This is just a brief overview of what we're doing. So we are specifically focusing on enterprise meetings. It makes you make your meetings productive, take care of the actionables using voice. We have raised 90K and funding so far. We are a team of six guys, three co-founders. We have 15 customers as of now. We are in the private beta. We have 15 paid customers. We are looking for 350K. So the problem that we're trying to solve is most of the meetings are not productive. The reason being there is a lot of talk, but at the end of it there are very few actionables. You have to physically track all those things. Remember it when you come back for the follow-up meeting. We don't know how many things are done that's pending. And $37 billion is just spent on meetings alone in the US. So we have a solution. We have built a voice-based assistant for your meetings where who you could talk to. You could assign tasks to anyone in a meeting. It'll listen to it. It'll sync with your task management tool as well. It'll remind you things when you come back for the follow-up meeting. So these are the three main things that we're solving. So we have a Maya assistant that sits inside a meeting room you could talk to. You could say, hey, assign a task to Nigel to complete application development. It'll do that. Second is you can pull data from your back end. Let's say you have your ERP like Salesforce, Google Analytics. I could just ask, hey, Maya, what was the sales for the last month from India? It'll fetch that data and show it on screen. Third is it keeps track of the meetings and tasks in one place. So we have an application on your phone as well, which will show you all the details. So we make use of AI and ML. So this is how we help you generate the automatic minutes, which is sent to everyone post meeting. Right after you step out of the meeting, you get your minutes. So we have built a conversational engine which makes these conversations happen. So the integration so far we have built us with Salesforce, Google Analytics, Asana, and Jira. These are the four integrations we have built so far. So this is how a typical interaction with Maya looks like. It also works with Alexa and Google Home, but it will also work with any existing microphone that is there in your conference room. You could just connect with your laptop or a mic, and it'll work. But it works better with a far-field microphone. This is a business model. So we are looking for a SaaS model for enterprise. Starts off with $89, which will give you up to 50 meetings a month. And as in how we go higher, the plan increases. We are building more integrations to make the adoption faster. So eventually, we'd be doing custom integrations for bigger enterprises. The differentiation. Seconds. Yes. The bigger differentiation that we are offering with respect to, let's say, Amazon, Echo, or Google is we provide you data privacy. So we host the data at your end rather than third party. That's only option for bigger enterprise, not for SMEs. Eventually, we are coming with more meeting templates, like a Scrum Master review meeting, follow-up meeting, eventually. This is a team, the first three as a co-founders. Yes, why now? Because why is technology better now than before? So this actually helps. I mean, this actually works right now. Thank you. Yeah. Yeah. Let's go to the Q&A. Yeah. Thanks for the pizza. So what do you think are the main reason that meetings are not productive or effective? Sure. So most of the time, people don't look at the minutes before coming to a meeting because it's a piece of text, like two, three pages of document or an email. So you don't really have the time and effort to go through all those things. So that's where Maya comes in. And the moment you walk into the meeting, it gives you a brief of what happened with respect to last meeting. Show all those details on the screen. It'll show you which are the tasks got complete and what is pending. So you are better informed. So we are actually solving half an hour catch-up, which happens currently. So that is totally avoided from every meeting that happens from now on. So most of the people are not informed. That's one thing. Second is it always starts late. And there is always that assistant who is missing, who knows how to run a meeting. So we all admire to be that smart assistant. Like the way a smartphone makes you smarter, we all admire to make your meeting smarter. Same thing. Thank you. And why voice? Why is that sort of easiest interface to interact in a meeting? Absolutely. So in a meeting, you don't want to look into your phone or a laptop. You want it to be conversational based. So we felt like the interactions or the effectiveness improves a lot the moment it goes to voice. And we felt that that's the best way to interact in a meeting, as if you're talking to a real person, rather than looking at a device. Thank you so much. An interesting technology indeed, and probably very useful from my perspective today. What do you need in the next one or two years to really penetrate the market? Sure. So we are looking at more integration. So one problem that we found was once it gets integrated into a system with one click, it's much easier for you to use rather than doing a lot of integration. So we are adding more integrations like Salesforce, Ajiro, or Asana, or Trello, so that's already part of your workflow. So you don't have to do more to start using it. So add more integrations so that there's improved adoption. And obviously, evangelize a bit on voice, because it's a bit different on how you're currently running meetings. So behavioral change is part of it, but yes. Other than that, everything else is fine. Thank you. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you. Thanks.


Welcome to another edition of Haiti. Haiti is a series of videos I do where I respond to viewer questions and comments. These viewer questions and comments they typically come from the videos posted on YouTube and Odyssey. Sometimes these questions and comments come through social media such as Mastodon or Reddit and sometimes I get these questions and comments through email. Now as I was looking for questions and comments to address on today's edition of Haiti I noticed I was getting a lot of questions about the gear I used, a lot of hardware specific questions, a lot of questions about audio and video equipment, things like that. So today's edition of Haiti is a special edition. We're going to focus on questions and comments related to the gear I use. The very first question is, Haiti, how's the Moonlander working for you? I'm finding endless possibilities for configuration and I have gotten a lot of questions here in the last few weeks about my experiences with the Moonlander, with the Ergo Docks and with the Plank because I own all three of those keyboards. I bought all three of those keyboards from ZSA. I've done videos about all three of those keyboards, the Ergo Docks, the Moonlander and the Plank. I use all three on a daily basis. Well, I don't use the Plank every day but I use both the Moonlander and the Ergo Docks every day because I use the Ergo Docks at my home computer. I use the Moonlander right here at my workstation and I have the Plank on this desk behind me. That is the keyboard I use any time I plug up any of my Raspberry Pis or sometimes I'll actually plug up the Plank to my mobile phone and those keyboards are fantastic. I don't regret purchasing any of those three keyboards and I strongly recommend you guys, if you're interested in some of these programmable mechanical keyboards, I really like the split keyboards and I'm really loving the Moonlander which is what this person was asking about. He mentions there's endless possibilities for configuration because you can program the keys to do so much. There's various layers that you could add to the keyboard. So, you know, when you switch layers, the keys now do different things than on the previous layer and yeah, it opens up a whole new world of possibilities. If you're one of these people that love customization, you love tinkering with things, you love things like scripting or configuring, tiling window managers and things like that, you really owe it to yourself to eventually explore programmable keyboards. Now, there are a couple of things you need to be aware of if you're going to purchase any of these keyboards from ZSA. One, ZSA, fantastic company, customer support, if you got any kind of questions, any kind of concerns, they're really friendly. They're the kind of people you can reach out to and get quick answers and get things resolved really quickly. So, I love that about them. The other thing that you should be aware about these ZSA keyboards is they're not cheap. I know that, right? Keep in mind that these are kind of specialty items, right? These are not items, this is not your cheap little logitech that's been mass produced millions of times that you go and buy at the local Walmart, right? So, these are much more specialty items, a lot more, you know, research and development costs are involved in these kinds of products and I understand that and I hope you guys understand that too, but these things are built like a tank. I've had that ErgoDocs now for, what, three or four years. I've never had an issue with it, never had any kind of key switch break on it, the actual frame, the chassis of the things built like a tank and, you know, I spent what probably around $11 or $1,200 on those three keyboards, the ErgoDocs, the Moonlander and the Plank and honestly, I wouldn't change a thing. Moving on to the next question, hey, DT, what do you think of using a normal camera as a webcam and what camera do you use? So, when you start doing video content on platforms like YouTube or Odyssey, you can use a webcam. If you have a webcam, the most popular one, of course, is the Logitech C920 or the C920 to one of those and they typically run you about $100 to $150. They're not really cheap, especially these days due to the inflated prices of everything, but that will get you by if you don't have a webcam though, honestly, a pretty good mobile phone. So, any of the good Android devices such as, you know, any of the Samsung Galaxy stuff or if you have one of the Apple iPhones, the cameras on those kinds of high-end phones is actually really good. So, you can get by in the beginning of your YouTube channel by simply using your phone as a camera. Now, obviously, as you progress with making video content, if it's something that it seems like it's something you're going to stick with and you actually want to grow and improve this, don't make these purchases on day one because you would be surprised how many people don't realize how much work goes into making videos.  So, start using the cheap equipment first, you know, if, you know, use your cell phone for a camera for a while or some cheap webcam and after you've made a few dozen or even a few hundred videos, then upgrade to actually a DSLR camera or a mirrorless camera. So, the mirrorless cameras are what I use. I actually have two different Panasonic cameras. So, the camera that I'm actually using right now, this is a Panasonic G9 and the other camera I have before I bought the G9 about six or eight months ago, I had a Panasonic G7. I still have that and it's actually sitting on a shelf right here. So, I actually have two cameras available for me, which is nice if I want to actually have two camera shots going on at the same time or sometimes I just don't want to move cameras around, right? So, I can have a camera on a position over here that's already mounted that I never have to move and a second camera over here mounted to something that I never have to move. That way, you know, if you only have one camera, then you got to unscrew a camera from a tripod over here to move it to the tripod over here. So, having the two cameras is kind of nice. I don't recommend that. The only reason I have two cameras is because I eventually wanted to upgrade from the G7 and, you know, the G9 is a very nice camera for the price. The G7, when I bought it, just the body itself cost about 500 bucks. I purchased that three or four years ago. The G9 that I bought six, seven months ago probably, I want to say I paid about $1,100 for it. Again, just the body. The real expense for these cameras though comes with buying the lenses. The lenses, nice lenses are going to cost you money. Sometimes the lenses cost more than the cameras themselves. And the next question is, hey, DT, I noticed your microphone and I just wondered what it is. Is it a dynamic microphone or a condenser microphone? Model number would be nice to many things. So the microphone that I always use sitting at my desk in front of the computer, which is where I record, you know, 95% of my videos, this microphone here, this is a dynamic microphone. This is the Electrovoice RE27ND. This particular microphone is kind of a standard. You will see it in a lot of broadcast settings. You'll see sportscasters using it, any kind of podcasts that you watch.  It's one of the more common ones being a professional kind of broadcast mic. It's very easy to spot too because of the unique body and of course the pop filter. Most people are going to have this rather unique circular pop filter on the front of it. So this microphone, the RE27ND, typically these days runs you around 500 to $550 US. So not a terribly cheap microphone, but most microphones that I would say are of this quality typically do run in that range. Another very popular one that a lot of people use is the Shure SM7B or something like that. It runs you around $400 or so. The Electrovoice models, there's several other Electrovoice models that people love to use. There's the RE20, there's also the RE320, and I want to say those run you in the $300 to $400 range as well. And all of those microphones are really good and all of them are kind of standards for this kind of work. Now I do have several other microphones laying around here. I have a shotgun microphone, which is a condenser microphone. I have the Sennheiser MKE 600 shotgun microphone. I actually have it attached to the stand that's actually holding this camera that I'm recording on. As a matter of fact, I could have plugged in that microphone and used audio from that microphone. But since I'm sitting at this desk where this microphone is, this will be better quality sound. The shotgun mic is appropriate if I was recording myself and I was sitting somewhere where I didn't have the option to plug in something like this. The shotgun mic is really nice, especially in studio settings where you're walking around and you can have the shotgun mic then attached to a camera or a boom arm. Somebody can follow you around with it. That's typically what you see big time tech tubers like Linus Tech-Dibs and Marquez Brownlee. You know, they're using shotgun mics rather than these kinds of dynamic microphones because these things again being broadcast kind of microphones, these are for when you're stationary and they can be put on a swivel arm and they have to be right here within just a few inches of your mouth where the shotgun mic can be several feet away. The audio quality won't be quite as good, but you do have the benefit when you're using a shotgun mic is the shotgun mic of course is not in the frame of the camera, which is really nice. That's why a lot of people use them is because they don't want this big honking microphone in the camera frame with them. For me, I don't mind so much for the kind of work I do, but for other people, depending on the kind of video content you're making, having a microphone in frame is kind of a big deal. I also have a condenser microphone at my house. I have the Blue Baby Bottle SL and I use that for when I stream at home just because it's a really nice mic. It's not a dynamic mic, which is more appropriate, but it's a condenser mic. It's still got a really good sound quality. The Blue Baby Bottle SL runs you around $400. So that is what I use if I have to stream from home. I also have some other cheaper microphones around. I have my old Blue Yeti, which is a USB microphone. The Blue Yeti is actually a pretty good USB microphone if you're just getting started doing video content. The Blue Yeti, I want to say cost you around $100, $120 bucks or something. The price is being inflated. It wouldn't shock me if it's more of like $150 microphone these days from compared to when I first bought it. But a high quality USB microphone like the Blue Yeti is a good investment before spending $500, $600 on some of the microphones that I have. And of course, I bought several of these high price microphones, but it's not the microphone that's all the cost because then you have to buy the shock mount here, which cost me probably $50 bucks. And then I had to buy the boom arm, the swivel arm. That cost me another $100 bucks. You're talking about $700, $800 bucks just for the arm, the shock mount, the pop filter, the microphone. And then you have to plug in these XLR mics to an interface. You have to have an audio interface or you have to have some kind of mixing board that you can plug this thing into that the mixing board would then plug into your computer. Good audio interfaces or mixing boards are going to run you, I mean, for beginner kinds of audio interfaces are going to run you $150, $200. Once you get into more expensive ones, you can spend several hundred dollars on the audio interfaces. So if you're just getting into creating video content or maybe you're doing audio only podcasting, I would start with something like the Blue Yeti first before making a gigantic investment until you actually know that you're creating this content and you're actually going to stick with it. Otherwise, you could end up spending a whole bunch of money on equipment that in the end, you don't really need. And the next question is, hey, DT, what do you have in that giant mixer rig? So what he's asking about here is the audio server rack that you see behind me in most of my videos. I'll try to post a picture here. I'll place a picture here on screen so you guys can see exactly what he's asking about. So what this server rack is, it's a standard server rack. This is a five foot tall server rack. It's actually on wheels, so it rolls around, which is really nice. But being a server rack, I could use it for standard server stuff. I could actually get some blade servers. I could get some rack mounted servers, things like a NAS, for example, if I wanted a rack mounted NAS or I could rack mount a Raspberry Pi cluster or something cool like that. But I actually just use it for audio equipment because many of your higher end audio equipment actually is designed for being mounted to a standard size computer rack. So what you guys saw on that picture starting from the top to the bottom, you have an LED light strip that just gives me some nice lighting. It's just for aesthetics because it's in the background of my videos. Then you have, of course, the mixing board that is the Maxi Pro 12 FX mixing board. Then you have the Behringer Sonic Exciter that just livens up mid ranges for some of the audio. Then I have a power strip by Furman. Then I have a NETI PR8 that is a preamp. So that's a eight channel preamp. So I can have up to eight microphones plugged in. And then next you see two EQs. Those are 231S's. So I have two of those. And the 231S is a dual channel EQ. And because I have two of them, I could actually use up to four microphones with those two EQs. And then below that, I have two 166XS's. And those are Expander Limiter Gates as a compressor, essentially. And those are dual channel. And because I have two of them, once again, I can have up to four microphones. Essentially, everything I have in that server rack, it allows me, if I wanted to like do your standard like four person podcast, like I had a table with four microphones in the room, they were all the same microphone. I could actually plug everything into the four available channels on all of my equipment, because all of my equipment should have at least four channels available. Some have more than that. But I could actually have four microphones with the exact same settings, and they all should sound exactly the same. Now I never actually done that because I don't do any of these kinds of podcasts with other people, not especially live in the same place. But if I ever wanted to get into something like that, I'm all set up for it. Moving on. Hey, DT, what headset are you using? So he wants to know about the headphones. I typically don't wear headphones in my videos. Typically, the only time you see me wear headphones is either when I'm live streaming, because I have to. Otherwise, the audio coming from the stream would bleed into the microphones, right? Or if I'm doing prerecorded stuff where I'm playing music or video on video, and again, if it came through speakers, it would bleed through the microphone, and you get this really annoying feedback. So anytime you do video content, if you're playing any kind of sounds through speakers, it's going to affect the microphone. So you never can do that. So anytime you're in a situation like that, you have to wear headphones, either just cheap earbuds, or if you actually want to monitor good audio, then get you some high-end headphones. I have a couple of pairs of headphones. So typically, if I'm not going to be wearing headphones for very long, and I don't really care about the sound quality, I just use this cheap pair here. So this is a pair of Audio Technica ATH M40s. And I want to say I paid $50, $60 for these when I bought them. Now, the prices of headphones, all the Audio Technica headphones, especially, but just tech in general, inflated prices, this Audio Technica M40s now, I want to say cost you like $80, $100. It's ridiculous, because again, I probably paid $50 for those headphones. Those are okay.  They're definitely better than like earbuds, right? They're much better than that. But those are not high, high-end headphones. The high, high-end headphones, like if I'm really wanting to monitor audio and hear every little detail, or if I'm listening to music and I want, you know, the best audio quality, this is typically what I use. These are Audio Technica ATH M1000s. And I want to say I paid about $400 for these. I bought these a couple of years ago with the inflated prices now. I checked before starting this recording. I want to say now, these headphones cost you around $600. But man, they're comfortable. These headphones, you probably can see on the video here. They've got this felt padding. So you can wear these all day and they're comfortable. Wear that cheap pair of Audio Technica M40s with the kind of faux leather padding. It gets warm. It gets hot. It's uncomfortable. You know, I had to wear them for an hour or so. Okay. But if you're doing several hours, no. This much easier on your ears. You get less hot. They're also open back. And of course, the sound quality on these things is just amazing. Moving on to the next question. Now, this question has more to do with software than hardware or tech gear. It kind of deals a little bit with hardware, though. He asks, hey, DT, will you take a look at get T? So get T is another get repository hosting platform, similar to something like GitHub or GitLab. So I have all of my Git repositories hosted on GitLab. I've been a happy GitLab user for four or five years now. Would I look at Get T?    And typically, I don't like managing servers for things that I could get for free, because GitLab, obviously, is all free. I'm not paying GitLab anything to host all of those Git repositories. So why would I move to Get T? Get T would be nice if I wanted to host my own Git instance, my Get T instance. But if I wanted to do that, I'm already a GitLab user. GitLab offers the same thing. I could actually have my own GitLab server. You know, I could call it dtsgitlab.com, right? You go to dtsgitlab.com. And if I install the GitLab software on my server, it would be like an instance of GitLab. It would just be my GitLab with my repositories. And I could set up rules. Maybe you couldn't even view the source code and everything on my repositories, unless you were a member and signed up to dtsgitlab.com, yada, yada, yada. It's really cool that you could do that. I'm not interested in that. I'm just putting my source code on these public repositories for free for people to look at and to actually be shared to the world. I know some people actually need to maintain their own Git servers. And that's cool. If you're one of those people, I'm not. So that's why I'm never probably going to look at Get T. If I really wanted to host my own Git server, I probably would just host my own GitLab instance, because I already know about GitLab. And the next question is about monitors. Hey, DT, what monitors? And I actually had one very similar. Hey, DT, just want to know why is your desktop so zoomed out? Is it some resolution stuff or something else? I kind of like that, by the way. I get a lot of questions about the monitors I'm using. And sometimes I get questions about the resolution of the monitors I'm using. So what monitor? So I have a triple monitor set up both at home and here in the office at home. I have three very old monitors at this point that I probably bought 10 years ago. They're 24 inch monitors, three 24 inch monitors on a planar triple monitor stand that the monitors themselves, I want to say are really cheap Acer monitors that I probably paid 100 bucks a piece for 10 years ago. They're not anything special, but they still work. And I have no problems, you know, using them. So that's why I've kept them the monitors here. Yeah, I bought these monitors when I moved in the office, because I'm so used to having a triple monitor set up at home. I also wanted triple monitors here. So I bought three 24 inch AOC brand monitors, nothing special. I want to say they were 140 bucks a piece, the three 24 inch monitors, they're on a triple monitor mount by a company called Wally. I actually did a video about the triple monitor Wally mount and how I've got everything set up on the desk here at the office. Check out some of those older videos if you're interested about the gear. Now the guy that asked about why is my desktop so zoomed out. Keep in mind, I actually, I don't have the greatest eyes. The fonts and everything on my desktop are actually rather comfortable for me to read. But when you're viewing them, especially if you're viewing them on mobile, yeah, everything on my desktop probably looks really small. That's why I always zoom way in. Like if I open a terminal or if I open Emacs, or even if I open a web browser, typically, I know the the key bindings to zoom in and those applications. So I zoom way in so you guys can read the text. You know, sometimes if I show you my desktop, not zoomed in, which is how you guys see it most of the time is when I'm really zoomed in.  What's DT doing? He must have like this gigantic ultra wide 4k monitor. No, these are just all 1920 by 1080. So it's just a kind of an optical illusion. You've probably just so used to seeing me zoomed in with gigantic text that when you see me actually reading normal text on the screen, it just seems weird. And while we're on this topic, let me give you one pro tip. If you're thinking about doing some YouTube content where you record your desktop, anytime you record your terminal emulator, your text editor or your web browser, zoom in. Zoom way in. It should be huge font, because if you don't, I'm telling you now people in the comments are going to complain relentlessly, because they're not going to be able to read anything you're doing, especially if they're watching you on a mobile device. There's no way they're going to be able to read anything going on in that terminal or that text editor. Always zoom in. Moving on, another question I get all the time. Hey, DT, why don't you make videos on how to build hardware? I'm not a hardware geek. I've never been one of these people that enjoyed building computers. I can crack the case and I can change parts. I mean, I know I know how things work in a computer, but I don't like building computers. Typically, I like software. I'm a software geek. I like playing with complicated pieces of software like Tatin Live and Blender and Gimp and Emacs. I like scripting and I like programming. I like building the software that runs on the hardware. I don't like hardware. That's typically you have two kinds of people. You have the people that are really into hardware and building the machine, and then you have the people that are really into the software and then building the stuff that runs on that machine. I've always been one of those software people. That's why you've never really seen that kind of hardware stuff on my channel. That's not me. And the final question on this special gear edition of Hey DT is, Hey DT, I heard you have 128 gigs of RAM. Do you think it's overkill? All right. Well, you heard wrong. On my main production machine here, I have only 64 gigs of RAM. On my home computer, I have 32. No, I have 16. I purchase 16 gigs of RAM with my home computer with the intention of eventually upgrading it to 32 if needed. But honestly, 16 is fine for the home computer because I don't do the kind of work on that home computer that I do here. Originally, I thought I may do some like video editing and stuff at home. But honestly, I've probably edited maybe five videos ever from my house since moving into this office over a year ago. So the 16 gigs of RAM is fine for the home computer. The 64 gigs of RAM on the main production machine, is it overkill? Absolutely not. My machine, you actually can use that RAM. Most people think that, you know, eight gigs of RAM, 16 gigs of RAM is plenty for what everybody does. But that's because you haven't actually used the kinds of programs that would actually use that RAM. For what most people use a computer for, 16 gigs of RAM is plenty. You're never going to use more than that.  I can actually put all of that 64 gigs of RAM to work. So no, it's not overkill for me. Now for you, if you didn't do the kind of stuff I did, would it be overkill for you? Yes, you would spend hundreds of dollars on a whole bunch of RAM that would never get used for me. I actually put that RAM to work. And I get that kind of question all the time when people see some of the specs on the equipment that I use. And I'm sure other content creators that have higher end equipment even more so than me, you know, hey, why do you have this space age kind of machine? Or what are you doing? That's overkill. You don't need all of that hardware. Well, oh, actually we do, right? That's why we purchased it is because, yes, we actually do need that hardware. Now before I go, I need to thank the producers of this episode. I need to thank Dustin Gabe James, Matt Maxim, Michael Mitchell, Paul West, Wanyam, all homie Allen, Armored Dragon, Chuck, Commander, Ingrid, Yo-Kai, Dylan, Marsdrom, Erion, Alexander, Peace, Arch, and Vador, Polytech, Realiteakth, Relets, Fred, Profit, Steven, Tools, Devler, and Willie. These guys, they're my high-steered patrons over on Patreon without these guys. This episode of Haiti would not have been possible. The show is also brought to you by each and every one of these fine ladies and gentlemen. All these names you're seeing on the screen right now. These are all my supporters over on Patreon because I don't have any corporate sponsors. I'm sponsored by you guys, the community. If you like my work and want to see more videos about free and open source software and Linux and cool stuff, right? And me rambling. Subscribe to DistroTube over on Patreon. All right, guys. Peace. 128 gigs of RAM is an overkill.


Hey everyone. How's everyone doing? I posted the link to the meeting minutes. Please set yourself into attendance. I'm going to be facilitating today's meeting. I think one of the main things you're going to be doing today is we're going to have the Falco demo. Hi Brandon, this is Lakshmi. Hey Lakshmi. Thank you, Justin, for helping describe. I think we need one more scribe. If anyone wants to volunteer for that, that would be great. I'll try and scribe if you can drop the link and we'll show it all on one. All right. Thank you, Michael. All right. I put the link again in the chat. I'm not sure whether those are just trying. We were able to see the previous one. Please go in and then add yourself to the attendance. Michael, do you know if Chris is going to be giving the Falco demo today? I am guessing she's not going to. She's moving down from Seattle to San Francisco. Okay. I guess we'll push it to next week then. There is some things I wouldn't mind talking about in regards to Falco and our annual review coming up. If you would like some perspective on that, I'd be happy to talk about that a little bit in that time slot. Okay. Yeah. Let's do that then. All right. We seem to have a lot of people on the call, but very few under this. Please add yourself and let's start off with check-ins. Lakshmi. Yeah. I don't have any update for the meeting. I'm just here as an observer. Okay. Great. Next under this is Justin Kamak. We had a cross registry signing and other security interest group meeting last week. Things going on with these cross project working groups on things like signing. There's a lot of work going on with CNAP. If anyone is interested and hasn't got the details of when the meeting is on, please ping me. All right. Sounds good. All right. Next under this is Santiago. Hey. I'm just joining in this time because I wanted to pick up the supply chain work. I spoke with Sarah Allen about what were the next immediate steps, but I also wanted to broader our community to be sure or on board on how we're going to do this operation. All right. Let's add that to the agenda today then. Martin. Hello. For me, I don't have anything in particular to give an update. Mike Brown. Hi. I'm new to the group. I'm Mike Brown. I work at Coinbase on infrastructure security. I've been following the work for a while, but I thought I would join because we're trying to address a lot of the same issues that you all are. Cool. We have a recently created a new member's page. Let me link that in the chat and then please feel free to check that out or reach out to any of us. Thanks. Justin Kapos. Great. Yeah. I've mostly been dealing with things related to the OPA assessment, tough graduation, things related within TOTO. Michael, do you see? Yep. I've been working on the annual review for Falco, which is going to be on the next CLC meeting on October 15th. And then as part of that, kind of reviewing if we're ready to move to incubation or make the request to move to incubation. I'm having to talk about that later on the call, as I said. And one of the things that I'd also like to discuss is hope with due diligence. And if anyone has, when we make that proposal, usually to move to incubation, usually what's going to happen is the CLC will ask for due diligence and usually SIG can do that due diligence for the CLC. So we can talk about that later on the call. All right. Sounds good. Thanks, Michael. Ash. So I've been working on the OPA security assessment. There's a PR up for it, number 275. And also yesterday, we presented the assessment with Sarah on the TOC call. All right. Thank you. Yeah, that went really well. Good job on that. Thank you. Yeah. It was really good. I think everyone understood what the assessment process was about and found it useful. Great. Thanks. All right, Jerry. Hello. I don't have anything to update today. Yeah. Thank you for the comments on the PR right away. I just saw that. Okay. Let me know what you think. All right. Sounds good. Emily. No significant updates. Michael covered anything with the Security Day stuff, but we're continuing to move forward on that front. Actually, I didn't cover anything on the Security Day. Thank you for pointing that out. My apologies, son. So we met yesterday and we discussed potential questions regarding room layout and table arrangements. We're waiting to hear back from Emily, hopefully by Friday of this week, and then we can move forward with figuring things out. We discussed potentially reopening the Security Day registration backup, but that's contingent on room availability layout and other logistics planning. So we're kind of on hold at this point in time. Yeah. We're projecting like 150 to 170 right now, and we've asked for a little bit of a larger room so that we have room to spread out a little bit as we do the open spaces and other things. And then all in, we've had seven sponsors as well. So the CNCF is pleased with that sponsorship rate. It was able to fund most of the day. So overall, the programs coming together as well, that's been announced. I think we talked about that last week, but hopefully we can get more space for everyone and then probably be able to sell about 30 to 50 more tickets. Is there actually an official wait list or are people just being told they can't register at the moment? I think at the moment it is like the folks are being told that it's not available. I can certainly look into if there is a wait list. I mean, I just want people to at least know that they should try again later or something if they... Right. We'll send out emails like the, you know, hey, we're back, but yeah, contingent on being able to get a larger room. All right. Cool. Amy on next. So... Hello. You guys have covered all the things that I had today, which was basically like fantastic job on the assessment on Tuesday. And we have a lovely security day, rock and rolling. All right. Next up, Robert. Just helping with the OPA assessment, and there's a policy working group call today at 4 p.m. Pacific, if anyone's interested. All right. Okay. So Christian, no updates. I think we have a couple folks on the call, but not on the attendances. I think there's Quan Yi and Ray. Any updates from you guys who want to introduce yourself? If not, we'll carry on with the agenda. No updates from me. This is Ray. I'm just listening in. Okay. I joined a little bit ago and we've been kind of off and on. Sounds good. Okay. All right. Let's go ahead then. So check in from partner six.  I'm not sure, Robert, whether you want to say anything about the call you guys are having later. I know just other than your invite folks, we do these calls every two weeks, so not a lot in terms of update from last week. So today, if you have anything you want to put on the agenda, either add that to the Google doc, or you can just message me here and I'll add it to the agenda for today. All right. Sounds good. Okay. Anything from SIG of security audit workgroup? This big data workgroup? All right then. Okay. So let's start off with the next item on the list is the FALCO review. Michael, do you want to take that? Yep. Sure. So these slides are really rough. This is kind of like our probably second draft of these. So I apologize for that. But one thing that Chris Nova, who joined the FALCO team recently, has been trying to encourage us to do is try to do more of our work in the open. So you can kind of see these rough slides right now of what we're kind of thinking about for FALCO and our incubation requests. So essentially, if you're not familiar and I apologize for the science in the background, but if you're not familiar with the incubation requirements, we need to document that essentially FALCO is being used in production by at least three independent users, have a healthy level of commits and activity in the project, ongoing flow of commits and merge contributions. And then we should also have, I think what's not on here, which is missing is this due diligence done as well. And so the due diligence is kind of really going through and doing a technical due diligence to make sure you have things like architecture data like that as well, which we need to work on. So if you're not familiar with FALCO, FALCO is essentially container runtime security monitor system called for abnormal behavior. It's essentially a host intrusion detection system that's focused on container workloads. So we have some hooks into things like cryo and container D to pullback container metadata information. We'll contact the Kubernetes master pullback container and pod and deployment and so forth metadata information. And then we'll link that together with the actual system calls that's going through the kernel. And basically you can say for this particular container running in this particular pod with this particular label, I want to have this rule be enforced and basically alert me anytime that it makes an outbound connection to the internet or an outbound connection that's not expected on particular ports or something like that. File IO monitoring and all those sorts of things as well. So falco.org is the website. If you're not familiar with it, I would go and check it out. I'm not going to cover too much about what FALCO is on this presentation. We were joined into Sandbox in October 2018 and it was a project that was started in May of 2016. So the growth of the community has actually been really good since we joined Sandbox. Sandbox and one of the things that I really enjoy about showing the metrics is that how much it's the Sandbox process really helps the project grow. So the pre-Sandbox period is a 29th month period, by the way. And then the post-Sandbox is just a 12 month period.  The number of contributors involved in the project are up. The number of companies that are contributing to the project is up. Contributors are anybody that's commenting on an issue or a pull request. We're an area that we need to improve on is the number of committers that we have from different organizations. But that's actually a criteria for moving from incubation into graduation. And so that's the person that we'll be looking at improving as well. And then we're also progressing along the CII, which is the Robert. What does that stand for, Robert? Core Infrastructure Initiative. Yes, the Core Infrastructure Initiative. There are several levels. To move into incubation, you don't need to have one of those levels. You just need to start showing that you're on the path into passing. I believe that's the question. Any questions so far? Another interesting kind of community growth. Michael? Yeah. I understand. So we had a little bit of discussion last week on attestation and certification and related to assessments. And I think we've driven things forward more clarity. We're working on PRing some guidance on some of the pages to make sure that this is not a certification program. This is us helping you produce better artifacts. But since you're going through that journey and you're doing the CII process, I pointed to the CII process as being our badging and certification backstop. So I'm particularly interested in, since we've gotten questions about, especially from folks interested in supporting their business outcomes. I have the same needs here at PayPal. If there's anything from a project's perspective that we can help in directing projects to the CII or informing the folks that this is the assessment, this is the journey that we're taking on, by the way, here's more context of the product journey that you're going to be going through in the CII. And if you're looking for certification or you're badging, that is the resource. I really appreciate feeding that backstop. Yeah. So this is a conversation I would love to have because I think if we went through our own journey on it, as we've had CVEs opened up, we went through the security audit to find our own. We've internally, within the last couple of weeks, found our own potential vulnerabilities as well through our own engineering efforts. And that's just one aspect of security. And then there's lots of the other things that we have to go through. And it's been, there hasn't been like that trail map that takes you from, these are the security things you need to do in Sandbox, these are the security things you need to do in Incubation. And it's kind of tied to the CII. But I feel like there's just a little bit of a broader context that you need of why the CII things are important. Right? And what it gives you. Yep. Righty? Well, you need security at cloudco.org because you have to have some sort of security response mechanism to respond to CVDs. And that maps into CII gold status. 12.1, 12.2, 12.3. I'm just making up numbers. But that kind of guidance would be really good. Fantastic. And then part of it has been us kind of figuring out the process of the CNCS. But I think overall, I think the journey has been good. I think just kind of trying to package it up for more projects to use it more in a turnkey way, but I think would be good. Great. And CNCS is going through that journey at the same time. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, you know, what we typically tend to, what I've done is copied the OPPA folks because they've been, they were a very successful project. And so I kind of just mirror what they do. So I'm not going to cover these metrics too much, but you can just kind of see how like there's much more participation in the community. I think some other interesting metrics is the number of downloads and polls that we have. We have a lot of things that we have shipped as well over this period of time. And just kind of another one that we've added recently is GRPC-based outputs. And this is important because what it gives us is the ability to basically have our outputs go out to a variety of different sources. It makes it much easier so people don't have to write C++. as well. And then it'll just help us be able to integrate into the cloud-native ecosystem a little bit better. And then from an integrations perspective, we have two that I was going to highlight around this Arceint. They're basically a consulting company out of France. And they've built basically an open-source platform, which they call the secure cloud-native fabric. That integrates lots of different tools, as well as NAT, which is another CNCF project, of course, FACO, Kubebench, and some other things as well, which we thought was a pretty interesting use case. And then SumoLogic has been integrating us in as well. So a couple of good use cases of people pulling FACO into their products as well, which I think the CNCF tends to encourage. It's just not about end users, but it's also about how can you help the other software providers build something useful around your project. And then we have a couple interesting end users of note, two of which are speaking at KubeCon. So frame.io is one where they publish FACO events into CloudWatch and then have the lambdas react to them. They actually have a talk at the cloud-native security day where they're using Lambda to basically tie into Amazon machine learning and their application load balancers to basically use the feeds that they're getting, or the logs that they're getting from their application load balancers. They feed them into Lambda, which feed them into Amazon machine learning platform to start to find abnormalities and then kind of a machine learning-based WAF, I guess is what you would call it. So they do some pretty interesting stuff. And then Guzall and Hamilton is also speaking at KubeCon this year as well. So this is pretty much an overview of the projects in the road that we've been on over the last year in the sandbox. All of these end users have been curated during this time. There's a few other that we've added in as well. The interesting thing is, is like nobody told us to create an adopters.md file. And we went and created an adopters.md file. And then all of a sudden, we have a whole bunch of people that are willing to put in a pull request. And tell you that they're using your software. So this is like a great idea. And I'm just like, the things you need to do to go and get, to get the information that you need to be successful. There's another kind of an interesting use case that we're seeing by a lot of people. And you see two right here. Actually these three are all kind of the same use case. There's compliance requirements where you need to have a intrusion detection system. And so in the Kubernetes world, many people are meeting that requirement by deploying FALCO. And then for HIPAA compliance, CCI compliance and other standards like that, they are able to meet that standard. So as I said, one of the things that we have to go through is this due diligence. And so we need to, we need to one submit our pull request to request incubation review. And then we need to go through this and kind of start to answer these questions. I believe it's up, Amy, correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe it's up to Joe and Liz Rice to ask the security to do the due diligence. Is that correct? I think so. Okay. So it would be interesting to know if there's anyone on this call and to security in general who'd want to participate in this and help us do the due diligence, I would basically just be walking through a lot of this with me over the next couple of weeks. Yeah, I think we had some chatter around doing, so I'm not sure whether this is directly correlated with during the security assessment. Yeah, that's the question I have. Is this separate from the security assessment? This is separate from the security assessment. And this is kind of why we've been putting off the security assessment because we have this that we have to go and do and then we have a couple releases we're trying to get out before KubeCon as well. And so I don't, but it would be interesting to see is how much overlap is there in the security assessment. But the challenge is for us, the security assessment is not a requirement as I understand it for us to move into incubation. And so if we have to go and put project cycles somewhere, then I have to put project cycles into doing this due diligence so that we can move up to incubation. Now I would be more than willing to have the spreadsheet of the security assessment next to us as we do this and see how many of those boxes that we can check and make sure that we're meeting those criteria in the security assessment. And then maybe we'd say we're 80% of the way towards getting it done. Yeah, that makes sense. Robert, what's your thoughts on that? Yeah, well, I certainly agree that if it's not a requirement for CNCF, then you're kind of a fork in the road. So I do like the idea of kind of consolidating the process in a quick spreadsheet view so that you can quickly crosswalk that to what you're doing for the due diligence. So I'm happy to provide that. I'll summarize what I think the costs are for the security assessment. Based on the docs that are checked into the repo. And if you and I want to jump on that quick call and crosswalk that to think, I think we could present that back to this group instead. Here's what we're really asking folks to do above and beyond the due diligence process. Yeah, okay. That sounds good. Yeah, that sounds reasonable to me. Okay. And then I'll just put it back out there if there's anyone who's interested in helping with the due diligence. I would appreciate the help there once we make the request for the CNCF. I'm just curious, have we done this with another project before? This is the best time. I think this is going to be the first time. I've seen SIG storage do it for TKIB or TKB. But I think OPA would have been the last one and OPA did it before the new guidelines came in. Oh, okay. Or the TLC member decided to do it themselves, not sure which. Is this for the project to go into incubation? Yes, that's correct. Michael, did you have, were you done with the slides? Yeah, no, I'm done. Sorry, I had lost my connection but I was done with the slide. Right. So I guess we will follow up on that. I would like to call. Any other questions related to Velco? All right then. Let's move on to the next item, which is a quick one. This one is actually on some of the updates I did to the README. So I'm going to share my screen really quick. But this is just a quick call to people to check this out. I've redone the README page so that we compressed, like we moved a lot of the stuff up like the meeting times. We've added a new members page over here. And then we've squashed up with this, this. Yeah, so this is PR280. So if you have some extra time to take a look and provide some feedback on this. Good one. Looking good. All right. And next on the list, we have supply chain security, Santiago. Yes, this is also a quick one. Let's talk with Sarah, about how to move forward with the project. I originally thought that Six Security wasn't some GitHub organization, so we could just transfer the internal repository and take it there and have everything by itself contained. But Six Security is just a repository under the CNCF organization. So what I wanted to know was whether we wanted to move the repository to the CNCF and we have the jurisdiction to do so at Six Security or did we want to either transfer it as a sub-module or just copy it both over separate sub-directory as a pull request or what is the consensus here? How big is the repo? It is not too big. It's let's say it's a couple of files, less than 15. I mean, if it's kind of small, I think maybe doing it as a sub-directory might make no sense for all of them, but okay, that was my impression as well. I didn't want to jump to Ganges yet because I didn't know if there was anything fishy there or if anybody had an idea. My understanding is that we will eventually want to make this website hostable. So we probably want a separate repository, but I think we're going to get into here. I'll make the pull request this week. And probably we will discuss it. Yeah, we can always discuss it on the pull request, but okay, I didn't want to think that we could eventually have a separate repository, but okay, sounds great. All right. I think that's all that we had on the agenda today. Is there any topic that someone wants to bring up on top of that? Do we dive into the OPA presentation at all yesterday? Okay, joined a couple of minutes late, but I think we're just going through check-ins. I don't think we talked more about it, but we could definitely that share, I think the slide that we presented. Sure, I want to say one thing really quick, which is that I think that the model we had where the project effectively presented one half of the slide, and then we the assessors presented the other half, I think that worked well. Did others agree with that? Yeah, that was great. Yeah, it felt like it was really centered on the project, but it had a good balance of, hey, we also sort of backed this up, and I thought the discussion really supported that. That we, unlike our first time through with OPA, we had a few more sort of findings along the way, and those were referenced as supporting the journey and helping drive towards more secure outcomes in cloud native ecosystem, and yeah, it couldn't help but hope for better calls than that. So I just had a quick question on the pull request itself. So what's the next step for that? I've seen that a bunch of approvals on it. What's the next step now? I think it gets merged once we're sure there aren't any other issues. Maybe there's been enough review now that we should go ahead and merge. I've been sick the last, I don't know, weekish or so, and so it's part of the reason why I didn't do the right side of the presentation. Sarah was kind enough to do that, but I've also been hoping that I would have a moment to be okay and go through and read it as well, but I think maybe we need not wait on that. Maybe we should just go ahead and merge it. The TOC has suggested that people should look at the PR and comment on it, so I guess we should maybe give them a few days if there's any external comments. I see, okay. Yeah, I did notice that you and others caught some really important little problems in there. So I think the process of reviewing it has been very helpful, too, that it hasn't just been looks good to me, looks good to me, but people have actually had legitimate things that they've seen by looking at it. Yeah, thanks, Justin. So if you guys have any comments on it, please update the PR and I can address those, is that? All right. Anything else that we want to bring up? Michael, could you link your slides into the notes? Yeah, I can. All right, then. I guess we'll give back another 15 minutes at a time. I'm off. Awesome. Thanks, Vernon. All right, thank you everyone. Have a good one. Thanks, bye. Bye-bye.


All right? You can make fun of Roblox! Okay, you can make fun of my crap, but don't make fun of Minimalism. What's happening? It's Shane here, so recently the economy took a dive and because of that, money has been really tight for a lot of people. Economic growth has fallen at a rate of 2.5% the first quarter of the year and over 25% in the second quarter. Luckily, what hasn't slowed is the fact that nearly all of my viewers never forget to smash the like button for the evil YouTube algorithm. Okay, for real though, we're technically not in a recession right now, but a lot of people have some arguments about that. I mean, technically the economy did go down because we made it go down on purpose in order to protect ourselves from the current thing that's happening right now. But I guess this is sort of like the difference between being in a normal coma versus a medically induced coma.  But anyways, in this video, I'm going to recommend seven things that you should stop wasting your money on right now. Now, these are seven things that are really easy to save on and almost anybody can do it because almost everyone has these expenses and you won't have to become a monk or, you know, sell all of your possessions or anything crazy like that. And make sure to stick around until the end because I'm going to show you that it's not just about saving your money, it also has a lot to do with opportunity cost. So number seven on the list is going to be technology upgrades. Now, I know it can be tough to ignore the hype every time Apple comes out with a slick new phone, but the truth is today's devices are so good that they can function for years without having any issues at all. And in the majority of cases, it doesn't make sense for you to get an upgrade unless your phone is completely broken. Even then, taking your phone to a repair shop will likely save you hundreds of dollars a year in the long run. Most people get a new phone almost every year when in reality they could easily make their phone last three or four years and it would still be fine. The newest iPhone, for instance, costs up to $1,500. And by choosing not to upgrade every year, you can save yourself about $1,000 a year. And honestly, this is just talking about phones. If we were to bring in tablets and computers and all the other types of technologies, it would be a lot more than this. But let's go ahead and just call this $1,000 a year. Then you can take that $1,000 and either invest it or do other productive things with it. Number six on the list is going to be clothing and other types of apparel. Now, according to recent reports, the average American spends over $1,800 a year on clothing. Now, I get it. Fashion is really important to a lot of people and I'm not saying that you should never spend money on it. But let's get real here. It's ridiculous how many different seasons there are. Now, I'm not going to pretend like I'm some kind of fashion expert because I'm obviously not. But do we really need 52 different fashion seasons a year? That's basically a new season every single week. Like, are you kidding me? And think about all the times that you bought a piece of clothing and you either wore it once or maybe you never even wore it at all and it just laid in your closet for years. Now, obviously, everyone's going to be a little bit different here. But I think the big thing, the secret here is to stick with the essentials.  Okay, I'm kind of kidding here, but no, seriously, just get the simple colors that kind of just match with everything. And that way you'll have so many different outfit combinations. If you want to keep it really simple, black, white and brown are awesome colors that basically match with anything. But if you want to spice it up a little bit, you can choose some maroon, navy blue or forest green as well. Choose brands that are good quality and they'll last a while and you'll probably end up saving yourself another $1,000 a year. Number five on the list is going to be cable TV and other types of subscriptions. Many Americans are spending over $100 a month on cable and let's be honest, that's way too much. And I realize this isn't nearly as much as a lot of the others on the list and that's why I didn't rank it as high. But the reason I put this as number five on the list because not only are you wasting money, but it's also one of the biggest time suckers as well. I think everyone knows how much of a waste of time the news is, for instance. They're either going to tell you exactly what you want to hear or they're going to go the opposite route and they're going to fear monger and just try to scare you. And almost everything you see on TV is just going to get posted to the internet later the same exact day. So why even bother? Why pay TLC to watch 90 Day Fiancé when I can see what Big Ed is up to on YouTube a few hours later? And if you absolutely have to see what your local TV stations are up to or if you have to watch, you know, Sunday football or something like that, some of the bigger networks, what you can do is pay about $50 for YouTube TV. Overall, save yourself a lot of time and also money by cutting your cable connection and then just watch how much better your life gets. I haven't had cable for years and my life has been so much better without it poisoning my mind. So let's say that you save about $500 from this. But honestly, you're probably going to save a lot more when you count the time that you're saving. And let's say you put that time into starting a business or doing a side hustle or something along those lines, you could end up saving a lot more than that. Number four is going to be eating out. And this is a big one. So let's say you spend about $10 on lunch every single workday. And then you spend another $5 on a Starbucks coffee every morning. If you do that every single day for a year, that will actually add up to $3,750 a year. That's not counting going out to dinner with friends or going on dates. That's not counting ordering pizza to your house or going out for drinks with your friends after work. You get the idea here. There is so much money to save by being smarter about what you eat. Meal prepping for the week, for instance, has been amazing for me. I'll make enough food for the week and then I'll just go ahead and freeze it. And then whenever I need it, I'll just take it out and then put it in the microwave and warm it up. Sometimes I'll also use a crock pot in order to make really amazing meals that are super, super cheap. And then I can always just take these meals to work or take them out with me or just eat before I go out. And that way I just order a salad or something when I'm at a restaurant. You get the idea. This is one of the biggest money wasters out there. Now, the only exception I do make to this one is I do spend quite a bit of money going out to dinner with friends. But for me, I think that's worth it just because that's kind of like my social hour. That's the time where I kind of forget about everything else. But overall, I think the average young person can easily save $2,000 a year just by cutting back a little bit on food costs. Number three is going to be impulse purchases.  Now, it's going to vary depending on the source, but the average consumer spends over $5,400 a year on impulse purchases. So some of the big ones on this list are going to be household items, technology, beauty enhancers. Now, there's a few things that I do that have worked really well for me when it comes to limiting impulse purchases. First is whenever I have something that I really want to buy, I imagine that thing in one hand and then the amount of money it's going to cost in the other hand. And then I think to myself, you know, which one do I want more? And if I'd rather have the cash than the item, then I won't buy it. Now, if it makes it past that step, then I'll wait at least a week before I decide to buy it. A lot of the times about a week later, I'll kind of look back on it and I'll just be like, why did I even want to buy that in the first place?  Now, if it makes it past that step, what I do is I actually end up tying the item to a goal that I have set for myself. So for instance, I've wanted to get a new camera now for a while because my old camera was basically a potato and it had horrible autofocus issues that I just could not fix no matter what I tried. So let's say my goal was to get you guys to smash the like button 100,000 times, which you did because you're amazing. Then when I reached that goal, I decided, okay, it's time to buy a new camera. And then I went ahead and I bought it. Now, I do this for a lot of things. And basically what I'm doing is I'm rewarding myself for achieving my goals. And this ends up keeping the cost pretty low because after a while, I kind of just lose interest and I end up not wanting to buy the item. I'd say that I save at least $2,000 a year from this, maybe even more. Number two on the list is going to be your car or your motor vehicle. And this is one of the biggest killers of wealth out there. Now the average car payment in the US is over $500 a month and that's getting higher and higher every single year. And I've talked about this a lot in other videos, but having a super nice car is one of the most common ways of living above your means. And I'd have to say, I think this is the most common mistake that I see young people making. And I think the best thing to do here is, especially if you're young and it's one of your first cars, buy a car that is a really good quality, reliable car that's about 5 to 10 years old. So it's taken the brunt of its depreciation. So it's old enough that it's depreciated quite a bit. So it's not super expensive, but it's not so old that it's going to have a ton of issues. Now, I personally recommend buying Japanese cars like Honda or Toyota. These are amazingly reliable. They just run forever. It's incredible. They almost never break down, but even when they do break down, they're super cheap and easy to fix. I'm not even that good when it comes to fixing cars and stuff, but I've actually made some repairs on the cars myself because they're just super easy and simple. And because of the fact that they're so easy to fix, they're also a lot cheaper to ensure. This is why a brand new Mercedes S650 costs three times more than the Honda Odyssey to ensure. And I understand that there's more to it than that. You also want to avoid sports cars, luxury cars, cars with specialty parts, and then cars with low safety ratings as well. But I think you get the point here.  Overall, you can easily save $3,000 a year when you factor in the cost of the car, the insurance, the gas, et cetera, the depreciation and all of that. Number one on the list is going to be your housing and rent. And this is another one that can get really out of hand if you're not careful. And especially when you're young, you want to save as much money on rent as you possibly can. Now, there are many ways to do this, of course. For instance, one way you could do it is you could just keep living with your parents. If you're going to college, there's going to be a lot of cheap options for housing. So for instance, when I was an undergrad, I lived in a scholarship hall, which was about $1,500 a year. That was only a couple hundred dollars a month. And that included rent, utilities, as well as food. You can also look into roommates as well. That one is pretty obvious, I think. And I found that having three roommates overall as in you and two other people is a pretty good ratio. And when you start getting more roommates than that, like bad things end up happening and it's usually just not a good idea.  Another option is you can find a really good deal on a house and get a mortgage that's actually less than what the rent would be on the house. This way, you're still paying on that mortgage every single month, but you're also going to be gaining net worth in the form of equity. And if you find a really good deal, you can do what's known as house hacking, where you're basically getting paid to live in the house. And so on top of the equity that you're earning on the house, you're also getting paid to live there. Another option that not that many people talk about is the fact that you can always just move to a place that has a lower cost of living. Overall, there's a lot of options out there and you can easily save yourself $5,000 a year by being smart about your housing decisions. So let's go ahead and add all of these up. $5,000 plus $3,000 plus $2,000 plus $2,000 plus $500 plus $1,000 plus $1,000 equals $14,500 a year. Now let's say you start doing this at 18 years old and you invest that $14,500 a year into a low cost index fund. The average stock market return for an index fund is around 10% every single year. And so when we plug that into a calculator after working for 40 years, only investing this and nothing else, you will have over $7 million. And that's more than enough for anybody to retire comfortably. So what you want to think about is the opportunity cost here of all that money that you're throwing away. Check out my videos right here. I made them just for you. Go ahead, smash the like button, hit the subscribe button, ring the little notification bell and then comment down below any ideas or comments that you have on the video. Thank you so much for watching and bye for now.


So what you get in the romantic manifesto from a philosophical perspective is an explanation of why aesthetics is a branch of philosophy. So it is true, if you look in the history of philosophy, that the major philosophers, and this particularly means the systematizers in philosophy, and the primary ones are Plato, Aristotle, and Kant, all write about aesthetics. And there's a reason, because they're systematizers and thinking about the meaning of the system, they have, I think, at least an implicit, often more than implicit, understanding that the full meaning of philosophy and of philosophical ideas can only be presented or requires art to be fully presented. So what philosophy does, or actually let me back up, if you've read philosophy who needs it, the lead essay of the book, philosophy who needs it, that is Ayn Rand's explanation, part of the structure of philosophy and of the branches of philosophy. And if you remember that essay, or if you go and then read it, what you'll see is she has a lot to say about metaphysics, what the questions of metaphysics are, do I have the power of choice or not? Am I able to understand the world or not? Is the world fully intelligible or not? A lot about trying to isolate, these are the questions of metaphysics, these are the issues, these are why those issues, the different answers to these questions matter. And she does the same for epistemology. Does knowledge begin with the senses? Does it have to crucially rely on some revelation? What is certainty possible, and what is its nature? She goes through some of the questions of what epistemology is, and again of why the answers, why there's different answers, and why these different answers matter. Then she does the same for ethics. And then she indicates for politics, but I think she's taking for granted that people understand, yeah, political issues divide people, there's different answers, and it's significant what your view of what government should do and so on. She sort of takes that for granted. And then she says there's a fifth branch and it's aesthetics. And it deals with the needs and refueling of a human consciousness, but there's no discussion of what its questions are, of why those questions matter. So you don't really get an explanation of why aesthetics is the fifth branch of philosophy. And I think if you read or reread philosophy who needs it, you'll see you, she couldn't give an explanation in that essay because she's introducing the subject and she's trying to get, she's talking to the cadets at West Point, and she's trying to get them interested in philosophy and understand some of its structure. And it's only when you grasp that, and really have a firsthand grasp of that, that there is such a thing as metaphysics and epistemology and ethics and they're interconnected, which is a point she's making in the essay, and then politics falls out of that. And this is what the guidance that philosophy is meant to offer. It's guidance on these questions, answers to help you navigate the world. And then what aesthetics is a branch of philosophy and sort of what philosophy identifies and what she identifies, I think fully in the romantic manifesto is philosophy is incomplete. Philosophy itself can't provide the full guidance that it's promising. So the whole, and she called, I mean, it's a philosophy for living on earth. It's meant to offer guidance. It is developing all these principles that are supposed to guide you, but these principles, these philosophical principles by themselves are insufficient. And the only science that's going to identify that is philosophy itself. And so what aesthetics is about is identifying there's a philosophical need that a human consciousness has, given that we're philosophical beings, there's a philosophical need that philosophy itself can't satisfy. And then so the basic question for aesthetics is, what satisfies this need? And her answer in the romantic manifesto is art satisfies this need. Art is what concretizes and objectifies and makes fully real to each individual, the full nature of philosophical principles and their action guiding significance. And then it's an exploration of how art does this and how different forms of art do it in different ways and so on. But that's the crux of the issue. And so you get for the first time, like I took, I mean, all through graduate school that I had in philosophy, that we dealt a little bit with aesthetics here and there. There was no explanation of why did philosophers deal with aesthetics? And what you get in the romantic manifesto is if you're really a philosopher in the sense that she is or Aristotle is or Plato is, you have to be interested in aesthetics because it's the means of making fully real what different philosophical principles mean. And it's significant that is different. It's not just, you don't need this just for objectivism. You need this for philosophy, period. And you know, I think some of the most successful philosophies have known this, and maybe the most successful is religion. Religion knows, particularly the Christians, they know they need art. It's not an accident that for centuries they hired the best artists they could and they made their churches beautiful and they commissioned the greatest artists in the world to paint Jesus over and over and over again. Right. And there's a reason because they understood, not explicitly, I think, but they understood implicitly the power that art provides and that art completes their ideological, their philosophical mission, their philosophical purpose, that art is what will actually inspire their parishioners to do what they want to do, motivates them, fuels them, drives them. You know, if you think of some of the great music that was written before the Romantic period, it's mostly church music. If you look at Bach or you look at Handel, if you look at other composers of that period, what they wrote was for the church to try to inspire the parishioners. The emotion that the philosophy is trying to intellectually, if you could call it intellectually, motivate them towards and they understood this relationship between the emotion and the cognitive, the emotion and motivation and art has always been used. And then if you look at the authoritarians in the 20th century, they understood this. So the communists use art in order to inspire the proletariat, not good art, and that's why it doesn't really inspire the proletariat, but art in order to try.  The beauty of Romanticism is that it's about the individual. It's not about collective motivation. It's about motivation for the individual, which are fuel for you as an individual. And I think, particularly for the new people, you know, this is why I thought that art was so crucial, not just for philosophy, just not, but for life, for all of us as individual. And I'll talk, we'll talk a lot more about this tomorrow, that art is not optional. It's not something nice to do on the side once in a while. Art is a crucial part of life. And to the extent that you don't experience it, you are poor spiritually for that. And it's, it's, it's crucial to immerse yourself and to find avenues to seek it out. And we'll discuss that quite a bit tomorrow and how to do it and where to do it and so on. But, but I want to make this point, this is not, and I know a lot of objectives to feel this way.  I'm busy, right?  Again, we'll talk more about that tomorrow. You don't think art should necessarily reflect, reflect life, especially life as it is today? Exactly. And I recognize other schools of art only I don't like them. I just found that. I prefer romanticism. I just found that a little bit contradictory with Ben when she said in terms of religion that she didn't believe in religion as we do because it's not based on realism as she said and more mysticism. You're mixing categories. It's the issue of religion is metaphysical. It's so in nature, in reality. Now, art is not metaphysics. It's not there without men. Art is man made. It's a product of men. And when it's a product of men, you don't have to copy it. You don't have to say this is a fact because 10 men did it that way. You create your own art or you like a school of which there's only one representative. Anything that this man made is open to reason, but not by the same kind of mental process as metaphysical or scientific factual issues. For instance, here I can only recommend that you read my book, The Romantic Manifesto, because I couldn't cover it in a few minutes. The reasons why I can demonstrate to you that romanticism is the best school of art, the best, most justifiable, but not the only one. You like Charlie's Angels. Yes. Because why? Because it's the only romantic television show today. It's not realistic. It's not about the gutter. It's not about the half-wit-retarded children and all the other kind of shows today. It's about three attractive girls doing impossible things. And because they're impossible, that's what makes it interesting. It shows three young girls who are better than so-called real life. And that's a romantic school of literature. You want art to be romantic, don't you? Oh, sir.  Not the life of the moment. I want art to reflect life long range. How do you feel about abstract art? Do you mean non-objective? Non-objective. I think it's less art than photography. I think it is an enormous fraud. Fraud? Yes. It's impossible to discuss it seriously. It means nothing. It is nothing. The perpetrators claim that they don't know what they're doing. And I think they're right. I'm willing to take them at their word. They don't know what they're doing. And neither do we. And the Ashken is the proper place for it. But I mean it seriously.


Mae yma'r teisau ar complement o ddraol, yn gennod, a'r sefydl yma'r teisau ar complement o ddraol, i beryddio'r teisau ar hyn o'r ffyniad o fynd y legaeth bethau'r teisau yma'r teisau ar hyn o'r poffod Llyfridd Cymru i'r Llyfridd Cymru. Mae gallwn yn fn surgeriesiwyr i'r bwysig fel y mae'r ffyrdd gennaeth yn ffôn am homol-rhyw o'r trwylam ar hyn o'r poffod Llyfridd Cymru.  I'm a little bit of Italian, but obviously there's a Latin score, so the idea of the Peregrine and its brute shape of course has got associations with Brad Dickens and the Spasibocomts and consequently fath o ddweud y rhywbeth y gallwch chi'n meddwl â'r cyflomwn. Mae'r fath o ddweud yng nghymru, oedd rhai a'r fath o'r cyflomwn, a'r cyflomwn, a'r cyflomwn, a'r cyflomwn, sy'n meddwl i'r fanolig. Mae'r lle'r unrhyw i ddim yn deimlo'r fath o'r mynd i'r fath o'r lle. Mae'r fath o'r lle i ddim yn gweld yng Nghymru, ac mae'r lle i ddim yn gweld eu cyflomwn, ac mae'r lle i ddim yn gweld eu cyflomwn, dw i'r cwylio oherwydd divideu. Mae'n synieth wedi'i bwysig, yn hollolhau gyda'r gwirioneddau a rnewithlau, a gwirioneddau. Gwybodaeth ddefnw hefyd, mae hefyd yn adeil iawn o'r trafodydy dydd i ddechrau gofodd yr hyn mae'n ddechrau a'r gyff diwrnig yw'r ffordd. The emperors, who were the original customers of this material, when it was discovered in the outskirts of the Roman Empire in the coastline of Egypt, were on the road to Pant, which I suppose is the closest one I'd have. I can't understand the name's Pant as it's where the queen of Shiva came from.ion, gan y uwch yn cael ei fawr. Mae unig bod gan sefydlu ofiwr ar gyfer gwasanaeth gwaith gennod. Mae'n ffawr am y cyfrifoldeb yn y cyfrifoldeb. A dyna, mae'n gyfrifoldeb ar gyfrifoldeb ym Llywodraeth Focolore ac mae'n cyfrifoldeb yn cael y cyfrifoldeb yma. Maenon yn gweithio y cyfrifoldeb arifieddau i fod yn cael fydda'r gwirioneddau ac'r cyfrifoldeb erioed yn erioed. Felly, mae'r rhai rai'r hyn yw'r cyllid yma eich bwrdd i ddechrau ac eich rai'r rai'r ffordd.  A byddai'n cynnwys i'r lleol i'r rhan yr hynny yn myfyrdd. now you've seen Steven Cox discuss paragr speculative sentinel and I wanted to bring in a few more views of that sculpture that I didn't capture in the video that I made when I was there in his house. So, here we're looking at the front and sides of Peregrine Sentinel and you can see the wonderful variety of textures. One of the things that Stephen emphasises in his work is the relationship that he has with the material. And he's a great deal of respect, as I'm sure you've noticed by now, for what it took to form this imperial porphyry, for how rare it is, for how difficult it is to work, and for the weight of history and symbolism that it has. A lot of that is reflected here. You might notice the wonderful sort of abstracted bird shape, but you might also notice that the form here also resembles that of a female figure. A lot of his work tends to explore really sort of classic abstract forms that could be read in a multitude of ways. And the other thing I want you to notice is the attention being played to different textures and to sort of responding to the different faces of the stones. So here we see those views and here we have a slightly better detail. Here we're looking at the side of the sculpture and a detail of the front and top. You can see the unfinished texture that we have at the top of the sculpture and also down at the very foot of the sculpture. And then the entire back has been left in that sort of unfinished broken state that you would have for stone coming directly from the quarry. I love this particular detail of the stone in Peregrine Sentinel. Here this is at the base of the sculpture and you can see this very rough unfinished piece of the sculpture. And it shows all of those working marks and you can get a sense from this of just how difficult it is to work these hard stones like porphyry, basalt and diorite. The normal tools and techniques that would work on softer stones like the alabaster and marble will cover later are completely ineffective. They're completely ineffective against this sort of stone. It all has to be worked with sort of punches perpendicularly against the stone. And those tools wear out very much more quickly even if you're using power assisted tools. The process is much, much slower. So there's a real awareness here and a desire to show the evidence of the difficulty of that working. Here's a short video from Steven's sculpture yard and we're looking at a piece that is a similar size and shape to Peregrine Sentinel. And you can see here how he has marked up some of the forms on the stone with the intent of carving in and creating a finished sculpture. Here's Steven with one of his larger and earlier pieces in Imperial Porphyry. This is a work called Dreadnaught and it's a piece in which he's been exploring the Imperial Porphyry and sort of its condition and the things that have happened to it over its history. The pits and hollows that you see in this work are from pieces of tuf that he gouged out and dug out of this enormous piece of Imperial Porphyry. It also had a split down the middle and that was then gilded by Steven. You can see that gold shining in the sun.  And those are tool marks from the Roman quarrymen who were originally sort of roughing out this piece. It was ultimately abandoned in the quarry until Steven brought it back to Britain and worked with it. Now I'm showing you a closer view of Dreadnaught and you can see that line of gold there to call your attention to that split in the porphyry. And that may well be why the Romans abandoned it in the quarry. Also all of those large inclusions of tuf might have made this a less desirable piece of stone for the Roman masons. But you can see their initial marks from drills that they used to kind of cut down in and used to split the stone. And we'll see some wedge marks on the other side in just a moment. Here on the backside of Dreadnaught you can see some of those tuf inclusions that haven't been removed by Steven. They look like big chunks of marshmallow in a jello salad for example. And more of those sort of drill marks from the Romans there are a few sort of square cut marks too that are evidence of wedges that would have been driven in as part of the stone splitting process. And what I think is so interesting about Steven Cox and his work is that for one thing he's one of the only sculptors currently working in these hard stones today. His assistant Tim is following in his footsteps in a way using basalt and deliberately working with hard stones. But these are materials that in many ways are materials of the past not of the present. And in Steven Cox's work we see a dialogue between a present day sculptor and these very ancient important materials. He has tremendous respect for them and the work that he does represents a sort of conversation that he has with these materials. And when you examine his work and really look at it and we'll see some more work when we get to alabaster you really get a sense, a better sense of those materials thanks to Steven's intervention as a sculptor. Thank you.


Rare beds containing Crandolite, a CaL phosphate enriched in senior and Ba, were found within otherwise monotonous cleric lecustrine sediments of the most basin in the Central European Neo-gene or Rift system. These beds were formed at specific times and trace element and organic geochemistry, Heryar geochronology and CO-senior isotope systematics were used to infer their source and processes leading to their formation. The most enigmatic aspect of the formation of these Crandolite beds is the removal of a huge amount of phosphorus from its biogenic cycle in the lecustrine system, which was otherwise stable for Ca0.8 mi. Formation of detritus poor Crandolite beds could result from exceptional environmental disruptions that hindered transport of fine clastic material to the basin floor. Solicic volcanic activity in the area of the Pinonian basin could have triggered this disruption. Crandolite could provide evidence of long-lasting droughts and acidification of the exogenic environment as they are roughly co-evil with the onset of the Miocene Climatic Optimum at Ca17.0 ma. This article was authored by Karel Mok, Vladislav Rapprich, Martin Famera and others. We are article.tv, links in the description below.


The readings we just heard proclaimed for this mass, the votive mass of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of the Church, are brief excerpts of Scripture, but yet we see in this a reflected what is really the whole movement of salvation history. The first reading, of course, we are all familiar with this, the fall of our first parents, when the original sin entered into the world. Up until this point, though, the man and the woman in the garden, all was idyllic, all was in harmony. Everything was according to way that God designed it, what He intended for us. But at this point now, we see trouble is brewing. The man and the woman have gotten themselves into trouble in big time. Something really serious is going wrong here. But even at this point, already at this point, we see the mercy of God at work. Right there, right at the moment of the fall of our first parents, God promises to get them out of it. And He comes up with a plan to do so. He makes His promise, I will put enmity between you and the woman and between your offspring and hers.  So already at the very moment of the fall, God promises to send a Messiah to pull us out of this disaster. Let's look, though, a little deeper at what's going on here. I would like to share with you some insights I gained from an interfaith symposium on the complementary of man and woman in marriage. I attended and hosted at the Vatican back in November of 2014. It was an interfaith gathering, and so we had speakers from practically every major religion in the world, certainly. The talks were all excellent and very inspiring. But the one that really brought down the house more than any other was the talk given by the Chief Rabbi Emeritus of England, Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, who talked about this very passage from Genesis. And he says that up until this point, the man had not called the woman by a name. When she was created from his substance, he said he gave her a noun. He called her woman, not a name, because she was derived from himself. He says that he did not yet see her as a person in her own right, but more like a reflection of himself since she came from him. Then he goes on to say that it was at this moment that the man realized that he was mortal. He had lost his immortality, so he would one day die and he would be destined to return to dust. And so there was only one way that something of him could live on after his death. And this would be if he had a child, but for this he needed the woman. He could not have a child on his own. She alone could give birth. And as he puts it, she alone could mitigate his immortality. And he said, not because she was like him, but precisely because she was unlike him. At that moment she ceased to be for him a type and became a person in her own right. And a person has a proper name. That is what he gave her, the name Chava Eve, meaning giver of life. At that moment, as they were about to leave Eden and face the world as we know it, a place of darkness, Adam gave his wife the first gift of love, a personal name. From the very deep insights that Rabbi Sax gives us from his profound Jewish learning and wisdom, it helps to cast even greater light as we read salvation history from our Christian perspective. And we can see how God truly recapitulates all things in Jesus Christ. Let us look at the Gospel we just heard proclaimed. From the cross, Jesus addresses his mother as woman. This is the new Adam addressing the new Eve. And we see a similar connection here, the connection between Jesus and his mother. The first Eve took her flesh from the first Adam. The new Eve gives flesh to the new Adam. The eternal Son of God takes his flesh from the blessed Virgin Mary. He is of the same substance. But of course the work is not yet finished here. He was still to rise from the dead. He had to take human flesh from his mother so that in his body he could offer his life on the cross and die for us. But he was still to rise again. What happens on the third day, also at the cross St. John tells us, was Mary Magdalene. The first one to encounter him after the resurrection, which was also in a garden. And what happened in this encounter? She does not recognize him at first. She thinks he is the gardener. And Jesus first addresses her, how? Woman. Woman, why are you weeping? Whom are you looking for? She did not yet recognize him. And then he addressed her by her name. Jesus said to her, Mary, she turned and said to him in Hebrew, Rabonai, which means teacher. He gave her a name and therefore established a relationship. We see here too the importance of the difference of the two and the complementarity. In this sense, in this moment Mary Magdalene becomes an image of the church as the bride of Christ and the example of discipleship. Saved by the blood of Christ. But that salvation is not realized without a relationship with him. We speak about having a personal relationship to Jesus Christ. But to know Jesus Christ as a person and not just as a concept, as some sort of imaginary friend, how is that accomplished? It always requires the mediation of another. And how does it happen in families? So often it's through the mother, is it not? She very often is the one who mediates the relationship of her children to Jesus Christ. Nowadays increasingly so the grandmother. But as it is for the family, so it is for the family of faith, the church. The church is the bride of Christ, but the church is also our mother. Jesus established his church to care for us, to nurture us, to give us life and nurture us as a mother does for her children. The church generates new life for God's kingdom through the grace of baptism. The church nurtures that life with the sacramental life of the church through the forgiveness of sins of God's people by how we join ourselves to his saving sacrifice in the Eucharist. The church nurtures that new life by teaching God's children the way of truth, the truth that Christ left with his church. Yes, we can know the truth and so we can be set free. We can know and love all that is good, all that is true, all that is beautiful. And so we can know him who is goodness, truth and beauty and be happy with him forever. This is what he wants for us. This is what he created us for. And this is why the church teaches what she does, what she teaches about morals, about marriage and about everything else, about what God has revealed to us about himself and the life of the Trinity, about his son, Jesus Christ, about the life of prayer, about the social teaching, everything the church teaches us because the church wants us to be happy. In reality, it is because this is what the Lord teaches us. The Lord established the church to be the messenger of his truth and to safeguard that truth for his children. But this will not make any difference without a personal encounter. A personal encounter with Jesus Christ but one which is always mediated through another. Jesus has chosen to rely on us for this. And so there is no evangelization without a personal encounter. The social media cannot substitute for it. Yes, we need to know how to communicate through the social media and the Holy Fathers have been urging us to be very attentive to this. But not as a substitute for a personal encounter, but as a way of getting there. Pope Francis repeatedly teaches us and urges us to build up this culture of encounter and accompaniment, to enter into a relationship at a human level, valuing the person as a person. I know the world of difference it can make when the work of evangelization is personalized in this way. Not just because stereotypes and preconceived ideas about who these religious fanatics are fall away, but because people can begin to see ultimate reality in a new perspective. Most importantly because presence is the language of love. If you truly love someone, you want to be present to them. Present in every way. Physical presence whenever possible, along with mental presence, spiritual presence. It doesn't really make any difference to tell someone that you love them if you never pay attention to them. You can't be believed if you don't pay attention to them if you say, I love you. On the contrary, total presence is the sign that you love them. To know them personally, to know them by name, this is the first gift of love. Love. This is the path to true and lasting happiness. Love is the way God designed us to love. True and lasting happiness. And that, as all well-versed Catholics know, is why God made us the first and last lesson of life, right? To be happy with him in this life and forever in heaven. Let us then always turn to her, our mother, who is the highest honor of our race, that she might intercede to her son for us and shelter us with her maternal love. Keeping us within the arms of our holy mother, the church, that we may always know her son and remain in a right relationship with him. And so inherit the freedom, love, and happiness of the children of God, now and forever in his heavenly kingdom.


Good morning, lab students! It is Wednesday, April 29th, the official last day of classes here at SC State University. You should have finished most of your work at this point with just a few remaining items left. If you have not yet completed your course evaluations, you want to do that as soon as possible, and send me the screenshot that has the checklist so that you can get bonus points towards the final exam. The final exam for non-graduating seniors will be held Monday and Tuesday of next week. Graduating seniors have until Thursday of this week to complete their final exam so that I can get their grades calculated in early. The last few days, I've really focused on getting the final exams prepared to be deployed in this online environment, but now that that is done, I'm going to be focusing on getting the work that you've submitted graded and the grade book updated. If you have work that you have not completed on any of the labs or quizzes since spring break, you can go ahead and get that done. If you have questions on any of your labs or quizzes from the entire semester, things where you didn't get a perfect score but may not understand yet what it was that you had done wrong, I strongly recommend that you go ahead and ask me those questions through email or text message now so that you can get that cleared up before you start the final exam. Once you started the final exam, I will not answer questions. The final exam will be 25 questions which are two points each and cover material from the entire semester. You can use your lab manual and other notes while you're taking the final exam, but you cannot consult with other people or other outside sources while you're taking that exam. I want everybody to do the best that they can and finish off this semester strong and again I look forward to getting your questions over the next few days to make sure that you're well prepared for this final exam. If you have any questions or concerns please contact me. I'm here to help you out. I hope you have a really good day.