Hi, Jeff Frick here with theCUBE. Welcome, we're excited to get out and talk to startups, people that are founding companies when they come out of stealth mode. We're in a great position that we get a chance to talk to them early and we're really excited to have a CUBE conversation with Karthik Rao, the founder and CEO of Signal Effects, just coming out of stealth, congratulations. Thank you, Jeff. So how long have you been working behind the scenes trying to get this thing going? Yeah, we've been at it for two years now. So my co-founder and I started the company in February of 2013. So excited to finally launch and make our product available to the world. All right, excellent. Well, congratulations. That's always a great thing. We've launched a few companies on theCUBE, so hopefully this will be another great success.  We have a lot of entrepreneurs that watch a show and I think it's an interesting topic as to how do you get to the place where you basically found and launch a company? Yeah, absolutely. I started my career at a cloud company before cloud really existed as a market. There's a company called LoudCloud. Oh yeah, of course. It was trying to do Mark Andreessen, right? Early days. Mark Andreessen, Ben Horitz, or two of the co-founders of that company. And we were trying to do what the public cloud vendors are doing today before the market was really all that big and before the technologies really existed to do it well. But that was my first introduction to cloud, just right out of college. And that's where I met my co-founder, Philip Liu, as well. Phil and I were both working on the monitoring products at LoudCloud. From there I ended up at VMware for a good run of about seven years where I ran product. Had always wanted to start a company and then a couple of years ago, Phil and I thought that the timing was right and we had a great idea and decided to go build SignalFX together. Okay, so what was kind of the genesis of the idea? A lot of times it's a cool technology looking for a problem to solve, or a lot of times it's a problem that you know and if I only had one of these, it would solve my problem. So how did that whole process work? Yeah, it was rooted in personal experience. My co-founder, Phil, was at Facebook for several years and was responsible for building the monitoring systems at Facebook. And through our personal experience and what we'd seen in the marketplace, we had a fundamental belief and a vision that monitoring for modern applications is now an analytics problem. Modern applications are distributed. They're not a single database running on a single system. Even small companies now have hundreds of VMs running on public cloud infrastructure. And so the only way to really understand what's happening across all of these distributed applications is to collect the data centrally and use analytics. And so that was our fundamental insight when we started Signal Effects. What we saw in the marketplace was that most of the monitoring technologies haven't really evolved in the past 15 or 20 years and they're still largely designed for traditional static enterprise applications where if you get an alert when an individual node is down or a static threshold's been passed, that's enough. But that doesn't really work for modern apps because they're so distributed. If one node out of your 20 nodes is having a problem, it doesn't necessarily mean that your application is having a problem. And so the only way to really draw that insight is to collect the data and do analytics on it and that's what Signal Effects is about. Okay, really because of that distributed nature of modern apps and modern architecture. Yes, there are three things that are fundamentally different. Number one, modern applications are distributed in nature and so you really have to look at patterns across many systems. Number two, they're changing for more frequently than traditional enterprise apps because they're hosted for the most part, cloud applications. And so you can push changes out every day if you want to. And then third, they're typically operated by product organizations and not IT organizations. So you have developers or DevOps organizations that are actually operating the software. And those three changes are quite substantial and require a new set of products. And so the other guys are just, they're still kind of in the, fire off the pager alert, something is going down. It's very noisy, yes.  We have thousands of VMs, right? And we all know the trend these days is towards microservices, architectures, small, componentized containers or VMs. And so you don't have to have a very sophisticated large application to have a lot of systems. It's so do you fit into other existing kind of infrastructure monitoring systems or kind of infrastructure management systems? So I'm sure, you know, it's another tool, right? You guys got to manage a lot of stuff. How does that work? Yeah, we're focused on the analytics part of the problem. Okay. And so we collect data from any sources. So our customers are typically sending us data, you know, infrastructure data that they're collecting using their own agents. We have agents that we can provide to collect it. A lot of the developers are instrumenting their own metrics that they care about. So for example, they might care about latency metrics and knowing latencies by customer, by region. So they'll send us all that data and then we provide a very rich analytics solution and platform for them to monitor all of this and in real time detect patterns and anomalies. So you just said you have customers. You're coming out of stealth though. So you have some beta customers already? Yes, we have great customers already. Not just beta customers, we've got great customers. Real customers, awesome. Yes. Congratulations. Thank you very much. They're very excited about our product and they range from small startups to fairly large web companies that are sending in tens of millions of data points every day and to signal effects. Right, right. And again, in the interest of sharing the knowledge with all of our entrepreneurs out there, when did they get involved in the process? How much of the kind of product development definition did they participate in? You said you've been at it for a couple of years. Yeah, we had a lot of conviction about this space from the very beginning because our team had solved this problem for themselves in previous experiences. But we did include, we've been in beta for about six months prior to launch. And so over the course of those six months, we recalibrated based on feedback we got from customers. But on the whole, our philosophy and the approach that we took was pretty much validated by the early customers that we engaged with. Okay, excellent. And so I assume you're venture funded? We are. Can you talk about who your backers are? Yes, we raised $28.5 million. $28 million. Yeah, $28.5 million dollars from Andreessen Horowitz with Ben Horowitz on our board and Charles River Ventures with David Eulerker on our board. And how big are you now in terms of the company? Well, we're just getting started now, right? This is kind of day one of the- Yeah, $28 million, you gotta put all that money to work. Well, that's right. We've got a great group of engineers, our company is still in the few dozen people stage at this point, but we're planning to invest aggressively in building out our team, both on R&D and on the go-to-market side this year. Excellent. Once you detect patterns and anomalies, what's kind of the action steps you work with with other systems to swap stuff out?  So what are some of the prescriptive things that people are using they couldn't do before by using your tool? Yeah, I'll give you a great example about one of our early beta customers. They do code pushes very aggressively. You know, once a week, they'll push out changes into their environment and they had a SignalFX console open which, and we're a real-time solution, so every second they were seeing updates of what was happening in their infrastructure, they pushed out their code and they immediately detected a memory leak and they saw their memory usage just growing immediately after they did their code push and they were able to roll it back before any of their users noticed any issues. And so that's an example of these days, a lot of problems introduced into environments are human-driven problems. It's a code push, it's a new user gets onboarded or a new customer gets onboarded and all of a sudden there's 10x the load onto your systems. And so when you have a product-like SignalFX where you can in real-time understand everything that's happening in your environment, you can quickly detect these changes and determine what the appropriate next step is. And that appropriate next step will depend on your application and who you are and what you're building. So our key philosophy is we get out of your way but we give you all of the insights and the tools to figure out what's happening in your environment. That's interesting, that really kind of too comes from your partner's Facebook experience, because they're pushing out new code all the time on those things. Yeah, move fast and break things, right? Right, exactly. And then you're at VMware, so you know kind of the enterprise side. So what if you could speak a little bit about kind of this consumerization of IT on the enterprise side and not so much the way that the look and feel of the thing works, but really taking best practices from consumer IT companies like Facebook, like Amazon that really changed the game because it used to be the big enterprise software guys had the best apps. Now it's really flipped where people like Google and Netflix and those guys had the best apps and even more importantly, they drive the expectation of the behavior of an application. Are enterprises finally getting it and are they really embracing it? We're definitely seeing a growth in new application development. I think when I spent a lot of time talking to CIOs at enterprises as well and they all understand that in order to be competitive you have to invest in applications. It's not enough to just view IT as a cost center and they're all beginning to invest in application development. And in some cases, these are digital media teams that are separate from traditional IT and other places. It's they're more closely tied together but we absolutely see kind of growth in application development. In many of these end up looking a lot like the development teams that we see here in the Bay Area and companies that are building SaaS and consumer cloud apps. Yeah, exciting time. So you should come out of stealth. What's kind of your next kind of milestone that you're looking forward to? You have a big some announcements. You got a show you're going to kind of launch at. Where are we going to see you make a big splash? Well, for us, it's steadily building our business. And so we hope to, you know, we're launching now and we've got a lot of great customers already and hope to sign on several more and help our customers build great applications. So that's our focus. Okay, congratulations. Two years, that's a big development project. Karthik Rao, founder and CEO of Signal Effects. Just launching their company coming out of stealth. We'd love to get them on theCUBE. I want to share the knowledge with you guys, both the people that are trying to start your own company. Take a little inspiration, as well as the people that need this service to monitor the cloud with a modern application. Thanks a lot. Thank you, Jeff. Thank you. 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I turn now to topical questions. Before I do, I just want to remind members, Presiding officers and I have been discussing this matter with business managers and others. We are very conscious that we want to make sure that we respect all members when they are asking questions and we will try not to interrupt. However, it is imperative that all members try to get to the point of the question, try to do so succinctly, do not make an argument to me, make a sentence beforehand but do not try to make an argument, and also be beneficial if ministers could answer succinctly too and will get through all the questions. If we do not make progress, it will be the members at the end of the statement, at the end of the queue for questions that get dropped rather than us trying to cut people off. On that note, we want to topical questions. Question number one, Mike Rumbles. To ask the Scottish Government what discussions it has had with ScotRail and Police Scotland regarding arrangements for the league cup semifinals. While the scheduling of matches is a matter for the football authorities, we recognise that there is anger, particularly among supporters who are travelling from Aberdeen and Edinburgh. The Scottish Government, Transport Scotland and ScotRail were not consulted ahead of the SPFL announcement, though we have discussed the issue with all key organisations, including ScotRail and Police Scotland. We are actively engaging with all relevant partners to consider all key issues of concern. That dialogue will continue, and I hope that the appropriate outcome will be reached. Mike Rumbles. I thank the minister for that response. It should be a fantastic opportunity for families across the country to get to the showpieces of Scottish football, but fans and the clubs involved say that the planning has been botched. Families are thinking twice about going, they are concerned about the logistics of getting there and home again, with ScotRail saying that the logistical challenges should not be underestimated. Although we hope that people will act responsibly, there is real concern about the risk of having 100,000 fans from four rival teams congregating in the same area on the same day and, overnight, the Scottish Police Federation has described it as idiotic. Does the minister agree that the change is necessary and that the date should be moved, at least? The member makes a number of very important points, many of which I think SPFL should have considered before making their decision. I know that Police Scotland has significant expertise in successfully policing high-profile matches. Discussions are continuing, and I understand that Police Scotland has asked the SPFL to review its plans and has sought assurance around public safety. I know that that will be a welcome move by many of the fans. Police Scotland will review further information and discuss any issues further with the SPFL. It is vital that public order and safety remain paramount in any decision going forward. I would also ask the SPFL to make sure that they are considering the fans and that they are considering the interests of Scottish football in any final decision. I do not recall ScotRail taking an event organised at a task so publicly before. It did not hold back. The SPFL is well aware from previous events of the logistical challenges that an early kick-off presents, particularly from Sunday morning services from Aberdeen and North East fans. Particularly speaking about North East fans, they have been given a thoroughly raw deal, as there is not a train that will get Aberdonians to Glasgow before the kick-off. I would like to thank Aberdeen Evening Express for leading the campaign for a fair deal for fans. Does the minister agree that event organisers have a responsibility to accommodate the needs of people from the whole of Scotland, not just in the central belt? Has the minister considered what the Government can do to encourage that in the future? The member makes a very good point. As I said in my first answer, the SPFL did not have any dialogue with ScotRail prior to making the decision. I have asked the SPFL to ensure that, in future, appropriate dialogue with all the appropriate agencies takes place before decisions of this nature are made. We seem to have a huge amount of interest in the subject. I do not think that we will get through, despite my appeal for brevity, not sure that we will get through them all, but Lewis MacDonald will be followed by Gordon MacDonald. Is the minister's initial response to say that dialogue is continuing and that he hopes that an appropriate outcome will be forthcoming? He also mentioned a review by Police Scotland. Can I ask the minister if that dialogue includes a proposition from the Government that the SPFL should scrap its existing plans to have two semi-finals at the same venue on the same day, revisit that and do something that serves the interests of football fans, not just in the north-east but across Scotland? Ultimately, the decision of when fixtures take place has to be a matter for the SPFL, but they have to, I think, take into account advice from Police Scotland, advice from Transport Scotland and advice from ScotRail. They need to take account of the fans and to consider what is in the best interests of Scottish football. Gordon MacDonald will be followed by Jamie Greene. I have written to the SPFL expressing what I believe to be a lack of consideration for families that are expected to leave Glasgow at 10 pm on a Sunday night to travel back to Edinburgh, which could be worse if the game goes into extra time or penalties. Does the minister share my concern for hearts fans in my constituency who, given the 745 kick-off, will be lucky to get home by midnight? Mindful of the time, I am sure that the SPFL will be listening to everything that is said in the chamber today. The points that the member makes are well made. Jamie Greene will be followed by Maureen Watt. My questions are less for the agency and more for the minister. Can he confirm what discussions the Government has had with Transport Scotland and ScotRail to ensure that supply will meet demand on the day? Secondly, what discussions have been had between Police Scotland and the BTP in the Government to ensure that there will be adequate police numbers and increased presence in the community to reassure any concerned residents or businesses? As I said in my earlier answer, the Scottish Government is continuing to liaise and discuss with all key stakeholders. Maureen Watt will be followed by Jeremy Balfour. It has already been pointed out that the first train from Aberdeen to Glasgow on Sunday arrives at 14 minutes after the match has started. What levers has the Scottish Government or can the Scottish Government use to remind football in Scotland that they too have a role to play in reducing carbon emissions and car journeys, that they have a responsibility for the health and safety of their fans as well as their players and that without fans there would be no clubs and no football TV deals that seem to drive everything? Can I ask those in the chamber who have not signed my motion to do so and also to support the evening express campaign on this issue? I think that the member makes her points well, which I am sure the SPFL will be listening to. Jeremy Balfour to be followed by James Kelly. I was hoping to take my two girls to watch hearts go into the final, but with the change in time that will be impossible due to their age. Will the minister agree with me that if we are trying to attract younger people to come and watch football and take part in football, this is a retrograde step and the SFA should rethink the situation and move one game to a more appropriate time? Again, in order to make sure that everyone can contribute, I think that the member is making some very good points, which I am hopeful that the SPFL will be listening to. James Kelly to be followed by Gordon Lindhurst. The decision by the SPFL, taken in secret behind closed doors, treats supporters and the general public with contempt. There is a simple solution. Move one of the games to either Monday evening or the following weekend. Will the Government use its offices to produce a co-ordinated response behind an alternative date and urge the SPFL to reverse this disastrous decision? As I said earlier, the Government is continuing to engage with stakeholders, but I think that, as I have already said, the Police Scotland has specifically asked the SPFL to review its plans and they have asked for assurances around public safety. It will be then for Police Scotland to review that further information and to discuss how to take that forward in the best interests of public safety. That obviously has to be the primary focus of Police Scotland, but I will go back to my point that I think that the SPFL has a responsibility to their fans, a point that many folk in the chamber have made, and they also have a responsibility to Scottish football. Gordon Lindhurst to be followed by James Dornan. Bear in mind that this fixture is set for Halloween weekend, which is unfortunately one of the busiest weekends of the year for the emergency services. That will mean that police and other essential services will hardly get any time off. Does the minister agree that efforts should be made to see that all those who can get at least one day a week off from their work and, in particular, where possible, those of essential services? Minister, that is a point now that I will make sure that the Cabinet Secretary for Justice is aware of. James Dornan. Thank you very much, Presiding Officer. Given that we hear that the SPFL did not even think to contact Scott Rail, have any discussions with bus operators that the SPFL has strongly opposed to the two games going ahead in the same day, does the minister agree with me that such disregard of football fans or public services in my constituents further highlights the need to improve the governance of Scottish football and would the Scottish Government give some thought to how that could be achieved? Minister. The member's passion for football and the need to improve governance of a national game is well recorded. Following my recent appointment, I have now formally met the Scottish FA Chief Executive Ian Maxwell and SPFL Chief Executive Neil Doncaster to discuss issues like those. Governance can be strengthened and the voice of the supporter can be heard more loudly. Can I thank the minister and members for following up on my remarks? I didn't expect to have such success so early on. However, I'm very pleased. We're going to move on shortly to the next item of business, which will be a motion on 1.4160 in the name of Shirley-Anne Somerville. I'll just take a few seconds for members to change seats.


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Good morning. My name is Clefetson. I'm Calaveras County Board of Supervisors chair and I want to thank everybody for coming here to respond to the fire that our county's been experiencing for the past two weeks. I have many people and agencies to Thank first of all, I'd like to thank our community for stepping up and taking care of each other We've had a wonderful response from the agencies in the area including Cal fire FEMA is now here because of the of the declaration signed by the president PG&E has done a phenomenal job. They've been here less than a week, and I think they've replaced like 850 poles OES is here Cal OES SBA to help us out help our folks out Local fire. I've seen our local fire folks working with Cal fire in their in their base camp our local CHP Thank you very much. We guys had the tough job along with our Sheriff's Department who did the evacuations and I think around 46 other Sheriff's Agencies from everywhere in the state. We certainly appreciate that Local Churches and charities have stepped up big time To take care of our victims. This this fire actually happened in the poorest impoverished section of our county and so it was It was definitely a challenge So I'm gonna make this short and sweet and I'd like to introduce Mark go to do chief the director of Cal OES Thank you again for helping us out in our little county in this emergency. Thank you Thanks, Supervisor Mark Larducci the director of California OES Let me start off by saying Really are our continued thoughts and prayers are with Caliverse County and The individuals who have been impacted by these fires and and who have suffered losses We deal with disasters throughout California and each one of these is personal to us. We are we in California our partners and our with all of our counties our state and When we approach these as you saw With the response to the fire we do it in a collaborative and collective way Bringing together Cities and counties and state assets. It doesn't really matter it's one team one fight and That that goes on through the recovery process We all feel the the impacts and we are very very sensitive to making sure that the county And the people of the county get back on their feet as soon as possible I want to tell you all that it's These events are not linear They they are complex This one in particular Is complex and it's in its scope And and so it will take time It will take patience and it will take effort on the part of everyone To be able to get the county back to where it once was but we want to our goal Our objective is to work with the county and the people of the county to build back stronger and better For the future. This is a fire prone community And we want to make sure that for the future Future fires. There's as much mitigation efforts put in place to reduce future impacts of of fires we know that we've had quite a quite a summer of fires and throughout California and We don't believe that that that kind of thing is going to be slowing anytime soon So we want to work with with everyone to make sure that that we build back stronger and better early on the governor proclaimed a state of emergency and Allocated all state directed all state agencies to respond And we continue to do that. He also Provided funding through the California disaster assistance act and early on had a great conversation with the president About the impacts of the fires and then shortly after made an official request to the president for a federal disaster declaration day before yesterday that declaration was was approved and Today we sit here In front of you federal emergency management agency is on the ground They have actually been very much involved with us since the inception of the fire early on because of the magnitude and the severity of the fire FEMA actually provided a fire management assistance grant to the state of California early on to be able to help provide resources to offset the suppression cost of all the fire assets and Emergency managers and law enforcement that were responding to the immediate needs of the fire They are now here through the federal designation to help us with the overall Recovery process and most importantly to help individuals Recover and help them get through the next Several months until we can get their houses Rebuilt in addition to FEMA the small business administration has joined in under that declaration and also is here to help provide Loans and assistance to not only individuals but to businesses who have suffered losses and we'll hear a little bit about that here in a minute lastly, I want to acknowledge the Red Cross Red Cross has been Working on this incident from the beginning They're here for the long run as well and will continue to provide assistance as necessary Through the duration of the recovery so with that let me Let me turn it over to Tim Scranton Tim is the federal coordinating officer appointed by the president For this disaster to be the federal lead on coordinating federal Disaster recovery operations and he'll go through some of the programs that are available Tim. Thank you Well, good morning everyone and if I if I may first on behalf of the federal family extend our condolences to the family and friends that Have lost one loved ones here in this event and also to those that are affected You know, I could see the emotion in the supervisor's face here And and I just can't imagine what it's like for those of you to try and live through this horrendous event You know, I my past life I was a firefighter for over 30 years and all I ever wanted to do is help people and now I get to do that at The federal level and so I bring that with me with the authorities and the policies that FEMA has to offer And I'd like to go over some of those that we're going to be able to extend to to the survivors of this event One of the things that you know as this fire began and we move people into tents and temporary sheltering, you know That's a progression. We need to get them out of those tents into more permanent type Apartments or hotel rooms or whatever but also longer term strategies. So we're going to be working With you to provide that rental assistance and some assistance also to replace some of your personal properties We have some transitional sheltering for immediate help And also we're looking at all sorts of options as we look at the geography and topography of this particular event Maybe even modular type units if that's what's going to be the most appropriate to fit your needs We have what's called case management because we know that this is going to be a long-term recovery for those survivors that have been affected as we talked about going from hotels to apartments to longer term types of Living, you know, we want to be able to partner with you to help you with that long-term strategy because this is not going to be quick Also, we're going to provide counts of crisis counseling one of the things that we need to remember in these types of Devastating events is when your home burns up all of your memories are gone your pictures and your videos of the kids and and all Of that is is no longer in existence So we want to be there to help you through these very difficult times And also we can provide legal services to to assist you and and also as we talk about the whole community I know Brad and some others will probably mention this Let's not forget those with access and functional needs if there's people out there that have Specific needs we want to go out to them and provide them the same level of assistance that we're providing everybody in this event So how do we do this? We need your help We need you to please register at one eight hundred six two one three three six two So one eight hundred six two one FEMA or you can go to a disaster assistance dot gov Or if you're having any type of social event or there's a faith-based organizations that are having services or any type of Collaborative event that we can go to we will bring people to that event and register them right there on the spot We have iPads we will do that for you But we need to get the message out that we want to get you into our system so that we can start providing those services that that we have to give you so With that again, please spread the word. It's not about us. It's about helping those that have gone through this this horrible Incident and we want to provide you the best possible service that we can thank you I'm sorry. Yes, we have what's called disaster assistance teams that are currently on both this the lake fire and the beautifier that are out Canvassing the area running into the survivors registering them on the spot We also have Individual or a staff at the local assistance centers where we can register you And we're also setting up what we're calling area field offices in Lake and Calaveras County where we're going to have our staff out here to be with you to partner with you so that the Local officials and the individuals can actually go and we can we can reach out to you with that Personal touch to make sure that we provide you the best possible service that we can Thank you. Good morning. Ken Pimalot the chief of Cal fire and I just want to emphasize a couple of key points that both director Geller Ducci and supervisor Edson made Firefighting and emergency response in California is a unified effort No different on this fire and the hundreds of fires around California every year or every week During the peak of the summer. Are there hundreds of local government fire departments federal firefighting agencies the Forest Service and Cal fire Responding to these together and it was no different here.  I think you've heard that plain and clear California's largest and most damaging fires have occurred in the fall months that we're just entering right now and we have got to stay Vigilant and something that's key and we've heard it if we talk about it Our partners talk about it. We've got to focus as communities on evacuation planning and heating evacuation orders and making sure we're getting everybody out I don't need to tell amador and calaveras counties how this fire spread you Lived it these fires this summer are spreading at critical rates All we have time to do in the beginning is help get Individuals and members and community members out of the way and out of the path of these fires So everything that we can do As a community and as residents and communicating with each other to heat evacuation warnings and to have our plans in place Ahead of time because Cal fires are going to occur again We've got months ahead of us under these critical conditions and we want to make sure that we've done everything to help everybody Prepare so thank you Good morning. I'm Brad Kaiserman. I'm from the American Red Cross As horrible as these fires have been and they have been horrible What is amazing to me and for a moment? I'd like to focus on is the is the resilience of this community The power of this community saw the passion and supervisor Edson's Remarks to you today. This community is going to come back. This community is going to be resilient What you are going to find in the ashes of this fire is hope What I learned from the FEMA administrator Craig Fugate because a few months ago I used to wear a FEMA shirt like this guy What I learned from the FEMA administrator is this and you heard Tim Scranton mentioned earlier It takes a whole community. It takes the whole community to make a community whole That's what it's going to take to bring it back again It's going to take all of the agencies all levels of government But it's also going to take the people of the community volunteers faith-based groups nonprofits Red Cross is humbled and and we're pleased that we can be here to help And work with our partners There are so many nonprofits and faith-based organizations that are here to help and more will come to help And we're humbled to be a part of that today and in the past week We will continue to make sure that we are conducting feeding in the community that we're providing shelter for those who need shelter that we're providing some direct financial assistance in the immediate aftermath of these horrific fires as a Transition or a bridge until FEMA or other agencies folks have registered with them and they can obtain other assistance But we will be in your community because we are your community and we'll be with you because You are you are hope and so we will work with you I really appreciate being here today as sorry as I am for your loss, and I am very sorry It's horrific, but I am absolutely amazed by what I have seen from this community and its leadership. Thank you very much So Do I haven't anybody'd like to ask questions? None. No, they covered it pretty good. Well, we have we've had an amazing outpour of Support from actually all over and We actually had to rent to warehouses for you know the clothing and the water and all of that that have come We have a lot of folks up here that are Renters a lot of elderly folks that are that had to make a decision between buying insurance and food so we have a lot of folks that don't have insurance that were burned out and We have a couple of chair account set up for that and What we really need is to for people to help bolster those accounts One of them is the Calaveras County Community Foundation and One is the common ground senior services and there are a bunch more including Red Cross But Those are the ones I think that are going to go to help provide funding directly to some of these folks these these seniors that live up here Many of them were kind of trapped in the area because they you know You get to a certain age and you can't move out and you want to you can't can't do anything else and we had a bunch of them So we want to take care of those folks if we can yes, sir So every year the the maximum allowable grant is adjusted by Congress this year It happens to be set at thirty two thousand nine hundred dollars But each individual case is different and so I want everybody to understand that you need to register with FEMA Through the one eight hundred number disaster assistance gov or or via live with our personnel Let's get them into the system. Let's review their particular Financial situation and we will we will go from there But you know, I do have to be upfront with you and very candid that that is the maximum Allowable amount those that is offered through our particular program, but don't forget as Brad and others have mentioned We are a whole community on this So maybe you can take funds from FEMA and have some some faith-based organizations or volunteer Organizations help you rebuild your home and provide free labor and use your money for the construction costs What have you but let's not focus and fixate on a particular dollar amount because there's other opportunities from other Organizations that can help you in this rebuilding process Right so procedurally, I think we need to understand that We encourage everyone to go through their insurance first So that they can see what is eligible through their particular policy and then what's not covered under their insurance that's when we start applying our policies and Adjust accordingly to see what each individual then would be eligible for We can then also refer them to the small business association, which is here today They can get low interest Loans in order to help with the rebuilding process and and sometimes and I also want people to also understand And I would encourage them to to register with SBA because if they don't meet those qualifications Then it comes back to us for those that are really in in difficult situations that we might be able to provide even Additional monies to them. So it's a it's a it's a rather complex and Individual process so for me to give you an average I don't think would be fair or appropriate, but I can't tell you what the congressional limit is and that's 32,900 I'm Michael Flores. I'm a public information officer with small business administration As my counterparts have said this has been a devastating life-changing event You know today we stand here, and we're not here to talk at you, but we're here to speak with you And help people through the process now the small business administration We realize that this is Devastating Definitely definitely devastating. We provide up to $200,000 for homeowners We've provided assistance to renters up to 40,000 and up to 2 million for businesses to begin to recover And that's what this is about. This is a community Tighten it community event So we encourage people to spread the word to talk amongst yourself and know everything that's out there that is available Now with the SBA if you're insured We will help you to cover what you may not be insured for if you do not have insurance We can still assist you, but the key is don't stand in your own way, and I'll say that one more time Don't stand in your own way Seek the assistance that's available You can reach the SBA at 1-800-659-2955 And we'll be here until the end. We'll do everything in our power to assist people Thank you


to our neurodiversity matters conference. I'm Teddy Lionel, Community Engagement Director for Spectrum Theatre Ensemble. At this moment, we wanted to take a second to talk to you about some workshops we've developed that we have available. STE wants to share its mission of inclusion and our belief that the performing arts are vital to society's wellbeing and growth. We are a hybrid artist theater company, meaning we use art in hopes of benefiting the needs of our immediate community and in this case, the neurodivergent community. To that end, we have developed three workshops that can be brought to institutions or universities or done online to respect social distancing. The first one we have is OffGrid, Viewpoints and the Spectrum. STE Artistic Director Clay Martin worked directly with Anne Bogart and Tina Landau to use Viewpoints to clarify the relationship between the theatrical vocabulary and how to best utilize it in working with neurodivergent communities. We will focus on spatial relation time and kinesthetic response as effective tools in codifying sensory input on and off the stage, much like we were talking about earlier in our workshop, Viewpoints to Teaching Social Distancing. But this encompasses theatrical creation as well as social benefits to that. Our second workshop, we call Hybrid Engines and we were lucky enough to bring this to Salem College of back, seems like years ago, but only a few months ago on hybrid engines. Why do we tell stories? What are other passions drive you to create art? We will show you how to utilize outside departments in your university to create theater with purpose, develop the basic skills to collaborating artistically within a larger community using the university system for incubating concepts and hybrid art, translating it into further funding for development. In essence, we're asking you if you're undergrad or if you're in education, start now. There's no reason not to follow those passions of that dream or that project. And there are support systems in place that we think are underutilized if only because they're not well enough established or people feel unqualified to go for it. But we make the argument that start now, the inception of STE Clay has been working on for years and he started undergrad and that's how we were able to continue. And so that project, that workshop rather we would love to bring to you. Our third is devising a project to define your mission. Founding STE members will take you through the history of our inception, a devised project created by Richard Brown's adaptation of the tectonic theater project process and show you how we used collaborative creation to define our mission. We will teach you basic elements of the devising process and show you how that can be used to define core values in roles in a young theater company or college cohort. One thing that I value about STE is that we are goal oriented and goal first and one of the things we always try to do in every project is begin with what do we need and what can you give and allowing people to specify and individualize the support systems they need in place to be able to deliver a product and a shared goal in collaboration. In the coming weeks, you will be able to find more about our workshops on our website at www.stensemble.org. And if you would like to collaborate with us, please contact me at CE at stensemble.org and we would love to engage with you. I'm just gonna take a second to see if I can, if there are any questions on our feed. This has always been a very exciting project to be a part of. I started just as an artist, as a theater, as an actor and it's engaged me fully and I have to say the art that I've created with Spectrum Theater Ensemble has been more profound and life-changing. For me, I'm seeing other people grow and growing in myself. It doesn't look like we have any questions, but if you would bear with us, we have another conference starting in just a little bit at 4.30. And...


Olga, you were the first winner of the women's team today. How did that make you feel? Oh, it's the great beginning of the tournament. Have you played Joe before? No, never. I never played against all men teams players. Right. You don't think Joe's an old player then? He's a very experienced player, Joe. Of course. How did it feel playing in the historic library? For me, it is a great pleasure because it is always nice to play in such great places. It is quite cold here. That's only one minus, I think. We have to apologise for the weather in Gibraltar. This is very unusual. Cold and quite wet. Maybe it is only for one day or two. I think Thursday and Friday will be okay. Okay, let's have a look at your game. Okay, Olga, let's have a look at the opening of your game against Joe. Okay, I surprised my opponent with this move, Bishop E3. There are not so many games. I think the main player who played this line maybe only in Blitz is David Paravian. Ah, yes. Is the last winner of the Gibraltar Festival in 2020? I decided to play that. Okay. I think the main mistake was here, just in the opening. Normally, he should play, for example, 97, rook d1, rook e8. That's normal position, maybe equal, maybe white, a little bit better. But he played queen e7 and after 95, I think he should play a queen d8 back. Because after this? Admit the mistake. That's so comfortable to play with white. Pressure on the c-file. Okay. And very soon he blundered with bishop e8, I think. Yes, in the end. Hopefully. Bishop c4 and then... It doesn't work, so... It doesn't work, yes. It was here, wasn't it, in this position, where he could have played maybe... I thought about queen d3. Oh, no. Ah, yes, queen d3. I thought about queen e8 because I can't took this pawn. It is a draw. Wait, sorry. Yeah. I see, yes, it's a repetition. Yes, it's a draw. So, I thought about a4, just to protect from this idea. Or maybe even d6, if he plays so, I can take and it is winning. Yes. But after d6, he should play bishop c7. I think it's... It's already very nice. Yes, very nice for white. Okay, thank you very much.


What's up everyone? Take down here. Welcome back to the channel. Today I'm going to be sharing something with you that I've never shared before. Not because I was trying to hide it from anyone, but I just didn't know how to address it in video form. I didn't know really how to put it into a video, so I decided just to make this video talking about it and to let you guys know what's going on. So I haven't officially been diagnosed, but after talking to my doctor a few times now and with the symptoms that I have, it is pretty apparent that I have fibromyalgia or fibro for shorts. Now fibro is something that can get passed down from you to your kids and I know whenever I was really young, my mother got diagnosed with fibro. It affected her a little bit differently at first. It made her physically sick. It made her severely depressed. She was losing a lot of weight. She was unable to work and that really weighed down a lot, but we just tried to help her out as much as possible back then. She still has fibro to this day. It's miled down a little bit, but she does have days where it flares up, so in around the 10th grade I noticed I started to get some of the symptoms, but at the time I didn't know it was fibro. I knew it wasn't normal. A lot of my symptoms, a lot of my pain, never would have thought it was the same thing that my mother has. So in around the 10th grade I started to notice my legs at times would start to become really painful. Now almost to the point where I couldn't walk properly. It hurt to walk. My legs would be severely sore, mostly in the thigh, but also in my knee. And most of the time it was on my right leg only. A lot of times it would be my left leg or both, but most of the time it was just my right leg. So it was a little bit concerning at the time, but I never consulted a doctor because I didn't think much of it. I was just hoping it would go away and it just, it never went away really. And whenever I was in school, I didn't really tell that many people just because those that I've told, they didn't believe it was something I actually had. I didn't know at the time it was fibro, but they didn't believe I was in pain ever, just because I always took a positive approach to it. Just because I'm in pain, I didn't want others to be affected. And I know if I tell other people and they see that I'm in pain, they would either think that they have to step it up or they would have to help me out a lot. And I just didn't want to be a nuisance to anybody. I didn't want to bother anybody. So I just kind of kept it to myself. Even though I was in pain, it looks that I was normal and I was just walking fine and all this stuff. But on the inside, I was in a lot of pain. I started to notice that, like I said, in the 10th grade, but it wasn't until the late 11th grade or in the 12th grade that it started to pretty much advance and be more painful and be worse than ever. So around the time, like I said, the end of grade 11 or in grade 12, whenever I'd be at work, if I worked a, this is the part that is really confusing with me. That's about FIRO with me. Whenever I'd work a three hour shift, it wouldn't be bad. It wouldn't hurt. I'd come home. I'd be okay. I'd be fine. But on Saturdays, on my weekends, because I was a part-time students, I'd be forced to work in eight to 10 hour shift. And on those days, my knees hurt. By the time I got home from work, I was in so much pain. I was so sore. I just, I could barely walk. I just want to lay down or either go to sleep or lay down, like I said. But I was just losing my energy in that. So I started to do little exercises while at work. I would just pretty much just bend my knee a couple times, whichever one was hurting. If they're both were hurting, I'd rotate. Most of the time, like I said, it was just my right leg that would do it. So I thought it might just be blood circulation. So I tried to bend my knee, trying to get the blood flowing. That was my first thought back then. But for the next couple years, maybe just one or two years, it stayed at that level where if I did my exercises with my knee, I didn't really notice any pain. I didn't notice much. So I assumed it was just blood circulation or whatever. And then I noticed a couple of years ago, for one day, I didn't have a ride to work. And I decided I'm going to ride my bike, which I haven't done in about one year at the time. So I decided I'm going to ride my bike to work. Because if I walked, I would just be late. If I rode my bike, I could possibly make it there on time. So I rode my bike. But whenever I got to work, as soon as I got off, my legs were like spaghetti noodles. I couldn't put any weight on them. I couldn't walk. I was instantly on the ground. I worked in Canadian Tire. So I had to basically crawl through the auto shop, which nobody was in the shop at the time, and go into the mechanics lunchroom and pretty much sit for about 20 minutes. So I was actually 20 minutes late because I couldn't clock in. But I just couldn't walk. And I thought instantly, I'm going to have to go home or I'm going to have to go to the hospital or something because this is not normal. But after that 20 minutes, I was able to go back to work. Not fine. It's still my legs were still sore, but I could actually walk. I could actually put weight on them. And I haven't ridden my bike since just because I'm scared that if I get on my bike and if I stop somewhere or if all of a sudden I'm riding my bike and it happens and my legs hurts, I don't want to be on the ground. And I don't want to have other people try to take care of me and try to get help on that. So I just try to avoid my bike. I don't bother riding it anymore just because I'm scared that it's going to happen again. So now, a few years ago, I think it was August 2017, I actually went to my doctor about something else. I think it was my toe at the time. But I mentioned this too, because he asked if there was anything else. So I mentioned this. And he told me just to keep doing my exercises. I've looked up stuff on YouTube, keep doing that. He recommended Voltaren Cream. I put on my legs. It started to help at first, but after a while there was just, it wasn't doing anything for me. I would be getting tired a lot. So a couple months later, I went back and it was a different doctor at the time. It's my doctor left. So I got a new doctor. And I mentioned to him what happened. So he said, keep an eye on it. Keep doing my exercises. And that it possibly is fibro, because my mother has it. And fibro is something that can get passed down from you to your kids. So it's very highly likely that all these symptoms are fibro, because my mother has it. And she had it severe whenever she was young. And she still has it to this day. So it's possible that that part got passed down to me, which honestly is another reason I don't necessarily want kids. Of course, right now, I'm 22. I'm not in the position to really have kids or even think about that. But when the time comes, I'm gonna have to really consider this is something I could pass down to my kids. And I don't necessarily want to pass it down to them if that makes any sense for you guys. It's just something I just, I'd rather not do and be at fault for doing so. I don't know what makes sense in my mind. But it's something that affects me every single day. Some days I'm just a little bit tired, like I said, it affects you. You get tired on some days. Some days are fine. Some days I can get a lot done. Some days I can't get much done at all. Some days it doesn't bother me on days end. But some days it will bother me for like three days straight or more. But it all depends. It's not a routine. It's not something that always happens. My mother, it affects her different in the mornings. She's in a lot of pain in the mornings. Throughout the day with pain medication and that, she starts to feel a little bit better. But for me, it's just honestly random. Some days I'm in severe pain. Some days I'm fine. Some days I put cream. Some days I have to have an Advil or something like that. And some days I don't need to take anything because there's no pain. So it's really random mine. But the doctors haven't officially diagnosed me just because there's a lot of tests involved in that. But by seeing me at the couple times that they have now, they are almost certain to bet that I have Fibro.  I'm fine whenever I go out for walks, but riding a bike, if I can't do that now, I'm 22. That is one of the scariest things for me. It is something I struggle with. It was something I thought was worth sharing with you guys so you guys can understand a little bit more. Now, Fibro is something I think here in Canada, you can go and be on disability for and get paid by the government because you have this disease. But the problem with that is I don't necessarily want to be on disability. I don't have anything against those that use disability appropriately. But if I'm able to at times be able to work, and that is my main goal, I love to work for what I have, I don't necessarily want to be on disability. So unless this advances even more, and it comes to the point when I can barely walk without being in pain, then in the future I might consider it. But right now I'm 22 years old, going to be 23 very soon. There's no point in me going on disability because that's just going to add to my depression. And that's going to really bother that. So I don't want to do that. I want to work for my life. I want to work. I'd love to do YouTube more, but I'm a worker. I love to work. And that is my main goal right now is to just continue to work, work on my goals, work on myself. I'm going to try hopefully soon get into not necessarily a gym, but get some stuff in the house that I can actually work out with. Instead of just doing these mild exercises, maybe if I did more, ran on the treadmill or whatnot, it might help out a little bit more. But this is pretty much just me going on about fibro. This is how I go through it. This is kind of how I deal with it, different things like that. So I am going to leave this video here. Sorry if you guys feel offended because I've never shared it with you guys before. I just didn't know really how to or how to put it in video form. So I decided just to make this style of video. But I will see you guys in the next video. Hope you guys do enjoy. If you have any questions about fibro, leave them down below. I will answer as much as I can. And I will see you guys in the next video. Peace.


Seattle Seahawks Jamal Adams out for the season. Yeah done. That's a big-time acquisition that they just signed I believe to a longer deal not too long ago. He's a Pass rushing safety who's just a playmaker in the box has completely transformed that Seattle defense from what they once were Even though they don't have a winning record They were once much much worse on the defense side of the ball Carlos Dunlap was also called the task to come over there Jamal Adams was brought in to do his thing He's out for the rest of the year. It's that's probably gonna affect their defense into stinking and what happens if they lose? The Russell Wilson story continues to get loud So now the Seattle Seahawks just beat the Niners a couple days ago massive win huge George Kittle Displayed some athleticism that we've never seen before but the Seattle Seahawks get this win over the Niners and maybe be able to Turn it back around the conversation about Russell's gone and Pete Carroll What's he gonna do and how's this all that kind of stop for a little bit now? Jamal Adams are on the studs of their defense out for the rest of the season. That is a significant blow


okay okay we are back again couple days at home to get restocked on all these beautiful tools and other items we needed some more boards and some planking and a couple other things and we are looking good nothing's changed up here nobody broke into the trailer or messed with our tent or anything like that so one raccoon print out in the mud so we were a little bit worried about our food inside the tent but he didn't get inside the tent so that's a good thing but we just unloaded most of the stuff we need for the deck the plan is Donnie and I are here a day or two early before everybody else is coming we're gonna have a crew this time and we're gonna deck this front porch over with some hemlock planking and then we're gonna put up some posts with a header on top of it to catch these longer rafters that are gonna go back into the rafters on the main building so that's the plan is hopefully we can get that done before they get here yeah I don't see why not yeah the weather is absolutely perfect I just picking up some scraps yeah seeing perfectly dry the color on the buildings even changed on me yeah so we might be able to insulate a little quicker than we are thinking you know we were worried with it being green that we'd have to really give it a month or two to dry out but I'm thinking with a little bit of help with some fans or dehumidifiers or a wood stove we might even have it dried out even quicker or if we if the weather keeps up like it is and we're golden too so you happy to be back yeah yeah I like it it's great here yeah oh it'll be interesting to see a couple days progress the next couple days yeah be really when you get these rafters are sitting up there and make quite a quite a difference in looks and feel of the place yep so the goal this trip is we're leaving ourselves about three full working days to get the rafters up gable walls built gable overhangs built the deck and on and also the metal roof and on and then we're gonna wrap the house and put some windows and doors and that's all and she's gonna be what she's gonna be whether tight we got two green horns yeah we got two green horns coming tomorrow Stevie and Sean he's had experience he's worked here for three days he's pretty green all right we got one with three days experience and one was zero experience coming tomorrow but we don't know he may be a builder he may be a builder you're right Stevie surprised us yeah and then and then the next day Brandon and one of his guys are coming up and helping us on the roof and the rafters so yeah I think we can do it a lot of boardin to do yeah a lot of a lot of rafters really nervous about the boardin we got 66 rafters to put up yeah yep and then Donnie's really nervous about the boardin if we have enough or not so first came to worst on the porch roof we could strap it yeah you know yeah it doesn't necessarily have to be boarded all the way well you figured out what we needed back in it yeah I know you figured it out I often figure wrong you never figure wrong he's never wrong I am well he figured it back in May and we brought up piles and piles of boards so we still got boards over there we still got some here we got a giant pile out front another pile there and then we brought up some pretty sweet boards take a look at these boards you don't see boards like this nowadays this is from Russell Ogilvy got us these out of his dad's barn but look at how wide that board is right there and we got a stack of them so boards like that are gonna go quick yeah I'll get my tape measure and show the folks at home what that board measures it's got to be over it's over 14 I know that yeah so it's a 16 inch board right there so 3 16s equals 48 which is a sheet of plywood so we got like one two three four five sheet supply with their plus they're over eight foot long so probably like eight sheets apply with there which would do quite a bit it do half of one side of the roof just in this little stack here then we got that other board pile over there that's got that board pile over there Donnie's got a ton of boards in it there's 17 rows and it's four foot wide by what is that 12 foot long those are 12 yeah so there's 17 rows yeah four by so that's that's 850 board foot right there how much will that do so if we're doing 30 by 14 that's 420 right yeah that's what we need for each side well that's that does all the roof in that one pile right had to believe yeah those 850 square feet so that pile would do it and then under that green tarp over there we have a nice pile and we also have this other half pile here I guess we're gonna have fun yeah so these might end up going home but they're not gonna go home I guess I can sleep tonight yeah you can sleep tonight for sure I knew you had it figured right but you just want to get these boards out of your mother's burn yeah I did because I got to put my boat in yeah but I just soon to see the fellas use these 16 inch boards up on the roof yeah that go a lot quicker but you know when you hand one of these up and then you hand a six inch board I know what they're gonna grow I know I even if you send it maybe some violent words come out of his mouth yeah there's a lot of violent words coming out of his mouth on this job site most of them get edited and that being said guys I try to edit everything out I might miss one once or once in a while here there editing is hard editing is hard to do and I don't really have much time to do it and try to keep it in a timely fashion for you guys the pressure is always on so I'm usually added in till one two in the morning and I got a lot of editing to do but every once in a while one slips and that's a total mistake I take out some stuff that it's pretty pretty funny that I'd love to leave in there but I know it's not right with kids watching and and wives watching and and girlfriends watching and stuff so we try to keep it a pretty clean channel for that and you know I've I've definitely had a lot of people come up to me on the side and thank me for doing that because there's just not a lot of channels on YouTube that keep it clean and there's no need to have it it's one thing when we're out here talking yeah with the guys and hanging out with the guys and that's where like the cameras always rolling it's up to me to edit some of that stuff out so I appreciate you guys understanding that knowing what might go on you know off-camera and also not holding us to it if one slips oh it's dried up a lot here running water here when we left a week well yeah not a week not even a week ago we're back on Friday it's only been we think it's a week because we got so much stuff done at home as you can see we got these boards we got all this pile of stuff and then I brought up some flooring to Donnie said just paint the floor and he's probably right but Stevie said put Pergo on it so Stevie was a big advocate for this Pergo stuff see how it works out for Steve well tell him what happened with the Stevie Pergo story he saw it laid down somewhere in somebody's house and he the guy that put it in the house said Jesus wearing really well it's really scratch resistant and it's doing well so so Joe asked Stevie the other day I bought it right you bought it yeah and so he's asking Stevie how to put it down Stevie had no idea how to put it down all he knew was that it is scratch resistant and it looked nice I could read that on the package I know so so we're gonna indoctrinate Stevie at some point in time to learn how to put this down yeah so you have to watch YouTube yeah it looks easy putting it down if you guys this is Pergo outlast I got a little bit of a discount at the at the Hodevo on it and it looked good so came within budget so I said let's roll with it so I bought it we'll let you know how it goes and how it goes putting it down and how long it lasts but this stuff supposed to be waterproof and scratch resistant so it sounded good for a camp and it's kind of pretty and then on a side note Donnie and I picked up today we bought some cedar v-match that I'm really excited about we're gonna end up picking that up Monday when we pick up the rest of the roof but it's you know it's seconds or fourths depending on how you grade lumber so we'll be cutting around it but man it's it came in at the right price and and we're still under budget and it came in it came in it's cedar v-match so that's pretty sweet stuff yeah great we're not gonna do the whole house in it but or the whole cabin in it but we're gonna do the bedroom probably right yeah and the bedroom ceiling yeah we'll see what that looks like and you know if it looks awesome maybe yeah maybe the whole place I'll get it yeah I mean you can't beat the price the price was crazy crazy price on it yeah I don't even want to tell you guys because you'll go buy the rest of it well there is nothing to buy we bought the rest all the way but you'll buy the next lift on me before we can get it oh I was just thinking of these nice wideboards make a nice floor upstairs in the loft we can if you want to save them for that I'm game I mean it'd be nice to plane them but it's not nice you know these these definitely a side thicker than ours are they not that that makes any difference because we're putting metal on the roof but I'm just wondering would it be smart just for these not these can go on the roof yeah but just a few of these mixed in with whatever we get I'm game I don't know yeah what would we sand it or what would we do or just leave it we could just you know just leave it or you know lately sand one side or something I don't know you know you probably have us like a scatter rug or something on it up there maybe yeah I don't know it's gonna be covered in beds mostly right yeah right yeah so but yeah that would look good with you think we got enough we got a lumber we got enough boards you know these you look like I'll take that one is yeah that one is pretty cool too thick and thin maybe that can turn lumber yeah they go right down to the floor that might be worth saving okay you know yeah well probably do quite an area up there yeah they go quick yeah and I don't think we have that much room up there to do to be honest with you it's like 90 square foot or something but we definitely could use those eight foot is up and hmm so what I think I'm gonna do then is I'll probably park this trailer up on the flat unhook it up there yeah road I'll leave all this stuff right in it really somebody might steal the pergo I can't imagine they take the pergo they take the pergo where are we gonna be when they take it yeah I mean we gotta have room down here we'll be sitting right here if they take it it's our own damn fall so you want to unload these eight footers and I don't care just we can leave them right on or take them what with it I mean what size are they all right we're preparing to put our back deck on the farmer's porch decking so that's gonna be hemlock decking and you got hemlock on top of hemlock so to keep from rotting if there's water that sits in between them or gets trapped between you could potentially have some rotting down the road so we ran ice and water shield on this and on decks in the past we've run tar paper and then we have 10 going up there up against the siding then we have 10 out here on the edge on the outer edge too so we're doing all weekend to make sure that there's no rot for this in the future but here we go all right so we're gonna overhang it three quarters of an inch this way and one inch on this side to make sure that this side stays straight there we hit dead center on this choice here we had snapped a line six and three quarters in because this is seven and three quarters there we go we're good to go first one's going down donnie are we going pretty tight on these let them shrink yeah they feel they feel wet still so they feel pretty wet still yeah oh yeah that's luck look all right for the first one yeah yeah they're pretty wet I'm not burying these too hard just just a little bit yeah the board's crooked as a mother I see that board's crooked I got a toenail I think I got to use a spike to do it to bring it back is that all right I might just take this board right off that's a rough one to start with the board is way too twisted to start with can we cut it make a shot of one when you have a starter or something yeah oh I can see it yeah I hate you on the first one you know right it's got a wicked whoop how's this look this board bed just as bad a twist but I tried to get it out it doesn't look bad okay it came in like three inches I had to yard it out huh it should be straight now yeah looks good we got a start of these for tomorrow three quarters over the edge on the end to on each side right so rugged I would dance over here yeah I have to measure for seven and a half or seven and three quarters every board is different I know I think with a mill like they have that would be more precise millions sweet so that was a 12 to start so I can start with an eight right yeah four flips fine yeah that doesn't look half bad for straight no this short one's got a little twist to it I'm gonna have to bring back at the end probably pull it in want me to screw yeah I might fight us Donnie yeah they probably will a supper smells pretty good that smells pretty good beef stew smells pretty tremendous you think I could work this sucker in here now yeah I bet you I could do that yeah I think we can you start down here yeah I got two inches here yeah I could do it yeah this was a hanger right but you think we can straighten this son of a gun yeah I know I'll show you just how we're gonna do it okay I like the sound of that you're gonna be so impressed with my knowledge that's all a joke what knowledge is like that all of it can't believe how bad this lumber is yeah I'll get you a good chopping block tonight I'll take the chainsaw over works real good yeah you want to screw them in I'll just give it the last little hole I would have just thrown a toenail in it finish we got a pretty good start on the deck for tomorrow got a nice straight edge our overhangs good here by an inch on this side three-quarter inch overhang on each end of the deck so lumber is not like really good we're working with here so gotta try to keep an eye on that a little bit better and look for some that have dips in it aren't quite as thick or thin and also the ones with the bows and Donnie showed me a really neat trick to get that bow out of it but we just got the call for supper for dinner I never never been late for dinner so here we go what are we working on in here donnie looks pretty decent yeah that was holy cow we got company coming no just us yes there's a lot there will be eating it tomorrow for lunch I think nothing wrong with that dang that looks good it's just getting chilly enough to where still is gonna hit the spot I got shorts and t-shirts on but I shouldn't set you guys up here and get the chill off I'm gonna set this up well we talk over plans thank you donnie this is exciting yeah canned mousse meat made with canned mousse meat oh this is from that most couple years ago yeah well I'm gonna dunk it oh don't get yeah the other thing I don't have a super what soup spoons well I'm happy to be back up here donnie you got some pepper there if you need some yeah that's a big real progress when you see those rafters are even more progressive yeah that deck's pretty exciting once we get that deck on and the post of the header all right well that's hot we'll probably brace those posts off till we get the yeah we'll brace them off till we get the rafters on them but we'll still put the header on it right oh yeah we'll brace the heck out of it every which way yeah how we secure in the bottoms of them yeah what do you think of that idea yeah I bought a 50 back of either four inch or five inch five fours would be good on that okay and like toenail two sides yeah one up through you might be able to get one up through yeah please screw into the building you can use those long screws to screw it in yeah corner start yeah I don't know how many long ones I got I didn't know I'd get them for that I think I grabbed a handful we're gonna stand up those poles and put a ladders next to it lift the header on top and then fasten the headers together what I'm gonna do two piece is stand up the pole get them leveled the bottom two before yeah I'm gonna nail right to the top of each of the posts and then I'm gonna set the two two by eights on top of that now I'll screw up through the one that's on top of the post yeah and then put a two before on top so we'll build it right on it yeah okay that way I can tie it's easy to tie in everything if I put the two before on top of the post yeah


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