rfacing that issue because I think that that is a really important consideration. For my part, what I was looking for out of this memo was some reason that there is urgency to considering this matter at this time. And while I appreciate that there is funding available for water company, small water company mergers, grant funding to make upgrades and improvements. And while I appreciate that there are saving orders of magnitude savings when you combine any two water districts what I didn't see was a couple of things. One whether this is the time that we really have we have the ability to focus on that issue right now given all of the other concerns. And even going out and drafting an RFP and engaging a consultant to conduct a feasibility of this nature is gonna require a significant amount of staff time and input for those consultants. And so I just wonder more to the point whether there is a reason that there is some urgency to engaging this process right now or whether this is sort of a something that we should be considering long-term perhaps but maybe not right this minute while we are distracted by so many other pressing obligations. Director Fultz? Like Mark and Jamie, Rick, I think that you and I'm assuming Perrette was working on this as well really put together something that I think lays things out very well. I think it also mirrors a lot of what Perrette was just talking about at the meeting where she introduced this to her board. I guess I'm still looking for the compelling why. You know, in the public sector, I'm skeptical of murders actually turning out the way that maybe they were intended to. You know, for example, we've agreed or I think we're going to agree in our budget to effectively hire an assistant district manager. So I don't know why that wouldn't also be the case in a merged district that there would be a district manager and assistant district manager, probably a operations manager and assistant operation manager. So, you know, those sorts of things I think are probably more likely than not. And so all of those mitigate against, you know, the cost savings, which I think are in the order of about 5%, 7%, something like that. So not really reaching out through the screen here and grabbing me by the throat. My bigger concern has always been what benefit it is to our owners, our community to do this. As agencies get bigger, the ability of individuals to impact those agencies get much, much smaller. And the ability for the public's policy preferences to actually turn into board policy actions, it's much, much smaller. So, you know, at this point, I just don't see a lot of, I don't see a lot of benefit in this. And I don't know that this was one of those things where, oh, we revisit maybe a few years later. If the circumstances around this really don't change much, then I don't know that we necessarily need to revisit it at all. Certainly open to being convinced otherwise, but it just doesn't seem like something that really is of a huge benefit to our folks. That said, I still would like us to do more policy work around our own operating cost savings, whether or not those increases in rates and operating costs and all that would get attenuated at all. I don't, I didn't see anything in the memo that would indicate that either. It was more of a one-time thing. As far as feasibility, I don't need to hire a consultant. I know merging two districts is feasible. I guess if it's a requirement of LAFCO that we punch some card somewhere and spend a hundred grand doing it, you know, I guess that's what you would do, but obviously merging two districts is feasible. The question is whether you should or not. I think there's no movie line, you know, you could, but should you? And I just don't see the compelling reasons for it at this point. So anyway, thank you for putting that together. I really do appreciate the work and I'm not hearing a lot of movement to moving this to the admin committee, though, at this point. If there is, I will have some questions about that prior to such a vote. Alice? I've always been under the impression for water districts to survive. They need to grow. And SLV has been growing and growing. They've taken on numerous little mutuals or like the private company CalAM that had Felton, Felton bought CalAM out and handed it over to SLV. They took on Lompico. They've taken on a lot of places. And I think it's necessary to grow. As Roy's talking about, where are we gonna get the money for this or where are we gonna get the money for that? And I know when Steve Swan was on the board, he was always saying, okay, we gotta figure out how to save money or increase our money. So in many ways, I am for the consideration of a consolidation. But in some other ways, I'm not. Just one of the things that Mark mentioned, I noticed Santa Margarita, 90% of the cost would go to SLV if we consolidate. But the other thing that would happen if we consolidated, we're in great need of a new building and we could have a more centrally located building if we could find some property. And so to me, that'd be a big benefit. As far as a facility, can't even talk, a feasibility study, to me, that would make more sense to people if the feasibility study was done by somebody without an ore in the water. An unbiased person doing the study, whereas having, if I didn't know Rick and Perrette, and I was a member of the public, a rate payer, and they said, oh, if we do this and we do that, we're gonna get this much money and blah, blah, blah. I would be a little leery because it wasn't coming from a source that didn't have an ore in the water, which both SLV and Scottsville I have. So it's one of these things where I'm not dead set against and I'm not dead set for. I would really like more information. I don't know if this goes to the admin committee, pardon me, but Bob's dead set against it. So is that already gonna be decided whether we'd have a feasibility study or not because he's against the feasibility study. He has been from day one. And he's entitled to his opinion, but if we're gonna move forward at all, I would like a feasibility study done by a group that does these types of things that don't benefit from it other than they get paid to do the study. And I think I've yanked on long enough. Lois, I guess I'll express my opinions about this. And I thank you, Rick, for putting together the document that you did. My assessment of it is, is that I think that the the stated benefits of consolidation are overstated because most of them are related to matters of scale. And basically we're going from a very tiny district to a slightly larger tiny district. So it's really not gonna affect our ability to buy chlorine for cheaper amounts. We're not gonna turn into Walmart. But that aside, I think the thing that concerns me most is the things that you listed as risks, I think are more than that, they're actual real negatives. And the two that stand out to me are the issue that Scotts Valley has to do with their water treatment plant for recycled water, which needs a serious upgrade for them to be able to meet their budgetary issues. And the numbers that I've heard come up for that are $20 million, and I don't know if that's right, but that's the number I've heard. Also is the issue that when we look at the degree to which the Lompeco aquifer, which is the important one we're talking about in Santa Marta River Groundwater Association, it's much more overdrawn in those areas that it's utilized by Scotts Valley because that's their only source of water. As I've had discussions with Rick, we could almost solve our own problems with the Lompeco aquifer by taking advantage of conduct abuse and by taking advantage of our unused allotment of Loch Lomond water. In contrast, the costs of doing the projects that are being suggested now that as Mark commented, we've only really gotten the prices on at the last meeting are ranging anywhere from a hundred million to several hundred million to do advanced to do aquifer storage and recovery projects to allow the Lompeco to recover in those areas. And what this would involve would be essentially taking water that Santa Cruz has because of its water rights on the San Lorenzo River and injecting it into the Lompeco with the idea that Scotts Valley would use it and that Santa Cruz would have basically a place to store water in case of an extended drought. So what my concern is is if we were to merge in the near future, it would mean that we would potentially be shifting some of those costs to our own ratepayers. Whereas what we know we need to do costs on the order of maybe $5 million to solve our problem with the Lompeco, it's literally a hundred to $300 million to solve the problem that Scotts Valley has. So until we understand those numbers better, I don't see how we can do a feasibility study. It's just that we can't because the numbers are so large and the uncertainties are so large. So I'm opposed to going forward at this time because I think it's until the Santa Margarita process plays out and we know more what we have to do and that's gonna be several years, I think it's unrealistic for anybody whether we try to do it ourselves or whether we try to do it as an RFP for a consultant, we're not gonna be able to get the numbers. And then I would just add that today, Chris Perry, who is a member of the Board of Directors of Scotts Valley Water District and is also the president of Santa Margarita reached out to me because he wanted to talk to me prior to this meeting. And he told me that he opposed spending any money on a feasibility project at this time. And it was essentially an issue of timing and his reasons were that he appreciated essentially the trauma that our Valley residents had gone through with the fire and then the debris flows and another fire season on us already. And he felt that that was just too much to ask of both the residents and also our staff and the uncertainties that might come into their minds when we start talking about consolidation, about whether their jobs are secure. And then the other was that he shared my same concerns about the uncertainties in the financials and those are on both sides. He expressed uncertainties as he should about our financial situation in terms of taking care of all of the repairs that we need to make for our district and then the concerns about what they're gonna need to meet the mandate of the state for the groundwater sustainability plan. And until those are done, he doesn't see how we can do a realistic feasibility study. It was kind of a wonderful phone conversation because it was like we both found that we were totally on the same page about this unexpectedly and I think he's absolutely right. All of this is a matter of timing. And so I'm going to vote no on the proposal by the staff and I just think that this should be dropped until such time that the Santa Margarita issue plays out. Bob? Well, that's one of the reasons why I suggest that perhaps this memo come back in September or October earlier, which would it be after the Santa Margarita draft report would be ready to go. So what I'm hearing, I think, is that there's at least a sense on the board that this isn't dead, dead, but this is only delayed until perhaps later in the year, maybe early next year, at which point in time, there's at least some people on the board that wish to revisit this and perhaps move forward at that time. And I'm correct. Well, I think Bob, maybe you misunderstood me a little bit. One of the aspects of the GSP, the Groundwater Sustainability Project that we're going to submit as of January 2022 is it lists a bunch of possible projects, but we are not committed to any of them. Basically, the state just wants to know that we're kind of thinking through the problem, but we do not have to follow through on any of them and none of them have been or will be by the time that report is submitted, will be costed out in the kind of detail that you would want to see to understand the financials on all of this. And this is, I mean, I'm sort of repeating things that I was gonna say or previewing things that I was gonna say later on my update on Santa Marta Rita, but I won't have to say it then, is that most of these projects will take one to five years to roll out because some of them are so complex that they'll take a lot of time to plan for engineering process programs, getting the environmental things, and especially when it comes to aquifer storage and recovery, there'll actually have to be pilot studies done because nobody, at least as far as my research into the primary literature is found, has actually successfully done this in consolidated rocks. So I guess what I'm saying is that this is not being put off until September. What I'm saying is this has to be put off for years because we won't know those numbers for Santa Marta Rita. Well, I mean, we actually don't need to know too much more. We already know approximately what ASR wells cost and any number of them that would have any significant... I think you're frozen, Bob, I can't hear you. I need to change the audio for affordable for under... Yeah, sorry.  Let's go to Rick and let him... How about me? Rick, go ahead. Just a couple of things. I mean, I think you all had great comments moving forward on this. A couple of things that I'm hearing that... Or one thing that I hear that does concern me. I don't really wanna put this off for a year or two, just because we need to move ahead on items in our district. We do need to move ahead on a new facility. And we've been, I don't wanna say dragging our feet, but we've been working on a new facility for many years and I don't feel comfortable moving ahead on a new facility even the next year or two we may be talking about consolidation again. I mean, we kind of, we have a lot of things that we need to start moving on and one is our main administrative facilities for our staff to work on them. And I don't want to have this lingering and coming up and using staff time and board time if we're not moving this ahead because we do have a lot on our plate. And it's one thing, we're moving forward on a schedule but to bring it up every so often and to hold back on projects and things that we need to do that concerns me. I have no problem going in either direction. I work for the board and I support. But one, a couple of things I just wanna put out there and I can't, all I can do is put these statements out there and make these comments but I don't have anything to guide the board on a couple of things, you know, Scotts Valley now has basically said that they're looking to consolidate that concerns me if SLV doesn't consolidate what's gonna be the history of Scotts Valley water are they gonna look elsewhere? And I don't know that really concerns us or not. That's why I can't answer those questions. But another question or another statement I have is we both recently, Scotts Valley and San Lorenzo Valley had service reviews by LAFCO. Scotts Valley's just completed, I think ours was done late last year. And a memo came out from the executive director of LAFCO basically stating and I'll read, you know, as you know, the majority of the city receives water from Scotts Valley. This was an email to Peret and I, however, a portion of the city's water comes from San Lorenzo Valley water. I was hoping to schedule a meeting to discuss whether the status quo should be continued or there is a more efficient way to provide water to these residents. And that concerns me that's the LAFCO's looking at the way that area is served. You know, I don't want any issues to come up with our service area, but LAFCO's looking now. So those are things that I think we need to monitor and keep in the back of our mind as we move forward. I'm not saying any of these should push us one way or another, but I think we need to monitor closely what's happening in the South System with Scotts Valley water and SLV water and LAFCO and the agencies. I just think that's important.  I just say, I think we need to monitor it closely to see how all this plays out down the road. Jamie. I am not, unless what you're saying, Rick, is that LAFCO has some sort of regulatory authority to require us to be. I'm not compelled by the fact that they happen to be looking at issues with Scotts Valley. I mean, that's their job. You know, so, so... LAFCO does have powers. LAFCO does have powers to make boundaries changes. Sure, but unless they are, are they threatening that? Is that what you're suggesting? I'm just saying that we need to watch very closely all these agencies and how they, you know, how they fulfill their duties moving down the road. Sure, I appreciate that. But I think that the concern that I have is that we have many pressing priorities as a board in front of us right now. And for the locations of staff time and budget, we have to make priorities about what things we focus on, right? And so I hear what you're saying, like if the idea of a feasibility study is gonna come back at some point in the short order that limits you from being able to pursue, you know, other kinds of issues that are important to the long-term health and survival of the district like a new headquarters facility as you raised, right? So I guess what I'm not understanding though is like, if we're giving a policy directive that at this time, and I don't know how the board's gonna vote, but I'm just saying if we give a policy directive that at this time we're not willing to pursue a feasibility study or move it to the administrative committee for the process of developing an RFP, then one would assume that the implication to St. Lawrence Valley Water District staff is that they should continue to pursue those other projects that are in the best interests of long-term health and survival of the organization, right? That's correct. And that's the way I would look at it. Okay. And I think that's the appropriate way to look at it. So thank you, Jamie, for sort of clarifying that issue. Anybody else on the board wanna make a comment before I go out to the public? Bob? This may be a repeat since I had to break off for a bit, but did we discuss the fact that it is LAFCO basically state policy to consolidate all these districts together as many as it possibly can? Is that? Rick sort of addressed that, do you wanna make any? That's certainly gonna be a policy preference. I understand we need to move on to these agencies closely. As long as that was addressed, that's fine, because we do have to recognize it is state policy to do that. Well, I guess my response to that is that I suspect that if anybody asks the people that live in Scotts Valley that are on San Lorenzo Valley water, whether they wanted to switch, they'd say hell no, because the quality of the water they're getting from us is good. And so LAFCO would have to be going against the will of the actual people. And so I'm with Jamie. I'm not gonna use that as a primary decision making point. No, and that wasn't my point. My point was just that we need to monitor all of these agencies closely moving forward. Well, to the public now and see if we have any public. Let's go ahead and start with Larry Ford. Thank you very much. This has been a really interesting conversation and I appreciate all the comments and ideas that have been expressed. I have to say, as a resident of Felton and as a rate payer, I think that this issue should be dropped and it's for several reasons. It doesn't seem to me to be time to do this. I think we need to wait for the SMIGWA projects to be defined and for the way forward was making that to be decided first before we try to adjust the boundaries. And I'm having a bad internet connection too.  The sort of dropping this whole issue is that it seems like the cost to SOV could be really high. And I haven't seen the kind of expression from Scots Valley that would indicate that they do it. I remember when Felton was trying to figure out how to get away from CalAM, Mark Stone, the supervisor at the time said that he wanted us to demonstrate an overwhelming majority of the people would work that. But I haven't seen anything like that from Scots Valley, not at all. I haven't seen any kind of citizen expression. So I'm against proceeding on this. Thank you. Thank you, Larry. Rick Moran, can you hear us? Can you hear me? Yes, go ahead now. Okay. First off, one of district manager Rick Rogers job objectives is to find new sources of revenue. That's what I think Rick is doing here with this merger idea. It is the public and the board's job to evaluate this proposal. Here's my evaluation. To start with, I fundamentally believe in local control of our water. The San Lorenzo Valley Water District is presently considering adopting a conjunctive use plan. If adopted, our district would be able to sell water to Scots Valley when we have a surplus as in a normal winter rains. We currently can sell water to them only during an emergency. This is a business deal between two equal parties. I see nothing wrong with that. Also, Scots Valley, San Lorenzo Valley and the county are partners in the Santa Margarita Groundwater Agency. The bylaws of that agency state that all parties must agree on budgetary issues. In essence, SLV has veto power on any large expenditure of money. No money is going to be spent without our approval. We have control. Now, with this possible merger, San Lorenzo Valley residents will be dependent on the policies of Scots Valley City Council. When the city council goes ahead with their next development plan, we, SLV, will have no seat on that city council, no one protecting our interests. Scots Valley City Council Council will be making water policy issues related to San Lorenzo Valley residents without our input. This is not local control of our Valley's water and that is why I don't support a merger or a feasibility study. Thank you. Thank you, Rick. Cynthia. Thank you. I want to express my intense appreciation for each one of you and for the other people that have spoken. And I would not want to lose any of you as was proposed in the study. The idea that we would lose our board of directors and be absorbed into another district and have only one board of directors is not appealing to me because I think each of you shows an intelligence and a concern and an understanding of finances and hydrology and all of the issues that are so important to this Valley that I just can't understand anyone wanting to lose any of you. The same with our staff. You know, we have wonderful staff that are working on all of our local concerns and their ability to relate to our customers and our environment is just invaluable. That's not something that you give up for a short-term efficiency. It's no efficiency if you lose what makes us tick, what makes us a community and valuable to each other. So I know this is not a financial statement but I just want you to know that I really appreciate all of you and I don't want to lose our, I don't want to lose Rick Rogers. I don't want Scots Valley to lose Perrette. I don't think we're going to gain anything by not having redundant staff. I think that we need everyone and more because the challenges in front of us are enormous. Thank you. Thank you, Cynthia, for those kind comments about us. And Jim, go ahead and speak now. Yes, Jim Moser from Felton and I don't have much to add to the other public members that have, can you hear me? Yes. I don't have much more to add. I just want to remind the board that this, when this issue came before the ratepayers, two times you've had a huge number of people attend the meetings to express their concerns. I didn't feel like the memo that laid out the pluses and minuses adequately reflected the concern that the community raised that would have to be part of this feasibility study and environmental protection, local control and the concerns about Rick Moran brought up about the Scotts Valley, the impact of Scotts Valley policies by the city council. These are all issues that were raised that are not quantifiable. It's not simply a financial decision here. There's some really important issues that the ratepayers are concerned about. So I am, I really hope that the board will finally put this to rest so we don't have to be worrying about are we gonna be dealing with consolidation? I think you'll find that it'll take over every other issue that you're facing in terms of ratepayers concerns. And we don't need that right now. So I really support what Jamie said and what Rick Moran said. And that's all on top of the issues that Gail, you raised about the SMIGWA concerns. And we haven't even mentioned the recycled water issue that Scotts Valley has that was not laid out in terms of the potential financial costs. Let's just put this to rest so we don't have to have this come again. You know, it's late and this is a late meeting. I think if the ratepayers had known this was, this feasibility study was out there with any publicity, you would have had another 100 people here saying, what in the world we don't want this? So let's put it to rest. Thank you. Are there any members of the public that would further like to make comment? Seeing none and hearing none, I will go back to the board to see if there's any further discussion. You know, I really want to thank Jim for his comments about putting this to rest. One of the reasons I asked the question earlier here. You know, issues like this, once they're raised tend to not go away completely unless there is a real commitment on the part of the board to have them go away permanently. So I think that's something that the community would need to keep in mind as we move forward here. But certainly in the interim, we got a lot of questions about Santa Margarita that need to get addressed and particularly around costs and what those options are that are going to be put on the table. So I'm in favor of basically saying permanent, but hopefully everybody else on the board would join in that as well. Any other comments from members of the board? Okay. We had a recommendation from the staff. Is there anybody that wants to make a motion regarding it? Hearing no motion, then that basically ends consideration of this issue. Okay. If I may make a comment here, we should probably send a letter to Scotts Valley or notify Scotts Valley that we're not interested as a courtesy, not just say nothing. Okay. I mean, I can handle that as a managerial that the board decided not to move forward. We'll let it go with that or the board chair. I mean, I think the board should have a little discussion on how we'd like to end that with Scotts Valley. Jamie? Thank you. Yeah, that's, I agree with Rick that we need to have some sort of encapsulating motion here. And maybe Gina can jump in here to make sure that we're doing this correctly. But can we move not to take an action? I mean, that wasn't, I guess- I don't know how it works, Jamie. Right. We can make another motion about how we want either the staff or the president of the board to communicate our decision to, there are no negative motions. There are only positive motions. That's what I was getting at. So can we make a motion around what we are directing the staff to do in order to bring closure to this issue? Because what I'm hearing, if we do nothing right now, what I'm hearing from the public and from other members of the board is that we kind of want some closure around is the staff gonna bring this back in a couple of weeks? Or like, where are we going from here on this issue? And so I guess I'm not quite sure. How do we resolve that for the community? So they kind of understand like, by taking no motion where we are on this issue. Well, let me just state my own opinion about this. And based on also my discussion with Chris Perry, who's a member of the board of Scott's Valley Water District is that the real issue is this is not the time. And it's not gonna be the time for at least I think on the order of five years until the Santa Margarita plays out. And in terms of how those costs are gonna be described in my view until we know how those costs are gonna be distributed. So I definitely, in my view, I don't want this resurfacing in the next, in September or in a year from now, but I think it's really dangerous for any group to say, you know, never say never, right? And so I think I would just echo what, I think Chris Perry sort of signaled to us what the out is on this and that he doesn't think it's the time and we don't think it's the time either, but maybe five years from now, 10 years from now. I mean, ultimately all water is gonna be regionalized and just because of the way things are moving. But this is not the time to do it in my view. So that's what I would argue that we make a motion to say more or less, Bob? Well, I mean, to say that it's inevitable that it's going to be regionally managed and therefore we have to consider that mergers may happen, basically is effectively ceding the issue of local control. So, you know, we don't live in that kind of society. We actually can as a community adjoin with other communities and basically say, that's not where we want to go and push back in that if we choose to do so. It sounds like Scotts Valley has kind of already reached the conclusion that we aren't that interested and they kind of sent to you and noticed that they're probably backing out as well. It sounds like they don't want to pursue it either. So I'm certainly happy to send the letter, but, you know, let's just keep it simple. Yeah, let me just clarify. That Chris Perry did not contact me on behalf of their board, right? He contacted me as somebody that I know through Santa Margarita and as the president of Santa Margarita. So I don't want to say that he is communicating the view of the entire board. And let me just clarify that when I say things are regionalized, it doesn't mean that we aren't going to keep some level of local control. But the 2014 law signed in to Effect by Brown basically says that we're going to be forced to regionalize because we have to manage our groundwater resources together. And that's what I meant is we have to find ways to collaborate on that. And it may be that, and it could very well be that we remain as separate entities, but we're moving in that direction. That's all I meant. I appreciate that clarification, but of course that's a slippery slope if the boards are not pretty firm about what they mean by local control, boards change. And so, okay, fair enough. Certainly we can send them a letter. I'm just advocating, we keep it very simple. It's probably something Rick can directly correct. Yeah. I'm just gonna basically say that the board took no action. And I guess that's it. Mark, did you want to add something before Rick includes what we should say? Yes, I wanted to recommend or make the motion that we have Rick get back to Perret since that's how this discussion started. Perret contacted Rick. Rick can contact Perret and to simply say that this time the board is not interested. Scott's Valley Water District Board is not interested in moving ahead with considering the consolidation. Leave it at that. Yeah, I think especially if you just say at this time and just leave it at that. Right. Can we sort of call everybody to see if that's acceptable? Should I, can I move Mark's language? I think you could. I have no idea how we resolved this. I have no idea, Mark. I like to think it. Move it. I mean, we don't need a motion. You don't need a motion for this. Okay. I need a motion. Thank you. Mark, please state what you're moving. What you want stated. I'm sorry. Make the motion that we direct Rick Rogers to notify Perret at Scott's Valley Water District. What? Seven-Handed Valley Water District. I'm sorry, at Scott's Valley Water District. No, no. That we notice that we have Rick notify Perret Sherman at Scott's Valley Water District that at this time our board is not interested in moving ahead with considering consolidation. Second vote. Okay. Do we have any discussion of that motion? I don't see any discussion. I think maybe I'll just go out just to make sure and ask if any of our public attendees want to comment on that motion. Seeing them and hearing them, go ahead. Let's see, Bob. Yeah, I mean, I'll go along with it, of course. But at this time, I still think it's problematic. But there we go. You have, Bob, do you have a better way to say that? I get your point. Do you have a better way to say that we don't mean next month, we mean five years from now? I just think just strike the words at this time. Okay. Okay. Is that a friendly? That's a friendly? You accept that as a friendly? I can concur with that. Yes. Okay. Bob's amended language. Okay. Can you go ahead and do the roll call on Holly? Was it Mark's motion or was it Mark's motion or Jamie's motion? No, it was Mark's motion. And Jamie didn't need to do it there because it was Mark. Mark just accepts it as a friendly amendment and then it's done. Okay. Is that clear now? Bob didn't hear it. Anyway, I think it's clear. We're just deleting the... I don't accept the amendment. Okay. Go ahead, Holly. President Mayhood? Yes. Vice President Henry? No, it's your muted and undoing. Yes. Thank you. Director Ackman? Yes. Director Falls? Yes. Director Smalley? Yes. Motion passes. Okay. Then we move to the consent agenda. Which bodies the minutes for two meetings. Does anybody want to remove anything from the consent agenda? Okay. Then given that it's 1017, I'm really glad. Okay. So then am I correct? You know, we don't need to do anything. The consent agenda is accepted. That's right. Upon hearing no objections. Okay. Thank you. That's the words I wanted. Upon hearing no objections, we will accept the items on the consent agenda.  And here we'll ask if there's any questions from members of the board or from members of the public. Are there any questions from, let's see, the members of the board? Jamie, if you have any questions, you would be next in line to start. None for me. None for Jamie. On. Just a couple on the five pipeline project. Rick, are we still on schedule to get the remaining pipe projects in the ground this year? It's May. We are a little behind schedule on two of the projects. And that's the Aquial Hollow Pipeline still just coming out of design and the Highway 236 Pipeline, the Highway 236 Pipeline design changed due to the CZU fire. A considerably more pipeline was damaged and we're adding to that project. We hope to go to bed on Aquial Hollow Road later this year. I wanna thank Stephanie for putting together the past due analysis report so diligently. It's a great report and it really shows the issue. Fortunately, we're going up still, but it's not as bad as it could be, I guess is what I'm saying. So thanks for keeping us informed about that, Stephanie. It's very helpful. Okay, Mark, you have your hand up. That was that, yeah. Okay, there was one aspect in the engineering department that I wanted to surface and Rick, it was regarding the upcoming Fall Creek construction and that big package. Do you wanna address that? Just for engineer is prepared to give a short update. Josh, are you there? I am, thank you, Rick. So updating on Fall Creek Fish Ladder, we currently have two RFPs out for bid. One is for construction of the Fish Ladder. The other is for construction management related to that project. Both of those RFPs are due June 1st with the intent that we will be coming before the board at the June 3rd meeting to make a recommendation. If there are specific aspects of either the construction or construction management that you're interested in, Director Smalley, I'm happy to go into more detail or answer specific questions. No, Josh, I didn't have any questions on it. It was clear to me, though, at the committee meeting, the need to move this along as quick as we could. I just wanted to make the rest of the board aware this wasn't gonna come in front of the engineering committee. These two bids and evaluations because both Josh and Rick are identifying, they wanna get this project started as soon as they can, given the limited window to be in that creek, given the restrictions based on water flows. And they wanna hit it as soon as they can after that board meeting that we have at the beginning of June. And there may be aspects of the agenda that come out for that meeting that don't have all of the information in it for what between Josh and Rick, they're gonna be recommending to the rest of the board that we approve for the construction, a select construction contractor. Just didn't want any surprises two weeks from now when we'd have that discussion. That was it. All right. Are there any questions or comments by members of the public on department status reports or the committee reports? I don't see any. So at that point, we are to the director's report and this is an update on the Santa Margarita Groundwater agency that Bob requested. And I agreed to give and I'm questioning whether you really wanna hear it at 10, 23 at night. I could do it at the next meeting if you'd like, but if you want me to, I'll try to give a short version. Up to you, Bob, since you're the one that really wanted it. Well, I mean, I think it's not just for me, it's for the community to hear as well because we're talking about some really big numbers here. So yeah, please, the Cliff Notes version, right? I'll do it. You've done that in academia, the Cliff Notes version. Which is really insulting to me, but never the last one. Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't mean it. I didn't mean it. We'll go ahead and I'll try to summarize. So just to bring everybody up to speed, in 2014, we had the passage of the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act which mandated that local agencies create a management plan for groundwater supplies to reach sustainability in 20 years. And if you didn't do it, the state would come in and do it for you. And in 2017, we created a joint powers authority that consists of San Lorenzo Valley Water District, Scott's Valley Water District and the County of Santa Cruz. And at that time we had the first meetings of the Santa Margarita Groundwater Association Board which also has representatives from the city of Santa Cruz, Mount Herman and private well owners. In March, 2019, we hired a consultant to develop the Groundwater Sustainability Plan at a cost of $1.2 million, most of which was paid for by the grant. We hired the same company that was used by Mid County Groundwater Association. So since then, we've had essentially two years of work on the plan defining minimum thresholds and aspirational goals for water levels and water quality in aquifers and creeks, developing the geohydrologic model of the basin, climate models to predict the effects on groundwater due to climate change, deciding on the location of additional monitoring of groundwater and creek flows and developing potential projects to move towards sustainability and doing rough cost estimates which we first got at the last meeting. This process has been agonizingly slow and I have to say Bob, you've been sort of worried that we would get committed to money that we would have to end up paying for. This process is so slow, a snail could catch up to it and there are multiple opportunities for the public and the board and everything else to weigh in. So I don't think you have to worry about this. We're predicting that the draft GSP, Groundwater Sustainability Plan will be done near the end of July. There will be a period of public comment in August and September and the plan will be revised based on those comments and then in mid-November, there will be a formal public hearing, then final preparation of the GSP which will be submitted by the deadline of January 2022. So there'll be two opportunities for the public to weigh in and I wanna make the point that the Groundwater Sustainability Plan that we submit to the state in 2022 will list a number of potential projects but it does not commit us to doing any of them. Any of the projects that are undertaken will take anywhere from one to five years to develop between costing them out, obtaining grants during the environmental studies and in some cases running pilot studies. So it will be years before any of these have significant impact on district budgets or customers bills. It's also important to point out most of the capital costs of building the projects will be covered by grants. However, the water districts will be on the hook for ongoing operational costs which in some cases of the larger projects are considerable. I'd also emphasize that Santa Margarita in contracts to what Rick said, they will not actually do any projects themselves. While we might endorse them, the capital costs and the ongoing operational expenses will be borne largely by the individual districts that will benefit from particular projects. So just as examples, at the low cost end, San Lorenzo Valley Water District would be on the hook for the lion's share of a project to use our allotment of Loch Lomond water and for the ongoing costs of treatment for that water. At the higher end of expenses, if the city of Santa Cruz and Scotts Valley were to undertake an aquifer storage and recovery project to increase the water level in the Lombeco aquifer and create essentially a reservoir against which the city of Santa Cruz could draw in the case of an extended drought, they would be responsible those two districts for most of the capital costs and the sizable annual operation and maintenance costs. Mark and I are planning to give a full report at a workshop meeting that I hope we can hold in June or July prior to the public comment period on the GSP draft that will be held in August and September so that we can present some of the information underlying the plan and we can answer questions from the board and members of the public about where things are headed with Santa Margarita and the implications for our district. And with that, I'll be happy to take any questions from anybody who's still awake. Well, thank you for doing that and look forward to the workshop. Let's do it earlier rather than later, like in June as opposed to July. Yeah, I'm sort of aiming for the end of June but it just mean I just have to put together PowerPoint presentation and figure out how to present all of this stuff. There's just huge amounts of data and a lot of it's extremely technical and so it'll be interesting to put it together. So yes, I take your advice end of June rather than into July. Any other questions? Unless there's any objections, we can adjourn. Seeing no objections, I declare us adjourned. Good night all, thanks for the good discussions. Walter, that's 1029, thank you.


Hey everyone, it's November, fall is here, and there's already a festive mood in the air. We are in the midst of Q4, so whatever you choose to sell now will sell more if you pick your products right. These are the strongest months of the year for drop shippers, so you want to make sure you're doing everything you can to maximize sales. In this video, we're going to discuss the top trending products for you to list in your stores this November. But before we get to the list, make sure to give this video a like and hit that subscribe button so you can stay up to date with what products are trending. Alright, let's get to it. So when I hear November, I think Thanksgiving. And that's why the first product of the day is a whole bunch of products that have to do with Thanksgiving. So you could just look it up on Amazon and see all the top products that are going now.  I could keep going. People love getting into the festive mood, and that's why I definitely recommend you list a whole bunch of these and see what works for you. Our second product of the day is something that you can find on Target, and it is a waterproof mattress protector. This is a pretty simple, straightforward product, and it's also an evergreen one. So you could keep this in your stores past November, but we just happen to see that it is trending now, and that's why we recommend that you list these in your stores. Now you can see here it's pretty useful products for when you want to just straight up spill a bottle of wine on your mattress cover. No, but I'm kidding. It's also good for a lot of other things, and you never know. You want to just avoid staining mattresses, and that's why a lot of people buy these. Our third product of the day, or should I say products, is accessories for the iPhone 13. Now the top two accessories I'm going to mention is iPhone cases and screen protectors. Those are the big ones that typically most people go for, but you could also get a little more specific go for car chargers or even special protectors for your camera, which comes with individual protectors for each lens. So you could definitely get a whole bunch of cool products. I recommend listing a whole bunch of them and test your market to see what works. Our fourth product of the day is standing desk converters. Now I found this product over here on Walmart, and basically this is a great product because a lot of people that work from home and also a lot of people that work in their offices do not want to sit down all day, and it's more of a trend to get these cool desks where you could stand up and do your work at the same time. You have a bunch of different variations, some that fit more computers and some that are more compact, some that have that little drawer that pulls out where you could also put your keyboard and mouse on. So definitely list a whole bunch of these and see what works. And a little trick for you, if you don't want to go one by one and take all of these products and list them manually to your store, you can use the AutoDS extension and it'll pull up all the products that are on this page and you can export it as a CSV file. Then once you go to your AutoDS account, you upload the CSV and you'll have all of these products waiting for you in your drafts. Just a little quick tip to save you some time. Our fifth product of the day is Potrack organizers. This is a niche I love. It's the organization and home product niche. People love these, plus they're usually lower ticket items, so it's an easy purchase for a lot of buyers. Now, you have a bunch of different ones that serve different purposes, some for pots, spices, pans. Definitely a really cool product that you guys should be listing in your stores. And once again, I say pull up that AutoDS extension and just grab all of these at once so you don't need to list it one by one. Our sixth product of the day is Outdoor Curtains. Now, over this past year and a half, people have really been investing in their outdoor spaces because there wasn't a lot of places where people could go. So it's still in trend and people are still really caring about how their yards look. And so you have this cool product here with this outdoor curtain. You have a balcony, if you have a gazebo, and it definitely ranges in price. You could get ones that are nicer material, waterproof, thermal, things like that, and a whole different variations of colors and patterns. So definitely recommend that you start listing this one. Our seventh product of the day is DIY Craft Kits and accessories. This is a fun one. Parents always need things to do with their children and this is just a really good activity. You've got a whole bunch of them here on Amazon that you could choose from. Some jewelry making, some sewing, things like that. One DIY project in particular that's been doing really well are these Snow Globes Making Kit. And it's also pretty festive and coming up to, you know, the other holidays. So you've got a whole bunch of them here on Amazon and you can look through them. They're themed different things, some that are, you know, more holiday themes or some just general that you could put your own picture in and things like that. So it's a pretty cool product. Our eighth product of the day is the Blow-Drying Hairbrush. Now this is a pretty cool two-in-one combo where you've got your hairbrush and your blow dryer all in one product. It's definitely a good product to put in your beauty niche if you have a bunch of other products there. And you definitely got some varying in price.  So definitely play around with that and do what works for you and your store. Our ninth product of the day is a clothes steamer. Now this has been a really trending product lately. You could find it over here on Target. And by the way, all the websites that were mentioned in this video are compatible with AutoDS. So you could literally click and grab any of these products and upload them to your store using our system. Our tenth and final product of the day is water filters. You can find them over here on Walmart. We've got the basics like Brita, but you've also got some cool products where you could just hook them right onto your faucet. You've got large water tanks and just a whole bunch of different other ones over here in the list. Now again, this product is really trending now, but in general, it is an evergreen product because, I mean, people want filtered water all year round, not just in November. Okay, so that is it for this month's trending products video. Thank you guys so much for watching. 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The bottle falls to the floor as I retch, spewing out a pool of that awful, dirty, motor oil-colored liquid. The shock comes right away, of course. I knew it would.  When the flowing stops and I'm down to the spits, the guards come to lift me to my feet.  You, uh, think we need to change his wardrobe?  The guard wiping my face steps back for a moment. Nah, he'll be fine. Let's just finish the shot. No, I shout it out.  The shock came again, harder this time, with the expression of a plank of wood. The guard picked up the bottle and shoved it into my hand. Do the shot, he said. The camera light flashed on. I sighed, put on my jolliest smile and kicked back the bottle, doing my best not to gag.  A very long time ago, I was known as St. Nicholas. Every year on one night, I would travel the world bringing joy and gifts to the children of the world. It wasn't like how they portray me now.  Joy was spread, gifts were given, and cookies were stolen. But it was never so obvious. Good old dad would somehow remember buying this special present for little Jerry, even though he would never have had enough money. Same thing for good old Sally, who already had more presents than she needed, but Santa doesn't discriminate. Mom and dad remember buying that extra one?  Point is, I liked being a legend. People knew me, sure, but they didn't know if I was real. True, every once in a while, little Timmy the Orphan boy might mysteriously find a toy horse under his bedroll. But little things like that is what keep a legend alive. Also, sometimes little Timmy got nothing.  Anyway, I lived on the North Pole, rounded up a bunch of elves, yes they're real, and lived in peace amongst the talking bears, yetis, and the other wonderful magical critters of the North, until the Canadians came. I was neighbors with some locals down south, didn't talk with them much, but occasionally they'd give me some meat, I'd give them some gifts, we got along. Then one day, they came telling me that these strange men in big ships had come and were burning down their homes and murdering them all.   Turns out, they had guns. Santa didn't have guns, Rudolph is dead, just so you know. Canadians. Anyway, they've been holding me in custody ever since. No more Christmas spirit, no more presents for Timmy. They've been holding me hostage, interrogating me for years, trying to get me to give them the secret to the magic of Christmas spirit. Eventually, they got smart. I didn't spill any of my secrets, of course, but eventually they figured out how to use me in other ways. Guess a bit of my magic spills out into those ads they make.  Do you think the Christmas spirit is about joy and caring? It used to be. But not anymore, materialism now. You're talking to yourself again, sir.  Damn it, Gloomsy. I yelled at the elf that had just popped into my cell. Santa's trying to write his memoirs. Need to have it all memorized, Gloomsy. The whole world's gonna know what that damn Canadians did. Yeah, Gloomsy.  Santa's here, old Mr. Nick is busy. He's doing very important work in there. Oh my God. Me and Gloomsy both groaned as Gleamy popped into existence. Everything's all ready to go, sir.  Are you almost ready, sir? Oh, what's even the point?  Oh, golly, don't say that, sir. Gleamy replied, you can't be giving up hope here. This will be the year, sir. I just know it. Like you don't say that every year. Gloomsy spoke my mind for me with an eye roll. No, that's no attitude to have, Gloomsy. We gotta have hope. Besides, I have a really...  I snapped at Gleamy. We try this every year and every time it goes wrong and the Canadians find a new creative way to torture me. What's different this time? Are you going to strap a bomb to Blixom and fly him into my cell wall?   We did finally put a ham radio on the sleigh. Oh, that's nice. How does that help? What's the special plan this year?  He blinked his eyes twice at me. All you need to do this year is befriend your new cellmate. Here to help us out, I just know it. I laughed. Well, it started as laughing, but quickly broke down into crying. So they were going to stick me with another Yeti. And the best plan the elves had was to get it to somehow break me out.  Being stuck in a closed space with one is not a good time. The Christmas spirit might make old Saint Nick hard to kill, but that doesn't mean he doesn't bleed. Er, dat himner. Gleamy said before disappearing. Sorry, sir. Gleamy added, before also vanishing, while I continued to weep. Somewhere in my wing, a door opened and the thudding of the guards' boots could be heard echoing off the floor. I expect to hear the roars and snarks of the monster they were about to bunk with me. Instead, I heard something unexpected.  A voice said in the distance, Yetis, don't talk.  That's right, Lester.  I didn't do nothing. I looked up, surprised to see a young man being dragged by the guards. He was struggling fruitlessly against their grip. Look, I ain't supposed to be here. I got a whole thing going right now. Actually, how would you folks like a jab? He said with a smile before the cell door opened and he was thrown in face first. The door slammed shut and the guards marched away without so much as a word. Suddenly the man shot up. An unusual smile stretched across his face. It disappeared after his eyes fell on me. Who are you? He beckoned. I'm Santa. I replied. The man suddenly started to laugh. Oh, great. They stuck me with a nut. He said before crashing himself on my bed. Normally, this would make me angry, but I was feeling more curious. So what did you do to end up here? I asked him. The kid looked up to me and flashed the most unsettling grin Santa has ever seen. Oh, Santa Pop, you don't want to know. I slowly backed away and sat in the far corner of the other bed. It wasn't long before the thumping of boots was once again heard, making their way through the halls. Must be time for my interrogation. Normally this was the worst part of my day, but I'll admit I was glad to get away from whoever this was. His name is Sorrier, sir. I could hear glooms he say, but I couldn't see him. The guards had me strapped down to the water board again. Not that that's what they were planning. They got bored of that ages ago. Give it to me straight, gloomsie. I replied. Is he naughty or nice? A long piece of paper suddenly unrolled itself off my belly and onto the floor. I could hear the little elf shuffling through it, looking for the name. Oh my God. I heard him say to himself, well, nerdy, very, very nerdy. Yeah, well, he gave me that impression. And that's why we're going to serve him the meaning of the Christmas spirit, sir. Suddenly gleamy was knelt over my face, staring right into my eyeballs. We're going to lift his spirit, get him to help you break out, and then Sorrier will be on the nice list and Christmas will be saved. It'll be just like one of those movies they make about you. Gleamy, get off Santa's face.  You two really think we can work with that? I asked. His brother Johnny made a nice list. Why can't he? Gleamy replied. Well, it's something. What does little Johnny want for Christmas? Maybe he cares about his brother enough to help. Works like he want a bag of crystal meth, sir. Oh God, I cried out. I was about to let those little imps really have it, when suddenly the room flashed a bright blue light. I wasn't sure what was happening. The elves suddenly started screaming in agony, even gleamy. I heard the door slam open and several people suddenly rushed in. We got him. We got him. Someone shouted out. Two little bodies were practically seizing on my belly before I felt unknown hands take them away. What?   I screamed at them, tearing it my restraints to the best of my ability. Worthless, of course, they really ignored me. And just as soon as they came in, they were gone, carrying my two screaming friends away. My last two friends. I didn't even have time to process it. As soon as they were gone, I heard a lone pair of feet slowly walk into the room. Good day, Mr. Nicholas. I heard Dr. Kondraki say. I could almost feel that twisted smile he'd shown me so many times before. Are you feeling chatty today? Hey, who shat in your cornflakes? Sawyer said to me as I slumped down in the opposing bed. I didn't answer him. Not sure he cared. Dr. Kondraki had been my interrogator for the past 20 years. He's been one of the more creative ones. Always finding new ways to make this jolly old fellow scream. Never got much out of me. But the Canadians were getting smarter, starting to figure things out themselves. Aside from the usual, today they also informed me of what they'd do to the elves if I didn't give away my secrets. The fact that they had them alone was bad news in itself. This year might be my last chance to make it out. Hey kid, I muttered to him. He looked up with a bored expression. You want to get out of here? Sawyer's face suddenly lit up in a smile. I thought you'd never ask. He exclaimed, jumping out of my bed. So, uh, Santy, what's the plan? Santa was kind of hoping you'd have one. Oh, cool, cool, that question. How long you been in here? Santa stopped counting after a hundred years. Huh. So, let's assume for a moment that's true.  Santa had lots of plans.  Yeah, okay, gotcha. How about this? When the gods come by to fetch one of us again, we charge them and run. This is what Gleamy wanted me to put all my faith into. Ugh. Then again. That won't be enough, I said to Sawyer. But, if we can steal the keys from the guards, we can set the yetis free. Those things are dangerous. But if we can outrun them, they might be enough of a distraction. Can Santa run? Sawyer said. Eh? As he poked me in the belly. Santa will be just fine, I said. Smacking his hand away. No one touches Santa's belly. No one but Mrs. Claus. All right, old man. You sure you're going to be able to take on the gods? I flashed Sawyer a smile. Santa has a shank stuffed up his stocking. Twas the night before freedom, and all through the cells, not a peep was heard, though we still had the smells. Then the door opened, and the boots came thudding. Me and Sawyer stared at each other. We thought ourselves cunning. The boots came to a halt, and our cells slipped open. Sawyer and I stared in silence, not a word spoken. The guards marched in, thinking we looked meek. But a surprise he did get when I shanked him in the cheek. His friend caught off guard, cried out in terror. But Sawyer with snapping teeth, quickly showed him his error. The brute pulled away, and gave me a smack. But as my name is Saint Nick, I gave it right back. His friend lifted Sawyer in the air, while he cussed him out with a menacing glare. My foe unprepared reached for his taser. While poor Sawyer panicked, begging for my favor. I shanked him again, but his body was armored. Then with a swing of his arm, lighting my poor body harbored. I cried out and screamed, but was not alone. For Sawyer had gotten his friend, biting his nose to the bone. My foe turned to help, moving quite quick. But with a sweep of my leg, he went out like a wick. With a punch to the face, and another to the jewels, Sawyer turned to me, and smiled, for we had proven who were fools. As their bodies lied in agony, breathing their last breath, I grabbed hold of my shank, and I stabbed them both to death. The siren suddenly blared in our ears, as I searched the guard for the key. Quickly, I yelled as soon as I had it. We don't have much time. Sawyer grabbed a taser off the floor, and the two of us ran as fast as we could. He turned a corner, and skidded to a halt, or I did. Around that bend, at least 20 of them were coming right for us.  You fools! He said, his taser in hand. I have lightened, feel the wrath of Thor. Sawyer, no, they have.  Beyond the blinding flashing, were screams thudding, and what I assume was Sawyer laughing. When the flashing finally stopped, there were about 20 charred bodies lying on the floor, and my new cellmate standing in the middle of it all, with a disturbing smile. Yeah, Santa thinks he's starting to understand why they put you here. I said, eh, what do you mean? Sawyer replied, his grin turning to a confused frown. Never mind, let's find the yetis. It wasn't hard. All we had to do was follow the sound of the monstrous screams. I'm not even really sure why the Canadians kept them. They couldn't use them the same way they used me, and they were a lot of trouble to keep alive. When we found their block, I took the key and started unlocking as many doors as fast as I could, not opening them. They were smart. They'd figure that out. Just unlocking. When I heard the first cell door swing open, I turned around, bracing myself to run from the monsters. Instead, I saw my dumbass cellmate holding one of their doors open, a curious expression on his face. Oh my god. He said, there really is a yeti. I thought it was just going to be some hairy homeless guy. Sawyer. I yelled out, just as that awful scream roared through the hallways. Sawyer's eyes shot wide. Okay, bad idea. Run. He didn't wait to finish before sprinting off. I didn't need him to tell me.  We sprinted down the halls as the creatures charged after us. Up ahead, the pounding of the guard's feet began to echo their way towards us. Luckily, we found an intersection in the hall. We both shot down it, just in time to hear the first guard scream. Uh, right. Perhaps you got us this far. Now what? Sawyer asked. We need to find the elves. I replied. The what? Santa's elves dickhead. They got two of them. Thankfully, he decided not to question us, hopefully seeing the yetis as a wake up call. We found Gloomsey sitting in a fish tank in the warden's office. Warden wasn't exactly happy to see us, but Sawyer gave him the taser. Gloomsey, I called out to him. Where's gleamy? Gloomsey looked ahead at nothing with a thousand yard stare. I strangled him to death. He said plainly. I was quiet for a moment. You know what Gloomsey? I finally replied. Santa understands. I tore off the lid of the tank and dumped the shell-shocked elf out. Gloomsey, get the thing. He nodded without so much as turning his head and then in a poof, vanished. So, uh, that was your elf? Said Sawyer. As sure as my name is Santa Claus. I said, flashing him a proud smile. It, uh, looked like a little demon thing. Well, Santa doesn't let the kids see them for a reason.  The side of the warden's office suddenly exploded in with bits of wood, concrete, drywall, and reindeer flying in a beautiful spray over us. Blixon's head shot out and rolled to the floor at Sawyer's feet, followed by the most beautiful sound I've heard in over a hundred years. Sleigh bells.  Sawyer exclaimed. Gloomsey was sitting outside in my wonderful sleigh. I'll admit, the elves had kept her in wonderful shape, even had a fresh coat of paint. Santa told you already. Now come on, I shouted at Sawyer, and with that, the two of us jumped on my sleigh that night. Immediately there was gunfire. The three of us ducked for cover, sending the deer in zigzags to avoid death. Dancer and prancer went down.  Then there was that awful whistling sound. Hey, it's a missile. Sawyer shouted out. Quick, there's presents in the back. Throw them out. Sawyer quickly crawled back and started heaving the gifts at the thing. Finally, little Timmy's rocking horse hid it square on and it exploded in a flash behind us. Little Timmy had been a good boy that year. He was definitely dead now, though. We all cheered as we finally flew out of range of the hellfire and made our way off the calm Canadian night. Well, me and Sawyer did. Gloomsie was probably going to need therapy. So, ah, Sawyer said over the rushing frozen air. How exactly did you drive this thing? Ho, ho, ho. I let out my jolliest laugh. I was in a great mood. Take the reins, Sawyer. With a glistening smile, he took them into his hands. Now just pull in the direction you want. Give him a good smack if you need more speed. We're heading north, Sawyer. I'm taking you to the North Pole. So, ah, that's really all there is to it, huh? Ho, ho, ho. Simple as can be.  As I descended, screaming into that icy wind, I saw poor Gloomsie get flung out as well. The landing was not nice. I remained motionless, transfixed in rage, as the Christmas spirit slowly mended my broken bones. In the distance, I could hear the faintest. Ho, ho, ho, dickhead. I take it this means a permanent place on the naughty list. Gloomsie said, from somewhere.  I growled, pulling my head out of the snow.  He appeared to have dropped his phone, sir. Gloomsie said, he had a phone this whole time, huh?  Not sure, sir, but it doesn't smell nice. Give me that. I grabbed the device and opened it, clicking on a button with the face of something that looked almost like an elf. Sawyer the sadist, huh? I quickly began typing. What are you doing? Gloomsie asked. I'm telling the whole world, Gloomsie.


Now, tell me if the net torque is 0. If the net torque is 0, will the object ever translate? Yes, it can translate. No, it can't translate. It can translate? Yeah. Okay, example? So if I have something and I push it from both sides, if I have a digit body and I push it from both sides. Okay, one second. Similarly, suppose there is one rod like that, you are pushing from like what Param is saying. Suppose and push it from both sides with f. What will be the acceleration of center of mass? 2f by m. 2f is the net force on this system. 2f is equal to m into Acm. So Acm will be 2f by m. Simple? Okay, what about the torque about this point, about this center? How much is the torque? It will be 0. Why? Both of the forces are at the same time. This force creates a rotating torque in this way. So that creates in opposite way. So their rotating effect gets cancelled away. So net torque is 0. So just because the net torque is 0 doesn't mean that net force is 0. Getting it? Sir, this is what perpendicular distance is for right. Perpendicular distance from here into the drop of perpendicular on this line of force. So this is the perpendicular distance itself. It is already perpendicular. Okay, clear? Now what if net force is 0? Can the object or digit body rotate? No, it can. So I can flip that force to that side. Then it will get a net torque where net force is 0. I have to understand what he is saying? Yeah. Okay, so suppose you have a rod like this. One force from top like this. One force from below. Equal opposite force? Will this object rotate? Yes. Will it rotate? When you open the... There also you apply equal opposite force. You don't want center of the car to move. So excess of center of mass is 0. Center of mass is not moving. But entire object is rotating. There is some rotation or there is an angular acceleration. Force causes acceleration and angularization. Please write it down. Cause of acceleration is force. Cause of angular acceleration is torque. If net torque is 0, acceleration will be 0. If net torque is 0, angular acceleration will be 0. Is there any doubt? Even if net torque is 0, it will be rotating with uniform angular velocity. Yes. If the net torque is 0, the angular velocity is either 0 or uniform. Because angular acceleration is 0. Omega can still be there. Constant omega. Just like if force is not 0. So if force is 0, there can be constant velocity. So if net torque is 0, angular acceleration is 0. So this point is in equilibrium. Let's say particle is in equilibrium. What we say? Net force is 0. Translational equilibrium. Net force is 0, ACM is 0. Translation won't happen. But can rotation be still happening? Is it possible? Yes, we have just seen it is still possible to have rotation. Are you getting it? So in order to have a rigid body in equilibrium, not only net force should be 0, but also net torque also should be 0. Then only it will not have acceleration of center of mass, nor it will have angular acceleration. So if angular acceleration of center of mass is alpha, what will be the angular acceleration of the tip of the circle? Alpha. Alpha only. It's a rigid body. So alpha of all the points will be same. Now I mean just one type. There is one special type of torque happens. Torque depends on the distance about which you are finding the torque. Two kilometer away from this point, it will be very large compared to the torque of this, which is nearby force from me. Now there is this special scenario with forces, which we have drawn actually, these form couple. So they are called couple. They are special kind of torque. I am not exactly sure spelling is this only, but let's keep it like that. Forces are applied on this three colors I have. Total length is to find the torque center of mass. First find out how much is the torque about the center. I will write it down. Could you unbolo? I will. Properly do it. How about the total torque? No, about the center which is the center. How about the center? Total torque will be at the total. What about the center? Wait. Is it at the center? No, no, no. Is it at the center? It is at the center. But the center is not rotating. About the center, I am finding the torque. But finding the distance of the center from this point is what? What? What? L by 2. Torque because of this force, about this point is how much? To which way? Like this. For that force, about this point is f L by 2. Which direction? It's up to you. Like I said, one direction you can assume positive, one negative. So actually speaking, it should be minus f L. What direction taking positive? Or you can write f L clockwise. Like that you can write. Find out torque which is at a distance of x from here. Torque because of this force is what? Fx. Fx. About that, this comes out to be f 8 to L. Okay, now find out about, what is this point? What is it? Whose phone is it? Whose alarm? How much time did you take? Torque about P. It's going to be f L, like this time, and clockwise. Properly do it. Properly do it. No nonsense approach. Yeah, it's positive. It can't be anything other than the same. What is the torque because of this force? About this point? Minus fx. It will be f into L this way? Sorry, f into x. Okay, so f into x, like this. What about that force torque is? L plus x. But in which direction? It will be like this. So these two are in opposite direction, sense of rotation about this point. So till now this force was causing like that, sense of rotation. But that was any axis that side. About this axis it causes the rotation this way. That is why this becomes in opposite, this is now in opposite direction of that. So you need to subtract this and from that you will get f L only. So you can take any point about any point. You can take here also, anywhere. The torque will be f into L only. So a couple, if net force is zero, will have the same torque about any axis, anything. Is this free for any body? Yeah, why not? Because couples are always in opposite directions. A couple is? Always in opposite directions. Net force should be zero. The definition of couple is two equal to opposite forces. So please write down condition. By center of mass expression should be zero. It should not translate with any expression. Neither it should rotate with any angular expression. Simple conditions. So basically, net force along x axis is zero. Along y axis should be zero. And talk about which axis should be zero. Talk about any axis. Talk about any axis should be zero. Fine? Any axis you take. Now, going forward we are going to study dynamics of the rotational thing. In fact, moment definition was a part of rotation dynamics only. Here, we need to be very careful with how force is applied. What is its distance from whatever axis you are considering or whatever point you are considering and what is the angle it is making with the distance. So when you draw the freeway through whichever point you want as long as direction is fine. You need to not only take care of the direction but also take care of about which point it is applied and how it is applied. Because you need to find the angle. So going forward freeway diagram becomes little bit more involved. And one more thing. When you write net force zero, all the forces will feature in the equation. All the forces will be there. But it will become zero if you are finding about the point through which that force is applied. I am trying to say suppose this is the thing I am solving by the way so suppose I am finding torque about this point and equating it to zero come in the equation. Yes or no? Because torque is to normal actually many. You can make your life simple by choosing an appropriate point about which you equate net torque to be zero. The variable itself, suppose there are three variables two variables are not coming in the torque equation itself. The answer of that variable by writing the torque equation. So net force equal to zero there is no greater. You just write it down. When you write torque equal to zero appropriately choose about which point you are writing the torque equal to zero. And you can write it about any point. Answer will not change. But the amount of time you take will change.


You know, when I first got into personal development, I went to all these conferences expecting to meet all the great gurus and all the idols and icons that I admired so much, shake their hand and have this wisdom imparted to me through my channels of my body and then I'd have this aha moment and suddenly would be happy, rich, successful, fit, motivated and so on. But so often what I found was that I'd go to these events. I'd feel like I could conquer the world for about a day when I got back. And then the first day that I ran into a barrier, I was kind of screwed, a little bit bummed out and suddenly lost that motivation, the rah-rah motivation to improve my life. Well in this video I want to talk about some of the lies and the problems with personal development and what I see are two or three of the big insights for actually making it work to really improve your life and not just watch another video or buy another course. What's up guys? Alex Hein, author of the book Master of the Day. Now for me personal development is the essence of goal setting and they're like the yin and the yang in the sense that you need to improve yourself but improve yourself in a specific direction. And one of the things that can help is the yearly vision planning worksheet I've included on how to have your best year ever. It's the first link in the description box, it's called the best year goal setting worksheet and it'll also bring you through an email course on how to have the best year of your life. So you can check it out down there below. To me one of the big issues with personal development or rather the way we approach it is thinking that information is the savior but it isn't. Application is. I mean the number of people I've met investing thousands of dollars into courses or on a lesser level watching hundreds of YouTube videos on how to improve your life but then doing nothing is crazy. I mean I've spent $2,000 on event tickets where maybe 2% of the people there actually have a business and 98% just spent $2,000 to listen and get rarar motivation and they haven't done anything in the last year. I mean that's crazy to me and it's almost criminal in my mind. So the idea that the right information will save me is false, it's silver bullet thinking. Applying the right information is the virtue of this flaw. The second thing for me is this idea that you just need the right piece of information and you see this kind of flaw show up where people go to the seminar and they're like I think this is the piece, I think this coach is the missing piece, I think this book is the missing piece, I think this course is the missing piece and that may be true. It may be a missing piece but expecting to find the piece that completes the geographic map of the earth of all reaching all your goals and all the mysteries of the universe this is just flawed thinking. This is another manifestation of silver bullet thinking expecting to find the one thing that will solve it all for you and along the lines of thinking that that one magical piece of information will be the solution to everything is the corollary of if I meet the one person the right introduction it is just green lights all the way down to my goals and all of these what they're really saying is that you value finding the one thing that will solve everything for you as opposed to the daily grind of being in the dirt doing the work showing up every single day and really it's a flawed mental model of achievement. So what's the solution? The solution is the idea of pushing the boulder on flatland right so think of this you're a person you're trying to shove this massive boulder which is on flat ground right it's humongous it's like several tons the first push nothing happens the second push nothing happens maybe the five hundredth push nothing happens but you push push push for two hours you're pushing this big rock and eventually it starts to spin and it's rolling this slow and you keep pushing you keep pushing and then gradually it goes faster and faster and faster and then you have this boulder which is everything you've been trying to work towards that's actually moving on its own. So then you ask me or I ask you which push got that boulder to move was the first push was the thousandth push was it all of the pushes this is the really this is the real essence of goal achievement it's not one thing it's not one push it's not the first push it's not the last push each thing gives you a piece to the puzzle to complete your own kind of goal-setting philosophy and your goal achievement process but just like pushing that boulder it's the cumulative result of the daily little things that you do over time that will help build that excellence in every part of your life that you want but when you reflect back it's not usually the one push that you can reflect upon that got the boulder of your goals going it's usually all of the things and there's usually hundreds of little pieces that you got or thousands each day could be a little piece each day is a push of the boulder so if each day you're showing up and you're still pushing the boulder one of the days the boulder is going to start to move and that's when you've gotten the momentum that came from the last thousand pushes not just the last push so this is a little bit about my own personal philosophy on what makes success and when you look for what are the little things I can do daily instead of what's the one big push then you start the first hundred pushes that eventually get that boulder going and eventually help you reach your goals and build this incredible thing you're trying to make with your life so I hope that analogy helps a little bit but again these are the kind of things that I talk about in that free goal-setting e-course again that first link in the description you'll get a worksheet and also a series of emails on goal-setting and the process that I use for setting and achieving my own goals that's the first link in the description otherwise I will catch you in the next video and of course you can check out my last related videos right there and right there


So we're here at the Embedded World 2018 and hi, so who are you? Hi Nicholas, I'm John Weber. I'm with Technection in the US So Technection is Having an office in the US now. Yeah, we are. We're expanding in the US. We're adding people We're adding some resources engineering, etc To help us develop better products and service our customers better in the United States and Canada and Mexico So and in South America, so we're very excited about that and one of the reasons is I mean, I don't know if that's that's just one of the reasons but the Huge success with the Android things in the past year, right? Yeah, I mean Technection is kind of like doing the reference board for Android things. Yes, we are I mean, you know One of that was super excited about all the exposure that we've been getting so far with Google But we've been one of the we've been one of Google's launch partners around Android things in cooperation with NXP And We're super excited about what actually what Google is doing with Android things as well. I'm trying to solve a lot of problems Yeah, exactly. So what is that? So this is this is one of our boards So right here, I'll just all unbuckle this here for you. But this is a this is our Pico Pi board We have our Pico SOM module here on it and we also have on a Raspberry Pi style baseboard We have the Raspberry Pi expansion connector here We have a an audio expansion connector here to add additional interfaces for digital microphone inputs and speaker outputs and we have even have our own little voice hat here that has Digital microphones as well as so speaker amplifiers LEDs and some push buttons for customers to go easily prototype products with Google Assistant or with Alexa from Amazon We just plug that right on top of using Android things as you can do both Google Assistant and Alexa and Thousand other things right well You can definitely do Google Assistant with Android things and as well as all of the other great things about Android Connecting into Google Cloud platform is very simple Google Assistant obviously built-in Chromecast built-in So yeah, and there's a there's a lot of great things that you're gonna be able to do with it People can do audio broadcasting like just yes speakers. Yes, yes, and Robots what they could do All sorts of things mean the thing about Android things that makes it makes a better development with Android a whole lot easier because what Google has been doing with it It's making the various hardware peripherals a lot more accessible GPIOs you are it's ice-grid-c spy so you can do things like connect to off-off board Devices or even dry PWMs to servos There's actually really great Android things demo with a robot hand That plays rock-paper-scissors I don't know if you've seen it but you do this and it uses a camera our camera and The camera detects what the hand is doing and then it tries to throw its own little robot hand throws a Throws the opposite on if you've ever played the game. So anyway, it's a it's a cool demo so so Google has been Giving out your boards of different events. Yeah. Yeah, we're this exactly like this Yeah, so what we've what they've been doing is they've been we would take this excuse me Sorry part fill off That won't fall off in production by the way. So this is this is our new little expansion connector. We're adding on it Yeah, so this is this is our clicks board with their own little Wi-Fi Bluetooth module on it called pixie and We on our latest generation of this of this baseboard we can we can plug this right on top of here But that you would screw it like yeah, we didn't we don't have the standoffs in the screws so we can easily Demonstrate it. Yeah, but it just kind of plugs in just like this using a little 40 pin header a little 40 pin connector But yeah, Google has been Buying these from us and they've been packaging in and their Android things development kits So they're custom exactly this boards and we also have a camera and a display That we package in with it as well as a USB type C cable Yeah, it's no, this is a seven-inch display they we package the five-inch display was it this one This is exactly the kit here, this is exactly the kit here So this is the pico pie baseboard With the five-inch display and then we would have a camera as well And that you can see over on the other on the other board So if you come over here, you can see the little five megapixel camera that we have right here's the camera Yeah, so you see your yeah, just being down. Yeah, I can't see what you're looking at What are these? Yeah, these are well these are speakers So I mentioned this is our voice hats right to let customers prototype with voice assistant technology on this We have a couple of demos and we can play some music here through the speakers using the play button And we can advance to other song we have RGB LEDs here because that's very popular with the voices systems for visual feedback And then one of the things you can't really see is two little digital microphones There's one here as a porthole through the PCB and the microphones on the other side is one on the other side as well We're doing things like direction finding and fur fields far-field voice processing so anyway, yeah, so this is our this is a Product well, this is our voice demo that we have here today Wanted to walk you over here and talk a little bit about Something else that we're super excited about Yeah, so this is a this is our This is our pixie 77 I was gonna show you on the back of this so we have So right here If you can see I get this stuff out of the way, but right here is our pixie module It is a 12 by 16 millimeter module That has Bluetooth and Wi-Fi built on to it. We have all the oscillators Everything else that you need and we can completely certify this module. We'll sell it completely certified We'll antenna connector right there Small it's hard to focus on oh, I was yeah, I was wondering how well you're gonna be able to do that so yeah So you're saying so anyway. Yeah, so this is our pixie module. It's our Wi-Fi Bluetooth combo solution That we will be able to we're gonna package on all of our songs as an option in Multiple different radio types, so we'll have a one by one radio As well as a two by two MIMO radio and we have other for example three by three four by four radios as well It will be able to package on to that and again like I said, it'll be completely certified FCC CE red telec and Other other regulatory certifications as well Actually, this is any board on this board So So the one you're talking about is just a small. Yeah, the one I'm talking about is our module which is here And we hide it. Well, this is this is a board that we have called clicks connecting. Yeah, it's our new form factor for connecting sensors and wireless And other peripherals into our baseboards very very easily So on the backside of a clicks board, you'll see a little 40-pin connector And then on our baseboards We have another 40-pin connector and you just very in a four-hole pattern here we can use to mechanically attach the board to the baseboard and you just plug that on there and We have it so that Software will auto detect and plug-and-play that module So we'll be able to very easily add sensors and other expansion keep other Capabilities to our baseboards But yeah, the pixie is the is the little RF module on top here And what we're not showing right now is that there will be a shield over the top of all of these components that you see right?  It's something like that, but it's obviously not that not that specific part So that's a big deal because people like to have Well, what's really good about this is one we can offer long life support on it and then also we can offer Full RF certification on it. So that actually reduces cost and complexity to customers really really significantly As you know, I don't know if you know but as you may know Our of certification is actually very expensive And very time-consuming and it's just not something our customers want to deal with so they want something that just comes right off the shelf And they can just plug into the system and they don't have to worry about, you know, paying the additional cost of certification So what are you what else are you showing here? You were showing that it's constantly We have our Wi-Fi solution. This is really so we're seeing a little bit of bandwidth coming forward We're doing a little bit of a RF test. It's extremely busy in this hall So the network is very very crowded, but we're showing that we have a radio here I mean we've seen bandwidths on this radio up to, you know, 60 70 megabits per second in here When it's not so crowded, but right now we're we're it's it's It's not good the network right now So so anyway, yeah, this is our module. We're showing it operational On one of our on our next generation of of our IMX7 Pico module and so you have a bunch of Display solutions to yes. Yeah, so let's you know moving along here. We have a full line of HMIs Right. So everything from five inches. Yeah all the way up through 15 inches And you can have a new one like this. What is this one there? Yeah, so this is our hermetically sealed Stainless steel waterproof 10-inch HMI So you can see here so a stainless steel case we've tested this fully submerged and You see the connectors here for connecting DC inputs video and and other and other peripherals LAN USB Etc. So we have This is great and interesting for customers in high-end industrial medical applications Yeah Hey, let me jump in here. So It says waterproof IP 69 K. Yes Yes, so we can take this and we can actually submerge it in water And like I said, it's hermetically sealed We've actually tested this In a tub in a big tub In our office in Taiwan It's bright It's pretty bright display. It's a 15-inch monitor So yeah, we just have a little bit of a demonstration Yeah, you know so we have we can this is just a demonstration here showing you can reserve meeting rooms And things like that, but you know, obviously for this kind of panel a little bit of a higher-end panel We have something you know, this is a fully stainless steel display. So medical applications very clean You can wipe it off very sterile Yeah, I mean, you know, so we I think this is a this is sort of consumer Sorry, a commercial temperature grade. So say zero to 60 We're zero to 50 kind of temperatures Sure Yeah, I can show you a little bit about what we have here so a big part of what technician does is We build reference design kits and other boards for our customers to make make use of our psalms very easily So this is a picot psalm and we also have an EDM psalm here two different families of psalm products we have today and We do a lot of base boards for these for different applications One of them that you've seen already is the picot pie So that's the picot pie baseboards without the psalm on it So it can very easily take the psalm and plug that on top of it And we have you know a big part of what technician does is is We pick a form factor we design around this form factor and we give our customers best-in-class Scalability so what that means is they can design a baseboard they can design their system if they want to sell if they want to have a very inexpensive product they could purchase One kind of psalm, which is very inexpensive use a single core processor dual core processor You know, I mean you're talking in the 25 to 30 dollar range for the song This one's an IMX 7 dual song with built-in Wi-Fi Bluetooth built-in emmc and Built-in flash or I say so this is a SD card. We have an option for emmc as well Which I see if I can find one here for you. Oh, is there all micro SD cards? It's okay We are doing IMX 8 so at the show we're demonstrating one pi 8m Yeah, we don't have that here section. It's in the NXP booth. Yeah, so we're demonstrating our single board computer It's in the we can film that just after yeah It's in it's in the it's in the NXP booth. This is want this is a pico pie But one pi 8m isn't exactly the same form factor It has the audio connector and the Raspberry Pi expansion editor It's just that we have the IMX 8m on it instead of a pico module slot right here Yep So we have lots of different baseboards. This is our nymph baseboards This nymph is for industrial applications industrial use cases. It has LVDS outputs a couple of different Microelectronica bus outputs it has Some PCI as many PCI Express and about two slots For connecting, you know, like for example, this one has a SIM card slot on it So you can connect a cellular radio to it and the the SIM card slot Connects up through the the connector to the cellular radio so you can identify In provision the radio on the network and then m.2 is great for adding things like You know external Wi-Fi Bluetooth modules over PCI Express or USB So that's yeah, that's nymph We have a number of other baseboards here as well. So We can show that to you This is a this is an example of an EDM baseboards So that's one of our EDM baseboards. We actually have let me see if I can find another one here for you One of the new ones that we're building. Yeah, so this one is this is called EDM one gnome Right. We have a Raspberry Pi expansion connector. So it looks very similar expansion wise to this one, right? But on the backside of it we can connect an EDM song and our EDM Psalms Have a have a little bit more integration a little bit higher power capability and And you know, so for this this is an apico ITX form factors or our customers can easily plug this in to say You know pico ITX form factor box And make a single board computer out of it we can go everywhere from Low low-cost imx6 ul kind of some all the way up through imx6 quad right now And then imx8m imx8 quad imx8 quad max in the future and all this Everything that we do we provide customers with For example for the Psalms will provide PDF schematics for the baseboards will provide full design files Yeah So so a customer can easily take our baseboards our baseboard designs use that as a reference For their application and easily create something that makes more sense for their use case in their application So yeah, so in addition to The most of the product that we built a technician today is built on arm technology Yeah, right, but we do have customers that ask us for Windows for example, and in those cases you really need to use x86 there are a few Arm arm devices that don't have that do you have windows capability, but mostly it's an x86 so we have Coming right like there might be some some qualcoms that will have windows support. Yes. Yes. Yeah, certainly windows 10 iot Etc. So we have We have these these these products here are based on Intel Braswell So we have a 15 inch projected capacitive touch HMI as well as a 10 inch projected capacitive touch and Again, these are great for For lots of different applications. We're just showing here that we have you also put an Intel in this one We can put it in yeah, we have put an Intel in our box PC So if you don't need a if you don't need a display, right, we have a full line of embedded embedded box kind of products with that that don't require any fans or any external cooling And we have this in either Intel based or we have it in x80s So we have you have the I make six you well. Yep. I make six you well as a single quartet Cortex a7 And then we also have a multi-core Braswell based solution This one obviously is a lot less expensive But part of what we do here with this is we make we have a modular design methodology with these boxes as well as with our panels You see this is our IO here. We can We can design we have two different options We have one for fully isolated galvanically isolated solutions or applications that require full isolation And we have one that's non-isolated a little bit less expensive So if you don't need the isolation, you don't have to pay for it. The other thing is is that we have a Different power module here that has a different has a different land connector So if you need to use power for ethernet we have that if you want 12 volts 24 volts or wide voltage input DC You just pick which one you want and we can put it whatever which whichever one you want This is our this is our yeah, we have 700 which is our panel We put that I'm x7 or I'm x6. I'm x6 you all in this panel Oh, yeah, yeah, so this is another pixie module. This is a wireless module that we were talking about before No, this is actually zigby. It's 802.11. So 802.15.4 and Bluetooth So yeah, so you can run zigby thread six loaf pan, etc on that on that chip So We I'd say that I'd say that that we have a modular design approach to everything that we do We want to make maximum use of designs As we as we can all right So you know so that we design once and then we provide our customers with scalability for the future So if they for example, they design their baseboard for I'm x6 for example And they want to put an I'm x8m on it We'll have so we'll have an option for them with I'm x8m and and other products in the future And so that's really our our approach to to embed a design to try to make the lives of our customers a lot easier I just there was a little bit more than some awesome or So different designs different colors so this is a this is a product we've had around for a long time We call it to can and here we're just showing a can demo Where we have an application running on all of these and they communicate over can bus so I can press this button and All of the green buttons will light up and I can press this button and it can change different colors But it's all communicating over canvas Yeah, so it's very similar to the EDM one gnome We have two different types of EDM modules EDM one EDM two EDM two is great for for adding additional LBDS displays For industrial applications, and this is just a baseboard. We have for that for that purpose It's a more pixie over there also. Was that that same? Yeah, it's the same one Yeah, all right. Yeah, so What's going to you think you're gonna be busy with this this coming year, right? Well, we're super excited about Android things. We're super excited about Alexa in the future We're super excited about what NXP is doing with IMAX 8m and IMAX 8x and IMAX 8 quad max and in the future with potentially with Qualcomm so we're You know, we're really looking forward to to what's going on right now with IMAX 8m. IMAX 8m is just hitting is just hitting mass production We take pre-orders for all our one PI 8m boards that we're selling on one work IMAX 8m. Yeah, it's much much higher performance. It's a quad-core Cortex-A53 which will do 4k video Decode so we're seeing a lot of interest in it for media streaming applications infotainment applications So yeah, that one is really where we're gonna be focusing over the next several months