Next we're three three tomorrow makes no four this week call the public works meeting to order uh we'll do a quick roll call uh all the person born are you online here i am yes okay all the person parola here all the person saloglio present all the person salazar is she online no okay all righty um we'll start right out with the pledge of allegiance go with 2.1 approval of minutes from june 15th move to approve the motion to approve second okay motion made by jim second by marcus any discussion on those minutes all righty all those in favor aye aye any opposed chair votes aye the minutes are approved okay 3.1 resolution 24 21 22 june 29th 2021 direct referral a resolution authorizing the appropriate city officials to execute a permanent easement underground utility easements and a temporary easement between the city of shabuigan and its board of water commissioners that is specific that are specific to the new raw water improvements project okay direct to be able thank you mr chairman uh really this evening um is part of this this process um and the project moving forward affecting the uh volrath park what we need to do as a committee is uh have this referred from the public works committee to the marina parks and forestry commission okay for the review and recommendations and though for uh therefore and then their recommendation will come back to this committee eventually for your review and uh ultimately um action on their recommendation to forward it or not to forward it and our approve it or not to approve it and so forth that will be your decision after they've met um and then ultimately back to common counsel so that would be the proper thing is to make it uh send it to the marina parks and forestry commission for for their review okay move to uh refer this to the marina parks and forestry commission second motion made and seconded is there any discussion on this i've got a just a procedural question on this then um was it just an oversight that it came to us as a direct referral or does it have to come here first get referred and then come back it's my understanding is part of the procedural process of common counsel they're not a standing committee this document had to come to a standing committee such as public works then it gets from your committee from under your direction to be referred to the marina parks and forestry commission which is advisory to ultimately this commission uh this this standing committee thanks a bunch okay all right any other discussion all those in favor aye hi hi any opposed chair votes aye that is approved we are moving it on 3.2 resolution 25 21 22 june 29th 2021 direct referral a resolution authorizing the purchasing agent to issue a purchase order for the purchase of one bobcat brand tool cat tool carrier vehicle and related attachments for the department of public works motor vehicle fleet burning thank you mr chairman uh bobcat tool cat vehicles are very very flexible vehicles they have a lot of attachments that can be used uh to do the various jobs that the parks department and the motor vehicle and then department of public works does uh we have a another unit and i'll i'll call it a mini front-end loader that was bought in 2017 it was found that that that machine does not have the capability that a tool cat has it's very limited on what it can do for the department so what this resolution is is to authorize the purchase of a tool cat and trade in that wacker newson mini end loading we've researched the trade in value that the dealer has offered and it's a fair and equitable offer based on other market data that we've been able to to find um one of the things that that front-end loader did or does have it's it's a very narrow stance and a high center of gravity which means that it's a little bit unstable tool cat is a very stable unit sits two across and as i said the department already has a number of other attachments in addition to what comes with the tool cat that can be used with that machine the funding is net funding after the trade in would be 25,881 51 that'll be coming from the motor vehicle fund mr chairman yes go ahead jim i would make a motion to approve second motion made by jim seconded by marcus any discussion on this at all mr chair go ahead so i assume this is the only um wacker newson that you have right that's the only one that is um that you want to replace correct yes okay and was this in uh in the cip or didn't need to be it this is not in the cip this is this is part of the operational fund for the motor vehicle since since we're it's a replacement of an existing type vehicle that's why we're trading this one in and replacing it with uh a similar but more versatile piece of equipment and we have already two of these types of units in our fleet and as approach to the agent bernie romer mentioned it has multiple attachments that we already have in our fleet for instance a uh mechanical broom uh front end uh scoops it has snow blower attachments there's also auger attachments so there's multiple pieces that we're able to attach so when we purchase this we're not needing to buy all the other attachments since we already have them it's not the wacker newson machine was a one specialized unit and it really didn't meet our needs and it wasn't nearly as functional we love the nice narrow width because it did help during the snow season on some of our narrow sidewalks in that but uh to have that for just one specialized uh operation it just wasn't very effective use of that piece of equipment or resources with this new bobcat that we would be purchasing the tool cat excuse me thank you director um I just was wondering the um I just I'm trying to understand what is it comes out of the cip that we already are familiar with and what it doesn't yeah this that when we when we when we develop the cip that we usually will have a replacement schedule that we will have and it will list these types of pieces of equipment are on schedule to be replaced this is this what I would say is because we're coming to the committee this evening is this would be uh not planned replacement uh it was it was an opportunity that we saw that this was an underutilized piece of equipment we worked with the purchasing agent looked at the opportunity to trade in and get some value for it while it was relatively newer and had low hours because these this type of equipment is based on hours not mileage and as a result we're able to maximize getting that early higher value by trading this piece of equipment in versus waiting another five years hanging on to it and then having it more depreciated and having less value and having more expense in terms of a replacement perfect thank you um I guess one of the question I had a comment I guess the one thing I saw it's a little the tool caps are a lot more safer to operate than this one is and that's our concern as well we've we've had some issues where narrow areas and the machine has tipped over and some operations and it's as I said it's it's a narrow articulated front end loader it's a mean and and basically again it's very limited in terms of what we can use it for in our operations any other comments all righty all those in favor aye aye any opposed chair votes aye that is approved okay 3.3 ro 35 21 22 june 21st 2021 document 3.5 our communication from charles paul regarding seagulls nesting on the roof of the old pick and save building this is a discussion only yeah the seagulls are very noisy and there's a lot of mess from the birds droppings all over and even sometimes at 1 30 in the morning they're still making noise and there's other people in the neighborhood that are concerned about that too and you know the nest seagulls have to nest someplace but picking that spot there it's causing a problem with the neighborhood and uh um manager from lake charles doesn't like it there either and I maybe should get more people to come or something to voice their opinion maybe on this um I guess my question and I also talked to the I was told to talk to the d and r so I called the d and r and then he told me that they could probably put up a netting or a screening but you'd have to do it in fall to prevent the nesting to start spring because you can't do anything once the eggs are there yeah right now currently I know I because I deal with it and it's been that way for like three years now it has to be done yeah and you're going to chase them away there and then you're going to go somewhere else um what was that wasn't there something done previously at all was there well that one time they chased them away from where the field was or pretty wiggly they got them away I mean they're even with pick and save I thought that they did do something last year what yeah they did there's not be mayor vanderstein called me and told me they did something but this year they're back didn't change they came back they come back in spring when they lay but the nest sounder and eggs then you can't do anything because of being a migratory bird so they came back have we contact you go ahead thank you mr chairman I was just going to ask the gentleman if our new garbage system has helped with the seagull problem because I drive down south business drive quite a bit and compared to a couple years ago I certainly haven't noticed the number of seagulls that were there previously so I guess my question is if there are less numbers do you think our new garbage system has had an effect on that well the guard the seagulls used to be by the garbage cans by my knowledge time and across the street but now that we have the cans covered it's kept the seagulls away from there but it they still go to pick and save building they don't come to the garbage cans anymore that was nice I'm glad they put those cans up that worked real well mr chairman I with your recollection I think is correct was a couple of years ago that I think the owner of that store was going to take some continuing actions to take care of the problem how was it last year last year we didn't hear anything about it I think it was the previous year that it was really bad do we know does does maybe the director know whether the owner of that building has done any done anything this year is going to do anything as time goes forward okay Dr. Riebel yes actually the the the owner has been active and they've contracted with migratory bird management and for instance they they sent us some information and I know our city planning development and our building inspection department has been very active with with the owner of this property to make sure that they're being active and addressing this so they they do actually have have been working with the the dnr and understand that they have a permit and what they've done is I'll give you an example that as of last year in 2020 they they did quite a bit of nest removal for for instance some of some of the counts they had in 2020 they removed in May the month of May alone almost 3000 nests and in June over 700 nests now in this in 2021 this spring April 26th they only removed 20 nests that's all they could find it on the roof then in May it getting later and in spring and more more nesting is occurring they removed 250 nests again in May later in the month 235 so roughly almost 500 in the month of May were in 2020 was over 3000 and in June their last one in June they removed 195 in my understanding is they're going to be coming out later this week or next week for sure big giving ads a holiday week to do another inspection and removal so they've been active it's just not it's not every day they they they make their weekly bi-weekly visits and and they're active on it I will I will say that you know we we fully admit that there's there is seagulls and it is a problem and it's a new sense there's no doubt about it we're experiencing it right here at City Hall Mike Wilmas and his team have been deploying measures and are working with a group to also try to deter this activity from happening it's being on a coastal community as we are and it's one of those things but I do have to admit with with at least from my personal observation as well throughout the city I have not seen the number of seagulls at least being a nuisance and the garbage I think that the cans that we have have deterred and it's taken away quite a bit of food source so I think you know the nesting as maybe it's indicated here on the roof it's really dropped which is a good thing I think we're trending in the right direction it doesn't solve the immediate problem I get but it's being active I mean they're working at it and I guess you know as long as we're we're aware of it and we can continue to work with the management and the ownership of that that property and and be more active in trying to deter this that's that we'll continue that dialogue but I just wanted to give you some of those numbers that they sent us the director of planning and development sonification but he gave us this information so we at least we could share it with you this evening okay thank you director I guess that's my you know I know you know there are limitations of what you can do too the DNR does not just allow you to just go in there and you know I mean I'm even surprised that they're allowed to take the nests out I know that they're they're very very I mean if once the eggs are laid they're pretty much oh go ahead my understanding they don't they don't necessarily take the eggs necessarily but they they there's a process of they they do it usually like a vegetable oil of them they put in they keep their stick they remain in place and that's part of the problem is is that it if maybe if you were allowed to remove them that would maybe then they would go somewhere else but since they're there what they just do is they just don't hatch then yeah but they remain in place you're right you can't remove them physically yeah I know there's a lot of there's a lot of rules with that and so you know you have to follow on the but it does sound like they are being proactive they are working on it you know it's not maybe the answer you want to hear but they have to follow they have to follow the guidelines they can't just you know you know they can't just go and shoot them or something like that they have to be there has to be it has to follow a certain you know they're they're protected species I know you might say well why is they are why are they protected there's a gazillion of them but they are they're they're they're a protected species and they they can't be there has to be a process that they have to follow and it sounds like they are working on it and I'm sure that the the owner of that building is even frustrated with it himself because he's you know have to deal with I'm sure this isn't cheap to have this company go up there and do that I mean if they're moving all these nests and stuff again I'm guessing it's costing them some money but I guess at this time I don't really see this is a discussion only anyways I don't know if there's anything I guess we're going to continue to work with with the owner of the property and we'll work with our building inspection staff and continue to work with this management company and we'll we can report on the next next progress to see if it's if it's improving or what's the trend yeah but from from at least from last year to this year it's it's vastly improved at least in the number of nests how and I guess if we can continue in that direction and if it's improving we'll continue to to have a dialogue we have the gentleman's full number and in contact information and and we can make sure that the proper staff continue that dialogue okay I I think that that's reasonable I think that's the best I mean that that's the that's the best course action right now is to just keep it keep going where we're going I mean it sounds like we're moving in the right direction I mean I know it's frustrating but at least there is there is look it sounds like there's light at the end of the tunnel and it may not be totally gone this year but at least it's a start so all right Mr. Chairman go ahead Jim I was just going to mention being that this is a document I think a motion to file would be in order and I would make a motion to file second motion to file made and seconded any other discussion on it all those in favor I I any opposed chair votes I we will file all right next meeting date and we're gonna be meeting next time hopefully we're planning on meeting at the municipal building back in the old we're gonna go back to the old way unless anyone has any this is that publicly available do you have oh fantastic so we're going to be going back to the back to the meeting room down there so if anybody has any questions or anything like that unless something would change well but right now we're going to go go with that so I would entertain a motion to adjourn move to adjourn second motions made and seconded all those in favor I I any opposed chair votes I we are adjourned thank you very much thank you I want to let you guys know that next weekend when the floor is the next week of the unveiling


Okay, hello, good morning everyone. Thank you very much. And it's really nice to be here in a week in Singapore 2023. I'm Hardy Anshah and you can call me Hardy. And yeah, it's very nice. And then it's also a good day because it's an independence day here in Indonesia. And so I hope that I can deliver this presentation to you. And this is, I think it's very like a conversation in this morning. Well, you have already got your breakfast and a coffee and I would like to tell you about what we do to reach out Glam institutions here in Indonesia. I'm from Wikimedia Indonesia. I am a partnership manager but I also work with the Glam team. Glam wiki team here and then also education team and also wiki data. Yeah, that's my username and my email. And also my legion if you want to touch with me and don't worry. This is the slides that I will show you through this presentation and at the end of the slides I will put the link to my presentation slides. And then, normally just a presentation but it is a kind of etherpad. And I hope that we can also discuss more after this presentation of course. So, again, this is, again, this is a light talks and light conversation is and also the title is from the title I don't mean to break or to say that we are really an expert in reaching out the Glam institutions in Indonesia but I hope that from this conversation I also would like to have feedback from you and also sharing this case. Yeah, let's start with the Glam wiki project. Yeah, we know that Glam wiki is kind of a project where we need to have a partnership with the Glam institutions and to open the access and also to have more contents for the public so I think this project is really a strategy because when we have a Glam wiki project, we will have more source to other wiki media projects like Wikipedia, wiki data and also wiki source and wiki media comments of course. Yeah, from this partnership, we can have sharing digital collections where we can upload the collections, the photos or documents to wiki media comments, subscribing them on wiki source or putting the data about the optics in the context of wiki data. And the institutions, the Glam institution have their source, their collections, while wiki media has the platforms that will distribute the knowledge through all the world. Talking about the partnership, there are a lot of face, there are a lot of models actually but I like to simplify it into three parts like we do initiating first and then implementing and then maintaining process and then let's say about, let's see about initiating. So from the beginning for the initiating phase, we do selections, we need to select which institutions that we need to collaborate with so wiki media Indonesia has already got maps, Glam's maps, so we complete all the data of the Glam institutions in wiki data, so you can see this is the real situations in Indonesia and mostly the Glam institutions are in those two main islands, Sumatra and Java Island. We can see if you go to the east, it's a bit more, not so many, it also described about the partnerships that we have right now, mostly are in those two islands, Sumatra and Java as well. So, yeah, we need to select which institutions that we're going to collaborate with and then from this data, we need to see which museums that has collections, many collections, and then I think we need to also next, yeah, we move on to contact, we need to contact them, nowadays there are a lot of museum has already websites and also, but if they don't have any websites, probably they usually they have social media, so we see, yeah, we try to contact them from the information that they shared in the websites and then also the social media sometimes we DM them, yeah, using the Instagram and then we try to to introduce ourselves about wiki media projects and also claims wiki project, of course, that's what we do first, then we go visit, yeah, I know only just contacting them without visit is thing is not so good, because visit is also a good way to reach out and then that's why we do some visit to parts of Indonesia, again after selected some areas and also some institutions that we're going to to reach out and then we visit them don't forget to bring your business card and do have some presentations why we need to digitize the collections and what is the benefits for them and I forget to bring the books here, we also have some books that give information about digitizations, the good benefits of digitizations so in partnership with wiki media Indonesia, we bring the booklet how to contribute to wiki media comments and also because we're going to open the collections with CC license, we also put the books there and then put some merchandise to them to the institutions so that that really helps them to understand about our movement, something like that. Yeah, we move on, thanks because we have already contacted them of course there is a kind of the continuation of the conversation through email after the visit, we try to negotiate of course at the beginning from the conversations and then they usually ask about the what kind of agreements that we are going to have so I try to make the trust of the agreements and then again in making the draft course there's a negotiation to also agreements talks in here, so we try to customize but what is the obligations and what is their part, something like that and then we try to make this becoming more a win-win between plan institutions and also wiki media Indonesia and India this is just an example of the MOU that we have and then we move on when we have already signed the MOU because we do the activities that is stated in the MOU, we digitize them and also put it into wiki media comments and try to complete the metadata as you can see from the pictures with the volunteers from wiki media Indonesia, we do all the process until becoming digitized, something like that. Well, the agreements can be very not only just digitizing but there are some museums or maybe some institutions that already digitized their collections, so we just try to we just only use their collections, the digital collections and share it to wiki media comments and develop it into other wiki media projects. What about after the project finished, we try to maintain of course the maintaining pace, we do a report, we create a report about the activities that we have and also there's a review in the report and the evaluations that we sent to the institutions and and we also, this is not yet done but we plan to have a mailing list for the our partners who have already worked with us to always keep in touch about giving the information about Glam's projects and wiki media projects that I don't know, this is going to be something that make them always see us or remember us that we still contact their institution. And then after that we have wiki media comments page and then for them and this is where we can find the collections of like say one of the most you know Sumatra is a numismatic museum in Sumatra, so we create in the comments and then we inform them that they have already, they can access the collections in this in this website here in this this page and we also give them a kind of qr code black and then there's a link to the the page of wiki media comments so this is the outcome of the of the partnership between wiki media and also the climate institutions yeah so this is a kind of a great reflection standard thing that we learn so far here in Glam wiki media Indonesia we need to know about our potential partners at the beginning and then we try to approach them with a multi-channel approach we try to find the good timing to approach them to reach out them and then again when we yeah when we would like to have a partnership with them close to you need to provide the value that we have what benefits that they can get and also the forget to follow up sometimes reaching out them is not really not in the short time but sometimes take years to make them want to work with us and if they rejects we really need their feedback so it's going to be something like improvement for us later on build a partnership to forget to measure and analyze I know that this is yeah reach out the climate institutions is not a short time project it's a long time project it's really time consuming and also I think it's ongoing process always and then that needs improvements that's why we need to do it always even there are so many rejections we face a lot of rejections but at least the institutions got already know about the movement and at least they we hope that they will do the digitization their own here in Indonesia yeah I think that's all let's collaborate for open glam this is the etherpad links that you can access and the word is reach out clams with G L I M is in capital I hope that if you have more suggestion or informations that you want to share with this topic I hope I put some some template for you to fill in I mean you can put your email so questions later if you want to talk more about this later just go to the link and then I already put the slide link in the in the etherpad and hope when I hear some comment and suggestion for you or maybe what we do is maybe need to be improved which one that we need to be improved in this in this case I think that's all from me I think I take a lot much time already thank you very much


All right, so essentially what we're getting ready to do is load a hand refueler. Those ramps are one of the issues that we're trying to address. The model that we're currently making will kind of mimic this. What we're trying to do is account for this unit, an air conditioning unit, the 808, which you'll see later, and an 802, which is not going to be loaded during this load procedure. The negative space is what we're trying to address. The ramp will be multiple units that will fill in the negative space and allow us to have one continuous go. By increasing the angle of attack, we're going to account for the negative space on the ramp's toe and account for that space right there where the two pieces are. This will give us less risk. It'll be made out of metal so we won't have to worry about the wood component of it for moving to countries that don't allow for plywood and be a safer load overall. All right, so one other thing that we want to make note of is we had to take in this particular mission two different types of ramps. This set of ramps was made and constructed solely for the truck that's going to go and support the mission. The reason we had to make two different types is to account for the difference of axle size. Whatever bog tail we end up using might have a different axle. The back end in this case is wider than the front and the axle, the ramps that we were using for the refuel bowser were too narrow. So they had to immediately construct these wide ones. Had we had one universal ramp that met the 808, the handy refueler and the bog tail, we wouldn't have to bring all the extra weight. The time of setting it up, we could have just had it sitting down and loaded all the equipment regardless of the units needing a ramp or not and saved a lot of time in loading. So that's another consideration that we had to take in. Plus the longevity. If we end up using this type of model and we're using an 808, I'm sorry, an 802, and the wheels aren't right, we run that risk of the front axle kicking and that causes a greater risk of damage to the aircraft. Additionally, these ones wear much more over time and over a course of multiple loads. The ramp angle actually starts becoming inverted, which makes it almost impossible to use and then makes the mission that much harder and more dangerous. So just one more of those other things to consider. Thank you. Okay, so now that the load process has been finished, things that we want to really touch based on and the importance of them were looking at the shoring. We addressed why we have the shoring, but why we use the shoring, but we weren't really making sure to put emphasis on what the main point of it is. In the video, we put emphasis on a drain plug that's on the 808. The reason for the shoring and plywood being put up the way it was is to account for as we're going up the ramp, there's a raised point. When we get to that point, the drain plug runs the risk of hitting and if we don't have the correct amount of plywood put on, actually the drain plug will hit the aircraft ramp and damage it. So when we're looking at it, even with all the plywood that we used, we barely cleared it by about maybe an inch, inch and a quarter. That's a huge risk. Additionally, if you look at how many pieces that we used, that is not the correct amount that's on the load. Traditionally, we only have per 808 three pieces. In a nice warm weather, it still wasn't enough. We had to use another five, I think five pieces to do that to make the ramp the way it was and then it still cracked along the way, which you can see in the video. If we had that splinter as they were loading up and break, thankfully it didn't, it just cracked and this was all brand new plywood that was cut. I think it cost the age flight 1,800 bucks to do or the MXS flight to cut it all. That's just the material, 1,800 bucks. Had it splintered and broke and dropped down into the space on the ramp, you could have run the risk of damaging the aircraft, despite having all of it preset. They then added more plywood and small pieces, kind of like a runner, to help account for that drop and strengthen it up. But if those pieces weren't there and they only had that 1,808 with those three pieces, effectively couldn't have loaded the aircraft. It would have ran the risk of damaging it. In the wintertime, the foam tires, the tires on the 808 are made of foam. It contracts. You need even more wood to clear that gap. So those are the huge pieces that we need to take into consideration. If we build it out of metal, we don't have to worry about it cracking. We don't have to worry about the missing of that gap because we've increased the height and allowed for it to go up all at once. So it's a much safer and less risk to the aircraft. So those are the things that we really want to address in here is the way we're doing it currently makes absolutely no sense. You run the risk of a FOD hazard because none of that plywood has a worldwide identifier on it. The plywood amount that we're using is not accurate in any way shape or form. We have to use multiple ones from multiple units to build the ramp to begin with. You're running the risk, even with all of that, the clearance, an inch and a quarter. Why gamble it? There's no need. It can be completely avoided. And again, all the setup time. We wouldn't have to do any of that. We put the ramp down, we bring the aircraft ramp onto it, and we just load. That's the end of the operation. If we had to go to a base that allows the plywood but then for some reason have to forward deploy out of there to a base that wouldn't have that plywood, allow that plywood, we run the risk of then saying all that has to go on to a C-17 and hoping that that same amount of stuff comes back, which isn't realistic. It would totally impact the mission as far as being able to be mobile. Because if we go to a base and they say that and the host country says that this is not allowed, all that has to go, that equipment effectively is lost and stuck there until we can get the proper equipment or the new shoring built from host country and then set back up. Another part of loading an aircraft besides the ramps is what's called sleeper shoring. This is the shoring that goes up underneath the axles and allows for an event that the aircraft hits turbulence. It helps absorb and reduce shock and bouncing. All it is is again plywood. We cut it up into small squares anywhere between 8 to 13 inch squares and it slides up underneath the axles and then we cargo strap it to the floor. How we store them is usually we just toss it into onto the unit or it's onto the side of the frame of the unit. Again, no worldwide identifier, no real tracking purposes, and every unit's different so the heights can always change even per the type of model that we're using. In 808 we might use 7 to 8 pieces and on another one we might use 6 and another one we might use 10. It all depends on how much the axles have rested and the leaf springs have settled. That's really it. Again, we're doing a process that is just not useful or beneficial and that's where we're trying to propose these guys. I bought this off of GSA Advantage as part of the SIF project. It was an innovation project that we were trying to push. Basically, all these are our blocks that you use for vehicles and storage. They have a channel in them to where you can actually put the cargo strap in so we're not running the risk of fighting them and the plywood tipping over because they stack nicely. They stack nicely, easy to use. We could put a worldwide identifier on them and put them in a kit and assign that kit to a select unit. It's just part of the mobility process. We know how many we've sent out. We know how many we're getting back. You're saving money. You're saving time. You're reducing the risk of this coming loose during a load during transportation. It's not uncommon for those pieces because you're just stacking plywood that isn't really secured by any way. Sometimes we use tape. In this case, in the video, we didn't. That's all going to come loose. That shoring essentially doesn't make any sense. It's just falling all over the aircraft or at least under the unit. It's a trip hazard if people were walking. Then we got to pick it all back up and make sure it's accounted for and hope we have all the pieces that we started with. Hopefully, as part of this innovation project, this will be a part of that consideration. I hope that this overall captures the true need of why we're trying to do the ramp. Thank you so much for your time.


There was already sequels to the original, but we're kind of doing a Halloween thing here, we're just moving past it. So today I want to talk about the popular one, the original, and this new one. Compare them, see what works, what doesn't, and eventually crown a winner. It's 1992's Candy Man versus 2021's Candy Man on Movie Feuds. First thing I want to point out is 2021's foolish omission of Christina Aguilera's Candy Man. Why that song wasn't included, I'll never know, but shame on them. With that out of the way, let's dive right into these characters. 1992's Candy Man follows Helen Lyle under shitty unfaithful husband Trevor, who's banging a college chick behind her back.  Stick with Helen, she was a good woman, she was trying to get to the bottom of a mystery taking place featuring the Candy Man, and this Candy Man is really an everlasting gobstopper because he will do the same thing again to Anthony. Helen and his best friend Bernadette are really trying to find their meal ticket, their claim to fame as journalists, and Cabrini Green is their answer. Or I guess, at least they thought it was. There's an urban myth surrounding the neighborhood of a Candy Man who comes out when you say his name five times in a mirror, with the lights off preferably, and then you die. I just rewatched this movie and I'm pretty sure no one ever says Candy Man five times. It's like four times, sometimes other people do it with you. There's a lot of stuff here that doesn't really quite add up, but I think at the end of the day, the amount of times don't really matter. It's just if you believe in this Candy Man, this gentleman of sweets, that he will arrive and give you your prize, which is a razor blade hidden in a wrapper. It's actually not. It's a hook.  The whole Candy Man shtick is just bizarre to me. It really doesn't play out in any meaningful way. He doesn't like target the children at all. There's like one mention of Candy in the original film, which is some wrappers with the razor blades in it, but that's not even the thing. It has nothing to do with the character. It's just how this myth is taking place over time. My girl Helen has a bit of a scully thing going on from X-Files. She's got the look. She's got the determination.  That's ludicrous. That's silly nonsense. These people are just coming up with excuses for why they aren't getting ahead in life, why they aren't succeeding. And that's what makes Candy Man such a like a smart piece. This isn't your typical slasher. It may not be as popular, but it's also got a little bit more going on under the hood. This thing's telling us a tale of a man who was brutally tortured by townsfolk years and years ago just for being black. Obviously, this is a tale that continues to be told in today in modern cinema more so than ever before as people are waking up if it were.   So this man comes back from the dead and haunts and torments and kills his fellow neighborhood people? No, that's just what some basic folks would have you believe. The man's dead. The myth, the legend lives on. It's manifested, it's conjured. What makes us such an interesting concept is we've learned over time that our ancestors' baggage, their pain, their anguish, their suffering actually does get passed on. And so that's really what the Candy Man is. It's the oppression of black people, it's the oppression of poor, impoverished people manifesting through this evil, manifesting through memory, because if you remember all the injustice, that injustice comes back and haunts you, that's brilliant. And that's exactly what happens to Anthony. He's drawn to this stuff because he draws literally this stuff, actually paints it to be fair, but still he's all about showing the oppression, all about showing the systemic racism that's alive and well today. But he's a starving artist and he needs his next big showcase piece. That's where Cabrini Green comes in. The now gentrified Chicago neighborhood is calling to him and when he arrives, jump in a fence, taking some photos, a friend shows up in the form of a bee stinging his hand and that's the Candy Man saying, I'm back bitch, spread the word. I am gonna get into spoilers here, so if you care about Candy Man spoilers, you know, walk away from this, but these two films are very much tied. You have to really see the first to appreciate the second because it plays off of it so much. Now the film does spend a fair amount of time, arguably too much time, explaining the first movie over via these Harry Potter deathly hollow retellings of sorts, using marionette paper characters. It looks beautiful, a little bit of haunting imagery there, but it plays out too much. It's like, okay, if you're really that interested in what happened in the first one, watch the first movie. Why Anthony though? There's already people living in the neighborhood still, why choose him? Well, that's where a twist comes into play that I didn't see coming and I was actually very impressed with.  His mother Ann Marie McCoy is in both films and she has aged beautifully. My god, she's a good looking woman. The actress's name is Vanessa Williams, which threw me off because I was looking for the other Vanessa Williams, the singer slash actress dynamite combo. No, this is a different actress. What made the first film so interesting for first time watchers is you didn't actually know if the Candy Man was an urban myth, a folk tale of sorts, or if it was just a dude going around killing people because we find out as Helen's doing her investigative journaling. Is that right investigative journaling? It doesn't sound right. She's doing her investigation. I could have just said that. As Helen's doing her investigation, we're leaving all this in, you need to see my cuts and scrapes and bruises and flubs and fails. She finds out that the building she's in and the one that's over at Cabrini Green have these false walls. You can, you can just pull off the mirror in the bathroom and just poke your hand right through to the other side to an empty room. And even as she starts to pull at the threads, she's becoming undone herself. Anthony's girlfriend Brianna, who runs the art gallery, isn't too keen on his new piece. And his art is suffering a bit. It's a little on the nose. There's no subtlety there. In the new film, we know basically everything going in, although the Anthony twist was awesome. I appreciated that. But there really isn't anything else bubbling under the surface in the sequel. Although I will say I really did like the idea that there was multiple generations of candy men, individuals that were wrongfully accused or just accused for no other reason other than, you know, people are dicks and will be mean to others that are different than them. Brianna's character I felt had too much screen time as well. Actress did a fine job, but they kind of go into her history with her dad and it goes nowhere at all. Almost like they cut out half of her storyline, but left the other half in for reasons I can't possibly imagine. Had they pulled back on her stuff, the runtime would have been a little more digestible for me. As it stands, I think it's about 15, 20 minutes too long. Whereas the original I was never checking my watch that I don't wear, but pretending to for the sake of the sentence. Visually speaking, 2021's film is beautiful. I have no issues with it at all. How it's filmed is very well done. There's these reverse bird's eye cams where you're looking at the bottom up at the sky, at the buildings as they're kind of ominously going by. There's a creepiness to it. Where the original did the opposite, they had the, you know, the pre drone shots down at the city scapes. And unbeknownst to the common folk, there's a suffering at large, waiting to be recognized in the form of Candyman. Of course, because 2021 has that nice beautiful sheen and polish on it, I would be foolish to say the original looks better. It's definitely aged. Hasn't aged poorly, but there's a little bit of a cheapness to it when you look at what's coming out now. I mean, the new film really is beautiful to look at. That said, some of the kills in the original blew me away. I had not seen the movie until just recently, so I kind of went in expecting a kind of campy retreat, but no, pleasantly surprised.  There's maybe two of them. The first is where the shitty husband jumps onto the bed. It's like, it's like the loudest noise possible. All he did is jump on the bed. Otherwise, though, when they showed the mutilated dog, the decapitated dog, I thought, holy shit, we are all in it now. Blood everywhere, helens freak, you know, rightfully so. We got a crib soaked in blood. I mean, it's nightmarish stuff. It's good stuff. Plus the hook dangling off that stubby meat flesh arm just grows to look at, but awesome at the same time. Tony Todd plays the Candyman. That voice is phenomenal. He just, just the bass in it, that deep bass and he just stands there so, you know, sinisterly, so creepily, usually from afar with that hook hanging down, ready for business, ready to open up shop on your face. And they bring it back in the new movie too. He's still doing it all these years later. No Helen though, which is, I mean, I guess they just kind of ignored the fact that she also transcended and became her own nightmare, although it's not quite as cool to say Helen five times in the mirror doesn't have quite the same mystique to it. The kills in 2021 are the highlight for me. Really creative stuff going on. They use some fun camera angles. They use great perspectives. The scene in the bathroom or the four or five girls get taken out. Awesome stuff. The art gallery did some really cool new things I haven't seen before with, where Candyman's like hovering around. There's bees on the opposite side of the mirror. As for the scare factor, I don't think either movie scary at all. I've found the first to be a little bit more, I guess, chilling and unsettling than the new one. I think because we're in 2021 and even though there are a lot of practical effects in this, there is a fair amount of CG trickery going on too. And that does pull me out a little bit, so it's hard to get scared when that's going on. That awesome score from the original does return in 21. They don't overuse it. It's a really well produced film. Both of them are. I don't have any real negatives to say. Looking at the pros and cons of each that I pointed out, I have to go with the original. The story is just more interesting. It's more layered. It's more nuanced. I liked Helen. I liked her storyline. I like the struggles she went through. She basically went insane and then came back from it. And for that reason, the original wins. I think I've talked enough. I've said my piece. Now I'd love to hear from you. Leave a comment telling me which one you liked better and why. Like the video if you had some fun. Subscribe as I put out a lot of movie feuds and regular movie conversation videos every single week. Oh, yes. And remember, this is more than just reviews. This is movie feuds. 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So if you thought that was bad, I came across this document that was put out, I think, yesterday. I think it was an update to a project, but it was put up, I think it was put up out yesterday or this week. And it's called Absolute Zero. And this is a climate change document by a group called UK Fires, which is led by a engineering professor from the University of Cambridge. This group is supported by the University of Cambridge, but as part of this, it has a number of faculty members, including from the University of Cambridge, Bath, Nottingham, Strait Clyde, and University of Oxford, as well as Imperial College. So some of the best universities in the world are participating in this. And this is the problem that they are saying, look, we have this clear mission of cutting, of achieving net zero emissions by 2050. The whole world agrees with this. We have to get to net zero emissions by 2050. And that's just 20 something years away, right, 27 years away. And most of the focus on getting there is to try to come up with what are called breakthrough technologies, technologies that will allow us to maintain our quality of life, standard of living, and still achieve net zero emissions. And what this document is saying is, look, that's just not going to happen. It's just not going to happen. They are no breakthrough technologies that can provide us with the energy we need, and everything else that we need without us being willing to change our lifestyle. And look, you know, the world's going to end. We have to do things. Again, there's somebody out there that needs to be sacrificed to. And we, you know, scientists have identified this goal to save the world zero emissions by 2050. And the reality is that, you know, having faith in technology to deliver, you know, solutions to all the issues, it's just, it's fantasy. It's just not going to happen. And they're probably right. And he says, look, for 20 years, we've been trying to solve the problems with new or breakthrough technologies. And I'm reading for this report, they, they, from the executive summary of the report, that supply energy and allow industry to keep growing so we don't have to change our lifestyles. So investing heavily in these technologies, so we don't have to change our lifestyles. And so they, and they say, but although some exciting new technology options are being delivered, developed, it will take a long time to deploy them. And they won't be operating at scale within 30 years. So what do we do? What do we do? And what he says, what they, what the conclusion they come to is, look, if we're serious about zero emissions by 2050, then we're going to have to accept the fact that we have to change our lifestyle. Life is going to have to change on planet Earth. We can't continue living the way we do today. Zero emissions. Technology is not going to save us. It just won't happen. So he says, if we really want to read zero emissions in 30 year times, what does that involve? And they say, most of what we most enjoy spending time together, notice, notice the orientation of what we most enjoy. Most of what we most enjoy spending time together is families and communities, leisure, sports, creativity, continue and grow unhindered. I mean, we'll come back to this because that's just not true. But notice that that's what we care most about. It's not about careers. It's not about, it's not about wealth, God forbid. It's about families and communities, leisure, sport and creativity. What makes all of that possible? Work and industry and so on. But that's what's important. That already tells you something about the orientation of this. And whether that can be preserved under the zero environment is bizarre. He says they continue writing, we need to switch to using electricity as our only form of energy. And if it continues today impressive rate of growth in non-emitting generation, we'll only have to cut our use of energy to 60% of today's levels, only. So we don't have to cut it to zero. Just all we have to do is eliminate 40% of the energy we use today and we can enjoy and we can get to where we need to be and we can enjoy family and community and leisure and sports and creativity. At least, whoops, a mosquito. I'm trying to catch the mosquito. He says they write we can easily achieve this with incremental changes to the way we use energy. We can drive smaller cars and take the train when possible. Trainers, energy efficient they tell us. Use efficient electric heat pumps to keep warm and buy buildings, vehicles and equipment that are better designed and last much longer. Notice the we, we, we. Your individual preferences, by the way, don't actually matter.  We are going to tell you what is important for you, family and community, leisure, sports and creativity. That's what's important for you.   But they say we face two big challenges. The two big challenges we face with an electric future are flying and shipping. Although there are lots of new ideas about electric planes, they won't be operating at commercial scales within 30 years. So zero emissions means that for some period, we'll all stop using airplanes. I love the fact that they don't mince words yet. They're not hedging for some period of time. We'll all stop using airplanes.  Now I'm going to see the, I'm going to see the Sistine Chapel of again, because you're stuck in America. You're just not going to be able to fly anyway. And by the way, as somebody who lives in Puerto Rico, I am really stuck. I can't leave the island unless I swim or I guess I go on a boat, we'll get to boats in a minute. No flying, not some flying, not we won't do any international flights, not no, we'll stop using airplane. Shipping they write is more challenging, although there are few military ships run by nuclear reactors, we commonly don't have any large electric merchant ships, but we depend strongly on shipping from importing food and goods. And they say, look, we have a climate change act, this is in the UK. So we have to, we have to obey the act. And that means that we have to stop doing anything that causes emissions, regardless of its energy source. That's going to require, it's going to require that we stop eating beef and lamb, no more beef, no more lamb, because they release methane as they digest grass. So we're going to have to, people are going to have to switch to vegetarian diet or switch to, I guess, chickens, although I'm sure there's something wrong with chickens. And then one of the most difficult problems is cement. Making cement releases emissions, regardless of how it's powered, there are currently no alternative options available at scale. And we don't know how to install new renewable or make new energy-efficient buildings without it. So what are we going to do? Stop building? Yeah, stop building, because we can't build without cement. They write, we need to discuss these challenges as a society. Making progress or climate change requires that the three key groups of players, government, business, and individuals, work together, together, rather than waiting for the other two to act first. But until we face up to the fact that breakthrough technologies won't arrive fast enough, we can't even begin having the right discussion. So, and then they give you the fairy tale stuff, here's the fairy tale stuff. Committing to zero emissions create tremendous opportunity, tremendous. There will be huge growth in the use and conversion of electricity for travel.  What do the Japanese do? I guess they don't go anyway. The conversion of electricity for travel, warmth and in industry, growth in new zero emission diets. Wow, what a, I can't wait to get rid of lamb and beef so I can go on a zero emission diet. I've always wanted to be in a zero emission site. Wouldn't, that sounds so interesting. I just had a meal at a Michelin star restaurant. I don't think it was zero emissions. Growth in materials production, manufacturing, construction capability with zero emissions, growth in lesion, domestic travel, growth in business that help us to use energy efficiently and conserve and value materials. Of course they're ignoring in all of this. They're ignoring these, in these opportunities. The breakthrough technologies that they're assuming will happen. They're ignoring the cost. They're ignoring how poor we will become. They're ignoring the fact that these new sources of energy are primarily unreliable. They're ignoring just the sheer insanity of the goal and what it's actually going to acquire of us. So they're honest when it comes to can't go boat, can't go fly. So no more global trade, no flying anyway. They're honest about that, but they're not honest about all this, you know, bizarre. I mean, if zero emissions were so economically great, you wouldn't have to subsidize them. You know, so absolute zero creates a driver for tremendous growth in industries related to electrification. True, but death in other industries. From material supply, through generation and storage to end use. The fossil fuels, cement, shipping and aviation industries face rapid contraction while construction and many manufacturing sectors can continue at today's scale with appropriate transformations. How will the construction side sector adapt? All new build should be zero energy standards of use. The impacts of construction are primarily about the use of materials, primarily steel and cement. By 2050, we will have only very limited, cementious material and we'll use only recycled steel, only recycled steel. But there are myriad opportunities for radical reductions in the amount of materials used in each construction. Really? No skyscrapers. Forget skyscrapers. Forget tall buildings generally. How are you going to build bridges without steel? Recycled steel. Right? It's not enough recycled steel to build new stuff. International freight, global trade, any kind of trade. We currently have no non-emitting freight ships. So there is an urgent need for exploration of means to electrify ship power and options to transfer to electric rail. Electric rail from the UK to the United States. This would require an enormous expansion in international rail capacity. Where's this money going to come from? Who's going to make these investments? And why is there no discussion here of the costs of all this? And the cost of standard living and quality of life, even if we have, if we don't fly anyway. Global trade collapsing. Countries are going to have to become self-sufficient. We know the cost instead of living quality of life of that is massive. We know the benefits of trade. We know the benefits of specialization. I mean, what they're really asking here, and I mean, what they're really asking here is for the destruction of modern civilization. And pretending that there are great opportunities nobody's going to have to suffer. So you won't be able to fly. Big deal. Aviation, they say. There are no options for zero emission flights in the time available for action. So the industry faces a rapid contraction. That's interesting, rapid contraction. Developments in electric flight may be relevant beyond 2050. First, our fuel industries, all coal, gas, and oil fuel supply from extraction through the supply chain to retail must close within 30 years. Although carbon capture and storage may allow some activity later. Traveling tourism without flying. There will be growth in domestic and train-reach tourism. Food and agriculture, beef and lamb phased out by 2050 and replaced by greatly expanded demand for vegetarian food. Electricity supply for food processing and storage will be cut by 50%. So we're going to cut electricity for storing and for processing food by 50%. But we're going to have enough food to feed everybody. Wee, wee, wee. It just goes on and on like this. And the beauty of a document like this is that it's right here. It's laid out. You know, literally under the section of traveling, it will say, stop using airplanes. Take the train, not the car when possible. Use all the seats in the car or get a smaller car. Choose an electric car next time if possible, which will become easier as prices fall and charging infrastructure expands. Lobby for more trains, no new roads. Airport closure and more renewable electricity. I mean, again, this is the end. This agenda is an agenda for the end of humanity, the end of civilization, the end of economic progress, the end of economic wealth, the end of economic growth. One of the some of the recommendations about heating and appliances, right? Wear warmer clothes in winter. Wear warmer clothes in winter. I mean, this is going backwards how many hundreds of years? And it goes on. So this is backed by University of Cambridge Engineering Department. They've got graphs, they've got pictures, they've got the whole thing. It's all worked out. They, you know, it's truly unbelievable. This is evil and a scale that is hard to imagine the evasion of these people to pretend that there's opportunities here. There's opportunity for a much smaller population. Eight billion people can't survive on this and they know it. So this is we're talking about maybe one billion, maybe 500 million people on planet Earth. Africa can't do this. They don't care. They just don't care. If not, the world will end or maybe it's better that the world end that we have to live like animals. This is the agenda of the environmentalist.  This is what they're really after. The end of modern life, the end of civilized life as we know it. Thank you for listening or watching The Iran Book Show. If you'd like to support the show, we make it as easy as possible for you to trade with me. You get value from listening. You get value from watching. Show your appreciation. You can do that by going to iranbrookshow.com.  Also, if you'd like to see The Iran Book Show grow, please consider sharing our content and, of course, subscribe. Press that little bell button right down there on YouTube so that you get an announcement when we go live. And for those of you who are already subscribers and those of you who are already supporters of the show, thank you. I very much appreciate it.


Mustangs now and beaten in five straight taking a 6-3 decision from Lebanon Valley with head coach Dominic Dawes Let's start with the bright spots first two periods you stay out of the penalty box You're in control up four to one of the first two periods your assessment of the way your team played. I thought we played great I thought we played I mean all we talked about today was playing with energy and make sure we got out We knew if we get the puck behind their D We could possess the puck and make plays and I really thought that's for the first 40 minutes or so That's what we what we did Dominic Brents I thought was one of the guys that really led in that energy category seems to also be a guy that Starting to win an awful lot of draws for you as well I thought as a group face-off lies. We were we were very good tonight, but I thought he had a great night His feet were moving. I thought that line had a pretty good night. I had quite a few chances But that was a big thing energy get the feet moving make plays get the puck behind their D We'll be able to go from there to get five in a row now Where you've been able to manage points and be unbeaten here thoughts on the way they've been able to put together a little string here Well, I think you know the way we're kind of look at it is here back from the break So this that was a big step here over the over the weekend of you know We got to win the first night in overtime and then hard fought battled back the second night You know to tie and score two goals in the third period and then tonight the goal was to you know To win and and I thought we played a pretty solid game and now we kind of move to the next the next face We've got a big weekend ahead of us on the road and we'll go from there I was gonna say now a basically a month away from home every weekend here for the rest of the month How do you is that just a case of approach it game by game and take them as they come? I mean, it's game by game for us all year. I mean, this is all new to that whole room. So It's every day's a new day try to get better every day and see what happens. All right unbeaten in five straight. Congratulations. Thank you All right head coach Dominic Dawes joining us here Stevenson gets the win tonight by a score of 6-3 over Lebanon Valley You


July is going to be hotter than ever because you get up to $50 off any smartphone at Appalachian Wireless to your agreement required. Better service? Bigger savings? That's today's Appalachian Wireless, an East Kentucky network company. Testimony began in the murder trial of Ronald and Loretta Wright in Floyd Circuit Court today after a jury was selected yesterday. 67 year old Ronald E. Wright is charged with murder in the shooting death of 54 year old Famer Halbert. 63 year old Loretta Wright, Ronald's wife, is charged with complicity to commit murder. The alleged murder happened in 2013 at Halbert Lane in McDowell. The victim in this case is the couple's brother-in-law. Seven children were inside the home at the time of the shooting. None of them were hurt. Today Kentucky State Police detectives, a dispatcher, the Floyd County Coroner, and other officials who worked the case took the stand. Jurors were given testimony from each witness about what happened on scene the day of the murder. They also heard the 911 call made by Lorraine Halbert, Famer Halbert's wife, after the shooting took place. Pictures of the scene were also shown in court. The trial is expected to last until Friday. Reporting in Prestonsburg, I'm Shelby Steele for EKB News.