Pursuant to Chapter 20 of the Act of 2021, this meeting will be conducted via remote means. Members of the public who wish to access the meeting may do so in the following manner by emailing Steve McCarthy at McCarthyS at AmherstMA.gov. That's M-C-C-A-R-T-H-Y-S at AmherstMA.gov. No in-person attendance of members of the public will be permitted, but every effort will be made to ensure that the public can adequately access the proceedings in real time via technological means. In the event that we are unable to do so for reasons of economic hardship and despite best efforts, we will post on the town website an audio or video recording transcript or other comprehensive record of the proceedings as soon as possible after the meeting. And so we'll call the meeting to order at 501 p.m. Thursday, October 6th, do a roll call of attendance, Gaston. Here. Dylan. Here. Hallie. Here. And I am here and Doug is not. So we are four here with one absent. And next up is public comment. General public comment not related to anything on the agenda. Is there anyone here? If so, raise your hand by pressing the hand button. And I don't see anyone doing that. So we will move on to our license hearings. Special short-term alcohol serving license application, SST dash 22 dash 70 to Peng Yu Chin, Wynan Malt, Eric Carl Museum, October 8th from six to 11. And is someone here to introduce that? Yes, we have Peng Yu Chin, the applicant. Oh, great. Hello, Mr. Hi. Hi, how are you? Hi. Hi, great. Welcome. Thank you. Would you like to describe your event? It's a wedding reception held at the Eric Carl Museum for 90 adults this Saturday, the 8th of October. And we will start serving food and drinks from six to 10.30. Okay, wonderful. And was there a map included with a license? It did. Yeah. I did include a map, yeah. Yeah, okay. Ended up. They held indoors. Indoors, okay. All right, did everyone get a chance to look over the application? Are there any questions? Yes, Gaston. Are there any, are all the guests above 21, do you know? That I don't know, but my bartenders are tip certified. Okay. And of course they will ask for IDs if they look awfully young. All right. Wonderful. Thank you. Thank you very much. If there are no other questions or comments. Oh, sorry, go ahead. Yes, I think you, the application said that you're not with the college, right? No, I'm not. So who do you work for? I work for myself. I run a catering business called PENU Catering LLC in Ames in the round for a little while. Okay, okay. So you're the, you're the caterer in charge of the wedding. Yes. Very good. Thank you. Thank you. All right. Are there any other questions or comments regarding this application? If not, is there a motion to approve? I moved. Thank you, Dylan. Is there a second? A second. Thank you, Hallie. Any further discussion? If not, we'll take a vote. Gaston. Aye. Hallie. Dylan. Aye. And I vote aye. That is four to zero with one absent. The application is approved. Thank you so much for coming in and best of luck with your event. Thank you. I need it. Thanks. Bye-bye. Okay. The next one is the common victor's license application for the black sheep. And is this, Steve, is there someone here from the black sheep or is this just a renewal? No, there is not. This is just a very late renewal. Okay. Any discussion about this or should we just, is there a motion to approve? Thank you, Dylan. Is there a second? Second. Thank you, Hallie. Is there any discussion? No. All right. Let's take a vote. Hallie. Yes. Aye. Dylan. Aye. Gaston. Aye. And I vote aye. That is four to zero with one absent. The black sheep common victor's license is approved. So great. And on to zooming along onto our public hearings. First one is adoption of regulations for the operations of lunch cards and food trucks in the public way. So I need to open this hearing. Is that right, Steve? Yes. All right. Is there a motion to open the hearing? So moved. Thank you, Dylan. Is there a second? Second. All right. And I vote, I guess, Hallie. Aye. Dylan. Aye. Gaston. Aye. And I vote aye. That is four to zero with one absent. The hearing on the adoption of the lunch cards and food truck regulations is now open. Okay. So Steve, you made a couple of changes. You said you talked to Brian Riley in the past week. Yes. Is that right? So I will, let me share the screen here. Okay. Nothing major. We don't have anyone who's here for the hearing, do we? It doesn't look like it. Okay. So I did just change some wording around some different things on the lunch cards and food trucks to make sure that was all consistent. I did change the wording of mobile food establishment to reflect where that comes from in the health regulations. I don't think we'll cover any watercraft, but we will leave that in there. This was all pretty much the same. I did make a change, a couple of minor changes here that the tow vehicles could be for any lunch cart, not just on sidewalk and that those have to pay the, pay the space to, if they're more than one space. I did add this, these penalties for non-compliance. So I took this off of another one of our regulations. Brian Riley did say that we would be authorized to do so under the statute without any special act by the town council. So I could stick that in there. So hopefully we won't have to revisit these for a while. And I did add a severability section as well. Okay. And the non-compliance was the thing that, yeah, right. Okay. All right, good. Wonderful. And then, yeah, Dylan. Well, I'm sorry. I just, the parking fees part the, it's saying the 10 foot separation that's in both directions. So it would have to take up three spots for a food truck. That's what we talked about and I just forgot about it. I think originally one idea was to have just a, that all food trucks must need three spaces, but they, we also had that it needed 10 feet, I think. And I think we thought that the 10 feet itself would probably make sense because you could have a really big one where 10 feet or three spaces wouldn't be enough or maybe you'd have a really small one or probably would be in three spaces anyway, but I figured that would kind of cover anything, everything anyway. Well, I mean, yeah, I definitely had more time to, to read this and was necessary on this. So I'm not, I'm not about to start nitpicking this at the last minute here. So I love it. You know what? That's my, that's my position on it. It looks great. Let's look for the type of. I'm sure there's a couple in there. All right. Does anyone else have any questions or anything to correct on this? Can we just kind of see how the, that section that talked about the administrative approvals ended up? Oh yeah. Right. Good point. There it was. Okay. Okay. I mean. There we'll fix our typo. You know, let's have, let's have the food trucks. All right, let's do it. So, and then Steve, you said we wanted to put a six month delay effectiveness on the tip certification. Oh no, wait, that's the license regulations. I think they'll get the other one. Yeah. That's the other one. Nevermind, I'm jumping ahead and I'm going to turn myself. Okay. Great. So if there's anyone have any questions about this or comments, if not, should we close the hearing and take a vote? You ready? All right. Is there a motion to close the hearing? All right. Thank you. Dylan is there a second? Second. Thank you, Hallie. We'll take a vote. Gaston. Hi. Dylan. Hi. Hallie. Hi. And I vote aye. Four to zero with one absent. The hearing is now closed. Is there anyone? Do we have any other discussion at all? If not, then is there a motion to approve the, Steve, can you give me the title again? That is the. What is it? Regulations of the operations of lunch carts and food trucks in the public way. Is there a motion to approve regulations for the operations of lunch carts and food trucks in the public way as we have here today? So moved. Thank you, Dylan. Is there a second? Second. Thank you, Hallie. Any further discussion? No. All right. Hi. Gaston. Hi. Dylan. Hi. And I vote aye. Because it is four to zero with one absent. The regulations are approved. Yay. Yay. Thank you for. Thank you. Yeah. Thank you, Mary, for seeing it through. Oh, sure. Thanks, Steve, also for your immense help and glad we got that one done. So on to the next thing. We're going to open up the hearing for. Let liquor license regulations and decisions. Is there a motion to open that hearing? So moved. Thank you, Dylan. Is there a second? Second. Thank you, Hallie. We'll take a vote. Gaston. Hi. Hallie. Hi. Dylan. Hi. And I vote aye. That is four to zero with one absent. The hearing is now open. Okay. And so this is the one, Steve, where we wanted the. Yeah, I might suggest to stay a minor modification to the implementation. Okay. So I guess I'll go through any changes. I did make this as set in the border license commissioners fee chart. It might be good to put the fees themselves in here at some point, but I think hopefully we will be taking a quick look at fees before the end of the month. So depending on whether we're able to get some good feedback from the finance department. So I think we'll leave it as that. And if we do make changes, we can maybe merge those two documents. The fee chart might end up being the same. But I guess we'll think about that. I think this suffices for now because we have voted and officially adopted that. In terms of changes, there wasn't really much we hadn't talked about last time and gone over. My one suggestion was that we may want to for the validity section, they take effect upon their approval. I might suggest that we exempt section 5.02, which contains the tips requirements part to maybe extend that becomes effective in six months to give restaurants who may not have anybody who is tip certified time to finance that and have their employees go through those classes and so on and so forth. OK, how does that sound to everybody? I think that sounds fair. Yeah. And OK, I guess we can do that. Yeah, I mean, I'm just thinking that if not, I mean, then any restaurant that didn't already have that would be immediately in violation after these are adopted. OK. Any concerns about that, Dylan? He's my only concern is what's our mechanism at all for enforcement of that? What are you going to be doing about that, Steve? Are we giving you a badge and gun? Well, unfortunately, no, the town has not provided that. It would look nice on my bedside table, but I mean, we can we could put a request out to to all the licensees on me. Maybe maybe we'd say April 1st is the day those become that section becomes effective and we would ask for a tip certificate from all the managers of record. And then in terms of operationally, the manager on duty, the police department is the enforcement agency. So they would be able to sample or audit that at any time they go there. OK. Are we are we going to make any sort of request to do it?  I like that we're doing it. I think we put a lot of time into kind of coming to this consensus. It just feels like that's for nothing if we're not going to enforce it and we're not going to enforce it. Then we shouldn't adopt it. It's just kind of my general feeling that being said, I think we should adopt it and shouldn't force it. I just don't know how we actually plan on going about enforcement. That's that's why I asked if it just seems like your your wheelhouse. Are we going to are we going to make a request to the police department to check on that? I think that's up to you to check on the tips status.  However, if the norm is in here and any of these places has any other issue and then we ask for the records and they can't produce it, then it's kind of an aggravation. That's one way in which it's not a total nullity. I think another thing that we could consider doing is having like a check the box on renewals. So that the when they're renewing licenses, they're in a position to, you know, sign their name to complying with that requirement. And we could remind them about this and any other things that we think need to be highlighted. Steve, what what do you think about this kind of brainstorming here? No, I think that makes a lot of sense. And I think it's also important to parse out that we're kind of having two different discussions here. I mean, I was only proposing that this section we give them in six months is just something I pulled out of the hat, but we do give them some time to to come into compliance with this because there was no such requirement before. So many managers record might not have tips. And if there wasn't some implementation period, I mean, unless they were attentively following our agendas, they wouldn't even know this was this was coming. So and I think that some kind of implementation period would be fair so they can come into compliance. And in terms of enforcement, which I think is a different issue, regardless of how long of an implementation period there was for this section, I think we it does say that when an application is submitted, the manager of record needs to submit a tip certification. And if they don't have one, they can petition the board to supply it at a later date. But the assumption is that they would have to have it at the at at the time that the application is heard. And then on renewals, we could request an active tip certification for any manager of records for this implementation period whenever it expires. We could, you know, say April 1st, April 1st, we need to have a tip set tips certifications from every manager of record and all the licensees. And then in the in the 2023 end of year renewal period, it can be just kind of a check part of the part of the renewal process. Exactly. Yeah, that sounds fine to me. I think it sounds great. Yeah, it sounds fine to me, too. Yeah, Dylan. No, I'm saying I like that. I do. OK. OK. And I don't love the idea of, you know, sending the cops and be like, hey, show us a certification to have confused managers say my what. So yeah. Yeah, I think for the manager of record, it's a lot easier to do it administratively because that's a person who's who's named but I'm for the manager on duty. I mean, who would really know unless he went there. Yeah, that looked good to everybody. Mm hmm. That looks great. All right. All right. Was there anything else? Or they look good. Any other questions? No. OK. Is there a motion to close the hearing? Don't move. Thank you, Dylan. Is there a second? Second. Thanks, Hallie. For the second, I'll take a vote. Hallie. Hi. Dylan. Hi. Gaston. Hi. And I vote aye. Four to zero with one absent. The hearing is closed. Is there any further discussion? No. OK. Is there a motion to approve these regulations? Don't move. Thank you, Dylan. Is there a second? Second. Thank you, Hallie. Is there any further discussion? Last chance. No. OK. Let's take a vote. Gaston. Hi. Dylan. Hi. Hallie. Hi. And I vote aye. Four to zero with one absent. The liquor license decisions slash regulations are approved. Thank you very much. Thank you, Hallie, for all the work on this. Thank you all. And everyone. Yeah. Awesome. We need to now have these kind of as our little Bible during our hearings. Yes, I know. Get a little mini copy that we keep with us at all times. If you would like me to print and mail one to you, I'd be happy to do so. Already any of the regulations, really. Yeah. We've kind of become so used to digital and COVID, but. Right. I can update my binder. Maybe like the landscape two pages on a page, both sides folded kind of thing. Less paper. Yeah. Like a booklet. Yeah. I could probably make that work. That would be great. I have to figure out why the print keeps telling us to replace the stapler cartridge. But besides that, I can send those along. It will be nice and bound. Kind of fun. Cool. All right. Maybe we should have to stop by Town Hall to just like make us move. I'll go pick mine up. Yeah, I'll pick mine up. If you just let us know when they're ready. Yeah. All right. I am writing that down and I will try to get those ready for you. All right. Super. Thank you so much. All right. So topics not reasonably anticipated 48 hours prior to the meeting. Are there any topics apart from what we're going to put on the agenda next time? I would say there was a really interesting globe article. I forgot to forward it about the ballot initiative. I don't know if you guys have followed this ballot initiative. I'm not going to do justice to it. So I'm going to send around the article, but it's basically raising the possibility of single businesses owning more licenses. And it has an interesting political history because the original company that was pushing it is no longer pushing it. And it also has statistics about how many requests at the town level for extra licenses were made to the legislature. So I'll forward that to Steve to get around to us. Oh, that would be great. Thanks. Yeah, that would be interesting to read. Yeah, it will be. I did hear that Charlie Baker said he will veto any happy hour legislation that comes before him. Oh, really? Yeah. Yes, yeah. Healy 2022, 2024, whenever she's running, let's go. Do you guys see Biden pardoned all marijuana possession, federal offense? Yeah, that was good. I just didn't hear that. I got to think about that earlier. All right, so next topics. So no other topics anticipated? I do have one actually. So just an update on our licenses and pocket licenses. So I am aware of two pocket licenses at this time, both in the off-premises alcohol category, which is our highest demand probably, at least compared to the quota. We are at quota for that. And that is cousins and university liquors next to the hangar. And cousins, I did speak with. I spoke with Brian Riley earlier this week to try to just get a sense of what to do because there is that provision that they can't really renew if they are not open for business. And I guess it is slightly more complicated than that, but that is pretty much the case. And so they will basically need to either be open in full form as approved and in accordance to their special permits by November 30 and get me to paperwork by November 30th or have a full transfer application submitted by then to be able to renew. And in either case, I think I'm going to send that official letter to them, giving them six months to make up their mind before we can actually take action on it being a pocket license. It has been quite a while for cousins. And they did have an application in this summer, but nothing else has been forthcoming yet despite promises to the contrary. And University Lickers, I have not been able to make contact with that owner. I don't exactly know what's going on there, but it doesn't appear to be occupying the space anymore. So that would be a question of whether the board immediately takes action or to revoke because you need to have control of the space or whether the board would refuse to renew and suggest a transfer or what kind of action would need to be taken. OK. Yes, Gaston. Well, can we basically wait until they apply and when they apply, call them in to talk? Yeah, that could certainly happen as well. I mean, if you reached out to them, I don't know what else we could do, but when they do renew, we can call them in to the next meeting. Yeah, and that would certainly not be eligible for renewal without control of the space. Do you know who their landlord is? It's whoever owns that building. I can try to look it up in the GIS really quickly. I mean, it might just be worth a call or email to the landlord just to ask if he or she knows what's going on. Yeah, I did have a realtor calling me, so it was hearsay, but that he is definitely no longer occupying the space. So it probably would be worth a call to the landlord, though, to get a little bit more information. That is Gleason John Real Rentals, LLC, is the company that owns the property. So what is the process? Because usually we come across transfers or sales of a license like that. What happens if we revoke a license? Well, that is a good question, kind of skipping the rest of the process and going right to the point where the board comes into possession of an in-demand license. I guess there are different ways to do it. I read an article a few couple of years ago in the Gazette. I think E. Tampton had a license that they came back into possession of a, I think it was on-premises, but it was a license type there very much at quota four. And I think they actually had like a courthouse steps auction and auctioned it off. It could also do a lottery, I believe. I think there are a few different schemes you can use. I have had a lot of interest, a lot of people calling about these licenses. And some of them are suggesting just first come, first serve, but I think that would be a little bit ridiculous. I mean, there would be people camping outside of town hall two in the morning on January 1st, like it's a Harry Potter opening or something. And I don't think that's really fair. So probably something like that. It's just curious, thank you. So can everyone hear me? Yeah. Am I coming through? Yeah, my internet is kind of wonky today. You're screaming a bit dark for a minute, but we can hear you now and see you now. Okay, okay, great. So you're gonna try to get in touch with the landlord and then we'll just wait, okay. I'll keep trying to get in touch with the university liquor zone.  To both of them, I think I just wanna make sure that we're very clear on expectations of what needs to happen. Okay, so we don't have to do anything until we get an update from that, right? Unless the board wants to immediately schedule a hearing about not occupying the space in terms of university liquors, then no. Okay, do we wanna do that? I think we just wanna wait for the results of the letter, if there are any. That's fine. I'm comfortable with Steve sending letters and then if they show up and apply for renewal, we can talk to them then. Okay, does that sound all right, Steve? Yeah, that sounds fine. Okay, all right, oh, is everyone else okay with that? Dylan and Allie, okay, great. Thank you, Steve. So any other topics not reasonably anticipated? If not, oh, did you have anything else, Steve? Nope, I said not for me. Okay, super. So for our next meeting, which would be on October 20th, which is the third, right, third Thursday, yes. We wanna do just sticking to our schedule of focusing on our topic. Is that when we're gonna do a license fee comparison chart? Is that what we're gonna do? Hopefully, yes, yeah, hopefully. I do want to, yeah, I do wanna get back and touch with the finance director. Okay. And just see if he has any thoughts and hopefully if there's any solid recommendations, we could change that then before anything else goes out. Okay. And if not, then we probably will miss the, miss the boat for this time, but... Okay. Yeah, I do need to get back. Let me know if there's something I can try to help with on that. Thank you, Gaston. Yeah, okay. So is that the only topic? I know we were gonna hold off on adult use. Doug isn't here. And if that's turning into a more complicated thing, is that correct? Yeah, I mean, I think there was an email that circulated within the town management, some of the town staff of their day about looking into marijuana licensing and replacing the host community agreement, which was getting some serious consideration. So I'm still waiting to hear back what the town manager's decision on whether he'd like to take that path is or not. But I think next week, next meeting, we will probably be hopefully doing license fee, any changes that might be made. And then after that will be in the heart of renewal. Okay. So maybe we can, we might be able to touch on it a little bit in early November before it really heats up, but December will definitely probably be, I mean, everybody will be busy with the holidays and everything and the agendas will be, at least I'll be extremely busy with renewal. So I guess you can kind of bulk approve the most of them, but. Okay, all right, that would be great. So the only discussion topic we have for next week is the license fee comparison chart. And we'll have a couple of short terms for sure. And some short terms. Okay, just one last thing. Steve, have you heard anything from Hazel's Blue Lagoon? He did bring in his printed license and sitting on my desk. So they are serving the suspension. Okay.  Is it next or the Saturday, I guess, or Sunday? All right. This weekend? I believe it expired the eighth. I'll have to check. Okay. Check exactly what the, that's a good. So that means they're legit or not on Saturday? If I think the suspension was to be served through Saturday, so Sunday they would be. Okay. But that is a good thing to check before the weekend. Okay, yeah. Bring the business after that. I'll probably give it to the police department to give it back to him for his novella weekend. Okay. All right, great. Well, so if there's nothing else and we have our date for the meeting next and our agenda topics, is there a motion to adjourn? I move. Thank you, Dylan. Is there a second? I can. Thanks, Hallie. Do a roll call out of here. Hallie. Hi. Dylan. Hi. And I vote aye. That is four to zero. One absent were adjourned at 532 p.m. Thanks everybody. Dylan, I've enjoyed watching your guitar collection. Bro. Bro. I've had them all for a long time. It's just I've now finally got stands to put them up. So. Okay. Good, good, good. All right. Have a good week you guys. You too. Bye. I work on these and I'll talk to you in a couple of weeks. All right. Thanks, Steve. Bye.


Hey friends today, we are hanging out at Disney's Animal Kingdom There are tons of new food items and experiences all around the park And I figured I'd come out and show you some of them So we're gonna ride some rides eat some food and have a wild Animal kingdom kind of day Anyhoo, let's go do this. I I can definitely say it is a good day to have a wild time in Animal Kingdom The temperatures in the 80s and it is beautiful out That was cool to see the big Disney 100 sign in front of the Animal Kingdom entrance And this is also the first time I've been back in the park since they celebrated the 25th anniversary So there's tons of things that we get to check out today And then also some of the new food for Asian American Pacific Islander month and I'm excited I'm excited to eat some food and just hang out. I love this park One of the most popular things in Animal Kingdom right now are the Pumbaa Popcorn buckets and the Timon Sippers And they actually have lots of them. So I think I'm actually gonna get them I mean, I'm really excited because they're really cool-looking And it's nice to see something other than Simba because usually they do a lot of Simba popcorn buckets You know what I mean? And $40 later, I am a proud owner of a Timon Sipper and a Pumbaa Popcorn bucket Look at that. I'm double doing it and it's $40 and you also get like a bottle of water and a box of popcorn on the side and Yeah I love them Well, I can see what's happening What and they don't have a clue who they'll fall in love And here's the bottom line Freos down the two. Oh We're gonna keep moving along But I wanted to point out that I'm happy that I'm wearing my Macaw Roosevelt shirt today Because the Macaw show is about to happen and I'm sure we'll see tons of them flying around and also I might be regretting my decision even though I love these popcorn buckets and the zipper But my neck is not gonna like this in probably 20 minutes Because it's already scratching up the back especially when you're double doing it Figured I'd stop and look at the wait times for today and so far it doesn't look that bad flight of passage is 80 minutes Navi River 65 Kilimanjaro Safari is only a five minute wait. Look at that expedition ever 15 minutes 20 minutes for Cali River Rapids I think we're gonna have a fun day and ride lots of rides Those wait times look amazing and honestly I kind of feel compelled to run over to Kilimanjaro Safari's because it's only a five minute wait But one of the places that has a whole bunch of new food items is the Nomad Lounge And that is usually hard to get into but my friends happen to be there And I am going to go join up with them and then maybe afterwards we'll ride Kilimanjaro Safari's But I do want to try some of the new food in there why I can Here is the Nomad Lounge and it's actually located right next to Tiffins and just some of their Drinks that they have on the menu. I'm sure we're gonna be looking at the things that are brand new But they've got really cool things like the tempting Tigris Jen's tattoo Some Poketuna and a lot of other good stuff They also have the Tiffin bread service here that you can get which is really really good Usually I always like dining outside, but you have to take what you can get because it's you it's it's hard to get in here It's a long wait to join the walk-up list So we're gonna be dining inside, but it's still just as pretty in here and I'll show you around a little bit This is the indoor dining area and they have a bar that you can sit at or they also have little comfy chairs over here But the one thing I want to point out That's really cool are these little tags here that you can purchase and leave a little note They'll hang it up They have them hanging here and then they also have them hanging above the bar there. I think that's just real fancy I ran into my friends Allie and Dom and they already have some food here And I'm already jealous because look at this in espresso martini and there's an elephant on the top there It's kind of like it's I think that's chocolate powder maybe but that is so cool and then also the churros Look at those Yeah Yeah, this strawberry people have been begging for it to come back. I'm so happy that it's back now I Just found out that the churro sauce isn't the same strawberry sauce It they used to have like a spicy strawberry, but this is strawberry lava and it's a new sauce and now we got to try it Here is some of the new food for the Asian American Pacific Islander heritage month They've got Bangkok crispy chicken wings and that looks like it's got caramel sauce on it And then also a coconut mango cocktail So I think I'm gonna actually try them both a little Bangkok chicken wings and coconut cocktail That's a tongue twister My friend Allie runs a tiktok page called Allie Wood Studios and She covers a lot of gluten-free stuff here at Disney and the churros are actually gluten-free In fact, she said most of the menu here is gluten-free So just wanted to point that out for anyone that is looking for some gluten-free help check out her page Allie Wood Studios Here are the wings they look so good nice and saucy there and Also, here is the cocktail. They said it's an edible flower. So this is the coconut mango cocktail Parrot Bay they got some Stoly in there mango puree coconut milk. I don't know I'm not I'm not the biggest fan of Stoly vanilla vodka, but maybe it'll actually mix good with the coconut and then like I said these ones actually have Caramel peanuts and cilantro on it. So you gotta watch out for the peanuts, but they do look good I'm definitely gonna try to eat that edible flower. I usually whenever they have edible flowers They really don't taste like anything, but I kind of like eating flowers. So here we go Can't say I'm a fan. I like it It's got a real it's got a it's got a it's got a texture. I can tell you that got a texture It's it's it's very shocking because it tastes like thick It looks watery, but it tastes thick and you can really taste like the coconut in there Mixed with the vanilla and the mango. Maybe it's just a combination of things, you know, these drinks are better though How's the espresso martini? Yeah, see I should have gotten it I might actually order one now, I think I'm gonna order one Yeah Now it's time to dive into these delicious looking wings though and honestly I have high expectations I really love the food here at Nomad Lounge and they really don't disappoint. So here we go Oh, yeah That's good Update we got another espresso martini and that is a turtle look at that look it Wow Honestly, I am a fan now. I am so much a fan of Nomads. Yep Well Nomad Lounge was awesome the wings were so crispy and the sauce was delicious I didn't like the drink so much But I did end up getting one of those espresso martinis and it was cool because I got a zebra on it But it got mixed up a little bit. So I didn't want to show you guys It like didn't it didn't stay together as it was but the turtle and the elephant were remarkable I wonder how many other animals they actually have and now it's time to move along and maybe go ride expedition Everest Looks like Kevin down about in front of the tree of life She really is exploring the wilderness Look at her go I Think Kevin's gonna actually show us the way to expedition Everest this way It's time to head on in for expedition Everest the wait time is only 15 minutes But I'm not even too sure what I do with my Tumon and Pumbaa I don't even know what do I do with them because they're not gonna fit in there the pouch or anything So I guess I'm gonna lay them on the ground I Think it's so funny because when I'm walking around I don't realize I got like this big Pumbaa hanging out So like I bump into people It's kind of like he's ramming in like in the movie We're gonna have to put them down here I think Tumon a fan here. Let me see To moan looks like a little kangaroo in a kangaroo pouch Oh Dream I wonder if we're gonna get the bird. I don't see them. Oh wow. They really got us hanging up here for a second There we go, oh, I guess you made it back with us. I'm on it boom. They got me on that last stop there. I Don't know why they stopped like that I Made it back down. I Love riding expedition ever said I almost lost my wallet on there But to moan was securely tucked away in his kangaroo pouch and Pumbaa was just on the ground But I can't believe they just stayed there like I thought they'd fly out But they have like metal cages on the side and now we're gonna move along I think we're gonna go do flight of passage Maybe make our way over to the Valley of Mora down in Pandora and just kind of enjoy animal kingdom a little bit longer I Love when we were actually walking over to Pandora and transitioning from like the wilderness to Like the Valley of Mora and you can hear the sounds change. It's really cool, too I wouldn't mind pumping this in at my house But the insect sounds Listen to that That's something to fall asleep to right there or I could just move back to the country. I Really wish they would add some more new food to Pandora other than the new stuff They added for the movie like they don't do like specials that are included because I feel like it's separate from Everything else in the park because it's like a different like land and they want to keep to the theming But I'm sure they could come up with some new food every now and again You know what I mean not just for the new movie release The most recent food that they actually added to Sautuni canteen was this ocean moon bowl right here It's very colorful. It's blue noodles tuna watermelon radish and then also this moose down here But that's like been the most of it. I mean, I love all of the food here though Like so it's it's hard for me not to come here and get like the sliced grilled beef or the chopped Ward grilled chicken and I'm not the biggest fan of tuna But that just looks amazing like I feel like I should try it look at that They got rainbow carrots and avocado and cucumbers. Maybe we'll come back and do that one day. I Love that Simone and Puba are riding all these rides with us They get the right expedition ever so now we're going on flight of passage and they're gonna go in the stowaway area there So they're gonna be able to watch it. I Know that they really just can't actually see but they're not real But it's kind of fun. It adds to like a little storyline the adventures of Timon and Pumba at Animal Kingdom Oh even you Even you Yes, he would Pumba's gonna eat all the bugs Right I gotta wear shades on your flight by flight of passage shades I Honestly, it's pretty crazy the fact that flight of passage was only a 30 minute wait today It's definitely worth it to come to Animal Kingdom before like a little bit before the park closes Because a lot of people tend to park up and they go to like Magic Kingdom or Epcot where they have a nighttime show and Since the park was at seven a lot of people are gone by then and that's just your testimony right there 30 minute wait for flight of passage that is crazy, and I loved it. It's such a great ride It was really cool how I got to set the camera up like that So I hope you enjoyed it and now I don't know maybe we're gonna keep walking around. We only have like 30 minutes left I forgot that Animal Kingdom closed so early I mean I like coming later in the day because it's like you know a little bit cooler and you get on more rides But I'm sad. I miss Animal Kingdom at night. I want to see the bioluminescence We're gonna stop in Island Mercantile and see if they've got any new merchandise Animal Kingdom is always coming up with something new. A lot for Pandora Especially as soon as you walk in The other day I saw this Lion King Spiratures and I thought it was cool And then I found a whole bunch of like retro Lion King stuff Look at the the hat the hoodie right here the shirt this all reminds me of like that time That's really cool like that era of Lion King. This is nice, and they even have some Christmas ornaments It's good to see some more Lion King merchandise They also have a lot of the 25th anniversary still left over I know these bags these bags these bags These bags look at these bags these bags were very popular and look at that Oh, and even this one here more adventure is out there. Look at that I think that's Kevin on there. That's a nice spirit Jersey. That's actually really really cool I like that a lot. I wish I could buy the sign. They sold me this sign. I'd put this home I I display it properly even that island Mickey thing up there. Let me have the props. That's what I want Now that we've gotten some shopping done. I think it's time. We actually start making our way out of Animal Kingdom I don't want to go but the park's closing and I think we're gonna park hop maybe hop to another park Maybe Hollywood Studios. Maybe Epcot. I'm hanging out with some friends.   They're actually very heavy Let's say it's probably about five pounds. Maybe ten pounds. I don't know I Ran into some friends and I think Timon is actually gonna be going home with Mike Look at that He was actually on his way out and I decided to give him my to moan because they stopped selling them, right? There's still plenty of them in there. They just stopped serving, but it's cool to see to moan actually Going on another adventure, but it was nice seeing you guys Yeah, another journey there we go. Well, thanks guys. Have a great one It's nice that to moan is going home with Mike Wheeler He wanted to get one but they stopped selling them So, you know, I was like you can have mine and now it's just me and Pumba and oh in fact now our trios down to two We've went from animal kingdom to Hollywood Studios at the perfect time look at this It's like the golden hour a sunset is happening. The lights are turning on oh Anytime anyone says hey you want to go to Hollywood Studios before it gets dark. I'll always say yes I'll always say less What a treat Hollywood Studios is open till 10 p.m. Tonight 10 p.m. And the last showing of Fantasmic is at 1030 this is amazing Wow Usually they're closing up shop at 8 or 9 o'clock and they're actually doing after hours after that So after hours event tonight and the park closes at like 10 o'clock. That's that's incredible We're not staying for the after hours event But I might be persuaded into sticking around for Fantasmic a little late-night Fantasmic action sounds pretty appealing to me. I Just had a magical moment happen for me I was on my way to baseline and I was walking through the pathway where they have a little stand that sells bananas it's a banana stand and They were like hey do you want some bananas and I was like yeah want some bananas I think they were closing down so they ended up giving me two bananas and let me tell you something This is a really big deal because these bananas are two dollars and fifty cents a piece Like that's how much I would have paid for them if they don't just give it to me So you always know there's money in the banana stand Now I have made it over the baseline. I've got my bananas and also I just wanted to say hi to mr. Swanson in Connecticut. Thanks for watching the videos Hello Are you there hello Nothing like hanging out at baseline eating a banana listening to music drinking some water The bananas Hello bananas Baseline is definitely one of my favorite places to just hang out and drink at Hollywood studios Now I do like going into the tune-in lounge because that's a good spot, but look at this atmosphere in here Isn't it so cool? It's always beer o'clock here It's like I got a whole new wind and I'm ready to go and ride some more rides In fact, I think we're gonna make our way over to Slinky Dog Dash and maybe do a nighttime ride Little nighttime ride on Slinky and then phantasmic. This is the combo we needed Looks like Slinky Dog Dash is a 40 minute wait though. Look at that doesn't look like a 40 minute wait Wow, what a night what a day we've had so far Once we got up to Slinky Dog Dash We realized the line definitely looks a little bit longer than what it says because it said a 30 minute wait So I think we're gonna actually go to Toy Story Mania So that way we can make it in time for 1030 a phantasmic because that's the overall. That's that's the endgame. That's the plan Time to Take a visit with the good old prospector here The prospector where's mr. Where's potato head? Look at that I What is going on? I mean is he still back there you think? You can kind of see it maybe I can hear it We have to make sure our glasses are you know good to go got to test them out beforehand You don't want to lose. We're going all out now. It's me and Dom first Ali and Kristen and They're going down. I mean, I don't even know Oh, it's going down They don't even know They don't even know I love coming to this side. Look it. We're in Andy's room We're just walked in the doorway Big old plug there This is my favorite one mouse trap a Game of zany action on a crazy fill in the blank Contraption yeah We're taking this very seriously, so I'm not going to be able to film much because I'm going to focus on playing But I'll let you know what the scores are afterwards. Don't worry. We're keeping track My eyes That's to be a close one 37 that's hard to do when you have two competitive people. Oh, we didn't get to see what they got Best in the equal I didn't get best this hour. Who was in this who was riding this earlier best this hour 659 We both got the deer though What a competitive run on Toy Story Midway mania I ended up pulling the W But it was really close with Dom He's really good at it and when you have two people with the equal skill set it takes away So we could have gotten a lot better high scores, but we totally rocked it the guys one and yeah No, it's a phantasmic It looks like everybody's grabbing ice cream before phantasmic hand scooped ice cream brownie sundaes Ice cream sundaes a cup or a cone This is the spot Hollywood scoops What'd you guys get I got Vanilla punch sundae with extra whipped cream extra whipped cream. What'd you get I got a sundae with mint chocolate chip and cookies and cream Oh, and look at the line of people getting into phantasmic right now Yeah, we don't have to get in that line. It's not gonna sell out We're going to stroll in Half past even though that is a gigantic line. There's plenty of space and there's no need to rush This is why we get in Russian plenty of space plenty of space We waited to the last second and ended up getting the best seat in the house look at that We're gonna be able to get a good look at Moana and Mickey They're all gonna be right there. It's gonna be so awesome. I Think the show is starting And Tom is getting a pretzel Man fun Some and dare I say an awesome way to end the night and Yeah, fun day at Animal Kingdom got to go ride some rides try some of the new food hop to Hollywood Studios did Phantasmic, I wish we could have done slinky dog dash, but the timing just wanted to work. Thank you So I hope you guys enjoyed the video. I enjoyed making it. We'll see you next time.  What was that jump? What are you doing? What do you want to treat? Where's your what? Where's your stitch outfit? Huh? Where's your stitch? You want to treat? Let's go. Okay? You


Hey everybody, welcome to the Wallach Way. I'm Jessica and today's video is going to be all about homeschooling year-round. Let's talk about some of the pros and the cons. But before we talk about the pros and the cons, let's talk about what homeschooling year-round is because if you're new to homeschooling, you may be like, what is this term? Homeschooling year-round is really simple. It just means that you are going to not take a traditional school schedule of homeschooling August through May and taking that big month of time off in the summer. It doesn't mean that you're not gonna have time off and we will talk about that in the pros and the cons, but it just means you're not going to follow that traditional school schedule and instead you're gonna homeschool through the summer or through most of the summer and basically homeschool year-round. You're gonna homeschool more through the year, but it doesn't mean you're going to homeschool more in general, because you're still gonna get those breaks. Now, we have homeschooled the traditional way and we have homeschooled year-round. So I feel like I can really tell you some of the pros and the cons of both so that you can make an informed decision of what will be best for your homeschool. So let's start with the pros of homeschooling year-round. The number one pro for homeschooling year-round for me is that there is no summer learning loss. Did you know that most traditional school children lose two and a half months of learning during the summer when they take that time off? That is why if you were in public school, you won't remember spending so many months when you went back to school the next year reviewing the topics from the previous year because chances are the majority of the kids lost it. I don't know about you, but as a homeschool mom, I want to be efficient and to manage my time as best as possible because there's not enough of it. So why would I want to spend two and a half months reteaching something that I've already taught? I don't. So that is the number one pro for homeschooling year-round is that doesn't have to happen. It doesn't mean you have to be introducing new concepts all summer long. It just means you have to not be doing the ones that you've already done. So we just can do review during the summer. You can just review the things that you've already done. You can just keep using the things that you've already taught. Homeschooling year-round means that the chances are they're not gonna have what is commonly referred to as the summer slide. Homeschooling year-round pro number two is that you get to keep the routine. So I don't know about your kids, but my kid thrives on having a rhythm and a routine. We do not have a schedule here in our house. I don't do a whole hour-by-hour thing, but we kind of have a general flow to our day. We wake up, we do this next and this and then next. And if we don't have that, it just stresses us all out, all of us. Because it's like, it just feels like you're juggling. You don't know what to do next, what's coming next, what's happening next.  It just feels like everything is off. So homeschooling year-round gives you the ability to just kind of keep going with the flow, keeping that routine and that rhythm. You don't have to worry about trying to come back to it once you've taken those months off because coming back to a routine after a prolonged break is a nightmare. Homeschooling year-round pro number three is that you can take lots of breaks. All right, here it is. I told you that it didn't necessarily mean that you were gonna homeschool more and it doesn't. When you're homeschooling year-round, when you say there are 365 days in the school year instead of that traditional 180, you're basically doubling the amount of time that you can school, which means that you can take breaks whenever you want. You have a kid's day, okay, take a break. You aren't feeling it today, okay, take a break. You wanna go on vacation in February when everybody else is in school and prices are cheaper and everything's dead? Absolutely. In our homeschool for the past few years, we actually learned that the holidays were really stressful when we added homeschooling into it because you've got so many things going on and so many commitments to family and holiday events and it's just too much. We have actually always taken off from Thanksgiving until January, at least in the past three or four years because it just makes my life more just easier. Like, hands down, it is so much easier. So we just take kind of what would be a big portion of our summer around the holidays. Does that mean we do nothing? Nope, it absolutely does not, but it does mean that I don't stress about it at all. Like, I don't stress period. It also means that when the holidays are over, we can ease back into homeschooling and have a much more relaxed summer and a relaxed return from the holidays because I don't have to worry about teaching all of the things in that 180 day calendar. Instead, I have 365 days. So you can take the breaks you want, you can go as relaxed as you want, it just makes it a lot easier. Homeschooling year-round pro number four is that it really does help you create a culture of learning in your home and in your family. When you are homeschooling with that traditional schedule and you're taking two and a half months off and you're just like, okay, we're not doing school, you're really kind of creating that mindset that school is something to be done. School is something that is done from this date from this time to this time. And when you're not in those dates in those times, you are not schooling. And there is absolutely no problem with that.  You're just learning together. So there you have it. Those are the pros to homeschooling year-round. But now let's talk about the cons because there are a few. Homeschooling year-round con number one and the biggest in my personal opinion is that it means there is no break for the homeschool mom.   But as a homeschool mom, you get a break. You're not having to teach new concepts. You're not having to plan the homeschool days. You can just turn your homeschool mind off or you can use that two and a half months to plan and really be ready for the year that's coming up in August, right? So you can kind of use that time to your benefit to set your homeschool year up for success. You can use that time for professional development to become a better homeschool mom.  But if you're homeschooling year-round, you don't always get that. Now, there are some ways around it. There are some other schedules like a Sabbath schedule where you would homeschool six weeks on and one week off and you could take that one week off to do household stuff or planning or turn your brain off. Again, with year-round, you can take breaks when you need it, but those breaks are typically smaller, less time. So you're just not getting that big chunk of time off in the summer to maybe do a household renovation or to do something for yourself or whatever it may be that you would typically wanna do with that big chunk of time. It's not happening if you're homeschooling year-round. And in my opinion, that's probably the biggest con. Homeschooling year-round con at number two is that there could potentially be scheduling conflicts. So if you live in a neighborhood with a lot of kids and they're off during the summer and they're wanting to schedule all of their play dates during those summer months, if you're still schooling, it can make it difficult to, number one, keep your kids' attention because they're wanting to go outside and play with all the kids outside, but also to schedule things. Also, there are a ton of amazing camps that only happen during the summer months.  It makes it difficult. Keep in mind that some of those summer camps are educational, so they could still be counting towards school if you're schooling year-round. And so you can get flexible with that later once you've decided which schedule is best for you, but it can make scheduling difficult, especially if, let's say, for example, your sister or your aunt or your mom or somebody as a teacher and they're wanting to schedule their vacations in the summer because that's the only time off they have and you wanna spend time with them. It just makes it a little more difficult to kind of schedule all of that out.  So you kinda have to weigh that, like what do I want to do during the summer that maybe I can't do during the traditional school year because school is out and does that mean we need to take school off so that we can do those things. Homeschooling year-round, con number three, is there could be added cost. When you're homeschooling year-round, it means that you may need supplies in February when they're not on sale for the back-to-school sales. Now, you could always try to stock up at the back-to-school sales, but you may not always know what you need, especially if you're just starting out homeschooling year-round.  So you may not have enough, which means that you're gonna have to pay closer to full price, so you're not gonna have as much savings. It also means that you're probably gonna be homeschooling more than the typical 180 days, so you may need more materials for teaching your child. You may need more books for them to read or you may decide the homeschooling year-round means that you're going to finish this curriculum and you're gonna go ahead and start the other one, which may be a little sooner than what you would have started were you taking a full two and a half months off in the summer years. It also means that you may be starting that curriculum, again, in March and not in August, which means maybe you can't take advantage of those back-to-school sales from the curriculum suppliers. So potentially it could be an added cost. Does it have to be an added cost? No, because once you start doing it, you can find ways around that so that you are shopping and you will learn how much you need or how much you don't need. You can buy used. I mean, there are ways to combat it, but it could potentially be an added cost homeschool year-round versus that traditional schedule. So if you are new here at the Waldoch Way, maybe you don't know, but we actually do homeschool year-round. That is what works best for us. It is what we have been doing for about the last three to four years. We tried the regular school schedule. I did not like the summer learning loss. I did not like the lack of routine. The added cost does not sway us at all. And while occasionally the scheduling conflict and the no breaks for mom are a little annoying, I have found ways to work around it. So like I said before, when there is a summer camp, we count that as part of our school. As far as the breaks for me, I take them when I need them. If I need a break in the middle of February, I will just take it straight up with no guilt because I don't get that two and a half months off during the summer. So I allow myself grace to take a week off in February because I have hit a wall and I need it or to take the holidays off because that's when I need it or to take a week off to go on vacation. So I have found ways around a lot of the cons, but again, I've been doing it for a few years. And sometimes you have to just do it to figure out what the cons are for you personally and then find ways around them if the homeschooling year round is something that you really wanna do and you think it is probably best overall, you will definitely find tips to make it work. And so on that note, I would absolutely love it if you would first tell me down in the comments, which schedule do you do? Do you homeschool year round? Do you follow the traditional schedule or do you do something completely different and then leave one or two tips for that schedule so that people that are looking to do it will have some tips to help them get started.


The crazy thing that people don't realize, especially here in the Bay Area, in the heart of the Silicon Valley, is that there's so many teenagers in our community that don't have access to mentors and teachers and resources for STEM. Sometimes it's hard looking up at tech leaders. Most of them are white, most of them are male, and it can be foreboding. You know, you can think, I really don't stand a chance, and that's why it's so important for these kids to meet leaders that look like them and share their stories and share their backgrounds so that they can be inspired and feel empowered and know, you know, someday that can be me up there. That's why we're just so excited to hear about the mix opening up. It's going to be this great space, completely free. Teenagers from all over the Bay Area can access it really easily because it's right in downtown San Francisco, easily accessible to everybody. And there's just going to be all these teenagers, you know, the same age, the same passions, and all those mentors helping the teenagers in our community actually realize their potential by giving them just the key, the key to success, which is the resources, the resources that a lot of people are unfortunately lacking. So we're just so excited about the mix and about partnering with the mix.


My name is Judy Byron. I'm the adult program coordinator and it's my pleasure to welcome the Honeybee Steel Band. They're awesome. I've known Emily for a number of years, other bands, and she was my percussion teacher for a short time there. I play the harp. It's a percussion instrument. I bet you didn't know that. Anyway, the Honeybee Steel Band started, they formed in 2015 in collaboration with the mobilization for pollinator survival and they have a ton of information here, flyers for you guys and such. And I really encourage you to pick it up and realize what we're doing to our pollinators because they are what are keeping our world alive, right? And you can read all the signs and such. So Emily is a virtuoso pan player and she studied at the, yeah, I think so. That was not in there. I know. I put it in there because I want to acknowledge, and I'm not, I don't want to do a spoiler. There's a surprise at the end. But she started at Northern Illinois University and got her master's in steel pan performance. I didn't even know there was such a thing, right? So anyway, so kudos, and kudos to the group for doing this. They do various festivals and parades and such, and it's all to bring awareness to this issue. And I think that's enough said because we want to hear the music and they're going to be available for Q&A after the performance. So welcome everybody and let's have some fun. I just saw my gals. This program is impossible by the generosity of the friends of the library. I didn't have that written down in my titchi. And I want to acknowledge the work that they do. They are so supportive of us and because of them, we have them in steel. So thank you friends and refreshments will follow as well. Thank you. So this next piece is popular by the Beatles. It's about the taste of our favorite drink. The drink? Yeah. The taste of my tea. Okay, that's funny. So this next thing, it kind of would be really funny if you guys danced. On this one, we purposely left some space here so you can get your boogie on. Okay, so all right, so this next tune is another one of the next kind of tunes, a Bee Bee's Favorite. We're going to have a street party. We're going to have Caribbean Dance. If you want to know more about it, talk to us after the show if you like to dance. There's going to be people practicing dance to do in the parade with us with patients and West African dance teachers. It's going to be a big spectacle. We're going to be zombies for the parade. Guess what? Zombies. So we're also playing a tune called Thriller, which of course everyone knows after Halloween is one of our favorite Halloween numbers. So we're going to do our little Halloween set for you right now, starting with Thriller. And the tune after that is called Zombie, which is written by a Nigerian Afrobeat star named Philip Anthony Cootie. And he passed away, I don't know, 20 years ago with his son, Sean Cootie, Femi Cootie. They're all performing in another version of the band that he started with. He had dozens of people in that band, Africa 70. They had a lot of dancers in addition to the band members. So that's our Afrobeat tune for the day, which is going to follow Thriller by Michael Jackson. So these are all really great tunes to dance to. Don't sit down. Two many songs. This is Aerovino. He just came back from the dead. A slower zombie. I just want to say this next tune, it's supposed to be from Niger. One of the Never Brothers passed away, Charles Never. This was a tune that featured him on the saxophone. We just wanted to, the homage didn't hit him as a musician and as one of my favorite bands, the Never Brothers. And this tune happens to be called Yellow Moon, which of course is our favorite color. I think we're missing one of our B's. Okay, are we ready? I just wanted to open this up for, if anybody had any questions for the band and the information, yeah. That's an incredible statistic. This is a great time to ask. This is different. If Vermont uses 11.5, it actually uses 12 tons per year.  That's one teaspoon of it. That's how deadly it is. Vermont uses 12 tons per year. It's coated on all the seeds for the corn and soy crops that are used to feed the dairy. That's why that is such a high statistic. And you can turn it around too. Another use is golf courses, okay? So out of those 12 tons per year, I forget how much it is. A ton is 2,000. So one of those tons is from golf courses. Okay, so just in case, you know, people who like to golf, I would say, we presented golf on golf courses that aren't perfect, that might feed a little bit better for the environment than a perfect department like the living room that happens to kill the biodiversity in the entire region. So we don't want them. They're systemic pesticides. They go into the plant, into the flower. They stay in the entire plant. They stay in the soil. And the poor little pollinators come to get the pollen out of the flower and it's poisonous. So they do way more than just protect this corn and soy product that's growing. So there's many other ways to farm. There's other methods of integrative pest management. We're getting farming. That would all work. We don't have to use these seeds that are pushed on the very industry by Bayer Monsanto Corporation. So we're trying to encourage the legislature to pass laws that transition us away from the use of those seeds. So that's the focus of our activities and efforts. There's a lot of people that do things like plant pollinator gardens, which are great, but that's not going to solve the problem if we continue to poison the groundwater and poison the crops year after year. And I'd like to mention also that the glyphosate coating on the... That's the new thing I was talking about. The glyphosates roundup is also poisonous to bees and birds. It damages their gut. And you might also know that it damages the gut in human beings, too. Anything grown, any food produced with those seeds is going to have residues of glyphosates in it, which causes leukemia and all kinds of other problems in people's gut. And there's billions of claims against the preparation that makes that roundup. So is that any questions? It's also killing the monarch butterflies. We have 10% of the monarch butterflies we have when I was a kid. I'm only 39. 90% are gone because of the glyphosates. One of the reasons. It's not the only cause. And I wanted to say, like, we can get our legislators to do things about this problem. If we all start calling them and saying we want to ban neonicinoids, we can make a difference. We hired them. We need to call them and tell them what we want. So we're not just going to sit around and wait for them to do something. We want to build a movement in Vermont so that we're all calling our legislators for the next session in April. Marlon is here from VPR. Roy, you have a question? Yeah. When is the parade going to be? Oh, yeah. There's going to be a parade for Halloween in Montpelier. There's a warm-up for the parade, which is like a street party on the top block of state street. We're the intersection of state and main in Montpelier, where we're going to just help people with costumes who want to join the dancers who are going to be dancing with our zombie tune in the parade. We're also going to play thriller. And we're going to, you know, have a lot of these signs for people to carry, because part of the, part of every time when we are out in public, we're trying to get the word out to educate people about this issue. Yes. What song or song will we be playing in the parade? Zombie. Zombie. The tune Halloween theme. Thriller and zombie. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, so Marlon. Marlon is from off the radio, by the way. Yeah. So I know that losing the bees, well, why are, why is losing the bees so important? I know that personally we're going to be missing some foods. What foods are we going to be missing from our diet, or how will the world be impacted by a lack of bees? Well, the first foods that are going to go are fruits. Okay. But bees are responsible for pollinating most crops. 75%. Yeah, 75% of the crops. So if you want to have a diet of like, you know, I think potatoes might grow without pollinators, maybe green.  But I personally like my avocados. I like my blueberries. I like my berries. I like the whole diversity of fruits and vegetables in my diet. And not to mention I like to eat a bowl of cereal knowing that it's not poisonous because most of the cereal that you buy in the grocery store actually is poisonous because you'll see it does not say non-GMO. A GMO is kind of the flip side of this. What GMO is, is a genetically modified seed that's bred to grow even if it's completely poisoned. That seed will grow into something that resembles weed and can be used to make cereal. Okay? So it's not really a whole food product because it has been changed to withstand toxic pesticides.  So but the bees are responsible for basically all fruit and vegetables? Yes, all fruit and vegetables. And not only if we lose the bees will we lose all those foods that are pollinated by them but it's going to affect the food chain. So it's not just going to be the foods they pollinate. It's also going to be whatever feeds off of those foods that are longer available. We can't really imagine what it might look like. But we don't want to go there. We don't want to go there. When I first heard about this, actually it was about 10 years ago that I first heard about this problem maybe five or six years ago but I really decided to develop my music and activism to this particular issue. I've always been shocked about why is it that this issue doesn't get more coverage in the news. And I think it's because that the agriculture lobby and the pharmaceutical industry are all tied up together and the pharmaceutical industry is actually largely responsible for pushing these pesticide products onto the agriculture industry and they have billions of dollars to spend on lobbyists for all the legislative things that go through state houses in every state in this country and all over the world for that matter. So it's hard to put up a fight when there's people that are paid full-time salaries to go in there and try to make sure that laws protect farmers who are going to use their poisonous products. So it makes it really challenging and we need to build a movement and we need to get the media to agree to cover this issue. Another problem is Jackie actually yesterday I went to a workshop that she led yesterday about money. Money matters. People have investment portfolios and stock brokers that invest in these industries that make huge profits. So if you happen to have an investment portfolio that's making a lot of money because of the fact that this huge multinational corporation is reaping huge profits off of these poisonous products then it's time to change what you're doing because we can't keep supporting these industries. It's intimidating to call your stock broker and tell them what you want them to do with your money but you can tell them to divest from there. Then you can be sure you don't own there. Divest, that's right. I'm sorry. Yeah, I was just going to say in a capitalist society you have to vote with your dollar. That's right. Not just with your calling and bugging and pushing. And if you've used your dollars around it before you can forget yourself because we know you didn't know. But now that you know, if there was a bill that was going to be passed to try to legislate against neonicotinoids and run by the state in the agricultural industry, would you call, raise your hand if you would be willing to make a five-minute call to your legislator to ask them to help ban these things? Well I'm going to pass this around because when we're ready with the bill we're going to email you and say, Okay, here's the big moment. We need the constituents of these people that we've hired into the state house to know. Because just five or six or ten or twelve constituents contacting a legislator will make them pay attention to a bill. Really, I've seen it. It's amazing. So if you're in Vermont it doesn't take a lot of voices. We won't email you a lot but we'll hit you at the moment when we want you to contact your legislator and if this seems like it's for three minutes of your time, that's a huge act you can take. Yeah, I want to say something too is that we have a special role in the tiny state life in Vermont where our voices can be heard much more than they can in a huge state like California, for example. A huge state like Illinois that has a lot of this chemical farming going on. We have the possibility to make a difference. If our state is able to pass some rules then other states will follow suit. And actually there are other states that are a little ahead of us in their laws against some of these pesticides efforts. I think Maryland is a little bit ahead but Vermont really has that potential because it's small because we have a lot of contact with our legislators through town meetings and things like that. So don't be shy about going to the Vermont state of Vermont website. You can see what's happening in the legislature and look it up just in the search right Neonik. Where's the thing that says Neonikotinoid? It's a purposefully intimidating word. But if you just write Neonik, N-E-O, yeah hold that up, N-E-O-N-I-C. If you put that in the search that will bring you to any legislation that has to do with Neonikotinoids. Similar with Glyphosate, that's not quite as intimidating as Neonikotinoid. It's G-L-Y-P-H-O-S-A. It's good to know those words. Neonik. Yeah. Glyphosate. Those are our two arched energies. And Europe did ban Neonikotinoids years ago. Yes. But not us. Yeah. And they're actually having a hard time upholding that. It's similar to the way Vermont passed the rule to force people to... GMO products developed. Yeah, thank you. GMO labeling. They wanted a GMO labeling to happen. But we passed that but the corporations just kick back so much that instead of labeling foods, this is painted by GMOs, we now have the little thing that says non-GMO. That we can put on any product that is not using genetically modified seeds and therefore use toxic pesticides. Yeah, watch for that little GMO, non-GMO label. 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Hey guys, Thunder E here, and today we're going to see how the Bose QC45s pair against the AirPods Pro Max and the Sony WH-1000 Mark IVs. So when it comes to true wireless headphones, Bose used to be the market leader for active noise cancellation headphones for years until the Sony's hit the market with the WH-Mk3s I believe and took that crown away. So if you guys have joined us for the very first time, don't forget to like, share, subscribe and check out the channel for more videos like this. So in my hands are the Bose QC45s, the true successor to the Bose QC35s that a lot of people love, a lot of people love to use to travel. Now the QC line are meant for active noise cancellation and yes, they do a good job. Now when you look at it compared to say the Sony's as well as the AirPods Max pricing is in between both. Now the Sony's are priced right now at $299, the Bose QC45s are $329 and the AirPods Max can range between $444 to $549. So that's where it stands. Now this has something unique, it's got that very similar styling to the QC35s but with an upgraded feel, you've got something that has soft leather cups, it's got a top head band that's soft and comfortable, collapsible with itself, nine terms of just functionality on the right ear cup, you do have your power on button and your Bluetooth sync button and then you've got your controls on that ear cup as well and of course USB Type-C charging which will give you about 20 hours or so more in terms of charging and then on the left ear cup you do have a headphone jack and a mode button which switches between your modes, you've got quiet and aware. Now all that said it also comes with a case which is something that all of them have and when you compare all of them together, both the Bose and the Sony have a solid carrying case that protects your device while Apple of course has the purse, whatever you want to call it. Either way, that's where they stand. Now when it comes to functionality though, here are some of the different points for all of these headphones and where do the Bose actually stand. So Bose has of course the active noise cancellation which you can quickly toggle with that main button as I mentioned and it's got two modes, one is called aware which is basically just transparency mode where you can listen to your environment and the other one is call quiet. Now this is something that you'll find with all of the headsets here especially with the Apple, you've got transparency which is pretty good and you've also got something similar on the Sony's W mark force, the WH mark force. Now when it comes to just pure usability, they're all pretty easy to use but you can get into a deeper function with the Sony because the Sony has a very robust application and this app allows you to toggle through between your active noise cancellation levels from I believe with the sliding bar and also you can customize it to match your environment so you can actually tune that here. So that's where Sony takes the cake compared to all of them. Now when it comes to active noise cancellation levels, how are they and are they any good? Well I will say that to me though the Bose do a good job and they've done a good job in tuning them quite well but I don't think they match nearly as close as the Sony's or the AirPods Max. I think the AirPods Max are pretty good and the Sony's are good just as good once you tune them to match your environment but the Bose come in slightly second which is fine which is all good. Those modes there I think you'll find out that it does do the job but not just as well as all three. Now when it comes to audio which is a very big thing, this is where I think Bose has done a lot of improvements. I think over the years I have been a big fan of the QC line when it comes to audio because they've been very aggressive with the active noise cancellation and I think Bose has done a really good job to step it up with its sound right here and this is where a lot of people would appreciate that mix and balance. Now that being said, is it better than Apple's AirPods Max or the Sony Mk4s? No. The reason I say no is because with the AirPods Max you get a very rich clean sound with them and honestly I think Apple has done a good job especially at its price point and what you should expect when you're paying $500 for a pair of headphones. The Sony Mk4s is still the king here because its price point, its range and also the custom the custom ability within the application does a really good job to customize the sound whichever way you want but it's bass heavy, you can tune it, you can make it like, you can make it instrumentals, whatever you want to do the Sony's can hit that for you. While with the Bose you do have a very clean sound stage and it does hit those notes quite well especially on the highs, the lows are okay, the mids are solid but you have nothing to customize that to any range or form. The app itself is very very basic and the range doesn't extend that much. It does a good job but in comparison it's just not as close as the other two. Now that being said though, what about battery life? Now battery life here is something that's quite interesting with all of them. I think roughly you're going to get around the same range with all three but I think you'll find that the Bose are about 20 hours or so while you do have about 24 hours with the Max and the Sony's are closer to around that like 28 arc or so. So again they're pretty close, I'm not going to lay anything on any one of them because at least they do a good job. For the set amount of time they actually state they want to do with battery life. Let's quickly listen to a sound sample from each of them so you hear exactly how each one sounds. So you've heard them, they sound good. The one thing that everybody really cares about with headphones, wireless pods, over ear headphones of course is the microphone for having conversations and I can tell you that this is something that Bose has done well with these as well and I think all three really do a good job. I'll actually put Bose slightly ahead of the Sony. I've noticed my Sony's have had just some issues but in general all three do well and Bose does a really good job with conversations. No one has had any issues with my conversations with them on the QC45 and of course we know how Apple does with the ear microphones on their headsets. So overall we've got three headsets here, we've got three different price ranges and the main question is has Bose come back to take its crown as the true active noise cancellation over the ear king. And the answer is no. I think if you look at all three you'll find that the Bose do a good job and if you're a big fan of that QC line it will satisfy your needs. But if you're looking for something that hits all the marks and also is price conscious then it's the Sony's. I think the Sony's are the ones that hit the mark well. The AirPods Pro Max are solid all the way. I've said it before it's just too expensive in my mind. And the Bose just come in with something that are good but doesn't beat the competition. So if you guys have any questions or any comments about the QC45 or any of these headsets here let me know and I'll answer them for you. If you think I'm wrong and you think the QC45s are great or the best thing leave those comments down below. Otherwise guys don't forget to like, share, subscribe and always enjoy entertainment.


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there are two main types of how your flow in a pipe or around some other structure can go. Option one is your flow is laminar meaning your flow particles kind of travel mostly parallel and the ones there at let's say at the bottom of the pipe will not suddenly go up to the top of your pipe the other option is if there's a lot of turbulence and then your flow paths are chaotic a lot of little eddies and your flow does kind of all type of different things so option one is laminar and option two is turbulent now depending on the application you might want laminar you might want turbulent if you want your fluids to mix or for example in a heat exchanger you want the heat to be easily transferred to the outside of the pipe then you maybe want turbulent if however you want to have easy calculations or not have turbulence as in the case of an airplane wing then you want laminar so how do you know ahead of time which type of flow you're going to get well we have a good indicator for this one which is the so-called Reynolds number now the Reynolds number can be calculated as the density of your fluid times the speed at which your fluid is traveling times a typical distance now in the in the case of a pipe that will be your diameter and then you divide it by the viscosity which is another material constant that you can look up for your fluid now if your Reynolds number ends up being smaller than 2000 most likely you're going to have laminar flow if however your Reynolds number is much bigger say three thousand some sources say four thousand if you can see some saying ten thousand so the large-year Reynolds number the more chance you have to have turbulent flow if you're in between so let's say Reynolds number of two and a half thousand you will have an unstable flow which can switch from one to the other which is probably the least thing that you want in any application you don't want your laminar flow to suddenly become turbulent or the other way around either one you would prefer laminar or you would prefer turbulent


I want to discuss the economics of high density cities. So kind of business model for high density cities, so to speak. The question is, how can we make these cities livable and affordable to more people? So in Chinese cities, in Chinese characters, you're made of Chen, which is a building and a physical capital. And the city is people and the market. OK, so last year, Chinese invested more than 50% of GDP in urban real estate infrastructure and manufacturing jobs to create cities. And this is a model, a high capital intensive model for fast urbanization. So the question is whether a huge investment can create livable cities. Now, livable cities are not just a place that's nice. Livable cities enable people to meet and trade easily so that they can be creative and productive. It's a place that people can use less resources and manage the resource well. But we often price cities for its capacity to generate GDP. And we can have more GDP by just investing more capital in place, hire more people, mass production, and we can mass-produce cities with capital. But the capital intensive urbanization makes people dependent on cars and other capital for their mobility and for their livelihood. And ironically, higher car ownership does not always make mobility easier in the city. And it does reduce the space for pedestrian and for community life. And the mass production of housing does not always make urban living affordable. If people have to depend on distant jobs and depend on high consumption of energy. So the capital intensive urbanization inevitably reach diminishing returns. And this is a case in China. We can see the investment spree in the last decade has made many Chinese cities highly in-depth. And that shows more capital investment doesn't generate livable cities that can generate enough income. So we need to employ our capital more smartly to make cities do more with less so that urbanization can be sustained. So capital should liberate people, enable them to contribute to communities. So if we use the capital smartly, livable cities don't have to be expensive. Cotiba, a Brazilian city, about 1.7 billion people, is a good example. Its bus rapid transit system is cheap. It's low cost. But it's so good that it reduced the car traffic in the city by 30% while the population traveled in 20 years. And the city also has recycled programs that allow people to be productive. Even children can be productive to help the community to reduce waste and make the community clean. So livable cities are not real city projects. So livable city is about choice of how we live and how we work. It's a choice of technology and institution that enable people to shape their build environment and the collective behavior. Livability also creates high density by attracting people to increase proximity and enable public collective choice that managed resource well. So the good news is the technologies are becoming more scalable and more intelligent. And that enable give more possibilities for people to be productive in different ways and to manage resources more responsibly. But for the benefit of the new technology to be realized, we need innovation. And innovation requires communities, requires collective actions by community that take ownership in their environment and in the deployment of technology. But one question you may ask is whether this decentralized investment decision making by smaller communities would produce inefficient cities? And here we have an example of a relatively small country but with highly decentralized and diverse urban system. So Swiss cities are very efficient and inclusive and environmental friendly. So the question I have for you is, how do we enable innovations that make city do more with less and provide something for everyone? And with these innovations, high density cities can be livable place where everyone gains.