Okay, we have a few minutes before we're gonna get started, but if any of our attendees are part of an applicant team and you'd like to do a soundcheck, please raise your hand and we'll get a prompt sent over so you can be unmuted. Anybody from an applicant team. All right, Kristen a can we go ahead and do a soundcheck. Good morning. Good morning. You don't you sound like you're probably a little too far away but over. All right, is there anyone else part of an applicant team that would like to do a soundcheck please raise your hand. Right we have Loretta Miller. Okay, could you hear me then. I can hear you Loretta. Thank you. Thank you. If you want to control your sound and you know mute and unmute yourself when when you're not speaking, then we won't have to do the prompt every single time. Okay. So, okay. You can go ahead and find mute there and you'll be able to mute and unmute. I see. Okay. Like I said, it's my first time. Thank you. Oh, you're welcome. And let's see Jeff Hammond. Yes, this is Jeff Hammond. Can you hear me. Yes, we can. Thank you. Great. Good morning Kimberly. Can you hear me. I can hear you. Thank you money. Great. Hey, can you hear me. This is Connor. Yes, we can. Thank you. Sweet. Thank you. Hi Kimberly. Can you hear me okay. Yeah, sounds pretty good. I you might want to try to be a little bit louder because you have such a lovely quiet voice. How's this. Yeah, that's pretty good. Okay, thanks. All right, is there anyone else from our applicant team who would like to do a soundcheck. Any of our applicants want to do a soundcheck. I've done it. I think we're good here. Yeah, we have, we have a few more in attendance. I just want to make sure anybody that has showed up more recently has an opportunity to do a soundcheck if they would like. It's, it's people tend to find it inconvenient when they go to speak and their sound doesn't work and it's right in the middle of the meeting. But yeah, you're good to stay muted until your item comes up on the meeting. Thank you. Stay. You can stay muted until your item comes up on the meeting. Okay, thank you. All right, we're down to our last couple of minutes before getting started and we have a few more of them logged on so if there's anyone else that's one of our applicants that would like to do a soundcheck before we get our meeting started you can raise your hand within the zoom format here and we'll get a prompt sent over so we can check your sound. We have Andrew Davies. Yes. Thank you. Thank you. You're welcome. Thank you. You can go ahead and stay muted if you want to mute and unmute yourself until it's your item comes up during the meeting that would be fine and we won't have to do the prompt again. Fantastic. Thank you. I will do. Sure. And then we have rebel weapons. Yes, good morning. Good morning. And Dean Calderon. Hello. Good morning, Dean. Good morning. Good morning. Thanks for attending. Okay. Kimberly, are we done with sound checks? I think so. Okay, great. So since it's 1030 we'll go ahead and and call this meeting to order. This is the October 7th meeting of the zoning administrator and my name is Amy Nicholson. I'll be acting as the zoning administrator today. I'm a senior planner with the city of Santa Rosa and I will be conducting the meeting today and also welcome your attendance. We are holding today's meeting remotely and this is in accordance with state law and also the county health order to reduce the transmission of COVID-19. And we will be conducting this meeting in order of the agenda that Kimberly has displayed here on the screen. So each item will be taken in turn. The project planner will make a presentation and then the applicant may choose to add to that presentation. Each item will have a period for any public comment. And then we can ask questions and act on each of the items. And each of these steps I'll acknowledge the appropriate individuals. So those that are on zoom can use the raise hand feature. And you'll be recognized by the recording secretary Kimberly. Any of the actions today can be appealed and this appeal period is the 10 days following the day of action or the following business day. If you wish to appeal any of the items on today's agenda, you can do so by contacting the project planner who will assist you in providing an appeal form. So with that, we can go ahead and get started with the second item on the agenda. This is for public comment for any items that are not listed on the agenda. So I will go ahead and open public comment. So if you wish to provide a comment, go ahead and use the raise hand feature or you can press star nine if you're calling in. Okay. Not seeing any hands raised so we can go ahead and move on to our first scheduled item and this is a conditional youth permit for 743 Lewis road and the project planner is miss to me and give Ms. Nicholson let me just share my screen. My two means senior planner and I'd like to discuss 743 Lewis road. As you can see the property is a single family residents in a suburban suburban block, and it's in a heavily trafficked, fairly heavily trafficked area given all the ins and outs around the property. And the applicant is proposing a front yard fence, three feet from the sidewalk. It has horizontal slats and the proposed fence meets the driveway triangle vision triangle standards for pedestrian safety for vehicles backing out of the driveway. The reason the applicant requests the fence is for safety reasons. One, she's had issues with vandalism and trespassing. And the other concern is dogs and grandchildren visiting and that heavily trafficked road in front of the house. And the fence would provide both a visual and noise barrier as well as a safety barrier. A staff is recommending approval of the fence and the property owner is available for questions and comments as well. Thank you. I do have a few questions. Primarily, I think for the applicant. I, I think that I understand the, the concern and the desire for a taller fence in that front yard area to provide some more safety and security based on the, the traffic on the street. And people that may be walking around the area. I, I do think that the fence could benefit from just some, some design changes, not the fence itself I think that it's an attractive design. But I think in terms of the distance from the back of the sidewalk being three feet and the height of the fence that a little bit more of a buffer would provide a little bit more neighborhood compatibility. So I'm just wondering if there's a possibility to consider moving the fence back a little bit and including some landscaping. I think that would be something that the applicant would, would agree to and if it might be possible to continue this to the next zoning administrator meeting to allow for the consideration of some of those changes. Is I'm the applicant may I should I talk now. Okay, so are you saying maybe move the fence a little further back like five feet. Is that what you're asking you're proposing or changing the design of the fence. I don't have any concerns about the design of the fence. I think it's just the, the distance from the back of the sidewalk. Just the height of it and not it is solid but I think that you know the materials nice and I like the, the horizontal design so my thought is just that if it could be perhaps moved back a little bit to just provide a little bit more relief for those that are walking on the sidewalk. And then maybe a landscape feature and I don't have anything particular in mind but that can kind of help when you have a taller wood fence just to break it up a little bit. So those might be some things to to consider. And I don't think this requires that new plans be submitted I think that if you and miss to me and have that conversation, we, we could add some conditions of approval that memorialize any of these changes that don't require that that extra time or cost with the with the architect. There's no specific footage that you're proposing. So it is what you're saying just when you say a little bit do you mean two feet three feet. Well I think that that's why it might be beneficial to continue it and not really quantify that in the meeting because I think that I'm not really sure what that is but I think that you and miss to me and could work on on what that amount is. I appreciate that you you want to have that space, you know there's a courtyard proposed in there and so I don't want to give out a number that would prohibit you from actually enjoying that space but I think the objective is to just reduce the visual appearance of the fence along the street and the sidewalk. So, you know that that might be I would say, at least five feet would be would achieve that and if you're comfortable going more than five feet. You know that that's up to you. But I think that at least a few feet would would really help to reduce the visual impact and so hopefully have enabled you to use the space how you would you would like to use it. Okay. Alright, then I would work with her or work with my architect. I think you can work with miss to me and and then I would suggest, you know, just checking back in with your architect to ensure that that that works with with the plans and the construction but I would imagine that it would. Okay, is there anything else I should be concerned about then to make, or is that the only issue here. Yeah, that's, that's the only concern that I see I appreciate the presentation and explaining the, the circumstances. You know, within the area that would warrant some more more of a secure fence in the front yard but I think just reducing that visual impact. Yeah, we'll help a lot. Okay. And I don't know if this is because on the next door, their their hedge which is probably 20 feet tall is on the sidewalk line. I don't know if that matters at all under these issues and if it doesn't that's fine. I'm very willing to set this back a little bit a little bit. So, yeah, okay. All right, so I guess that's it I guess I will work with her so thank you very much for your. Thank you very much. Okay, thank you miss Miller and so we'll go ahead and continue this particular item to a date certain of October 21. This is that correct me to me and so that works for you. And then that way there's there's no need to to re notice the project. So if there is anyone listening from the public they understand that we'll consider this again on October 21. Thank you. Okay. Okay, thanks very much. And I'm sorry I moved ahead a little bit quickly but is there any member of the public that would like to provide comments on this item. Okay, I'm not seeing any hands raised. So, as I mentioned, we'll continue this to October 21. Thank you so much. Next on the agenda we have a conditional use permit for 1369 Peterson Lane and the project planner is Mr. McKay. Sweet. Can you see my screen. Yes. Cool, thank you. Yeah, my name is Connor McKay city planner and I'm happy to be here this morning to present the conditional use permit located at 1369 Peterson Lane. This permit is a request for a six foot side yard fence that would be located 11 feet, four inches from the back of sidewalk, where a 15 foot setback would typically be required. This fence would replace the existing four foot fence to provide additional privacy and security for private yard space. Here is a location aerial of 1369 Peterson. And as you can see, they don't really have a whole lot of backyard space. And this is actually technically considered to be the front yard by the zoning code but in practice it's kind of their side yard and it's right now it's Let's see if we had a site plan. So this is what the fence looks like right now so it's not really suitable for private and secure enjoyment. So the new fence would be located like I said a little bit over 11 feet from the back of sidewalk, it would comply with the driveway vision triangle standard, and it would be six feet in height. And here is an example of the proposed fence style. The project is exempt from Sequa and that is the construction of a small structure. So it fits the criteria under class three. And with that the planning and economic development department recommends that the CA by resolution approve this condition use permit for the construction of a six foot fence, located 11 feet four inches from the back of sidewalk or a 15 foot setback would otherwise be required at 1369 Peterson Lane. I know the applicant is available for questions and comments I don't think they have any remarks to add to my presentation. Thank you, Mr McKay. Just a quick question. If you could go back to the photographs of the existing fence. So, right in that upper photograph, it shows the existing fence so that's currently a back of sidewalk so this new six foot fence to be 11 feet from that location. That's correct. Okay. Great. And okay, I don't think I have any additional questions. I, I understand based on the configuration of the property and the home that that there's a need for some private and secure outdoor space. And I appreciate that it's, you know, still provides. A substantial difference from the back of the sidewalk. And I think the fence design is compatible and of good material. So I thank you for that presentation. Are there any members of the public that would like to provide comments on this item. Okay, seeing none. I will be, I will approve the conditional use permit for this. And I thank you for the presentation and for the applicant being in attendance. Okay, so moving on to item 3.3. This is a conditional use permit for 822 Louisa drive and the project planner is miss shake Holly. Morning, miss Nicholson can you hear me. Yes, I'm going to share my screen so I can go over my presentation. And thank you and good morning. So as you mentioned, this is a minor conditional use permit for Stephens start weather massage. So I'm going to next page is located at 822 Louisa drive. So the minor use permit is to allow a home occupation use for massage therapy and hypnotherapy services. That is going to be from Tuesday to Saturday, 9am to 5pm, with maximum of three clients per day. So here is the site, the general plan land use low density residential and the zone is PD plan development.  Like a floor plan for the existing house and you can see the client session is provided one of the areas in the front of the house. So a notice was sent to neighbors within 600 feet and staff did not receive any comments or concerns about the proposed use. The applicant mentions that we'll have a maximum of three clients per day and that sometimes can be even less than three clients. Parking will be provided on the site and the project has been conditioned to make sure there won't be two clients at the same time. So they will be like a sometime between the one client and then second one. So the project has been reviewed in compliance with the California Environmental Quality Act and it qualifies for a class one exemption under section 15301. In that it is an existing facility which is a single family home. And with that, the planning and economic development department recommends that the zoning at next later by resolution approve and why not conditional use permit for the property located at 822 Louisa Drive. And that was my staff report. I know the applicant is also available if there are any questions. Thank you. Thank you for that presentation. Just a quick question and you may have gone over this. Are there specific hours of operation that are included in the project description or as conditions of approval. Sure, it will be from 10am to 5pm. Okay, great. So it's 9am to 5pm. I'm sorry. Okay. Are there any members of the public that wish to provide comments on this item? Not seeing any hands raised. I appreciate the proposal. I see that it would have a minimal if no impact at all on the neighborhood considering that the number of clients and also that on site parking would be provided. And also that the hours of operation are, you know, not too early in the morning and not too late in the evening. So I am comfortable with the proposal and I thought I will approve the conditional use permit for this project. Thank you. Thank you, Kimberly. Okay, next up we have item 3.4. This is a both for conditional use permit and design review for 2705 Santa Rosa Avenue and the project planner is Ms. Shekali again. Thank you again. Okay, so let me share my screen. So the project before you the second his plan is fitness for a property located at 2705 Santa Rosa Avenue. Okay, so this is a minor use permit and minor design review to allow operation of 15,000 square feet approximately square feet health fitness facility with extended hours of operation 11pm to 6am and some minor modification to the building facade of an existing building. As you can see in this picture, this building used to be toys or Oz and it has been making for a while so the applicants will use portion of this property portion of this structure for planet fitness that will be operating 24 hours. So just to be clear, the use is permitted by right, but a minor use permit is required for the extended hours which is, which is going to be from 11pm to 6am. So here is where the site is located and only half, almost half of that structure will be occupied by the planning fitness and the general plan land use CG, general commercial and the, I mean, the zone is CG and the general plan land uses retail and business services. The site is next to Highway 101 and there are multiple different large retail stores also in that area. The parking is provided on the site and exceed the number of required parking spaces. There are totally 187 parking for the entire building and for the entire building if you use the retail space required for the parking spaces, 152 will be required so there are more than 30 additional parking spaces on the site. Here is the site plan and it shows the area where the plan fitness will be placed inside of that building. And I'm going to go over the exterior changes to this building. So on the top of the page is the existing elevations. There are some color ones that I will go over them also. And the applicant is proposing to add more windows and two separate doors on the site facing the parking lot. This is the elevation facing Highway 101. The north one shows the one on the top of the page shows existing elevation and the one below shows the proposed one. And here is the color one. As you can see, the building will be divided to two different tenants, more windows will be added, separate door awnings will be added and the materials will be stock code and some sightings. The applicant is available and if anyone has questions, he can go over more detail. Notices were sent out and staff did not receive any comments or questions from the public and this project also has been reviewed in compliance with the California Environmental Quality Act. And it qualifies for two exemption class one and class three. It is the use between the existing structure with no result in significant impacts also there will be minor exterior modification to the existing structure. With that, the Planning and Economic Development Department recommends that the Zoning Act administrator by resolution approved this minor conditional use permit and minor design review for the property located at 2705 Central Rosa Avenue. And that was my presentation. Thank you. Great. Thank you. Does the applicant have any, any comments to share just just for questions I do have a few questions and Misha colleague that you might be able to answer them as well. Sure. Sorry miss Nicholson Andrew Davies on behalf of plan of fitness here if you have any questions as well. Great. Thanks so much. You mentioned that there. So there's stucco and then there's a different type of siding is it. I couldn't quite read on the elevation what it was. Is it like a, is it a different. Is it metal or would that shown kind of around the glazing. Let me let me pull that up and share also the screen David. Thank you. And are you looking miss Nicholson are you are you asking on the on the front elevation or the side elevation and believe there's a top left corner there's the information for the specific materials there. Yes, I'm trying it's a little bit blurry. Okay it looks like metal panels. And then. Okay so that's kind of the darker brown color, and then on a proposed canvas or metal on a okay. And then on the elevation that's facing highway 101 is there any sort of relief along that I can't. It's difficult for me to see, or is that just the change in material that that three boxes pointing to. Yeah, there's a there's a slight relief there, the, you know, the non structural break in the in the stucco there. Okay. Yeah. So just as a point of clarification so as you see on the, the front elevation there on the right side will be the planet fitness we are proposing to, to perform, you know, the upgrades or update to the to the elevations on on the area outside what planet fitness will be occupying but there will be a separate application for the use. I believe it's already been submitted to the city by the by the future occupant though. Okay, great. And then are there any. I'm not sure what the landscape situation is out there is there any proposed landscaping for the project. There isn't any proposed landscaping there are some planters out in the front, or at the at the front elevation. You can see there in that picture there's some some planner boxes and then on the on the far side, and then including that tree there are some some tree wells and bushes out there. Okay, and that I understand the planner placement because there's just sidewalk right up to the building. Okay, that's helpful. Thank you. Okay, I don't think I have any additional questions at this time. Appreciate those responses. Are there any members of the public that would like to provide comments on this item. Okay, seeing none. I appreciate the design modifications and in particular I like all the added glazing and the changes to materials. I understand that the landscaping limitations, considering the sidewalk. And, you know, it's great that there'll be a use and a 24 hour use in this area just to have more activity in this in the shopping center so I will be approving the minor conditional use permit and design review. And thank, thank you both for your time today. Thank you. Thank you. Okay, we'll go ahead and move on to the next item on the agenda. This is for a conditional use permit for 2663 Santa Rosa Avenue and the project planner is Mr. Russ. Thank you. Miss zoning administrator. I'm going to pull up the presentation right now. Okay, do you see the presentation on the screen. Great. Okay, so the item before you is a minor conditional use permit for the purposes of the band field pet hospital file number CUP 21 dash 067 located at 2663 Santa Rosa Avenue. Very close to the to the previous project actually in the same parking lot. Again, it's a minor conditional use permit for the band field that hospital it's a medical service veterinary vet vet veteran veteran veterinary clinic in an existing 3700 square foot tenant space. The project does not include any overnight boarding or kenneling. There's no outdoor amenities such as dog washing or dog run proposed as part of this project and the hours of operation are from 7am to 7pm seven days a week. So here's the approximate location. I think believe that to 705 as a previous project it's within the south side shopping center. Here's the site plan. So you have so here's this little bit of band field here. And then the parking for the total parking exceeds the minimum requirements when considering the requirements of one space for 250 square feet for the entire shopping center as a whole. Here's an internal floor plan. Just, this would be a tenant improvement to an existing space again no outdoor changes are proposed signage would come in later and under a separate permit. And with that the planning and economic development department recommends that the zoning administrator by resolution approve a minor conditional use permit for the band field pet hospital. A veterinary clinic located at 2663 Santa Rosa Avenue file number. Cp 21 dash 067 And here's my contact information available for any questions and I know that the applicant is here as well to answer any questions. That may come up. Great. Thank you, Mr. Russ. I don't have any questions at this time. Are there any members of the public that would like to provide. Comments on this item. Okay. Seeing none. I. Yes, I, I think that this is an appropriate use for the site. I appreciate that you went into the parking analysis as well. But that particular shopping center has quite a few parking spaces. And I am happy to see that this veterinary hospital will be relocated. I think I know where it is currently. And, you know, based on the hours of operation and the lack of outdoor activities and I don't have any concerns about the compatibility with the adjacent businesses so I will be approving the use permit. Thank you. Thank you. Okay, moving on to item 3.6. This is a landmark alteration permit for 224 West 7th Street. And the project planner is Mr. Ross. Thank you. I'm going to go ahead and share my screen again. Okay, do you see this okay. Yeah. Okay, cool. So this is the calderon deck project it is a minor landmark alteration permit file number lma 21 dash 013 located at 224 West 7th Street. The project includes a lma landmark alteration permit to legalize an existing deck in the rear yard of a single family residence located within the West End Preservation District materials materials provided include wooden corrugated There was a historic consistency evaluation by Alice Duffy. An architectural historian dated August 6 2021, which concluded that the project complies with findings for a landmark alteration permit including the Secretary of Interior standards for that as applicable. So here's the project location. Again on West 7th Street. Here's the site plan. Parking is not really an issue it's a single family home existing that's not really under discussion but as you can see it is existing it does have a covered corrugated metal roof and the base is made out of is of wood material. Previously, there used to be a porch in the rear of the house that was since closed and then this deck was added later on to make up for that that closure of that porch the porch wasn't closed. So, and considering this deck staff looked at it and looked at a lot of, you know, looked at a lot of these pictures on on what it looks like but a lot of these are just personal storage items and what's used on the deck and not so much the design of the deck itself. The deck itself is straightforward simple material and and the, the, if you were to put this deck in now or, or, you know, legalize this deck now, it would not preclude or be detrimental to any of the historic analysis or historic nature of the property. In addition, the deck does comply with side yard setbacks and rear yard setbacks. And here's just some more images of the existing deck. This type of home is kind of like a, they have a sub the, this is technically the first floor the and then the bottom floor is the is the basement it's not habitable space per se. It's, it's pretty common with these types of phones in this area, although that can be converted under separate permit. And with that the planning and economic development department recommends that the zoning administrator by resolution approve a minor landmark alteration permit for the Calderon deck residential deck in the rear yard of the property located at 224 West 7th Street file number LMA 21-013. And I should mention that this will clear up a code enforcement case for an unpermitted deck. There are conditions, they will have to get new footings and go through the building permit process for that. That concludes my presentation. Thank you. Thank you so much. What does the applicant have anything to add. Okay. I think that Mr Montes has his hands raised. I just like to say that I'm the project plan or the lab on this project and if you have any questions for me or the homeowner please let us know if the Dean Calderon is the homeowner is also present today. Great. Thank you so much. I have a question actually for Mr Roth. Were there any public comments received in response to noticing done for this meeting. There were not. Okay. Thank you. Are there any members of the public who would like to provide a comment at this time. Okay. I appreciate that there was a historic resource consistency evaluation. I think that that's really fundamental in approving a landmark alteration permit. I, I don't have any concerns about about the deck. I understand the need for greater use of that space and, you know, appreciate that it's that it's made out of wood. And also knowing that there aren't any, any neighbor concerns about about the deck and it impacting views or anything like that. I also, you know, recognize like the consistency evaluation likely found that it's a removable condition and wouldn't have an impact on the historic home. So with that, I will go ahead and approve the landmark alteration permit. Thank you all for attending. Okay, so I believe that is the last item on today's agenda. So I will go ahead and close the zoning administrator meeting at 1111 today.


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We have an American businessman shopping for hats. And you know these Americans. They always buy things by the dozen. Madame Cecile, I am weary of working in a hat shop.  I have spent all my life in a hat shop. Someday you will be just like me. Oh, dear. What? Go quickly. Yes, Madame. At once, Madame. Hmm. We must do something immediately. Or I shall lose the best saleswoman in all Paris. I know a letter to his uncle. The count. Here. A special messenger to his excellency, Le Conte Saint-Marie.  But thank you. How is this hat, Monsieur American? Oh, bring out any old stuff you got in the shop that you want to get rid of. Matter of fact, I'm only buying these hats because I wanted to meet the most beautiful girl in France. Madame Iselle Modiste. You are very kind, Monsieur. But it does no good, this beauty you say I have. Why are you unhappy, Madame Iselle? Oh, in America you have no noblemen. And it does not matter if a world separates you from the man you love. But here. Well, if you could be anything you wished, what would you be? I would be on the stage, Monsieur. A star of the opera becomes almost a noblewoman, and I would be part of his world. What kind of part would you like to play? Oh, all kinds. Wonderful, wonderful. I'll buy every hat you've shown me, all 13. You know, if I was you, I'd quit this hat business and take up singing. Oh, but it is not possible. I need money to train my voice than to live while I study. Well, maybe somebody will come along who will believe in you and help you. I do not believe in such miracles. Perhaps come to 520 francs, Monsieur. Oh, yes, here you are. Now, go wrap the hats and I'll write out where they are to be delivered. Yes, Monsieur. The pen is there on the table. Oh, yes. Quick note on this envelope. Dear Madame Azelman East, the hats are to be delivered to you. And this money I'm closed as merely a loan, because I believe in you and I believe in miracles. With sincere hope for your great success, your American friend, Hiram Brent. P.S., pay me back whenever you like. The hats are being wrapped, Monsieur. The address, please. Oh, yes, it's inside this envelope. Good day, Madame Azel. Good day to you, sir. I have sold a dozen and one hat, but what good is it? P.P., or P.P.? P.P.N. Oh, P.P., the streets of Paris were empty because you weren't walking beside me. And my arms were empty because you were not in there.  Oh, there are tears in those lovely eyes, my sweet. As anybody hurts you. No. Come here, come here, my sweet. Save in my... Formant, what's correct? What do you think, nephew? I find you an officer of France idling away your time in a bonnet shop. Uncle. And who is this designing woman who is trying to trap you? Uncle, all this woman designs are hats. Do you wish to be disinherited? Perhaps someday, dear Etienne, I shall be a great lady and your uncle will ask for my forgiveness. Until then, we had better say goodbye. No, Fifi. I am quitting the shop. I shall deliver these hats the American has bought, and then I shall never see you again. You are making a wise decision, mademoiselle. Tell me where you're going, Fifi. Perhaps to a faraway land, when I have seen only when I close my eyes and dream. As to part of great the sorrow, who leave the friends wrong found with years, who know her chance set on a moral, for love and... Now I shall deliver these hats. The address is in the envelope. The address? It is addressed to me. In just a moment, at a southern port recently, the long boom of a ship's crane reached toward a dock. Tackle was lowered, and a 90-millimeter gun was lifted from a flat car and swung into the ship's hold. This gun was the 2 millionth ton of military equipment sent overseas to 19 nations under the Mutual Defense Assistance Program, a program that is strengthening free nations to withstand worldwide aggression. In this program, and in the much larger one of building up and maintaining our own armed forces, both at home and abroad, the railroads are playing a vital role. For not only the delivery, but also the making of millions of tons of arms requires railroad transportation. The only transportation big enough and flexible enough to move the raw materials, the fuel, the parts in process of manufacture, as well as the finished goods. The rail movement today of military equipment and military personnel emphasizes how much we depend on railroads during times of national emergency. It's a matter of record that during World War II, railroads moved more than 90% of all military freight and handled 97% of all organized troop movements. In normal times too, the railroads carry the very lifeblood of commerce, handling more freight traffic between our cities than all other forms of transportation combined. It's no wonder then that strong railroads are so necessary to the rebuilding of the forces of freedom. Such strength can best be achieved by allowing these essential railroads to earn revenues sufficient to attain financial health and to continue their extensive program of improvement, all of which means better railroad service for the nation and for you. And now here is Act II of the Lawrence and Lee version of Victor Herbert's Mademoiselle Modisse, starring Gordon Macrae as Etienne and Dorothy Kirsten as Phi Phi. Uncle, for two years I've been looking for her everywhere. She's lost. I cannot find a trace of her. But then go with other girls, Etienne. There are no other girls. I insist you come to my masquerade bar tonight and dance with every young lady present. I will not be there, uncle. Oh, how mixed up everything is in this world. You can be somewhere at the right time and find the wrong girl. Or perhaps you've missed the right girl by being in the wrong place at the wrong time.  He mixes the stations. He changes relations for all your little schemes. He sets a snare and though you have planned it both understand it. You'll fix it so your sweetheart is not there. The place may be distant for me and the maiden. But tonight you must be present at my masquerade, Etienne. It is for charity and we are going to auction off many items. I will need your help. Then I will come, uncle. But my heart will not be there. Delightful ball and bizarre, my dear count. We are honored to have a guest from America, Monsieur Bryan. Say, the young lady in the fortune teller's costume. She looks sort of familiar. Well, I happen to know that is our guest of honor, the opera star, Mademoiselle Bellini. But she has not yet removed her mask. I think I've met her before. Maybe the last time I was here in Paris. I am anxious for my nephew to meet her or she is a great lady. Perhaps she will help him forget a little shop girl he once knew. Little shop girl. Yeah. Excuse me, count. Tell my fortune, Mademoiselle? Yes, I will. But it was you who gave me my good fortune, Mr. Brandt. Pee-pee. Mademoiselle Moudiste. I have been waiting to see you, my dear friend. For here in this envelope is the money you lent to me, which started me on my way. Captain Etienne de Beauvais. He is here. I have not seen him for two years, Mr. Brandt. Ah, my boy. Come. I wish to present you to our guest of honor, Mademoiselle Bellini. Yes, your excellency. My nephew and heir, Captain Etienne de Beauvais. Enchanted. Be righted, ma'amzele. She's quite a fortune teller, my boy. I'll bet she can tell you a lot about your future. Would you honor me, ma'amzele? Come, Monsieur Brandt. Fortune telling is a private matter. Your hands, Captain. There. Your past is most interesting. I see a red head and two blue nets. I've loved only one woman, but she has forgotten me. Then I shall read your future. Ah, I see a great surprise. You are going to meet someone that you have not seen for two years. Yes? Someone who loves you very much. Go on, Mademoiselle. Go on. Oh, dear. I see in your palm that there is someone who hates her. My uncle. But no matter what he says, if I find my Fifi again, I shall marry her the moment she will have me. Our guest of honor has been declared official mascot of our troops. And so we request that she sing for us. Mademoiselle Bellini. To be appointed your mascot, though my heart belongs to only one of you. From the ad shop. Uncle, your party has turned into a surprise party. Ladies and gentlemen, this ball is for the benefit of charity. I would like to auction off a hat. It is a creation of Madame Cecile. And to the highest bidder goes this hat, as well as a kiss from me. I bid 1,000 francs. 2,000. Why? Count for this little hat. Hello, hat. How's everybody at home? 5,000. Sold you to come this summer. Here's your hat, Monsieur Lacan. Thank you, mademoiselle. How about the kiss, uncle? That I bequeath to my nephew. Mademoiselle, you said you would marry my nephew on the day. I apologize to you. Well, I do that now. And humbly. How can I not accept your kindness, my dear Count?  Now, my sweet, the kiss. There. What? On the forehead? We shall start the bidding again. And I shall call you down a little. Dorothy Kirsten will be back in just a moment. Meanwhile, our thanks to Verna Felton, Joseph Kearns, Will Wright, and our entire company for their fine performances tonight. The book and lyrics were by Henry Blossom with music by Victor Herbert. This broadcast of Mademoiselle Modiste was dramatized for The Railroad Hour by Lawrence and Lee. The Railroad Hour is brought to you each week at this time by the American Railroads. A better way of life on America's farms is the continuing goal of more than two million members of 4-H clubs, whose representatives are holding their annual meeting this week in Chicago. And in reaching this goal, these young people have the active aid of railroads. For railroads not only supply transportation for the farmers' products and bring him most of the things he needs to live and produce better, but they also furnish aid in improving agricultural methods. In doing this, through such groups of young people as the 4-H clubs, the railroads offer the encouragement that helps these club members of today become the farm leaders of tomorrow. And now here again is lovely Dorothy Kirsten. Thank you, Gordon. Who are you romancing next week? Well, Gladys Schwartthout is our show-trained guest, Dorothy, for the first time. We'll be singing the wonderful Viennese music of Merinka. Texas and I'll be listening, partner. Good night, Gordon. Good night, Dorothy, and come back soon. All aboard! Well, sir, it looks as though we're ready to pull out, and so until next Monday night at Merinka, this is Gordon Macrae saying good night. Good night. Mademoiselle Maudiste was transcribed in Hollywood and presented by special arrangement with the Tams Whitmark Music Library. Gordon Macrae can soon be seen in Warner Brothers' Starlet. A choir is under the direction of Norman Luboff, and our music is prepared and conducted by Carmen Dragon. This is Marvin Miller saying goodbye until next week for the American Railroads. Now keep tuned for your Monday night of music on NBC. It's the ever-popular telephone hour tonight on NBC.


from vault top secret this week lady aida is i didn't get the modules but i did get some chips so um even last day check they still had some yeah i don't i don't bring my scissors with me so i can't open this oh yeah well why don't you just show this beautiful silver package that i wiped down with a with a wiper yes it is this is the esp 32 s2 i got 10 chips um so the modules i'm going to use for like a feather but i still want the raw chips because i'm making like an itzy bitzy or if i'm making a circuit playground wi-fi thank you for that opening let's see what's inside here so i've got the protective humidity thank you and then here you go so these are the chips a little piece of cut tape and like we said we're excited to use this chip because it's got a tina usb native usb support yeah i don't know yeah they go qfn action centerpad wi-fi microcontroller chip i know i gotta i gotta hold it really steady yeah it's okay yeah look at that there you go that's nice um so we're gonna maybe try designing some boards with this chip what i like is it's like so built together you just need a couple passives maybe a crystal antenna and like it has native usb put a q-spy chip on it uh for flash storage and your golden you know it's a built-in boot loader so super excited for um this release and congratulations to espresso for releasing uh their your final silicon for the esp 32 s2 getting it into the hands of people okay isn't that isn't it that's it i know okay


Hello. Welcome everyone. My name is Fernando. I'm a senior software engineer at Red Hat. I work on the networking services team and today we are going to talk about pay programming, a technique that we have been trying in our team. All right, some context. So I work on Red and especially in network management tools, tools like Network Manager, NM State, Network Role, NISPO, and all that. We are a group of six engineers, one PO and one manager. As I said, we work in four different projects with different backgrounds, different environments, different CI, packaging process, everything is different on each project. Then we are a full remote team. So we have like four or five time zones in total and the time difference is too much because we have engineers in the US, Europe and China and it's really, really hard to get them together. And then we have been starting to do our practice agile methodology. So we started with Scrum. We have a two-weeks sprint. It's quite great because we have been able to agileize everything. And well, that's some context. So we noticed several problems and we decided to address them. The first one is that we needed to extend collaboration. Well, we noticed that most of our engineers were used to work alone. That is good, but at the same time, it could be a problem. For example, when they get a stack, usually they do not ask for help or when they need something from another project or someone else. They are not used to say, hey, could you help me out? Hey, could you let me know how this works? And that's simply not efficient. So we wanted to solve that. Then we wanted to avoid bottleneck situations. Right, we have six engineers, four projects. You can imagine that there are one engineer that knows about one of the projects. Two engineers that know about one of the other projects, etc, etc. So when we have this kind of situation and then suddenly one of the engineers comes to a meeting and says, hey, I'm going to be a father. Right, so I'm going to be on leave for four months. Great, how is it going to do your work? No one knows about your project. If some issue came around, what are we going to do? So we started to learn all the projects really quickly and that, believe me, doesn't go well. And we wanted to avoid that. Also, not because of long leave. It could be also because of PTO, holiday or whatever. And believe me, when someone takes a PTO, that's the day when the customer reports the most important bag ever. Then we wanted to extend the sense of ownership. So, as I say, we are doing springs, we create a spring, we assign the task and we start working on that. So we notice something. The engineers usually solve their own task. And after that, instead of looking at the ball and say, oh, something is not complete. I'm going to help or I'm going to take it or whatever, they usually say, all right, let's take something else. So we wanted to extend the sense of ownership. So all the engineers should feel like they are owner of all the projects. So when they finish everything on the spring, they should be able to go to all the tasks that are on the screen and say, hey, I can't help you with this. I noticed that you didn't start with this. So let me take it and we can complete the whole spring instead of adding more stuff to the spring and then some other engineers not be able to finish everything. And therefore, the scrambles a little bit messed because you are not completing any spring at all. And then the other problem was the bonds between colleagues. So since COVID, we have not met. And that is around three years ago. And that's a big problem because in the end, when you are working with people, you need to trust them. You need to be confident about them. So you need to have a bond with your teammates. This bond is really important, especially when you are asking questions, especially when you are asking for help, when you need to discuss a specific technical topic. Imagine that you have an opinion about technical topic. The other person have an opinion about technical topic. If you don't have a bond with this person, probably there can be a lot of misunderstanding and you can taste things personal. It's hard to know each other well if you never see each other faces. And especially if you are working all remote and then you just have one call a week and in which you say, hey, I'm doing this, this, this and this. Okay, see you. Right? It's quite hard. And also, it's good to feel support at work. If your cat dies, it's great to have someone that say, hey, it's okay. I can take your tax for today. No need to worry. I heard about how your cat tried to feel good. So how we decided to improve this with paper whammy. So one day I was talking with my manager and he said, hey, how have you heard about paper whammy? I was like, no. And he said, take a look. So I volunteered to start implementing paper whammy in our team. So I decided to look over a lot of documents, talks, et cetera about paper whammy and try to understand how it works, what are the advantages, disadvantages, how we could implement it, how to implement it, what are the different styles, et cetera, et cetera. And after doing that, we are here doing this talk. So I hope it's going to be, my research is going to be useful for you. So paper whammy, the basics. Basically this always a driver and a navigator. So it's just that simple as two person, two programmers usually get together and say, let's work together on this specific issue. They sit and they start working on it. There's one condition, just one keyboard or one computer. So now it's not two people programming at the same time. That's something that we used to do even remote, but it's two people on a call or in person looking at the same screen saying, oh, okay. The driver is the one that manage the keyboard, do the coding, et cetera, et cetera. The navigator needs to think on the bigger picture. So for example, if the driver is designing a feature, the navigator should say, oh, but if we do this, we are going to break another customer case because we know that there is a customer using this other option, which is a conflict with this one. This kind of thinking is the responsibility of the navigator and also is reviewing the code all the time. So if you are programming in C and you do a malo, then you need to do a free. So that is part of the navigator responsibility to stay looking at the code. And if the driver doesn't do it, you need to say, hey, you forgot to do that. So, right, this is the basics. Then the switch position constantly or frequently. The idea is that they can, after five minutes, 10 minutes, 15 minutes, it depends a lot on your style and your preference. They switch position and the driver becomes navigator and the navigator becomes the driver. I must say that this can be done with experts between experts, between someone new or more junior and an expert, between two junior engineers, it's beneficial in all the situations. All right. So there are different styles. There are models then, but I think these are the more important ones. So the first one is unstructured code. Besides the usual driver navigator, which is the one that I describe, there is answer to answer for failing, which is very similar to what people do in an office.  Sure, let me help you. And you start working together. In this case, there is no structure, there are no rules, maybe you decide to use two computers. Okay, that's fine. The idea is that you work together. This is the simplest way to start doing it. And this is the simplest way to start implementing it in your team. So we started doing this, unstructured coding. We just get an issue. I think our teammate, hey, let's work on this. Perfect. Let's get into it. So like I said, I'm working on this way. Would you like to work with me? This is quite simple. Then we have ping-pong-pairing. So if you are a fan of testing, and you're a fan of test-driven development, if you don't know about this test-driven development, it consists on first, you develop the test that should pass, and then you develop the backfix or the feature that needed so that test passes. So basically one person goes to the other and decides to do the pay programming, and they decide to do test-driven development. So if you don't like test-driven development or in your projects, you don't have tests, you should, but if you don't have tests, you cannot do this. Then the first person creates a test that is failing after that as a driver, and then the other person is the navigator, and after that the second person, the navigator, changes position and creates a code or the implementation that makes the test to pass. So then they switch position again, and this time in this case, the second person creates now the test failing, and the first person creates the implementation so the test passes, and they repeat. This is quite good because at the end you have the feature or the backfix and tests for them. So you are doing two work in one. I must say that this, from my point of view, it's more adequate when you are working between two experts, because it could be quite hard for a newbie to create a test for a project that they don't know, and the test must fail, so it's going to be quite confusing for them to create something that won't work, having on mind the idea that in the future it will work. But between two experts, this is a really, really good scenario. And then we have the backseat navigator, which is perfect for a junior or a newbie and an expert. The idea of this is quite similar to a driver navigator, but in this case, navigator is not thinking only on the bigger picture. It's thinking on what is the driver going to do. So it's like when you are driving and you have someone by your side saying, oh, now to the right, to the left. Now go straight. So it's basically the same, but programming. So the first person to the other seat together and do a paid programming session. But this time, one of the persons, for example, in this skateboard is going to be the driver and highlights the navigator. And the navigator is going to give direct instructions to the driver. So this is really, really good for newbies, because if the newbie is the driver, it's going to get used to the workflow. It's going to get used to the files, to the structure of the architecture of the project, to, I don't know, the CI, to the tools that you are using, et cetera, et cetera. And they also found that this could be quite good for an interview. For example, imagine that you are interviewing someone and you say, okay, so you are the navigator now. Please tell me what I need to do. And that could be great. These help a lot newbies on the team. So these are the three main ways of doing paid programming. But now we have some very, very important considerations. The first one is that both programmers must be active. I mean, they must participate actively, because if not, you are basically in a mentorship session, telling them or explaining them something, and the other person is just in silence. That's not paid programming. Or if the other person is you're a programmer, you're the driver, and the navigator is looking at the email, believe me, that is not paid programming. This is like you are programming alone, and there is another person in the Google called listening you programming. That's all. Both must keep a running commentary. So it's similar when you say paid programming, it's also programming out loud. So when you're at the driver, it's quite hard to, for the navigator, it's quite hard to understand what are you thinking about if you don't talk. So the driver must always describe what are they doing. So yeah, so I want to implement this. I want to create a function that is going to be added to this class, and this class is going to be used in this place, and we are going to add these events to the loop, and this way, the navigator is able to think about your ID and say, oh, but then if we add this event to the loop, it's going to fail because blah, blah, blah, blah. And then the other thing is that relationship between the programs are important. And managers, leaders, or whatever person is implementing paid programming on the team, must not force them because if you have two engineers that they don't get along, believe me, it's not a good idea to force them to work together in a paid programming session because they are going to have conflicts and they are not going to be good at resolving them. So it's really important to first solve them. All right, so the result of our experiment. We have been paying programming for a couple of months, three months or something like that, or even more. We have been doing regularizations, and initially it was quite hard to get people used to it. We proposed it and it was like, yeah, we could try it out. The people were not very convinced, but then we kind of forced it like, yes, let's do it. And I volunteered to that, so I started to propose sessions to several engineers, and I assumed as they are kind and polite, they didn't reject them. I think they were considering it, but they didn't do it. But after a couple of sessions, we got positive feedback and they say, hey, I like this. I really enjoy it. It was good, and I would like to continue doing it. So now the engineers are starting to propose them to all the engineers without my help or without any other people help. So that's a great thing. And we make sure that everyone in the team had a meaningful paid programming experience. So that means that almost everyone were able to have at least a session or a couple of sessions to understand that. We are also flexible, so that means that we are not going to force anyone. So if one engineer says, oh, that's not for me. I don't like it. That's great. You don't need to do it. This is like using Beam, Emacs, or whatever. It's just a tool, and you use it just if it's good for you. And also, all right, so some advantages. So first of them, the knowledge sharing. It was incredible. I mean, doing this, I get a lot of experience in all the projects we already manage, which is quite great. And all the people, all the engineers from the team doing this are getting that knowledge. It's really interesting to see the different scripts that people use, how they build the system, how they build the package, the CI. It's really, really good. And it's really nice to have someone explaining to you while they are working on it. Because, yeah, it's really easy to say, yes, read these docs. And the docs, you see, last time modified, 20 turn. Right. Okay, so then we have focus mind. Other night, it happens to you, but at least it happens to me. When I work alone at home, I'm on the computer and say, hmm, what's I'm going to eat today? Oh, in the afternoon, after I need to go to the grocery. Yeah. Oh, look at the dog. Hey dog. So it's quite hard to keep focus for a long time. But when you are on a meeting and you are working actively with one person, that's changed because you have a person. And so you're not going to say, hmm, what am I going to eat? No, you are focused because you are wasting also all the people's time.  So you're going to get more tired. Yes, but you are going to do the work in less time. I mean, if you really focus on the task, maybe you can do it in one hour. But if you are thinking in all the stuff, changing context all the time, maybe it takes three hours from you or two hours. Then we have resilience to interruptions. I know that your email probably looks like this. My one looks like this at least. So when I work on something, I get a slack message. I immediately go to it. I read it and I start engage a conversation. Then I go back to my to my work and then I get another slack message. It's terrible. And when you are on a meeting, working with someone you're talking all the time, you get this as a slack message. And as you need to keep talking with this person and focus on the job, you are not going to read it. And then you learn to ignore them. And this is one of the best things that I learned doing paper.  And one extra thing, it's the code quality because at the end, there are two people looking at the code and four eyeballs, see more than two eyeballs. And we use the coordination efforts. So when working together on a paper organization, everyone were aware of the context. So, all right, so this issue is blocked because the last time we work on it, we noticed this problem. And then if someone has, oh, what is the status? You don't need the only best of working on the issue to reply. You can because you already know the context of the issue. So we use the coordination efforts. But we notice some disadvantages. So the long time, right, it's good to work with peers. And it's really great, but you also need a long time. You need time to reply to emails, phone calls, whatever need you have on your position, or even work on a simple coding issue by your own. That's great. So I don't recommend you to do 24-hour pay programming sessions. So translate all your work to pay programming. I think that's a terrible idea. That's not going to go well. You're going to get banners immediately. So try to do not do that. Try to set a amount of time that works for you and make you feel comfortable. Then Fadi, so it's easier to take last time when you are working alone because you don't feel like a pressure to continue working. So you say, okay, I'm going to drink some water.  That's great.  I'm going out for some water over there. So in order to avoid this, I recommend you to create like if you are going to say we are going to have two-hour session for one-hour session. Okay, so let's schedule one five-minute break after 30 minutes or 10 minutes break after one hour. So this way you have time to relax and then come back with more energy. And skill levels. A skill level could be opponent. If you put one junior engineer with a really, really experienced engineer and for someone that is new on the team, the new person is not going to be able to speak up. So they have a great idea and they are not, they don't feel confident enough to say, hey, I'm the navigator. I don't think what you are doing is wrong because the other person have been working on the program for 15 years. How could I know more than this person? Sometimes fresh ideas are good and you could have a different mindset that this person and you can bring a lot of value to the project. So in order to avoid this, it's really important for the expert on the session to promote the behavior of speaking and make sure that the newbie or the junior feel comfortable enough to ask questions and also challenge the idea. Like if you say, for example, all right, so we are going to do this function and add events to the queue. And the junior is the navigator saying, let's say, why do you think this is correct? Or what do you think about it? And force them to reply, force them to provide their opinion. Maybe it could be, I think it's correct because blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, and then it's accurate as well. Okay. But maybe they say, no, I don't think it's correct because this is going to have a conflict with all the part of the code. And you think about it and say, oh, that's right. And the first time that that happens, the junior feel more and more confident. And the next time you are not going to force them to reply, they are going to reply by their own. And that's really great. Conclusion. So we were able to extend collaboration. People feel now more comfortable collaborating with each other, which is quite good. And we avoid bottleneck situations. We were able to understand the context of the whole project. So people now can contribute to different projects. And if someone goes on PTO leave or whatever, someone else can take their position. And one thing that went well is that then the sense of ownership, it didn't, it wasn't fixed at all. We improved a little bit, but we are still, we are still struggling with this. So we are trying to fix that. Maybe next year, there's another talk of how to fix that. I don't know. And then one thing that improved a lot is the bonds between the colleagues. So thanks to pay programming, I learned a lot of things about my teammates.  Oh, I do this. Do you like video games? Do you like working? Do you like, and then you notice that you share hobbies and you share information about these hobbies. And I found myself talking with them about random stuff, hobbies, or whatever. After work, like, hey, I saw this movie and I really like it. And you like the other one. So maybe you like this one. So that's great because now you have a better connection. And it's easier to, when there's a problem, it's easier to challenge the idea and to share different opinions and get an agreement because you understand the other people context. And also because you have personal bonds with that person. And usually you care more for other people's feelings and other people's ideas when you have a bond with them. Maybe the solution for a lot of companies have a bond with Casino. I don't know. So all right, what I recommend is to try it out. If you want to try it out, we have a workshop of pay programming today. So please feel free to join. We are going to, we are going to have some hands-on experience. And all of them, that's if you are on our team and you are a manager, a software engineer, team lead, code owner, whatever position, and you want to try this out, feel free to reach me out or follow these advices. Don't force people if they are, if they say that it's not, they are not wanting to do this. Try out first unstructured paving because it's going to be much easier to implement. If they like it, then you can change to ping-pong, you can change to whatever other method that you would like more. And yeah, the last one is that make, if you are a manager and you want to implement this, talk with one engineer that's have some interest on this. And say, okay, you are going to promote this on the team. And this person needs to see some talks, read documents, et cetera, et cetera, gets a formal opinion and try, try it out then on the team. All right, so I think that's all. Thank you very much. So any questions, suggestions or comments? How does it fit with current review? With what, sorry? But with current reviews, merge requests and so on. Right, you counted it and see if it works as your report. Oh, okay, perfect. Yeah, so the question was how it works with code reviews. So with code reviews or merge requests, portal request reviews, it works well.  You can apply pay programming for a feature, backfix, or even debugging, which is quite useful as well. But also for code review, I mean, imagine that someone, there are three persons working on a project and two of them decide to review the other person code. It's quite good because you are both of them at the same time. So it's parallel review. So that's great. And at the same time, you can do it with a person that did the code and ask questions. So you get immediate feedback when you write down a comment in GitHub, like, why did you do this? Then the next day, the person reply, I do this because blah, blah, blah. Oh, I don't understand exactly why, what do you mean here? So it's a really slow process. But if you go to this person and say, hey, let's review your code. Hmm, you read it? Okay, so why did you do this? Oh, I do this because whatever. Oh, really? And why? Then you get immediate feedback. So that's completely Yes, I meant a slightly different question. Oh, sorry. Do you regard the code which is produced through pet programming as being already reviewed? No, because you've got to navigate to review and get one of the driver rights. No, when you review the code, someone else out of the pay needs to review it. So because also when you are working on the issue, you can get biased, like you're working on that. So it's always great to have many reviews as possible. You can get 10 reviews. If that's possible, please do it because usually someone is going to spot a bug or a problem in the code or whatever or something that could be improved. All right, thank you. I have more questions. Yeah, please. Is that problem if you can't finish your task within the peer programming session? All right. As I mentioned, it is only one hour. You do it and the next time you're going to start in the middle of a task and then probably going to be confusing. Yeah. So the question is that if it is a problem, if the people cannot finish the task in the paper running time box. So yes and no. I mean, for example, you're going to start doing paper running for one hour. You didn't finish it. You can continue by your own. That's completely fine. Then you get more reviews. That's just that. Or maybe you can stop, take some notes. Like if you were coding alone, when you're coding, at least on my case, there are some times in which I sit down, start working and I don't finish the task. So then I need to start again in one day. That's also happens when you work alone. So it's the same situation. It's both solutions are fine. You can just continue with the pair in another day or in another time and just think what we did. Oh, we did this. We implement this. And sometimes that is also useful because you read the code that you wrote together and say, oh, but this is wrong. So then you just call that problem because you have a fresh mind and you're not tired of coding. And also you can just continue on your own. Right. Please. So you mentioned that the navigator and the driver would switch positions every 15 minutes. How do you handle like like different maybe navigator and the driver has different IDEs? How do you, the stuff that you have been working on is local on the driver's computer. So now we have to like say you have like a draft branch or something where then the other person pulls and, you know, continue working on it. All right. So the question is, as I mentioned that driver and navigator switch, how do you do it if they have different workflows or they call this local or different tools? So the thing is that it's, you must be flexed. So depending on the situation or what you are working on, you can switch every 15 minutes, maybe 30 minutes, maybe you switch each task. So you have three tasks scheduled and you say, okay, so the first one you're going to be the driver and I'm going to be the navigator. Then we are going to switch for the next one. That's also an option. The thing is that you need to adapt the method to your project, to your team, to your situation. It depends a lot. As some considerations, I didn't say and it's really important to have a stable internet connection because if not, that, if you're remote, that won't work. If you're embarrassing the office, that's fine. So as I say, it's just try to adapt it to yourself and to your team. And as I say, maybe I describe three styles. Maybe you think, oh, but I like to do it different. That's perfect. I mean, that's completely fine. Do it as you prefer. All right, so I think we are out of time. So thank you very much and I hope you enjoy it.


Hi you guys! It's Lindsay here. Welcome back to my channel, Inside the Hymn. Today I am so excited because today is my day on the Style Maker Fabrics Fall blog tour. The tour has been going on for a little more than a week now. I think I am the eighth or ninth person on the tour. Everyone that is a part of the tour is really great. They are awesome sewists and make great things. So I felt a lot of pressure to make something really really awesome. I really let the fabric choose the pattern. Style Maker Fabrics has such great quality fabrics. I mean you guys have seen through the swatch videos that I've done and then the two other times that I've been part of her seasonal tour. The fabrics that she brings in really are great quality. And so I thought instead of going in this with a pattern in mind and trying to find a fabric to match it, I would see which of the fabrics spoke to me and then find a pattern to match that. So as I'm looking through the fabrics that we could choose from, I'm noticing that she has these pontinettes that come in so many different colors. Gosh, there was gray. There was like three shades of red. There was this really pretty teal. I think there was like a purple-y color. There were a lot of different colors to choose from. So that got me thinking and I was like, oh maybe I can color block something. That would be really cool. And at that same time a vogue had just come out with their fall or pre-fall patterns. I can't remember which one. And so I found this one from Tom and Linda Platt. I have made a couple of vogue designer patterns before but never Tom and Linda Platt before. So I was interested and you can see that the model definitely has color blocked her dress and it looks a lot like Ponte to me the way it was draping and everything else. So I thought, okay, I think I'm heading in the right direction with this. So I told Michelle that's what I wanted to do and had her help me find the colors to match together because there really were so many. I knew I wanted like a bit of a monochromatic look with an accent. So we decided on, I think her mom was the one who ultimately paired these three together, but we decided on my favorite color which is this like burgundy wine color. And then this like pinky red and then this really pretty teal color. And so that was what was going to make up the dress. But I was really nervous because this is a silhouette that safely I can say I never wear. I think it's because I've never been able to find this silhouette in a store that fit me. It always would fit here and being too small on the hips or fit in the hips and I'd be like drowning in fabric up here. And so it was just never anything that I went for whenever I was sewing. But because of that, I was also really hesitant about making it because I just didn't know how many adjustments were going to be needed. So I had her send me another Ponte, a different kind of Ponte that she had, not the same as this one, but a Ponte number less. And I made a muslin. So I wanted to show you the muslin. It's on the dress form behind me because it's what the dress looks like, it not color blocked as a solid, which I think is just as beautiful. I think that if you made it and maybe did piping in the seams, that would also be gorgeous. But I just wanted you to see in case color blocking wasn't your thing, what it would look like as a solid. I also want to point out that I did cut the muslin. Like I graded out one or two sizes. I think just one size from the waist to the hip and didn't have to make any adjustments to that muslin at all. So that was good because I was worried that it was going to get really complicated if I had to make any adjustments in the bust. But it took a simple grade out and that was all it needed. I will say so the Ponte obviously has some stretch it to it. So that makes it a little bit more forgiving. The lining, it's fully lined and the lining is out of a woven, which isn't stretchy. So I did have to let the front seams and the side seams of the lining out maybe quarter inch each, getting me an extra inch or so around the front. Because when I sat down, like I couldn't sit like this. It wasn't forgiving enough. So I had to let the lining out a little bit. So the pattern really was drafted really really well. Putting together all of these pieces was a little bit like a puzzle.  You have to do this seam before you can do the other seams. And if you've got them flipped upside down, which is easier to do than it seems, it would be off. But all the notches, all the everything really lined up beautifully, making it so that if you pay attention and study the diagrams and trusted the pattern, it would come together well. And it really did. It made it much easier than it looks. So yeah, I mean I'm super super happy with how the pattern turned out. Okay, and on a style maker's site, it she has available white, sangria and sangria is like the pinky red that is in the middle section of my dress. There is wine, which is the main part of my dress. There is scarlet, which is a true red. It's like red red. Also there's teal, which is the accent color on mine. There's navy. There is plum, which is like a pretty purple color. There is also two kinds of gray.  So there are several different colors to choose from. I think it would be really pretty to do a white, black, and charcoal color block dress just like this, where maybe the body was charcoal, and then this stripe was black, and then this stripe was white. I think that would be really pretty. Also navy with just about anything is really pretty. Navy, charcoal, and I don't know, even black, that would be kind of like a dark moody version of the dress. That plum color is really, really pretty. The plum in the navy, or the navy and this wine color, I don't know. There are seriously so many different combinations because she has so many different colors, whether you're doing this dress or whether you're going to color block a different pattern altogether. I mean, they have those really pretty ones now where you could like with the inset panel, and so you could do that like in black and then do everything else in red. That would be really striking. There are just so many really great options for color blocking out there. Combined with all of the colors that she has available in this Ponti knit, I really feel like this is your best opportunity to really make something really striking that you know the fabrics all go together. It's the same weight Ponti. You don't have to have a guessing game as to whether or not one's going to be brushed, or one's going to be heavier, or one is going to be thinner, or lighter, or whatever. Like you know they're all the same kind of Ponti just in different colors. So they are made for color blocking. You know what I mean? They're made to go together. But aside from color blocking, the Pontis themselves were super easy to sew with. I did everything on my regular sewing machine because I didn't need to finish the edges because it's fully lined. I did everything on my regular sewing machine with a stretch needle maybe size 90. Pressing was not difficult. You couldn't go super high heat because it would burn. But with a little bit of pressure and a little bit of steam, the seams did press really well. I mean you can tell here how flat all of the seams are. So I feel like that went in really well. It just behaved when I was cutting it. It just you know laid flat. It wasn't shifty. It wasn't any of those things that you might come across. Things like setting in the sleeve was super easy. It's just you know in general Ponti is a really easy forgiving fabric to work with. So that is probably all I can think to say about the fabric and the pattern. Although it's not a silhouette I'm used to, I feel very comfortable and very confident in it. I think that is largely attributed to the Ponti and maybe even the quality of the Ponti. It just kind of you know just kind of lays and goes over maybe less flattering body parts and kind of smooths everything out a little bit. You know what I mean? So I'm really grateful for that. But I hope that you like this dress as well. If you have any questions about the Tom and Linda Platte pattern or of course any of StyleMakers Ponti's please let me know. I will be reviewing the comments. If you have a question that I don't know I can get Michelle in touch with you. She's superb. Like superb with customer service. She always responds really quickly. So I'll have everything linked in the description box below. This is how you access the description box right here. In the description box I will have links to the pattern and I will have links to the Ponti's that I used. I'll also link to my swatch video that goes over her entire fall collection. And yeah that'll be that. And like I said if you have any questions let me know. Otherwise thank you so much for watching. I hope you like my dress as much as I do and I will see you next time. Bye!


I welcome you in the course of leadership, emotional intelligence and decision making. This is module number 71 and we are going to talk about that how we can be innovative, how can we act with integrity and creativity, how can we calculate our scorecard in terms of specific goals and matrices. Those specific goals and matrices are going to help us to evaluate our experiments in terms of our stakeholders. When we talk about our stakeholders, remember that we have got four domains, the home, the community, the work and the self and these are our north, south, east and west. These are our domains which are going to encompass us in 360 degree perspective and we are actually composed of these four perspectives. So, when we talk about these four perspectives, remember that we have to be cautious about our concerns related to these four domains and we are going to attempt an exercise about it and that exercise is taking the shape of a scorecard. When we talk about the scorecard, there are four perspectives we are always talking about. We have to talk about the work, the home, the community and the self and the columns we have are related to intended impact results matrices and the action matrices. It is said that you have to record your results and action matrices for each domain in the second and third column. The first of all, we are going to fill the second and third column respectively. First in the middle column of the scorecard for each intended benefit record, how you will measure whether the goals have been achieved or not. These are the goals which you have set for these four domains in the initial exercises. Then in the last column, indicate how you will measure the actions you will take in implementing your experiments. Now, how to fill this particular matrix? Let us talk about some of the examples. When we talk about the work related results matrix, the examples we have are related to work number one, that did we improve ratings from customers about the quality of our service because this is work related concern and we have to see that either our work related concern is improved or not. Did we avoid cost by reducing travel and if so, how much? Again we are talking about the work related perspective, the work related outcomes which we have to achieve and we have to see in the previous matrix that either we are able to achieve these things related to over four domains or not. The second important thing is when you talk about your home, the examples can be that did I have fewer arguments per day with my kids and if I am having fewer arguments, that means that I am improving the relationship. Second, did I talk to my parents on regular basis and if I am giving my attention and time to my parents, that means that I am working good in the concern of the home. The third important perspective is the community, that did I show up each week at community center for volunteer work and if I am appearing, if I am doing and contributing towards the betterment of the society, that would be my concern related to the community. So did I participate in charity work and if I am participating in charity work, again that means that I am good with community sense and I am participating and contributing towards the betterment of the society. And the fourth important thing is myself and related to myself, have I done some push-ups as my exercise routine? Did I meditate to refresh my inner self? If these things are done, that means I am also focusing upon improving my relationship with my own self as well. So these are the result type of the result matrices which we can fill in the previous exercise. Likewise, when we talk about action matrices, the action matrices example can be that how often do I sacrifice planned activities? Because now this is showing my action plan, if I am doing it or not, are my to-do items done or not? Because I should clearly mention the to-do items in my priority. Likewise, when I talk about my planning and organizing, how many missed appointments in a week I have or are the new office documents ready or not? So these are all the things which we have to think about in the sense of planning and organizing so that we can fill the action matrix in the previous exercise. Likewise, when we talk about delegating and reflecting, so did I reduce my client load? Did I delegate rightly? So these are all the perspectives that if I have done my contribution and done my part towards the betterment of the followers. Likewise, the fourth aspect can be in the action matrix and that is exploring and venturing. And when I talk about exploring and venturing, it is said that did I have some part of my new book ready for every day? And if I am not working on my work, that means that I am ignoring the work which is basically intended to give me support. Likewise, how many new recipes did I try? Like in your routine life, your work at home that is concerned of yourself because unless and until you are not participating to better yourself, you would not be able to contribute towards the other domains of your life. So dear students, remember that persistence is important than consistency because when we talk about persistence, we are also focusing upon certain resistances. And when we are talking about mustering the will to try something new, remember one thing that persistence in the face of resistance is very important and you have to have the courage to lead the change. If we conclude all this, then dear students, remember that your four domains of life, the work, the community, the profession and yourself, these are the aspects about persistence. Thank you.