Micro- and nano-robots are being developed to target cancer cells and deliver drugs or other treatments. These robots can be propelled by chemical reactions, physical fields, or biological systems, and can be guided using magnets, light, or chemotaxis. Recently, these robots have been used for chemotherapy, immunotherapy, photothermal therapy, photodynamic therapy, chemodynamic therapy, and multimodal tumour therapy. The potential of these robots is immense, but there are still many challenges to overcome before they can be used in the clinic. This article was authored by Jelly Sun and Yang Long Hu.


Size won't be an issue for Ryan Robinson. He's 6'2", 225 pounds. He has 597 career touches over five seasons and it took until his red shirt senior season to surpass 110 touches when he had 306 this past season. When looking for comps maybe we want to look for another back around 6'2". Maybe he had to wait a few years for an expanded role at a big school. Maybe the same school as Robinson. That would point to Eddie Lacy with very very similar profiles there. That said, Robinson is a 4-star recruit with NFL-ready size who ran a strong 4.5 3.2 40-yard dash at his size. With improved pass protection he can play on some third downs. Even without it we're looking at a short yardage back who can pick up first downs and some touchdowns.


Hello, welcome to my channel. It's Heela here, Heela at home. So in this video I'm unboxing these copper compression gloves which I bought because I suffer from Ray Nose Syndrome. So these ones are nylon gloves which have copper added to them and the reason why I bought these is because I've been going through a particularly terrible attack of Ray Nose Syndrome and it just basically means that I get really really cold hands and when I try to warm them up my hands swell and get quite itchy. It's an excessive autoimmune reaction or something of the sort. I already have some cotton compression gloves but I wanted to try the copper ones because I'd read that copper compression gloves basically are designed to exert pressure on the muscles of the hand to lower the pain and to improve mobility and they combine the firmness and warmth of compression gloves with the therapeutic power and anti-inflammatory properties of copper. So I went ahead and I measured the palm of my hand to select the size and this was the size that I got. There was only one color available with these ones so I had to get the black although I now realize that it's probably a better color to get because they don't get as dirty quickly. So because they're made of a synthetic nylon fabric they are quite tricky to get on. If you've ever worn PVC leather at any point this is kind of what it's like but once you do get them on you do have a very nice tight snug feel. I particularly wanted these ones because they've got the grip the elastic grip strips at the front which is supposed to give you traction when you are using them. I don't like the fact that they only go halfway up my fingers though I think that I would prefer them a lot better if they would go three quarters up my fingers because what happens is it does reduce the swelling but only up to the point where it ends. So I ended up having a finger that wasn't swollen as we got to the palm but from the first finger joint upwards it was still swollen. However they did manage to keep my palms quite nice and warm. They were very comfortable to use and I gotta say they do make me look and feel like a badass.  So yeah I do like them and I think that they are definitely a good addition to anybody who suffers from conditions that cause you to have cold hands and fingers. I just wish they would make the finger bits a little bit longer. I hope that you found this review useful of the copper compression gloves for renal syndrome and if you did do give the video a big thumbs up down below. If you haven't already do subscribe to the channel. I put out videos every week and until I see you next time guys take care bye.


What's up everyone, it's your girl Kinsey here from Leighton Sports Cards and I am ripping 2021 Panini Limited Football Hobbies seven box break number 24 random teams. Again, here's a look at the random results. You can always find these at leightonsportscards.com I don't need the results tab and excuse me, Link is also in chat. Here we go, limited 2021 limited. For Tom Brady out of 149, nice start. We've got Rams, like I have patch three color patch to 50 rookie of Tutu Atwell for the Rams. Tutu on the unlimited potential. Jamison Crowder and Debo Samuel. The James Conner for the Bills. We've got Otto out of 199 limited, Inc. Zach Moss and a Joe Mixon. Aaron Donald, C.D. Lam, we've got Bears, Justin Fields, RPA to 75, boom. Nice one, Dustin. We will mag that for you, 40, 46 out of 75. Very nice. Got's Keenan Allen and Taysome Hill. Wow, what a first box, box two. Got Cordell Patterson to 49, Michael Pittman Jr. Got play action materials, dual patch to 49, Kurt Cousins and Justin Jefferson. Tyler Hanneke and a Darren Waller. Think too. Joey B, Patrick Mahomes, we've got Jets. Zach Wilson, RPA to 75, what is going on? Joe M, with the Jets for you. Wow, Jaylen Rieger and A.J. Brown. Back to back boxes with some QB, RPAs. They're crazy. All right, just a second so I don't expose the code here. We've got 900 points, we'll ran them off at the end there. Marquis Brown, Quinn and Williams and Josh Allen on the limited edition. Last time I opened this, we pulled a 15,000 points card. That's like a $1,000 points card. 15,000, that's the most points that is made. Yeah, I've never pulled one of those. Yeah, I was like, I had a look at it twice. I was like, that's not 1500, no, that's 15,000. Is it, it's not gonna fit. All right, Joe, so that is not going to fit in a mag, it's cut long, but we'll make sure that gets in a top with the latent sticker on the top, protected for you. Galladay, Matt Ryan. We've got Texans, RPA to 299, Niko Collins. Four Nets and Jarvis Landry, Tyree Kill. We've got Ravens, Rookie Otto to 199 of Tyson Williams. Devonte Adams and Amari Rogers, Rookie Packers. Hawkinson, we've got Melbourne Gordon, the third to 149, Broncos. Panthers, we've got unlimited potential patch to 50, Chubahubba, Chubahubba. George Kittle and Antonio Gibson. Marquise Brown out of 149, Jarvis Landry-Browns. We've got Raiders, dual patch to 75, Josh Jacobs and Derek Carr. Taylor Heinecke and Darren Waller. Joe Burrow, Patrick Mahomes. We've got Ray Lewis, Ring of Honor to 15, Ravens. Brayden Kay with the Ravens, nine to 15. Killer card there. Quinn Williams and Terrace Marshall Jr., Rookie. Sick though, nice Ring of Honor. Zeke Elliott, Saquon Barkley. We've got Vikings, Rookie, RPA to 149, Kellen Mond. Third quarterback, RPA of the Hop Case. Here go Vikings, Carl T. with that one. Jalen Rieger and AJ Racks five. Darnell Mooney, TJ Hawkinson. We've got Jets, nice Rookie patch to 50, Zach Wilson on the three color. That'll look nice with your RPA there, Joe. And T. some Hill. TJ Hawkinson, we've got Doc Prescott, we've got Redemption here. Jameson Crowder and Rookie Pat Farmuth. Good luck on the redemption, everyone. We've got Ramandre Stevenson, Rookie patch autographs variation gold spotlight. There you go, Pat. I believe that'll be the 10 if it is gold. Patriots as Dan I. Nice Ramandre as I stab myself. Patriots. Yes. Jonathan Taylor, we've got Stefan Diggs on the purple foil of 15 bills. For the Titans, we've got RPA. Nice patch there to 49 desfits Patrick. Nice one Titans on the three color patch. LaViscushinole Jr. and Herbie. Block six, there we go. Mark Andrews, we've got Aaron Jones out of 149 Packers. Giants, we've got Limitless Patch to 49 of Darius Slaton. Tom Breedy and Dalvin Cook. We've got Rod Taylor. We've got DJ Moore. We've got wild card points. We'll be random at the end with the 900. Got Jalen Hertz and a Tua. Last patch, box six. Lamar Jackson, Michael Pittman Jr. We've got Steelers, RPA to 35. Na-shoo! Charis. Steelers. Who's got him? Oh, yeah, I wish. Seven out of 35. Nice one there. We'll mag that up for you. Aaron Jones and Corey Davis. Last box here. Again, we do have two points cards to random so far. Calvin Ridley, James Conner. Got Washington, Rookie Otto to 75, Jayman Davis, Baker Mayfield and a Justin Fields Rookie. We'll look nice next to that RPA. For the Bears. T. Higgins, Purple Fowl to 15. James Conner. We've got Chiefs on the Limitless Patch, Michael Harmon Jr. to 99. Not yet for us. Now that you said that, the whole building just gonna burn. Derek Carr and Alvin Camara. No. That was crazy. You have to rewatch the stream to see our reaction. I know, I jumped. Cause I was like, what the heck is that? Aaron Donald, C.D. Lamb. Good thing you're, okay. We've got, so it's a 99 RPA Ian Book Saints. So four out of the seven boxes had quarterback RPAs. Heck yeah, we'll take that. Justin Jefferson and Derek Henry. Yeah, really. Mike, I think our building got struck by lightning earlier and one of the boxes like literally like exploded and popped and hit Sean in the face. It was pretty scary. Lost internet for about 10 minutes. It was, it was wild. All right, we got wild points, wild card points and 900 points. Give me a second to set up the random for that. Oh no, momento. I know for us, thank God I have my glasses on. Yeah, really. All right, here's the random. Got all 28 spots. Again, top team will take home the wild card points and second team will take home the 900 points. Gonna roll the dice here. 11 times, good luck. Again, top two, get a points card. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10, 11. Patriots getting the wild card points and Vikings getting the 900 points. All right, let's do a quick recap here. Romicks in autos. We had Miko Harman, Jr. Darius Slayton, Zach Wilson. We had a duel of Josh Jacobs and Derek Carr. Chuba Hubbard, duel of Kirk Cousins and Justin Jefferson. Tutu, Ian Book, RPA. Jayman Davis does Fitzpatrick RPA. Patriots Redemption, it's a gold RPA. Ramandre Stevenson, there are but they're all filled, Scout. We've got Kellan Mon, RPA. Ray Lewis to 15 on the Ring of Honor. Let's make that, I forgot to tell you that one tonight. Okay, Bob, it's over. Tyson Williams, A. Niko Collins and Zach Moss. And then our Magged Cards. We had the Nashash to 35 RPA Steelers. Again, the Zach Wilson was cut long so it did not fit in a Mag, but we got that all protected up for ya. Nice one there out of 75 Jets. And then RPA Justin Fields to 75, the Bears. All right, congrats on that. Very nice, first half we got the second half coming up in a few minutes.


This 10th year of Daily Tech News show is made possible by you, the listener. Thanks to all of you, including Norm Fasikus, Chris Allen, Chris Smith, new patrons, Bob, a vote for Molly, another vote for Molly, Daniel, Skymaster for Molly, Travis, and Earl. On this episode of DTNS, Molly Wood explains why repairing devices is good for the climate, plus Google and Meta are about to shut off news in Canada. Sorry, Canada. This is the Daily Tech News for Friday, June 30th, 2023 in Los Angeles. I'm Tom Merritt. And from Studio Who Even Knows Where? I'm Sarah Lane. From Oakland, California, I'm Molly Wood. Drawing the top tech stories from Cleveland. I'm Len Peralta. And I'm the show's producer, Roger Chang. Molly is here. We did it. Voting works, everyone. We did not hit the full 4,000 paid and increased patrons we wanted, but we definitely got enough that we weren't not going to have Molly on. So here's the deal. We're going to commit to Molly every other month based on what we got. But we're going to keep the push going into July. So if we get to that 4,000 paid patron goal in July, every month, I'll be back on. And in the meantime, Molly's here. This is going to be like a teaser to get those of you who are on the fence over the fence, hopefully. Exactly. Just just just under the fence over the fence. However, you get careful while doing that. That's a good point. Yeah, carefully. All right. Let's start with the quick hits of the verges. Alex Heath sources say that meta will test a new ad type with a small number of Android developers that will let users in the EU directly download an app through the ad. Meta doesn't plan to take a cut of in app revenue in this pilot stage, at least not at this time. The EU's Digital Markets Act goes into effect next spring, requiring Apple and Google to both open up their mobile platforms to alternate app download methods. Wednesday, attackers tweeted screenshots of email addresses, application, access and internal system credentials indicating a ransomware attack on TSMC, the chipmaker. The thread was then deleted and the group posted a demand for $70 million or it would leak the stolen data. TSMC says an incident at one of its hardware suppliers, KinMax Technology, leaked, and I'll quote from TSMC, information pertinent to server initial setup and configuration. Now, TSMC says it did not affect any customer information or operations and TSMC has now terminated its data exchange with KinMax. WhatsApp announced it will roll out a new chat transfer feature letting users quickly transfer messages and attachments between phones without using cloud backups. The feature works on devices running the same operating system. So a user scans a QR code, initiates the fully encrypted transfer and hopefully if all works well, that's how it works. YouTube began running a small experiment globally, they say, that shows a warning to people using ad blockers. The warning tells users that the video player will be blocked after three videos and it further advises users to add YouTube to the ad blockers, allow list or just subscribe to YouTube premium. So you don't have to say any ads. Twitter appears to have locked down content in some form such as viewing tweets or user profiles if you aren't logged into your user account. Now, I tried this on a variety of web browsers and third party apps with interesting results. But the issue appears to affect both web and mobile access for the actual Twitter account. This may be a technical issue, maybe a deliberate issue. Twitter has yet to make a public announcement as of this recording. It's hard to tell sometimes with that company. All right, Thursday, Google joined Meta in saying it will remove Canadian news from its platforms in response to Bill C18, AKA the Online News Act. Google will also end its existing deals with Canadian publishers. The main deal it had was Google News Showcase, which licensed news from more than 150 Canadian publishers. That program will end when the bill becomes law later this year. Meta is also ending its fellowship program for hiring journalists at Newswire, the Canadian press.  They haven't given a timeline, but they said they will start them before the bill goes into effect, before the law goes into effect. Molly, what do you make of this particular version of this fight? Right, because it is important to note that this is not the first fight like this that has happened. In fact, it's there have been many, I think, versions of this most recently in Australia. I think that these platforms are going to I understand both sides of this argument on some level. These platforms are going to have to figure out a better solution. Blocking news, I don't think is a viable long term strategy. And frankly, I don't even think it's something that they necessarily want to be a part of. I don't I'm not 100 percent sure what the resolution is, but you can't sort of destroy journalism in an effort to not pay for content that you're using that has already destroyed journalism, you know. Sarah, like, yeah. No, no, I listen, I'm not disagreeing with you, Molly, at all. I think I think you're right. A company like META, META doesn't want to do this. META has been forced to do this. META is sort of like, huh, OK, what's our retaliation tactic? If this isn't it. And I don't think there is one. You know, I've kind of been thinking about this, you know, since we were talking about this when it pertained to Australia last year, and it's like, I don't really know what a large company such as META, but there are others, does in a situation like this instead of saying, OK, we're out of there because we're in so many other markets.  Well, I mean, they could pony up, right? That would be the other thing is to pay for content. Yeah. On the other hand, they're they're not being asked to pay for content. They're being asked to pay to link. And I think that's worth noting here, because what has happened in the past is the argument was, well, you're carrying the important part of our news, the snippets, right, the subject. And that is what's stopping people from coming to our website. I feel like maybe that's overstated. I think there's lots of reasons people aren't going to news websites, including incredibly increased competition. But that said, certainly doesn't help. So I can see an argument to say, well, if you're going to use part of our copyrighted material, you need to pay for it. I get that. But what then happened is Google said, well, fine, we'll just carry the headline in the link. So then it was you can't use headlines. Then they're like, great, we'll just carry the link. And then it was, well, you can't link. Suddenly making someone pay to link to something feels like that is not what the web is supposed to be about. And I think that's just a symptom of the breakdown in this situation, which is I do think the news publishers need these platforms more than the platforms need the news publishers. I think that the platforms know they'll take a small hit if they stop news content from being carried, but it won't be enough to really cause them any pain.  But otherwise, OK, let's play a game of chicken. Yeah, that's where that's what I mean when I say, though, that I think they're going to have to figure something out. And I think what they likely need to figure out is a global program for most likely paying news publishers. And while I agree that charging for links is not a great strategy, it is. I also agree that it's a symptom of how bad things have gotten and how publishers have been, you know, because like, let's not forget that it's not as though it's been an accident that Google and Facebook have sort of sucked up all of the oxygen around publishing. They have lured these publishers to their platforms. They have in certainly in the case of Metta over and over and over misrepresented the advertising efficacy. They got newsrooms to pivot to video on mass for that platform. And then it turned out that the metrics in the economics on which that was based were were basically made up, right? So like there's culpability here that leads me to think that more countries than just Australia and Canada, Canada, Canada are going to make laws like this. So that at some point, if these sites want to say, we're going to ban all news from our platforms, then they themselves end up with a content problem because that's what we're going there for. And the end result is kids keep getting all the news on TikTok like they already are. Yeah. Morning console reported in February that 14 percent of Gen Z adults in the U.S. turned to TikTok first for news. I take that as an indication that this may be fighting the last battle, not the current battle. This may be fixing a problem that will not be relevant very soon, which is typically what happens by the time government gets involved in something. So it may be that you you make Facebook and Google pay for news at a time when people stop going to them for news. We're about to see a huge sea change in search, and we don't even know what it's going to look like at the at the end of this chat GPT barred revolution. So if you really want to be talking about where people are getting their news and are going to get their news in the future, I don't think it's Facebook and Google. I think I think you need to be looking at other platforms. Well, it could be if they don't screw it up. That's what I'm saying. I think even if they everybody was kumbaya and will pay for news, I think that's dwindling. I really do. I think like that's that's the old way of doing things. And it's it's not going to disappear overnight, but it's it's going to continue to be reduced. I mean, we might ban TikTok. So there's that too. Sorry, Sarah, go ahead. No, I mean, that was actually going to be my exact point. How many times has a friend said, oh, I just look for news on TikTok? Where I'm like, what on TikTok? That used to be the way that people would tell me, oh, I just find news on YouTube and I'm like, on YouTube?  Ah, we're in a different world, everybody. OK, so let's talk about ByteDance's new strategy. TikTok is, you know, perhaps in, you know, a banned situation in the US already banned in India. But the company has other apps slowly gaining an audience and also widening appeal. The company's Instagram like app Lemon 8 Lemon number eight launched in the US earlier this year and was number one on app charts back in April. Yeah, and ByteDance just released a closed beta in the US for a new app called Ripple. It's an invite only app for music creators. So this is to help you start making music that then they can keep in their system and use on TikTok, I guess. You hum a tune and it turns it into an instrumental with piano, drums and bass. Now, the output only matches the length of the hummed sample. You're not going to get it to make an entire track out of a couple of bars. It also doesn't generate lyrics, but it is a way to kind of get a baseline, so to speak, and a piano and a drum line down and and start sparking that creativity. It's interesting. It is. And you might say, OK, well, I mean, how many people really care about Ripple? Well, a lot of people do. But not the only music arena that ByteDance is dabbling in another app that is by dance created called Resso, R-E-S-S-O, launched in 2020 in India, Brazil and Indonesia. Straight ahead music app with a focus on niche sub genres with unsigned acts. All of those markets are interesting because all of those markets have a variety of, you know, a very robust music community, but also with a lot of sub genres, depending on language you speak, et cetera, et cetera. So late last year, word league that Resso was negotiating with several major music labels in an effort to enter more than a dozen new markets with some speculating that Resso could even be re-branded as TikTok music if that expansion was successful. We don't know, but we're kind of seeing some some some some beginning some some beginnings of this. So Sensor Tower reports that as of last month, more than 250 million people had downloaded Resso even after the Indian government banned TikTok in 2020. It has risen up, especially in Google Play Playlists. Hmm. Very interesting. Yeah, this feels like it's competing with SoundCloud. The ripple part of it.  SoundCloud's been on death's door for years. You know, people have been predicting it was going to go under and it hasn't. It does feel like it's smart for bite dance to get into this. And it's bite dance's way of of hedging their bets if TikTok does get banned in elsewhere beyond Montana. Well, and, you know, the whole, yeah, the whole comparison to SoundCloud and, you know, who is it good for? I mean, if something goes viral on Resso and then becomes viral on TikTok, then it goes back to being more viral on Resso because they're all part of the, you know, the same ecosystem. I think, you know, from what I know of TikTok, this makes perfect sense. There may be an issue, you know, with it opening up in different markets, but particularly the markets that have sub-genres, niche genres for music. You know, Brazil, India and and Indonesia being very good examples of that. You know, SoundCloud really never had much of that going on. And maybe that was because they were before their time. TikTok is doing like a lot of things right here, not least of which is understanding that the creator economy has global potential. And I think that's a place where you could argue that to a lesser extent, YouTube, but certainly Meta and Instagram have have dropped the ball a little bit. It's also very smart for them to diversify into other apps that aren't that don't have kind of the name recognition for good or for ill as TikTok. At the just seems extremely clever and like a backdoor way to capture even more audience and even more creators early and get them into this ecosystem and have them just be hooked. Yeah, the best thing going for TikTok right now is that it is the place where hits are made. You you the the band Cupid or I'm sorry, the band 50 50 made the Hot 100 with one of their first songs. It was off their second album. They were on a very small label and Cupid took off on TikTok and it it would turn it into a hit. And now like Warner is fighting with the original label to try to like steal them away because they're so successful on TikTok. So TikTok bite dance going like, well, even if TikTok starts to suffer outside of India and Montana, we got other ways that we can we can monopolize music is a really smart move. Folks, if you've got thoughts about this, are you a member of 50 50 and would like to give us the inside scoop? Please email us feedback at daily tech news show dot com. That is the email address to send it to this week on everybody in the pool. Molly Wood talked to I fix its kyle means about the right to repair and how it's important in reducing climate change. So it's not just good for your pocketbooks, not just a responsible thing to do to stop waste. It actually can help in larger things. Molly, what are what are some of the things you were learning from Kyle? Yeah, I mean, I love Kyle and I have been learning from Kyle for years. But this is one of those kind of perfect examples of a thing you didn't necessarily realize was a climate story. But in the way that everything actually is, this is a big one. So Kyle pointed out this phenomenal quote. He said, you know, we dig a mountain out of the earth every day to make smartphones one and a half billion of them every year. We make one and a half billion smartphones a year. A mountain theory every day.  I mean, if you think about the raw materials that go into our glass, it's cobalt, it's nickel, it's lithium for batteries. It's zinc, you know, I mean, it literally is just like metal after metal after metal. And it's, as he pointed out, pure energy to make these things. He also told me that consumer electronics are among the most, if not the most carbon intensive products that we make. And most of the energy is making the chips because it's like this big energy intensive fab. And you're just sort of like scraping and scraping and making everything like micro and then it has all of those elements into them. And then only 20 percent, fewer than 20 percent of consumer electronics are recycled. So it's this kind of like it's bad on the front end because it's super carbon intensive to make these devices. And every time you get a new one, it had to be created. And then it's terrible on the back end because when they end up in landfill and the vast majority of them do, sadly, then they leech all of that stuff back into the environment. And I feel like there are two big things that immediately want to happen. One is let's find sustainable ways to power these plants, right? And that's that's a bigger problem than I can solve. And it's a problem that the entire world is working on. So OK, what about recycling? Let's let's actually recycle these things better. And I've seen some slow progress on that. But is there is that too big of a problem, too? Well, the good news is that he told me that the recycling programs by Apple and other manufacturers like Best Buy, where you can go and trade in a device to be recycled, those actually do work. That's OK. That's not like a it's not recycle washing. So that is great news. And I actually do think that as some of the supplies of these raw materials get more constrained or more expensive because they're going to all get sucked up by like EV batteries and grid scale power batteries, that it will start to be cost effective, more cost effective even for manufacturers to try to recover as many materials as they can from these devices. So that's good. It's just that people have these collections of old things around the house that, you know, don't work and there's no good reason. Like basically the chip almost never fails. It's the battery that dies.  And at some point they just chuck them. Yeah, because it's easier because we don't make it easy. You have to you have to work to do a thing that you're not going to profit directly from. And so, yeah, it makes sense to me that that becomes a problem. I do tend to think that personal solutions are often shoved out there as a way for people who work at scale to avoid responsibility for what they do. That could be much much more effective than than individual solutions. Did you get a sense of if all of us decided to like work to repair our items or push for the ability to make it easier to repair our items that it could make a big difference? You know, it does, actually. And I would push back on you a little bit on that because I do think that the other thing that happens is that people say, well, I can't do anything. My individual action doesn't matter because it's a collective problem to which I always respond. What do you think a collective is made out of? However, in this case, I also have stats. If every American, this is from Kyle Wiens. If every American kept their phone for an extra year, it would be the equivalent of taking 600,000 cars off the road. As far as emissions go in terms of emissions. Yeah, as far as emissions go.  It genuinely doesn't because the thing is that you become not only a person doing that, but you become a model.  Or just keep your phone a little longer, you know, find somebody who can repair it. Repair is getting easier to do. Make make a push for some right to repair or all of those things sound like they would be options for people who want to help. Or 100% traded in when you are going to get rid of it, like traded into a recycling program when you're going to get rid of it. Actually, Kyle, it was very interesting. Kyle said that the best thing you can do, the single best thing you can do is again, I mean, it's sort of great because it's like save the planet by being super lazy. Just keep your stuff, like don't get a new thing. But to or be, he said the best thing you can do is sell it for as much money as you can possibly get, because you'll be happy about that and your incentivized to sell it and then someone else uses it. Yeah, that's even better than a trade in. If you really have to have a new thing, then sell your old device. Make sure someone's using it. And then get a new one. Well, if you want to hear more of Molly talking to Kyle about this stuff, hear it from Kyle's mouth directly, go get everybody in the pool. If you haven't already, it's in your podcatcher of choice. And you can find out more about all of that and get Molly's newsletter at mollywood.co. Well, speaking of, I don't know, cars, emissions, Volkswagen owned Electrify America and EV maker Polestar announced this week. They will add Tesla's North American charging standard or NACS plugs. Now, this follows recent announcements by Ford, GM, Rivian and Volvo that they will also switch to the standard. Kind of good for people on road trips. Standards body SAE International also announced this week it will expedite work to develop a standard around NACS with Hyundai, Stellantis and Volkswagen itself in talks with Tesla, leaving Volvo, Lucid and Toyota as outliers. We're going to get Bodie on the kilowatt podcast who has been with us before. He really knows his car stuff to join us July 14th to explain why this is all happening and what it means for EV owners. Yeah, but it's kind of been stunning to see all of these companies fall in line so quickly. The first one that announced this was interesting. And then it seemed like it was an avalanche after that. Yeah, this is a huge deal. I mean, this is just an absolute triumph of private infrastructure, which is a bummer, especially if you don't love the idea of giving Elon Musk more money. However, that infrastructure exists and it is it is crucial to adoption. Like, I'm so excited about this. I have a Polestar. The only bummer to me is that it won't go into effect until 2025. Yeah, yeah. But this is a huge deal.  The only way that you can feel confident because I had a Tesla for six months before the Polestar, you could drive. I mean, I could drive that thing anywhere in the country because there would be Tesla infrastructure now. Not only is there not high speed charging infrastructure, but it is not well maintained. So if you're driving any other EV across the country, it's just like a prayers up situation. And that's the CCS standard, except for Toyota, which is on a whole different thing. And the CCS standard is the one mandated in the Congressional Act that passed, the Infrastructure Act. I can't remember what they're calling it this week, but it was the it was the Inflation Reduction Act, I think, when it was first passed. But that mandated the CCS standard to get subsidies. And yet any CS bucked that trend and made these deals. It's kind of unexpected. I think it's just because everybody knows how long it's going to take to get that infrastructure built. Yeah, that makes sense. All right, let's check out the mailbag. Let's do it. This one comes in from Thor. This is in response to our conversation yesterday about redacting things and whether it's better to do it on paper or electronically. Thor says in that discussion on shredding and redacting information on paper and more generally, how to keep information private. I'd like to share the reason I give for why I try to have as much info encrypted or stored on my own devices as possible. It's not so much that I have something to hide, but that it's harder or impossible to take information back if I realize there's something I didn't want to share, putting it, putting it even more simply. It's easier to keep information private than to remove public information. Since I can't know the future, I feel I'm better off holding my card a little closer to my chest. That was a really fun conversation on GDI yesterday. If you're not a patron, you won't be able to get to it easily. But if you are a patron and you haven't listened to it, Rich was talking about some of his experiences having to redact things at jobs in the past.  Yes, you know, things do happen. And yeah, I mean, there's not look at politics, not a perfect assessment for this. So so, yeah, here we are. Well, Len Peralta has been busily illustrating where we are. Len, what have you drawn today? Well, first off, it's just great to see Molly on Molly Friday. I have to kind of say it's been great to have her on. And, you know, just before the show started, I was over on the other side of my office and I was holding some old iPhones. I think I had a first generation iPhone. So I don't I've never thrown away my iPhones. They still have them here. So I'm doing my part to save the environment. I'm out of the landfill. I'm keeping them out of the landfill. And so I wanted to kind of do something that was very environmentally friendly. And that's where this image comes from. It's Molly saves the woods. You have the right to repair your devices, says Molly.  Are those the Twitter birds around her head? There's one. There's one tweeting and another saying Blue Sky. There's one skeeting. Let's keep it. Oh, my God, help. I never thought of Molly. So I'm changing the name of the podcast. And there you go. Very good.  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My fellow Americans, when we took office in 1981, our goal was to help all of you build a new era of lasting economic growth without inflation. And we're getting closer. For the first time since the 1960s, America's enjoying strength and economic growth, business investment, productivity, and the creation of new jobs—6 million in the last 20 months. While at the same time, we're keeping inflation down. Yesterday, we learned that inflation for the last 12 months remains at 4.2 percent, only a third of 1980's 12.4 percent. We're enjoying an historic economic renewal. We could be proud of our accomplishments, but we can't and won't be satisfied until this expansion reaches every sector of our economy. Two sectors in which millions seek their livelihood, steel and agriculture, have not shared fully in the recovery. This week, we took additional action to help people in both steel and agriculture help themselves so they can work their way out of difficulty and become full partners in our economic expansion, helping all of us build a stronger future. The American steel industry, as you know, has been struggling through hard times in recent years. The steel companies and their workers have been trying hard to save their industry by cutting costs and modernizing their aging plants and equipment. And we've been trying to help. Our tax reduction passed in 1981 encourages just such business investments to modernize smokestack America. The industry is beginning to recover, but is still climbing uphill on the international playing field. In some cases, new technology has simply reduced the need for steel products. But the industry has also been hurt by foreign subsidies and an overproduction of steel worldwide with foreign imports biting into the U.S. steel industry share of our domestic market, making the United States a kind of steel dump for the rest of the world. Well, that simply isn't acceptable. So we've designed a comprehensive plan to cover the entire steel industry and enable us to take swift, effective action to keep the U.S. from being foreign countries dumping ground. I have instructed Ambassador Bill Brock, our international trade representative, to meet with representatives of those nations dumping steel and to seek their agreement to stop such practices. And I've made it clear that, as necessary, we'll initiate strong counteractions to defend American firms and workers from predatory practices of other nations. Taken together, these actions can be expected to bring down the percentage of steel imports from its current 26 percent to about 18.5 percent, excluding semi-finished products. And they'll enable our steel producers to continue their modernization and compete on a level playing field again. One thing I'm not doing, for it would damage our economy more than it would help, is imposing import quotas. That kind of protectionism is my opponent's policy, and just like his tax increase, it's the wrong policy. The lessons of history are clear. The costs of protectionism for one group would automatically be passed on to another. Inflation would be reignited, jobs would be destroyed, not saved, and foreign countries would retaliate against our exporters like our farmers. And America doesn't need that kind of help. I'm confident our plan will help steel producers rebuild and become stronger, more competitive, and profitable again. And that's how we're trying to help our farmers as well. We've ended the last administration's grain embargo, restored grain sales to the Soviet Union, and we've been able to bring down interest rates and sharply reduce inflation. Unfortunately, our success against inflation, while helpful to farmers in most respects, caused them some special problems. Many farmers took out loans in the late 1970s when inflation was soaring, and they assumed the value of the land they were pledging as collateral would keep rising with inflation. Well, now that inflation has plunged, those loans have become very difficult for some of those farmers to carry. So in the last three years, the Farmers' Home Administration has more than doubled its regular operating loans for farmers. This week, we announced another major initiative to assist farmers trying to cope with debt burdens. Farmers' Home will permit a deferral for five years of up to 25 percent of principal and interest payments owed by farmers who need breathing room. The deferrals will be made on a case-by-case basis. For those not participating in FMHA, we're making available $630 million in guarantees of loans by private banks as part of rescheduling plans for troubled farmers. The road back isn't easy, but by resisting quick fixes and helping those in steel and farming help themselves, we'll make sure all of us can and will go forward together. Until next week, thanks for listening, and God bless you.


Okay, so we start off with a left-hand side parting. We part it exactly where the guest is gonna wear it. And then we work diagonal back partings right after that. And then we start cutting it right at the jawline. So this is a chin length, one-length bob. So that is what is trending. That's what they're saying is gonna be huge at 2024. So if we wanna cut it at jaw length, then let's just start in the front and work our way back. That just makes things a lot more simple. So working our way back, and then as I get that section cut, then I bring down another section. I'm taking diagonal back partings. So I'm really just following the head shape and working my way back. Just keeps everything nice and clean. And obviously you're working with different densities in the front and the back. So we start high in the front, and then that diagonal back line goes lower in the back because the density is higher. You wouldn't wanna just run horizontal all the way across. So, but speaking of horizontal, we're cutting a horizontal blunt line all the way through. And then I just continue working. And I'm working all the way to the half point in the back. So that midpoint right in the center back is where I stopped. That's where I sectioned everything off because I really wanna focus on the weak side, and then we'll go in and we're gonna focus on our strong side next. So you can see I'm letting down the strong side. Now, where things change. We already started in the front. We determined our length. We've got that all going, right? So I don't wanna go back to the front and then guess at what side and look back and forth. It just is easier for me to just continue that line through. So I start now taking diagonal forward partings on the right hand side because that just allows me to continue following that line. Again, we're working with a higher density in the nape area. So just taking small sections, working my way through, keeping my eyes parallel to this section and cutting the line. All right, so again, the most important thing is just taking small sections to work through it. You can see every time I bring hair down, I bring down a new section. You can see right through it. I can see that guideline easily. That is key to making sure that you have success in this haircut. So the struggles I had when I was a younger stylist with this cut and sometimes still have would be making sure that my line is flat, parallel with the floor when I'm cutting and if that's my intention, keeping it that way. And then also just making sure you keep that guideline as you go through and making sure that both sides set the same length of not having one side longer than the other. So as you look at it here, I'm going through the ways that I keep this consistent is making sure that my guideline is about 75% of the new section. So the new section, just nice and thin and working through, you can see it here. You can see right through it. So it's an easy guideline to follow.  And anytime you push hair, you're going to get a line that's not quite straight. So, and you might not see it in the wet cut. You might have to, you might see it once you dry it and now you've got a lot of work to do to try to recover from this cut. It takes a lot more time in the salon and then we all know time is money in the salon. So making sure that as we work through this, we're working efficient, getting the result that we're looking for and not rushing to make sure that we get the cut right. So you can see, nice balanced sides. Now what I do is I elevate everything straight up in the air and I use my Blend 20 Elite Scissors. This is our FSE Elite Series Scissors. I use that, takes out 20% of the hair, just softens the edge. So when you think about a blunt bob and how it lays kind of down and heavy, that's okay and we don't want to layer it or anything but I do like to add a little softness to the edge.  Now I go through same thing, Blend 20 Elite here and I just work the edges of that interior part of the bob. So what I'm doing is I'm just softening, just taking out a little bit of extra weight in there. That is a great tip for when you're going in, cutting a bob, you don't want to mess up your line, you don't want to layer it but it feels a little bit thick and heavy. This is a great way to do it. So I go about two inches up, work that blending scissor through then about an inch up and then about a half inch and just softly work through it. You can see when I let everything out, it disappears but you've got a little less weight, a little less heaviness in the haircut. That caters to this detail work that we do at the very end here with our Precision Elite Scissor. You can get all these scissors on freeseloneducation.com. Don't forget that if you want to support the channel but using the Precision Elite on dry hair, get that detail that crisp line and then I go in with my Hybrid Elite, my Dry Cutting Scissor. So I bring that over and I just do a tease cutting technique with the Hybrid Elite Dry Cutting Scissor. When I do that over direction, over top of the parting and the tease cutting, it softens the line but creates that angle. So you over direct it to one point, you cut everything at one point, it's gonna push everything away from that point, right? So using the Hybrid Elite, nice tease cutting technique, you can see that fringe you get. Also shout out to Dyson, I use the Dyson Airwrap to get that fringe to kind of flip out a little bit and then a little extra detail work with my scissor there and you can see there's our one length Bob. 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Hey, welcome back to kids fun science. My name is Ken today's experiment is with pine cones So pine cones are designed by mother nature to open up when they're dry So they have a better chance to reseed another tree, right? So but can we reverse that and the answer is yes, and we're gonna do that in today's experiment So what we're gonna do is we're gonna put a pine cone in a little bit of water And we're gonna time-lapse it and we're gonna see if it'll close all the way up and then for the second experiment What we're gonna do is put the wet pine cone that's closed up Into the oven and we're gonna see if we can heat it up to get it back to being dry and open up So we're gonna do that next and the science behind it Please remember to click that subscribe button as we'll have a new experiment every week So the first experiment is just a jar with room temperature water and a pine cone Which I put a couple fishing weights on To hold it down Otherwise the pine cone wants to float to the top and it just thought it looked better this way So now I've got it into time-lapse mode So it's taken a picture and won't take as long to see the results And you'll be able to see the pine cone start to close up which is pretty amazing interesting fun fact is But this is a pine cones are male and female and the hard pine cones like this hard shell are female pine cones And there you go It took about two and a half hours to fully close up in room temperature water So now the second experiment I'm gonna add one experiment. I've put in a hot tap water this time Same thing with two fishing weights. I'm gonna turn the jar off and then start it in time-lapse mode again and I just wanted to see if it was gonna be a different results and it was totally different you can see it closing so much quicker In the hot tap water compared to the room temperature water took two and a half hours a very long time This is almost completely done and it only took just about an hour to close all the way So the hot water definitely affects the pine cone and closes a lot quicker, which I thought was really cool So the science behind pine cones is did you know that female pine cones open and close depending on the weather? It's true when the female pine cone is warm and in a dry place the pine cone opens up and exposes the cone seeds Which is in a damp and cold place the scales close up tightly as we saw in the water That's how the female pine cone protects its seeds She keeps them safe in the rain and cold air and watch as we watch this time Laps in the video you saw that in the action So when you put your pine cones in the water That it's wet and so they'll close up and when you put them in the oven it's dry and they open up And that's so that's pretty much a science band the pine cone on how it protects its seeds look in the description for more fun facts and science about Pine cones and males and females and how they pollinate And I have one more experiment So we start the oven at 350 degrees and make sure you have adult supervision here And you take your pine cones that we just closed up with the water and we put them into the oven And we're going to in 15 minutes now we're going to do every 15 minutes We can see they're starting to open up a little bit. Remember the oven was set 350 degrees 30 minutes later you can see they're starting to open up as they dry up The pine cone is being tricked because it thinks it's warm weather We're 45 minutes and it's starting to open up almost all the way The one on the left a little bit slower than the one the right One hour at 350 degrees and it's getting very very close Maybe just one more check on this and we'll see And here we go The last one they're completely open at one hour and 15 minutes a very fun experiment Please remember to comment below. I got the results next here We were took two hours and 30 minutes for the regular temperature Room temperature water and the hot tap water which surprised me only took one hour


What is up everybody, Jason here for jaspyscasebreaks.com. We just sold out, 21-22, Panini Prison Choice Basketball. This is a four box break P-Way team number 12, and again guys, we're gonna give away $500 of break credits, so if you bought a team, you get a chance to win, or randomize these lists of names here at the end of the break. Christie B. Chris Butler got a last-bought mojo at the last few teams in the Pistons. There we go. So here's all the last four boxes here, guys. All right, here we go. Reggie Bullock, Mario Stoddermier, Deondre Aitin, Chris Boucher, Kessler Edwards, and behind that is a Isaiah Jackson rookie sensational signature from the Indiana Pacers. Indiana Pacers going to Diego, then we got Ben Simmons, and a Chris Middleton. Let's add a 39. So we add a 88.  And where's the Tiger Stripes at, guys? Caruso, our friend Simon's, Alan Iverson, and a little Darius Basely for the O.K.C. Thunder going to Chris Butler. We got Biz MacVillumbo, who actually is a Thunder now, but that is a Charlotte Hornet, then Chumo O'Keeke to 88 there. Next two here. Got a green. Green out of eight. Gordon Hayward, Cam Johnson, nice Davion Mitchell there for the Sacramento Kings going to Diego, and a Dearon Sharp. All right, let's go with the red card in the back. Juan Toscano Anderson. It's gonna go to the Warriors, and then behind Dearon Sharp for the Brooklyn Nets, which is going to Ronnie. So San Antonio Spurs. Nice, the Admiral, David Robinson, that's pretty sweet, six out of eight. San Antonio Spurs is going to Diego. There you go, man. The last box here, guys. Not a tiger's drive, but looks like we might have a redemption though. Carmelo Anthony, Kobe White, name is Cueda, or maybe not actually. Ooh. We'll take that. How about a Nikola Jokic autograph? There we go. Denver, Nuggets, going to Asher. Let's take that, we'll take that. Nice Jokic, maybe wins the MVP this year. And we got Tim Duncan for the Spurs. That's a couple of good, great colors there for the Spurs though. Then Cam Johnson, they're red for the Suns, going to Diego. Alrighty, guys. Well, no crazy big rookie autographs unfortunately, but we did get that Jokic, which is pretty sweet. Oh, the Admiral. But so thanks for giving it a shot, guys. So again, we're gonna randomize the names now and someone's gonna win $500 back. Like I said, this was the last one here. Let's gather up the names. Let's put them in a roll. Let's click dice roll. So four and a five. Four and a one, sorry. Five times. One, two, three, four, and five. Five times, five, five. Rex. So close. But number one, Kev. Look at that, Kev. 500 bones, bucks coming your way, man. So they go out there five times. Boom, you are the winner. So there you go, Kev. I'll send that out to you right now, buddy. You can use it on whatever you'd like. And you said we got some mixtures that are getting close. We got another one of these breaks that's down a couple left. It's a bones egg choice this time instead of prism. So you got that rolling, guys. Thank you.


Okay, I have to share again, technology. Okay. Well, so Orlando, thank you for joining us today. So right now you're with several city staff members. I'm not going to introduce everybody. But if we get into some questions, I wanted to have several subject matter experts here to help answer those questions. So. This meeting is being recorded and we will post it on the real property website after the meeting. So it will be available to others who are interested in this bit opportunity. So, if you've got a question, Orlando, since it's a small group, feel free to just unmute yourself and ask during the meeting. And if it's going to come up later in the slides, I'll just let you know that. So. Okay, let's see. Figure out. Okay, so I think I have just around. 20 slides today, it'll probably go pretty quick. A lot of them are probably high level information, but we'll just kind of go through the property location. The flood risk at the site, some highlights of the notice of sale, what the evaluation process is going to be, and then the timelines. So, in terms of location, this is in the Arlington Heights area of Fort Worth. Stand Orlando, are you, are you from the Fort Worth area? Do you want me to go into detail? Are you already familiar with Arlington Heights area? Yes, I'm familiar with I live here in Arlington. Okay, sounds good. Then I'll kind of keep it high level. So Arlington Heights area of Fort Worth. So zooming in into that area, the neighborhood where these properties are available and for sale. Is just around 3 miles west of downtown. So great location close to downtown just west of the cultural and medical district. So, it's a great location. In terms of accessibility and commutes close to the Botanic Gardens and the zoom. So, this information I pulled actually from the appraisal report, which is on the city's website with the notices sale information. Just talks a little bit about the neighborhood. It's very stable. It's over 75% built up and there's a lot of residential demand in the area. I thought the conclusion was pretty good in there. I talked about given foreseeable increases in population growth for the area and the stable demand for residential uses values are expected to increase in the foreseeable future. So, there is a lot of demand. This is a great part of town to live and work in. So, going on to the flood risk, I pulled this from the appraisal as well. It just shows. Kind of where the flood risk is happening in the area. So, the, the 9 properties are kind of in this green area and I'll zoom in on the next slide. We've had frees and nickels do engineering evaluations to better understand the flood risk. And that's what's shown here is there more detailed engineering mapping. And this is due to a storm drain system that runs through this part of town that is undersized. And so, when the storm drain system fills up with water, then it goes across the surface. And so this is unfortunately a common problem in some older, many older parts of Fort Worth that were just built a long time ago. They've got smaller storm drain systems with less capacity. And so there's flooding in the area. So, zooming into where that circle was, these are the 9 properties that are in the notice of sale package. So, we've got 4 properties and these are the ones in the blue outline on Western and 5 on Carlton Avenue. I'll talk a little bit about the green hatching ones in a few minutes so you understand what that is. So, in terms of the flood risk out there, they're prone again to flooding during kind of intense rain events because of the understrized storm drain system. They're not in a specifically, when you look at the female floodplain maps, they don't show up as having female floodplain on them. They're identified as zone X shaded and unshaded in this area. So, at the city, we have started calling areas like this across the town, non-female flood risk areas, specifically city flood risk areas. If we have evaluated them in more detail, because we want people to understand if they live and work in these areas that there is flood risk that happens out there. But we also want to be really clear that this is different than the female floodplain risk, which is a more federal regulatory risk area. So, the city is in the process of regulating these areas and we hope to do so sometime in the future, but we're not there yet. So, these are just some pictures that show what the flood risk has looked like and has done in the past. I do have a little video clip that I wanted to play just so everyone understands kind of what the flood risk is like and there's no surprises. So, let me click on this and let's see that we might have to watch a little advertisement for a second. Okay, so here's part of, so these are, these are some of the properties right over here, the two C's, you can kind of see how the water flows through this area. It collects in the street and then I've got another video that I will play in a second, too. So, this one is on Carlton Avenue and then I've got another one of Western Avenue just so you can see how the water flows through there with a good amount of velocity and then let me open up this other video. So this one is Western, so these are both from a rain event in June 2016, so I will say it's a little bit jerky whoever shot this video, but you can see how deep the water can get in the street at this location, so there can be significant car flooding, this is house flooding, so these are the houses in this area. And that's why, and so this really helps explain why we're having the elevation requirements for the redevelopment in this area is because we want to make sure that while the properties will continue to flood. Sorry, let me reshare that the homes themselves don't. Let me reshare that. Sorry about that. Okay. So moving on, so the two properties, let me go back to this map that are shown in green since they are what kind of like between the ones that are for sale as a part of the notice of sale, I wanted to explain a little bit about those just so everyone would understand what they are so again they're not included in the notice of sale. These properties were acquired with FEMA grant funding and so that means the city is required to hold on to them, we can't sell them to a private property owner. And so they're required to remain green space and perpetuity in terms of to allow the water to infiltrate down into these properties. So the city has removed the homes that used to be on these properties. So now they are basically grass lots with some remaining trees. We do have sprinklers out there and that we regularly know and maintain these properties. We want to keep them nice looking. It's in a nice established neighborhood. And so the properties that you will be building on adjacent to these just so you kind of understand what that area is. Based off of feedback from the community we talked about, you know, could these become pocket parks or so forth? The community did not really want to use them as park spaces. And so right now they're their unprogrammed properties. We wanted to leave clear sight lines in and out so there wouldn't be any loitering or anything like that. But there is a potential that in the future, the future adjacent property owners could potentially use these for part of their yards and help maintain them through an agreement with the city. So we are open to possibly allowing the adjacent property owners to utilize these sites and help maintain them as long as they comply with all of the grant restrictions. I just wanted to talk a little bit about those properties. So, moving into the notice of sale, the big part is that somebody has to buy again all of these 9 properties. The development must be complete within 48 months from closing. And if the developer fails to meet the conditions that are outlined in the notice of sale, the city does have the option to buy the properties back for $10. I will say, we don't want to do that. We want to work with any interested developer and try to help make their development a success. So the developer does have a 90 day opportunity to cure failure that's included in the deed as well. And again, we want to help make this development a success. So we really don't want to buy the properties back. I will say that. So, the big thing again is these homes could be either the existing homes can remain and be elevated, or they could be torn down and new homes can be built. Everything has to be built at least 2 feet above the 100 year non FEMA blood risk and comply with our storm water development regulations. So, this is the home and this is equipment that's servicing the home. So, like air conditioners as well would have to be elevated. At least 2 feet above the 100 year flood elevation. We will require elevation certificates as well for these properties. And that will be good too, as well as for the future property owners, they'll be able to provide those to their insurance company. In terms of to help show that they're built above flood risk, which of course impacts flood insurance premiums and so forth. So, what these couple pictures, these are 2 of the homes right here that are included in the notice this red line shows kind of approximately where the 2 feet above. The flood elevation would be so you can kind of see these homes will be raised around 3 to 4 and a half feet higher than where their current finish floor is today. Also included in the D is we want to make sure that the future ultimate purchasers or renters of these properties are aware of the flood risk. As I said earlier, the properties are flood prone and they would continue to flood. So, if somebody is parked there, their vehicle could get flooded their yards will flood so forth. So, we just want to make sure that they understand that that flood risk is there, even if their their home is built above flood risk. And then lastly, the developer has to demonstrate how downstream and adjacent properties will be protected during the redevelopment process. So, kind of going into that in a little bit more detail is that we'll want them to demonstrate through plants and then also this will all go through the development services department. We have a specific storm water team that would be reviewing this development to make sure that it complies with our standards. We want to make sure that we aren't aggravating the existing flood risk with the new development and that both the ultimate development plans, as well as the interim development plans are going to be reviewed and looked at by the city. A big impact in terms of the flooding or or how how the flooding and the flow happens are the fences that are out there right now and the fences do have an impact on water flows. And so, one of the points will be to maintain the existing fencing that's out there, or if that fencing needs to be replaced or shifted a little bit one way or the other on property lines, that's fine. But we want to make sure that it's maintained or that same type of fencing is put back up in place in terms of to just keeping the current drainage patterns in place. Other things to consider is just maintaining those current flow paths around the house, making, making sure that we're not increasing impervious cover or offsetting. If we're adding impervious cover somewhere, there can't be significant changes to grading that could impact somebody else. And we do have a lot of engineering reports and modeling done for this area. So we could provide that upon request. So, somebody has a starting point and they're not starting from scratch with information available for these sites. So, just kind of a little bit of background about how we came up with the requirements. The community is very engaged and active in this area. And so we worked with them as we pull this together. We wanted to hear the input from the community members. And so that is built into the notice of sale. The developers plans will be reviewed for compliance with guidelines before building permits are issued. And so kind of some of the highlights from the notice of sale is that these are all single family homes. The lots can't be replanted. There is an exception. There's an existing duplex on Western that's elevated. If it's, if it remains in place and it's not torn down and rebuilt that could just be elevated in place and remain a duplex. We need to observe existing front, rear and yard and side yard building setbacks as much as possible. And a lot of that has to do with maintaining the flow of stormwater around the properties. Trying to make sure that the homes are constructed consistent with those of adjacent structures.  They wanted to look and feel at these homes to really be consistent with the rest up and down the street. Trying to have the the facades of the homes just in harmony with the whole general character of the neighborhood and then the garage is located back at the rear of the lots. A few more highlights is that most of these properties with the exception of 22, 05 Western are historic structures or older structures. And so if they are demolished or depending on how they are elevated. The developer would need to allow the city access to record those properties before they're demolished or elevated. So that's not in terms of a developer cost. They're not having to do that. It's something that the city just needs access a few days for us to go out there and record them. Take our photographs and so forth at the homes. Also, as I said, there's an existing storm drain system, which is shown in red on this map that run between these properties. And so we would need to have an easement over the current alignment. Or there's the opportunity for the developer to relocate the storm drain infrastructure within these lots and then grant us an easement over the relocated portion of the infrastructure. All of that has to be done in coordination and compliance with city standards and through the city's infrastructure plan review center, if that is actually relocated. Also, we don't like to put new structures on storm drains. Of course, we want to be able to easily maintain the storm drain systems. And so there could be some potential encroachment agreements just because of the location of the existing storm drain system. If the current homes are left in place and elevated. So we're definitely willing to work with the developer to try to both accomplish the development and help it be successful while also protecting the storm drain system that runs through this area. And the city has the plans for the pipe system, as well as condition assessment information that could be provided upon request. In terms of future sales, there is a, of course, the future successful bidder can resell the properties if that happens. The notice of sale conditions will run with the land and be binding on future owners. So that's the big key. The city will release the conditions upon successful redevelopment of the properties with 2 exceptions. 1 being is that in the future, because of the flood risk out there. We always want to make sure that the homes are built at least 2 feet above that non FEMA flood elevation and that the future owners or renters are provided notice of the risk that's out there. In terms of the selection process, this is a best value section selection. So we're looking at more than just the bid amount. And so there will be the 70 points for the highest bid with a sliding scale from there. There's no minimum bid that that is set and then the bidders can get up to 20 points for elevating existing homes versus new builds. And this was put in there because the neighborhood would rather see the existing homes elevated versus the homes demolished and rebuilt. So there could be up to 4 points for these 4 high priority homes. These are ones that have more historical value identified by the neighborhood and coordination with the city's stock preservation officer. So more points at these homes are kept and elevated versus demolished and rebuilt 1 point for the other 4 homes. And again, no point for 22 or 5 Western, because that's a recent rebuild. And then lastly, there can be up to 10 points received for the degree of compliance with the neighborhood community development checklist. So, this is going to be determined by a group of community stakeholders. Most of them would be property owners that live on Western and Carlton on these 2 impacted blocks, as well as probably a few from the neighborhood association itself that would be reviewing this part of the bid package. They, of course, would like to see the trees that are there saved as much as possible, as well as could there be flood mitigation techniques built into the development like bioswales or permeable pavement. Rain barrels also salvage plans versus just if there's demolition, having all of that go to a landfill, could there be a way to salvage some of the. Historic parts of the homes instead of sending it to a landfill and then 2, if there's actually elevation that's done in compliance with secretary of the interior standards. So, the group would assign a score from excellent to poor with or exceptional with exceptional being like a 10 or would be a 0 or 1. So that's how those points would be assigned for a total of 100 point system. In terms of future community involvement, the successful bidder would need to hold a community meeting with area residents to discuss the development plans that doesn't have to have to happen really soon or anything like that. But as it gets closer and those get figured out. We just want to make sure that the community is where before that impact happens and understands what is going to happen. There's also the opportunity to potentially acquire adjacent properties for redevelopment opportunities or to sell items in those homes. Instead of it was a part of a salvage plan to area residents. So I've had a few residents that have said, hey, you know, maybe you would the developer by my property or could they maybe sell me something on these properties. So, I just wanted to throw that out there that there is some interest out there. And so, whoever purchases these properties, you know, might want to get with the neighborhood to see if there's other opportunities for redevelopment that could be pursued in conjunction with this. Or add in done we are working to post the agenda on our website soon. In terms of changes, we had plan to not read the bids like we normally do, but we are going to change that and the bids will be open when they're submitted by the deadline. With November 30th, and so they'll be open and read out out loud and then be provided for evaluation by the city team. Also, the star telegram add notes that 2012 Carleton has been a floodplain, but it does not. And then we've had a couple of questions received. So 1 is, are the properties livable? And so they're not livable until the conditions are met, such as the elevation of the structures. And then can new homes be built over the platted lines, reducing density and providing for a larger housing with more yard space. So here kind of the big part is Andrea, I'll get with you in a second. Is that the community really wants to see homes that are similar to the state, the scale of the established homes. And so the big part of that is the larger housing product is not acceptable. Andrea, what have you got? Can you unmute yourself? Oh, I was just going to tell you the addendum is already posted. Perfect. Thank you so much. I appreciate that. Great. Okay, so I think this is last slide is a timeline and all of this information is the very same that's in the notice of sale. But so, of course, today we're at the pre proposal meeting. So, next week, we've got our due diligence site visit. And so we've got 2, half days next week on the 20th and 21st 1st day in the morning and second day in the afternoon. So, we wanted to allow any interested bidders to be able to come out and actually walk through the homes and see what it would take to possibly elevate them or demo and rebuild. So, we wanted to make sure that they had an opportunity to walk the homes. Everyone who walks the homes will have to fill out just a brief 2 page waiver just to make sure, you know, in case there's someone you trip on something. So, that's just part of the city process. And then the deadline to submit any future questions is October 20th by noon. And then we will turn those around by at least within a week with follow up by adding that to the website and letting everybody know that they're out there. Questions for credit provided before then will be followed up more quickly, just like how we just added some agenda today to the website. So we're kind of trying to add those every week or 2, depending on how many are received because we want to make sure that people are getting their questions answered so they can move forward and help make decisions regarding bidding on these properties. And then, of course, the big day is November 30th by 1, 30 PM is when these bids are due to the purchasing department at City Hall. And then we anticipate awarding this preliminary in January. So, since it's going to be the December holiday timeframe, we'll probably be meeting with the community stakeholder group during December. The city will be reviewing the bid packages based off that evaluation criteria. And then selecting someone in January to move forward with the sale. So, with that, are there any questions? Jennifer, I just wanted to see if you could clarify 1 thing on kind of the next to the last slide. When you're talking about the criteria for the size of the property. I just want to make sure is it my understanding is that we aren't going to increase the footprint. But if a developer wanted to go higher, that would be. Is that acceptable? Yeah, yes. So the developer can build higher. So, yes, most of these, I think maybe all of them, honestly, no, not all of them, but a lot of these are 1 story homes. And so, yes, a developer could build higher. And so, in terms of the footprint, it's really kind of balancing that impervious cover. So potentially you could add to your impervious cover for 1 or maybe there's impervious cover. That's out there already that's under an outbuilding or something like that that could be kind of swapped. So the house could be expanded. So that's part of the working with this 1 water development services group is showing what's there today. And, and how moving things around and reconfiguring isn't going to make the flooding worse for anybody else. Are there any other questions? And I know right now, I'm really talking with you, Mr. Orlando. So. Yeah, and I do that. I have a question. So, is there an opportunity to, let's say rent these properties for a year or so? Well, you know, get, let's say that. We decided to tear down some of these houses. So now we've got to get new plans and all that get the engineering and so on. Go through the city, you know, all the process takes a few months. So, 1 or see is the opportunity there to rent. These properties, while all of that is going on before the tear down and the new build happens or or that they need to be stay vacant completely until. There are either elevated or start it on and build with a new structure. Right, right. So they're vacant right now. So they need to stay vacant. We're not going to rent them for someone else to live in them really because of the flood risk to those homes. And that's the reason that's a good kind of segue. That is the whole reason why the city bought those properties to begin with because of the repetitive flooding that happened to the homes. And that's why the new homes that go back have to be either elevated the existing or, or rebuild new homes. There could be a developer could come in and do a combination. If you look at the bid package, just they could decide, I want to elevate these homes and tear down and rebuild some of the other homes. So there, there's definitely an option to do the combination, but no, we won't be renting them. Okay, cool. And then you just mentioned that there are other neighbors interested in selling the properties. Will they have the opportunity to buy it directly from them or do they need to go through you through the city? So, yeah, not through the city. So that would be something that whoever purchases these in the future is that there have been neighbors in. Potentially they could change their mind by then they could move. I don't know, but it's been brought up to me by some in the community that said, hey, you know, I might want to sell it if someone who to whoever comes in here too. As well as I might want to purchase something. So I just wanted to throw that out there. Yeah. So interested developers would be aware that there might be other opportunities, but that would have to be directly between the developer and whoever is interested. Okay. Okay. And I had another question. Well, the other question was, you mentioned that we buy the properties that can also be resolved and then the new owner would need to comply with these regulations. The question is when you sell them all together as well as a package as currently being sold. Or can it be sold individually? And then those new owners will just need to comply with with these regulations. So, to my understanding, they could be sold individually. I will say the city would rather work with 1 developer on all of these properties that I don't think that we can require that they can't be sold individually. Okay.  Correct. Yeah, they would have to all go through the city's development review process to make sure that there wasn't any adverse impacts and to make sure everything is elevated and built in compliance with the standards and guidelines. Okay. How long has the city on these properties? Oh, Niels, can you help me with like, maybe through 2, 2 years? I believe it's 2, I think around 2 years. 2 years, okay. Yeah, not too long, but long enough. Yeah, all right. Yeah, those are all the questions I can pick up right now. Okay. Well, if you've got other questions, definitely submit them to this. C, a, h dot sale at Fort worth Texas dot gov email address and hopefully you come out next week to the site visit and take a look at all the properties. Awesome. Thank you for the call. It was very informative. Great. Well, thank you so much for participating and thank you city team for your involvement as well. I appreciate it. Y'all have a good afternoon. Thank you. Thank you. Bye. Bye.


It's a question that comes up basically any time I'm out for drinks with colleagues or just people who know that I know space. Can astronauts drink on the International Space Station? Alcohol in space is what we're looking at today on Vintage Space. Alcohol plays a pretty significant role in Western cultures. When you meet somebody for the first time, you typically meet them over a beer. When you go out for dinner, you typically end the night with a drink. So does that carry into space? And alcohol is perhaps associated as being more integral to Russian culture than it is American culture. I myself have been to a number of weddings from the Russian side of my family that have featured a vodka bar. So perhaps it's unsurprising that the earliest records of alcohol in space come from the Soviet spaceflight program. In March of 1965, Alexei Leonov performed history's first extra-vehicular activity, EVA, or more commonly, spacewalk. But that spacewalk isn't actually the most interesting thing that happened on that mission. Problems during re-entry left the Voskhod-2 spacecraft spending the night in the forest. Rescue workers couldn't get to the cosmonauts through the thick forest and feet deep snow. Russian cosmonauts Alexei Leonov and Pavel Beliyayev spend the night in the forest, hunkering down in their spacecraft while wolves howled in the background. What they did have was emergency rations and, apparently, two shots of vodka that Beliyayev had snuck on board. Apparently, the Russian spaceflight program has typically had a much more relaxed attitude to alcohol in space than its American counterpart, being NASA. Russian doctors have sent cosmonauts up into orbit with alcohol to keep them in tone and to neutralize tensions during missions. This was a more common practice during the era of the mere space station. On that station, American astronauts were guests and would stand by as their Russian counterparts toasted to a job well done or rung in a new year. But alcohol in space is not a uniquely Russian thing. Skylab was America's first space station, and it was made from a repurposed S4B upper stage of a Saturn V rocket. Even though it used repurposed Apollo hardware, Skylab ushered in a new era of comfort for American astronauts, including the first space shower. The food was very much improved on the Skylab program from the Apollo program, and there was even briefly a discussion of launching crews up with wine. There were even tastings for astronauts to pick what wine they wanted to launch with. It wasn't a medical concern that prevented NASA from actually launching wine on Skylab. It was actually a social and political thing. No one thought it would look very good for astronauts to be drinking on a government space station, and so wine was eventually removed from a flight diet. So for now, space is largely a dry zone. Whether or not astronauts occasionally sneak up a New Year's toast on the International Space Station is, well, at least not something I've been able to find evidence of. The rules will change in the future, probably depends on the commercial component. When private companies start launching private citizens into space, the rules will probably be far more relaxed. Or maybe not. Only time will tell. For now, the best we can do to merge a love of social drinking with a love of spaceflight is to drink a beer that has been brewed with yeast flown into space. And Enkasi's ground control has done just that. So what do you guys think about space as a dry zone? Can you foresee a change ever happening on a government level, or will it be something private spaceflight will bring to the fore? Let me know in the comments below, and as always, leave anything you'd like to see covered in a future episode, or any questions in the comments below as well. For daily Vintage Space content and a lot of modern space content, be sure to follow me on Twitter as AST Vintage Space, and with new episodes every single Tuesday and Friday, subscribe right here so you never miss an episode.


Hey coach, when you look at this one, what was just the biggest difference maker that stood out to you in today's game? I think what we talked about before the game is trying to put four quarters together. You look at the second quarter, 13-point difference, big opportunity in the game that they took advantage of. So again, our challenge to be locked in each quarter, produce each quarter on both ends of the floor. I know you said to produce all four quarters. When things were clicking, it seemed as if you guys were knocking down the three, getting it inside, throwing it back out. What was working well during those moments and was there anything the Kings did differently to eliminate that? I think overall we have to have a consistent approach of still moving the basketball, not getting stagnant, still trying to penetrate and kick for each other. I thought we did that early in the shot clock. The difference was we were trying to manipulate some match-ups which got us further in their shot clock, which is never a good thing. So I think too many possessions led to that in the second half for us, Megan. Jock, there was about maybe four or five times back into the third quarter in the fourth where, you know, you'd get the lead down to two possessions or so, they'd extend a little bit, you get it right back to two percent. You just couldn't kind of close that half to tie it. Just was there a common denominator you in those instances where you just couldn't get over that hump? I think overall the, you know, if I point to one thing Alex, it's a shot making. You know, if we are able to make shots, it seems that defensively we have a little bit more energy. So we got to separate those two and when the shots aren't going for us to be able to still lock in on the defensive end of the floor. The offensive rebound is heard also. Their ability to get second chance points, that deflates you at times, especially when you have a good possession and then you end with them having an offensive rebound. And this isn't new exactly, but obviously Spencer tends to wear his emotions with the officials on his sleeve. Do you ever have to tell him sometimes just to kind of take it easy maybe, and do you think that sometimes it's been counterproductive you guys or hurt you guys at some point if it's maybe been excessive? I think he's cognizant of the impact that he has on our team. And we need every point. So whether he gets a technical or not, we still need every point. So I'll say that to him, which I had before. And I think he's smart enough to know what to say to the referees at the time of the game also. So I'm going to support him. I want him to continue to put himself in a position to be aggressive for us. And hopefully we'll continue to be on the good side of the referees going forward. Coach, you touched on the rebound and portion of it. I think Sabonis had some like 21 boards. Is there anything you can do to minimize the impact that that type of player has, the kind of bruiser strong guy who can kind of get down there and grab rebounds whenever he wants? Well, you can't let the small dudes get some of those rebounds along the way. So he's going to get some no matter what, just because he's bigger, stronger. He has techniques to get the basketball, but the perimeter players can't get those two, three, four, and they add up. So we showed a clip at halftime where Nick goes over to block a shot. Seth was in pick and roll coverage with him. CJ was the bottom weak side. CJ and Seth both got to come and hit Sabonis. It's just that simple. And you got to be able to give your body up, have contact if we're going to ask Nick to go block shots. That's just one example. There's plenty of examples throughout the course of the night where you got to hit somebody and you got to be okay doing that. And for us to take another step forward, we talked about the other day, I think we were 26 going into last game. We can't be in that 20 range as far as boxing out on defensive end of the floor. Every guy got to come back. And if you're not touching somebody, then you're wrong. If you're not helping your teammate, then you're wrong. And following up, I think we saw you go small at some times while Sabonis was on the floor. Just what did you like about that going small and what did you not like about it? Yeah, you know, again, I like the small because you have to cover for each other. You're scrappy. You know, he throws the elbow against Roy. So we get that. We double team him. He has a turnover. It gives us some energy and juice, which I thought we were lacking a little bit tonight. And so overall, it just gets us going. We turn the wheels a little bit and it looks different. We got some open shots because of it as well. So it's paid dividend on both ends of the floor. It's just hard to do it over the course of the 48 minutes. You took out Nikolay for Dorian. Just curious about what went into that thought process and how you felt that went. Yeah, just thinking about producing points on that end. They were switching in pick and roll. We don't post up Nick. So it's not like we have an advantage to post him. So I thought being small, spacing the floor, Dorian end up getting the look that he didn't make was going to give us a better opportunity to defend and also produce on the offensive end. Jock, before mid-February, we could find you pregame working with Kessler on the court. I mean, not the easiest thing for a young guy to get traded to a contender mid-season and whatnot. Just given your investment in his career, would you make of his performance and how he's kind of fit in with it? Yeah, you're proud of him, man. Like I told him when he left us, always be pulling for him. Incredible human being and good to see him have success. He's a guy that worked on his game. Unfortunately, it didn't work out for us.  They're using him. He's knocking down shots. Defensively, he's playing well. Pulling forward. Wanted to ask you about the rotation that you went with. You said before that it's just numbers game. But to put Edmund and Yuda to go with them at some minutes, what did you see from them and the energy that they kind of brought out there in the court? Yeah, and this was a message to the group. Each game, we treat this. You got to treat like a playoff game. You might as well. This is where we are at the end of the season. You have to be prepared to play whether it's seven minutes or there's 17 minutes. Each individual, they signed up to be a part of a team, not to play golf or tennis or any individual sport. This is a team game you got to do your part. So we needed some juice tonight. And I thought Yuda and Ed provided that juice. Now, the challenge for them is to be prepared if they don't play next game or if they play 30 minutes the next game.  And one more question. We saw you embrace Mike Brown and you talked about the things that he's doing with the Sacramento Kings. I know you wanted the win against this group, but for them, they now have solidified that winning record. What did you just say to Mike Brown and just everything that you've seen from him that he's built there as well? Yeah, I told him he had my vote for coach of the year. He's done a heck of a job. We come from a similar family, the way we were raised in this game of basketball. So he's done a great job of getting those dudes to the playoffs. 40 wins for them. I grew up in California. So I've seen Laker, Clippers, Sacramento basketball for a long time. And to have that franchise where it is, he deserves a lot of credit.