Hello, everyone. Thank you so much for joining us tonight for the know your rights tenant informational webinar. I do want to be mindful to our audience and let you know that this is a recorded presentation. Your, your faces aren't being captured right now. Do you like video or anything, but I just want to put that out there and thank you all again for joining us. We'll get started momentarily in just one minute. Alright, so without any further ado, we'll get into our webinar for tonight. Just want to briefly go over some of the overviews and things that you'll get to see in this seminar. So, we'll begin with introducing today's speakers. We'll go into some webinar objectives and what we hope you take away from this presentation. We'll start from UMass Amherst Student Legal Services Office to learn more about what a lease agreement actually is and your rights within a lease agreement. And then we'll learn more about some of the specific regulations to the town of Amherst from an Amherst Town Council representative. We'll learn about some resources as a UMass student from off campus student life. And then we'll get into a question and answer portion of the evening where you'll be able to get your specific questions answered by our panelists. So, who are we representing today. My name is Audrey Gabriel I am the Secretary of Health and Wellbeing for UMass Amherst Student Government Association. You're joined today by Benjamin Whites who's the Secretary of External Affairs and offer and Donnie who's our Attorney General. We have a representative from the Student Legal Services Office Emily Daniels here with us today who's a staff attorney attorney at SLSO. We have Manny Jo Hanneke who is a counselor at large for Amherst Town Council, and we have more Roberts here today with the Office of Off-Campus Student Life. So you have a great array and spread of speakers who are all informed in here to talk to you about what it means to be a tenant and the rights that you have as a tenant. One of the things we hope you take away are your rights as a tenant when you enter a lease agreement will direct you to some resources as a current or prospective tenant, and hopefully answer any further questions that you may have throughout the process. And just want to shout out that we are doing an interactive component throughout the webinar. We have a community click to get your feedback throughout each presentation. So if you take your mobile device and you register with the QR code below, it'll pop up as community click. If you select attendee and select the Know Your Rights webinar, it'll direct you to fill out a form kind of with your name and other basic information. Throughout the presentation, you'll have the option to select things like I'm confused, and that'll let our speakers know whether or not we need to reiterate something or we need to explain something in further depth. So definitely scan this QR code will also toss the link into the chat. And from there you'll be able to give feedback as we go on to present. So without any further ado, we'll start off with the Student Legal Services Office and Emily Daniel will go into her presentation. Thank you, Audrey. Hopefully you can see my screen now. Looks great. Great. So good afternoon, everybody. Thank you so much for joining us. It's a pleasure to be with you all today to speak about tenants rights. My name is Emily Daniel. I'm a staff attorney at the Student Legal Services Office at UMass Amherst. And the Student Legal Services Office or SLSO is a student funded law office providing legal assistance to fee paying undergrad and graduate students and student groups. This is free confidential advice and or referral services, as well as low cost representation and many legal matters, including in the area of housing law. And part of the SLSO's mission is to educate and inform the university community about the law through community legal education programs, such as this. A an agreement to rent housing is a type of legally binding contract between a tenant and a landlord. So it's critical that tenants understand the terms of the contract and that they know their rights. The terms of a lease, just like any other contract may be negotiated between the parties, but tenants are often in that unequal bargaining position compared to a landlord who's in the business, particularly in a tight housing market. A landlord may be able to simply say, you know, well, here's my lease, take it or leave it and move on to the next applicant. But a tenant should be aware that illegal lease terms will not be enforced by a court and knowledge is power to the tenant. And infinitely for renters in Massachusetts, our Commonwealth has some of the strongest tenant legal protections in place compared to other states. The landlord tenant relationship is highly regulated and multiple sources of law. So what does a tenancy convey, including Massachusetts law, federal law, common law, and the Massachusetts state sanitary and building codes, as well as local, local town bylaws. In exchange for payment of rent, the tenant receives the right to physically live in the rental property and we call this possession of the premises. And the tenant has the right to exclusive possession of the rental premises. There are two things that the tenant can exclude anyone or anything from the premises, even the landlord. A landlord cannot simply walk into an apartment or rented house, because they own the property. There are two very important implied promises on the part of a landlord that protect tenants rights in a rental context. And the first is the what's called in legal terms, the implied covenant of quiet enjoyment. And that means that the landlord promises not to interfere with the tenancy. The other implied promise is a warranty of habitability. The tenant has the right to live in safe and habitable housing. So diving in a little bit more in depth, the implied covenant or promise of quiet enjoyment means that a landlord will not interfere with the tenant's quiet enjoyment of the rental property and will not enter without the tenant's permission. There, as with many things in the law, there are exceptions. If there is a true emergency pipe as has burst in as gushing water, or a court order, for example, a landlord might enter without the tenant's permission. But ordinarily a landlord should give what we call reasonable notice to a tenant about the need to enter for inspections and repairs. Elise can state that a landlord may enter to inspect, to make repairs, to show the unit to prospective tenants or buyers. But again, the tenant should get reasonable notice. The tenant of quiet enjoyment also means that landlords must comply with the laws around providing and charging for utilities. Cross metering is illegal. A tenant should only have to pay for the utility that they actually consume. So a cross metering claim or violation would be apartment A is not only paying for the electricity that services their apartment, but maybe they're also paying for the electricity in apartment B right next door. Landlords must not attempt to get possession of the rental back by force without going through the proper judicial process. There's no such thing as self health eviction anymore. And conduct that might violate or constitute a breach of quiet enjoyment does not have to be intentional on the landlords part. It's possible that a landlord's negligent conduct that causes a serious interference with the tenancy can be sufficient to constitute a tenant claim. And if a tenant is successful on a quiet enjoyment claim in court against a landlord, the damages are three times the months rent or the tenants actual damages, whichever is greater. And that would include the tenants reasonable attorneys, attorneys fees and court costs. The warranty of habitability is a promise on the landlords part that the rental premises will meet the minimum standards to be fit for human habitation. And those standards are pretty much set forth in the state sanitary code, building code comes into play electrical code fire prevention requirements. Examples of conditions that might breach this promise of habitability would be a cockroach or rodent infestation, water leaks defective windows insufficient heat in the winter electrical problems defective floors wall ceilings. It's important that tenants understand that landlords must have notice of the bad condition in the, in the apartment. So the landlord needs to know or should have known. So if the bad condition existed at the beginning of the tenancy. So before right before the tenants moved in notice is implied to the landlord. Otherwise, if the bad condition arises after the tenants move in, they must report the issue to the landlord. It's always better to do this in writing, but verbal notice can be sufficient, but you want to try to as best as possible. Keep a record of the communications and written is better. The landlord must repair the issue within a reasonable amount of time. And what is reasonable will depend on the circumstances of the issue. If a tenant has the right to request that the Board of Health or inspection services conduct an inspection of of the property property if they're concerned. If a tenant is successful on a breach of warranty of habitability claim, the damages that a court might award are the difference between the value of the apartment in its quote unquote habitable condition, which is usually the amount of the rent. And the value of the apartment in its bad condition, and how, how do you determine the value of the apartment in in its bad condition. It's a very fact specific analysis. It does not assess the nature of the condition, the length of time that it existed, and usually determine some percentage reduction in the amount of the monthly rent for based on that bad condition. For example, there are two types of tenancies, a tendency under a lease and a tenancy at will, and the type of tenancy at play affects the rights and obligations of both the tenant and the landlord. And there are differences between the two. So a lease must be in writing a tendency at will might be in writing, or by verbal agreement. Under a lease, the terms, the term contract terms of the tenancy are dictated by what is contained in that lease, and the tenant is bound by all the legal terms in that lease. Under a tenancy at will, the terms of the tenancy will be dictated by the written agreement if there is one. Otherwise, the verbal agreement establishes a rental rate. And I should mention that oftentimes, if there is a written at will agreement, it might be titled something like rental agreement, instead of lease at the top. A lease, on the one hand, is for a set period of time. It's usually a year, but it doesn't have to be. And the tenant is bound to pay the rent for the term of the lease. Under a tenancy at will, it's not a fixed term. Most often a tenancy at will is on a month to month basis, if that is how the rent is paid. So the period of the at will tenancy is based upon how frequent the rent is paid. Usually it's monthly. Additional differences between a tenancy under a written lease and a tenancy at will. What about terminating the tenancy? So under a lease, neither the landlord nor the tenant can end the lease during that period of time, except for a reason specifically listed in the lease itself. For example, if the tenant fails to pay the rent under a tenancy at will, on the other hand, the tenancy can be ended by either the landlord or the tenant without any specific reason, but with proper notice in that notice is equal to one rental period that is at least 30 days. What about increasing the rent under a lease? No, the landlord cannot increase the rent during the lease term caveat unless it's specifically provided for in the lease itself. So the tenant would have previously agreed to that. Under a tenancy at will, the landlord might decide to increase the rent, but must provide proper notice. And again, that notice is equal to one rental period that is at least 30 days. It's important to note that a landlord cannot unilaterally increase the rent. A tenant must consent or agree to that rent increase before it becomes due. If a tenant doesn't agree to the higher rent and just continues to pay the old rent, the landlord might decide to evict, but they would have to go through all of the proper procedures to do so. At a minimum, a lease should contain the following clauses, the term of the lease when it begins, when it ends, the amount of rent and when it's due, the address of the rental property, the contact information of the owner, and if there's some other entity or property manager that's responsible for maintenance and repairs, the contact info for that person. The lease should also contain the contact information of the person authorized to receive notice from the tenant, including legal notice. If the landlord is asking for a security deposit, then that should be contained in the lease, and the lease should state the landlord's obligations with regard, legal obligations with regard to that security deposit. If the landlord is requiring last month's rent payment in advance, that should also be in the lease. So what are the permissible charges that a landlord might impose at the beginning of a tenancy? There are only four things that a landlord can charge at or prior to the inception of a tenancy. First month's rent, last month's rent, which is in the same amount as first month's rent, a security deposit, no greater than first month's rent, and the costs for a new lock and key. That's it. If a landlord uses a licensed real estate broker to lease the property, the tenant may be required to pay a broker's fee, but that broker must be licensed. Illegal tenancy charges. What about utilities? So a tenant cannot be required to pay for electricity, gas, or oil unless those utilities are separately metered to the tenant's unit. So no cross metering. And there is an agreement in writing that states that the tenant is responsible for those specific utilities. It's unusual for a landlord to attempt to pass on water and sewer charges to a tenant. A tenant cannot be charged for water and sewer unless the consumption is separately metered. There's a written agreement. And there are water conservation devices installed. So low flow faucet, shower, toilet, and there's a certification filed by the landlord with the town as to the compliance with the law around water and sewer charges. A landlord cannot charge a late fee or interest or penalty for unpaid rent until the rent is 30 days past due. Many leases will say there's a late fee after five days or 10 days, not enforceable. What about pet fees, application fees, cleaning fees? No, a landlord cannot charge these at the beginning of a tenancy. So if a tenant breaches a lease stops paying the rent and the landlord decides to sue and bring an eviction case in court, the landlord's attorney's fees are not recoverable unless there's a written agreement signed by the tenant. So there could be a clause in that lease that says attorneys fees will be collectible by the landlord against the tenant. If that's a one-sided clause in the lease, the law or the court will imply a reciprocal obligation on the landlord's part that the landlord has to pay the legal fees of a prevailing tenant on a possible counterclaim against the landlord. So there are certain terms that are illegal if they're contained in a lease. Oftentimes what happens is that particular clause of the contract of the lease is simply void. It wouldn't be enforceable in court. There may be circumstances where certain illegal lease terms might void the entire lease, but I think more often the court would just ignore the illegal clauses and not enforce them. So it's an illegal lease term for an agreement that makes the tenant responsible for all repairs. An agreement that the tenant will not contest any lawsuit brought by the landlord. An agreement that the tenant will pay a late fee for paying rent that is less than 30 days late, as I just mentioned. An agreement that the landlord may enter the apartment for any reason other than to prepare to inspect to show the apartment under a court order or to confirm that the rental is abandoned. An agreement that the landlord may evict the tenant without process of law. That's void. An agreement that the tenancy may be terminated without a notice to quit. Also not enforceable. An agreement that the landlord is not liable for the landlord's negligent or intentional acts that cause harm to the tenant or the landlord's breach of contract. Also not enforceable. An agreement that the landlord may deposit presents many pitfalls for a landlord. What is a security deposit? It's a type of insurance to protect a landlord against damage caused to the rental premises or unpaid rent. It's not possible for a landlord potentially to use a security deposit to cover unpaid real estate taxes or water sewer charges, but only if those were otherwise legally imposed on the tenant. A security deposit funds cannot be used to cover the costs of repairing what we call ordinary wear and tear cannot be used for routine cleaning paint painting or freshening up of the unit for the next tenant. An important thing to to understand about a security deposit paid to a landlord is that those funds remain the tenants money during the tenancy. It's simply that the landlord is holding those funds. The handling of a security deposit is very strictly regulated. There are many requirements that a landlord must follow in order to valid validly accept and hold a security deposit. The landlord must keep the funds in a separate interest bearing bank account located in Massachusetts. The landlord cannot commingle mix those funds with the landlord's own money. The landlord must give the tenant a receipt at the time the deposit is paid. The receipt should state the amount of the security deposit, the person receiving it, the date and a description, the address of the rental property. Within 30 days of receiving the security deposit, the landlord must provide a receipt informing the tenant of the bank where the funds have been deposited, the account number and the amount of the deposit. At the time of receiving the deposit, or within 10 days after the tenancy begins, whichever is later, many tenants are signing leases a year in advance. The landlord must give the tenant a statement of condition, which is a very important document that can protect the tenant. The statement of condition is a description of the current condition of the apartment. This is at the beginning of the tenancy. It can protect a tenant from a landlord's future attempt to attribute pre-existing damage to the apartment that's not the tenant's fault. The statement must be signed by the landlord, contain a complete list of existing damage, if any, and then it also must include this statement that's in the statute itself, basically informing the tenant of the importance of this statement of condition. And the tenant has the right to attach to that statement a list of any damages that the tenant sees that the landlord failed to include on the list. And the tenant should return that statement or their supplemental list within 15 days. If the landlord doesn't give the tenant the statement of condition, the tenant can send their own to the landlord. So the security deposit has to be deposited into a bank account that earns interest. As the security deposit funds are the tenant's property, the interest that's earned on that deposit from the bank where it's held is also the tenant's property. Each year the landlord must inform the tenant of the earned interest and either pay that interest over to the tenant or allow the tenant to deduct the accrued interest from the next payment. And this is payable each year on the anniversary date of the tenancy. The interest rate, you know, for a while it's been very low, but it's the bank's actual rate or 5%, whichever is less. A landlord must return the security deposit deposit funds in full within 30 days of the conclusion of the tenancy. What about deductions from the security deposit? Again, very strict requirements that a landlord must follow in order to validly deduct. If the landlord keeps any portion of the security deposit, it must send a statement to the tenant within 30 days of the end of the tenancy, including an itemized list of the deductions from the security deposit. The damages that the landlord is alleging and remember those damages must be beyond ordinary wear and tear, the cost of repairing that damage, and attach supporting documentation, invoices, bills, estimates for the repairs. And this statement must be signed under the pains and penalties of perjury by the landlord. A landlord's failure to comply with the requirements of the security deposit statute means that they lose the right to hold those funds, even during the tenancy. While the tenancy is still pending, the landlord would forfeit the right to hold those funds. A tenant would be entitled to demand the immediate return of the deposit if, for example, the landlord did not place the funds in the appropriate bank account. What are the damages for violating the security deposit statute? If a landlord fails to return the deposit upon demand when there's a violation, then there is a essentially an automatic penalty of three times the amount of the security deposit. And if the tenant has to bring the landlord to court, that includes the tenant's reasonable attorney's fees and court costs. So depending on the type of violation, a landlord can protect itself from further penalty by returning those security deposit funds upon demand by the tenant. But it's important to note that a failure to return the security deposit within that 30 day deadline of the end of the ten and vacating, moving out of the apartment, has been held to require treble damages. So three times the amount of the deposit, even when the landlord did eventually return the deposit before a lawsuit was filed. Last month's rent, if the landlord requires it, is very different than a security deposit. But the landlord is required to also provide a receipt for this payment, stating the amount and the date, the name of the person receiving it, its intended use for last month, and the rental address, and notice that the tenant is entitled to any interest accrued on this payment as well. So if the security deposit is deposited into an interest bearing account, the landlord is required to pay the annual interest to the tenant, or allow the interest to be deducted from the next month's rent. Unlike a security deposit, last month's rent is the landlord's money, not the tenants. But because it's paid in advance, the tenant should receive the interest earned on the payment. And again, what's that interest rate? It's the actual rate at the bank or 5%, whichever is less. So very briefly on notice to quit. Before a landlord may begin an eviction case, which is called a summary process action, it must terminate the tenancy by sending the tenant a notice to quit. There's a potential exception to that requirement. If the landlord commences an eviction case right after a lease term ends, the lease has expired, and the landlord has not accepted any additional rent, then a notice to quit wouldn't be required. But generally, it is. So quit what? What does that mean? The notice is a demand that the tenant vacate or move out of the rented premises by a certain date or a number of days. It's important that a tenant understand that a tenant is not required to move out by the deadline in the notice. Only a court can require that. If the tenant doesn't voluntarily move out, then after that notice period expires, then the landlord may begin the eviction case in court, where a tenant would have the right to answer the complaint and raise any counterclaims and defenses to the eviction. So the amount of notice that is required will depend on the particular facts of the situation. If the reason is non-payment of rent, then it's a 14-day notice to quit. If the reason is false base, what's referred to as for cause, some alleged bad behavior under a written lease, then we would need to look at the terms of the lease itself for the notice period. If the reason is fault or no fault under a tenancy at will, on the other hand, then the notice period is that rental period notice. One rental period that is at least 30 days, and that must terminate the tenancy on a date that the rent is due. Sometimes this type of notice is misleadingly referred to as one month's notice or a 30-day notice, but note the month of February that does not contain 30 days. So it has to be one rental period that is at least 30 days. So for example, a notice served on May 15th to tenants who pay their rent on the first of the month, the landlord can't file the eviction case in court until July 1st, not June 15th, but July 1st. So here are some general renting tips. View the apartment before you decide to sign on the dotted line. Don't rent an apartment site unseen. Make sure that you read and understand the lease terms before signing, get copies of the signed lease, get receipts for any payments made to the landlord, and save any emails and text messages, save all of these documents in a folder. Take photos of the apartment at the time that you move in to document the condition at the time you move in. Take photos of the apartment when you move out to document the condition when you move out. And finally, provide a forwarding address to send the so the landlord can forward the security deposit to you. So here's our contact information for the SLSO. If you are a UMass student, you can submit. We have an intake form on our website that you can access and fill out and send to our email address. And lastly, all of what I have discussed here this evening is general information. It's offered for informational purposes only I do hope that was helpful. Obviously, if anyone should need specific and individual legal advice or assistance, then they should contact an attorney and you know we're an attorney when we include this disclaimer about that. But thank you very much. Awesome. Thank you so much Emily for that super informative presentation. We will save questions for the end, but you can also throw them into the chat or to community click at any point. If you joined this late, please refer to the chat or the community click link and follow that link as an attendee to participate in our interactive portion. But next up we have Amherstown Council representative Mandy Joe who will show us more about Amherst rules and regulations. Thank you Audrey and thank you Emily for that wonderfully informative presentation on your tenant rights under the law. So I'm a town counselor in the town of Amherst and I want to also mention that we have John Thompson one of our inspectors here to answer questions at the end during the question period. I will unfortunately have to leave early but he does the inspections when I get to that part. So I'm going to talk a little bit about the rental permitting in Amherst Amherst enacted a bylaw in 2013 that requires landlords and property owners if they want to rent an apartment or a property a house. They must obtain a permit. And so the goals of doing this were to basically protect the health safety and welfare of tenants a lot of what you just heard from Emily about habitability and all. This is part of what Amherst is trying to do to make sure those those dwelling units are habitable and safe and sanitary. And so what does our permitting bylaw require. It requires as I said all persons or companies, whether it's an individual that owns a property or an LLC or some business that owns a property that wants to rent out or offered to rent out in any dwelling unit on the property they have to get a permit from the town. And the exemptions are hotels motels and group homes so things that don't necessarily apply to most people those items are actually regulated under a different law in the Commonwealth. And what do they need to do to get that permit. So right now, what they need to do is apply for it. And that application requires the contact information for the owners and any management company. And it also actually requires that if an owner doesn't live within 20 miles of Amherst, they have to have a local agent who does live in Amherst and within 20 miles that can respond to those emergencies so if your owners contact information says they live in another state. You're, they should have somewhere on this application another place that you can contact that's close. It also requires them to certify a self inspection and that's the one thing I'm going to talk a little bit more about today is that they have to certify that the dwelling unit and the property that they're renting out complies with the local zoning and regulations and all of those state health fire sanitary and building codes that Emily talked about that make a place habitable. And once they get that permit. They post it they have to post it according to our bylaw in a common area of the property or a place that's easily visible to tenants and inspectors. So when I was a renter of a single family home, the landlord would post that permit in the stairwell of the basement. In a apartment complex it might be posted in the management office, it might be posted at the door of a building, they get to choose where to put post it but it should be easily visible to you the tenant. And the other thing this bylaw requires that tenants should know about is that the owners are required to distribute to you the tenants and information sheet that describes key local regulations are bylaws including those that pertain to noise alcohol and violence, and then also describes those state laws and codes applying to rental properties. So what is included when that owner self certifies their inspection when they say we've inspected and it come our dwelling units comply with everything when they submit that with their application form. One of the things is they're saying that their dwelling unit complies with our zoning bylaw zoning bylaw generally includes things like a parking management plan where cars can park on the property. It generally includes proper maintenance of the parking areas proper lighting of the parking areas and other things like that. And I'm just talking about a few of the requirements right now of these bylaws and I'll mention in a couple. What actually requires the exterior conditions the building code, they're going to be certifying things like that there's a snow removal plan there's a maintenance, there's proper maintenance of the building and site lighting that the building has a secure and an envelope and a building envelope is basically the exterior of the building the walls and the roof. And they're going to certify that it's maintained properly and it's secure and it's weathertight that water is not getting in they're going to certify that there's an appropriate trash and recycling management plan. How is the trash being removed from the property. When we talk about life safety systems what we mean is sort of the fire protection systems and systems in the building. That means that they're certifying that they've regularly tested and updated the smoke detectors and carbon monoxide detectors that they work and that the entrances and exits are clear and free of obstruction, meaning you can get out in an emergency without having to move stuff. And that if there's fire escapes that they're structurally sound they're not going to collapse they're going to work when they need to work. And then the next one is those healthy living conditions that Emily talked a little bit about regarding the covenant of habitability. They include windows and doors that operate that they open they close they close securely they can lock natural lighting ventilation meaning a bathroom has appropriate ventilation for the steam and the moisture that's created in it. And the finishes of the building are intact you don't have peeling, sealing tiles coming down and falling down things like that, and that there are controls to prevent that excessive moisture, anywhere in the building. And that, again, with their, their pest and rodent infestations aren't there, you know that they've got a control in there and a plan in there to make sure that there aren't mouse mice and rats running around and cockroaches and things like that. So that's what they're saying when they apply for our permit that they're dwelling units meet. This is a picture of the tenant information sheet that every tenant should receive upon leasing a property in town upon entering that that lease agreement or at the time they take occupancy. On our website I'm going to put into the chat that information to find it on the website I know you can't read it right now, but I just wanted to show you an example of what it looks like that you should have been receiving. If you haven't received it you can go to the website or you can ask your landlord for a copy. So if something I've said, strikes you as wait I'm not sure my apartment complies with this or that my apartment has a permit or anything like that, what can you do. What you can do is file a complaint with the town. This is a town bylaw it's not a state bylaw so you'd go to the town. And you can do that three ways you can call our inspection services office. You can file that complaint online at the place that I've noted there's there's a web form online or you can email our inspection services office. What are violations they would be things like not having that rental permit or not complying with those help fire and building codes or the bylaws and permits that I just talked about. And if you do file that complaint one of the things our bylaw requires is that our inspection services division will come out and inspect your property. Of course, as Emily said, they cannot do that without your permission or a court order. But but that is part of what they will do is come out and go through and see if there are violations of those codes. In the summary of what our permit system requires for more information, you can go to our rental permitting website, and I will put these links in the chat. You can find that tenant information sheet on our website, we also have a tenant guide to that self certification program what are they certifying and that includes a lot of links to these actual codes it gets very dense but that. One last thing I wanted to say was that are the committee I chair is working on revisions to the bylaw I just described to hopefully make it a little more responsive to tenants in terms of inspections. Even while the current last nine years of this bylaw has done wonders to improve the housing stock in town, we know as a town we can do better to ensure that tenants living situations are habitable and safe. And so we're looking at revising what I just talked about to help that even more. And we have a forum on what, what's going on with that on Monday and so I just wanted to mention that at that I will pass it back to Audrey. Thank you so much Mandy for that presentation. We have one last presentation for you all tonight before we can get into everyone's questions, and it is from the Office of off campus student life. Thank you. Hi everyone. Just to pull up the presentation. All right. So my name is more Roberts. I'm the associate director for off campus student life and community engagement here at UMass. So I just want to make sure that all of our students are aware that our offices out here and we are available to you whether you're thinking about moving off campus, or you already live off campus. So we have a location here in Bartlett Hall room 103. And here we have a lounge that is staffed Monday through Friday, nine to five. We are there to answer any questions that you might have. We also have this lounge space you can see. So we have a lot of students coming in to do work here. We've got a fridge, a microwave, free coffee and tea. We'll do events here that are geared towards off campus students, including snap information sessions. We do a sublet meet and greet so you can get to know some students who might be able to point you towards some housing. We have a few programs that we run out of our office, including good neighbor registration, which is a noise mitigation program that we do in collaboration with the Amherst police department and the Hadley police department. We certainly go into more about that if anyone has questions. We have our good neighbor grants which are really meant to be an opportunity for students to work with their community to improve their neighborhood so folks can apply with a permanent resident and do something like put on a block party or make a community garden or something like that. So we're open to anyone's ideas who might want to apply for that. We also house the student team team positive presence out of our office. If you're on campus you might see them in their bright blue jackets or shirts, they'll be out tabling golf carting, handing out really useful information as well as candy and fun giveaways and so their job is really to create a positive presence here on campus. Thank you. So one of our major resources that I want you to know about is our off campus housing website. So here's sort of a look of that. So anybody who's of the UMass community you would log in with your UMass, your unit login. And if you are not part of the UMass community, you can still use our website. You just need a Gmail account and you can make a guest account. And so here you can really look for housing in the area. This is the only official off campus housing website through UMass so we really urge everyone to use this. So here you can, you can see some of the filters you can look through. You can choose number of bedrooms, a price point, distance to campus, you can see a map. You can also click for apartments that may allow pets or proximity to a bus stop are popular. So if folks are looking for housing, this is really where we point folks to. If you're a UMass student, there's a section that you can see that is called roommates. So there you can make a profile, and you can view other students profiles in here you can find either students who already have a house or apartment who are looking for someone to join them or someone who is also looking for housing that you could join together and look for a house or apartment together. There's a number of resources on there, including sample leases, general information about living in Amherst, rental inspection checklist, and some resources we created in collaboration with student legal services there as well. So there's a lot of helpful information on our website. And we would recommend all UMass students who are thinking about housing to really, if you're thinking about living off campus next year, now's the time to get on the site, think about what you're interested in, find roommates. And with the housing market the way it is, we're really urging folks to be ready to sign leases by December or January of this year for fall 23. So I'll leave it at that. So we have some time for questions. But thanks, everybody. Thank you so much, Mara. All right, so that leaves us with the question answer portion of our webinar. I know we got a few questions through community click so I'll field those to our panelists. And so, one of the first questions that we got maybe Emily you could speak a little more to this was our service animals and emotional support animals protected in leases. Hi, so it's a great question. The landlord might have a no pets policy. And they would have the right to have that policy. However, if a tenant a potential tenant, or an existing tenant has an emotional support animal or a service animal and assistance animal, then the landlord would be required to determine whether a reasonable accommodation to that tenant would be necessary to allow that tenant to enjoy and and use their their home their rental. So if a if a tenant has an emotional support animal they should make a request for a reasonable accommodation to the landlord. And typically that triggers a responsibility on the landlords part to engage in what we call this interactive dialogue to figure out what a reasonable accommodation might be. But a lot of service animals are pretty much. Yes, if if a tenant has one a landlord has to accommodate that. Thank you. Thank you for that answer. Thank you for the question that we had, and again please feel free to put questions into the chat or raise your hand at this time. We also had a question in regards to upfront payments. I know you specified what a landlord can put into an upfront payment, but someone had asked a question about whether things like trash fees are also able to be included in those. The landlord, I think it depends on what, what the lease says. So, in terms of the charges that can be imposed at the beginning of a tenancy, it's it's those four, four things. So it's first month's rent last month's rent security deposit lock and key costs. So a landlord might through validly impose that trash collection fee, I'd have to double check the regulations because I think it does also depend on the number of units at the dwelling as well, but, but not up, not up front. You know, not right at the beginning of the tenancy. But it would be possible within the terms of the lease itself. Thank you again for the answer. And another question that we had is in regards to possible animal infestations in the home. I think say like a small rodent was like living in walls or something whose responsibility is it to manage potential animal situations with that fall under town inspection the landlord or the tenant. Well, it's Emily again. But anyone else can can chime in, I guess from the town, but generally speaking. So under the code, my memory is that if if a tenant is renting a single family house, then the tenant could be responsible for dealing with the mouse problem. And said, if the reason the mice are getting into the house is because there's some structural issues with the house or, you know, cracks or access points to the outside. That's the landlord's responsibility to address. But the first step for a tenant, I think, would be to let the landlord know that there's this issue. And then go from there. And as I mentioned, if a tenant is concerned that a landlord is not being responsive to to issues or conditions at the apartment. The tenant can certainly contact inspection services, excuse me the tenant can certainly contact inspection services and request an inspection, and they will send a copy of that report not only to the tenant but to the landlord. Thank you for that answer Emily and John maybe you wanted to add on from the town perspective. Sure, we get a lot of calls about mice, especially this time of year as it gets cold outside there looking for a warm place to overwinter and what Emily said is correct if it's a single family home, it's often it's codified that it's, it's the responsibility of the occupants to handle an infestation so. But the first step really is to reach out to your landlord and if you don't get any traction with them you should call me and I will respond. Amazing john thank you. And I do have a question in the chat about whether this meeting will be available to watch again on the Amherst website. Yes, this meeting is being recorded we will post the recording on to the town of Amherst website as well as the student government association website for you to refer to as a future resource. And then the next question that I have is for more. In regards to the good neighbor registration, would you be able to explain more about what that program is and why students do it. Sure, I'd be happy to. So this is a program where it's in collaboration with the Amherst police department and the Hadley police department. And so this is all about noise and noise complaints so students will register through our office. And we communicate with the police departments. And so, typically, if a noise complaint is made, you know I'm having a party it's a little bit loud a neighbor calls in a noise complaint. The typical response is police coming to your door to have a conversation. So with this program. First you will get a courtesy phone call to whatever number you register so your cell phone. So if a noise complaint came in dispatch would give me a call let me know that the noise complaint came in, and it gives me the opportunity as a student to handle that party or gathering whatever it is. So really, it gives students an opportunity to handle things themselves before police response. So you get a 20 minute period of time to, to make sure things quiet down, and if after that 20 minutes another noise complaint were to come in, then that traditional police response would occur. So we really love this program because it allows students to sort of handle their business themselves and it also takes a strain off of a town resource, which is the police who are currently understaffed so there's really no downsides to it it's a list that is between our office and off campus student life and the police department. So it's really only seen by the dispatch so it's not like police are going around to look at what these parties are like they don't want to be at your party this is really a way to save resources and to help students out. Hopefully that fully covers it but let me know if you have follow up. Absolutely thank you more for that answer. And then just being mindful of time I think this will be our last question for the night but again, I'll post and share a slide with some further resources to stay in touch. And so this is for everyone on the panel. And it was a question from community click asking, what do you recommend doing first if your landlord is not responding to you slash not respecting your rights as a tenant. Do you have people want to share their resources or share tidbits of wisdom. You can call you can call me. Yes, so my, my first piece of advice would be to to put the cons to make sure that the tenant has put the concerns in writing to the landlord. Sometimes there's just verbal communications which, which should be enough. But if you're really not getting a responsive landlord, put your requests and your issues and concerns in writing, and then yes, definitely take that next step. If it involves an issue in terms of the state sanitary code, getting an inspection done of the property and that will certainly get the landlords attention. If if a landlord is completely unresponsive. The tenant does have some ways to remedy the situation there is such a thing called repair and deduct. I would suggest that the tenant get legal advice before doing that but basically they could do the repairs themselves and then deduct it from the rent. They could file a claim in housing court, for example, requesting a temporary restraining order which would be a request from the judge that the judge issue an order requiring the landlord to do X, Y and Z. And that's another way to get, get things addressed. Awesome. Thank you john and Emily for your answers. And with that, I will close out this webinar thank you so much for joining us all. We would love to hear your feedback on how you think this one. So if you could please scan the QR code, we also hope to send out this presentation. The link of the QR code does not work for you. I've also shown the contact information for our speakers today. So the following emails on the right for student legal services, the town of Amherst and off campus student life or who you can refer to, for any further questions. I just want to thank our speakers today so much. And yeah, thank you all for joining us today. Thank you.


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Team keep it clean. Huge development came out of this safe flowers investigation yesterday and we're going to get into this article shortly Before we do make sure you subscribe to the channel turn your notifications on so you don't miss any updates on this or really anything else that happened With the Baltimore Ravens and also as I know y'all will be just please continue to be respectful And I love y'all and I hope that y'all are having a really really good day now Let's get into this article says and this of course is from Justin Finn He has been covering this thing in its entirety It says Baltimore County police have closed without charges an investigation into an incident of alleged Domestic violence last month involving Ravens why receivers they flowers? Oh and another thing before we continue If I get anything wrong if I misunderstand anything a lot of y'all know a lot more than me and understand the criminal justice system a Lot more than I do so please feel free in the comment section Respectfully of course to let me know if I made any errors if I have any misunderstandings if I just get it wrong You could feel free to let me know. Oh, but anyway, I Rory that again it says Baltimore County police have closed without charges an investigation into an incident of alleged domestic violence last month Involving Ravens wide receiver they flowers. So what I got for that part of the article right there that first paragraph Sound like this case is closed and there are no charges brought against anybody So let's continue says a woman showed up to the acting police department in, Massachusetts last month to report a violent domestic incident Involving an NFL player in Owings Meals She told police that the suspect's brother drew a gun according to police records released Tuesday She declined to identify the NFL player or seek further action from law enforcement Officers wrote instead she questioned police about what would happen if she filed a report So from that They said is the domestic violence incident in Owings Meals involving an NFL player Said that that NFL player brother drew a gun. They pulled a gun out And that was according to the police reports and it said that she did not she declined to identify the identity of That NFL player so she wasn't saying who it was and then says she questioned police Well, what would happen if she actually filed the report? So continuing it says she told officers it was a really bad ten minutes But hasn't but she hasn't been scared since according to police records She also told them he has too much to lose and that he is too smart to do something like that So, I mean that part right there. It's pretty self-explanatory I don't really think there's anything we could misunderstand from that because it says she told the officers He has too much to lose and that he's too smart to do something like that So anyway, let's continue says the Baltimore banner confirmed earlier this month that police in Baltimore County an acting We're investigating an allegation of domestic violence involving the Ravens wide receiver Both police departments declined to comment at that time with the matter now closed Baltimore County police released the records Tuesday under the Maryland Public Information Act It says the records show the woman declined to file a police report and Officers connected her to flowers only by social media. So what they must have done? they must have obviously got her information got her name and stuff and They looked up on social media because as y'all well know nowadays like jobs They'll look through your social media. I mean social media can tell a big part of your life story Who your friends all who you might be connected with who you hang out with what it could tell so much because a lot of people They put everything on social media. So it sounds like the police department since she wasn't telling them who the Alleged suspect was then they were like, you know what we're gonna try to find out our own way So that's how they apparently connected her to say flowers. Well, let's continue Says the record show the woman declined to file a police report and officers connected her to say flowers only by social media Officers contacted an attorney for the suspect But the attorney told them his client would not be available for an interview Police wrote that they excuse me police wrote that they also called Ravens vice president of Security, but that he was out of town and would call them when he returns a Raven spokesman referred the banner to an earlier statement released by the team So the police they were trying to get in contact with they flowers They flowers Attorney said nope. He ain't he ain't available for any of you right now. So he ain't talking to nobody right now Then they were like, alright, we can't contact they flowers. Let's go to his job We're gonna contact his employer and that being a Baltimore Raven said they called the Ravens vice president of security Is that Chad steel or is that not maybe it's not so you know what I don't call me on that because I don't remember who it is But anyway, um, they called the Ravens vice president of security And but it said that he was out of town and he would call them when he returned So they they were trying they were really trying to contact they flowers and try to contact his attorney his employer But obviously it didn't work then the Ravens spokesman referred to the banner to an referred the banner to an earlier statement Released by the team and that's when they said we take these matters seriously and we'll have no further comment at this time So we do remember and we'll we covered that when the Baltimore Ravens put out that official statement on this whole situation Anyway, continuing it says in addition The NFL continues to monitor all developments a league spokesman said Tuesday now that part Because right now it's saying that the investigation is closed And that nobody's being charged with anything We've seen this before To where an investigation could be closed and there may not be any charges But the NFL we've seen it in times before where they will still issue a suspension They'll they'll still issue one So we got to wait it out to see if Roger Goodell and them if they end up still issuing a suspension Because that is a very real possibility even though again They flowers was not charging this whole investigation But the NFL they Sometimes they do things their way. So we just got a way to see what happens with that And then continuing in the article it says the incident happened on January 16th Four days before the first of two Ravens playoff games 3410 went over to Houston, Texas five days later. The woman showed up At the acting police department with her father and a friend then the story continues So says she stated that she was physically assaulted which left her with multiple bruises Acting police wrote the woman stated that she was very hesitant to give much information Due to the high-profile status of the other party involved. I Asked what she meant by a high-profile and she stated that he is an NFL player So it's like this the story. It's like we'll get a little more and we get significant more and then it just stops Because this thing has been just it's been crazy. But anyway continuing Says she did not want to provide the suspect's name or address But she told officers she had been living with her boyfriend in a townhouse Outside Baltimore when the scene became violent and he trashed her belongings She stated that she called 911 and was crying when they answered She told the communications officer that she was okay and hung up acting police wrote Baltimore County police released a 911 call in which a dispatcher Can be heard asking a woman if she has an emergency or needs help. No, that's okay. Thank you. She responds Excuse me sounding upset Two marked police cars were dispatched to the home and owing meals and sat in the parking lot for about two hours Baltimore County police called her back, but she did not answer. She closed the shades She told acting police that she was glad the police cars arrived Because the brother got scared left the room put the gun away and that is what really made it stop She said according to the police report so again we But when this story first came out We got a little small details here and there, but this is right now This is the most details that we've gotten on this entire story Since it this whole thing came out a couple of weeks ago But let's just continue says Baltimore County police dispatch recordings Also showed that on January 16th a 911 call from a distressed woman was geo located to the house next door To flowers owing meals home where neighbors also reported seeing officers that day The woman told acting police that she had photographs of her bruises, but she did not share them Officers wrote her father confirmed the bruises. She did not seek medical treatment An acting police officer can be heard on body camera footage saying there were injuries according to the report So again, that's the acting police. That's the one in Massachusetts Also during the interview with police She looked at her cell phone and told officers that she was getting a call from the suspect's agent. Oh She did not answer that call The police report did not name the agent, but flowers is represented by Zach Hiller He has not returned multiple messages from the Baltimore banner since February 8th So Baltimore band and they've been trying to get answers from everybody too, but obviously nothing been happening with that so continuing an acting officer an acting police officer Offered her a form to seek a protective order and advise her of her legal options The acting officer told her that he understands that this is a high-profile person But it does not set a precedent over her safety She stated that she was not currently in fear and felt safe at home officers wrote Baltimore County contacted the police Excuse me Baltimore County police contacted the woman and her father, but wrote that there were no further issues Nor did she disclose any additional information about the incident. She still had not identified the suspect County police also wrote that without additional information. They have suspended the investigation see that's That's where it's been very tricky because Beginning of the article it says closed End of this part of the article it says Suspended and then the reason I say end of this part of the article because the only thing that they talk about now is over Flowers was a standout at Boston College. They just talked about his his stats and stuff, but anyway Excuse me. Oh, excuse me. This was this report was from Jonas Schaefer and Gianna Hahn of Baltimore Bay and I link it down below in the description too So y'all can check it out for yourselves, but um, so yeah, so this it appears that the this whole thing is Suspended unless they unless they get some additional information Then it's suspended or I guess you could say it's closed for now So, yeah, that's that Well, that's that for now this is a very Article this is a very um, this is something but again everything's is It's closed whether that is closed temporarily whether that is closed permanently I guess that's still to be determined But for now everything is closed or suspended until they get any additional information but again NFL they did step in and say like hey we we watching we watching and we we been monitoring this whole thing too as you know They are you know the Baltimore Ravens. They've been all over this thing and you know the NFL They would definitely be all over this So that is something to I guess just watch out for pay attention to wait on We'll see so yeah, man I just wanted to because this is a big development in this whole thing So again just to do a recap say flowers right now that they are the investigation is being closed And nobody is being charged with anything. So if anything else happens with it, of course, y'all know We will let you know And again, make sure you subscribe to the channel turn your notifications on so any updates again regarding this or not Regarding anything with the Baltimore Ravens Y'all know where you can get it from. I love y'all. I appreciate y'all again Remember to please be respectful to everybody because this is extremely important Especially with sensitive manners like this. I love you


What's up guys, Michael with jasky's doing a quick recap for our 2023 tops chrome jumbo 8 box case break pick your team number 14 Here's the list positive if you need to There you go, and these are some rookies and refractors These will all get top loaded just I was by myself today. So it's kind of in a rush didn't have much time to but These will all get top loaded. I promise Adley or Adley Waldechuck negative all the rooks and stuff Alvarez prism Gunner prism Alvarez refractor Acuni refractor Corbin refractor Volpe refractor Shohei refractor Another Alvarez refractor Now the numbered stuff and autos here we go Prada 350 Cal Mitchell 99 Josh Bell Soto Then we had a boat Jackson ultraviolet Ziko Tovar radiating rookies now the autos drew waters to 199 Caleb Hamilton and 250 Brett Beatty base G1 Bay blue to 150 Terang Palacios Henry Kodai Senga base public Thompson to 150 The Brennan buddy under Palacios another drew waters another drew waters II guy Will Benson Estre Ruiz Brennan again Woods Richardson, and then we had in another two radiating rookies in this case. Adley Ruchman radiating rookie We had a Corbin auto to 199 and a Michael Harris auto to 250 So that does it for the recap pretty nice case. Thank you to everyone who got it to the break Thank you guys for watching and I'll see you guys in the next one. Bye guys


Okay, so yeah, today I will be talking a lot about Shiny applications. I personally am a big fan. I guess that you also find them useful throughout your career, from your projects. And I worked for several pharmaceutical companies and introduced built Shiny applications for them. So how especially it is really nice to play around with your scripts, analysis studies there in a way of interactive Shiny applications. But one way is to play with the Shiny application and actually see your analysis interactive. And another much more complicated stuff is making them production-ready, production-alized Shiny applications. For that, you need to introduce a lot of different components and take care of a lot of different areas of how you are building Shiny applications. Today I would like to present you setting a reproducible Air Shiny project environment. And we will be focusing on how to make this production-ready application, how to start this, what things it's required to make sure that this will work everywhere. Every time and that you can actually trust those results. My name is Marcin Dubel and I work in Apsion company and building the reproducible production-ready Shiny applications is what we do every day. So coming back to our map of the areas of the Shiny applications, we will take out few of those that we want to take care of today. We are also super important but we will focus on making sure that our application is reproducible production application. We will start simple with the code sharing. I bet everyone is already there and you are not sharing your code in the form of some zip folders or versioning by naming and you are all familiar with different tools for the repositories based on the Git, like GitHub, Bitbucket or GitLab. And so this is kind of like a one-on-one class for making sure that your application is reproducible, that you have your code on some repository. However, you can ask yourself a question whether you are making use of those and I saw this a lot that, okay, we have Git but we are like putting everything into the main branch without checking what is there, without actually splitting our work to branches, without any meaningful commits and without doing reviews. So the base of making sure that your application will be reproducible and production is to make sure that your process of building this is actually reliable. But okay, this is the very basic. Let's go to what we should keep outside of the repository. And definitely storing all the data files that I bet for the pharmaceutical companies for your project in bioinformatics, it's also quite typical for maybe for that reason only that the data is so huge that it's impossible to store this in the repository. So usually there are some databases or some file sharing things. But also what is not so obvious all the time, we cannot store the credentials there in the repository. So for a local development, we usually use the add and write on file. So this is the file when you set your environmental variables, for example, the credentials to the database, or you can use the really nice feature of RStudio Connect if you are using that. And probably if you are working in some huge organizations, they have the license for RStudio Connect or Post-it Connect. And this is a really nice way to store your credentials. So that's the obvious thing for the security reasons why we don't want to keep this in the repository. We want that to be secure. Okay, speaking about the reproducibility, we need to talk about the different environments. And here I will mean that we would like to make sure that whatever I'm building on my machine, it will work on my machine as well in the future. It will work on the other machines. It will work on the server when I deploy this. Okay, so the first, again, the baby step is that we don't want to have any local paths to some not-relative paths to something on my computer so that when I move around my project, it still works. So always start with using R projects and use the relative paths to the project itself. Okay, so that will assure that when I move around my project, it will still work. However, I want to make sure that it's not only working when I move it around my computer, it also works in time when there are different versions of packages and also when I move it to my colleague, my teammate computer. For that, I'm also pretty sure that you've already heard this because this is a game changer for Shiny application for a few years right now. So you should be familiar with RNV package that allows you to separate your project environment. And here I mean the version of the packages that you are using from the rest of your R project and allows you to share this state and send this to repository so that your teammates can take, clone this and restore the environment with the same version of packages. Setup is super simple and restoring environment is super simple and that will allow you to move in time on your machine so that you can come back in months or years to the same project, restore the versions of the packages that were used and rerun and expect the same results. But also your teammate can take your project, restore the environment and expect the same results. However, this is only dealing with the version of our packages and there are, there can be different dependencies that we are using. So there you can be some system dependencies, there can be an R version itself which RENV is not solving that problem. There is a wording that different R version was used but it's not solving that problem. For this, the Docker images, the containers are a really nice solution so that you can actually share the exact same environment with all the system dependencies, R version and the packages there. Usually you are using them combined so you build your Docker image and one step in building them and the container is to restore the environment based on what is in the RENV log file. This is the file, the instruction of what versions of packages to restore is called log file. Usually nowadays again with the Connect and all those projects from our Studio Posit there is much simpler because there is a server already predefined with the Workbench and the Connect server that are the same for all users and you don't need to care about the containers. You do need to care about keeping your RENV log for your project but all the system dependencies should be solved. Okay, so this is the environment and when we are talking about environment you probably heard a lot about that we need to have a production environment, development environment and we would like them to be the same so that whenever we are building on a development environment and we deploy this to production it works the same. And yes, this is crucial and this should be solved with all those tools that I presented on the previous slide. But I would also like to talk a little bit about the configuration. What I see as a mature reproducible production application is actually how it behaves on a non-production environment, how it is configured. Usually I see useful to have five different setups for the application and to store in the config file how this should behave because of course we want them to be the same when we are talking about the environment. So what are the version of packages, system dependencies, our version, that stuff but we usually want them to behave differently for example to use the different data. So there is a production database with a real data that maybe we are not only reading what we are also writing to this database and definitely it shouldn't be the same data that we are using for tests or the development and that can be specified in config. There are sometimes some features that should be differentiated between those environments. Usually for the projects in Shiny for pharmaceutical companies we were adding in non-production environment some big warning that this is only the test, don't rely on this data that you have here because we really don't want to make the decisions based on the fake data that we are using for development and if someone is accidentally there on the wrong cling we want a big banner to be there displayed for that environment. Okay so those five environments that we see are useful of course production. So here users, stakeholders, developers, all of those parties involved they think that this is a working application and we all believe that this is stable, this is what we can reproduce and rely on. There is usually also a test deployment when stakeholders and developers think that it's work but users are about to test this. So usually for a very mature production applications we have the release candidates on test. While the release candidates pass all the tests, automated tests, user tests, we can merge this with the production. There is also a development environment when developers think that it works and this is what was specified in the tasks but now someone who is managing the application, some business units, some subject matter experts, they are testing before the school will be shared with the users. And there is also a sandbox environment that we found super useful whether you can deploy just to check particular features, just to check how this behaves on a deployed server. It should be the same as on the development but it's always good to test. And usually what I suggest to include is also the config for the offline mode. So when there is no database connection so that you can actually work without being blocked because database is down but this is also useful for other purposes. Let me share a little bit why those configs are super useful. As I said, usually what you want is for the application to get to the different data so it allows you to separate your application from your data layer and test them independently. And it usually speeds up the development. My experience from the projects in pharmaceutical companies, bioinformatics projects is that we are not, the performance is not the main goal because we want the results to be good, to be fine, to be reliable and we can wait for them sometime. It doesn't need to be blazingly fast but for the development you can use a smaller data set, just some fake results to make this much faster to build those applications and you can modify how this should behave based on the config. You can of course test your new features carefully on the deaf or sound box environments and your automated tests can be faster. The same, you can just plug into the fake data and make sure that everything works and the data will be tested separately. Here we can focus on the application themselves. Yes, we can have the reproducible upstate on the mock data. If we are talking about the very dynamic data sets that may be changing a lot, it will be difficult to set up the unique tests based on this or the front-end tests that will display the comparable results every time and also if something is wrong, we won't know whether this is like the new data is something wrong with the new data or the application stops working. If we can use on some config like deaf or test or the sound box or offline the mock data that will be used the same mock data, we will be able to test just the features of the application and we'll be able to reproduce it every time the same. And usually that was the case for such projects that the data sorter is kind of not something to expose. So having the offline config, for example, ready to just share your application, present it somewhere on a conference for some new stakeholders to new developers or maybe the developers themselves shouldn't be allowed to see the data, the actual production data and they can only work on the mock data, that is really helpful there. And what I mean by having the different configs usually it's as easy as having just a YAML file that will specify, okay, for that config you can use those views from that database using those credentials and for others you are switching between different names of the views credentials, whatever you will specify, you can also inherit between those different configs that will allow you to make this super efficient. Okay, sorry, okay, I started to see the agreement. Okay, two more things. The CI and tests, my recommendation start each and every project with the CI and test structure. I won't go into details of how you can actually like build your test, you can do it later, but use something, some automated CI tools like GitHub Actions, use the templates to just repeat those every time the same and make sure that this is green and later you can add your tests incrementally. Also two more things because we discussed about testing applications separated to testing your data and testing your logic. Here I can recommend you the targets package that was previously called Drake for building and how your logic looks like and also the data validator package that here you can automate testing your data. So for example, if there is this dynamic database, you are getting your data, you can before uploading this to production server you can run the tests on the data side and test those separately and only if the tests are passed, this will be sent to your production application to be used. If something is wrong, you can delay this process, send some email notification to check the data, maybe there is something wrong there and you can also apply this to different config files. Okay, so we have our shiny application and we have all those parts covered. Some of them were that we discussed today. Some of those you can learn on different materials, stocks from epsilon, maybe on some other conference. And with this, you should be able to start with the production reproducible application. I think that our last takeout note will be that you should have this in mind when you start. You should have tools ready to make it from the very beginning because later it will be difficult to introduce all of those concepts. Thank you for this and you can reach out to me if you have any questions. Thank you for today. Thank you. Can everybody hear me? I can hear you. Perfect. Perfect. Thank you. I was having so much technical issues, so I appreciate it everyone. Thank you so much for your talk. I didn't see any questions in the chat, but I was having technical issues, so I'm not sure if there were any. I didn't see any in the Q&A either. Beth, I'm not sure if you noticed any questions for our speaker. We have about one minute before the next talk is up. Nope, I didn't see anything. All right. Thank you so much. And then we're going to bring up our next talk which is a recorded talk that is presented by Jacqueline Gonniff of RStudio, and I don't believe that she was going to be available for questions, but thank you.


My name is Zufu Kappa and I'm from micro control and so what kind of products do you do? we are doing products around Typical industrial area But this is a wide area especially if you have a look in our products You would see they are used in avionics in medical systems in military applications and for us products They need to be precise Fast reliable robust. These are the major keywords. We need for our products So it looks maybe something like this up there This kind of product there that isn't what this is. Yes, right is for this Module here is an analog output module with four channels and it's connected to the can bus And it runs via can open or any other higher layer can protocol And there's a ST chipset inside. Yeah, sure. It's a stm32. So What does it do the chipset what software is it running? Oh it's the the code itself it's written in the in C code and We have a can open protocol stack inside that because we're using bus systems And we're putting out the data via the analog channels of the stm32 and this device like this also This one is a customer project and we did this for a customer who has Encoder application and he wanted to have three additional analog input channels which are fast sophisticated robust in his application and So we did this customer module and so have you been working as a company with ST for a long time? Yeah, now I think for more than 20 years already so Why do you work with ST with special luck? I think very special for ST is they have free liable products there I would say very sophisticated easy to understand and for us especially important is the long-term availability and Additionally, I can say since we switched to stm32 family. We're quite happy with that because we have a pin Compatibility throughout the family and this is very very important for us So then you can consider updating or upgrading to a new one or yes, right? I mean, I mean even even when the customer comes along and says well, I've got a price sensitive product We can say okay We can downsize it and take a chip from the ST family Which has not such a high price or even if we have applications which demand higher data throughput Then we can select a chip which has these features for example cortex M4 and 7 and so these are Kind of like hard loops the devices and this this is an example of Is this an old one? This is quite an old wine. I think we did that 15 years ago This was for a customer project where we did something concerning a server drive So I guess it's not used any longer for new applications. However, it's still available and that's the good thing It's still working. It's still yeah, sure. That's still working. There's all these other kinds of devices right here and So the embedded world is important for your company. Yeah, sure I mean the embedded is important for us as well as the SPS IPC drives And so where are you based? We are based in Germany and a city called Troystorf That's just in the middle between Cologne and Bonn


Before we get into the video, people, I am giving away 11,500 Apex coins every month. To be in with a chance of winning them, make sure you are subbed to this channel and have that bell notification button ticked. Drop a like on the video, leave a comment down below. More details are in the video description. What is going on guys, welcome back to the channel and I do appreciate you being here. Today I bring you another Apex Legends video and today I bring you the 10 Commandments for players of the Apex world or newcomers to the game. Credit to Bloodhand Unread it for the idea, I just had to cover this due to him being 100% right in every single way. His Reddit post can be found linked within the video description. So the 10 Commandments for Apex Legends are 10. Leaving the server after a teammate has picked your favorite legend shall be punishable by death. Now I have come across this a few times now. I've had first dibs on a legend to pick and say I pick Wraith and the second or third legend in my team has decided to leave or rage at me for picking Wraith. I mean come on now people, this is a game and you should not be rage quitting or raging at somebody if they pick your legend or a legend you normally use. Even if you are 100 times better than them with that legend they should still not lead to you rage quitting.  Simple as that. 9. Transfer of Jumpmaster Rule must be transferred before the timer runs out.  If you are going to make somebody else jumpmaster because you don't know where to go or you ain't the greatest at flying with speed or you just genuinely don't mind where anybody else goes so you just pass it on.  8. Team mates shall break away from jumpmaster before landing. Do you know how annoying it is when you're in a team of randoms and people land right next to you and loot the same building you are looting when you are in a wide open area of about 20 buildings and nobody else has landed there? Please break off before you land and loot another spot. It really helps progress moving forward out of an area faster. 7. First who calls dibs shall be first to obtain loot.  I mean there's nothing more annoying. The only way you can make this fair is for that the first person who dibs it gets it as simple as that. 6. Moles and Beaks shall forever be pinged. Yes that is right, we all ping that Moles and Beaks but nobody picks it up. I think it's just one of those things you do now. You see a Moles and Beaks? You ain't picking it up so you just ping it thinking that teammate might want it. It just gets left there you turn around, 500 meters down the road and you can still see the weapons ping nuts. 5. Ultimate Accelerance must first be served to a lifeline and you can't really argue that it's kind of a rule now if you have a lifeline in your team you ping that ultimate accelerant just for them or you pick it up and you take it just for them. 4. Teammate who killed enemy gets first dibs and enemies loot.   Yes there's nothing more annoying.  3. Thou shall not loot teammate's death boxes before respawn.  2.  1. Using cheats such as exploits like aimbot speed hacks invincibility or anything else to gain a major advantage on a battlefield is a big no-no and should be punished by castration as simple as that people now it ain't so much on ps4 and xbox one but on pc seems as though they're having major issues with people cheating now i have for ever seen clips on reddit twitter my facebook people posting videos on youtube of people using exploits such as aimbot speed hacks invincibility and so forth i've even seen people posting tutorials on how you can do this if you are one of these scumbags please reevaluate your life because you are doing nothing but ruining the game for the majority and while you may think you are bad running around with an aimbot using cheats for self gain in reality people ain't looking at you like you are good people are looking at you like you are so bad that you have to use cheats like these so yes using exploits like aimbot speed hacks invincibility or anything else is a major no-no and should be punished by castration and on that note guys we have come to the end of the video these are the 10 commandments for players of the apex legends world if you guys enjoyed the video leave a like really does help out if you are new around here and enjoy daily apex legend videos be sure to subscribe and if you never want to miss a video i upload a content notifications on by hitting that bell button but guys i hope you enjoyed the video and hopefully i will see you on that next one


Hello. Hi, Stampers. Welcome to Stampin' Chat with Stampin' Jill. And Ombre. I'm Jill. She's Ombre. Yes. As you know, today we are on YouTube Live. If you weren't with us last week, we started going live on YouTube every Tuesday at one o'clock. We used to do that over on Facebook, but we have now moved over here. So. It's smoother. Yes. We're going to join us each Tuesday at one o'clock for YouTube Live. Yeah. Super fun. What are we playing with today? We're playing with the Gorgeously Made Stamp Set. Yes. And dyes. It's the Masterfully Made Sweets of Products. And included in that is the Gorgeously Made Stamp Set and Dye Bundle. And then those cute gems. Do you want to show those gems? Yes. I love the peacock and the very burst and also the white. They're kind of like an aridescent. Yes. So you'll be able to see them more when we turn the camera. Yeah. And then we're using the Designer Series Paper that's actually on special right now. Yes. Yes. So we're featuring this Masterfully Made Designer Series Paper. It's so pretty. I just have a few of the pieces here. And it has this kind of torn paper look, if you can see, those cute flowers on there. And then on the other side you can see how. On the other side you can see just like that torn look. And then also it has this dye that, you know, you don't have to tear your paper if you want the edge to be torn. Yeah. Look at this sheet. This one's really cool. I just love. I love how they've done the darker, show them that, how each one has got the color in that already made. So if you're, if you're doing multiples of a card, you can use that multiple times. Yes. So, so pretty. So this paper, this month is on sale, it is 15% off. So if you are in need of some of this paper, now is the time to get it.  So we are featuring this one today and showing you some of the super cute things you can do with it and this one bundle. And I haven't even had a chance to play with this. Yeah, both of us. This is our. Yeah. This is my first on what I'm kind of just laying here, but I haven't kind of cut out a few things, but I haven't really designed anything. Yeah. So let's, let's get started. Okay.  I already cut out some of the, the dyes. We have these big dyes right here that make the shapes of, you know, the leafs and stuff. So. And I'm using the, the brushes here to go ahead and do some fun things with the colors. Oh. So I'm going to be brave and try some different things. That looks like it's going to, are you using it like a mask here? Yeah. That's, you know, if that's kind of what I'm doing, but I'm, I'm going to not put it on top. I'm just going to make it the opposite, you know, white, so just kind of seeing how it turns out. Cool. So it's experimenting. Yeah. Is that what we do when we're creating? Yes. So one of the cards I, this is when I played with and made a little earlier. I like I showed that paper so cute. The paper really can do all the work here. I cut out one of those cute little leaf dyes and then just a little thank you with some gems. Super cute. And then I started just, I just am using some of that torn look paper and I'm just stamping on it and we'll see what I come up with here. I love this stamp that's like the, um, like the newsprint kind of look, but old newsprint like that's. Oh, that's got the little edges in it to cut it out. Yeah. Like a spiral notebook kind of thing. Well, no, this stamp. Oh, this, this is like the spiral notebook, which I actually did another one with that too. Then I'm going to put it together here. That actual die. Yeah. This is kind of a fun stamp here just to give that kind of worn look on that paper. Super cute. See what I've done so far. So I took this die right here and did an edge already on it, the torn edge and kind of look and I'm just taking these even though I'm going to use these at a different sample, even though I'm kind of just experimenting with the different colors here. I wanted to not, I mean, it doesn't matter if you go over that because it's thick card stock. So I think it would be good. And it doesn't matter if you use a thinner type of a brush or the thicker ones. I just kind of like them both for different reasons. So and I went ahead with my lighter colors first on this and then I'm going over with this darker because I think this pink is a darker color. So I'm just kind of patting it down to get that look that I want. Oops. You need to move this, but I think I can line it up pretty good because the shadows already there. So what are you doing, Aubrey? I am tearing off a little piece there. I thought I just make like a little area where I can put my saying and use kind of that torn look that is already in the paper. But oh, that actually looks cute. I think it looks cute rolled up like that because then you can see it. So would you do a saying in white? Would you emboss it in white to show like that white look or not necessarily? I don't know. I actually thought I'd use one of these little, I had cut these little pieces. This is one of the dies, too. And then you can just stamp the saying on there. And then I thought I just kind of tuck it out of there or something. I don't know. We'll see. We'll see what comes out of it all. Let's see what we've got. Hello. Thank you. And there was one other saying, you're a great friend. That's a good one, too. You need to decide which one I'm going to do. I want to look at this, too.  Yes. Do you need a color? No, I'm going to. You said you're using your great friend. Yes. I'm going to use this. Thank you. And they all fit into that torn image or torn.  And I, of course, stamped it. Okay, I'm going to grab another because I guess I'm not seeing. Well, is that bug anybody that when you stamp something and it's like not centered? Of course, this is not photopolymer. That's better. So we can't see through it. You're a great friend. I've got to decide. Do I want to put some of this in this or do I want to go ahead and use it the way it is? So you're a great friend. Yeah, I think I will do that. But you know, I think we can just take pieces of this and not the whole thing because the cool thing about these, they're such big pieces that you can just use a little bit and not even use the whole thing. That's true. You can just tear it. Yeah. So I'm going to that's what I'm going to do is just like decide. Okay, I don't need this whole thing. I'm just going to tear some of this off and use pieces of it instead of which sometimes you that's what you want to do is because you don't want the whole thing. You want a smaller piece might do it this way to just kind of make it a long bushy thing. Okay, so there's the three colors with the white in the back. Kind of fun. Very cute. It's so fun and bright. And I didn't use any designer series paper, but you could. I think I'm going to grab. It would be super cute even to cut those that die out with some of this designer series paper. And oh yeah, that's we can get multicolored pieces. Or even the torn ones that that could look really cool with that day. Okay, I like that with that. So what I'm going to do with this is I'm just going to take some of my adhesive, turn this upside down and just kind of put a strand of adhesive on it. Just to kind of try to hold it a little bit together before I put it down.  Okay, so I've got my little compilation here of the spots. Don't you like that? Very fun. Okay, here's my little corned card. And I have one more that I was playing with this one earlier. Just this really pretty purple designer series paper. And then they cut out these cute leafs. And then this is that spiral notebook edge looking edge. And then I just thought that would be nice.  Some people are really good at the collage look, but you could tear. And I'm more, I guess I'm more precise. I have a hard time with collage look, but okay, you're a great friend. I'm just going to put that down here. All right. And I think what I'm going to do here at the bottom is just kind of extend this right down here. Even though it's just the colors. So it's coming on to the other kind of start off the paper. And then it looks like it goes with it. Kind of like the bright. Yeah, I kind of like how these colors are really fun. Kind of going up to the sides of that too. So pretty colors. Does anybody else on the live played with this stamp set? They enjoyed it. Like to hear from you what you think. Okay, so there's the, you're a great friend and you open that up. So we've got that. See, I could use this on it, but just do a little knot. Oh, I love those flowers. I know that backside is so cute too. It is really cute. All the fun stuff you can do. I know there is a lot of different looks. All right, Sheila, she said, this is not my favorite DSP or collection of products, but I like what you guys are doing with it. And I do like the colors. Yes, the colors are so pretty. I know it's like, I have not, it's not like been my favorite, but it, I've seen some beautiful things with it. So I'm like, oh, I know we can do some really pretty things with it. It is a little bit eclectic, but it's really pretty. You're a great friend. I need some. There's my. Oh, that's cute too. Next one. You know, I just really like that look. Cause you just have really sold me on it, even though I'm more the exact same. That, that paper really does so much in the background. It makes it so that I don't have to really do a background on the card. So that. Oh, because it already is there, but it's subtle. I think it's like there, but it's not like crazy. Yes. Just makes it makes using this stamp set a lot easier because the stamp set actually is a pretty simple stamp set. Well, and I haven't just stamped with the stamps themselves other than the same, so I need to do one of those. Yeah. With the colors of things. So there, there's that simple one with the dyes. So cute. And I do like kind of the background with the white. Yeah. Super fun. Super fun and bright. And I think I will just use the stamp right here. Right. Well, we'll keep playing with this and we'll, um, we'll post our pictures of our finished products on Facebook over in our VIP Facebook group. It's called Stamp and Jill VIP. Beth says she'll put it in the link of this video so you can find it there. Um, but yeah, go and check out the finished products there usually within the next day after we're done filming this. Right. Be able to see it and join us tomorrow on YouTube. We'll have our Watch It Weekly Wednesday video come out and it's a really fun one. If I, right, it's the, it's a fun one. So make sure you go and see that. You don't want to thinking about. Yes. Yes. There's something like something that you pull pull. Oh, that's the surprise. Yes. It'll be a good one. So she does it. Join us there and thanks for joining us here. We'll see you next time. All right. Bye bye.


How's it going everyone Caleb here with late in sports cards next up tonight for Brian s. I've got Boxes number 18 and 28 of the Almanac multi-sport personal box edition volume two We go. Thank you very much once again 18 and 28 Let's do it man Brian s appreciate it That's gonna be a large Nine five trout rookie boom Update their centering nine edges nine and a half surface nine and a half 10 corners Let's go Let's go home in Matthew. Wow Mike trout nine five. That's awesome great sub grades 10 a couple in nine fives in a nine There you go, Brian. It's awesome. You have 600 a spot this time. Yep It's tough man. Wow great card from the run there See if this next one can have just as much fire beautiful man Yeah, one of the preview hits. Yep. Yeah It was in the preview on Instagram. Yeah, just such a popular card as well to 25 Ronald Acunia, Jr. Future stars 2019 autograph tops chrome 2019 yes second year Acunia, Jr to 25 mint nine orange That is awesome That is awesome a couple of just baseball legends there Congratulations, Brian Awesome trout very cool. Yeah There you go and thank you so much once again. We'll have them all protected up and right out to you, Brian