So, let's look at that in a little bit more detail and in particular, think about exactly what the workflow will look like. So imagine that you could execute some random actions, aggregate the SA-S prime tuples that you observe from executing random actions into a data set D. Then you would train a model P of S prime given S, A in a supervised learning manner because now you have the label S prime and the inputs S, A for that model. So you could just do supervised learning then to learn the model. And once you've learned it, you would use P in some way for task execution. Now one good thing about this is that there was nothing about the process of aggregating the SA-S prime tuples and executing random actions that was specific to the task that we eventually want to execute. And so the model is very general and so you could train that model and then use it for executing potentially any task afterwards. The flip side of that is that it's actually really hard even though in theory you could do something like this. It's really hard to collect good training data that could produce a model that would work well for any task. Now this style of model-based reinforcement learning is called one-shot model learning where you only have one shot at collecting data and training a model and once you've done that you have to use it for some task afterwards. There's another category of approaches which is more commonly used called incremental model learning which looks very similar except that what you do is after using the model after using the learned model for task execution, at the beginning you might do a poor job by using the learned model for task execution because it's hard to collect training data like we said, but then once you have tried to use that learned model for task execution you start producing some data specific, some task specific data. You get some task specific SA-S prime tuples and you grow your data set in the direction that matters the most for your task. And then you can repeat the process all over again and you can iterate several times like you can keep going back and forth between aggregating the data, training a model and using that model to perform task execution and collect better data. And doing this is great because the target task is taken into account as you're collecting data and so it's obviously going to work well on that target task much better than the one-shot model learning approach. And the flip side of this is that this is going to, if model training is expensive, if for example you're training a deep neural network, this will be cumbersome to do, it takes a lot of computation, it might take time. And of course by specializing the model for the task that you want to execute, you're automatically also giving up the ability for that model to work well on other tasks potentially. Okay, so we kind of glossed over on the previous slide what it means to use the dynamics model for a particular task. But of course we mentioned this a couple of slides ago where we said once we've learned the dynamics model, once we've learned the state transition then you can simply use dynamic programming style approaches like policy iteration to solve the learned MDP. And another class of approaches is to treat the learned MDP as a simulator and then run model-free reinforcement learning inside that simulator. Because after all, once you've learned how the environment transitions and what the rewards are, you essentially have created a simulated world. And inside that simulated world you can imagine experience and you can train a reinforcement learning algorithm for as long as you would like within that simulator. Even though model-free reinforcement learning like we discussed takes a lot of time to run because you're doing it all inside a simulator now, you don't really have to worry about how much experience you need to collect. You can collect millions of episodes if you like and that's all fine. So these are two main strategies for how to use the dynamics model after you've learned it.


Hey y'all, welcome to What Chelsea Eats. Thank you so much for joining me today. I am going to show you how to make vegan Parmesan cheese. You guys ask for this video. This is a very easy recipe. And if you want to see how I make it, stay tuned. We're going to start off with hemp seeds.  And to me, they're the healthiest seed on the planet, in my opinion, next to chia seeds. You can use other nuts and seeds, such as cashews, sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds for this recipe. But I prefer hemp seeds because they sort of have a cheesy taste. Next, we're going to add some pink Himalayan crystal salt. You need salt for this recipe. If you don't want to use it, you can leave it out. I don't know how it will taste. This is about three quarters teaspoon of salt. But I prefer to use pink salt because that's my salt of choice. It is an alkaline salt. So it's not going to make you feel bad. This is about a quarter teaspoon of garlic powder or garlic granules, whatever you have on hand. Both will work. And last but not least, we've got three tablespoons of nutritional yeast. And that is what gives this the cheesy flavor. And also everything that I'm using, I will put links below in the description box. So you can see exactly which products I used for this recipe. For this recipe, I am going to use my food processor. You do not have to use a food processor. You can use a blender. I love this little food processor. I know I haven't done many videos showing my food processor, but this thing is a little workhorse. And it's inexpensive, at least as far as food processors go. This is so easy. Add the hemp seeds. Also, it's about three quarters cups of hemp seeds. I don't think I told you that in the beginning. Add your nutritional yeast. Add your garlic powder. Add your pink salt. Also, the other thing I want to tell you about salt, adjust the salt to taste. You may need more salt. Put your lid on your food processor. And then what you're going to do is pulse your mixture until it is the consistency that you want it to be. It may take you a minute, maybe two minutes. Just let it run. Let the food processor run until you get like a parmesan, grated parmesan or ground parmesan cheese. Look, that's the consistency that you're looking for. You'll see in just a second what I'm talking about. So I took the lid off so you could get a closer look. It's not quite fine enough for me. So I'm going to put the lid back on and continue pulsing it until it's a little finer for me. So I'll pulse it a little more and now it is perfect. So I have removed it from the food processor and put it back in the mason jar. And this is how I'm going to store it in the jar and I'm going to put a lid on it and keep it in a refrigerator. It lasts for weeks in a refrigerator. Like I've had it in there probably about eight weeks and it was fine. But you see that consistency and you can put this on top of anything. And if you feel like you need more garlic, put more garlic in it. If you need more salt, put more salt. Even if you feel like you need more nutritional yeast, you can put it in there. Adjust the ingredients for your tastes. But there you have it, vegan parmesan cheese. If you like this video, please give it a thumbs up. Share it with a friend. Don't forget to subscribe. And until next time y'all, take care. Love y'all.


Hey there friends, thanks for checking in, it's time for another handgun showdown where the viewers of this channel decide which company makes the better handguns. This one is going to be a little different. We are comparing budget handguns versus moderately expensive handguns and I see both sides of the issue quite often. You have the budget people that say I could buy two of these for the cost of one of these. I trust my life with these guns, I had no problem carrying them. But yeah, you have the other side that says that makes no sense to me. Pay an additional $150, $200, get a better quality gun and have the peace of mind of knowing that it will be there when you need it. So this will be a good one and I'm really looking forward to getting back the responses. But before we do that, we need to report the results from the last handgun showdown where we featured Canik versus Carr Arms. This was a very good handgun showdown. But in the end, Canik took it. People love the capacity, the features and the price of Canik handguns and they won this showdown. But let's get after budget handguns versus expensive handguns. Let's start with budget handguns and what I'm basing this on is something in the mid-200s, maybe less, maybe a little more, but those are considered budget handguns and let's start with the popular Taurus G2C. A lot of people love this gun, 12 round magazines, single action trigger, feature loaded with thumb safeties, accessory rail, loaded chamber indicator, you name it, it has it and it's budget priced. You know, at a point it was selling for right around $200, $210 and this is an extremely popular model and I think that model brought back Taurus in the eyes of many shooters. Here we have a single stack 9mm, it's a Bursa BP9 CC, carries 8 rounds, but people love this gun as well. It does have a magazine disconnect, but an incredible trigger, 3.3 inch barrel, a sharpshooter. I shoot this gun incredibly well, I've always enjoyed it. Many people love Bursa products and this BP9 is a compliment to their series of handguns. How about a larger handgun? This is a Remington RP9, full size with a 4.5 inch barrel, 18 rounds in the magazine. I believe I picked this up for around 250 bucks and it's got a sweet single action trigger, extremely accurate with that long barrel, nice trigger, good ergos, I'm very happy with it and it's just performed very well for me. I'm sure I had an initial issue, I did have an initial issue with that, but Remington fixed it up for me and it's been fine ever since. Over here we have a Diamondback AM2 with a 3.5 inch barrel, I'm very much impressed with this. 12 round magazines, it's got the front serrations, the pick rail, nice trigger, striker fire indicator, 3 dot sights with an orange front dot. I love this gun and I can speak the same with all these other ones. Handguns, there's definitely a soft place in my heart for budget guns and I think this group of four represents them very well. Here are four what I would consider moderately priced handguns, right around $500 maybe give or take 50 bucks, but I really like these four so let's talk about it. Here we have the Glock 43X 10 rounds in the magazine and it was a big hit when Glock introduced this a couple years ago and I was able to get a hold of one and have kept it ever since because I think they did a nice job extending that grip offering three finger contact on the gun and aftermarket magazines are available as well as many other aftermarket parts which is so consistent with Glock handguns. How about the FNS-9C, I've owned this one a while, it's ambidextrous, it has 12 rounds in the magazine and definitely a straight shooter. This one has night sights, I probably had this for four or five years and I am yet to experience a failure of any kind, it has eaten, fed, fired, ejected every single round that I fed it and it continues to this day to perform excellent. Love this gun, this is a CZ-P10S, it is optic ready so this would be considered the most expensive with these but with an MSRP of $5.77, street price probably close to $500 maybe a little bit more, front serrations, a very nice trigger pull, it offers everything that the P10C does but a little bit smaller with the 3.5 inch barrel and 12 rounds but I've got a base plate there that offers 14 rounds but incredible, CZ handgun I think did an amazing job with this and like the rest of these I've really enjoyed owning that since day one but here we have the Walther PPQ with a four inch barrel, more of a compact size, huge fan base with the PPQ line and I'm part of that fan base, incredible trigger, cross directional texturing on the grip, a rail, it's one of the lighter handguns in the polymer class but a straight shooter, a nice handgun all around many people even carry these I have to say I'm a fan and I think that this sample of four represents moderately priced handguns quite well so which is your preference are you into budget handguns or moderately priced handguns both or do you try to hit that sweet spot in between if you like videos like this please subscribe and share I always appreciate thumbs up button thanks for watching and you guys be safe


The Yakuza series is one of the most famous games in the beat-em-up genre. This is a franchise I've developed a strong fondness of lately, having been chipping away at the first six games in the Yakuza series. Yakuza, known as Ryu Ga Gotoko in Japan, like a dragon, is the video game equivalent of a crime drama set in Japan. It follows the struggles between different crime families in the game's tojo clan. The gameplay of the series is typically being a brawler slash beat-em-up brought into the realm of 3D. There's a player sticking on dozens of enemies per stage, being able to pick up objects in the environment to use as weapons, and even being able to execute special, sometimes hilarious finishing moves. It's fast-paced, it's chaotic, it's fun. There's a reason why Yakuza has quickly become one of Sega's most popular franchises in its 15-year lifespan. The stories are typically very complex, with a lot of characters, politics, new enemies popping up every now and then and more. So far, the games have all taken place in the district of Kamurocho, an open city where you can explore, engage in different side quests, and play a bunch of fun minigames. These minigames have made the series especially famous. You can play pool, go to the arcade and play Sega Classics, there's darts, racing, karaoke, and just too many things to list. It's overall a good franchise with quite a legacy built up. Now, the latest entry in the Yakuza series happens to be coming out in the West very soon. Yakuza Like a Dragon is releasing, and it features a new protagonist. Ichiban Kasuga, in the district of Isizaki Injincho. This is a really big change as the first six entries in the series start series protagonist Kazuma Kiryu in the Kamurocho district. Players would see how the same exact city evolved over the course of six games, and now we're completely moving away from all of that with a fresh start, kinda like a soft reboot. The game's title in Japan is Ryuga Gotoku 7, which directly translates to Like a Dragon 7. Now, in the West, Sega has dropped a 7 from the title and just called it Yakuza Like a Dragon, so this is kinda like a Resident Evil Biohazard kind of move, probably to entice newer players without making them feel like they have to finish Kiryu's entire story. And it's not just the location and title that's changing, it's also the gameplay. You see, Yakuza Like a Dragon is not a beat em up like the first six games. It's a turn based RPG, like a Dragon Quest. You see, the main character Ichiban Kasuga is a huge Dragon Quest fan in the game's lore, and as a result, he actually perceives fights as being turn based, which is crazy. When the game got announced with this kind of plot, I had a bunch of people sending me messages telling me that the new protagonist is basically just me, and it's funny. Up until now, the series has made references to a fake Dragon Quest knockoff in the Yakuza universe called Arakure, a play on the word doraku. However, this time around, Yakuza creator Toshihiro Nagoshi and his team actually got permission from Dragon Quest creator Yuji Hori to name drop the series, and that is exactly what's happening. So this is a really big change for the series, action combat to turn based. Now the way I see this is it's like the opposite of what usually happens. You see, most turn based game series become action RPGs to the point where there's only a few different turn based RPGs still around, since they all go action based eventually due to following the trend. This is like turn based fans saying, hey how do you like it? Now there's a vocal minority of people who think this is not a good idea, but really it is. I've played the demo, the combat is actually very fun, and there's even a job system like Dragon Quest III where you actually go to an employment center to literally change your job to different things like a musician, a host, a chef, it's a funny and a cool feature. Now you see, Yakuza's combat has never really been the same. Every entry in the series has tweaked the combat enough that they all play slightly different to each other, and after 6 entries you can only punch your way through a hallway full of goons so many times. In a Japanese interview in Femitsu January 2020, translated by atk, Christoff 100 on Twitter, Yuji Hori and Toshihiro Nagoshi were both being interviewed. It is here where Nagoshi sheds light on the changes and connections to Dragon Quest. Turns out Nagoshi is actually a big Dragon Quest fan and looks up to Hori since a lot. He says that when he was in university, Dragon Quest taught him what an RPG was. He was grinding as much as he could. He also mentions he was a big fan of Hori's other work, the Bartopia serial murder case, which he only tried because Hori was attached to it. At the time there were only two famous game directors, Yuji Hori and Shigeru Miyamoto, and people typically were interested in new games by either of them, the same way you'd watch a movie because of a certain director. Nagoshi says that his reasons for the game's direction is that the main character Ichiban is an outlaw who likes games and that it would be too vague to just say he likes RPGs without actually naming a game, so they decide to name Dragon Quest with Yuji Hori's permission as a way to show that he's a simple person. This is why they decide not to go with a franchise like Final Fantasy instead, as Nagoshi said that this would not fit. He said that if Yuji Hori had refused to let them use the Dragon Quest name, he would have scrapped Ichiban being a fan of RPGs altogether. Now, Yuji Hori was optimistic and immediately let them use the name. At first he thought it would be used for a small part, but it turns out it is much more deeply rooted than that. Hori sensei said he was surprised that the game changed to a turn-based system but happy as he isn't that great at action games. Now, upon being asked about some people's opinions that this is a bad change, Nagoshi acknowledged complaints and said there were many who were opposed at the beginning but changed their minds when they played the game for real. Of course, I know that there are still opinions like it should be an action game, but I thought it would be better to challenge some new battle system rather than to investigate the progress of action thoroughly. Also, I was sure about that, that it would be a new experience to combine the common, accustomed commanding system with the world of Yakuza. So he knows that some people don't like the idea, but he sees it as a fresh start for the series and I agree. You see, there's little elements of Dragon Quest in the mainline Yakuza series already. The games are almost like an RPG with random encounters. As kiddo you typically walk the streets of Kamurocho, running into groups of baddies every now and then. Very similar to how you run into monsters in Dragon Quest on the overall. Additionally, you can purchase weapons, items for healing, there's skill treats to level up, Yakuza's side missions are also very Dragon Quest-esque with the famous casinos from Dragon Quest being brought straight into Yakuza. Some of the monster arenas are replicating Yakuza Zero. Instead of monster fights, they're cat fights where you can bet on a specific woman to win and lower her chances to hire the payoff which is exactly the same as Dragon Quest 3's monster arena. Oh man, that's great. Additionally, Yakuza's story and characters have a little bit of DQ in their DNA. Despite being basically a criminal, kiddo is an honorable person who defends the weak. You typically find yourself saving innocents from thugs and doing side quests to help people. Kiddo is actually very heroic and has a lot of qualities of a Dragon Quest character. And from what we've seen of Yakuza like a Dragon, they're going all the way with their influences. Ichiban said in the trailer that he wants to be a hero just like in his favorite video games. So it is very likely that Yakuza like a Dragon will be full of game references for fans of spot.  Hori said he was rather engaged to the point that he wants to finish the game to the end and that everyone should play along. Nagoshi ended by saying Yakuza like a Dragon shows respect to all RPGs, especially at its highest peak, DQ. And with that meaning, I use it in the game. It's a unique game, but you can see the respect that is put inside it if you play it. So including those who don't play RPGs lately may get a new experience from this Yakuza like a Dragon, an RPG with a kind of nostalgia but also brand new features. So Yakuza like a Dragon looks like a good game for fans of the series looking for something new and newcomers. A lot of people have asked me if you need to play the first six games before this one and from what I can tell, not really. However, this game is still about the Tojo Clan and I would highly recommend at least playing Yakuza 0 and Kiwami 1 to experience some of Kiryu's story and have a bit of an attachment before jumping into like a Dragon. Other than that, the game looks cool. I plan on playing it and I think DQ fans should get it too. Ichi is one of us. It's the first game I've ever seen starring a Dragon Quest fan. So I have to get it. Anyway, I hope you guys enjoyed this video and I'll see you next time.


So Kirby is here, Stephanie Smith is here. She's going to have to duck out a little early. Emery Richardson is here. Thank you for the binder. Barb's here, and Ariane. Am I pronouncing your name right? OK. And I got an email or a text from John Adams saying he couldn't make it last minute. So this is it, which we do technically have a quorum. Is there still a quorum for meeting with us? There is a quorum. Yes. You're at the quorum. I get to vote at that point. Yeah. I always discount myself, so I forget that I count. You're here to add yourself back. Yeah. So all right. Well, if we're ready, we'll call the meeting to order, OK? So everyone, direct everyone's attention to the agenda. So I would like to adjust the agenda because we have absence of several people and in the interest of focusing our attention tonight on finishing up the zoning, kind of like the fixes, quote unquote fixes to our zoning going through that matrix. I would like to table the city plan kickoff item that's item eight until the next meeting. And with that being tabled, I think we can conclude tonight's meeting at 6.30, so assuming we don't have any big issues that pop up. And really, I have a great deal of interest in making sure that Mike can leave as soon as possible since he is ill and he's calling in nevertheless. And Stephanie needs to leave. So if anyone has any objection to that, we can change it, but OK. Any other modifications to the agenda? Have we not yet just considered December 10th minutes, or was this a correction on the 10th? They needed to be corrected. OK. Yeah. Yeah, I think there was some confusion about who made what motion. It was about there was two different items that were clumped together. They should have been separate motion. So I think Mike was going to modify that, and that's why they popped back up on the agenda. So OK, well, we'll deem the agenda with the tabling of item eight as approved by consensus. OK, so item, well, that's item two. So item three, annual election of chair and vice chair. So this is something that we're required to do every January every year. Like I said at the last meeting, Kirby and I are happy to continue serving, but we certainly don't need to. Nobody else has approached me. So and I think there's a lot of roles for people even without official title, but if anyone does want something, then you should let me know. But hearing none, do I have any nominations? Do I have to make a nomination? We should nominate Leslie, the chair, and do I have seconds for the nomination? Let's see. Any discussion about this? It'd be kind of awkward now. OK, all those in favor say aye. Aye. All those opposed? OK, the motion carries. The motion to nominate, that's what we'll call it. All right, well, thank you. Another year, we'll see, has things progressed, we can reevaluate next year, whether we want to continue or we want to change it up. So I might not mind stepping down after this year. I'm surprised you're going to continue now, Leslie. Well, I mean, with the amount of new planning commissures we've had come on, it seemed to make sense that we would continue to do that. But yeah. A lot for you to take. Yes, I'm very, but Kirby has. We've talked about maybe I could leave some meetings here and there, just to kind of ease the burden on Leslie. You could expect that. Yes, I appreciate that. OK, so number four is comments from the chair. I don't want to spend too much time talking about comments, but I do just want to recognize that I am receiving emails with people interested in providing input on the city plan. And I know everybody here is chanting at the back to get going on that. So I'm looking for us to start delving into that, starting at the next meeting, and to spend the bulk of our time working on that. And the first part of that process will be sort of big picture thinking, which will be fun and overwhelming at once. But we'll be able to do it. So I'll go over some more detailed ideas about that at the next meeting. So for now, that's all I have, unless anyone else has any random. Leslie, is it possible that Dan Jones might be coming in at the next meeting? Well, I'll see if he's available. I don't know. It's pretty less than it. Yeah, I don't know if everyone knew that he offered to present the Bridges competition winner. It seems like a great place to start. It's definitely an overview that would be useful. Yeah, so hopefully it'll be. And I ask them to distribute the information to the planning commission directly, not just make everybody go on the site and read it. So I hope they'll have a hard copy available. Great, great. Thank you, Barb. OK, so general business is item five, which is when we invite members from the public to come up and present comments about items that aren't on the agenda. But there's no member of the public present. So we'll move on to item six, which is our punch list of zoning fixes. And I understand from Mike, we have one item that's highlighted in yellow that we have not voted on or we need to discuss. And then the remaining items will be deemed approved by consent unless somebody brings up an issue they want to discuss. So what I propose we do is we start with item four, have Mike walk us through the issue, and then I'd like to hear if anyone has any specific items they want to talk about in here. And Stephanie, if you need to step out. OK, OK, OK. So Mike, can you walk us through number four, the decision that needs to be made? OK, and let me know if you can't hear me. You're loud and clear. OK, so number four was just an issue that had come up on an application where zoning permit to. Is it possible to differentiate between parking and pathways, or does that make it too complicated? If it's a gravel pathway, they can pave it without a permit. But if it's parking, they need to get a permit. Plays can work the same way, though. They could be rather informal. Yeah, that makes it messier, just a thought. Well, I mean, client, the same as Mike, where I mean, not to worked up over the issue, but I do think that regulating and tracking impervious services that are popping up is a pretty good policy goal. And so I tend to not want to see over-regulation, but I think this is one that's important enough and with water quality issues and things being on everyone's minds, I think keeping trapped in impervious services makes it all that more important to do. I would agree with that. And the other point to make is that gravel is a variable surface, even though they call it impermeable, but it really does drainage patterns change over time after freezing and thawing. So whereas pavement is pretty much set. And so if somebody then paves over a gravel surface and drains onto a neighbor's property, we better know about it. So I think it would be better just to be able to have some kind of overview. So what exactly is the proposal? I'm sorry if I missed it, but I can maybe have an old. So the recommendation is to just say, to state that you wouldn't require a permit for the paving or paving of already impervious surfaces. This pops up under, so I mean, in the exemption section of the zoning, it says that certain types of development are exempt. And I think for some reason this gets pulled in through the definition section. Is that right, Mike? Yeah, so we voted in a different place on the matrix development, and instead actually put the definition of lane development in 1004. So what I would end up doing is just inserting it on one of those. So I'm just going to read it out loud for people who don't have a copy immediately in front of them. So on page 1-1, there's this little i and this sentence in italics that says, land development means constructing, installing, demolishing, constructing, converting, structurally altering, relocating, or enlarging any structure, mining, excavating, filling, or grading land, removing natural woody vegetation from within riparian buffers, changing or extending the use of land or structure, adjusting or relocating the boundary between two lots or dividing a lot into two or more lots. So this one, this issue seems to come under converting, reconstructing, structurally altering. Is that right? Was the idea to strike i all together and then put the definition? I'm not clear on that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I'm just trying to, if I have one second, I'm going to look up a different way to get there here. Sure. Because it's also mentioned in 5101-L2 as the definition. Development? Yeah, land development. Land development. Yeah, and then if we changed it, it could get changed in one location and not in the other. Well, the word land development is used throughout the applicability section. So it makes sense to just have it clear as part. Because these informational notes are really not part of the ordinance, are they? Well, other than references. Yeah, so the i wasn't. So we removed that one. And what I put in was, and I can get you the strikeout copy as soon as we're done today. So in my 1004.b that says development includes the reconstruction, reconstruction, conversion, structural alteration, relocation, enlargement, or demolition of it. So it's what we had here, except broken into subparts. It's actually written in the rags now with specific provisions for each of those types of development that are listed off with semicolons in between them here. And then you've clarified the paving to be part of that. It's its own. Even though you arguably could be interpreted as one of these issues, one of these types of development, you've now created its own provision so it's abundantly clear. Yeah, I thought, yeah, I went for the abundantly clear. I'm OK with that proposal. Well, what others? Would you remove the definition then from by 101L? The paving definition? No, the land development definition. Yes, I would reference in the end because just so everybody knows, there's a rule of thumb for writing regulations that says, say it once. You never say something twice because you'll always get it different. So what I would probably have in the definition section, E. Yeah. OK, not everything that was in 5101L2 was in the definition that you just read to us. So we have a couple of other issues that are here, like the adjustment or relocation to the boundary between two lots or the division of a lot into two or more lots. Yeah, that was in my subdivision blah, blah, blah. Oh, subdivision blah. OK, all right, that sounds good. Just as long as we don't lose it. No, no, it definitely had to be in there. So by saying paving of unpaved surfaces, you're exempting something like a gravel path that would be paved. Am I understanding that right? No. So we're not exempting it. Not exempting it. So you would need to get a permit for the paving of a gravel path. OK. So that's kind of the development, right? So it says that the first time, the intention is to require a permit the first time you pave, but if you have to repave, then you would not need a permit. OK. Yes, if it's already paved, then it's considered maintenance. Is that acceptable? Yeah. To everyone? Sure. OK, Mike, we're going with your recommendation. OK. Consensus, that's what I said. OK, thanks, Stephanie. See you at the next meeting, which will be on that calendar. It doesn't even show me. It's just going to look so that it's all. February 11th and 25th. OK. See you then. Don't think one of those is a holiday? No, I don't think so either. OK, so then I think we wanted to revisit number 125 as well. I don't think we voted on that. That was the only other yellow one that was open. What about 62, Mike? That's still open, but did you just decide not to act on it? Yeah, we decided to hold off on that until after we have more of the city plan work underway and we understand whether that's going to fit within it. It's sort of an idea that we thought we'd consider as part of the city plan. That's the question was whether we'd have just sort of a generic PUD to add all the other PUDs and we decided let's work on our city plan and see whether that's something that we decide is necessary at that point. But let's hold off on it for now. So that was 62. So 125, let's see. And then we got kind of caught in a question of what accessory buildings would mean. So we would want to see a site plan. Yeah, I agree, Mike. As long as it comes out as a minor site plan, it seems like the number of sections that are pertained to minor site plan are reasonable to ask for a new four-unit building. Mike, if someone is modifying an existing Victorian to make it to turn it from one unit into four, would you say that it's always an administrative site plan review? Which of yous? Don't go from one to four. Yeah, I'm just trying to zoom down to the part where we have where the requirements are for items that need almost there. Three and four dwelling units are conditional in some zones, some districts. Those would automatically have a hearing anyways. What are you looking for? All right, so section 3201. People want to look at major site plan and what needs a minor site plan. Major site plans have the hearings. Minor site plans are administrative. So the following are major site principal buildings. Major renovations. The building pretty much can't be occupied. It's one of these full guttons. That's what it's going to ask. Five parking spaces or two. Yeah, major renovations. That term is used there. It seems kind of vague to me. It has a definition, and we think it's got enough. And if somebody disagrees with us, they can take it. But we think we've got a pretty good. Page five dash one, two. Yeah, I think the building can't be. So it seems like one of its distinguishing characteristics is alteration to the exterior shell of the building. So putting in a bunch of walls. You're saying it wouldn't quite get you there.  And like three kitchens. You know, if you can't occupy the building for its original intent, if it's a single family home and the people are living there, I suppose you could argue that it's not a major renovation. But I personally am really interested in pursuing this more. I mean, I don't feel like I'm well versed enough in the zoning to know all the potential scenarios. But I also feel like it would be really helpful to have John here to discuss it. Can we put this off or do we need to? I mean, I know we've been like slow on that. One thing I'm thinking about with this item is this is another great item to take up in the context of the city plan. Where we have some ideas of adjustments, tweaks we could make to the zoning in order to work towards certain goals, like increasing housing stock, for instance. So this could be a great item to hold off on for now and discuss again once we're in that discussion. So we can bring tweaks to the zoning to the city council at any time? We can at any time. Yeah. Yeah. And whatever vote you make tonight, this will just make, it'll let me finish making the strikeout copy. And then we can warn a public hearing. And we still have opportunity to make chances later. So if John shows up to the public hearing, he has the opportunity to go and say, I still want to revisit this. And it's permanent at this point. We're just going to make a copy that we say, this is our copy. We're going to go to public hearing. And as you all remember, many of you who were on the last one remember, we made a bunch of changes after the public hearing. And so we may, after our public hearing, before we send it to the city council, and they may make. Yeah, I mean, I'm definitely interested in this change as well. But I don't want to do it without talking through all of the potential consequences. And I have a feeling Stephanie would probably be interested too. So I think there's good reason to bring it up later. Just hold off for now. One point I just want to make in reviewing this, that the Section 3207 design and compatibility would not pertain to this if it was not a major site plan review. So and we're putting a lot of eggs in that basket to make sure that it's consistent with the neighborhood. There might be some other tweaks to make this area while we're at it too. I mean, part of the concept here is the city is invested in the exterior doing there. But things that are mostly internal, like we're talking about, where you're just increasing the number of units in a place. Yeah, they'd have to get a building permit, though, and they'd have to put sprinklers in. So at that scale, they'd have to put sprinklers in. They would, yeah. I'm just thinking a lot about if we work on this later, thinking about the focus on the exterior as opposed to regulating the interior as much. It's not as much of their business. Yeah, I mean, it's one thing to change an existing building versus constructing a new four unit building. It's going to be a different, potentially different set of criteria that we're going to be concerned about. So I wouldn't want to get rid of it right now. But so what you're suggesting, Leslie, is that we don't change it now, but potentially change it later. Look at it with the. Yes. Yeah, I mean, we're going to have a lot of opportunities to make recommendations as part of the city plan about changes that should be done. And then we could, I mean, if we decide this makes a lot of sense, we could, after we are done with the city plan, we could just take it up immediately and check something off the city plan checklist. OK, everyone go with that approach? OK. So the numbers 56 through 130 are the consent items. Does anybody have any specific points they want to discuss? Five. I'm guessing five. Will. 56 through 130? Yes. Remind me, did we already do one through 55 except for the number four? OK. Yep. I know it's sort of hard every two weeks to get in and out of the mindset. And find the right matrix. The right matrix is dated December 28, 2018, I believe. Yes. At least we're looking off the same copy. So under 84 we are going to add a definition of change of use, correct? OK, so Mike, Barb's directing us to number 84. Add a definition of change of use. Do we have that definition now? I do, but it's probably down in my office. OK. So could we maybe see that next time? I mean, certainly, we need to add a definition. Yes. I just want to see the wording, that's all. But that makes sense. That makes sense. I guess I had a question, but maybe not a problem. With 111, some conflict exists between 3505 lot arrangement 3903009 stormwater? So the decision we made, but we can revisit it. Oh, I didn't have that as approved. Yes. PC agrees to delete 3505.A7. Was the decision at the time? Which number are we on? 111. 111. 111. Yeah, I have delete number 7 of 3505 written down. Under which end of your third column? Never mind. Yeah, so on 111, it's my own note. Oh, your note. It's my own. Yeah, I wasn't seeing any notes under actions, Mike. So that's why I wasn't sure what we had decided to do. OK. Just one other quick question on 127, on the campus PV and permits. Yep. Recommend striking the last sentence. It seems from reading it that the intent was that after five years, the approval would expire. But you said there seemed to be some confusion with that. Was that not your interpretation? Last sentence is confusing. Does not apply. I get to it here. 346. M1. Yeah. So campus master plan. So if a development is going in for major site plan approval and has gotten it, they need to actually do the development within five years. It's not actually addressing anything regarding the master plan of the campus. Yeah, I think my confusion is on the last sentence. My notes in the matrix probably weren't as clear as they could have been. This provision shall not apply. Oh, is it the two above it? Yeah, there's talking about a couple of things above it. Right. A shared parking plan is a minor. So just strike the last sentence. Yeah, so my record. I have different subprovisions to handle just one particular issue. Yep. I mean, do you want to break one into two so that proposed development becomes item number two? Or just not in the end? I don't know what I would recommend for the parking plan or the sign plan. I think I would just follow what's going on above proposed development requiring major site plan shall occur within five years. We will probably revisit. OK. So we're going to have to come back to number 84 briefly. I think that was a good catch five. I thought we were. Yeah, let's see if there's anything else. Yeah, I'm sorry. I actually had that printed out and sitting on my debit. Seems like we've had trouble with that before trying to define what was a change of use and what wasn't. So it's be good to have a definition. Yeah, I've written them before for other communities. So I had one that I kind of worked and I thought it was going to fit pretty well. But I think it is an important definition that we should probably review. Yeah, yeah. Would you mind distributing that by email when you get back to work and we can, that way, we shouldn't reply. But we can all consider it on our own and then talk about it the next meeting quickly. Anything else on this? OK. Well, we should talk about, I mean, the next item on the agenda is the adoption process. But before we get into those specifics, let's talk about Kirby's memos. Do we want to have a motion on the consent or are we just assuming that everybody else is good because it was a consent item? We are assuming everyone else is good because it was a consent item and everyone was duly warned as such. But I don't think we're ready to make a motion to pass on this packet yet until we discuss number 84, which is the change of use definition. Yep, and I have a couple others for anyone who's looked up and up above, whatever, 59. There were a couple of yellow areas where staff was going to develop a map or staff was going to develop. There were a couple of them that I had work to do. There weren't decisions you guys had to do. There was just some work I had to do. So I've got to put some stuff together to get those to you anyways. OK, we can consider all of those at the next meeting and then hopefully with those approved or modified and approved, we can then pass on a whole packet. I'll take a plan. So which ones are we excluding right now? We're excluding 62 and? Well, I mean, we made decisions on all of them except for 84. And some of the decisions were to just hold off. Yeah. I don't know the best way to go through it. Well, I just think it'd be helpful to identify the ones that we're holding off on. So otherwise, if we pass all of these, then it sounds as if we have approved the ones that are still in flux as well. So 62 was one of them. OK, so we need work from Mike on numbers 15, 18, 62, and we're going to do in the context of the city plan. Right, right. That would be the same. Oh, just that we're going to know that we're going to hold off on it. Right, OK. And so for that, it was 62. And I didn't make it know because I figured this. 84, which is the one you just brought up about change of use. And then 125. 125. 18, 2, Leslie. Yeah, that one staff to develop maps, develop new painting studio use. That's all I can see off-hand, but. Our resolution to the painting studio issue was to try to define it. Is that what you're saying, Mike? I don't remember. Yeah, there would be a new use for a painting studio. Otherwise, all of the art studios will be like manufacturing. So I just needed to come up with a definition. Yeah, that just sounds tricky. Defined. It's a very subjective one. What is it? When you cross the line out of a painting studio. When does it become sculpture? Well, we just need to make sure that we figure out how the art studios be allowed because right now, they're apparently not allowed. Art studios fall under light manufacturing. And the term art can be so broad. There's different mediums. Somebody could say it's, well, I'm an artist doing. We could revisit that if it seems. Yeah, certainly anyone can. OK, so we just have five items that we're excluding from our consent agenda, or our consent approval. Well, not all of them were consent approved. Just items 56 through 130 minus 125 and 84. Anything that hasn't been commented on is assumed to be approved at this point. I just want to be clear. We noted every other one that had either been approved or not approved. Yeah, we walked through all the other ones. OK, so let's talk about Kirby's memos. Because you, well, we kind of discussed how we wanted to do it at the last meeting. And I'm not sure if you've had an opportunity to modify them at all. I did. I sent everyone. I think I sent to the entire group. Yeah, I sent to the entire group. I think I remember that. I lose track of what I sent to you and my group. I sent everyone. I sent everyone in copies. They were lightly modified versions of what we had talked about before. Broke it out into two memos. We haven't done a thorough discussion of the more contentious issue about billable area. So I hadn't made any major changes there. Barb had provided a lot of feedback to us the last meeting about what she wanted to make there. And some of the stuff that's in the wordsmithing variety of things that Barb pointed out, I looked at and made some changes, maybe not all of them, along those lines. But anything substantive I just tell off on to see. Do we want to discuss it more? Or, I mean, one question is that Barb has a certain vision for it, but the memos from the group. So I mean, we could spend a lot of time to try to get to a place where, if we think it's worthwhile to try to make a version that everyone is totally happy with. Or we could just send it with a note that Barb doesn't think the memo or not is to present both sides of the issue. And here's why we're doing this. So my recollection of our vote approving the preparation of this memo was not to present two sides, but to provide the city council with a clear list or outline just identifying the concerns that were brought up as part of this vote and that could potentially have an impact that they should be considering as part of their consideration of this change. So it wasn't like this was said, and this was said, and this was more like this is. I guess I read that as being the same. OK. Yeah, that here are the issues that were brought up. And here are the advantages and here are the disadvantages. Right. Just clear cut, listed as to either statements of fact or trying to keep it as clear as possible. And then basically, it's up to the city council. Right. And I thought you gave Kirby some excellent feedback about some of the items that looked a little bit subjective. And he made modifications to address that. Yeah, I guess I would say that I didn't see the modifications as kind of meeting what I would like to have seen. So I suggested to Kirby before the meeting tonight that maybe we could just sit down together because I think it would be a lot faster process to do this in person and say, OK, how about this? And kind of work back and forth with some different verbiage rather than send emails ad infinitum. Is that something that the two of you think you might be able to do before the next meeting? I'd be happy to. But so one thing we're going to run into, though, is that there'll be things we probably aren't going to agree on, that where I think it's a substantive change and I think it's not a message that I would want to send. So then what are we? So what? So we put both of them in. What the permission like us to do there. I think we have to put both of them in in a very subjective way. Do we have an example of that?  We can just discuss quickly. Yeah, I could have fun or comments. Like there's like a factual statement here where I had said that some presidents of popular have voiced disapproval of changes to density limits in the past and Barb wants to change it to disapproved multiple times of neighborhood densities. And I just it's a tonal change there. I think it's sending a different message than what I intended to. So things like that. Yeah. I mean, I think some of it is certainly an issue of emphasis. But I think I want to make sure that for those city counselors who were not here during that process, that they're clear about that this was not just one or two people and that there was some very significant disagreement with what we were doing. And so what we need to be able to do is to show to the public that this change makes sense and would, in fact, not significantly alter that. And so my point of view is that there were some very vocal people, but still compared with the entire population and all the residents of the city, they were still a tiny minority. So I don't want to give a few squeaky wills that kind of platform. That's trouble. Well, I mean, that is my view on it because I do view that I want to represent all the residents and not just them outspoken. Certainly. So like that balances. Yeah. I think that one of the things that we continually said to those people, and there became more and more people over time, it wasn't just one or two people, that we said to them, well, we hear your concern. However, we have these other policies in place that would keep any development consistent with what's in the neighborhood. So that was presented clearly to those people and to everyone. So anyone else who might have dissented may not have come forward because they said, oh, sure. Yeah, we're getting into trouble. So yeah. I mean, there's all, I mean, not that we're making many major, maybe as big changes, but we're making a lot of changes to zoning. And everyone in the city is not necessarily going to be aware that we're, I mean, I feel like we're giving a very, you know, expanse, which is fair given the contentiousness of this issue, but, you know, the Planning Commission also voted to move the recommendation forward. So I just share the concern about giving the city council Enhancing the platform of? Yeah, of something that the Planning Commission, by a majority, didn't vote for. So I don't know how to deal with the differences in Tom. That's very complex. Well, if you don't want to spend any more time on it, then I'm perfectly happy with just writing a dissenting opinion and sending it to the city council. Well, how about this? Why don't we, why don't the two of you, as you suggested, why don't you see if you can come to something? And I would urge you to think about factual corrections that need to be made and to identify when you have a stylistic discrepancy about the tone or the urgency of some, you know. Or opinions. Well, yeah, I mean, obviously, I mean, this memo is intended to represent that there are multiple opinions. So it's not meant to say, this is the one opinion of the city council, of the Planning Commission. It's meant to say that this is, there are a couple of different opinions. This is what the majority chose. But we understand that factually speaking, there are some drawbacks to moving forward with this recommendation. And so ensuring that those factual drawbacks are adequately and accurately captured, that's really important. And I think you are in the best position to do that. So that's what I'm really looking for. And obviously, you know, curvy's a human like anybody else and there can be moments where we've had it in something slightly subjective and it's helpful to have somebody just check, make sure everything's, yeah. Let's, you know. Objective. If it's possible. And the document I distributed in the first place was really a first draft. Yeah, no, I understand, yeah. So the fact that there's a lot of feedback is totally expected and welcome. And if ultimately you feel like checking the factual accuracy is not sufficient when you wanna have a separate dissenting opinion that has more of the tone that you're looking for, then you certainly can do that too. So I mean, I think the more we can speak with one voice, the better our credibility as a commission is. That's why I'm looking to maintain it if we can. But if we can't, I'm not gonna force it. I mean, I think we should have a dissenting opinion if needed. So, all right, so we will meet outside and see what we can draft. Okay, very good. And then we'll all look at that as much as we can. I think we'll have a quick discussion about that and we'll move on, cause we haven't discussed it quite a lot. So should we just try and circulate that before the next meeting? Try to circulate it before the next meeting. Just give us a couple of days. Just no discussion. Right, great. Okay, and then, Mike, are there any quick details about the adoption process that you wanna discuss? No, when we get there, we'll talk about it. It's pretty straightforward. I just wanted to give the two people a chance to ask any questions and to understand the process. But I will go over it at the next meeting when we... So we'll look at 15, 18, 84, and Kirby's memo. Okay. Is that right? 62 and 125 we're holding off on. Yes. Okay. Until the city plan. So we're not taking any action on those. No action. Right. 15, 18, 84, Kirby's memo. Okay. Kirby's memo is really the planning commission's memo and Kirby has graciously drafted it. I'm just calling it Kirby's memo for ease of reference. This is fine. Okay. So that brings us to item nine, which is the minutes from December 10th in January 14th. So first let's look at December 10th, meeting minutes, meeting minutes. Do I have a motion to approve these minutes? We could discuss. Can we make sure that it's just changed before we can take any action on it? Okay. Does this get changed, Mike? Didn't make a strikeout version, but the minutes are changed on page, it's on the back. I don't have them in front of me. Yeah. Page two. I just mean, was it corrected from the original December 10th that we had? Yes. I was asked to review. I think there's just confusion about what the vote was on. Yeah. The motion passed in a five zero vote with Erin obtaining that. The engineered and slope section would be forwarded. So is that what we voted on? And we didn't vote on the buildable areas question. Correct. That's why we're working on the memo. But we did vote on it a couple of times. I guess we just didn't have an official vote on this date. If you reviewed the video, then I trust you, but I... Yeah, what happened on the 10th was we needed the wards next. So maybe we, I think maybe Kirby's memo identifies a vote on this date, so maybe it could be corrected to a straw, a poll. That's what I'm gonna have to do. What I'm thinking is that if we're gonna discuss the memo, we should just vote in. Okay. Mm-hmm. And that will be the... Yeah, if we didn't have an actual vote. I really thought that on the 10th we had two votes, but it doesn't, at the end of the day, it doesn't really matter. We can vote next time, and I'll draft the memo. Yeah, if it didn't happen then. Reflect that date, even though it's the future. In the future. Yeah, we had a motion in the second. We never technically withdrew it. We also never technically voted on the first one and then ended up voting on the second one. I usually try to pay attention to that, but okay. And I think that was where we missed it, and that's what confused. Well, fair enough. Do I have a motion to approve the meeting minutes from December 10th? I'm moved. I'll second. All those, any discussion? Further discussion? No, all those in favor say aye. Aye. And I'll vote aye, since I have to vote right now. Okay, December 10th, meeting minutes are approved. Let's turn quickly to January 14th, meeting minutes. Do I have a motion to approve these minutes? Do I have a second? No second. Okay, any discussion? Barbara, you ready for a vote? Okay, all those in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Okay, meeting minutes from January 14th are approved. Okay, so next meeting we're gonna start with, before we adjourn, I just wanna sum up what we're gonna start with. We're gonna take up the last of the matrix, numbers 15, 18, 84. We're gonna also vote on the buildable area question, which I don't know what number it is off hand, but I'll find it. And- Well, we voted on that already. It was just the memo that was gonna go. It's voted on five one multiple times. Okay. Well, it wasn't on the chance. I'll review my notes about that and see what I can find. Well, we'll vote next time just for the sake of the memo. Yeah. That's what we were talking about. And then we'll vote for the sake of the memo. Okay. All right, do I have a motion to adjourn? I'll second. Okay, all those in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. And we are adjourned. We'll see you on February 11th.


see a lot of great leather and canvas bags coming out of the US but I just wanted to take a quick video to show you a Made in Australia leather backpack. This is my favorite business backpack and I'll show you why. G'day! Welcome to bootlossophy. My name is Tech and I acknowledge the traditional custodians of the lands that I'm filming on the Wajik people of Perth in Western Australia. Now I like my backpacks like the one I recently got from Dale's Leatherworks and you can take a look at the video up there. But it is hard to find a business backpack which you can take to the office and business meetings. You don't want to take a sporty backpack so you want something that's quite elegant if you can find it. This is Hank Berg's Liam backpack. It's made in the Apple Isle of Tasmania south of Continental Australia and it's about a 10 hour 250k ferry ride from Melbourne. Boot guys and gals would have heard of Tasmania. Blunstones were made there used to be made there but they're still headquartered there. It's a whole different story. Other than that though it's Australia's least populous state and the main economic activity there is really primary production which is farming, sheep, cattle, mainly that. The state capital is Hobart and Hobart is a harbour city and in the harbour every Saturday they have an open-air market called Salamanca Markets. It's really worth a visit. The market stalls will sell just about everything fruit and produce but of course a lot of crafts. While they have a shop in the suburb of Cambridge, Hank Berg has a stall at the markets on Saturdays as well as selling through their website. I'll leave a non-affiliate link down below. Hank Vandenberg is Dutch born and started Hank Berg leather about 35 years ago. Like all small bootmakers he started leather goods with a clear vision to offer an option to our throwaway society by making long-lasting, repairable, durable, veg-tanned leather goods. His daughter has now taken over the business and still operates under the original values of creating high quality crafts people made functional leather goods. In making their products they are locally tanned, vegetable tanned leather selected for durability and grain character and capability to develop a unique patina. This is the Liam backpack. This is brown but you can get it in black and tan as well. I use this as a business backpack because it measures 32 by 45 by 12 centimetres. Taking a look at the outside, its leather is veg tanned leather, very soft, very buttery. I've had this for a few years now and you can see the patina that's developing on the surface of the leather. You can see the full grain sort of veg tanned, obviously veg tanned grain leather with a lot of grain in it showing all the wrinkles, the hair holes, the some cuts and grazes that you get as you're carrying this around. It's very buttery even now and the shape of it because it's reasonably square it almost looks like a big square briefcase but obviously it stands this way up. Now let's take a look at the pockets and things that come with it. There are two side pockets. They're big enough to put in things like spectacles cases which I do, water bottles sometimes and you can have put other things in it that you might not want to let fall out like keys and that sort of thing but you just have to be a little bit careful with that sort of thing because I think with these pockets they're very deep but at the same time they're open so you want to you want to push things in them that are not going to easily fall out. The front zip section opens fully with really good zips. I don't think they're YKK but they are plastic toast with metal fastenings covered by a leather pull tab. The front zip section opens all the way so that you can actually open it in full and this is where you can slip in files and folders and things and on the inside flap are card holders, pen holders for your phone or calculator. There's also a flap in here with an extra pop button so that you can keep that flap closed and things don't fall out and there's also a zip section in here where you can keep things like wallets and phones and that sort of thing. So a very functional front pocket which is gusseted but certainly very functional and roomy for keeping notebooks, files, stationery, all that sort of thing. Notice I don't say keeping your computer in there because inside the main section which doesn't open all the way through, it opens sort of halfway, inside the main section is actually a padded laptop bag pocket and it has a Velcro cover which I never use. I usually just plop that cover on the inside and that way I can reach in and grab my laptop. There's also a flap in the inside front of it for other material and it actually runs from here to here so it's quite a deep flap as you can see and the inside case itself runs almost the full, well it does run, the full width depth of the backpack and so you can pack it with lots of things like cables and other files and all sorts of things. So I do find it extremely useful to carry my stuff to and from the office or when I'm travelling and I want to be a bit hands-free I have this on my back. The handles and I do like this. They have handles on top so that you can you can carry the backpack without having to grab the back straps. The handles at the top come together with a reinforced leather carrying area with a loop here so that you can clip it all together so that when you're trying to grab it you're grabbing both instead of sort of flapping around grabbing one or the other. The back straps are very wide very securely sewn into the leather and you can see also the patina that developed here with you know a little bit of sweatiness and friction against clothing and that sort of thing and getting nicely polished with the depth of colour in the centre versus the sides. The stitching is very attractive and interesting I think but also I think quite functional because these straps go inside the two layers but is then stitched over with these sorts of decorative stitching. The bottoms of the straps have these little triangles that they're stitched into so it's totally secure in that in that little area. Very wide straps so very comfortable on the shoulder. It sits really well because it's attached really high so it's not when you're on your shoulder it's not sort of flopping behind it's actually right on the shoulder. Very wide comfortable straps with suede on the inside that's actually got itself polished through use but the suede is a good touch because it means it doesn't it doesn't slip on your shoulder. The hardware is nickel chrome plated I believe nickel hardware with a simple sort of buckle adjustment on two sides. The Henkberg Liam backpack currently sells at 348 Aussie dollars which to me to my mind is incredible value for a handmade product using beautiful veg tan leather. Yes I do realise that it does involve a stitching machine and it's not you know physically hand stitched along every a straight line but it is a craftsman that's telling that machine what to do. Now you can get a lot of cheaper handbags some of them made from so-called genuine leather but this is veg tan full grain leather tanned in Australia and it's made by craftspeople from Tasmania who create a work of art every time they stitch this thing together rather than an enormous factory somewhere in Asia that's you know paid a couple of cents to produce a backpack easily every time. I reckon these are really good value for that under 400 Australian dollar price even today although this is quite an old one for me I think I've had it for at least 10 years going strong developing great patina. So there you go I hope you like this non-boot review I've taken a bit of a side step to do bags but hey I've done bags before and you guys seem to like it so I don't I don't mind bringing you this bag from Australia from a brand that I really like and my wife likes the brand too by the way she's got like four handbags made from Hank Bergen I think she's wanting more. 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Azerbaijani flag in Han-Kendi knew important milestone in Karabakh region's history. Azerbaijan's national flag flying in Han-Kendi marks an important milestone in the history of the Karabakh region and it is said in the article of Independent News Network BNN Breaking. Han-Kendi is the heart of Karabakh, internationally recognized as part of Azerbaijan. The raising of the Azerbaijani flag now sets the stage for a new chapter in the city's history reads the article. The man behind this symbolic act is Ilham Aliyev, the president of Azerbaijan. His hand on the flagpole is not just a political gesture, it's the culmination of a victory over the Armenian forces. The president is reaffirming Azerbaijan's sovereignty and imprinting its identity on a land that has been a crucible of conflict for more than a century. It's a moment of triumph, a statement of authority and a testament to the enduring spirit of a nation. The article noted, Russian pro-Armenian political scientist Sergei Makedonov said that president of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev planted the flags of his country in Han-Kendi as well as in the territory of Sarsang Reservoir in Tatar district and Agdara. The process of integrating Karabakh into the Azerbaijan state began after the last remnants of the DQR infrastructure were removed. Symbols are the main element of this process.


So, I did the video just the other day on DNS BL blocking via PFSense, which is my preferred method because I run PFSense, but not everybody does. I realized that. So, why not talk about PyHolve and ask about this before? So, I set one up and I set it up for a few weeks at my house so I could get some real world usage.  So, I gathered some stats and actually did some usage with it to see if there's any problems running what probably the average person would run. And so far, none. So, I figured because it works so well with some really minor inconveniences which we'll talk about later, we're going to do a video showing you how to set up a PyHolve.  And what the PyHolve is, is an internal DNS server that you can run so you don't have to use the DNS provided by your ISP or by the system itself. So, we're going to go through how to set up PyHolve. Now, as the name may imply, it will run on a Raspberry Pi because it's very lightweight. I'm going to be running it on a simple basic install of Debian with very little RAMs. That's all it really needs. I just didn't feel like taking my Raspberry Pi apart, but it will run the same and all these set instructions will be the same for your Raspberry Pi as they are for running it inside of your own server, which I do. So, nothing's really going to be different. My server is a little bit faster than a Raspberry Pi, of course, but that's not a big deal. As far as DNS resolution goes, you'll see it hardly uses any CPU power, so this does run good on a Raspberry Pi without a lot of problems, except in most of them we'll get towards the end of it. When you're viewing the logs, that does seem to pull a little bit of CPU power. And I didn't try it on a Raspberry Pi, but I can imagine it's only going to be slower like when you're trying to do some of the log visualizations because it's querying the system for data and it's a little bit processor dependent. This could be an idea and maybe logging matters a lot to you, maybe it's just novel. Reality is, it's real fun to look at them at first, then you realize real quickly, okay, cool, it blocked a bunch of stuff and you just kind of get an idea that it works and we'll go from there. All right, so let's get started. Now they have just a super handy script and it's curl dash lowercase s, capital l, hctps, install pihole.net, pipe it through bash. And what curl does is curl goes out and grabs information via like a, it acts like a web browser so to speak and pulls certain information and then you're, what you're doing is you're pulling the specific program that they have and piping it into bash. Now the scary thing in doing something like this is you are surrendering yourself to the power of the script and you have to run it at root so your computer is going to do whatever that script says just to keep that in mind. So be careful when you run these scripts, make sure it's from a trusted source. Now this could all be built completely manually and they have the documentation here and you can go through all their stuff to look at, we're just going to follow the automated script because I think it's an easier way for people to learn. You start with, okay, let's run it automated and see how it works, cool, okay, how do I take it apart? And that's another wonderful thing about open source is you can take this script apart. So let's jump over here to our machine with Debbie and running on it. And I've been trying to work on making sure when I do these tutorials things are a little bit more zoomed in so you can make sure you see everything. I know it's small on the screen. I can zoom into this, whoops, zoomed in a little too far. So you can see the script but it's curled on SSL, we're just going to pipe that into bash. I already know that this machine doesn't have a curl installed and I'm a big fan of Debian but this is going to apply to whatever operating system you're using and Raspbian being a popular one on the Raspberry Pi means it would accept apt-get command. So we're going to go apt-get because it's Debian install and we're going to put curl on here. Yep, simple enough, curls installed, clear screen and we're just going to paste in this curl command and it's extremely automated. So it curls, it grabs the command from there and pipe it through bash means execute this with bash, checks it on route, make sure I got package, it's run through this checks, retrieves a couple files and then the installer will transform your device into a network-wide blocker by holes free donate and yes this is something I want to pause here for a second, please donate to a lot of these projects. I always, you know, I've seen different projects, I subscribe or put money towards them. This is really an important thing of open source. These people put a lot of time in it, so you know donations to these open source projects, highly recommended. If it's something you use a lot, definitely throw some money at them. Now the pi hole is a server so it needs a static IP address to function properly. The next section you can choose your current network setup and DHP or mainly edit them. Now this is kind of an up to you thing. I do recommend static IP but if you have a pi and it gets a DHCP address and you're not going to have this be any type of DHCP server, then you can actually run it like this as long as you know where that address is of the pi each time it boots. Manual is better but you can run it with DHCP. I like this too because you can choose different DNS servers, Google's level three, Norton, Komodo, DNS watch, Quad 9 or custom. So you can input your own or choose one of the other DNS ones out there. I did a video today on Quad 9. They do some different malware filtering so they can block some of those websites but choose whichever one you're comfortable with. We're going to go ahead and throw Quad 9 in here because I just did it the other day of an ad. All right, it offers IPv4 and IPv6 blocking. Do you want to use your current network static address? We'll say yes. It is possible your router could still try to assign this IP to a device would cause a conflict. That's okay. This is like, you know, it wanted to set this as a static address and if it does that and your router still assigns something. So this is just kind of the back end networking for it. Now, do you want to install the web admin interface? Yes, we do. You can actually install this and not have any admin interface on it all if you don't want to. Do you want to log the queries? Well, if you're going to put the admin interface, you may as well log the queries or why would you install it? So it's going to run through and it's going to retrieve all the files needed and install the packages. Now, don't just click OK here. This is a important part of it. Make sure you get your password out of here. So your admin web page password login is and this is it right here. It comes up with a random password and login and I'll show you when you log in. I wish maybe it's maybe I just not seeing it. The only way to change the password is back from the command line. I don't see it inside the system. So either way, we're going to go here and copy it and I'm just going to paste it over another window so I know where it is. And so I have that password so I can remember it. So now we're going to click OK. Now that's it. We don't have to restart this or anything. It's up and running and the IP address of this is just like it displayed on the screen <IP_ADDRESS> admin login. And I'm not going to bother saving the password. This is a temporary server. I'm fine with leaving it here. I'm fine with the PF sense going that I'm running. This is on my PF sense network, but it's providing just the DNS. That's all I really want it for. I mean, this does not. This is not a router, by the way, in case anyone's wondering or someone asked. This only provides DNS service. So here's a dashboard query log and all of this is empty because well, there's nothing going on here. So you can go through here and play around. Make sure the settings are right. Make sure it's getting there. Update the block lists, things like that. How do we actually use this thing? This is where you see an install takes like no time at all. I'm going to pop open a virtual machine and we're going to set sort of Windows machine to use this as the DNS. Open up my Windows 10 over here. All right, we're in Windows 10. We're going to open up the network settings. We're going to change our adapter options right here. Properties, properties again. Now it's just using DHCP default. You get a lot of routers have in the DHCP options to specify a DNS server. And we can specify it or you can just go to each machine and type it in. Either way, the goal is to use the DNS of the piehole. So by redirecting all DNS to the piehole, it doesn't use whatever other DNS was automatically assigned via DHCP. So this is overriding those settings. OK, close. Now we're using the piehole for DNS. So if we go over here, open up Google Chrome, open up some website. And let's actually find something that's got some affine, let's try some site has some ads on it. All right. So I'm sure there's some ads buried in here somewhere. So now let's open up the piehole again. And there we go. So you can see some stuff got blocked here. It got piehole, as they say. So here's the site list and it doesn't take long. So with one machine, which is Tom's seven PC local domain, this many DNS queries occurred. So let's jump over to the dashboard. 110 queries from that few seconds we had it in there. So in queries blocked percent block, 16.4. And you know, here's gathering up some stats for what's going on. Now let's go ahead and switch over to mine that's been running for a while at my house with a bunch of, you know, I think there's 20 clients on that network and show you what it actually looks like when it aggregates data. All right. Now this is my home server that's been running for a little while and it roughly blocks 14 percent of the queries that are sent to it. And the graphs are really cool here. So when you're running this, it's the dashboard updates make it look really nice. They've done a great job on this. And this part doesn't take too much horsepower to run. Then we'll run down. So the query logs, this is where it takes a little bit longer for some of the two. So if we want to go to long term data, let's go to graphics and choose the date and say the last seven days. You can see there's some pause in doing that, not a lot. So you can say yesterday, but if this was running on a Raspberry Pi, this would take a little bit longer to generate some of these log queries just to give you an idea. But you can see it runs really fast on a standard Debian server. Now you can whitelist in here. So you can say, OK, these are spots I want to add a domain to an exception as a whitelist and these ones are actually in the whitelist. I'm actually this is the spot where it downloads them. You can blacklist a domain. So by blacklisting a domain, you can just force that blacklist to say, just deny that domain all completely. There's also this is kind of any option if you're having trouble with it and you're saying, OK, something's not working and it's getting piholt or we're not sure what's going on. And you can just say, disable this for this much time. So if you're right, something's being blocked, you just can say, OK, disable this for 10 seconds and it shuts it off. So it'll quit doing it and it says enabled and it counts down to back to being enabled. Back to being enabled. Now this is under tools where you can do actually the updates with the update all the lists. It does this automatically on its own schedule, but you can force an update like that. You can also generate debug logs. So if you're trying to debug problems with it and this has options to do that. So it is automatically can send the debug log over. So pretty pretty slick system and very nice interface. As you notice, I didn't have to go to the command line for any of this. It's all working right here. Now, one thing about it is the password. So it generated a password, but then I wanted to set my own. Also, you've got this little here so you can collapse and move the dashboard. So if we log out and we go to log in, you'll see the forgot password option.  This is what allows you to set the password so you can have it set to something other than the random thing that they gave you and, you know, set the password if you're going to type it in or just save that password in last pass and away you go. That is another option. So pretty straightforward how all of it works. It's I've been running it for a little while. Now, the quirks I will say that I ran into the, so to speak, little issues sometimes, and this is because I see a lot of ads, maybe in the Google Play Store or you'll see something come up with Google because of the way Chrome on the phone proxies certain things. It will show you certain ads in there, but will allow them to be clicked when they go outside of Chrome because then they get pi whole. So it has a problem with that. And so take that for what it's worth. Their ads that you do see, but won't be able to, so to speak, act on. Also, some things that are pulled through on Facebook still come through because they're directly coming from Facebook. So unless you blacklist Facebook and don't even go to Facebook, certain sites, because of the way they have the ads pulling through the site are going to come through. So that's still something to keep in mind. But it's it's a pretty simple project. The Bible, it's really elegant and simplicity for just going through and putting it in at your home and go, I just want something simple. And I'm going to point each device at it that matters to there. Or, like I said, you can go to your DHCP table and say, force it to assign this IP address. And it'll do all the DNS queries in a way you go. It also, you know, makes it easy just to white list and blacklist sites. So if you have a list of sites you want to blacklist, just type them in there and block that site. And then that site is dead. You can't go there anymore. But it's just kind of fun to see this in action. And I do really like this. I I believe with the new PF blocker for PF Sensey are going to come out with some of these added graphs and things like that, because this does kind of make this project pretty attractive, because you get to see things visually versus a bunch of numbers, which is less exciting. But that's it for the Bible. It's that easy to install. Like I said, it just run their curl script or take it apart and learn from it manually of how it sets up and how it configures because, well, it's all open source. All right, thanks for watching. If you like to count in here, like and subscribe.