Hello and welcome to this session. This is Professor Farhad. In this session we're going to discuss activity-based costing. So activity-based costing, it's going to take us back to product costing. It's going to take us back to deal with overhead. Now I'm sure we know by now that the product consume direct labor, direct material, and manufacturing overhead. Now what we know as well that direct labor and direct material, they can easily be traced to the product. So let's assume this is the product. However, manufacturing overhead, what we said, we said it cannot be easily traced to the product. So what we do is we allocate, we allocate it to the product based on some allocation base. And if you remember we said direct labor hours could be one of them, dollar amount of labor, or machine hours. Okay. And basically if you remember what I did is I said something like this, this is manufacturing overhead. And we're going to allocate this to the product based on some activity. We call this the predetermined overhead rate. And the way we compute the predetermined overhead rate is we take our estimated dollar amount of overhead manufacturing overhead MOH, then we'll divide it by the activity level. Again, what's the activity level? Could be direct labor, dollar amount labor, or machine hours. Well, guess what? Remember this formula assumes or this method assumes that what's driving overhead is one activity, direct labor hours. Guess what? There's another way to look at manufacturing overhead, how we allocate manufacturing overhead. In a sense, that's incorrect. Are you saying, so why did I teach you this method? Well, because back in the old days, what companies have is direct labor hours, dollar amounts, so it's easy to allocate overhead based on that. Now in some companies, they might use two drivers. So you could use two activity drivers rather than one. But we have a new method that we're going to learn about today. It's called activity based costing or ABC. This is what we're going to be learning about today. So ABC is going to be dealing with this issue. And here's what ABC disagree with the prior model. The prior model basically said something like this. Resources, which is overhead, are consumed by the product. In other words, the product consumed the resources. The resources are manufacturing overhead. What ABC said, ABC looked at this from a different view. It says, well, guess what? We do spend resources and what consume resources are activities. Then the product consumed those activities. Hold on a second. Basically, we're back to resources going to activities. And here resources go into activities. So what are we really doing here? What are we really doing? Well, we are making an assumption here and a very important assumption. Because what you're saying is you might be asking yourself, well, we're going from resources to product. Let me put it in a different color. So this is the old, let me change my pen here. So this is the old model. This is the old model. And you're saying the old model resources goes to the product. And this is the new model. And what you're telling me, resources end up being absorbed by the product. Of course it does. But what we are making, we are making the assumptions that not all products are created equal. It does make a difference because not product are created equal. Well, let's think about it. Well, some product are produced in large quantities. So some product produce in large quantities and some in small quantities. Okay, so we cannot read them the same. If you think about it, some product use many parts. So some product use many parts and some product use few parts. Okay. Well, some product, they have many options. Basically, we customize them. And some some product have few options. So the point is, not all products are created equally. So if we take these resources and and we use, we allocate them to the product directly, that's not true. We have to know how the product is consuming those resources and how it's consuming those resources based on the product itself, based on the product. In a sense, in a sense, the old model is a little bit misleading. So how do we, how do we, how do we determine those activities? Well, here's what we can do. We can do, we can state and we can study our product, our manufacturing product and we can make certain observations. For example, some some product consume activities on a unit level. Okay. So every time we produce one unit, some activities are consumed. Some product, they consume activities at a batch level. What does that mean? Batch level means it doesn't matter how many units we produce a produce one or we produce 1000 or 2000 or 5000. The cost is the same. What could be, so batch level, there's no, it ignores units. It doesn't, units are, are not, are not really what matters. An example of it will be machine setup. So when we set up the machine to create a specific product, well, we spend one, one dollar amount, let's assume it costs us $500 to set up the machine to create this type of product. So once we spend this $500, we might produce one unit, 500 unit or 5000 unit. The point is the frequency of the cost is only once. The frequency as the cost is only once and that's on the batch level. Certain activities, they are consumed on a product level. So certain resources are consumed on a product level. Well, what could be an example? Well, product level means no, no regards to batch level. So it ignores the batch level. Okay. What would be an example of it? And my wife work in this, my wife, my wife work with John, with Johnson and Johnson and she works in medical and medical equipment and what they do, every once in a while, they re-engineer the product.  It's medical devices. So what they do is they incur that cost once. So they may incur, for example, $300,000 to re-engineer a product. But it doesn't matter how many times they produce the product in terms of batch level. It doesn't matter how many units of that product they produce. The product level is only consumed once. So this is product engineering level or basically product level. An example will be re-engineering the product. It's only once. It doesn't matter how many batches we set up. It doesn't matter how many units we produce. And certain costs, certain costs we will call them, they're called facility level, facility level. Well, those facility levels, it doesn't matter how many units, batches, product, it just, we're going to consume those on a facility-wide level. So notice this new system ignores direct labor hours, for use in direct labor hours. In a sense, if we only use direct labor hours, direct labor hours, in a sense, it becomes a little bit, little bit confusing, not confusing, misleading to the product, misleading to the product. Why? Because activities comes in different intervals. What we assume in the old level is every time we spend direct labor hour, okay, assuming we're using direct labor hour, we are spending money. It doesn't have to be the case. And we're spending the money equally for all product. That's not the same. Well, it's easy. It's an easy method. I mean, tell you the truth, it's easy. It's very easy to use that method, but it's not true at all. It's very convenient because we have the data, direct labor hours, because we need to pay our employees, we keep direct labor hours. So that's easy to keep, but not very misleading. And what happened is this, under those circumstances, here's what happened. If we have a simple product, the simple product, it's what's going to happen. It's going to, we're going to over-cost the simple product. If we have a simple product to produce, it's going to be over-cost. Why? Because it's going to be treated as if we are producing a difficult or a complex product. And the complex product is treated the same way as a simple product. Therefore, it's, we under-cost them. So we think it's costing us less. So the, so say it in another way, the simple product, the simple product, the easy product to produce easy product are subsidizing the complex product. So the easy product are subsidizing the complex product. Why? Because we're allocating more dollar amount, more dollar amount to the simple product. Why? Because we're treating both the same. We're treating that direct labor is the only thing that's driving the cost. That's the old model. Okay. So that's why the old model is not accurate. So let's take a picture. So let's look at the old model one more time. The old model, we have factory overhead here, and it goes to the product through some activity. And we're going to consider that activity direct labor hours. Let's take a look at the new model. The new model, let's assume this is the new model, we have factory overhead. This is the dollar amount. And by the way, also ABC, it's not only factory overhead, we'll try to do the same thing for admin cost. So the admin cost, also, we're going to be using the same theory for the admin cost, which we'll illustrate in a moment. So we do an activity-based costing. We'll try to study what activities are consuming our product, what activities are consuming our products. And we call this stage one. Stage one. So on stage one, so the way we do stage one is we go out there and we ask our employees, we ask the people on the front line, we either ask them, observe them, just study what they do. And we find out that they are working with, they have activity one, that's what they do. They have activity two, and they have activity three. So three activities, they have three activities, one, two, and three. So this is at this stage. So this is what they do. For example here, one activity is to unload the trucks. One activities is to assemble the product, just unloading, assembling, I'm just making this up, then painting the product. So those are the three activities. What we do is we take the dollar amount and we'll start to see, well, not a dollar amount, we'll wait for now. So those are the activities. Now we'll do the same thing for the admin costs. The admin costs, we'll try to find activities for the admin, activity A and activity B. For example, activity A is, I don't know, sales invoices. How do we process sales invoices for the people and for our customers, and activity B, how do we pay our suppliers, accounts fee? So this is how we're administration spend time, either on sales invoice to build our customers or to pay our bills. So the activity is basically the same. Then what we do now, we'll go through a stage two process. Now what we do is we, let's assume we have a million, let's make it 900,000 here, and I'm going to, I'm just going to make this 900,000 divisible by three. And for simplicity, that's not the case.  So 300,000 for unloading, 300,000 for assembling and 300,000 for painting. Then what we do on the next stage, we'll find a rate for the port. So we basically divide the 300,000 by how many trucks do we, do we unload? Okay, let's assume we unload 300 trucks. So basically what we say, we say 300,000 divided by 300 trucks. So every truck we need to unload, it will cost us $1,000. Okay, that's the activity per rate. Then we'll find an activity for the assembling and activity for the painting, so on and so forth. So this is what we are doing. We are trying to find a relationship in between what is consuming our resources. Okay, so every time we need to unload a truck, we said unloading is 300,000. We unload 300 trucks. Every time we unload the truck, we consume $1,000 of resources. Okay, and we'll do the same thing for the other. So this is basically an overview of activity-based costing. Now let's take a look at some terms that you need to be familiar with. And let's take a look basically at a summary of everything that I said. So the first thing in ABC, non-manufacturing as well, manufacturing cost may be assigned to product. So no, manufacturing cost, of course, it's assigned to the product, but non-manufacturing cost also is assigned to product under ABC. So ABC, notice ABC, ABC, let me change my pen back to red, ABC, and this is important, it assigns both manufacturing and non-manufacturing cost. The traditional system, the traditional system, only manufacturing cost is assigned to the product. Okay, so ABC can assign sales commission, shipping cost, and warranty repair to a specific product, which is much more accurate. Now you know exactly how much it's costing you. Some manufacturing costs might be excluded as well. So ABC executes organization, sustaining costs, and idle capacity costs from product costs. So certain costs also we exclude because they're not really going to the cost directly. So what do we do with those? We just simply expense them. So each ABC cost pool heads its unique measure of activity, while traditional costs usually use one level of activities, direct labor. Direct labor and machine hours correctly are correctly, direct labor and machine hours work correctly when changes in the quantity of the base are correlated with changes in the overhead being assigned using the base. So if that's the case, if direct labor and machine hours are true, are true drivers, then that's fine. But often, often time, that's not the case. So this method, this old method, it's being phased out, it's being phased out. Traditional costing system rely exclusively on allocation base that are driven by volume of production. ABC on the other level is defined five levels, which as I already discussed, four and the fourth is customer. The discuss five level of activities that largely do not relate to the volume of units. So it's basically rather than looking at the volume, we look at the unit level activity, batch level activity, product level activity, organizational sustaining level activity, and the one I did not discuss is customer level activity, which one we work and exercise, I will show you. Customer level, that means how much does it cost us to serve a customer? For example, how much does it cost us to handle a complaints and how many complaints are we going to have? How much does it cost us to service a customer over the phone? Then we'll assign some money to that poll. So manufacturing companies typically combine those activities into five classification and those are the classification. What is an activity? An activity is an event that causes the consumption of the overhead resources, unloading the trucks. What is activity cost pool? Remember, we're going to put those and we're going to put so many in those activities. Those are the cost pool, those are the cost bucket in which costs related to a single activity measures are accumulated. And we'll look at a picture of this. So the activity measure, an allocation base and an activity-based costing system, the term cost driver used to refer to an activity measure. So what is driving our cost is the activity measure and we put the money in that activity level. So we have two common types of activity measure. Certain activity measures are transaction driven, simple count of the number of activities we do. And some are time-driven. How much time do we spend on the activity? What consumes the activity? And this is going to wrap up the whole picture. Direct labor, direct material and shipping cost are traced directly to the cost object. Now we have to deal with the overhead cost. Also shipping costs could be traced directly. That's easy. Every time we ship a product, we do it separately. Now overhead cost, we're going to break it down and to basically remember the first stage, stage one, first stage, this is basically where we put the, where is our activity? Customer orders, design changes, order size, customer relation. And this is other. Other means when something doesn't fit anywhere, we put it under other. Then what we do, now the overhead cost, we go through a second step. Then we allocate dollar amount per order. So we have a dollar amount here. Let's assume, again, a million dollar and let's assume it's 200,000 each. Again, the reason I use 200,000 just to illustrate the point, 200K, 200K and 200K. Then what we do is find customer orders. For example, per customer order for every order, let's assume we process 200,000 orders. Again, to keep it simple, 200,000 dollar divided by 200,000 order, it's going to cost us $1 per order. So for overhead, for this product, every time we process an order, we add $1 of overhead. Then for design change, we allocate a 200,000. Let's assume, let's make it the design change, we do four design changes. So 200,000, it's very expensive to do a design change divided by four. Every time we do a design change for a product, every time we do a design change, it's going to cost us $50,000 per design change. We're selling a very expensive product here. But the point is, this is how we allocate it. This is how we allocate the overhead to the cost based on the activity that, for example, if a product doesn't need any design changes, guess what? Then it's not going to cost us much. We don't cost it high. But this is a good point to show you that what drives overhead is the actual activity, not direct labor hours. And here, if it's the, remember the fifth one, the other, what we do is not allocate it. It means we expense it. We just don't want to bother with it. We would get expense. And this is basically the overall picture. This is what we're trying to say is the overhead is allocated through some sort of an activity. And this is basically an introduction. I hope it's a good introduction. You got the point about activity-based costing. Now, the only way to kind of get your hands, get your head around this is to work maybe one or two examples, some multiple choice questions, which we will work some just for illustration.  If you're studying for your CPA, you're studying for your CMA, activity-based costing is tested on both exams. Study hard. It's worth it.


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us big own life. Nope, I can't turn that. Oh, I want to hear now. There we go. So this resin's been, oh my gosh. It's so warm. Oh yeah. Why? Hopefully it's better now. You guys ever have one of those days where it's just all kind of ridiculous? That's my today. Canvas isn't feeling well. And I just almost let my resin set up completely. It still may set up completely before this is done. If that's the case, then I'll just start on. If that's the case, then I'll just start over. Over. Really, really to be looking for the stuff. Sorry, everyone. I'm over it. I'm over it for the day, y'all. But we're gonna try to show must go on it. Greetings from London. Hi. Hopefully this is worth you being here. So I'm using chartreuse. This is the green. I'm gonna try to mix it up super fast and get it poured out. Chartreuse from Color Obsession. Wasn't I'm intending on this being a super fast live, but it's gonna have to be because the resin's about to set up. Thanks for rejoining us, y'all. For some reason, our Mike and cameras weren't working on the OBS, so we're gonna have to redo those. Hi from Canada. So many friends here from not here. I love that. Thank you guys so much for coming in and seeing what we're up to today and being very patient with the fact that nothing in mind is working right now. But you know what? It's just part of it when you go live. I think I should have just poured my resin in here. I'm playing it enough. Okay, so I haven't had a whole bunch of time to talk with y'all because this is happening. But I am using the new stone coat resin today. And I thought I was gonna be real slick and go ahead and pre-make the resin and just start the live. I had everything ready. And then we'll get to your order question here. I don't know. Oh, I thought I got to all emails today. I'm so sorry if I missed yours. If you could. Just give me just a moment to get this poured and done because it's gonna set up on me like in less than five minutes. And then I'll be happy to know what I'm not even gonna we waited too long. Well, wait. Life happened. It's just the closest thing I have right now to do this. Thank you guys so much for your patience with me while I figure out my everything. And sometimes things don't go exactly how you have them planned. And today is one of those. And that's okay.  Evaluate what's going on and handle it. So you guys will get to watch me mix resin. I'm sorry about that. Because I know I understand it's not the funnest thing to sit there and watch. You get to. So at least I can show you the bottle of the new speed cure from Stone Coat Countertops. This isn't available yet, but it will be soon. And I just wanted to show you guys some of the awesome that you can get with this stuff. Meanwhile, look at that gold spray paint. Pretty amazing spray paint. So just like the other resin you use part B first and then you put part A. So I'm not sure why they don't flip that around probably because too many people do it the other way. And this is definitely too much resin for the small piece that I'm working on. My mixer has sticky on it. So we're gonna hand mix it. I hate it. I'm kind of spoiled now with my stand mixer because I can just set it and forget it. Whereas now I have to do it all by hand again. You guys remember the olden days when you would message me and let me know when three minutes was up because I can't keep up with three minutes. Thank you. I have this husband in the world. I don't know if y'all know that. Mixing breath is in. Oh. Okay. So let me tell you some specs on this while Jeff is mixing it for me. So this is speed cure. It has almost the same resistance to UV as the art coats. It's not as much but it is close and it's pot life is 30 minutes dry time four to six hours ready for use one to two days. Everything else on the bottle is relatively the same to all the other bottles. And on Rhonda's live on Tuesday, she said that they preheated it. I also did that today and it lasted not long. And so yes, you can preheat it because look it's very goopy. It's very like cold honey. Very thick and goopy. So you can put it in a warm water bath. Just make sure it's a warm water bath and not a hot water bath because what happens is resin cures when it gets hot and it's going to play off the heat that it's creating and the heat that you set it in and it can jump start your curing time. And that's what just happened to me. So if you saw the beginning of this video, you saw an amazing comedy of errors that has been my day today. So thank you, TG. She says it's been three minutes. So once your part A and your part B touch each other, that's when you're officially on the clock and you really have to watch how your time is going because 30 minutes sounds like a good amount of time. But in reality, it is not is very quick. So also because it's so thick, this really holds onto the bubbles. So you're going to have to make a couple passes to pop them, but not past like the 45 minutes setting mark because that that will just leave waves in your surface. Oh, I think I'm gonna there's something. So let's start this over. Hi, I'm Erica with artist till death and we are going to create a green ocean today on this little board. And I'm using titanium white for my ocean wave. It's my ace might always go to for my ocean waves. I have almost none left in this jar. So just like I do with Nutella pro tip when it's almost empty, just make sure resin right in the jar save yourself a cup and make sure you get as much of the pigment out as possible. And since this pigment is made specifically for resin, you don't really have the concern of mixing too much of the pigment into your resin like you do with water based colorants like acrylic paints, etc. I'm just pouring a little bit of this in this cup. I'm gonna make a dark green. I need a little bit in this cup or actually I'm not sure of the gold, which I need less of. And then I'm going to create kind of my shoreline just there. The rest of this will make regular green. I'm starting to feel more normal kind of my ears got hot when everything was going wrong all at one time. I think that's what stress feels like. I thought I was calming down and I just dropped my gold behind my table. I'm gonna grab another gold and keep moving. I couldn't get that jar open anyways. So we're gonna use old gold instead of vertical shima. We're still moving kind of fast because we're still on the clock with this resin. 30 minute working time sounds like kind of a long time and it actually really is a long time for an ocean that's the size but still. Now for my powder pigments like the old gold that I'm using here, by the way, you can get all these colors on our website, artistle.com. I am overloading it because I always overload my powder pigments. It's just it's gonna make it look more amazing. That being said, this gold will take over if you put too much of it in your piece. That's why I made not much. Yeah, where's this? I'm gonna use, I guess we'll start there. That's probably five drops. I'm gonna put probably six drops in my dark ocean. This is both chartreuse but I put more of the pigment in one of them and less in another one so they're gonna be, they're gonna look a little bit different. The tones are gonna be different but it's gonna be obviously in the same color family because it's the same color but that's just a really great way to make better use of having and maybe you don't have that many colors but you want to add some dynamic looks into your pieces. A great way to do that is to use these tints from color obsession because you can use less or more of the color in your resin and create a whole new color. Dad, gummit. Where's my this? I'm gonna add a little bit of sparkle just a little bit with abalone shell. Yes, this is the same abalone shell that I spilled on the floor the other day. Don't want to use too much because it will make your resin opaque. You can see that sparkle in there now for sure and I know that right now it's not going to look like a whole lot but it will. It'll be great. Just got to trust the process. I'm working on one of our rimmed cradle boards so it has this gully. It's moped around the side and we have those on our website artistlet.com in case you want to art but not worry about the runoff. If you use one of these all your resin is going to run into your moat and you in theory have less cleanup to do. I always end up going on the edges anyway so that is not a pro for me. I think I'm going to add just some lines of gold in my ocean. Kind of underpaint a little bit if you will. I'm getting wild with this because it's already out of my comfort zone. I don't use that much green. It's one of my kryptonite colors. Everybody has kryptonite colors. What are y'all's kryptonite colors? For me it's yellow and green and beige and gray. Those colors when I use them never turn out like I want them to. And maybe that's what the deal is with today. I messed up and used green. So apparently my spray paint on here wasn't completely dry and the resin has created a lip which is that's new. So you can see here where I underpainted the green versus it going on top. So here is under the green resin and here is on top of the green resin. So it's kind of a different look which ultimately is what I'm going for with this piece anyways. I'm just trying to smudge that underpaint around just a little bit so it's not quite as hard of a line. I just wanted to create some kind of something in our ocean and I think that works. Okay now I'm going to add my white for our ocean wave. Anytime I do this in person I always tell people you're going to use a lot less white than you think you're going to need. People always want to have just a thick band of white here and it's just it's not going to do what you want it to do. You just need a thin line of the white maybe a little bit thicker than what I just put down. So we're going to come across this side to make sure it's just a little bit thicker. I'm going to end up just cleaning up the edge this rim later so I'm not really worried about what all happens out there. So this is the thickness you want for your your wave if you don't want complete like wave cover. If you put too much white it's going to cover up all of your little ocean-y stuff back here. Now what are we going to do? Okay we're going to use the platypus attachment today. Looks like this. And with my heat gun I'm using all the way high heat and all the way high airflow and I'm going to tilt my board just a little bit in order to really help it move.  And I'm just holding my heat gun in the position until it starts to move then it catches a wave.  I'm just going to feather out this resin out here. It is but I really like the the tilt and stretched cells so I'm going to tilt this bit of cells off the back and then bring them back in. It's just a little toxic beach and I'm pretty interested in it. I don't do a lot of greens as I mentioned a second ago but I'll tell you what those cells wouldn't kick that out of bed for storing. Isn't that the expression? Oh eating crackers. I think I'm going to leave this roll over here and then well maybe I can, how much fell off? Yeah not enough fell off for me to, oh maybe. And then if you don't like what's happening here on this edge you can always just wait for it to cure and then tape off the design that you want to keep and just paint over what you don't like. We most often do that. I love my little toxic ocean. I wish I did the sand in a different color. Maybe black and green would have been more conducive. Also speaking of black, happy birthday vamp. If you're in the shadows it's Vam's birthday. Happy birthday. All right well I got it. Thanks love. All right so I am on here reading questions. If you guys have, what's up Saskia? How are things? Oh yellow, brown, and orange seems to be the main kryptonite colors. Cindy this is one of our framed cradle boards. You can tape off the outside edge and just resin on the inside and then paint the rim a solid color after your piece is cured. That way it's already framed and then you have this little gully that'll catch all of this. Well I super tilted so it's full but in theory if you don't do all of that then you can catch right here. But yeah it serves as a frame. Same paddy's day sure. I love it. I know the cells are big already and the great thing about cells if you do them properly is they'll end up growing to the size of their environment kind of like a fish. This one is just a 15 inch round so these cells aren't going to get crazy but they have room to get crazy. If you watched my video the other day the blue and black ocean I did the first layer with art coat and then the second wave the super awesome waves with the new epoxy that I used today. I don't know when the new resin is going to be available for purchase but it's not going to be much longer since they're already asking us what we think about it so I'm sure they're going to be posting it soon. I wish you could see that. Oh there's the sparkle. Very subtle. Are there any questions that I can answer for y'all? What's up Kim? How are you doing? I am so glad you finally got that package. I'm so sorry it took forever to get there. I didn't. The person that got the last one on accident never sent it back. No idea. They're not resin people so who knows. Are there any other questions I can answer for y'all? My little miss ma'am's feeling a little bit better. We got our treat that approved. I'm the biggest boy. Come on. The abalone does bring out a nice shimmer. Let me show you the abalone on my floor. It's still here. Super nice shimmer just on everything. I haven't had time to deep clean the abalone. Well I hope you have an amazing celebration of life Kimberly. I'm sorry you're having to go through one of those hard life moments. Yes Mitch did say that this is not an epoxy for beginners because I am loving it because of the quick cure time. I've been working with resin for I don't even know how long and I messed up and it flash cured on me and so people that are on a more intro level really don't need to bother with a quick cure epoxy until they're comfortable with resin and how it works and the process and have a good idea of what design you want to do because 30 minutes y'all ain't a lot of time. Bowie go up. You're fine. Thank you Julie. Hi Gail.  You're fine. Go go go. We had a little area made for the pups. So yeah I've been working on some new things and I'm pretty excited about them.  I super love my little mermaid one. I am going to have the vases on our website artist.com as soon as I figure out a staging area to take pictures of them. If you guys are interested I mean they're not going to be crazy expensive they're going to be like $15 but I would appreciate y'all's support whenever that happens. Hi Donna. My day has been a crazy mess so if you want to see crazy mess you can watch our first two swing and a misses for the video today. I really like how this underpainted gold really looks like there's like waves of sand that came in because of the currents and just landed in these little patterns. I'm going to start doing that I think more on my regular ocean designs. Thanks TG and Cindy Nancy. Y'all are the best. Okay bless you my love. All right y'all I'm gonna go have a drink and some dinner and then take the pups out. Hopefully it won't be raining at that point but thank you guys so much for watching. Please subscribe if you haven't already. Just to recap the gold we used was color passion old gold. The green was chartreuse from color obsession and the white was titanium from just resin and we also had some abalone or some extra sparkle that's from resin art. You can find them all on artisttill.com. We'll see you guys on the next video. Wind and wind designs can you please forward that email or just shoot me a text at this number so that I can get whatever the issue is with your order handled but yeah let me know so that I can take care of it for you y'all. That's how cured this is already. It's not even stuck to my finger but yeah I got you wind and wind designs and I hope you guys have an amazing evening. We'll see you guys tomorrow at 6 p.m. central for the next live. 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Hypoglycemia, or low-blood glucose, is an important risk factor for people with type 2 diabetes receiving blood glucose lowering therapies, such as insulin. It can lead to symptoms that interfere with activities of daily living and can sometimes, though rarely, result in debilitating events, including loss of consciousness. Basal insulins are designed to help maintain stable blood glucose levels throughout the day. Data from randomized clinical trials show that newer, second-generation basal insulin analogs, such as insulin-glargene 300 units per milliliter, and insulin-deglutec have lower hypoglycemia risk than first-generation basal insulin analogs, such as insulin-glargene 100 units per milliliter, and insulin-detamir, while providing comparable glycemic control. However, these randomized controlled trials may not truly reflect clinical practice, as they applied strict inclusion and exclusion criteria and were conducted under strict oversight dictated by very specific protocols. Real-world studies look at what happens in day-to-day clinical practice. The lightning study analyzed real-life data from electronic health records to predict rates of severe hypoglycemia for different basal insulins for adults with type 2 diabetes. The researchers accounted for confounders in this loosely structured dataset by performing two different analyses. Propensity score matching, which compares cohorts matched according to clinical characteristics, and a more advanced predictive modeling approach based on machine learning, which is detailed in an accompanying article. Predictive modeling results suggest that, among first-time insulin users, Glargene 300 would lead to 50% lower rates of severe hypoglycemia compared with the first-generation basal insulin analogs, one event every 14 years versus one every 7 years. Meanwhile, compared with those switching to insulin-detamir from another basal insulin analog, patient switching to Glargene 300 could expect 30% lower rates of severe hypoglycemia, one event every 5 years, instead of one every 3 years. Similar rates of severe hypoglycemia were predicted for both second-generation basal insulins, Glargene 300, and the GLUDEC, regardless of whether patients had previously used basal insulin. These predictive modeling findings agree with the propensity score matching results and are generally consistent with those of randomized controlled trials and other real-world studies. More work is needed to explore the predicted effects as the models used simplify the complex factors that determine the real-life risk of hypoglycemia. But these results, based on real data from patients in clinical practice, are encouraging and could help patients and healthcare providers make more informed decisions about basal insulin treatment options for people with type 2 diabetes.


I do play myself that I block off my relationship. It seems to be so plain for me to let it go and I'm kind of looking forward. Yeah, we were talking about that, how when I first read this part and the relationships part at the manual where Jesus says two people join together in a very fairly intense teaching learning situation and then appear to separate and then he said and each one learned the most that they could and all relationships, the teaching learning in all relationships is maximal. In other words, we're together and each one has learned the most they can learn. Now the heartache, the pain comes in because you use the word if. If only could I have done more, could I have done something different? It's like the heartbreak of all of our love stories, of all of our stories of unrequited love or breakups. It's part of the drama. And what I learned from working with the Course in Miracles is that this whole time space cosmos and our relationships and everything about it is what I would call hypotheticals. We are so afraid of the present moment. We're so afraid of love, true deep loving intimacy that we make up all these hypothetical scenarios and we torture our mind with hypotheticals. And it can be around university, it can be around education, it can be around relationships, it can be around children, it can be around parents. There's a lot of guilt. It's a very intense amount of guilt. And that's been our journey is we've gone deeper and deeper into this journey of discovery into starting to see that if something's meant to happen, there's nothing that can prevent it from happening. And if something's not meant to happen, there's nothing that can make it happen. Hypotheticals always try to throw in that option if only things could be different. So to me the whole journey to peace of mind is starting to realize that nothing can be any different than it is. I've had to let go of career. I've let go of my conceptions of relationship. I've let go of pursuits. I've let go of valuing things of the world. I would rather be happy. I would rather be peaceful than be tormented. And I found that, you know, the Bible said that all things be exactly as they are. Or the Course says that it says all things work together for good, for those above the Lord. To me, that's, you're just right on the cusp of all the torture that you're going through. This is cry for love. Just a cry to find this peace of mind. It's a spiritual cry. And that's why you're at Fenton, I would say. The cry is so strong that that's what it's all about right now. And it's there. That's what I'm just saying to you. It's really there. I did that too. I tortured myself over so many things. And then I came into a realization that I can't change the world. I mean, the Course that says the script is written. So people worry about predestination and everything. That's more of a linear kind of thing. But what it's saying is basically just accept all things as they are right now. And that is the answer. That you will find peace and contentment. Yeah, but aren't you going to then listen to the inner voice? You accept everything, but you listen to your inner voice. And that inner voice will be judgmental as long as you believe in judgments. The Course says the Holy Spirit uses what the ego makes. So as long as there's this thing called judgment, the Holy Spirit will use the judgment to take you out, to unwind your mind from the world. So it's so practical. And that's another thing I will just tune in. We still have judgments to go on a tour like this 10-country tour and then after we leave here in Europe we go down to South Africa and go all over South Africa. Those things are our guidances that came into us. Would you say that as you listen to your inner voice, eventually you dump your ego mind and all your thoughts and ideas are coming from this source that we love? That's it. You're just giving the whole formula to awakening right there. It's as simple as that. And recognizing the ego voice, recognizing the if-only voice, that is the recognition of that and the letting go of that leaves the space for the inner voice capital Y to be heard. But I love that line in the Course about relationships. It says, like, if this relationship you appear to separate, that means the teaching learning within that context of being together is maximized. And somewhere in your heart you know it. You knew it before it came to an end, almost too. But it doesn't mean that the healing stops and it doesn't mean that the love stops. It's actually daring to stay with the love and not turn away and still allowing whatever healing comes up into awareness to come up. But the ego grabs hold of that and says, oh, but what if? And it just takes the healing in the moment and actually takes the mind away from the healing and the release and the forgiveness and distracts it back into a defense again of not accepting what is. And the collaboration. It's good that you're asking this because we're on this tour where there's how many of us? Five of us. Yeah, there's a group of us going here through Europe. And out of the whole group of us, Kirsten and her ex-husband are on the tour together. Actually, he's on his way to tomorrow. To Finland tomorrow. And you're on your way to Sweden tomorrow. But you were just with him. And so you see how this gives a whole new twist to relationships because when you're serving in purpose, you are no longer married. But you are joined in connection and purpose very strongly. Probably you probably would say stronger now than when you were married even. So how different that is. So she's speaking from the experience because I do know what you're bringing up. I remember when you would talk to me a lot about that where you were tortured. She was tortured around the relationship. Should it end?  Could it not have ended? You see, that's the temptation of the world to wish that things could be different than they are even hope that they could be different. Very, very tantalizing. And so once you came through that, then the love was stronger than ever. Yeah, it was stronger than ever. But yeah, I think especially when relationships have such a deep purpose. And you open up even deeper together and it's part of a pathway to God. And so part of the mind is saying how could this come to an end? And we still love each other. It doesn't make sense why it should come to an end. But again, it's just what is when it's maximized, it's maximized. And just somewhere deep inside, there's just, you just have to come into that trust or that acceptance of it. And that like a true relationship, that was the prayer of my heart before launching on the spiritual journey. I want to know a love that can't come to an end. And so this is it. I think this is what we're actually experiencing with these relationships is that the love is what's true. The love is what brought us together. And the love is just deepening and staying in awareness. Everything else that comes up for healing in the voice that would have us turn away or say something's actually ended. Like those are just the thoughts being healed. If you can come to that beautiful space of not defining and just staying with what's given, the guidance given in the moment, that's everything. And in fact, I ended up starting the first Course of Miracles Monastery on the planet. And one time, a few years ago, I was giving a talk at this Course of Miracles Monastery. And what came through from the Spirit was, okay, here's what I want you to be aware of for your relationships now. So the whole community was listening to this. I was as well as it came through. And it was undefined, guided collaborations. It was starting to think of relationships as undefined, guided collaborations. And I thought, that's my life. I've been collaborating with all these people, hundreds of people, thousands of people for a quarter of a century, feeling the total commitment with all of them, coming together, rejoicing with them. And then our collaborations with the constellations would come together, just like when you have a band. Look at the Beatles. It was, wasn't that great? The Fab Four, didn't we all enjoy that? Can't we appreciate that? And then when they go, there were always those that got to get the Beatles back together. Almost then they hadn't turned into a political issue. It's like, leave the guys alone. Come on. Come off with Yoko. Let him go. And George would say, let it be. Let it be. Listen to the songs. Apply the songs. Don't keep judging these guys. Why do we have to have four together? Can we just enjoy that? Say that was a great collaboration. I mean, when George passed away, they did all. The ones that were left came together, and wow, they gave it quite a show. But that was just another collaboration in the moment. And so I'm not into dissecting and defining relationships. One time I was invited to Argentina, and my friend, her husband of 32 years, had said he wanted to split up, and he had another lover and all this and this, and she said, don't even come down. It's the family's just a mess, and there's so much anger and everything. David, you don't even want to come. I said, I've already bought my ticket. I come down there, and when I got to the airport, her and this man who had been her husband for all these years, they both greeted me at the airport. And I gave them both big hugs, and I went with the family, and the family was so angry at this man, and I was like, can we not honor decisions if someone chooses to leave an arrangement and go? Can we honor that? Is there some kind of law or written that we have to blame people when they decide to move on? So there was so much healing that went on there because I couldn't see a problem. I was in this angry, hornest nest, and I'm just like, what's the problem? I'm trying to hug everybody, and there's no need for that. And they would all let up all their emotions with me, but I was just saying, no, we don't really have a problem going on. We have to honor these decisions. Everyone's doing the best that they can based on what they believe in. When we start to figure that out, then we take away the blame. They're just acting out their unconscious beliefs. So why should we be the judge, the great God that tells them that they're wrong? Can't we celebrate with them? You're leaving, okay! Instead of mourning, we should say, okay, can I help you pack? Is there anything I can do? That's the attitude we should have had when somebody says they want to leave. They say, I want to divorce you. Okay, how can I assist in the matter? Imagine how much fun you would have if you were just in assistance mode, you know? Just showing up in assistance. And instead of like, oh, we've got to see a counselor. We have to see a counselor to help us fix it. No, it's not broken. It's just we have to honor the decisions. So it's beautiful. I love that. It's the extent that you cannot define relationships. You really have a lot of fun. They're just fun collaborations, you know? Like when we were kids, you know?  Who's with who? We weren't asking who's with who at three, four years old. Maybe some of us programmed, but most of us were not because we weren't defining. It was a playmate. It's very gracious. It's very graceful. Like when our goal is awakening, that's the purpose. And then if a relationship comes and it's brought to you in support of that purpose, it's like, oh, there's such a gratitude to the spirit for bringing it, you know, for the one who's been brought. There's a devotion and an integrity with that. And then when it's maximized or it's time that it's to go, there's just still can be. Of course, the healing is there if there's still sadness or attachment or other emotions or beliefs being flushed up for healing. But yeah, that same attitude of gratitude really can be there through the whole thing. And it's only if we really believe that we own it, that we made it happen and we own it and we've defined it, you know, in some way, then there's just more of a grip on it and it just seems like more healing or more resistance is there around it. That's how it's the experience now. It's just very given in the moment.


So I'm Dini, I am the Wikimedia European chapters, one of the two representatives in Brussels, where we follow up on everything that the EU does in order to regulate the internet. And yeah, well, Wikipedia essentially. And you might know me from previous Wikimanias where we talked about how the EU is about to pass a copyright reform and that there will be a copyright directive that is going to change what we are able to show on Wikipedia and what we might have to delete of our projects. This was a few years ago by now. So two years ago, the EU's copyright directive was passed, but as this Forbes article that I took a screenshot of here correctly points out, it does not mean that these new copyright rules that the EU adopted are our actual law yet because the way EU legislation works, any directive first needs to be transposed into national law in the EU member states and the few others that have that sort of contractual relationship with the EU. So it's a really vast topic, how to transpose this in all the countries because we decided, well, if we're going to do, you know, if we spent like five, six years on trying to influence how the EU directive looks, we can't just stop there. We need to make sure it ends up in a good form and in a good format in most of these countries. So this is what we tried to do. We are more than three years down the line and so far only four countries have fully implemented so have fully transposed the EU directive and everywhere else. So all the other countries from France and Italy to Spain and Sweden, it's still an ongoing process which means we're trying to figure out what's going on where and to give our arguments to provide input and to try to make sure that the things we really care about are transposed into each of these countries' national laws in a way that we essentially can share more knowledge, not less knowledge. So the directive is quite a big chunk of legislation. It has many topics that we care about from text and data mining to cross-border teaching activities, to use of out-of-commerce works, but for the sake of this presentation, I need to focus a little bit. So I will focus on two articles that are, well, most directly tied to our work and I'll also focus on the process of how we set up this multi-year continental-wide network that we work with and also I will give you a quick debrief of how the two articles that we most care about were transposed in the four countries that are already done with the transposition. So the one article that was basically ours and Europeana's doing and ask is basically perhaps the only article in the entire EU copyright reform from 2019 that is unequivocally good. It's a public domain safeguard. It essentially says that if a work is in the public domain, so the copyright has expired and you make an exact copy of it, then this copy, digital or non, is also public domain and you can use it. We asked for this because we just believe that that needs to happen, but also more concretely because a German courts had ruled that this century's old portrait by Richard Wagner, while being in the public domain, digital copy thereof still has some layers of protection on top of it, so we couldn't use it. So this has now been successfully overturned, which is one of our victories that we also need to celebrate. The other thing I will look in for the sake of this presentation, look at for the sake of this presentation is article 17. It was called Upload Filter or Value Gap depending of which side of the ideological debate you were on, it basically made platforms that let users upload content, liable for whatever, more liable for whatever their users upload. And the article in the end the way it was written because of course we and others complained a lot we even blacked out Wikipedia in some European countries, tries to strike a balance between the interests of a rights holder whose material might be wrongfully used, but also the rights of users who do have under exceptions and limitations in copyright law, the right to take a certain image and maybe use it to poke fun at somebody or something. So this balance how it gets transposed into national laws is actually quite important to how the internet will work in the future. So how do you try to transpose in UDirective and basically close to 30 countries? Well, the first thing you need to do is you get yourself a lot of good partners together. So Wikimedia Deutschland is the largest chapter of the Wikimedia Foundation and it is also the one that hosts Wikimedia Brussels or Brussels activities are hosted by Wikimedia Deutschland. It is also probably the only one that was able to deliver the infrastructure to do this work over several years. What it did is basically Wikimedia Deutschland make sure that I basically had as much time as I needed to work on this project and coordinate it over basically two years and more. We came together with Komunia. Komunia is the European level association that unites Wikimedia, Creative Commons, the Open Knowledge Foundation and a few other NGOs. It basically is the voice for public domain and user rights in Europe. Komunia took a lead on the legislative part of it. So analyzing the directive, creating model language we'll get to that later. And Centrum Zefrowe, which is a Polish think tank, they took a lead on the educational exception which I won't go into for the sake of this presentation but it is also something important to make sure that teaching activities cross-border are illegal under the use new rules. So this is the part that Centrum Zefrowe dedicated itself to. All this was made possible by also a 300,000 euro approximately grant by the Open Society Foundations which went to Wikimedia Deutschland. Wikimedia Deutschland pitched in several, well, basically at least one FTE and the accounting and bureaucracy work. And this is how we got here. So the first thing we did, and not me, my colleague who can't be with us today, Teresa Nobre, we had the directive was passed in April, 2019. And we basically communia did this under the auspices of Teresa Nobre. She got a lot of experts together who looked into each article that is of importance to us, analyzed it, pinpointed which parts of the directive a EU member state has to implement, which parts are optional and where there is room for improvements in national laws. And not only this, the implementation guidelines also provide arguments, jurisprudence, information about past court cases that is, and model language. And we were actually able to set up these implementation guidelines is basically a couple of dozen pages per article that we care about. So it's a lot of work by October, 2019, where we came together for a, what we called a transposition bootcamp. So we tried to get community members and interested activists and maybe like-minded organizations from each one of these countries that have to transpose the copyright directive. We got them together in Warsaw to present these guidelines to them and to talk them through the details. And this is actually very quick. October, 2019, the deadline for national states to implement the directive was 7th of June, 2021. So we had model language on how to best implement the directive back in October, 2019 that we shared with like-minded organizations and activists in almost all member states and other countries, which means that I know this for a fact in quite a few countries, our friends, our partners had model language well before even the national government had even started thinking about such things. Now we of course don't have Wikimedia chapters or active groups that work on legislation in all these countries. So basically the people you see here and the people you don't see here are a come from four different networks. So the Wikimedia chapters and user groups, creative commoners. We have a lot of NGOs from the ADRI network. This is European Digital Rights. So they have some NGOs that care about digital rights and they consider user rights in copyright or digital right. And also some library associations. Covering all these countries, well of course it's not easy to do. And it's not done with getting people together for a couple of days in Warsaw and telling them what they need to look into and not. So what we continue doing for the four years for the two years to come is we set up a re-granting scheme. So a large part of the money that we received from the OSF actually went into supporting activities and the work of national communities and partners. And many grants, just to give you a little bit of an idea, it's communities and activists from somewhat over 20 countries. So I think it's 22, 23 countries got grants in the range of two to 6,000 euros. We set up something that we called the Copyright Transposition Hotline which is of course not a hotline but basically a signal channel and an email and such online ways of getting in touch where basically Teresa Nobren and myself have been answering questions. And these were all kinds of, it's basically a helpline. So it could be something like, hey, my national government has a public consultation going on the transposition. I don't know what to answer. So we help this community and in this country write this or hey, we're thinking of teaming up with another organization and writing a position papers. So we help on this or if there is an event that needed to be done, we also try to help, I mean, both with the legal legislative part of things but also with the organizational and tactical part of the work. So we try to regularly check in with the communities because of course it's basically close to 30 countries and not every country works at the same pace and then there was also of course the pandemic. So while the Dutch and the Dutch government in the Netherlands, they very well knew from the beginning what they will do and when they will do in quite a few countries there was nothing happening for a year and a half and then suddenly they got active. And of course, if you're a volunteer who wanted to work on this a year and a half ago and then so many things happened, maybe you forgot about it or maybe you don't have the time to check or to think about it all the time. So we tried to regularly talk to people and see, hey, how are you doing? Did anything new happen in your country? Was there maybe a consultation by the government that we missed? Let's see this together. And the other thing we tried to do are events. Now, this was of course cut short by the pandemic but we nevertheless managed to do a few events at the very beginning of it. Like for instance, we went to Cyprus where our partner in Cyprus, the UNESCO chair for digital cultural heritage organized a great real life event with parliamentarians and with government officials where we basically had also the opportunity to present our transposition guidelines and asks to them. So this is what's been happening. The work was supposed to be done on the 7th of June this year but of course due to the pandemic and several, well, and an ongoing court case when the court of justice, the work will actually continue in most countries for at least, well, until at least the end of this year. So now you may ask, did we really manage to find people to work with us everywhere where we are actually astonished that we managed to find people in most places? Now, I assume a lot of people are watching this. Three places where we managed to be active and we managed to produce some input but where we're still lacking community members that reliably can work with us over the years and really care about this topic are Croatia, Lithuania and Latvia. In Croatia, we had some input both in the parliamentary committee stage and in the government consultation but the person who does this does not live in Croatia any longer and he also doesn't have much time so we're really lacking people there. In Lithuania and Latvia, we are working through the library associations. The libraries are great friends of ours but still, of course, the libraries have their own very particular interests so they can't always stand up and say, hey, we also care about memes or you know about what goes on Wikipedia or not. So if you know somebody who is interested in long time working on copyright issues in these countries, please get in touch. I'll share my contacts later. So maybe to look very quickly at the four countries that already transposed what we care about. So the public domain safeguard, what happened there is Germany and Maltaum picked it up and transposed it from the directive international law and it's already valid national law so congratulations in these two countries we have on the books, not only the public domain is a term which didn't exist before but also something that says that it is safeguarded. So basically when you digitize public domain works they continue to be in the public domain. The Netherlands and Hungary, they skipped this, they didn't transpose this particular article or although they have to according to the directive. The argument of the governments and we have this in written at least was that this public domain safeguard is already the case in their national law systems and they've never had an issue with somebody claiming the opposite. This is what they say at least. So they don't need it. Now while we'll see in the follow up to this we might need to check these statements in courts but anyways it's good to have them at least in writing that they think it's already the case.  So what happened here is Germany in our account did a very good job in transposing it. Basically introduced ex-ante user rights safeguards against blocking of content which means that if a user uploads something and then a rights holder says, hey, this is illegal and it needs to go but the user uploaded this and claimed it's under an exception, then it should be presumed that the use is authorized and the platform should not delete the content until it's proven that it's not. So which is quite a good thing. User organizations are also awarded a collective redress option for injunctive relief against platforms that repeatedly block legal uploads which is also something we welcome and we asked for. In Hungary the Hungarian implementation of article 17 is largely limited to restating what the directive says but it does include a relatively strong collective redress mechanisms which means that users can form groups or organizations and they can collectively ask for their rights if their content gets blocked and to basically change also the law which is still good. We don't know what to really say about the Netherlands and Malta because they didn't really transpose it into national law, they basically just copied whatever the directive says one to one into their books which is still not the worst because the article 17 in its final version is already trying to make some balances between user rights and rights holders rights but we have to see how this plays out and now if you're thinking why am I not seeing any frowning smiley here? Well, the frowning smiley will come at the latest when France and Italy are done with their transposition of article 17 which they're not done yet. Now, if you want to follow this process in a lot more detail which of course we don't have the time for here, you can go to tracker.communiaassociation.org. This is where we try really in detail to keep information about everything that's going on with the national copyright reforms in each country. It can be very technical and this is not for everybody. So most people just want to quickly know so what's going on? Where are they yet? And was it good or bad what they did? And for this and also to have a little bit of fun because after two years and a half you get tired of articles and paragraphs and recitals. So we built also the Eurovision.communiaassociation.org page where we decided, hey, let's play Eurovision song contest but with copyright reforms in each EU country. And once they're done, we assign points to them both for process, was it an open democratic, inclusive and transparent process? And in the end, did they implement public domain rights and user rights? And did they make education easier? Education online easier? So this is what we look at. You can see currently Germany has 10 points and it's leading, Hungary also didn't do a bad job. Like everybody else apart from Malta didn't move at all. So we'll see at the end how things end up. Make sure to visit this page every once in a while and also like if you're live on it and you click on one of these countries you also get in a few lines really the most important things in transposition for each country that are important and relevant to us. So if you want like a quick overview and also a fun overview, Eurovision.communiaassociation.org. Now from here on we of course have probably another year until all these countries end up transposing it. We'll continue working on it. And we are for to make sure this happens and to make sure that our help continues remaining available. We are already working with the partners of extending the project, maybe to get some follow-up funding. And after that, so in our mind the way European legislation works is you have the EU level legislation, so a directive. Then you have the transposition and then you have a play a time where this lives on in practice and where there is jurisprudence and litigation and you already set the agenda for the next copyright reform. So as we wrap up the current national implementations we are also looking into preparing legislation and agenda setting for the future where we hope that Wikimedia and Communia are already keen on working on this. We are now negotiating with the other partners whether they want to continue. And hey, if you want to be a part of this in the future just drop me a line or write to me on Twitter. I'm happy to talk and happy to just exchange a few ideas. So let me close this now. And with this, I'm done. And I guess I can check that. Was it the etherpad that I need to check? Yeah, just another maybe something to note. Me and Teresa were supposed to do this together. So this could not have happened without Teresa. Teresa is probably, she is a Communia member but also a expert from Creative Commons from Portugal and she's currently that person who is most knowledgeable about the copyright rules in all member states. So regardless whether you ask her about a copyright exception on education in Lithuania or how do you legislation change something in the Cyprus law, she is on top of this and she is probably the most valuable person we have in our communities working on that. And she is of course currently on a well-deserved holiday on a Portuguese island with very bad internet and she was supposed to travel to a place with better internet to do this presentation but then it got rescheduled.  I feel so alone here like this. And yeah, for some reason the etherpad is not opening for a few minutes. So I don't know whether something's going on there that I could answer or not. Nope, still not opening. Well, anyhow, I guess thank you. And yeah, if you need anything from me, Dini at wikimedia.be for Belgium. That's cool, etherpads empty as well. So I don't know even whether somebody's looking at it or listening, maybe I'm alone in a box talking to myself in my living room.


Hey guys, welcome back to my YouTube channel. This is Daniel Rossell here. We're going to be looking today at the state of the camcorder market with an emphasis on pro camcorders as it exists at the time I'm recording this video, which is the 20th of August 2022. Now I've done quite a number of videos about camcorders on this YouTube channel. I started out with the Canon Vixia HFR800, which was actually the first camera I bought. And about four to five months ago, I upgraded to a professional quality camcorder. I own the Canon XA40 and I absolutely love it. My only criticism is that the low light performance is not brilliant. And that's because it's a 1 over 2.3 CMOS sensor. But if you can afford a full one in sensor go for the Canon XA50. And I love camcorders. I'm one of a minority of folks on YouTube who will sing their praises for hours if given the opportunity. So I thought in this video, I would do a kind of synopsis of based on what's on bnh.com at the moment of who is making these things in 2022, late 2022, going into fall here. And what is, what is it that distinguishes camcorders from a couple of other adjacent product classes? So all this video is going to consist of is me going through bnh.com. So could you do this yourself? You could. But if you want to let me do the clicking, join along for the adventure. So something I really like about the way bnh do things is that they divide everything up into pro and consumer. And there's definitely kind of a hard gap between those two markets when it comes to camcorders. Consumer camcorders, I would say are even more or potentially the dying product category, because you know, if you ask who still uses camcorders, well, there's still very much industry standard in broadcast journalism, ENG camcorders, and we'll look at a couple of those ENG for those who haven't heard the term stands for electronic news gathering. And basically that's your really, really big camcorder. They have a, they have a name and that's the top end of the pro camcorder market. But looking at the consumer video, video camera market as bnh organizes it. So I've gone into the camcorder category, and then gone into consumer and look how small it is. And this is something about camcorders, that I think if you're, if you've decided to go down this route, as opposed to DSLR mirrorless is actually an advantage. Yes, you heard that right. There's nothing worse when you need something basic like a loaf of bread or milk, than going into a supermarket and having 200 different options. And it's quite interesting if we compare and I've opened up these pages in preparation, the narrow size of the modern camcorder market versus it's more glamorous DSLR and mirrorless, because if you type into YouTube now, you know, best YouTube camera for 2022 and the next year 2023, I promise you 80 to 90% is going to be recommending DSLR and mirrorless cameras.  It's become more popular. Have a quick look at the numbers because I find this very interesting. Within the consumer video camera market in bnh, we have only 24 options. That sounds very small. DSLR 106 options, mirrorless 447 options. Now I'm using bnh here kind of as just a proxy for the general market. I realized that they don't have every mirrorless DSLR and camcorder in stock. But as a pretty well respected industry website, I think this is probably pretty, pretty representative. So it's a really small market. So within the consumer camcorder market in terms of the brands we have out there, which is listed up here at the top, I'm going to put myself out of the way for a moment, we have Canon, Hamilton, BUHL, JVC and Panasonic now and Sony. So I would say these are the main camcorder brands because these are the ones you're also seeing dominating the pro camcorder category. Again, Canon, JVC, Panasonic and Sony and that's only four. Now, of course, those aren't the only companies in the world who are still making camcorders, but they dominate. So within the consumer video camera market, now what's the difference between, I'm going to go through a few product categories today, what's the difference between a consumer camcorder and a pro camcorder. So basically it boils down to, I would say form factor. Now the truth is there's no hard and fast definition.  I'm just going to tighten up this microphone stand here.  So if you take a look at these form factors for the consumer camcorders, I don't like, I hope that the term soccer mom isn't demeaning to anyone, but that's kind of what these get called or, you know, uncle at a barbecue, if you want the male equivalent, that kind of a thing. It's a body that has a flip out LCD built in monitor screen. And that's all it have. It often doesn't even have capability to take an external microphone. But if it does, it's probably going to be a 3.5 mil jack. Now if we graduate up to the professional camcorder market, have a look, this is quite interesting. One, you can see one to 30 of 62. So we haven't been hate to the time I'm recording this video, 62 pro camcorders, and 24 consumer camcorders. So that means that the, as the camcorder market contracts, we're seeing most contraction actually at the consumer camcorder level, because you're still strong industry demand for pro camcorders. So if anything's going to become obsolete, and this is always a question, our camcorders dying, whatever, I would say if anything's going to die, it's going to be the consumer ones. I don't see the pro camcorders dying because they're just so great for shooting on and so beloved by people working in broadcast media who use these things day in day out. Now, if you go into the professional camcorder market, we are seeing pretty much the same brands actually, it's an even smaller list.  So we have Canon JVC Panasonic Sony. Now I'm interested to see what they're classifying as camcorders. So black magic have these guys as well as I thought it was going to be the black magic compact pocket cinema camera, whatever it's called. So in terms of your options here, today, if there is a filter here for 4k and BNH, you can choose 1080p capable or 4k.  So these are the options. So the cheapest 4k capable camcorder is actually the number the camcorder I own. It's listed as the number one seller on BNH. It's the Canon XA40. Now let me just show you guys the kind of gap here between entry level compact pro camcorders, which is what I consider the Canon XA40 and ENG camcorders. Now just as there's no real kind of official difference between consumer and pro camcorder other than features you expect on a pro camcorder, which would be XLR, audio inputs, timecodes, STI, I put for those using them in broadcasting. I don't think the best of my knowledge is any hard and fast delineator between entry level pro camcorders and ENG suitable camcorders, but the gap in price is quite huge. You're going to go from starting here at the bottom of the 4k capable pro camcorder market, starting at about $1,600. We're going to see these jump all the way up to $20,000 for really big ENG. So that's a very sizable difference, of course. Now who's making these? So you've got some options from Canon. Canon have two series in the pro camcorder world, and I know the Canon range and not the others as well. The XA series and the XF series. So you can see this, the Canon XF605 is sort of the top of its pro camcorder offering here, and that guy clocks in at $4,700. So we're getting up to 5k, but in exchange for more money, we're getting a really big form factor, and we're getting that one inch CMOS sensor as opposed to the one over 2.3 that in camcorder world has often been industry standards. Now some other ones, I actually was considering, this was a little bit out of my budget, but I liked the look of this Panasonic because it's a 4k camcorder, and unlike the other ones, it actually comes with a built-in shotgun microphone. I think, I don't think this is just showing I'm actually not 100% sure about that, but you know, that's what it is. So more canons, more JVCs, and then black magic. So now I just want to talk a little bit about categories here. I'm going to skip over DSLR mirrorless and just talk about one interesting division, and that is what is the difference between a digital cinema camera and a camcorder. Now the best known digital cinema camera for folks who don't have Hollywood budgets is this one, the black magic pocket cinema camera commonly called the BPCC, this is the 4k, they've also got a 6k one, and someone on the videography subreddit, I described these and I thought it was a perfect description as a sensor in a box. These guys are basically the sensor, and you need to bring everything else, including the lens, versus in the camcorder world, it's not true that all camcorders have fixed lens, but the majority of them do, because when we get up to the very top of this market, we're going to see options like this one, in fact, that aren't going to come with a lens and their interchangeable lens, but typically for most camcorders, like this Panasonic, the best, they have a fixed lens with very, very wide focal range covered in it, and the best you can do is add on adapters, if you want to get UV filters or ND filters or ultra wide filters, so they fit onto the lens, but they're not actually lenses themselves, so that's the main distinction there. Going for something like this, the pocket cinema camera would tend to be used more for cinema making, cinematography, versus news gathering or documentary gathering. The beauty of camcorders is in the form factor, they tend to have buttons within physical reach, as opposed to within menus, and they're just designed to be great for run and gun, like the XA40, you put a shotgun in there, and everything, it's all in one package, make sure it's charged, make sure you've got battery, you're good to go, versus the black magic, you need your lens, you need some kind of cage around it to put a microphone on, so this is much more modular, and they're actually more expensive, if you look at the cost of something like the black magic pocket cinema camera, by the time you add on your lens, or your lenses, I did the numbers, it's going to end up costing you more than most of these camcorder options. So I'm just going to jump quickly, because this is pretty, I've covered pretty much all I wanted to say about where the market, how the market looks today, just want to show you guys, in fact, let's actually filter from high to low, so I can show you guys some ENG camcorders, so this is an example here, this is the Sony PXW Z750, and it's a shoulder mount broadcast camcorder, so that's kind of another way of saying ENG, right, they're big guys, they're designed to be carried on your shoulder. Here's another one, and then again, the point I made before, that not all camcorders have actually a lens on them, perfect example here being the Sony PXW Z450 4K shoulder mount has the sensor, but you need to bring the lens and look at the price of this bad boy, $25,000, so there is actually a lot of range in the camcorder pricing, we're still seeing ENG camcorders at this price point, including maybe this arguably the XF705 at $7,000, and the Sony XD cam I would say it's definitely qualifies as an ENG camcorder, that's at $7,000, likewise this Canon, you can see they're just bigger shoulder mount, that kind of a thing, but then as we drop down and price to $3,000, $2,000, we start getting into these, and I won't even call these, they're definitely still pro camcorders, you could use them for ENG absolutely, but they might be used by kind of college TV stations and rookie journalists and YouTubers versus professional broadcast media channels which are likely to have the budgets to go for these very expensive camcorders that have literally everything under the sun built into them. I hope that overview of the market was useful this summer, to answer the question on the title of this video, who's still making camcorders in 2022, mostly the big four of Canon, JVC, Panasonic, and Sony, it's definitely still a market, but it's a smaller market in many respects than the DSLR mirrorless, and within that contraction there is actually more pro camcorder options on the market today versus consumer, at least if BNH's current selection is anything to go by. Hope this video is interesting, if you're also a camcorder fan looking at your purchasing options. Thank you guys for watching, and if you want to get more videos from me about videography, camcorders, and other topics, do please consider subscribing to this YouTube channel. Thanks for watching.


When I finished my PhD I felt like I was in a bit of a rut with my own writing and so for a way to sort of honour that labour and to get the work I'd been doing out there I started a blog and really made me feel more confident about my writing and how it could circulate. So though I try to bring that and my personal experience with what blended environments are that is in using them to share work can do for students and for faculty for that matter into the classroom. So really getting students to think critically about how their thinking changes when they're asked to make themselves vulnerable in a space and how they can use those feelings of vulnerability and the different pressures that they see from writing in those spaces to mobilize that towards their careers towards how they think in different spaces.


City Council Special Meeting for Thursday, August 18th, 2022 to order. Thank you all for being here and thank you for your flexibility in scheduling this meeting. Do we have any agenda additions or changes for tonight? None from staff. Seeing the council are shaking their heads no, so no need to approve the agenda. Go into public to be heard. This is a portion of tonight's meeting where if there are any members of the public who wish to address something or bring something to the board's attention and is not on the agenda, now it's time to do so. Please go ahead, raise your hand if you have anything you'd like to bring up to the board. Not seeing any hands going up, so we will close the portion of public to be heard and move into business item 5A and to consider changing the date for a warning of the public hearing on land development code updates regarding cannabis. Yeah, thanks Andrew. As it says in the memo, we dropped the ball on this. We didn't anticipate the correct deadlines for when the previously, previous date selected for the public hearing was to be warned and so I apologize that you have to join together for this special meeting today and re-warn this, but we do need to re-warn it in order to get a publication in the paper 15 days in advance. As the memo says, the very soonest that we could get something in the paper, if you warn this tonight is Tuesday the 23rd, normally we prefer to go with seven days because it's a bit cheaper, so we could do that on 824 and then in the memo you can see the different dates that then you could host the public hearing. I think it's important to note that once it is published, then those regulations are in effect. So whether it's published the 23rd or 24th, it doesn't really matter to be honest when you host your public hearing because the regulations will be the ones that will be utilized to adjudicate or to review any cannabis retail applications. So with that I'll leave it to you if you have any questions or discussion. Thank you Brad. I just want to mention how the preference is for seven days that would require a meeting date that's, I believe, different than our regular one, or actually no, our regular meeting would be 914, not 9-7, correct? Correct. So I would say let's try to keep it as a part of the regular meeting instead of having the special meetings, try to reduce everyone's workload as best as possible. Yeah, Andrew, and sorry, I'll let the others chime in, but I would say that's probably consistent, you know, with previous years. I believe it's normal practice to either take a meeting off in July or August, and I don't think we've done that. So this essentially would result in taking the second meeting off in August, which I think is relatively consistent with previous years of in those summer months, having one of those months where there's only one meeting. I believe I saw a barge to stand and go up. Yeah, that sounds fine. I just want to make doubly sure that we're, that we're correct on the, on what rules apply for, you know, judging and application. We've already got one grow operation in a district that we don't know, we potentially aren't going to allow it in. And this will take 21 days to hold after we approve it. The 14th puts us after the retail deadline, retail start date of the first of October. It's not just retail though, it's cultivation and everything else that's already well underway. So I just want to make sure we're absolutely sure that. Once we get this warned, we are operating under the chart that CCRPC shared last in our last meeting and that we can consider both regulations. Thanks, Roger. Once the publication goes in, which will be the either the 23rd or 24th, at that moment, all applications will be reviewed by the proposed updates. And that is Regina assured, not Brad assured. Okay, that should make you feel better. Not going to do against the other. Make sure we're okay. I double checked with her to make sure because I, yes, she's the expert and she confirmed. Okay, thanks. So I'll make a motion if there are any just to keep things going. People won't sing any other hands up. What was that data again, Brad 14th? Yeah, I move that we that seems weird. I move that we move our previously warned public hearing on the cannabis related land development code updates from August 31st to September 14th, 2022. Second. Thank you, Ross. Thank you, Danny, for the discussion. Hearing none of those in favor, please signify by saying aye. I suppose we say nay. Great, so that passed unanimously on the related note to this. I assume then what this would mean is we had scheduled the meeting for the 31st instead of the 24th of August. I assume we're going to push that back now so that we would go back to our regular schedule of our next meeting being August 24th instead of the 31st. That's a good idea. Brad had mentioned taking the second meeting of August off as a tradition, but I don't know if that's still. And I and Brad, we can talk about whether or not a meeting is actually necessary. Yeah. I think if I put it in that memo or in the email, I would say there are no pressing matters at the moment. There are some things that need to be discussed, but as to whether or not those happen on the 24th, 31st or 14th, I don't think there's any. Any consequences if if things are pushed off to the 14th. OK, when are you back, Brad? I am back on Monday. Maybe we can just touch base at some point then just to finalize so everyone's calendars are up to date that are not holding a date. No one needs to hold. That's totally fine. Do you want to leave it as as of now that the next city council meeting is nine fourteen? In a worst case, why don't we leave it at now to hold the eight twenty four as a worst case? And then if it's not needed, then it would go to the 14th. OK, I'm just. I could we certainly could get things prepared for eight twenty four. It would be it would be on Monday or Tuesday. We just we were not anticipating meeting on eight twenty four. And so there have not been any wheels in motion to get any agenda items or packets ready for for that date. So I guess if you if you are feeling the need to meet and we can we can talk about this next week, maybe we could consider continuing to meet on the thirty first, yeah, would be my request, Andrew. And if and then if if we decide looking at all the agenda items that we can push it off to nine fourteen, then we then we do that. Does that work that that does the only reason why I was the other part of motivation is that the thirty first is the first day of school in our district. And so for those who have kids that are having their first day of school, that might be a disruptive day in and of itself. So just trying to keep that as a factor in this as well. But again, you and I, we can talk about this later. We don't need to take up everybody's time. OK, so if I'm hearing you, then eight thirty one is is a potential meeting for the next city council, but not eight twenty four. And you and I will try and assess as soon as possible as to whether or not we can eliminate the thirty one and just go to nine fourteen or or do something on the thirty one. Sure, let's let's hold the thirty first. And you know, talk next week. OK, that sounds great. Great. So with no other business, if somebody wanted to make a motion to adjourn. So moved. Second. Thank you, Raj. Thank you, Amber. All those in favor of signify by saying aye. Aye. We'll say thank you. Very pass unanimously. Thank you all and have a good evening. See you. Right.