continually decreasing, so we knew that before COVID, but COVID exacerbated all those things, right? We also know that the situation is true, not only in Wisconsin, it's also true for the upper Midwest, much of Western Europe, and even China. So we know that there's global competition for talent right now, and we didn't used to be in that same area, right? So we know that a skilled workforce has been an existing demand even before the pandemic, in and almost every industry occupation and geography. So before the pandemic, employers were struggling to fill open positions, looking for skilled labor. We're looking at the influence of advancing technologies and the aging population, right? We also know that these problems are not going to solve themselves. So DWD really does understand that state agencies have to work with business employers, chambers, workforce development boards. I mean, we literally have a workforce development system that I'm not sure if people are aware of. So think about the, how many of you are familiar with the workforce development board? Matt Veliket is the executive director, and Kate Owens is their business services manager. She's relatively new there, but we work with them, but we work across the state, we work with these workforce development boards, and they give us the local connection, the local feel of what's going on. But we pull the data from our labor market information to really understand what's going on, the trends for businesses. So looking at that, we can tell you that we know of the people working in the workforce now, there are approximately 1.5 million or 32.4% of Wisconsin civilians that are not institutionalized age 16 to 84. And they do not currently participate in the labor market. That's a pretty big number. We know that of the 1.5 million, 1 million have retired or aged out of the workforce with no intention to return, right? And then COVID kind of gave a number of people a wake up call. They decided what's important and they walked away. That helped another number of people walk away. We also know that somewhere between the age 16 to 24, about 181,000 opted out of labor market for educational endeavors. So we recognize that there's four underutilized, I'm gonna call them untapped workforce areas. But I will say that sitting at the table, I heard the commitment to working with youth and working with internships and working in college. That is an excellent strategy because we have to make sure that as the new supply and demand is there, right? That we're making sure that we're nurturing that and ensuring that they have the skills that they'll need. So the individuals with disabilities is that first area. We have learned that we already, we have a division of vocational rehabilitation and they actually have counselors who do assessments with individuals and they work very carefully with them to understand what their situation is, right? And to find out what they need to be able to get into the workforce and be more productive. So individuals with disabilities are 182,000 residents that we have that are untapped, excuse me, to the labor force. Then veterans, veterans of all people, you would think that people who've served our country and then come back and they have the skill sets. They've done a number of things to say yes, that they're serious employee. But yet we know that our state veterans population has a lower labor force participation rate than the rest of the state. And their unemployment rate is higher than the unemployment rate for the state. Now that seems like a disconnect. So we know that that too is an opportunity. Justice involved persons. So we know with our Department of Corrections, some of the, we have almost 9,000 people who are released every year, but we know that we have our minimum security, medium security, different security levels, but we're actually in at least 10 job, each at least 10 facilities across the state. We actually have what we call a job lab. So we're actually making sure that individuals who will be released within the next six months are getting some training. They're connecting to our job center network, the computer systems and being able to prepare for those high skill or in demand job opportunities. So based on that kind of data driven research, we know that these four groups are kind of the largest or the low hanging fruit. So we want to use our resources to help you connect with these four groups. So our business services, we've been at a business services unit and that business services unit is an integrated unit. That unit actually, it includes veteran services where we have veterans representatives that again cover the state. And they're working with individuals who are being anyone who is transitioning out of active duty military. They actually, most of them receive an outgoing session that tells them about the workforce in the area that they say that they want to return to. So for the soldiers, so that outgoing session is very helpful for them. So our veteran services people connect to them as well as local veteran resources. We also have our Bureau of Apprenticeship Standards which is in our unit. Now, apprenticeship is an earn while you learn process. We work with the trades, we work. So industry, government, trades and community-based organizations are working together. In apprenticeship, we actually have certified pre-apprenticeship where employers can, if they believe so, community-based organizations have a group of recruits and they work with employers who say that they have a demand, they can craft or customize training that will give them the pre-apprenticeship skills and actually connect to registered apprenticeship.  So they're getting some educational credits, taking some curriculum and then they also are leaving school to be able to work so they have that connection to the workforce and again start working on their skills. So of that integrated unit, the veteran services, the apprenticeship services, it really does help. And then the workforce development board is also one of the partners there. Job service is obviously a key link so I would hope that, does anyone here familiar with Jolene Wilkins? Yes, and so Jolene is our business services manager, our supervisor there and she's usually engaged, she told me that she would usually be coming to these events but with our staffing issues, we have a lot less people as well. So she couldn't be here this time. But we also have, again, as our vocational rehabilitation person, we also have a representative there and all these people are trained, they're experts, they're out there, they're in the community and working with those target populations. So just know that we are working to be, we are making sure that we are tailoring our services. So on the conversation of finding talent, we are really trying to customize what we do. One of our mantras going forward is meeting people where they are, right? But we believe that one of the things we have to do first is make sure that you understand the services that we have available. So the integrated service team, again, by contacting one person like Jolene Wilkins, you'll be able to get a number of your, you'll be connected and you'll get a lot of any of your questions answered. I would like to talk, let's see, I'm gonna give you some examples of recruitment services and some things that you may or may not know about. One, we have a fidelity bonding program.  We would pay for that bond so that you then have some protections in your company to give you some extra assurances if you are not confident. If you're thinking, I feel like this individual is a good candidate, but I want a little bit more of an assurance, we have that fidelity bonding program. We also have a workforce opportunity tax credit that I would encourage you to take a look at. We work with, D.O.A. is familiar with that. They can help you walk through that, but again, our staff can help you walk through those sorts of opportunities. We do virtual hiring events, sometimes from our job center, sometimes from our workforce development areas, but we do those events again free of charge, all of it, free of charge. So I know that many of you may use staffing services, but it is something that can help you also get connected. We will come onsite to your location and do some hiring events. We do sector and targeted recruitment. One of the things in our workforce development system is that we have, so we have Title I, Title II, we are connected to the technical college system, so we do that. Our connection there is viable and you see it in apprenticeship, but we also have a series, we have what we call an eligible training provider list, and we have over 2,000 providers on that list. And so individuals based on their eligibility or based on usually the low income populations, some of the youth who are transitioning out of foster care are going to be eligible to have their training paid for. So that could be, it can be, so again, if you do a customized training as employer, you'll see that, but also connecting with the technical college and there's some community-based organizations. We have some connections like with Grow with Google and some of those things as well. So individuals can be connected that way. So just let, you know, need to just let us know and we can be there and help you. Again, Jolene Wilkins, I'm gonna keep saying her name. Matt Velikette, you know him. Also Kate Owens is in works for the workforce development board. So again, make that connection, please. We also, our DVR, our Division of Vocational Rehabilitation can actually come onsite and do some look at your workforce, look at your workplace and help you make determinations on what you can do to accommodate people with disabilities. So if you have individuals that, again, the number of people we have that are disabled, again, I shared that number with you earlier, some of the issues might be, they might have a hearing issue and so hearing aids might make it easy for them to be able to participate in your workforce. There's a number of things and so often I think we take disability as something to say where people can't participate and maybe we have a picture in our heads but we need to understand it's much more broad and our DVR will come out and they'll make sure they do those assessments and help you make connections. So please engage there. Then, like I said, no matter who you talk to, Jolene Wilkins, Kate Owens, Matt Velikette, no matter who you talk to, you can be connected to the workforce, to all of our workforce resources at no cost. Let's see, I wanna give you some data because that is people like that, right? Let's see. I'm gonna talk about the governor, the governor had three grants that he posted and I think the key thing about the three grants that the governor recently put out is that they all are inviting innovation. The governor, actually the biggest one which just closed its application period was called a workforce innovation grant and that he committed $100 million to and it put this application out that allows nonprofits or public bodies to compete for grants up to $10 million. And these grants, what they're asking for are regional solutions to the workforce shortage and the biggest thing I want to say about that is that what that is saying, the governor is saying, let's get new ideas, right? We can't assume that we get it, right? He's saying, let's get those new ideas and so the actual application period just closed and it looks like we have over 100 applications. It is, that is an effort between WEDC and the Department of Workforce Development to again bring in some of the innovative solutions to how we can solve this issue. They want the solutions have to be data-driven. The solutions also will, the goal is to leverage existing infrastructures. So we are really excited about what the results of that will be. We've heard from employers around the states that the statewide workforce challenges must include community because those community connections are going to be critical. It is common sense that what Southwest Wisconsin employers need to fill their open positions might not be the same for issues in other areas, right? I will say that Jolene coached me and she said that if you're going to Sheboygan you need to understand fry brats that you dress them and fried and dressed. So this is an area that you can't, the brat language is very specific. So the thing that I would say about that is again that we recognize that really solving the workforce solutions requires that it's a tailored and customized approach. It's different across the state. And again, I wanna say that the governor recognizes that as well. So again, I do wanna point out in that grant, one community might use the grant to support affordable childcare, which I know is one of your issues here. And another might use it to look at transportation infrastructure, right? So those grants will give that opportunity. And I do know from having read a little bit that you're interested in how you can be more inclusive. So again, just know that I hope that some of you, did anybody apply for any of those? Anybody familiar with that? Okay, very good. Let's see. Then the other grant was one called a worker advancement initiative. And those were funds that went to workforce development boards. And what they asked each of the boards again was for some innovation and ideas for subsidized employment opportunities. Again, trying to connect individuals to the workforce, although those individuals might have some additional assistance needed. And that subsidized work at least will cover the minimum wage. But in that program, what we're looking for is, and it would be administered through DWD, working with the boards, but it's gonna help people who've had those challenges with COVID primarily or post-pandemic, really trying to help them get reconnected so they can be successful in the labor market. So making the connection, subsidizing that to limit the cost for the employer. And then finally, the last program that the governor supported was one called a worker connection program. And this is one where the pilot that we are doing in WDA five and in the Milwaukee area. And that pilot is going to put what we call achievement coaches out in the community to build partnerships. Again, trying to meet people where they are and trying to get referrals where trust can be built. Some of our key partners right now are the Wisconsin Literacy Community Action Program and the Boys and Girls Clubs, but really trying to put achievement coaches out in the community. And so we expect that to expand. And by having those individuals out in the community, the goal would be that there would be trusted referrals. For example, young people or an individual who usually comes to that place. We expect that that community-based organization would be able to make some connections and say, this is a good person. Their only challenge is this. Can you work with them? Let's refer them to the right organization and not refer them like, here's the phone number, go and take care of it. Instead, say, let me take you here. This is how we make this connection and really leading them through. One example that that program would serve that we've talked about is when you look in the technical college system, black and brown people that are in the technical college system have dropped out at a greater rate than any others. And sometimes those are for financial reasons. But oftentimes the individuals may not understand that they may be eligible for what I talked about that Title I assistance. They might be eligible for one of those programs and they would not have had to drop out. But because, unfortunately, the system seems to sometimes set people up so you have to go to here or here, we are trying to reinforce a no wrong door approach. So we're trying to make our system more fluid instead of choppy. And we also wanna make people more aware of the workforce system and what the system can do for them. Did you all know that our job centers are tied to our workforce development centers and are tied to the technical college system? Did everybody already know that? Before I came to DWD, I did it. Did you know that the Bureau of Apprenticeship Standards, the Bureau of Apprenticeship Standards had a director that had been there for more than 25 years. Some people didn't know that the Bureau of Apprenticeship Standards was part of the Department of Workforce Development. So again, we know that we need to make sure that we get out and help people understand what we can do to address the workforce shortage. I wanna share some other data that it's from our Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Federal Bureau of Labor Statistics.  So Wisconsin quits, the number of individuals who quit reached a series high in August of 2021 at 97,000 people. The United States, Illinois, and Iowa also reached a series high in the same month. That'll be in August. Wisconsin job openings are down slightly from the July 2021 peak to an estimated 214,000 in August 2021. Wisconsin hires are down over the month to 105,000. And again, the United States and all of Wisconsin's bordering states are experiencing a month over month decline. So we're seeing the numbers, national trends are saying that there are less people available, but we're hearing more and more creative solutions. We're trying to create the, foster those solutions again through some of the governor's initiatives and the way that we do our work. Lastly, the, I told you, so I told you about the governor's initiatives. I told you that we have integrated services.  Are there any other, I guess, are there any initiatives that are going on here that you need additional support for? Are you maximizing, do you feel like you're maximizing the workforce, the existing workforce development system? Are you all in a place where you can reach out to Matt Velikette or to Kate Owens or Jolene Wilkins? Do you feel that, or have you had some challenges in that? Anyone? We have a really great relationship with Jolene. So sadly, she's not with us today, but we know she's very, very busy. But I would say in our communities, we have a very strong relationship, thankfully. As I understand that your business expansion, it's really been growing over the last seven years, like in 2015 or so, it was probably your last kind of major employer leaving. It sounds like, again, from the table, I said that there's a number of really positive efforts. The investment in our youth is a huge thing. So it sounds like you already have that. But we have really learned and we are growing into really relying on those community partnerships and where trust already exists. The data is telling us we can't do things like we have been. We also know just as the person on the screen said earlier, we're in a time where why would someone trust government, right? I guess from businesses side or from individual side, why trust government? So what we know that we need to do is build those relationships and build a brand that says that we are here, we are a helping organization. So that is what DWD is doing. We're relying, again, on data. We're working towards those data-based, evidence-based decisions, right? So we're pulling all the data in, making sure that we are responsive to what's coming up. And so we know that that requires your input. And I saw, yes, John, sorry. Yeah, with the achievement coaches that are new, are they working with the Windows to Work at Department of Corrections and with the Justice Involved participants on when they are reintroduced into the community where those individuals can locate, because it used to be that they have to automatically go back to their original destination. And I'm just curious, because of Green Bay and the Milwaukee pulling up that corridor, if there's any opportunity for those achievement coaches to really help our employers with some of that reintroduction? And rather than automatically taking majority back to the Southeast area? What we want is for those achievement coaches to be very fluid and be able to support people wherever they are. But we do have a strong relationship with corrections, as I said, where we have job labs actually in a number of the facilities across the state. And so we have been talking to corrections. We've learned that there are some things that, while we were working with the individuals that are currently incarcerated, we didn't have a connection to them once they were released to know that they stayed in a placement or that they used the training. And so now we've changed our data systems to get that. So we do continue to grow those relationships, but the coaches should be fluid to be responsive to the community and to the needs. And that means the job seeker as well as the employer side. So you will see that. And the achievement coaches have not started yet. We are actually in the hiring process for them. So we have a core team of eight, but we have their 17 coaches that will be in the WDA-5 in this area. And then another 17 that'll be in the Milwaukee area. So again, they'll be dedicated to really connecting with the community. Thank you very much.


Hey everyone, well we got a few news stories for you today for Tears of the Kingdom. We got some pre-order updates. We got some brand new merchandise. And well, a strategy guide is now for sale for the game here in the US for those that like to collect those things or maybe even use them. I don't know what kind of consumer you are. We got timestamps down below for all of today's news, but before we dive in I wanna remind you we are giving away Eight Tears of the Kingdom Nintendo Switch OLED Edition. We're also giving away Eight Tears of the Kingdom Special Collectors Edition. Well, okay, I shouldn't throw a special in there. It's just the normal collector's edition. We're also giving away a pin from PAX ECU. Head down to the pin comment or to the description. Click on the link to enter. Winners will be drawn May 12th. And I'm really excited about this because we're on our road to 133,000 subscribers. So I'd appreciate if you drop a like on this video and subscribe to the channel. And who knows, we just might get there someday. All right, let's dive into our first story. And this is one that really excites me because talking about the sales of Tears of the Kingdom just tickles my fancy. And we need to talk about maybe the only place giving us actual numbers. And that is ComG out of Japan. So with about 10 days to go until the game is here, ComG has updated their pre-order chart for Zelda showing how far ahead of Breath of the Wild it is in the same time. And it has basically doubled the sales of Breath of the Wild at ComG. Now ComG is showing just over 500 sales. And the big thing to remember about ComG, and I've talked about this before, it represents about 1% of the market in Japan. And you might go, well, that's not a very good barometer except every game that releases in Japan seems to stick by the ComG representation. So that means for every one copy sold at ComG there is a thousand copies sold across Japan. It's very, very, very consistent. So when we see this over 500, that means there's over 500,000 pre-orders. Now to note, pre-orders do not mean launch sales because there are tons and tons of people who don't pre-order games and they just show up to retailers day one and buy. Also this doesn't obviously include digital sales. So yeah, that's really, really exciting stuff to see how far ahead of Breath of the Wild it was and or is currently. And I'm just, I can't wait to see what the future holds on the sales data because Japan's gonna be the first territory we typically get any concrete sales from for launch. Typically from the Femitsu report that's gonna come out the Thursday after now. The thing is, it's only gonna give us concrete physical sales, not digital. Can it top 2 million physical? I don't know. Can it be like a Swatoon type launcher? Is it just gonna be the best launch in Zelda history but still not quite up there with some of the more popular launches on Switch in Japan? Time will tell on that. Now we gotta get into our second story and that is because there are brand new merchandise launching 14 Years of the Kingdom and this matters for everyone in the US in particular. If you're gonna be at the midnight launch at Nintendo New York, you'll actually be able to buy these at that launch. Potentially they might be sold out guys by the time they get to the daytime but that's not the only way you'll be able to buy it because you'll be able to buy it on Nintendo's online store as well. So they put up a few tweets like it's dangerous to go along to the Legend of Zelda here's a kingdom t-shirt with you on your quest available for $29.99 starting at midnight but it's also gonna be, by the way, the midnight starts exclusively at Nintendo New York but you can actually buy it online from the Nintendo shop at $5.11. So the day before, so online buyers get to buy it as well. It's just a typical green shirt with the gold Uchers Kingdom logo with the family crest on the sleeve. Next up, they have a mug. They are selling, this looks like one of the handcrafted variety mugs that you can sometimes see at Renaissance festivals and you can quench your thirst. It says here's the kingdom mug. It's available for $39.99. Again, starting midnight exclusively at Nintendo New York City but again, you can buy it online the day before and then our last one is a long sleeve shirt. It says, what will you create wearing the Legend of Zelda shirts into a long sleeve t-shirt and again, gonna be at Nintendo New York midnight for the midnight release but you can buy it online the day before for $34.99. So look, I might pick up all three of these. I do like the merchandise. Maybe I don't need the mug, we'll see but I do like the t-shirt. I do like the long sleeve shirt in particular. That one's one that I definitely think I might pick up. It just looks really sleek and I'm really digging the arm patterns and the family crest on the other wrist and something just looks classy about it. It looks like something I would just wear out in public all the time. So really, really excited about that one. And then our last story today deals with the strategy guy listing. So we talked about this listing existing in like Spain and stuff before from certain retailers where they were selling a hardcover and softcover strategy guy. Well, today we have a hardcover listing of that exact same strategy guide on Amazon. This does suggest that there will be a day one strategy guide and this one seems to come from a company called Piggyback and they state on the thing that the legend is all in tears, the channel offers a vast world full of varied quest, challenging puzzles, ferocious monsters and unique sights to behold, working closely with Nintendo. So they are claiming this is an official guide. We have created the authoritative all-encompassing guide that this game so richly deserves. We have explored all features and facets of tears of the kingdom with a single mission to help you discover and enjoy every moment of this game. Now, these strategy guys don't always end up being the best guides because they have to make it on a time crunch and because it's a physical thing, it can't be updated as more information comes out or as the original writer does it more. But who knows?  Sometimes you get brand new official art and the stuff, people like to collect these just because there are these oddball little facts and sometimes interview quotes and other things included that really make the strategy guys feel like more than a guide, just a nice collectible item to put on your shelf, maybe glance at it in hindsight after beating tears of the kingdom, see what stuff is talked about in there, see if the strats they gave are really what you feel are the best strategies or if it's just a strategy. I don't know, I really like looking at these guides personally. I think that, I have a, well I used to, I should say I used to have a collection of them again. I sold a lot of my gaming memorabilia back in 2019 due to financial crisis, but bottom line is I'm really excited about this hardcover book and I think I'm going to buy one for myself. I don't know if I'm gonna order on Amazon, I might see if it's gonna be at GameStop where I'm gonna be picking up my Amiibo and my game, my physical copy of the game at or Best Buy where I have the order of the case and the pro controller. I know my orders are split between stores because that's just the way it went this time around. Or maybe I do just order this online and just hope it arrives on launch day because right now they're saying this is the weird thing on Amazon. They're saying this title will be released on June 16th which is over a month from launch. So is this guide even done? That's another question to ask but apparently it's being made in tandem with Nintendo. So maybe this won't be a day one guide? I don't know. This could just be a placeholder date. Maybe they meant to say May 16th because maybe they don't want to send it out early, risk people getting their hands on it early so they actually ship it on May 12th or rise on May 16th. I don't know guys. I'm just reading the Amazon description. You guys let me know what you think about this of course down in the comments below. I am Nathan DeRumpel Jans from Nintendo Prime and you know what guys? We'll catch you in the next video.


Now we're going to look at the equation for the magnetic force on a current-carrying wire. We've already looked at the concept, so we know there should be a force. In order to understand this, we're going to step back for a minute and go back to that force on just a moving particle in a magnetic field. F equals QVB sine theta. And I'm just reminding you here with these bars that what I really had here was just the magnitudes of each of these quantities without regard to direction. So right now I want to look more at this quantity V and remind myself that this V or the speed that the particle is moving because I don't care about the direction at this point, well I could represent that in terms of the distance per time. If I substitute that equation in, I end up with this F equals Q D over T B sine theta. So now I'm going to take this equation and I'm going to focus on these first couple of quantities over here. And remember that if I've got charge times distance over time, that because these are multiplied and divided, that's communicative, I can rearrange this slightly. So I'm going to take this, I'm going to pull the Q inside the parentheses and then just express the divided by time associated with the Q rather than the D. So algebraically these two forms are exactly equal to each other. So now I've got this new rearranged quantity. Let's think about what this Q over T is. That's a charge per time. Well we defined that, that was the current I. And if I'm thinking about this in terms of a current moving down the wire, the distance it's going to travel, that's going to be the length of the wire. So I can actually substitute these quantities in so that Q over T becomes I and D becomes L and I'm left with F equals I L B sine theta. So this is my final equation for the force due to a magnetic field on a current carrying wire. And right now this F equals I L B sine theta, that only gives me the amount of force. Direction would have to come from the right hand rule. Now when I have this for a charge particle, in addition to having the how much force I have with the Q V B sine theta, I could also express it in terms of a cross product form. So our current carrying wire has a cross product form as well, where the vector force is equal to the current times the vector length crossed with the vector B field. And here I associate the direction for the length and in terms of the direction the current is flowing along that wire. So that's your equation for the magnetic force on a current carrying wire. . . . . .


what is going on guys it's your boy dpj here today with another video not destiny well not entirely probably the gameplay in the background might be destiny but this video is more so about my logo and my new shop but more about my shop in a second and now this new logo i just had to have created if you guys remember my old one which i'll show you guys on screen now i created this some years back when basically creating them black ops emblems i actually made this in paint that standard program that comes with windows and i thought it was about time i had a change and had a new logo created and i basically did it in celebration and a gift to myself for hitting 700,000 subscribers now i did pay money for this i paid a lot of money for this i think we're gonna like you guys it's my logo it's patented in my name it's copyright to me so no more fucking steal it without me suing their ass but yeah i just really thought it was time i got a new logo and i absolutely love this damn thing and the design of it i just think it's amazing it really is now similar in a way to my old logo i mean i took away the paint brush and the axe as i don't play call of duty anymore or make emblems and that's basically what them two represented but it's sort of keeping that beastly wolfie yeti fucking thingy but now i've got sort of a lion which i think looks so badass now i did initially want a logo to apply to t-shirts and other such things but i needed it to stand out and i needed to look like a logo something that would look good on many different products as well as a watermark in a video and a logo in an intro etc etc so i needed something that would be a all-round badass looking personal logo for me and that is what i believe i have got now i'll show you guys the many different versions i own of this logo and the many different color schemes but the colors really are endless on what i can create and apply to t-shirts now my t-shirt shop is linked in the video description if you guys would like to check it out and buy something that will be absolutely insane i ain't forcing upon you if you'd like to check it out and give me ideas on designs on color schemes etc etc that would be just as epic but if you did buy something that would be even more epic and if you do buy something be sure to let me know on twitter at dpjsc0 and my twitter is linked in the video description you can also buy hoodies, cocks, beakers, water bottles even a fung for you kinky motherfuckers out there i'll put my logo on the fung for any of you guys if you want it but that is a little freaky in celebration of me opening the shop as well i will be giving away five items of choice from this shop i will personally buy and send them to you wherever you live in the world all you need to do is be follow me on twitter and over the coming week i will announce when i am giving away items from this shop so be sure to be following me on twitter at dpjsc0 but guys let me know what you think about my new logo let me know what you think about my new shop if you do buy anything from a t-shirt to a fung that will be absolutely epic and be sure to let me know on twitter i may even follow you back but guys thanks for stopping by a massive thank you for helping me reach 700,000 subscribers a massive thank you for giving me the initiative to buy a new logo for my youtube it is all down to you guys my position on youtube is all thanks to you and at the very least i know that and will admit it i would be absolutely nowhere on youtube if it weren't for my subscribers and my supporters it's as simple as that but guys thanks for checking out the video if you could drop a like i would appreciate the support and peace out until next time peace


One of the most common questions I get asked is, you know, how do I start day trading? So what me and my mentor about it for our viewers on YouTube is create a free mentorship course that reveals our 12 secrets that every single brand new day trader should know before they get started. But please take note that there is limited seating every single week. So please reserve your spot at myinvestingclub.co. Link is in the description. All right. Enjoy the video, guys. Okay. Yeah.  But here's, here's the thing, like, this is why you have to, um, you have to trade for what shouldn't happen. Like when, when you're trading a prop, a probability based setup, you know, it's your job to trade what shouldn't happen when you get death candles and death drops and like gap downs off, off halts like that. They should not resume, right? They should not. And this is the first pop that you got, right? Like they, they should not resume, um, they should resume. They should not reclaim, right? That's the idea between, between high probability setups. It's not even necessarily that you're trading for something that, you know, like if you have to think of it this way, it's not necessarily that you're trading for something that should happen, but you're trading against something that shouldn't happen. And what shouldn't happen when that happens is that it comes back, right? That's what shouldn't happen because naturally you would think that longs are bailing out like for any kind of pop that they can get and shorts are tackling. And you know, that kind of psychological, you know, supply and actual supply should stump the stuff. And, you know, it's always easy in hindsight to see, but like this is the kind of stuff that you wait for, right? Yes. You know, and obviously this one you probably want to avoid just because this one's crazy. It was a crazy mover. Well above most people's pay grade, just very, very choppy, very rangy, very spready, very easy to lose, um, you know, that kind of stuff. Very difficult stock to trade, but I mean, pretend it's not a $40 stock and didn't go from one to 40.  You know, you get a pop up here, you're trading because it shouldn't come back, right? It's not necessarily that you think, oh, now it's going lower. It's just that it shouldn't come back and given enough time, it has more downward pressure than upward pressure, right? And so that's another way for you to think of it. If you guys ever get like too scared to enter a stock, you're not just, you're not, you know, because how, you know, you question your ability to identify where it should go, but well, maybe you should think about where it shouldn't go, you know, that's your risk and get at least an idea of where the reward could be, right? And, you know, once you get that idea of risk to reward, right? Like Bao and I kind of talked about that today in chat, right? Like I always say, like it's funny, like I always say exits predefined your entries and when Bao said that, I was just like, yes, like exactly perfect. That's yes. And, you know, so that's the idea is that once you get somewhat of an idea of reward, you know, even if it's not even the best, even if it's just an idea because you're not sure how far it can go, you haven't, you have at least an idea of we're going to take some off or an ideal exit or something like that. You just have that idea for the exit before and then you say, well, what shouldn't happen? It shouldn't come back to 40, 35 even. And you can kind of just set a risk, get short on the pop and push yourself away from the desk. And obviously easier said than done, but that's basically the formula is once you find that risk for reward, you can kind of judge the probability, you know, each individual time and be like, you know, should that come back to 35? Well, that's, that's six bucks away from 29 because you're probably not going to get 30, right? Like 28 or 39, that's like six or seven bucks. You know, can you make six or seven, right?  Right. So like when I see stuff like this, this is kind of like a variation of like the death candle drop, right?  I like to take some profit off there. And so I actually didn't see this through. Yeah.   You know what I'm saying? Just think of it like that, if that helps, you know, like that's probably why I'm covering some and honestly, like knowing my patients, I'm taking the rest off knowing my patients. But I don't know what, where did events ago? Oh, this was close. Oh yeah, near end of day two. So that like, it's obviously so easy in hindsight, but, um, that's the formula, right? You just wait for the backside.  So long as you didn't lose first, right? Update the link in the description. What's wrong with the link? Is it, is it not? Yeah, it's true. Oh, just repost it. Is it not right? Hey guys, my name is Tosh Bradley. I'm one of the head mentors and moderators of my investing club. If you have any questions about getting started in trading, getting started in the MIC, MIC in general, text me at two, one, three, four, five, eight, five, nine, nine, seven. This is not a robot. It is me directly on the other end of my business line. And, uh, we'll get you in the club. We also have special promotions going on that I can get to you depending on your trading needs. Hit me up. Back to the video. Oh, perfect. Right on. I'm sure. But yeah, it's, um, yeah, we were talking about SBI. Yeah, but that's the thing is like, here's the thing, like if you can avoid losing on the front side, like harshly a couple of times, like, and that's why I like to say, like have a max loss or willing to lose on the front side of the move. So that way you can always save ammo for the backside, you know, like when it happens, you won't be exhausted. And that's probably a really good, if you're a new trader, and what I mean by new is within one to two years of trading and you short the front side, that's probably a rule that you probably need to keep in your bucket. Like, Hey, if it's on the front side of the move and it's a stock, I know I want to capitalize on, then I'm only allowed to lose X amount while on the front side, because I know that when it comes to the backside, I want to have a clear head so I can, you know, slam it without fear and be like, Oh, but I'm already down a thousand on the day, like, I'm now nervous to shorten the backside because if God forbid I lose on the backside, now I'm down like two grand and that's that's like my max losses, you know, 1500 or something like that, you know, like, you know, you don't want to have that when the opportunity comes, you want to be so ready for it. And obviously, everything is easier said than done. But, you know, like, you know, this is why you just kind of keep the rules like that. So that way you can keep your mind fresh for later for, like, you know, that if a stock just keeps chugging, keeps chugging and basically, like, if you were short on the front side and it kept chugging and it made you lose like two times or maybe three times, depending on how tight you are.  That just means that the backside probably if it got you to lose three times or two times, that just meant that it probably is pretty high up and that means that it's going to be a solid opportunity once that backside, if it does, you know, sets in and you want to be prepared for that. And so this is why, like in some regards, the stocks that just chug, chug, chug super high is so easy to avoid them. If you, you know, it's so easy to avoid if you either haven't lost on it yet or B have capped the loss.  All right. So let's, let's get going. What's up guys. Welcome to the webinar. So yeah, I debated, I debated with the call this, like I almost, I almost called this trading the turn, but I figured force away I can just a lot cooler. I'm just kind of what it is. So anyway, so that's what we're going to talk about. We're going to talk about the changing, changing market sentiment. And we do that every week, but I mean, this week, we're going to be particularly talking about this specific change when it's this drastic, when we finally get that runner. Right. So this is your first webinar. Welcome. I'm switching up the mix a little bit because when I talk about market sentiment, I want to lead right in. I normally do the market sentiment first, but I want to lead right in to kind of the strategy of trading the turn right after I talked about the market sentiment. So kind of moved it down. I want to go over some key traders of the week and really there wasn't much, there wasn't much up until yesterday and really not even yesterday because yesterday they were crazy, right? Like nobody should have really been trading SBI once it got above 10 or 15. You know, that's when it gets a kind of sketch and SUNW SunW and Pola both kind of popped up super fast and those were got super volatile and they instantly pop and drop.  So besides that, like you were basically just watching SBI all day. And so there really wasn't much, but you know, starting today and tomorrow and hopefully next week, it'll be a lot better, nine socks on the nightly scan. Exactly. Like a lot, a lot more. Anyway, then there's a rant that I want to talk about. We'll go, we'll get there when we get there, then we'll talk about the market sentiment and actually trading this turn from dead to the bull market. And you know, like I say in every webinar, if you have a question, go ahead and ask, I look over frequently at the chat and I try to answer it, but if not, keep, keep, keep asking or reminding me and I'll get to it and then we'll have one at the end as well. Okay, so key trade. I mean, this is a trade I took, what? I think on Friday or Monday, this was Kodak. Like, yeah, the only two like bullish stocks that we had before SBI was like Kodak and BXRT, like the only two like kind of sparks of tender we had. And so like this is a stock I traded on Kodak first. I shorted it. There was a big slam at the open and I don't always trade these as death candles, but this one, because it was like the only one. And like, I figured everyone kind of wanted the bandwagon. I figured if I was, if I was some of the first bandwagon, if I got that first pop up kind of simplest short death candle short halfway up the pop at like a nice round number, like 1150, I could probably get a nice short out of it. So that's what I did. I shorted it up there at 1150, but giving it room, I know I'm trading, I don't trade the open very often. And I, like you see, I get it don't like I don't have very many, like right at the open trades, but this time I did. I just put it up there and then like I wanted to see it kind of reach stuff up there, reject and confirm before I added to the winner, which I did. And then I just covered that first pull on down up down there near 11, very, very classic open kind of trade.  I will see you guys tomorrow. And we'll take it from there. Peace out.


Hi there, I'm Sandy Olock and I recently did this pen and ink drawing over on social media and it was so popular I thought maybe YouTube would enjoy watching it come alive as well. You might have noticed that I enjoy doodling with my fountain pens and I got out my Visconti Mirage. This is the pricey pen that I told you about in a recent fountain pen recommendations video and decided I was going to draw something on this long pad of paper from Stonehenge. It's drawing paper and I was not expecting it to do well with a fountain pen but it actually did surprisingly well and was super helpful for this little idea that I wanted to see what I could do with. I sketched it out in pencil very very lightly just to give myself some basic shapes to deal with and little little elements that I wanted to add to it and not forget them as I was doing the work in pen. Sometimes with fountain pen work I just dive in and do it sometimes I give myself a little skeleton kind of depends on how I'm feeling that day and this day I decided to sketch it out a bit and I made a cliff over on the left hand side because I wanted something tall it's hard to figure out what to do with this pad since it's so long 15 flipping inches which is crazy long by 6 inches wide and the drawing that I did a couple weeks back whenever that was I did it in pencil and it was a horizontal landscape so I wanted to try something vertical with it and this is what I came up with so I sketched out the cliff and then all these little houses that are just sort of hanging off the cliff on rickety little boardwalks I don't think I'd want to go out on these little houses I'd be afraid I would fall off because I am a klutz and that sort of thing but it looked fun it looked like it would be a fun place for little fantasy characters little animals or something little critters to go hang out you know just something I was thinking Horton and the who's a little bit when I was doing this one of the things that I struggled with in a drawing like this and lots of different drawings is trying to create different levels of grays and blacks and if you just do the outlines of everything and you don't do any more dense coloration of a drawing like this you're going to end up with something that just looks like a jumble of lines it's not going to look like objects and shapes with something distinct about them so I did decide I was going to have my lighting coming from the right hand side so I'm trying to create some shadows on the left of each one of these objects and the bottom sides etc and I was also playing around with different types of lines to come out different types of surfaces so sometimes they're horizontal lines sometimes they're angled sometimes it's crosshatching sometimes it's just little hash marks there's just lots of different ways that you can make lines and you can do that in zentangle but you can also do it in just drawing like this as well and with fountain pens you can get all different kinds of stuff this one is an extra fine type of line and for a drawing like this it worked out great to have this one if you wanted to have a variety of lines you could have multiple pens like I do I have lots of different pens and a medium nib gives you a really nice contrast to an extra fine but if you're only going to get one pen then the regular fine nib is kind of the one that I would gravitate to if you're only going to get one probably and that was all in my fountain pen recommendations video as well where I showed you all the pens that I have so far it doesn't mean I'm gonna stop because I keep buying pens because they're fun and they're beautiful and when I have a fun art supply it tends to make me excited to use it and to do something with it one of the questions that I've had recently and discussed on a one of my live videos I do live videos sometimes on social I did it mostly during the quarantine during the stay home stay safe orders that my state was under and if we go back into it and I'll go back and do those again probably so stay tuned if you're interested in some live chit chats they were not rocket science but occasionally we'd hit a topic that I thought was a good one and the the discussion turned to what happens when you when you just lose your mojo when you just don't have any ideas left or you can't get started on something get stumped by a project and before I was on stay home stay safe orders I would just get in the car and go somewhere I'd go shopping I'd go buy something and you know shopping therapy retail therapy is always fun right and I discovered since I couldn't do that that I had to find alternate ways to loosen up the mojo and what I discovered was that I don't really have to go shopping I don't really have to go out and spend money not that spending money isn't fun but it'll save you money if you do something different than go shopping when you're trying to find your mojo because I'm not inspired generally by going shopping or going to a movie or something I don't usually see something that I say aha that's the answer to my problem what usually happens during that is that I just set aside whatever the problem was and I stopped thinking about it for a little while what I did while I was in quarantine was to just let go of those worries about things and not think about them I would go for a walk just take the dogs out for a walk now I know that that is not rocket science that a walk will clear your head but it's just not the first thing that came to my mind because shopping was so much more fun and it always seemed like you know just getting the car and go somewhere was the way to to shake things up so I did a lot of walking with the dogs during that whole time period but I also would switch up the mediums and I think when I had been doing for a long time I basically rotated between three mediums between Copic markers colored pencils and watercolor and in the past couple months during the whole quarantine period I allowed myself to play with other things so now I'll throw in a day of playing with alcohol inks or throw in a day of drawing with my fountain pens or just with pencils all different kinds of mediums gives me more options to just try something different and get my head out of one space and into another and sometimes I'll try to draw something elegant and fancy and other times it's something crazy and whimsical like this whatever it is that I'm doing I can just look for whatever would be the opposite so I don't know if that is helpful advice for you when you're trying to find your mojo if you're stuck on a Copic marker project that is flowers then go color something that is completely the opposite in your mind and for you opposite might mean coloring people it might mean coloring something very regimented that's a building it might mean grabbing your alcohol inks and just going crazy with something very loose so it's it's an individual decision what you call opposite thinking in your head but for me I just jump back and forth between all the mediums and it allows me to sort of tailor what my mind is ready to work on what I'm able to think through and what's going to get my mind off of the previous project that may have been not the best thing to be thinking about that particular day and often when I go back to it later things just come together this drawing was so refreshing to just do something ridiculously silly these piled up houses little boat down below imagining what the little characters would do they need ladders to get from one neighborhood to the other I had some somebody was going to be a fisherman and they had their fishing pole hanging out down there I put a little telescope at the end of one of them so they could look out onto the sea and see if pirates were coming or whatever it was just fun it was a fun thing to play with as I got down to the end I realized one of the things that got lost in all of the line work was the fact that there's a cliff so I had to do something to the cliff to make it stand out or be different from the rest of the buildings so I went through and just added vertical lines right across everything else that I'd already drawn to give it a little bit of a darker tint to it so that the houses would feel different and the cliff would be unified it still left me with all the shading that I had done so I still had some dimension going on there but it was just a way to differentiate between the cliff and the building themselves so thank you so much for watching my crazy little video here it was enjoyable to do and I hope it was inspirational to you to be able to do something a little different with your art supplies maybe try a different medium if you get stuck in the future thanks so much for watching click the like button if you enjoyed it and leave me a comment let me know if you'd like to see more things like this and I'll see you later take care bye bye


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Hey everybody, welcome back to my Star Wars channel. My name is David and this is a book review. We would be honored if you would join us. Hey everybody, welcome back to the channel. This is where I talk about all things Star Wars. I don't really have a lane. I didn't pick a lane with this channel. It's really just about anything that comes my way. My Star Wars fandom is so broad. So really the channel is broad. So yeah, we're doing a book review. Done some vintage book reviews. This one, this book isn't a vintage book. This one came out 2017, but I've done vintage toy reviews. I've done toy like builds. We've talked about my collection. We've talked about the movies, the TV shows. We've talked about Disneyland. Hey, if you if you slap Star Wars on it, I'm going to talk about it. So we're taking a little break from the vintage books, right? And we're going to do a book review for a book that just came out a couple of years ago. This one's from 2017. This is from a certain point of view, 40 stories celebrating 40 years of Star Wars. And of course, this is Star Wars A New Hope. The release date for Star Wars A New Hope was May 25th, 1977. So it's been 40 years since A New Hope came out. And then this book is a celebration of that 40th anniversary. They chose 40 different authors. One of them is even actually Eckstein, who was Ahsoka in the TV show. And the whole premise of the book is they're behind the scenes stories. The whole film, the whole story of A New Hope is taking place. But these 40 stories are happening simultaneously or just off to the left or maybe right outside the door or maybe during the show. But on another planet, on a distant planet somewhere else, and they all revolve around the timeline that A New Hope is happening. And really, the stories and the voices because it's 40 different authors, they have such a wide range of topics. So they could be about good guys, they could be about bad guys, they could be about just minor characters, they could be about robots or stormtroopers, pretty much anything. There was nothing left unturned. And really how the book goes, it's going to follow the story of A New Hope. So the very first story is going to be about being aboard the tent of four, right? It's going to be about the Rebel Blockade Runner and what happens there. And then as you follow characters through the story, the story will shift. It'll move to Tatooine and then it'll move to Mos Eisley and then it'll move to the Death Star. It'll go out to Alderaan, Dantooine, things like that. It'll come back to Yavin. It'll follow the story. It's kind of like if you saw Lion King 1.5. If you saw Lion King 1.5, it was kind of like an aside that was happening during Lion King. So it's kind of like that. But it's the Star Wars version. All right. So what kind of stories are there? Well, there's stories from the view of a stormtrooper. There's stories from the view of a Tuscan Raider. You might follow a story that takes place on the other side of the intercom or maybe when a character leaves a scene, the story will then follow that character and see where they go. Qui-Gon Jinn even makes an appearance in one story.  There's a Jeffrey Brown cartoon. There's a story about why R5-D4 blew his motivator. There's a story about what goes on inside the mind of a mouse droid. There's a lot of cantina stories. There's a really long story about the cantina band. The book all in all is 458 pages. Paperback. Mine's a paperback.  So all the authors, the 40 authors, their bios are in the back. This book, you can still get it right now at Amazon for about $16. And I know what you're thinking. Is there a book for Empire Strikes Back? Yes, there is. Empire Strikes Back came out May 21st, 1980. So its 40th anniversary was last November, 2020. So I have the hardback as well. And once I finish this one, of course, I'll start the hardback and then we'll do a review for that one. And if you're waiting for Return of the Jedi, if you're waiting for the 40th anniversary of Return of the Jedi, Return of the Jedi's anniversary is May 25th, 1983. So you won't see this book published until 2023. So if you can wait that long, I guess it'll be out 2023. All right, Star Wars, a certain point of view. It's a lot of fun. It is a lot of fun. It's a very fun read. The authors really do play around with the story. Some stories are serious. Some stories will make you go, oh, so that's why that happened. Some stories will just make you laugh and you just kind of throw it away and say that was a fun read and it was silly. So it really is kind of all over the place. When you start a brand new story, you have a brand new author. So you really don't know what you're going to get. But I didn't not like any of the stories. They were all great. They were all fun. And it was a wonderful read to keep by my bedside, you know, right before I go to sleep, just pop it open and read a short Star Wars story. Highly recommended Star Wars, from a certain point of view. Thanks for watching, guys. May the force be with you. I'll see you next time. Bye.


The UN designated the 5th of September as an International Day of Charity. Why? To alert and mobilize people all around the world to help others through volunteer and philanthropic activities. 5th of September commemorates the death of someone who is synonymous with Charity, Mother Theresa. Mother Theresa dedicated her life to help the District to overcome poverty and distress. She founded the Order of Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta which became noted up for its work among the poor and the dying. She ministered to the poor, the homeless, sick, orphaned and dying while guiding the missionaries of Charity's expansion, first in India and then in other countries. In recognition of the role of Charity in elevating humanitarian crisis and human suffering, the UN designated the 5th of September as an International Day of Charity. Charity plays an important role in upholding the values and advancing the work of the United Nations. UN humanitarian agencies rely on charitable donations to respond to natural disasters, armed conflicts and other emergencies. Charity can elevate the worst of the humanitarian crisis, supplement public services and healthcare, education, housing and child protection. And so the International Day of Charity encourages Charity through education and awareness-raising activities to urge people around the world to donate time and money to volunteer or engage in acts of kindness.


Okay guys, we're going to be trying out one of these little things, a wide angle smart phone lens. So works with most smart phones, clips on a phone, easy to use. Stay tuned. This is what we got here, I know a lot of people have been reviewing these, I've never had one, I'm not sure, I mean there's pretty much the instructions, clip it to the front of the camera. For the perfect self-portrait clip lens on rear camera for easy panoramic shots. Not suitable for phones with built-in wide angle lens. See that's why maybe some of these guys are having problems with them. I don't have my tripod set up, I'm going to try to do this one-handedly. But anyway, yeah, they're having problems with it, like not doing really anything, but this is like, there's before and after. So let's kind of see, see what it does here, and go from there, see if I can get this open here, like I said. But, trying to do some videos for you guys, but I mean I'm just having enough problems with my video editing software, I'm telling you what man, well I had a movie maker, I never had any problems with movie maker man, it took a little bit to, you know, save the video, but I'm another man, I never had a problem with it. Okay, so apparently, let's, let's, dammit, see we're telling us to start filming, Stinking Core. Alright, let's put this on to the, that's what it looks like with that, that on there. See it's a wide angle, take it off, well okay I guess it does have a wide angle. See right here, to the left of the screen, dammit, Jesus. To the left of the screen right here, you can see the boat, now when I take this off, you can only see the tongue of the trailer, I know I'm not holding it real still, but it does somewhat work, but you get that round effect, you know, the round here, you get that effect which I don't like some people do, but yeah I guess it does work pretty good. Now apparently, if I take this off, here, get back over here, if I unscrew this, supposedly you get a macro lens, which is a really tight close up, of course that didn't do anything to this, so this one apparently does not, this one does not come apart, but there you go, for wide angle, I don't know guys. At the end of this video, I am going to, I'll take a picture of it with it on, in a picture of something without it on, and we'll see, that way you can see the difference, kind of like, you know before and after, but there you go, I mean, but I just don't like the round effect that it gives you, you know, because then everything out there always seems to be kind of blurry, you know, but I guess if that's the kind of portrait you want, that's, I guess that's what you get, so it does work, it does work, it does give you a wide angle, but for me, I don't know if I'll ever use it, maybe it just depends on the situation I'm in, so there you go, so that's that, so there's another video for you guys, and just a quick little upload there, like I said, I'm having problems with my movie makers, so alright guys, well, but as you can see on here, see it shows a square picture, focus, why don't you focus, focus a minute ago, anyway you can see it's a square picture, but I'm going to try to take a couple still images and I'll throw it, throw them in at the end of this video for you guys, it's not focusing on my phone, did a second ago didn't it, why am I always having problems with focusing issues on these stupid things, my camera don't want to focus, now my phone is not focusing, alright guys, so there you go, you be the judge of that, if you liked it, cool, get you one, I forget how much this was, I think I get this at $99, $1 store, $1 tree or something, that's where we got this, anyway it wasn't very much there to start and focus, anyway it wasn't very much, so there you go, see what you guys think of it, like I said in the pictures, you know, she's in a square, but let's see what happens, I'll throw a couple still images at the end, so thanks for watching guys and remember, shout on the road, keep the rubber side down, we'll chat with you guys later, J-Bear, the myth man, the legend, I'm gone, remember check out my channel, see you guys, bye bye


What really works to keep the coronavirus away? Epidemiologists and biostatistician Brian Lapis answers four questions to help you keep safe. One, what can I do to prevent becoming infected? The virus spreads through particles ejected from sneezing or coughing. They can only travel about six feet and land on surfaces that we touch all the time like railings, door knobs, or elevator buttons. You can get infected when the particles come in contact with our eyes, nose, or mouth. This can also happen when you touch a surface and then touch your face, which people do around 23 times an hour. Washing your hands properly is the best thing you can do. Hand sanitizers with at least 60% alcohol concentration can also work if your hands aren't visibly soiled. Also, people can practice social distancing by avoiding crowds and non-essential travel or working from home if possible. Two, wouldn't it be easier just to clean surfaces? Not really. We don't fully know how the virus and the different surfaces interact. Recent studies have shown that this coronavirus can live on surfaces for up to two or three days. Frequent cleaning can remove the virus if it has been contaminated by a sick person. Some products like those in the description can work against the general family of coronaviruses if used correctly. Three, what about wearing masks? Masks from stores and pharmacies don't really help. They can keep the tiny virus out. N95 masks can keep 95% of the virus containing particles out. But they require special testing and technique to ensure a seal around the face and to remove it without contaminating yourself. Four, should a stockpile food and supplies? Generally you should have a three-day supply of food and water for emergencies, but this doesn't help during the outbreak. There's no reason to expect damage to our infrastructure like we would see after an earthquake or hurricane.  But do prepare for small disruptions like daycare closings or a plan in case a family member gets sick.