Okay, workout complete. I am so nasty and sweaty And my legs literally feel like Jell-O, but I feel really good and we are done working out for the day So I'm heading home right now to get cleaned up for the day. I'm really excited to have coffee I'm really excited. I the whole time I'm working out all I'm thinking about is that I can't wait to get home and make some coffee and I want to tell you guys if You didn't know it's currently Amazon Prime days and my very very favorite collagen the collagen for her is On Amazon Prime deal. So this is a really good time to stock up So once I get home make my coffee will sit down I'll share with you some of my favorite collagen for her products that are part of the Amazon Prime sale So let's drive home and let's have some coffee one hour later You can see I am finishing up my protein coffee for today. 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I use it every single day and the results have been Incredible so since I had a protein shake in my coffee this morning. I'm actually going to just have Kind of a smaller breakfast I'm going to do some of my all-time favorite cottage cheese the good culture It is half of a cup or 110 grams for 80 calories. I like to do a little bit more than 110 grams I usually do about 150 grams, so I'm going to go ahead and weigh out a hundred and fifty grams of cottage cheese And then I like to take these no sugar added fruit cups This is the mandarin orange one and I empty out all of the liquid dump out all the liquid And then I add the mandarin oranges to my cottage cheese one of my favorite things And then I'm going to have one of the muffins that I made in my meal prep If you haven't seen Monday's meal prep video, I'll link it down below for you. These muffins you guys are so Delicious. Look at that. They are so good. These are a protein chocolate muffin I made them with the American dream nut butter 10 out of 10 so good. So that is going to be my breakfast. So Troy is actually golfing again today It's been really nice. He's been going golfing every Monday with his dad and his stepmom or my mother-in-law And it's been really nice because it gives me a chance to really film and get caught up And I just get to read I just get the house to myself, which is something that doesn't happen very much So I've really been taking advantage of golfing on Mondays I keep telling him that he should pick up a second day a week of golf It's a little hard on his body because of his medical condition, but he loves to golf So maybe just maybe he'll pick up a second day a week. I would not be complaining I am going to link down in the description box the couple of protein videos that I've recently put out I did one all about my favorite protein foods and then I just put out a couple days ago My six tips on how to reach your protein goal I get DMs messages on my Facebook group Instagram YouTube every day about protein So I'm gonna go ahead and link those videos down below for you if you haven't seen them They'll probably answer most of your questions when it comes to protein and how to get it in every day I have a couple coaching calls this morning and then we are going to make some lunch I've been craving tacos. So I'm going to make kind of a spin-on tacos. We'll make that for lunch today So I just finished my breakfast and two of the three dogs are here as always for a treat, of course Do you need treats when mommy finishes her breakfast? One of these beef bones from Costco and break it up into three pieces because the palm are the little piece There you go, buddy And for my girl here and then I would venture to guess that diesel In typical diesel fashion is in bed and we'll not get up for this little treat right here Because he knows Mommy will bring it to him. Are you not gonna get up for your treats? Diesel do you want your treats? You too lady get up, huh Sam? Oh, I don't want to get up I also am on this organizing kick I shared with you guys and what I eat in a day a couple weeks ago that I bought some storage bins to organize my Refrigerator in my pantry I also bought a new laundry basket and storage basket for my spare bedroom all from the brand goodpick Well, I went back on their website and got something else. This is their wrap organizer box So this is really cool. This is actually an organizer for Saran wrap foil all of those boxes of wrap that ends up in your drawer that you can never ever keep organized There's a solution from goodpick for that. This wrap organizer is so cute I absolutely love that it is wood my My silverware tray is wood the organizer that I have for my sandwich bags all my little baggies is wood as well Look at how adorable. This is their spots for all of your wraps This automatically cuts all of your wraps for you So you don't have to worry about the sharp edges that come on Saran wrap and foil. Oh, I'm so excited So let's organize all my wraps. It also comes with these cute stickers so that you can label which wrap is which So there's plastic wax foil and parchment paper. There's three slots. So you can actually put in three different wraps I'm actually going to put the little label up here in the corner This is just going to make my drawer look a lot better be a lot more organized And like I said, it's a really nice quality It feels really nice and heavy and weighted and I just love the aesthetic of the wood So this is my current situation. So I have my foil My saran wrap some parchment paper and then I actually just have some baking sheets So I'm going to put these three rolls into here.  That's on the end and then you can slip your Wraps into the open compartments. So we're going to start with my foil I think this is the top where the good pic logo is So I think I'm going to put my foil here in the middle What I like about this is I don't know if you can see how big that is I mean you can put the Costco size rolls of saran wrap parchment paper wax paper Foil in here, which is really nice because I do always buy my plastic wrap from Costco You're just going to pull up the wrap and you will just cut it I'll show you I'll actually do the little piece of the foil here So however much of the wrap you want you just use the little slide cutter And it cuts it perfectly for you. This is going to be So handy and it's going to look much nicer in my drawer So unfortunately the Costco size of the plastic wrap does not fit in the compartment I was hoping that it would but I mean this is the industrial saran wrap Any other wrap that you buy at your local grocery store will fit no problem So what I will do is go ahead and just keep my plastic wrap in the Costco box But instead of plastic wrap what I'm going to do is purchase a roll of wax paper And I'll go ahead and put the roll of wax paper in here I'm just currently out otherwise we would add our roll of wax paper But I am going to put in my parchment paper Which this is always a pain to get out of the container that it comes in So this is going to be really really helpful for that as well and again You just flip the paper over I tuck it under the little cutter We're going to hold it and slice and that's another thing as I find with these containers It's really hard to get a nice even slice and this worked perfectly for that So we are going to go with wax paper foil and parchment paper. So let's go ahead and add these stickers So we'll put wax here at the top and then when I do my grocery shopping I'll just grab a roll of wax paper Secondly, we have our foil and lastly our parchment paper And there are extra stickers so in the event that I buy a smaller roll of plastic wrap I can easily just swap the wax out for plastic I like that they give you multiples of the stickers so that you have options if you ever decide to swap them out And then the little wood piece on the end is magnetic which is really nice So it stays in place look how good that looks let's go ahead and put it in the drawer It's definitely going to make it much more organized. Look at how nice that looks. I mean that looks So much better really easy access to everything which I really appreciate highly highly recommend I Always feel really good when my kitchen is super organized So I'll make sure that I link the good pick wrap organizer down in the description box for you Highly highly highly recommend. I couldn't be happier with how this drawer looks I wanted to share with you guys these really really cute vases that I picked up from the brand Time Yard this is from good pick, which is the same company that my new Saran wrap foil holder is from I really like this brand I actually have their laundry baskets and storage basket that I shared with you guys in a previous video But I wanted to show you these vases look at how Absolutely Beautiful these are the quality of these is really nice They do have the little feet on the bottom which keeps them in place It comes as a set of three and I thought you could either display them without anything in them They kind of give that whole farmhouse vibe, which I have really been Loving you guys know that we have a lot of neutral colors in our house white black gray So I thought that these would be a really nice addition to our home decor I love that there are three different sizes aren't these so beautiful? I mean there's a crackle design on them, which just adds really nice a really nice touch and texture I love that it's a three-piece set We have a really tall thin vase a medium size and then a small one You could display these all three of these together and you could display them individually It would be fun to put some cute little sticks or pompous grass in them I think that would add a really nice touch I mean the possibilities with these little vases are endless So I need to decide where I want to display these in my house And I'm thinking that I want to display all three of them together. I really love these the quality I can't get over how good the quality is of these. I'm obsessed with this. Look at how Adorable these look on my kitchen table. I love them They are so beautiful and they go really nicely with the whole decor vibe We have in here, which is the gray and the white. My plan is to get some type of pompous grass Eucalyptus pulling a little bit of faux plant a little bit of green into it But these are absolutely stunning and they look so beautiful in our kitchen I have been looking for something for the center of our table and these vases are perfect I'll make sure to link the set of three vases down below for you Super super affordable and really excellent quality So I just made up my post-workout. I shared this with you guys last week I'm still getting lots and lots of questions about it, but this is the 6 a.m. Finish line post-workout supplement I have watermelon. It is for soreness fatigue and recovery. It works so well It tastes really really good and for me it definitely helps prevent massive soreness for several days I'm usually sore the next day and then it pretty much dissipates It has some BCAAs in it. It's just a really good supplement post-workout As always, I'll link it down below for you I am going to sip on my first 32 ounces of water for the day get in my BCAA supplement I'm gonna sit on the couch with the dogs for a little bit because Palmer Palmer is very needy French Bulldogs are very needy and he's been following me around which generally means that he wants to sit and Cut along the couch and sleep for a little bit So I think I'm gonna take a few minutes and relax which never happens before my coaching call It feels really good actually sit down on the couch and relax for a couple minutes as you guys know my life is really busy So it's hard for me to have time to sit down and relax And I know that if I just chill with Palmer for a little bit that usually helps keep him Satisfied for a big chunk of the day. What is this that you brought up here? What is it Palmer? Lunch today. I'm going to make a burrito bowl taco bowl I don't know why but I've been craving like taco meat not necessarily a taco, but taco meat So I'm going to put together a high protein Taco burrito bowl. Let's call it a burrito bowl. That sounds a little bit better So I'm going to cook up a pound of a 93% extra lean ground beef So I'm browning up the ground beef I'm going to add some taco seasoning to it and then I'm going to add some pinto beans I mean you could really use whatever beans you want I had black beans in pinto, but I opted for pinto and then once the ground beef is cooked I'll add in the taco seasoning and a can of rotelle. This just really amps up the flavor I'm going to top my bowl with some sour cream and some salsa. Now. Let me put you on to some absolutely in Incredible salsa. This is fresh pico de gallo salsa absolutely incredible Affordable and clean ingredients. That's something that's really important for me in salsa I'm also looking for one that doesn't have a lot of added sugar So both of these salsas are from Sam's Club So they're actually the members mark brand which is Sam's Club house brand kind of like great value for Walmart First I have the members mark fresh salsa mild Let me tell you guys five calories for two tablespoons of the salsa and your ingredients tomatoes onions jalapeno peppers cilantro garlic water natural flavors salt and contains less than 1% of lactic acid lemon juice concentrates and xanthan gum and beat powder for color nice clean ingredients and you can see that it's that yummy Chunky a salsa vibe and then this one. I'm really excited about so first the mild one is for Troy This is the one that I know that Troy will really like. He's not a big fan of cilantro either. You love it or you hate it I love cilantro. So I will use this salsa as well, but I also picked up the fresh cilantro Salsa so this one is going to be all the cilantro vibes same good ingredients five calories for two tablespoons So I'm going to put the cilantro salsa on my burrito bowl But I have both of them. They're both really really good So I've been loving these salsas like I said not having added sugars really important to me In fact these salsas have one gram of sugar and one carbohydrate and that gram of sugar is natural from the tomatoes and things That are in the salsa So if you have a Sam's Club near you highly recommend picking these up So I decided to leave my meat in a little bit bigger chunks. I'm actually going to be weighing everything out on my food scale I went ahead and cooked the meat down so that there's no more grease I'm going to add in about a packet's worth of taco seasoning I just buy the big jar at Costco and then my can of rotel So I have everything on my food scale. I'm going to weigh out four ounces Let me set this to ounces of the ground beef and rotel 3.2 ounces 3.9 3.8 There we go perfect. So I have my ground beef. I'm going to add a quarter cup of pinto beans Then I'm going to do one tablespoon or 15 grams of sour cream and then the star of the show the members mark salsa It is zero points and a measly five calories So there's my burrito bowl. We have a pretty low carb bowl The only carbs we have come from the beans which the beans also have a lot of fiber So it's the perfect pairing. I'll just mix it all together. I think I'm also going to have some cucumbers I bought some little mini cucumbers. They're so good and crunchy So I think I'm going to have some of those on the side. So that is lunch So here are the little cucumbers. They're the Persian cucumbers. They're really good. They're super super crunchy mmm I've been loving them on a side by themselves on Sunday I actually posted some pictures of me at the pool here in our community And I took some grapes and some of these little cucumbers with me to munch on at the pool But I did mix everything together in my little burrito bowl looks really good That members mark salsa have to say it's probably the best salsa.  It's about two o'clock I am using eight ounces or one cup of the carb master milk This was my replacement because I couldn't find it the fair life. It was actually sold out at my fry store So I bought the carb master milk this one actually has 60 calories So it's less than the fair life and eight ounces and 11 grams of protein I love using it for protein shakes because it just really amps up the protein And I've been loving the ghost chips ahoy protein powder in my protein shake It is so good 160 calories 25 grams of protein. So I'm going to put in one scoop I don't know if you can see that but there's little bits of chocolate chips in it It is so so good and then for fun I'm going to add about a tablespoon of lilies chocolate chips as well that way when it crushes it up I have the extra little bit of chocolate and then some ice cubes and we'll blender up Ooh, I'm so excited Look at how creamy and yummy Mmm, that's so good. The chocolate chips get broken up. So they're still chunky in there So you get that extra little bit of chocolate Mmm, so good Real life right now. I Knocked my protein shake over. It's now all over the counter It's all over my pants as you can see it's all down my dishwasher. Well, no no no the dogs are looking it up Two on the protein shake. Okay. Take two. We just cleaned up my huge mess That I made all over myself and the kitchen So I ended up doing the same thing again added some more chocolate chips some ghost protein powder Blend it up and finally this is going to be the afternoon snack. I love my life Okay, hopefully this one can make it till the end Seriously, so good. I'll go ahead and link the ghost protein powder down below for you guys For tonight's dinner. I am making roasted vegetables and one pot turkey parmesan Pasta so it is a pasta made in one pot Super easy easy for busy weeknights and weekends So let me show you what's in the pasta recipe and then what I'll be doing to roast up my vegetables First you're going to need a pound of 99 percent extra lean ground turkey a green bell pepper and an onion Parmesan cheese a can of diced tomatoes Pasta of your choice as always. I'm using fiber gourmet pasta I have to say I like their schnazzy new packaging. I really like that. It comes in a box now And as of the filming of this video, it's currently on sale on netrition's website For I think 70 cents a box off. So I'll link that down below. That's where I purchased my fiber gourmet pasta It is only three points per serving 110 calories So half the points and calories of regular pasta And it is so good not to mention a huge punch of fiber So I'll make sure I link netrition down below four different shapes of pasta I always buy like 12 boxes at a time and you'll need some beef broth and then for the roasted vegetables I'm doing some zucchini. I just want to use that up And then I have these mushrooms left over that needs to be used up as well And then I'm going to season them with salt and pepper I'll make sure I link my salt and pepper Shakers down below for you. They're gravity fed super cool. They're really affordable on amazon I have some avocado oil and then I'm going to season them as always with dachs This is what I always always put on my vegetables This is their green zest seasoning my all-time favorite for veggies nice clean ingredients zero calories zero points And no salt. So all of their seasonings are salt free. So I'll link them down below two with 10% off So I'm going to get the veggies in the oven and then we'll start on the pasta So I chopped up my zucchini through my mushrooms on my sheet pan I'm going to drizzle a couple tablespoons of avocado oil right on top of the veggies add my salt pepper and dachs seasoning Our veggies are going into a 425 degree oven for about 20 to 25 minutes The first thing we're going to do is add the chopped up bell pepper and onion to a skillet Allow them to saute down until soft Once your vegetables are softened, we're adding in the pound of 99 ground turkey And we're going to break this up and allow it to cook completely When your ground turkey is done cooking, we're going to remove it from the pan put it in a bowl Set it aside to the skillet. We're going to add two cups of beef broth Our box of fiber gourmet pasta and a can of diced tomatoes I'm going to turn my heat up and we're going to allow this to come to a boil Once it is boiling, we'll reduce the heat to medium Allow the pasta to cook about 10 to 15 minutes or until the pasta is cooked all the way through I just pulled out the zucchini in the mushrooms. They look delicious And we're just about to put the finishing touches on the pasta Once the pasta is done, go ahead and add back in your turkey and your vegetable mixture mix that into the pasta And then we're going to add about half of a cup of parmesan cheese We have three quarters of a cup total the other quarter cup we will sprinkle on top So there is the pasta doesn't that look so delicious? I'm really excited for this Let me go ahead and get it plated up and I'll be back to share points and calories So here is a dinner. I have one serving of the one pot Pasta looks really good with some roasted zucchini and some mushrooms. The pasta makes six servings I'll go ahead and put points calories here on the screen for you. So for dessert tonight I am feeling a bit of a crunch. So I'm going to do some of the fiber gourmet Biscotti bites. These are the original flavor You can have 12 of the biscotti crackers and they're about that big a piece for 80 calories There's also three grams of protein. Let me show you the size of them So this is the size you get 12 of those for the serving and not bad at all And they contain 10 grams of fiber. So this will help me reach my fiber goal today I'll get in that nice crunch.  Thank you again for watching and I'll see you next time. Bye


So, what we, these some, I am telling that these are one of the most difficult part of statistical mechanics which are usually not taught in courses and probably some of you who are here know the difficulty, some are not there, so I will try and repeat about that. So, basic thing to remember which makes life really much, much simple in equilibrium statistical mechanics. Now, equilibrium statistical mechanics is the discipline I explained at large, you have studied that we, we, we, at length you have studied that this is the one we use to describe phase transition and all these things, so the say pressure of a system or energy, enthalpy, what we do in terms of the radial distribution function, the, the thermodynamic properties and that a very important quantity is two particle correlation function that we will do probably somewhere for 10th lecture from now will come the radial distribution function which is the quantity which is observed experimentally in a many different ways. So, at one side of this equilibrium statistical mechanics is this thermodynamic properties like entropy, other side the, is the information about microscopic arrangement, how molecules are arranged around each other and as you can understand this microscopic arrangement plays a very important role in chemical reaction. If two reactants A and B are going to react in a solvent which is the common scenario that we do then that is done through these, through the certain equation of motion but the intermolecular arrangement plays a very important role. All this information comes out of equilibrium statistical mechanics and equilibrium statistical mechanics is a very major discipline not taught here but in when I did doing PhD abroad then we had three courses in chemistry department on equilibrium stat mac and going over to time dependent in the last semester last a, 201, 202, 203 from 20 the graduate level course used to start. So physics also had three courses so this was the kind of importance given to that and everybody was made to take 201 so then quantum used to start at that level somewhere like 2667 quantum used to start however in between there is a difficulty but now again stat mac is becoming very popular because we are having all these computer packages and we can calculate many things. Another thing that is of much interest these days is the nanomaterial synthesis and the nucleation phenomena and the phase transformation which is connected to phase transition that is also comes under the essentially view of or at the borderline between equilibrium and non-equivalent statistical mechanics. So this is the preamble I probably given every class that why we need to study and what is the basic perception but every day it will be different and different things I will bring in to motivate you and keep you focused into this subject which is either formidable theoretical discipline we do lot of on quantum mechanics in chemistry particularly but the advantage of quantum is that by the time you do quantum one or by the time you do suddenly quantum two you are into Routhans equation and all the perturbation theories are done and you go to numerics so it is fairly easy from there and there are all the packages which are amazing packages so huge number of people doing quantum and it is easy to publish papers because of the interface with organic chemistry or materials and they deal with molecules and chemist love molecules in statistical mechanics we also deal with molecules but rather with molecules is taken in term of intermolecular interaction and also molecular shape and size so there is always good to keep these two in mind now coming back so what we did yesterday was that I said the most important relation is the entire statistical mechanics is this relation and as I said that these was derived in as a function which gives a measure of the state of the system by Bolchmann however these in it was brought in equilibrium statistical mechanics used in space input by Willard Gibbs GW Gibbs and there is really no derivation of this expression as such so this is to be taken as a definition that is a very important point remember this important thing from which whole of equilibrium statistical mechanics follows entire in its entirety is because of this Bolchmann formula so that is why in his grave and also in his bust in University of Vienna where he was they have just written this formula in his also graveyard just this thing is written you can do a Google you can see them I saw the bust in Vienna and of course there that's the University of Vienna those days because of Austro-Christian Empire Austro-Hungarian good Austro-Hungarian Empire the Vienna was the capital right so it was a great great people were always all the including Mozart and many many people were in Vienna it's much less crowded now actual population of Vienna is now less than what it was I think 50 years ago or 100 years ago okay so how do we go from here and start so I would prefer to consider these that we have two postulates connected by an ergodic hypothesis that we start the statistical mechanics but two postulates connected by hypothesis is great to say that we really have ensembles and everything come in which is so much in the fast multigrammical ensemble but these also should be regarded actually more of a postulate except that one can show unlike the two postulates where you do not you cannot is prove them a priory you prove them you know posterity that is similarly thing here also no priory motivation probably there is motivation there is no priory proof of that what is subsequently shown is that these function is is the same function that we call entropy in thermodynamics and entropy in thermodynamics you remember is given by the Clausius and it is dq reversible by T right so that is the way if the connection between thermodynamics and statistical mechanics is very important comes so I will go and then I think one of you had a question so please ask the question so now the basic idea then was that we start with consider a small variation in microgrammical ensemble this is the a system is characterized by total number of particles volume V and energy which are fixed but I can always consider that I can change the number by little or volume by little or I can change the number energy by little so that's so the then as a result of this variations that I do there is nothing wrong in this and nothing nothing obscure about this okay so I get the variation of entropy as ds however this already beginning to tell you something very interesting that because you have seen this kind of things dsdv dsdv because this is we routinely use it as a temperature in our derivation but even aside from that you have this oiler's equation oiler's relation you know oiler was a mathematician who started doing his study at the age of 24 and for mathematics 24 is really really really quite old and then he did some amount that means for few years not very long time but he has done huge amount of work in a relatively short I think he died young also but he is in every field you go to hydrodynamics there are lot of contribution from oiler so essentially to oiler they were certain combinations and a very interesting combination that temperature is the conjugate of entropy or entropy is the conjugate of temperature pressure is the conjugate of volume right and the chemical potential is conjugate of number you know it in many different forms if I call it free energy g then I will bring it on the side e-ts e-ts is a e plus pv e plus pv is the enthalpy and then enthalpy minus t is the free energy these things goes over both in the in the g and a where hemorrhage and gives free energy but it is the same however this one now can be used with certain variation because we know it dd equal to tds minus pdv that condition we have in these are the relations that follow from these things why you are doing that why you are doing oiler equation all these things because you want to get an handle on these things and that then gives us the one that I want ds dv from this relation I get ds dv equal to p by t and you have to understand just like in the Newton's equation or Schrodinger equation we write down things they are a very strong plausibility argument we write them down you know as you know very well there is no relation of Schrodinger equation it was written down by transformation so here also one writes down things and then see that whether they work or not like this most important equation okay then this is of course we know very well is our multi component not necessary for multi component but this is the very your familiar equation so now you can call that you know it very well that this is then indeed is the entropy the advantage of that now if I make these identification the advantage now is the following I can know from micro chronicle ensemble these are the condition that means temperature is the derivative of log omega with respect to energy which intuitively makes sense because omega is the total number of microscopic states of a system belong to a system in the micro chronicle ensemble characterized by nve then if I change a little energy then the number of microscopic states that increases by this quantity 1 over t okay now similarly you can have definition of pressure in terms of micro chronicle ensemble then you can have chemical potential in terms of the omega v now these are the very very interesting one corollary which I will discuss a little later if I come so this is what the thing that I wanted to review of the micro chronicle ensemble then you may continue to do canonical ensemble now you have one of you had a question yeah please tell me in micro chronicle in md right very good question yeah excellent question so when you do these calculations these like phase transitions and this creates an enormous problem and I give you problem we do NPT like I give an example right now we are doing and also do we gives a gives ensemble that means because number of particles exchanged and that is new PT that means that's the gives ensemble NPT is isomer isobaric so all these things all these different ensembles are brought in but at certain cost and I tell you the cost right now we have been trying very hard to study ice water interface other people have studied you can see several papers are there so two things we are trying to do one of them is that the why is very interesting question we are just writing the paper that if you take like argon which are characterized by energy potential then the FCC lattice and the liquid interface is rather broad it's about 4 to 6 monon layers or molecular layers but water interface is sharp so we try to understand why water interface is sharp and it's a huge importance ice water interface in in many many different contexts and we came to that from there is a class of proteins called antifreeze protein which is lot of theonine with hydrogen bonding hydrogen bond ray so these antifreeze proteins with the large number of theonine in this top ice growth ice remain static so you want not just to growth we also so from there we went okay let us just study the interface first and I knew this problem because it's a very difficult problem because the when the something an interface is 4 to 6 or 8 monon layers then you can cannot study them by any experimental techniques you know like I cannot do neutron scattering on that that means micrometer or millimeter length I can do imaging but the spectroscopic imaging cannot study that length scale I can do TEM but TEM means it's static it is not dynamic I wanted to do the fluctuations at the interface and then when we try to my student is trying to two students are trying to stabilize NPT it is a hell of a problem because they just either the ice melts back or the ice forms that because there is a barostat an idiotic barostat is giving forces into the system and then of course there is a thermostat so so the people who are continuously studying an NPT or gives ensemble they have this difficulty and you are right there is no way I can do NVE in that system because if I do NVE then I would not be able to remove the latent heat see latent it has to be removed you know otherwise I can stabilize and you move everything and say it is NVE then that will stay in that system unless I can have such a large system and humongous system then NVE will be able to capture because this growth of crystal or melting will be captured as a fluctuations in the system but that's not possible here so but the kind of systems we do we have maybe 5000 water molecules and people are doing those who have done successful simulation they were very long a they were crystal slab and then liquid on the two sides and different people ask different questions so we absolutely right that there is this huge problem and that's why there are two kinds of simulation people one of the people like us who are application and not respected and there are people who are developers who develop potential develop methods like this guy is in Italy what is his name Perinello those who then toady and value who did umbrella sampling Perinello group did many things have been issue plus meta dynamics so the way to come around these things in phase transition then use these specific sampling you know that means you which are called method of constraints which are like our lagrangian multiplier which are method of constraint you move things around in the direction you want it to go and you equilibrate along that that's the way you do the simulation so there is a huge problem one probably should at the I have two chapters at the end of my book on computer simulation I want certainly to do the chapter 31 which is on computer simulations where I have devised new ways of doing periodic images minimum age convention I did in terms of ising model and it's so easy to see what is the method of images not sorry minimum image convention periodic boundary condition but that's in the chapter 31 of my book it's very simple I was not happy with the conventions give the explanation given a alien tildesli or other books because it seems too complicated it's so simple a method but then you take the one-dimensional ising model the all these explanations and all these statistical mechanics becomes much simpler okay so does that explain partly your question is the difficult question and difficult to answer at the same time because that is not done okay now so we now from then on we went so what will happen I am I'll be spending more time on this because I want you to be comfortable because this is intimately connected with all our simulations and all the interpretation of our results that how we do statistical mechanics and once you become familiar with this is really very very nice things and you can you see when you for example you are doing lattice calculations very recently all the surfactant work all the lipid bilayer work were done by saying how many ways I can pack things and then how many ways you pack things from there you get omega and then you go on from there so this is the partition function so in micro chronical ensemble omega is the partition function or sometimes it is also called so in micro chronical ensemble this is the partition function and this is the thermodynamic potential thermodynamic potential is the quantity that takes an extremum value actually if you think of that you always maximize the thermodynamic potential so free energy we write as cavity but we way it should write at a minus cavity so that is the one that follows from Boltzmann's arrow of time which was Stephen Hawkins and all these people wrote so much book on that that the arrow of time is because the entropy is a system left by itself goes to a state which has maximum entropy that's the Boltzmann's principle and okay so then from but Mike as we know micro chronical answer please ask questions micro chronical ensemble is not very useful so there are several issues one issue is system at equilibrium but away from phase transition the properties of water properties of isotonic trial or diamethyl sulfoxide or properties of a block of iron or or whatever solid there is one thing like that another thing is phase transition and the many other aspects that we study so when a system is at equilibrium in a stable state away from phase transition then if I do describe that then NVE is not the greatest greatest of the system because we are too much constraint real world NVE is not there so we have to go to with now now we start relaxing we go to NVE NBTE then we go to NPT one by one we'll do that


Good morning everybody, I'm Lon Peterson with the City of Santa Rosa. The City of Santa Rosa and the Sonoma County are excited that you're joining our event this morning, in person and online. We are live streaming this event through the county's Facebook page, as well as the City of Santa Rosa's YouTube channel. Before we begin, I wanted to make sure that everybody knows that the county has headsets for Spanish translation right over there at that booth. And also we'll be doing Mayor Cruz will just get this set up right over here. So one second. Buenos dias soy Silvia Lemos, Portavoz, the County of Sonoma, La Ciudad de Santa Rosa y el Condado de Sonoma están emocionados de que se hayan unido y uno de nosotros le ayudaremos. Muchas gracias. El alcalde de la Ciudad de Santa Rosa, Chris Rogers, es nuestro maestro de ceremonias hoy y dará el comienzo al evento en unos minutos. Gracias. So we're just going to wait about a minute or so to make sure everybody gets set up over here and then we'll kick this off. Thank you. Good morning everybody. Good. Five years ago, a fire started to our east and driven by hurricane hurricane force winds by morning had forced tens of thousands to flee, 5000 structures in Sonoma County destroyed and 44 lives were lost. We wanted to start this morning with a moment of silence to remember those who we lost in the 2017. The tubs fire took so much from our community in 2017 and it'll forever be a moment that is punctuated in the lives of those an entire generation here in Sonoma County. And yet over the last five years, 30 have found solace in one another as a cliche to say but Sonoma County is more resilient. Community members have helped community members to rebuild bit by bit. We've been able to take our open wound, sew it shut and start to see it scar over here in Santa Rosa of the 3043 homes that were lost. More than 90% have been rebuilt are in construction or have been approved to break ground. We have been able to cut the ribbon on this beautiful park, a symbol of our endurance and of community and of the spirit of folks who wanted to get their hands dirty and get back to what we had. We see the old journey's end site rising from the ground like a phoenix from the ashes and slowly but surely we're starting to see our community return to what it once was and we're starting to slowly see those wounds recover.  I am honored to be here not just to remember what we lost and to celebrate what we have how far we have come but to also express our gratitude as a community to the world who stepped in to help Sonoma County. We will never forget the bravery of our firefighters and our police officers of our city staff and our community members will forever be grateful to the thousands who flocked to Sonoma County, first responders, donors, well-wishers, folks from as far away as Australia coming to take care of us as a community and we will never stop working hard until the physical and the psychological scars in our community have healed and that every single fire survivor who wants to find their way home back here in Sonoma County. Thank you for being here with us today. I'm very proud to introduce many of the folks who have stood with us over the last five years who have worked really hard to rebuild this community and I want to start with one of our community, our good friend, and a big round of applause. I'm sorry to be underdressed here but I wanted to come to this occasion in the same clothes that I wore when I left my home. This is exactly what I wore. Aside from the shirt on my back, the most important thing that I took with me that day was my wife, my piss, and our pets, thinking that we were going to come back and we all know that that wasn't the case. So I am here today, I was asked to say a few words about my personal experience but I think the words that I'll share hopefully resonate. I'd like to start with a brief quote from a renowned Chinese philosopher named Laozhu and he said, new beginnings are often disguised as painful endings. Anyone who lived here in Coffee Park five years ago, anywhere the tubs fire, the nuns fire, the pocket fire, the viscerated communities in a matter of hours, knows the painful endings that we lived. Those of us who lost the home, we know that we lost more than a physical structure. Most importantly in that home, we lost family treasures, family photos, heirlooms passed down in our families from generations. We lost our kids for everything. Baseball clubs, school projects, sports trophies, report cards, and those beautiful pieces of artwork that we used to hang in the fridge and hope to one day give them back to them as a memory. Those are all gone. All those treasures that we hope to give them later in life evaporated in a matter of hours. We lost neighbors to the fire and some of them just never returned. For all of us, those are painful endings. But then the rebuild process began. Whether we were ready for it or not, it had to begin. The wood resiliency popped up in our daily lexicon and for it, and we moved by its directive. We plugged away when we tried to persevere. Most of us in one way or another have done so, but most also recognize that it was a constant struggle. One which drained us daily. We must also recognize that many of our neighbors still have not made it back. And others left. For those of us who stayed, we had to deal with insurance companies, securing building permits, dealing with architects, contractors, subcontractors, utility shortages, supply shortages, extended timeframes for building. The process was never easy. I know we're all here to commemorate all that happened during those horrendous fires. But we're also here to recognize the resiliency of our community of Coffee Park. And those neighbors that also went through this in Mark West, Fountain Grove, Kenwood, Glen Allen, and Sonoma Valley. We have all our way back, but again, it wasn't an easy road. Residency for me now comes to me something different than it did five years ago. For me, it not means that there was tons of tears that were shed, sweat equity that had to be endlessly poured, unwanted feelings of pain, anger, sadness, emptiness, frustration. All had to be dealt with, but there's also a recognition that we have to be better stewards of our environment. And I'll leave you with a final quote, which I hope provides some level of inspiration as we stand all here together. Starting over is an acceptance of a past we cannot change. An unrelenting conviction that the future can be different. And the wisdom to not use that past to make a better future. Now, folks would indulge me. I'd like to welcome in our honor guard who will be overseeing the ceremony they with us. Thank you. Now I'd like to invite the chairman of the board of supervisors, James Gore, represented for district four. Good morning, everybody. I drove over here this morning as hit by a turn of everything. Not melancholy, no, not only resistance, but it's, it's a lot. Lesson today is voices to come survive at one point. Victims to survivors, to thrivers. We're still a process, aren't we? I look forward to coming to your new home. You're almost moved back in very soon, five years later. I called my cousin Steve in resiliency and rebuild did not start until tomorrow. Because it was, as you all know, whether you were in Mark West Estates, whether you're in Markfield Estates, whether you were up on the hills, whether you down here, it was chaos. And there's a reason that PTSD and trauma are real and are honored here in this space and in this community. The best thing I can say is that there was a lot of things that didn't go right. Five years ago, there's a lot of things that we as government and we as individuals had to take account for. There was a lot of readiness that wasn't where it needed to be. There were systems that weren't tried and tested. And we as public officials as servants have to tell you once again, I'm sorry, I have to honor that. I'm sorry we weren't where we need to be. Many of you have looked back at me and said, yeah, but we weren't ready either. And that's why we've created cult groups and cert teams and we've learned our evacuation zones and we've gone and sat and advocated and told you what we need you to do more of and how you represent us better. But after it all, the one thing I can say is that in those days, is that we did have a common refrain, which was never again. That didn't mean no more fires. We know that. But it meant never again we get caught on our heels the way that we were that night. In between 2017 and 2019, we knew that things had changed. The concave fire came with very similar, strikingly similar ferocity as a Tubbs fire. We evacuated 40% of our community. That's hard. First responders were able to do what they were trained to do, what they knew how to do. Not to respond in always a crisis, but to get there, get us out of the way, protect us and defend our flanks. We call that a tale of two fires. It's we didn't have any loss of life. On the night of October 8th, we lost hundreds of homes, not thousands. I'll never forget sitting with a group of block captains that next morning over at our local assistance center. And I, I'm a sheriff to you. It was the first time in quite a few years that I had sobbed deeply cried. And it was, it was because I looked at the block captains who had worked with me on recovery and resiliency over the following two years meeting every morning. Or excuse me, every Wednesday for, you know, days on end through holidays to traffic laws. We needed to get rebuilt with things we needed to do how we needed to hold every agency accountable bring in the post office. So they give your mailbox back everything.  So I look back on people who I'd come to know and in love and respected serving and I look back at them and I just said, you know, we, we did it, but I still feel like we failed you. Right. I still feel like we failed you. And the hard reality is one of them Barry look back and he said, you know, I'd never asked for that night again, but these people in this room are my friends and you're my friend. And we're on this wild, crazy, messy journey together. One thing I've learned from all of you, a couple things. One is that the only progress in this world is imperfect, relentless progress. A little bit every day. The other thing I've learned is that whether you were somebody who fought from day one to build your house as fast as possible or you look back at me and said, I don't feel resilient right now and I need to take some space to take care of myself. Is that the only path is forward. So coming full circle. The other thing that my cousin told me this morning, he said, what's crazy is is that it's we talk about recovery, but recovery is a process. And he says, we're still in recovery. It almost sounds like, like he said, like I almost felt like I'm saying, I'm Steve and I'm a fire survivor. But then he did the math and he said, I guess I'm 1825 days into recovery. And it made me really inspired to be alongside each and every one of you and work still to this day towards recovery. Richard. Shoot, every day still work. We're working on making sure that we don't get with the congressman and others get PGN settlements taxed. And I want to thank them for, you know, there's so much more to do. I'm done. I love you. I hope to just continue to learn from each and every one of you. It's the honor of my life to have served with you and to be sitting here in this moment and look at my dear friend, gone through a lot of highs and lows, Jessica Tunis and see at the bottom of the list, Linda, and to be thinking about when we saw each other in the days following your husband and you're passing around the paper with your mom's face trying to find her. We still have more work to do to honor their names. I want to thank you. God bless. Thank you, Supervisor. One of the things that you'll hear today is partnership. We could not be where we are five years in if we didn't have incredible partners up and down through the state and through the federal government. Very honored for us to have today FEMA's regional administrator, Bob Fenton, who has been here every step of the way for Sonoma County. And we would be nowhere near where we are in terms of recovery if we did not have his support, if we didn't have partners along the way. Thank you so much, Bob. Thank you to Sonoma, Santa Rosa, and some of the jurisdictions. Remember coming out, I'm sure I stopped by a river where there's an issue of creativity. The key to our water, traffic systems, functional development. One of the things that I want to share with you is that if we're showing that we're going to get rid of people for hours, Thank you to one of the first people who was on the duty. Mark is with Cal OES. He has been incredible for a great thank you. All of you who work as a community on heroes are those who rebuild their lives using adversity as a stepping stone to greatness. In the midst of the chaos, I guess that is what happened here. A catastrophe, those throws the community members in an effort to address the chaos, the chaos, the chaos, the chaos, the chaos, the chaos. Let's talk about bad pain conditions. And those are client-related as they proceed. Of course, that's what we see. We've seen thousands of people on fire after fire, including a conversation here on California. Two of our firefighters from Australia. There's a question at 2017. At that year, in Burr County and Los Angeles County with the Thomas fire in Santa Barbara County. And so we have these men in the roof. We trust that we click would be the first step to helping people. Achieving resiliency. Requires community approach. It's not just you do it and you stop. This is something that is long-term. And we live in a master-prone state. It's not just wildfires. It's earthquakes and floods and other kinds of events. And so preparedness must be a way of life. The approach of achieving resiliency. It includes all sectors of the community working in a team. An effort no better than demonstrated by employers. This is the government. And of course, exceptional leaders who are here on day one. To future what it is provided. You're lucky. You're lucky. You're lucky. That's the commemorate. That's the people of the community. And this year. Who came together. One team. And for the work that you continue to do. To save your community. You have truly been an example and inspiration on how it's done. Thank you very much. I was looking for my notes yesterday to find those numbers. It's just such an astounding fact. It's our police officers and our firefighters and our sheriffs and our MS and our nurses and bus drivers. So many others who stepped up during the fires and everybody is deserving of recognition. We need one more big round of applause. Jared Huffman who has been fighting in Congress. Tom Spinn Thompson made quite the first single dollar we need to recover. Thank you. Good morning, everyone. Thanks so much for including me this five year anniversary celebration of recovery. Resilience. Felt worse. Or today. This community comes. We talk about where they were. All of us. Were that kind of moment as well. Can't help to reflect on our own individual. Can't help to reflect on our own individual story on anniversary's work. One of us. People led from Momsmith's home. People lost loved ones. Spent a lot of business. But make it all very eloquently to that. But we also remember the incredible heroism of the first responders. And coming together almost unlike not even a month. Including right here at neighborhood level. Sonoma's moniker. Sonoma's strong. Took hold. And that strength and resilience continues and is all around us five years later. We are forever changed by that firestorm. No one ignores or makes light of fires anymore. We have work to do still to make our homes and landscapes more resilient. We fundamentally change the way we think of fires and also the way we fight fires. Congratulations to all of you for your incredible progress with recovery and for your resilience. I am very grateful for the way you have stayed Sonoma strong. And I'm really proud of this community. Thank you. Thank you Congressman. 4 a.m. on October 9th. Amidst the chaos I get a phone call. It's my good friend and our Senator Mike McGuire. And Mike says I've already talked to Cal OES. I've already started calling FEMA. What does the city need? I'll be there in a moment. And he has been. He's been there for us every single step of the way. He has been a good champion for us in Sacramento on reforms. He has fought with insurance companies to make sure that fire survivors get what they need. I think we need to give him a big round of applause. Senator Mike McGuire. Good morning. I'm going to be a bit blubbering I think in my words today so I apologize. But I think we all are today. Today is a day of reflection, remembrance and celebrating who we are. First and foremost we need to take a moment to remember the dozens of neighbors who perish from the firestorm. We offer our continued love and support to their friends and families. And know that we have so much more work to do. And as we reflect back on the years since the North Bay Firestorm, I know about you but I couldn't be more proud to call Sonoma County home. And looking back at these five years, literally coming back from the ashes and so many rebuilding their homes and lives during all the challenges associated with the global pandemic as well. The progress that this community has made, the progress that Coffee Park has made, rebuilding neighborhood after neighborhood, it's nothing short of amazing. I'm a third generation here in Sonoma County. And I, growing up, I could never have imagined a wildfire reaching so deep into this community that we love. And it was a devastating feeling that night of October 8th, knowing that so many lost everything. So many barely escaped that inferno and so many were suffering. And I don't know about you, but that trauma still sticks with me today. And I still get emotional talking about it with my friends and family. And I think this feeling is going to stick with all of us for the rest of our life.  Don't get me wrong, the weeks and months following the fire were grueling. It was grinding on our souls, am I right? But what seemed like an unsurmannable challenge at the time eventually transitioned into a rallying cry that rings true today here in Coffee Park. We will rebuild stronger, we have rebuilt stronger, and we've become better prepared. The generosity, the heroics, the downright grit and hard work North Bay has shown since the fire storm should serve as a model for the rest of this nation. You all never gave in. You never gave up.  The people of Santa Rosa and Sonoma County rose up and this community came together like never before. Ordinary people did extraordinary things to take care of neighbors and need and rebuild their homes in the communities that they love. And I am a firm believer that this is the story of our future. The stories our grandkids will be talking about. How we overcame this amazingly difficult challenge by stepping up and taking care of each other. It is such an honor to be with you today. And I would be remiss if I didn't acknowledge one last person. We are so grateful to the neighbors, to the first responders, to the ordinary residents who stepped up. But I also want to acknowledge Mark Gilagucci, the Director of the State Office of Emergency Services. Director Gilagucci, after decades of serving this state, will be retiring at the end of the year, even though we told him he couldn't. And I know that I'm going to be forever grateful for his tenacious work on behalf of Sonoma County. You know, he didn't have to keep showing up. He didn't have to keep working, but he did. He kept working until we got the community cleaned up. Our homes were being rebuilt. He is one of the best in the country. We owe him a debt of gratitude. Thank you so much for our honor to be here today. And as I mentioned, nobody does it alone. We are lucky enough to have not just Senator Mike McGuire fighting for us, but also Assemblymember Jim Wood. Jim has been there for our community through the Tubbs Fire, through Kincaid, through Glass, and representing the North Coast. He is constantly at work helping folks to recover from disasters. We owe him a round of applause, and I want to bring Jim up to the podium. Good morning. You know, even now I'm not sure exactly what I was going to say, what I'm going to say here this morning. This fire touched me deeply on a personal level for a variety of reasons. I remember at, I don't know what time it was, 2 in the morning on October, what would have been October 9th at that point. I guess getting a phone call from James Gore and wondering what party he was at. And so I didn't answer the call. I just ignored it, thought it must be a mistake. And he called again. And it wasn't a mistake. And that set off what we experienced for weeks and weeks and what some of us continue to experience here now.  You hear the word resilience over and over and over again. And to the people who started Coffee Strong, amazing what you see around you here. But there were others too. I see Brad Sherwood here with the Mark West folks, who created another node of real resilient work there. And there were people in Fountain Grove as well. I've been to other fires since then. And I will tell you honestly, there is nothing like the response we've had here in Sonoma County. It is a true testament to this community. The people who live here, the people who serve here. And it's just an honor to be a part of that. I knew we were going to be okay when at the fairgrounds where thousands of firefighters roared in over several days. There was this banner and it will forever be etched in my mind that I saw on offense there. The love in the air is thicker than the smoke. And that will stick with me forever. And that really epitomizes our recovery and how we move forward here. I didn't know at the time, my office staff, what can we do? Everybody wanted to do something. What can we do? We've seen links and resources for people because everybody needed information. They needed to know what can we do? Who can we talk to? And so we started doing this and building a separate website link that we could do to get information to people. And little did we know that this was the first of the mega fires. And so we paid that forward when the Thomas fire happened in Santa Barbara. All those resources went on to them. And subsequently it's been paid forward over and over and over again. And this community, and many of you may or may not know this, but I went after the campfire to see my colleague, James Gallagher, who represents the area and offered what can we do to help you. And what did I see there? I saw our own first responders there, paying it forward, doing the work they do. Death investigators, firefighters, police officers, sheriff's deputies, all there to help other communities. Sadly, you know, I don't think we're not, we haven't seen the last of these fires. And prevention and focus on our environment has to be and continue to be the top of mine. You know, I am at a point in my life where I don't see the forest for the trees anymore. I drive everywhere I drive in the district. I'm looking, is this area fire resilient? How is this area going to do in a fire? And I'm still shocked. It even areas in the county. And near in the neighborhood where I live, there is one piece of property that is beautifully taken care of.  We are only as strong as our weakest link. And if a fire starts in that neighborhood, the guy that did the right thing may lose his home because the guy next door didn't. So we have to focus on prevention. We have to focus on prevention, protection of property. And we have to recognize that climate change is real. And we haven't seen the last of this and through the resilience of communities and the efforts. And it is such an honor to work with people like Jared Huffman, Mike Thompson, our members of Congress, Senator McGuire, Supervisor Gore, Mayor Rogers. And I almost get PTSD when I see Bob Fenton and Mark Gilarducci. You know, my heart skipped a beat this morning when I saw these two guys. I said, oh wait, we're not, this isn't a disaster. But our federal partners amazing, amazing, and our state partners amazing. So as we remember today, think about the future as we rebuild these beautiful community, protect our communities, and pay it forward wherever you can because there's people out there that will experience what you experienced and they're going to need your help if you can do it. So thank you so much for the opportunity to be here today. Thank you, Assemblymember. And I do want to give a shout out to some of our other partners who are here. We have representatives from Senator Bill Dodd's office, Assemblymember Mark Levine's office, Senator Diane Feinstein's office, and Congressman Mike Thompson's office as well. Next up we're going to bring up Eduardo Cabrero. He is the HUD Field Director, Office Director for Northern California. That's the Housing and Urban Development Agency. Come on up, sir. Good morning. It's truly an honor to be with you here today representing HUD, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. And really, I wanted to use this opportunity to really share a little bit about the role that HUD plays in assisting and supporting your long-term recovery efforts. It is a great morning and I'm really excited and honored to be a part of it. In the aftermath of this disaster and really following Bob and FEMA's and Cal OES's critical initial response, together with all of you and these dedicated community leaders you see here, we at HUD mobilized to begin and support your long-term recovery. And one thing Congressman Huffman didn't mention, but I will because he's responsible for it, is that they secured $212 million in excess of that for the long-term recovery efforts here, along with Congressman Mike Thompson. And that's what really jump-started the restoration of your critical infrastructure and the rebuilding of the many, many homes, businesses, and yes, the parks that were destroyed here five years ago. Following this, HUD was directed by Congress to allocate these critical funds to where it was needed most, including here in Santa Rosa and Coffee Park. And we did, through the Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery Grant, we did that. What's great about this program is it started a planning process, not one that we led at HUD or that frankly anyone in federal government led, but one that was led by all of you, all of these state and local government leaders that you see here today, by engineers, by business leaders, and by local citizens like yourselves. So you all decided how to rebuild your community and really how to strengthen and protect it moving forward. And really how to make your community even stronger and together make it more livable than it really was prior to the disaster. HUD supported this along the way. We cut red tape where we could. We offered technical advice and assistance when needed. And we extended other forms of relief, including loan forbearance, loan modification through FHA. We made mortgage insurance more available to those of you who lost your homes. And we faced the daunting task of rebuilding together with you when you had to or when buying when you could. And we also made mortgage insurance available and home rehabilitation funds as well. We also helped connect FEMA and state to local housing providers that may have local housing opportunities for folks. And we didn't stop there. In fact, today HUD continues to help. In fact, just two weeks ago, HUD, through Secretary Marsha Fudge, awarded housing choice vouchers to Sonoma County and Santa Rosa to continue to help with the rehousing efforts through our local housing authority. And I was pleased to meet Michelle, your director here today. We continue to help people who are struggling still to find affordable housing in the community. And last month, Secretary Fudge also rolled out changes to the fair market rents, which essentially makes it easier for folks to be able to afford to live here by making the housing choice vouchers more valuable. So we'll continue to do that. It's been a long road, but HUD remains your committed partner. Thank you so much for having me. One of the things that they teach interns when you're first working up in the capital is to call people by their most important title first. And with that in mind, our next speaker is a fire survivor, former mayor of Santa Rosa and a member of the County Board of Supervisors, Susan Goran. Thank you so much for being here. I may tear up like so many lost my home recovering, but I'm celebrating here today. Five years ago in the evening, so many of us woke up and we were woke at that moment. We were notified by the sound of the wind, the branches snapping, the propane tanks exploding, the glow of the fire coming down the hill, our neighbors pounding on our doors, the first responders with their sirens blaring. Our teenage children notified by text message by their friends, fire is coming, get out now. We know better now how important emergency alert systems need to be, how robust they need to be. Too many of our community members perished because they were physically unable to evacuate. Jessica, we're thinking of you talking on the phone with your mother when she perished a journey's end. Someone in Coffee Park perished, also physically disabled, could not evacuate. A deaf and hard of hearing older gentlemen perished in Bennett Ridge. He took us hearing aids out, he could not hear the warnings. And we know that our alert systems not only need to be for us, for those members who are part of the COPE program and the CERP programs, but so many members of our community who are disabled and cannot be notified by the usual alert systems. We thank all of the neighbors, all of the teenagers who awakened parents, who notified their friends and neighbors. I even heard a story of someone in Italy calling someone saying a fire is coming, get out now. This person had no idea that their home was in danger and indeed they did lose their homes. But I'm also here to remember, and I really want to thank Oscar Pardo for so eloquently talking about the experience of fire survivors. I don't need to repeat his stories, but his story, his experiences have been echoed by so many of us. Going through the trauma, finding the grit and the determination and the passion and the resources for rebuilding. And many chose not to do that for very good reasons. Many have left the community for very good reasons. I said goodbye to good friends of mine. They evacuated Coffee Park, beautiful home in Coffee Park. They immediately found a duplex, remodeled it, moved into Oakmont and they said, we can't be here any longer. And so we said goodbye to them last weekend. They're moving to Minneapolis. A lot of snow, maybe not so many fires. Good luck with the snow shovel. But I understand her reasons and so many reasons for leaving. It takes a lot of faith and determination to move forward. Still to this day, it takes a lot of faith and determination and reaching out for resources to recover, regain our mental health. The trauma that we experience with a whiff of smoke, a gust of wind, checking watch duty for the fires surrounding us. We know what it's like because we've been there, done that. We are so much better prepared now than we were five years ago. And coming together as a neighborhood, Coffee Strong, Larkfield Estates. We've coped and fire safe councils formed all over Sonoma Valley because we are absolutely committed to say never again if we can help it. But I'm also here to remind you that it's not just the tubs fire that devastated and took so many lives. It was a week and a half of fires all up and down north in the pocket fire. Up and down at the Myocommas, the length of Sonoma Valley, the fires merging together. The Nuns fire started that very sane evening and just ripped communities asunder. Kenwood, Glen Ellen, Bennett Ridge, the areas around Lawndale, Schultz destroyed. Treone, Annadelle State Park, almost totally. And it took two days for the fires to wind their way around through the park to my home. I didn't know that I was in danger, but indeed it was. So I'm living in a beautiful new home, totally committed to fire resilient landscaping. And with every piece of burned irrigation I find in the yard again. Still, I'm reminded of the fires that we experienced together. We are stronger. We are committed. We are resilient. And we thank all of the folks up here for the services that they provided and continue to provide to help all of us move through this journey of recovery. And Oscar, you're wearing your t-shirt. I'm wearing a piece of my mother's jewelry that I was able to save. And my very trusty maryl doxiders. They almost never leave my feet. So we thank you for being here. And we join arms and reach across to all of you in the big hug. Oscar and I participated in an amazing film produced by Listening for Change, Embers of Awakening. It profiled two families who lost their homes. I was sort of in it a little bit. It's going to be shown at Pepperwood tomorrow night. I would encourage you to take an opportunity to view the film because there's such a strong profound linkage between what we experienced and the climate change that the earth is experiencing. It may be traumatic, but it is important for us to pay attention. Also, ending note, we will be dedicating the Linda Tunis Senior Housing Project at the home of pep housing at the end of the month. We've been vigilant in trying to get the senior housing project built, and it is yay. Thank you all. Our next speaker is the Field Representative for former Mayor Chris Corsi and current Supervisor on the Board of Supervisors, Jasmine Godino. Good morning, Supervisor Corsi. Regrettably could not be here, so I am here on his behalf to read a statement. As we commemorate five years since the firestorms of 2017, my heart goes out to all of the people who lost their lives. To those who lost their homes and everything they owned and in a broader sense to everyone who lost their sense of safety and security. Remembering the losses our community endured feels heavy, yet when I visit Coffee Park or talk to a survivor who is still in the process of recovery, I am filled with gratitude for the dedicated efforts that it took us to get to where we are in this journey. I am also immensely grateful for the ways in which our community came together in the brutal aftermath of the fires and built solidarity at the crux of such a tragic disaster. As the years have passed and the sense of urgency may have faded, I hope that we remember not only the tragedy but also the staunch sense of unity that sustained our collective resilience. Thank you. Thank you Jasmine. Next up we have Cal Fire Sonoma Lake Napa Unit Division Chief Ben Nichols. Good morning. I'm speaking to you this morning on behalf of the Cal Fire Director Joe Tyler and the Sonoma Lake Napa Unit Chief Mike Marcucci. As a native of Sonoma County, I have the honor to lead the men and women of Cal Fire here in the Sonoma County Operations Division. Sonoma County and our surrounding neighbors have seen some more than their fair share of devastating fires over the last five years. Those fires have tested us all to our core. First responders from all the agencies represented here today and many more have had to fight repeated catastrophic wildfires in their own communities, often with devastating outcomes. As a result of these shared experiences, agencies across the board have worked together to improve communication and fire ground tactics to be more agile during these rapidly expanding incidents. Emergency services across the North Bay are working closer together today than ever before because we share the knowledge that we are stronger together. In an effort to reduce the losses as a result of these devastating fires, some key areas of improvements have been made. First, we are utilizing technology to reduce the fog of war often experienced in these rapidly expanding incidents. Some of the technologies being used include remote detection, sensor aircraft and applications that share real-time information down to the firefighters on the ground so that they may gain better information on adjoining firefighting resources and the current fire environment. Second, fire has always been and always will be a part of the California landscape. To that end, Cal Fire and other agencies have adopted a proactive approach to protect communities and to create a more healthy and resilient natural environment. This is being done through fuels reduction projects, state, federal and local grant opportunities as well as educational outreach to prepare those communities on what they can do individually to harden their homes and prepare for those future fire events. Introducing good fire in the form of prescribed fire is our opportunity to bring fire back to the landscape in a beneficial way rather than risk catastrophic damage to communities and the environment. It took over a century for us to get here to where we are today so we cannot expect to fix it overnight. Just know that we are doing everything in our power to minimize the wildfire threat in both the near future as well as into the years to come. I will leave you with this. 95% of all wildland fires are caused by human activity. Please help us prevent fires. As we take this moment to remember the fires that have impacted us all I ask that you please help firefighters by ensuring you have an evacuation plan that includes multiple ways out and that you have taken the efforts to reduce the fuel around your home and harden your home so that we can defend it. Thank you very much. Before we go to our last speaker I just want to do a couple of additional shout outs and thank yous for being here. We have the Sonoma County Sheriff's Office who I wanted to make sure we gave a good shout out to and thank you for your work. We have the Sonoma County CAO that's Cheryl Bratton who is out here and congratulations on your impending retirement as well Cheryl. We have San Rosa's new city manager Marrakeesha Smith as well as council members Natalie Rogers and Victoria Fleming and now I'm going to call up to the podium our chief for our San Rosa Fire Department Scott Westrow. Thank you Mr. Mayor. Most importantly I'm the last speaker of the day so we'll get you all out of here real quick and anybody who knows me know this will be brief. So if you leave here with anything for me today I want to leave you with this. There's strength and honor in unity. What we have proven over the last five years is when we stand together we can accomplish anything. That we can be anything.  But it takes that we to dare greatly, strive valiantly and realize the triumphant triumph of high achievement. What we have accomplished in the last five years is unmatched. We've built back stronger. We've vowed to make the changes necessary to protect this community and we have healed and grown together and will continue to do so. As part of the healing growth process I'm proud to announce that the city is commissioned an art piece with the North Bay fires and those that were lost. This memorial piece will be designed and built by Santa Rosa resident types fire survivor and our friend Adrian Littman installed in a place of peace and welcome. We'll announce the details when we get them. This is just really started but we want to create a space for the community to reflect and remember. Quickly I'd like to thank our partners in their dedication, determination and support. As Sonoma County fire chiefs and all members of the fire service in Sonoma County, our Cal Fire partners, our partners in law enforcement, emergency management, EMS and our local, state and federal legislators. Now that you gave me a bike I'm going to bring it back to Santa Rosa. So the response to recovery of these fires is not just the fire department it's not just the police department. The city of Santa Rosa is 1300 strong and during and after these events one mission. There's so much that happens behind the scenes that's outside of the purview of a shiny red fire track or a police car whether it's in the EOC or in recovery, planning, transportation, public works, parks, water, finance, etc. The city council and city manager's office have been exceedingly supportive with very clear leaders intent to me and the rest of the city. Do not take your foot off the gas. We will not stop until we are ready to go. Now, you gave me a bike so I'm going to talk about my department real quick. I'm proud and honored to be able to work with these dedicated individuals that work for the Santa Rosa fire department every day. Regardless of the phase or type of emergency, regardless of bureau assignment they remain stalwart every day to protect this community. A lot is asked of them and always and without question and will stop at nothing to protect this community. I want to publicly thank each and every member of our fire department for their hard work, dedication and support as we move forward together. In regards to my staff the real tire to hearing this but I'm going to bring it back to where I started. We are stronger together. What we've accomplished in the last five years as a community needs to be recognized, applauded and is the model of unity and our support and we will always be here for you. Thank you chief. My last round of applause I'd ask from the audience is for Sandy our interpreter who not only is interpreting today but also was with us all the way through the wildfires in 2017 helping to inform the community so thank you Sandy. Before we leave here today I wanted to bring back up James Gore. We thought it would be appropriate to give them a final moment of silence and then just thank you all for being here. Supervisor. Thank you very much. You know what's amazing about this process is we always we've done so much but we always have more to figure out. For instance I love that announcement of a memorial. I just had a meeting with our crew because we got Supervisor Corsi and I about 250,000 set aside and we're reaching out to families to figure out a group to put together and that might be different from what you're doing and we're going to have to align still because this is a... Okay before I read names I just want to honor somebody who looked at me a long time ago who's here with us today and said James as you continue to champion resiliency you got to stop every once in a while and realize that all of us have not been able to move on that we don't look back on that heroics. We look back on that night and we see pain that we have to live with each and every day. So when I say that we have work to do and follow up. That's required. I want you all to join me in honoring not just the lives lived but the resolve and the grace that still is waiting for the families of Karen Icock, Michael Azarian, Carmen Baritz, Carol Collins Swayze, Michael Dornbach, Valerie Evans, Mike Grabo, Arthur Grant, Suico Grant, Donna and Leroy Halber, Christina Hansen, Tak Fu Hong, Monte Kirven, Veronica McCombs, Carmen McReynolds, Lynn Powell, Marilyn Ress, Sharon Robinson, Lee Chadwick Rogers, Marjorie Marnie Schwartz. I'm going to start with you all. Daniel Martin, Southdard, Tamara Latrice Thomas and Linda Tunis. What we do from here forward is the only way we can honor them. Thank you everybody. Thank you again for coming. You're clear? Yeah.


Hello, this is Benjamin Davis with Cointelegraph's Blockchain News. Voter turnout. It's one of the biggest problems we face every election. Especially in elections like this last year, we're sitting on the couch with a bag of Cheetos. Feels a lot more productive than having to actually put pants on and go vote. But what if you could vote pantsless, covered in what I'm sorry to say is not cheese? Well, that's the question that Kopersky Lab has decided to start trying to answer. Using blockchain technology, they've created a secure online system called Polis for people to vote. The company released a statement on their website, which read, that voting imposes extremely stringent requirements on the security of every aspect of voting. We believe that the blockchain technology is the missing link. In the architecture of a viable online voting system. This technology hopes to make it so that on election day, you can just roll over, close that fake news article that Russia just sent you, and vote. You can try this technology out now by clicking the link below. Canada has decided to embrace blockchain and they're not sorry about it. They're creating an instantaneous and secure way for Canadians to prove their identity. So how will this work? Well, all of your data will be stored on one device in one place and accessible by using a private key which only you have. When you use to share this data, you simply give the private key through the blockchain to an institution then they can verify everything instantly. Companies will not have any internal storage, so your information will remain safe with you. So how does this help? How does it change your life? This system provides a simple solution for customers who want to keep all of their data in one place. So no matter what company gets hacked, no one will have access to your information. So to give you an example, say if you want to sign up for a credit card at a store. All you have to do is give your secret key and the company can confirm all of your data right there and then without it being sent through a potentially hackable system and then stored in a potentially hackable central database. Now for our tip of the day. So as with all things, we hope for people to be generally decent. Unfortunately, the combination of anonymity and the potential to make money can lead to multiple obstacles when getting into cryptocurrencies. There are many, many scams out there, but for today we're going to focus on what's called a pump and dump and more importantly, planned pumps and dumps. This is when a group of people inflate the price of a coin and then dump it, all while the price is high, causing the coin to crash. It appears on Telegram, there's a lot of these planned pumps and dumps happening. There are these groups being created where people subscribe and they're given information about certain pumps. They get subscribers to buy a certain coin, pumping up the price. Then they go out and they get more and more people on social media to buy until the price is sufficient. Then they announce it to the group to sell all at once and when they do, there's a massive panic, everyone sells and that causes the coin to plummet. And those who've been roped in are the ones left holding the empty bag.  With all of these wild success stories surrounding crypto, it's easy to get roped into a potentially lucrative investment, but watch out, or you might get dumped. And now for financial news. With adoption of cryptocurrency into regulated markets becoming more and more of a reality, AMEX has announced a partnership with Ripple. For now, it is specifically for business to business payments for US and UK customers banking with Santander UK, which will provide real-time trackable payments. So even if we can never agree on comedy or spelling, common ground can always be carpeted in money. It's aluminum. AMEX wants everyone to know that they have no plans to be left behind. In a quote from AMEX CEO, Mark Gordon, he said, American Express has a long history of integrating with new technologies. This collaboration with Ripple and Santander represents the next big step forward in our blockchain journey, evolving the way we move money around the world. This connection is not only good for AMEX and their customers, but also for Ripple, since they've seen XRP price increase by 17% by press time. There is a lot happening in the Bitcoin world right now. After the CME declared its intention to open up Bitcoin futures trading, people rejoiced. Bitcoin has continued to climb as hedge funds have made their intentions to get into the crypto scene known and trading is set to begin. But there's always a negative Nancy and that's nothing against Nancy. Nancy's great. We need Nancy sometimes, but it's important to know when Nancy is just a friend having a bad day or the interactive brokers group chairman, Thomas Peterflatt, who said in a letter that Bitcoin has no fundamental basis. He went on to say that as a CME clearing member, we are deeply concerned with the proposals that would allow Bitcoin and other cryptocurrency derivatives to be cleared in the same clearing organization as other products. Because Bitcoin's price can vary from one day to the next and has no basis for valuation, he believes the concept will not work. While this Nancy sounding voice might get drowned out in all this excitement surrounding the new and exciting prospects, it might be important to take a look at all sides of this argument. You can find a link to the full article and copy of his letter in the link below. What do you think? Is this just a negative Nancy trying to ruin the party? Or is this a reasonable concern? Five years ago, I had a friend mention Bitcoin to me, and he said, Hey man, this is cool.  I can't help remembering that moment as I'm reading this story about young crypto millionaires buying houses for Bitcoin. At the exact moment, my landlord is calling me looking for rent. And sure, it might be a gimmick to get your house media attention and sure, it might be a bit ridiculous to sell such a stable investment for something potentially volatile.  I didn't listen. In a survey done by Len Edu, 564 Bitcoin investors gave some insight into their future plans. But the kicker being that the average price they'd sell their Bitcoins at is 196,000. This is about 30 times what it is now, and you can't help but want to go running out to your closest Bitcoin exchange, mouth watering. The survey reveals that many of these investors have no plans to cash out any time soon, with a 21% are planning to hold on for at least seven years and 11% planning to hold on past 10 years. There's been a lot of chatter about Bitcoin as a store value or speculative investment, but what Len Edu found was a bit more surprising. According to them, the most popular selection chosen by 40% of the respondents was, I believe Bitcoin is a world-changing technology. It is interesting to see that the plurality of Bitcoin investors are backing the technology as the primary reason for investing. Often, financial professionals speculate that Bitcoin investors are out chasing a big payout. While basing your opinion on the investment profile on one survey is not recommended, this report should calm down the rhetoric of accusing crypto investors of dropping their money down a pipe hoping there's a dream sitting at the bottom. It's always important to remember to make your own informed decisions, and you can start by reading our full report on the survey on Cointelegraph.com. Thank you for watching. If you have any questions or want to learn more about any of the stories you heard today, please visit our website Cointelegraph.com. And if you liked what you saw, please subscribe down below. Thank you.


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The port LFTZ Enterprise Limited, the promoters of Lake Key Deep Sea port, has commissioned a state-of-the-art scanning facility also known as Non-Intrusive Inspection System to fast track the examination and evacuation of containers from the port. The world-class facility was commissioned by the Customs Area Controller, Nigeria Customs Service, Lagos Free Zone, Free Zone Command, Dorati, or Mugbane, on Wednesday, details in this report. Speaking during the commissioning, the Customs Area Controller, Dorati, or Mugbane expressed confidence that the scanning facility would significantly optimize the inspection process and increase cargo turnaround time at the port. She commanded Lake Key Port for ensuring that the Customs personnel to carry out the scanning were trained with the requisite skills to operate the state-of-the-art facility. And this is what Nigeria Customs Service is really, really, really happy about. Now that we know that we have this, we are sure that we will not have delays again and we will also have so many containers examined at the same time. In its welcome remarks, the Managing Director, Chief Executive Officer of Lake Key Port, Mr. Du Ronggang, said the facility would enhance ease of doing business, facility trade, prevent port congestion, boost revenue generation to the government, and improve national security. Ronggang attributed the progress recorded in the operations of the container terminal at the port and other milestones to the tremendous support received from all stakeholders, including the Nigerian Customs Service. He noted that Lake Key Port, in collaboration with Lake Key Free Port Terminal, would continue to do its best to shape the future of container handling in Nigeria and beyond by bringing greater efficiency and greater capacity to the market. Our business facilitates the trade, prevents the port congestion, and boosts the revenue generation to the government, especially for the national security. It's an amazing step forward. This 47 hectares terminal is a brand new terminal, big machines. Now we are about finalizing this automation system by commissioning those two scanning machines. The scanning team at the port proceeded to do a demonstration of the scanning facility to the administration of the stakeholders present.