wang m tule … kwa mwa meki uo awaresa mag jamais autoritmi wa inalder assure nam nearest kutua waksutwa na kranguahu uo pooansimellow So I was a happy child. I was very active at home until class 6 when I was 12 years old. When my parents decided they wanted to take me to a new school. So my previous school was okay. I had amazing friends. I used to perform so well in athletics, everything. So when I went to this new school, things were different. I remember the first day at school, I never even made any... I never made any friends the first day at school and that was quite awkward. So the first day at school I was ridiculed for my school uniform. It was different. My dress was baggy. I was the tallest girl in class. Being in class 6, I was very tall. So yeah, the first day I remember I went back home and I told my mom, the first day at school was okay but I didn't make any friends. And my mom was like, it's cool. If you didn't make any friends, just stay there for a while. I'm sure things will change after a while. But time went on and on in the same school. So we had swimming lessons. In my previous school we didn't have swimming classes. So this was something new to me. It was kind of exciting because I knew this would be a good experience. But it was nothing I expected. I remember the first time we went to swimming when I changed now in the washrooms and you're changing to your swimming costumes. So when I was changing into mine, there was some group of girls who were looking at me when I was changing. So there's a bathmark I have somewhere here around my waist. So it's a layer of skin. I was actually born a bit. So I think when these girls saw it, they were so creeped up and they thought maybe I have a skin disease or something. So they started spreading wordlet that this girl has come with skin disease. She's going to get in the swimming pool and infect us. So I was getting out of a changing room and everyone was staring at me and I'm like, why is everyone just looking at me with weird eyes? And I'm like, okay. So maybe it's cause I'm a new student. So that day after swimming, people made fun of my body of how skinny I was. That was the first time ever I was body shamed. My collar bones, my bones are like sticking out and people made fun of that. I was even being asked if I have diseases that are making me look so skinny and all that. So that started affecting me. I started getting depressed because it went on and on and on. So you first all these at the age, at class 6? At class 6, 12 years old. I started experiencing body shaming and social and verbal bullying when I was in class 6.  So yeah, I didn't really, I can't say I had genuine friends because most of the time I would isolate myself in primary. I would spend most time alone because again, people don't want to walk with you because they feel like you'll embarrass them or something. Yeah, so... And so did you try to talk it to your parents? You maybe think of getting a transfer from that school? That's how the problem came in. You want to say it to your parents but you don't know how to say it. And when you're 12 years old, you don't really know what you're going through. It's bullying. It's bullying, you know. You just think that it's something normal, something that will go away. So I really didn't... I didn't want to tell my parents. I know my parents would have taken action maybe try and get me a new school but I didn't want to because again, my dad took me to this new school because he... It was actually a school that students performed really well. And the school was nice. The food, everything, the environment was okay. So my dad wanted the best for me and I wasn't ready to disappoint him. So yeah, I just persevered and said I'd just ignore all the bullying and all the body-shaming, all the bad words. I just decided to go through them in silence because at that age I didn't know that this was actually depression So you grew that things came at that young age? At 12 years of age it was tough because I remember now when I was in class, around class 7 going to class 8 things had gotten so bad at school. I actually got after some time I got to make two friends but then these two friends are on and off. You know we would spend time together and then the next time they don't want to talk to me. So one time after break I went to class and I found a letter in my desk So opening the letter it was written, we're so sorry we don't want to walk with you because you're embarrassing us. And I was like wow. So I'm actually this ugly you start thinking to yourself am I actually this bad looking and also I didn't mention that actually had acne I really had big pimples on my face right now it has reduced but I had acne so I think that was also part of the reason why a lot of people wouldn't want to hang around you because they feel like you're not pretty enough And so how was your life back at home?  No So actually when I was in primary I was in boarding so my parents didn't get to see me a lot more often but when we'd close school I had amazing friends at home my siblings were so good so going back home I wouldn't be lost in the moment like I wouldn't be in that that depressive thought like when I'm in school because at home I have people who make me happy my siblings are always there for me I had good friends so no one would ever tell that I was depressed or I was going through that type of bullying Did you ever become suicidal in a way? When actually the first time I started contemplating when I was in class 8 that was when I was 15 around 15 around 15 years of age So of course people were avoiding me in school I was isolating myself I started feeling ugly I would look at myself in the mirror see all these pimples look at my height, how tall I am my body, the way I'm skinny and I would just feel so unworthy of love and feel so horrible and sometimes I just used to ask myself who am I even in my life if no one wants to hang around me no one wants to be my friend people are just making fun of me So yeah the first time I contemplated suicide was when I was in class 8 How did you deal with it? I didn't So I remember I went to tell my class teacher that I was going through a lot because I was being medfano and everything So when I went to this teacher fun enough I went and told her okay so some students have been making fun of my appearance my acne, my height and it's making me uncomfortable so this teacher tells me where were you and in my head I'm like what has my height got to do with someone bullying me so I didn't even get any help so my teacher was like you need to stand up for yourself because you are a big girl because I'm a big girl because I'm tall I mean why would a tall girl be bullied if anything you are the one who looks like the bully so I didn't even get any help from this person I thought would be a safe space to report to so that night I was frustrated I remember I went to the matron I told her I was sick so for like a week I used to go to the matron to take medicine so I used to store the medicine so that was actually what I had in mind that I would use this medicine after I stuck up enough pills I would just swallow them at once and maybe that would be the end of me but yeah I tried that I did and fortunately or unfortunately well let's say fortunately nothing happened I just got sick just a normal headache but nothing happened so yeah that was the first time I actually contemplated this so not so many young girls can fight through depression like you and then come through it because the generation we have right now you find that they are not so much so close to their parents can't go tell their parents this is what I'm going through and if they can go and tell their parents that this is what I'm going through let's say this young girl comes from a very poor family and then she goes to the parent tells the mother that she's depressed this young this woman in the village does not understand what comes with depression so there are some of these signs that someone should look to so when you're depressed well I think the symptoms are different for everyone what I experienced the moments when you wake up and you're just angry you don't know why you're angry it's hard to get out of bed you feel exhausted you feel fatigued you're not motivated to do anything anything would make you angry and you feel like no one can understand you you feel like no one can know what you're going through so you isolate yourself so there are different types of trauma responses there's a flight response there's phone so let's say in the flight response you tend to isolate yourself from others you tend to not talk you're just in your own space it affects your health it affects your health you get crazy migraines just stressed about a lot of things so I'd say if you notice for example you're a parent and you notice that your child is starting to have changes of behaviour for example your child was a very happy child like me I was so happy I started experiencing these things at home now after some time when I was like 2021-22 I started isolating myself I would lock myself up in the room and my parents never understood what was going on because I never told them I was depressed so I used to lock myself up in the room I do not want to talk to anyone so those are some of the things you'd notice changes of behaviour and most parents tend to scold their children I didn't go through that my parents were quite understanding but there are parents who would beat their children because I think we should be more interactive with our children and know why they're having changes in behaviour why they're not acting like they used to so just changes in behaviour and so to an extent you'll find that the people who are residing in the urban centres you'll find that they are much aware of what comes with mental health but those who are back in the village you'll find that mental health mostly is associated with witchcraft when you mention mental health and then when you mention mental health and depression or any first set of mental health someone will say I'm taking you to a psychologist and then you say psychologist but I'm not mad I'm not walking naked so how are you taking this to the grassroots to make this poor mama understand what depression is so that's actually a very good question because there's a lot of stigma around mental health you tell someone you're going to see a therapist and they're like we associate mental health with madness which is actually not true so mamba24 is an app I created this app alongside other group of people so in this app it's a safe space where you can report these cases of bullying gender based violence so how we are reaching out to the rural rural areas we are planning to reach out to those nyumbakum initiatives so that we can talk to the chairmen and get them to install these apps in various villages so that we can have at least one setting where people can go a safe place where we have one of our people one of our therapists who are there so this will be like a center where they can go and report whatever issue they're going through and also we have phone numbers there are phone numbers for our therapists, counselors and lawyers so these lines we also have a toll free line so these numbers we spread them to the to the rural areas so that those who are not aware about how can I report what I'm going through how can I report rape how can I report bullying they can get access to help to our phone numbers and through the app that we have created so if you'd like to reach out to this app you just search for tufo.co.ke tufo.co.ke there's a pop up that comes as soon as you log in the app and once you take that pop up our therapist or whoever is behind the line will reach out to you and will march you with whatever service that you need so I was reading your bio and then in your bio you're saying that you're helping to reduce stigmatization on mental health so my question is how are you going about it it being that in our country there is criminalization of suicide and suicide is one of the things that come with mental health and then you take like a scenario that happened some time back a young man wanted to jump from a very top building and kill himself or rather wanted to commit suicide and then when he jumped down he ended up in a police station meaning whatever he wanted to do was criminal so how are you trying to kill stigmatization on mental health when it's criminalized in our own country so I'm also facing stigma because I've been to a couple of interviews sharing my story about bullying and everything and by sharing the stories the people who have told me stop embarrassing yourself no one will hire you if you share such stories it's in the past forget about it that's stigma people don't want you because they feel like your past is gone and you should bury it under a shell you shouldn't ashamed yourself and that is what makes people not speak up so what we are doing there is actually a bill Senetakasanga has a bill in the parliament a mental health bill where she is actually pushing for that the arresting of people who are trying to commit suicide she is trying to get that law put aside Senetakasanga pushing it but us as an app what we do is we we have free online classes where we offer classes to people on how to how to deal with stigma teaching people about mental health and depression the effects of stigma why we should stop it so that is the part we are playing as an app creating free education to people on stigma and why we should end it why it's important to end it so yeah so you are a fashion enthusiast talk about it so I am also a fashion writer a blogger and a stylist I have a fashion brand it's called JJ Fashion Parlor so in this brand as I've said there's a styling aspect of it and there's a blogging aspect of it so in terms of blogging writing fashion articles in 2014 2015 professionally so I created a website and I started writing everything revolving around fashion, pop culture fashion news how to dress, what to style and as I grew as a fashion writer and blogger I got to work with people like Phil Batmkwiche stylist in Kenya Afrikeseri collections and I think the most important the biggest one was Thiklions from South Africa she's a plus size model so yeah I created an article about her brand and she got to put it out and that was really amazing so I started writing in 2016-2015 then as I was writing I got inspired to start styling people so if you would invite me for their birthday shoots I would source outfits for them and style them I also have a designer who makes clothes for various people so yeah if you're looking for that you can also hit me up yes so we are coming to the end of the show but before that I want you to look in that camera and then just encourage a young boy a young girl who is going through depression and then at the end of it tell them your social media handle so depression is nothing to be ashamed of whether you're going through domestic violence gender based violence whether you've been raped and you're suffering in silence speaking up actually helps I am a victim of severe depression I have been told not to share my story but by talking about it I tend to heal and I'm a voice for so many out here so whatever you're going through I want you to know that there is hope for healing there is hope for healing please talk about it don't focus on the stigma talk about it and reach out to us for help number 24 we have amazing therapists we have amazing lawyers that you can talk to and if you'd like to reach out to us you can check us out on Instagram at mamba24 underscore ke my personal handle is JJpala underscore ke and if you'd love to get my fashion blogs and articles and maybe some styling services you can check us out as JJ blogs underscore ke yeah remember to speak up and don't let anyone put you down about whatever moment you're going through wow so we celebrate you here at Y254 and keep doing what you're doing best 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What makes for excellence in heart care? It starts with one of the most amazing teams of heart surgeons and cardiologists that I've seen assembled under one roof and the region's leading technology in a new $40 million facility. This is the nationally recognized Heart and Vascular Institute of Eastern Kentucky at Pikeville Medical Center. Director of Pike County Tourism, Tony Tackett recently received an award from the Johnson County Extension Office and the Route 23 Cultural Heritage Network for preserving country music along Highway 23. The U.S. 23 Country Music Highway Cultural Heritage Network is an association that is branded and curated by the Johnson County Extension Office and this past week they let me know that I was nominated and also receiving the award one of five that they're giving out this year to help celebrate and those who are remembering the history and the culture of Eastern Kentucky. Tackett is humbled to be recognized by his peers and by his community and is proud to represent and expose others to the areas he considers to be his home. To get the honor of having an award from your people and an association that you've literally been a member of is not only a highlight of the day but it's a highlight of your life because anytime you can be awarded by your people on the good merit that they see that you've accomplished, you're doing okay. Looking forward to 2023, Tackett is excited for more events and more opportunities to bring families into the community and experience the rich history and culture of the area. For Mountain Top News, I'm Kelcey Dean.


Hello, and welcome to this video about ST's Blue Energy Mesh software package. We will show you how to connect, monitor, and control smart home appliances. The Blue Energy Mesh is designed around the Blue Energy Product family, part of our low power RF portfolio, which has been designed to meet the challenging requirements of wireless connectivity for the Internet of Things, making it suitable for smart building, home automation, and smart industry. Let's start by describing how wireless mesh network works. In a point-to-point or star network, the signal range depends on the RF output power. To guarantee a sufficient lifetime or to increase energy efficiency of battery-powered devices, we have to reduce power consumption and therefore the RF output power. This is different from a mesh network where each device transmits at a shorter distance to reduce its power consumption. Here, the network coverage and the communication range are extended by relaying messages over multiple nodes and multiple hops. You can download Blue Energy Mesh software package from st.com. After logging in, click the Get Software button. Once downloaded, you just have to unzip the package into your preferred PC folder and install it. The Blue Energy Mesh software package contains Android and iOS software compatible with Android Studio and Xcode tool chains to create your own app. It also contains a firmware package to create your own mesh network. This is compatible with both of our BLE systems on chip, known as Blue Energy One and Blue Energy Two, and the STM32 Open Development Environment built around the Blue Energy MS network processor. This video will highlight how simple it is to create your own mesh network using a pre-built lighting demo for the Blue Energy Two device. This code is available at this link. The pre-built app for Android smartphone can be downloaded from Google Play. Browse for Blue Energy Mesh, click Install and wait for the process to end. Your smartphone is now ready. Let's move on to the firmware setup. Attach a micro USB cable between the BLE evaluation board and your PC. Once the drivers are installed and the PC is able to enumerate the board, drag the Blue Energy Two lighting demo.bin file onto the disk drive. Once the file is copied, the board will be ready for use. Repeat this step for all the boards you want to add to the mesh network. Now turn on the Bluetooth of your smartphone. Open the Blue Energy Mesh app on your smartphone. At first it will display the default nodes view, which lists all provision nodes. Click the Devices tab to view the unprovisioned devices and refresh it by swiping down. Here, three devices are found. Now click on the plus icon to start provisioning for a specific device. A progress bar will display the status during this task. At the end of provisioning stage, click the Add Configuration button at the bottom of the screen to exit the configuration view and you will see that a new node will automatically appear. Then click the Devices tab to come back to the list of unprovisioned devices and repeat this step for all the nodes that you want to add. Unicast commands are sent from the nodes view. To turn on off the LED, tap the toggle switch and the specific node will receive the command. So that's it for this single node sections. Now click on the Groups tab to move to the Groups section. The Groups view allows you to define a so-called group using a subset of BLE provision nodes. Typical groups usually contain all nodes from the same environment, like the kitchen or living room, including appliances, lamps and sensors. The app already offers a default group called Default and all provision nodes are part of this group by default. For this video training, we will create a custom group. Click on the plus icon in the top right corner to add a new group. You can then name your group and select the devices, which will be part of the new group. We will add node 1 and 2, keeping the third one ungrouped. Click on Add Group button at the bottom of the screen, and you will see a new group automatically appear. Your BLE mesh network is now up and running. All nodes have joined the network and our group, including two nodes, was created. We can now use this network to control the lights, both individually and per group. To control the lights by group, and tap the Group 1 toggle switch. The two subscribed nodes will receive the message, turning on or off the LEDs. The video will now show you how to use the membership function within a group to control the lights on other BLE devices. Simply, click on the gear icon from a custom group, then add node 1 and 2 to the list of publishers and save the new configuration. You can now press button 1 on the evaluation board to turn on or off the LEDs on other boards belonging to the same group.


Welcome. This is Melissa Arma with the Stock Swooshing. I'm doing a review of this week's options trades on the gap options newsletter Using an advanced trader risk, which is what I risk. Of course, you could risk less If you want to take a $500 risk or $200 risk or $300 risk or even more than I'm risking you can do that It depends on the size of your account. And again, how many trades do you want to take? This was an average week for us The win ratio was 83% total profits. This is with an average risk of $8,000 per trade And again, that's a lot. This is an advanced trader risk You do not have to risk that much, but the total profit is $68,400. So let's go over this week's trades If you have any questions, you can obviously email me at Melissa at thestockswish.com You can call me at 929-3200-GaP. You can always follow me on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube or Skype And again, one of the reasons that I love trading is because or trading options specifically It's because you can capture overnight moves And we did that this week and a few of the trades that ended up being huge winners But everything that I do is based on my golden gap rating system. If you understand what I do I think it helps you make more money But if you don't and you just want to take the trades You could literally take the trade buy the put for example and then put a sell order at 50% Walk away from it. If it hits it's a limit order It'll hit before four if it doesn't you're in the trade overnight If you don't really want to micromanage your trades looking for the targets That is what I suggest if you're busy if you're working if you're doing something else during the day Now I'm here. I'm looking at my charts and even if I'm not I always have my phone with me and Anybody can look on their phone and people now are training from their phone event putting orders in But I do have targets in the newsletter. So I have I put targets in the newsletter that helps you focus on When you should be looking to get out So this week this particular week that expires today Was a good week. So we had six trades one loser five winners and again 83% win ratio I hope that this coming week we have lots of trades and I hope everyone is a winner We'll see earnings season begins this week coming up And so the banks start reporting on July 14th It'll be exciting time to trade to really see how the financials act During this earning season But if you're interested in trading with me now is a good time to get involved because of the fact that it's earning season soon So there's lots of gaps and lots of big movers the biggest trade this week actually was an earnings trade So this is with an advanced trader risk of $8,000 per trade profits this week 68,400 Again, I'm looking to have a big month this month. So we're off to a good start here And it's particularly since this was a holiday week I'm thrilled about the ones that we had that were movers. So on Monday, we did Tesla the 240 puts This went pretty quickly again. I try to send the trades out before the open if I can Sometimes I'll say something later and send it but most of the trades I'd say 85 90% of the trades are sent in the pre-market cost of Tesla was 550 15 contracts cost 8250 again your risk should be similar on every trade. This is not an exact science do your best Again, I'm usually getting the trades pretty fast profit $6,750 and again, this was a return on investment at 82% so let's take a look at the chart This close here gap down rally dropped again This was on Monday the 26th with an expiration of the 7th. So sometimes I will You know do the weekly sometimes I will do two weeks It really depends how I'm looking at the stock Looking at the move how I'm looking at the market and also because we have a holiday. So when we have a holiday time I'm trying to focus on What is the best way to price it out? Knowing that we could be slow over the holiday. This ended up going right away You know, you know, you don't always have that I'd say in best case scenario Everything goes the day that I call it or within 24 to 48 hours But that's not the case in every trade to be honest with you So this was one of the ones that went pretty fast and and it's amazing looking back now the price of this today Compared to where it was the day that I called it Tessa starts out has earnings I believe it's in July it's at the beginning of earnings season So we'll be interesting to see really how this ends up reporting if the continues higher Or if this breaks down again CBS was a loser this week while this could drop again today I don't think it's gonna go right. I killed it yesterday If you want to hold it into the last day, you can it could have turned around it just never worked right I don't know why you did it. It just didn't so I sent this on the Tuesday the 27th to 68 puts it expired today Again, you could still be in this trade. I stayed a little bit yesterday got out of it I did not take more than 60 contracts of this though because I thought something was off with the pricing So I could have actually taken about 15 20 more But I I didn't like the way that was priced. I did the trade. I Should have just killed it actually looking back now. It just it should have gone the first day I'm thinking about it. Let's look at the chart. There was something wrong with the price of that It should have been it should have cost more But actually I mean I look at the second day Yeah, I mean this should have gone here, but then the next day this looked good And then it was really day three and I don't remember what that was worth day three I don't a day three. I don't even think I could have got out of it with half Maybe I don't know I didn't though, but anyways this lost This lost no matter what you did with it and some people do kill the trades with a half loss You got to watch them then if you're doing that I don't but if you want to be tight and micromanaged trades that don't work the first 24 to 48 hours You could kill it a half loss or you could just kill them or if it's just down half You could kill it again. I do not do that But if you want to be tight with your money management, you could By do was a good one that we did on Thursday June 29th. We did the 135 puts again nice Solid mover in the buy do a pretty cheap to to 25 40 contracts risk was 9,000 sold at 380 profit was $6,200 again in and out 69% return investment I think 50% is a good return in investment if you're consecutively Consecutively booking winners there are some trades that I hold from I hold for more based on the gap rating and Based on other things too like the market, which we're gonna talk about in a couple here coming up But this was a nice trade That this is probably still lower, but anyways close to your gap down fell Boom went through the strike went through the strike that I did a day that I called it and again Time of the day was before the open So as long as you're at your desk before the open to get the trades We're doing that day You can set it up get ready to do the orders and take them in the first five ten fifteen minutes of the day I try to get in pretty quickly. I will say that I'm not messing around like I'm not doing this an hour after the open Okay Nike was the big one though for the week. Nike was earnings Nike was good I knew Nike was good when I got up in the morning and rated the gap at 641 a.m I sent the trade out on Friday the 30th even into a holiday week I knew this was a great gap and it went huge. So we did the one-on-nine puts everybody made money in this that did it Costs was so cheap 75 cents. I I think you could have even paid Like 30 or 40 on that day again. I got in pretty pretty quick because I knew I liked it And you just don't know how fast it's gonna go Anyways 100 contracts with the risk of 7500 sold at 475 was insane was an insane trade It's probably still even falling today I mean, it's just you you would still be up money in this today the last day But I don't know why I'm always still be in it profit was $40,000 of the 7500 on a risk 533% return in investment for an aching why was this so good number one the gap rated extremely well Remember, I have a sliding scale of 26 points being the best rated gap 20s a cutoff But the higher the rated gap the better the mood number two this trade worked the second it came out and every single day We're up in it followed through and again My take on the market for this week, you know prior to today I saw what happened this morning with the icon out prior to today My take on the market for this week was that we would fall Fall over the holiday week the Noah's gonna be buying this market into the holiday week So again if you get the help of the market, you can hold something for a larger move again Whether it's a put or a call in the case of Nike was a put so this was a really nice mover work The first day the second day the third day the fourth day and again today. This is still up It's just so far through the straight so nice to see this in a precursor to earnings season. What a fabulous gap and In fact, I'm gonna probably watch that next week Then we did a video which was a 425 calls. This is rallying today. I don't know what this is worth today But I'm already out of this Call this on Friday the 30th at 10.02 Cops with six dollars 15 contracts nine thousand dollar wrist sold at 950. It was a good trade in and out being bamboo Didn't go as fast as I wanted to but it's still rallying today. And actually I wanted a pop in it That's why I wanted I wanted a pop. I got the pop and then I got out here was the day I did it stop close here gapped up rallied Here was the 30th here was the day before the holiday when the market was dead And then the pop came after and then it went through the strike and I exited it But this is rallying today. So I don't know where this is gonna go today I did not do one of the new today going into a weekend for the holiday week But this was up this morning and it was well through 425 So this this might be worth more than I got out of it today. I don't know but it's it's it was a nice move or Then the next big trade after Nike was mew for the weeks and 63 puts and I did this late I did it's a 12 o'clock on Friday. I should have called this before the open I was so busy and I just didn't even see it and then I saw it. I said, oh my god This is gonna go. So we did it. I said, this is gonna rock and roll 90 cents was a cost for this a hundred contracts risk was 9,000 solar 240 This trade was a big trade and again Nike was the biggest this week But a profit of 15,000 a risk of 9,000 is an awesome trade awesome trade half this if you would risk $4,500 and taking 50 contracts You would have made $7,500. I didn't look and see what this is doing here today, but a beautiful beautiful winner and again Called it here Get out of it on the Thursday again when you're up that much in a trade that able for the expiration You never know something could turn around, but this was Not as far through the strike as Nike, but still far enough for the strike that I didn't want it You know miss the profit And again a good trade a fabulous trade So for the week of July 7th this week when ratio was 83% there were five winners Zero break even one loser and six trades average risk per trade was 8,000 and again profit 68,400 and the average return on investment including the loser was a hundred fifty two percent again There are weeks where we do 10 trades 20 trades 15 trades more than six, but considering the fact it was a holiday week I was thrilled thrilled with the results this week. So, you know, you will have busier weeks in this I don't know if we really have any slower weeks on this I mean probably five six trades a week is on average, but I mean there are definitely weeks We have busier weeks in this, but it was a very profitable week. I'm happy for that going into earnings season It's a great start to July and if you want to sign up, don't wait You're thinking about trading if you're thinking about doing this if you're thinking about signing up for the newsletter Then don't delay because earnings season starts soon very very very very soon It's in a couple of days. So it's a good time to trade It's a great time to trade and if you're thinking about joining now's the time to do it You know, you have to know how to place an options trade. 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Deputy Zoning Administrator and Sky Robinson Barnes, land use board coordinator. The board is charged with hearing applications for special exceptions, variances, and administrative appeals. All testimony is recorded for the record and anyone wishing to speak will need to be sworn in and come to the podium to speak. No testimony can be taken from the floor. When you come to the podium, state your name and please speak clearly into the microphone because this meeting is being recorded. Applicants with cases before the board are allotted a presentation time of 10 minutes. This time also includes all persons presenting information on behalf of the applicant. This time limit does not include any questions asked by the board or staff regarding the case. Any member of the public may address the board in intervals of three minutes or five minutes if by a spokesperson for an established body or group of three or more. The applicant then has five minutes for rebuttal. The board reserves the right to amend these limits on a case-by-case basis. Those of you who plan to speak must be sworn. If you are here as an applicant or here to speak in any case, please stand at this time and raise your right hand. Do you affirm or attest that the testimony you will give today is the truth and nothing but the truth? Very good. At this time, I will turn the meeting over to Ms. Hastie. Thank you and good afternoon. Get this to move forward. We're gonna start with the consent agenda. Not appear to be working, but we are starting with the consent agenda and the only item on the consent agenda today is the approval of the March 2nd minutes. All right. Do I have a motion to approve the consent agenda? So moved. Second. All in favor? Aye. All right. Very good. All right. It's your line. Moving on to the regular agenda. Try again here. All right. So if we could hear from the applicant, please. Good afternoon. My name is Toby Ward. I'm an attorney here in Columbia and I have the pleasure of representing Zaid Kalani who's seated at the bench next to me. As you can tell, Zaid is a physician. In fact, he's a general surgeon practicing here in Columbia and the reason he's in his medical garb today is that he has the great fortune of leaving tomorrow a trip out of town. So he was seeing a lot of patients before he left. The matter that is before you today is a piece of property that's on Hardin Street. I trust everyone's had a chance to review the hearing packet and you're probably, if you ever go to Five Points or to Rosewood via Hardin Street, you're probably familiar with this general stretch of area which consists of some lots established back during the establishment of the whole area in 1928. I forget the developer's name, but this is one of those smaller lots originated in 1928. And it was not only a small lot, but it was a duplex. And not only is it a small lot with a duplex, but when the lot, when the building was created, there was insufficient space to drive around back to park. Each of the duplex units has three bedrooms. All of those conditions were present when the current owner, Mr. Polanyi, bought the property. And as best I can tell, those same conditions have been present since 1928. That is, it's a small lot. It's narrow, the construction of the duplex made it impossible to get cars around back. And all the parking was in front. So we think that that establishes grounds for the granting of a variance to continue the parking that has been in place for many years, that is in the front yard in violation of the city ordinance, which says you can't park your vehicles in the front yard. There's nowhere else to park the vehicles other than the front yard. If you're familiar with this area, there's no on-street parking. And in fact, there's about a eight to 10 foot change of elevation from the road bed up to the area where the houses, the duplexes are built. And so it also makes it difficult generally just to get in and out of the property because you have to take that sharp turn off hardened if you're turning right and climb up the hill and park. The parking when Mr. Colani bought the property was gravel. He did make one change. That is, he shored up the right-hand side of the property as you look at the building to put up a bit of a barrier because there's a significant drop off from the right-hand side of the lot where the vehicles are parked to the next lot. And he didn't want anyone to drive over that drop off and cause a problem there. Of course, it's not technically allowed for you to consider, but several of the properties in this area utilize front parking for the same or similar reasons. So we believe that under the conditions of the city's ordinance and state law, that there are extraordinary and exceptional conditions that apply to this piece of property. That is the way it was built in the size of the lot and the lack of parking in the back. That these conditions don't generally apply to other properties because this is one of the few that basically cut off the parking in the back by the construction of the building. The other ones you can get around back and park, but people park in the front. This condition didn't result from Mr. Colani's actions cause he didn't build the house back in the 20s or 30s or 40s or 50s or whenever it was built. And these conditions don't create any problem outside of this particular piece of property other than when you drive by, you see as many as six vehicles parked there because the duplex, each of them has three units. So two times three is six. And the world being what it is today, everybody wants a car, especially if they're a student and what that's who occupies these units at this time. So I hope I haven't drug this out too long. And if anyone has any questions, I would try to answer them. But also Mr. Colani can answer any questions that you might have. I have a question actually for Ms. Hastie. Is it not correct? Are you not allowed to park on the front yard on a prepared surface? On gravel. Properly prepared surface within a certain, I mean my understanding of the front yard parking ordinance is that you're allowed to have a certain percentage or certain number of square footages. 40% or 500 square feet, whichever is greater. Right, yeah. And we're at 70%. They're requesting a variance from 40 to 70%. Okay, okay, all right. All right, you confused me because you said something like you would not be allowed to do it. Okay, good, all right. So what questions do we have? Board members? I don't have any questions. Thank you very much. All right, thanks. Okay. Do we have anyone who would like to speak on the case? Mr. Daniel. Madam Chairman, members of, those are I'm the president of the Wheelio Neighborhood Association. Our neighborhood along with Wales Garden and the other neighborhoods that surround five points went with supported Dick Carl-Putin in his efforts a couple of years ago to clean up the bar scene in five points to get the Department of Revenue to actually follow the law that we all approved as a constitutional amendment and we were successful. We have undertaken now to try to clean up other things in our neighborhoods, one of which is the proliferation of parking in front yards that exceeds the percentage allowed. If you will look from Haywood Street to Hardin along, Hardin's from Haywood to Rosewood along Hardin, if you would look at Walka Maw from Haywood Street to Rosewood, it's over and over the same mission, is that he wants a 70%, he wants to pay 70% of that lot. Limited green space will remain. There are two others almost within a strong's throw of this same property. You've got 503 Hardin Street, which is a corner lot, which has the same six parking there. You've got 1930 Wheat Street, which has the same issue. If you allow this, you are setting the roadmap for the future in not only Wales Garden but the other neighborhoods downtown. Basically letting the front yards become parking lots instead of a designated parking space for a certain amount of space with the proper gravel or other type of coating. The neighborhood, our neighborhood is not supported and I think I can argue that the other neighborhoods downtown are not supportive of this expansion. Thank you. Would anyone else like to speak on this case? All right, would the applicant like to respond? Rebut. Only to say that the condition that we now have is not the result of anything Mr. Colani did. It's been in existence for many years. He simply came forward to seek permission to do what has been going on for many years. And again, as I said before, it's not something that he created. It was this condition was created when someone built a duplex with two dwelling units and six bedrooms on a piece of property that sits close to the road and you can't get to the backyard. Now we got a letter and I don't have the pictures from the letter. Do you have the ability to put them up at all? You don't, okay. Because we got pictures, we got a letter from a protestant and it included pictures that show that there was not parking. They just stacked the cars on the driveway. There was no other parking issue. I can't, he gives you several different times when this has happened, but that it was mostly green space. So I'm not sure what they did before, but I mean, certainly one can take the bus or ride a bicycle, but I'm not sure what they did. I wish we could get this to you. You wanna look at my phone. I suppose that would be. I would say that that person is not here to present their evidence that it shouldn't be considered. It's part of that. It's part of the package. It's Rich Horton sent us an email and we get emails all the time. That's part of what we get, I guess, is part of the packet. They're showing images from 2018, 2016, 2015, 2014 and 2011 show a yard in varying states of care that even at its worst, it was superior to this parking lot. He said that this current situation, he says, I encourage you to deny the variance request for 505 and 508 Hardin Street. I would suggest that the current situation, 508, doesn't make sense. The current situation is exactly what these rules were meant to prevent. You can see on Google Street view that the house had a yard as recently as 2018 and he goes on from there. Front yard fits with surrounding properties and the character of both Wales Garden and Shannon neighborhoods. While I'm sympathetic to the parking constraints, this is an issue that has been present for decades. Tenants of this duplex were able to cope with limited parking for 90 years before this front yard was transformed into a parking lot. Well, Mr. Kalani was sworn in. I was sworn in. Mr. Daniel was sworn in, but the person whose information you just read, they were not sworn in. So I would submit again that it's not confident. Okay. So you dispute that there was, of 2019 in the survey, there were sidewalks in. Right. So if that's the question at hand, as to when the surface was taken from grass inside. Mr. Kalani has photographs of the property when he bought it. Okay. And it was a gravel parking lot. When did you buy it? 2021. As the survey that we have here from 2019 shows, does not show, it just does not show parking lot. Right. It just shows a sidewalk. And we submitted that survey. We're not trying to hide it. Right, right, right. But I mean, the question is that since that's the case, people weren't parking. I guess it looked like what they were doing in his pictures that they were stacking on the cars down the driveway. And that was a less than ideal situation, I suppose. But again, the problem is that you have two residential dwelling units. Each has three bedrooms and you cannot get around back to park. And that condition has existed since a long time. Mr. Kalani did not install the gravel parking lot. Right. That was there when he bought it. He tried to improve it. And he thinks that the current configuration is safer because of the terrain, the incline going up. Okay. So if you, but you'll have to weigh the evidence and decide what you want to do. But again, I would submit that if you consider evidence and some that's not coming from a sworn in source, then you're undercutting the process where you made all three of us swear in and someone who didn't even hear much less sworn in, you're gonna give credence to their testimony. Although, I guess we could probably take judicial notice of the Google Earth. Would you agree to that perhaps? Well, is it in the record? Yeah, it is in the record. Yes. It's attached to the apple, to the packet. Yes, the letter was in there. I'm sorry, it came after the packet, but we forwarded it, yes. So it will be part of the record. We all got in the copy of it. Yeah, we all received it. Right. I'm just saying we could arguably take judicial notice of the fact Google Earth is a neutral source. Arguably. He probably didn't doctor those photos. Yes, you could. And you could go around the block to find a way to stop it. Just ask me to rule based on the evidence of the runner, be it the competent evidence. Okay. Thank you. All right. Thank you. My position is basically you approve this, here open the door for other people to convert a front yard from 40% to 70% of parking lot. Where does it end? I mean, we might as well just pave the whole front yard and move on. I mean, that's, we're trying, the neighborhoods are trying to take our neighborhoods back. This is the bar scene with step one.  But you know, we're struggling and we need some help. Thank you. Appreciate that. All right. Testimony is closed and let's begin board discussion. Anybody want to start? Can I ask a clarifying question? Certainly for the application, just to make sure that we understand what exactly that we're discussing is that are we approving that it maintain as is or is there additional work that's being requested? You can correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that it's just to maintain as is because it already exceeds the amount that's allowed by ordinance. Anyone want to start? I'll put something out there that I'm curious to see all thoughts on for the discussion and that's the extraordinary exceptional conditions pertaining to the particular piece of property. If you go by it, it's one down from a corner lot. And then on the wheat street side, there's a house that does jut in. So there isn't, although it's set back from Hardin Street similar to the other houses that are on Hardin Street, it's not further back eliminating the parking in the back. There wouldn't be any room to put a parking spot back there, even if there was access to get to it. So it does seem like there's a little bit of extraordinary exceptional conditions that prevent them from being able to park in the back that are different than other houses on the same that are similarly built on the same stretch that if they came forward and said, we want to do 70% of our front yard, we'd say, no, there's room in the back to create a parking spot potentially. So it doesn't necessarily open up the door to grant this to everyone on the street. That's a good point. I think experientially it does a little bit open the door if this is okay, then somebody else who maybe doesn't have as extenuating circumstances thinks it's okay. And we find ourselves in a, people start asking for forgiveness rather than permission. And so while it's not his fault for purchasing a property that had already been compromised, that's kind of the difficult part. I agree with the uniqueness of the property where you can't park in the rear, this being a unique situation and anybody else, it does kind of open the door, but we have to take it on a case by case and examine that somebody else tries to do it, examine it then. Ron? I'm still a little confused because kind of like the question you were asking, are we, because the paperwork said that there was a, they want to go from 40% to 70% with paved or with gravel? It's my understanding they're leaving it as is, which is just gravel. And they're already in violation, which is how this kind of came to be. So it's already in violation? Yeah, yes. So they're asking for 70% to avoid the violation, is that correct? Basically. And did staff help to establish that 70% because looking at it, it looks like it's 95%. One of our inspectors. I mean, as far as board discussion goes, I mean, it's already a part. So, you know, I think if I'm thinking about, if I was a neighbor and thinking about the neighborhood, which is one of the things that we can assist with is maintaining the standards of the area that variances want to be in. It's a property with no grass. I mean, it's not a, it's a parking lot already. And so I think for me, if it was a situation where you had cars parking on grass, where it was an obvious violation of the, when you're looking at the standards that the neighborhood has already set for properties like this, and I think it would have to be a little bit stronger, but we're essentially, sounds like we're slicing the apple between whether or not we want to pay parking lot or a non-paid parking lot, because either way, it's a parking lot. So that's where I'm confused. Well, I think, I mean, I think, I'm puzzled, I'm confused. I mean, just, first place, the conditions on the property were known when the property was purchased. So it was plain to see. It's not like it was suddenly discovered, oh gosh, we can't do this. I'm concerned that, and it does appear that we have some inkling that perhaps it was not always gravels, that perhaps his predecessor in interest put the gravel down. That's just, I mean, it gives a roadmap to the next person to say, okay, well I'm gonna put the gravel down and then sell the property, and then the next person can say, hey, but we've already gotten gravel here.  And it is not like the other properties on that stretch are larger. I think next door is a business. Isn't it? I think next, no, it's not. Two down. Two down is a business. Two down is pretty much all duplexes in that. Well, probably by another block up. Well, no, because there's, at the corner of Wheat and, I mean, at the corner of Wheat and Hardin on the southwest corner of Wheat and Hardin is a very nice house. It's not going south, going up. If you're going up past that duplex, it's all right. No, but I'm saying on the southwest corner, if you're going south, going up the hill, keeping going up the hill, that first house on the other side of Wheat Street is a really nice house with a two acre loft. Yeah, with a fence and a beagle that keeps escaping. Right, I understand. But next to this property, all of those properties are duplexes. You're right, you're right. That's my point. Yeah, okay. I have a point too. If you go up another block from here, street parking starts to come into play. Yeah.  Here, there's really no other place to park unless you're going up into the neighborhood and parking your car on the street. Well, you could park somebody's house. Yeah, you could go up and park on the street.  It sounds to me like this is a problem that was created by the person that bought the property and turned into a duplex in the first place. Well, I think it was always a duplex. It was always a duplex. That's what I'm saying. Like that's when the problem started because you're in an area that has no street parking. We got two duplexes that has three bedrooms apiece. Well, but... A six people that were commissioned to stay there. Well, but if you think about it, in 1928 or whenever this was built on 1933 or something, in 1933, it was probably a home and there probably was one car per person, per spot. Right, that's why I said duplexed. At most, at most. Whenever it was turned into a duplex. No, no, it was always, it was built as a duplex. Two homes next week. It's always been built as a duplex. But not students. It's not, it was always built as a duplex. But my guess is that in 1933, when it was built, it was a family, two family homes side by side, attached.  I mean, there are other options, there are other transportation options and there were considerably more. The assumption that you automatically have three cars for three bedrooms only works if you're talking about students or adults, not a family. A family wouldn't necessarily have three cars. You see? Is that what he said? I mean, I appreciate the history lesson, but it doesn't, I mean, we're talking about a place right now that occupies a space for students. There's six people that live in there, six students that are gonna have cars. There's no grass in the lot. It's already a gravel and concrete lot. I'm not sure exactly what is the variance for. For more gravel, for more. No, it's just to allow it to exist. The variance cannot be in violation. Right now they're in violation because they exceed the permitted amount, which is 40%. They now are at 70% or more. And so now what they're requesting is that they be taken, they get permission to do what they've been doing all along. For that extra thing. For giving forgiveness. Yeah, I think that's what my confusion is. It kind of seems like, kind of seems like a no-brainer to me. Like, it's a gravel parking lot. They're asking for it to be okay for them to do something they're already doing. Because what they're doing is not, is in violation of the ordinance. So where are the cars gonna park? Well, to some extent, that's not our problem. Just coming really, realistically, that's not our problem. They're asking for permission to have somewhere to do it. The cars, first place, one of the things we approved the student housing project last month, I believe, that is not providing spaces, parking spaces. They're not providing one space per student, per resident.  You can take the comment anywhere. So I mean, it is easily within walking distance of campus. So it's not a foregone conclusion that they have to have cars. And in fact, we approved a project just last month where the assumption was that they were not going to have one car, one space per resident. So not necessarily a done deal. I mean, I agree that this is an unusual, with John, it's an unusual situation in that it is a pretty, it is a unique site compared to the other sites around nearby. So I'm not as concerned about a slippery slope issue, but they did come to the nuisance. They did come to the problem, which is, you know, you can look at it and see, wow, you've got nowhere to put cars. And then they just took it upon themselves to do it. That's a concern I have, but they are trying to ask for absolution. So I suppose we could, that's really what they're asking for right now is absolution, so. I just asked this, if you're not parking in front of this house, first place they're going to go is around the street, around the corner they are in parking in front of some of these nicer homes in the neighborhood that would potentially sit there. I understand that it's public parking, anybody can park there, but it goes back to the point, is that what really the neighborhood wants? Would you rather have them park in front of the property in which they live or? Well, I think the neighborhood, I think the neighborhood doesn't get a choice, it doesn't get to say, but I also think that, can we ask the neighborhood? I think, well, we've heard some from some of the neighborhoods and the neighborhood people and they're not happy with it.   It's not mine and I know it's not mine, I don't expect it to be mine and when somebody comes to my house they might have to walk down the hill, up or down on a very steep hill too, they have to walk up or down the hill, so that's just the way the world works. Madam Chairman, the 2000 block of Wheat Street is parking by permit. Okay, so they aren't going to park on Wheat Street but they could park up the hill on Hardin Street. I think you could get a permit. Sure, or they can get a permit, exactly. So they could get a permit or they can, yeah, that's another thing too, is you can get permit parking. Because I know Wheeler Hill is parking permit. Permit park, permit parking area. And there's 22 and a half feet between the front porch and the property line. So what they're saying is you could stack cars in line but if somebody, if the guy closest to the porch or girl closest to the porch wants to leave you gotta back two cars out onto Hardin which is potentially dangerous and then. But again, my house has a short driveway that you can park two smart cars in but that's it. And so we actually only have one car because we don't really need one. But yeah, we park one in our garage and that's that.  It's one of the nice things about living in the city is that you can walk places and you've got public transit and so on and so on. Or ride share. I mean, I think that's one of the things that we're understanding from the university that there are people using ride share. Can I ask another question? Go away far. If we were starting from scratch on this in some way, if they were coming sort of fresh and they had sort of what's shown in 2019, what would be, are there any other like landscaping factors or material factors or things like that that would play into. Like materials mitigation of, because it's not a parking lot that we would have for a business. You mean to establish the parking area? Right. Yeah, not really for residential. I mean, it's just, we've got in our code, certain things you can use as a parking surface and then you can't park on the grass and stuff like that. So I guess to recap, we've got a situation an unusual unique situation. There are alternatives that would involve street parking or stacking cars and or stacking cars and or getting parking permits, but they're not as ideal. We have a situation where currently, what they're doing is not going to degrade the environment any further than what's actually there on the ground. So I don't know. Do I have a motion from anybody? Euler? I'll make the motion that we approve subject to staff comments. Second. Second. Third. All right, all in favor? All right. Opposed? Nay. Nay. Motion carries. Okay. All right. And we have, returning it back over to Ms. Hasty. Yeah. So we just have one more thing on the agenda today, just a reminder about continuing education. So as board members, you're required to have continuing education and it now will be since with COVID, a lot of it was remote, you know, online and stuff, but it does have to be in person now. So just wanted to make you all aware of that, that it has to be basically proctored by a, I forget what it's called, live facilitator. So just to make you aware of that. So you'll need to come to in person or a webinar with a live. In person, in person. Yeah. Mandatory. Yes. That was before my time. Yeah. Some of you may be exempt from it. I knew Ms. Fenner, you are, but yeah, it's six hours for the first year and then three hours every year after that. Just a reminder and Sky Robinson Barnes will usually send out the emails about with reminders of that as well and we'll have different sessions that you can attend. So I just wanted to let everybody know it will be in person from now on. Will people be able to use their parking passes? I'm sorry. I'm exempt because I'm a lawyer, but I'm thinking like a lawyer here. Come on guys. I don't know. We'll confirm when you guys are. Well, you know, let's go first. All right. All right, thank you. We'll get further. That's all today. Okay. Let's move to adjourn. So moved. All right. Let's go. Bye y'all. Great. Thank you. Now you should go. I got really excited. Let's do that. That's special. Well, he's got his own. I think somebody probably gave it to him.


In module 2, we're going to be learning about lapis lazuli, which forms the blue basis of the pigment ultramarine. So lapis lazuli, in fact, is a rock that is made up of a cluster of minerals that co-occur or that form together under the same conditions. The blue mineral is the one that we're really interested in, in terms of the creation of blue pigments. And that one is called lazurite. Lazurite is a somewhat complex sodium-calcium-aluminum silicate sulfide. The lazurite will be found associated with pyrite, which is an iron sulfide, and white calcite, which is a calcium carbonate. These three minerals commonly grow together under metamorphic conditions that we'll talk about a little bit later. It's also worth noting that very often what we refer to as lazurite in lapis lazuli is actually the mineral hawain, which is a very closely related mineral. It has the exact same chemical composition as the lazurite does, except instead of containing sulfur, pure sulfur sulfide, it contains sulfate. So in order to process a rock, lapis lazuli containing three different minerals, only one of which we are interested in for the purposes of making our blue pigment, the first thing we would do is break down the blue mineral into chips, as we see here. And then those chips could go into a mortar and pastel, as seen here, and ground in order to make a blue powder evidence of which you can see here. And here's some that we've made. Once it is very, very purified, you can get a really brilliant, intense blue from lapis lazuli. And this is as close as you can get to the pure lazurite mineral. And this is a process that requires two weeks of hard work, and you only get a yield that represents about two to four percent of the actual stone by volume. So this is part of the reason that this was such an expensive pigment in the ancient world and well into the early modern period. It wasn't until the 19th century that an inexpensive alternative was found that could be created in a laboratory. And there are particular qualities we'll explore in this unit that make this ultramarine blue pigment so precious and so prized. There was a great deal of meaning associated with the blue, and the rocks themselves were also used, particularly in the ancient world, in the ancient Near East and by the Romans, perhaps also by the Greeks, for small-scale sculptures and pieces of jewelry, for example. And the stone was rare enough, it had to be mined in fairly remote locations, primarily in present-day Afghanistan where it's still being mined. And so the brilliant color and the rarity also made it quite expensive and highly valued. So we'll be exploring how it was used both as a pigment and also as a sculpture medium in the art portion of this unit.


everyone shiver 1,000 here and monkey one thousand okay so we've got some new ramen noodles to try compliments of Brian Patton and Marla Patton turned out to be my cousins Marla's my cousin and Brian's her husband more on that information on the video right before this one so if you haven't seen it check it so we're gonna try these out and they're all ones that we have not tried yet no we haven't had any yeah we're gonna try every one of them not today but right so we'll review every one of them so stick around let's see what this is all about so what we have here is how do you spell that build build a bulldog bulldog artificially flavored spicy chicken flavor ramen artificially spicy chicken flavor ramen my stir-fried ramen this is there's different ones they sent me how many they send us six five six anyway this one's carbonar carbonar carbonair okay but cheese so these are all different cheese chicken that says hochi this is four point five eight ounces which is a 130 grams so it's serving suggestion but here's the nutrition facts on the back for you would like to pause and read that move my nubs out of the way here okay so I read to you how it's pretty easy to make it says there's the directions down here on the bottom it says put noodles in 20 ounces which is 600 milliliters but yeah that says milliliters yeah okay boiling water which we're gonna do that here in just second and you cook it for five minutes this is please remove the water remain eight tablespoons of water so you gotta leave eight tablespoons of water in it I got an idea of how to do that it's ramen you really can't mess ramen up put liquid sauce and cheese powder stir well and serve what we're gonna do is I'm going to point you over here at the stove and we're gonna put some water in here we're gonna bring to boil we're gonna do what this says to do and we're gonna give it a shot we tried this one first because monkey likes so all right but do yeah there's different ones they've got a where was I going with that there's different ones anyhow so they're all chicken but they have a different flavor yeah I think they're cheese Sam Yang but it's cute cuz it's got the chicken on there and he's just loving them wrong and see yeah eating them wrong is up okay well let's get some water in the pan here okay guys as you can see we've got you over here on the stove and I've got 600 milliliters in here this is right on the back of my measuring cup here if I set it down there I don't know if you can see it but it's pretty much on 600 which is two and a half cups so we're gonna pour this in and by the way the date the best buy date on that is monkey's birthday of next year August 31st of 2022 now that doesn't mean that oh my god I've got one day and I've got to eat all these noodles that's just the best buy day guys and noodles last year a couple years yeah as long as nothing gets in them like a mouse or something but yeah if you got them packed away in you know I mean I should do that do a taste test on that one set for two years and you know what I mean yeah okay so what we're gonna do is we're gonna bring this to a boil and once it gets to a boil we'll throw the noodles in and we're going to let them cook for five minutes let's go and get this turned on and we'll be back with you guys in just a second okay so and I'm fogging up okay so let's go ahead and get this cut open here oh look at the coolest thing or what put this in here and I'm gonna set the timer here's our stuff there's our liquid sauce and our cheese powder so I'm gonna set the timer for five minutes right now all right and I'll be back with you guys in a second all right guys it's been five minutes now what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna take the water out and I've got this pan over here that you can probably not see right there we're gonna dump this in here I already measured out eight tablespoons that makes it 50 about 50 milliliters which is I think one third of cup so I'm gonna take this over here I'm gonna pour this into my thing here glasses on or what was it yeah it was about a third of cup I think I measured it out that's what he said I want you to put that much back in yeah it's about 15 milliliters okay so what we're gonna do is we're gonna dump these in here and we're gonna put this in here get screen under all right here's the sauce so cool that now we're gonna put our powder in here doesn't love our almond right yeah unless you've been in jail for quite some time then I guess you would get kind of tired of the top Roman okay now I need a spoon to mix this up I'll grab a couple floors and then we're just gonna try to so we're gonna mix this up when I turn you around here on to the counter we're gonna give it a try so hang tight okay take two I forgot to hit record button so there it is nice piping hot we're gonna give this a shot monkey got your forky ready like a lot of times of the Roman when I make Roman I usually smash it up in the bag and then I'll eat it with the spoon but we don't have any chopsticks or we would be using them I should make us a set there you go so I got mine here let monkey get hers on there for my I got lots you always say that okay okay so this is still pretty hot because you know it just spun you around ready thank you don't thank you don't all right wow that's cheesy it's spicy oh yeah whoo yeah baby that's gonna kick I still feel it this is awesome wow I like the cheese in it it's very good oh yeah it's really good it's better than what we get here yeah I mean this is I mean it's not overwhelming but they're hit there is spice in here and there's some heat in here yeah so if you don't like spicy you probably won't like this but I like it if you like spicy you'll love it I like the cheese in it oh it's gotta the texture is amazing yeah wow and we don't sell these here do we I know I've never seen them in the stores I don't know but it's all written in English so I don't know but if they do we're gonna get some more of these there you go but wow yeah I got quite a kick it's not too harsh oh no but it is spicy and the cheese the texture the noodles are good I really like cheese in it well you know usually the noodles are noodles but this has something different about it she's got a cooker one is ramen noodle cookers I should have got it out yeah but it what it takes the square ones it doesn't take around ones that's right it takes the square ones you put it in you fill the water to the line you put it in you put it in the microwave I think she gave like five bucks for it thing yeah I did a review on it and I was like why but she uses she uses it all the time so but yeah this is amazing I like the cheese this face is okay for me but yeah cheese is really nice that is awesome yeah I'm giving it a two thumbs up and I'm gonna go with an eight on the flavor a strong eight yeah because 10 is the best but I'm gonna give this an eight as it stands right now almost an eight and a half but it's a strong eight something like it's hard to get a high score for me but this is amazing I like the flavor very nice very good will you give it I give it to yeah definitely a problem to what do two monkey paws up yeah and what what the flavor skill one to ten I think it's an eight yeah most definitely yeah if you like spice you may even give it a nine or higher I'm giving this an eight because I'm projecting what the other ones they want to be and I'm sure they're gonna be better never know could be worse but I mean as of right I'm sure they're all gonna be a two thumbs up that's very good I like that I really like the cheese and I'm not really into that as much but I am and I love it I love it yeah oh yeah we're gonna share this makes me think I should put cheese in the other one yeah because this is amazing this is awesome yeah and they're different cheese flavors apparently so so that's going to be so cool to to try the other flavors and I'm excited sorry guys that's awesome anyway thanks again Marla Brian yeah she ate it thank you very much she's gonna be doing a review of some birds we'll see y'all in the next one right well yeah like I said I give it a two thumbs up with a strong eight I agree you agree yeah cool I concur doctor good hope y'all had a great weekend stay safe and much love to each and every one of you we'll see you in the next one she better than that man legend gone for now month so shout out bye y'all know check out her channel and we'll see you soon bye bye guys


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