My name is James Pepper. I'm the chair of the Vermont Cannabis Control Board. Today is May 16th, 2022. And I call this meeting to order. Just a quick update on licensing. I won't bury the lead today. We're going to be issuing our first operating license. It's a social equity applicant in a small outdoor cultivator. I know many people out there were hoping we'd issue more by now. And we share that concern, that feeling, but it's, I think, at least relevant to put me, put this moment into a little bit of context. When I started down the road of tax and regulate back in 2015, the goal was to get up and running by issuing licenses exclusively to dispensaries. This was the model at the time around the country and it still largely is. Vermont really has charted a different path forward. You know, when we were appointed a little over a year ago, issuing licenses in 2022, let alone May of 2022 felt like an impossibility. You know, the Cannabis Board is a new independent agency. It's not under the umbrella of a larger agency. They could give us things like computers or a place to work or any of the kind of basic IT or HR support. You know, we really had to build this agency from the ground up. And I know I'm a broken record on this point, but you know, the legislature was supposed to give us our staff and approve our basic market structure last year. We were supposed to hire these people and build our regulatory structure with them last year and essentially have the entirety of the table set for May 1st. But the early delays and passing Act 164 snowballed into delays and appointing the board members, appointing our advisory committee, missing the 2021 legislative session and hiring our executive director. And of course, there's always a tension in government between doing things in the open with public support and doing things quickly. From the beginning, the board really recognized that the only way we were going to build trust and the rules that we needed was to embrace the open meeting laws to have an open and honest dialogue with the public. Since our first meeting last May, we've held over 150 public meetings. I think we set the record with respect to adopting our rules. And yet we did so with the tremendous amount of public input and advice. We now have a functional licensing portal that's getting better every day. We've pre qualified I think over 100 applicants and today we're going to be issuing the first Vermont legal cannabis business. So this is not a victory lap, but I would like to take a brief moment to acknowledge the incredible work of our staff. You know, making up for these delays has always been a top priority of the board, but it's come at a real personal cost to our staff. Who've ignored their families, postponed taking time off, spent many sleepless nights thinking about canopy sizes and insurance requirements. Certainly cash in all their favors with our partners and government with the legislature and with family members. And really a lot of the problems that we face as a cannabis board are unsolvable. And at times intractable because of the federal status and the enduring stigma associated with cannabis. And working here at the board just means you have to embrace that and wake up every day attitude that we're going to give it our best shot. So thank you to the original cannabis team. Nellie David Kimberly. Thank you to the medical team Meredith Melissa and Lindsay. Thank you to our new recruits, Carolyn Alexis and Dominique. And Julie Kyle, thank you. You've all really shown a lot of persistence and patience, resilience and conviction. And you're all a lot of fun to work with. And I know, Julie, you keep looking over at Bryn. Bryn, all I can say is where would we be without you? You really are the heart and soul of the cannabis board. You're a leader, a strategist, our therapist, our spiritual advisor and our best friend. If you go back and watch the debate around Act 164, the legislature didn't want to spend any money on the board before it started generating revenue. So they combined about six positions into one into the executive director. And when I was appointed, I created a list of people that I thought could pull it off. It was a short list, an extremely short list of Bryn, you are at the very top. So, you know, I'm very grateful for you that you said yes. I'm grateful for all the sacrifices you made. I'm grateful that you've never keyed my car when you pass it. But then again, you're always here before me and I always leave before you. So maybe it's just a coincidence. Anyway, we are, you know, just taking a brief moment to acknowledge the staff, but we are getting back to work to approve more licenses. You know, in issuing licenses, the board needs to balance the urgency that we all feel with the need for transparency. So our plan is to approve licenses during our regular meetings. However, if we get to a critical mass at any given time, we may decide to call a special meeting to approve those licenses. We will do so in compliance with the open meeting laws and give 24 hours notice. And when we do approve an application, we will notify the applicant by email, the instructions on how to download your license and your establishment ID card will be contained in the email. We will also update our website with the business name, the license type, the tier, the general location, and the priority status of the licensee. We've been feeling a lot of questions about where in the pipeline each individual applicant is. And I recognize there's a lot of anxiety about getting your license, but and do feel free to call or email us with your questions. But please just keep in mind that each inquiry slows down our team and issuing licenses. We have guidance on our website on how we're reviewing applications. We are prioritizing social equity and economic empowerment candidates and the current dispensaries as the statute requires us to do. And then we will turn towards general applications in the order they were submitted. If you call us and ask where you stand in the queue, we can't give you any greater detail than that. And we will be in touch directly with you, either when your application is complete. If it is incomplete, what information we need from you and when it's appropriate for you to reach out to CSI. So that's it on licensing. I'll just give a very brief legislative update. You know, our two kind of policy priority bills did pass both chambers of the house. They didn't pass in the exact form that we asked. But they were combined kind of in a legislative maneuver in the waning days into a single bill. It's S 188. You can find it on the legislative website. It's an important bill does some really critical things for leveling the playing field between small cultivators and, you know, larger companies. There's a lot of issues around consumer safety and public safety that are addressed. And it does things, you know, that increase the functionality of the market. But it didn't do concentrates, you know, they didn't lift the cap on the high THC solid concentrates. They did ask for a report back from the cannabis control board about the impact of leaving that place. And so this issue is still alive and will be debated next year. Fire safety. I mentioned a few times fire safety needs to talk to every perspective licensee, whether you're kind of a retailer or product manufacturer or you're an outdoor cultivator. They've done some internal reorganization at fire safety and now all cannabis inquiry should run through just land and wheeler, whether you're north or south, it's land and wheeler. Landon dot wheeler at Vermont dot gov or his cell phone is<PHONE_NUMBER> inventory tracking. I know that this is an issue that people are focused on. So it's a very important part of the regulated market. It protects the industry from federal enforcement protects licensees from being undercut by illegal inversion. And it helps the board prioritize our compliance resources. And I know I mentioned it a few times, but the three major companies that have occupied the space and almost every adult use state. Have some serious downsides to them. And the last thing that the board wants to do is to enter into a long term contract. And force the industry to kind of learn the system and devote the human capital to to kind of mastering it and then have to change. You know, Washington state, for instance, has had to change three different times because they were unsatisfied with their inventory tracking systems. And every time it caused major disruptions the supply chain for trying to avoid some of those mistakes. With respect to an update though, you know, any big project requires that we follow some strict rules around procurement. We have our scope of work drafted for inventory tracking. It's being reviewed and approved by all of the right people currently. And will subsequently be put out to bid until we have a contract. I can't get too much specificities to the exact parameters of what will be required. However, conceptually, you will be required to keep records of your inventory, including all sources of seeds and clones, acquisitions, sales, transfers, harvests, applicators, testing, disposals. You can do this on your own or you can do it using a third party inventory tracking platform. You'll have to share these records with the board on a regular basis and we will be analyzing them internally and conducting regular site visits based on our analysis. This is the model that's being used in a growing number of states as the industry starts to move away from the kind of big three heritage systems. I'll continue to provide updates where possible, but please know that every licensee is required by law and by rule to track your inventory and we will be requesting those records. Other than that, I just need to approve the minutes from our last meeting on May 9. You guys had a chance to review them? Is there a motion to approve? So moved. Seconded. All in favor? Aye. Okay. The next on our agenda is to review staff recommendations on pre-qualification and licensure. Okay, so we have our pre-qualification and license register for today. I will go through it, but as a reminder, as I mentioned last week, all of these numbers that you'll see in the charts are current as of last Friday. So some of these numbers may have changed like today. So you'll see that the board has before it today 36 pre-qualification applications up for review and approval. We have really plowed through the cultivator pre-qualification applications. You've already approved a little bit over 100 of them. So today we are primarily going to be looking at retail, manufacturing and wholesale pre-qualification applications. So I'm going to jump in to our list for today. So again, all of these applicants have demonstrated compliance. They've been reviewed by staff. Their applications have been deemed sufficient to meet the requirements of rules 1.41 and 1.42. And therefore have been found to be suitable for pre-qualification. We'll jump right in. By submission number, we've got 106B applicant for tier two manufacturing license.  And a reminder when there's a, when the submission number is followed by a letter, that's because applicant has submitted a pre qualification application for another license type. So those 36 applicants are recommended by staff or board approval for pre qualification. And I will keep going so if you'd like because we've got something else we have two other things to approve on the register today so if you'd like to approve everything as a package we can go through everything first. So as the chair mentioned here, we do have one license application for review today recommended by staff or licensure, but we'll take a look first at the application numbers. You can see that we have sent out about 25 incomplete letters to outdoor and indoor small cultivators. So that means that those applications have been reviewed by staff seem to be incomplete and staff has prepared a letter indicating to the applicant what they need to what they need to submit in order to have a complete application for the board to review. So we have one staff recommendation for a cannabis establishment license. So that's our that is our first applicant up for review by the board. So this business. Rutland craft cannabis limited is has demonstrated compliance with our application requirements for all license types and also those specific requirements for cultivators subject to the waiver provisions that are set out in rule 1.18. So they've that what that means is they've demonstrated compliance with rules 1.4 and 1.5 and they have been deemed suitable for licensure by staff. So you can see here the business name this is all information that the chair indicated would be public on the website business name it's a indoor tier one small cultivator. The location is Brandon Vermont and they are. They have been deemed to be a social equity applicant by the board. And lastly we have another submission number for up for review for social equity status. And then also you can see our social equity numbers up here got 10 and submitted and received status we have three social equity license applications currently under review. 29 have been deemed incomplete and we have one pending board review which is right here. So this applicant has met the criteria for social equity individual applicant is set out in rule as they need the definition of a socially disadvantaged individual as defined in rule 1.1.3 Q. The staff is recommending that this submission number be approved for social equity status. Right. Well, David you want to help us with a motion or have you done that. I think you can reuse the motion that you've been using for each of these. Yes. Do you want me to read the motion. Sure. Okay. I move that the board accept the recommendations for pre qualification social equity status and licensing approval as presented to us by staff. Second. Any discussion. I'll tell him if I'm here. Hopefully. All right. Well, all in favor. Hi. Hi. All right. And so these folks will be notified the person with the operating license and Brandon will be able to download his license and his ID card and begin operating. I feel like parliamentary procedure doesn't give you an opportunity to like celebrate small moments of joy. Like we were talking about work like this is a heavy lift like we had all these policy ideas and then our staff made them operational reality and that's just that and we had a number of people who spent a lot of time with us. And that's a gift like the fact that the public was willing to spend that amount of time and be that vulnerable and share that much personal information is a huge gift. So I just want to appreciate all of that. No, I totally agree. I've said it a few times now, but I know very little about cultivating cannabis. And, you know, there's, we could have gone down one of 100 different ways to get to where we are. And this, this one feels like the right one. We wouldn't have found this path without the support of the public. Yeah. Looking back a year ago, I think at this time a year ago, we were still trying to get cell phones or I was trying to figure out how to create a website because I don't think people realize that all of that work was done by us for the most part. So, a year big moment. We'll turn out more hopefully full application licenses in the coming weeks to other states started with small amounts and then it gets, you know, that becomes more of a routine. But it's a lot of work and there's more to do. So it's, you know. All right. Well, why don't we turn to public comment. If you have joined by the link, please raise your virtual hand. We'll try and call on you in the order you raise your hands and then we'll move to people that joined by the phone. So if you have a comment, feel free to go ahead and raise your hand. Dave. Hey, congratulations on the big first step. Very proud of all the work you guys have done. You should be proud of it. It was a lot. I was wondering whether it might be possible for the board to act as a clearinghouse or provide contacts between different parts of the supply chain as folks are pre qualified. For example, I find our retailers who would love to start conversations with pre qualified growers. So to the extent that the board can can help the market with that sort of connectivity. I think it would be much appreciated. Thank you very much. Thanks, Dave. Next, we have a red clover. I think analytics red clover, regardless. Yes, red clover analytics. Previously, we were THC analytics. But we don't change start names banking. They're really finicky about names. But nonetheless, can you hear me? Oh, yeah. Nonetheless, I want to thank you for all the work you have been doing. This is great. And I used to do group development before I started doing this. And one of the things I used to say is celebrate even small victories because celebrating small victories gives your team that that to keep going and desire to to see the goal. But anyhow, the other thing I was asking is, are we going to see any type of updates on the side of medical? It just since you guys merged, I personally haven't heard much from that end of things. And no curiosity. Thank you very much. Thank you. Okay, organics. Can you do you have a comment? So unmute yourself. Now, why don't we keep going and we'll move back if okay. Just like a spider web right here. All I can see. That is all for folks. Wait, we have one more and good morning. I am calling you from beautiful Arizona. And I just wanted to congratulate your team. I worked in 15 state processes. And I've never seen one with such transparency and truly appreciate what you have all put together there. So thank you for being such leaders in the industry. Thanks, Anne. So if you've joined by a phone, you can unmute yourself by hitting star six and we'll try and And we have a couple more folks. Okay, organics did manage to unmute themselves. Okay, thanks. Hi, sorry. It was not working with me. This is Greta with okay organics. I have applied to be a door cultivator. And I'm just getting a little concerned at the pace of things. Given that we really need to be able to get plants in the ground. So I would like a little guidance on on how to move forward, not having a license yet when really it's time to plant. I've invested a lot of money and now I'm concerned that I'm not even going to be able to grow this year. And then to about the whole background check thing. I never received a response to my email from three weeks ago. I would just like clarification as to why you can't accept the FBI check if I have already had it done and it's in my possession, and I am willing to give that to you as a background check. I understand that that you couldn't contract with them. But back in March, that was the guidance it was to go through the FBI and the state which I've done both of. I really don't understand why those cannot be accepted. That's all. Thank you. Thanks Greta. Next we have Sean Iraq. Hey, good afternoon. Thank you for taking the time out to hear the comments. As much as you all can just impress upon the legislature that the solid THC caps are going to do nothing other than perpetuate the black market, and even cause, you know, essentially another vape crisis as manufacturers potentially look to add terpenes other cannabinoids or any other item that could be dissolved into that concentrate to produce a product that now comes under the 60%. And I don't really understand why liquid manufacturers are getting a pass on it when that was a large part of the crisis of, you know, additives. There's a high potency THC that seems to be a mental health crisis or at least what other folks are chiming back in on the caps about. And maybe there could be a workaround that if you're producing concentrates above 60% that there should be a minimal amount of CBD as part of that test result rather than just an entirely THC based product. That would be a compromise that the legislature would be willing to go for. Thank you very much. Hi everybody, I hope you're all having a great day. I just wanted to express my disappointment that the THC caps didn't get removed coming as a legislature and I just want to emphasize the importance of getting this changed as soon as possible to, you know, if it has to wait now to the next legislative session, then we just got to make sure that this stays in the conversation because it really is devastating. It's really like just eliminating 50% of the revenue for retailers it feels like. But that's that. Thank you all. Thanks to you. Jared. Yes, I'd like to second the comment from the caller that said she was concerned about getting plants in the ground. I'd like you to consider prioritizing growers. For up for approval, because if you don't get the growers approved. The dispensaries won't have much to dispense. I'm October. Thanks, Jared. Can you guys hear me. Yeah. I just wanted to commend you guys on your work. I've seen this process roll out in other states and I have to say the transparency provided to the public is like unmatched, especially with regard to pushing for small cultivators and small producers in general. I will not be joining the market because of the THC cap. And so far spoken to six people who I think they want to pull their license applications but I'm curious. I just have a suggestion curiosity I know this might be written in the legislature or not. Does the board have is the board allowed to decide what products are disposed in cartridges to my understanding solid concentrates have a cap on them liquid concentrates do not but they have to be dispensed in cartridges. Is there a workaway work around for that. The cartridges themselves because of the product being put inside the cartridge. It's essentially a hundred twenty two percent tax right that's 30% cannabis tax 92% vape tax. So as a producer I sell a $25 vape cart to a store the store wants to sell it for 50 the consumer pays 110 $111. So if liquid concentrates. We're not susceptible to THC caps but we're eligible to be sold in jars as opposed to cartridges. And I just want to second the speaker who discussed the vape crisis. That was a vape crisis of cartridges cartridges being imported from China containing lead and all sorts of metals in them. People just putting whatever they wanted in those cartridges because taxes for them were so high in the white market. So you know this is this is a real problem for this market. I myself as a producer was ready to do manufacturing for over 15 different hopeful producers coming into the market. And now aside from trimming packaging edibles making they're not able to turn over a majority of their harvest to a small production lab. In order to have faster turnaround when you consider the home occupancy growers only being allowed to hire one employee. That's a lot of work for them to maximize their value and they're not able to offset that work to anyone. I mean they are but I don't know who's going to open a trimming facility because it's not really worth it. Anyways, I know it's not your fault. I think you guys are doing a great job. I just want to give you some bullets to take to the legislature. Thank you. Thanks for narrow. Hi, everybody. Thank you for everything you guys are doing. I had one comment that I was hoping. We are deep in our packaging and we want to make sure that somehow we know that they're all the packaging requirements are done and completed on your documentation that you guys have versus starting and, you know, it's very costly to change packaging. So I'm wondering if there's some way of knowing that from you guys. Also, if it's possible to get visual examples. So there's no misunderstanding of your copy that you've written. If you'll be adding any visual examples of of how things are supposed to be presented on packaging. That's it. Thank you so much. Thanks there. Jason. Hi, thank you. I just wanted some clarification on the application process about whether the applicants listed on like a tier one small cultivator application need to apply for employee ID cards or if that's kind of happens automatically with the application because for one of the two applicants, it wouldn't let me put in an employee ID card application. But the other one. It's saying it was redundant that it was already in the system. One of two of us. Okay, thanks Jason. I'm Ezra. I don't know if there's more than one Ezra, but I'm happy to share a comment. Thanks. So I am a licensing consultant in Massachusetts and a social equity applicant down here and I too have been just so relieved to see Vermont approach this from a more realistic perspective in terms of entry into the market. You know, a tier one of 1000 square feet is really going to keep local operators participating. And, you know, for example, in Connecticut, a tier one is 10,000 square feet. So it just and they also are trying to do social equity, but to make the industry more clearly kind of resemble what it already is a lot of individual growers have about 1000 square feet. And so to make that tier one I just think is a really excellent idea to keep the industry local in in Vermont so that's fantastic. And I just look forward to it coming online. Thank you. Thanks Ezra. Anyone else either by video or by phone. Jesse just raised their hand. Hello. Hey. Hey, how's it going actually this is a this is Shane McFarlane with old growth organics. I just wanted to touch base and first, we lost you. I don't know if you turn off your video might might help the connection. Is there a bad connection. Yeah. I apologize. Yeah, is this better. Okay, yeah. Okay, I posted a public comment the other day online. And I just wanted to reinforce it a little bit I had and I know we're far, far past this at this point but it's worth noting for the future. Just the the outdoor plant canopy, and then the correlating plant cow. You know, I was doing my research a couple weeks back and looking into the plant count aspect because I've been growing large outdoor plants for some time I don't do small and rose I don't do light deprivation any of that sort. And then when I read in the laws or the led regulations or what not that it has to be under eight square feet in order to be considered for a plant count right so I was excited to be able to do tier 125 plant plant counter what not but I feel like keeping it to an eight square foot per plant kind of negates the idea of a plant count at all being that, you know, square footage suggests that it can be unlimited plants, you know so then having the ability to choose that I choose 125 plants instead but it needs to be eight square feet. I would have to plant a plant in, you know, the end of June, and then you know let it go right into flower and it would still be. It would still be bigger than eight feet so there's that and then you know, obviously to piggyback on some of the other people obviously you know there's nothing we can do now but the, you know, the illegality in the black market is going to flourish with the illegal concentrate debacle. You guys all know this not trying to beat a dead horse just figured out throw it in there and you know just joining with everyone else and the obvious concern of the amount of money invested the properties purchased and all the things and needing to get licenses, you know and obviously you guys are doing absolutely everything in your power I applaud you I just, you know I don't join in very often so I figured out throwing my two cents. Thanks a lot. Yeah, thank you. I'll close the public comment. You're on the phone you can hit star six. All right, well I'll close the public comment window just a few comments in response. The things we can answer. The board will share whatever contact information about licensees that they kind of agreed to other than what we've done already so we can look into maybe sharing contact information if someone gives us approval to do so. Medical, you know there was a medical bill this year didn't get a hearing. We, you know, the new rules are up. People can apply for medical licenses if they'd like to. And if there's suggestions about the future of the program the board, you know, we'll probably be looking into that issue and creating a new legislative proposal on that. The federal ID check. The kind of you go to the post office of the sheriff's office and get your own fingerprints that specifically is not permitted to issue a license using those federal ID checks. The process that was spelled out in our statute is slightly different. And that is through the Vermont Center for crime information or crime information center. So we can't issue a license based upon that federal ID check solid concentrates.  The legislature I think actually started to come around the idea that regulate a product is better than having the black market or the illicit market supply that demand. They want alternatives to just list lifting the cap. They want to see what can we do to kind of protect youth to protect low information consumers. And then we educate them about high THC concentrates before they lift the cap. So, you know, the Senate voted twice unanimously to lift the cap, the house. They didn't feel comfortable with just lifting the cap they wanted something else. So they've given us the task of creating a report about the impact of leaving that cap in place. December 1st of this year. So we'll be holding a series of kind of public meetings about that where people can weigh in. But really, if you weigh in, feel free to, you know, focus on what the alternative can be to lifting the cap because I think, you know, people have caught on that the illicit market will continue to supply those and do so using dangerous products. We do have a packaging approval process. You know, I would like to see a system similar to Oregon where they do have pictures of approved packaging. I've got the model numbers they have the place where you can order from. So, you know, our goal is to have a running list of approved packages.  You know, you can send the board a request to approve the packaging in advance. So I think that's, I would just say hold those requests right now we're kind of working on some processes on how to do that in a more formal way so that your request doesn't kind of get lost in the hundreds and hundreds of emails that our team gets throughout the week. So I think we've been waiting as a board until some of the packaging language that's been moving through the legislature was a little bit. You know, further towards the finish line, but we are working on guidance and a waiver process if you do have to minimize amounts of plastic and a package material that you want to use. We have a packaging and labeling because the other part of that question was about labeling so we look that's on its way. Yeah, and there is those high depth pictures of everything needed on our website from a warning perspective. And then with respect to the employee ID card friend you want to just explain that a little bit. Sure. So the employee ID cards. They were there will be a separate application for employee ID cards that separate from the cannabis establishment ID card that you get once you've been licensed. So if you do have employees or are anticipating having employees, you will have to fill out a separate application for those individuals. We set it up that way for a number of reasons, but one of which is that we are going to allow for employees to apply for their own employee ID card in addition to allowing an employer to apply for that employee ID card for their employees. So it will be a separate process. And we will have the details of that process available to everybody as they as all the licenses are issued we will make the information about how to apply for an employee ID card available. But if you are licensed to operate and your sole proprietorship if you've been screened. Does that individual need a separate employee ID card. No, so the way that our rules are structured you have to have a cannabis establishment ID card if you are principal or an owner of a cannabis establishment. And that essentially fulfills the same function as an employee ID cards if you're a sole proprietor, and you are licensed and you have your cannabis establishment ID card you do not need to also have an employee ID card. Okay, we're at the end of our agenda any other just want to clarify something that you said about the FBI that that's the FBI's role and not right of Vermont rule or a CCB rule so it's not one that we have control on their website. Yeah, the employee ID check the kind of go to your post office or share his office and get your own fingerprints for background check is not sufficient for licensure as a federal rule. Yeah, we can't wait that. So that's why we're going through the process that we are. All right, any other comments for you. I think I think just very quickly on on the response to I believe it was Shane, or Jesse Jesse Jane, all growth organics, you know certainly recognize how different grow methodologies might make that box that's outlined for you know, tough to which to prevent mold and stuff like that we we get that I think we had to put some parameters around that to make sure that those folks could still be tied to the definition of small cultivator in our authorizing legislation but got a bunch of well qualified candidates for our compliance director position and a bunch of well qualified candidates for our compliance enforcement staff. And I think they're going to help us figure out what's the right way to interpret some of that language to accommodate folks depending on how they like to grow outside. So, bear with us. One thing to what you were saying everything you said was correct but I think one helpful way to think about it is that everybody has to get cannabis establishment identification cards. The difference is that if you are a principal or owner or controller, you will get that upon gaining your cannabis establishment license employees also need cannabis establishment identification cards, and there will be a separate process for getting that after, you know, after licensing that happened. So it's sort of all the same thing.  So that clarification. Any other comments before we adjourn. We're working as quickly as we can appreciate everybody for bearing with us. Great. Well then, we will adjourn. Thank you all. And we'll see you next week.


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Sir, as you talk about alleviating some of the rigidity in the system, will there be more opportunity to start and stop a Navy career to have an intermission for something like with women's focusing on family or even for men focusing on family and then returning to the Navy career and kind of picking up where you left off? Yeah. There is a lot of focus on that, MC1. And fundamentally it comes down to when C&O and I joined the Navy a few years ago, we had 30% of our force were married. Today it's over 70%, a lot more dependents out there, young kids. So the challenges have shifted. The demographics in our priorities have shifted when you're talking about managing people and the system has not adapted as well or as quickly to that demand signal. So the things we're looking at doing are family related, are focused on family because it affects both men and women in our service. And I think the better we're able to deal with the family related issues, the better we're going to be able to deal with career flexibility in the future. So there are things out there like the career intermission program that C&O has asked us to go out and expand the authority so that we can allow that for more people who are interested in doing it. You've seen great success stories about people who've taken a break for a year or two or three, come back in the Navy and continue to make milestones and keep it a career. Those are things for starting schools, starting a family, taking care of a loved one. There's so many things that challenge us on a day to day basis when you're a sailor and sea duty that we have to have options. Otherwise we're going to lose good people because they feel like they have no choice. AC to RC and back is an off-ramp and on-ramp that I think we could do a lot more of. It further integrates the active force with the reserve force in a way that we've done over the last 15 years with IAs. But now that we're pulling off that IA requirement in many respects, are we going to pull away from that integration effort that we've had for so many years that we've learned has been very good for the Navy? I think we could do better on that front too. So we're looking at a lot of different options. We're going to do more piloting to make sure we get it right. And then where we see success, build off that success and keep going. Sounds like that integrated with a lot of the issues that you've been talking about, your groups and other efforts is really going to reinvigorate the force to look at ways that they can stay and remain in service. So that's great to hear.


So, what we've done so far is set up a grid, right, a 10x10 grid, and we used sort of Pythagorean tripless simple trigonometry to set up a square grid, right, where we had a horizontal baseline and we set up a 90 degree angle going vertically, and we were able to connect everything up and do vertical and horizontal and have a nice little 10x10 grid, right? And what we did with this grid is we learned our multiplication table, the 10x10 multiplication table, where we laid down the numbers 1 to 10 down here and 1 to 10 up there, and, you know, we filled in the squares here, right, and we figured out what our 10x10 multiplication table is, and that's something really important that you have to learn, right, you have to know your multiplication table before you progress anywhere in mathematics, right? It's basically the first step you need to do to be able to learn math, even before you learn the concept of real numbers and all the subcategories, right, you have to learn multiplication, okay? Now, since we have the grid up, I figured what I was going to do is I was going to show you sort of a math puzzle game that I learned a few years ago from a student that I had, right? And it's a nice little game, and, you know, after my student showed it to me, I ended up playing it for a few months, and it was really fun to do on pen and paper, and it was really meditative, right, it was very chill, I would just sit there sometimes when I just wanted to relax and do this little puzzle game and see how far I could get. And just to give you the details of it, my student, he was originally from Turkey and he said that as far as he knew the game came from Turkey because a lot of his friends played it, and I've never found out the name for this game, so I just keep on calling it a 10 by 10 math puzzle game. And just so you know, it's not, there isn't too much mathematics in it, but one part of math is, the huge part of mathematics is pattern recognition, and I sort of refer to this as a pattern recognition game, because what it is, it's just using numbers sequentially from one, you know, consecutively from one to a hundred to fill in every one of these squares, right, to populate every one of these squares, and the purpose of the game is you start out with the number one, and consecutively you move up, right, so you start out with one, and the next number is two, and the next number is three, and you start putting the numbers in these squares based on two movement types, okay, and we'll go over that, and just to let you know, it's, for me, I played it for a few months after my student showed it to me, and the best I ever got to was to the number 99, that means I was able to fill in every square except for one, and my student told me that he would, he was playing this game for about three years or so, right, and he was only able to complete it once, get to the number 100 once, and it was recently that he did it, that's why it was really exciting, was trying it again, and I saw him doing it, and he showed me how he did it, and he showed me, he actually gave me his solution, and I did do a little write-up on the instructions for this game a few years ago, and I provided that solution in that write-up, and I also provided the solution that I had, that I got to the my best outcome, I guess, which was to the number 99, and just for those of you who are into programming or want to pursue this game a little bit further, a few years ago, when I did write that article explaining what this game was like, and all the rules and whatnot, or the two rules, very simple rules that we'll go over, I got a couple of messages, a couple of comments were posted on that write-up mentioning that people have, you know, they wrote programs to be able to get solutions, so one person, they wrote a program to generate solutions for this, and another person wrote a quick program that you can run on your computer where you don't have to do it with pencil and paper, what you can do it is run this program, and as far as I know the program works fine, because I tried it when he first wrote it and sent me the link to the code and the program itself, and the link is provided in that write-up, but I did try it and it worked fine, and what it does is you run it and it pops up 10x10 grid, and what you can do is just click on the different squares and the numbers pop up, what you're putting in there, the consecutive numbers pop up, and it only allows you to put numbers where the rules specify, right? So if you feel like playing it on the computer, you can do that as well, okay? So that's the little background history on this game, as for the rules of this game, the rules are really simple, the name of the game is, you're going to start with number one, okay? So what we're going to do is we're going to put number one somewhere, right, somewhere in one of these squares, and then we consecutively move up, right? So the next number we have to put down is the number two, but there's restrictions are where you can put down number two, there's movement types, right? So let's put down number one right now, so let's say we're going to put number one towards the center, okay? Now the movement types, there's basically two different movement types you have, if you're going vertical or horizontal, the next number you put down has to be three squares away from this, okay? That means there has to be a two square gap between whatever number you're on and the next number that you're going to be putting down, right? Which has to be consecutive in order, right? So after number one is the number two, right? So we can put number two either one, two, three here, one, two, three here, one, two, three here, or one, two, three here, right? That's the vertical and horizontal movements and they have the same role associated with them, right? Same movement type, right? So we can go one, two, three here, one, two, three here, all right? So the next number is two, I should put that down, two, two, I can go one, two, three here and I can go one, two, three here. That's your vertical and horizontal movement types. The next movement type we have is diagonal and you have to be at 45 degrees so you have to go perfectly diagonal, right? The next movement type you're going diagonal is you can go two units away. So there's only one square gap between your number and the next number, right? So the number two I could place here, I could place here, I could place here, or I could place here, all right? So the next number I can go one, two, one, two, one, two, one, two. Those are the movement types that we have and you know obviously we're not going to put all of these to populate all these fields, all these squares as two, right? We have to decide on one. Now what we're going to do, let's pick, let's go diagonal, let's go straight down to this one, okay? So I'm going to keep this one, I'm going to get rid of the rest. I'm going to consider that to be my movement. Now the next number we have to put down is the number three, right? And the same rules apply. Now we can't go up, right? Because once a field, once a square is occupied, it can't be reoccupied, right? So this one is taken, we can't go there. We can go one, two, we can put a three there, we can go one, two, three, right? We can put a three there. We can't go down here because we go off grid, we can't go off grid, we have to be on the grid, right?  We can go this way, so we have, oh, and we can go this way. So we have four choices for our next position, right? We can go one, two, three, we can go here, we can go here, we can go here or we can go here. What I'm going to do, I'm going to go diagonally here. So my number three is going to go here. So I went here, here. Now the next number up is the number four. It's as simple as this. You just consecutively move up.  I can go here or I can go here. So there's only two spots which I can't go to. I can't go to this one and I can't go to this one because that's going to be off grid. What I'm going to do is I'm going to go right onto the edge because when I was playing this game what I used to do is try to get the outside first and spiral in. Now I'm not sure if that's the best strategy to use or not. Maybe the best strategy is to work from the inside out and I believe I tried that as well a lot but I started sticking with starting on the outside and spiraling in and that got me to the number 99. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to go down here. So this is going to be my next position, number four. Now number five, I can go here, I can't go there, that's taken. I can go here or I can go here. Now what I'm going to do, I'm going to go here, go diagonally across to this guy. So this is going to be my number five. Now just for fun, since we haven't, I haven't done this for a while, let's continue this to see how far we're going to get but that's basically the movement types that we have. So on the write up that I did I provided 10x10 grid paper that you can print off or you can just grab graph paper if you want to do it or run the module, run the program that a user, someone had commented and provided and the link is still up. Now keep in mind with the solution, the one solution that I got from my students, if you get one solution it also means because there's symmetry within this you also have I believe seven other solutions because there's mere symmetry and there's rotational symmetry. So keep that in mind as soon as you have one that means you have seven more because you can rotate them or do mirrors, do symmetry, there's axis of symmetry in these things. But all we're concerned about right now is to get one solution. I've never done it, I doubt it if I'm going to be able to do it right now but who knows maybe it's the luck of the draw. So what we're going to do is from here I'm going to go all the way around so three squares up two unit gap so this is the number six. Okay I'm going to go one two three this is the number seven. Now I can't go here on the top row right I have to go here so I'm going to go you know what the other choice is I can go down this way oops I can go to this one and then come back and then go back up again and then do rotation and keep on filling this guys up right so I would fill all this up but then I couldn't do all the way around again. Okay I hope you see that there's a lot of different strategies you can use for this and I can't remember if my student had told me to use a specific type of strategy or not he played it for three years and he was only able to get one solution and he mentioned that a lot of his friends in Turkey were playing this game and very few of them were able to get a solution okay so this was number seven so I'm going to go to number eight and I'm going to keep on going across one two three this is number nine one two three this is going to be number ten now I have my choices I could come here or I could go there there's only two choices left for this one right oh that side is gone that side is gone I can't go diagonal here here or here right and that one I can't go anymore because I already populated that one so I'm going to go down to here okay this is going to be 11 one two three this is going to be 12 I'm going to come diagonally this is going to be 13 I'm going to come across 14 one two three I'm going to come here 15 now keep in mind you don't necessarily have to use numbers right you could just use spots you could use x's right or colors right different you know pick a color and just start filling in the squares the problem with that though is if you take your eyes off the grid you won't know where you are right with this the numbering system we know exactly where our last movement was right we won't accidentally start from this one and start going off right if we lose our location right so that's the bonus of using numbers right so we're at number 15 now I can go up or I can go diagonal this way right I'm going to keep on going up I'm going to use horizontal and vertical movements for now 16 1 2 3 17 1 2 3 18 1 2 3 19 1 2 3 20 now what I'm going to do instead of coming down I'm going to go diagonal because I want to work on the outside first right so I'm going to go diagonal this is going to be 21 and I'm going to come down 1 2 3 22 1 2 3 23 now I can't come down here but I can go across right so 24 1 2 3 25 1 2 3 26 all right 1 2 3 27 1 2 3 28 1 2 right I'm going to go diagonal hit this one up okay so that's going to be 29 1 2 3 30 1 2 3 31 now you should have noticed something now when I get up to here if you notice this guy the next movement would be here the next movement would be here right so and the next movement would be here so as soon as I start doing this one thing I've noticed is the pattern is obviously I think it's sort of a given that once you have get close to the end the only movements left will just fill up everything that's left right you can jump from one to the other so it gets it done really quickly so where are we we were at 31 okay now I'm going to come down 32 finish one one stack let's go 32 1 2 3 33 1 2 3 34 1 2 3 35 1 2 3 can't do that's taken right so what I could do is come here but I can't get back to that one if I come here I can go diagonal again so what I'm trying to do is get to this outside surround right because if I get there all the sides are done right so we're here right now I could go here and come down and now I'll get to the square and that way I can move my way around right so let's do that one right so I'm 35 I can go 36 here now I can go diagonally 37 down here so 37 and now I should be able to do all these jumps right so let's do it 37 38 now one strategy could be to keep all these jumps for the end right that way if you can take care of all the middle guys all you have to do is get to one of these squares and you're done right but let's do it this way for now that's something you can try yourself if you like this might get me addicted to start doing it again I played it for a few months uh barely regularly because it was a lot of fun 43 45 so we got 48 done we're almost done almost half the squares right because 50 is half the squares but it seems like there's a lot of squares left that's because on the outside it takes more numbers to cover right so this thing what happens is initially it's a lot of choices and slowly your choices decrease decrease decrease and towards the end you really have to think about you know where are you going to go so 48 I'm going to go to 49 50 and I'm going to keep the same strategy doing the outside first or trying to do as much of the outside as possible because that's where most of my squares are right 51 52 I can't go diagonal I'm going to come down before 123 down here 55 let's go across 123 56 let's see what can we do okay what I'm going to do I'm going to come across here that way I can get to here and then zap these guys so 56 57 and then I'm going to come down 58 this might not be the best strategy you might it might be smart to leave some space on the outside so you can go in and out right but we're going to try this for now 59 60 61 62 I can't go sideways so 63 what I could do is come here yeah let's go straight down here for now 63 so my choice here is gone I could go diagonal here I could go diagonal here I could come straight here which way to go if I go diagonal here I'll go here here here I can zap those guys inside so let's do that on the outside right so 63 I'm going to go 64 I'm going to go one two three 65 I'm going to go one two three 66 one two three 67 68 right and hit that one that one and that one as well 68 69 70 71 now 72 I can't put there I only have one choice for 72 right there right if I go 72 73 74 75 76 and then I can come out of that right okay let's do that so 71 72 I can go diagonally 73 I can come back here 74 I can come down 75 76 we have one choice left for 77 now I have to go here right one two 77 now this is where your choices are totally becoming less and less right so 77 two I can go here 78 I can go here 78 or I can go here 78 now here I can go 78 79 80 81 82 and that'll be stuck so that's not good let's see 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 I think so so let's do that one 78 79 80 80 81 82 and go down to 83 I think I'm putting myself into a corner I think I'm going to be stuck on the next move now the best I've ever done is 99 this isn't even close towards the end once I got the hang of this I was going into the mid 1990s or mid 90s right so what do we have we had 83 84 and I would be stuck if I do 84 84 that works and then 85 that works so let's do that so 84 85 all right I could do 85 over here 86 the same deal 87 88 okay let's see 84 85 actually let's do this 84 I could come here 85 86 87 88 we could do that too let's do this one 85 86 right 86 I can go up 87 I can go sideways 85 86 87 88 I can go 89 that's my only choice for me all right I got nothing else 89 I got 90 is that it oh I can go here oh I can do this one so 90 that's better one two three 90 I can go 91 91 that's good that gets us closer 91 I could go 92 93 I would be stuck I can go 92 93 94 oh that's not bad 91 92 93 94 I can go up there 95 that's my only choice for 95 and I think I got one more choice left that's it and 96 96 could be I've done something else I don't think so 95 if I could get to this one or that one I could have filled both of those and we could have got 98 but 96 96 is not bad right I didn't try this for a while so 96 so four missing right four we've got four gaps here one two three four four minus 100 is 96 and you know I guess that's in the range I used to be able to get and I think if there was a point system associated with this game you would have to say that he would sort of have an exponential uh sort of a point system where the closer you got to 100 the points would be doubled or one and a half times right because 97 if I got to 96 let's say that was worth 10 points if you get to 97 that should be worth not just 11 points but a lot more so it should be worth like 15 points or 20 points 98 maybe a lot more than that right I don't know if you want to use logarithmic scale that's a little too high but if you do do this with a point system I think there should be some kind of exponential growth associated with this with the points that you do get okay and this is the game this is a 10 by 10 math puzzle game that my students showed me and I call this a pattern recognition game because it is really a pattern recognition game right um it's fun to do and it's pretty it's interesting okay and it's puts your mind in the neutral and you can enjoy it and uh and uh just shows it for a bit um it's sort of like that Japanese game I think it's Japanese Sudoku uh where you you know you know the columns and the rows add up to nine or different variations of that right uh but this one doesn't require any adding at all uh it's just sequentially consecutively moving up knowing your position your last position and having two movement types to put the next number down okay I hope you enjoy it learn how to set up a grid learn your multiplication table and learn a nice little game one a 10 by 10 grid I'll see you guys in the next video bye for now learn that let's take down this grid


Greetings and welcome to the Introduction to Astronomy. In this week's special topic in astronomy we are going to talk about an asterism and see what an asterism means in astronomy. So what is an asterism? Well an asterism is a grouping of stars. Now you may think a grouping of stars, well that's a constellation, however the two things are quite different. And an asterism is not a constellation. A constellation is a specific region of the sky. Now here we see for example the part of Sagittarius. This is a part of Sagittarius known as the teapot. And you might be able to see that from the sketch in there of the shapes connecting these stars in the shape of a little teapot here. However the constellation of Sagittarius is actually a much larger region. And you can see here is that teapot of Sagittarius. That is still located here exactly the same as we saw previously. However the actual constellation is a region of the sky and it has very specific boundaries which in this case are the whole lighter area here and go well beyond the bounds of just the teapot that we looked at previously. So constellations, there are 88 of them that will make up the entire sky. An asterism is just a portion of a constellation or it can actually span multiple constellations. So another example would be what is called the big dipper. So here we see the big dipper down below and the seven bright stars that make up that and we also see the little dipper as well. Again these are two other asterisms. These are asterisms which are located within a single constellation. So the teapot is completely within Sagittarius. The big dipper is completely within Ursa Major. The little dipper within Ursa Minor. They are part of a constellation. However that is not a requirement. We also can have asterisms which span multiple constellations. It is just a pattern of stars that we see in the sky. Here we see what is known as the summer triangle. There are three bright stars here. There's the star Vega down here, Deneb up to the top, and Altair off to the left. And these form a large triangle in the sky, often visible, at least in different parts of the world, visible in late summer to early fall, giving it its name as the summer triangle. So each of these bright stars that make up the triangle is the brightest star in its own constellation. Now we can have another one of these. How about one for the winter sky? Well we have the winter hexagon. And here we can see that. Now do you see the hexagon here in a pattern of bright stars? It doesn't necessarily jump out at you, but if you know what to look for, you can actually connect some of these stars from, for example, here's one side of the hexagon. Here is a second side.  You may perhaps recognize here is the constellation of Orion. The bright star Rigel is one of the stars in this. Each of these stars within the hexagon, again, is within another constellation itself. So it's not just one constellation, it is actually six stars in six constellations that make a nice pattern within the winter sky in this case. So let's finish up with our summary. And what we've looked at this time is that an asterisk is a grouping of stars that forms a pattern in the sky. It is different from a constellation. Constellations are specifically defined regions of the sky. And an asterism can be a pattern within a constellation or can span multiple constellations. So that concludes this special topic on the idea of an asterism. We'll be back again next week for another special topic in astronomy. So until then, have a great day, everyone, and I will see you in class.


You'll recall from our segment on the microscopic in the How Small Is It? video book that momentum is mass times velocity. Another interesting consequence of the speed of light being a constant for all observers is that the momentum of an object increases without bound as its velocity approaches the speed of light. This increases the amount of energy it takes to increase its speed even more. Our best example of this is the Large Hadron Collider at CERN where the Higgs boson was found. To begin with, protons are accelerated down a linear accelerator. By the time they reach the first cyclotron, they're traveling at one-third the speed of light. We can use this as the starting momentum. If we had used Galilean transformations, we would be off by 5% and the linear accelerator would not work. The first booster accelerates the protons to 91.6% of the speed of light. This speed more than doubles the momentum. The protons are then flung into the proton synchrotron. They circulate here for 1.2 seconds reaching 99.9% of the speed of light. At this speed, their momentum has increased by more than 60 times. The protons are then channeled into the super proton synchrotron. This is a huge ring almost 7 kilometers in circumference. The best that it can do is to increase the velocity of the protons by around 8%. The 99.9998% of the speed of light. The proton's momentum has now jumped by over 1,400 times its momentum at the end of the first acceleration. Finally, the large Hadron Collider accelerates these incoming protons to 99.999964% of the speed of light. The proton's momentum tops out at 10,562 times its original momentum. At this level, Galilean transformations would be off by over 99.9%. The fact is that as the velocity gets closer to the speed of light, the momentum increases without bound and the energy required to get it even closer to the speed of light grows to be more energy than exists in the universe. This is one of the reasons why we say that nothing with mass can ever reach the speed of light. The operations of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN confirm this relativistic momentum increase, just as the operations of GPS satellites confirmed relativistic time dilation and the cosmic ray-created muons confirmed relativistic length contraction.


It seems like a lot of your friends are Virgos or Leos. You're not wrong. More Americans are born during this time of year than any other. So yeah, American parents are more likely to be conceiving in November and December, with August being the most common birth month and September having two of the most popular birth dates. Why? Well, scientists have theorized that sperm quality may be better during the winter, that daylight length may impact reproduction, or simply that people might just get it on more during the winter holidays. Regardless, it might not be best to think about what your parents were doing over winter break.


Hi, this is Mayim Bialik, proud Bruin, and I'd like to tell you about my favorite book at the UCLA library. That book is Warrior by Dr. Teresa Larson. Dr. Teresa Larson was a lieutenant in the Marines, and she also was a professional softball player and a competitive fitness person, and just an amazing woman who's now a doctor of physical therapy. But she wrote this book about her struggle with an eating disorder, which continued from the time she was very young, all the way through and including the time that she was deployed as a Marine. And it is an inspiring story. It's a touching story. It is about her transformation from a person who believed that strong people don't ask for help, to a person who believed that only strong people know how and when to ask for help. It's a phenomenal book. It is touching. It's funny, and it's truly inspirational. So I recommend Warrior. And that's it. Go Bruins!


Welcome to All Hands Update. Here's what's happening around your Navy. USS Ronald Reagan Strike Group and the USS Bono-Mershard Amphibious Ready Group prepare for exercise Valiant Shield in Guam and around the Mariana Islands. Valiant Shield is a U.S. only exercise that enables joint forces to work together on sea, air, land, and cyberspace, demonstrating their flexibility. PCU Zumwalt departed Bath Ironworks in Maine to make a three-month journey to its new home port in San Diego. The Zumwalt is the newest and most advanced warship in the fleet, capable of performing critical maritime missions and provide deterrents, power projection, and sea control. A T-45 Charlie Goshawk jet aircraft crashed Wednesday while conducting a training flight in Meridian, Mississippi. The student and instructor pilot ejected safely and were taken to a local medical facility for evaluation. You can read more about what's happening around your Navy at Navy.mil.


So there's a new version of the unified controller software out and it's not an exciting release unfortunately. This is still the 5.8 series so we're in 527 we're in a 5.8.28 and you have the usual various bug fixes and improvements so like I said not a super exciting release but nonetheless we always update to the latest version. I don't really have a problem doing it I'm not really running to any major issues but always make sure you have a backup always make sure that you are prepared to do this. So so far flipping through forums and things like that no one I waited a day because well I was busy yesterday and so it seems to be perfectly fine no one really has any major deployment issues here's our current system up and running on my test site we're going to be doing a VPN video soon so here it is up and running and here is the virtual machine that runs it because I'm going to start there of actually how we do the update process. This actually runs our unified Wi-Fi and video so this runs the unified camera server in our office and it runs there it's a VM with four cores two gigs and not actually using all that much memory and a 60 gig virtual hard drive so here it is logged into it and you can see up and running with the camera server and that we're using like 1.2 gigs one it doesn't take a whole lot to run these but there are if you look at here there's a lot of processes that get kicked off oops show it this way here we go here's all the different little Java processes get off it running the unified system so if you ever wonder what it looks like from the back end here it is I always run my unified controllers on a W base Linux so now we're going to go ahead and download the latest version but before we do anything we actually start here snapshot new snapshot and I'm using Zen Orchestra this can be done because this is our Zen server as an orchestra web interface to configure it just because the forms that it went smooth and everything went well for people doesn't mean I shouldn't back it up and make a quick copy and just in case now I always have you know weekly whole snapshots of my VMs like exported external copies so I can restore my system but we always start with a quick snapshot of the system that way if I do something wrong or if the update goes wrong I just revert real quick back to a working copy and no big deal we start over so W get and download the file now I'm running WN I already copied the link here unify CSV and it all that's the right versions we're gonna W get it and we we go and I realize it gives it the same name all the time so I actually forgot to delete the old ones I'll have to do a quick rename here so there's that one that's the old one you tell by the date from June 29th we want this one from August 7th so let's rename that one so it has a dot dev extension there we go then we just type in d package dash I unify CSV in it at all press enter and away it goes it's installing first thing it does is has a stop the unify controller comes up with the config file here is reckoning your backup and selling your version do you have a backup we sure do we just created a snapshot unpacking replacement all right the controller started so we'll move this out of the way now it looks like it's still loaded but actually if we refresh your page you'll probably log me out yep it did and everything's red and this happens when you first do this because it's got to take a second for everything to sync back up and start contacting the devices and wait for them to send their signals back to the server so when you do research server there is this kind of delay before everything kind of sinks back up but it happens relatively fast I look at our office here because these devices are local versus our test sites has some remote stuff on there these have already synced right back up for our local devices that are in here and away we go so we have the devices all showing all pinging all showing connected and our statistics page there's no system we don't have a USG here to get it but back up and running and good to go and now we can look at some of the changes again like I said we went from the five to four nothing major here fixed management vlan issue with a certain model a high broken RSA histogram on a nano HD fix autocomplete for radius server add setup size for unify key like I said there's not a lot of changes here this isn't a major change it's just kind of some minor upgrade fix bug that would reset USG port speed duplex about with controller upgrade that's actually a nice one there we haven't really run into that I remove tkp only option from WP security mode so I guess we can look at that real quick that's actually kind of interesting so if we go over here to our settings wireless networks yep tkp is gone so I guess that is kind of a big change if you have people that require tkip settings they may not want to upgrade to this then so that's that's definitely a concern it does support WP one still or bolts which we're gonna leave it where it was here so that's kind of interesting I think we only have one client but they have an internal controller that's using tkip it's because of some really old equipment they have it's I know it's insecure but it's kind of a unique locked-down network and we've done other things to help mitigate this network to accommodate that but those are issues you're gonna run into so I guess it's noteworthy if you move tkip on here in this version so don't upgrade if you have a use case for that or make sure those sites are on a separate controller but that's it the upgrade process is that simple with the unifies it's we've done it many many times it's always gone really smooth there is a delay depending on how many sites you have we have a lot of sites on here so that's going to cause it to take a little bit longer to sometimes if there's a database upgrade in between weather nap make sure you have a backup and you know backup your controller like we do is easy way to do it or go into this maintenance controller and actually back up the settings here right here is the backup itself or auto backup so you know where the files are going we have it downloading these automatically now I know someone's gonna say hey why don't you just have this as part of the repository we have apt-get auto updating on our system and we don't want it to auto update unexpectedly because I do read what the changes are to make sure that there's not any issues before we apply them so because we have our systems that do auto update because I'd rather have a system constantly be secure I am conscious though of the Unify releases and then I wait and deploy those parts manually that's why I don't have a part of my regular repository alright thanks for watching and hopefully this was helpful it's it is that simple it's pretty pain-free during doing the updates with the Unify software thanks for 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