going on, everyone. Sam here with latent sports cards, ripping 21, 22, Canadian mosaic, basketball, hobby, four box break, number 29, pick your team style. Gonna read off a list of our names and teams. Adam M. Timberwolves, Adam G. Pistons, Brandon C. Hawks, Bruce C. Warriors, yes, Warriors. Chris C. with the magic, Donald M. Blazers, Dylan S. Nets, Floyd S. with the heat, How Can L. Pelicans, Kings, Jason G. Sixers, Pacers, Jose V. with the hornets, Joseph D. Clippers, Wizards, Naked Joseph, Joshua B. Lakers, Joshua S. Jazz, Kenneth H. Nuggett, Spunder, Lawrence H. with the bowls, Matthew M. Cavs, Mike O. Grizzlies, Nelson V. Seltekspurs, Nicholas T. Mavs, Robert P. Raptors, Salmon K. with the nicks, Tyler B. Sons, Virgil D. Rockets, and Y. Lynn with the Bucks. Good luck, everybody. Let's do some mosaic. We are sold out on the night, everybody. Thank you again. I would say personals are probably full at the moment. If not, they're getting close to full for sure. But yeah, I'm excited. We've got some good orders tonight. I got some prism first off the line. Evan Mobley. Some Star Wars. Did have some Galaxy come in. Yeah, there we go. IQ, red, Caris Levert. Mobley rookie. Bradley Beale. Be the Sleeves. K, National Pride. Ron's debut. D. Wade. Jalen Sog's debut mosaic. Red Zach Levine color match for the bowls. Chris Middleton. Stairmasters mosaic. Silver Sudeek Bay. Red Derrick Roos. Overdrive Jalen Green Rookie for the Rockets. Base, base, and base. Jalen Green debut. Silver Swiss Bank. Red Lamarcus Aldridge.  Smarter than the Sleeves, Donnie. We've got Io Desunemou on the rookie auto for the bowls. Nice one there. Chicago. Congrats there. Io Desunemou. Silver James Bookknight for the Hornets. White Jamarant. One of 25. There you go, Memphis. Grats on that. That's awesome. That is Mike Oh. Starting five for the Pacers. Kade Rookie Base. Cam Thomas National Pride. Red James Bookknight Rookie. I was going to say, I was going to say, Schilderite Joshua on that one. D. Aaron Fox. Jalen Green, National Pride mosaic. Red DeMarcus Cousins. Moments in time, Clay Thompson.  You just got jingled. Make sure you find the auto. Red, I already did. So we're good. Red, Luca Donchich. I can't get jingled in this box. That is Rising Stars Tyler Hero.  Make sure you don't miss it in the next three. Jingling only applies to the right box, though. Silver MPJ. Make up for it with a black Lebron. Gotcha. There's Lamella Ball. Say no more, Joshua. Say no more. Easy. Say no more. Silver Scotty Barnes. Nice one there. Got a blue of Nicola Buciewicz for the Bulls. 27 out of 99. What? Don't worry about it. See you again. Oh boy. This guy is wild. Don't worry about the child over here. I know. I forgot we're playing three-year-olds. Lord, man. You know, in times of desperation. Three-year-olds. Three-year-olds. Hey, for reading three and reading and being able to read and write the three-year-olds. Still work on speech, but you know. That's got a wild way to go there. Kaling Green. Oh, Avery Bradley. Going to the Lakers. Nice one there. Joshua can't get away from Avery Bradley Autos. Red, Eric Gordon. Starting five for the Magic Music. Cam Thomas, followed by Scotty Barnes. Chris Paul. Josh Giddy as well. 1,000 Star Wars. That's awesome. Malcolm Brogdon. What's up, Tex? Red, Tarence Mann. Tatter Hero, Rising Stars. Not for a while. Super or Superfly. Evan Mobley. This is usually the last, like, this just came out for last year. It's usually one of the last products to come out. Danny Green. Isaiah Thomas. Club level, though. It is Clay Thompson. What are you going for, Field? Field level, I'm assuming, on that Darden. 500,000 cards between sports and gaming. Silver or Cole Anthony. That is kind of crazy, Joshua. Matisse Thible. Red, I would just soon move on the variation. Nice one there. Chris Middleton, Stairmasters, Mosaic. Stop being so aggressive. You can't have the cards open. I'm dealing with her. Kevin Love, Silver. Blue, Malik Beasley for the Timberwolves, 49 of 99. Nice one there, Minnesota. Blue, Malik Beasley. Malik Beasley. What are you doing? Someone get that baby out the street. Duncan Robinson, Lee. Pink is TJ McConnell. Nice one there for the Pacers. 34 out of 49. That's pretty cool, though. I like that, Joshua. That's awesome, dude. Being able to do your own thing, too, which is nice. Scotty Barnes, National Strike. There's Austin Reeves. Red, Steph Curry. Bradley Beal. What do you have more of? I'm assuming gaming, right? Like, what do you think the percentage breaks down, Joshua, between sports and gaming for you? Just from your Black Friday order, I would assume gaming. There's Sandro. That is PJ Washington. De'Aaron Fox. You really sold all the Black Friday stuff. That's awesome. We probably kept most of it sealed, right? Franz Wagner. I imagine you kept most of that sealed. Silver or Moses Moody? It was Black Friday. Joshua bought like 54 cases worth of the gaming stuff. KP. Overdrive, Luca. I remember seeing that. I remember between you, Chris, and there was like one or two other big gaming customers. We had, I remember like, do you remember Black Friday, the gaming area? Like, both of those two tables were just full of stuff. Joshua and Chris G on gaming, yeah. There was like one or two other of the bigger customers over there that had a lot of stuff, too. We got the base on the front this time. There was a LeBron, Mosaic. Red, Moses Moody Rookie. De'Aaron Fox, Montage. Davion, Kade, going in. Yeah, that makes sense. That's not a bad idea, honestly. Silver for Kundo Compaso. Pink LeBron. There you go, Joshua. 36 out of 49. There you go, buddy. I think you had the Lakers, right? Yes. There you go, Joshua. Nice one there, buddy. Not quite a Black LeBron, but we'll take, we'll take a Pink LeBron. Yep, we got you, we got you. Ivaka, Zulac. Red, Laurie, and Markinin. We got you there, buddy. No problem at all. Kara Slivert. Jonas Valenshunis. Zach Levine. Kade Cunningham. That's what I was hoping for when I flipped it over at V number six or 23. Silver, Steph Curry. Blue is Cam Johnson, 48 out of 99 for the Suns. Well, all offers you got on the Kaboom. There is Scottie Barnes, Book Knight, Davion. It's going to be interesting to see if he breaks it tonight or not. Really going to be interesting. Chexall Listings. Smart. Isaiah Jackson. Bobon for the Mabs. There's the Andrei Aten. There's a $1,500 offer. Now let's see if, let's see if he hits accept accidentally. Silver LeBron for the Caps. Red Campaign. All right, nice. That was Stain Glass LeBron. There we go, Joshua. Congrats, dude. Heck yeah, man. What a break. There we go. Heck yeah, dude. We'll get that magged as well. Took home the Jaws Stain Glass and the Last Break. Now Joshua gets the LeBron Stain Glass in this break. He knows. Joshua does know. Joshua knows. Let him cook. Scottie Barnes, National Bride. Red Kawhi. And the Avery Bradley too. I think that's probably the biggest hit is the Avery Bradley Auto. We've got Miles McBride going to the Knicks. Nice one there on the rookie auto. Jaylen Suggs Silver. Red Brain and Ingram. Starting five is the Wizards. Austin Reeves. Sandro and Herbert Jones. I think so. Might have just been the reflection. Lonza. Red Dame. All NBI. I'll double check again, but Tyrese Maxie. Jaylen Green, National Bride. Might have just been the reflection or the All NBI, one or the other. Superfly. That'll happen every now and then. One second, guys. Do what we can, Carl. What Carl said. We're asking for stuff. Superstar Wars. Jared Vanderbilt on the Celtics, please. Nuggets Legend, Jared Vanderbilt. Tim Rawls Legend, Jared Vanderbilt. Jared Jackson Jr. Red, Jaylen Green. Darius Garland. Jay Val. That's Ross. So Magic Johnson. Holy cow, Chachua. Have a break, dude. Let's go, man. Congrats, buddy. Holy moly, dude. That's insane. Magic Johnson Auto coming out now. Wow. Why not at this point? What's an Austin Reeves silver? Hank Paul George. Nice one there. 35 out of 49. What's up, Snipes? That is starting five for the Blazers. Joshua and the Lakers are clearing right now, is right. Just like Ishmith, according to Vaughn. Silver, Bradley Beale. Blue is Lonzo to 99 for the Bulls. This is going to be our god box of the break. We got our case set out here. If it's in here, I guarantee you, dude. That's Aaron Wiggins. This is Jaylen Brown. That's Kauai Leonard. You're going to have to beat me to the peril, Antich, though. Forrest. That's pretty solid. Very good. Did you get anything, Snipes? Glad you got into those breaks, man. Bones, Highland. Red, Montrez, Harrell. Lamello. Ben Oudre. Oh, god. I forgot about that guy. Scotty Barnes. Cameron Thomas. Red. Nice one there for the Nets. Well, you better all stay away from the Chris Copeland. Joshua also hit a stained glass LeBron and a LeBron pink number to 49. Franz Wagner. Cam Thomas. Rookie. Scotty Barnes debut. Here you go, Joshua. Robert Covington. Colin Sexton. Evan Mobley. Nice. You got the Carter Hart. Nice. That's awesome, dude. Nice, Snipes. Congrats, buddy.  Relic, which is nice. Evan Mobley. I need Doral Wright. Tyler Hero Silver. Alex Caruso. I'm trying, Dylan. I'm trying. Josh Giddy. John L. Kominga. Jordan Nuara. Red. Overdrive. James Harden for the Sixers. John Collins. Alfred Shengun. Red. There's Scotty Barnes' introductions and base. That'll do it for the break, guys. Let's do a Coy Verica. That's going to be a white Jamarant. 25. Miles McBride, Nicks. Avery Bradley, Lakers. Io Desumu, Bulls. We had Magic Johnson Auto for the Lakers. Stained glass LeBron for the Lakers. And pink National Pride LeBron for the Lakers to 49. Nice one there. Congrats again on that, everybody for hitting. Joshua, congrats, buddy. We'll get those all right out to you all.


Cooks, and tonight we are making six spice chicken. Six spices and a brazier. I used white pepper, cumin, coriander, ground mustard, and of course some pepper. Well we got white pepper so I didn't use regular pepper, but I did of course put some salt on it and it looks delicious. Let's get started. Now this is the pan we're going to use for our chicken. So I'm just going to start with some olive oil. And this is going to pop because I rinsed the chicken. So you're going to need a lid close by and you need to put it in there pretty long and fast. Pop it there a little at a time. All right, so here's our chicken. I'm going to start salt and pepper and put everything in. Tonight it's going to be a very different way to cook my chicken. This is white pepper.  I'm going to season it on both sides. I'm going to season it now and I'm going to season it when we turn it. This is cumin. This is rubbed sage. This is coriander. This is a little bit of curry. Oh, I don't have it open. I've got to open it. It's only when I had used a little curry and a little mustard. And we're just going to let it sit right here on a high temperature and get nice and brown and then we're going to turn it. So I've got a couple of pieces of garlic that's going to go in the chicken as well. And I've got a couple of potatoes that we're going to just put in a skillet over here and kind of fry up a little bit. I may not fry them. I may just kind of slow cook them. These are big baking potatoes. I bought a bag of baking potatoes. When you buy those, you don't have to cut up the two of them. That serves full pizza. But they're going to have some black places. It's getting brown so I'm going to put the potatoes in here. It's going to be a lot of potatoes. Put some water in here. Salt. Take a look at our chicken. It's got a pretty color. Let's put the wings in the middle. What the least amount of heat is is I've got a gas stove. The fire's in there. The rest of the meat around the edges, where most of the heat is, just get it around. You can see this piece over here got nice and toasty. See? Not all of it there though. So we're still going to let it get brown. First phase is just getting a pretty color on it. Okay? So now we're going to season this side with everything again. This is coriander. A little sage. A little cumin. White pepper. And the only thing we don't have on here is salt. So we've got to remember to put salt on it. Curry. Mustard. Now at this point I can start putting in my onion. I'm going to salt it. Add my onion. I hope y'all can see that. It's so hard to put in. I guess. And then I'm going to get my garlic and garlic in here too. I'm just going to take the garlic and slice it real thin and over here. Cover that up. Now you can see our potatoes are boiling. They're doing good. And all I'm going to do is let them cook for a little bit. And then we're going to add the garlic and the onion. They're doing good. And all I'm going to do is let them get soft. And then we're just going to add some butter at the end. All right, we're going to go ahead and turn this again. I want to move these onions around. Now we're going to add some liquid to it. I'm going to get my chicken broth out of the refrigerator. And they're cold at first, but it'll still be in there in summer. They'll be good. So I've got some really good broth here that we made in the refrigerator. And part of this is some butter that we had in the chicken stock. It'll be going in. Just enough, about a half quart to let it be able to finish cooking. I'm going to salt it one more time because we only salted it once. And then we're just going to cover it until it's done, y'all. It'll be good. So you're going to want to use something like this. If you don't have something like this, you can use a dutch oven. Start it like I did. Brown it. And then you're going to want to put some liquid in there. And make sure you've got a lid that seals in the moisture. So a lid like this one right here that some of the potatoes won't work because it has a vent hole. If it has a vent hole, then it doesn't seal in the moisture. It lets it escape. So you're going to want to do something that's actually going to seal it completely off on your bracer or your dutch oven if that's what you want to use. At least potatoes are done. I'm going to turn them off. They're completely done and I want to stick now because I didn't put a lot of butter or nothing in them. So now we're just going to add some butter to them. Now those got done quick using that method. So now we're going to add some butter to our potatoes. I want to use the side of the spoon that I haven't put in the food yet. And remember we already salted it in pepper. How Chris likes his potatoes just simple like that. Here's our chicken or butter potatoes. We're going to make a plate. I'm going to put my little green peas in this little bowl. And yes, these are just canned green peas. I do, I do. I want to plate this on, I guess I'm used to black. And I'm going to let y'all see how pretty the chicken looks. Let me tilt you down.  Chris and the kids really like the dark meat. I'll leave them the dark meat. And now we're going to get some buttered potatoes. All they are are potatoes that are buttered. And that is it. Something simple tonight. And then our peas are on the plate and that's it. We're going to give it a fry. And I'm curious to taste how this chicken tastes. I want to put a little bit of this gravy on top of my potatoes. Because it looks good. Down on the bottom of here. It's got onions and stuff in it. We'll do that. I think it's nice and tender y'all. I'll turn it around here so y'all can watch me cut into it. I just got a rattler case knife. We'll see how it does. It's been in the braiser. It's got a real nice flavor. It's not spicy at all. I mean as far as like being hot spicy. It tastes really good. And I'm going to go ahead and get me some more of this gravy to go on mine. Now of course the fattier pieces of chicken will not be quite as fried out as the breast. But that gravy is really, really good. I'm going to taste the potatoes with the gravy on it. Delicious. I hope y'all have enjoyed watching Hard Valley Cooks where we cook like mom and dad. Y'all make you a six spice chicken. You won't be disappointed.


What did Woody Allen say? He said, I wish to obtain immortality by not dying. I suppose, in my case, I just want things to go on forever. I'm marking my 70th birthday quietly. It's not an occasion to particularly celebrate, I think. But on the other hand, as a theorist, I was supposed to have stopped working when I was 35, but here I am at twice that age. And actually, the last 10 years have been perhaps the most productive of my entire career. And I hope they'll continue for a little while yet. I was recently awarded the Newton Medal of the Institute of Physics. I'm very pleased to get this medal. The significance of awards to me is recognition by my fellow scientists. So it's always nice to have your friends tell you that you're doing well and that they appreciate your work. I was always interested in science. I can't remember a time when I wasn't thinking about problems. My family is from the north of England, and I was brought up in Ashton Underline in Lancashire. It was a very resilient and tough family on my maternal grandmother's side. And since we live with my grandmother, the small boy, that side of the family was very much the dominant influence in my life. We lived in her sweet shop. Previous to the sweet shop, when my uncle was living still with the family, they ran an electrical shop and all the little bits of kit from an electrical shop were down there in the cellar. There was a treasure trove of electrical equipment, light fittings and the old-fashioned carbon-filament electrical bulbs. Lots of wire. Eventually when I got a bit older, we had a chemistry set, and of course every young boy with a chemistry set isn't content with that. He goes on to make explosives and fireworks and so on, which I did. Quite a few electrical shocks along the way, I must say. But whenever I got really stuck, I'd go to my uncle. He would come and play the piano and play with me. And we talked science because he was an engineer, an electrical engineer. And so any real difficulties I bumped into, I'd ask him about it and he'd either answer my question or even more usefully, he'd introduce me to books and magazines. That experience of playing with technical and scientific toys taught me a great deal, not so much about the academic side with the mathematics and so on, which I learned at school, but very much about how to ask questions. So now when I approach a problem, I can see that child asking what is fire made of. It's the obvious question to ask and my mind works in the same way when I approach perhaps a more sophisticated problem in my 70th year. I spent 13 years in Cambridge and that was really rather a monastic existence. The colleges were single sex in those days. Women were in very short supply and very fortunate that the Cavendish of 1973 recruited a young lady from Oxford who was a group theorist. She was in the room down the hall from mine and we began to date one another and eventually we got married after quite a long time actually. It took us two years to tie the knot. When you speak of my wife and my work, a story of a PG Wodehouse comes to mind. One of his books was dedicated to his wife and in the dedication he said to my wife, with that whose help this book would have finished in half the time and I think that's the influence my wife has on my work. In other words, a company is so delightful that I'm easily distracted from what I'm doing at the time. My first area of research had to do with surface science and at that time people were very interested in the structure of the immediate surface region. That's to say one or two atoms down from the surface. I was one of the leading players in developing that technology to do surface crystallography. My collaborator in Sweden, Stig Andersen, did the first surface crystal structure using electron diffractions. So that's an achievement I'm quite pleased with in that part of my research. The other thing I'm very pleased to have done but is not something which people would recognize very much is this disordered problem and this beautiful theorem that you can have a structure which is a complete mess like a glass of milk for example and if you try to get some light through it just by shining any old torch on it the light won't go through. The result which says that if you're really clever and try very hard the light will always go through. Disorder materials can be transparent providing you look at them in the right direction. That's an amazing result and I'm still in shock and awe at it. They were so interested in our recent paper that they asked me all the details about the model. So they told me that they were going to implement it straight away. I put a lot of store by this collaboration because I think that is one of the major groups on the experimental side of things and if we're going to achieve something it will probably be through their experimental efforts hopefully using some of our theory as well. If you're doing theory that doesn't have many experiments to talk to is kind of a dead subject and it's when the experiments come in that you have the fun and that's been very much the case with the third major research topic which I'm working on now which has to do not with how light interacts with a disordered structure but how you can design the structure in a very specific and ordered way that will create unique properties for light. So not so much to the chemistry of the material that they're made of it's actually to do with the micro structure that you engineer into that material these new materials which we've invented are called metamaterials and it turns out within optics there are many things you might want to do which you can't do because when you want to do something you've got to make it out of a material and if that material with the properties you need is not available you can't do it. And metamaterials extend the properties to which you have access in a very dramatic way. I tend to like to work in areas where there is a residual problem but perhaps it's an area which has been well studied but maybe there are things which others haven't seen a statement that applies very much to perhaps my most notorious work which is when I discovered that you could focus light perfectly that is to say to an infinitely sharp point providing you could find the materials to build a lens which would do that and all lenses cannot focus anything better than wavelength of light which is about a micron a millionth of a meter and that's not good enough for seeing many biological specimens but in 2000 I discovered that it was possible to give specifications for a lens which was not limited by the wavelength and that was a shaft of light actually it temporarily blinded me because I didn't believe the result and I had to stare at it for a very long time because I knew that if I published it many of my colleagues would have thought I had gone crazy and I did publish it and sure enough some colleagues reacted in a very negative way to it everybody in optics remembers that moment this silly paper came out in physical review letters in my work I do try to be very diverse and to look to a far horizon and different things and so on and so it is that when I'm not working playing as someone would say I like to do things which are really very different photography is one thing that's the easy things the first interest I had in optics was the diffraction of light from structures so you can make colour in two different ways one is to have a chemical which absorbs part of the white light leaving only say the red but there's another way and that is you can bounce light off very very tiny structures which respond only to light of a certain colour and that's called diffractive colour and butterflies are very good at using structure for colour so if you see a butterfly that's blue or green then it will almost always have metallic sheen to it and that's a signature that the colour is not coming from chemistry that it's coming from structure to sort of draw people into my lectures on this I thought it would be a good idea if I had some photographs of butterflies and so I started taking these photographs myself I now take lots and lots of photographs of butterflies that never see a scientific meeting of course I like hard challenges I would like to solve a really really difficult problem and I'm being tempted at the moment to return to my work on disorder I haven't decided to do it yet of course just as when I came to Imperial College and was settled as a professor I thought I could have the freedom to tackle a difficult problem now I've got the Newton Medal I feel that freezing me up to say well ok I can do something which might fail very badly now and so I might turn back to the parts of that disorder problem that I failed to solve all these years ago and try again


So as you already know, this is about how to get started with content marketing in in what press so Let me just start By asking you a simple question Have you bought anything online without reading or watching any video on it. I? Presumably haven't So what you do if you want to buy something online you you read something on It on on any website maybe on Facebook or watch a video so this is how actually things go on When you actually want to buy something online, so this is where the content market actually comes in so With that being said, let me let me just say what content marketing really is in a professional Word I can say that content marketing is a is creating valuable and relevant content to attract Audience in your niche to try a product you may be promoting or our service you might be offering so Once you actually know that what content marketing is you might want to know actually what it really involves What are the areas it actually covers so which brings me to my next slide? Before that I'd like to show you an interesting step Over four hundred nine million people View more than 20 billion pages each month on what this dot-com and you know what this dot-com is a single site so imagine there are thousands of size and There are thousands of pages and there are millions of people so this is a vast number Number of people and and and the pages over there So if you write something if you write it in the right way there there are chances that your your content will be read viewed by Different people and the product or something you're promoting will get the right audience So this is what content marketing actually covers You may work with blog post website copies. There are videos. You can actually upload on different places Apart from YouTube there also some other places like Facebook also had ways to Upload videos and there are a lot of engagement on there and you can do email marketing Webinars podcast a lot of various social media and ad copies as well. These are the areas actually content marketing actually covers So if you actually want to get started with content marketing What what are the things you you actually need to get started? And remember you are working you were actually want to start content marketing in what best so first of all What do you need to know you need to have a working knowledge of what best that might involve how to install a what best plug-in How to install what best how to how actually plug-in works these are the things that you need to know in what best and A passion for writing and creating content, you know, if you actually don't have the passion for writing May or creating content content marketing is Not something you should be trying so if you have the passion for writing or creating content this is a particular thing you should be trying and Another thing you need how actually internet works like you want to you may want to Know about how to host a website and some other things related to website and what best since what best is all about that and You know since it is content you have to optimize it For the search engine as well. So if you have a good knowledge on SEO, it would be it'd be better for you also You need a sense of marketing. Let me put it this way What is the sense of marketing? It can be like, you know Your friend you want to go to a place or try some try a new food Your friend doesn't know about it. So what you are actually doing you you are telling your friend about that particular food or A place you want to go to so with your words and the way you actually describe it Your your friend is finally convinced to try that food or go to that place with you This is the sense actually you would need and now I'd like to Talk about how you can come up with the content ideas and this is what you actually need most I would say So there are a lot of things to work with in what best and you can generate ideas on actually you can you can cover what this core functionality that people actually look for and and Essential what this plug-in guys there are a lot of plugins that a particular site actually needs so You can generate content on that as well and There are some what this hacks that you can also cover and people want what pairs or in different places facing a lot of problems creating Tutorials and some other content may be a video and solving those Problems through that would be wonderful for them and this is a great way and great you know area to generate content on and People always look for suggestion tips and tricks and product comparison In in in many ways, so you can if you can cover those in your content as well you can write reviews and Compare different products for people to try This way So now that you know that what what content you should be generating that there are some certain ways that can help you Write content that that finds its reader itself like you are generating content for people to read So you need to find a way to to reach those people So I'm going to talk about that so in a in a let's say you were writing a blog on a particular topic if you cover All the questions People might ask on that that'd be wonderful. So those people don't need to go somewhere else to find those answers So it's better if you cover all relevant courses in that particular content it may be a video or a blog post and And it's wonderful to optimize your content with a what was plugged in what this is your plug-in there are a lot of options for you and you can you can optimize your content with that if you're writing a blog and Interestingly most people don't do that. So it's if you actually optimize your content According to what this is your plug-in. I think that you'll be ahead of a lot of people out there So I would recommend that you do this for your for your content So and and a lot of people worry about how the length should be and if you're creating a video how the length should be if you're creating a particular blog post your You know people worry how how long should I write? How how many words should be there? I think you should not worry about that. It's better You actually think about think about the content itself and let the content dictate the length and what I usually do before writing a content I actually search search in on internet on that particular topic and read some relevant blog post and that that gives gives me a lot of ideas what I should be working with and and Just just remember one thing you are writing something and that is already there on internet So why you are writing it? I think you shouldn't writing write it at all if if we if you cannot offer something that is not on internet and that that is something that is Not covering somewhere. I think you shouldn't be writing. This is why if It's better you you reach relevant Block post or what's relevant videos and try to outrank them try to try to make it something better Try to include more relevant content more relevant information to it so that people finally find it helpful and There is one thing I usually follow outline content and such for a smaller chance While writing a blog post or making a video you might be Searching on internet with the title you are actually writing on it's better if you outline that content and you know Search for the smaller chance this way you'll find more information and make your content richer So at this part of part I think once you have written it in a better way You need to promote your content. So how can you do that? First thing you need to do you need to share your content on social media and make sure you use relevant tags So what people usually do people use random tags what this? Content is covered. The tags are for particular purposes like people on internet are looking for those keywords on social media and If you use those tags then your content will appear and they will find it and There are a lot of website that already covered your topic In a maybe in a different different way. So your content Might add some value to their content as well So if you can actually reach out to them and ask for them to recommend your content this way You'll find relevant audience people will come to your website and read it Also, there are influencers in your niche You can actually ask them to share your content as well with their audience So if you can reach out to them on their social media profile There would be some emails out there for for you to reach out to them In most cases they do so if you can do that that'd be wonderful for you while creating content You might cover relevant Plugins or teams as well. So if if a company sees that Their plug-in is is being covered in a particular Block post or a video and they might be interested to share that as well So you can reach out to the companies to Share your content as well When you you have done all this thing there is one thing that you have to manage your content workflow So how actually you can do that? So I use what I usually do. I I Segmented this floor in some Some sections like the ideas in progress in review done and published. This is the way I I used to work I think you can follow this as well whenever you get a new idea you can actually Content idea you can actually put those in the column of ideas and You can work for later and if a particular idea you are working on you can put them in the in the progress column and Then in review down this this way you can actually Be in touch with everything that is happening and you can see what you have done before and it it's a flaw that that actually Set things up for you and you won't be actually Of the track so I also what I also do I I Manage my content and I follow a content calendar. Let's say you have a lot of content and you actually When you were generating the ideas you don't know when you can actually publish those And if you don't have a particular calendar to follow what you'll be confused when to when to When to publish those articles when to publish publish those videos and If you have a content calendar, you can actually schedule those according to Accurating the dates and publish those and if you have different team members, you can actually include theirs as well so this way you you can will not be confused about the about the public publishing dates and You will you can you can actually follow up follow a flow of the content So this is how we can actually Follow a calm content calendar and Get things ready So I think that I have come to the conclusion that this part. I'd be asking, you know Wishing that you ask me some questions if you have any now. I'd love to answer


Okay. Welcome to the Monday, April the 1st, 2024 meeting of the Montpelier Design Review Committee. I'll let staff and members introduce themselves. Member. Meredith Crandall, staff. Steve Everett, member. Martha Smurski, member. We have anybody else? Eric, you have to unmute yourself.  William Russell, member. Okay. I'll let Meredith review the remote meeting procedures and process. Okay. So for those of you who have done this before, you know the drill, Howard. So this is going to be mostly for you and then for anybody who's watching via work of media. Just make sure that the link shows through. I'm going to ask a favor, Andrew. Can you use your mouse to minimize the zoom screen on there? The little single bar, the little square up top on that rectangle. No, the one that has the images of people. Oh, okay. And select over on the left-hand side, select not that one, but that one. And then lift it up a little bit so people can remotely can see the link. Thank you very much. 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Anything substantive about an item on the agenda should be shared verbally.  If in the event the public is unable to access tonight's meeting, it will need to be continued to a time and place certain. I'll now hand the meeting back over to the chair. If everybody's had a chance to look at the agenda, do I hear a motion to approve the agenda? So moved. Second. All in favor of the agenda, speak your names. Eric. Martha. William. Steve. The agenda is approved. We can move forward to the first applicant. Andrew LaRosa for Montpelier High School. Describe your project. Swing the mic over. I'm gonna turn that over to Howard because he's a representative on this project. Oh, okay. Great. My name is Howard Killian. I'm with GreenPrint Partners. We have been, just to get a quick background, we have been hired, have a contract with the Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation to manage the three acre rule implementation for about 65 schools along with Lake Champlain Sea Grant to help them meet the three acre rule. So the high school is one of the projects that we are moving forward this year. And so what we have in front of you is that there's a variety of things we're doing. We've, again, a project management. We've hired a local engineer to design the project with the school's input. And then once we have all the permits in place, we will be bidding the project out to the public to have it constructed. So the project has several disconnection areas throughout the site, along the paths and around the track and some of the parking lots. But the main part of the improvement, if you look on the plans, there is a, we're at the south end of the parking lots, kind of the southwest corner. We are installing in one of the islands kind of a four bay. And what that is is a lot of the storm water from the parking lots gets directed into that, which will allow the more of your pollutants, any debris, any debris that might be in the parking lot to be collected in that. And then it'll run through a pipe to offer the parking lot between the existing parking lot and the tree line. Right now there's an existing small swale there. And we're proposing to put in a bio retention area. And what that'll do is the water will flow into that. It'll have a gravel bottom, but also different sorts of wetland plants. And the idea is the water will stay there for a day or so and filter into the ground, filter out the pollutants until it then slowly releases back into the public swale system. And that's designed, that's just- I noticed on your friends that you have one area where you anticipate changing a gravel parking area to a paved parking area. I was not able to understand where that was in terms of the school itself. Let me find that real quick. There are two small areas in the one corner that they're minor areas. Andrew, do you know offhand which one it is? I'm looking it up on the front door.  Over in the, well, I guess, let's do it properly. So Northwest corner, there was an area of the parking lot that had been covered with a stay mat and has sort of worked its way into becoming a parking spot. So that's just we're gonna take the stay mat dirt that's been parked on for many years and actually pave that. And then on the south side of the parking lot, there's just a little odd wedge of grass that has been driven on that that's gonna be removed. So it's basically the equivalent of two or three parking spots that currently are being used but are just dirt. So we're gonna pave it so we can control it. If I was standing on Bailey Avenue looking at the school, would one of those areas be to my left? Well, yes, but way down by the tennis courts. Okay. And the other areas would be to my right? Yeah. Okay. Okay. Thank you. Yeah. Are these photos included actually of my Pealier school? No. No, that's a typical. It's really, if you can envision the swale that we have now, we're enlarging it. Okay. And formalizing it and adding some plantings around it and it's really a matter of enlarging what we have. So I had asked for some photos so you have at least a sense of what the planting area might look like because landscaping is one of DRC's jurisdictional things here even for a school. So the area that holds water is able to deal with sewage and fuel oil? No, it's not intended. No, it's not really intended for that. Not for, certainly not for sewage. Well, I mean what comes through with the floodwaters. Oh, well, no. No. This is just for everyday storm. Yes, this is just everyday storm. It's improving and enlarging what we currently have. Okay. I didn't know that there was some thought of dealing with flood as part of this. No, this is just ground surface work. This is collecting stuff off the parking lots and the track and the roofs. Yeah, the flood, the river hazard permit comes in not because this is like post flood work so much as because it's work in the river hazard area and they're converting, you know, making changes to grade and everything, I had to do a river hazard permit. I didn't know if that was a small thought in the process of this. This was designed well before the flood. Okay. We were fortunate this was a, before the funding was even available, we had money from the friends of the Winooski helped us design this in anticipation. So we've actually had these designs pretty well done for years and now that Green Pence is here and the state has released the funds, we're going to hopefully we're one of the first ones to get it done. Are there other schools in the state doing the same thing? We are over the next three years addressing up to 64 schools in these watersheds. We're trying to do between 10 and 30 this year as the kickoff. This is the first year we're undertaking the work. Okay. And the funds that excuse me, the funds that Andrew mentioned are actually federal, the America Recovery Plan Act funds that are being passed through the state down to the schools. Okay. Maybe there isn't anything major that goes on here but there is a note here about five foot wide permeable concrete walk to outdoor storm water, educational area, C detail. I was unable to find the detail of what that area looks like. Seems like I'm all for it being an educational area and I feel like this whole thing at a school should be a very educational thing.  Yeah, well, part of the program is 10% of, I won't bore you with a specific detail, but 10% of the cost of this project needs to go to educational. If we decide to, or we have to pay 10% towards the project, we are choosing to take the full funding and then allocate money towards educational. So yeah, there will be a way for someone who has accessibility challenges to get and be able to go up there and talk about with other classes what's going on there in that retention pond. And we don't have a detailed drawing of that yet. Again, these are probably 90% sets though, so. So we're waiting on that, but that. Liz, I think there's a detail of the previous concrete sidewalk at the bottom of DE1. Yeah, I was wondering if there was more sort of architecture associated with it. There was a note about railings. There was some other things. I didn't know if there was any other details. No, I think it's going to be pretty minimal. It's going to be pretty minimal. That's fine. Get to the edge and be able to look in for it. How does any of the work being done impact the playing fields? Should none. Okay. I wasn't sure given some of the diagrams in the back. That was all their disconnect. That's where they calculate permeable and impervious surfaces and how much drainage you have off of those surfaces. Yep. So that was part of their calculation. I'm sure any additional drainage off the playing field will be greatly appreciated by the right fielder. Fortunately, or unfortunately because of the flood, FEMA, we are doing a lot of work on the fields again this summer. So they're actually going to be... What's being done? More leveling and we're going to re-level the practice field, which is the field on the left. And the old mud lot field is actually getting a little more leveling, a little more fertilization, a little more grass seeding. So that's going to work out. And then behind the school, we're going to do some additional leveling. So. Any members have any additional questions, comments? Do you have some head shaking though? Any lack of questions? We'll eventually have some exciting stuff, guys. Okay. Boring any other questions or comments, I can go through the criteria. There's a criteria sheet. And for all projects, exterior design in materials of new construction or alterations of existing buildings shall be consistent and compatible with the characteristics of the existing building or other properties in the district. Then again, this has to do with accessory landscaping and other parts of the premises. So based on what you've presented, so far that portion is acceptable. In existing buildings should be recognized as a physical record of their time, place and use as is the premises acceptable. Proposed landscaping should be compatible with the neighborhood and the site on which the prep project is located, acceptable. Location and appearance of all utilities, mechanical equipment, trash, storage, fencing should be cited to minimize adverse visual impact or adequately and appropriately screened from public view. Is there, the fencing is the only thing that it's part of the project. So that's acceptable. There's a lot of criteria here that doesn't apply. And lastly, landscaping, screening and site furnishings. Projects within the design review, overlay district and subject to the landscaping requirements and section 3203 shall consider the following. Site furnishings including fencing, seating, other types of site furniture, visible from the street or side yards, does landscaping obscure or undermine key architectural patterns or elements of historic buildings and mechanical equipment screening, all of those are acceptable. And those are really the only ones that apply to the project. All in favor of the application is presented, speak your names. This is Martha, I say yes. William, yes. And Steve, yes. So the vote is five and favor. And do you want to sign representing the projects and you can sign right below my name in that box. Okay. Thank you very much. Thank you. See you all. Thank you very much. I will get my, I've got to do my whole site plan report and fun. But I'll get that and get the permits out as soon as I can. When they're ready, do you want me to just email you? Should we pick them up? Keep going through Howard. Okay. Everything goes through Howard. The email will be great. Okay, so Howard, we have to actually mail them out because there's a blue notice card that needs to get posted at the site. So that's why, I mean, I can email copies of them if you want an email, but then somebody needs to be able to pick it up or collect that blue notice card and post it at the high school within the 15 day appeal period. So why don't I grab the blue card? Okay. So I'll email both of you when they're ready. I'll make sure that scans of them are in the email so that Howard has them and then, but you can come and pick them up. Very good. Perfect. Great. Thank you. Drew, we're getting closer to that fancy restaurant, but not quite. I realized the only time we've seen each other in the last three years, so that Saturday mornings at the hardware store, and realize we weren't running into each other in the fancy restaurant. Thank you. Thank you all. Good luck with your project. Thanks. Thank you. Thank you, Howard. Thank you. And has everyone had a chance to look at the minutes from February the 20th? Questions? Yes. And I'll make a motion to accept them the way they are. Okay. Okay. All in favor of the minutes, speak your names. Here are Martha. William. Steve, minutes are approved. You're staining, could you go in there? Anyone have any other business at this point? Otherwise, oops, I'm sorry. It's okay. Just a little note, the city council still hasn't approved the zoning changes. So hopefully Wednesday, we'll find out. They were supposed to do it before town meeting day, but they haven't, so it's still going on. So feel free to attend on Wednesday if you want, or we'll see, but it shouldn't change design review all that much, but it could have some other interesting effects. Okay. Okay. Then do I hear a motion to adjourn? So moved. Okay. Second. Okay. All in favor of adjournment, speak your names. Ben. Martha. William. Steve, meeting is adjourned. Thank you all for coming.


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on a threshold of change. Of ushered in a new government, the challenges of this global pandemic remain the same. The policy of this new government is to bring about change through verifiable facts. The generous gift of the Pfizer vaccines provided today is yet another tool in our fight against this dreaded and dreadful disease. This vaccine is much about science. However, our greatest challenge lies in behavior modification. The provision of these vaccines, Ambassador, afford the citizenry greater options in the fight against this pandemic. We are indeed very grateful for their provision and the generosity of their giving. But above all, the United States of America's kind humanitarian gesture. We continue to respect and uphold the human rights and dignity of the human person afforded under both our constitutions. All ideas in dealing with this pandemic must contend from every strata of the society. I now call on Miss Tecla Jabatist, who is the Immunization Manager and who daily through the Ministry of Health our population gets to know what is our position, where are we, what is our government doing and how well are we combating this pandemic. It is indeed an honor to welcome you at this symbolic ceremony to witness the handover of the first stretch of COVID-19. Pfizer vaccines are located to St. Lucia by the United States government. A truly historic moment. Like the rest of the world, COVID-19 has affected St. Lucia tremendously from the individual level to communities to our national economy. Since our first case of COVID-19 on the 13th of March 2020, St. Lucia has reported 6,475 cases and 95 lives being lost due to COVID-19 to date. St. Lucia, like other Caribbean countries, has been struggling to control the spread of the COVID-19 virus. The development and approval of safe and effective COVID-19 vaccines has indeed brought us all hope in the battle against this pandemic. In St. Lucia and globally, vaccines are proven to be one of the most effective public health strategies. Vaccines have been known to save lives and improve the quality of life. The national COVID-19 vaccine campaign was launched on the 17th of February 2021. Exactly six months. To date, 33,877 first doses and 26,551 second doses of the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine has been administered. Representing 18.7% of the population being partially vaccinated and 14.7% being fully vaccinated. This leaves a significant number of the population unvaccinated against COVID-19. Today, we are here to accept this generous donation of vaccines. This is not only the gift of a pharmaceutical, but the gift of a healthy life to our citizens. These vaccines provide life-saving benefits to the people of St. Lucia and help in bringing an end to the pandemic. This donation from the United States government will now make available mRNA vaccines to our people. mRNA vaccines have proven to be highly effective against COVID-19, including against the variants of concern confirmed in country. No single country can address the challenges of this pandemic on its own. We are all in this together. It is a global fight, a fight that will be won through solidarity and through cooperation. Vaccinate for you, for yours, and for us. Once again, I welcome you to this historic ceremony. Thank you. The United States is proud to donate more than 52,000 COVID-19 vaccine doses free of charge to the people of St. Lucia. This is the first tranche of the 169 COVID-19 vaccine doses committed to St. Lucia. We thank the manufacturer of these vaccines, Pfizer, for their research and the work in making this donation possible. I also want to thank the many people of the United States, from the White House to the CDC to my own embassy, who have spent countless hours organizing a whole-of-government global health campaign to defeat the virus. I want to thank the Prime Minister, the Minister of Health, and everyone on your team for working with the United States and the international community for taking these steps that will restore health and prosperity to the region. In order to stop COVID-19, we know we must work together. It is fitting that my first in-person meetings with the new government begin here as a concrete demonstration of the partnership between the United States and St. Lucia. President Biden has committed America to providing vaccines around the world. He understands, and I understand, that no one is safe until everyone is safe. And let me say that again. No one is safe until everyone is safe. Pandemics know no borders. That is why I'm proud that this vaccine donation supplements the vaccines the United States has already made available to St. Lucia through the COVAX facility. Through COVAX and the $4 billion the United States committed to the global vaccination effort, we helped deliver more than 50,000 AstraZeneca vaccines to St. Lucia in May and April. Now in August, we are donating 52,000 more doses of the Pfizer vaccine. Why? Because no one is safe until everyone is safe. The Pfizer vaccine is the only vaccine approved for use in children as young as 12 years old. All the vaccines that the United States donates are approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration and the World Health Organization.  We know that St. Lucia takes this pandemic seriously and we know that the vaccines are the fastest way to end it. Yes, I live in the real world and I know that there will be some who will seek to discredit and confuse. Faceless online accounts will spread myths and disinformation. But the fact is too many St. Lucia's on the island and in the United States have died from COVID-19. Our cooperation today says that we choose science, facts, transparency and saving lives. Since the beginning of the pandemic the United States has provided more than $4 million in COVID-19 response to the Eastern Caribbean. We have spent thousands of dollars right here in St. Lucia providing PPEs, hygiene supplies and contact tracing and equipment. The United States and St. Lucia are partners and neighbors and we remain close friends. This is our shared neighborhood and we will work together to and through the time when we're able to greet each other with the hugs again. Enjoy a line in close company and know that our families are safe and healthy. Thank you. We have received a lot of vaccines donated by the U.S. government. Mark's another important milestone for St. Lucia's efforts against overcoming the COVID-19 pandemic. Since March 2020 we have had the COVID virus arrive on our beautiful shores. We have since recorded over 6,000 cases and unfortunately due to the virus. I think we are all aware of the current wave which we are now facing with nearly 600 cases in the past 7 days. The strategies that have given COVID-19 prevention control have not changed. Follow the signs prevent spread keep hospitalization at a managerial level and save lives. However thousands of shutdowns of social and economic activity and travel bans have been painful and has had significant collateral effects on our societies and economies. We cannot shut down forever. Though not the only measure vaccines are currently our best defense amongst a number of other interventions which we have had to adopt personally and collectively. Few people love the idea of taking medicines. However medicines like many other technologies are indispensable part of today's world. We in the Caribbean have had a long and successful history of using vaccines to protect our people from infectious diseases. Vaccines have enabled society to manage and overcome many diseases like measles, smallpox, polio, fever among others. If anything, we had in fact began to take them for granted. However fear of the unknown has caused many to deny reality and to resist getting protected from COVID-19. Some might even say that our infectious disease may now be misinformation and fake news much of which has come from the more advanced developed countries. Somewhat ironic in fact that these vaccines have come at a slower pace than the fake news about them. Whereas the developed world has been able to achieve high levels of vaccination, we in the Caribbean have a long way to go. Less than 34,000 solutions have received the first shot and just about 14% of the total population has been vaccinated. We must not allow our fear of the past cloud our judgment of the future. My government has agreed to become more proactive in health education across all audiences and demographics. And so we will be ramping up our communication strategy against anti-vaxxers. We want people to not act out of fear or coercion, but to act out of knowledge and confidence that they are making the best choice for themselves, for their family, friends and work circles and their country. I am one of the nearly 2 billion people around the world who has already been fully vaccinated. I have taken two doses of AstraZeneca vaccine which were donated by the Republic of India. Friends of the Caribbean who came to our aid. We have also benefited from the UN COVAX platform for which St. Lucia has been allocated 74,400 AstraZeneca doses and for which we are still due to receive another batch. But today the batch of over 52,655 vaccines represent the first batch of this bilateral donation from the United States of America. It helps the St. Lucia government meet an important request being made by some in the public like choices and options. This vaccine was developed in record time thanks to years of previous research studying similar viruses. Lots of resources have been available to on the tickets development and new technological innovations. It was subject to all three clinical trial phases, with the last trial phase involving over 40,000 people and hundreds of millions of doses have been used around the world. Additionally, this vaccine is the only one thus far tested and approved for use in children between the ages of 12 and 17. All COVID-19 vaccines in use in St. Lucia have been approved by the World Health Organization and are safe and the Ministry of Health will continue to monitor all cases in the highly unlikely instance of severe adverse reactions. My fellow St. Lucia high level of vaccination in a population means low levels of people getting seriously ill from COVID. Low level of hospitalizations and fewer furals of our loved ones. To the government and people of the United States I say thank you on behalf of the government and people of St. Lucia and I would like to ask the ambassador to especially tell President of our gratefulness and our thanks for this donation. We pray that this gives signals even greater future in the health in the area of healthcare in St. Lucia. We surely need the assistance at this time as we seek to get more people skilled and trained in healthcare. As we seek more resources to upgrade our hospitals and clinics and to deliver universal healthcare to our people. I would also especially thank the people in St. Lucia who have been on the front line of the fight against COVID. The CMO the staff of the Ministry of Health the doctors and nurses and all those who have been up front. The staff of the Ministry of Health the staff of the Prime Minister's office the immigration and customs officials and all those who have been up front in the battle against COVID. I would thank you and tell you that your mission and your work is a mission of love and the people of St. Lucia who have been the particular appreciates your efforts. I thank you very much. This afternoon we are standing or sitting in the shadow of our founding father George F. L. Charles at the George F. L. Charles Airport. Comrade George F. L. Charles Sir George F. L. Charles was a champion who had he been alive today would be at the forefront of this fight and this battle to fight the COVID-19 virus in St. Lucia. The COVID-19 pandemic continues to affect lives and livelihoods locally, regionally and globally. St. Lucia like other Caribbean nations have been struggling to control the spread of this deadly virus. The Delta variant in St. Lucia and elsewhere in the region poses a new and dangerous threat. The science tells us and I'm also advised that vaccines play a critical role in providing that added level of protection by way of preventing deaths and hospitalization resulting from the severe form of this infectious disease. This government under the leadership of Hon. Philip J. Pierre recognizes that the journey to the end of the COVID-19 pandemic depends partly on a large optic of COVID-19 vaccines with the goal of reaching population immunity of 70% of greater. The Hon. Joe Biden administration, the current government of the United States commends shipping more than 830,000 doses of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine to six Caribbean nations as part of its commitment to help the fight against the global pandemic. The vaccine donations come on the heels of the U.S. Southern Command's assistance to the Caribbean as part of a COVID-19 response effort that has included desperately needed field hospitals for several Caribbean countries seeking peaks, fighting peaks in this virus, this pandemic, ventilators, personal protection equipment and oxygen generators. Donation of logistics and other equipment facilitated to CAFRA and with the kind assistance of the original security system which has aided the delivery to individual Caribbean states. We continue to say thank you to the government and people of the United States for this. In this slide, the U.S. has provided 69,650 doses of the Pfizer vaccine to the government and people of St. Lucia in order to aid in the COVID-19 war. And yes, indeed it is a war. Today we have received the first launch of 52,650 doses. These vaccines will specifically will be helpful in vaccinating our younger people who are at increased risk from the delta variant of the vaccine. This vaccination drive will also be useful in facilitating the safe reopening of our schools and continuing the education of our young people. This historic donation to the countries by the United States government will protect the health of people throughout the world who will benefit from these life-saving vaccines. Our government continues to have policies which will increase the testing throughout the population will continue to make the vaccine more accessible by opening up new sites for administering the vaccine continue with our education programs and to ensure that we use non-traditional methods to reach every part of the population. On behalf of the Ministry of Health, Wellness and Elderly Affairs which has been at the forefront of this tireless effort together with doctors, nurses and other frontline workers and on behalf of the Government of St. Lucia I wish to thank the government and people of the United States of America for this very generous and vital donation to the government and people of St. Lucia. We will do all in our efforts to ensure that the vaccines reach the people who desperately need it. And I wish to thank the staff of the Ministry of Health, Wellness and Elderly Affairs the Deputy Permanent Secretary Ms. Jenny who is here with us the Permanent Secretary who is away and all those who have been at the forefront of this fight and to tell you thank you very much from the bottom of my heart we are going to win this battle let us do it together and let us continue to put all of our energy into it. Thank you very much. This generous donation of the United States comes at an opportune moment when the country is experiencing an upsurge in COVID-19 cases. It is my expectation that the donation from the United States will complement the doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine already procured by the government thus improving people's access and choice to vaccines decreasing the infection rate and fatalities improving the health and medical capacity and bringing economic recovery and social development. These vaccines will be properly administered and allocated to ensure the utmost benefit to the people of Saint Lucia and I'm happy about the Pfizer vaccine given the fact that we have challenges reopening school because of our concern about the spread of that virus and it has disrupted in 2020 many terms of education and health always negatively on education there was a wise lady who said that the OAS many years ago that those who are not well enough to learn will not learn well enough. Just recently Prime Minister Philip Joseph Pierre made a strong commitment to the country stating that together we will fight this vicious virus without discrimination he urged the entire populace to vaccinate and take the necessary actions to protect themselves and the loved ones and I would like to take the opportunity at this juncture to encourage all Saint Lucia to vaccinate if we are to put an effective barrier against the further penetration of the COVID-19 virus. I know that there are those who hide in dark places and spread misinformation the misinformation barons of the day the poisonous of the wellsprings of public opinion shall always be there just like a kitchen knife is used both as a weapon and as a tool the internet is used to spread good information but also bad information but as responsible leaders we will continue to accentuate the need for us to be vaccinated to avoid further pressure on our healthcare system in Saint Lucia and of course as we reach out globally in that partnership as brothers and sisters united for a better tomorrow we must emerge out of this pandemic with lightning rapidity and one of the ways to set the stage is to vaccinate the pandemic in the meantime continues to spread continues to endanger the health and well-being of the people and has severely disrupted social and economic development as it continues its decimating march across many countries across the social and economic fabric irrespective of size and status has no respect for borders no class to bring the pandemic under control requires unity solidarity cooperation and joint action by the global community our priority as a government is to control and prevent the spread of the pandemic while making an out of the ordinary effort to recover the economy and safeguard the lives, livelihoods of the people in the most sustainable way the donation of these vaccines from the government of the united states confirms the power of global partnerships in ending the COVID-19 pandemic according to the World Health Organization no country is safe until every country is safe and its urgent countries to continue to share vaccines equitably in this regard we applaud the government of the united states for sharing those vaccines to help fill an urgent supply gap and enable low and lower middle-income countries like St. Lucia to have equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines I wish to take this opportunity to express my sincere gratitude to Ambassador Tagli Alatele who has overseen the implementation of significant development projects and initiatives over the years as ambassador to St. Lucia she has worked assiduously to promote our partnership especially during the pandemic and we will always be grateful for her excellent efforts to further consolidate St. Lucia-US bilateral ties St. Lucia and the United States enjoy strong bilateral relations not even climate change or COVID-19 will change that they will only strengthen it our bilateral cooperation extends to several important areas including economic development health education and security we intend to continue in the spirit of friendship our close collaboration both bilaterally and the international sphere as we focus on common objectives of humanity and the United States and the U.S. and the U.S. and the United States before I conclude permit me once again on behalf of the government and people of St. Lucia to reiterate our deepest appreciation and gratitude to her excellency the U.S. ambassador and the government of the United States for the unwavering commitment and the United States vaccines are certainly not a inertia that will end the pandemic but an aid to complement public health hygiene we must all continue to take proven preventative measures such as washing and cleaning of hands, mass wearing and physically distancing and keep safe it is an individual responsibility which will become a collective responsibility of our countries let us not embrace our recovery in fear but let us embrace the challenge of vaccination and other things with a boldness that is required in this new dispensation so let us cooperate under our respective mandates to bring about the changes that are necessary may God continue to bless us all I thank you and we've come to the end of our simple but symbolic ceremony our deepest thanks to you ambassador to your team and to our Prime Minister who leads the charge and his ministers and to our Ministry of Health our local Ministry of Health we all see our world differently but we will get there we have the same goal to stay healthy and be well so thank you one and all and continue doing whatever you do that's positive for building this nation thank you very much


Hi friends, welcome back to my channel and welcome if you're new here. My name is Jen. I'm a certified weight loss and nutrition coach and I'm on the WW or the Weight Watchers Blue Plan. Happy Monday.  I have three absolutely fantastic recipes for you. We have breakfast, lunch, and a dessert, courtesy of Disneyland. So if you're excited for this week's meal prep, give it a big huge thumbs up. And if you're new or you haven't yet subscribed, we would love to have you here. Hit the subscribe button and click the bell right next to it so you never miss a single video. I do meal prep every single Monday. Check out the description box down below for nutrition coaching. I do offer personalized to you macros and calories. Highly recommend, highly, highly recommend. And if you wanna talk with me directly, I offer one-on-one coaching as well. Links, discounts to everything I shared with you in today's video, as well as all of my favorite things and my Facebook group, another community that would be honored to have you are all down in that description box. So we have three recipes to create, so let's jump in. Breakfast this week. I am making a healthy, protein-packed, sticky cinnamon roll baked oatmeal. I love baked oatmeal. I prefer it over just traditional oatmeal. So I'm pretty excited for this. So let me show you what is in our recipe. First, you'll need some baking powder, allspice, and cinnamon, eggs, vanilla extract, and nut butter of your choice. I'm just using this Wild Friend's Pumpkin Spice Peanut Butter. I've had this for a while. I wanna go ahead and use it up. Some light butter, milk of your choice. I'm going with the silk almond coconut milk. You're also going to need some protein powder. The Devotion Angel Food Cake is my favorite to cook with. It is sweet, it cooks really well. It doesn't lose its flavor or have any weird texture to it, and it just tastes really good by itself or in baked goods. So I'm going to be using the Angel Food Cake. It has 20 grams of protein per scoop and it is only one point per scoop. So it's the lowest best tasting protein powder out there points-wise. So I will link Devotion down below for you guys with a discount code. Ruled oats and quick cook oats as well as sweetener. I'm using the Lakonto Monk Fruit Sweetener. I will also link Lakonto down in the description box with 15% off. So let's make some breakfast. So to start putting together the cinnamon roll baked oatmeal, in my large measuring cup here, I have two cups of traditional rolled oats and one cup of quick cook oats. I'm going to add two teaspoons of baking powder, one teaspoon of cinnamon.  And then one also heaping teaspoon of allspice and one half of a cup of my Monk Fruit Sweetener. And then I'm going to stir this together until mixed. So into a smaller bowl, I'm going to add one cup of milk of your choice. Again, I just used almond milk. I'm going to crack in two whole eggs, one teaspoon of vanilla extract and one third cup of nut butter. And then with a fork or a whisk, we're just going to whisk this together until fully mixed. We wanna make sure the eggs and the nut butter get incorporated with the milk. Into the dry mixture, we are going to add the wet mixture and then stir it until it's fully mixed together. In the event that your mixture gets a little bit too dry and crumbly, you can add in a tablespoon or two of additional milk to get it to the right consistency. So here's what mine looks like. I actually feel like mine is pretty good. I'm not going to add any additional milk. To an eight by eight baking dish sprayed with non-stick cooking spray, I'm going to go ahead and add my baked oatmeal mixture. And with the back of my spoon, I'm just going to press that into place. You can see that mine is wet enough that it's pressing together really nicely. We're going to bake the cinnamon roll baked oatmeal for about 35 to 40 minutes or until it's nice and browned on top. Our baked oatmeal is just about out of the oven. So to a bowl, I'm going to put in two full scoops of devotion protein powder, some cinnamon, and then add a little bit of almond milk and whisk until you have a glaze consistency. So I ended up adding about three tablespoons, four tablespoons of almond milk to get this nice glaze consistency. So I just pulled out the baked oatmeal. It smells incredible in my house. In my little bowl here, I melted four tablespoons of the light butter and I'm just going to kind of drizzle that over the top of the baked oatmeal and it'll melt and sink right in. I let the oatmeal cool for about five minutes and now I'm just going to drizzle over that yummy cinnamon protein glaze. And there is the cinnamon roll baked oatmeal. It literally looks frosted. How incredibly amazing does this look and not only are you getting nice whole grains, you're getting protein. So let's go over points and calories. So cutting the baked oatmeal into eight squares, it is eight points per piece on both blue and green and only three on purple because you don't have to count for oats, 251 calories. My recommendation would be to simply pair this with some fruit and a nice warm cup of coffee because you have all of your other macros nicely balanced in the baked oatmeal. So I'm excited to have this all week. For my lunch this week, I'm making a steak and gorgonzola or feta, in my case, flatbread. I'm really excited for this. It's giving me pizza vibes, but lots of fresh yummy vegetables. So let me show you what's in our recipe. First, you're going to need a flatbread. These flat outs are only 90 calories, two points apiece for the entire flatbread. So they're a really good bang for your points buck and they taste really delicious. And you're going to need a red bell pepper, a small red onion mushrooms. The recipe called for arugula, which I couldn't find anywhere. So I bought this spring mix because there's arugula in there. I'm just going to take out some pieces. Salt and pepper. You can use gorgonzola, feta, blue cheese, whatever your preference is. And for steak, I'm using eight ounces of flat iron steak. And this is grass-fed flat iron steak from ButcherBox. You guys know how much we love our ButcherBox. We think that their meat is leaps and bounds above anything you can buy in a store. It's just so fresh and delicious tasting. So I'm going to use this entire eight-ounce steak. And to season my steak, I'm using Kinder's The Blend. I picked this up from Costco. I'm going to go ahead and put the steak in the oven at 400 degrees until it's cooked through. Now I'm going to go ahead and slice up my red onion and my red bell pepper. While the steak is in the oven, I'm going to cook up my vegetables. So I have some non-stick cooking spray here in a skillet. I'm going to add the diced up red bell pepper and red onion. Higher eight-ounce container of mushrooms because we know they saute down to virtually nothing. And just a little bit of salt and pepper. And we're going to allow the vegetables to saute down. The veggies are just about done. I'm going to pull the steak out of the oven.  So you can see that the flatbreads are a bit crispy now. So I'm going to start assembling the flatbreads. So my plan is, is to pre-make them all. And then I may just toss them in the oven before serving. So the first thing I'm going to do is divide the veggie mixture evenly over the flatbreads. I'm going to try to avoid any of the liquid in the pan. And then to the flatbreads, I'm just going to add my steak and divide it evenly among the two breads. I have one cup of feta cheese total. So I actually have quite a bit of feta here, which makes me very happy. And I'm just going to add that right on top of the steak and veggies. And lastly, to the top, I'm going to add some of these yummy, delicious greens. Look at how amazing these look. This, you guys, is a fancy restaurant at home. I am incredibly excited for this lunch for the week. My plan is to go ahead and just leave the flatbreads here on the sheet pan, add a little bit of saran wrap to it, put it in the refrigerator as is.  You could do that in your air fryer, microwave, whatever your preference is. So let's go over points and calories. So this is a total of four servings. So it is half of the flatbread per serving, which is absolutely amazing. That is a lot for the points. It is only five points on all plans for one half of the large flatbread 294 calories. It's steak, it's cheese. Again, I am stoked for this all week. I can't wait for this. I am making copycat dough whip from Disneyland. This is one of my favorite things to get in Disneyland. It's so good, so incredibly refreshing, and it's so easy to make. It is three ingredients. You're going to need pineapple juice, frozen pineapple, and vanilla ice cream. I just opted for halotop just because it was a lower calorie option and a blender. And then you've got dough whip. Super easy to make our dough whip. I'm going to add four ounces of pineapple juice, an entire bag of frozen pineapple chunks or two cups, and my pint of vanilla halotop. And then we're going to blend. And we have dough whip, my friends. This looks exactly like Disneyland, smells exactly like Disneyland. I have to taste it. So here is the true taste test if this is Disneyland dough whip. Wow, 100% dough whip. This is incredible. But this entire blender of dough whip makes only two servings. So you get a lot per serving. You could even lower the amount per serving if you'd like to lower the points, but it is seven points on all plans per serving, which is half of this blender. And it is 249 calories. That is not bad at all for a huge amount of dough whip. Thank you for joining me on this week's WW Meal Prep. I hope you are as excited as I am about the three recipes that I shared with you. Don't forget you can find all of my recipes on my website. I will link it at the top of the description box along with nutrition coaching. Links and discounts to everything I shared with you in today's video, as well as all of my other favorite things. And of course, my Facebook group head on over and join us there. Give this video a thumbs up if you enjoyed it. And if you're new and you haven't yet subscribed, I'd love to have you here. Hit the subscribe button and click the bell next to it so you never miss a single video. Thank you so much for hanging out with me today. Happy Monday and I'll see you next time. Bye.


Hello and welcome once again to the rugged rockhound today joined with Eric. We're out here at a spot I've been wanting to come to for a while. It's the well-known pigeon blood agate close to Green River So this stuff is everywhere. Just look at that littering the ground So you're just trying to find the really good pieces where you get some of the nice red inside of the white or colorless and There's some really clear pieces out here relatively Yeah, I think it's gonna be great. Oh look at that one Yeah, if you guys you guys like agates or calcid knee Yeah, come on out here. Oh And of course GPS coordinates of how to get here Okay, let's get at it So here's kind of a nice example of how you can get the nice red inside of it So they're kind of like little red dendrites That form inside So look for and maybe really nice ones of those Some decent looking red. There's also some green you can get in here and if you can get the green in the red I've heard that's really nice as well So Eric found looks to be a limb cast replaced with some red jasper He did say there was petrified wood around here. So that's kind of the prize Eric's looking for right now Yes Just pulled this out. This is some darker stuff. Oh, I think this is gonna be nice. I'm gonna wash this one off Okay, I got it washed off Look at that Go all that red in there All kinds of stuff going on in that That's pretty cool Yeah, I think I'll take that one. Here's this one washed off. I Decided not to cut it open because there were too many fractures in it So I have to try and do something else with it later It's so many cool patterns on the outside Neat stuff So let's just take a moment to enjoy just the sheer amount and variety of This agate here so much of it is just mostly a clear calcini a lot of white But then what you're looking for is that really nice red Coming in on some of these pieces just Sometimes it's just Stunning Look at that here. Let me put the other lens on look at that That is neat Right now. I'm just trying to grab a variety of pieces That you know show different things. It's like it has some nice red in it. This one looks like it's Yeah, so you got a little bit of that in there and then some of these that are just splotched with the red Here's this all washed off So many red dots in that one That one looks like it might be really nice inside. I think any that look like they'll have a really good inside Those are the ones I'll probably take Another good-looking one here All right, there's another one with some red in it Not much. It's mostly clear, but look at that red. That one looks nice Some red swirls in there Cool Here's this one washed off that one's pretty cool looking It's like speckled the red spot in the middle that one's kind of cool Just That one's dark Yeah, it's some dark ones out here some of these pieces get pretty big They are pretty factored a lot too though. So Yeah Another neat looking one look at that I like that one Here's this one washed off It's just so cool They really are just everywhere here. Look at that So much to choose from So many options Just it's all over All over Agates for days Just on and on this entire hill Just full of this stuff Another pretty nice looking piece And this really dark one Kind of interesting from this side Looks like something we should cut Cut this one open This side is shattered This one didn't Look at that That's really nice This also looks like one we should cut look at the inside there Cool There's a little piece of petrified wood Not very pretty wood But it is wood So I've heard there's some good agatized wood you can find out here. So Maybe we'll come across some of that. Oh, here's another one that looks like it might be interesting inside like that And oh, I just saw that look at that Got some cool red in it Nice That one looks like it'll be pretty nice Nice red in there I'll get that home and cleaned off That one looks good too So Eric found this piece that's got a little bit of green in it. So he says there's really nice ones that have more green Like that a bit bigger Look at that one. That one's nice Sweet Here's this one washed off Look at that That one looks neat And we just got more stuff. It just looks really cool just laying around Here's this one washed off This looks like a big chunk. Let's try getting it out and see if it's anything cool Find the edge of it though Yeah, that's pretty big. There it comes These things can be chunky. I don't know if it's any good inside Do I take it home or do I bust it open here just to see? Let's go ahead and just bust it open and see Yeah, not very good. Glad I broke it here Well that one looks nice Yeah, let's grab that one. Yeah, I think that one's gonna be really nice Take that one home. Nice Here's this one washed off Still has a bit of a green lichen on it. Didn't quite get off. So many red circles Hold that one out. It's got a nice side there. I don't know if there's more on it, but I'm promising. I kept this one open, but it shattered A lot of these are so fractured. Just it's going to shatter probably I just got some nice stuff inside. Yeah, one looks nice sweet Here's this one washed off Nice looking piece. This has got some nice red on this edge But then it goes white So my theory here is most of the red is probably on the very edge of the nodules forming in the ground And as it goes toward the center it goes colorless and bleh So the good quality stuff is on the edges, which is why you probably don't find very big pieces of the good quality stuff Larger piece with a little bit of the red speckled through Look at that. It's like a nice kind of orange Cool This is a bigger one that might be worth cutting in to Hmm, maybe I'll take that back This one looks orange-ish That one's a bit orange. That's cool This looks like a nice chunk Okay Yeah, I think I'll cut under this one take that one back. There's another nice piece good banding in there Another good-looking piece. This one's got that green around it there. It looks like like a fibrous mineral Or something That's cool though Here's this one washed off all kinds of cool stuff all over it Also decided not to cut this one Because I'm worried about it fracturing So I'll try and figure out what to do with it later down the road. Here's this one washed off Look at look at the patterns right there So cool Here's this one washed off Managed to get that little bit of greenish stuff around one of the red circles Really interesting No, this one looks nice. I think that'll be really nice cleaned off Here's this one washed off. This looks like another good piece Circle sometimes are really interesting. Here's this one cut open So because of the way it was there was just a small side here, but this side was nice. Look at that really nice That one looks nice Doesn't it? That looks promising. That was the only thing sticking up above the surface. I'm gonna actually quickly try and wash that off. I Would say that's the biggest nice piece. I've found so far. That's probably got a lot of good stuff. Oh Yeah That one looks promising. Here's this one washed off Really like the edges of it and this is to be cut down the road. It's too big for my current saw So this will be in a cutting video at some point And another good-looking one Here's this one washed off Stuff is amazing and another good-looking one and Another good-looking one Chips Here's this one washed off a Lot of little red dots in that one two more good-looking ones Nice Here's this one cut open. It's shattered. So here's this piece And then here's this piece Really nice. It's again. It's kind of dirty, but I Think this will be a pretty good one Here's this one washed off. I really like this one. Look at all the red plumes and things going on in there It's just so cool So much happening. I bet if I just kind of Ground down the backside of it let some more light through it'd be stunning. I Have found the number six That's pretty cool Now that's different That's an orange color Not the reds. We've been normally seeing some black That's fascinating Eric just found a really neat one like that Cool So I think I got enough of that beautiful agate that's up there the white and red Need stuff so I've come down here to the wash because last time Eric was out here He said he came down in this wash and found two pieces of orange red and black petrified wood really nice stuff and He said he couldn't find any more. He searched all around He even walked up and over a little bit But said he only found those two pieces and has no idea where they came from so I figure well Let's give it a shot. Let's search in this wash a bit and see if we can Find another piece of that wood and maybe if we're super lucky Try and figure out where it came from so you got chunks of the pigeon blood agate just laying around But do have some other ones that are different color probably came from some of these different other heels up here We'll see if any of it looks any good Interesting actually that might be a white opal in the middle of that one, huh? Look at that chunk You got some big agates out here. Yeah, it looks like a little pocket of tiny quartz crystals in there Okay, right there Right there. I just pulled this out. It's a piece of petrified wood. Look at that It's got red and a black a little bit of that orange and there you can see the wood This must be a piece What he's looking at and I'm up from the actual main wash so it must have come off of this hillside Found some agate kind of like a seam of it. It's a lot of black in here but some red and some cool little zones in it Neat stuff Oh cool. Yeah, so that comes from up that stuff So Eric just pulled this out so you got this rim of nice red agate and then you got crystals growing into the middle of it Cool So here's an example of those crystal pockets that form in these rocks Cool, we've got a nice little crystal pocket here of what looks to be calcite Yep, that's calcite say That'll that'll happen a lot in places like this On this nice piece sit on the side. It's some good red in it. We'll cut into that Here's this one cut open. I saw that side and I was like, ooh, let's take a look Whoa That's a lot of black Let's cut that white pocket right in the middle Okay, yeah, I was not expecting that much black Huh, that mean that one might be nice inside. I think I'll take that back and cut it open That's something right there. It is. Oh Look you can see the bandy in that one Yeah, I'll take that and cut that that should be nice Look at that. I just found Beautiful little streampebble of what looks to be carnelian. Oh, yeah, really nice. My wife will love that one. I Just stumbled across this I was like what the heck First I looked at it and I was like, oh, it's calcite. I picked it up. I'm like that ain't calcite. I Believe that's a huge chunk of barite Was that another one right there? Yeah, oh my goodness, what the heck where did that come from? Look at Eric just found. Look at these neat little calcite crystals. Those are actually ripped that one right there is Beautiful Oh, that's nice Eric just picked up that one looks like a nice nodule that'll probably clean up really nice Yep, some of this c-mag is just really interesting a lot of dark black, but you get some red Some other stuff going on in there Well, here we go some nice calcites and look at that a few little bladed barites very interesting and Not far from that one. Look at this hunker. I just found look at that that had some big beautiful calcites in it One time and look at all that bladed barite It's so cool Man, I want a fresh pocket one of these But how do you know where to break? I don't know Just have to get lucky probably Really nice calcite on that one look at that It's really cool Here's this pocket of calcite washed off that is so cool Beautiful calcite crystal right in the middle. Here's this one washed off So you got the darker calcite crystals then you got these lighter color barite crystals a lot of the barite crystals I thought they were just white, but these ones ended up being clear Really cool Really cool Here's this little thing cut open Interesting a little bit more of a jasper cool Here's this agate washed off This was so surprising to find So cool This was the best side though Decide not to cut it because it's so fractured. I'm afraid I'll lose it Here's this one washed off Nice Here's this one washed off. I really liked that band going through it really cool Here's this piece cut open though Well, it's very clear on the inside. Look at that Very nice like that one So I cut this one open That's what you could see on the outside So I was thinking to probably look similar on the inside and pretty close, but it's got some Better bands of red up there Nice And we're back at the vehicle.  Thanks Eric So we gave the GPS to here most of what we found is just on this white and some of those other cool things We found along those cliffs and that's it So I'd love to come back and really explore this area and back that way and all over this place So cool. Anyway, thanks for watching and remember there is treasure everywhere