We are recording. Okay, welcome everybody. I'm gonna call this meeting of CRC to order. The President Grissomar has designated me to chair the meeting until you elect a chair. So I'm gonna get us started. First, I'm gonna say pursuant to state law that suspended provisions of the open meeting law were allowed to hold this meeting virtually. I'll go around and check that everyone can hear and be heard and then we'll get started. Mandy. Present. Jennifer. Present. Afrika, okay. Present. Pam. Present. Pat. Present. And Dave, you're here with us. Thanks for being here. Thank you, Tina. All right, our first order of business is electing a chair. So we're gonna do this similar to the way we did the election of the president. I'll open the floor for nominations. Nominees will be able to accept their nomination or not. If there are no further nominations, then I'll take a comment, a short comment from the nominees speaking to their nomination and then comments from other committee members and then we'll move to a vote. So we're open for nominations. I nominate, whoop. No, Pat, you go. I would like to nominate Pam Rooney for chair. Pam, do you accept the nomination? Yeah, thank you. Are there any further nominations? Seeing none, I'm going to look for a motion. Unless there are further comments. Was Pat gonna do this? No, no, go Jen. Okay, to call me. Did you wanna make a comment? Are you speaking to me or to Jen? Jennifer, did you wanna make a comment? No, I was gonna make a motion. Okay, are there any comments? Seeing none, Jennifer, please go ahead. I move to elect Pam Rooney, Pam Rooney as chair of CRC for this. I'll back here. And I don't know how to raise my hand. So I don't have anything to say other than I'm gonna shout out when I wanna say something, I guess. That works. Fricka, did you have a comment? Okay. I was testing my raising hand function. Okay, great. It works. Okay, so we'll move to the vote. Pat? Aye. Fricka? Aye. Pam? Aye. Jennifer? Aye. And Mandy? Aye. It's unanimous, congratulations, Pam. Thank you. I'm gonna hand things over to you for the election of the vice chair. All right. And I wanna first just simply say thanks to Mandy, both for her leadership and for her help in transition of knowledge and also just being so organized. It's a really hard act to follow, but you've laid out a really good structure for the organization and for the information. And I know if I have questions, I can call you. So thank you. I would like to have folks nominate any nominations for vice chair. Mandy? I have no idea whether she'll accept but I nominate Pat. Why? I couldn't hear her answer. If there are, is there anybody else, I'm not sure I'm gonna accept it, maybe. Is there anybody else to be nominated? Hello? I'm not singing here. I don't hear anyone. All right. Jennifer, I'm gonna come after you. Yes, I'll accept. I'm crazy as I am. Any other nominations? We'll get to know each other, but... Any other nominations? Rebecca. I see no other hand. So we'll, I'm looking for... Pat, do you wanna say anything? Just that you're reluctant? No. I don't wanna say anything. Would survive. I was not... Would you say that again? Did we lose Pat? I wasn't, I had no idea. What? No, I thought we lost you. Okay. Okay, I'm just gonna be quiet because it's hard for me to figure out what's going on. But go ahead, keep going. Are there any other nominations? You can self-nominate. Jennifer, would you be interested in running as vice chair? So I think Pat would be a terrific vice chair. I don't know if this is kosher, but Pat, I'm happy to, when things get assigned to you, work with you on that. Pat and I, Pat, chair at GOL. How about, yeah. I tried to be helpful. So if... How about you take it on? Take on the co-chair. I mean, the vice chair, whatever it's called. I'm happy not to be involved in that. But I will be if nobody else, but so Jen, I'd rather you actually do it. Okay. I mean, I'm not... If somebody else wants to do it, I'm not seeking it out, but I will do it if nobody wants to do it. Or if nobody has it, whatever. I feel like I want to be a helpful counselor, but I'm not actually seeking it out. Mandy? I'll try a couple of different nominations here and we'll see who accepts. I've got another thing. First, Freca Ete. Freca, do you accept? Excuse me. Thank you very much, Mandy. I don't accept the ownership that I will nominate Jennifer Taub. Jennifer, do you accept? I accept, but again, if anybody else, Pat? No. That's not how it works. I withdraw my nomination that I had no idea was going to happen. I withdraw. Let's do Jen. So, Athena, just for the record here, do we go around and people say the name of the person they would like? And that accounts for the vote or do we have to say all those in favor of so-and-so and you count two votes or three votes or whatever? Seeing as there was only one, only one nominee for the chair, I skipped the everybody say who they want and just moved right to a motion. So it's up to you. I think that saved a minute or two if you wanna just seek a motion. We have a motion on the floor to nominate. There's not a motion yet, but you can seek a motion. I make a motion to nominate Jennifer Taub as vice chair. Is there a second? Second. Let's go around. Mandy Jo. Aye. Second. Aye. Pat D'Angelo. Aye. Jennifer Taub. Reluctant, aye, but yes. And Pam Rooney, yeah. It is unanimous. Thank you. That is the first order of business. Second order of business is setting a regular meeting time for the CRC. I'm gonna look directly at Freke and say, what does your schedule typically look like? We, the others members of this committee have been or made themselves available this time of day. On Thursdays, typically does that work for you or is there a better time that would work for you? And we can adjust for sure. In terms of, thanks for accommodating me. In terms of time, Tuesdays and Thursdays work, I think Tuesdays actually work better but it would have to be a bit later. So for example, I am working on campus right now. I am in the office and I'd prefer to be somewhere else in having this kind of meeting. So. What time is more appropriate for you? I bill would be 530 upwards. So that would put a meeting on roughly 530 to 730, which is immediately, directly over most people's dinner hours. What do folks think about that? And I, that's difficult for me. I could do 630 to 830 or seven to nine. Pat. Yeah. I'm in the studio till 430 and I need time after that. So six, I guess six, I guess I could do six to eight also. But I can, Tuesdays, okay. Okay. Jennifer, you have your hand up. Yeah, Tuesdays is actually better for me because of TSOs meeting at Thursdays right after CRC. I'd rather meet on Tuesdays also. I think maybe 630 would be better, 630 or seven for the public. So it's after dinner. Quickly, I'm sorry to interject. The other committees meeting times will also likely change because of new members. So I don't think TSO will stay Thursdays, but I think it will likely be GOL and CRC that are Tuesdays and Thursdays in the evening. So I think if you get in and do Tuesday, then GOL will likely pick Thursday or vice versa. And the other concern with Thursdays any earlier is ZBA meetings. So if there are staff who you expect to be at CRC meetings who will also be at ZBA meetings, then because CRC had been meeting earlier, they were able to attend CRC before moving to ZBA. So if you meet right during ZBA meetings, we might not be able to expect staff at the same time or we'll have to alternate weeks with ZBA. Thank you. Okay. Actually, later is better. So I was sleeping for joy, seeing that we were thinking about seven, that 630, that works way better for me. Thank you. 630 works. 630 on Tuesday. On Tuesday, yeah. Mandy, Joe? 630 on Tuesday would be fine with me. Okay. I'm hearing consensus that- Actually- Oops, go ahead. Let me ask Athena, you just polled for finance for Tuesdays. I think your latest poll time was two? Do you expect that polling to go any later than two? Okay. I just wanted to make sure if she pushes that later that it wouldn't run into a 630 on Tuesday, but 630 on Tuesdays is fine if finance is not polling later than 2 p.m. And if I can jump in again, Fricka, just to let you know, it looks like if CRC is Tuesday at 630, then GOI will likely be Thursday evening, maybe around the same time. I sent down a poll for GOI. Just letting you know. Jennifer? Yeah, I was just wondering if, so could they be every other week? So I don't know if that's preferable. If CRC meets it Tuesday one week, then GOI wouldn't be till Thursday the next week, if that's what people prefer. And then you're not meeting old nights. You know, we're not having, I think it would be hard if there was a council meeting and then CRC and if the same members are on GOL, that's three meetings at night a week. Well, Fricka and I are both on GOL and CRC. So I do not wish to do a four or five hour meeting. I can't do that. So I quit on Tuesday. That just, without a break, I can't do that just physically. No, we wouldn't do CRC and GOL back to back. Oh, so like if CRC were on the 16th day, then GOL would be on the 23rd, something like that. I don't know that GOL is gonna pick Tuesday rather than Thursday, but what I can try and do when I'm working with chairs to set the calendars is do a council meeting Monday, GOL Thursday, and then the next week, CRC Tuesday, so that you don't have council meeting late Monday, CRC later in the evening, Tuesday, and GOL, so I can try and break things up a little bit. But like I said, I need to wait and see what GOL decides for their schedule and the other committees and then I'll work with the chairs to set the calendars for each committee. But anticipating that, that's what it will likely be. I can space things out, so it's not all in one week. And there may be- That would be helpful, thank you. Do we need a motion to lock this in or can we just come to consensus? Sounds like there's consensus, but- Right, so I am hearing that Tuesdays work well for everybody still. It means that I don't, we're not saying the semester, but I'm getting too busy to sing anyway. So Tuesdays it will be and I'm, it sounds like 630 is a reasonable time. So it doesn't go too late. Any objection? Yeah, and in terms of people, I'm sorry. I can't see anything, so in terms of 630, if we do public comment, say at seven, then it's easier for people who may be having dinner so that we don't start with public comment. Does that make sense? I don't know. Yep, we can feel that out. Yeah, that makes sense. And I think people are generally used to attending meetings in the evening rather than during the day. Okay, so Tuesdays at 630, 630 to 830, and we will rely on Athena to try to set up the initial schedule anyway to try to bring some balance in the kinds of meetings each week between JOEL, CRC and council. Athena. Mandy, please let Mandy go ahead. Go ahead, Mandy. I was just gonna say, should we set at least our next one without knowing the schedule? She beat me to the punch. Like, are we gonna, there's a council meeting the 22nd, right? But not one the 29th, if we don't wanna do it right after a council meeting, January happens to have five Tuesdays. Maybe we'd be looking at the 16th, the 23rd or the 30th and the 16th we actually can't do. Because of meeting those times. So the 23rd or the 30th, so I think it would depend on whether people wanna be right after this council meeting or the week there isn't one. If we went to the 30th, which is the last Tuesday of January, and then to the 13th, we will probably bump into problems on the 27th of February, which follows a council meeting, but then we're okay the March 12th and March 26th. So I'm guessing that because the council schedule alternates so much, that we should probably try to be consistent in our, essentially every other way. Yeah. I would like to start on the 23rd. I have a workshop I'm attending on the 16th from six to eight. What about the 30th? I can do the 30th, the 23rd or the 30th. I wonder if we just wanna set the next one and then we'll know when all the other committees are meeting and if Athena's willing to sort of try and figure out reasonable schedules amongst the four committees based on what times they pick, it might be good to for now go to the, pick either the 23rd or 30th and then by then all the other three committees will have met and Athena might have a better idea of whether we aim for one and three or two and four or a flat every other or something. It might end up meaning we have one, January to February is two weeks in a row or something. I think I would weigh in on the 30th because we haven't gotten to the next agenda or the future items, but I know that there is some interest in having a conversation with landlords and managers and that might give some time for- Another one, we've already had one. I understand. We've been asked to have another one before we actually vote. Does anyone have an objection to the 30th is the first meeting? I think the 30th makes sense.  Yeah, I mean, the 30th is good for me. I'm wondering with ZBA, what is, if I could just be reminded of our timing. ZBA is Thursdays. Right, no, but when is that person? Is he already off? The vacancy's already open. Yeah. So that will be one of our first items. Don't push that off a little longer. Okay, anybody object to the 30th for next meeting? Okay. So, Alina, if we could set that up for the 30th and then it looks like if we could pencil in the 13th of February, that too might be nice just in case we wanna set up precedent, we could pencil it in before anybody else gets it. I'll have a draft schedule of meeting dates for you on the 30th. Terrific, thank you so much. That'd be very helpful. I won't be attending meetings probably until May. So I'll work with Dave or another staff member to make sure you get your meetings kicked off and until then. Great, thank you very much. I have on the agenda, on the draft agenda that was put together very nicely by the former chair for this purpose working with Athena. Item number four is discussion items. Item number five is general public comment. I think I would like to go to public comment first because there are three attendees in the audience and sort of take care of that first before we discuss next items and et cetera. So I am going to reach out to the audience. Actually, Pat DeAngeles is one of the audience members. So, sorry, I loved you with that. If there is anyone in the audience who would like to make a public comment on matters within the jurisdiction of the CRC, you're welcome to express your views for the three minutes. We look forward to hearing from you. Any hands in the audience? I don't see hands being raised. I'm guessing that there are no public comments. So we will go to the next item, which is discussion items. And in my mind, that sort of is in the same ballpark as next agenda item. We have no minute. We have, do we have any announcement? So now we do come to next agenda preview. And as we talked about at the end of last term, we have still a number of big items on the plate. We have rental registration, rental regulations, fee structures, solar by-law came to us at the very end of last year. And first and foremost, ZBA appointments. Any thoughts, comments about ZBA? We have the other items. The opportunity which we should review at the next meeting is just conform that the ZBA interview questions are appropriate still, that we adopt or we adopt selection criteria and also identify the full of candidates. Andy? So yeah, I think we need to have the ZBA openings on the next agenda to make recommendations. And I would suggest we put the rental registration, by-law, regulations, fee structure on the next agenda, either as a landlord discussion, if you as chair decide that's the way to go or as a continuing review of the package. Maybe it could be a combination of conversation and review package depending on how long the conversation goes. Any other, any other, let me see if I have any other notes on, I think one of the things that might be helpful for, okay, ETA would be sort of the summary of those elements, those items that are on our site with the CRC right now. And I'd be happy to address the ZBA topic if someone else would like to talk about rental registration and the work that's going on there. This committee is the group that interviews, select or makes recommendations to the council on people to fill positions on the ZBA, the zoning board of appeals and the planning board. And right now we have a number of vacancies on ZBA and they look to us, they are dependent on us for filling those positions so that they can do their work efficiently. Right now there are, there is one full member they can see and one associate members they can see. By next June, all of the one year appointments will end and need to be replaced or refilled and one full member will need to be replaced or refilled. So there's a lot of potential turnover on that board. And again, they are reliant on us to get our work done so that they have a full complement of staff or members. The same goes with planning board but that's not quite as urgent because there are no vacancies right now on the planning board. There are some people that come off their end of their time at the end of our fiscal year and we will need to have some new people in place for next fiscal year. Jennifer. I just wanted to add that somebody of a member of the ZBA had to withdraw and that's why we have this urgency sort of midterm. Yes, it's the terms end. They start with the fiscal year, correct? But somebody had to leave at the end of last year and that's why we have the vacancy now. Everybody wanna give an overview of rental registration? You want me to? So rental registration has been, oh gosh, almost two years now. So Ate, you're the new member of this committee. The other four of us are actually continuing on and as a five member committee, we were referred in early 2022 to basically look at and potentially redraft the rental registration permitting bylaw. And in August of 2023, the CRC voted a recommendation to the council on a bylaw. The council took it up and referred portions of that to finance and to GOL, different portions. There's three segments of it right now. There's a bylaw, there's now regulations and there's fees to charge for the permits. And in August, the fees were referred to finance and the bylaw and regulations were referred to GOL for their review for clarity, consistency and actionability. GOL made its return in hell no October to the council after review with a vote. Finance sent stuff back to CRC. CRC sent stuff back to finance, finance finished and sent stuff to the council in late November. The council had its first review reading of the bylaw and the package in early December, late November, something like that. The council received a lot of comments from the Amherst Landlords Association and the individual landlords in Amherst with concerns about the bylaw. And in December, the council referred back to CRC the whole package to look at and councilor submitted comments on that package. And in December, CRC had one review, one meeting left when that referral came through and started that review of the councilor comments and the landlord association's comments. And so we're at the end of a two year process working through those comments and any changes desired or requested by those comments and discussing all of that. We have had extensive help from our inspection services department, Rob Mora, who will probably be at future meetings when the item's back on the agenda. That's a brief, brief overview of where it is, I would say. Thank you. I appreciate you volunteering to do that. So it's been a long process. It was a bylaw upgrade that was sponsored by four different counselors. So there was a lot of interest and support for upgrading the current permitting process and the current permitting system. So we are refining it, we are getting feedback and we have been asked for one more opportunity from the landlord's land owners association to consider their thoughts in the process. And sounds like that may be something that we would schedule for the 30th as one opportunity for a conversation or discussion, perhaps on some of the last items that seem to be sticking points for them. Jennifer. Yeah, and I just a quick historical overview for Freke is in 2013, Amherst, when we had town meeting passed the first residential rental property bylaw. So that was when we first began having a system of having to obtain rental permits to rent property. So after 10 years, we was getting to be 10 years in 2022, we thought it was a good time to look at what was working and what maybe needed to be strengthened. So that's how it came about. Freke, any questions at the, excuse me. So, excuse me. Thank you, Mandy and for everyone for the overview. I have tons of questions, but none that I could raise now, but what you've said will be helpful in rereading what I'd read because, for example, Mandy had mentioned that with three sections. And so I noticed that in the packet and I was wondering where that came from. So now that makes more sense for me. And in the packet are multiple copies of all of the items. So if you, in the SharePoint you have access, I think now to the SharePoint folder for CRC and within that, and for the meeting today, in fact, there's something like there must be more than 20 items. Many of them are duplicative. Some are just a Word document and then the other being a PDF, but it does generally lump them into the general bylaw, the regulations, the chart for fee schedules, fee schedule recommendations. So if you have any questions, let me know or let Mandy know that she was the one that sort of populated that folder. Please just ask. And if you're trying to figure out what is the most recent or any of that, just ask. But this might be good because it'll give you another week or so to come up to speed on that. Jennifer. No, we did look at what is done in other towns, particularly university towns in Massachusetts and in other states. And when it came to like the fee structure, there seemed to be as well, and inspections, there seemed to be as many ways as of deciding how you were gonna do the fee structure, how frequently you were gonna have inspections, how many units in a larger building you might inspect. We saw that for as many towns as have rental permitting, there's as many different ways of structuring, of having the fee structure in the inspections. And we did, it was then referred to finance to actually suggest the act, the fees. We gave, recommended what we thought structures that might work and then we looked to finance to actually come up with the amount. So none of that is kind of, we're still working on that, but just to give you kind of a context for how we came up with all this that we did. And if, I don't know if it's helpful, we could go back and look at some of the other, I think we may have in the file some of the other towns that we referred to or some of the research, if that's helpful for you to look at as well. The other item that is in the packet for, that was in our packet today includes all of the solar bylaw information that has been passed to us. And again, that was passed to referred to CRC at the very end of the past December. And I'm thinking that that's not gonna be on the agenda for the 30th. It's another whole topic. And I think one of the first things that we will wanna do is to just talk about how to structure the public input and the feedback from town staff on how to start getting our heads around and understanding it. Any other, any other, Jennifer? You're muted. Muted. I'm sorry. The solar bylaws due to all of us, we haven't looked at that before. And I need a crash course. Any other- I can send out some readings. Go ahead Pat. I can send this Pat, thank you, I'm sorry. I can send out some readings around from state reports and stuff in state decisions about solar bylaws and stuff. So we have some kind of background. I can get that over the next couple of days and out to people. Thank you. Great. And if they're, I'm looking to Manny Jo, if Pat can send us all of that background information, it might also at some point be added to a packet as information perhaps. Yeah. You can add it to a packet if you'd like. Probably the first one when solar, when you finally put solar on the agenda. Yeah. Yeah, some of the reading is dense. So it'll take some time to work on. Right. Thank you. That would be very helpful. Any other future agenda items that at least want to get brought up? I just want to mention the only other carryover item we haven't mentioned is the nuisance house bylaw, which is now called the nuisance property bylaw. It was also referred, I don't know, like originally referred, what's the date? A long time ago, right? June of 2022. And CRC has been working on drafts of that and continues that conversation. Kind of related to rental registration, but not totally related to rental registration. But the draft is in process still. Thank you. Yeah. I always think of it as part of that package, but it's not really good. Good. I think we have completed our short meeting and have established a meeting date. We have a chair, a vice chair and it's great to see everybody back. And we have a lot of work. We have a lot of work this coming year. Yeah. Thanks, everybody. If nobody, any, there are no items in case it was in 48 hours. So I'm going to adjourn the meeting at 516. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, everybody. Bye-bye.


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Did you say to yourself, oh, fate makes such strange jokes? Now, these things happen. I guess I don't question any longer. Well, we better get started. You ride ahead. No shackles, no handcuffs, or chains. No need. There's nothing but miles of desert in every direction. You should try to make a run for it. I'd have to call for you to halt. You need to keep going, Maggie. I'd have to shoot to kill. I see. Darling, I believe you're serious. Don't try me. Come on, let's go. More coffee? Yes. There you are. Thank you. That was a rough ride. I'm sorry, Maggie, I was driving too hard. I don't know what I was trying to prove. You were acting like a schoolboy, but I understood. You did? Of course, darling. All of a sudden, you were remembering a long time ago, and how shall we say it? You looked around for Magda. Magda was not there. I guess you're right. I was quite a blow to my male ego. Of course it was. See, you should be grateful to me. I did you a service to go away from you. Well, now, if you have finished with your coffee, I'll wash up the pans. Yeah, I better gather up some more firewood. You keep looking out that way. What do you expect to see? This close to the border it pays to keep watch. Some of the Mexicans who live on the line get drunk on Miss Skull and wander over this way looking for trouble. They'd knife us for the horses. This close to the border? Just a long walk that way. But don't get any idea. I know. You would have to call for me to halt, and if I kept going, you would have to shoot to kill. Why? Why don't you let me go? Because I told Captain Jeffers I'd see that you got to Fort Gilman.  If I can get across the border, there is someone who... Well, I will be taken care of. I can make a new start. Maggie. Maggie, I'm going to see that you get to Fort Gilman. Then my job is done. After that, if you want, I'll buy you the best lawyers you can find in the country to help you get a new start. They will have to be awfully good, those lawyers. Because I am guilty. Oh, yes? Yes, I killed a man. His name was Stephen, and he was rotten. And he deserved killing. I see. He killed me, and I don't want to hang for killing Stephen. He was bad. Maggie, you... Just let me take one of the horses while you look the other way. You can explain somehow. I can't do that. Why not? It won't matter to anyone, except that Magda will have a chance to live. Maggie. Paladin, please. Maggie, it's no use. Oh, I give up. Let's say I make a good try, darling. Yes, let's leave it at that. Okay, wait a minute. Listen. The horses, there's somebody out there. Paladin, you stay back. Paladin, behind you. Huh? Thank you for the horses, sir. Go on. Get her up, or you're gone. This knife is at your throat. You see? Oh, no, you... Paladin! The rifle, by the saddlebag. Get the rifle, Maggie. He hurt you with that knife, didn't he? Is it very bad? I'm... I'm afraid it is, Maggie. Mexican. He's dead. Good girl, yes. Oh, they won't hang me for killing him. He was just a poor drunk Mexican. And they... Did they get away with our horses? Yes. Oh, Maggie. I can't seem to move. I guess you'll have... Help me? You cannot move. No, help me. Maggie. Paladin, I don't like what I must do. But I want another chance. And I'm going to take it. What are you talking about, Maggie? I decided I'm going for a long walk to the border. I see. I'm so very sorry, darling. But you understand how it is with Magda? Of course you do. Yes. Of course I do. If Dandruff dulls your hair, leaves your scalp itchy, please listen. You can get rid of annoying Dandruff so fast today, no one should suffer any longer. With Fitch Dandruff Remover Shampoo, unsightly Dandruff's gone in three minutes. It's the quickest, easiest of all leading shampoos. Besides that, using Fitch regularly is guaranteed to keep embarrassing Dandruff away. Simply apply in the unique Fitch manner. Before you wet hair, rub in one minute. 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Nothing seemed to matter. I just knew that I was awfully tired. Baladin? Look who's here. Why'd you come back? You won't believe me. Tell me. Well, maybe out there somewhere between here and the border, I said to myself, Magda, could it be that Baladin's way is right? Could it be that there are rules to live by? Maybe I said that to myself. Maybe you did. You see, always I have made my own rules. Sometimes you have to. I've just made one. The throat, as pretty as yours, must not have a rope around it. We won't talk about that now. That Mexican's knife was as poisonous as a rattlesnake. The fever is catching up with me. I've got to talk while I can make some kind of sense. No, no, no. First I must build a fire to have hot water to wash your wound. No, no, wait. When Jeffers finds out we didn't make Fort Gilman. He'll send out a search party now. Listen to me, Maggie. Don't let them find you here. Take that long walk to the border. Give yourself that new start. Baladin, when the time comes, we will work out things for Magda. But right now we must take care of you. Maggie, promise me. We'll see. Maggie. Don't worry, darling. Things always work out for Magda. You know that.  Looks like he's ready to join the fun again. Hello, Sam. I guess this is where I say, where am I? You're in Company D's in Firmary and you've been here for three weeks. Mighty sick man. I don't seem to remember. No, you were unconscious when we brought you in. I tell you what, we found you stressed out there at that waterhole. I thought you were a goner. Yeah? Didn't help, I didn't know.  Hey, how'd you make out with the Garcia brothers? We, uh, we don't talk about that around the post. You mean you? Yeah. Humiliating, ain't it? Now, I just suppose in Company D, he'd lost that woman present her too. You mean you didn't? Well, I know. I mean, she was there when you found me? Sure. Let me tell you, pal.  Taking care of you the way she did out there. Mighty fine little woman. 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Thanks for checking out my first unboxing video normally my channel. I just do craft beer reviews and I'm gonna switch it up a little bit because this is something. I'm also interested Want to see if there's any other interest out there for me doing these types of things? I just decided to start getting as you see horror block and I will also be getting one other Subscription box soon called the BAM box which I hear is pretty good But these videos are a lot of fun Just unboxing things this one is not the normal horror block This is actually a precursor to it which is called a grab block Which is kind of where it has items from past subscription boxes for whatever you got in this case horror block And so you can see what you're gonna be getting so this isn't my first like normal one This is just the grab block which is less expensive than the typical now Typical horror block without shipping and handling is like 20 bucks this grab block is just like 10 bucks So I figured at 10 bucks, you know, let's just give it a shot so I Then the day it was supposed to show up started thinking oh wait are these grab blocks? Just the things that they couldn't get rid of the things that kind of suck And so I started thinking about that and I was just like I don't know now full disclosure. I did Already open this up because I didn't know if I was gonna do a video or not. So my reaction won't be Normally what it would be if I you know was opening it for for the first time But all the other videos from here on out will be me reacting for the first time opening it up for a first time So let's go over this see how it goes and you can you know leave some comments and stuff And let me know how it is. You can also email me my emails brutal battle podcast at gmail.com and brutal spelled BRWTAL so anyway, let's open this up, and I'll show you what's in there Put it over to the side a little bit so first thing we have in here is a Horror block exclusive, and it's a Finger it's a severed zombie finger, and it's a I mean it's for it's a wine stopper to be honest I think it looks cool. I think it's interesting. I don't know if this is Let me look at it Is it it's plastic so so it's not like high-end or anything like that I'm taking it. There's no cork at the bottom. It's just plastic. That's big enough to fit in there But it's plastic. I mean it looks cool it's You know something to put in maybe an empty bottle of wine. I wouldn't actually use this for like Trying to keep bottles of wine that you didn't finish for that.  I kind of like it And my wife likes it. She thinks it's kind of fun. So that's that's good Let me just put this to the side the finger the next thing is a Springs for the Twilight Zone.  I haven't seen much Twilight Zone So I don't but I just think it's cheap and kind of dumb and generic looking Throwaway item, so but it is Twilight Zone. It says so on the box. So whatever Put this over here on display for all you whatever not closing all the way So there's the springs.  Okay. It is just a sever severed doll's head. It has No other function. It does nothing else except be a creepy looking severed baby's head that looks like it's staring Past your soul into your soul past your soul It's bad. Who wants this thing? Actually, I'm not even gonna take it out of the box because it's pointless, but Why why would you give anyone this? I'd rather actually just have one less item in the box to be honest Actually the same thing with the springs.  Why would you put that in there? Anyway? We have a walking dead Mini building set so it looks like actually what it is is there's three different variations of this It's like a build your own little character thing. I actually full disclosure don't walk watch the walking dead I'm sorry. I know a lot of people probably pretty appalled right now being someone who is in the horror quite a bit I watched the first season and then Missed the finale when it was on TV and then I went back to watch it on demand And it just so happened to not be available when I got back to it And then I just didn't pick it back up plus I've read some of the comics a bunch of the comics And I was just like I already know what walking does I will go to it one day though check it out So because I've heard so many great things and people are genuinely appalled when I tell them I'm a horror fan. I haven't seen it. Let's see what this is specifically I'm probably not gonna keep this because I'm not all that into the walking dead at the moment Or maybe I'll keep it for if I become More interested in it might give it to my sister though Cali because she's a big fan of the walking dead so Yeah, so it looks like what I got is like a Mercenary zombie it's just like all the parts as you can see and you just kind of like, you know, you put them together And it makes just like a little figure probably about like that big like not very big but Kind of interesting kind of neat and the mystery aspect of you don't know which one you're gonna get out of here is Really fun. I think so these kind of things are cool with me. I like it. I think it's cool. So just throw that there Then there's t-shirt. I love t-shirts, especially horror related t-shirts This one in particular. I'll make sure everyone can see it. Okay. It is let me get as close to you as possible Okay, so basically what this looks like I'll say off the bat. I like it. It's um, it looks like a bunch of characters From horror films and that's what I thought when I first unboxed it and then I looked at it a little bit harder And it looks like it's only from West Craven films. So I was like, oh, that's even better. That's way cooler because I'm assuming this was an homage to West Craven from when he passed away earlier this year All right P with West Craven. That was a huge loss for the horror community So really cool to see them do this because you know, it's paying homage to a great horror filmmaker So you see like Ghostface on there from Scream. You see, you know, Freddy Krueger from Nightmare on Elm Street. You're seeing The one of the inbred dudes from the original Hills have eyes. Sorry. I haven't actually seen it And I believe you're seeing the the main villain from the movie Shocker I don't know all of what these are two of the guys that don't really recognize But I'm assuming the coffin has to do with the film The Serpent and the rainbow that have Bill Pullman in it about You know food who's on B ism all that stuff, but this is a cool shirt This is a really cool shirt. This is probably the most exciting No, it's definitely the most exciting item in the box and I like that quite a bit so awesome And then the last like actual item that's in here your money goes toward is A magazine and it is Rue Morgue magazine. This is a April issue Full disclosure. I am a subscriber to Rue Morgue magazine. I've subscribed to it for about eight years now So obviously I'm a massive fan of this magazine I think it's awesome that they're putting it in the block, but this is what kind of kept me from Getting the block for quite some time now. I had interest in it But I was like there's Rue Morgue magazine in it and that's part of what you're paying for and I already get it What am I gonna do with a second one each month? but I can just give it to people because I like to share I figured out and You know spread the horror love. It's an amazing magazine In my opinion the best horror magazine out there anyone who reads like Fangoria if you haven't read this You need to read this because you'll upgrade Fangoria actually is not good at all compared to Rue Morgue.  That's cool. I like that And then there's something for a 10 $10 credit for shirt punch, which is there I'm gonna cover the code because I might use it, but if you can see it that way for shirt punch For a Instead of new card delivered monthly collect the set to receive $100 shirt punch gift card So that's cool, but this is a $10 credit, which I mean it's good to give credit like that I like it and then here's a promo for sling TV, which is just that it's a promo I mean, I can't fault them for putting it in because you know, I'm sure they're getting paid to put the ad in there That's fine. Whatever. I don't mind. I can just recycle it, which I will just recycle it So anyway, overall this box, you know, it's a grab grab block I would I'm gonna be more excited to see what my normal horror block has in it And like I said before it'll be first time I'm seeing it while I do this video But what do I like? I like the finger. I think it's fun. Not really It's not actually functional, but it's fun for decoration the springs terrible the baby head even more terrible Just like totally awful. They shouldn't put stuff like that in no one likes it. Okay the walking dead build Build a little dude Actually pretty cool.   Love it. Love it. Love it as far as the value overall though This was like $10 Rue Morgue magazine If I were to try and go buy it on the stand at Barnes & Noble near me It's $10 without tax. So it's gonna be over the price of the actual box So that's great the t-shirt. I can't tell you the last time I've purchased a t-shirt that wasn't $10 or more So that's basically the price of the block as well And then these things, you know, I'm assuming this little finger thing might be about Maybe as much as five bucks somewhere probably a little bit less The spring thing. I don't even know it's a zero value to me. Probably no one buys it It's definitely the same thing for the head This is probably worth negative money because they have to pay people to take it as my guess and then these little mini things they're probably like, you know dollar two dollars something like that, but When you think about it in that in that in those terms if you get one thing out of here That's kind of the value of either the magazine or the shirt then your money was Worth it. So it was worth it. It was cool. I just don't like that I got a few things that I won't do anything with but I'm very excited for my first actual horror block and I'm also excited for when I do a video for the BAM box and we'll see how that goes, but please give me some feedback on the videos You don't have necessarily for this one, but other ones you can but email me Brutal battle podcast at email.com or leave comments on the video and you can do that anyway, thanks everyone for checking this out and I'll just do the way I usually do it on my podcast my beer podcast I'll just say keep it brutal


Dear guests and colleagues, it's a great pleasure to welcome you to the eighth ECB conference on Central, Eastern and Southern Eastern European countries. There are many differences between the 18 economies in this region, but one thing they have in common is that they have all experienced real economic convergence towards the EU average since the 1990s. Over the last two decades, in particular, real GDP per capita growth, savaged 3.8% in the region compared with 1.4% in the European Union as a whole. But there has been a clear difference in the pace of convergence. Countries that have joined the EU, and which are hereafter referred to as the central and eastern European economies, reached GDP per capita levels of 70% of the EU average. Within this group, the countries that have joined the Euro area have grown even faster, reaching almost 80% of the EU average. In contrast, catching up has been markedly slower in the economies outside the EU, with income levels below 40% of the average of the 28 members of the European Union. And this is, of course, also because of the historical events that have characterized some of these countries. EU and Euro area membership acted as a catalyst for convergence, creating the institutional and economic conditions for the CE economies to adopt highly effective growth strategies. Their faster convergence shows that with high-quality institutions in place, the EU single market can be a powerful engine of growth, allowing not only the poorer countries to catch up, but also the richer countries to benefit from a larger market and opportunities. However, in order to maintain convergence and reap lasting benefits from the single market and Euro area membership, efforts to ensure institutional quality and good governance have become all the more important, given the headwinds facing CE economies. How has the EU membership created the preconditions for stronger growth? One of the most powerful mechanisms has been its role in promoting the deep integration of CE countries into European value chains. This has happened in two ways, two main ways. First, accession to the single market led to the removal of trade barriers and the adoption of EU-wide standards, which has considerably reduced the cost of doing business across countries. Firms have unbounded their production networks and relocated production and assembly in line with their relatively lower cost of production. As a result, trade flows of intermediate inputs increased almost threefold from 1990 to 2015. Supply chain linkages intensified at a faster pace and were more resilient during the crisis compared with supply chain linkages with countries outside the single market. Second, the adoption of the what's called AQUI communautaire led to a more predictable legal environment and high quality regulatory framework, which have increased investors' confidence and contributed to a rapid flow of foreign investment and technology. The inflows of foreign direct investment in the region amounted to around six percent of GDP in the pre-crisis years compared with only 3.4 in the EU as a whole. Countries that achieved a high level of institutional quality and governance and have been able to adopt the single currency further benefited from the reduction of trade costs. Their participation in value chains has been consistently higher than that of other EU countries that made most progress in catching up with the average level of GDP per capita in the EU. But more importantly, the single currency's main benefit has been to provide stability in the integration process. It has ensured that a critical mass of countries participating in the single market was insulated from exchange rate volatility during times of economic stress. By preventing competitive devaluations between countries within the bloc, the single currency has guaranteed the continued openness of the single market and strengthened the incentives for firms to increase their competitiveness through productivity gains. All economies have gained from increased trade. Since 1990s, intra-EU trade has risen in real terms even as emerging economies entered the global market. Trade has in turn supported productivity growth. CEE countries in particular have been able to accelerate the process of technology absorption from firms at the productivity frontier, which has proved to be a key ingredient in the process of convergence. ECB research shows that technology transfers have contributed to strong productivity spillovers within European value chains. A 10% increase in total factor productivity growth of Western EU firms at the value chain frontier contributed to 4.8 total factor productivity growth for CEE firms participating in value chains, which in turn fostered wage convergence in these economies. Since the crisis, however, growth has slowed, mainly on account of a drop in TFP growth and receding foreign investments. In the new Euro-EU countries, TFP growth remains unlike in other CEE countries the main driver of growth. But the generous lowdown is being felt in all economies in the region, which suggests that despite the ongoing benefits of the single market and of the Euro, the CEE business model has become vulnerable to shocks to international trade and financial conditions. The benefits of the single market for sustained convergence thus needs to be consolidated by implementing reforms towards a more balanced growth model that is less vulnerable to changes in external conditions such as those that have emerged recently. Global trade has faced headwinds in recent years as trade restrictive measures have outpaced liberalizing ones. CEE economies have been disproportionately affected by this for two reasons. First, trade in these economies is especially responsive to cyclical developments. Since these countries have consistently been more open to trade over the past two decades, their trade elasticity is higher than in the rest of the European Union. In addition, the value chains in which they participate mainly involve trade-endurable goods, which have a high level of income elasticity. Second, CEE economies have increasingly specialized in certain industries, which may have made them more exposed to industry-specific shocks. In some countries, for example, vehicle exports represent nearly 30% of total manufactured exports, making them vulnerable to the threat of increasing car tariffs. Moreover, the effect of tariffs could be amplified as a large share of goods across borders multiple times during the production process. Headwinds could also result from changes in the international financial landscape. Net foreign liabilities stood at over 70% of CEE economies GDP in 2018, which is a higher than in many other emerging economies. In particular, FDI was comparably high and accounted for 50% of total external financing up to 2010, thus providing stability. But the share of FDI liabilities has declined since then, and now accounts for 42% of total external financing in 2018. While many countries in the region have improved their current account balances in recent years, they may remain vulnerable to change in external financial conditions due to their dependence on foreign financing. These developments confirm that sustained policy efforts are needed to maintain a steady converges path. The region's economies need to find new ways to boost TFP growth and deepen capital accumulation in order to grow out of their vulnerabilities. The main long-term challenge is moving towards a more balanced growth and financing model, which is more reliant on domestic innovation and on higher investment spending than it has been so far. This will only be possible if domestic institutions and governance are improved. These countries that joined the euro have continued improving their institutional quality, partly owing to the accession process. In the other EU countries of the region, efforts to improve institutional quality have been more mixed in recent years. Overall, institutional quality is still below the euro area average in almost all CE economies. Convergence is an ongoing process and reforms introduced over the past few years should not be rolled back. A high level of institutional quality is necessary to fully reap the benefits of the single market and maintain the sound economic structures that are necessary for the resilience of the single currency. Same applies to structural policies which were introduced to improve the competitiveness and resilience of CE economies. The single market created prosperity in these countries, especially for those in the euro area, by generating convergence in per capita income. Indeed, the EU has been a source of growth and anchor of stability, allowing the region to catch up with EU living standards. So let me conclude saying that conferences such as this one are valuable for policymakers to reflect on the region's vulnerabilities and to discuss new avenues for growth. Today we have with us a distinguished guest who, through her leadership of the IMF, her experience as Minister of the Economy and Finance and former chair of the G20 will undoubtedly bring valuable ideas and new insights to this conference. Please give a warm welcome to Christine Lagarde.


Hello everybody, Hooded Copic Commander 788 here, and this is a very different quick shot. Normally, I only look at vintage G.I. Joe action figures, and this is a modern-era figure from 2008. This is the 2008 Scarred Cobra Officer, but this one is kind of special. It was sent to me by a viewer, and not just any viewer. This was sent to me by Jeff Adams, who is the viewer who has been putting my videos into playlists on YouTube, and that's very helpful, and I'm very grateful. And Jeff remembered the story that I told about the mythical Scarface action figure that I was always looking for as a kid. Now, as a kid, my friends and I read the G.I. Joe comic book, and in the G.I. Joe comic book, there was a Cobra officer called Scarface, and he had vertical scars across his eyes. Well, there was an urban legend that went around My Circle of Friends that some of the Cobra officers that were on the pegs in the stores had that scar, and you could get a Scarface action figure if you just looked really closely and picked out which Cobra officers had the scar on his face. Well, we never found one because, in fact, that figure never existed. But this figure exists, and now finally I have the Scarface action figure that I always wanted as a kid, and right there, there are his scars right across his eyes, just the way that we thought it would be. Now, this is a pretty cool figure for a modern-era figure. It's got a nice AK-47 machine gun. That's as a Cobra officer should, definitely. It's got a removable knife. That's very nice. It's got modern articulation, and it's got a figure stand that says codenamed Cobra Officer, and of course he has his file card, the scarred Cobra officer with some information about him. And this figure is special to me. This figure is really a very thoughtful gift, and I really appreciate it, Jeff. Thank you very much for sending this to me. This will get a very prominent place on my shelf. So that's a very quick look at the 2008 Scarred Cobra officer. Thanks for watching, and keep checking back at this channel for more full GI Joe tour reviews coming up. Thanks for watching, and I'll see you next time.


We want to find out from Haona, the vice president, where the money she was distributing has come from, because the last time she was on the floor of the house at parliament, when asked where this money is coming from, that is being distributed by PF members of parliament and ministers in Okadas, what she said is that those who are distributing money are actually members of the opposition. Has she now become a member of the UPND for her to be able to distribute money, since she said we are the ones who are distributing money to members of the public. We want the public to get interested in this matter, because this is a money which should have been taken to hospitals to buy medicines, people are dying. This is a money which should have been invested in government reserves to create jobs for many young people, nurses, teachers who are graduating, no jobs. We want answers, at least on this one, the vice president, she is only remaining with a few weeks, if not days to be in office as vice president. We think that before she leaves office, the people of Zambia need to be explained to, as to where she got that money which she was distributing. Otherwise, we think that this kind of behavior is going to the root of affecting the decency of the office of president because as vice president she is in the office of president. Now, if as president they are now being the ones distributing money, at least if in Andafrediq, it was a slush fund, it has some kind of decent channel, not where a vice president giving money. We think that this is immoral and we expect an answer to this, we can't govern a country like this. Thank you.


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