Hi, my question is, what are the differences between applying for defaults and spring intake? Is one intake better than the other? Okay, the question is, if a university or college has two application dates, fall or spring, is there a better one? Is it better to apply in the fall or better to apply in the spring or does it matter? So that depends on your preference. My advice that I always give to students is if you can, especially if you're coming from high school to an undergraduate program, apply for fall.  Oftentimes spring incoming classes are smaller.  Sometimes coming in for the spring is a bit more of a time crunch. I think that deadlines for the spring are often in early fall. We certainly have students and international students who come and begin studies at Catholic University in the spring as well. So it's definitely something that's done and done often. But it's really up to your preference and it's whatever you feel most comfortable with. Whatever you feel is going to give you the most time to get prepared and it's going to give you the best college experience that you can. It's good to have that option and we know that academic years are different around the world. And sometimes certain programs will only accept students in the fall. So while a university as a whole might accept spring applicants and admissions for the spring, some programs, specific programs might not. So that's also really important to know as well.


Hello everyone and welcome back to another video. In today's video we're going to be taking a look at the new AI functions we have available to us in Excel thanks to a recent add-in that uses chat GPT but before we get into that please if you have not subscribed to the channel already please hit that subscribe button below and if you enjoy this video please don't forget to hit that like button. So the first thing we're going to need to do in order to get access to these new functions is go to the home tab in your ribbon at the top of the page and then go all the way over to the right hand side well particularly in my case and click on add-ins and you'll see you get this pop-up. So for me chat GPT has already been installed however assuming you haven't already got this installed you just need to go to the more add-ins which will give you this pop-up and you can see we've got office add-ins here and simply search chat hit the little search icon and I think it's the second or third icon we've got there is chat GPT for excel so if you click on add that will get it installed and you'll then have it available in your add-ins like we just saw I already had. I can't remember off the top of my head if you need to close excel and then reopen before they become available so if this doesn't work first time then obviously suggest giving that a go so as you can probably see on the screen we have five tabs at the bottom here each containing a different one of these new AI functions and if we were to go into my answer box at the top here and type equals AI you can see how we've now all these are all of those functions that are now available thanks to that add-in so the first one we're going to look at as you can see titles on the page is AI dot ask so simply what this allows you to do is ask a question and as you can see just above where I've entered that formula we've got a question of when was Microsoft excel first available to access the relevant function and you can see it's already been highlighted there but we're going to continue typing it the type dot ASK for ASK hit tab you can see obviously is selected that formula all we need to do is select the cell reference in this case contain that contains our question close our brackets hit enter and you can see it first it's given that busy but very quickly after it's given us a result and let's just do a wrap text here oh and merge as well so you can see that you can see we've got a result for our question so Microsoft excel was first released in 1985 and of course yes you go and change your question that you have here I can't think of one on the fly but the formula will continue to load and give you a response to the question so particularly useful if you have a workbook where you might have users who could have questions or you want them just to offer the general ability to ask a question so that is our first function the next one we're going to look at is fill so what fill allows us to do is pretty much fill in the blanks using some existing data so for me you can see we have three columns we've got city country and population and obviously you can see we've got all of our cities here however we've only populated the first two rows for country and population and if you're anyone like me your geography around the world isn't the best so rather than keep going to google to find the country and the population and I'm just stopping myself there because I realize I've got the word population but we don't want that let's call this region so we're sorry as I was saying rather than going to google to find out the country and region for each of your cities we can now use one of those ai functions to populate it for us so we'll do equals ai dot and this time we're going to use the one fill and I've just hit enter there as well and you can see there's two inputs that it requires us to enter or provide the example and the next part will be partial so for us we're just going to provide these top three rows including the headers as our example so it can see what information we're after and where I've already provided it we'll do a comma and then for the second part in the partial we'll provide obviously these obviously but our four remaining cities that we want to get information for we'll close brackets and hit enter and you can see initially get the load and then once it's ready it's provided us that additional information so we can now see for Rome we've got the country of Italy and the region of Europe and as you can see it's one of those spill functions where we've just entered the formula once and it's expanded into the range that is required to provide the additional information so again I've used this for city country region but I'm sure there'll be many other scenarios that you can use this where there's a pattern to be recognized and provide the additional results the third option or formula we're going to look at is extract so this is particularly useful in the scenario that we've got here where we've got a list of well not really four sentences but we've got four strings of text of which a name is captured within each string and what we want to do is simply extract the name as you can see what I've mentioned here so that we've got a list of all of our names corresponding in our output section here so previously you could have done this by doing and you may still do using a multitude of mid left right formulas and functions and obviously searches as well to try and find names if that's even possible in this scenario but we've now got obviously there's a lot easier way to do it because our AI function recognizes what is a name and obviously what is the should we call it the text that you want to drop so really simply all we do here is go equal AI game this time we'll use the extract function and we're going to select our range so you can see we've got we're going to select all four rows in our example we'll do a comma and we'll select then obviously the value of the cell containing the information that we wish to extract close brackets and hit enter and that will quickly load for us and you can now see it is giving us our nice concise list of names so another scenario this could be useful is if you're working with email addresses and you want to extract the name from the email address and I'll leave you because there's obviously again another multitude of ways to do this to look at other types of information that you could extract rather than using just name a fourth function is going to be translate so again a really useful function if you're working in a a large corporation where you've got multiple countries and need to translate text or just useful to have to hand as well and a great addition in your report where and if required so you can see we've got a source at the top here and I've just provided some English text here just giving us a nice simple couple of sentences and what we want to do is translate this into French so that we have the French translation below so once again we'll do equals ai full stop and this time we're going to go and use translate so let's type translate hit tab we've now entered the function and again it requires the two inputs so the first part is going to be our value which is going to be our source at the top here comma and then we'll select the word French or more so this the cell containing our desired language close brackets hit enter and once it's ready you can see we now have our French translation and I don't think I've done this in our previous examples but let's say we now want this in Italian now maybe shall spell it correctly you can see all we need to do is change of the language desired language that we have there and it'll do that just for us let's try one more let's go Spanish of interest and yep there we go we have now got Spanish in there so you could obviously improve upon this greatly by having a drop down here giving the user the ability to select a list of desired languages and it's probably all the ways worth mentioning although the model is looking really well and I'll say I am by no means an expert in translation but it's always worth obviously doing some tests to ensure that the translation has gone through as desired our fifth and final function we'll be looking at today is for table so the general purpose and use for this will be is providing a table based on an input such as the one we have here which is really a question to list of 10 biggest countries of the world by population so again another task that we might have previously had to do going to google and obviously doing a search now we can simply do that within one function so we'll do equals ai.table hit tab and all we're simply going to do here is select the cell reference containing our question close brackets hit enter and you can see what it's now done is given us not only a list of those 10 business biggest countries but it's also provided the population for each country using a consistent point in time which was 2021 and of course we wanted the top 10 so what it has done for us as well is provided a ranking down the left hand side there as well so we just make that ever so bigger so we can fit it onto the page and there we go with our fifth and final example function using table so I hope you enjoyed that video and it introduced you to these new functions that we now have available to us thanks to the add-in that we added at the beginning of the video if you have any questions at all with this or future videos please just drop a comment below the applicable video and I will get back to you as soon as I can and lastly if you do enjoy these videos please don't forget to hit that like button it's not only greatly appreciated by me but it does help that all important youtube algorithm enabling other people to also find these videos as well


So I am an attorney and a faculty member at Harvard Medical School in the program on regulation therapeutics and law. At least 153 FDA approved drugs have received at least some public funding. Under the Buy Dole Act, these may be covered by patents, which can lead to high prices. There are several provisions within Buy Dole and outside it that can be used to limit patentee rights if it is in the public interest. I want to focus just on the March in Rights provision, which allows an agency to grant a license to a third party, such as a generic manufacturer, if the patentee has not achieved practical application of the invention where practical application is defined in the Buy Dole Act to require that the invention be available on reasonable terms. There have been six petitions for March in Rights, four of which were primarily focused on price. In these four, the petitioners generally asserted that prices were so high as to not be reasonable. The NIH denied all six petitions in the four in which price was the primary concern. The NIH took the position that practical application means that the drug is widely available and is not in short supply. Using the March in Prevision to reduce price could, says the NIH, affect investors' future willingness to invest and is therefore an issue that is appropriately left for Congress. The petitions pointed out that prices were substantially higher in the US than abroad. It was argued that these prices were unfair not only because they were much higher, but because US taxpayers had already paid for the initial research through NIH funding. That's the paid twice statement. The petitions pointed out that, sorry, assuming the government wants to act to lower prices, there are at least two complications in the case of FDA-approved drugs. First, drug companies have often developed a drug further and hold additional patents. These patents would, quote, not be subject to the government's March in Authority, as the NIH pointed out in its denial of the petitions for Latana, Prost, and Ratanavir. Second, FDA exclusivity means that patents are not the only barrier to the entry of generics. FDA exclusivity lasts five, seven, or 12 years, depending on the category of drug. And the Bidol Act does not directly address these exclusivity provisions. In addition, development times can be especially long with drugs. An important question is how much is left to do between the end of government funding and full market approval? If government funding only underwrites the cost of invention, say enough to identify the molecule and show in vitro activity with the tasks of formulation, animal studies, and especially human studies, left for a downstream drug company, then something may be needed to incentivize this development period. It doesn't need to be patents. It could be more government funding. Currently, the government's contribution may vary from case to case, but it appears to be small in relation to a drug company's cost structure. The amount of drug companies spent on research and development is relatively small, about 13.7% of revenues, according to one source. R&D can, in turn, be divided into clinical trials, meaning testing on humans and preclinical trials, which include the animal and laboratory testing. It's difficult to precisely identify how far government funding takes us, but generally, the central patents that cover drugs are filed before clinical testing begins, meaning that the government's or the university's contribution might be somewhere around here, potentially leaving substantial work left to do. On the other hand, in those cases, where government funding brings drugs closer to market approval, there's less need for maintaining private incentives. I want to finish with two policy suggestions that are not limited to the drug context. The first is that patents are often too long. The average number of words in a patent document has increased substantially since 1977. Patent attorneys are apparently trying to compete with law school professors for unnecessarily and counter-productively long documents. If you look at patents from the 1800s, including drug patents, some are only a page and a half long. Here we have ether, one of the most important drugs ever developed. It's less than two pages. Aspirin won a very few drugs to still be sold more than 100 years after it was introduced, one page. Vitamin E, less than two pages, smallpox vaccine, just over one page. Congress or the USPTO could increase fees for exceeding page limits. These are currently set at 400 for every 50 pages beyond the first 100 pages. Or for claims in excess of 20, currently at $80 per claim. Shortening patent length would reduce transaction costs, and it is transaction costs that underlie the ability of patent trolls to extract settlements on even weak patents. So second and relatedly, patent claims are often too vague or too indefinite in the lexicon of patent law. The problem is made much worse because claim terms by law are interpreted in view of the specification. If you have a 100 plus page specification, it's more likely that different portions of that document will support different and possibly contradictory interpretations of the claim language. Again, raising transaction costs, keeping Harvard Law School lawyers fully employed, and increasing uncertainty. The Supreme Court seemed to raise the bar for indefiniteness in 2012, but the general perception is that while the test has been modified, the bar has not moved much. So in addition to placing length limits on the patent document, the federal circuit could do more here to police the indefiniteness requirement.


Well, good evening to you dear brothers and sisters in church twice on a Sunday. I am those kind of people extremists Religious extreme well relational risk extremists, that's what you are he is forgiven much loves much, right? I mean, how could we not respond to the kind of goodness that God has shown to us and be extreme Into that man. It's a where that will a badge of honor They did but you know the crazy thing is the world right now makes no distinction between the extremists Who follow that false God Allah? the crazy violent things and the extremists who follow Jesus Christ and Do kind things and how we always have down through all of the centuries known for good works That's when you know the world's gone kind of nuts. They're really they've become so irrational. They can't see the difference Which is somebody who actually believes the teachings about love your enemies turn the other cheek and personal offense and You can't see the difference between that and someone who is committed to taking the world by violence It's really what is written in Galatians 6 9 now I realized guys normally we'd be in Calvin Chapel. Our whole thing is you know, we're gonna go through the Bible You know Bible exposition to get a guest tonight. You know, I'm just here for this few minutes. We're together There's no real big chunk of Bible. We can go through in this amount of time So tonight we go topical right tonight that we're gonna focus on a topic and there's a topic And I would connect it to first of all, what is written in Galatians 6 9 about where it says in be ye weary not that is in Well-doing for a new season you shall reap if you faint not Weary not be you know about the Lord's work, but do not faint Don't weary in doing what's right. It's really seasonal Everything is seasonal and Even in Cleesie Astee's Solomon's conclusion that His observation is it should say that there's time for everything You know, please he asked these three one to everything there is a season at a time to every purpose under heaven To everything there is a season And there is a time to every purpose under heaven for everything even the things that seem so absolutely in Opposition to each other. There's a time for it There's a time to show there is a time to reap The reality though about the world that we live in now and our you know modern American culture is that we want everything immediate we want it on now And even when it comes to you know our prayers We expect God to Be like a microwave Make it happen With new patience we I submit to you that we have less patience than any generation that ever came before us because we get everything instant We're the kind of generation that that comfort is usually just a button push away If it's really hard we push a button and it cools. It's really cool. We push a button it warms We can have comfort almost Instantly we and this modern age can communicate in just seconds across the world We're appalled when we have to wait You listen to people on airline on airplanes, you know, they're they expect the airlines To be sovereign that like God You know and able to do anything and as soon as the announcement comes of any delay Goodness, you hear the whole plane just all side of all the passengers the drama We are the great-grandchildren of people that had to take weeks to cross this continent In great hardship and danger Now we complain about a little discomfort a little delay. It took me hours Imagine saying that if you could go back in time To some of those who came west the deal is still that way. It's still people Still use the term out west preposition out those with west and back those with east Because that is how we settled this country coming from Europe. We Swept across the adventurers that came west.  They fought all the elements. They fought enemies. They fought hunger The you know prairie schooner creeping across the continent Imagine being able to go back to them and go It took like hours It's like one delay after another Inside of a air conditioned building Having to wait you don't believe in waiting We're pathetic. That's what we are pitiful Absolutely pitiful.  They run to the anesthesia. They want something to make that stop quickly Never considering that you know how you damaged something something is injured the pain The pain is your friend the pain's an alarm saying there's a problem say you know leave that alone Let that heal do something right? We want something for the can be something for the pain We want everything instant We're kind of pitiful that way well There's nothing wrong With wanting your pain to end and I was actually something real smart about that, you know Nothing wrong with wanting um hardship to come to an end, but there's something really wrong with our inability to endure Don't you think there's something way wrong when we cannot endure we're just such whips We've become so incredibly wimpy it frightens me how wimpy Our people have become We want instant results on everything it the subject the topic actually Summarized really with one word pleasure Pleasure something wrong with pleasure. No course not no in fact god is the one who invented pleasure He designed us. He designed our our our whole being designed our brain even to be able to respond to process experiences and Release the very chemicals that go with the experience that caused us to feel pleasure caused us to feel euphoria happy It was his design that certain elements of his creation We would find pleasure in that we would go this is we'd find pleasure in beauty We'd find pleasure in even things like food that we could eat a meal And especially if you could eat a meal with people you love in human relationships We could feast god invents the concept of feast We could actually come together and and have an experience like a feast where the meal is good the conversation is good people We love we laugh, you know things are funny And There's it's gone who who made us with that capacity the problem with us Really Is we want all that pleasure we want it now we want heaven. That's what we want We're part of a generation that will do anything to experience heaven now here and now And if not real heaven well then the illusion Just the euphoria the best majority of our People our culture here in america now at this time Are all on drugs, you know that right? Everybody in every direction everywhere you look Despite all of our best efforts despite trying to provide Consequences as deterrent despite all of the programs and the campaigns and despite all this education. Don't you love that? the presumption from the you know Left those who are wrong The fools Who disagree with god the presumption is that we're all good and so You know if we're doing wrong things and destructive things it has to be just because we don't know certain things So they say in edgy education. That's the answer education We have the best educated generation of hardcore drug addicts the world's ever known I've been working. You know i'm a kid.     Why is the kid yelling at me? I can't yell at me. Wait a minute. What was I doing? you know The my loathing for alcohol because of such experiences kept me ever drinking never drank Guilty plenty of sins of that one Never drank never did any of those substances because I know the capacity. I've seen it. I'm that guy's son. I can become that part of a generation That is all drunk or high on something because everybody wants to experience euphoria Everybody wants to know bliss. They want it now not later not in heaven And not based on any experience by passing all experience. We are now surrounded by the reality Of the you know the weird sci-fi concept of a zombie apocalypse. They'll talk about that.  They don't have rotten flesh But they are rabid Some of us have been them Some of us have been under the spell rabid rabid enough to steal from family Rabbit enough to not care about anything to not only do they need that pleasure the the whole process of bypassing all experience And artificially stimulating the pleasure center of the brain for the release of you know dopamine everything else this artificial Messing with the pleasure center of the brain creates a person that can experience no pleasure Without that artificial stimulation totally dependent upon that some of you you remember you've been there Whether it's alcohol or drugs it can come to the place where you can know no good experience Without that artificial stimulation A few weeks ago, I've been working with drug addicts for as long as I've been in the ministry decades, right? Started out really young started out young and getting trained to work with drug addicts when I was 16 And entered entered ministry full-time as a teenager with a big voice. So if I didn't tell everybody I was 16 They didn't know You know the guys who hired me knew but the guys who was working with didn't know they'd find out later and whatever, you know Recently, you know one of the guys that kept You know he went through teen challenge And he failed fell back into heroin this kid from my neighborhood same age as my daughter. I love this guy my neighbor And then you know he comes through our program gets through the program and fails again falls right back into heroin and ultimately put him in special ed He's in special ed now. He's living in my house and he's staying with me all day long For a season of his life, you know, he's like he's like strapped to me where my arms swing. They're his swing And um where my feet step. That's where his go and uh You know, he's like 40 days clean 40 days. He's back, you know, he's off of heroin and everything else And I love this guy really he's You'd never know it looking at him He's he's tall and handsome athletic He's got all this charm and all this charisma natural ability can like do all kinds of stuff And um, you know 27 year old But there was a night a few few nights back believe it or not. It's still cold enough in the evening in maim He had a lot of fire in the wood stone and uh, it was that way and I'd let a fire In my study which is connected to the bedroom. So my wife would be warm. She'd go to bed I still got work to go sitting out there By the way, I'd record in the bible doing, you know, audio because people asked me to because I got a weird voice And some people said hey, would you just like read the bible for us and record it? So so anyway Hey, thanks a lot. I I don't know what you were plotting, but but If that would be a blessing to you. I got the new testament done now. I mean, I'm sorry I got the gospels four gospels. That's all I'm working through it, but I'm way behind schedule I'm staying up late. So there was I'm trying to do this in the dining room dining room table everybody's asleep And I fall asleep head on the table I'm trying to keep going Try to be tough.   She's coming in october and I'm anxious for you to do to meet her And by the way, she dreads. She's not a public speaker.  It's not our ability She dreads it and she's going to die to herself and do it anyway because she has something to say But I'm excited for you to see Just how normal This woman is That I married How she's so everything. I'm not she's so she is as feminine as I ain't in them Anyway, she came out She came out goes get get that bed.  Yeah, okay You're staggering in for the bedroom. Well, I only made it as far as the study because there's that glow from the fire And there's a nice little, you know warmth radiating from that wood still That's a happy place. There's a couch right across from That's as far as I got like this is a happy happy place.  What a short night. Well, let's hit it gotta go. Dave begins, right? It's sick, right? So I go over to where my desk is not wanting to turn on any lights, you know, I opened up my cell phone Look at the time It's only 230 and I had that overwhelming happy feeling of I got I get three and a half hours I do the math. I got I got Yay, I'm going to bed. I'm gonna crawl in bed with that that woman and go back to sleep I get three and a half more hours. You've had that feeling, right? It's like, yes It's I thought it was time to go and I'm like, oh, and it's not time to go well in the morning This young man Travis now he's riding in in with me first thing the workout then we're going to work and I'm relating to all these little happy experiences. We had a good dinner that night before, you know Everything about the evening was good. It was all good. It was a match, you know, I'm relating all of that to him He's looking at me. He was with sadness. He goes I'm only just beginning Only beginning to be to feel any of those things again This is like 40 days clean all parent. He's like, I'm only just now beginning to actually know pleasure from an experience Isn't that sad?  That's all it is.   It's all done the whole program is for god's pleasure god Is in fact into pleasure C.S. Lewis in his genius word screwtape letters has one of the devils praising god, of course by a devil's complaint Complains that he our enemy is a hedonist at heart. He really lives for pleasure, which is true He's all about pleasure he is Involved in a program of sustaining all that he created for his good pleasure Consider this turn with me to luke chapter 8 in that Parable of the sower luke chapter 8 verse 14 Luke 8 14 hear these words from the son of god and that which fell among thorns are they which when they have heard go for it And are choked with cares and riches and pleasures of this life and bring no fruit to perfection choked pleasure pleasures plural Have the capacity in our experience to choke out the very word of god that would produce fruit Cares Riches and pleasures. Is there anything wrong with pleasure? No, there's something wrong with the pleasures of this life Well consider this What is written about moses in hebrus chapter 11? That's worth noting and worth reading hebrus chapter 11 Speaking of moses choice, which was by faith it is written in hebrus 1124 by faith moses when he was come to years Refused to be called the daughter of the son of vero's daughter Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of god than to enjoy the pleasures of sin For a season the pleasures Sin is in fact very pleasurable. It's the reason why people do it So much pleasure There's moses in a position that very few people find themselves in Well, the whole world has been given to him in a sense whole world.  He comes to a fork in the road A fork in the road where he has to choose not just between two peoples But between two ways of living Affliction and pleasure And it was by faith he chose against pleasure He refused there's quite a verb. He refused to be called the son of vero's daughter. He refused to be the prince of egypt He refused and refused all the pleasure that goes with it Think about moses. Where you think about him young moses Maybe he is somewhat full of himself.  He's educated. He's dynamic man.  He he made all kinds of assumptions I mean, how could they not he's awesome How could they not he's like here I come to save the day Stop right there unhand him It he he's rejected Shocking absolutely utterly rejected. So he's got some things wrong with him some things that will be broken by suffering But ultimately ladies and gentlemen He was at a fork in the road Flawed know he may have been and by faith he saw down one road ultimate pleasure And that was eternal But in the immediate affliction Down those other road immediate pleasure and ultimate and eventual Affliction consider those two things. Will you please just consider the contrast between two different kinds of pleasure? One that is immediate, but temporary. The other one is eventual, but it's eternal immediate and temporary versus eventual and Eternal recently as we you know went past the Memorial of D-Day We force once again to think about that generation that fought the generation that formed an army built battleships built weaponry Took on the worst enemies of life on earth and beat them In less time than it took the Obama administration to get a website up months for the record That generation That generation that didn't borrow money They saved They saved they put off gratification. They had a concept of delayed gratification that whatever it is It is worth waiting for Something that their grandchildren their great-grandchildren don't know anything about no delayed gratification in this particular age. We live in instant gratification They understood that you save your sacrifice you work hard and ultimately you experience reward What happened since then in our culture that there's no waiting. There's no sacrificing Was that they say that Rich stay rich by living like they're poor the poor stay poor by living like they're rich Probably true, isn't it? By the way, I got a facebook page. Give me a friend request. Welcome. Yeah I'm I'm amazed I've always hated that just you know, I've always hated that medium. I've hated social media I've called it waste book and it is for so many But once I decided I'm gonna influence that once I said, you know, all right, it exists. I'm going in Once I just once I decided to do that and started collecting friends The kind of people that friend request me are people that know bible and they know Politics they know, you know world events and they got a sense of humor and the stuff they put they contribute There's nobody on my news feed. Nobody's welcome to go.  Who do you think look just? Find something more important that you can contribute And the contributions that people have blown away But it's like all of a sudden I've got thousands of I got a staff of thousands of researchers And they're sending news that put it on there and then I am putting it out to all my friends It is amazing to me Actually amazing no trivia You know, I anybody's putting trivia on there anything stupid. I'm friend you I will And I'll tell them You are not unworthy But it's quotes like that, you know the the rich Many of them are rich because they live like they're poor many of the poor Are poor because they live like they're rich way above their means because they want it now because they borrow they go and set deep debt pleasures contrasted here in scripture As is in the parable of the sower Pleasures of this life in here in the quote in Hebrews 11 About moses choosing To suffer affliction with the people of god rather than the pleasures of sin for a season Realizing that that's temporary that pleasure is going to be short-lived and then on the other side of the pleasure You got to pay It's an old expression. You got to pay the piper I haven't dug into that one. Who's the piper? I don't get what is what piper? It has to have something to do with you got to pay the band I guess for the gig that you know you I guess party's over now. You got to pay the piper. There must be that whatever Look at this verse This is to me. This is an apt description from 2nd timothy the description Of the last days the end of time And the reality of people's heart condition. Tell me. Tell me guys that this is not. Oh, by the way on this subject of Drugs and people living for pleasure It is not as far as i'm concerned the illicit and illegal drugs and that whole massive evil market this this pharma kia the sorcery That ultimately has people doing things that they would never do in their right mind. It's turned everyone completely rabid That Bad as it ends as far as i'm concerned pales To the damage that is done by the pharmaceutical industry Do you know what every single mass shooting has in common? Not a gun A drug you never hear about An antidepressant That not only keeps the bad guy from feeling depressed.  I guarantee the thing you will not hear Is the drugs played a role you don't hear it that that information is suppressed You don't hear you gotta dig to find that That's all this, you know, doctor confidentiality thing and they act as if it is irrelevant. It is not irrelevant Anyway, this second timothy passage Second timothy Describes in chapter three verse one Know this this know that this know also that in the last days perilous times shall come When men shall be lovers of their own selves covetous boasters proud blasphemers Disobedient to parents unthankful and holy without natural affection truce breakers false accusers incontinent fears despisers of those that are good Traders hairy i-minded lovers of pleasures more than lovers of god Lovers of pleasure More than lovers of god That kind of pleasure the kind of pleasure that would rival God such idolatry Likewise in titanus chapter three this statement also by the apostle paul Titus three three We ourselves also were sometimes foolish disobedient sometimes we once were deceived Serving diverse lusts and pleasures Living in malice and envy hateful and hating one another But after that the kindness and love of god our savior toward man appeared Not by works of righteousness which we've done But coding to his mercy he saved us by the washing of regeneration and the renewing of the holy ghost Which he shed on us abundantly through jesus christ our savior It's where we once were before the grace of god interrupted us We live for pleasure. Did we not? I said we then can identify With a generation the world around us that has actually gone mad in their lust for pleasure, but consider this Back in psalms turn back to the old testament with me And look at what david wrote in what is a prophetic psalm psalm 16 The 16th psalm i'm turning with you psalm 16 look at the description We have in the 11th verse That 10th verse is the prophecy that peter the apostle peter quoted it on the day of pentecost Act chapter 2 when he said this is you know that will not leave my soul in hell was a prophecy david Prophecy concerning christ Yeah, we killed him We rejected him we rejected the prince of life And asked for a murderer to be released to us Peter indicted the whole Jewish people and said But god will forgive us But he points out that david prophesied that christ would die and would rise from the dead And then on the other side of that verse verse 11 Thou wilt show me The path of life And in thy presence Is fullness of joy At thy right hand our pleasures forever more You get that At god's right hand Pleasures like no one could ever imagine pleasures that are eternal pleasures forever more at god's right hand Eventual also in the 36th psalm Look at that one Psalm 36 Verse seven how excellent is thy loving kindness oh god Therefore the children of man put their trust under the shadow of thy wings They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house Thou shalt make them drink of the river Of thy pleasures That's that That's a nice verse right there There's a concept The river Of thy pleasures Drink of it But it is not here and now and this is not heaven And in fact heaven will not be found on this earth.  Between two people Of opposite gender. What is it about that event? That is merely joining the sweet end of 30 feet of digestive system that makes fireworks happen Mind-blowing rush of euphoria the thrill of it When it's new when it's new man, that's fireworks I can testify to you Haven't been married to a good woman for 30 years That 1984 late july When I planted that first kiss I thought it was gonna faint I was trying to act like a man Trying to be tough I played like I was cool But I fluttered all the thrill of it All the rush I'll never forget it 30 years later we find wow we can forget to do that There's so no fireworks. I mean, I should say seldom Well, maybe it's there's little firecrackers Look we're getting old. We're like we're like we're not tired of each other nothing. I love that girl. She loves me But oh yeah, if I kissed you today, no, I don't think so. Okay, come over here.  Well sneak around you're gonna find a way Because we're stupid because we're all messed up But see as louis he points out in his book the four loves I highly recommend that book he points out in that eros chapter that eros is the really temporary kind It's really of all of the loves. It's almost like the more the most inferior of the four You know, it's it's fleeting. You can't count on it. It will not keep two people together People do not stay bound together by eros. Nobody does it's why you make vows It's why you make commitments. You have all your friends and family come over You go, I want you to watch this because you hold me to this Because I've chosen this woman Though I can't imagine it today.  You'll be like an addict.  You'll end up with calluses. You'll look weird Imagine your lips being like the bottom of your feet in summertime It's cracked and peeling It's quite a thought to explore isn't it? But he's right if it stayed like it was the summer of 1984 from then till now Nothing, but I think that I could be just waiting around going where you coming home Can we kiss again?  I'm sorry. I shouldn't say before a formal dismissal Who do preachers think they are? Anyway, get all done. I go you're dismissed. What do they think they are? And finally in closing you don't do that in any conversation, do you? Wouldn't that be wouldn't that be an absolute absurdity and finally in closing Luke chapter 12 look at this Luke chapter 12 right in the middle of this beautiful picture in this parama in Luke chapter 12 verse 32 Look at the Lord Jesus and this is right after saying, you know what?  He's it's his pleasure to give it and to give it to you It's a father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom God says in Ezekiel 18 and also again in Ezekiel 33 both those places in the Old Testament He said I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked But rather than he would turn What the Son of God say about there is more rejoicing in heaven Over one that repents than over the 99 and needed no repenting So God is all into the pleasure of going. Yes, everybody in heaven is cheering No pleasure in the death of the wicked And yet the wicked do in fact die God has made promises to us. I'm amazed by what he's promised Giving us life You ever lasting life for free He gave us life for free. He gave it to us. It's free a free gift Then once you receive that gift, he makes you to suffer.  It's actually implied in the language. They have all the reward. That's a puny little That's not even good math To look at that go. Yeah, I just want everybody to pat me on the back and say wow, you're really spiritual And that's it when what you could have is God himself saying well done good and faithful slave Enter thou into the joy of your lord Enter to the joy of your lord You were faithful and that was his little I'm gonna give you that which is great the promise of God to you and me Of reward of great riches Of drinking from the river of his pleasure Is on the other side Of our own cross the invitation you're gonna follow christ deny self take up cross and follow What is written in hebrus chapter 12 to the believer On the other side of that whole thing we're in the hebrus 11 we hear we hear about moses and his choice We hear about ebra and we hear about all these other people they testified to us that this is a good deal We have in hebrus chapter 12 the statement Well seeing that we're surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses Witnesses let us run with patience the race that's set before us Those witnesses aren't up there cheering stupid christian songs that have them in the stands Got check this out. They got better things to do All those who've gone on they're not up there cheering they're not up there witnessing our race No, they're witnessing to us by their life the record of their life is testifies to us that This living for eternity choosing as moses did and as others did For something that was way off. They all they died having not yet received people like abraham Living in tents with the pager yaks Making a statement. He's looking for something permanent. He's looking for a city these builder and maker is god He's looking for something that's eternal They're all testifying to us and since we're surrounded by this great cloud of witnesses Testifying to us of the faithfulness of god the worthiness of this deal That let us run with patience the race that's set before us looking unto jesus the author and the finisher of our frame Who for the joy that was set before him that right there christian The delayed gratification the joy that was set before him it was set before him and it was way out there ahead of him Who for the joy that was set before him endured the immediate? endured the cross despising the shame And is now seated the right hand of the thrown up god We got stuff to go through Some of which may even involve persecution bring it Some of it may involve the shame and humiliation being labeled as haters extremists all those things We have to endure temptation. We have to in this life right now Say no to a whole bunch of stuff even as moses did we must refuse the illusion of the world of pornography 80 percent of all the men in this country right now including the christians regularly view pornography This is another fantasy land. It's another form of drug another attempt at euphoria. It's not even real 30 percent of all the women The numbers are the same inside what is called the church in this country as they are outside living for pleasure No, we now have to refuse All of that Choose rather to experience affliction with the people of god and enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season We got to do a little bit more math than now. We got to look ahead Got to look ahead Brothers listen listen to me Brothers We are all right now Vulnerable this man if you've got vision still and you have gadgetry There are safeguards you got to take You got to do whatever you got to do man.   No, it's not anywhere in here as good as safari Oh, well, it's a dream safari is way more efficient. Everything wants to work off safari covenant eyes less efficient, but I'm not alone I don't live in a secret. You know, I got a brother reports to You do what you got to do You take whatever measures you have to take You cannot hear and now live for the pleasures of sin for a season And still plan on eternal pleasure Drinking of the rivers of God's pleasure Do you understand the theme of this message tonight couldn't be any planer? I don't think It is either we choose the immediate And temporary But we choose the eventual And the eternal pleasure Man if you will appell him I wrote it myself This here was written by me So don't laugh at it You'll hurt my feelings You'll hurt my feeling I have one With regard to choices sacrifices with regard to giving up what one loves Waking it all out and seeing what has to be done consider this Love went bad In eden It did the reason why Adam at that fork in the road that he came to between the creator The giver of the gift and the giver the woman that he loved He came to that moment I'm telling you put it together The simple statement from 1 Timothy chapter 2 that adam the man was not deceived The man was not deceived and eaten. He was not deceived Nevertheless Genesis chapter 3 we have the words adam because you have done this because thou has done this because thou has harken Under the voice of thy wife cursed is the ground for thy sake Adam was not deceived yet adam harken to the voice of his wife. What does that mean?  He chose to die with her.  Oh, I loved so much. Yeah, wait He didn't do her any good by loving her More than god The first time love is mentioned in the whole bible first time it appears Genesis chapter 22 That's the story the account of god calling Abraham Abraham who was finally received the gift the the defining moment of Abraham's life There's a lot of things that happen in his life for which we should be grateful that he's not known for it The defining moment of his life was not when he's hiding behind his wife like some coward telling the half truth Um, he's my sister. You're my sister. Huh? Yeah, my sister be nice to me The defining moment of his life was not then otherwise Abraham would be the father of all cowards Cowards like how that did that all Cowards Sorry, you guys are working hard over there on the sound I know i'm a constant challenge on that Or that other occasion how about that one for which Abraham is in fact famous The occasion when he like a typical male heard his wife say something and he thought she meant that Instead of listening to her heart, he heard her words And she said you know, why don't you take this this maid servant of mine? Hey, ghar Yeah, go lay with her. Yeah, that's it.  Yeah, that's it. Yeah, do that And maybe that's how we'll have a child You know what he was supposed to do ladies He was supposed to say what? How could you even suggest it? Baby no way That girl she way too young and pretty for me Way too skinny. No How could you even suggest it to me sara? This is no big thing for god all kinds of things he was supposed to say What did he say Sarah you are one insightful woman, you know, we're just thinking that very thing right there You are on to something girl I'm glad that's not the defining moment of his life.  Hebrews chapter 11 tells us that he did the math.  He kept his promise He proved himself faithful. I believe in him if he Wants me to offer up my son and he must be planning to raise him from that debt He can do it He can do it. He can make an old couple like us conceive and our old age. He can bring this kid back to life I'll do it so I wrote this here I don't know if it's a poem as much as it's sort of a riddle. It's a riddle I have to read it here because I have a memorizing if I hadn't done in fact today's first time I really It's smorning at uh, can we shuffle upland? I I'm gonna break it out wrote it might as well do something with it It's the riddle of adam and abraham by king graves Try to follow me on this and then I'll let you go It's whatever you can go whenever you want try to follow this it is written in the form of a riddle the the phrase from the council of the three came the promise of the one Into a hill would come a tree Into a tree would come the sun multiple meanings He made one into two gave them to each other Two became one each one with a lover But the gift became a goddess to the one she was given and love became a demon by one cast out of heaven But her lover so loved her Yes, he loved her so When he hold on now or a musty let go was she to be damned then damn him as well the gift not the giver and the lover chose hell from the council of the three came the promise of the one to a hill would come a tree To the tree would come the sun The giver gave again and the gift was the sun And from the love of the two came the life of the one When given the choice what choice would he choose when to live you must die and to win you must lose Would this lover trust or act on his fear? Would he offer him up through the smoke in the tears? To pierce love's heart would break his heart too, but when love Asks for love What less can one do and from the council of the three Came the promise of the one To a hill would come a tree Do the tree would come the sun By love given back and through the gift that's been returned the mystery of one who would rise would be learned One came to die to die for the many And that grave that was filled is the grave that was emptied Thank you Thank you You don't have to do that just because I ended up on but thank you The the the wisdom of god Puts mankind in this place where we must choose and every one of us must continue to choose the choices are laid out before us The winners of history chose eternity eternal bliss Eternal pleasure the losers chose immediate If there's something that you have come to love and that love rivals your love for god Then choose Let it go author it up However that works out for you offer it up just Do what you have to do


Space Launch Delta 30 provided range support for the United States Space Force's tactically responsive Launch 2 mission on Sunday, June 13 from Vandenberg Space Force Base. The launch decision authority for this mission was Colonel Robert Long, Space Launch Delta 30 commander. Space Launch Delta 30 provided launch permission, range safety, area clearing, and weather support for the launch. The United States Operational Support Squadron typically provides a wide variety of support to any launch here at the western range. Our weather officers provide on-consol support by evaluating weather conditions for the rocket launch to make sure that the conditions are safe. The TAC-RL2 mission was executed by the Small Launch and Targets Division within the Space and Missile Systems Center's Launch Enterprise, and the payload was sent into orbit using Northrop Grumman's Pegasus XL rocket. This is a whole new program for us, and they're operating on a much shorter timeline. So whereas the timeline would normally be years in development for a payload and months of planning to get a launch date set and lead up to that date and actually have a successful mission, the entire timeline for this program was much shorter. This specific mission for TAC-RL, being part of a demonstration of a brand new capability, it's just really exciting to be a part of that as we start a new capability for the Space Force.


Yeah, I'm here. Thank you so much. What number one, can you do a video and audio check for me? Hello. Great. Thank you so much. I can hear and see you. Thank you. And share me sir. It looks like all board members are on at this point. Okay. Thank you. I might need. Okay. Right now, I'm not saying the board, all the board members on my screen on my iPad. Is that because we haven't started or do I need to do something that will be kind of important to be able to. I believe it's because I'm sharing my screen.  And do it. Do we have a forum? So we can start. We do. Everyone is on so we can start whenever you are. Okay. And I'm sorry. Can I, can I get your name again? It's Michelle. Or your last name. Montoya. Montoya. Okay. That's right. All right. Thank you. Okay. Okay. Let's go ahead and we'll get rolling. Chair Muser. We have a Kimberly Hopwood acting as our recording secretary tonight. With Mike here to guide her just to give you a heads up. Okay. Thank you very much. Okay. There's ever. There's everybody. Okay. Welcome everyone to the March 2nd city of Santa Rosa. I'd like to call this meeting to order. And that's Montoya. If we could have a roll call. Let the record reflect that all board members are present. Okay. Fantastic. Due to the provisions of the governor's executive order in 25, 20 and in 29, 20, which suspend certain requirements of the Brown act. And the order of the health officer of the county of Sonoma to shelter in place minimize spread of COVID-19. The cultural heritage board is conducting today's meeting in a virtual setting using zoom webinar. Board members and staff are participating from remote locations and or practicing appropriate social distancing. Members of the public may view and listen to the meeting as noted on the city's website and as noted on the agenda. Members of the public wishing to speak during item three public comment or during our public caring items will be able to do so by raising their hand and will be given the opportunity to address the board. And moving on to item number two approval of the minutes. We have several minutes to approve tonight. So we'll just go one by one. Do any of our board members have any changes or additions to the minutes from September 1st, 2021? Okay. We'll approve the September 1st, 2021 minutes. The November 3rd, 2021 draft minutes. Seeing no changes will approve the November 3rd, 2021 draft minutes. November 17th, 2021 draft minutes. And the January 5th, 2022 draft minutes. Any changes? We'll approve the January 5th, 2022 draft minutes. All right. Moving to item three, public comment. Okay. We are now open for public comment for any item not included in this meeting's agenda. If you wish to make a comment via zoom, please select the raise hand button. If you are dialing via telephone, please dial star nine to raise your hand. Each speaker has three minutes. A countdown timer will appear for the convenience of the speaker and viewers. Please make sure to unmute yourself when you are invited to do so. Your microphone will be muted at the end of that countdown. Ms. Montoya, do we have any questions? Ms. Montoya, do we have anyone requesting to make public comment? We do not have any hands raised at this time. Chair Meezer, just to clarify, this is Mike. Ms. Hopwood is going to be the one that you want to direct your questions to. She's taking minutes tonight. Say that again. I'm sorry. I just wanted to inform you that Ms. Hopwood is going to be the one taking minutes. If you can direct your questions to her, she'll be the one answering it. I'm going to direct questions to Ms. Meezer. If anyone is raising their hand or not, it's Kimberly Hopwood. She's the recording secretary tonight. Speller, last name for me, please. H-O-P-W-O-O-T. Hopwood. Okay. Thank you. No problem. Okay. Great. Okay. So we'll close public comment period then. Moving on to item four, board business. I'm going to go ahead and read the cultural heritage board statement of purpose. The principal duties of the board include undertaking and updating historic inventories or surveys, recommending designation of landmarks and preservation districts, reviewing proposed alterations to historic buildings and promoting public awareness of preservation issues. If you are in a historic district or would like more information regarding historic districts, please see the processing review procedures for owners of historic properties. Okay. Moving on to item 4.2, board member reports. We have any board members who would like to make a report at this time? Raise your hand. So, okay. Seeing none, well, I have one. And hopefully Ms. Murray may jump in and help me as I muddle through this because this is kind of a first-time issue for me and we'll see if we can do it properly. I basically have been reviewing the master planning process for Fremont Park. And through the process it's kind of become apparent to me of the historic elements that are really in that park. And I would like to introduce to the board the possibility of pursuing a landmark designation for the park. Let me just give you a quick history. The property was purchased by Settler Hammond and it was initially used for the Fremont Grammar School. Hammond also owned the property where the rural cemetery is located. The park was named after John C. Fremont in 1926 that was sold to the city of Santa Rosa. The park was designed by architect Howard Gilkey and Howard Gilkey is a pre-notable figure himself. He grew up in Santa Rosa. He worked for Luther Burbank. He attended school in Berkeley. He designed both Juilliard and Fremont Park. He worked at a time for the WPA. I think that's where he got a lot of his experience with regards to a lot of the WPA work that was done especially at Juilliard Park. He worked for the city of Oakland as a city park and planning engineer and then in 2000 the cancer survivor Plaza was installed at the park. My belief is the notable features of the park include basically the original design features. If you look at the original blueprint it's pretty much hasn't been changed that much. It's a nice and original architectural design. The fountain, the concrete arbors, the light standards, the U trees as well as there are 70 trees on the park, 20 different varieties and a significant number of those are protected trees. So I know some of you probably also been following the master planning process. I do have some concerns that the comments that we made don't seem to be reflected too much in the alternatives that are being given and one of the alternatives that isn't listed is restoring the park as it is. So all the alternatives are basically significant changes to the park. My understanding the way we would proceed is we would need a motion and a second to be able to put this on the agenda at our next meeting. We can't discuss it tonight. I'm just making a presentation but if we got a motion and a second to agendize it at the next meeting that would then allow a discussion period that would also allow us to open it for public comment as well. At that time we would probably start discussing what would be needed for the documentation-wise for justification for landmark status. There is potential funding issues. Basically city staff would act as our agents to prepare the documentation and for them to do that they would probably need an allocation of funds for that to happen. But my thinking is we'll just kind of cross that road when we come to it. Should the board feel that landmark status is appropriate for the park? So I think that's about all I have to say. Ms. Murray did I get that right? Just do a motion and a second. If we receive a second then we can agendize it. Yes. It's start with a motion and it's a motion, a second, and a vote and it gets agendized to talk about the scope. So we do take a vote as well? Yes on this. On this one we do. Okay. Board Member Garrett. Well first I'd like to thank you Chair Muzaff for bringing this to the board. I also have been following it. I know there are a number of others on our board who have and I agree this should be a landmark a stark landmark designation and so I would move that we bring this to a vote meeting to discuss. Thank you Board Member Garrett. Board Member Bourne. I would second that motion. Okay so we have a motion and a second. We can't really discuss it so I'm just going to call for a vote and Ms. Hopwood if you could call for a vote on the motion second. Board Member Bourne I'm sorry could you please say aye. Thank you. Board Member Garrett. Aye. Board Member Wong. Aye. Board Member Prate-Zellis. Aye. Vice Chair Fennell. Aye. Chair Muzaff. Aye. Okay well thank you and I'll be doing I'll be working with Ms. Murray doing trying to make sure we we do this process properly and get Board Members the information that they need so that at the next meeting we can we can move it into a discussion period. Okay any other Board Member reports. Okay moving then on to item 4.3 Vice Chair elections so this is an annual thing that happens with Vice Chair I wish they did it with the Chair but anyway you're stuck with me for a while and so at this time I'd like to see if anyone would like to nominate a Board Member for the position of Vice Chair. I don't know if it's okay to self-dominate but I'm willing to do it if nobody else is interested and I will happily be Vice Chair. Thank you Board Member Pretzelis and Board Member Garrett. I was actually going to nominate Board Member Pretzelis so you don't have to or you don't have to nominate yourself I will do that for you. Okay any other nominations this time seeing none I'm going to call for a vote. Chair Muser I think we need to get a second for that Do we have a second for the nomination? Board Member Boren I second that nomination. Okay thank you Board Member Boren. And the next one I think it probably goes without saying at this point but we also need for Board Member Pretzelis to accept the nomination just to be official here. Okay. I accept thank you. Okay. I would call for a vote then. Board Member Boren I vote I. Board Member Garrett Board Member Blum I Board Member Pretzelis I Vice Chair Fennell I Chair Muser I'd like to thank Vice Chair Fennell for her time being Vice Chair. You know one of the difficulties that we've had is we all love historic districts and we tend to live in historic districts Vice Chair Fennell and I both live in the same one and even though I hate to see Vice Chair Fennell go it kind of solves an issue where sometimes we don't get a quorum in our own historic neighborhood because both Board Member Fennell and myself have to abstain and so having it spread out a little bit jurisdictionally I think will help in making sure that you either have a chair or a Vice Chair to coordinate but thank you for serving as Vice Chair Board Member Fennell and we'll see what rolls around next year. Okay moving on then to department reports so Miss Murray do you have a department report for us? I do I have some housekeeping things but the first thing that I wanted to start with is to let you all know that April we're not going to have any meetings in April or at least we're going to try not to have meetings in April unless there's an absolute emergency if there's something urgent we will figure it out but the council chambers is being updated to to make our hybrid meetings a little bit easier and so which is good news it looks like we're also getting closer to that starting up the hybrid meetings soon so I don't know about all of you but I am certainly looking forward to that and then I have a couple of housekeeping things I have that old reminder if you guys can please just make a point to check your emails I'd love it if you do it twice a month or twice a week but once a week would probably suffice we've as far as getting those quorums we're still we're having a hard time with that and important to note too when we're asking for the quorums it doesn't it's not a commitment yet it's just saying that you're available as of that time and we'll get back to you as soon as possible to confirm that that date is ago and I am relying on memory here which is not good I had a couple other notes the brown act that a reminder to everybody you'll see emails coming in from members of the public and what have you city staff will generally put that big header at the top that says please don't reply to all but regardless of that little alert is there please don't reply to all because that's a violation of the brown act so if you can if there's something that you want to forward to me and ask me to send to people I'm happy to do that and assist you that's part of my job and yeah if you could just make sure you don't reply to all it's a housekeeping measure that we're reminding all of our board members don't worry nobody's in trouble and I think that does it for me okay thank you Ms. Murray okay just a quick question do you think we'll have a second meeting in March very good question we don't have it set yet we're thinking about a special meeting or a second meeting on March 30th there was some discussion about it I don't expect that will happen I think that's going to wait until May because it's not something that we have the staff time to really think about but yeah as it stands there was some discussion I don't anticipate a second meeting in March okay thank you okay moving on to item number six statement of extensions by board members so we do have an item tonight 1122 McDonald Avenue do we have any board members from that board member I I have a conflict I live two doors down from the applicant okay let me ask Ms. Murray I don't believe we're taking action on this tonight if I'm correct I think this is a concept item you are correct and board member called me earlier and I checked with city attorney's office and confirmed that he does need to recuse himself regardless if action is being taken or not because of his proximity to the subject site okay thank you thought that was the case but I thought I'd just double check okay any other members board member Wong I think you can go ahead and excuse yourself at this point this is the only item that we have tonight so we'll be adjourning after this item so can I listen in as a participant you certainly can you'll just have to turn your video off I think I'll exit and then get back in as a participant okay board member Wong I can make you an attendee so that you don't have to log off and then log back on perfect thank you there you go and the old days when we used to meet and they said they just send you into the next room they had a nice big TV screen you could watch that there people will be back to that one of these days soon okay item 7 we're not saying none so we're going to move on to item 8 our schedules items before we get to that we check in with the ex parte communication disclosure so I'll kind of start it off I went by the site and reviewed the site did not speak to anyone but I did stop by and look at the site anyone else board member Warren you know if you'd like to go forward you know let me go ahead and repeat Mike we're having a real hard time hearing you so what he said is that we're not taking any action so no ex parte disclosure is involved here since it's required here since it's a concept item and Mike again we're having a real hard time hearing you here I go remember to do ex parte and that now it's not required this time so I learned something every single meeting so board member Garrett although it's not required in light of being totally transparent I used to live two doors down from the beans and I know them well and consider them friends and I've also discussed this with them over the last year so I just think I should be upfront about that okay thank you very much board member Garrett we're going to move on to item 8.1 this is a concept item this is the bean front yard brick and walkway landmark alteration at 1122 Donald avenue I'll read the quick background concept landmark alteration permit to obtain guidance from the cultural heritage board on the following proposed changes at brick steps from brick walkway to the porch replace rotten wood steps from driveway to porch with bricks at brick skirt to front of house to cover foundation at porch height replace existing brick concrete driveway with brick install brick walkways in the front install small fountain on brick walkway to front door replace existing rotten porch deck with brick and landscape hardscape brick so with that I'm going to kind of do like we've done in the past we'll get back to the staff report from miss tomah two means say your last name again I'm sorry two means two means yes you got it right that was that right okay and then I don't know is the applicant going to be saying anything tonight okay then we'll hear from the applicant then I'll let the board of staff and the applicant for clarification and do we need to open this up for public hearing since it's a concept not public hearing but public comment yeah open it up then we'll open up for public comment we'll close public comment and then give board members an opportunity for questions again then introduce the resolution and go from there then have our discussion after the resolutions discussed are open so miss two means it's all yours thank you let me share my screen so this is a concept landmark concept review for 1122 mcdonald avenue and a concept review by the cultural heritage board is a complimentary service for homeowners within historic preservation districts and it's actually encouraged that they visit the cultural heritage board for a concept review prior to embarking on a project so they can get some guidance from the board and you already went through this list but the project description includes eight items that would alter the front facade and most of them involve landscaping and hardscape in the front of the house brick walkways to the porch rotten wooden steps from driveway to the porch adding a brick skirt to front of house replacing existing brick concrete driveway with brick installing brick walkways installing a small fountain replacing rotten porch deck with brick and various other landscape modifications to the front that would affect the front facade so this is an aerial of the project site it's near the corner of McDonald Avenue in Spencer and here is the applicant site plan showing the planned landscape configuration and here is the original street elevation of the front front of the house here are the proposed changes to the front of the house you can see the brick along the bottom 16 inches of the house and a little bit of the brick walkway here is a the type of brick that the applicant has chosen to use and I will let him, I'll let the home owner discuss this a little bit more in detail but here are some original site photos of the home before any alterations took place and here are current site photos as you can see the front yard is divided into four quadrants with brick I don't believe the porch has been altered but I'll let the home owner go through that he's also he has a photo presentation after my PowerPoint concludes this is not a project this is a request for the CHB to provide comments and direction for a concept review item and it's exempt from CEQA because there's no action being taken tonight and with that here is my contact information in case anyone from the public has any follow-up questions or comments I can be reached at srcity.org and my work number is 7707-543-4692 and with that the home owner would like to share some photos and describe his proposed changes in greater detail with you all. Thank you Ms. Tumas until we have the homeowner coming on there he is we can hear you Jeff you need to turn your video back to me how do I do that we're only able to control permissions to speak for our applicants cameras are not enabled I'm not sure how to turn on the camera I'm sorry this is Susie Murray and you don't need to turn on your camera I don't think you are able to do that we'll just need your volume we just need to hear you can you hear me I'm Jeff Spien at 1122 McDonald Avenue representing me and my wife Shelly we purchased this house a year ago and began work on the outside landscaping and would like to make these changes listed in our project this house is a craftsman bungalow style meaning that it's got a low profile low to the ground usually these bungalows have one or two steps to a front porch as this one does I think that adding brick steps and brick skirt would be an appropriate alteration to the to the building site do you guys have questions of me I could go on Mr. Bean I do have the photos that you provided would you like me to share those now sure that would be great so this is a photo of the original wood steps which were off the north side of the porch to the driveway there were no steps off the west side of the porch facing the street as you can see the steps are very deteriorated and as was the porch the porch was like the steps made out of two by six I think Doug Fur and was rotten and was actually falling in in parts the previous owner had a mat over the part with the hole so that someone wouldn't fall in I did remove that old porch and these steps and made a new porch base I'm still waiting to put in brick steps you can advance to the next photo this is just the current view next photo please this this is the house next door located at 1128 mcdonald avenue originally this house and my house at 1122 were both built at the same time in 1922 these houses were built as mirror images for two sisters who were going to live there as I have heard next photo please this is the house next door in greater detail obviously some changes have been made to that house as if no longer looks like a mirror image of my house could you go back to the previous photo please I just want to note that this house has a brick porch and two brick steps to the porch same as I'm proposing next photo next photo this is my house at 1120 mcdonald avenue in 19 sorry in 2018 we went before the cultural heritage board to change existing wood steps and wood skirt to brick steps brick skirt we were approved by the cultural heritage board to do that and this is the result of our changes to the porch and steps next photo just a schematic showing in red where the brick would be next I did include photos of nearby houses in the neighborhood I walked around the block and took photos of other houses most of them also craftsmen with a couple steps to the front porch showing to give an idea of how many houses in one block area also have brick steps to a brick porch do we have those photos available it's called photos of nearby houses I didn't realize you sent me additional photos photos I thought they were the same ones no I sent them because they weren't included in the photos when I stepped on the computer Ms. Murray do you have those photos I can get them I don't know that we can introduce those photos at this point but it's a concept item so I think that maybe we could save those photos when it comes back and it's because of the brownhawk because we should post those photos in advance of the meeting but I think just explaining what's in the photos it would be adequate for the board members to hear and we will certainly share them with them in the future the point of those photos was to show that most of the craftsmen bungalows with wood steps are those that are a story and a half most of them the ground level starts six or eight steps above the ground the first floor level and my thought in the pictures is to show how common it is for these craftsmen bungalows to have brick to a brick porch and I I've got a whole slew of them in the one block radius just to point out that I'm in keeping with the historic neighborhood are there any questions of me okay do any more for board member Garrett I always have questions hi Mr. Bean I'm going to call you Mr. Bean for some public meeting I do have two questions you have an original photo of the house and where it shows the stairs to the porch on the north side and no front stairs it appears that there is a wall which would be typical on these craftsmen cottages to the front facing the McDonald Avenue a side of the house it was that removed that wall at the front of the house it looks like there's planting in front of it or maybe Ivy on it what you're talking about is common in craftsmen homes this is a craftsman bungalow and it did not have that wall oh was that a hedge there yes box with hedge okay thank you and then I have one other question how many rows of the original siding are you removing to put the brick is the basically apply the brick to the foundation I'm hoping to not remove any and just put a waterproof barrier over it with a piece of angled metal that will divert the water out from the siding onto the top of the brick skirt so you would protect and divert and then cover it looks like it would be maybe five rows of that siding on the front side of the house that you would have to cover to add the brick is that correct I believe it's only three or four but I was planning to maintain that okay and then one other quick question when I walked by the other day I noticed there's a big concrete pad at the south end of the is that going to be a little patio there or yes okay okay then it will be covered with brick right it is okay is it already or well yeah it is okay you move quickly okay thanks Jeff yeah the board members have any questions Mr. Bean yes board member I was just curious where in this I see the quadrants where would your fountain be in the middle of in between the four right in the center on the path to the front door ah okay the board member sorry I'm still looking at this old photo um there it looks like there was a beam at the below the roof there that connected to a post and then to the house um and that's no longer there so what is what's holding what went in its place at the corner where at the house there were there were two beams holding up to the roof above the force they were rotten and were replaced those are posts not beams posts the beams is there the posts I gotta go because my mom those are posts the beam is still there yes okay right underneath the roof okay thank you yeah any other questions go ahead with me I know you're not able to make action any action on this uh this evening but I just want to point out that I submitted my request for this uh in early September nearly nine uh six months ago and I'm anxious to get this done so I'm hoping that at your next meeting March 16th that you'd be able to take action on this project so I can get moving along okay I'm sorry I have another question in light of that are you putting in a fence in that looks like a planting space between the sidewalk and where the brick um yeah yes that's my plan it would be a really great idea if you put that on your next set of plants so you don't have to get a separate permit for that I was told by the city staff that any fence less than I think it was four feet tall does not require a permit is that true um planner uh two names okay so it may not require a building permit but um most alterations to a uh an historic district require some level of review let me double check and I will get you an answer thanks because it seems as if it would be a giant hassle for them to have to come back for another permit hmm for member fennel when I put my um picket fence in my um front yard it wasn't a major landmark alteration um so it wasn't required to come before the board but the I think the height requirement was three feet um and it had to be get in style and was definitely limited the three feet we had one that came before us last year it came before us solely because it was a four foot fence on Tupper Street so I have the code open right now and for a minor um uh fences walkways and decks and as a list of things would require a minor landmark alteration of any fence that also requires a use permit so fences that exceed the height limit in a setback so um anything above three feet in the in the front setback would require a major landmark alteration permit so um but if this item is already going forward for a major landmark alteration permit and it can be the fence can be included along with it okay I'll draw that up and submit well as as as chair I probably have a stupid question um I'm curious what in this project specifically triggered the major landmark alteration permit was it the facade on the building I'm just wondering if we're getting into the weeds on landscaping well as I was informed by city staff it's that brick skirt that um triggered it if I wanted to attach it to the building the city said that if I left a little space between the building and that brick skirt and built the same brick skirt looks exactly the same from the street um then it's a landscape feature and I don't need to go through all this um which I I think is really ridiculous that if there's a tiny space I don't need to do this at all if it touches the house then all of a sudden it's a major landmark alteration so um so I missed Mr. Bean it might also be the change of the porch to the brick as well and the brick steps going up to the porch that change but I just wanted to clarify that as far as the the driveway the sidewalks and that type of stuff and correct me if I'm wrong but that is something that we need to really and time and consideration that our focus is really on those elements that affect the structure of the house and that's a lot of approval for the driveway walkways through the city on it on another thing okay okay and my wife would actually like to have a wood porch so if I can't have a brick porch then maybe I'll stay with wood okay okay I'm going to go ahead and just take a minute and open this up for just public comment if we have any members of the public that are out there um and Miss Hopwood do you see anybody who would like to comment we don't see any raised hands at this time okay we're going to go ahead and close the public comment I think because Mr. Bean is looking for direction from the board at this point and the project I'd like to see if we have board members that could give some specifics to him that will help him with having a positive experience in his remodel so I'll open that up okay board member Gatt seems to be my role to start it off that's okay I want to say something but then I'm going to suggest well anyway our processing review procedures say that wood steps and porches should not be replaced by any other material other than wood however having had a very large wood redwood porch that has been used in the house that constantly the steps and the porch rotted out because they get wet in a rain I have no issue with the brick with replacing that porch and the steps with brick steps mainly because it's makes more sense from a material point of view I took photos as well that I gave to Mr. Bean and his wife of all the brick porches and most of them were replacement porches on Mcdonald avenue and nearly half of all the porches are brick and there are smattering of concrete porches and then the rest are wood but as you all are probably aware redwood is no longer a hardwood and it doesn't hold up and so for that reason I would be fine with there changing it to brick I do however have a problem and I've already spoken with the beans about this in the past so but I do have a problem with changing the siding of the house and cladding it with a faux brick a narrow or flat brick basically because it will still be proud of the siding itself and it is not an architectural feature of a historic house historic houses typically overhang their foundation by a couple inches and this is a contributor to the neighborhood so I do have a problem with that part I don't know if there's a way it can be changed I don't if it goes up to the porch and covers the foundation that part doesn't bother me but it's going on to the house where the house is forward a little bit forward so I'm not using faux brick or thin brick I'm using I'm not sure what you're talking about well I would assume that if you're putting Tyvek or whatever over the siding then adding brick that foundation will appear to be will appear to be deeper than the house itself and it will appear that the house is sitting two inches back or whatever on the brick on the foundation do you see what I mean and most houses sit forward a little bit of the foundation and there's no precedence for this other than your own home which is next door which may have some of that but it doesn't show at all because of planting in front of it how are the bricks as my house was approved by the cultural heritage board so the planting as we put in later and it was it was a wood single skirt before Mr. Spade I have just a question the brick that will be the facade on the house how tall will that be 16 inches height of the porch yeah so basically basically you're going from the ground to pretty much interior floor height and so the area that you're covering is actually probably like your crawl space under the house I'm going to take kind of a different view than Board Member Garrett in that I would probably prefer if you did the brick to remove that section of lap siding that siding material that's on that house isn't unique it's a pretty standard there's probably a thousand houses or more in Santa Rosa that have that siding there's nothing really special about you can still buy that siding and I would like to see probably the brick applied like it would have been applied if it was done originally and that would have been just up tight against the shear wall and with a moisture barrier and then a flashing across the top that flashed between the horizontal siding and the top of the brick so that it looked like it would have been done originally the idea of leaving a space or putting it over the top I think it's going to visually not be very appealing as Board Member Garrett said and if we're going to have the brick there I think to apply it appropriately like it would have been done I had a Queen Anne Victorian for over 20 years and I replaced the wood porch three times so because you just can't get good material anymore and it just gets wet and it rots so I totally understand and being low to the ground as that wood porch is that just lends itself even more to be in contact with moisture so personally I don't have any problem with your project if it was coming before us tonight I would probably vote in favor of it so but other Board Members any other comments for Vice Chair Presalis? Thank you just a quick thank you for coming to us with this and I'm sorry that it took a while I know that you're eager to get it through I don't have any specific suggestions but just if it came to me I wouldn't have any problem with it I think it looks good so thank you Board Member Fennel I can just speak to the fact that with real estate I sell most of the homes I sell are in the historic districts and the majority of homes that have come before in the last two years have had so much dry rot and so much rot down near that skirting where the wood would be that I just actually had one in the Bervent Gardens that had a wood or had a brick facade on the front of the house that did overlap the front and that was the only place on the whole house that didn't have dry rot that needed to be treated so I think that I like the brick I think that brick is an important facade in the McDonnell District and I would like to be see them be able to protect their house with the brick in a way that the wood siding won't be able to that's it Thank you Board Member Fennel Board Member Warren I just have a drawing where you've put the red brick and then I'm going back to the photograph and it looks like the brick is going higher where you've drawn it than just even with the porch just curious about that even with the porch was the idea so with all that's been said is there any reason why wouldn't be able to move forward with putting in the brick steps at this point and brick start I'm going to jump in and interject the project scope does include the landscaping if the landscaping were on its own it would go to the zoning administrator but because it's not on its own it's part of the project scope I'd like to bring that back and no Board Members have comments about the landscaping and then I'm happy to address Mr. Bean's question about moving forward with work right now if you would like me to I just wanted to make one point again about the siding the siding does not come down to the ground it's six or eight inches above the ground there is a concrete foundation that's the way all the houses on McDonald Avenue are built with a concrete foundation and then historic houses on top this will have no contact with the ground it will certainly where the porch is I don't have an issue with that I have an issue with bringing the brick up the face of the siding it will only be in the front or go all the way around the house and so it changes the character of the building itself by going several courses of that clear heart redwood siding that's on there above the airspace the crawl space under the house it's just on the street side and it wraps around where the porch is where there's going to be steps on the other side not the entire house and I'm happy with all the landscaping I mean I think it looks fine and it looks very nice thank you very much okay miss vena so what I'm hearing so far is with regards to your project that everything looks to be approved with the exception of the brick over the lap siding on the house so you may have an issue with the board there also I think you should really talk to us regarding fencing so I think board member Garrett brought up a really good point that we don't want to surprise you and find out that when you go to put a fence up that you got to come back under a separate permit so if landscaping and is all part of this then gets your fence set set as well so that we can look at all of it at one point so any final comments or suggestions for Mr. Bean from our board members I have planned a white picket fence about three feet tall with pickets that are square and point at the top or similar to the fencing that was existing originally it's white not that heavy not that tall I think that's all you need to say when you submit it I really don't want to go over the siding with the brick that was my alternative if I didn't get the approval as suggested by city staff to leave a little space and go over the top of it but I'm more than happy to remove the bottom couple rows and put in a flashing and not put the brick against the siding that's my preferred way yeah could you keep the siding so that it could be replaced at a later time the siding I take off right it's readily available I checked it Golden State Lumber they have clear heart redwood siding yeah okay they have the same pattern it's not old growth but it's clear heart it's young heart redwood okay any final comments chair muser so could I proceed with my brick steps I'm happy to respond to that chair muser before I do I'm going to ask you if I don't need to catch you off guard but I'm wondering if you might be able to provide a summary of the board comments in terms of any direction that the beans would have going forward and hear a lot of comments but if you did I want to make sure they don't miss them and we'll put them into our minutes and then to address Mr. Bean's question no you cannot start your work there is no action being taken tonight and this needs to be come back to the board and get approval before you do the work okay well so I recall and I heard correctly board member Garrett is doesn't have any issue with the landscaping or with the brick porch or with the brick steps going up to the porch but would prefer to not see the lap siding on the house replaced with brick am I correct with that okay board member board member Prats Ellis thank Mr. Bean for his patience and understanding of taking so long and did not indicate to have any issues with the project am I correct by sure okay and board member Boren did not indicate to have any issues with the current project is that correct board member Boren and board member Fennell supported the concrete I mean the brick porch and the brick steps and also acknowledge that the brick on the replacing the siding on the house would serve to help reduce dry rot and those issues that she has experienced and seen anything else board member Fennell okay and my comments were that that I support the project as it stands but with not a big deal but just would prefer to see if there was going to be brick replacing the lap siding that it be done in a manner that it would have been done originally that the brick would have a proper footing foundation under it and that it would be properly flashed and done like it would have been done if the building was being built new and that would be limited to just the 16 inches which is basically your crawl space in the house okay we capture that okay with that unless any board members have any further comments unless Mr. Bain do you have any further comments okay we can put Mr. Bain on, I see a hand could I request to be on the agenda for the March 16 meeting to hopefully get a vote and proceed Mr. Bain you're going to need to work with Kristin Aitoumian your planner to schedule that and it's too late to get on the March 16th meeting that meeting has been officially cancelled at this point or well it's yeah we'll be officially cancelled because we're past all deadlines so but work with Kristin Aitoumian she'll be able to help you get on the next available agenda or on the soonest available agenda maybe not the next one and there's no meetings in April correct okay my apologies Mr. Bain for the delays being the personal restorer of three different that is hard and I know that living in a historic district and the additional regulations make it tough in the end though you just have to believe that it's worth it anyway I know you're going to have another substantial delay but we hope to see you back in April or as soon as possible thank you all for having me and your attention to my project appreciate it okay thank you okay with that I don't see any other business thank Mr. Bain thank you staff city staff and thank all the board members for joining in and being here today and we'll see you at the next one bye bye