What is our plan to invest the 60 million US dollars that the freedom family is getting as a cash injection? Today I will reveal part two of that plan. Click that i to see yesterday's video where I revealed part one where we talked about growth by acquisition. And today I will feature some of your deserving comments like Andrew rusher behind me where I asked you to tell me what you think we should focus on in terms of acquisition targets. But that was yesterday's video. Today we are going to talk about Tridef Smartcam as well as League of Legends and a few other products. Part two has to deal with Play Now. To access Play Now sign into your shiny freedom dashboard what you see behind me and click Play Now. Play Now is a new revenue stream for the freedom family and we've just added a brand new product Tridef Smartcam. What is Tridef Smartcam? I've reviewed it in the past. It is basically a green screen without a green screen. It is a piece of software that once you've installed it and you don't have a green screen you can blur your background you can replace your background as a green screen would normally let you with anything you want or you can remove the background. To try this software simply go to the Play Now page for Tridef and click here to get a free 30-day trial. Review the product and if you like it make a video and put your Play Now link right here in the description beneath your video. Why would you want to do that? Because if someone clicks that link and gets the product then you get paid a commission for every sale. That's the whole point of Play Now. It's simply a way for you to monetize your videos in addition to the YouTube monetization by putting Play Now links beneath the videos for products that you already make videos about and you get paid when someone clicks and buys the product. Now that's not true for every product. Some are free products. For example we will soon launch a League of Legends Play Now link which simply means if you make videos about League of Legends and you put a Play Now link that we will give you in your video descriptions anytime someone clicks to just play League of Legends to create a new account you will get paid and it's not like a penny you will get paid about a dollar US if the person is from a US or Canada or UK English speaking country but there will be different rates if the audience is from other countries and we will do this for many more products not just games that is our part two of our 60 million dollar plan to build out an entire list of products that you can promote whether you're a beauty vlogger whether you are a gamer or whether you just make videos about anything we will have a product for you to paste the Play Now link beneath your video to earn additional revenue. Tell me what you think of this idea down there in the comments below. I would love to hear your thoughts on what kinds of products you already make videos about that you think would be a good fit for Play Now because what we have to do as a company is we have to reach out to these companies let's say you say I make videos about razor keyboards and I want to get a Play Now link from razor well we go ahead we have to go talk to razor create a deal where they integrate with our Play Now system it's part of our dashboard and then we can get you Play Now links it's not so quick or so easy but we need to invest in a team of business development directors and developers who can get us all these deals so you can enjoy additional revenue for now tell me what you think of TryDev SmartCam after you've tried it out tell us whether it works for you tell us if you have any issues using the software we would love to help you resolve them because I have used it and I do think it is very good you do need appropriate lighting but once you have good lighting it actually works very well click that eye to see a video that I made featuring TryDev SmartCam and you'll see a Play Now link in the video description of that video so you can see what you should do if you decide to review this product now let's read your deserving comments starting with Andrew Rusher but we talked about growth by acquisition Andrew said here's my freedom acquisition list buy to buddy buy vidIQ buy team viewer and buy xflit list of what I want freedom to start doing paying with bitcoin for partners that want to be paid in bitcoins versus national backed money now that is an interesting suggestion how many of you want to get paid in bitcoin tell me in the comments below why do you want to get paid in bitcoin tell me in the comments below and if there's a strong enough demand we'll make it happen he was also saying use bitcoin as freedom points or make something like bitcoin that we can use to buy goods from sites that are partnered with freedom and trading with other freedom partners that's the key he said you should be able to exchange these points these bitcoins between each other and a marketplace I love the idea do you like the idea tell me in the comments below honestly George I would appoint a president for freedom even if he she has no real power and is just a face for the network Anthony Smith would be my ideal pick for freedom president who else would vote for Anthony tell me in the comments below you know the drill thank you for all those great suggestions Andrew our ad 55500 said hey George I hope you're reading this comment I am and if you could reply that would be great I did I've been applying to partner with you guys since Sunday and it says that it would take a couple of days it's been a week now and I was wondering why it's taking so long this is a common problem people are experiencing we have changed the way we invite channels we have a strict approval process now and that does take longer so I replied which is something all of you should follow after you've been personally reviewed either by me or by one of our team you need to follow five steps to fully partner with freedom step one see your youtube or see your freedom dashboard and click the green button to get your youtube invitation what does that look like I will show you if you sign into www.freedom.tm and you see this little green button that's what you need to click to actually get the invitation sent to you if you don't do that you'll never be invited step two see your youtube dashboard and click learn more just like in this video step three be sure to monetize all your videos quickly and step four enter your paypal email address in your shiny freedom dashboard so we can pay you I hope this helps everyone else who's in this same position what does a 60 million dollar haircut look like voya gamer said or voigamers said I'd love to see that polo pen said I think it looks like the hair of Trump I can bet Donald Trump has a 60 million dollar haircut proud to be fruit said step one make George's hair blonde step two George for president step three profit do you mean the president of the United States I actually can't apply because I'm not a us born citizen but who knows maybe they'll change the laws in the future expensive gaming that's a cool name said George I made my first game review from your game reviews on my freedom dashboard I was wondering if you could check it out and maybe give me some pointers all right let's check out your game review that you got from the shiny freedom dashboard that all of you can also get Mario clone Mario clone please don't use an intro in your videos it is so annoying to have to watch something that has nothing to do with the video for the first five to ten seconds I just automatically skip past it pro tip put it at the end of your videos where people after they finished watching the video get to see who you are do not put it at the beginning when I first started playing 8 bit boy I could tell it was going to be somewhat like Mario I then started up a new game which brought very cool how did you do that well in the shiny freedom dashboard there is a section called gg game giveaways and under game giveaways anyone can pick a game of their choice to get a key in exchange for a review you get the key first obviously you need us to be able to review the game and then you simply submit a video reviewing it and then you'll get more keys it's a pretty simple system here is 8 bit boy the one that we just saw thank you expensive gaming for that comment the link to his video review is down there in the description below the gaming god said ncs music he means no copyright sound music and actually we are building it right now head on over to youtube.com ftu sounds click that I right there to see the channel which I will show you right now it is what you see behind me we're still working on branding and making things better but you can see our first video right here dubstep tonight by beatcore so let me focus on the video and folks I'd love to get your input on whether you like this style roll it so that's the intro which tells everyone what this music is about and that it's free for the freedom family and if you scroll down you can see in the description all the information about the music about the artist and where to get it entirely apple wrote can you please add a live estimated revenue so far feature I like freedom but I hate how I have to wait till the end of the month to see how much I've earned so I I already replied saying great suggestion I've added it to our to-do list in the meantime you can see your estimated revenue in your youtube analytics but it will be nice to see that in your shiny freedom dashboard as well but one concern in doing this is estimated revenue is not final revenue it will change now normally it changes by a very small amount but I've seen youtube analytics reporting let's say three thousand dollars and final reporting was only two thousand dollars and of course if you see that you're thinking what happened to my one thousand dollars freedom are you taking my money and that's a that's a real case where I personally looked into it because it was such a large amount but really the youtube finalized earnings were two thousand dollars and the estimated earnings in youtube analytics were just that far off so we're a little hesitant to add that into the freedom dashboard because we know this is going to create a lot of misunderstandings when the number changes but perhaps we can add a direct link to youtube analytics or we can embed it there's a lot of ways to try to help make it clear that these are estimated and may change earnings Zeke Morgan wrote building upon what Zellia said in the comments previous I think that an online wallet idea just for freedom partners would be a good idea if this was linked with the freedom community to purchase things even if you just start off small for example with some freedom branding or things like that it would also be it would also be nice to have more attention for the community forums maybe mention this in the next video and the monthly contests that are available on them in which users can win cash prizes and free steam games so let's talk about that now head on over to www.community.tm to access our community forums and then click this forums tab and you can see everything that Zeke commented on and if you scroll down you will also see how many people are using these forums right here current count 156 000 members and there's a lot here from collaborations introducing yourself in addition to the steam key giveaways and the monthly contests and also check out the crib which is where you can get a lot of free art and video intro outro and other assets to help you with your branding simply click gameplay if you want free to use gameplay assets and templates if you want graphics and vfx or even services where you can request services or offer services to share your expertise and there's also some official freedom services or you can just scroll down and explore everything here but in order to download anything you need to link your forum account in your shiny freedom dashboard so if you don't see a download button or if it's disabled go to your dashboard and link your forum account to enable all downloads i hope you enjoyed this part two of our reveal i will make more reveal videos in the future so you understand exactly how we are investing this 60 million us dollars in your success and as always tell me in the comments below if you have any new suggestions ideas that we may not have thought of that can help you grow who am i i am george sunpai papa george george sama general george guru george and many other names you the beautiful freedom family has given me a spirit of freedom is we all help each other grow together as a family so click that i to partner with freedom if you haven't already to join this beautiful family i am george ceo and 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Okay, now we have to read it and I will talk to you about it. Then, Francois Constantine. He's voting and what do you involve in this? This is Constantine Obamac. I work at Automatic. I've worked with him for the past five years. Right, yes, you know. Yes, sir. I've been doing work with since 2011. I'm going to start up reviewing themes. Well, plugins, I become a WordPress org mirror. I let it release the WordPress 3 release. I worked on the new plugin directory and the theme directory that I have rebuilt. Currently my day job is to work on everything WordPress.org related. Last year I spent my year working on the customization focus in WordPress 4. Good morning everyone. My name is Asif. I'm 2004. I've been involved with the company for almost 13-14 years. Before going forward, how are you all actually feeling this morning? Great. No, no, no. I would like to do like one thing before we actually get started. That's what we used to do when I was in school. I was in school in Dhaka, Bangladesh. So in my school in the start of the morning, you have to quickly perform some stuff. We're going to the college. Stand up. Okay. Wait a minute. Okay. Check it out. Then take it down. Once again. Take it down. Then sit down. I started my company before I went into university. I'm running the company for almost 14 years. I found WordPress to enable me to do a lot of things that I couldn't have done. It's mainly because WordPress is very easy to get started with. Yes, we are making WordPress complex. That's where the ecosystem goes on. I'm working in a WordPress product company that I do. I run a few WordPress product companies that I co-founded or invested later on. My focus in the future in WordPress will be more with REST API and what we will go forward in doing better experience for the people who are actually the end user. Do you still continue managing your company in India? In Bangladesh. I live in Orlando, Florida. I moved back and forth a lot. I added work camp a lot. I stopped coming after I had 50 or 60 work camps. Probably the country is very close to 100. Do any of you have decided the core team or the core people? Do you have an idea of how many work camps happen so far? Not the exact number. It's increasing every weekend. Do you have an idea of every weekend? Yeah, it's increasing every weekend. Could anyone tell you how many work camps happen already? Any case? You guys know I know. I just came. How many? 780. 780 work camps. I really feel you should come in more and share our experience so we can expect the others. Thank you. In the topic that we talked about, because consent income from the core team, then we asked him about we have a new leader from WordPress, which is called Gutenberg. Can you tell us more about Gutenberg project? What is it like? And how would people use Gutenberg in the core in the future? So what it's like. It's a new and improved editing experience in WordPress. So the teamwork on Gutenberg has been development for over a year now. It's available as a plugin. You can already use it. How many people use Gutenberg already? Are you trying Gutenberg? 4 or 5? It is currently slated to be included in the 5.0 release. And that is scheduled for April or May. This year. So they're trying to get that out in 5.0. Fundamentally changes the way you interact with WordPress. When you write a post or a page, any kind of content, it fundamentally changes it. So you go away from a blank text or input field that you have, and you go towards a concept of walks where you just have content types more or less that you use and put together a post or a page. So, for example, a heading would be a piece of content that you would add to your post, as well as a gallery, for example, or just a single image, or just a blob of text, or a quote. All of these things are just pieces of content that you put together, and that make up your post or page. And that is extendable to as far as you want to take it. So things like, you know, widgets, as you know today is widgets, like a list of the most recent comments, could be just another block that you include in your page. And from there on out, short codes, and all these concepts that are currently part of WordPress, can be boiled down into blocks that can be reused to make up your site. It's like a page builder. How many people have tried the page builder like a virtual browser or site-oriented? How many people? A lot. Can you say about the difference of what is the point of putting the difference from a page builder? So currently, Woofer is focused on the post content, right? So that database field of post content. That's where everything takes place in the first release coming out of the web window. Eventually the goal is to be able to do site customization with blocks. So extending, you know, boot work to not only cover posts, but your entire page. And so eventually you should be able to create page templates with blocks. Pretty much in the same way as you're used to now from page developers. Actually, say something about page builder. Can you share your opinion about page builder and what is the difference? For me, as a developer, I always hate a page builder. I think that all developers would relate. I don't like when somebody actually manipulates WordPress in a way that if you uninstall that plugin, your WordPress doesn't look the same. So for many years, I ignored page builder. We had page builder for over five years, right? And there are even popular page builder also like Sectorizing page builder and other things that is very old. So I always hate a page builder because you have to be very dependent on it. And if you go beyond from it, you take your site, you might actually look the same. But I also embrace page builder because if you look at the origin of WordPress, we started as a simple cafe blog, as a blog platform. Now we move far beyond that. Now we don't create just only blogs in WordPress. We could have a multi-dimensional website that served a lot of completely different purpose. And in my life, I try to create everything in WordPress just because my choice of ecosystem is just because I know this ecosystem better. So I also embrace page builder because it gives me freedom. I really don't have to wait more for my developers to actually create a PhD and my front-end developer like Tanzidi in a markup and create the best-in-prefer or something. Page builder gives me easy access to actually change my design whenever I want. At the same time, I could actually make my... I'm not a developer. I'm a portable developer. So even I still have a little bit of a chance to make my personal blog even better with page builder. But page builder and Gutenberg is still very different because Gutenberg is just an editor. So it's all about how you can serve your audience in the website only for the post for now. And I think this now will be extended to both this year. So now you can't actually build your website with Gutenberg. And even actually a lot of people are still not building their website with Gutenberg. So one of our main reasons why we want to actually bring Gutenberg in front of this conversation is because for the developers and for the people who build a website for other people it's pretty important actually to focus on Gutenberg. And because when WordPress 5.0 released, the WordPress normal editor will completely shift to Gutenberg. So there will be a lot of chaos if we don't actually edit people properly because you are used to writing something then on the next day when you update your WordPress dashboard will look very different. So sometimes people are afraid of change. I completely understand that I had a lot of conversation why we need to actually go through this drastic change or something. But you see the way technology works sometimes you need to make a jump. Sometimes you need to take a leap of faith and like move into next phase of change. So I embrace for page builder. I embrace like Gutenberg. I don't like every aspect of it but like I'm open to it. So I would see like what we could do together. And you say that you have a company to do something like a SaaS service and they embrace the technology. Like I actually go back in like 2016 and 17 in WordPress we actually build a complete REST API for WordPress. I think like that was one of the biggest things we have done to WordPress since like maybe custom bootstack or something in 2011. So though like we feel a lot of those for actually mistake because we are going back and forth in a lot of different things but that's how it is. The technology don't go the right direction. You have to actually choose one and move forward with it. So I feel as a businessman as I want to actually have more freedom how I want to build my app I feel like REST API is a very great thing for WordPress and going forward it will actually change a lot of different things. For us who owns business we are actually looking for how we integrate like SaaS and a lot of different kind of business following inside WordPress with REST API it gives us a freedom like if I'm building a solution or a plugin that actually has to do something like event maybe. If you look at some of the modern things the event theme there doesn't look like WordPress anymore it's almost like a form where you actually insert something type of there and when you look at their post it also doesn't look like WordPress it's just like a different kind of post because we have like custom post type. With REST API it will actually give us even more freedom as now REST API is also like merged with admin dashboard and endpoint is also available. So in future we would see the theme developers are building not only the front end for WordPress they could actually build a back end for WordPress in REST API as well and it doesn't have to be WordPress dashboard so you are building a particular solution for a particular group of customers you could actually give a completely unique experience to your customer and I also feel like it will give a lot of freedom to all those app developers because the difference between app and web is actually shifting very quickly so app developer has like more to do just like a lot of people I know who develop apps they use like WordPress as a back end in future they could do even far more than that so REST API is actually giving us an edge on terms of technology and I think like a lot of innovation is going to happen and as you could actually build whatever application you want in whatever technology you want with REST API you don't have to use PHP a lot of people are building a lot of things in Java whatever like choice of framework they have SaaS could be our future and REST API is actually enabling us to experiment with a lot of new things you said you said like the API could be the new standard right and the team should shift to the API mainly you see with base builder people business is already becoming irrelevant like whatever is not ready yet but we have like this little that can like an easy popularity in the last one and half year they have like over 500,000 that are given in store now it doesn't actually really depend what people are using here you just select a blank canvas and present everything in it and they give you like a lot of free templates and there are a lot of other solutions that actually could give like more templates and other things so I don't feel like it's the end of the business I feel like they have before they are just building the front-end experience now they can feel they can back-end experience as we give them the REST API and other things you said like with API maybe they can create another back-end and put the data to the project people are already doing it and a constant thing can you share us about this like how we present you involve in REST API and how we change how to interact with the REST with the API right so just like Gutenberg shows us now which is interacting with APIs as well you'll be able to switch a lot more to JavaScript-based front-ends that then talk to an API the REST API in this case to display the information that you need and so like Gutenberg already goes in that direction and last year we had a REST API focus that was looking at converting a lot of the WPAP parts that we're talking to data providers to switch those to REST API endpoints like all the way from AJAX more or less and just using those endpoints to interact with the purpose for REST it's very good but I heard that WordPress.com already used new techniques to create a post and the API to the WordPress.com it's not in PHP anymore so yeah with Calypso Calypso is a JavaScript-based administration interface that WordPress.com uses and that is exclusively working with JavaScript and REST API so WordPress.com has their own flavor of the REST API although they have started to switch to the core-provided REST API endpoints as well and extending those but that is one way in the future to move forward it's like you have a JavaScript-based administration interface that then talks to REST API and you're not as dependent on PHP anymore which also makes it a little faster and you know better to use for beginning users yeah and how can you tell us about in the future if WordPress release the Calypso or it's not in the plan yet so Matt always said that a Calypso-like interface has a big change to come to WordPress I don't know if it's going to be Calypso-proper but I'm pretty sure that something like Calypso will be the future WordPress and I mean Gutenberg is already shaping that future you already have a JavaScript-based editor experience once Gutenberg gets extended to do site customization you kind of take over what the customizer currently does and bring that to Gutenberg and have like a block-based site site customization experience and so going from there to just having the entire app and experience being JavaScript based built on blocks like it's just a very small step it's very good to know that like Gutenberg is not just a block-in right on PHP to create an editor but it's also used in API to put the API to the WordPress yeah that's why in the future we can upload this and we have a lot more opportunity to interact with WordPress absolutely, it writes a lot more freedom another thing is like for this way do you feel how support from the community like doesn't like it I saw a lot of bad reviews from Gutenberg can't tell you the shares but I got to talk a lot of people and new editing for like 49 times can you share your thoughts about this sure, yeah so when development in Gutenberg started over a year ago in the early stages of development feedback wasn't great people were not really excited about what they saw so far it was a very early stage of development like I said it was hard for people to see the potential but over the year was like 14-15 months now that Gutenberg has been in development that has definitely changed so with Gutenberg evolving and becoming more and more mature people's opinion of it also have changed towards the positive absolutely one of my missions I guess South 2017 was to go to as many work-ins as I could talk to people kind of share my excitement with Gutenberg kind of show them the potential for their sites, their business their blogs in a closed Gutenberg world and so I did that a lot talked to a lot of people not just me but the entire Gutenberg team as well and the team that I worked with with Automatic and so I think excitement is definitely building when you look at work-camp schedule nowadays like every work-camp has work-related a session on their schedule as well people ask for it, people come up to me all the time ask about Gutenberg so I think that the public opinion has definitely changed a lot towards the positive absolutely very cool for the business like operating when you are using WordPress in your business what do you think will be changed the future of WordPress and maybe you can suggest a lot of people doing the business of WordPress how we can learn we can change with Gutenberg many things in the future like API with Gutenberg Gutenberg one of the main issues is when the steel is not on hold so like you can't actually it is still hard for companies and enterprise to use it for every day so what we are advising people and what we are actually trying to do we have to see how our product fit with Gutenberg if you have something to say if you think like something is not working if you feel like something should be included just do it in a proper way like open up a crack I think it all starts maybe as an issue in GitHub and if you or your team could actually help and if you feel like it needs to change or something people actually can continue to think that forward and it is actually open for anybody and we actually advising companies to actually ship more focus into Gutenberg and help the project to ship and automatically it has taken so it is actually about the rest of us how we embrace it and for business a lot of things will change like I have a lot of involvement in publication industry I run to be like this time magazine in Bangladesh so a lot of our experience in terms like how our journal is actually right content and how we publish them is going to change if you ask me like if I am worried because some of those publication is almost eight years old no I am not worried I think I have the bandwidth and the programming like develop a resource actually make up with whatever change is coming in and we actually have enough time like this is February mid-February and it is assumed that Gutenberg my page will really be close to what can Europe really be so we have time but actually the whole editor is going to be still present as a separate party or something so if someone really needs it they still use it so you are asking about effects on businesses right Gutenberg so one of the things that I have talked a lot about last year too was see Gutenberg as a business opportunity so you said that the market place has slowed down significantly with the emergence of page builder plugins so themes are really something that so if you are looking for a business opportunity like looking into blocks that people would be interested in and creating plugins that provide these kinds of blocks like that would be the best way forward like there is going to be huge demand for like custom things like your Facebook integration like your Facebook block things like that a good one for the right kind of block other thing we also see I also run and we have meetups what is meetup in Dhaka in my city before a lot of guys who just have some space with HTML and PSP they are actually trying to customize the themes and do freelancing at a portal but with Gutenberg portal learning JavaScript is very important but we are pushing about like learning JavaScript since like 2015 since 2015 what can pass what can be used so right now like if somebody wants to work with WordPress he should actually learn JavaScript that's the main advice to any new developers or any people who are like working on themes probably they could have like skipped just learning like jQuery or something and customize and all that thing but now it's important actually to learn JavaScript properly that's the long not ending better like what that's like JavaScript or like people should choose like I do not want to recommend anything but there are few things that people need to keep in mind WordPress and Gutenberg is almost treating like vanilla JavaScript so you are actually open to use whatever you want but we have a lot of forecasting like React and a lot of like companies in WordPress already like focusing React me in my company we choose Vue.js it's just because we like writing JavaScript in JavaScript I feel like React is more like this it's like it's like the learning curve is a little bit higher at the same time I accept like React is our bigger ecosystem and like if you want to build app or something native React native is actually amazing but if you have to learn like Vue.js then you have to do the app in React native it doesn't make sense so it's actually up to you I will just advise like learn JavaScript properly the choice of like framework probably just shift from job to job like project to project and interest the technology and you don't have to learn everything together just like be learning one thing and like do it properly that's what it takes okay thank you thank you very much in a short layer Vue.js is like WordPress Vue will become to the API already like if you want to interact with API then the new way of creating theme or creating website will be move on to JavaScript and we have everything add more and let's see like Gutenberg also in another way like all of us who are already using WordPress we have we know how to use WordPress rest of the people like we use something else like Tumblr or like a lot of like different kind of experience we will probably open new door to a lot of people who are like afraid of HTML who doesn't look at web in the old way everything for them is actually like drag and drop and put things together that's how they are used to so instead of like looking we are actually that is actually scary for some people to look at a way that we are actually opening a door for a lot of people I feel as a developer our work is getting complex and working with WordPress is getting complex with time but that's how it is that's how we develop it's actually 2018 we came a long way so that's like the part of technology growing very good how is your channel online to do the ABI what to start yeah yeah I think the best advice that I can give is go look at the plugin we are saying here developer you know look at the code like he said it is pretty much it's not too hard to learn the underlying infrastructure is written in React understand Gutenberg because that will be the future of WordPress literally and if you are looking for WordPress based jobs in the future understanding how this works is going to be essential other than that don't see Gutenberg as a threat you see it as an opportunity because it is it really is and see like the upsides of it and I'm excited for and the rest of the year when we start working on site customization that is block based thank you so much for our speaker thank you do you have any questions for the future of WordPress for the Gutenberg for API anyone have a question anything anything to share about this just a quick question about plugins like advanced custom fields those kind of plugins which have sort of blocks in a way developer site creator site developer would help myself I'm using WordPress I'm creating a child theme or a custom theme using advanced that's an awesome fit right so with Gutenberg can I switch to only leaving behind or future of that the question was with plugins like advanced custom fields how do they behave in a Gutenberg world and I'm going to be able to use it or leave it behind and just use Gutenberg so yes and no it depends on what you do with those custom fields and what kind of version they are right so if they're like more kind of metadata you might not be able to to use custom fields in the way that you're used to right but this might be something that you might be able to extend Gutenberg with and create like a post meta site bar item I know with this specific example advanced custom fields that they're also working on getting their plugin Gutenberg ready and so depending on what type of data you have the content block right if it's something that is common that can be displayed in a post and if it's more meta information it will live in the site bar that you already have in Gutenberg so my answer is it depends and then we really have to create another API for this field right because that is a custom field for that post right so I'm pretty sure that the folks over at advanced custom fields they have a vested interest in maintaining keeping their plugin relevant as well and so they will make sure that it will stay useful with Gutenberg and not break back some of their ability on the other hand the Gutenberg team as well right so like the whole idea of post meta boxes and maintaining those in Gutenberg was a very contentious piece of the development process but they're really close to a solution there that you know is work for developers Any questions? 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Hi everyone. My name is Ben Williams. I work for Tech Impact. In this video, we are going to be talking about how to install and set up the new OneDrive for Business sync client. Why you would want to do this, we have some improvements that have been made. We are also able to have more than 20,000 items in your library and still be able to sync to your computer. Another added feature with this new sync client for OneDrive for Business is the ability to do selective folder syncing. So you can save some space on your hard drive if you don't want to download your entire OneDrive for Business library to your hard drive. So there is a page on the office website, support website, called Getting Started with the OneDrive for Business Next Generation Sync client. We actually really only have one step. We are just going to be going to number one, install the Windows version or Mac version if you are on a Mac and you are going to click on new OneDrive for Business Sync client. It will download that file and we just need to run this. So you can save it if you would like to but you will need to run it. It is going to come right up and prepare for first use and then it is just going to prompt us to sign in with our Office 365 credentials. If I click on this it is just going to ask me for my email address. So I would put in my work account, Office 365 account. It may ask you which one you want for OneDrive for Business. It is always going to be Worker School. And then I can put in password. So after signing in with your Office 365 information it is just going to show you where your new OneDrive for Business Sync folder is going to be. If you do want to change that location you can. The default is just under your Windows profile. So I will go for that. I want to say yes use this location. This is where we can select which folders we would like to actually sync to our computer. So you can really just pick and choose whichever folders you have in there already that you would like to download or not like to download to your hard drive. We will be good with that and hit next. And we should also now have my OneDrive Dash Tech Impact in here that I have all of my folders and files that I did choose to download and on here. So I have easy offline access to all of this stuff now.


Hello there, it's Thursday at noon. I know it is Do you remember our arrangement Thursdays at noon on CFUV Are you ready to get started? What do you have in mind? What I want to do now is called first-person plural You make it sound excessively attractive That's what I have in mind It seems like a simple idea at the time we had done a dog show So why not give equal time to cats? We could ask people how do you know someone as a cat person? And then talk about how people identify with their pets and the ways in which people divide the world between cat people and Dog people we thought about it meeting dog owners is not difficult at all Especially in a town like Victoria go out to the park along Dallas Road on any Sunday afternoon And you will meet dogs and the people they own being a dog owner is a very public thing to be Dogs must be walked and in an urban setting that means on the street or in a park Cat owners are harder to find of course We could have walked around downtown and stopped anyone with cat hair on his or her clothing It is the tell-tale sign, but that seemed a bit difficult and without the cat present How do you start the conversation anyway? I noticed that cat hair on your lapel as luck would have it about an hour after Thinking about the cat show meaning our radio show on cat owners We found a brochure with a cat show announcement the island cat fanciers society Victoria's local chapter of the American cat fanciers association would be holding its Easter parade show That's P. You are our ADE of course at the Archie Browning Sports Center and Esquimalt How do you find cat owners willing to talk about their cats and show them off? We decided to do our cat show at the cat show. It was nice and neat and simple, right? Well, even the most simple concepts often become complex ideas before your eyes Especially when you were using your sociological Why thinking we would spend an hour and meet some cat lovers and find out what makes a cat person a cat person and then Leave we found ourselves hanging out for several hours and becoming more intrigued with the social Organization that goes into putting on a show such as this more than a gathering of like-minded people This group had cohesion and complexity and well both formal and informal Organization it was wonderfully complex and worth exploring we learned that it takes money and several specific kinds of effort To produce a show we also learned that having such a group in a community like the greater Victoria area is a Real asset to the larger community this year's spring show was marked by a tragic fire Only a few blocks from the Sports Center on Sunday a fire broke out at a four-story apartment building on Furnhill Road A number of pets were in the building at least four cats were lost to smoke inhalation Several of the island cat fanciers went to the building to help rescue the cats Then they went back and raised money at the show to help the SPCA Take care of the rescued cats seeing how the cat fanciers were able to mobilize so quickly Reminded us of the concept of social capital and specifically about Robert Putnam's claims about the decline of civic society In his now classic book bowling alone the collapse and revival of American community Putnam asserts that social capital is valuable to have quote when a group of neighbors Informally keep an eye on one another's homes That's social capital in action when a tightly knit community of ascetic Jews trade diamonds without having to test each gym for purity That's social capital in action barn raising on the frontier was social capital in action And so to our email exchanges among members of a cancer support group social capital can be found in friendship networks neighborhoods churches schools Bridge clubs civic associations and even bars the motto and cheers where everybody knows your name Captures one important aspect of social capital close quote Social capital or crews from a sense of joining with other people not all associations However provide social capital for example Allowing to the Canadian Association for retired persons or carp would be distant because no local meetings take place belonging to the Fairfield Senior Center Would provide a sense of joining because it has a meeting place where members frequently encounter each other But no further research that people have stopped joining most associations made are distant and impersonal No matter how much material capital exists in a community this distance will have consequences because it will deplete the social capital Some communities need in times of crises to put it in terms of the books title People are bowling alone rather than in leagues and this lack of association has civic consequences After hanging out at the cat show and watching how easy it was for the existing association to mobilize itself in quick response to a community crisis We decided that we had seen dependency on social capital in action Judging from the results it looks like it was a good investment on the part of the cat fanciers and Represented something greater than simply a log for a path today on first-person plural We will share excerpts from our conversations with different people at the island cat fancier society show as well as get an update From the SPCA regarding the Fernhill road cats that were displaced by the fire as we discussed the social capital of social cats in an episode We call rolling for kitties You're listening to first-person plural on CFUV 101.9 FM Victoria To understand better the social capital we observed we will present our conversations in three parts in this first part We asked people how someone knows that a person is a cat person What emerged was a warmth and pride and an obvious connection not only with the other cat fanciers But with the cats themselves it should not be forgotten that it was their relationships with their cats that brought everyone together That April weekend pets represent an important part of our social world Morris Holbrook Exams the experience and irony of being a quote pet consumer close quote in a 1996 article entitled Reflections on Rocky published in the journal animals and society Holbrook writes about his cat Rocky quote I choose the term friend carefully for Rocky the cat is far more than a pet He is sometimes naughty sometimes cranky sometimes uncooperative But like a fellow person who may also be naughty cranky or uncooperative He is a friend in the true sense of that word He follows Sally and me around the apartment wherever we wander often just for the sake of sitting and watching us go about our daily lives Each evening after dinner he sits and watches me do the dishes just to keep me company When I struggled through my calisthenics He sometimes flies behind my head on the exercise mat oblivious to the throat choking consequences of his allergy-inducing effect on me As I write this essay he does is peacefully by my side curled into a big ball of cat fur in these and countless other ways Rocky becomes an inextricable part of our daily lives as consumers and sometimes he manages to transform our shared life of Consumption into something truly extraordinary or even magical Consider for example the occasions of Rocky in the bath because of my allergies We must bathe Rocky on a regular basis But cats do not like to be drenched with water Lathered with no tears baby shampoo rinsed under a hose bundled into a bath towel and dried with an electric hairblower Rocky is no exception at first. He resists mightily indeed. It takes two of us to hold him down But as the event unfolds I am astonished by the philosophical Composure with which Rocky settles down attracts his claws and submits himself to our will I do not know if mere words or even three-dimensional photographs can convey the emotional strength of the consumption Experiences that we feel at times like these dear reader You have not lived until you have bathed a trembling squirming struggling kitten Soaked his writhing body with warm water rubbed him gently from top to bottom with soapy bubbles Rinsed him clean and sweet smelling from head to foot Tenderly cradled him in your own large fluffy towel blown him dry and also ineffably soft to the touch and felt him Quietly purring in your arms closed quote The breeders and cat owners who talked with us at the cat show knew exactly what we met when we asked how they knew Someone was a cat person their descriptions of their pets their breeds or lack of breeding and of the quintessential cat person Revealed the warmth and love they felt for cats. It was definitely a fancy on their part Here is what the cat fanciers told us about cat people And he is a sphinx. He's the hair what's considered the hairless cat. He has some hair, but very very little They're very warm to the touch very soft They feel like warm suede is what people tell me when they touch him and how old is he raising his two years old and He's a grand champion having been on the show circuit for a little while How do you know a cat person? I think a cat person is the person that you see that has that shows joy in seeing a cat a cat is an independent person in his own right and You see people who like that independence and those are the cat people. They like something unique and independent How do you know a hairless cat person? I don't know but take a good look This may be one. They're very unique in that they're very monkey-like and you have to enjoy the monkey-ness about them They're very busy. They're very active and they're extremely intelligent. They like to know what's going on around them He does enjoy the show and I think the only reason he comes is so he can be played with with toys He likes to be admired though, too. As you can see he's into that. All right. Tell me your name, Talisa You're here with raisin with your grandmother, right? The question of the day is how do you know who is a cat person? Because they like always talk about their cats and stuff like that. They very most cat people are really happy and stuff So about it. Thank you very much. I appreciate it. Oh, my name is Verna Bullitt and I live in Souk and I have Hollow Hills Cattery and this is Harry Potter spelled H-A-I-R-Y-P-A-W-T-E-R But we call him Muggles. This is his first show and he's doing very well. He's not too traumatized He's just like can I have a sleep now? I've had a rough weekend. How do you know somebody is a cat person? They're covered in air most of the time in your food on your furniture on your clothes everywhere But if it's in your food, it's just a little extra roughage He likes to cuddle doesn't he? He's a very cuddly kitty. He says oh Sniff sniff. What do I smell? Huh? What is that? Oh, okay. He's sleeping. He wants his bed. Tell me your name and his name and tell me about the category household pet My name is Carol Scheidel. This is my cat or I am his person. This is Spike the Marshmallow He is a three-year-old household pet. A household pet is a cat with no either no pedigree or papers or a purebred cat That has some fault that prevents it from being shown as a pure in the purebred class whether it is a body fault an eye fault, which is the color a kinked tail or There's one here or it's a couple here that just don't have papers They can't get the papers. So then you can't be shown as a household as a purebred Spike is almost four years old. He'll be four years old on the 12th of May He's a brown McTab a mackerel tabby and white which is the the pattern wonderful temperament lovely Lovely boy Absolutely delightful cat and ready for a cat nap. Oh, yes. He is He is a very very relaxed cat and that's very important for for showing if you have a cat that is really high strong is Well rip off the judges face and hand them their lips. This is not a good show cat You want a cat that does not mind being in a cage does not mind a lot of people coming up to it petting it All the noise and whatnot movement of around Spike grew up at a veterinarian clinic So he is totally at ease with a lot of people coming going lots of animals Being in the cages we used to have to get him out of the kennels all the time He and his sister would jump in the kennels. Did you rescue him? He was left at the clinic but with a bunch of kittens I adopted it originally adopted two of his brothers and the clinic kept his sister and him And he was named spike because he was this little runt of a kitten all the other kittens were beating on him So the vets children named him spike to make him tougher. It didn't work. He's a real mushy cat We had at one point. We had a feral cat, which is a wild cat come in We were going to do a spay operation on her and then Release her but she was pregnant. We couldn't do the spay So she had five kittens at the clinic at four weeks We removed the kittens from her because they were weaned starting to wean at that point But they were getting her feral tendencies. We wanted to socialize the kittens for adoption Spike took over the litter. He let them climb on him. He would lay down with him.  He moved in like he had been living there all his life So the question we've been asking everybody today is how do you know that somebody is a cat person? That's very hard to say you can't tell if someone is a cat person if a cat person Is outgoing and friendly like a cat They're Affectionate they're open Cats the cats don't hold anything back if they don't like you they're going to let you know And a cat person will do that too if they're not happy with you if they're mipped at you if they don't like you They'll let you know But we don't walk around they can't say a cat person We don't walk around with with little fake whiskers and we don't have little ears and cat costumes that we wear I don't know about you, but we wear cat hair a lot though. Oh, yes Cat hair in in my house. I have a sign that says the two signs actually I have one that says the only self-cleaning thing in this house is the cat And in my in this house cat hair is a condiment Someone sent me this really funny thing on the internet called cooking with cat hair And it tells how you should match your cat hair with the entree and with the dessert and with which with which wine you want to serve It's also a belief that cat hairs cats have a Big sense of humor and they will shed in direct opposition to what you're wearing If you're wearing dark colored clothes, they will shed all the light hair If you're wearing light colored clothes, they'll shed all the dark hair my husband's in the navy Unfortunately have cats with a lot of high white on them And they will get dark hair on his white shirt and they will get the light hair on his black pants never fails I had a friend one time show up at my house when I had a black and white cat with a black and white shirt on And looked at the cat and said there take that That's perfect. I think we should come up with tabby striped clothes And calico striped clothes just so it matches But I think cat hair is a sign of a wonderful person That means you're a caring loving person who will give of yourself and you don't care if you've got cat hair on yourself Wear it as a badge of honor Thank you very much I have six household pets. They're all foundlings. That is they found us But I have no purebred cats. I enjoy mine. They're my pets, right? Do you ever bring them to show I have shown them in the past, but they got tired of it So I just went that's fine. That's not what I have them for leave them at home And we've been asking everybody that we've talked to today One central question and that is how can you tell when someone is a cat person? How do you know a cat person when you see them? Well, generally they wear lots of cat clothing I find overall that cat people are generally fairly outgoing Very easy to approach friendly. So that's generally how I can I can spot them And they usually as I said earrings or something like that as a giveaway I have a question for you that I've been asking everyone that I've talked to today I'd like for you to tell me how you know A person is a cat person It's that glint in their eye when they see a cat. It's the same as a dog person What makes a cat person just they're fabulous They have such love and attention for their animals and they care so much about their breeds and the success of their breeds And they love to compete and they love to be recognized and we're really proud to be a part of the show this weekend My name is Tara. This is Keltoi's desert thunder otherwise known as thunder He's a five-year-old male. He's just been neutered He's a chocolate spotted You can see these wonderful spots. This is what we breed for He's staples. He's a baby. He loves sitting in here. He just likes to be kenneled in his box here in the show a little nervous The original breeding the original recipe is abyssinian and sigmes and then they add a little american short hair So now we get 12 color combinations.   They're very affectionate. They'll be close by you no matter what you're doing They want a part of your life and yet they're not obnoxious. They're not a real in-your-face cat Mine at home sleeps at my feet when i'm working on the computer. He thinks he's a dog They fetch and retrieve they walk on leashes and harness As much training as you put into them is what you'll get back out They are one of the most brilliant breeds And we've bred everything from sigmes to domestic short hairs and this this is the breed we've been stuck with for about 20 years. We're really happy with them It looks like he's one actually. This is his daughter's ribbons It was her first show. She's won five so far And uh, she's decided now. She's done. She doesn't want to do this anymore, which is fine We'll put her in a home and she'll be somebody's wonderful pet We've been asking everyone that we've talked to today to answer a specific question for us How do you know a cat person? Tell us who a cat person is you usually tell by the fur on their clothing That's the first thing Cat people are usually soft spoken And very slower moving very gentle to touch the cats And they're madly in love with them. They're usually wearing some kind of cat jewelry or a cat shirt But usually you can tell by the fur that's all over their clothing He's my big boy So a lot of people have been telling us that one of the ways that you know a cat person Is that they wear cat things on them?  I don't just mean cat hair A lot of people they wear lots of people bring cat sweatshirts or have a bag with a cat that kind of stuff Just so you know that they're a cat person A lot of jewelry? Not not as much as I was expecting like I usually see lots of people with Julie, but not this time So what's the wildest thing you've seen today? That's a hard one I'm not I couldn't tell you like so other than wearing cat stuff. I've been asking everybody What makes a cat person? How do you know a person is a cat person? I find that cat people are usually quite friendly like and they're usually up people. They're not very down people They're very hyperactive. They Tell me your name and the name of your friend here. My name is Angie Farrell and this is my cat Kabuka He's a rag doll seal point and white and he's six years old So they still show as they get older And he's my best friend. He's done quite well at the show today, right? It's done very well very well We're very pleased. How do you know a person is a cat person? Most animal people are very friendly and caring people They just are nice to animals as well as people. It's nice to To deal with them They're gentle It's a little oriental short hair. So and what's his name? Her name is princess Circe Noir And you call her Circe Circe Circe was goddess in the odyssey And she turned men into pigs So we have to be careful And she just won eight Yeah, she's she's been best second best fourth She's done, you know different things in different rings We've been asking this question of everyone at the show that we've talked to Tell me what you think makes a cat person. How do you know a person is a cat person? I think you know a cat person because it's a person who is able to Respect an animal for its individuality Um cats are independent in that they all have different personalities And they don't just do what you tell them to do They have to have a great deal of understanding and love A gathering of cat fanciers with their cats required more organization than simply notification of a time and place to gather The twice yearly shows are a highlight of an ongoing organization that is both local and international in scope Island cat fancier society is a chapter of the american cat fancier's association or a cfa the a cfa was formed in 1955 quote by a group of cat fancier seeking greater flexibility in the development of cats The activities of cat lovers and greater freedom for growth and harmony with contemporary needs of the individual breeders And the broadening horizons of the cat fancy at large Close quote seeking to form a democratic organization They organize themselves around policies and bylaws that sought to promote breeding from the grass roots For example the inclusion of altered animals and household pets open up their shows to a greater variety of cat fanciers Another innovation that allowed a wider participation of cat exhibitors is the averaging system employed at the master show level Cats are assessed on the average points they receive at the shows they attend Quote the unique part of this system is that every cat fancier can afford to compete for the top awards each year Since it is not a total point system exhibitors need not incur the expense of campaigning a cat every weekend To be in competition as is the case with other award systems currently in place close quote Local chapter meetings are held monthly and the membership costs are a reasonable $15 per year show entries are additional of course Margo man, and i'm vice president of the island cat fancier's association Tell me a little bit about the island cat fancier's association It's a club that's affiliated with the american cat fancier's association, which is a worldwide club Or association and we are the local club for victoria and we put on two shows a year Tell me a little bit about what goes into putting on a show. There's the money involved a lot of a great deal of money involved It costs us around $16,000 to put on a show We have to pay for the judges fees to judge and their airplane tickets to get here And their hotel expenses and food while they're here We have to have all this equipment to put on the show And so it costs us this great deal of money people pay at the gate and also people pay to enter But you have to raise money in other ways, right? That's correct. We do a great deal of money People uh contribute for instance iam's cat food contributed a great deal of money to help us put on the show But breeders often contribute to to the show And what's the importance of having shows like this? To promote good care for all cats because since we also have household pets category, which is a very popular category We are including all cats and we want people to understand that today's cats need a great deal of care What's your best advice to a cat owner? Keep your cat in Don't let it out because it's just too many dangers out there And sometimes they eat microphones too My name is Tara Burstick and i'm the influencer account manager for iam's canada my territory is british columbia So one of my main functions is to sponsor events So dog shows and cat shows and I look after the consumer shows as well So we chose to be here with the the cat fancier's association to help them along with their event Now part of what you do is help them financially. Is that correct? Yeah, we uh, we contributed financially and we're here in support of the breeders. So while i'm here I'll um, I'll give out food and samples and I'll talk to them about any particular educational issues They might have a concern with distribution of the product even And new products we've got a new product that we're showcasing at this show the salmon flavor. So Just anything concerning their business. I like to assist them with salmon seems appropriate for the british columbias It's very popular. We've uh, we've had great success with the formula over the last couple of weeks and a lot of really positive feedback Money is important to putting on the show But volunteers are also needed to make this work officers of the chapter Did a lot of behind the scenes work to make this show happen In addition while judges got paid their clerks were volunteers who kept the show running on schedule other jobs had to be done as well Tell me how you got roped into sitting up here Taking people's money. I'm here because I like to I help my nana and this was one of the best jobs of the thing Believe me. Why is it the best job because it's either Cleaning cages sitting beside a judge all day or handing people drinks. I think I like this one better So Anything else you want to tell us about the cat show that it's a great place to go It's different than a dog show, but you still get to see all the cute kittens and that it's great What's your favorite kind of cat? Uh I have two actually a sphinx and uh, main coons. I knew a sphinx would come up because of your grandmother Yeah Of course much of the focus is on the awards and because the point system is in place Someone has to keep track of the points that person is called the master clerk Tell me your name and tell me your position here and what organization you're with i'm kerry proud love I at the show i'm master clerk And i'm with island cat fanciers prior to the show. I also do the entry clerking What do these two jobs entail? Well entry clerk, uh when people want to enter their cats they mail them into me I have to input them into the system Make sure that their colors are right their genders right their classes are right Send confirmation back to the people and then make any changes in the catalog Once I get to the show as master clerk people will come to me and make changes if they need to make them in the catalog I also double check what the judges put down on their sheets And uh, I make two copies of the catalogs here one for us as a permanent copy for the club and one goes back to ACFA head office for them to put the results into their programs now part of what you're doing is real time Right. They're sitting around waiting for you to confirm everything. That's right, especially at the end of the show They have the best of the best awards But I've uh created a spreadsheet in excel that helps you with that to do all the adding How long has it been automated? Uh, I've been doing the automated part of that for Probably four or five years now that I've done that Imagine it's much easier now. Oh, yeah, and lot not quite as likely for making mistakes I have a little trouble with adding on my own Thanks very much. Thank you Lyda Judson Hanifin first used the term social capital in 1916 in his discussions of rural school community centers to describe Quote those tangible substances that count for most in the daily lives of people close quote Hanifin was particularly concerned with the cultivation of goodwill Fellowship sympathy and social intercourse among those that quote make up a social unit close quote Hanifin's use of the term limited the focus to something quite local The cat fanciers would be said to be developing social capital Simply because of the roles they are willing to play within their organization and most particularly at a specific show You're listening to first person plural on cfu v victoria's public radio 101.9 fm 104.3 cable and on the internet v.uveng.ca Giving sociology an edge Robert Putnam's use of the term social capital however has expanded the concept to mean more than simple group membership Putnam asserts that social networks are created to strengthen social bonds the coincidence of the fire with the cat show Demonstrated Putnam's meaning quite well on the day of the show that the fire occurred We interviewed the cat fancier member who would take in charge of relief efforts for the cats affected by the fire My name is Kathy Ermshire and You are coordinating an effort today something kind of tragic happened this morning across the street from the Cat show. Can you tell us a little bit about what's going on and what your organization is doing? I'm coordinating an effort to try and help some of the cats from across the street from our venue that have been burnt out The spca was in there early this morning rescuing some cats And unfortunately some that didn't make it and we're trying to help out the people That did the cats that did make it. We're going we're collecting up money and food And any donations that we can get we're also raffling off a scratching post To raise as much money as we possibly can to help both with the medical expenses the food and also some medication That these cats may need that they've been unable to get out of their building for one reason or another A gentleman came over this morning that I found in the rain Who had his cat out in the rain was waiting for his other cat to be rescued He came in basically his pajamas and house coat The cat was 15 years old and it was out in the rain and he had nowhere to take her We took her in We placed her out and got her dried off had a vet look at her And we are trying as hard as we can to get as much food and as much money as possible to help the spca with The cats that have been rescued Now we probably won't be able to air all of this until the 24th of april So i'm wondering how long you're going to need help and where people who hear this a week or two from now might go To offer assistance my understanding speaking with the spca is that these people will be probably Unable to find housing for two to three weeks, which really puts us past the end of april And anything they can do to help they should go to the spca Take any donations cat food cat litter Anything like that and if they have an extra five dollars in their pocket They could take it to the spca to help cover some of these additional expenses I do know from the spca that as of about an hour ago they had At least nine perhaps 11 Cats that had not been claimed yet that they were taking to the shelter On burnside and that they would of course that is going to put a heavy weight on the spca and that's what we're trying to help with It's the victoria spca. I believe in their shelter, which is on burnside But that's the the spca that it would go to They on burnside will be able to coordinate everything anyway because that's the coordination center. Thank you very much cat Thank you very much and anyone that can help thank them as well These efforts were quick decisive and effective not only to the cat fancier members assist rescue efforts real time They were also able to mobilize a raffle and fundraising to give support to the care of the cats while the spca connected pets and their owners 10 days later we interviewed spca spokesperson penny stone who gave us an update on the fire victims and alerted us to a new crisis She also took some time to reflect upon the island cat fancier society's role in assisting the community with abandoned cats and cats in crisis We had the island cat fancier show the day of the fire in a squimalt Could you tell us about the disposition of the cat that were left homeless as a result of that fire? Well, we had about a dozen cats that got brought that were brought in here Doesn't cast alive and out of those dozen. We found the owners have claimed them all They were not in great shape. Um, we had one cat with four little kittens who wasn't doing very well very It was actually in the apartment next to the one where four cats were found dead because of the smoke inhalation So obviously the little kids weren't doing very well, but they've recovered and they're doing pretty good We have them in a foster home until the people who were burned out find a new home People from the cat fancier's raised a lot of money and they brought it down here for us so that we could help with Later boxes and food and stuff to give to the people who were burnt out so that they would be able to start again with something some food and some Cat toys and litter and even some cat purges What kinds of advantages does having organizations like island cat fanciers offer to your ongoing efforts? Um, cat fans here are actually really good for us because they provide us with a lot of foster homes They know the people that know cats so if we get cats in Quite often we get Kittens in that are a day old or two a day old or the mum's been killed or the mum doesn't have any milk or things like that And we don't have the resources to be able to feed or the volunteer staff or or paid staff To feed these cats every hour every two hours that they need in the beginning And some of them need to be forced but because they don't know how to eat and The cat fanciers they provide us with An awful lot of support and an awful lot of names to people to call on for foster homes and that So they've been very helpful to us and they did they went around with Completely on their own at the day the the cat show and a raise quite a bit of money From from the cat show just to bring down to us without you know, we didn't even have to ask It was just they were wonderful Okay, we understand now that a new crisis has arisen. Yeah Could you tell us about that and you tell us What people who want to help can do to assist you in handling the crisis? Sure Early on good Friday morning 22 cats from one home were dropped off at our shelter doors. They were left in a cage They're elderly a lot of them are in need of medical attention What it is is a lady who was trying to rescue cats and I guess she got overwhelmed with She probably started out as a good deed on her behalf She was trying to arrest through all these cats and then it became an overwhelming thing for her to deal with And she couldn't deal with it anymore and she brought them and dropped them off She did the right thing by bringing them here. We would like to To let the public know though if they are going to bring animals here It would be really nice if they did it when we were open because anything could have happened to the cats while they were out in our They were actually in our parking lot in a in a kennel. I mean someone could have come along and let them out Somebody could have you know a dog could have got out them a lot of things could have happened Another thing is these cats are aged six to about 18 years old some severely badly matted A lot of medical attention is needed for them and if we had histories on them It would have really helped us because some of them were starting from scratch And some of them are obviously very ill and we don't know where it's very pricey for us to run all the blood work And that so we're more than willing to take animals like this. So if someone In the future, I know she probably did what what she was able to and we thank her for taking care of these cats for For so long, but if she could have dropped us off medical information about them, it would have really helped For the public who wants to help us. There's a few things that we really need We need donations to go for for these cats They can drop it off for the good neighbor funding and specify it for the cats And that would help us with the medical because medical for a cat The blood work on one cat can run up to about five hundred dollars for the different things We're going to have to test before we don't know if they were indoor outdoor cats We don't know if they're feeling like tested. There's different things. So We need we could really use some money. We could really use We're eventually going to need to put these all these animals into home. So and we normally have about a hundred cats here Which about 80 of them are older than five and now we've got another 22 added to the mix. So it's we're quite overwhelmed with cats What is the bc sbca's role in dealing with abandoned cats? Well, it is actually against the law to abandon an animal like we There could be charges But in this case we won't because the lady what the lady was trying to do was the best Like she was trying to do the best for her for us to go after her now. I'm sure she's been through enough Having to give up these animals But our role is to find the new homes to to get them as healthy as we can within our limited budget And try and find someone to a lot of these cats will need ongoing medical attention for the rest of their lives some of them will be They could be diabetic they could Just a a lot of them. I think we've shaved four of them because they were so badly matted and they were There were species in the map because they were so badly matted They couldn't urinate without getting it all over themselves. So there's just a lot of that But you know, like there's a lot of grooming. There's a lot of Taking care of them. They're all considering what they've been through They're all really really sociable cats Like they're they're in really sweet very loving for considering what they've been through and Being left here and being thrown in we've actually don't have enough cages and kennels for them So we've put them in an office. They have a whole office that we've emptied the furniture So they've kind of taken over But um, they're really great cats. They will make great adoption cats once we get them all Healthy and I think they're what's what what's what with them, but they are older cats The prospective owners have to provide the cats with their own offices when they're adopted You know, but it'd probably be really nice We have a cat that has essentially taken over our home office. Oh cats do that Dogs will join you in your office, but cats take over the office She's making reasonably good use of the fixtures, but we'd still like it back At least a couple of days a week. Yeah No cats take over that's for sure How many cats are abandoned in the greater victoria area each year? Oh We um, I couldn't even venture a guest But I can't tell you of all the strays we pick up and we probably get In a week, we probably get 50 or 60 strays only 10 of those are ever claimed and those are just straight And we get a lot of people drop and we probably in we probably once a week get animals abandoned at the front door We've come in where there's been dogs tied up. We've been we came in once when there was a cardboard box inside It was a three-legged cat that someone had obviously spent a lot of money on because it had been the one leg He's been surgically removed. So someone had spent a lot of money trying to save this cat's life But then they dropped off here in a box Like it's amazing sometimes with no papers no explanation. No nothing nothing And and like I said, we we will take any animal What's sad for us is when we get them with no history It makes it a little more difficult to adopt them out We know nothing about them. We don't know if they like kids if they like dogs if they like So it's hard to place them in a home people come to adopt if they think this is a beautiful cat But they've got four little kids and we can't tell them if this cat's ever been with kids How this cat will react in a room full of kids and sometimes that kind of information is Paramount to being able to adopt them out How can people in the community get involved if they want to help with the ongoing problem? Well, first of all spay and neuter your animal spay and neuter spay and neuter spay and neuter It's so important. Um, we're just hitting kittens season And we'll probably be getting in four or five liters of kittens a week And a lot of those of every litter of kitten if they 10 kittens only one or two of them Will make it to two years of age. They'll be hit by a car. They'll be abandoned and killed So many things happen to them not very many kittens You know, you see a basketball kittens and you think it's so cute But only one or two of those will make it to an adult cat So spay and neutering is the most important. Um, I'd like people to really consider keeping their cats indoors Because there's so many things out there nowadays that um, there's Every day we get four or five cats in here that have been killed by a car They've either been killed or the injuries are so bad. They have to be euthanized So if you know, we think that it's cruel keeping them inside, but sometimes it's cruel letting them outside Do you have any cats of your own? I have I Hold to yourself I'll do myself and three dogs The dogs help out with the cats. I know they chase them, but they all love each other And right now I have eight kittens in my home that are Kittens that someone dropped off here and they weren't old enough to be able to put up for adoption So they're at my house getting healthier and better. They have they have their own bedroom too at my house Well, that's nice to have Well, thanks a lot pennystone for agreeing to speak with us today. No problem If there's anything else you'd like to add now would be a good time No, just that stay new to your cats cats and dogs Take care of them get them health checked. That's about it. Thank you again for agreeing to be with us today. Okay. Thanks for speaking with me Okay If you want to help the victoria sbca with either time or money, please contact them at 3887722 That's 3887722 We learned that having such a group as the island cat fancier society in a community like the greater victoria area Is a real asset to the larger community Robert Putnam asserted that social capital is important not only to the individuals who acquire the capital But also to the greater community He writes quote a third way in which social capital improves our lot Is by widening our awareness of the many ways in which our fates are linked people who have active and trusting connections to others Whether family members friends or fellow bowlers develop or maintain character traits that are good for the rest of society Joiners become more tolerant less cynical and more empathetic to the misfortunes of others close quote Who knew that the love of a cat could produce so much every cat fancier, of course Small The police state is using its fallow-centric organ the corporate media To control ordinary people like you You have been listening to first person plural because how people get along with each other still matters First person plural is a show created for community radio By carl wilkerson and dr. Patty thomas to examine social and organizational issues Music for first person plural is performed Composed and produced by carl wilkerson except where noted For more information about first person plural dr. Patty thomas or carl wilkerson Visit our website www.culturalconstructioncompany.com or email us at fpp at culturalconstructioncompany.com This show was made in honor of all the cats We have known and most especially the one to whom we currently belong whose name is anivine


So my husband helped me put this X tool together and it took him about an hour from start to finish to get it all set up. All the instructions were really easy and well put together and made it easy to set up. This is a quick time lapse of him setting it up for me in our living room area. It's pretty easy and very self-explanatory to put together. So this is the X tool. My husband helped me set it all up. We did actually a few projects on this ready, which I will show you, but this thing is really, really amazing. Overall, I am super impressed by this machine. I used it for several projects and each time, each one turned out amazing. Here's a quick time lapse of me creating a wood sign out of a piece of wood. It is super special to me because I could personalize it for a memorial present for my aunt. I also created personalized doggy drawer for my dog kennel business and had a ton of fun creating these personalized tiles. Couple of things you're gonna need though is you need to always make sure that you wear these glasses that it comes with. Very, very important when you're using your laser. And then also make sure that you're working in a well ventilated area. I set this up with my husband in the living room and we took it out into our garage. And another thing really important to have is a really good tape measure. This one actually is in millimeters because when you're using your X tool, it's in millimeters. So this is really handy to have on hand. All right, so depending on how thick your pieces that you're going to be doing, you need to adjust the height. So I'm gonna lift it up here and I'm gonna pull this piece out. And it's gonna go down here.  That's gonna keep your height of where you need it.  So then I'm gonna jump on here to my program. I have it in here, I have it 90 by 90. I need to move this little dot and put it directly in the center as well as I can.  So you can see there's little X in here and I'm gonna do my best to get that directly in the middle. And you can go back to the computer and push framing. And then it's gonna move the X tool. So that framing tool really comes in handy. And now if you're ready, you can hit start and this is gonna take 25 minutes to cut or to engrave. So we're gonna push start, we're gonna see what happens. Now you gotta put your glasses on. Yep, and it tells us that it's 24 minutes left. So I'm gonna put these silly looking glasses on. But it's very important to do this if you're going to be watching this, you do not wanna watch it with just your regular eyes. So the camera's, the man is not gonna look at it. But you can see how it's going back and forth. That is so cool. So this is just a slate tile that I'm actually using. And it goes, okay, so don't mind me with my funky glasses on, but we're in the garage. We have the door open and the X tool is going. I cannot wait to see how this turns out. So we've done a few already. This is one of the examples that we have. You can tell it's a little bit off, but we're still learning. But this program is really, really awesome. Another thing I wanted to talk about really quick is I do have a camera set up here, a time lapse camera. So it's pretty cool that you can see this. So I have this going on a two minute interval. So at the end, I'm gonna show you what the time lapse looks like. I'm really excited to see how this turns out. Hopefully this time we got it in the center. It's a little bit of a learning curve, but I'm really excited to try these out. The tiles are very inexpensive. I'll leave them in the description down below of where I purchased them from Amazon. All right, it's all done. This one seems to be a little bit better in center than our other ones that we did. I'm gonna leave a time lapse of what it looks like. So here it is, it is finished. I really love how this turned out. I love my X tool machine. I'm gonna be doing a lot more videos on this. If you like this video, hit that subscribe button and thumbs up. And I'm gonna leave a time lapse at the end of this video so you guys can see what it looks like. I think it's like 24 seconds or something, but it's really cool to see the time lapse of this creating it. So I'm definitely going to be doing a lot more of these. I'm gonna be creating some for the stores that I'm in as well. So stay tuned for that video. Stay tuned guys.


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Good morning everybody. Today we're at Burlington Community Sailing Center on the shore is a beautiful and scenic Lake Champlain. I'm joined today by Owen Myle who is the executive director and I'm really excited to get to know community sailing better this morning. Starting off how many years has your organization been here? So we've been here about 29 years this year. Wow that's a long time and what are some of the lessons you guys learned and what do you do? So we started you know 29 years ago our founders realized that sailing had become a little unaffordable for a large part of the population and that was tied up into the idea of boat ownership so we really kind of got started by creating a fleet of boats that people could rent and come down and learn to sail on and and reduce that barrier of accessing sailing in Lake Champlain and ever since then it's just about identifying someone's barrier to access and breaking down that barrier so that people can go out and enjoy sailing on Lake Champlain. Wow that's really good mission I'm happy to hear that. What program specifically do you guys offer to new sailors? So it varies quite a bit we a lot of what you'll see as you would be down here on a day like today would be a lot of summer campers so we serve about 500 kids in summer camp but what you'll also see are about a couple dozen adults that are coming down to learn how to sail and they're learning to sail so that they can eventually you know come down and start renting and going out of the lake on their own and then you know beyond that we offer programs for individuals with physical and cognitive disabilities we offer paddleboard and kayak and canoe rentals for people that haven't yet learned to sail but want to go out and enjoy the lake. Wow that's really great to hear that you guys are expanding accessibility to Lake Champlain. My next question is if you've been sailing for a few years kind of in the intermediate range are you able to come down in here and rent a sailboat? Yeah so we're actually one of the community sailing centers that has really made it very easy so as long as anybody knows how to sail all we have is a fairly rudimentary written test that our team kind of works with somebody to make sure that they know how they're doing and what they've got going on and then we've got kind of a clearly defined area in Burlington Bay where we let people go out and venture and explore the lake on their own. That's awesome so next question is something that you mentioned previously how are you guys working to break down a lot of the barriers to entering the sport I know you mentioned rentals and early programs but maybe talk about how you get kids to come here and start learning at a young age which really can ingrain them into the sport. Yeah so it started by reducing that financial barrier to access both through boat ownership but then we started creating a scholarship specifically for individuals that couldn't afford to either rent or learn to sail or send their kid to summer camp and so so that's what we eventually started breaking down was that financial barrier to access and then as I mentioned with you know things related to disability and physical limitations we acquired adaptive equipment and we partnered with Vermont Adaptive to reduce those barriers to access. One of the next groups who worked with were you know we'd noticed that there was a gender disparity between men and women participating in the sport and so we created gender specific programming for women and girls to participate in sailing and then more recently we've created the diversity access initiative to increase diversity among black indigenous people of color to have their kids come through for sailing camp so that's been the more recent barrier that we've worked to overcome. Yeah super super important in terms of getting diversity so before we started the interview you mentioned that you've been here about five years so some what were some of the changes you had to make during COVID and have all of them all of those been kind of brought back to pre-COVID or have you stuck with some of those? Yeah well one of the first things we had to do was we had to cancel our floating classrooms program so when the schools let out we weren't able to run that STEM education program and but at the same sense we know that you know summer camp is kind of like glorified childcare in a lot of ways so the one of the first things we did was actually to open a childcare facility open our doors childcare facility for essential personnel at the time and and then that summer as we transitioned into 2020 we had to make the choice of you know are we gonna be a facility for adults or are we gonna be a facility for children because we couldn't do both and that year we had we just focused on summer camp. Fortunately for us is that you know this year a lot of those restrictions have lifted so we're able to open our doors for everyone and then the other thing that we did starting in the pandemic was you know weren't well known for hosting cool fundraising events so what we created was the flotilla concert which is you know if you've ever heard of a drive-in movie we actually created a float up concert where we put a stage right at the edge of the water and then invite people to arrive by boat and watch a concert from their boat so we're gonna do that again this year we hope that all of you will you know consider coming to float till again this year. Do you know when that event is gonna be taking place? July 16th and the one benefit about it this year too is that because of some of the restrictions lifting we're able to offer a general admission ticket so if somebody doesn't have a boat they can just you know pay and come enjoy a concert on the dock right in front of the stage. Oh that sounds like something I want to do so yeah I might come down for that. So tell me now about your background I know I mentioned previously you started five years ago what drew you to this location in this organization? Yeah so I had been one of those kids who couldn't have afforded summer camp on my own and then one day you know somebody who was running a summer camp had said to my parents hey we'd love to have Owen come by my parents were like we can't afford you know summer camp and he said it's fine he can you know come wash dishes we'll scholarship it and that was a real big you know inflection point for me summer camp is this cool thing where you know it's not school and it's not home it's this in-between world and and that you know really changed things for me and you know fast forward decades later and I'm not so responsible single dad and I'm shopping for summer camp for my daughter in June and the only thing left is math camp and sailing camp and I had said to my daughter so how do you feel about sailing camp she's like well I'm not so sure I'm like sorry let me rephrase that you're going to sailing camp and and she said okay and interestingly in her three weeks here I saw a lot of the same positive changes for her that I had experienced and so you know fast forward about another decade later and this job opportunity came up and I did some research I realized that the sailing center scholarships about one out of every three kids who come through our door and it was that realization for me that I would have the opportunity to amplify and replicate what I had experienced the young person for other kids in the community and I really amazing speaking from personal experience going to camp I think it really helps with the independent aspect because you're not around your parents you get to make more of your own decisions which you kind of don't get in school and when you're at home so how many boats do you guys have in your fleet so it's a it's a big range you know if you look at everything from paddleboards to you know 23-foot sonars we have over 150 in the total fleet yeah but we have about eight killboats about 30 adult dinghies you know and then about another 30 plus kids dinghies is part of our camping so if I wanted to come down here on the weekend what are your hours of operations and what would be the process to rent a boat yeah so on the weekends we operate from 9 a.m. until 8 30 p.m. generally we send out the last renters at 6 30 because you can rent for two hours and I'm sorry that's nine to eight 9 8 30 and you know what you would do is come down and take a quick written test and our people would make sure that you knew how to sail and then once you're given the clear you can grab your sail walk right down to the dock and either launch your boat if you're taking a dingy or go out to one of the killboats and sail from there if you're coming down to use paddleboard you don't have to take a written test to go do that you just come right down give us your information and then you know go ahead and take a paddleboard or a kayak out and how long is your season how long do you guys stay open for that sort of daily rentals will happen through until Labor Day then we switched to weekends but we're renting straight through till Indigenous People's Day in mid-October okay that's a lot longer than I've heard other places yeah so it's good to have that accessibility yeah so if I have a boat that I wanted to launch could I use your facility as a boat launch or no not yet we are working on a project to expand our waterfront and once we do we're actually going to be breaking ground on that this fall hopefully once we've finished our fundraising we'll be able to have a facility that's more conducive for people to launch their you know small sailboats and will that be a source of revenue for you guys or will that be free it depends on the size of the boat if it's something that you can hand trailer down yourself we probably wouldn't charge for it if you're just going to be walking it out a ramp if you would be using a full-on hoist hoist into the water that's something would be a paid a paid service okay well that's all the questions I have do you have anything else you want to add before we leave thank you for thinking of us and and I hope you're able to make it down for the flotilla concert yeah definitely I really want to thanks for meeting with me appreciate it and have a good day yeah you too all right


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