Family Theater presents Barbara Stanwyck, Elizabeth Scott, and Lewis Hayward from Hollywood The Mutual Network in Cooperation with Family Theater presents Barbara Stanwyck and Lewis Hayward in Days of Grace. To introduce the drama, here is your hostess, Elizabeth Scott. Thank you, Tony Retrano. Family Theater's only purpose is to bring to everyone's attention a practice that must become an important part of our lives. If we're to win peace for ourselves, peace for our families, and peace for the world, Family Theater does you to pray. Pray together as a family. Tonight Family Theater takes great pleasure in presenting Days of Grace, starring Barbara Stanwyck as Joan Morley, Louis Hayward as Gerald, with Dan O'Hurley as David. The time, September 1939. The scene, Paris. Joan Morley, sweet in the hotel, Elise. Hello, Father. Hello, Joan. Is it true about England declaring war? Two hours ago. How are things in Paris? It's a madhouse. Oh, Father, how could this have happened? Where is it going to end? Don't ask me. I'm the prophet who wrote that there couldn't be a war this year. Remember? I'm leaving for London on the one o'clock boat train. Good. I'll have your passage to the States on the first sailing I can get. Is the paper calling you back to New York? No, of course not. But there's no sense in you... Look, Father, if you're staying in England, so am I. We'll settle it when you get here. All right. I'll see you tonight. Right. Good night, Joan. Goodbye, Father. Miss Gerald. Thank you, Mara. Your father's at the office. I know. I phoned him from the station. Oh, Mr. Gerald's here. Gerald? He's in the library. He just now came. Oh, thank you. Yes, Miss. Gerald, I'm so glad you... Oh. Hello, Joan. I'm sorry I couldn't meet the train, but... What is it? What's wrong? You're in uniform. Naturally. But so soon I didn't know... You knew I was a reserve officer. Right now I have a job to do in France. You're going to the front right away? Mm-hmm. Tomorrow, quite likely. No. Oh, I should have expected it, I suppose, that... that you would be going. It's only that... well, till now, the war hasn't seemed quite real. Not actually related to me, that is, but... but to walk in like this and find you in uniform. No, Joan, I... I never dreamed that it would mean so much to you. Oh, no, that's not true. I dreamed about it all right. I just never dared hope. But Joan, couldn't it all be said another way that this has suddenly made you realize that you love me? I don't know. Because if it does mean that... Joan, will you marry me? Marry you? Yes, I wanted to ask you for months. Now that I'm going away... Tomorrow. You're going tomorrow. Please, Joan, find it in your heart to say you will. But I'm not sure. I'm sure enough for both of us. Oh, everything is so mixed up, confused. I love you. I need you so. You need me? If I could know before I start out that you'd be here waiting when I get back... please, you can't say no. You're right, Joan. I can't say no. Oh, my dear. Gerald, there's not much time. We'll have to be married at once. Oh, no, Joan. But I thought that was what you wanted. A seven and six-man ceremony in some judge's chambers. Oh, you deserve more than that. A whole world more. And you have it. We're going to wait. Wait to when? Well, it's all over. Everyone says it can't last beyond three months. You're sure you prefer it that way? It must be that way. You see, I... I want you for my wife. Not my widow. You're disappointed about your Christmas leave being cancelled. Father and I had planned a real holiday for you, but perhaps before too long, you're... I've just heard from my brother David in Canada. He's coming over to join my regiment and will arrive in England on April the 16th. Will you meet him for me? He has dark hair, wears a mustache, and is somewhat tormented. Dear Gerald, I know how thrilled you must be to have home leave promised at last. Too bad it's not quite in time for you to meet your brother. But I've memorised your description of him and I'll be at the station bright and early the day he arrives. Well, are you David? Nay, lassie. My name's not David, but I wish it was I do. Oh, I'm sorry. I thought... Ah, it didn't give it a thought. I hope you find him the lucky lad. Oh. I'm sorry. Wasn't looking where I was going. No, neither was I. Clumsy of me. Well, that's all right. I'm... I'm supposed to meet someone. So am I. Well, maybe we can help each other. My man is about... five feet nine, light hair, and he'd be in uniform. Captain. Oh, I'm sorry. I haven't seen him. He's my brother. What's your victim like? Well, he's dark and he... Oh, good heavens, your brother. You're not David. Yes, that's my name. David Lachlan. I'm Joan. Joan Morley. Joan? Oh, of course. Gerald wrote me about meeting you ages ago. By the way, where is Gerald? Oh, still at the front. He has a leave coming up, but not until next week. Meanwhile, my instructions are to make the prodigal welcome and show him the town. Oh, fine. I thought we might start with the National Gallery tomorrow and the Crystal Palace on Friday and perhaps Saturday, boating on the Thames. How's that for a schedule? Terrible. All right, it's terrible. Look, I've lived most of my life in London. Now, just because I've spent a few years learning the cattle business in Manitoba and down in Texas, that doesn't mean I must be treated like a tourist on his first trip to Europe. You said Texas. I didn't know you'd lived in the States. Certainly. I've lived in New York for a while, too. Well, no wonder you seem... Yes, go on. It's funny. What is? You're older than he is. Gerald? Yes, four years. I expected you to be younger. I don't know why. Oh, did you like it? New York, I mean. The second-greatest city in the world. Oh, and I suppose London is the first. Far and away. And I'll prove it to you. Come on. I'm going to show you a London you didn't even know existed. And on the right, we have the Limehouse Fish Market. Perhaps not the most beautiful sight in London. The most unmistakable. Exactly. Exactly. In fact, exactly. Look, Mr. Loughlin, your travel tour on a two-penny bus is fascinating, right? Toppenny. Toppenny. When will you learn? All right, Toppenny. But it happens I'm starved and not for fish. But it's only a house. We drove all that way out here just to see that. Aha. But it's unique that house is. Oh, and just why is it so unique, Mr. Bones? Within these walls, nobody famous was born. Nobody famous lived and nobody famous died. Only one of its kind in London. Well, we ought to chip in and buy it a plaque. David, I do love this place. But Gerald's train gets in so early in the morning, shouldn't we go? Not yet. Look, look, Joan, Mr. Loughlin, all has been satisfactory, you know? Splendid, Anton. As always. Especially the music. And Madame was also pleased. Oh, yes, Anton. What's this they're playing now? Oh, this. This is a melody of my own. You like it. Oh, it's beautiful. Oh, thank you, Madame. Mr. Loughlin is an old customer. And to have his wife like my melody. Oh, say it pleases me greatly. Oh, but I'm not here. Here you are, Anton. Oh, thank you. Oh, but it is so much. Oh, that's not a tip. It's for the melody. I wanted to reserve it only for... for Madame. Never play it when she's not here.  Aha, but certainly. Perfectly, Monsieur. David, what made him think? Does it matter? Yes. Joan. Have you any idea what this week has meant to me? Oh, that music is lovely, isn't it? Joan, Joan, we've laughed a lot. But we've laughed because we were both afraid of words. I don't think I'll ever forget this melody. We can't be afraid any longer. David, it's late. Let's go home. Joan, I'm coming in. No, please. I've got to talk to you. But we... Joan. No, David. Joan, darling. Why did you have to kiss me? Why couldn't you have left things as they were? Why? Because I don't believe in denying the things I feel. Even to myself. Don't say any more. Joan, listen to me. We belong together. With lots of people, it's war hysteria. With you and me, it would have happened anyhow. I've known that from the first moment. And so have you. But, David, Gerald comes home tomorrow. I suppose he does. Why? What are you talking about? You don't know? No. I'm engaged to Gerald. You're engaged to him? I thought, of course, you knew that he'd written you. No. It happened the day before he went away. Even now, I'm not quite sure how or why. There wasn't logical reason to anything those first days. I've always been fond of Gerald, and then suddenly that day when I came in and saw him in uniform... But you don't love him. I'm going to marry him. No, Joan, you're going to marry me. I can't, David. We can't do that to him. But do you think I want to hurt him any more than you do? We didn't make this happen, but it has. And I know Gerald doesn't want what doesn't belong to him. I do belong to him. You don't, you can't. This is our life, our future. Tonight and tomorrow and a thousand tomorrows beyond. You've no right to throw those away. Please, David, stop it. Joan, look at me. No. Tell me I'm wrong. Tell me you don't love me. You know I can't. Joan. I do love you. I've never said that to any man, not even to Gerald. I love you. I love you. But I'm going to marry him. These last few days were never meant to be, and we're going to forget them. Do you understand, David? Gerald comes home tomorrow, and we're going to forget them. What happened between you and David before I got home? What happened? It seems more than just a, just a coincidence. Half a dozen times now I've made plans for the three of us to do things together. They've never worked out. Tonight's just another example. I'm sure he understood about joining us at the theatre. Oh, David's been busy, and he forgot that sort. Well, I hope so. I couldn't believe that you and he just didn't hit it off. Oh, but we did. I liked David tremendously. Of course, there's another possibility. What is that? It might be a girl who kept him away. Yes, perhaps that's it. Perhaps it is a girl. Well, it seems foolish to wait much longer. Yes? Oh, David, there you are. We'd almost given you up. Hello, Joan. Hello. You aren't still planning on the theatre, Gerald? Certainly, why not? But haven't you heard the news? There's a big push-on. All leaves are cancelled. We leave for the front of the morning. Oh, no, David, I can't let you... And Gerald, it's, it's so soon. The boat goes from Brighton at 10 sharp. Or there's a train from Victoria at 7. Well, I'll run along now. I have a lot of packing to do. Good night. Oh, and Joan, if I shouldn't see you in the morning... Goodbye. Goodbye, David. I'll help you pack. There's plenty of time for that. I, uh... I, I want to talk to you, Joan, about our engagement. All right. What is it? I, I was going to suggest forgetting the whole thing. Forgetting it? I, I think we ought to call it off. Why? Why should we? Well, obviously I was, I was wrong about how long the war will last, and...  I'm trying to give you your out if you'll take it. Gerald. I've seen what's up. And I know it isn't anyone's fault. Oh, you're wrong, you're wrong, Gerald. I'm wrong? Did you think of me a moment ago, or of David? You see, the people we love are the people we fear for. Be honest, Joan, and be sensible. That sort of sacrifice is so futile. We'd all be unhappy. I didn't want it to be like this, believe me. I'm so sorry. So terribly sorry. I know. I, I wasn't sure myself what it meant to be in love. Not until I... Joan, please. You don't have to tell me. But I want to. I want you to understand. It's difficult to believe that anything could happen so quickly, so surely and completely as this did. I do understand. Perfectly. Gerald, if only it hadn't been you. Chelsea, 2871, please. What are you doing? David's club. He should be there by now. Hello? Lieutenant Lachlan, please. Tell him it's Miss Morley calling. You know, Joan, I'm glad we had this talk just now. You can be married before David leaves. Good night. Hello? Just a moment. Here you are. You're sure, Gerald? It couldn't be any other way. He's waiting, Joan. Hello, David. David, you'd better come back here. Yes. Oh, yes, darling, right away. Sure, the lieutenant understood the transport was to sail from Brighton, sir? Yes, Carter. They drove down here last night after the wedding. Oh, here they are now. Gerald? You just made it. They've already given the last call aboard. Take my bag, Carter. Right, sir. You two won't have much time for good-byes, I'm afraid. Well, I'll go aboard. Gerald, I still don't know how to thank you. You've found happiness, Joan, so I've found my thanks. Goodbye. Wait, Gerald. Thank you for that. Darling. Oh, David, I can't let you go. I can't. It won't be long, Joan. Then there's so much ahead for us. I love you. Always wherever you are. I love you. I'm sorry, lieutenant. You must come aboard, sir. The gangplank is... All right, Carter. Goodbye, Joan. And God bless you. I'll be thinking. Thinking every moment. Goodbye, David. The past since David and Gerald departed for France. Now in an officer's billet just behind the front lines. Oh, there you are, David. What's up? What did the major want? Nothing much. Just my leave. That's all right. It's cancelled. You and I have become so necessary to this army. We can't be spared at the same time. But Joan's expecting you. Perhaps I can get the major to let me stay behind. You'll do nothing of the kind. Go on to London. And, Gerald, I want you to see Joan. Will you? All right. I mean, see a lot of her. Her letters have been pretty blue lately. Try to get her out of it. I will. But I still wish you'd let me take your place. Not her chance. You go ahead and give Joan my love. Oh, and how do I promise to be out of the trenches by Christmas? Tell him I'll be right down. Jerry. Joan. Yes, Father? Hadn't I better come with you? No, please don't. But are you sure it's wise? Am I sure? No. No, I'm not sure of anything. But I'm going to do it anyway. Hello, Gerald. Hello, John. You look well. Was it a good crossing? Perfect. Sit down, Gerald. It's rotten luck Davis' leave being cancelled like that. When did you see him last? Why, yesterday. How was he? How did he look? Oh, never better. Well, he says you're worrying too much and you ought to quit it. Gerald, how long has your leave? Five days. Five days. You say that as though it were a lifetime. No, it's just that... Oh, you can't know what things have been like over here.  There doesn't seem to be any middle ground at all these days. Well, if I'm to have my choice, I'll take it gay. I'll force you that. And five days is such a little time. Gerald, suppose we were to try to forget the war, both of us. Forget the war? Yes. I know you're fed up with it and so am I. I'm sick to death of casualty lists of dotted lines drawn on a map of battles being fought over dinner tables. You have five days, Gerald. At least let them be free of that. There's nothing in the world I'd like better. I had made plans for all three of us. Well, we'll just have to make it the two of us instead. Right. We'll make a toast to the missing comrade in every club in London. No. No, we won't. Charles. Well, how can we forget the war if we keep talking about David? That hardly sounds like the speech of a devoted wife, but I know what you mean. When do we start? Tea that tastes like tea. Music that sounds like music. Now I know that I'm really home again. It's a boy hasn't changed much, has it. I remember I came here years ago and except for the uniforms. It looks just the same. Yes, as a matter of fact... Oh, look. That fellow who's just going out. He's Martin from the Black Hawks. The billet is in the village right next to ours. I'll ask him to join us. No, no, please don't. But he may have left there since I did, and he's a friend of David's. Gerald, let's let him go. Come on, I'd like to dance. Right, you are. That's the best idea yet. Of course I'd like to, Gerald. It was the best review I've seen in years, and Gracie Fields is marvelous. But you didn't laugh. I watched you. When everyone else was screaming, you just sat there. You were laughing enough for the two of us. Now you have me. We're now, Joan, eh? How about a supper club? You do like? Good. Taxi! Taxi, here! You've planned everything else. Did you arrange for the chestnut piece to be in bloom, too? I had some collaboration on that. Do you think we should turn back now, or do you want to go on further? Oh, let's go on. It's early. If you only hug good, it seems. Look, those planes... They're pretty in formation like that, aren't they? Are they? You know, David and I had quite an argument about planes. He said they're sure to change the entire strategy of the war. Personally, I... Gerald, look, we came to ride. So why don't we? Come on, I'll race you to the crossroads. All right. Did we have to come here? Oh, why not? This is Captain Loughlin. Good evening. Hello, Anton. Oh, and Madam David Loughlin. Oh, it is so good to see you. Thank you. And if you'll excuse me, but one moment. Adam, wait. Well, what's he up to? Gerald, I'd rather go somewhere else. Now look, you've engineered all the rest of my leave. Surely I should decide where we're going to spend my last evening. Well, there are other restaurants. Yes, but not like Antons. This place has been a haunt of David's and mine for years. Why, I just realized Anton knew you were David's wife. Yes, I've been here before. John, what's wrong? Nothing. You're not angry because I got talking about the war this afternoon. Of course I'm not angry. You can't forget it, neither can I. Gerald, let's not stay here any longer. But we just came. And listen, the music's marvelous. It's your last night home. Let's go someplace where we can celebrate. Where there's dancing. Another kind of place anywhere. All right, all right. But let's have dinner first. Please, Gerald, please. I want to go. Will you take me away from here? Of course, John. Father, you shouldn't have waited up. It's so late. I just wanted to say goodbye to Gerald and wish him luck. Thank you, sir. Take care of yourself. Let's hear from you. I'll do both. Good. Well, I'll say good night to you. Good night, father. Good night, sir. Well, John, another goodbye. I'll come to the train in the morning. No, I won't hear of it. You've worn yourself out, giving me a holiday. You need to get some rest. Oh, I'm all right. You've been wonderful. I can't thank you enough. It wouldn't have been anything without you. Gerald, you have enjoyed these few days. Oh, more than I can say. You've given me something to take back and something to remember. That was what I wanted. Well, what do you want me to tell David? Nothing. No. John, what's come over you? David talks of you all the time, but you... Are you scared? He mentioned his name. You've changed somehow. I haven't changed, Gerald. But you have. You're... Oh, I don't know. Detached, as if you're standing outside yourself, looking on. And you're so strange about David. I don't like it. David understands. Believe me. Then I'd give him no message. My love is always with him. He knows that. All right, Gerald. I'll go along now. Wait. I suppose that was for David. Yes. That was for David. Goodbye, Gerald. It was for you, David. Only for you. Joan. Well, Father, it's... It's over. I don't know how you did it. I wanted to do it. To make these days everything Gerald hoped they'd be, because he may never be coming back to London, either. My dear girl. I hurt Gerald once. I hurt him terribly. But now, in a way, I've made that up to him. He was happy, Father, and he never could have been if he'd known. He had his five days. Five days of grace. And I gave them to him. But he's sure to find out now about David. Of course he will. But it will be there, at the front, where one more death is such a little thing. Some officer will say it so casually. Too bad about your brother Lachlan. Strange that it had to happen the very day you left on leave. And then Gerald will know. Oh, Joan. It's clear now. And I'm sure that what I've done is right. It's the living home matter. It must always be. We do owe an obligation to the dead, but we owe an even greater obligation to the living while they are the living. You think of family prayer. We usually picture mothers, fathers, and their children gathered in the home saying their prayers together for a few minutes in peace and harmony. When this can be done, it's a beautiful and rewarding moment of the day. Thousands of families in our country are restoring the old time-tested values of actually gathering together in prayer. But we have to remember that many, many of our families are or will be scattered. Military service, business, the trades, the professions we're trained in, tear us apart. But this doesn't mean we love each other less. The important thing to remember is that actually we need never grow apart. We need never fear for the loss of our frame of reference. We need never have that sense of feeling alone in the world. We can preserve the great value of family unity. We know our own, and our own know us. As few others will take the trouble to know us. And it is prayer for each other that can and will bind us all to each other in a real and valid union. We can bring all of us together at some time each day in a unity that comes from God's protection of families that remain faithful to Him in simple and humble prayer. Though we be at opposite ends of the earth, we're united. And in this great and wholesome way, the family that prays together stays together.  Drama Hollywood Family Theater has brought you The Days of Grace, starring Barbara Stanwyck and Louis Hayward. Elizabeth Scott was your hostess. Others in the cast were Dan O'Hurley, Herb Rawlinson, Marjorie Bennett, Jack Raymond and Alec Harvard. The script was written by True Boardman and Therese Lewis, with music composed and conducted by Harry Zimmerman and was directed for Family Theater by Joseph F. Mansfield. This is Tony LaFranco expressing the wish of Family Theater that the blessing of God may be upon you and your home and inviting you to join us next week at the same time Family Theater will present James Whitmore and Jean Raymond and Mademoiselle from San Antoine. Join us, won't you? This is the Mutual Broadcasting System.


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This is the Metaverse. It is supposedly the next big thing that will irrevocably alter our online lives. But will it? And what exactly is it? I'm Jackson, director of video production at Cointelegraph. And in this video, we're going to dive into what the Metaverse has to offer and how blockchain technology will be key in building it. Don't forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel for new videos about crypto. We are the leading channel for crypto news coverage and education. Let's break it down. The term Metaverse is not new. It is a blend of the words meta, which means transcendent or beyond, and verse, which simply refers to universe. The term was originally coined by Neil Stevenson in his 1992 sci-fi novel. He uses the word to describe a virtual world where the main character socializes, shops, and fights enemies through his avatar. Sounds familiar, right? Today, the Metaverse is quickly becoming a collaborative virtual space where people can put on their VR headsets or control their 3D avatars to interact, play, learn, and even work. It is also becoming an entirely new economic realm. The Metaverse is exactly like the current version of the internet, but it's fully immersive. Well, maybe not just yet. So now that you know what the Metaverse is, you're probably wondering who is actually building it. It looks like a video game, so it's probably just the gaming studios, right? Well, not exactly. Remember this guy? To redesign the Facebook app. Now he's this guy. Our company is now Meta. When the social media giants start getting involved, that is a signal that the Metaverse is going to be much more than a game. It could potentially give people a way to have a second alternative virtual life. But wait, if Meta, Facebook, is building our second reality, how do we know it's not going to be plagued by the same problems caused by social media giants today? I know I don't want Meta selling my second life's data to virtual Putin. There's got to be a better or at least safer way. And there is. But first, whether we like it or not, major corporations will likely play a major role in how the Metaverse develops and evolves. Microsoft, for example, is building a workplace-focused Metaverse in a digital environment called Mesh. It's also bought video game maker Activision for almost $70 billion to, in the words of the CEO, provide the building blocks for the Metaverse. Epic Games, the company behind Fortnite, announced it would put forth $1 billion to support the company's long-term vision for the Metaverse. Nike is creating a virtual world called Nike Land on Roblox, and H&M launched its first virtual fashion show on Animal Crossing. Meta has the biggest stakes in the Metaverse. 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Decentraland is divided into virtual pieces of land that can be bought with Mana, the cryptocurrency of Decentraland, and owned by identifying them with NFTs. Your property allows you to create and develop anything you can imagine on that plot of land. As this company did in November 2021 after spending 618,000 Mana or $2.42 million to buy 116 pieces of virtual land to build virtual stores. They plan to sell clothes for avatars and host fashion shows. Another example is Sandbox, a virtual environment on the Ethereum blockchain where users may create, control, and sell their game experiences using Sand, the platform's utility token. Sandbox also partnered with Snoop Dogg to bring the legendary icon into the Metaverse. Snoop is working on building his own virtual world on the platform. And you know what? An NFT collector spent a little under half a million dollars to become Snoop's next door neighbor. Blockchain technology is laying the groundwork for a new economic environment which could generate trillions of dollars in the next few years. Who knows, it may even become bigger than the physical economy in the next few decades. But for all of this to truly work, we need to be able to seamlessly move from one virtual space to another using the same avatars and digital items and be able to conduct real-time transactions. And that brings us to one of the biggest questions marked so far in the evolution of the Metaverse.  Interoperability. How do you actually bridge your Metaverse life from Ethereum to Solana, for example, or to Meta? Right now, it's pretty much impossible, especially when one of those parties, Meta, is acting like this is a zero-sum game. Maybe it's true that only one Metaverse will prevail after 10 years of competition, but I kind of hope not. We've come this far because we are a community, building separately, but also together with a common shared vision. Imagining that being taken over by a corporation makes my skin grow. No company should run the world. Or else, what's the point? And at the end of the day, there is one last hurdle to overcome, to develop a new internet infrastructure that can actually support the Metaverse. If the Metaverse will rely on augmented and virtual reality devices, it will need higher internet speeds capable of transmitting enormous amounts of data per second. And on the other hand, those VR devices will need tiny, super-fast microprocessors capable of handling hyper-realistic graphics with high refresh rates, high frames per second, and so on. There is a lot of innovating that still needs to be done before the vision matches the reality, pun intended. Humanity is in the midst of creating the most complete alternate reality to ever exist. From books, to television, to computers, to this. Even though the Metaverse is new, the urge to journey into fantasy began a long time ago. 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I'm Paul Harle from Harle Farm, Westminster, Vermont, here in the Connecticut River Valley. Also the home of deeper organic truck farmers, a marketing cooperative that I'm a member of. I farm about 100 acres of organic vegetables right here in the Connecticut River Valley, some of the richest farm land around. What we try to do at Harle Farm is develop a crop mix that allows us to use our labor efficiently, but also to provide the market with the produce that they need at the certain time of the year. We try to combine a mix of fresh vegetables, including lettuce, kale, peppers, cabbages with storage crops that can be sold long-term, beets and carrots and rutabagas and squash. Harle Farm has kind of developed a pattern of growing the same eight to ten crops every year, figuring that over the course of ten years that we'll do well, you know, some years and not so well others, and that trying to guess what the marketplace is going to be from year to the next and the produce businesses is probably not a wise thing to do. Because of the price pressure for wholesale vegetables, we have to become very efficient and we really keep an eye on unit costs. Deeper is I think is known for its high quality and we try to constantly upgrade that. Things that we've done in the last few years are we bought a hydrocooler, so now we're hydrocooling our lettuce and kale so that we provide a good fresh product that stays on the market. Other things that we've done that are somewhat innovative are we stem tag and rubber band identify most all of our products. These all have PLU numbers or things that the market is almost demanding now that they have identification, especially the supermarkets is where the big growth area for organic is. I think the best things for the co-op for me in our farm is that it helps us provide a cohesive marketing plan and that we get together during the winter and try to grow things that each farm does well and that we don't overlap so that throughout the course of the marketing season, the co-op has a steady supply of the crops that we feel like we need to sell. My name is Dennis Sauer. I'm a foreman of Harlow Farm, Westminster, Vermont. I've known Paul for a number of years. I was a member with him in the Deep Root Cooperative and when I decided to quit farming on my own I went to work for Paul. I was one of the founding members of the co-op I joined in the second year so I was part of the process of getting the co-op running right in the bylaws and setting up the process for how we marketed and dealt with crop production estimates in the winters and in the first five years were the hardest year for the co-op and it was a challenge to get the co-op up and running and a lot of the things that we did in those first few years we're still using today. The main advantages of the co-op and the reason that we came together as a co-op was that individually we couldn't address all the needs of our accounts in the metropolitan areas so by combining loads and farmers growing particular crops we were able to offer a wider range of product and fill trucks in order to get the volume that the buyers needed and that's still true today I mean we can fill trailer loads to go to Maryland which one farm could never do but the combined co-op with various different products can fill the trucks and so every farmer whether they're a small herb grower or you know one crop farmer still gets their stuff to our farthest markets. The key to the co-op is cooperation and which takes a lot of effort by on the part of the farmers you know meeting in the winter deciding crop production levels deciding you know who gets to grow what how much of what based on previous sales packing conditions you know particular items like you know quality who gets rejected who decides who you know what gets rejected all of these things are things that individual farmers would never have to do on their own it's pretty much their own decision whereas in the cooperative you have to honor the wishes of the entire cooperative and and for farmers who tend to be fairly independent that's sometimes causes problems you know to have someone telling them what what they can't do so it's it's a challenge all the time but the benefits are that that these you can get your products into markets that you otherwise wouldn't reach well originally the co-op all it took to be in the co-op was a commitment of a crops and a hundred dollar a year membership fee but but we quickly realized that well without an equity investment by the growers the farmer sort of treated the co-op as a when they needed the market they use it when they didn't they didn't use it they went elsewhere they get a better price and and the co-op also needed equity to buy some equipment and office equipment pay the managers and some sort of security so what happened is is now it's required for the growers to own equity shares I need Kevin wants 20 zucchini for Friday definitely the benefits of the co-op and I think you know they're not they're not as tangible as the markets but but the the growers involvement with each other the the planning year to year knowing what each other is going to grow how they're going to grow it varieties talking about you know there's a lot of on-farm research people share information they share equipment and also it's just you know it's you avoid the isolation of farming on your own farm you get to talk to other growers on a regular basis and and sort of share the ups and downs which which is valuable experience for a lot of farmers especially you know in a market that's really price driven and you know downward price driven so it's helpful to have other people that are in the same pressures that that you are and in the winter time it's it's nice for the growers to get together and I think a lot of them enjoy the the process


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Live from Santa Clara, California, it's theCUBE, covering Open Networking Summit 2017, brought to you by the Linux Foundation. Sure, so as you were saying, Open Daily, it really kind of kicked things off from a open source networking standpoint. I mean, there were certainly other open source controllers earlier in sort of the market life cycle, but they kind of never really made their way out of the universities. Open Daylight was the first that really had a lot of commercial participation and uptake, kind of in the real world, so to speak. So with that, I think there was a lot of learning that happened both on the vendor side with regard to open source, as well as on the user side. And as the Open Daylight platform matured and started coming to fruition, we started seeing a lot of other projects sort of both below at the platform layer, as well as further up the stack. So at this point, and we've been talking about this quite a bit here at ONS, we've been talking a lot about sort of the whole Open Networking Stack that has sort of come to fruition now, that really low level stuff, DPDK was just announced today, FIDO, which is sort of big data for networking, and then all the way up the stack to ONAP, which was just announced last month. ONAP is a bringing together of the ECONT project that was started by AT&T, and then they brought it to the Linux Foundation and Open O, which actually sort of germinated within the Linux Foundation with a lot of input from both a number of small vendors as well as major carriers, particularly in Asia. So bringing those things together at the orchestration layer. And so now we've got this sort of whole stack, a lot of it is Linux Foundation projects, some of it is other projects with other open source foundations, all of which we work with very collaboratively across all of those different projects. But at this point, we're really kind of looking at how do we enable people to consume this a little bit more easily from the user side, and then also from the developer side. There are a lot of developers who are involved in multiple different projects, which of course means that they're spread very thin across all those projects, and we're looking at how do we make it a more feasible and scalable activity for them. So for example, Open Daylight is upstream of a lot of other projects. There are a lot of other projects that have a lot of dependencies on Open Daylight. So how do we streamline the release train in such a way that everybody gets what they need at the time that they need it so they can do their releases on a timely basis and so forth and so on. And that makes things a lot easier from a developer standpoint. That also sort of naturally improves the integration points between those projects, which is of course better for users. So those are a lot of the things that we have in motion sort of across the Linux Foundation. And I think that the other thing that we've really seen over the last year coming to fruition is a lot of the early adopters of Open Daylight in particular have now spent enough time working with the open source community, either through their vendors or increasingly directly themselves, that they kind of get this open source thing and they understand kind of what the processes are and why we do things the way they do. And so they're willing to take a much more active role. And so that's a, you know, AT&T is a prime example of that, right? I mean, they were working on ECOMP themselves internally and they very quickly came to the realization that in order to scale it as quickly as they needed to, I mean, they were putting, you know, tens of thousands of their developers through specialized boot camps, right? They're networking people to become networking developers. But at the same point, you just can't push people through the system that fast enough nor can you hire enough people that fast enough. And so that's why they decided to bring it to the open source community. It seems like there's kind of an acceleration of carving out some piece of what was proprietary and putting it out to continue the development in an open source world. AY, you kind of answered the question just now in terms of, you know, just not enough people, but more interestingly, you talked about, you know, some open source stuff just never gets going. What are some of the real secrets that make an open source project run versus those that don't, you know, die on the vine? Yeah, there are a lot of different components, of course, like with anything. Some of it is technical, right? Do you have the right architecture? Is it one that can scale? Is it extensible? Are the right kinds of people involved in the project? Is the project being informed by the right kinds of people? So if you go and build something that nobody needs, either because you don't have the right people involved or because you're not open to that feedback, it's going to die on the vine. So, you know, a successful project really has to have a strong community around it. And it's a, you know, chicken and egg thing, right? You know, how do you get a strong community? Well, you have the right processes in place, but you also make sure that you have the right people involved so that they can build the right kind of thing and that they have the skills to do it effectively. And the other interesting trend that we're seeing is the Linux Foundation is becoming kind of the hub where you put these things to grow. And as you said, really to cross pollinate with the other open source projects that have all these interdependencies. And that seems to be an accelerating trend as well, at least from the outside looking in. Yeah, no, it absolutely is. And, you know, I think we learned a lot with Open Daylight and also with OpenStack. You know, when OpenStack started, and OpenStack, of course, is even older than Open Daylight, but when OpenStack started, I think there was all kinds of euphoria in the industry because Open Source was relatively new to infrastructure and infrastructure people. You know, it was like, I can build everything that I ever wanted to build now. And so there was this sort of irrational exuberance about feature proliferation. In some ways, a little bit kind of at the expense of platform stability initially. And at a certain point, the users, again, started getting involved and said, that's great. We need the thing to actually work at scale in real world environments. Please focus on that. And that's the real beauty and strength of Open Source is when you have users who care and see the possibility of a project, they can be actively involved and actively influence where the focus of the project is going to be. And that's how you get to something that's going to be useful to people quickly. Well, it'd be great to hear a little bit more about how you, I'm always kind of mystified as a analyst or a journalist or whatever, when you see these things. The press release comes out, own app is the new thing, right? And there's a new thing like every week. How do you ensure the success? How do you get the momentum behind it? I imagine there's a lot of stuff that's been happening behind the scenes for own app. We try not to keep it to behind the scenes. You know, what has always been part of Open Source culture and has proven to be a best practice is openness and transparency of not just the code itself but the processes around it. If people feel like they understand what's going on, that things aren't being hidden from them, that they can have a voice, they're much more actively willing to participate. And so that's really kind of the key to building any kind of community. And how do you work with a big carrier like, I mean, the fascinating part about this for me is like for our viewers who don't know what own app and ONOS and ODLR, it's basically all this carrier software that's becoming Open Source and they're just putting it out there saying, it's no longer our family jewels, everybody can use it. I mean, that's a big leap for an AT&T, you know? Tell us how you work with AT&T or Verizon or are they some of these big, gigantic organizations? Like they just hand you a thumb drive or how do you get the intellectual property? How does that process start? You know, in the case of AT&T, they reached out to the Linux Foundation and said, you know, we want and need to do this, help us do it. We don't know how this works, help us teach us. You know, but it's very much a, you know, I think a big part of the role of the Linux Foundation in all of this sort of project proliferation and so forth is teaching people how to do Open Source effectively. Because again, it's not just about throwing coders at a problem because you can do that inside your own organization as well. It's understanding how to do that in a collaborative manner, how to carve off what parts to Open Source because AT&T's ECOMP platform, you know, not all of it has been Open Source. Some portion of it, the stuff that's really, you know, important and proprietary and is sort of the crown jewels, that has stayed internal. But they've shared a fairly large percentage of the base platform with the Open Source community.  And figuring out, you know, what is commodity and really could and should be shared with the rest of the world so that we're not all reinventing the same wheel. But all, you know, rather than having 10 developers here doing that and 10 developers here and da, da, da, da, we can put 30 developers all working together to get the same thing more quickly. And, you know, sort of, you know, that shift in mindset can take a little bit of time and a bit of education. And that's kind of part of what the Linux Foundation brings to that process of onboarding new Open Source projects as well. And then on the other end, I always think of Randy Bias, you know, he's one of our favorite guests, especially with OpenStack. And, you know, it was a couple of OpenStack Silicon Valley's ago where, you know, he was somewhat critical on the other end saying, you know, we also have to kind of rein things in and, you know, you have all this risks of stuff going all over the place and how do you kind of have some organization at the top end because of successful growth can drive a bunch of different agendas and things can get forked. So, you know, it's not a simple thing to manage. And, you know, we've tried different models and different approaches within different projects and we've learned a lot from that.   Others like OpenO were kind of in between where they did specifically set up an architecture committee that was composed of, you know, sort of the leading members of the project because, again, OpenO in particular is touching the business layer of these carriers. And so they really need that architecture to be meeting their specifications. You know, sort of at lower layers, it's sort of a little bit less critical. And so there are lots of different models and sort of a gradation of, you know, top-down versus bottom-up and, you know, let a thousand flowers bloom. And there are pluses and minuses to all of them. I think that we've been sort of learning as we go through all these different projects of what works. And different, sometimes it's worth shifting the model, starting out one way and shifting as you go along as the project matures too. But the net net, which I think you said at the beginning, is that big companies are now really learning how to operate effectively in this world, this Open Source paradigm. It's matured way, way, way beyond what we used to always joke years ago as a free puppy, you know? No, and, you know, I mean, I think telcos understand now that it is, yes, it's a free puppy, you still have to do lots of work. I think that understanding is sort of starting to trickle into the enterprise. I still have, you know, every time I do a briefing people will ask me to tell them about my product and I say I don't have a product. I can't sell you anything.  And that's, you know, that's a major mind shift for especially enterprise IT where they're used to buying things off the shelf. And so larger enterprises are starting, again, they tend to take their cues from the carriers as things get proven out in the carrier world. And so we're starting to see that those same level of understanding and also drivers in large, especially very distributed types of organizations where they have, you know, 50, 100, hundreds of different sites around the world that they need to have, you know, a centralized view of in some fashion. And, you know, the only way they can get there is with SDN and they have a very strong preference, a very clear preference for open source. How big is the Linux Foundation now? By what metric? People, I guess. Oh, people, we're a few hundred, no more. But, you know, it's not just, we're not the ones doing all the work, right? Where we organize things, we help things happen, we help teach people, we provide the infrastructure. It seems like growing very fast, like new projects are being added and merged. But again, it's vendors and it's users. Very grassroots. Yeah, we help, you know, provide the legal framework and the technical, you know, test facilities and things like that and kind of the organizational guide rails. But that's, you know, we're here to help. We're not the ones doing the work. Right, right. All right, Lisa, so I'll give you the last word before we sign off here. As you look forward to 2017, what are some of your kind of top priorities for this next year? Yeah, so several things. First order is really enabling our users to really be successful with the projects that they already have in hand. In many cases, they're well through the phase of proof of concept and all the way onto production. And we just want to make sure that they're continuing to get everything they want out of the project and supporting them and supporting their vendors and really building out the commercial ecosystem around it so that they have a strong base of support. So that's one thing. Certainly on the open daylight side with some of the newer projects, it's really about, you know, figuring out what are the best practices that we can implement for this project, for this project, for this project in order to make sure that they're successful. And a lot of that, again, is that whole harmonization effort that we have going on. Right, right. All right, Lisa K, which you know is all about bringing an open source to the enterprise and thanks for taking a few minutes out of your day. Thank you. Thank you very much for having me. Absolutely. I'm Jeff Frick, he's Scott Rainovich. You're watching theCUBE from Open Networking Summit 2017 in Santa Clara, California. We'll be back after the short break. Thanks for watching.


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Project planner McKay, can you test your audio and video for me please? Testing, can you hear me? Yes, you are good to go, thank you. Mr. Zoning Administrator, can you please test your audio and video for me please? Hey, good morning Mrs. Andrew, testing audio and video. You are good to go, thank you. Project planner Tumyans, can you please test your audio and video for me please? Good morning, Goni. I hear you, you're good to go. All right, good morning everybody. My name is Andrew Triple and I'm the city of Santa Rosa Zoning Administrator. Staff, if we're ready, I would like to go ahead and call this meeting to order. Thank you. So welcome everyone to the February 3rd, 2022 city of Santa Rosa Zoning Administrator meeting which is scheduled to begin at or after 10 30 a.m. Pursuant to government code section 54953 subsection E and the recommendation of the health officer of the County of Sonoma, the Zoning Administrator will be participating in this meeting via Zoom webinar. Members of the public can participate virtually at zoom.us forward slash join or by calling toll free<PHONE_NUMBER>. The meeting ID is 824-3894-8597. This meeting will also be live streamed today at youtube.com forward slash city of Santa Rosa. So today's zoning administrator meeting is a regular session meeting. The zoning administrator typically holds two meetings per month on the first and third Thursdays of the month. This is the first regular session zoning administrator meeting in February and a second regular session meeting will be held on February 17th. Members of the public can access the meeting through Zoom and can provide comments during the public comment periods. Additional information related to meeting participation is available at srcity.org forward slash zoning admin. And so at this time then I'd like to move on to meeting agenda item number two, general public comment. And the purpose of this section of the meeting agenda is to provide the opportunity for the public to make comments about items that are not on the agenda. And so staff to, sure, go ahead. Mr. Zoning administrator, please note that there are six attendees in this meeting today. Great, thank you. Can you provide them instructions for how to make a general public comment if they would like to do so? Yes, so if anyone wishes to make a comment, please raise your hand. And you can do so by pressing the icon at the bottom of your screen. If you are phoning in and you would like to make a comment, please press star nine and that will raise your hand. Great, thank you. So we'll give everyone a few minutes if anyone would like to make a general public comment. Mr. Zoning administrator, there are no hands raised at this time. Great, thank you. So I'll go ahead and close that general public comment and we'll move on to meeting item number three, zoning administrator business. So the zoning administrator is appointed by the planning and economic development director and has the responsibility and authority to conduct public hearings and to take actions on applications for all administrative permits and approvals issued by the department. A determination or decision by the zoning administrator may be appealed to the design review board, cultural heritage board, plan and commission or city council as applicable to the decision. There are no zoning administrator reports today. And so then we'll move on to meeting agenda item number four scheduled items. We have two meeting items today. For each item, I will ask the project planner for a staff presentation and an applicant presentation or comments. Following these presentations, I may ask clarifying questions of the project planner or applicant. I will then open the meeting for public comment about the item under review. Members of the public are invited to provide comment about the project being reviewed. These comments should be limited to approximately three minutes. After the public comment opportunity is completed, I may ask additional questions of staff or applicant as part of my review. I will then issue a decision to approve, deny or continue the project for further review. The decisions of the zoning administrator are appealable to the planning commission design review board or cultural heritage board. Pursuant to zoning code section 20-62.030, appeal shall be submitted in writing and filed with the planning department on a city application form within 10 calendar days after the date of the decision. For today's decisions then, that calendar due date will be at the close of business on Monday, February 14th. And so moving on then to meeting item 4.1, this is a public hearing for good onward ink mezzanine request for minor conditional use permit. The project is located at 3192 Juniper Road and a CEQA exemption is recommended for this project. The project's file number is CUP 21073 and the project planner is Connor McKay. So Connor, if you would like to offer your staff presentation and applicant presentation if there is any, thank you. Thank you, Mr. Zoning Administrator. Can everybody see my screen? Great, thank you so much. Yeah, so thank you. My name is Connor McKay, city planner and I'm pleased to be here this morning to present the good onward ink cannabis facility modification proposed for 3192 Juniper Road. So last year, the planning commission and design review board approved the Juniper, the good onward ink cannabis facility project. The applicant has since requested a minor modification of this approval to expand an approved mezzanine for use of storage to support the manufacturing level one non-volatile land use. Because this modification is minor and the operation of a manufacturing level one non-volatile cannabis land use requires a zoning clearance or a minor conditional use permit when proposed to be located adjacent to residential land uses. The project is located in the southwest quadrant of the city of Santa Rosa along Juniper Avenue near Bellevue. Here's some neighborhood context. So that residential land uses to the south and across Juniper Avenue. And then there are industrial uses to the north and the east. The general plan and zoning code for the surrounding site. The general plan is general industry which supports cannabis land uses as well as general industrial zoning district also supports the operation of cannabis land uses. Staff can make all the required findings. The proposed modification is not substantial increase in land use. The project does qualify for an exemption in that MND was prepared for the approved project and this expansion does not necessitate additional analysis or introduce substantial new impacts that were not analyzed with the previously approved and adopted mitigated negative declaration. The overall site plan of the site is shown here. Building F is the proposed modification and this is the previously approved warehouse or building F floor plan. With this expansion, the second floor would increase its mezzanine space by almost 5,000 square feet. We have not received any public comments and this project was noticed as a public hearing in accordance with the zoning code. And with that, the Planning and Economic Development Department recommends that the zoning administrator by resolution approve this minor condition use permit request to allow the interior mezzanine expansion of 4,950 square feet for storage and so early to the approved cannabis manufacturing level one non-volatile land use for the property located at 3192 Juniper Road file number CUP 21073. And the applicant does not have a presentation but is available for questions and I'm not sure if they wanna make any comments to supplement my presentation but I don't believe that is the case. Thank you. Great, thank you for that thorough presentation. I don't have any questions for the applicant team. Before we go to, before I open a public hearing on this item, I do want to provide an ex parte disclosure because it is a public hearing. And so I am the zoning administrator of the review authority for this minor conditional use permit. I was a project planner for this project when the approved project was submitted and then I was supervising review of the project by Planning Commission and Design Review Board at the time that the project was approved. So in my role as project planner, I don't believe that represents a conflict and I am able to provide an objective and fair review of this project. So having said that, then I would like to open a public hearing for this item and staff, if you would like to take our members of the public through the public comment process for the public hearing. So if anyone wishes to make a comment, please raise your hand. Again, the icon is located at the bottom of your screen. If you are phoning in and you would like to make a comment, please press star nine to raise your hand. Mr. Zoning Administrator, there are no hands raised. Okay, great, thank you. And so at this time, then I will go ahead and close this item's public hearing. I appreciate the work that staff did to work with the applicant to accommodate this expansion of square footage within the existing approved project. And I also appreciate the details in the resolution which describe the expanded space of approximately 4,950 square feet for the purpose of storage, that it would not increase the intensity of the manufacturing, the cannabis manufacturing use that was approved. And I just have a question for the applicant and if the applicant could please just confirm that they understand that should they want to increase the intensity of the use and use this for something other than storage for the designated cannabis use that they would have to return to have a modification to this resolution reviewed. So just so we could get some confirmation, please. Mr. Zoning Administrator, applicant Tau has his hand raised as well as applicant Stanley. Sure, so please go ahead. Mr. Tau or Mr. Stanley, would one of you like to speak? Yeah, this is Peter Stanley, applicant represented. Tau is on the line as well. He is with a good onward ink and we are aware of that condition and are ready to follow it should any changes to the resolution that's before you this morning. Great, wonderful. Thank you so much for that confirmation. So then in review of this project, I do find that the expansion of the square footage for an ancillary use for storage really does not have any potential for impacts beyond those already reviewed as part of the approved project that it is a modification of the use to ensure compliance with zoning code requirements for cannabis uses. I am able to make all of the findings to approve this project, including the finding that pursuant to section 15162 of CEQA guidelines that the initial study MND that was adopted for the good onward in cannabis facility project and was certified does provide adequate environmental review for this project and that the proposed storage area and ancillary storage use would not substantially change the approved operations and would be within the scope of the previously adopted MND. So with that, I do see that we do have some conditions of this conditions of approval on this resolution, the applicant is required to comply with all of those conditions of approval. And so with that understanding and with having completed my review, I am approving this minor conditional use permit. Please be advised that this approval of this minor conditional use permit is subject to appeal within 10 days and that appeal deadline is close of business on February 14, 2022. So thank you to the applicant as well as to Connor for today's presentation and the work that you've done. So then we'll move on to meeting item 4.2. And meeting item 4.2 is a public meeting for the Slater Hillside permit for a pool. The project is located at 3935 Hansford Court. The CEQA exemption is recommended for this project and the project's file number is CUP 21-012. The project planner is Christiane Thumians and Christiane, we are looking forward to your staff presentation. Thank you, Mr. Triple. This is a Slater Hillside permit for a pool. It's a minor hillside development permit at 3935 Hansford Court. And the request includes the construction of a swing pool deck and retaining wall in the hillside development area. This is a aerial of the project site from 2017. As you can see the project site in the surrounding areas were devastated by the fires in 2017. The house was reconstructed and now the applicant is requesting a pool of behind the residence. This is the site plan showing where the pool is proposed along with retaining walls surrounding the pool and pool decking. The pool would not be readily visible from the public right of way. And as you can see from this topo map, there are some areas with areas of slope in excess of 25%. However, the proposed pool would still be in compliance with section 20-32.020B in that the existing slopes in excess of 25% are from the reconstruction of the existing residents in areas that are not visible to the public due to screening by existing fencing and the primary residence. The applicant is also proposing on retaining any surviving healthy trees on the property that will also aid in screening the pool area. And here's that code section that I was referencing, it's highlighted. With that the Planning and Economic Development Department recommends that the Zoning Administrator by resolution improve a minor health site development permit for a new swimming pool and deck area in areas of 10% slope or greater. Looking at 3935 Hansford Court, file number HDP 21-012. And also important to note there has been no inquiries or interest in the, regarding this project from surrounding neighbors. The applicant's representatives and the applicant is present. We'll not make a presentation but are available for any questions or comments. Thanks. Great, thank you for that presentation. I just have one question that I think more is to clarify for members of the public. Parker Hill Road is actually a private access easement, correct? That's correct. So even though it appears in GIS and in maps as a road that makes it seem like it would be a public right of way. In fact, it's not. Right, that's correct. Right, great. And so then I believe the code says with regard to setbacks from private easements or private rights of way that it just does not need to encroach within the setback. So in other words, there's no required minimum setback from a private road easement. Yes, and pools are treated differently than any other accessory structure. Right, because they don't emerge out of the ground. Great, thank you. I don't have any other questions. At this time, I would like to open public comment for this meeting item. Again, if anyone wishes to make a comment, please raise your hand and you can do so by pressing that icon at the bottom of your screen. If you are phoning in and you'd like to make a comment, please press star nine to raise your hand. Mr. Zoning Administrator, please note, the only attendees at this moment is just the applicant team. There are no members of the public here, so I think we might be good to move on. Sure, great, thank you. I'll go ahead and close public comment for this item. I appreciate the work that's gone into both. The middle of the application to comply with the ordinance requirements, as well as the review that's been done by the project planner by other staff at the city and the coordination to ensure that not only are there no visual impacts from the proposed pool, but also that we're ensuring that the existing slope will remain stable as construction is ensues. And so with that and with the information presented today, as well as the project plans dated received September 14, 2021 that I've reviewed, I am able to make all of the findings to approve this project, including the finding that the project has been reviewed in compliance with CEQA guidelines and qualifies for a class three exemption in that it's construction of an accessory residential structure in a residential zone. And so with that, I do approve this minor hillside development permit for the construction of a swimming pool that can retaining walls at the, let's see, 3935 Hansburg court property. Please be advised that today's approval is subject to attend a appeal period. That appeal period will end at the close of business on February 14, 2022. Thank you for your presentation, Kristine. And with that, then we'll move to our last item on today's agenda, which is adjournment and seeing no other business. I am adjourning the February 3rd, 2022 zoning administrator meeting. Thank you everyone for your work to produce a successful meeting.


Mom meets daughter's boyfriend, quickly checks old family photos. Her mother was being oddly quiet during dinner. This was supposed to be an important day for her, when she would finally introduce the man she loved to her family, but mom really didn't seem to like him. Days later, her mother called with some news after doing a little digging. Oh my, God, said the young woman. It's him. Heidi and her mom Kay were over the moon when she was accepted into the UK's University of Newcastle to study economics and management. They had become somewhat estranged from extended family so spent a lot of time together, making the move hard on both of them. After a year in a shared apartment, Heidi felt comfortable enough to move into her own studio. Then, one day, she received a message from a stranger on Facebook begging for help. Ed Savit, a psychology and business student, had moved into Heidi's previous apartment, but was struggling with the washing machine. He said he'd found her name on some mail and decided to look her up for help. He Facebooked me asking how the washing machine worked, and I let him know, basically because he was hot. That was the last they spoke, until she felt someone staring at her from across the bar while out with friends one night. We just spotted each other, said Heidi, having recognized him from his Facebook profile. I thought he was gorgeous, he was actually amazing. All I can remember thinking is, wow, he is hot. The pair got chatting and soon went on their first date at a pizza restaurant. But there was something about Ed that Heidi really should have known. Heidi learned that the new tenant of her old apartment was also attending Newcastle University to study business and psychology.  Heidi would later say that the two, hit it off pretty much instantly. They became much closer and managed to stay together throughout college. The college sweethearts thought they knew everything about each other, but they would soon find out they were wrong. The couple was inseparable during their time at university and once they graduated they moved to London together, although they decided to live in separate apartments. Then in 2015, Ed took Heidi on a walk around the grounds of Derbyshire's Chatsworth house and got down on one knee. There was only one thing left to do. It was time to meet each other's parents. Four years since they started dating, Heidi and Ed decided it was time for their mothers to meet, so they set up a date and time for it. But just because it was the right time did not mean that neither of them were nervous. Introducing two families can be intimidating, and they had no idea that this wouldn't be any ordinary family introduction. Heidi called her mom and booked a table at their favorite restaurant, and Ed arranged for his mom, Fiona, to be there too. It would be nice to grow the family, Heidi thought, remembering when they used to spend more time with her cousins when she was little. But Heidi's mom was behaving very oddly, suspicious almost. She had been so excited to meet Ed and kept pushing for a night like this, so why was she being so off with him? While the conversation seemed to be flowing, and everyone was on their second glass of wine, Heidi asked to speak to her mother in private. They made their excuses and went outside. What's wrong, mom, asked Heidi. Do you not like Ed? Kay was about to answer, but Ed interrupted. There was something important he had to say. We're getting married. Ed announced to the table. This was supposed to be what the evening was building up to, but all Heidi could think about was the look on her mom's face. However, Kay quickly changed her tune once she heard there was a wedding on the way. But she couldn't shake the feeling that she had seen Ed's face somewhere before. With all of the plans surrounding the upcoming nuptials, Kay figured she would have to clear some space to keep presents and supplies in her attic. She started cleaning up the space but deep down, she was hoping she would find something that she had been thinking about up there. Then, she saw it, sitting in the corner and a strange feeling crept over her. Was her gut feeling right? When Kay saw her old photo albums stacked in the corner of the attic, she knew that she just needed to satisfy her curiosity. She scanned through the dusty stacks of albums and found what she was looking for, an album that said Gumbett, July 1997 on the cover. Kay hadn't seen the two-decade-old photo album in a long time, so she couldn't be quite sure that this photo album would have exactly what she was looking for. But she quickly flipped through the pages, and when she reached the one she was hoping to find, she couldn't move. Kay had been skipping through smiling family photos and beautiful landscape portraits from the trip. She managed to find this particular photo from about 20 years ago that kept haunting her ever since the meeting with Ed and his mother. Right in front of her was her daughter Heidi standing with her first-ever boyfriend. The blonde mystery boy was exactly how she remembered him. He was flashing a shy smile, standing next to Heidi just as they had been for the entire trip. In truth, Kay was looking for this boy for one particular reason. When she saw the little boy in the old photo album, she was dumbstruck and knew right away that her suspicions were likely correct. As Kay looked at the old photo album, she did not know if this was just about the craziest thing she had ever seen, or if she was just going crazy. She was convinced she was correct about her nagging suspicion, but she needed more details. Kay was pretty certain that this little blonde boy, named Ed, was the same Ed that was about to marry her daughter. It was almost too good to be true. The Ed that Kay had just met a few days ago at the London restaurant looked different from the little boy in the old photo album. She had to make a call. Heidi threw on her coat and jumped in the car as soon as she put the phone down. She was worried about what her mom had to say. She was normally so upbeat. Did this have something to do with Ed? When she got to her mom's house, Kay was sitting in her armchair with a drink in her hand and several photos laid out on the coffee table. Without saying a word, she gestured to one. Heidi picked up the photo. I was astonished when I saw the picture. I just yelled, Mom, you know who that is. Heidi was holding a vacation photo from Turkey from when she was little. The six-year-old boy holding her hand in the picture was Ed. Back in 1996, the pair had met at a children's camp in Bodrum and had become besotted with each other. Kay was sure she recognized Ed from somewhere, but even she was surprised that he was actually Heidi's little boyfriend from years before. Communications manager Heidi told Mail Online, I was so shocked I actually had to lie down. Ed was amazed, too, we couldn't believe it. I didn't believe in fate before finding that out, but there's no arguing with it. We're clearly destined to be together. The revelation meant a lot to the couple. So much so that they had to honor their meeting from years before. Kay thought that maybe there was a subconscious realization that they had shared that time together when they met as adults. And with the two set to be married by the end of the year, they knew they had to incorporate this news into their wedding somehow. Heidi and Ed decided to use these old photos of them as six-year-olds in their wedding invitations. So, the pictures of them from the old photo album were featured on the invites they sent hundreds of guests. The pair got married in a huge celebration in Derbyshire. They could still say that they had experienced love at first sight, but now they knew that the first sight had happened way before either of them imagined. Heidi and Ed were lucky enough to marry their first love in one of the craziest love stories. But they were not the only two meant for each other that day. Even after the big wedding day, Kay recalled that back in Turkey in 1997, it was not just Heidi and Ed who met on that holiday, but all of us. Ed and Heidi's siblings had all met during that vacation. Some of the pictures their families found in those old photo albums showed all of the siblings hanging out together. Becoming in-laws bonds two families but after finding out about this unbelievable first meeting, the two families have become even more interconnected. Kay and Fiona have become best friends, along with their husbands. And since Ed and Heidi's wedding, the two sets of parents have planned vacations together. The couple can still hardly believe it.


This is what I'm seeing right now. I'm seeing guys just kind of drop the two knees and then fall to their leg pass. Okay? Again. And by the way, you guys just did pretty much everything we did yesterday in about 17 minutes. You just did an entire five hour camp in about 17 minutes and everybody looks really stinking good. All right? So you guys got, that's important for you guys to recognize that. You all just did five hours with the technique. Very, very detailed technique. Everybody. She wasn't even here yesterday. She's doing pretty good on a good job. All right? That's important for you guys to understand. You all just did five hours with the technical, high level technical stuff and you did great reps inside of 17 minutes. But this is the only one thing that I think we need to clean up that was kind of glaring. Again, I can't just drop to my knees. And if in a match I can get here, you really think I need to scramble? Right.  If I get here, the more you learn how to scramble, the more you're going to learn how to be like, do I need to scramble here? I can just start stuffing head, elbows, wiggling back, looking for my go-behinds. So that's why I want you guys to make sure that when he's in on this double, it's because I can't sprawl. It's why I scramble. I don't scramble just because I like scrambling and it's fun to watch. Again, I'm in a competition environment. I want to beat every position I can as efficiently as possible. So again, I'm getting this angle back because that's what he wants. He's going to knee slide and windshield wiper. Knee slide, windshield wiper that back foot. He wants that angle. He wants that. He wants that. That's what he wants so he can drive and finish. I got to take it away. So when I step and swing and he's kind of tied on my legs, watch what happens. Is he nice and tight and compact or is he stretched out? See how he's kind of chasing my legs? But I got here in a tight circle. So I got a little bit of the angle back and at this point it's a little bit of a fight. He's fighting to get to my legs. I'm fighting to get to his sole. See how this windshield wiper right here, he's trying to take it away. I'm fighting to get it. My feet are in the mat. Now that I got it, I'm in good shape. I can get back to this position and start wrestling. So make sure, I don't even care if we dial it down a little bit. I love the pace we're drilling at right now. But I don't care if we dial it down a little bit to make sure we get this detail. This is one thing you'll realize and it was some great advice I got a long time ago. If you can wrestle in a smaller circle than the guy you're competing against or girl you're competing against, huge advantage. So if Kale's just shuffling on this white circle on the outside, just shuffling. And I'm shuffling the same. We'll never get anywhere, right? But if he keeps shuffling and I keep a tighter circle or if he's trying to circle and I keep a tighter circle than him for a tighter circle on my feet, same thing, right? That's how we get angles. I wrestle in a tighter circle. Same thing on bottom. If I'm on bottom he lines up on my right side. And I'm changing over, getting to these grand situations, right? Or shrug situations, tighter circle. Everything's compact. I can get a nice angle a lot quicker. So that's all we're doing in this scramble situation too is he's trying to pound and build and get this angle and I've got to take it back. He's got me beat here. So I've got to take that little step, that swing and I've got to get this angle back. Then my feet are in the mat and I'm looking for my leg pass. So just make sure that that's in the back of your mind. Tight circle. I've got to beat his angle back again. He's got the corner. He's got to my legs. I've got to beat a little bit of an angle. Questions? Are we punching through with that so we come in and get their sole and we have that hand? Are we still punching through as we roll through? When I get to this position right here, when I get here and get to the sole my goal is to make sure this lace stays on the mat because a lot of times we want to pull it up and we're just helping them. Right here and I'm firing this across. Feet are driving, feet are driving. He's walking on his hands. Nice tight right here. All the way to this position. Again, if I get here and I feel like he's just kind of crawling away then just turn down to his legs. The more you get there, the more you'll feel if this guy's still with you or not. You never can go wrong by turning down to the legs. You can't. Let's get it going. Clean it up.


There is no doubt that the summer fires in 2019-2020 were unprecedented in terms of impact. By March 2020, the summer fires burned almost 19 million hectares, destroyed over 3,000 houses and killed 33 people. It will take many years to restore the economy in the impacted areas and for the animal and bale diversity to recover. According to the early estimates from the Global Fire Emission Database, the bush fires likely contributed 900 million metric tons of carbon emission. The method shown here shows the estimated fire carbon emission across the continent by the end of 2019. A clear increase from the November can be seen due to the bush fires. There are various ways to quantify the size and the scale of the fires. Most of them are based on the aerial or satellite images and field validation. In addition to identifying the burnt areas, knowing the severity of the burnt areas is also very important. The figure shows area with more severe change to the previous land surface condition in dark purple. We use sophisticated computer algorithm to automatically map burnt area using the 25 meters resolution satellite images from Landsat 8. Accurate information of fire severity helps to better understand the ecosystem impact of bush fires and the recovery rate. Many particles and gases in the smoke are water soluble and will be absorbed into clouds and rain droplets and carry back to the earth. So does ash and microscopic charcoal in the smoke are heavy and often put quickly back to the surface by gravity. Smaller particles or organic aerosols in the smoke can travel around the entire world on high altitude winds and last for several weeks. The smoke particles mostly lingered in the troposphere but can inject it into stratosphere. It depends on where the fire occurs and which directions the winds are blowing. Here are some images captured by the Himawari A satellite in January 2020. You can see that the smoke generated from the Australian bush fires traveled more than 2,000 kilometers and blankets New Zealand.  It can significantly impact people with cardiovascular and respiratory problems. The long term environmental impacts include damage to water catchment and potential effects on global carbon cycle. It has indirect impacts on the economy as well by disrupting the communities. These satellite observations can help us to better understand the extent and the severity of the bush fires and the impacts on the life and the environment.


At Alice Brigham we take ski testing really seriously and this involves two different ski tests. The first one is done early in the season. Everything's put through its paces and compared we make the decisions what we're going to stock. Later on in the season we bring staff out to Austria. Here the staff test all the skis that we've decided to go in the range. This means we can make sure we've made all the correct decisions but it also means that when you come into any of our stores the staff there can give you personal advice. They know exactly how the ski skis because they've been on them. The shape of the ski which is the RC 173 all-ride is based on a P ski with a tip dimension of 121 millimeter, 73 millimeter under the foot and 103 millimeter tail. It's primarily an on P ski with added performance from the construction. The terrain it will suit best will be on P. The ability level is a fairly wide-ranging ability level from anything from intermediate up to advanced skier. They will benefit from the fact that ski will grip and hold and will give added performance through pressure through the turn. This is a new construction from Fisher. It has a material in the tip here called Baphitex. It includes a full titanium sheet 0.5 millimeter thick and you can see it in the tip here the metal runs down the center and then goes out into the middle and runs the full length of the ski. The other major feature in the tip area and the tail area you can see a new material called Baphitex. This is a non-woven material that is lightweight and yet extremely strong. Well the feedback has been very positive. We've been particularly pleased with the feedback from people saying that the ski gives a very punchy and dynamic feel when skied hard and it feels extremely high performance and yet very easy to ski and these are the features you really hope for in this type of ski. I am Matt. I'm from the Liverpool store and I've just been using the Fisher RC1 73. So the thing that I noticed most and so loved to me was that it could really handle a little bit of chop up there as well. So for instance when you're going from harder packs now to a little bit more chopped up it cooks through things really nicely and still quite holds up quite well. It's pretty stable under foot as well. So I definitely recommend this ski for anyone who really wants to progress on hard pieceded snow. Having tested it myself I find that being aggressive with it works really well. So anyone who's looking to develop their ski and further on pieceded would definitely get something out of this ski.