good morning guys welcome to this week in my life honestly gonna be honest didn't vlog on monday because i just didn't and that's the beauty of week in my life just because i can just vlog what i want to as you guys saw i cycled or spin spun today and it was great you know going to bed 9 30 is like the perfect time like i really need to start doing that especially like when getting up at 4 30 am i don't know it's just one of those things that like i should start getting in the habit of and like just being super strict with myself because last time i did that and today even though i'm tired right now like i'm so tired um getting up was just so much easier and like less of a struggle but after that i am now editing my weekend vlog which shouldn't take too long i'm hoping so i'm gonna do that i'm still in like the parking lot because i could go to the parking lot at the public's where i go to get the starbucks but i didn't because uh just there's less people here gonna start editing and hopefully i can get this finished okay so got the coffee like normal it's not fresh but it still tastes so good because they make the drinks they're really good i did have to ask for a little bit of almond milk but like she's cool about it but overall the taste i don't know what they do but their coffee is just like it hits man at that location so i was driving this morning and you know like the cars that are always like on your ass and stuff when you're on the highway or just like on a busy road i wonder if those people that do that also have like problems with personal space you know those people that just gets like so close to you and they're like in your face and they don't really like get you know personal space i wonder if those are the same people that are on your ass on the road i don't know i was just thinking about that and i had to vlog about it i even turned the podcast off to make this little clip because it's just i want to know like i wonder i'll never fully know but i just imagine those types of people are the ones that like get too close to you and standing in line at the grocery store or just anything like that because it's really annoying and it's like bro if i stop you're gonna be uh paying your insurance is going to be paying and your rates are gonna go up because you tailgated me and i stopped and you were too close so anyway if you drive don't get that close to people because it's like it's scary man you don't know okay i don't know if you can hear the thunder but it's thundering i am on my way to dinner with um a couple work friends one of the girls doesn't work with us anymore like at her company anymore but um we still obviously like hang out with her name's ashley she's been on the channel before and then my other friend shawnee so we're gonna go to pf chang's at at like the mall millennia it's gonna be super good she was like oh i love sushi like so i recommended pf chang's and stuff so i'm going there now shawnee it will be later she doesn't get off until like 6 30 um but i'm on my way and hopefully i can like get our name down and hopefully there's not a long wait because you know but it's a random like tuesday so crossing my fingers all right this is shawnee she's a topical producer um at the steamy station i work at so it's fun got the sushi and rice shawnee that looks really good ashley this is her food oh what'd you get chicken fried rice chicken fried rice happy wednesday guys oh my gosh i almost overslept which hasn't happened in a while but yeah i was like frantic i was like oh my gosh just throwing the clothes i literally brushed my teeth put up my hair grabbed my lunch and just like ran so yes and i am wearing the smelly top today because if it does smell like i'm just gonna throw it away there because i couldn't throw it away at home because i really like it and i put it in the dryer to try to like dry out the smell i know that's probably like not a thing but i you know science experiment maybe um so i put it in the dryer and we'll see if not then i will just like toss it there and i'll show you guys because you know anyway last night was super fun um we just had dinner and caught up and talked about they kind of caught up because they hadn't seen each other in a while so yeah it was pretty chill and it was nice and i didn't get home that late i got home at like nine and then i went to bed around like 9 45 so it wasn't like i went to bed any like significantly like a time significantly later so i don't know i guess my body was just getting some really good sleep because i almost slept in and that would have been crazy because if i don't leave at a certain time then there's like no way i can like physically make it and i don't know how strict my cycle bar is with like their late policy but like i feel like they're kind of strict and it's just like super annoying because they don't understand that people like kind of live far i don't know because i remember at my friend's studio we were like well into song one like almost probably on song two and there are still people like trickling in and even though it's a little distracting it is not as distracting as the girl like flopping all over like around the bike just saying not trying to be rude but like having people like come in a little later isn't that a big of a deal to me especially if they're like there and maybe they were you know almost slept in late you know like i just obviously had more sympathy but yeah just wanted to update you guys um i will update you too on if i throw away the top or not yeah i don't know that's one of those things that like i just feel like if it's okay then i'll keep it if not it's probably not going to be i can just throw it away there and then leave it there and not like go trash picking going like i really like my top tier okay spin was so good i always love jen's class as you guys know my hair is like looking crazy like normal normal i did brush it out but it's just like i don't know it's doing its own thing it's drying from the sweat as nasty as that sounds so it's pumpkin spice season i've never actually had a pumpkin spice latte because i used to not like coffee anything with coffee in it was bad and i hated it then i started drinking coffee i've never had a pumpkin spice latte i love pumpkin as you guys know my perfect fall drink is a chai tea latte with like two to three pumps of pumpkin spice sauce like pumpkin sauce so i'm assuming i'm gonna like this she asked if i wanted um whipped cream on top and i was like sure just give me the whole experience so i'm gonna try it for you guys on camera and then i'm gonna open this really sweet card that one of my cycle bar friends got me and she's so sweet anyway i'm gonna try this first okay it is what i thought it would be coffee with the pumpkin sauce like literally that's just how it tastes so it's interesting it tastes like my fall drink with burnt flavor so that's my review of the pumpkin spice latte it tastes like my fall drink the chai tea with an aftertaste of burn so yeah um it's not bad would i get it again probably not i don't know maybe i would maybe it'll grow on me okay you guys updated next i'm probably going to try the pumpkin the sweet cream pumpkin cold brew because that might be better i don't know but yeah overall it's not a bad drink like obviously i'm gonna drink it this thing was like six dollars um so yes i'm drinking everything in that next up i want to open this sweet card oh my gosh time only lies if you let it get away oh oh my gosh she wrote like a whole like thing so i'll just read what the actual like card says because like i don't know if she like wants me to read this like online so um hope every second every minute every hour finds you feeling happy in every way because that's what birthdays are for that is so nice okay her name's Erica so shout out to Erica if you ever see this she got me a card it's so nice oh i don't know but i will read this off camera obviously but i just want to update you guys and try the drink on camera and stuff so overall i like it it's just very different like i've never had anything like it say hi to the vlog all right so basically um we're going to eat um we're gonna try panda right yep right then we gotta go buy some stuff yeah then we're going to get a refrigerator all right guess what they had guys they had teriyaki chicken what is this world come to i'm glad valerie brought it up anybody want hand wash uh no because i don't really touch it all right so this is the gorgeousness valerie got her bowl over there yep poor thing sherry got her usual they weren't out of anything tonight valerie's making a post she's getting ready because well you want to say it valerie we've closed on our new townhouse in celebration yeah if you guys made it this far in the vlog which i don't know if you guys will but the next video or soon to be next video will be like all like the footage and stuff yeah it'll be like all the footage and stuff um because valerie's like making her initial post and then i'm gonna make a post a little after so sherry i don't even know which she's gonna post anything i will just probably share whatever yeah because she shares everyone doing it yeah i know but i got the instagram valerie's got the facebook so we're covering all grounds but if you made it this far in the video that's what we're doing that's what's been up that's why we're getting a couch new refrigerator we're ordering it tonight maybe i don't know this camera god is gonna die but the one of the new videos that's gonna be coming up pretty soon is going to be the announcement and everything but if you made it this far in the video then you know and if you follow me on instagram you know i think we landed on this one and my camera battery hadn't died yet so that is yay print resistant finish this is what it looks like on the inside just like standard wait can you open up this sure yeah that's just really standard but it's like what we have now all right it is 501 a.m or probably like 455 and going to cycle bar but i'm going to the other location i go to um the one near winter garden because i want to come home because even though it's thursday happy september first um it's hair washing day i changed my hair washing day because my friend london and i are going to dinner she couldn't make um my birthday dinner so she's just taking me out to dinner it's kind of like me and jennifer like having just one-on-one time which is great i love doing things like one-on-one but i kind of wanted to do a group this year even though i hate groups like i'm gonna be honest i don't really like groups um it stresses me out but it's something i've never done so it's like something like check off my like list of okay i've done that i don't know just like corresponding and like getting everyone to say yes it's like oh so hard i don't know my parents are a lot better at like parties and party planning and all that like making the reservations like oh my gosh anyway something i wanted to do so i just like set out my quest to do it um anyway well because london and i are going to dinner i want to like have nice clean hair we're going to this restaurant called hillstone i think and then i'm gonna do like a light makeup look because obviously won't have enough time after work so that's why i'm just gonna do it before i go to work and uh i already know what i'm wearing which is good so anyway i wanted to update you guys on the smelly top because smelly top is not smelly anymore really i think it needed to go in the dryer like something that the dryer does is like i feel like it it like burns out the the dead skin cells in the odor of like the top and i don't know if that's like accurate or in my head i have a really sensitive nose so i know okay and so far the top is okay we'll try it one more time i really didn't want to go today because i didn't know that we were gonna be like getting a refrigerator tomorrow and also i'm debating i'm just like releasing my video because i can't wait like finally like it's announced and stuff so what i think i'm gonna do think i'm gonna take my computer work and edit at least like the announcement video and just post it because like i want to i have been waiting for so long so we'll see um i think that's my plan it depends i have all of the footage on my computer and everything because like i couldn't post i had to like film stuff and then like just dump it onto my hard drive and this car's mad so you know what i'm gonna stop recording and let this person be pressed and yeah so happy thursday everybody okay so i did my light makeup look this what it turned out to be and actually like i'm starting to get more confident with the brows like i'm starting to it's starting to come together but um i was gonna do a time lapse of doing my makeup but i totally forgot i'm kind of running like a little late so i didn't end up doing that um oh my gosh these cars be like stopping so fast man i think i'm going to edit my moving vlog and just post it because like i want to there's no other reason so i don't know i just thought i should come on here and tell you guys even though you've already seen it it's where there's so much traffic it is crazy out tonight i'm going to dinner with my friend london i think i already mentioned that um why i'm so excited that's why i decided to like put some effort into my parents and since i went to cycle bar really early this morning you know okay now i'm going to film my clip for the video because i want to like put a disclaimer and stuff okay so just got off work and now i'm headed to dinner i'm so excited this restaurant looks really good and i'm excited to just catch up with london and i don't know i haven't seen her in forever and she's an awesome person posted the video today i posted the moving vlog and like the announcement video i hope it does well because your girl has to pay for a bed uh so fingers crossed that that video performs well because i could use some views i'm not gonna lie uh that would be really nice um just you watching this alone like i'm so appreciative and not enough youtubers say that so thank you guys so much for being here um but going back to what i was saying i hope that video does well and i hope you guys liked it yeah so i will get as much footage and photos as i can tonight um because i love like getting content with friends i think it's so much fun um but then again too like i was saying we you know need to catch up and everything i think that's about it for this clip um oh what i just realized too is the restaurant we're going to is right by cycle bar winter park which is just so funny um so thought that that was kind of funny because cycle bar is like where we met and stuff so enough talking for now london is here look at how cute her outfit is what the heck man i love it all right so this is the menu here and london got like such a cute um diet coke bottle onto the photo but he took it away but we thought the proud vegetarian was kind of funny because it's literally just vegetables and rice so just tried artichoke dip for the first time and it's actually really good here anyway i'm like failing here i'm failing to eat this though okay so london and i just ordered and this is our friends because we ordered the exact same thing so i'll show you guys when it comes out look at her mouth oh silly all right so this is my little birthday dessert we're gonna split look at how cute it is okay so dinner was so good i love hanging out with london she's so nice and she actually like fulfilled where my goals this year was to meet like new friends meet new people and like cultivate like more friendships like be actually like social because as you know i'm very much an introvert and i'm like well according to my tests i'm actually an extra more extroverted which is weird i don't know but i want to do this little i'm bagging because well one of my one of the managers like he's a director where i work gave this to me so it is the abit elementary little swag bag so this is perfect this would be perfect as a beach bag like i love the color and obviously the the yellow looks really cool on it so i got this reusable little bag it's kind of cool it's like one of those where you could put uh like any sort of perishable food i guess in here i don't know i like the texture of it you guys know i love rubber then i got this little notebook which is really cute just a simple line paper notebook with a little pen i love how the pen is like wood it almost like matches the book then i have this little pencil pouch which honestly i'm probably going to use i haven't gotten a pencil pouch in ages so good use for this and then isn't this the coolest thing so it's like a ruler right i should show you like this too it just says abit elementary and then inside here there is colored pencils how cute is that so i don't really draw anything i might give this to one of the guys at work uh because a couple of them like draw so because i don't draw but anyway that was cool see a little bit of sherry there sorry anyway that's it for this portion of the video all right it is friday happy friday everybody we made it and tonight our couch is being delivered so i'm so excited i get to like finally show you guys oh it feels so nice to finally just like share what i'm actually like doing and not like having to anyway you know you know all right this is the friday outfit it is very dressed down casual day because i want it to be now i have to go because i have to get gas and then starbucks all right so i'm almost done with this coffee because it was so freaking good oh my gosh i don't know what it is sometimes the coffee is just so good i don't know what it is about it but the lady who always makes it perfect she was there like i saw her like cleaning up or whatever and i'm like she must have made this because it tastes so good perfect ratios perfect everything all right so i just got off work and now i'm headed to the new house our couch got delayed i guess coming tomorrow but we're still gonna meet there and stuff um and then have dinner at the town tavern so obviously i will take you guys along for the adventure and yeah so gonna be cruising down i4 for quite a bit uh i guess this will soon be my new route home which is crazy uh it's weird to say that all right so it's a bit rainy and obviously uh i need to finish some landscaping and they still have they're still under construction over there but let's go inside all right guys here we go oh yes well celebration evening oh no pun intended celebration evening um about closing on the house bowery yes yes she's getting her hands yes they're on and it's a kind of a rainy evening but we're still enjoying ourselves all right we're recording cheers mr tail look at how good that looks he's got a little big potato there i got um a salad i'm little miss salad and there got some fish and it's like literally pouring outside sherry shows you a new work bag how nice is this guys i know everyone did like a rolling yeah so she can take her laptop to work and everything it's a little cute kippling we got a little monkey here yeah i got sherry wants this um this kippling wristlet it wasn't a wristlet it was just like a bag a pouch she carries that thing for forever i think it broke or something i loved it i think it broke right i put my like headset and stuff in there calculator stuff i take yeah put everything in there with my lunch nice very cool sherry so that my friends is going to be it for this week in my life video i hope you guys enjoyed it make sure to give it a thumbs up don't forget to subscribe and i'll see you guys in my next video bye say bye sherry bye i will say this has been a really good week in my life i can't complain


Welcome to Toffey TV, it is the Everton News Daily. Umar Niass has reportedly turned down a summer move to locomotive Moscow. Niass, who is out of contract in the summer and becomes a free agent, has reportedly turned down a move back to the club he left for Everton, he left for Everton rather back in 2016, that's according to reports in Russia. Be interested to see where Niass goes, my personal feeling is he's possibly got a deal already lined up, because unless he just doesn't fancy a return to Russia, he'll be a good sign for someone in the summer on a free contract, but sadly for locomotive Moscow it won't be them unless they come back with an even better offer, but we will see where big Umar goes in the summer. Schalke could be priced out of a summer move for John Joe Kenny, that is according to German publication Der Weston. They said that they describe rather John Joe Kenny as indispensable given his form this season for David Wagner's Schalke, and say that there's a lot of clubs now circling for the 22-year-old. It's unclear whether Kenny has got future at Everton under Carlo Ancelotti, but obviously Everton have got a decision to make over Kenny in the summer, and Jibril Siddabi, who of course is on loan from Monaco. Everton do have a buy clause for £13.5 million, I think it is, for Siddabi, so it's a decision that they're going to have to make. Obviously Seamus Coleman is the older right back at the club as well, so we'll have to wait and see what happens with John Joe, but he has been excellent this season for Schalke, but he's probably said I think before in an interview that he wants assurances that he's going to play, obviously playing every week in front of £60,000 at Gelsingirch, and he's not going to want to come back and be on the bench or be in the under-23s, so big decisions this summer to be made where John Joe is concerned. Tati John, who's had a contract at Manchester United in the summer, has been linked with a move through Everton. He's also been linked with moves to Juventus and Milan as well. He put an Instagram post up today, which was picked up by Nathaniel Marchello, and he replied with a come to Everton, which has kind of fuelled those rumours as well. He's a good player, he's a field player 20 years of age, but you'd have to say that surely United are going to try and keep him. He played, of course, in that famous win last year, a PSG for Manchester United last March, but he's had a contract in the summer, so he's a good player, see where he ends up. Finally, Everton women move into their new Walton Hall Park stadium this month. They play Manchester United on the 23rd of February, two o'clock kick-off. It'll be interesting, it'll be boss down there, because obviously it's built for them. I think there's going to be a capacity of about 1,500 people, I think, but it's good for the women to have their own home ground. Obviously, having you, we've seen how bad the pitch was the other week when the actor played there, the 23s, Everton 23s played there as well, not conducive to good football, so it's really good that the women's side will be playing, especially so close to Goodersham Park as well, so close to L4. I wonder if there's any plans for the under-23s to play there as well, so that Everton, it's all in house. I think if Everton under-23s played there, I think they'd get about a thousand to watch them for some games, particularly because it is close by, so I'll have to see whether anything develops there. There's still no date being set for what now needs to be the rescheduled women's due to pre-play the Goodersham Park, of course, last Sunday, but Storm Careett put a halt to that, and still talks are still ongoing when to reschedule it for. Hopefully it will be for a weekend, I don't know when that could be, but you know, and hopefully the women will be greeted with a big crowd. 23,500 watched the game, and I'm feeling what Everton women want by a single goal. Let's see if we can beat that when it is rescheduled at Goodersham Park. That is the news for today. Make sure you subscribe, give the video a thumbs up, and if you want more videos, join us on Patreon. See you later.


Please subscribe to this YouTube channel mentor talk can do press bell button for notifications. After China, Singapore and several other countries, Turkey's parliament has recently approved a law regulating the social media. This law makes it mandatory for the foreign social media sites to appoint Turkish-based representatives to respond to the government authority's concerns regarding the content posted on their respective social media sites. The law also stipulates time limits for deletion of any objectionable material pointed out by the Turkish authorities. The opponents of the said law have mooted that this law will enhance censorship and support Turkish authorities to suppress the dissent. The new regulations provide stringent imposition of fines and penalties against the social media companies and even the prohibition on the advertisements on their sites. The companies could also face the slashing of their bandwidth to the extent of 90 percent thereby making them completely defunct. Apparently this new set of law has triggered because majority of youth in Turkey and that we would have noticed also on television and other media on the internet that these youth of Turkey have boycotted the mainstream media which is already government controlled and they have been overwhelmingly using the social media and informal new online news sites apps for impartial objective news, views and opinions. Social media has been under surveillance in Turkey while in the past many have been booked as well for offending the current establishment as well as condemnation connected to foreign military incursions with regard to Turkey and the management of the COVID-19 pandemic. Earlier the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Office had questioned this law before actually it had become a law you know when it was at the stage of the bill and it was questioned by them on the ground that it gives the state powerful tool for for asserting their control more control over the media landscape. Turkish government however believes that these regulations were necessary and are not about censorship but a means of establishing commercial and legal ties with these social media platforms. Well only time will tell whether these you know regulations are coercive or facilitator. Please subscribe to this YouTube channel mentor talk and do press bell button for notifications


Good afternoon everyone and thank you so much for giving up your time this afternoon, especially if you've already had a busy day in school. There's no doubt many of you already have or nursery setting wherever you've come from, so it's much appreciated that you've come along to this session this afternoon. My name is Paula Owens and I'm a teacher by profession. I've taught in foundation stage, key stage one and key stage two. I've been a deputy head and I was the GA curriculum lead for a number of years for primary. I've also written some resources for digital math schools and some resources for the Ordinary Survey. And in fact, the one on the screen here is hopefully going to be launched if not today sometime this week. This is going to be a free guide to teaching math skills to inspire a sense of place and adventure in the early years from the Ordinary Survey. And it will be freely available on the website imminently. I haven't seen it's there yet, but it assures me it will be there very soon. So what I'm going to do today, I'm going to draw on some ideas from this free document to illustrate to you with some ideas for mapping in the early years and talk a little bit about that. And also about some resources from Digimaps and how Digimaps can support mapping. So this is about using and making maps in the early years. And I'm sure many of you will be from different stages across the earliest foundation curriculum, which does have quite a varied range in terms of developmental ages as well. So the aims today are to feel more confident about using and making maps across the areas of learning in the early years to have a better understanding of how maps can support pupils in that area within the early years framework. Called understanding the world, but also how maps link to other areas of learning because of course in the early years foundation stage, all these areas are very much linked. And also to feel more confident as a subject leader in identifying the early threads of geography with progression in mind. And we'll see why that matters a little bit later on. So what do babies dream about food, warmth, comfort. The DfE comment that babies use their spatial reasoning skills to recognize body parts and the location of objects and people around them. And the young children go on to learn and understand these concepts through play. And in fact, Tuan commented many years ago that babies are kind of innate mappers in the sense that they learn to orientate themselves towards their mothers and towards their fathers and towards areas of comfort and towards their food. And Goswami tells us that we now know that even very young children can think logically using symbolic and abstract material. Even babies are capable of these basic forms of learning and reasoning. And as the child's knowledge base grows with their market working memory. Then these maps and mapping activities can support and develop this knowledge base across all the areas of learning, but particularly in that one in which geography sits understanding the world. And it's interesting that that quote from the DfE comes from the spatial reasoning pages on the maths. And of course these are so interlinked so I'll be stressing that all the way through. So let's move on from babies to very young children and about something that's absolutely crucial to making and enjoying maps. And that is the fact that children are innate explorers. They are curious deeply wanting to understand their surroundings. This is from an article that was appeared in primary geography in which I just followed a couple of small children and taped everything that they were saying later annotated it. To pictures of their activities. And we can see how, as you all well know that very small children are not interested in the big landscape pictures. They're interested in the small detail of everyday life. And they're using that development developing vocabulary to really interrogate what's going on around them. And we can feel the excitement in this scene. I hope you can anyway. Of look I found a crab I found a worm. And then wondering what's in that mysterious block of water there. So we want to really nurture that curiosity. So coming back to why do maps matter then that's going to be my starting point. What's so special about maps in the early years. And I've got this wonderful quote from a very inspirational head teacher Helen Martin. And I'm going to let you read that quote. I'm going to pull out some bits of it in a minute. But I think it really summarizes for us just the importance of maps in these early years settings. We are guiding until dawn's curiosity. You know they love to explore. And we're providing play based experiences that are messy and exploratory, but very vital to all aspects of their development. Maps are collaborative. They're a creative enterprise. And we engage them with the land and the landscape around them. And in doing this we help children to give meaning to places and get a sense of who they are in the world. So the most important message I think for us as educators is that we start from where the children are from this deep innate sense of exploration, play and curiosity. And if we can spark that curiosity in the world around them, then that's absolutely vital. And by doing that we can then go on to start talking about it, embodying it in kind of the activities that we provide and develop map making and modeling throughout. Now this is an extract from the document. And it just reminds us how much these different areas of learning into weave with each other. And I've called this the curriculum weft and weave. And we've got these four strands of literacy maths, understanding the world and art and design. And they're all intertwining with communication and language, physical and the physical and personal social and emotional areas of learning. And in the document I say that maps and mapping are a really vibrant part of this. And I've given some examples in each of these different areas to try and highlight for us, just what maps can do. So if we think about, for example, just maths and the communication and language interface, then maps can really help to bring alive children's ability to organize spatial information and to talk about it and communicate it. If we look at the interface between personal, social and emotional, for example, and maths, then we can develop children's confidence using maps to be able to evaluate and estimate distance and direction. And of course in that very strong strand of understanding the world, then we can enable children to talk about people and places and to actively explore the world. And as far as their personal development goes, we can talk about diversity and culture and identity. So I won't read all those off, but this is just an extract from that document. We've also got these three key aspects of the early years foundation stage framework. We've got the playing and exploring strand, creating and thinking critically strand and the active learning strand. And maps help us in all these different areas to move forward to develop these areas of learning to move towards and beyond hopefully the early learning goals. So in playing and exploring maps can really help children to investigate and experience things. The active learning maps help children concentrate and keep on trying if they encounter difficulties. They are an aid to exploration and self regulation. And maps also help children to develop and share their own ideas and make links between these ideas and how they can develop strategies for doing things. So again, this very powerful interconnections at play. Now, something else that features in this free guide from the Ordnance Survey is a progression grid that talks about the kinds of things we might expect children to be able to do in different areas of mapmaking from birth to three from three to four and from four to five. And this dovetails with a document on the digital maps schools website called a progression in mapping document that is free to download whether you belong already or not. But before this document was created, it only went down to age five. So this takes it right back to birth. And these are kind of generalities. And I've tried to use some examples to kind of explain what this might mean in practice. So for example, if we think about from birth to three, and this is a really big developmental jump if you like from birth to three such a lot happens. So it doesn't do justice to what children are capable of doing, but it just gives kind of an idea. For example, in children beginning to use an interpret maps, we know that babies are beginning to use all their senses in this hands on exploration of natural materials, other objects. And then as they grow bigger, they're beginning to use pictorial maps for play. If we think about drawing, this is the age when children begin to use mark making and gestures to explain their meaning. And if we think about the use of digital maps, even children this young begin to have an understanding that the sat nav in mummy and daddy's car or whoever's car can help you find your way around. And they might even begin to play online video games and manipulate manipulate shapes and space. So there is a lot going on in this age range. And by the way, these progression documents have been very much informed by the wonderful work from Simon Catling. So do look him up and some he's written some excellent stuff on map development that's well worth reading. So what does this thing and look like in practice. So here we've got babies using their senses to explore surroundings. We've got children able to use simple patterns. Top tip, by the way, chocolate boxes, anything like that really good for organizing found objects and thinking about patterns and colors. And also thinking about where where things have been located you can relate a grid on the ground to a grid and a chocolate box and collects and organize materials. And children are beginning to point directions as well. So having lots of signs out of doors, directions and signs and outdoor labels as well and encouraging children to lead on roots and and be guided on roots and and walks around the school grounds and beyond the school gates as well. And around the nursery. If we look at progression from three to four thinking about nursery. We can see that children are developing a little bit further now and there's very much a kind of a crossover between the previous one, because age three is a very magical age in which all kinds of crossovers and exciting things happen. And children become much more able and aware. So children begin to understand that maps hold information. Children begin to make imaginary mark maps with marks that have meaning now, and they're able to use journey strings for example, to recall and sequence journeys. If you haven't ever come across journey strings it's where you have a string length of string and supporting a child, you can have a walk and collect things along the walk, tie them on to the journey string. When you come back, you've got a lovely sequence memory that you can get the children to talk about and draw a linear map from children are beginning to describe familiar roots they're beginning to use more appropriate vocabulary and directional language. As far as perspective and scale goes, they're beginning to talk about distance and they have an idea now that some places are further away than others. So children are more scaled through small world play as well. As I say all this will be in that the free document all this these grids. So what does this look like in action. This is another article from primary geography, and here we've got a three and a half year old, who has been hiding her teddy and explaining why she's put it where she has. And she said I've put it here so it can hide from the monsters. And apparently the teddy is saying or the figure is saying you can't see me I'm invincible and you cannot destroy me. So from this we can see that this child is able to use this directional language it's near a car park. She's able to give explanations as to why this spatial location matter. And she can also think about how her toy is feeling she's happy to be hiding. She's beginning to use appropriate vocabulary and directional language is fitting the model that we've just talked about. It's also showing that intrinsic mix if you like of emotional thought and cognitive thought working together which is really important to develop. We can develop this further, because we can add these pictures, and we can take children around on a walk they can hide their toy figures. And then we can add them to digimaps, we can use aerial imagery to talk about whereabouts in the school grounds they are. And if we model this and do it regularly, children are very adept at recognizing particular landmarks. So we can then use the the toggle tool to once a picture has been added to later on when children more confident to toggle across and turn that aerial view into a map view. So we're moving from curiosity to exploration through play, we're developing spatial thinking, we are modeling. We're going to model maps as well and using 3d materials, but we're also modeling as teachers, and then we're mapping for them. So the child's own mapping and teacher mapping as well working together. We can take this even further we can think about something called body draping, which is where we think about our bodies in relationship to in relation to features features in the school grounds. So that we want children to be very safe, we can use teddies instead of bodies. So rather than them trying to climb up a tree or something or get onto a branch or squeeze into a narrow gap, we can use teddies and toys to do this for us. And children love doing these kinds of activities. Where are we going to put Ted? How can we describe where Ted is? Let's take a photograph. Let's use that really important geographical and positional language that helps with our maths as well. So where shall we put Ted on the rock under the tree beneath the arch beside the bench, etc. You get the idea. But all the time we are reinforcing this vocabulary and the spatial thinking through embodied references and through our vocabulary. We can take photographs, we can draw it, we can sketch it, we can make models and we can add to maps. You can also use small figures in landscapes to start posing questions and developing a query in the early years. And this inquiry can lead to further mapping, asking what kind of a place is this or thinking about that emotive aspect.  What's this pipe doing here? What comes through here? What's it for? Where are these features? What is the best place for a gnome? And the last one, the gnome reference is particularly important because we have some wonderful resources on the link there from primary geography again, from Sharon Witt and Helen Clark, who have written a lot about gnome wisdom that is really excellent for use in the early years. So using small play figures, apart from being fun, apart from giving us a real context for developing mapping and modelling, modelling by the teacher and modelling in 3D by the child. What else does it do? It helps with a sense of scale. We help children to zoom in and talk about and notice that minutiae of detail. We're developing that directional locational language. We're using naming vocabulary to name and recognise features. We're using descriptive vocabulary. We're being emotive and effective as well, thinking about those feelings. We're also using that vital mathematical language, comparative language, bigger, smaller, busier, noisier, etc. But we're also raising an awareness of issues. Whose place is this? Who looks after it? How might it be changed for the better?  So moving up to the progression in mapping for reception age 4 to 5. And again, a lot more development is taking place by this reception age group. So children are now able to derive information from a simple map. They're able to much more confidently use plan views to find and mark features. They can follow a simple map using landmarks. They can point to north and south poles on the globe. We can use a compass to identify the direction of north in the playground and children will start to remember that it's always in the same place. We can start to create maps from memory as well. Or we can use simple symbols on maps to show features and journeys. And as far as digital maps go, children are able in reception to manipulate and annotate large scale maps. They can use digital maps, for example, zooming into a topographical scale of the school grounds. And with support, they can add simple text, markers and photographs very easily. So here we've got Lola age 5 who draws her map from memory of a simple walk. And I've put this quote here from work from the Meaningful Map team, of which I'm a member. And you can see some of the work and the maps that we've collected on the Meaningful Maps.org website. And Vachecovichetals say that children are remarkably adept at making maps. And they appear to develop the spatial awareness required to do this from an early age. They are very confident mappers. And these maps that young children draw not only provide a fascinating insight into their practical engagement, but they also tell us about places that interest that they value or that worry them. So there's a lot that we can find out about children from the maps they draw as well from memory. And if we look at this map that this 5-year-old has drawn, we can see we've not just got features here, but we've got a steep, dangerous, windy hill. We've got an old pool, a tree blowing over. So things that perhaps are potentially worrying as well as things that just happen to be there. And if we compare that with a map of the same journey from a 10-year-old, we can see the difference in how the 10-year-old has moved on, in which this map's got a key, it's got a plan view as well as some drawings and a lot more detail and specialised vocabulary. So we just need to remind ourselves that when children draw these maps of their walks and everyday activities, that a young child will see a place in terms of activity, what they can do there. It's what Gibson calls the affordance of place. And Ross notes that this imaginary plane, the emotional engagement with their environment, happens when children have some degree of autonomy. So it's really important to let them explore and think about their own directions in a space where we can. What do they want to do there? What do they think the place is good for? But sadly we know that children today don't have an awful lot of opportunity for free play outside. And Roger Hart did a seminal study many years ago about children in place and found that their outdoor experiences were rich and varied. That sadly, repeating the activity quite recently, a few years ago, he found that there was obviously a lot less time for free play now and children didn't seem to know their environment as well as they perhaps did in the past. So thinking about the amount of access that children have got outside of school and talking to them about places they know really tells us a lot about what they can do as well. The power of natural and found objects and maps, the two go together really well. And here we see children at a play group. These images occur to see a clock hill play group in Bedfordshire. And the children have collected stones. They've had lots of fun painting them, decorating them with their own symbols. And these children are absolutely intrigued by ordinate survey maps. Now this is quite a technical ordinate survey map, not one we'd normally think of presenting to early years children. They're having lots of fun just looking at the maps, talking about the colours, the patterns and placing their stones on them and telling stories. So never underestimate the fun that can be had just with an ordinary paper ordinate survey map and lots of stones to paint and use the imagination with. But that goes for all kinds of natural objects. So encourage children to make maps out of doors using found objects and encourage the secret world of their own to really flourish and come into being. Children's imaginations are an incredibly powerful thing. Perhaps moving on to more formal maps, we might think, well, how can we use the school grounds? Well, we can measure them in different ways. We can talk about a number of steps. We can count how long it takes us to get from A to B. This is moving on with older children and reception. We can look at a grid square within the school grounds and meet a grid square and just look at exactly what's in that meter square. We can use magnifying glasses and map that square and think about how many daisies we can spot, how many spiders we can spot. We can talk about the school grounds and think about where is the best place for a picnic, game of football, a story, a shady sit-down, perhaps for meeting friends. So thinking about the different aspects of place and getting children to be the experts in judging which place is the best is another really good activity that we can do and then map the results. Or this is another activity that I've done myself with reception children in which you have a letter mysteriously brought to reception to say that someone has left some animals that badly need reception's help in the school grounds and here is the location where the animals are hidden. Please can we help find them and look after them? So we all go outside and hunt for them using the maps, find them and of course look after them very carefully. Or perhaps you're organising a teddy bears picnic in the school ground. How can we do this? What space do we need? Where is the best place to sit if it's hot? Do we need shade? Where's the grounds best to sit? Where's the most even place to sit for example? So lots of activities that we can make relevant for the children using the school grounds once we get into reception further on. So I'm going to talk a little bit about the role of blobs, maps and atlases together and what we're doing here, we're preparing children for more formal mapping later on. We're giving them the tools and the language and encouraging this curiosity and play all the time. So we can have lots of fun with black blobs. If we have black blobs we can play by throwing them and having games such as can you find me the North Pole, the South Pole? Can you find me that imaginary line around the middle called the equator? Can you find where we live? So we start to build up children's locational knowledge about the world. Blobs are especially important in the early years because of course they're 3D. They're a better model of what actually is the 2D maps although we want to have a range of 2D maps as well, all kinds of maps. But it's quite hard for children to understand that transition from 3D to 2D maps. So we can help explain that perhaps using oranges by peeling an orange and talking about how difficult it is to make the appeal of an orange lie flat and explaining that maps have to, obviously they have to make a compromise and they can't show it as accurately as a globe does when we think about the shape of the world. But we can also use oranges and they're quite a useful tool to get children to draw on with felt pens. We can, for example, imagine that it's a world and can we draw and mark the poles? Can we find the North Pole and the South Pole? If that's the North Pole then that must be the South Pole because of course we can talk about which way opposite in space and there is no right way in space. But once you've got one pole you can get the other and we can get that idea of relativity. We can also get children to mark that imaginary line in the equator around the middle and from those beginnings by giving children this geometrical framework of how the world works we can then start to build this locational knowledge because we can then look at a globe and say let's look at this huge continent called Africa and we can see that we've got some above the equator and some below the equator and actually it looks a bit like an elephant's ear. So later on when children are ready we can start to draw that shape in relation to the equator and the poles and get an understanding of where places are. So those are the early beginnings of how we can start to develop the more locational aspects of geography. And we can tell us that children go along this kind of journey when they start to draw maps of the world and it moves from stage one which is the isolated units to units of different size and then we get more differentiated shapes we get some increasing accuracy and then eventually a formal map and obviously this is a very drawn out process that happens from the early years and into primary. But if we can start to model and support children by developing a geometrical framework as well then by modeling this we can help children hang their locational knowledge onto something that's a little bit more easy to comprehend. And there's this very nice quote from Vegan from 2006 as well. So we've got using maps, we've got making maps and they've both got different kind of aspects to them. So using maps is about exploring the familiar and the unfamiliar world through models and through representation. We want children to be navigating paths and routes and all the time they're developing this understanding of pattern. So we can have pretend paths and routes inside the classroom but preferably outside the classroom, the playground. You might have footsteps marked in permanent colour for example across the playground. We can use chalk to get children to create their own paths and routes. It's about unlocking information and developing this visual literacy as well and being inspired by the possibilities. Maps are imaginative tools and we get children to develop their skills of orientation thinking about which direction they're facing they could be playing with compasses. So when they're drawing their routes they could be talking about I'm heading north and even very young children pick this up very easily. And then in making maps as well we want children to be translating their perceptions of the world thinking about how they feel about it and developing this ability all the time to translate their first hand and concrete experiences into this abstract expression. So through this combination of exploratory play and teacher modelling through this partnership of talk and using gesture and embodied thinking we can help children to express their feelings and knowledge about place. Now Geist says that map making walks are a really valuable tool and he says this the importance of children's exploration of their environment goes beyond the obvious benefits of physical activity and exposure to nature because every time they walk they are constructing this mental coordinate system each time they make a turn or they notice a landmark or they are building their mapping ability each time they explain how to get from A to B they're constructing this two-dimensional coordinate system. So map making walks is a very simple but a very powerful tool in developing children's ability and I've just adapted some of the commentary by Geist and it's a really good read if you get a chance to have a look and the references all at the end as well and they're all in the Ordnance Survey document as well. So I've just pulled out eight things that I think are really important first of all frequent familiarity with a range of maps so get those different maps in different scales different kinds of maps different sources, story maps, real maps, imaginary maps tourist maps have them available and get children to talk about them and use them as much as possible have frequent walks and doing the same walk over and over again can be a really valuable activity that depth that's so important because you notice places at different times of the day in different seasons and how they change and children develop this confidence and this familiarity and then getting children to do models of part of their walk taking photographs as well and creating their own maps and their plain maps in the playground as well from their walk really valuable. Take time to stop and talk about and notice as you go on a walk. So just stop and tune in get children to look up, look down note the kind of vocabulary that they're using and model it back to them and really develop children's ability to ask questions which will come over time and again that's something that we can do by modeling to them really encourage children to use all their senses but also give children time to explore we want those sensory motor skills to matter to young children and of course we've got the different kinds of sensory motor skills we've got the gross motor skills and the more particular skills that we need to actually draw maps and if we get children to use their senses we help them to remember what they've seen and the touch of things like touching tree bark for example and if we do journey strings as well as take those back then that helps even more use that positional language when we notice landmarks next to beside and use relational language to help children describe where group maps are really good because children have to discuss and agree where to put things but I think most of all the bit I've highlighted at the end is just provide those opportunities for them to develop these maps so what does this look like in practice here are some maps from a reception class in school from children aged 4 and 5 and I asked the children I asked them to work in groups and I said can you make me a map of your school to show me what's outside the door when we leave your classroom and go out into the school ground can you make a map from memory now this might sound like quite a tall ask for 4 and 5 year olds but not at all they were able to rise to the challenge and create these wonderfully detailed maps using found objects these messy maps and they had support and prompts but when they talked back afterwards and explained what their map showed they had lots of detail vocabulary and the spatial accuracy was quite amazing because I went outside afterwards and checked the detail of trees of the playground they added on other features such as benches lots of detail and here we've got the children beginning to explain this is one group explaining the woods at the bottom the benches and the playground where they played and the very large oak tree that was a significant feature and then in the same school I moved on to year R stroke year 1 class making the talking partners these children were able to talk about features and draw their map from memory and then we went outside after us to check so we can see the leaps there that's come on from children using these found 3D objects more of a modelling and maps to this more abstract map making that children are capable of just a year later this is year 1 class here we're introducing didgy maps and children were able to use the aerial image of didgy maps and identify features they recognise their school they recognise the car park and the church and what we did then after children recognised some of these features we used a printed out map and we took children into the playground we had them in groups of about 5 and 6 in a group and we had lots of chunky chalks and we drew large boxes with rectangles on the playground and we had compasses as well and the children were familiar with finding north so we made sure we orientated ourselves again finding north with the map and then we found the school and we asked children to jump into the rectangle where they thought the school was so once the children had jumped in and collaboratively agreed where the school was on their rectangle with relation to their map we then said might draw your map can you copy this map and you can see that the markings are important and here is the children engaged in this activity and the maps were incredibly detailed they were just absolutely brilliant and what was very interesting is that they didn't just use the map as a reference point but they added in their own personal meanings everybody added the chip shock in their map so every group had the chip shock for that place so we really encouraged children to use their own personal meanings of space as well and this is the nice simple activity that can be adapted and just encouraged with even younger children to do chunky chalks and maps on the playground and you can either even scaffold this for younger children by putting in some predestined sort of buildings and things like that and getting children to add to the map and augment it or perhaps that familiar activity and you have a large sheet of paper on the table top and you start off a map for toy cars and vehicles and you say to children here's some pens can you develop this map can you add some buildings and some play figures to it so maps and stories as well I'm going to talk a little bit about maps and stories because these are very much interlinked and vegan back in 2006 alerted as to what is now quite a popular aspect of cognitive theory the dual coding theory in which map and verbal knowledge are thought to have different representations in long term memory storage so using maps alongside vocabulary and talking and writing helps children to remember things so which is quite handy because maps are not just fun but they're really functional and useful too so we can use story and maps together very effectively and I've just used a very well known story here a little red writing but there are some other examples in the document so we can see how there are opportunities right the way across these different areas of learning so with our communication and language for example we're developing a vocabulary we might be acting up the story with props in the play corner in physical development we've got the gross motor skills and that we can actually create a route in the playground from home to Granny's house and run along it or we can walk along it very slowly or we can walk creep along it we can use different movements we've got our fine motor skills in actually creating smaller maps and plans and notes to Granny to warn her so in our personal, social and emotional development for example we can talk about the different emotions during the story and so on so you can see that maps help us as a very powerful tool to unravel all these different areas of learning and combine them all together and I've put some links there because on the DigiMap website we've got links to some resources there's a resource for using DigiMaps to talk about where I live and there's also an activity how to get to Grandma safely and the suitable for reception children so here we've got a map drawn using the fine motor skills we just talked about a little Red Riding Hood's journey and we've got a teacher comment here we talked about the story and how we could make a map to show Little Red Riding Hood's journey they told me the features they remembered and I wrote these down so trying to develop the idea of a key as well which is very ambitious but again with collaborative learning and modelling it makes it achievable we discussed how we could use different colours to show Grandma's house and Little Red Riding Hood house this didn't happen and we can see on the map that they're both the same colour but we had an exciting retail using the map as a prompt so having made the map that is now a tool a very powerful tool for that child to remember that story and do a retail so I'm going to finish this session by just reminding us about maps geography and identity and Christopher Spencer gave us this really important quote when we think about doing geography that we're doing more than just participating in geography we are helping children develop their self-identity their sense of worth their values and their sense of belonging as well so maps help children talk about all of this and develop it so what about provision well the sky's your limit really but inflatable globes different sizes stand alone globes for story time OS maps at a large scale of the local area and access to digital mapping with annotation facilities such as digital map schools because children pick this up really quickly and it's so good for fine motor skills as well for them to trace over maps add lines add annotation some first atlases and story maps aerial imagery again very important we want children to start with aerial imagery and recognising features and a range of media and prompts for creating these 3D and 2D maps sand water natural and sound objects small world play and you might have some large scale printed maps cut up into rectangles laminated to make simple jigsaws and talking points how does it all fit together and that's the end for me so I'm going to stop the share now and we'll open the questions Paula there's a question there is there a link for an article for the journey strings it sounds like a fabulous idea where is that oh yeah there is if you google journey strings by Jane Whittle there should be a video clip somewhere of this in action but if you go on the geographical association website and google journey strings you should find some material there I meant to say as well that on the world geographical society website there's there's a whole free unit on stay home mapping with lots of mapping ideas as well for early years and key stage 1 and key stage 2 right there's also a question from Gina can you recommend any EYFS friendly atlases I can't think of the top of my head I know there is one I've got in my head I'm trying to think of it now I wonder if Sharon Whittle Helen Martin can come in on this and if they've got any ideas because I can't think Collins first atmosphere says Lauren that's useful I think it might have been Collins Collins normally is a good name to go to because they have Stephen Scott from as an advisor he's always good value very knowledgeable the website just meant someone to put that down yes the geographical association and the world geographical society both did websites to look at for geography and Phillips that was the one I was thinking of the Phillips infant school at as it was that one yes they're both good Phillips and Collins do get your blood globes they're fantastic really essential


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Hello, folks Hosted the meeting notes and zoom chat if you have any items you'd like to Talk about no, I left the arm. I'm listening. I did the status discussion. I think it'd be good to go through that and also Maybe touch on the CNS as well as we we're on the call And the conformance testing as well. All right and in a Be happy for you to join the we do have a weekly CNF meeting on Thursdays that's focused on the CNF test bed and CNF conformance if If you'd like to join us what time is that? Pacific time was that the one which was on eight o'clock or something like that on Thursdays and Yeah, I'm gonna grab you the Meeting notes here. So that's 1415 UTC or 715 a.m. Pacific Okay, so yeah, that should be okay. You keep time Okay Yeah, and that meeting is focused specifically on the test bed and conformance Yeah, I wasn't sure if actually that had been collapsed with the Telco user group or not or if it was kept as a separate invite. That's why I got confused and the The talk from user group you could think of as more of like a traditional user group. So it's where people can Bring problems and concerns are when we're talking about like gap analysis and stuff. So whether What's what's missing from the software that we've been shown and the the test bed is In some ways you could think of it as like a reference implementation, but on a very Maybe a It's not trying to be as opinionated on on picking a specific set of software because we want to make it where Anyone can plug in whatever options they want. So if if you're trying different Network plug-ins, there's a lot of different options or okay The conformance will be about the testing so They all work together, but they're they're separate Hi Denver. Yeah, I'm not saying Ed and this was The one item that's actually listed here is I Have put that the meeting before that had been cancelled. So I Had been put back here as as Ed. So but I don't know if he's planning to join on it. All right. Well, I did try to reach him on Slack on the packet and see and see a slack, but I haven't heard from him. So Do you could you talk through a little bit on on any further work happening on CNCS CI or what activity there's been there or? Sure and I guess maybe to a step back a little bit and then I get back into CNCS CI So ideally this whole meeting What we would be talking about on the next session is What we would be talking about on these group meetings and maybe I don't know if it should be a working group or a user group or what But the idea would be Any type of CI Technology or work that we could share ideas that would be useful across any of the CNCS projects and not specific to the CNCS CI dashboard So when we're talking about this, it's it's one effort, but as you're aware, there's a lot of efforts different projects for doing their own CI which is a separate type of thing and That could be anything from Make if you're thinking working group or we trying to come up with solutions that would help the projects directly or Just sharing best practices and stuff across the group So if there's anything from your end that's Interesting and could be shared then that would be good and I would like to Push the group to be more towards that versus a Stat it's not really a status update for this I know that that's kind of been or where it is, but I think it's mainly because we haven't had people bringing up other topics Okay, that's good. And from my angle, it's really more for how we can Encourage or have more of the cloud native projects having some element of CI or validation on arm or multiple architectures overall And how we enable that to happen. So on the outside, we've we've worked with a number of the CI CI company and frameworks to actually provide access to resource or get them to Operate on our platforms as well. But I think the intent is is predominantly to really enable projects to work seamlessly across architectures, whichever they are Sounds good. And I think as far as the multi arc that's gonna Probably apply in many places. So it does apply to this of course this initiative and Then there's all sorts of stuff within just the Kubernetes Testing communities I saw today Someone talking about the multi arc image support for prowl and making that more available for testing. So I know Those communities are looking at that. I didn't see it was specific to arm, but I know There was the desire for the multi arc images to be made available in other places So that's I think there's probably many different communities for you to come and talk to on that but with regard to arm and Just being More independent of architecture for the CI If you'll have anybody on on your side that could talk about that best practices and maybe this could be a place for that. So if we Say hey next month, we're gonna have someone from arm talk about multi arc support and we could get it pushed to All the different, you know, if it sounds like something you could do and you'll have someone internal We could maybe push it out to all the CNCF projects That'd be something I need to reach out to some of the community people but Yeah, and I did mention the basal work which has happened over the past month on the slacks. So that's Yeah, I saw that. Thank you. So that that's really should that's it is something I know has been An issue for quite some time and that should be a One less blocker for enabling other things and there is work around envoy which is coming together as well So that's in terms of CI. So that's something you will be able to Pass along as well and communicate here too Right And Well, I'll try to address maybe some of the same CFCI stuff and then happy to talk offline and Chris, I don't know if Paterson if you have any items that you'd like to talk about No, it's the first time I've been here to attend. So I'm not sure yet Just as some background. I'm the product manager for GitHub actions. Oh, okay. Awesome. So I was interested in what's going on in this working group and Obviously, there's ways we can help Yeah, it's something I'd love to talk about You know, whether it's, you know, we obviously provide a lot of free infrastructure and we've had some Conversations at least with the community Kubernetes community around prowl, but Yeah So That could be interesting and and maybe If we can find a way to show it a relevant way to fit in with the same CF projects and that would be a topic that we could Communicate It is something from the So I'll just refer to as a dashboard to this CI dashboard, which is its own initiative And If you're not familiar with this and just a quick overview The idea with this is to have And this project is currently in kind of a maintenance mode looking at a Refresh, where are we going to go from here? But the idea is for the primarily the CNCF incubating and graduated projects, although Looking at some other projects how to have a quick view of their most Recent stable release as well as the latest commit on Their master branch or their head On it right now. It's a daily basis. So whatever it was. It's a snapshot view of What's the status so it's be kind of like going to every project and do they have Build badges and other stuff, but we split these out so that we can talk about is it building Is it What does it look like for deployment and then When we're doing this, we're actually saying with the intestine environment. We're saying looking at the latest stable Kubernetes That we're supporting in the environment and the latest head And then some type of combination of architecture and Potentially other run times We had Docker at one point right now. It's just container day And then saying so if you look at the way these kind of flips between those and There was a point where we had some e2e tests, but part of this has to do with working with The projects to get something that's it's relevant and then it would be the full set So it's a query that we're doing The full set So it's a quick like view of where the projects are and then you get links back into the projects and of course they can do more extensive stuff and Prometheus does a lot of scalability things Which should be more extensive than what we're doing, but it's it's just another view of What This the health of projects are So one tying into where things are to answer Philippa Where things are and where it's going so it is in maintenance and we are trying to keep versions updated and And other things but we're looking at where does where do we want to go with this? And the whole project is built in a lot of different pieces. There's a Well, there's the pipeline underneath and that could be any different thing, but it happens to be based on on get lab The different pipelines Sources pulled up stream at one point builds Were all done internal so like and some of them still are so builds Would be tested. So this was about Validating things external to whatever the project did And they were actually rebuilt the binaries create the artifacts and then push them out And the recent projects instead of doing that what we've done is we have integrations to whatever see eyes they're running and I think one of them that would be a Valid new one. I think is Well, I can't recall Denver you may recall which one is moved to get ab actions and was on Travis So now all of the The integration is it. I don't think it's a Etsy day. You recall Denver You're muted. Okay. So I'm Get get back to that in a moment. So the the idea with this move that we've had started to do and Had gone forward before going into kind of a maintenance mode to decide what we want is to integrate with the pipelines from projects and If we look at like this as an example, so they're tough and the tests at least at the time Several months back. They didn't have any arm CI So that's why these are all in a on that and They may also have failures because of the Other reasons but but that would be one of the things so the idea with this would be to encourage and help the projects to get All their builds publicly available so that you have public information so that you can see that the actual binaries are building and passing all of the test and then the next part is and this is a Another level of difficulty is ensuring that the projects publish artifacts At least for releases, which most are going to do in a way that you can say have a doctor image, but ideally they also publish artifacts for their Master builds on at least some of them like Kubernetes has Has has them for every commit and then multi arc they do it for some So we're able to get those if they can publish them then you can test all of these different things and so you're you're basically What we end up with is a health status That's able to allow the projects have autonomy and control over How they do the pipelines, but we help them get there and then likewise for the test would be something similar or The test may be something where they don't want to run the infrastructure for that, but they provide the actual test so we're able to deploy the environment Using their artifacts that they build and validate that they work on different versions of Kubernetes and that's kind of where things were going and part of this as far as going to maintenance mode is to Recheck on what parts are actually valuable to the different projects and then getting the community to Getting to a place where the community can Maintain a lot of their own things in a way that's good for them each of the one of the projects and we can contribute Or collaborate on on how all the pieces work and have enough contributions on that and and that's besides a little bit of the shift on What was mentioned earlier with regard to others fancy F initiatives like the telecom efforts The projects all of it the software is on like this cross class CI which is the base org and there's a lot of different Repositories under there The dashboard is its own thing that gets deployed and the Behind that is what's called the status repository. This is what's pulling all the information and about all the project and Each one of the projects have their own configuration that tie in and say point to the project and Say what architectures they support and stuff like that Prometheus doesn't have the External CI information, but let me see if I can find them quick see in C&I configuration does is try to see I What's that system the C&I configuration Oh, yeah, oh I don't think we have that one enabled but Looking at the it's got it happens to have like see here we go. Well, this one's listed CI system right here Right, right so that this would be an example of that External CI so that's actually part of this CI proxy That we have that integrates and pulls information back so the Github Actions is one of the integrations That we were doing and We actually have a test project that has some sort of Actions so part of this was waiting when as a CNCF incubating or Graduated project going to fully move over and a lot of them were doing a split type thing between Different CI systems for quite a while And I believe that there's a couple of the projects that we were supporting And I think we may have actually disabled ones recently That have moved over So I this would be is If it's valuable to me for then let's do it and then part of it would be contributors to to help with the maintenance of these type of things like Maintenance of the project. We're trying to push as much external So if you looked at like what this is right here Essentially, this is something where potentially linker D2 could host This similar to this file similar to how they would have a get back a github folder with the different configuration We have our own get lab, which is our pipelines, but that's a separate because this is really part of the overall system Yeah, that's interesting So I guess I'm trying to like do you I guess part of what seems like you've been trying to do Is provide infrastructure, which is interesting now. Is there any Anything you're trying to do around Validation or a sort of some sort of official statement, or is it just like Hey, if you don't have CI will help you get it set up So I'm trying to kind of Understand or is it really just this hey you've got CI We we can help validate that you meet, you know Give us your test suite in some sort of standardized way and we'll run it Against some subset of Kubernetes Repose Our versions There's been a lot of different goals from those have changed as far as this dashboard Denver was One of the Few founding members on that but when it was started more than three years ago now Part of it would be trying to give visibility to the CNCF projects There was some initial goals of More like focusing on interoperability And how do we do that and tie these all together was part of that and there's still some possibilities in that especially If we externalize things but when you were building it all together and saying We're going to have all of these things running in the same environment And we're going to do all the builds for all the versions the matrix of How things all fit together and different versions you could say stable envoy and fluently but everything else is Going to be on the develop branch well It starts getting more and more complex on that so That kind of shifted away as far as goals although it's more there if we say it's focused on the testing and you don't have to do these because these are external But so marketing Tying in like pushing like how to what are these looking like these are CNCF projects that you could see that and the health of those How they work with Kubernetes and different versions and if things are broken so if you say and we've seen that so we've seen like a head version of Kubernetes and different projects start failing So some of those were the goals And then it's not really about providing The resources at this point and that kind of shifted very early on to say we're going to provide a CI for the projects Because of the CI needs Prometheus like I said needed massive scaling But test needs its own type of thing with the heavy hits on on the storage side and the different extensions So that moved away I think at this point if you were looking at What the working group which would be separate from the dashboard so the dashboard is not the working group From the working group side what's still listed if you go look at the CNCF SIGs and working group page Is somewhat towards that you could say helping CNCF projects and part of that could be helping build their CI out But that's someone spread across CNCF efforts like there is a you can request for lab infrastructure Now that's separate from do you actually have a CI system? Do you is there a CI? Platform setup that's Generic enough that's going to meet all the needs of every CNCF project. That's a big undertaking People have put stuff forward but so far. I don't I don't think anything is a perfect fit I think what would be more likely Chris is If we could say here's right now to rather than saying we're going to take it all on and solve all your problems with one thing would be Providing a place for people to get started and have options that are easily available. So if they said Where can I run any of this? Well, there is CNCF If you look at the CNCF IO on the community section They have an infrastructure lab This is fine from a top level But if we said from a working group side, we could probably group these and say Here's some places that you could run stuff And then if we look at what are some of the things that you could do Here's some places that you could run stuff and then if we look at what are some CI pipelines that we could use Maybe if we had a section that talks about how you could use of actions Along with whatever else people want to do and I know from the arms side there's There's a lot of efforts on self hosting as well as using hosted versions But I think something like that could be used at a much higher level To be useful across all CNCF projects Okay Yeah, that seems reasonable like I don't know feels like Like if I'm sort of break this down like I mean in the end everybody's artifact needs to be a container like how however it is you get there you get to a container I think the part that you talked about that seems interesting at least from a working group and like how The CNCF would support projects is that testing thing and I think the dashboard is interesting. It's like hey The question though is how do we do it in a way where The working group is really doesn't have to Build out Infrastructure is the right word but like hey you provide your tests in a uniformly consumable way. It's like You know you provide your deployment in a uniformly consumable way and your tests in a uniformly consumable way and will Generate and run a pipeline across some set of versions of things and give you a green or a red based on what that is seems Really interesting the build Part feels like yeah, it could be there, but totally should be external like it doesn't make any sense in my mind for The work CI working group to be actually managing or providing anything about the pipelines. It's really more like Well, you do your build. There's lots of ways of doing that You know And the output is yeah Your container in some place that we can pick it up. I don't know Yeah, absolutely. So that's what you're talking about is as where we were headed and What you know, this is I don't know what we call this Denver the v2 or v3 I know there's internally. There's been so many revisions, but The next iteration of this is what you're talking about Chris where The pipelines are externalized and The focus and we have a lot of design around the efforts that we did Documentation on like what would artifacts look like and This what you have right here is kind of a hybrid where we were Essentially prototyping it so the external proxy part which is working We didn't expose this but you would ideally the links like from tough wouldn't go to Our system which is running it. This is what how do you actually run the software together it But instead the links would actually bring you directly to wherever tough is which happens to or the test I'm sorry. I brought it test and for the test that happens to be Travis. Okay, fine And then it you click another and it goes to, you know, get abaction to click another it goes somewhere else So you could ideally click these and they go wherever they are and on arm it may be totally different Maybe they have integrated and they're running it in the same CI pipelines or maybe it's on a totally different system That's fine But the idea was to externalize that and send them out and then yes, like what you're saying on the testing if if we have a good format Where we can talk about that core DNS worked with us initially and was very interested in doing that and Prometheus somewhat to Of what is the good format that we can provide our our ED test in and the ones that we did run were in a container as far as those parts but the main thing is describing the format and everybody can say, okay, we'll make sure you can start us up in the way that you say, then we'll handle the rest As soon as we have that we can pull those in and run them against the deployed artifacts You don't see it in these particular links, but we have other places where we did work. We're saying how do we tie in the artifact from the test and that would be the next This if we go over to x86. So if the test didn't do it. But if we look at like the another one we say, where is the artifact we found your build it passed where is the actual artifact for that build that matches that it's actually for the commit. So we will deploy that into our environment. Then we're going to run the set of a to e test and ensure that it passes. And what what this would be similar to is You can say Kubernetes Eat a test or the conformance test specifically, you can run sonnaboy on your own Kubernetes cluster and get the results, but you can go get the Kubernetes artifact that you want directly from Kubernetes. So that's the idea here is we're saying, we're going to run it ourselves and make sure Your staff works on these different versions. These builds work with a deploy to Kubernetes and ensure all of those works. Beyond this, maybe we decide we would love to see core DNS work or Prometheus working with Kubernetes and Jaeger and all of these running together. But we do it. It's complex enough that if you do it all internal, then it's the maintenance of it is is too much complexity and everything else. And that's, that's how we're shifting over makes sense. Okay. I don't have any great ideas right now, but that's interesting to know. We'll get to know they're still interested in it. And I do think at the top level if we can break down the different offerings that we have, we can break down the different offerings that we have. Interesting to know. We'll get to know they're still interested in it. And I do think at the top level if we can break down the different offerings and pieces and the dashboard would just be one of those. So we say we're not going to run your actual pipelines, but we'll consume them and show how it works. And we'll also tell you best practices on how you should publish your artifacts as containers. Here's how you can do it. Here's some examples because there are examples that you can see out there on when they publish and how they show it. So we'd also, we'd also like to push CI systems that don't make it easy to communicate what artifacts were published with the pipeline because they don't all do that. So if you have a successful build and you create an artifact, it'd be nice to have that metadata in the pipeline. So if I come in and reference the actual pipeline. Okay, okay, what's your artifact? Oh, it's here. That relates all the way back to this commit. We're good. And then you can keep creating. In the end, what you're talking about is potentially confidence for someone else that says, I'm going to use Envoy and Tough and Vitesse. And I want to see how it all ties together with the different commits, builds pass, deploys pass, EDs pass, so that I know that my deploy of that combination into production as a customer is good. Okay. But we've got to have the base systems and feel confident in those. Yep, that makes sense. Alright. Well, if y'all would like to think about it, maybe we focus on something for a next call or something next month. And if you want to talk to anybody from the arms side that wants to present on it. Arm items and I'm sorry, fleet. That's not with us. And and from the arms side and then I don't I don't know what you want to talk about either from the get upside or I'd be, I think it would be really good to look at what type of CI. I hate to say services because then people say they want to call up support and ask you to do something that's not really talking about but what type of things can we help with as a working group. That would be useful. Okay, yeah, I'll think about that some I mean I might be some based on what you like I like your ideas there I mean I think that some best practices some examples of how to use different things. And it's the other side I mean I really like the idea of like a dashboard is interesting because it's, it's kind of for the projects but it's also for customers of the projects it's as much. You know in my mind, both of those things because if that is a reliable source of some amount of compatibility, you know centralized compatibility and viewport testing that customers rely on. Then you know it also incentivizes the projects to, you know, make sure their stuff is in good shape might be another way to look at it. Absolutely. That's a good way to view it. Yeah, like says my first time here so I just kind of trying to understand the land land and what the work you're trying to do and obviously happy to help think about ways that, you know, actually get up can help out. Sounds good. Thanks a lot. Well, and unless there's anything else I think we could end here and decide on next time and we'll update a section for adding agenda items. Anyone wants to put them for the next call. Okay. Thank you. Cheers.


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But that professor here is an interesting controversy and Plainifes filed a false advertising claim against Buffalo Wild Wings for their boneless chicken wings. Claim is that it's false advertising, which is actionable by the way under the Lanham Act, that it's false advertising because the meat of the boneless chicken wings that sold by Buffalo Wild Wings does not come from the wing of the chicken but is actually breast meat. Plainif claims that essentially it's a chicken nugget being sold at a markup as boneless wings. This case is going to turn on what the typical average reasonable consumer's belief is and the restaurant chain has responded with claims that it's that nobody really believes that the chicken wings are boneless wing meat, much like a hamburger is not believed to be meat from, you know, is not believed to be ham or a hot dog is not meat from a dog. So we'll have to stay tuned and see what the court decides.


John Chapter 20 The Empty Tomb Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene went to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the entrance. So she came running to Peter and the other disciple, the one Jesus loved and said, They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we don't know where they have put him. So Peter and the other disciple started for the tomb. Both were running, but the other disciple ran Peter and reached the tomb first. He bent over and looked in at the strips of linen lying there, but did not go in. Then Peter came along behind him and went straight into the tomb. He saw the strips of linen lying there, as well as the cloth that had been wrapped around Jesus' head. The cloth was still lying in its place, separate from the linen. Finally, the other disciple, who had reached the tomb first, also went inside. He saw and believed. Then the disciples went back to where they were staying. Jesus appears to Mary Magdalene. Now Mary stood outside the tomb, crying as she wept. She bent over to look into the tomb and saw two angels in white seated where Jesus' body had been, one at the head and the other at the foot. They asked her, Woman, why are you crying? They have taken my Lord away, she said, and I don't know where they have put him. At this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing there, but she did not realize that it was Jesus. He asked her, Woman, why are you crying? Who is it you were looking for? Thinking he was the gardener, she said, Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have put him, and I will get him. Jesus said to her, Mary, she turned toward him and cried out in Aramaic, Raboni. Which means teacher. Jesus said, do not hold on to me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father. Go instead to my brothers and tell them, I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God. Mary went to the disciples with the news, I have seen the Lord, and she told them that he had said these things to her. Jesus appears to his disciples. On the evening of that first day of the week, when the disciples were together, with the doors locked for fear of the Jewish leaders, Jesus came and stood among them and said, Peace be with you. After he said this, he showed them his hands and sighed. The disciples were overjoyed when they saw the Lord. Then Jesus said, Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, I am sending you. And with that, he breathed on them and said, Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive anyone's sins, their sins are forgiven. If you do not forgive them, they are not forgiven. Jesus appears to Thomas. Now Thomas, one of the twelve, was not with the disciples when Jesus came. So the other disciples told him, We have seen the Lord, but he said to them, Unless I see the nail marks in his hands and put my finger where the nails were, and put my hand into his side, I will not believe. A week later, his disciples were in the house again, and Thomas was with them. Though the doors were locked, Jesus came and stood among them and said, Peace be with you. Then he said to Thomas, Put your finger here. See my hands. Reach out your hand and put in to my side. Stop doubting and believe. Thomas said to him, My Lord and my God, Then Jesus told him, Because you have seen me, you have believed. Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed. The Purpose of John's Gospel Jesus performed many other signs in the presence of his disciples, which are not recorded in this book. These are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.