Good morning. Roberta, can you see and hear me okay? Yes. Thank you. Thank you. Hi Heather, do you want to try a sound check so we can make sure your mic works? Can you say a little bit more? Yes, can you hear me? It's a little low. Can you say a little bit more so we can see if it's. I'll use the other one. Okay, it sounded okay right when you said I'll use another one, but before that, I guess if I talk a little louder. Yeah, that seems to be okay. Okay. Loud. Yeah, that seems to be okay. If you want to. Well, I guess I won't be able to see you, but if you stop being able to hear me very well. Somebody will interrupt you and tell you. Okay. Good morning, everyone. We will wait for board member Grable to join us. And then we will get started. Thank you. All right. It looks like we have board member Grable. So we will go ahead and get started. Good morning, everyone. I'd like to call the water conservation subcommittee. To order at nine oh one. Secretary. Can we do a roll call? Share lots. Here. One number wash. Great. So just a reminder to the subcommittee members, if you can mute your phones or microphones when you're not speaking. And then we will open up for public comment item two. This is public comment on non-agenda items. So if you wish to make a comment via zoom, please raise your hand. If you are dialing in via telephone, please dial star nine to raise your hand. Secretary. Do we have any live email or voicemail public comments? We received no comments. All right. Thank you. So now we will open up the, the. For any public comments on the minutes before we accept the minutes. So if you wish to make a comment via zoom, please raise your hand. And if you are dialing in via telephone, please dial star nine to raise your hand. Secretary. Do we have any comments about the minutes from last meeting? We're no public comments. All right. Great. Well, then I'd like to ask chair, ask a deputy director, Martin, if he could introduce item 4.1. Yeah. Good morning, chair Watts. Item 4.1 is our water use efficiency awards. Heather Aviles, sustainability representative for the water department. We presenting. Good morning, chair Watts. Members of the committee. I'm. As Peter said, I'm Heather Avila. The sustainability representative for our water use efficiency. Our water efficiency. Efficiency. Team. I'm here today speaking to the committee's approval of this year's water use efficiency award nominations. We've provided a handout with a detailed description of the nominees. But I'll also reuse them right now. Our first nominee. Is our water efficiency program champion. We're nominating park landscape maintenance. Park landscape maintenance has replaced over 30,000 square feet of water. They've gone above and beyond. To save water by performing irrigation systems checks, responding quickly to leaks. And using meter data to manage. Commercial sites to a budget. They serve both our residential and commercial sectors. And promote our programs and rebates. Our multi-family award nominee. It's going to Dan Wiley. Dan owns a 20 unit complex in Santa Rosa. And one of the main reasons we're nominating him. Is because he's using our water smart portal. To observe water use trends and set thresholds for a leak alert. By doing this in 2021, he was able to notice a. Water use increase. And when he did, he conducted inspections and gathered information from his tennis and was able to figure out that. Is recirculating hot water pumps on a water heater. Had broken. He repaired the pump and was quickly. Able to. Save thousands of gallons of water. Without the pump working the tenants were having to run the water. A lot longer to get hot water for the showers. In addition to having very, very efficient fixtures. In addition to having very, very efficient fixtures. That is complex. He has an onsite maintenance manager. Who conducts inspections. And tests the toilet for weeks at least twice a year. And he also responds very quickly to any water use concerns. That's the reason. Our commercial award nominee. Is going to Cottingtown center. Cottingtown center was extremely supportive of our drought efforts this last year. And we've had a lot of events or drought drop by. Where we gave away thousands of our water smart kits. Where customers. In addition, they've taken on a large scale irrigation. Project where they're converting over 4,000. To an efficient drip system. Lastly. They Cottingtown has a very large and very complex. Plumbing setup. And it's been extremely responsive. To concerns of weeks. And finding and fixing them. Our single family award nominee. Goes to Richard Lane. Richard is our coffee strong block captain. And he continues to promote. Sustainable features within the coffee park rebuild. This last year he installed. A little bit. Or 5,000 gallons of rainwater storage. That has a rainwater garden for all the. Overflow. He also installed a gray water system. That uses water from his clothes washer. Bathroom sink. Hubs and showers. Irrigate his little water. We now like to ask the committee's approval. Move forward with these nominations. Thank you so much for your presentation. Are there any board member questions or comments? Thank you for the presentation. And the nominees look great. I love the rainwater captation. I have one of those. 5,000 gallon tanks in my backyard myself that collects rainwater. And especially right now it's like. Just seems like everybody's going to need one pretty soon. So I'm glad that that folks are out there and leading the charge and helping us. You know, with early adoption and some of these things that are happening right now, I think we're going to be able to do that. And that will probably become the norm. So thank you so much. I also really enjoy seeing the multi-family award this year. I know that it's really difficult. A lot of the times for us to reach the tenants who are not necessarily on the account folder or not the account holders on the water bill. So it's really exciting to see landlords participating in some conservation efforts. And I hope that we can, they can encourage them to do that across, you know, in the community that we just don't get to reach those, those participants as easily. So, so thank you guys for that. Really excited for this year. This is always probably the best meeting of the year when we get to do the award. So. With that, I will open it up for public comment. If you wish to make a comment via zoom, please raise your hand. If you're dialing in via telephone, please dial star nine to raise your hand. Secretary. Do we have any public or voicemail comments at this time? There are no comments. So I guess we will do a roll call vote. I think you actually need to only do like a moment a second. Oh, thank you. Even though it's just the two of you. I would move to approve the, the nominations set forth in the presentation for water conservation efforts and. Thank you. Board member Grable. I will second. So chair Watts. Aye. And board member Grable. Aye. Thank you. Thank you so much. That we will move to item 4.2 deputy director. It's decided. Yes. We have staff update for 2022. Water awareness month. Once again, Heather Aviles will be providing that presentation. Thank you committee members. Both of you, like we know, water awareness month. Is a statewide effort celebrated in the month of May. On May 10th this year, we will be going to city council for the proclamation of water awareness month as well as. For these water use efficiency. Or just a nomination. As usual, we will be advertising water awareness month through our social media. Radio. The proclamation. It helps bring awareness to Santa Rosa water. The efficiency program and recognizes our efforts by our staff and our community. Some of the. 2022 water awareness events include. The Earth Day event. We will be having on April 23rd. This event. Promote environmental protection. Within our community and we hope to see thousands of people this year. Water efficiency will be there handing out water smart kits and informing our customers about our rebates and programs. On May 14th. The. Virtual eco-friendly garden tour will begin. The tour highlights Russian river. Really landscaping best practices and support work. Completed by qualified water efficient. There will be 12 gardens. Throughout snowmen Marin County. And three of them will be in Santa Rosa. We expect over 2000 people to sign up and participate. Each of the gardens will have a professionally shop video to inspire and educate. Our community. Also on May 14th. We are. Co-hosting a workshop information with daily act. At their farm. This workshop. Will be. A bilingual workshop in Spanish and English. On insect investigation. Studies are showing them proving biodiversity in our soils. We select runoff and much greater water retention. As part of water awareness awareness month. We also. Send out. Letters to our customers. Updates and on water supply issues. Water use restriction rebates and free devices. As well as our. Events. And promote our water smart portal. Due to COVID we've had to cancel our water smart. Expo for the last two years that we're finally. Excited to be hosting it again this year. This year it'll be held on June 29th. Our focus will be on. Drought outreach and promoting our water smart portal. We expect to have. About 12 booths that highlight indoor and outdoor water. Efficiency. And we'd love to see the members of the board there. As always. And ours a water to help. Thank you so much for your presentation. You guys have a lot of busy events coming up. Excited to see some of them coming back in person. Any board member questions or comments. All right. Well, thank you so much for your presentation. We'll open it up for public comment. I am 4.2. If you wish to raise your, if you wish to make a comment via zoom, please raise your hand. If you are dialing in via telephone, please dial star nine to raise your hand. Secretary, any public comments for this item? We have no public comments. Great. We will move to item 4.3. Deputy director, if you could introduce item 4.3. Yes. Thank you, chair Watts. Item 4.3 is a staff update on. Department of Water Use Efficiency Activity. If you wish to make a comment via zoom, please raise your hand. If you are dialing in via telephone, please raise your hand. If you wish to make a comment via zoom, please raise your hand. If you wish to make a comment via zoom, please raise your hand. Department of Water Use Efficiency activities and the spring and summer drought campaign. Presenting will be Claire Norley, Water Use Efficiency Coordinator for the Water Department. Good morning chair Watts and members of the board. All right. So I'm going to be presenting a water. from drought is here to drought is still here, kind of adding that still here to make sure that our customers are aware that a drought continues, but still complimenting our existing outreach materials. On the bottom left-hand side is a picture of the campaign that we're gonna be rolling out. This is just a draft image, but it's really to highlight sort of a before and an after and provide information to our customers about specific actions that they can take with their property to save water. So in this example, we have grass on the left-hand side and then on the right-hand side we have a dry creek bed with some plantings. So it's really going from a resource-intensive, water-intensive landscaping to a beautiful low-water use landscaping. And so again, all of the images will highlight sort of the before and after and suggest ways that customers can undertake water-saving actions at their own home. In addition to the events that Heather described earlier for April and May, we have a very full summer and fall coming up with a lot of in-person events. And we're really excited to be able to work again with our customers in-person. So we've got a farmer's market booth that's coming up in June. Of course, we have our Water Smart Expo also in June. We've also got a tree care workshop that's coming up in July, really emphasizing to our customers the importance of taking care of their trees during drought. We're also gonna be hosting a hands-on drip irrigation workshop in July. We have a gray water reuse workshop that's coming up in August. We'll be going back again to the Wednesday market in August. We're hosting a lawn-gone workshop in September. And then two rainwater harvesting workshops, one in English and one in Spanish, later on in November. So we're really excited to get back out there and work with our customers again in-person. We're also continuing always to work with our commercial customers. So on the left-hand side, you'll see a water-saving tip sheet that we're trying to distribute out to our commercial customers through our chamber relationships. That's been really successful last year, and we hope to continue those relationships moving forward. We also have outreach that's required because we are in drought restrictions that need to go into hotels and lodging as well as restaurants. So we have free cards that are pictured here on the right-hand side of the screen. We can provide those cards for free to any of our commercial customers who may like them. They can also put out their own cards, and we have editable electronic copies on our website for customers to be able to customize them and add their logo, for example. So some of the key messaging that we're gonna really be highlighting in the next couple of months, this spring and summer, are encouraging our customers to do an irrigation checkup, reviewing their irrigation before they turn it on, make sure that there aren't any leaks and breaks. We're also always encouraging appropriate scheduling. We offer free water, free weekly watering recommendations on our website, and we hope that customers take advantage of those. We also always encourage customers to select low-water use plants, and we have great resources on our website to encourage that selection. Always advocating that customers find out about and utilize our rebates, including our new rebates, which are the pool removal rebate and our pool cover rebate. We're also emphasize tree care during drought, especially our trees and our mature plantings don't bounce back as easily after a drought, and so it's really important that we ensure our customers continue to water those and let their grass die, which could be brought back really easily after a drought. And then lastly, we're always encouraging our customers to register for the WaterSmart portal. We think this is a really helpful tool for customers to be able to understand their water usage really easily. It provides annual, monthly, weekly, and even hourly water use data. So one project that I wanted to highlight that staff has just completed is to develop a list of climate-ready trees. This was a list of trees that thrive not only in Santa Rosa's current climate, but also in our projected climate out through 2050. So this list of trees, I think will be useful for numerous reasons. One of them, of course, for our cash for grass long removal rebate program for our required plantings. We also get questions from customers about what kinds of plants to plant just in general, even if they're not participating in our cash for grass program. So I think it'll be helpful for them as well. We were also recently awarded a grant to expand our cash for grass program for commercial customers and increase that rebate amount. And it requires that customers install trees. So again, this list will be really helpful for that. And then lastly, I think this list will be helpful for our required street trees list that is maintained by our parks department. So this list was developed in concert in partnership with our master gardeners or local master gardeners. They actually reviewed climate projections for Sonoma County and specifically Santa Rosa out through 2100. And they reviewed climate projections from numerous sources. Sonoma County Climate Protection Authority, CalAdapt, Western Regional Climate Center, and California Irrigation Management Information System. So they analyzed quite a bit of research about how trees are going to be adapting in our changing climate. And they identified key elements to plant selection. And then they developed a scoring tool to select trees. What their research found was that Paso Robles' temperature and climate as it is today is how Santa Rosa's will be in 2015. So based on that information, they were able to rank over 100 trees and to develop a list of 28 trees total that scored the highest on the scoring tool, which is based on eight different characteristics, including drought tolerance. So all of the trees on this list are either low or very low water use requirements, temperature tolerance, pest resistance, damage resilience, whether the tree is native to California or not, the nuisance factor, so how much leaf drop is occurring, for example, throughout the year, the maintenance requirements, and whether the tree provides habitat. So this list of 28 trees is now available on our website. We've also integrated it into Sonoma Waters plant picker tools. So it's also available regionally for anyone in Sonoma County to take advantage of this. And lastly, I wanna highlight the success that the Sonoma-Morin Saving Water Partnership has had over the last fiscal year. Santa Rosa is obviously part of this partnership and we've contributed to these successful totals. So in this last fiscal year, nine over 945 irrigation systems were retrofitted with smart controllers, over 150,000 square feet of lawn was removed, over 31,000 gallons of rainwater harvesting capacity was added to our County, almost enforced 1,500 water waste enforcements, 2,100 water smart home evaluations, which is pretty impressive considering we weren't going into homes for part of this year due to COVID. So that's really exciting to see that we are still able to participate in over 2,000 home evaluations. And then really excitingly, we've distributed over 10,000 drought kits this last year, 3,000 of which were contributed by Santa Rosa alone during our last drought-dropped by events. So as always, Santa Rosa is here to help and for the latest information on drought and what are you sufficiency, folks can visit srcity.org slash save water. Thank you so much for your presentation. Are there any board member questions or comments at this time? Board member Grable? Yeah, thank you so much for that presentation. Just a lot of expertise there that I think we benefit from and certainly the public does. Just a specific question. You mentioned, I was hoping the slide would come up and I could screenshot it, but the list of climate ready trees that you narrowed down to 28, you said it was available on which website and just how can I access that? Cause that's actually something that I think I can use in my work right away. That's great. Yes, it is available on our Santa Rosa Water Smart Yard page. So that's the srcity.org slash Water Smart Yard and it's also available on Sonoma Waters website. That would actually be the suggested location because there's nice pictures and they have more of a description on their website cause they have a great tool. Awesome. And just out of curiosity is that the language there on the website, does it describe it both in terms of water savings and climate adaptation? The climate ready trees title is there too. Yes, it does talk a little bit about the climate benefits to trees. That's fantastic. I've been hoping there'd be more of a synergy and I saw in the last presentation from Ms. Avilis as well, recognizing that healthy soils and obviously native plants and vegetation and that carbon sequestration and water retention in healthy soils with native plants and biodiversity seem to be synergistic and symbiotic and definitely achieving multiple desired outcomes at once obviously as that becomes a more and more dire imperative. So thank you so much. Yeah, I just want to add to that over the past year or so Claire and her team have worked quite a bit with the partnership to develop a lot of plant list related items and ways that folks can kind of go shopping at different nurseries and things like that. So it should be utilized as a resource for folks, county wide. And so I think Claire's suggestion that that be the kind of the primary location is a good one. Cause we've also put a lot of time and equity into helping the partnership improve that as well. Is there any thought of making that in a physical handout that can be placed at some of these nurseries like at the checkout type of location, just speaking from my own experience, you're going to a nursery and then asking, oh, which ones are drought tolerant and all that. Those are usually kind of the questions that when I am looking for some flowers for the season, is there any possibility of getting that into something physical that can be displayed at those types of locations? That's a great idea. Yes, I can definitely look into that. I can also comment that Sonoma water through the partnership has a WaterSmart plant nursery plant tag that they've worked with specific local nurseries and I think they're always trying to expand it. So I think it's at 19 local Sonoma County nurseries and it's a specific plant tag that says this plant is WaterSmart. So that is also out there and of course they're always looking to expand that further. But I think that this tree list would be a really good compliment to a plant tag. Yeah, that's one number greatly. Well, I just wanted to second what Board Member Watts said what Chair Watts said in that also there's a lot of folks I think who shop at some of the local nurseries, specifically like Calflora and others that specialize in native plants. And there are folks from, it's certainly not a generalization but there are definitely folks who I know use the internet less from other generations and folks who are elders with more expertise in native plants and gardening and do go to Calflora but may not be aware of some of the online resources that compliment that and the incentive programs that obviously we've been really rolling out successfully but there might be some folks who are already doing this stuff that could benefit from that as Chair Watts said a hard copy form in those locations because they may not be looking for it online. Yeah, there's an extra cost associated with doing any sort of print material that might not be covered. However, I do know from my own experience when we go to the nursery it's kind of just the last minute. Oh, let's go to the nursery and it's an easy place to be outside with my little one. So it's definitely something where I don't necessarily plan and research ahead of time and usually go and ask them for ideas while I'm there. So something like that I think would be beneficial and this is really exciting that tree list I will definitely use as well as Bore-Bembre Grable. So we've been looking for a couple more for our yard while we remove our grass. So that's a exciting resource available. And just one more clarifying question that the website, the County Y website that both Peter and Claire that you referred to is the Sonoma Moraine Water Partnership website, not just the Santa Rosa Water Smart, but was that the distinction between the two online portals? Yeah, so Santa Rosa in our water department we have our own website pages which is the SRCITY one that I mentioned but I do recommend for this list to go to the Sonoma Moraine Saving Water Partnership list. It's called the Plant Picker and it's prominently displayed right on the homepage and it's got really nice photos and it's got a good description of each type of plant. So I think that's the best resource to be able to see what the plant looks like, for example. Yeah, and that webpage is savingwaterpartnership.org. Well, thank you so much. This was an engaging conversation. I think we're both very excited about these resources so I know the public will be as well. So we will open it up for public comments if there are any public comments on item 4.3. If you're a dialing in, please dial star nine. If you're doing through Zoom, please raise your hand. Secretary Atha, do we have any public comments for this item? Chair, once we have no public comments. All right, well, thank you so much for the information this morning. I think that actually concludes our meeting. So we will adjourn and we will see each other at the next BT meeting. Have a good day.


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This is the $100 Walmart budget fishing challenge. Me and my boy Connor both get $100 to pick out a rod, a reel, and five baits, but there's a twist. Me and Connor both get to pick each other out a random lure. That means the lure could be good or bad so you guys need to stay tuned to see what happens. Once we buy all the tackle, we're both going to hop in the separate cars and hit as many ponds as we can to catch the fish we need. Whoever catches a fish on each of the five baits wins the challenge. So this is how we're going to structure this. I need five baits to fish with. My boy Connor behind the camera needs five baits to fish with. I'm only allowed to pick out four of my baits. Then Connor has to surprise me on the fifth bait. And after we're done picking our baits, we're going to go through all the combos that they have and pick out a fishing combo to fit the $100 budget. Before we get deeper into this video, only 27% of you all watching these videos are actually subscribed. So if you could take the time, hit the subscribe button. Really helps the channel. I'd appreciate it. So in the last video, we actually made a Bass Pro versus Walmart and the Walmart section was horrible. So we actually came out into a whole different Walmart. They got a bunch of different baits. You guys come over here. They got so many rods. And then when we come up here, I want to come to the front. Get some more rods right here. And then they have a whole another section of rods. There's a lot more tackle of this Walmart in the bait selection. It's just a lot better. So let's go ahead and hop into it. So last time I faded away from my favorite bait, but this challenge I got to do it. So the first bait that I'm going to be going with today is the White Chatter Donk. That is the sauce guys. It catches donkeys and that's my first bait of choice. No, we got a moving bait. I'm actually going to start off with a soft plastic here. They honestly don't have that many options. So we've got a couple crawls. Normally out there like a rage crawl, but they don't have any. So we're kind of limited on our options here. So like these are not bad. They stink though. They smell terrible. So we're actually not gonna- Can I take a sniff, sniff test? No, no sniff test. No sniff test. Not on this one. Speed crawl is good. So we're going to Texas rig this and that's going to be our first bait. So this was the first bait that we picked out. And I think this is what I'm going to do. Since I can only pick four of my baits, I think I want to do two soft plastics and then two hard baits. So let's go ahead and go over here. What Connor was saying, the options are very slim. They're not as slim as the last Walmart, but they're still pretty slim. Connor, you weren't with me there, but dude, the Walmart section was horrible. So you were saying there's not many crawls. You got some regular ultra-vibes, speed crawls here. You got these crawls down here. But that's really all the options you got. But the one thing that they have in this Walmart that they didn't have in the other Walmart, and it will also make sense on the back of this chatter dunk is the old white fluke. Look at this right here. Not only is that going to be one of my baits today, but I can also pair it up on the back of the chatter donkey. So we're killing two birds with one stone. All right, bait number two. Let's see what we got. I've got an idea for this, and I want to get a spinner bait, but the only reason is because in the last video, Noah caught a double digit. I haven't caught one of those, so. Maybe if we go to the spinner bait. You taking the inspiration? I have to, I have to. So there's another problem with that. So you think it's a bad decision if I don't choose a spinner bait because I caught a 10 pounder in the last video? Yeah, no, no, that is, that's the thinking. But another problem too is like, if you look over here, if I'm being completely honest, this from here to here, should just throw it all away and fill it up with wake baits. But they don't have any wake baits. So I don't know where to go. The challenges have been treating you dirty, haven't they? If you guys don't know, Connor's favorite baits, the wake bait, he's been a little upset because no stores have them. The last video couldn't find them, this one can't find them. So we got to work with what we have. And this is proven to catch a big fish. I mean, it did in the last one. Dude, look at that thing. All right, that's going to be bait number two for me. All right, boys. Got the old flusky, chattered donkey. Now I want to get one more hard bait. So we could always go with the top water, but I'm going to tell you guys, it is 105 degrees outside. It's a little lower, but I just don't know if a fish wants to get it to top water. Like if I was a bass today, I probably wouldn't be eating the top water. So that's an option. I just don't think it's the best because we got to win this challenge. Plus Connor could sabotage me on my fifth bait. So I need to make sure I can catch a fish on all four of these baits. One bait that I actually enjoyed throwing in the last video that I think I might have to bring it back to is a lipless crankbait. No. Come on. Yeah, I brought one of those, dude. Dude, this is the gas, boy. That is a good color there. That's some heat right there, son. So I think that's what we're going to go with. Actually, hold on. Let's look at the options. So we got the regular rattle traps. Look at this one. Is that the same one I threw in the last video? I want to say it's the same color. So I'm definitely not going to do that. I'm not the biggest fan of those standard rattle traps. Nothing against rattle trap. Like they're the original, but I'm just a fan of like the two taps or the red eyeshads by striking. That's just been my favorite. That's the juice. So I think that's what we're going to go with. Our third bait right there. So we got the flukes, chatterdump, trapperoo. All right, Connor. You got two baits. Now it's for bait number three, son. What you going to do? I'm going to be Noah here. What are you doing? Hey, you get it. Hey, what are you doing? Hey, where are you going? You're getting the chatterdunk, bro. I had to. I have to do it. The chatterdunk?  What if I wanted to pick you out a chatterdunk for your fifth bait? You didn't even give me a chance, bro.  Check this thing out. So we're actually going to combine this with these crawls that I picked out earlier. And I know it's maybe not the best combination, but man, that is. I know I'm not supposed to, okay, so I'm not supposed to help you. So you got three options. You got these, you got these, and you got those. This is a green pumpkin. That's a green pumpkin and that's a watermelon. Personally, bro, I think that would fit better. Yeah, look at the color match. Look at the color match. No, that's true. That's fire, dude. See, the only thing I know is tie on a wake bait and throw it. Me and Connor were just talking about it. Do you think we should come out with some wake bait merch? I'll just build you a shirt, dude, and it's just got a wake bait. Me eating a bowl of wake bait for breakfast. That's what it's going to be. All right, son. All right, give me one of them soft plastics. Which one though? What are we looking at here? Soft plastics. Bro, hear me out. If you guys could see Connor's eyes behind the camera right now, I think he's very intrigued with what I'm about to say. Just imagine, bro. I feel like that's another 10 pounder bait, but am I risky enough to do it today? I don't think he is. I don't think I am. I'm not sure. So last video I threw this, bro. This puppy right here, this is an old classic. The old lizard. And this color right here was smoking them, bro. I've actually been throwing this a lot recently. It's actually one of my favorite baits now. We can't choose it because we did it in the last episode. We want to keep it a little interesting. But right here, we do have a bunch of seven and a half inch curly tail worms. We got one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine different colors. I could easily go with the Junebug and that's just a proven color to catch fish. But I think I'm going to go a little out here with it and just keep it interesting. Look at this color though. This is called grape shad. I love grape flavored foods. And I think these are going to taste really good to the fish. Those look pretty deep. Good, dude. I like it. You think they're actually grape flavored? What's going on here, dude? All right, man. On to your last video. All right. So this is the last bait that I can pick out. So I want to make this easy because Noah could sabotage me. I might just mess with you. You better be careful. It's your last choice. I know he is.  That's like a proven bait to always catch fish. If there's something that's on this wall that will just catch fish, it's definitely that. It's definitely these. It's not the same color. That one looks a little darker though. Between the Strike King and the Yum's, these are actually a little bit cheaper. And me and Noah just put them side by side and these are actually darker, which I like. I'm going for a darker color. So I think that's going to be the perfect bait for us today. All right, dude. Now I got to sabotage you. Or should I? Or should I not? I don't know. I got to think about it. You won the last challenge. So I could really, at the same time, you're going to pick out my bait.  Okay, Connor. There's many of the options and I have no idea what this is. I think this is definitely one of those options. Oh my gosh. What do you think? I'm going home. What is that? So it's little, they're called Emerald Chiners. They're dead or maybe they're alive. They sell these a lot at like Walmart's and little tackle shops. You actually think like people fish for this stuff? Like look at that, dead crickets. Like why not go to PetSmart and pick up some live crickets, bro? You know what I mean? Feed my frog or something. Let's see what else we got. Look at that. You think you can catch fish on that? I think we should just like give away from this section. Definitely not doing that. This is what I want to do. We can go in any order with these five baits that we want, except the bait that I pick out for you, I want you to fish with last. I want that to be your fifth bait. And look at this, bro. I'm not going to lie. I was kind of eyeballing it before you even got down this section. Hey, that's your old classic right there. That's what I'm saying, the beetle spin, bro. It's not going to be the easiest bait for you to catch fish with, but you can definitely catch fish on it. I will give you the option. Do you like this color? They got green, they got chartreuse, they got black, and they also have this crazy looking pink one. Is there one that like in particular that you like? Probably go with the orange one. Is that the orange one? Well, Connor, that is your fifth bait. Now it's time for you to pick out my last one. Don't mess me up, bro. All right, let's do it, dude. You might have to go old school with me too. I'm not going to lie. I thought Noah was going to like screw me over there. So I was initially going to get him something like this, which is, I don't even know what that is, but... Dude, they're smelly. It would have been so funny if I did pick out these though. Like those aren't even real. I don't think so. What, real are they? Weird looking. He got me a beetle spin. I've honestly never fished with a beetle spin, so I don't really even know how to catch fish on them. But I have fished with a rooster tail, and I used to fish with these all the time. And I think this is fair with what he got me. I like what you're doing here. So we have this yellow color right here, but I'll give you the option. Well, you don't have an option, because there aren't any other... They're all yellow? Okay, there's a wide up here. Yeah, I would almost rather go with the big yellow one than a white one. You know what I mean? That's definitely what I'm doing. I appreciate you, Connor. We got the old school action rooster tail beetle spin. You cannot beat that. All right, boys. There is so many options, so welcome. Spinning rods up here on the right side. Kiddy rods right here down low. We also have the old real section. And Connor, if we need assistance, you press that button. Press it. Guys, there's a lot of different options, but first I want to walk out to this side. I've only seen a few Walmart's that have as big of a selection as this one, so I'm super pumped that we came to this one. If we would have went to the other Walmart that we hit in the other episode, we would not have the options that we do today. They also have this whole section, and there's so many different combos. I mean, right here, you got just a standard Baycaster combo, and there's different ways that we can go about this. Like I can either get a pre-made combo, or I can actually go buy a real and put it on a rod, so that's an option. In the last Walmart video that we filmed with Connor with Blutcher, that's what we ended up doing. We ended up buying the rods and putting the reels on them. Look at this one. This one's actually pretty slick, dude. Ooh, it's an orange kicking combo. Yeah, with no handle. With no handle? With no handle. I went to grab it and there was just nothing there. What else we got? Look at this, we got this green one. What's going on here, dude? Why are they all gone? See, that's a problem. What we're really saying is there's 1,000 rod and reel options, but 75% of them work. I know we actually used this combo, and dude, I was, or not combo, we used this rod. I was actually mad impressed with this rod, bro. Those rods were very impressed. They were the price. You bought one too, right? I did, yeah. So I bought one and Connor bought one. This is the Lose Laser. And dude, for the price, this thing was legit, but people are so rough on rods. I sell my own combos. The people that ship them, like when they lay them on your front porch, they don't care, bro. And this is a prime example of it. Maybe Walmart doesn't care. Look at that, dude. That rod's flattened. Someone dropped something on that. Man, I picked up three rods. They're all broken, bro. What's going on? Maybe that's why this is the discount section, you know? Yeah. No wonder they broke it. About to make number four. Oh my God. That's a Lose Xfinity. If I'm not mistaken, isn't that supposed to come with a combo? Yeah, that should have a reel on it. I think. You got the wing grips on there. The same wing groups that we have on the kicking combo, just a different color. But I think we're gonna go with that, Connor. I just don't know the price of it. We need to check online real quick. All right, boys. So by the way, I did check this online and it's supposed to be a combo. As a combo, it's like 90 bucks. There's not a reel on it. So maybe we could go out there and bargain with them, Connor. Think that's what happens. I think we can make it happen. I can tell them like, okay, this is like a $100 combo. You think I could tell them I want to give them 50 bucks since they don't have the reel? I guess we're gonna find out, but this is what I think I'm gonna go with, guys. What is that? Did you hear that? Okay. So this is what I think I'm gonna do. I'm definitely gonna go with this orange rod. I think it's slick. And I want to go with the reel in here. We're gonna have to press this for assistance when we want to, but I'm gonna tell you, you see this right here? Dude, Connor, will that fit on a bait caster rod? I don't even know. Can I make it happen?  I'm serious. Oh dude, I think it'll fit. Okay, so that's what I think I'm gonna go with. So that's 23 bucks, okay? We spent 20 bucks on baits. That puts us at $45. If I can get this puppy for 50 bucks, that's the $100 challenge. You see what I'm saying? I see what you're saying. So that's what I think I'm gonna go with, Connor. Now it's your turn. Do you have an idea? All right. What was that? We just don't, what was that? I'm a little disappointed. There's no weak baits. Like there's really not any great combos that have line on it, but I found one. It's literally the sole one that I found that I think I would actually work with. Just make sure it's not broke. Yeah, see this one comes with a handle too. So we're like, we're, we're set. If you find a fishing rod with a handle, you buy, you buy that thing. Gosh, today, like if you found something with a handle on it, you gotta get that thing to rock. If you find one with a handle and some line, like you better walk out. This one's 35 bucks. Really? Okay. So you're gonna have a spinning rod. Your boy's gonna have a custom built Zebco 33. Well, we do have to press for assistance. Hey, good afternoon. How can I? So we only spent $165, which is crazy because we pretty much had to spend $200 on it. So we walked out $35 richer technically. All right, so this rod, I went and scanned it. It was actually $98.  So we went over to the service section. We showed the rod online with the reel on it. And we were like, yeah, this is supposed to have a reel on it for 98 bucks. And I was like, since it doesn't have the reel, I still want to buy the rod. Can we get it for 50% off? And we only paid 50 bucks for the puppy. 50 bucks, boys, that's a steal. So we paid 50 bucks for the rod, $22 for the reel. So that leaves us at 72 bucks. And then the rest was in baits. And obviously we felt a lot short on the $100 challenge. So now it is time to take Connor to his car and we're gonna get this challenge started. All right guys, we just got in the car and it is time to go fishing.  And the first person to catch a fish on all five of the lures wins the challenge. So I have a spot in mind that Mia Tara hit a few months ago that I think has not only a lot of fish in the pond but it also has some really big fish. So we're gonna head there first and see where it takes us. So let's go ahead and get out to our first location. All right, we just got to our first spot here. Let's look at our bait options and go ahead and pick something out for us. We get some options here. This is the one that Noah picked out for me. We do have a spinner bait and we also have some soft plastics. With this being a five bait challenge, I really feel like the best way to go is starting off with the hardest baits first. So I say we start off with this and see if we can just go ahead and knock this out and move on to our other baits. We are tying this bad boy on. He's a good old uni knot. And this line is six pound line. The rod is also all shutty, but it's a medium light. I thought it was just a medium which is gonna be a bit of a pain because I do have Texas rigs and that's gonna be a nightmare to set the hook with that flimsy old rod. Snip that tag end off. Going to put our trash right back in the bag along with our other baits. Let's get it started. All right boys, we're here. We actually ended up putting the Zepco on this Xfinity setup. And look how clean it is guys. It actually fit on perfectly, which I'm glad. I was worried about the real seat on here but it ended up fitting flushly. I'm excited about it. It's actually already has some line on here. And I wanna say that's about eight pound mono. This is mono. It's the lines are gonna have a lot of stretch. Really gotta make sure we get the hook into the fish. So here we have all five of our baits and I wanna do this in a specific order. So first I wanna start off with a moving bait at the pond we're about to go out to. I think I wanna have to start off with the chatter dog guys. You guys know this is my confidence bait. It's my favorite bait of all time. And I'm hoping we get smoked on it. And I do wanna pair it up with the white fluke that we have. And just so you guys know this doesn't count as catching a fish on both of these baits. I'm gonna still have to catch a fish on the fluke separate. Go ahead and rig that puppy up just like that. Oh yeah, it looks saucy. Let's go ahead and tie this on our combo. I'm also bringing out a scale with you. We brought a scale just about every video this year except for that last challenge because it didn't really matter the size of the fish that we caught. And I ended up catching a dang monster and Connor caught a few good ones too. So I'm definitely gonna be bringing a scale with me.  Boom, just like that. I'm also gonna bring this fluke out with me as well just in case we want to try to catch two fish at this pond. But let's go ahead and get out there and test out this combo. We're gonna give this thing a whirl just kind of around these edges. I honestly don't really know how to fish a bait like this just cause I don't throw them. But I had to assume like a straight reel is probably gonna be our most efficient way. My confidence will be a lot higher once we get past this bait. I'm starting, oh my God, there's a batch right there. Oh, dude, I just spooked off the entire planet with that cast. What the heck? Oh my gosh, you see that? What's going on right there? It looks like bait popping everywhere. That is weird. Here's what we're gonna do.  We're gonna grab our baits and we're actually just gonna head do a whole different pond. I'll catch you guys in the next spot. All right guys, we have made it to our next spot.  All right boys, made it out to the old pond. We got a scale and pliers. I'm gonna set that next to me. First thing's first, let's check our drag. Okay, definitely wanna run this a little loose just because we only got like eight pound line on here. So let's get a little cast test going. Oh my gosh. Oh, dude, Connor's toast, boys. Okay, I will say the reel's kind of a distraction. Like you feel a lot moving around in the reel but I can still slightly feel the chatter bait vibrating on the rod. Yeah, I can feel it just fine. Let's get the cast and see what we can do. This thing casts pretty good. I just gotta get used to it. Look at that, hit the other side of the bank. That's money. Let's see what we can catch in here. Give me a nib, we'll give me started out. Look at the baby turtle. Okay, this thing is definitely not as comfortable as just a standard bait caster. It's like pressing the button on the reel with how the button's so raised on a Zebco. It's a little uncomfortable compared to a bait caster. And when you press it, see it's just gonna fall out so you really gotta keep your thumb on it good and release it. The release point's a little different than if I have a standard, uh-oh. I have a standard bait caster on here. There we go. Oh no. Dude, it's a nice one. I can't, I gotta tighten my drag. Oh my gosh. That's so aggravating, dude. It's like my drag just would not, I couldn't, that fish was so big, man. It was hard to tell that I even had a bite, to be honest with you.  Geez, man, that stinks. So that's our one problem with right now. The rod's got a good bit of power.  I got enough power to drive that hook into the fish. But when it comes to catching up with the fish and just having power to drive it with the reel, it's just almost inexistent. And that was a definition of what just happened there. I couldn't do anything. The drag was just coming out. It gives me some confidence though, guys. Let's just keep on trying. I know we can get another one. Feel a bite right here, guys. Come on now. If we don't get a bite, we might need to move to a new spot. I have my opportunity. I freaking mess up. All right, guys. Well, I'm gonna head to the next spot. I have upon this walking distance from here and we should get eaten over there. So let's see what we can do. Here we go, guys. Let's see if we can get on board here. Yep, I can. First cast. First cast. Let's go, baby. Oh my gosh. Knocked him. I didn't go for everywhere. Let's go, dude. First cast. Oh my gosh. Well, guys, favorite bait. I know I missed a three pounder earlier on it. At least we got a fish on the bank. That's all that really matters. Chatterbait is done, boy. It's not a big one, but he's a fish. Thank you for biting, baby. I appreciate you. There she goes. Let's go, baby. Oh, I just got freaking hammered. Oh my gosh. That is my, that's my first real bite. First real bite. Oh my gosh. I literally just slowed the bait down ever so slightly and gave it like these twitches and that fish hit. Oh, I cannot believe that. We're definitely not off to the best start here, but I think what we're going to do is change up this bait after I kind of work it around these edges over here. We just got to get the ball rolling. We haven't been able to make it happen yet. That's enough of that. We are going to head to the car and we're going to run to our next spot. All right, guys. Well, our first bait is done. Chatter don't complete. We're going to go ahead and cut this puppy off. Snip, snip. And we're going to move on to the fluke. Good thing I brought another bait with me. Just got a standard zoom fluke. This shouldn't be a hard bait to get bites on. I'm actually very confident with a fluke right now, especially with how hot it is today. We can work this really slow if we need to. My only concern is driving that extra wide gap hook into that fish. So let's see what we can do with it.  See if there's any more fish up there, just imagine. Bust out two really quick right here. We started off missing the fish, but that ain't going to hurt us. As long as we can catch one in here pretty quick, I think we'll be on a good pace. Come on, baby. Dude, this ain't beams, boys. I'm all the way on the grass over there. Oh, we should get hit. That's a long cast to get a hook in this fish. Completely missed them, guys. Oh my gosh. Finally got a bite on the fluke. You just kind of took it under. I didn't see him anymore. He just didn't get pinned. Make a couple casts. That sucks, guys. That's all I was worried about with this fluke is just getting the hook into him. I just don't think he had it all the way. It could have been a really small one. Okay, well at least we got a bite on it. Let's keep moving. Here's what we're going to do. We're cutting off that spinner bait and we're going to save that for later. Those fish did not want to eat it no matter how I presented it to them. So for our Texas rig, we got two options of soft plastics. I feel like I'd need to try this like Cinco bait. These fish are being like finicky. I don't know if it's just because it's so hot out or they're just not wanting to eat, but we're going to throw this onto our Texas rig. And I'm actually just going to go ahead and bring down all these other baits. Just in case we get on these fish, I want to play it smart. We got to get the ball rolling here. Oh, he ate it. Oh my gosh. Why? Why is this happening to me? Why is this happening? Oh man. He was aggressive. Like he came out of nowhere to smoke that thing. And then I'm trying to throw these fish right over here and I can't get him to even look at the bait. So I'm going to just hit right on that bank over there. It's a good little sign here. They're over there. I'm going to get that aggressive one to come eat it. Come on. He did. I got him boys. He's running at me. He's running at me full speed. Come on now. And he came off. Are you kidding me? See, that is hard right there. Yeah. This is not easy. This is definitely a challenge boys. What worries me is Connor has just a normal spinning rod. I think he could just land most of this fish pretty easy. I would think at least. At least easier than this thing is being for me. And the crazy thing about this is I don't know what Connor has caught. I have no idea what he has yet. Who knows? He might not even have a bite. That's got a bit again. Come on. Come on. Dude. Right when I popped it, I pulled it out of his mouth. Okay, at least we're getting bites down this bank. That's a good sign. We've had two, three bites in a matter of like 10 minutes. If not less. I've definitely seen the most activity in the whole pond right here. So I'm confident that we can get one and land a fish. We just got to get them hooked good. That's been the hard part for us right now. There's a fish right there. Little tiny one. Might be able to get him to eat it. Oh, that's a horrible cast. That's such a tiny fish. Yes. There we go, boys. There we go. Not big at all.  Thank you. This is the most anorexic bass I have ever seen. What in the world did I just catch? Look at how small that fish is, guys. He's as thin as a piece of paper. Wow. Pretty though. Thank you, baby. I kind of feel bad now. Like that fish actually needed a meal. I just tricked him to buy the fake bait. Oh, man. Done with bait number two. Let's get on to bait number three. Seemed like those fish were kind of short-striking it. One way that we can get around this is by throwing a shorter profile bait. And hopefully if a fish picks this up, that hook's gonna be in their mouth. All right, here's what we got going on. It's really hot. So instead of like popping the bait, I'm literally just gonna lift up on my rod tip and kind of pull it on the bottom, just dragging it. There he is. I cannot get these fish to pick up the bait all the way. That was the second one. He picked it up twice and he ran with it and I still couldn't get him. Let me see if I can do something. Oh, oh my gosh. I just spooked the bass off right at the bank. Oh, no. All right, boys, we have made it to our next spot and we have finished with the chatter donk and also the fluke. So we're moving on to our third bait and now we just got to decide the order that we wanna do this in. So obviously the rooster tails last. So pretty much our options are between this worm and this trap. I have a pond that I've never fished before and I really wanna go try to throw this trap in it and just see if there's fish in there. But with the pond that we just pulled up to, there's actually a big tree in this pocket and I think I can rig this worm up on the Texas rig and be able to pull one out of that brush pile. So we're gonna cut this fluke off, boom, put our old weight on the line. I think this is our last bait that we're gonna have trouble with. This has a trouble hook on it and this has a trouble hook on it. We shouldn't have too much problems. The fact that we got the chatter bait and the fluke done just makes me feel good because you have to put a little more power into those hook sets and this combo is not easy to fish with. So this is our last bait that's probably gonna give us some trouble. I'm just hoping that we'll have a bite and catch them right away. All right, now for our worm. See if these boys like the grape flavored stuff, man. I'm a big grape junkie. Grape and orange, I'm a grape and orange type of guy. Look at that right there. That looks spicy, boys, a little Texas rig. These fish are getting smart now. I honestly feel like they can see me because this water is so clear. Okay, okay. That is our first bass of the day. That took exceptionally longer than I was expecting it to. That is a tiny bash, but we're gonna throw him back and we are onto our second bait.  I gotta be careful walking up to some of these spots. Ooh, dude, he just swirled on me. I'm pretty sure, hold on, boys. Who am I not even gonna have to, hold on. No freaking way, no freaking way. That fish is so tiny that I don't even know if we can count them. That fish is tiny, man. We just pulled up here. We haven't even really got to start fishing and I caught this guy. What in the world? Okay, there's no way that was the fish that made that boil, but I will accept it. Bro, I picked up the shell just thinking that it was gonna be a normal like seashell that somebody just laid out here. And look, what in the world? On to the next spot. Catch you all in 10 minutes. We're gonna Texas rig the Senko here and I don't really like fishing them weightless, but the rod that I'm using is so light. I don't think I'm gonna have any problem with it. So hopefully we tie this sucker on and we get some moked. Let's go give it a shot. Coming back to this spot, this is definitely gotta be the one spot that we've had the best look at. Got him. Get up here. That's a better one too. There we go. Okay, bait number two finally done. Oh my gosh. Well, there we go guys. That would be bait number two. You're moving on to the next one. Thank you buddy. All right boys, fourth bait. We are at a new pond that I've never been to before. Water looks really good. I could honestly see some really big fish living here. So let's start casting around and see what we can do. This trap should be a lot easier boys. We shouldn't have as much trouble hooking the fish with this since it's a trouble hook bait. We can easily lean into the fish and keep the pressure. So I think I guess we'll see what happens. Every bait so far has been a little tough except for that worm. That was unbelievable how quick we caught that fish. We should be able to catch them pretty quick on this trap or hook them pretty good at least. Not have to worry about it. There we go. There we go boys. All we came off. Oh my gosh. That was a far distance to keep that fish hooked. I was all the way out there. And that came back and bit me. I am tying this up in the car.  It's pretty brutal. But we're gonna tie this thing up. I'm gonna put this speed crawl on there. Hopefully we can move on to our next bait. That actually looks pretty good. I think this thing's gonna get smoked out there. All right boys, I am backward all started. I am scavenging just to get some bites. This is horrible. 100 degrees out here. And it's hot, it's brutal. And these fish aren't biting man. They really aren't. But I'm trying my best. Trying my very best. And we're gonna complete this dang challenge. Just hoping I can get another good bite in here. All these other ponds that I've hit just have had too much grass. I can't even work this bait. See if we can trigger one of these fish to bite. Even when I had that bite earlier it took me dang 15 casts in the same corner before he even bit. There we go boys. Oh, it's a nice one. Oh, it's a nice one. Oh my gosh. Stay pinned baby, please. Please stay pinned. It's hard to fight these fish on the Zepco boys.  Oh my gosh, come on now. Come on now. Beautiful fish. Beautiful fish.   Oh man, not as big as that one I lost earlier out here. But that's a good fish. He stopped that thing cold turkey boys. Let's freaking go. Only one bait to go and we win this challenge. Let's go. It's a good little two, two and a half pounder. We haven't had really any good fish all day. So this one felt good. It's definitely a fun fight. It's just a little stressful because I really didn't want to lose them. I guess my gut feeling to come back to this pond paid off the good two pounder. Thank you so much for biting baby. I mean, so much to me. There she goes. Oh, that's a relief. On to bait number five. Guys, it seems like this pond definitely has a trend. The fish are a lot bigger. I won a loss of the easy three pounder. That one right there was two to two and a half pounds. I mean, I will take it. I'll take every bit of it. Maybe we can end the challenge on a good fish on this rooster tail. I've been kind of switching ponds per bait. This one, I might just stick it out here and see if we can catch another one of these good fish. Complete this challenge, put it in the books and put Connor to the dust here. All right, old rooster tail, do your magic. Let's just start fan casting this thing. But yeah, I guess I think pretty good too. There's only kind of jig that thing and give it a steady retrieve here and there.  Well guys, I kind of messed up. I got to re spool this.  I need to retie real quick. Ooh, that things sound a little around to you now guys. And I got a fish. I got a fish. Let's go, baby. This is the winner right here. It's just if we can land them. Come on, baby. Come on, baby. Oh, let's go, dude. Come on, baby. Last fish to win it. Let's go, boy. Let's freaking go. Look how he ate that rooster tail. There we have it, boys. Fifth and final fish and we just took the dub. Thank you, baby.


Hi. So, do you need a clicker? So, here's the clicker. Point it at the laptop. Point it at the laptop. Okay. Just here, right? Yeah. All right. Good evening, everyone. Hello. My name is Evia. And today I'm just going to share a very short presentation about Hajj. Actually, we also have a little booth there if some of you have not noticed. So, if you want a real experience or you want to talk to some of our friends, please do. I think you're going to hang around until we finish this session. Okay. So, it's Hajj. And what are we? We started as a social experiment in October 2014. And interestingly, and I guess by no coincidence with DBS, which is what we're saying now, right? It's not in space. Of course it's at their head office. So, the idea was to create a social movement that brings the world of hearing and the deaf together using tea and silence. And in that, we really hope to achieve a few things. So, there are two key missions for us, social missions that is. And the first one is we want to somehow disrupt this dizzying, unabating place of life that we are all living that I personally care a lot about because I feel that that's taking us further and further away from ourselves and sometimes also away from what truly matters. And so, it's to support all the best to take that course, to connect with ourselves and to connect with what's truly important. Also, coming from the corporate sector for most part of my life, all my life actually until three years ago, I understand how tough it is. And I was really worried when somebody said that a study says that 80% of psychological conditions we have here in Singapore, the root cause is workplace stress. So, that's why we wanted a social experiment to start with bringing harsh. So, harsh is silent tea but we don't have a permanent space. We are roving tea but that's why we roved it today to this space.  The idea is to bring a different form of employee wellness to the workplace. So, this is the first social mission to mental wellness essentially. Mental wellness, mindfulness, particularly in the workplace, but in a very normal, different sort of way. The second mission is actually for our deaf friends. I feel that inclusion, true inclusion anyway is still somewhat abusive in our society. We are doing so much better. And I'm probably a lot older than a lot of you here. So, I can tell you that what we have now is so much better. We are making real efforts in that on the front. But it's still somewhat abusive because I think our understanding of differently able people has a lot to do with intellectuals still because we're still not really bringing people together of different abilities. Particularly on the job front, a lot of employees are not really designing jobs with differently able people in mind. And so, in that, we're still forcing differently able people to do the jobs that so-called mainstream folks do. And so, I think that takes away the opportunity for them to realize their potential. And maybe along the way also some part of the community. And so, what Hajj is trying to do with creating an entirely silent experience. We actually designed it from a human-centered approach with the deaf and the core of the service experience. And so, the entire experience is silent. And therefore, in a world where no spoken words are needed, you want to challenge the notion of disability because if there are no spoken words needed, where is there disability? And who's the disabled one?  So, this is some of what we hope to do. The silence, the awareness, the mindfulness that you get, the reflection, but also very much experiential inclusion where Hajj is concerned. Okay. So, what is the Hajj experience? It's a carefully crafted, full-zone experience. The zones are not necessarily physical. They are more experience zones. First one is what we call the intention zones. Immediately, when you step into the Hajj experience, the first thing you do is you learn to sign from the depth of your friends. So, you get to learn. And this is to get you to, well, step into your world immediately. So, more importantly, it's for you to completely go silent. And it's hard if I say, you just keep quiet. But if you are actually, because you are finding it really strange, especially since we do this at the workplace. But if you come in and then we have this really smiley, happy, depth here is there, as we call them, to actually teach you a few phrases as well as a few signs, you almost get into that space of silence quite easily, but also with a lot of curiosity and a lot of novelty. We actually get you to learn four phrases, simple phrases like, thank you, simple but very thought-provoking. So, thank you. I'm sorry. Please forgive me and I love you. You get to learn that. Start off. And then, after which, well, you select a T and so on and so forth. And a lot of what we do, and I'm speaking to all of you who are obviously very interested in technology, and you will realize that hash is very, very no-tag. Right? Because we're actually trying to do something a little bit different, but mostly because we want to bring them back connected with ourselves. I am not saying technology is bad but I am saying that we hope to provide a little bit of a break and pause. So, it really would kind of be difficult for us to bring in tablet for you to order the tea. And also, I always feel a little bit strange that you kind of just point instead of learning how to interact with the dev. And so, what we do is that we actually, first of all, the teas are all named after moods. So, we call them tea moods. You don't order Jasmine or green tea. You order a tea that's called Freshly Tranquil. Oh, undoubtedly quirky. Right? But clearly, that's the tea that says, especially angry. Freshly Tranquil was actually a very popular one but we first did it in BDS. It was a p-line from this very busy bankers. We missed that bit of tranquility.  So, Freshly Tranquil, in front of Freshly Tranquil, you have lots of leaves. Real leaves, huh? Not fake. Real leaves that we picked from the garden. It's washed up, so don't worry. And truly intimate would be flower petals. And the idea here again is to bring a part of nature into the corporate space that's clearly not, you know, as inspiring. This day is getting a bit better. So the idea there is to make it really multi-sensorial as well. Then you get into surrendering your phone, which is a big deal, obviously, and many people negotiate with us to say if they can kick it or not. Then we get into demonstrating a tea ritual to you. Right? So that's Joina, who's demonstrating a tea ritual. I think it could likely be ready to be a tea ritual. So after the demonstration, the participants would then do their own tea ritual in silence on their own when the tea has been served. So the way we know how to serve the tea is by the nature symbol that you have picked. If you have a stone next to you, we know you've picked electrically robust. If you have a leaf, then it will give you Freshly Tranquil, for example. That's kind of the second part of the experience. After that, usually they take their time in this space, as you can see, and then they could get into expression zone. After that, they would start doing tea art with tea. So we have the tea as a thing, we use the fingers to start doing tea art. Also still in silence. And this is after the experience and then there's a lot of hugging going on. Gotwa is actually here today. The one in green. Okay, so tea art and also they would also write a note which we call hush on for them to pass on to future hushes. The idea here is that we want to encourage that strangers can write notes of inspiration, encouragement and love to strangers.  This is the sharing. Alright, this is the last part. After they finish doing the experience in silence, complete silence, they come together to share their personal reflections. And this is a very compelling segment. We have had stories where because this person went into complete silence, he actually found time to grieve for his mom who has passed on just a couple of months before. For example. Another very senior leader, and he's all well looking, so I wouldn't name him names. He actually remembered his fishing rod. He used to love the fish so much, but the fishing rod has been sitting in the storeroom for the last 25 years. So the idea is to connect with yourself. It's not to make you just leave the culprits like Paringham and Himalayan. But to connect with yourself is something that brings you back a little bit to the joy. Okay, so this is just some sharing. We now have a pool of over 38 deafies. They call them or our deaf friends on our harsh family role. And so when we first started, clearly we only employed them on project exist. But interestingly, harsh has taken on a trajectory that to be honest I've never even expected. So we were able to have a level of financial sustainability last year to bring five of them on payroll. I know, it's great. So actually, we thought we'd just rope around and just have them on standby and we'll call them where we can. So that's one part of it. This is the other thing that we've done which I'm also really thrilled about. So we've actually gone into 45 organizations. That's what we call harsh leaders. And to which we have actually harshed almost 2,000 employees, customers and partners of these organizations. And because it's a social movement, of course we want more and more people to be harshed. Understanding what it means to just take a moment and most of them would say that after taking a cup of tea through harsh, the next cup of tea they take after harsh never really tastes the same again. Or it's never the same when they drink a cup of tea after that. They will take a moment, even if it's one or two seconds to pause. Which is beautiful, which is what we want. We don't need all of us to be one-toned across our dates and not do our work at all. That's not what we're doing. So this is some of the companies. DBS has been a major, major fan, big supporter. We've actually called back to DBS for seven times now. And there are a few more coming up. They usually bring us in for different reasons. Could be to be planning, it could be just a straight-out employee engagement session. Or even for customers and partners. That appreciation, I mean. We also do this public sessions called harsh community. Which is a little bit different. Those are bespoke. So if you want to attend harsh, you can't. These are all for only employees of these organizations. So every two months we actually do a public session called harsh community. And in addition to bringing working professionals or business leaders and the deaf together to hear me in the deaf, we also invite with our compliments, everyday heroes. So the idea is extending the concept of experiential inclusion, challenging the notion and breaking down the wall of not just ability, but also class and needs. And so these everyday heroes would be the lights of cleanliness, security guards, even social workers, nurses, bus captains, ex-officers, caregivers, no mothers and no assistants. The idea here is for us to really use this space to come together to understand each other a little bit. So that's what we've done where the public session is concerned. So, okay. Let me just get the double. Okay. This one will probably be a little bit closer to who you guys are. They're launching young and harsh. It does not launch it, but we're launching it and we just thought National Youth Council agreeing to support us. This is again because we really want to support the youth where mental well-being and wellness is concerned, mental health. And that's something that I'm personally very, it's very personal because I've actually got you know, young and dear ones who are battling mental conditions with the given side. So that's something we hope we can do more of. We just did our pilot launch interview as well received and we are refining the experience. Everyone asked us after the conference sessions you know how to bring your friends and colleagues to harsh and we said we can't because we don't have a permanent space. And so because of the feedback and all that we decided we'll bring all that is love about harsh into a box. So we have actually launched harsh into a box. We have actually created harsh into a box which you have everything you need to create that experience in the comfort of your home or at your office anytime, anywhere or you can give silence to a loved one as well. Harsh tea moods are the tea moods we talked about. We have actually some that we brought today. This is at the tea plants. Okay, this is some of this. So harsh has been really, really, really fortunate and that's why I never expected the trajectory that we had. The media has been really good to us. The main concept of us marrying mental wellness with deaf awareness which is you know clearly and the whole aspect of inclusion particularly in an experiential way. And so we've actually been covered a lot in the news which has truly helped us because without a lot of resources there's no way we have gone to 45 organizations but they came to us actually because of the media mention. Alright so in terms of the project that tech ladies have clearly, have a very kindly offer to support us with is our website and so the harsh website started with yours truly way, way, way beyond what you can call a millennium doing the first one with a website builder 14 years ago I actually was running and actually I founded a technology business but that was 14 years ago and I'm really on no tag in this project. So I started that and then Ming, our COO came in and she's definitely closer to millennium than I am and then we updated it but it's still, the look it still looks static, it's a bit dull there's a lot of pictures the user experience is a little bit outdated it's not really very engaging there isn't a lot of interactivity you can find information of course and it's also very non-responsive in terms of like a millennium that is you can't really find it it's not very intuitive you can want to deal with a millennium with a millennium but I'm really shy saying this in front of all of you who are actually quite tech savvy and then of course the functionality is none of this in terms of analytics and tracking and all that so now that we're becoming a little bit more serious and with more from a social experiment and a social movement into more impact business model and we want to sustain that going forward especially now that we have friends on payroll so we think that we should do more in engaging the community and get more going for harsh so that we can spread the cause further so our dreams is to have a more multi-sensorial experience that comes through from the website as our web front much like what the actual experience is which is currently not going through so you know, not coming through so we want to excite, we want to intrigue we want to convert because our concept is quite unique and we want to be able to express that intuitively and at a very emotional level through the website this is some of the dreams where functionalities are concerned and I think this is probably pretty pretty basic for you guys but we are not there yet so this is just some of the things even the social media integration which obviously should already be there but not quite there so we are doing things like go to Facebook, go to Instagram then go to the website so I don't have to go through so much of this I think you're all very familiar with the terms here and so here we are I wanted to keep it to the the time I'm watching so we just really want to say thank you for having us thank you so much you know the organizers and tech ladies those of you who have signed up and the coaching is super important driving this project thank you so much we are very very very grateful and I shouldn't be doing this I should probably get hot water or came to do this but I love you has a sign yeah that is this the longer version of I love you is I because this is the sign I've got for I and then love is like this and then so it's all really very intuitive and I've learned a lot and then thank you is just this so when you see them later you know that I'll just share with you but when you see them later you can do this you can see I love you I think it's fine we should just write all love but suddenly say thank you if they actually you know help you with the the growth experience at Hajj so that's all I have with Hajj so please come and like our Facebook page give us a comment and we hope to see you also in one of our events if you can find the time of your interest what's your website address? just HajjTibara.com thank you and so is the Facebook and the same same ID Instagram which I actually don't but you know I can help you with that thank you so much for your attention up next bit laggy okay so up next let's have the head coach and his assistant coaches up to share more about what he intends to build for Hajj let's put our hands together for Wei Liang yeah, yeah Jun Xin and Daniel should come too okay, and then I need to click for you right familiar with this yes, very familiar can you change fast? in case you're wondering we're recording so you need to make sure that you catch this I didn't realize you're recording do you know? yeah, now I know I didn't realize before I came but yeah, okay okay point at the laptop point at the, yeah, of course so do I still have to use this? oh, okay, okay hi, full disclosure this was prepared yesterday morning they saw this yesterday so I'm going to do one mainly talking and they'll introduce the sounds later so the objective of this presentation is just to show you what will go behind if you join this team to do the website for hashtag so okay, so sorry I said here we would describe this project as a CMS with CRM components so a CMS usually refers to a content management system so you think of something like a blog or something a media site where you display content articles which could be involve visuals and video and stuff like that the CRM component is the customer relationship management so for those of you who don't know it's a platform usually software that is used to manage customers with basically so in essence for the the corporate partners who partner with hash t bar and any other people who want to get engaged and involve with hash t bar to get some interaction on the website so the primary problem that what we understand needs to be fixed is the experience of being on the website which if you go to the website it's a bit it's a bit dull and dated so that's the very first thing that we need to solve and the second thing well you can read there but basically 45 is a great number but more is better right so the website is really the entry point for new partners to come in and get hash t bar on board and they're not just enterprise as well all the other community involvement and the youth programs that hash t bar has in addition to now the new hash in the box and also because the main objective of the website is to get the word out of hash t bar and get engagement and involvement social media must be a big component about involved in the application so yeah now the last point is actually the real reason why we are doing this because currently as Antia mentioned the current site is built on a website builder which is very so if you ever worked with a website builder it's usually very easy to use but very hard to customize to exactly what you want so the benefit of doing this as a custom coded project is that you get full control the downside is you have to know how to do it you have to know the code okay so the plan is well we will communicate with hash t bar and establish a new structure for the website and new presentation of the information in addition we have to provide the interface for the content creation to happen on the website so a lot of the people who are going to be managing the content of the website will be the deaf people on payroll in hash t bar so it has to be easy to use and it has to be it has to be able to explain how to use it in a way that doesn't require verbal instruction yeah in addition the communication aspect of communicating will be involved with hash t bar so the mailing list you want to make it as easy as possible to get on the mailing list and to trigger emails to be sent to the people and also social media so Facebook page and Instagram and stuff like that some of these will be stretch goals we may not be able to accomplish everything but we will do our best so in terms of how exactly this will go apart from the very first step which is to communicate as much as possible about what needs to be accomplished and what the end result is going to look like we will come up a list of the things that need to be done then we will write the code we will review the code so there will be me and the assistant coaches here Daniel and Jun-Chi so we will look at the code and so basically don't be afraid to make mistakes because we will look at the code and we will merge that code into the full code base the main working code base and then we will get the hash tbar team to look at that and make sure that that's what actually they want and then we will go back to doing that again if it's not what they want or if not we move on to the next thing so the plan is to have as much communication in the hash tbar team as possible to facilitate a smaller quicker feedback loop and in our experience that's generally what we want to do in software or in any kind of product development enterprise really am I pointing at the okay okay so the time so there will be the weekly coaching sessions that Lysha mentioned every Saturday so that's where we get together and we touch base and we when most of the learning is going to happen and most of the team happens so this would be a very good solid chunk of time that we will all put in together and this well unfortunately it's a commitment but yeah it has to be done so the next thing is the throughout the week so the assistant coaches and I we will be available throughout the week we have full-time job as well right because we have a lot of work for living but in the evenings generally we will be available and you can come to the office we are all thinker boxers actually we fall from thinker box studios and we we welcome people in so it's not like it's closed door thing so generally we will be open to throughout the week as and when it's a convenient and that you need help yes okay so communication wise you will learn and GitHub as a few features that we use to track what needs to be done and to generally facilitate the communications surrounding executing the project so we will use GitHub and we will Slack so Slack is does anyone know what Slack is not know okay so that's great yeah so we will Slack as our main messaging platform yeah to communicate okay so this is just like a list of pieces that have to go in into the the system not exhaustive but this is most of it so we will do this in Ruby on Rails I'm not going to go through the whole thing you can look it up I hope I've worded it in a way that is not too difficult to understand except maybe the last one you may not know what the last one is the last one is basically getting that URL that gives your website the identity like htbar.com and linking it to your web server so that when someone goes to that URL it will go to your web server to get the website page in addition to everything else here so okay the other thing you might not know is W-Y-S-I-W-Y-G editor so that's what you see is what you get editor which is basically think of Microsoft Word whenever you type there what you see is what you will get in the thing so remember that htbar website is going to be a content creation platform for whoever the administrators so they have to have a way of putting in the content including pictures including video and to make it as easy as possible whatever they see should be what comes out at the other end when the article or content finally gets published so that is what a WYSIWYG editor is yeah so we can get into that in more detail in if there are questions later and this is us three of us so my name is my name is Wei Liang sorry I didn't and this is Daniel this is Jin Qi we are all from Tinkerbox you labeled Jin Qi as an ex Tinkerboxer no, no, no but okay, okay so we were all also former interns of Tinkerbox I became a full-time after graduation Daniel joined after becoming an intern straight out Jin Qi is finishing up her studies after being an intern so she has graciously helped offered she didn't offer but well yeah, so I was presented this dilemma really Elisha asked me to pick an assistant coach I had to pick an assistant coach and then there were two candidates sounds like I can't decide because they're both excellent people and I think they both want to contribute so after a while you get trained in this thing to make choose between one and you realize what if you can get both right it's like yeah, so I got both so yeah so yeah now give them the turns to introduce themselves yeah hi everyone so my name is Daniel I am very new to the tech industry but before so sorry before I joined the tech industry I in university I was a psychology graduate after I graduated I was a teacher for two years in Malaysia so I was teaching history after I taught for two years I was a recruitment consultant for six months and at that point you can probably guess I was terribly confused about what I wanted to do but my wife back then was in Singapore and in the tech industry and so she introduced me to coding I went into a boot camp a full-time boot camp so not like tech ladies but similar and then got an internship in Tinkerbox and here I am so I'm very interested to be encouraged I guess to be helping out in this and I look forward to seeing you guys soon ladies soon ladies soon okay, hi guys so I guess I'm like I'm kind of like the greenhorn because I'm still in school but I'll be graduating pretty soon so I was intern at Tinkerbox last year and that's where most of my know-how came from actually so very happy to help you guys out of this boot camp and I've actually been like a teaching assistant for two years in my university so teaching programming among other things so yeah very glad to have ladies on board yeah so yeah yeah there's a yes yes okay so thank you very much


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