What is going on guys welcome back to the channel and I appreciate you being here today I am back with a little interesting information sent to me via a pal Which suggests bungee accident Let's drop the release date of the next DLC for Destiny 2 Which for sure is sometime in May next month now I know although all of us are not hyped We are looking forward to the effects that this DLC will have on the game Most thinking it won't be enough to save the game while others think like me that it could just spark that file We had inside or similar to what we had and it burned for destiny one that fire though might only last a few days These are what we are all wondering will this DLC offer more than what we are used to from this game so far We will see guys. We will see okay So last week we've this week at bungee the twab while the English version was just another weekly updates But they lied something else within the French version which indicates when this made DLC will be coming an exact date Okay, so check this out on stream now for those of you who can speak French will clearly see it you see a to me Let's translate this to English for those wondering it states We are far from having reached a final version many changes are planned for destiny to this is just another step The next is scheduled for May 8th Do not forget to consult your development roadmap and we will keep you informed of what awaits you It is time for us to put more landmarks under ever more distant horizons So it states people the next is scheduled for May 8th Now it has since been fixed from the French version of the trap if you look now it states just may so bungee are Sneaky as heck But hey, my power wasn't the only one to spot this many other French speaking peeps did too There were a few talking about it on Twitter now may 8th just over a month away This is the exact date confirmed by a few leaks just under a month back Leaks most people thought were fake leaks We had them from a few separate sources stating basically the following about destiny to the next DLC and its release date This one taken from Amazon destiny to expansion to the fallen warm mind release date as you can see may 8th But the thing that was such here was the name many people like myself believe it was something just made up by the person Who faked these leaks although they weren't even proven fake We just suspected it the other supposed leak come from GameStop and this one had a description About this fallen warm mind DLC and it also stated it was releasing on May 8th So the description read destiny to expansion to the fallen warm mind continues our guardians journey With all new story missions and adventures setting a new destination Mars Rasputin has mysteriously vanished and Annabria has returned to the last city warning of a dark uprising on Mars Discover the conspiracy behind his disappearance Prevent the rise of a corrupted warm mind and uncover the truth behind the collapse Explore Mars and the deep stone cook beneath its surface New story missions and adventures new theme weapons armor and gear to earn new cooperative activities new competitive multiplayer arenas and More now as legit as this leak kind of seems We just can't say is yet the real interesting thing here is though these leaks which dropped about a month back Spoke of the exact same release date Bungie accidentally announced via their French weekly update How is that if the true release date is May 8th? Surely whoever faked these leaks if they were faked had some kind of knowledge of this release date So what's to say these other slices of info here ain't legit too. I mean, it's about time We start seeing info being dropped info gets put out there by Bungie to promote this upcoming DLC That info might not have been distributed to sources as normal yet But it could have been and that's where these leaks could have come from but either way it's around that time That it should be I mean surely it will be about a month before we start seeing Advertisements of this DLC that makes sense Bungie will want to build hype. They will want to sell this DLC So all I'm saying is if the DLC date is May 8th Expect loads of info to start flowing out for sure and expect a trailer soon too Now we know may is going to be a big month for destined to whether this DLC comes out on the 8th for the end of the month It's still a big month for destined to the latest roadmap also tells of other changes coming along with a DLC expansion to Eat of worlds prestige Maldrae seasonal crucible rankings private matches both space increase multi-emote exotic masterworks seasonal vendor progression faction rally improvements exotic weapon and armor sandbox changes and the possibility of heroic strike Manifiers so all of this with the recent one point one point four changes that go faster update and this new DLC May should be a great month for destiny to we now know they know what we want. Thanks to Cosmo So they have the tools to build. Let's see what they can indeed build but people that's all next month What about this month? Well later today? We get the weekly reset with it comes a night full offering a new unique reward We don't know what that nightfall is yet, but I will have you guys covered on my channel later when it does drop We also see the return of mayhem, which I cannot wait for it's going to be epic I truly missed mayhem with destiny to next week's weekly reset We should get iron banners 6v6 which is again another thing I'm super looking forward to but yeah guys on that note I am out thanks as always for stopping by if you enjoyed the video leaving a like really does help me out Tell me what you think about this DLC and the release date bungee accident. Let's slip Let me know your opinions down below in that comments section But again, thanks for stopping by and hopefully people I will see you on that next one


Acknowledge that a lack of prayer is ungodly. Psalm 79 verse 6 says this, Pour out your wrath on the nations that refuse to acknowledge you. On kingdoms that do not call upon your name. So there in the book of Psalms, we see that wrath came upon those nations who just simply refused to call upon God by refusing to call upon the Lord, by refusing to seek his guidance, by refusing to acknowledge his presence, we are inviting the wrath of God upon our lives. And in the case of the believer, that wrath comes in the form of correction because he loves us and he chastises those whom he loves. If you lack prayer, your life will be filled with chaos, period. Even if you're a born again believer, why? Because you're not making use of those things that God has given to you. You're not making use of that inheritance that is yours through Christ Jesus. Look, you know that as a born again believer, you have the Holy Spirit, you have power, you have the love of God, you have peace and joy deep within your spirit. But if you're not committing to prayer, then you are not making use of what God has given to you. Psalm 53 verse 4 says this, Will those who do evil never learn? They eat up my people like bread and wouldn't think of praying to God. Here we see in the scripture that ungodly people don't even have that in their mind. It's in their nature to ignore the presence of God. Don't be like the unbeliever.  Don't ignore that connection with God that you have 24-7. Acknowledge that a lack of prayer is ungodly. Prayerlessness as a lifestyle is ungodliness as a lifestyle. Jeremiah 10, 21 says, The shepherds of my people have lost their senses. They no longer seek wisdom from the Lord. Therefore, they fail completely and their flocks are scattered. Zephaniah 3, 1 through 2, What sorrow awaits rebellious, polluted Jerusalem, the city of violence and crime. No one can tell it anything. It refuses all correction. It does not trust in the Lord or draw near to its God. So here the Lord is rebuking this nation because they refuse to draw near to him. James 4-2 puts it this way, You want what you don't have so you scheme and kill to get it.  So you fight and wage war to take it away from them. Yet you don't have what you want because you don't ask God for it. We have to acknowledge the serious nature of prayerlessness. We can't be so dismissive about the fact that we're not seeking the face of God daily. Look, I understand that the presence of the Holy Spirit dwells in the believer 24-7. I understand that he'll never leave you nor forsake you. But prayer is about submission to God. Prayer is about aligning with his will. Prayer is about making use of those things that he's deposited into your life. Prayer is about doing and becoming all that God desires. Prayer is about doing and becoming what pleases the heavenly Father.  Now this is not a message of condemnation. This is though a message of correction because I think that we can become so passive in our lives about spiritual matters and we even somewhat joke about it.  We say things like, well, you know God's been dealing with me or I really should pray more often or I really should pray more consistently or gee, I missed several weeks of prayer. I gotta get back on that. We treat it like it's a diet that we're not doing well in when in fact it's the very essence of spirituality. It's to enjoy the presence of God. It's to commune with the Holy Spirit. It's to receive revelation of the Word. It's to be empowered with boldness and faith and joy and peace. It's to help you focus. It's to help you receive guidance. It is the manner in which we walk with the Holy Spirit. That's prayer. Now you can pray by going away privately to a room that's secluded prayer, that's intentional prayer, that's structured prayer, but then there's spontaneous prayer. This is to speak to the Lord all throughout the day to acknowledge His presence in every moment of every day, to acknowledge His presence in the car, at work, at school, wherever you are when you wake up, when you go to bed. So both structured prayer, scheduled prayer and spontaneous prayer are needed, but whatever you do, please believer, pray. The proof that you believe in prayer is that you pray. We don't pray because we're self-reliant. We say to the Lord things like, well, Lord, I don't really need you. And you might say, when did I say that? You say it every time you start your day without prayer. Whatever you don't pray about, you're telling God, I don't need your helpin'.  Prayerlessness is self-reliance. Many times we also don't pray because of sin. I'll talk a little bit more about that in a moment. And other times we pray because of unbelief, because we don't think it will work, because deep down inside, we're telling ourselves, why pray if nothing's ever gonna change? And all of these things have to be dealt with, but at its root, we have to acknowledge that prayerlessness for whatever reason and however often it manifests is ungodly. That's number one. We have to acknowledge that. We can't be dismissive. We can't treat it like, oh, it's just a goal I didn't meet or it's just a good idea that I didn't actually take action upon. No, prayer is vital to the life of the believer. Number two, acknowledge your need for the Lord's daily guidance. Psalm 86.1 says, bend down, oh, Lord, and hear my prayer. Answer me, for I need your help. Look, I understand that we don't just approach the Lord to receive from him. We approach the Lord because we're receiving of him. I also understand that we don't approach God to be connected with him. We pray because we are connected with him.  No, we understand the connection is there. God already loves us. We have all things in the spirit. But when you pray, you're acknowledging your need for him. You are depending upon him consistently. Prayer is the act of dependency upon God. I mentioned a moment ago how every time we go a day without prayer, we're basically saying to the Lord, I don't need you today. If you go a week without prayer, you're saying to the Lord, I don't need you this week. If you live a lifestyle without prayer, you're saying, Lord, I can live in my own strength and you are self-reliant. Maybe that's the way you were taught to be. Maybe at a young age, you have to take up responsibilities that most kids don't have to take up. Maybe you've had to learn to be tough and self-reliant and strong on your own. But as believers, we must set aside old mindsets. We must set aside thought patterns that come from the way that we were raised or the culture in which we were raised. And instead, we must embrace the realities of Scripture, recognizing that we are new creations now taking on new mindsets. And this new mindset involves the idea, the knowledge that I need him.  He's the sustainer of all things spiritual in my being. He's the giver of joy. He's the revealer of truth. He's the giver of discernment. He's the giver of peace. He's the demonstrator of love. How are we to become like Christ if we're not spending time with him? How are we to experience transformation? Yes, the veil has been removed, but are you fixing your eyes on him now that you can see him in the spirit? Are you fixing your eyes on him and being changed, as the Scripture says, into his glorious image, reflecting that light, that marvelous light of glory? That's what prayer is. It's depending upon him as you become like him. It's to admit that there are flaws deep within us that we cannot handle on our own. It's to cry out, Lord, change my name. Lord, change my nature.   I wanna know you. I wanna hear your voice. I wanna see your ways. I wanna see your face. I want to seek your presence. Draw me closer to your heart that my heart might be more like yours. That is hunger. Far too many believers operate in desperation when they should be operating in hunger. Now, many won't like the way I just said that, but hear me out. Desperation is a great initiator, but it's a terrible sustainer. You say, brother David, I thought we're supposed to be desperate for God. Yes, that's why I said it's a great initiator, but you can only be desperate for what you don't have. Desperation comes when there's calamity all around. Desperation comes when there's lack. I'll put it this way. The difference between desperation and desire is the difference between starvation and hunger. Well, if you're eating daily properly, you'll be hungry for the next meal, but you won't be starving for it. Be in the same way. If you're spending time with the Lord daily, you're operating from a place of desire. You want Him. You know you want His presence. You know you need His presence, but if you are lacking in prayer, if you are lacking in devotion to the Word, if you are lacking in spending time in His presence, then you become desperate because you put yourself in difficult situations because of the lack of wisdom and the lack of becoming like Christ, the lack of His character, the lack of His power. Not that those things aren't there, but we're not making use of them. So again, the difference between desire and desperation is the difference between hunger and starvation. Hungry for the things of God? Yes, why? Because I'm eating daily. Starving for the things of God? No, because if I'm starving, it means I haven't been partaking. It means I've come to a point where I've not been acknowledging that presence. So this is why we have to daily depend upon Him. Be hungry for the things of God. Daily go before the Lord, recognizing I'm broken without you. I'm a mess without you. I'm a wreck without you. I often tell people that if it wasn't for the presence of the Holy Spirit, I would be a thousand pieces shattered on the floor. His grace is the glue that holds me together in my brokenness. And only in prayer do I find that sustaining strength. Only in prayer do I sense that wind at my back, that inner strength and confidence in who I am in Christ comes by the Holy Spirit through prayer. So that's number two. You have to acknowledge your need for the Lord's daily guidance. And too often we just dismiss this idea. Oh, I can handle it. I'm doing just fine. Well, things aren't really that bad, especially, please hear me now, especially those in ministry. You become so busy with the ministry itself that you fail in the area of prayer. And so now the busyness of ministry has replaced time with them. I'd rather spend time with him than do things for him.  They'll cause doubt and fear and anxiety and a lack of peace and so forth. So number one, acknowledge that a lack of prayer is ungodly. Number two, acknowledge your need for the Lord's daily guidance. Write that in the comment section right now. Just say, I need you, Lord. Write it in the comments right now. Publicly declare that whether you're watching live or on replay, I need you, Lord. Acknowledge your need for his presence. Acknowledge your dependency upon him. Acknowledge your desire for who he is. Father, I thank you that you are rekindling the fires of prayer. I thank you that you've placed the spirit of prayer and supplication upon us. Cause us, Holy Spirit, to cry out, ah, but Father, give us a greater hunger for the deeper things of God. Help us to be attentive when you're inviting us to the places of prayer. Take us to higher heights and deeper depths I pray. And Lord, bring healing and deliverance to your people in the mighty name of Jesus as your power flows now. Come on, just lift your hands, receive that. Father, touch your people. I rebuke sickness and disease in the mighty name of Jesus. I rebuke every demonic attack in the mighty name of Jesus. Just receive it, take a moment, just receive that now. In Jesus' name we pray, I want you to say it because you believe it. Type, amen. Well, if you enjoyed this message, you think others can benefit from this. Don't forget to leave a like on the video. Also, make sure you're subscribed to my channel so that you can receive more teachings on the Holy Spirit prayer, spiritual warfare and other topics. We also live stream events around the world where you'll see the power of the Holy Spirit in action at those live events. You'll see people saved, healed, delivered and empowered. And I wanna ask you to do something. Consider today helping this ministry on its mission. Look, we all understand that Jesus is still the answer and the gospel still has power. That's what the world needs. And if you're like me, you have a heart for souls. You love seeing people come into the kingdom. You love seeing the kingdom of God expand. You desire to see more believers empowered in their gifts and their ministries. You desire to see the darkness dissolve, that darkness that envelops the world. You wanna see the gospel of Jesus Christ go forth in the power of the Holy Spirit. Well, we're on the same team.  Come on, some of us have streaming services like Netflix, Hulu, Disney, maybe a gaming service, maybe a gym membership. We have memberships for everything these days. Why not add to that your support of the gospel? Everything counts one time or monthly, large or small. There's no gift so small that it doesn't count. No gift so large that we won't know what to do with. Give today for the sake of souls. And that is it for now. Until next time, remember, nothing is impossible with God.


Good pursuant to chapter 20 of the acts of 2021 and extended again by chapter two of the acts of 2023 this meeting will be conducted by remote means members of the public who wish to access the meeting may do so in the following manner by emailing steve mccarthy at mccarthy asset mrstema.gov that's mccartys at mrstema.gov no in-person attendance of members of the public will be permitted but every effort will be made to ensure that the public can adequately access the proceedings in real time via technological means in the event that we are unable to do so for reasons of economic hardship and despite best efforts we will post on the Amherst website an audio or video recording transcript or other comprehensive record of proceedings as soon as possible after the meeting. If that done we'll call the meeting to order at 5 36pm and take a quick roll call Hallie here Doug here and I am here and Dylan and Gaston are absent. So and then public comment is next on the agenda and this is general public comment unrelated to anything on the agenda and if there's anyone here for public comment you can please raise your hand at the raise hand button at the bottom of your screen. I do not think we have anyone making public comment. Okay next up is licenses new common pictures license application CV-139 10-1 Amherst LLC doing business as 10-1 T House 48 North Pleasant Street and Steve you said this is this is not an exactly a new one right. Yes this is one of the owners of Vivi T has which is over by the works there in the fire station is has purchased the business I believe from his partner and is going to be operating there's a name change but I don't think there'll be many significant changes otherwise so a new convict was needed for the new LLC but that is about it. Okay so nothing nothing has changed. No new things or surprises. Any questions. If not is there a motion to approve this license to move. Thank you. Is there a second. Take a vote Hallie. I. Doug. I. And I vote I that is three to zero with two absent that license is approved. And now we have a common pictures license renewal application and this one is for protocol LLC and has anything has changed there correct Steve. No. Yeah, it's just a renewal. Okay. Are there any questions about this renewal. No, is there a motion to approve the renewal. To move. Thanks. Is there a second. Thank you, Hallie. Take a vote Hallie. I. Doug. Hi. And I vote I that is three to zero with two absent and the renewal is approved. Next up is the lunch one lunch cart food truck license renewal application. I'll say it. Is this a standard renewal and not a stock run for him? Yes. Yes. Yep. Great. Any questions about this? Nope. Okay. Is there a motion to approve this renewal. Thank you. Is there a second. Thanks. We'll take a vote. Hallie. Hi. Doug. Doug, and I vote aye. That is three to zero with two absent and that renewal has been approved. Okay. These two are special short term license applications. SST dash 24 dash 15 and dash 15 16. Jen Lynn Fontaine top of the campus incorporated wine and malt. April 6th and April 20th at Garber field at UMass. And this is the lacrosse. Right that we've done in a couple of years past. Yes, let me bring Bill in here. Oh, great. Okay. Hi, Bill. Hi, guys. How are you? Good. How are you? How you doing? I'm doing good. Thanks. Good. So these are the licenses for the short terms for the men's lacrosse games. Yeah, right. There's two of them this year and it's been the same for the past three years. The field itself is fenced in and bartenders checking IDs. There's security at the gates and keeping an eye on things as well as the concession manager who'll be there all day. So, okay, I don't think there's been any, I don't think there's been any issues in the past with anything. So, right, you, you haven't had any incidents as I recall because you reported on them before. Okay. All right. Great. Are there any questions about these two short term applications? No, I think the things I want to know, he told us so. Okay. All right. Is there a motion to approve them? So moved. Thank you. Is there a second? Second. Thank you. We'll take a vote. Hallie. Hi. Doug. Hi. And I vote aye. That is three to zero with two absent and they are approved. So thank you so much for coming in, Bill. And best of luck. Thank you guys. Take care. You too. Bye. Okay. So onto our discussion topics, a marijuana regulation. Steve, do you have any updates on this? Yes. So I have been speaking with different parties in town, the town manager and the building commissioner and Kiko, the health director about both our licensing moving forward and also about the issue of the unregulated hemp derived cannabis products. And we will hopefully all be meeting next week to kind of compare notes and see, you know, where the town manager thinks this might be best addressed, whether it be the licensed commission or the public health or health, the board of health or, or maybe through the town council and what actions should be taken on the unregulated stuff. So we will be discussing that and also, you know, what the town's path forward is with marijuana regulation in general, because as you may have seen from some of those KP law memoranda, there are a lot of changes in the law that are occurring now and that are being considered. So hopefully we will get some more clarity from that. I mean, it seems like a rough consensus from talking, you know, briefly, we haven't really met formally, but that it may be better for you know, I think to any bylaw that or any regulation I should say that has adopted targeting the unlicensed hemp products would probably not be really quick because you kind of have to make sure you get it right in terms of legalities and authorities and what products are covered and which aren't. So with that ever going into it, it may be better for that effort to be expended by the board of health, which would cover every establishment in town and not not just those licensed by the license commission. So we'll have to review, you know, what those authorities are and where those things can come from. But I hope to have more information for you in our next meeting in two weeks and see that a chart, a path forward is charted, but definitely been bringing attention to this issue and I think it is under consideration. It really is shocking. I had no idea that any of that was going on, but I've seen that there's another global editorial and I'm seeing more news about it. So it seems like it has really blown up as an issue and Gaston also told me he saw that provisions was selling some products like this because they said some of their customers aren't interested in drinking alcohol and they want to have something available for them. So I think it was something that we will see more of. Okay. Well, that's interesting. Any questions about how that, I mean, it'll give us a lot to talk about at the next meeting, for sure. I would just say I'm a little bit more comfortable with the board of health taking it over than us in our capabilities. Yeah, it is an interesting question where, you know, where these authorities can come from in for the license commission or the board of health. I mean, I don't know if, you know, I'm sure there's probably more latitude with the board of health regulations, although I'm not really familiar with exactly what the language is or whatever statute authorizes the board of health to take action. But I was talking to Kiko and it's kind of a thought experiment, you know, the board of health, you know, they have some power ban. I think adulterated food products is something that they have the power to do.  But, you know, could the board of health or the board of license commissioners ban businesses from selling products containing caffeine or, you know, chamomile tea or melatonin, it's interesting to think about. And I'm sure they'll have a lot of consultation with legal counsel as well. But it is an issue that I think is concerning to everybody who hears about it. So I don't think, I don't think that there'll be something left in the back burner. Okay. All right. Great. Well, thank you, Steve. And I don't know if you guys got a chance to take a look at some of those other licensing bylaws and regulations from other towns. Yeah, I've been reading them slowly. They're really, some of them are really interesting. Yeah. So if there's anything that anybody sees that they think would be good for us to add, I think that would be, that would be good. I mean, I think something that we'll be considering on the staff side is, sorry, Mary, I'll just finish my thought, but I think it's something that'll be something to be concerned. The staff side would be what, you know, what, what the interests of the town really are. Sorry, Marion. Oh, no, that's okay. I was just going to ask when the meeting was. Is it next week? Hopefully next week, we still have to set a detailed agenda and schedule it, but we are working on that. Okay. All right. Could you just let me know the date? Sure. Okay. Thank you so much. All right. Any other questions about this? If not, thank you so much, Steve. It's really, really helpful. Yeah. And if anybody else sees, see those types of things being sold anywhere, it'd be interesting to hear about. Yeah. Make a note. Let us know. Definitely. I think it's an issue that, I mean, I can't really think of any other federal law that's had such a gaping loophole ever, really. Yeah. But I think it's something that will need federal action at some point, but especially with the mail order aspect of everything, but or state action at the very least, but it'll be interesting to see how it all plays out. It seems like it's kind of reaching a critical mass of awareness. Right. Okay. All right. Any other questions for Steve? If not, thanks again, Steve. And please do let me know when that meeting is. Absolutely. I don't, like I'd love to be there. I don't, it depends on what time it is. If that would be all right, I could just, is that okay? Or is it just a staff meeting? I think the town manager will be, will be calling it. So I will, I will definitely let him know that you're interested. Okay. All right. You know, if not, I understand, but at least to give me a time to send you some input after I read some of those other regulations. Absolutely. I'll definitely, I'll definitely present it to him. I'm not sure exactly what, he has, he has some, some bigger questions to answer about the, the broader scope of the town's regulations, the host community agreements are changing quite a bit. And there's some requirements now, which focus a lot on, on notice and, you know, the kind of things you wouldn't expect being central to equity, I guess, but the whole, whole broad, broad suite of things. So I'm not sure exactly in what order he'll want to tackle things. Oh, okay. All right. All right. Okay. All right. Well, thank you again. And let's talk now about the wage law violations at the two Plymouth establishments. So, and these, we approved these, and you remember, I was trying to look up the exact date when we approved these license transfers, and that was in December, right? Yeah, but it was the last meeting in December. Yeah. The last meeting December. Did anyone have a, they might have, so this was a, like a, everyone read the blog post that Gaston sent around about the two restaurants? I thought the comments, or at least when I read it, there was only one, two comments were a little scathing towards us, kind of asking why I wasn't due diligence done. Also asking why didn't people travel to their other establishments? Well, that's interesting. Perhaps if we had a budget to do that and a driver maybe, but so I talked, I actually talked, I called the Attorney General's office and I talked to the investigator and asked her what was going on. And I also looked up a couple of news articles. So the citation was issued to the Plymouth, the owners of the Plymouth Public House and the Tavern on the Wharf on December 20th. It was not made public until we, everybody heard about it on January, when was that? It was released to the news. They did a press release at the, around January 19th or 20th. So we wouldn't have known. She said, you can, there's a database that you can, you can go to the Attorney General's office and you can look at all of the complaints. They're all on, it looks like a, almost like a spreadsheet, you know, one of those things where you type in your complaint and it lists who's complained against and the kind of violation and you can kind of narrow it down and you can look at all the towns and see who's got a complaint against what. She says it doesn't, you wouldn't know if there's an ongoing case unless you called. So I also asked her specifically about, because half a million dollars is a lot, about what, what the dates that these were kind of the offenses were, the civil offenses were. And she said one of them was from June 2021, January 2021 to June 2022. And the other restaurant was December 21 to July 2022. So you'd have to kind of go back and look through the complaints and then phone the, phone the Attorney General's office and ask them, you can't request a public record really until the case is, I think you can get the, the closed case. So the citation was issued on December 20, 2023. They immediately settled the case and then they did the press release in January. I mean, by I mean they, I mean the, the owners of the, the restaurant is, I think Paul Tupa is his name. So he also had another case against him for the Red Hat Cafe in Boston in 2020. And it's interesting because he took over the building, he got the license transfer for Tavern on the Wharf. Right, we're getting in a Plymouth public house. The Plymouth Select Board unanimously voted in December of 2020 to transfer the license to him. But he actually, the press release for the Red Hat came out in October of 2020. So they knew, they knew that they'd had this case on going against him before they, they transferred the license to him. So I mean, they granted it to him anyway, so because he settled that one also. I don't know where else, is there anything else that you need to, and she did give me some of the, some of the violations. There are about half a dozen or more just wage violations, failure-based service rates, failure to pay minimum wage, permissible work for 14 to 17 year olds, that kind of thing. So I don't know if it's, that's not something we really consider though when we're granting a liquor license, is it? Like it's, I mean, it's bad, not great publicity for them when they're coming into a new town. But I also checked the Plymouth Select Board minutes to see if they renewed their license, and they did renew their license at the end of December at the two Plymouth establishments right around the time that we would have transferred their license, the licenses to them too. So like I don't know what we can do. Does anyone have any ideas beyond checking all of that out ahead of time? Well, I think the, you know, the thing I'll say is this, is that, I mean, I think these are the kinds of things that we can consider and potentially reject a license for. So that's one thing. But I think that the most recent violation, you know, like you said, we wouldn't have known. Right. Again, a wage violation is a very different thing than what we generally are concerned about. We're much more concerned about their service and management of the alcohol. Right. I run an alcohol license. So I think, I mean, I think it's a thing we have to consider is whether that, you know, if they've had an issue with, you know, sort of, you know, wage law and then they've corrected it. I mean, it does start to sound a little systemic because they've had a couple of different places that this happened. So that would be concerning. And at the same time, it kind of falls out of our purview. But at same time, it's like, are they a good business for our, you know, we consider the sort of, I think the term and suitability of them as a vendor kind of thing is a consideration we can make. Right. I mean, I think this is also one, you know, kind of hindsight is 2020, we maybe should make that a part of our regular process is to look and see if there's other kinds of violations. If they hadn't had their one from 2020 that came out like in October, you know, we would, we would not have, October 21 or whatever it was. 2020. Right. Yeah. We wouldn't have known, you know, the current one we have no idea about because it just wouldn't have been available to us at all. So the historical ones, the only one. And then the other thing is like, well, it's four years later or three and a half years later, do we still want to penalize them when they've made amends and that sort of thing? You know, if, you know, it's, at this point, it's much easier to say, oh, that would have been a consideration we might not have considered this as a good fit for us because we have a lot of young people that want to work.  And so, you know, I don't know, I mean, I think as a body, we got to think about whether we want to add, you know, a quick check through the AG's office and to see if there's other kinds of violations like that as a factor that we want to, I mean, this is a task we burdened Steve with, to be blunt. Right. Because I don't think you can necessarily demand it of them. I mean, there's things on the alcohol application that involve alcohol violations, but not other kinds of things.  This is like another category, but it's not already, you know, in the mix. I don't know. I'm not opposed. It just depends on how hard it is to search that database because, you know, that's a pretty onerous process to kind of go through to find, you know, people. Yeah, it wasn't too, you have to, you can, there are little boxes you can check so you can narrow it down to restaurants and you can pick the year and you can even pick the kind of violation. Can you select manager or license holder? Like, not that I could see, there are about, you have to go through, I mean, it's like a spreadsheet. So you can go through, and there were about from 2020, 2022, they're roughly about 800 or 900 a year in the state of Massachusetts. So, I mean, there have been some in, you know, Amherst and Hampton that you don't hear about because it's not necessarily an ongoing case. But I mean, it's not difficult. They don't always list the, some of them are listed by LLC and some of them are listed by restaurant name.  And then I guess you could call up to the Attorney General's office and ask them if that specific complaint is related somehow. But Yeah, if we could do a search by, because, you know, you can form an LLC for every single, you know, business that you own. And so, you know, it's one of the ways in which people sort of shift focus off of a controversial LLC is to form a new one. And I think that's where it gets weak to, you know, it's, we wouldn't have much ability to sort of search things. If we can search by, you know, owner or board members, that kind of thing, like on an alcohol application, you have to list, you know, sort of owner, board membership, etc. etc. You could, you know, if you can search by that, then it would be much more useful tool. I think given that it's much more based on, you know, like the LLC that's that holds a license or whatever, it wouldn't really know. Right. You know, I mean, the only other way we'd know is to ask them is like, what other, you know, business ownership do you have in any other thing, you know, in any other community and in the state of Massachusetts? Does that, does that call on the license, Steve, as a, because they do list some of the his, right? Yeah, they would list previous liquor licenses they've held and what corporation held that. Right. And you can also use the Secretary of State's corporate database to search for people who are officers of a corporation, which wouldn't always capture the ownership, but generally for small businesses, the offers are, is the ownership. So that may be something. Right. I mean, I didn't get into with the inspector exactly how, what happened. I said, it was, it was the bad management or, you know, whatever, but she wasn't just said that they had had these violations. So, and then I thought it's kind of like, like with the ABCC also issues violate has come through and issued violations tickets for selling to underage people. And as far as I know, that's more of a criminal offense. And we still renew, like we still renewed Panda East because they, as far as I know, right. And yeah, I mean, I think I know the, it's all kind of wrapped up in case law, which makes it difficult to find hard and fast rules, but there is a lot of case law around the license renewal and right. And the state generally takes a pretty harsh look at discipline and and non renewal for outside of kind of egregious, egregious things as they're very big on progressive discipline in the case law. Right. And so yeah, I also might bring attention to the town does have a wage and tip, wage and tip theft by law that were part of the general bylaws that was adopted in 2020. And the board of licensed commissioners, along with the town's human rights director, which I believe is now the DEI director may draw up regulations and take complaints. So it may be a good time and it should be noted, as Doug said, that these are separate LLCs. Right. But but it's, it may be a good time to take a look at that and maybe meet with her and see if there are any regulations the board would like to adopt that also does kind of prescribe. If you know if a licensee who has been found in violation of our bylaw or a criminal civil judgment along the lines of this, if it was the same, the same corporation is not in this case, but the light, the board licensed commissioners could require to have them post a wage bond, which would be an amount three times the amount of the judgment to be held for a certain period of time. It also says that a prospective licensee so disclose any criminal or civil judgment or other administrative action regarding these these types of things. So maybe a good time to take a closer look at that bylaw and maybe consider if there are any regulations the board would like to to take. Sure. I think it's a good idea. I was just going to say, I didn't realize it had actually been enacted that long ago. Because I had a conversation with Pat DeAngelis of District 2 about it because she's the one that I believe was one of the primary town counselors have brought forward forward. And I know that I had some conversations with some town staff about it because it can impact the town as well because of some of the components that are potentially in it and I think they worked that out. But yeah, I think it's perhaps worth looking at if and especially if we're named as a body that can do regulation, then it might be something we consider and I think we consider it relative to issuing and renewing a license. I think there's complications with doing much research because it sounds like the search is a little tricky given what is listed on there. And I'm not thinking that it's easy to add more to Steve's plate. But we do want people that are good and fair business owners. We want them to serve alcohol in a responsible way and all the other businesses and whatnot. And we want them to be good to their employees too. Definitely. Yeah. One thing I was actually considering for other reasons, but certainly with this, there's one provision here in this bylaw that says that a prospective licensee shall disclose any judgements or so forth. But I was thinking that it may be a good idea to have a supplemental page on the liquor license applications for our local questions. Both about hours is one thing that baffles me is not in the state application. And we usually just end up taking that testimony but it would be nice to have that written down. But also to cover that, ask them to disclose that there's any previous violations because there isn't any place for them to answer that. So the owners would be on the applicant to know that this provision exists and that they should answer it. And any other things that may that we may have questions about. So I think that would also be useful for our the food alcohol food service regulations to kind of get some more clarity about their plan and have that in the record. So if the board is so inclined, I could try to draw up a draft of that that of the kind of a supplemental questions page that could be concluded in our applications. Oh yeah, sure. That would be great. Thank you. Thank you very much. Okay. Anything else on this? Should we do we need to invite them in to talk about it? What do you think? Have they resolved the issue with the state and with the employees? Yeah, they settled it. They settled the whole case. So and then I think it was like I said they issued the citation on December 20th 2023 and then settled shortly thereafter. She didn't say exactly when and then the press release went out on on January of 2024, the 20th 19th, the 20th. Was the press release from the business or from the state? It was from the state. It's from the Attorney General's office. It was like I think it was a they also their 2020 violation. There was another press release from the attorney. Actually, I bookmarked it somewhere. I think yes. I think there was a press release from the AGO but it didn't make the papers in the way that this one did. I think because it was just really large. Right. Yeah. So anyway, so anything else? Put it at it to talk about it for liquor license regulations? Yeah, I can add a bit. I can certainly add a agenda item for next time about that bylaw we have and whether there are any regulations the board would like to adopt. Okay. Great.  So the next one is the 14th of March in person at 5.30. And Steve, you'll have an update on that meeting regarding the marijuana regulation. And then we can talk some more about the wage law violations and alcohol, local alcohol regulation. And is there anything else? What's going on with the rental bridges regulations? I heard it was I think it was a bit delayed with the changeover of the town council. And I think they've been taking a bit of a recess to kind of get themselves situated as a new council. Okay. So I believe it was going to the CRC again this week. I'm not exactly sure how that turned out, but it was a bit on pause for a little bit. Okay. And then the lunch trucks on Prey Street, you've been working on that and that was successful in the fall. When are you thinking that that will start up again in the spring? I'll have to have some conversations with the town manager about whether that's something that could go again through his temporary authority, or whether there'd need to be a town council by law authorizing it. So I do hope to have that conversation with him coming up as well. Okay. And then anything, any big new license applications coming up? Not that I am aware of. Okay. Anything else for the agenda? Yes. Just a follow-up question talking about Prey Street. The building that is getting closer to completion, not one east, plus I think it's 11. Yes. Next door. And I just asked this because of its proximity to Prey Street. Is that coming online soon? Steve, I'm just curious because that might influence our conversation and the manager's thoughts about Prey Street as a food truck location. Yeah. I believe it is quite close and maybe partially occupied. My understanding is that as of a few weeks ago, they had some issues with the energy code. There was a difficulty where too much air was being turned over by the HVAC equipment and they had to figure out what the problem was. So I'm not sure exactly how that turned out, but it was certainly getting very close besides that issue and also possibly partially occupied. Okay. Thank you. Right. Anything else for upcoming meetings and agendas? No. Okay. Topics not reasonably anticipated, four to eight hours prior to the meeting. Any topics? I have none. No. Just one confirmation. So we're meeting the 14th and then we're going to meet the 28th? Um, yes. Okay. I just want to get my schedule so I don't, you know, double book. Oh, yeah. And the 14th would be in person, right? Yes. And then the 28th is online. 30 Zoom. Okay. Great. Well, if there's nothing else, is there anything else? I'll move to adjourn. Excellent. Thank you. Is there a second? Wonderful. We'll take a vote. Hallie? Aye. Doug? Aye. And I vote aye, three to zero with two absent. We're adjourned at 6.09 p.m. Thanks, everybody. Thank you. See you on the 14th. Bye. Thank you, Steve. Thank you all.


So, when we derive this diffusion equation, if you remember if you recall what we said was that I draw my step lengths. So, I wrote down an evolution for the position of the random walker at time t plus delta t plus some step l of t, but the step sizes were drawn from a distribution which is 0 mean and some constant variance right. The 0th moment was 1, the first moment was 0 and the second moment was a square. Now, you could have a particle undergoing diffusion even when this mean is nonzero ok. And if this mean is nonzero what you would have is a net drift term. So, if the mean is nonzero you would have a net drift term, but in addition to sort of doing random things overall if you look for large enough the particle is moving net in some direction it has some drift velocity. So, it has some drift velocity. So, it could happen if these individual steps of the random walk have a nonzero mean or for example, if you apply some sort of an external force. So, for if you have charged ions or charged proteins or whatever and you apply an electric field then that electric field will tend to push the ion in certain direction depending on where how you apply the electric field. So, if you have the net force then again you will have some sort of a net drift. And I can write this drift velocity let us call this V d this drift velocity is in general proportional to the force that you apply. And the constant of proportionality you can write either in terms of a mobility or in terms of a friction coefficient. So, mu is called the mobility gamma is called the friction coefficient. So, you apply an external force that causes the particle to move in some direction with certain velocity which is called the drift velocity and the drift velocity is proportional to the force. Is this what you generally encounter in a general setup is the velocity proportional to the force no right. So, this is a slightly special case and we will do deal with that over the next lectures when we do hydrodynamics. So, this is a special regime of low Reynolds numbers low Reynolds numbers which may or may not make sense to you, but which we will define. So, this happens when you can neglect inertial forces. So, when you can neglect inertial forces. So, the acceleration term is not important in Newton's laws. Generally, that is the regime in which biological systems operate. We will calculate how to quantify the biological medium in which this objects these proteins these organisms are undergoing random walks. And that characterization happens to this quantity called the Reynolds number. And we will see in what sort of regimes is this is this approximation that the velocity is proportional to the force valid. But for the time being let us take this as a given that the drift velocity is proportional to the force the larger the force you apply the larger the velocity. So, if this is my velocity v d then in a time t it has moved in time t in time t it has moved an amount which is let us say delta t in time delta t it has moved an amount v d delta t right. So, given this I will now try to rederive the diffusion equation. So, this is my setup I have a net drift velocity due to some force that causes the particles to take in time delta t to be shifted by an amount v d times delta t. And I will now try to rederive the diffusion equation. So, I will start off with this x of t plus delta t is x of t plus l of t. And the else are still going to be drawn from a distribution chi, except now the moments will change somewhat. What is the 0th moment going to be? Will this change? No right, because that is just normalization that is always true. Will the first moment change? Yes, what will it be? Mu, no y mu yes you are saying v into t that is the distance it has moved on an average in a single step. And the second moment is still assumed to be a square. So, it is still constant. So, that is the difference from this unbiased random work. So, this is what is called the bias random work. So, now I do the same thing as before. So, I still write my rho of x what was I writing x t plus delta t right. And I will expand this and then I will substitute for these moments. So, I will just write it rho of x comma t integral chi z d z. So, minus del rho del x integral z chi z d z right and plus half del 2 rho del x 2 integral z square chi z. So, this is exactly what we did last class for the unbiased diffusion, except in the last class we are thrown away this term because the first moment was 0. We took unbiased random works where the mean was the first moment was 0. In this case I have some finite first moment. So, I need to take into account. And this of course, so this is 1 this is 1 this is v d times delta let us just call it v whatever delta t and this is a square. So, again if I take this term to this side rho of x t plus delta t minus rho x t I divide by delta t what I get is del rho del t what I get is del rho del t. Then what I have over here is equal to minus v del rho del x plus d del 2 rho del x 2. So, when you have a nonzero mean for these step lengths in addition to the standard diffusion term d del 2 rho del x 2 here this additional will drift term which is minus v times del rho del x ok. So, this is called the drift diffusion equation. So, this is called the drift diffusion equation or that Vexian diffusion equation it has multiple means. So, just for sake of interest you can derive this in multiple ways the drift diffusion equation or the diffusion equation. I will just show you one more way just because I will use this formalism. So, let us say I take a 1 d random work right. So, let us say I take a 1 d random work. So, you have a line and you have a random worker which can only move left or right on this line. Let us say that the probability it takes a step and let us say I have some step length which I will call as delta x. So, it takes equal steps. So, steps of length delta x right each step has size delta x it can hop to the right with a probability p and it can hop to the left with the probability q that is only two possibilities that it can have which means that I my p plus q is equal to 1 at every time instant it can must either hop to the right or it must hop to the left. So, I can now write the time evolution of the probabilities that what is the probability for this random worker to be at position x at time t plus delta t. So, if it needs to be at position x at time t plus delta t at time t that is one step before it could have been in only one of two positions right x minus delta x or x plus delta x. So, it could have been in x minus delta x comma t or it could have been in x plus delta x comma t. If it was here if it was at x minus delta x then with what probability will it come to x p right because it has to take a hop to the right. So, p times this plus if it was at this position it would have to take a hop to the left which means q. So, it can be either here x minus delta x or x plus delta x if it was here it hops to the right probability if it was here it hops to the left with that probability ok. Now, let me expand these terms in Taylor series. So, p x comma t plus delta t is equal to p of x comma t that is in some writing delta let me just write it plus delta t del p delta t p of x minus delta x comma t is p of x comma t minus delta x del p del x plus half delta x square del 2 p delta x 2 right and similarly for p x plus delta x comma t that is p of x comma t plus delta x del p del x plus half delta x square del 2 p. Now, this x minus delta x term comes with a p small p.  So, q q q and now let me put this back into this equation this p x of t which is on the left hand side and this p plus q into p x of t will cancel of course, because p plus q is 1. So, there will be no p x of t. So, on the left hand side I will have a delta t del p del t is equal to this is a minus sign that is a plus sign.  So, plus a half delta x square del 2 p del x 2 I bring this delta t down. So, this is what I have. Now, this is exactly the same form as the drift diffusion equation that I have once I identify the proper forms of the velocity and the diffusion coefficient. So, the velocity is obviously, from this term. So, the velocity is p minus q delta x by delta t the diffusion constant is again length square over time. So, delta x square by 2 delta t. So, the moment you have a random work where it is more likely to hop in one direction versus the other that translates automatically into a velocity a net velocity which is proportional to the difference between these two to the difference between these two probabilities ok. If p was equal to q you would have a unbiased random work the velocity would be 0 and I would come back to my standard diffusion equation in the absence of drift. This is just another alternate way of thinking about this from the language of random works once I have this. So, once I have So, once I do that of course, I come back to this drift diffusion equation. And since I have this let me just write down what is therefore, the flux or the current what is the conserved current in this case then what is j. Remember we talked about the continuity equation which says that in the absence of any sources or sinks del rho del t is equal to minus divergence of j right which means in a 1 d case it is minus del j del x in 1 d. So, given that what is the current in this case then this is v times rho right the current is v times rho minus d del rho del x such that you still satisfy the continuity equation which is good to write down the expression for the current as well good. So, I had the diffusion equation last class now we have derived the drift diffusion equation del rho del t is equal to minus v del rho del x plus d del 2 rho


Welcome to this course on Transition Metal Organometallics in Catalysis and Biology. We have been discussing the evolution of olefin polymerization catalysts and in that way, we have drifted quite a bit. We started with Ziegler-Natta heterogeneous titanium, zirconium group for transition metal based catalyst, which are multi-site catalyst with extremely high activity for ethylene as well as propylene homopolymerization and then gradually drifted towards group for transition metal based metallocene type single site catalyst, which were extremely well behaved in terms of being able to polymerize, homopolymerize ethylene as well as propylene and also show extremely high activity depending on the modification of the transition metal group for metallocene catalyst. And then subsequently we went towards looking for copolymerization of various kinds of olefinic monomer and subsequently copolymerization with monomer bearing functional groups. Now in that aspect too, we had moved over from group for transition metal catalyst, zirconium and then went on to discuss about other metals for example lanthanide based olefin polymerization catalyst and which we had seen that even though they can polymerize olefins but they cannot compare in terms of activity with respect to group for transition metals. Now in this comparison of looking for other non group transition metal matching up to the activity of the group for transition metal contribution by Brookhart and Gibson was discussed in the last lecture in which iron catalyst which is a non group for transition metal showed extremely high activity in terms of olefin polymerization and it could give a range of products depending on the substituents going from oligomer all the way to the polymer and this was a tremendous discovery in terms of putting iron back into the polymerization map of in olefin polymerization and iron being the most abundant metal on the earth being cheap and economically viable. This is a great news for people who are exploring iron based catalysis. In the last class, we had seen the catalyst which is drawn over here, ethylene when R equals methyl and R dash equals hydrogen, oligomer alpha olefin C10 to C20 fraction produce high density polyethylene. Now this and the activity comparable to Ziegler Nata catalyst. So, this is a great news in terms of the chemistry and in terms of developing iron as a catalyst. This in short is designated by NNFECL2 slash MAOO catalyst. Now, the interesting thing is that the chemistry that chain termination competes with the chain growth and that is shown over here. So, NNN Fe plus polymer with ethylene gives NNN Fe polymer and ethylene with iron in the plus state. Then, this will come and insert, which will then give NNN Fe polymer with Fe plus. So, this is a chain growth, whereas this has a three chain termination pathways as well. So, this is a chain growth reaction and it has a three chain termination pathways as is shown here. The first one is this will bind to the ethylene and one can have NNN iron polymer bound to ethylene. It has a hydrogen and it can beta hydrogen can eliminate and become a hydrogen hydride and that can insert into the thing. So, that can eliminate propene this moiety and then it can give NNN Fe plus hydrogen, which can again undergo ethylene to give chain growth. So, this mechanism is sort of a chain termination mechanism, but giving rise to chain growth. There are other possibilities as well, which is shown here. So, this with Me3Al, Trimethyl Aluminum or MAO would give this complex NNN Fe plus polymer Al Methyl. So, in this case, what this is that trifluoro trical aluminum unit this is in methyl is interacting with iron and as a result there is a chain transfer that happens chain transfer and this kicks out polymer Al Me2 and this methyl gets transferred to iron from aluminum and the unit which goes out is this. As a result, what stays behind on the catalyst is Fe plus methyl and that with ethylene again goes to chain growth. So, what is interesting over here that here we have chain growth, which leads to the growth of the polymer chain and here we have this chain termination mechanism. So, this is mechanism number one, this is mechanism number two, both also leading to chain growth. So, as a result, the catalyst gives very high yield molecular weight polymers and then this is not the second one. There is also a third one, which is a possible third pathway chain termination and that is given by this. So, this gives NNN Fe A plus hydrogen polymer that undergoes associative exchange. As a result, what happens is olefin comes in and propane goes out as is shown to give NNN Fe plus hydrogen in this and this in presence of olefin again gives chain growth. So, what we have over here are three chain termination pathways. This is pathway number one, this is pathway two and pathway three. All the termination pathway eventually in presence of olefin giving chain growth and this is in addition to the normal chain growth pathway. So, this is a wonderful catalyst, which because of these reasons could match up to the activity of that Ziegler-Nurter system and could carry out polymerization and we have seen that how chain growth helps in producing longer catalysts. Now, we have moved from now, we move and go beyond iron and we move to nickel from here and we had seen that how the story sort of started with nickel, how the story sort of started with nickel in terms of the nickel effect, which sort of helped in discovery of the Ziegler-Nurter catalyst and then it went back a complete circle from nickel to titanium, zirconium to lanthanum to iron and then it again goes back to nickel and now we are going to be talking about how nickel can be used for producing polyolefin polymers and the credit goes to Professor Maurice Brookhart, who used a bulky system of the type stone that could produce polymer and the ligand are of two types, one is this or this. So, this is a bulky system and we can in short we can designate this as this ligand, what this ligand does is that in its nickel complex in ether at minus 78 degree centigrade in presence of 8 protonating agent F4, it eliminates methane to give this compound and then this is the ether solvent etherated air4. So, this is the counter ion and with propene it could give a polypropylene and the same he could also start instead of the methyl, he could also start it from the nickel dibromide precursor using MAO 1000 equivalent toluene with isopropene or it can be hydrogen, methyl, butyl it could also produce the same same pathway. So, this is one can think of this as pathway one and this is pathway two, the polymer produced by pathway one are high branching, whereas polymer is produced in pathway two gives a high grade linear polymer and one can control the grades of the polymer depending on the conditions used or pathway follows. In one case one can get high grade linear polymer, in another case one can get highly branched polymer. So, this was a nice work where Brookhart also put a nickel in the map for making polymers because nickel the whole business started off with nickel in the nickel effect setting it up and then nickel known in shop where it was mainly used for oligomerization catalyst it is however professor Brookhart's work which made nickel to come into the map of olefin polymerization and it also convincingly demonstrated that how nickel can be used even to make a polymers and nickel being a late transition metal it has a propensity to chain walk during the polymerization and that is what is explained by branching that is observed. Now, continuing further a nice work by professor Bazan took a nickel to a much higher heights where he used two catalyst working in tandem to produce a high molecular with polypropylene. So, this is a property which uses two catalyst transition metal one is nickel and another is titanium to produce a polymer in a tandem fashion and this is nicely demonstrated illustrated over here. So, Bazan in 2000 demonstrated used nickel in combination with constrained geometry titanium catalyst to produce polyethylene copolymer of one butene the good thing is that this is a copolymer process with only one monomer which is ethylene. So, this is a kind of a phenomenal work. Let me illustrate why first of all that it uses two catalyst one is nickel another is constrained geometry titanium catalyst two catalyst producing a copolymer of ethylene and one butene but the catch is that there is only one monomer which is ethylene. So, one catalyst is used first to convert ethylene to butene and then the second catalyst the first catalyst is nickel which used ethylene to butene and then the second catalyst titanium sort of polymerizes the butene and ethylene to give this copolymer ethylene co one butene. So, this is a beautiful elegant demonstration of organometallic chemistry it also shows how clear thinking can lead to wonderful catalyst development where two catalysts are made to work in a tandem. Let me illustrate this more specifically with the catalysts these were being used the first catalyst is obviously a nickel catalyst which is of the formula this is a nickel allyl complex that is activated with boron C6F5O3. The catalyst converts ethylene to one butene now this one butene then reacts with maybe I will do it with the different color one butene then reacts with another molecule of ethylene and undergoes a copolymerization using a constraint geometry catalyst titanium methyl plus and this is a boron C6F5O3 minus. So, it does this does the copolymerization to produce MnLLDP. So, the good thing is that this in this case two catalysts titanium and two catalysts titanium and nickel work in tandem in same medium on single substrate on one substrate which is ethylene to produce LLDP which is this. So, this is a tremendous demonstration of the capabilities of organometallic chemistry in which this LLDP was produced and depending on the variation of the conditions one can control the chain length and the molecular weight and depending on the and the incorporation extent also of two different by varying the nickel to titanium ratio. It should also be mentioned that these two catalysts nickel and titanium are not interfering with each other. So, with this we come to the end of today's lecture where we had seen the catalyst development from iron Gibson's catalyst to Brookhurst's nickel the focus shifting from iron to nickel and what it says that there are a lot of chemistry even left with the other transition metal other than non-group 4 transition metal and in this case nickel and iron indeed showed did prove their strength in terms of doing wonderful chemistry and the last example by Bazan where tandem reaction between nickel and the constrained geometry titanium group 4 catalyst took to polymerization to a different level. So, with this we come to an end of today's lecture we are going to dwell a bit more on non-metal non-group 4 transition metals when we take up the topic in more detail in the next class. Till then thank you and goodbye.


What's up guys?  And for me personally, for someone that does get a lot of back pain, I tend to use a few different solutions to try and fix those. I have a massage gun. I use some deep heat cream. Sometimes I'll create a hot water bottle because heat really works well. It takes quite a lot of effort to just set up all of these things and give yourself some of that therapy to try and ease all of those muscle aches. And I wanted to find a solution that could sort of incorporate everything that I usually do in just one. And I have found that. This is the Flago X9. It's a heated massage gun developed by Nordic Lifting. So a big shout out for them for sending me this awesome gadget. Now I'm going to unbox this and test it out. But the main thing I wanted to showcase to you guys because I've reviewed a lot of massage guns in the past, but I've never seen one that has a plate that heats up whilst massaging you. And that type of heated vibration therapy is going to be great for any type of muscle pain. So I'm so excited to try that out. Let's start off unbox this and see what this thing can do. Just before I open this up, here's a few specifications around it. It gives you a heated massage, which actually operates between 45 to 48 degrees Celsius. It's 2600mAh battery, which will last a very long time. It's got five speed levels and the noise level is less than 50 decibels, which is quite important, especially if you take this outside your home. Let's take a look at the back. Now here you have six different interchangeable heads. Now some of these are very common. You get them with all of the massage guns. You have the air plug. It's nice for more softer parts of your body. Then you have the round one, the bullet one, spinal and the flat one. This is the main one that I'm interested in. Heated flat. So this is suitable for the whole body. So no matter what area of your body needs a bit more attention, much like how you use a hot water bottle, you can use it for your back, your shoulders, your neck, your legs, wherever it may be. It helps the blood circulation and it relieves pain. So I'm going to set this up with the heated one. These are the ones I've reviewed many times and of course you guys are aware of that already. Let's go ahead, open this up and see how it looks. So it comes with this very nice carry case. I like the Nordic Lifting logo just there on the bottom right. Cool. So you have yourself a warranty card, the user manual. Now there's the massage gun there, but just before I go on to that, you have yourself the plug, which comes in a couple of different country adapters as well. So you've got the EU and the US adapter there. These are all the different heads. Now the heated plate one is this one. You'll see there's the metal connectors that need to be attached in a specific position inside the massage gun. If you turn on the heating mode and you use a different head, it won't work. It needs to be connected using this. Otherwise it won't heat up anyway. So that's a bit of a security measure, which is quite important. So this is the flat head. It's made of ceramic. So this will start heating up and then you can use this wherever you'd like. So let's go ahead and take a look at this. You'll see that there's the unlock and lock button for the battery pack. So if I hold that down, I'll be able to remove the handle, which you can use separately to charge. So you have the on-off switch there at the bottom and that's where the AC adapter goes to charge it. So let's go ahead and connect this back up. Simply push it into place. Can you guys see inside there? That's where you have the connections for the heated head. So these two pins will need to connect exactly in line with the two pins you see right inside there. So make sure you do that properly. Otherwise if you connect this the wrong way and turn on the heat mode, it won't work. So let me go ahead and do that. So now that that's done, let's go ahead and turn this on. Turn it on from the bottom. You'll see it lights up. So there's the speed level one. Now there's different types of vibrations as well, which is quite unique. So the first one is static vibration. The second one goes into the mode where it's pulsates. And the third one is increasing step by step in vibration intensity. So let's go ahead, turn it on and you can probably hear it's not so loud. So the mode button there in the middle, that will change the mode. So this is like a pulsating vibration. Last one, it starts off slow and it will slowly climb faster and more intense. If I go back to the static mode, this last button here is where you change the speed level. So there you go, 3200 rpm as the maximum speed. Now this first button is the heated one. If I select this, you'll see the heat icon has now lit up red. So now I need to wait a couple of minutes whilst this heats up and then I can use that to massage myself using both heat and vibration therapy. Okay, it's been a few minutes. It's now quite warm and that actually feels so nice. I've never had a massage gone like this. So that's pretty unique for me. And let me see what it feels like on my back through my shirt. That feels so comfortable.  But one thing I really use the like is when I sat in a sauna and the back heat I used to get used to give me such good blood circulation and loosen the tension in my back muscles. This kind of feels like that. Of course, it requires a little bit of manual work from your side to keep massaging yourself rather than staying in the same place. But if you're going to use a massage gun or if you use a foam roller, this is the type of thing that would work just perfectly fine and maybe do even better job than all of those things combined. So this is a very good time saver as well, especially if you live a busy lifestyle. Or even if you have like a sedentary lifestyle and you don't move around much, then that's equally as bad to get a lot of muscle tension. So you need something like this. And I highly recommend it. So a very good shout out for Nordic Lifting for providing this and making such a great product. And to be honest, I probably won't need my other massage guns anymore because the heat therapy is something that really helps, especially with the tight shoulders I have. This just makes it so much quicker to recover. And once I do that, I can go back out and train again. So for me, it's a big thumbs up. And finally, although this does look quite big, it's actually not heavy at all compared to some of the ones I've had in the past. They are pretty heavy and you can get tired from using it for an extended period of time. This does have a bit of security measures. So if you do use it for more than 10, 15 minutes, it will automatically turn off just to prevent overuse of it. But on the whole, I'm super impressed with it. Now this comes in just under $200. And I think it's a great thing to have, especially if you're an avid trainer, athlete, or if you're just working from home for full time at the moment during this pandemic, then you may need to be a little bit more active and get the blood circulating a little bit more. And something like this can really help you. If there's anything else that you want to know, make sure you guys drop a comment down below. I'll get back to you as soon as I can. And if you like this review and generally all things tech, I've got plenty of videos coming out every single week. I know you're going to like them. So make sure you go ahead and hit that subscribe button and I will catch you guys next time. Take care.


Hi, everyone. Thank you so much for joining us. Welcome to another fireside chat with product school I am here with Jacob nettle-blatt of my Mentimeter sorry nearly said something else Thank you so much for joining us Thank you. Thank you for having me. Okay, so Yeah, let's dive right in. I'm so curious to learn about the things you guys are up to at Mentimeter and how you got started So how did you find your way into product management? Um Not super deliberately. I start on engineering school I started industrial engineering and management at the Boyle Institute of Technology which is in Stockholm, Sweden Which gives you really like wide platform to to apply for different jobs you and I couldn't really decide what to do So I went with management consulting because that felt like really broad as well And after doing that a couple of years I had like a long list of companies and jobs I was really not interested in but I hadn't find kind of like what I really wanted to do So I joined King The Candy Crush company Working with with data-driven business development in their business performance department I'm working a lot with their actual games and that's where I realized it's super fun Enabling people to build products that a lot of people use and there's a lot of data in those games, of course So there was a lot of fun things to work with I was working with one of the new Candy Crush titles at the time And then eventually I moved to San Francisco with King to work with business performance related to their platform Partnerships that collaborations with Apple and Google etc Which was super fun because San Francisco is an amazing city to be in but I also felt a bit Disconnected from the actual products from the game So now I was working the support function is that and I was kind of missing out on the actual product action And that's where about the time we're meant to meet or reached out Hiring for a VP of product because they were gonna like take their product big and they needed someone to help them grow So that's when I went like back deeper into product and I haven't regarded since that was two and a half years ago Nice so what kind of things are you guys up to at Mentimeter? Can you tell us a little bit about the product and what kind of things you're offering your customers? So Mentimeter is an interactive presentation platform So we basically build a presentation tool not very dissimilar to Google slide It's a presentation tool within your browser But everyone in the audience who participates connects to the presentation So if I would be in a room holding a presentation on the big screen Everyone would join the presentation with their phone and they can give their input throughout the presentation They can give you thumbs up or thumbs down or you can plant questions within your Presentation that people can interact with and you kind of gauge the room in real time and the audience can also ask you questions as a presenter through a built-in Q&A so we build a kind of more inclusive and interactive way of presenting and While we're just while we're talking about Mentimeter I hear that you're versioning your organization. Can you tell us a little bit about that and what's happening? Yes, so we're We're constantly iterating and rolling forward with with the organization in the product department And the product department I should say at Mentimeter is both like engineering design and product management We call it the product department and we always version the organization. We don't do big reorgs We're currently on product organization 1.9 1 Because I think like big reorgs are scary People know that this is huge change coming You don't really know which team you'll be in who will be your manager people are a bit scared and it creates insecurity That's someone like over your head is taking the decisions that affects your everyday working So we never do reorgs, but we constantly adjust the organization with small changes Moving someone from a team to another team creating a new team out of Previously larger team and those minor adjustments almost on a monthly basis and that's why we use version numbers I think it's a good way to To remove like the insecurity and uncertainty that the big reorgs And I guess that means that you're setting the expectation With your teams that things are going to constantly change and it doesn't sort of have that fear factor of oh god One big change Definitely, so I mentioned I joined two and a half years back the product team back then were eight people I think Now we're moving towards a hundred people. So we're growing very very quickly. So there's definitely gonna be change and Versioning your organization and always talk about the small adjustments that are coming is a great way to kind of Embrace the change because we say that like the only concept that meant a meter is change and we need to accept it So with with all of these changes in mind I guess that means that you're often looking at like the the short-term changes like what's happening now But in terms of the long term, what do you think the future for Mentimeter is and how will the future hybrid workspace affect that? I think like the hybrid workspace especially when it comes to our product I think we have a very like compelling offering for for the Remote workspace in the hybrid workspace. So as I mentioned Like we put people in contact with your presentation. So if your presentation is on the big screen and I'm in the room I would join it with my phone and I could interact with it Which was kind of built for in the room meetings that happened and then suddenly about a year ago everything turned remote and it turns out we're the perfect tool to use in remote settings as well because Like you all have these big sue meetings and all hands and someone on stage asks you like how are you guys doing? How's your week and you can't have a hundred people on muting at the same time But you can create a poll within your presentation and have everyone Remote they contribute to the discussion or by thumbs up or thumbs down or we're asking questions So we turn out we work really well for remote setting as well And we will definitely be working well in a hybrid setting For sure because even if you're like at a big venue With half of the people in the room and half on the people remote The discussion is most likely gonna take place in the digital meeting because that's the only place where the remote participants Can participate and it's a bit clunky for for people in the room to bring their computers and join the zoom call For example, but everyone can join the presentation through their phone And then suddenly you level the play field between remote and present people in in the hybrid workspace So I'm super excited for the kind of new ways of working because I think our product will fit really well And for for you personally How have you found the move to working remotely because I know some product people in particular Find it difficult from a leadership perspective to be able to lead your teams Even as great as remote tools are there is just that magic of being in the room. So how have you found it? It's challenging for sure. And as you mentioned, there are a lot of great tools to kind of bridge it But to me, I think it's It's it's hard. It's challenging and I think it depends a little bit on what kind of leader you are I try to be like as close to the people in my team as possible and always like make room for small talk and like check on Them how they're doing and there's so many things Caught in between meetings just like happening in the corridors, right? And it's very hard to substitute those small interactions with booked meetings in someone's calendar or slack messages So I'm it's it's a challenge for sure And something I I need to get better at being like more spontaneous with my zoom scheduling as well and not only rely on the like In the room meetings that have yeah, absolutely So I'm dying to dive into questions about product in general because I got a bunch of you ask you What would you say are some of the biggest myths and misconceptions about building digital products? I think some people at least people who haven't been working with digital products still has this Perpetual startup garage thing in their mind People still think that Mentimeter is built by three dudes in a garage with a laptop each and where this soon to be a hundred people large product organization because Building really really great software that looks good and scales and is compatible with all the platforms That's a huge undertaking and I think people sometimes underestimate Like the amount of work that goes into it because it's digital means it's just super quick You just write another line of code and you have a new feature, right? That's not really how it works if you if you've been on the inside Yeah, you almost want it you want to give these people who say that say that it's easy And that it's like five people in a garage you want to give them a peek behind the scenes Yeah, all of these people doing all of these things. Yeah, and there's like Enterprise versions of your product and there's compliance that that needs to be taken into account. I'm like legacy and take that It's it's complex for sure. It's super fun and super challenging But you still need a lot of people if you're going to do it like large scale and have hundreds of millions of users What would you say are some of the most important skills that product managers need to succeed in this like new products world that's being built I think you like if you want to If you want to move into product management I think you really need to have like the good people skills, which to me I'm like this Pretty extroverted social person. It's easy to make those interaction happen in real life as we talked about but I Think if you want to be a good product manager now in the remote world I think you need kind of a set of tools and ways of working to be that kind of people person Even though you don't meet with your people as much at least to me That's a new challenge. It's meant to me. It was not a distributed company before the pandemic But that that's something that I think is really important because it's all about people at the end right who builds the product and designs the features and As a leader, what new skills have you had to develop or gain as you moved into a position of authority? I like always see the people behind the change like Like drawing this perfect organization on a whiteboard is really really easy But actually have it happen and have everyone being content with the change. That's super hard That's that's so much more worth than just like initially sketching it out So that's why I think we work with the like Versioning of the organization because sometimes I have this bigger vision of a larger organization But that's not going to be my big reorg. It's maybe going to be 10 Incremental steps towards that larger vision because that really brings people along the way And I think like a great skill to have is to be Proactive with with decisions and like let people know that things will change and ask for their input And let them know that you're thinking about Maybe doing this change in the future and bring people on board with your thoughts because then eventually when the decision comes Or the change happens people already have heard about it and they kind of familiar with the thoughts Maybe takes some decisions slightly longer time to take but overall I think the transition is much smoother That you do the kind of change management gradually up until you make the change rather than making the change in them manage People's expectations afterwards It sounds like as a leader and as a company you really value your your teammate's sense of security It's and it's one is one thing that a lot of companies say that they really value feedback from everyone and that everyone's opinion Is welcome, but it's another thing to make sure that people Really feel that they really feel like their opinions are welcome Is that something that you actively have to work on at Mentimeter or does everyone already know that their opinions are valued? You definitely need to work on it and I don't think there is a place where everyone automatically just Assumes that your opinions are valued just because that happens to be one of the five core values on your career side I think it's something you have to work with every day because after all we all want to have as high Psychological safety as possible because that's we know that theory tells us that that's where the greatest innovation and the greatest product happen And I think to us it's maybe Easier to talk about because a lot about what our product is about is also Making people feel included and make that feel heard because you can always contribute with your voice in a meeting through Mentimeter and if you have like a Question and everyone gets to vote on something. Everyone has an equal voice through their phone in the poll Which is also a great way of leveling the playfield because it's not the loudest voice in the room That is typically heard but everyone's opinion counts equally much and you don't have the phenomenon where the where the Maybe most dominant person in the room expresses their opinion first and then everyone kind of quietly agrees Maybe someone had much better opinion. That's a great way to harness that anonymously through Mentimeter for example It's so great that one of the core values of your organization is one of the like core features of your products Which is collaboration. That's really nice Exactly, so we often say that our organization and our product and our values. It's the same thing But we believe in this so strongly as a way of running companies that we actually build the product that helps Other companies do the same. So yeah, I really believe in it for sure The best tool to build is the one that you need every time Yeah, which makes it easier for other people to be those kind of inclusive and listening Engaging leaders, especially now in rhythm of times definitely something that the world needs more of one of the one of the big topics of conversation that we're seeing in terms of like Professional development and like what personal growth in terms of professional development is doing things that don't necessarily scale Not as a business, but as a as an individual. Is there anything you intentionally keep yourself doing even if it doesn't scale? Yeah, a lot I think So like being in hyper growth it means that a lot of things will change and like I Think we've sometimes been a little bit slow with more senior hiring We we tend to hire someone more junior people that we really really strongly believe in and then we like Nurture them and see them grow But one should not underestimate like the importance of actual experience At least in the areas of hyper growth and how to set up autonomous teams that scale etc I think If I could change something that would maybe be bringing in more experienced people more Early on because I notice myself doing a lot of the things that that don't scale now that were like exponentially Larger than when we started out And obviously Mentimeter is in your in your tech stack of the things that you use on a day-to-day basis What are the tools are you finding particularly helpful at the moment? I Miro, of course, I love everything. They're doing especially a huge fan of their successful like viral business model Which I think a lot of companies in remote work has noticed they've fallen to like the the myro conversion trap, which I think is brilliant So I really like what they're doing We've been in contact about doing something together. Maybe so let's see what happens there. There's nothing tangible yet Figma, of course, I love how quick the designers can make Clickable prototypes in Figma that we can try out I still make my own clickable prototypes in PowerPoint still because that's how I was trained as a management consultant, but Figma really helps and Trello, I Think Trello has a really great power-up model where you can add features along the way So we currently use Trello with all power-ups. They are And that keeps us from moving to Jira for example, so I think Trello really works with the kind of We want to be a platform and have an app store model. I think they've achieved in a way that works for us For example, I don't think a lot of people use plugins to Google Slides, for example But there's an app store for that, but the Trello one is really successful And what advice would you give your younger self as you were progressing in your career? Just like Study if you want to move into product management like study companies you think have done an exciting journey like Maybe backtrack Trello, for example at what point in their growth Story did they add a power-up concept and how did that evolve over time or what has that meant for them? And and try to understand why you like what companies do and also the opposite try to study Like products you may be liked before but then somehow degraded and what decisions did they take along the world that the kind of Failed or weren't the right ones because it's very easy to say like I'm a fan of Apple products They're awesome But everyone likes Apple products like Try to find something else and try something you don't like and if you can explain why you don't like it I think that's very valuable Input to have so like the product strategy side to me is always Interesting to hear people talk about and as long I'm convinced as long as you have a like a nose for Product strategy and you're a general people person. I think you can be an excellent product manager Mm-hmm. And what advice would you give to people who maybe Worry that they don't have the right background like we mentioned experience Where there are not not an overwhelming amount But there are a lot of companies who only want people with experience and it's that yeah an egg problem How do you get experience if you don't if you can't get them? What advice would you give to people who are have almost got like a clean slate? They've never done anything with that similar product before. How would you suggest that they get started? I? Think you can always like gather experience in some way It doesn't have to be strictly professional experience that you have worked as a product manager before I think you can still like acquire a lot of interesting product management skills and insights on your free time As we talked about previously like study companies you like and study companies You don't like and try to figure out why because if you're applying for example to to a role Which you don't have experience for if you add maybe in your resume or if you reach out to LinkedIn to to someone In a hiring position at those teams Add some add some text to it like you give your own thoughts How would you take like how would you? Develop that product if you were a product manager or have you observed like yeah observed a an opportunity? in a direction of that product could be growing or something like that you can always Try to impress people with hypothetical insights, right? And those insights can be based on either actual experience or just you being a product interested person regardless of what actual work experience you have Absolutely, so I've got just one more question for you. I just want to say thank you so much for joining us It's been absolutely pleasure having you here So my final question is There's a lot of different components to working in products You've got obviously your your meeting with your teams your when you're in a leadership position you're you're working on Growing your your teammates and then you've also got to do some of your own individual work But what's your favorite bit about being a product manager? What's what's the part of your day where you really think yes? This is what I love doing collaboratively wireframing on a whiteboard being in like solution and exploration mode and Try to come up with cool ideas and then shoot them down and then sketch on something new and you see something like There's potential here. There's something cool coming out of this and to me. I still have Had to find a tool remote that can facilitate facilitate that kind of joint Creativity that can happen in a room with a whiteboard Myro is great in a lot of ways, but there's something magical about like actually being there With the pen in your hand and being a bunch of people taking turns sketching solutions as I Love that and some of the some of the best mentor me your solutions have come out of those joint Meetings where you just get to be super creative. I wonder if maybe we'll end up in like in a few years time We'll end up in like VR rooms and there's like a VR whiteboard in front of us And we're all writing on this VR whiteboard together. That would be maybe yeah, maybe maybe VR for everyone With full duplex sound where you can be like as loud or quite as you work Want to and like everyone speaking over each other just as happened as it happens like in the physical room Maybe then we've nailed the remote creativity. Yeah, maybe I haven't thought about VR before But maybe that's the solution for it because I feel there's something I really miss now that everything's remote I think the things like Christmas parties over VR that would be that would be hysterical. I'd be really Uh, that's all the time that we have unfortunately again Thank you so much for joining us and thank you everyone for watching. I hope you've got some really cool insights from that Keep an eye on men to meter. I think they've got some really cool things coming up in the future. Bye Bye