All right, you're live. Great. Welcome everyone to the June 4th, 2020 Historic Preservation Commission meeting. This is our first meeting since I think January. And so this is actually the first meeting that I am officially chairing and we do have some new commissioners and just to make it more fun, we obviously have all this technology. So obviously hopefully patience with everyone and we can get through this. Susan, did you want to address exactly how we should be dealing with the public invited to be heard or do I just deal with that? Is there's a note about the streaming and addressing everyone? Are we live streaming or is that still? Yep, we're live streaming and I've got your instructions on the screen for everyone to see. The public can call in at the appropriate times during the meeting, so go ahead. Okay, great. And so I will, I'll repeat some of this information as well when the time is appropriate, but we will be posting this information up on the screen for anyone to call in. Again, patience will be appreciated. So these meetings are being held remotely due to the governor's safer at home order. It went into effect on April 27th. You can watch the meeting live stream on YouTube and the city's channel or on longmontpublicmedia.org. Okay, so at this point, we will call roll. Okay, commissioner carpenter. Mayor. Commissioner Hardee's. Here. Commissioner Gaiu. Here. Commissioner Lane. Here. Commissioner Norton. Here. Commissioner Goon. Here. Commissioner Bagwell. Can she hear me? Commissioner Bagwell. Here. Oh, thanks. Commissioner Sibley. Here. Council member Rodriguez. Here. Thank you, everyone. Great. So our next meeting agenda item number two would be approval of the January 2020 minutes. I make a motion to approve the January 2020 minutes. Second. Okay, so I have a motion and a second. Maria, do we have, do we have who that was? Yes, I do. Okay. Thank you. All right. Okay, we have a motion and a second. So all in favor of approving the January minutes, please say aye and raise your hand. Keep it up there a little bit so everybody can get the time to record. Maria, you let us, any opposed? None. Motion carries unanimously. So item number three is report from the chair. So this is where we'll get in a little bit more to the public invited to be heard. So anyone that wishes to speak during public invited to be heard or during public hearing, which is basically item five that would be any topics that are not on the agenda. You would need to watch the live stream of the meeting. And these, when that time comes, these instructions will pop up on the screen. Comments will be limited to three minutes per person. Each speaker will be asked to state their name and address for the record prior to proceeding with their comments. And please remember to mute the live stream and we are called upon to speak so that we don't get echo. All right. If there are any troubles, do we, do I, Susan, do you want me to give out this phone number here for anybody to jump if there are issues? No, they should have received that privately via an email. Okay, perfect. Yeah, you can reach out to, I believe it's Maria or Jade or via email to all of us on staff here. Okay, great. All right, so item number four is communications from our HPC staff liaison. All right, hello commissioners and council member Rodriguez. It's nice to virtually meet you all. I'm sure you're aware that Karen Bryant is no longer with the city and I'll be taking over as the liaison. Just a few things since your last January meeting, we've given out two administrative COAs, one for 250 Kimbark for a heat pump and one for a new sign at the Dickens Opera House which if you've been downtown you might have seen already in place. The sign was just to replace the old Tavern sign. My last note is that previously we decided to host the July meeting on July 9th instead of the second given the fourth of July holiday. So from what I know we will be having this meeting I've received an application already and as of today it should still be on Zoom. So that's all I have for you. Okay, thank you. Okay, so item number five is our public invited to be heard. So this is if there's anyone out there in the audience that would, in the virtual audience that would like to speak on a topic that is not on the agenda. So we'll have the communication information up on the screen and we'll all sit here for a few minutes to see if there is in fact anyone wishing to speak to an alternate item. Susan, you'll just tell us when you're reasonably sure that no one is out there. Yes, mayor. Sorry, chair. Chair, just chair. Getting my meetings confused there. Yes, we've got a couple of viewers. I know I am one of them so I don't know if other staff are also viewers or if we actually have the public. So we'll give them say three or four minutes here to see the information because there is a slight delay in the stream anytime I display something. Chair, that's been a little bit longer than three minutes. So I will leave the room unlocked for just another 30 seconds until my slide disappears from the live stream. And I do not see anyone that has called in yet. Okay. Okay. Will, it's fairly rare for people to just come to the HPC. So I think we'll move on to item number six A under new business, which would be a state income tax credit application for 917 Fourth Avenue. So Ms. Kruber, do you have a staff presentation for us? Yes, I'm happy to give an overview. So 917 Fourth Avenue is a bungalow style home built in 1912. The work that Mr. Pillar is proposing is fixing the garage door and the metal supporting the door broke this past February and he fixed it immediately after and then he was wanting to start repainting the exterior of his home. And I believe the date for repainting was supposed to start on May 15th and be done by the end of May. So this is completed work. The home is more than 50 years old and is of course part of the historic Westside district. So it was listed in 1987. I, in my staff recommendation, I approve or I recommend approval of the preliminary state income tax credit for both parts of the work. Upon further research though, I found that the garage was not added to the home until 1995, which therefore would make the work on the garage not eligible for the tax credit. So I would still recommend the credit for the painting of the home, but not for the garage door. Okay, great. Do any of the commissioners have a question for staff? I do. It was my understanding that painting alone might not be applicable for state tax credit that it only if painting was done in conjunction with repair or replacement of siding or something of that nature. That was not my understanding. And perhaps I misunderstood that though. I'm happy to ask History Colorado and confirm that there does not need to be any addition with that. Yeah, I would recommend asking the tax credit staff liaison at History Colorado. I believe there is also a financial consideration. I think they have to spend a certain amount and above $5,000 in order to make sure it meets that tax credit. So I would double check with Joseph Saldibar at History Colorado. That is correct. There is an amount that you need to surpass in order to be eligible. So I do need to confirm that without the garage that the painting would still be eligible in addition to confirming that. Commissioner Bagwell. Commissioner, one moment you need to unmute. Point of clarification for staff. In the past, we've overridden it several times, but in the past, we usually ask the applicant, they need permission from us first before they actually do the work and receive the tax credit. And that usually, then those problems are resolved before before they actually do the work. Thank you for that clarification, Commissioner. I believe that the reason the work went ahead of when the garage needed to be fixed because it was not operating as functional and the painting, given the time of COVID and the pandemic, it's been challenging to get people to do any kind of work and scheduling has been a challenge. Understand, thank you. And the paperwork actually says the repainting is 10,500, so I think we're above the 5,000 there. Okay, we can certainly discuss this further as we move on, but I think it might be appropriate for us to take any information or presentation from the applicant. Who's gonna get that set up? Neil, can you unmute yourself and turn your camera on? There you go. Can you turn your camera on, sir? Fine, yeah, very good thing. Ugh. It's all right, sir, if you can't find it, because it looks like the camera is active, but it's black, so you may have told your system not to use your camera, so if you wanna go ahead. I'm not very good looking anyway, so. It's all right, sir. But as far as the painting's concerned, we just have it under contract, it has not been started or completed. Will people hear me? Yes. So, okay, are there any commissioners that have a question for the applicants? Chair, I see none. Okay, thank you. Okay, then I think we will move into the public hearing stage of this application, so if there's anybody out there that would like to speak to this application, we'll now open up the public hearing portion of this meeting and again, appreciate your patience, but the instructions will pop up on the screen and then go ahead and call in if you'd like to speak about the application. Chair, it's been a couple of minutes and I see no one has entered our waiting area. Okay, well, then at this point, we will close the public hearing. I have a couple of thoughts or questions, but I'd like to hear from, if there are any other thoughts, statements, discussion items from commissioners. I don't see anybody. So, my only question, I don't necessarily have a problem with the tax credit, and I think that we ought to be able to make it conditional upon it actually complying with state guidelines. My only question would be, if the painting hasn't been done, then the paint colors that are on the house are obviously not the intended colors and I don't believe that there were intended colors submitted as part of the package. And I would feel more comfortable if we were approving a tax credit application that had proposed colors in them so that we were pretty sure that we weren't improving an application that was gonna paint them bronco blue and orange or something, not that that would be, not that I'm suggesting you're doing that. However, do you have the colors selected and can those be shared with staff, Mr. Cohen? Chair, it looks like another person needs to be admitted from the family there, so I'm gonna do that. They may be having audio technical difficulties here. Okay. We'll give Cindy just a minute here to get connected. Cindy, can you hear us? I can. Okay. Did one of you wanna respond to the chair? Here you go. You might be able to see us now. Yes, we submitted pictures of the house with the application. The house is gray with white and green trim and we're keeping the same colors. Okay. Well, I did go swing by the house because the application had, or at least the R copy of the application looked like mostly black and white pictures, but if it's just a question of keeping the same colors, I don't have an issue with that too. Yeah, no changes. Okay, wonderful. Well, then it would appear that we'd be ready for a motion. Again, I think it might be wise if that motion included some language about this being conditional upon state's approval of a tax-graded application for painting. Anyone have a commissioner that would propose a motion? I'm happy to propose that motion since I'm the one who brought it up in the first place. And I do have the Colorado revised statutes up on this. And when it talks about exterior work, it does not talk about painting, but I would prefer to have some confirmation one way or the other on that. So I make the motion that we would approve this if it meets state statute and is confirmed by History Colorado staff. I have a motion. Do I have a second? I'll second that. Okay, we have a motion on the floor and a second all in favor of approving conditionally the application for, let's get the address created. 917 Fourth Avenue for the house only, correct? Then please raise your hand and say aye. Aye. I'll get them up there for a minute. Any opposed? Nope, so it looks like we have a motion carried unanimously. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Bill. Neal, we're gonna let you stay if you'd like to continue if you just wanna mute yourself and hide your camera. That would be fine or you're welcome to leave the meeting. Okay, we'll probably leave the meeting. Okay, thank you. Thank you. Okay, so the next item on our agenda is item 6B, a certificate of appropriateness for 1,005 Third Avenue. Again, Ms. Kruger, do you have a staff presentation for us? Yes, I'm happy to give an overview. So this was a home that Kistler Gunning House was designated in 1995. The applicant submitted their narrative saying that after the last hail storm, there was quite a bit of damage done to the roof so it needs to be replaced. In addition, they'd like to repaint a few areas and also fix some of the downspouts. So as you can see, he's submitted really great images of where all the painting will be done, where all of the downspouts and gutters will go and I believe on page 41 of your packet is the photo report. So all the colors are supposed to match and all of the work should preserve historic character. Nothing will change. Okay, thank you. Do any of the commissioners have a question for staff? Commissioner Bagwell. Is this in preparation for a tax credit application? From my knowledge and discussions with the applicants, most of the fixing will be covered by insurance so they're not seeking a tax credit application. Thank you. Any other questions for staff? Commissioner Ardyce. Yeah, in a couple of the photos, there's some fairly noticeable stair step cracks in the brick. I just wondered, is that being dressed in this application in any way or just dealing with the re-roofing and the painting associated with it? Those cracks in the brick were not brought forward by the applicant at this time. Okay, Commissioner Bagwell, did you have any more questions or no? No, thank you. If we don't have any more questions for staff, we'll give the applicant an opportunity to present any information that they would like to. I think the certificate of appropriateness pretty much says it all. We were instigated to do this because there are chunks, approximately one inch large chunks of the roof falling into our breakfast area on our porch. So I'm fairly convinced of the soundness of the plan. Now, the original shingle will have to be taken off because in order to do code, we're told that you have to do a single layer of the new tar tile. So we're following the company's recommended procedures and I understand the companies that do this work, their procedures are aligned with the procedures that are already pre-approved in the workflow here. So that's the roof. And then all of the rest of the work is sort of cascading from the roof.  And so that's why we're redoing those. And yes, insurance does pay for everything except for the deductible. So everything is sorted financially. Great, thank you. Are there any questions for the applicant by, for many of our commissioners? I don't see anyone. All right, thank you, sir. So at this point, we will again, open up the public hearing portion of the meeting for anyone outside that would like to speak on this particular topic. So again, the instructions are on the screen and we will wait around for a few more minutes and to see if there's anyone that would like to speak regarding this application. Chair, there are no individuals or guests in our waiting area. So I would say we'll give it just a couple seconds here for the slide to disappear from the live stream and then you can begin. Okay, great, thank you. Okay, we will close the public hearing portion. Is there any further discussion or comments from our commissioners? I don't see anyone and so I would entertain the motion. Commissioner Bagwell, your mic. Thank you. I move approval of the certificate of appropriateness for 1005 Third Avenue, the Kistler Gunning House. As proposed. I have a second. Second. Second by Commissioner Harding's. All right, all in favor. If you can raise your hand and say aye. Aye. Aye. Any opposed? None. So again, our motion carries unanimously. Thank you, sir. May I have one final question? Absolutely. So now that the certificate of appropriateness is approved, do I need to do anything further to initiate work? I need a copy of that or posted or are there any procedures or is this a sort of, is this the trigger point right here? Ms. Krug, could you respond to that please? Hi, Matthew. Once we have everything finalized, we'll send you the formal document with signatures for the COA and then you're free to initiate work as soon as you have that. Okay, so if I schedule work to begin in say 10 days, is that a reasonable approach? Yes, I can get you the document in time. Great, thank you. Okay, well, we will move on to item number seven, our information and discussion items. According to the agenda, we have a presentation by Ms. Erica Dubick, Preservation Planner History, Colorado. Welcome. Thank you. How is everyone doing this evening? So Jade asked me to come and talk to you guys about tax credits for a couple of reasons, just to give you this brief overview of the program, the different types of credits and the ins and outs of them. Also to, I think we've had some discussions about whether or not Longmont wants to continue reviewing tax credits locally. So that decision is up to your city council, but obviously they would, I think, take a recommendation from you as the Preservation Commission. So I'm just gonna go through this really quickly. I should also mention that I'm also at this meeting for your quadrennial evaluation. So fortunately you guys had two public hearings, so that was easy and already done. So I'll get together with Jade after this and we'll have a discussion and hopefully get you guys your evaluation completed soon as well. So let's go ahead to the next slide. So hopefully you guys are already familiar with what a rehabilitation tax credit is. So it's tax credit. It directly reduces the amount of tax owed to the state government. So it's a dollar-for-dollar tax reduction based on a percentage of the total project cost. So for instance, if you had $100,000 project with $100,000 qualified expenses, it would be 20% credit, it would be $20,000. And I'm not even going to explain what rehabilitation is because I think you guys already know that as well. So next slide. So there's basically three types of credits. There's the federal credit, which is managed by the National Park Service and partly by our office. And that is only for income-producing properties, commercial properties. But here in the state, we have the commercial and the residential credit. So as a CLG, you guys are welcome to review the residential credits as you guys have done tonight. And then the commercial credits are reviewed by us at the state. Next slide. And so like I said, the commercial credit is for income-producing properties. So that can also be rentals that are used for housing, that can be commercial storefronts, industrial buildings, all types. Residential, that's gonna be your owner-occupied housing. So if you have an owner-occupied residence that is also being used, for instance, maybe part-time as an Airbnb or a VRBO, that's when you'll wanna give Joe a call, I should say, and discuss that situation before you would want to issue a tax credit. Next slide. So obviously you're not going to read all these because you guys already know these. The Secretary of the Interior Standards for Rehabilitation are what we use to decide what can be approved as a qualified expense for the tax credit. And so I believe you guys already use these for when you're reviewing properties for your certificate of appropriateness. So hopefully you guys are familiar with these already. Next slide. And so qualified rehabilitation expenditures, there's two different definitions depending if it's a commercial or residential property. For commercial properties, it follows the IRS definition. For residential, it is specific to the state credit. So that's exterior improvements and interior improvements undertaken to restore, rehabilitate, or preserve the historic character of a qualified property. So that's a pretty broad definition. Next slide. So here's some examples of what is allowable and not allowable. Essentially materials and labor used on the historic building are going to be allowable for QREs. Not allowable is purchasing the property, adding an addition to the property, landscaping and site work. There is some wiggle room on that, but again, that's when you might want to give us a call so we can discuss personal properties. So basically anything someone can take and remove from the property, not going to be included, just like removable fixtures and then legal fees as well. Next slide. So here's a lot of information on one side and I have a few of these for each of the tax credits. So this is just a quick overview of the federal one. So again, you guys would not be dealing with this, but you might have property owners in the community that are interested in this. So it's great to be aware of that. It's a 20% credit again only for commercial properties and a good thing to keep in mind if you're talking to someone about this is that these credits cannot be sold like we'll get to with the state credits. So you wanna make sure people are aware of that difference and that they can only take 20% per year for the first five years. So you can't take it all in the first year like you can with the state tax credit. Next slide. So the state commercial tax credit, again, great to be familiar with if you have business owners in your community that would be interested in this. The property will need to be listed on the national, state or local register. Also needs to be 50 years old. The, let's see, we have two different pots of money available for the commercial credit, both for projects over 2 million and projects under 2 million. So that's really nice. It protects those smaller projects to make sure there's still money left over for them. There are some bonuses available if your county has been declared a disaster area in the last six years and then 10% for rural, but obviously you guys wouldn't apply there. And then there's a 1 million per year property cap and 5 million per year for each of the different levels. And so these credits can be transferred or sold and sometimes we see nonprofits also getting these credits for their projects and then selling them to either fund the project or provide funding for the nonprofits. So that's also something to keep in mind when you're talking to community members. And there's no recapture period for these and they can be taken up for up to 10 years. Oh, no, you're good, next slide. So same thing applies for eligibility for the residential. It needs to be a property owner or a tenant with a five year lease. Again, we have those bonuses depending on the disaster area or if they're located in a rural area. I think you guys no longer have the... It's been more than six years since the flood, right? So I think you guys are down back down to 20% and as you discussed early in the meeting, there is a minimum of $5,000 that needs to be spent and there's a maximum of $50,000 per property and that resets after 10 years or change in ownership. So you could get your $50,000 in credits and sell it to someone else and they could get another $50,000 the next year. There's no limit on how much money is available for the residential credit. So that's a really nice thing. You can also take that for up to 10 years but they can't be transferred. They have to stay with the owner and again, there's no recapture period. Next slide. So hopefully you guys are pretty familiar with the review process. For the state credits, it's very simple. We just have the part one which is what you guys reviewed tonight and then part two, which is when you approve the work that was completed to make sure it goes along with what they said they were gonna do. The federal one is very similar. Part one is just where we certified that the building is historic. Part two, where you say what you're gonna do. Part three, where you prove that you did what you were gonna do. But the main part of these applications are just providing photographs and written descriptions of the work being done so that you guys can make a decision, a knowledgeable decision based on those photographs and descriptions. Next slide. So that, I mean, that's basically it. That's the tax credit program in a nutshell. Obviously, as you guys know, and as came up at your meeting tonight, there's a lot of intricacies, a lot of questions. I can only answer the easy ones. All the difficult ones you need to send to Joe. And that's his email address there. So you can write that down. But, you know, Jade and I have a lot of conversations and emails back and forth about tax credits all the time. So yeah, if you guys ever have any questions, please don't hesitate to reach out. That's what we're here for. We'd much rather answer your question than have something go wrong. So yeah, that's all I have. Unless of course there's questions. Great, thank you. I did actually have one quick question about the eligibility for either the state commercial or residential. For example, the application that we reviewed tonight was not listed on the register, but it was a contributing building in a historic district. And so is that applicable for the state tax credit either commercial or residential? Yes, if it's in a historic district and it's a contributing building, then yes, it is considered to be listed and therefore is eligible for the tax credits. Okay, perfect, great. Thanks for that clarification. Anyone else have a question for Mr. Dewey? No, I'm not seeing anybody. Thank you very much for taking the time to present that information to us. Thanks for having me. Okay, all right. Well, then we will move on to our next item agenda, which will be comments from the HPC commissioners. So do any commissioners have anything that they would like to share with our group? Ms. Commissioner Bagwell. I would just like to welcome Jay tonight. Look forward to our new staff member. And I'd also like to, since we didn't get to say goodbye to Karen Bryant, just to acknowledge in the record appreciation for her services for the past several years, and wish her well. Thank you, commissioner. Any other HPC commissioner comments, statements? Okay, then let's see. Councilman Rodriguez, do you have anything that you would like to share with us? Nothing in particular, but thank you guys for your service and making yourselves available for these weird Zoom meetings and commission. They're just as equally awkward to counsel, I assure you. Good to know. Okay, well, I think all in all, we did okay. Luckily it wasn't too complicated as a meeting. So thank you all for bearing with us. So given that that comes to our final item on the agenda, which is adjournment, do I have a motion to adjourn? Oh, sure, I so move. Motion second. Second. My heart is all in favor. Say, hi, raise your hand. Hi, hi. Any opposed? I doubt it. Thank you very much to you all and have a wonderful month until the next time we do this. And thank you. Nice to see everybody. See you all. Thanks to Susan and Jade. Thank you guys. Thank you, Susan and Jade. And Maria, bye everybody. Bye bye. See you next month. Bye, bye, thanks. Take care.


The Brainerd Water Tower has been given a date for supporters to raise funds to hopefully save and restore it. Supporters will be given exactly two years to raise three million dollars for the project. The future of the water tower was brought into question last month after Stucco began falling from its exterior. The Brainerd City Council members all want to save the structure. Monday, they even voted unanimously to back a resolution that stipulates four measures to potentially save the structure. The exact date given to supporters is August 6, 2020.


Good afternoon! I hope you had a pleasant lunch. Please be seated and we will resume with the second portion of this seminar. The first portion of my lecture covered the three fundamental laws upon which thermotology is based and the ways in which they may have an effect upon physics division operatives choices in the field. At this point I'm going to proceed to a somewhat more esoteric field, Alan vital energy and aspect radiation. Eve is the fundamental energy that powers thermotology. What Eve is we are still trying to understand. It appears to be somehow linked to the observer effect directly. It has been described as life energy or magical particles but such terms are gross over simplifications. If you are interested in the more esoteric parts of Eve theory you will find some recommended reading in your seminar syllabus. But for now I will simply discuss the aspects of Eve that are pertinent to a coalition field agent. Eve is emitted by living things. It is also often emitted by paranormal objects. Eve emission is not a perfect indication of whether or not a person or object has paranormal properties but often that is the case. Higher and more intense levels of Eve are generated by beings with higher levels of sapiens. Their observer effect is stronger. Thus their Eve levels are stronger as well. Humans over animals. Animals over plants. Interestingly enough the goddess that the servants of the silicone nor near operate also generate Eve energy. Fruit of thought. Training you on recognizing and identifying Eve patterns is beyond the scope of this one day seminar. You'll be provided a handbook with common patterns and schemes to recognize and memorize. But for now let's try it out.  Note since the recording of this seminar colliculus has been retired and replaced with the more advanced veritas system. I've already set up the imaging nodes so all you'll need to do is put on the headset. But before you do that let me give you a quick rundown on how to use it. The system can be put on like any other personal image enhancement headset. It can be worn using a head strap or attached to your helmet. Other variations attached to your rifles pick a tinny rail. There are three components. Power supply, headset and image processor. For now the power supply will be the extension cords at your tables and the image processor should be left on the surface of the table. When I tell you to do so and not before pick up the image processor and turn this wheel here all the way to zero. That's the image brightness control. You'll also want all three of these switches Cal, Viz and Ari set to the on position. Only then will you flip the power switch and put the headset on. After that you can adjust the image brightness until the calibration bar at the bottom of the screen is properly adjusted. You should see eight distinct squares each one a different shade of gray ranging from near black to near white. Go ahead and put them on now. I'll be coming around to help anyone who's having problems. Everyone all set? Having fun? Interesting stuff isn't it? What you're seeing in the Calculus headset is the Eve energy being given off by you and your classmates. You'll see that different people have different color and shape patterns. Over time you learn to read and recognize these patterns. A skilled Calculus operator can not only detect a person they can also read their emotional state and some paranormal properties. They can also see through walls. In a moment I'm going to activate a secondary Calculus array located in the conference room next door. If you will please all direct your attention to the front of the room. There we go. Location and position of every human being in the room next door through the walls. I'm now going to ask you to set the Viz switch to off but keep your thumb on the switch please. It might be a bit difficult for you to find it once you've turned off visible light processing. Interesting isn't it? How you can see the entirety of the next room? A theory resonance. Old models of the array system could only directly detect Eve emission patterns. The newest ones can also use Eve interaction with inert matter to draw a map of the surrounding area. The resolution isn't very good at the moment but we're already working on the next generation technology. I can see that someone noticed that midnight here comes off as a bit different. Midnight if you recall is a constructed intelligence. That is to say she is a piece of raw mind put into the form of a cat. You'll notice that there are some unusual spikes in her aura signature as well as some dips that don't appear in human beings. Her color scheme also tends towards blue significantly more than the rest of the class. Aha and now the gentleman in the front row has recognized something else as well. My aura pattern also tends blue and now you're remembering that type blue is the GOC designation for thumb et urges. Not a coincidence I assure you. The image processing software is designed to process the Eve signature of a thumb et urge as blue. Same with type reds and greens. Type blacks. There another story. In any case take a few more moments to experiment with the curricular system. I'll be coming around to answer any questions you have. I'm going to end this segment of the seminar with a discussion of aspect radiation or a rad. Eve you see isn't just an indication of the observer effect. It's also a transformative power in its own right. When Eve intensity gets to the point where it can alter or change reality that is what we call aspect radiation. So to answer the first question aspect radiation is simply Eve in concentrations high enough to cause reality warping effects. Think of it as gamma radiation. Gamma rays are simply the upper end of the electromagnetic spectrum. The same spectrum that contains x-rays, visible light, heat and radio waves. We categorize aspect radiation along three axes. Hue, pitch and weave. Plus intensity. That's four characteristics that should provide a solid description of the level of reality alteration that we might be dealing with. Intensity is measured in caspers. A term which has a very technical definition that I will not get into here. 100 caspers is considered normal background radiation levels. At 1000 you may start seeing paranormal effects. At 10,000 plus you are seeing severe and immediate reality alteration. A word of advice. Unless you are specially trained to deal with reality alteration scenarios. You should avoid any arad field higher than 1000. Hue. Originally Hue used six of the seven colors of the rainbow. That turned out to be a problem. People would call in type blues with arad characteristics reading 3000. Black, flat, tight and people would get confused. So we extend the scale a bit and change the terms. The hue scale is now ruby, topaz, lemon, malachite, sapphire, ebony and over ebony.  But you might confuse people. One common misconception is that hue is a measure of the danger level of aspect radiation. Not the case. Hue is actually a measure of I guess the best way to put it is how blatant the change is. For instance, a ruby change might just be an acceleration in the decay rate of a small amount of radioactive material. While an over ebony alteration changes the past 50 years of history to add an event back in the past that didn't occur before. On the other hand, pitch, weave and intensity also need to be considered. A ruby level alteration that causes a subcritical mass of plutonium to reach prompt criticality is a much more severe event than Mussolini having tea instead of coffee for breakfast one morning.  How destructive a particular burst of aspect radiation is. It comes in five categories. Double flat, flat, natural, sharp and double sharp. Double flat is the most destructive, the most disruptive to the operation of the mundane universe. Double sharp is the most constructive. These changes tend to become integrated into the very fabric of reality itself. This is not to say that double sharp is necessarily good. If you want an example of a hostile double sharp working, consider the anomalous Deva civilization, an ancient civilization of bloodthirsty thaumaturges that periodically have their decline and fall a few years later than before. That's a double sharp over ebony scenario right there. Finally, weave comes in four varieties, sparse, loose, tight and locked. Explaining it is difficult, mostly because it's the only characteristic of aspect radiation that we don't have a way to detect. The only way to assess weave is by direct observation by a tight blue like myself. But what you need to know is sparse is vague and strange. Loose is a little more understandable. Tight is usually about where we get to what most people think of as magic or reality warping, the purview of tight blues and greens.  All of this must sound complicated, because it is. I'd have to give you an undergraduate level course in basic thaumatological physics to explain further. But this all relates to one of the big questions I keep getting asked. Namely, why doesn't the coalition use magical workings for everything? Why do we need strike teams and assessment teams? The reason is backlash. Every time a utilize aspect radiation to make a change in reality, it bounces off the fundamental fabric of existence and causes a secondary effect called backlash. The formula for measuring backlash intensity is a bit complicated, but it can be summed up like this. A percentage of the original spells intensity, opposite pitch, opposite hue, same weave. So let's say I perform a working to create a door in that wall where there wasn't one before. That might be three kilo caspers ebony sharp tight. I plug the numbers into my formula here. And I can expect a backlash of 1.75 kilo caspers ruby flat tight. Maybe I suddenly give off a burst of gamma radiation. Maybe the carpet in a five meter radius burst into flame. Maybe there is a burst of light and a glowing pattern of runes. In fact, when I do my working, I'm going to be trying to redirect the backlash into as harmless a pattern as possible. That's why thaumatologists use casting circles and geometric patterns to redirect the backlash into predictable patterns. On the other hand, there are some workings that we still haven't figured out how to reabsorb all the backlash from the most notorious being apportation altering reality so that quantum tunneling causes a large amount of mass to instantly appear somewhere else.  Worst of all, backlash itself is a burst of aspect radiation, which can itself cause backlash and so on and so forth. In fact, one theory as to why paranormal objects exist is that the Big Bang was the most powerful magical working in the universe and it's still backlashing upon itself causing reality to bend and alter at regular intervals. I'm starting to see that I'm losing some of you. Let's take another break.  To learn more about the SCP Foundation, subscribe to SCP orientation today and turn the notification bell on so you don't miss any of our videos.


Oscar nominations bright and early out in La La Land were announced today, which means ours were also announced today And it's all Chandler and all Eddie best actor ie Floppy is flop here are the outstanding nominees for performance by an actor I got Trey young who is like made them change the rules with this floppy And like there's nights when I watch Trey young and he's not even like an NBA player I can't I understand he's like I understand he's small and I understand he's taking advantage of defenders Absurd to watch I took Marcus This guy has kind of mastered it.  He's the Daniel Day Lewis of flopping like he's in it every year


Oh boy there he is. Turn in okay. All right What's up everybody and welcome back here to the channel need for speed heat making its way to the channel I've been planning it for a little bit and definitely it's kind of fun I'm using a Xbox controller here on the PC rig We do have my 180sx with the S13 front basically so lady and we do have the rockabunny wide body on the car with some works wheels That drift down pipe so we're gonna take a look and get my impressions here for you guys here on need for speed heat We are using the Xbox one controller Elite controller plugged into the PC rig So we're gonna actually go drive and test this out and see you know how much fun we can have see what races We can get into need for speed heat making its way to the channel So make sure you follow me on Instagram and Twitter all that you found in the description box below Let's go take this thing for a rip. I think we're gonna go at night So let's uh, let's get to it If I were you, I would hit the streets at night. Remember you're only spending bank on that right if you've got a name So like I said, it's definitely Yep Like a plenty of offers apparently The crackles and the pops of this 240 being able to tune the exhaust sound and stuff like that. It's pretty awesome So we're gonna hit a street race here recommended 120 were 134 because that I haven't played much of this game yet So we are just you know Tacking a little bit into it, but I figured everybody's been posting about you know the beginning of the game So I wanted to just play a little bit get some get some cool things on the car before I came into the game for you Guys, but like I said names petite if you guys want to keep seeing it on the channel Make sure you tap that like buttons grab and do appreciate all the support The crackles and the pops like I said being able to tune the exhaust sound is pretty sweet So we're gonna see if we can't take away in here in our 180 There we go Clean start. Let's use a little nitrous burst to get past him So I am actually very impressed with you know, how the game feels when it comes to driving the drifting It's it's fun. I mean, it's you don't really have to counter too much. It's you know, it's a need-for-speed game So it is still very fun to play and very entertaining game to just throw back and have a little bit of fun with it You know a relaxed chill driving session. I haven't been able to get the wheel working on it I don't think it actually works. I think there's some Issues with the wheel I plugged in my fendatec Well, it's always plugged in that you see but I tried using it and first gear was acceleration and there was no break and None of my buttons work So I'm gonna have to do some research and see if I can maybe figure out how to get a wheel running I may have to pull out the G9 20 and see if the G9 20 works. Maybe rock the G9 20 here on This game out Remember where I was going. So this 180 actually is pretty sweet with the basically the salinity front I Was very impressed when I actually found that salinity front because I don't remember seeing that in the Mobile app that you guys can build cars with ouch. There we go over the water so Like I said, if you guys want to keep seeing me of speed heat here on the channel Let me know down in the comment section down below definitely fun to have it and And You know rocket the game sounds and looks stunning. I Getting a little slides there. It looks and sounds stunning and it's just a blast to play I've always loved need to be game. So impressions on it. It looks amazing and it's definitely a fun game We're gonna get pegged by a cop. Oh, no, he went the other way. We're good We're definitely dumbing these guys here in the race. They changed my origin account I don't want to be evil rabbit 2007. That's out. That is like my original gamer tag So we took the win on there. That was a simple win That was a simple way to finish first in this first night race here We did get a little bit of damage, but not enough that's gonna cause some issues So let's see what other races. Oh, we got one right there. We're just gonna have this racer up here. Oh We can't go this way darn it. We're gonna have to drift up So if you guys are playing need for speed, let me know down in the comments what you guys think about it Do you like it? Do you dislike it? I feel like they've definitely done a lot of good work with it based on the other ones It's a lot more fun on a controller than a keyboard for sure But I definitely want to see if I can get the wheels running and stuff like that So we're gonna be rocking a second race here at night We're gonna try to do as much as we can but out getting you know tags by the cops because that would be definitely not a fun time Got my dog whining in the background. Apparently she wants a treat. All right second race Here in the Saladin at night on the first episode here on the channel I can say you guys want to keep seeing this let me know down in the comments set a course and stuff like that Is also gonna be on the channel as always with the new PC Just sliding into first like that I feel like this car is a little bit more powered than it needs to be for these races But you know what I'd rather have more power Quick break quick double traffic accelerator get the things sideways. We're gonna drift this corner. Oh, maybe not Running the curbs when I probably should be stay away from them So if only actually been in like one police chase and that was in the beginning of the game I've never actually had to deal with the cops in my own cars So I say that now and I'm probably gonna get a Pegs by one in this episode So as for like I said the sounds of being able to tune the exhaust sounds amazing being able to change how the exhaust sounds and How much crackle how aggressive it is is definitely a fun thing and they've done like I said a lot of good work So my impressions of the game. It's visually and fun to play It's one of those nice throwback games where you can just throw it on Play it have some fun go online play with your friends drive around cruises streets and up. No as I say that There's all the cops. Oh Man, all right. Well, this night may end sooner than I thought Chased by two cops in the one. Oh boy.  He's all that's where all the cops came from He pulled them all it looks like Get wrecked out. Oh Now now we get a lot of damage starting on this car because that cop decided to bash the Back end of our car The damage looks pretty cool in this game. Oh, that's car Now I got to try and skate got shattered with a window and just dumbied my car completely I feel so bad. It was actually my car I think we are we did we did get away, but we're gonna be turning back into their Into their path. Oh, we escaped. All right, sweet So maybe we can finish this race and get straight to a safe house and end the night So we don't have the cops on us. That'd be a great thing. I feel like we're gonna get tags For this race is over Maybe nope there it is I knew it. I knew we'd get tagged. So now we got a oh Server your connects to a shutting down, huh? Okay Cops are over there. So we're gonna quickly e-brake flick this and go the other way get away from the cops and Head our way to a safe house and hopefully knock it Dummy by cops Or didn't think we were gonna make that I got to find a safe house though. I don't know we're sitting don't hold water Oh, Jesus, I don't know where safe houses right there Flipping e-brake around it gets a safe house to end this episode or end this night for that matter Oh, man, there's cops everywhere We're gonna eat hip-hop beforehand Had a little glitch in my record. Oh, maybe we'll get there before Boy, there he is turn in okay All right, and her garage and the night off. Whoo. So we ended up it's not getting busted So upgrade new car unlocked civic type R Rx7 and a Lotus. All right. So we got some new cars a dealership. We didn't get too much money from racing at night But we did get red oh More parts. I'm okay with this. We're gonna have to go to the day and get some more parts street art graffiti Okay, we're locking a lot of stuff. So Like I said, the exhaust sound is probably one of my favorite things Being able to tune it and the stands and everything on those lines. So I think we may do One more race for this episode during the day and see if we can't get some bank So we can start building this car up more or maybe buy another car Because we do have a couple cars that we were given for having the game early access which I never played too much before Access so let's see what We got here on our map to do race race race We got a little sprint race. So we're gonna go to that one and that will probably be the final Race for today's episode. So like I said, make sure you follow me on Instagram and Twitter I do appreciate all the support need for speed heat definitely a fun game And it's a very interesting game To play when you're used to a set-up at the moment, but it is a lot of fun Very arcade very need for speed Definitely want to get further in this game and continue to play so you guys want to keep seeing less plays maybe some long less plays Let me know down in the comments He said this like seven times about coming upon city and you know I do enjoy the city man. Jeez I want to go A to B. That's that's the point of this we're going A to B Yes, get out of my hair you gotta race Already scratched on the way there man Let's stick on the phone window. Definitely gotta start doing some liveries and stuff here in the game as well Once I get this car up to Full drift spec. I feel like this will be the drift car Once we get into drift events and stuff like that just need to give them a power and do drift tuning on it But I need to get myself a race car too Rather than using one of the cars that came with the early access So we're gonna see we can't dummy these guys here First try. Oh They're gonna dummy him that way I don't know how to race out. Excuse me, dude. He just cracked my window Man, that's expensive You know how expensive these hatches are and then I just take the car to the wall. So They're all the way back there We got two more laps to do. Oh We don't need those walls what just a wall tap all grazer. We're good Ripped probably the whole we would have ripped my over fenders everything off those Jersey barriers So I'm very curious what car you guys chose to start with did you get a different car? What car are you running? How far are you cuz like I'm not that far in the game right now? I'm you know just started playing it the other day so We're just trying to grind out and get more stuff and do as much as we can Like I said, you guys want to keep seeing me for speed keep on the channel with some less plays Let me know down in the comments That was a nice run that was a nice slide you got that slide done. I was a quick raise the final turn to go Go on the nitrous and we will take that win. Hopefully we took a decent amount of money for this race so That's good to hear for this episode first episode here on need for speed heat You guys want to keep seeing more, you know what to do as always. I like thank you guys for watching I'll be more avid. I'll see you guys on the track


Και έχουμε εδώ το Θεσσαλονίκη Νανοτεξνολογική Κομφρίνδση. Ε, my name is Argyris Lascarakis, I'm the head of the organic electronics group of the Nanotechnology Lab, LTFN. LTFN, what does it stand for? LTFN stands for Nanotechnology Lab. It's the laboratory for thin films, nanosystems and nanometrology. We have been established in the physics department of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki since 1991. And we are here after so many years creating cutting-level research on nanoscience, nanotechnology and organic electronics. So, and there's all these cool things we're going to check out. How's the conference so far? The conference was great. Actually, we had a lot of people participating, more than 200 people in the IS4E International Symbol of Flexible Organic Electronics. And we have more than 200 people from 30 countries presenting stuff related to organics and print electronics materials. What's your role in the conference? Actually, I'm one of the organizers and I'm responsible for the organization of the IS4E conference. So that's why we're right here in the center of the exhibition area, right here, the LTFN booth. So it's because a lot of things are happening around this, right? Yes, exactly. We are at the center of the exhibition. The exhibition is a part of the nanotechnology event. The whole event actually that is the umbrella of all the events that we have here in Thessaloniki. IS4E is one of the events. The other is the Nanoscience Nanotechnology Conference and we have also the exhibition plus the summer school that has more than 150 students from all over the world to read experts for Nanoscience Nanotechnology and Organic Electronics. It's like 8 days or 7 days or how long? It's a marathon actually. It's 7 days of conferences and summer schools. And there's still a couple days left? Yeah, yeah. We finished today the IS4E and tomorrow we have the last day of the Nanotechnology Conference and that's Saturday we have the final day of the IS4E summer school. And hi, so who are you? Hi, my name is Krios Kapnopoulos and I'm working as a researcher in the LTFN lab in the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. And I mostly work with pretty organic electronics. These are some very nice cool stuff that we can show you. This is a semi-transparent organic photovoltaic and this is like a common one but we have some new versions that could be let's say semi-transparent. And also to have some arbitrary shape patterning using laser. And you can have different kind of shapes, different kind of sizes or different kind of colors. Even this is blue, this is green or this is gray. So there's a whole variety of colors or shapes or designs regarding the application that is needed for. So it could go anywhere? On textiles, windows, umbrellas, for sunsets, cars, buildings, greenhouses, your textiles everywhere. There for example there's like a police uniform? Exactly, this is a model of a police uniform in which you have a photovoltaics printed on the backside. So the policeman can charge his radio or his mobile phone. And also this one is a model of the partner who has organic photovoltaics for charging your cell phone or your laptop. Most of the devices are made in this kind of roll-to-roll pilot line that is established in our lab. And we do the video there, right? Yeah, and we have a lot of printing and patterning techniques also quality control. So we have insect printing in the lab. We have slot eye coating, gravity printing, inline laser patterning or quality control using reflectometry, ellipsometry, Rama spectroscopy for the luminescence, eddy current measurements and so on. So you here see how it's a production of these kind of devices and also we have the ability to use some RFIDs or any kind of printing electronics actually can be made in a roll-to-roll line. Okay, so this is an ultra-high vacuum-saber. This is one of the first infrastructures that we have in our technology lab. And this equipment is used for creating innovative thin films, ultra-hard coatings or optical coatings that we can use in a variety of applications. Actually, this is a state-of-the-art system, but we have started from this technology since 2025 years ago. Nice. And we go around here. So this is the second pilot line that we have in the lab. So this is a seat-to-seat pilot line. It's consisting of several gloveboxes in the line. And here we have the ability to produce in mean atmosphere samples up to A4 size. And this is a third pilot line actually, which is an organic vapor-faced position line. It's made for 20x20 glasses and this is made mostly for OLEDs but also for organic photovoltaics. And finally, this is a CVD. A pilot line that has the ability to produce a single-layer or multi-layer graphene on X-6-ing's wave-face. Nice. And if you go back over here one second, you have a bio-printer right here. Yes, this is a unique bio-printer system. With this printer, we can print constructs from which we can start doing experiments with biomaterials. And the target is to create novel biomaterials that we can use for treatment of several issues related to human health. And this unique system gives us the opportunity to create such kind of unique constructs, for example, for ear implants or for the eye or for the makeups. Nice. So it goes from solar technology to ion and nanobio? None of the technology covers all. It covers all disciplines and all applications. And what do you talk about on this one? Yeah. So if you go here, around... one of the many strengths of the nanotechnology lab is optical technology and optical metrology. And here you can see the implementation of optical techniques on production systems for the fabrication of organic and pre-electronics. So as you can see, we have installed optical probes directly in the production line. So during the printing of nanomaterials, we can check in real time the thickness and the optical properties of very thin layers in the order of nanometers over several meters area. In this way we can optimize the process and we can develop nanomaterials and devices which have properties that can be used for commercial applications. And this is the smart line project as factories of the future. We build the factory of the future. This is a European project funded by EU from which we will develop this innovative novel tools for optimization of manufacturing processes. And here we have the CORNE project. What is the open innovation environment? Open innovation environment. This project will connect academic research and industrial editors from all around Europe in order to create an open innovation environment. In this way this partners will exchange information about basic properties of materials by modeling and characterization methods in order to develop novel nanomaterials and devices for organic and create electronics. And actually this builds a community with experts in order to bring them all in contact and create all these innovations in order to transform our future life. And this is an open innovation environment, 11 partners from 6 EU countries. Yes, of course everybody is welcome to participate to the CORNE open innovation environment and access this unique data and materials for organic and electronic devices. Switzerland, Italy, Germany, UK, France, Greece. All right. And over there you are talking about the DIH, Digital Innovation Hub. So what is this about? So now Technology Lab LTFN is a member of the Digital Innovation Hub in Europe that means that we are a center, a hub with several pilot lines and infrastructures that are available to everybody who is interested to perform high-level research or to solve some industrial problems. So for example we can contact us, we can discuss and we can help you solve your problems related to research, technology, industry and materials fabrication by using our facilities and our network of stakeholders. Nice. So there's a lot of collaborations happening here. Yes, exactly. This is the same. This shows some of our facilities and our devices which can be used for services to external entities. So if we sit down here for another second, so what would you say has really happened in this conference? 16 years, a long time it's been happening. There's a lot of smart people that come to this conference, right? From lots of different places and they have lots of networking. What's going to happen now? So every year we see a similar story. People from all around the world gather to the same place in order to exchange ideas about promoting and developing organic, electronic materials and devices. So the technology and the science grew over the last 60 years and together with this growth and have seen several innovations in materials such as two-dimensional materials, nanomaterials, nanoparticles, organic electronic devices of inverted architectures and tandem structures. This time in this IS4A19 and also in the nanotechnology we saw several innovative pieces from people that presented also for perovskite photovoltaics. All of these would be adapted to everyday life in a few years. And all these innovations you can also implement in your labs, right? Of course, of course. So it's all about international collaboration kind of? Exactly. We want to promote international collaboration and our nanotechnology lab is also a hub for connecting people from all around the world. In nanotechnology every year brings together more than 1000 people all together to create this hub and this forum for discussion and exchange of ideas. So the status of the system that you had last year you had the world record on this kind of silver? Yes, actually together with our spin-off company Organic Electronic Technology we were able to hit more than 7.4% for single junction organic photovoltaics which looks like this? Something like that but smaller one, yes. Of course on one square centimeter active area this is much, much bigger. So the efficiency of this kind of this size of device is around about 5.5% nearly. How much do you say? But also we have this one which is very transparent you can see through this and this is mainly used for BIPVs building and integrating in order to use any buildings so we can produce power but also in the same time to absorb a part of the light in order to do some stage or during the hot days like we have here in Greece. But some of the innovation some people talking about 16.8% something like that all these innovations, the new materials you can also integrate? Yes, of course it takes some time because all these high performances are achieved with novellas and materials that can be produced only in very, very small quantities. In order to transfer all these innovations to large scale processes you need first to upscale the materials which takes time. Of course our expertise and our facilities our people are ready to proceed with this transfer but of course this takes time. And what do you think is the future for nanotechnology? Is it going to be solving everything or what's it going to be? I think nanotechnology will provide a revolution to our everyday life and it will change the way that we interact with each other and with the environment. Nature works with nanotechnology with a bottom up approach and this is how we are going to do science from now on.


It's no wonder Crooked Joe Biden and the far-left lunatics are desperate to stop us by any means necessary there, willing to violate the U.S. Constitution at levels never seen before in order to win this election. Joe Biden is a threat to democracy. It's a threat. They're weaponizing law enforcement for high-level election interference because we're beating them so badly in the polls. We will restore law and order to our communities, and I will direct a completely overhauled DOJ to investigate every radical out-of-control prosecutor of which we have many. In America, I have a guy named Deranged Jack Smith. He's a deranged person. He happens to be after me. It's crazy what's going on. They're ruining our country, and it's true. They're destroying the blood of our country. That's what they're doing. They're destroying our country. They don't like it when I said that, and I never read Mein Kampf. They said, oh, Hitler said that in a much different way. No, they're coming from all over the world, people all over the world. We have no idea. They could be healthy. They could be very unhealthy. They could bring in disease that's going to catch on in our country, but they do bring in crime. We're just 27 days away from Iowa's first in the nation. Thank you very much, President Trump. Because you're first in the nation because I said you were first in the nation. It's very simple. And the caucuses are a big deal on Monday, January 15th. We're going to win the Iowa caucuses, and then we're going to crush Crooked Joe Biden next November. And we're going to very simply make America great again. Thank you. Thank you, Ambassador. If you don't get out and vote, we can put this to bed after Iowa, if you want to know the truth. We can put it to bed for them too. They can go home and forget it. But you have to go out. Don't sit home and say, you know, I think we'll take it easy, darling. It's a wonderful day. Beautiful. Let's just take it easy, watch television, and watch the results now because crazy things can happen. You got to get out. This is really important. Our country is at stake. We have a country that's never been in trouble like it is right now. We'll get out and vote, whether we're leading in the polls or not leading in the polls, and in this case, we're leading by 30 to 40 points, I guess. But we got to win. Maybe we can win by more than that. Thank you very much.


Hello and welcome to the Grand Line review your source for everything one piece and today for the double fruit encyclopedia It's time to dive into the worst generation once again in order to examine the ever-sturdy shiro shiro no me The shiro shiro no me is a paramecia type fruit that allows its user to transform into a living fortress thus making the user some form Of castle human and if that sounds bizarre Well, that's because it is but it's an incredibly cool and unique fruit with a ton of potential and in the series It is wielded by mafia don turned pirate turned family man Capone gang beige and it made its first appearance during the sabotee arc very simple etymology for this bad boy here as shiro Can be read in Japanese as castle and if you're a seasoned anime veteran You'll also probably know that shiro in another reading can mean white as in shiro hege or white beard for example Which is somewhat important because white does play into one particular ability concerning the fruit But for now let's focus on the castle portion and speaking of for the English translation It's a straightforward affair with both viz and funimation electing to call it the castle castle fruit now Let's talk about the whole living fortress business and well The effect is quite literal upon consuming this fruit The user's body will become a glorious stronghold equipped with a wide variety of openings such as draw bridges poor Colossus and even cannon ports And of course within the user a grand castle interior now exists with everything one could dream of including of course its own Banquet Hall the big thing is though the user stays exactly the same size as they were prior to consumption of the fruit meaning that we Need to invoke some shenanigan re in order to make use of this new fortress body in any way and luckily the shiro shiro To me comes with exactly that as if any being or object enters a certain vicinity of the user It shrinks them to a teeny tiny size able to explore and make use of the vast Castley goodness so all of a sudden things have gotten pretty interesting because this fruit allows for manipulation of matter which opens up a Whole new world of possibilities Particularly in the area of storage and transportation and we've seen devil fruits with this type of ability before and we will again such As the army army no me or the new manuma no me however the shiro shiro no me is the first paramesia within the series It has demonstrated the power to craft a space within the user's body for storage So this fruit would be quite revolutionary in the real world allowing its user to have an automatic career as a transport specialist Able to efficiently move incredible quantities of product with something as simple as an economy class plane ticket Although within the one-piece world It's arguably even more useful due to the lack of viable transportation options especially within the grand line I mean could you imagine trying to move say an entire castles worth of food on a ship throughout the new world? It would be a pretty damn risky trip would put that food within the user of the shiro shiro no me And now all we need to do is make sure that that one person reaches their destination safely Basically, it's an incredible logistic convenience Although there is one difference between this fruit and its whole gear counterparts which were previously mentioned and that is that They possess a seemingly infinite level of storage whilst there is a definite limit to the shiro shiro no me Which is the floor space of the castle though interestingly enough that may actually differ depending on the user For example in the series Capone gang beige is rather stout man with a proud horizontal expanse Which may actually mean that his internal castle would be a lot bigger than if say Luffy consume the fruit in which case the shiro shiro no Me would become more ideal for use with larger individuals Which can range from you know carrying a few extra kilos all the way up to simply being a giant Although it is also entirely possible that regardless of the user size They will end up with a castle of the same space through whatever double fruit sorcery is invoked to make this possible in the first place Speaking of the weirdness does not end here as the user also becomes capable of crafting a miniature version of themselves within their castle body Out of well to be honest. I have no idea, but it is some sort of miscellaneous fluid Whatever the case in a very trippy manner This allows the user to walk and talk within their own body while simultaneously still being able to interact with the outside world Which I imagine requires a fair amount of concentration and general mental finesse pull off successfully and for more and that That's quite literally jump into the user of the fruit Capone gang beige Now as a mafia don style leader with an extensive family slash army who enjoy underhanded tactics This fruit is pretty much a perfect match being able to conceal essentially anything within himself Bache is the ultimate vehicle for surprise and ambush style attacks Which also happens to favor his violent and chaotic personality and having instant access to anything within him be it an entire army or Incredible firepower also allows beige to operate at a level far beyond his natural abilities because when compared to much of the worst Generation beige isn't particularly powerful or faster You know anything along those lines, but what he has going for him is his pure intelligence and incredible strategic use of the shura shura No me which makes up for his lack of physical prowess For example should beige become surrounded by an entire squad of Marines Well, he's pretty incapable of dealing with that all on his lonesome However with an entire castle's worth of cannons and soldiers to man them then all of a sudden beige becomes a Glorious battleship and is swiftly able to dispatch large quantities of opponents However, this is not to say that beige is completely incapable of acting on his own because there is one Incredible ability of the shura shura no me that we have yet to examine known as big father As opposed to everything we've spoken about so far This allows beige to grow to the size of his fortress in reality becoming an incredible hulking mass of pure power Ready to wreck quite a few faces and to put the defense of big father into the spotlight for a second It should be said that not only is this fortress immune from all general forms of cannon fire But it was also able to hold off attacks from one of the four Emperors in this case big mom for a short time Which even if it was only briefly is still amazing and should not be underestimated furthermore They have a crafty base has even figured out how to use the shura shura To meet his advantage for simple transport with his castle tank ability whereby he manifests threads around his leg region That allow him to move at high speeds and now for the ever-anticipated speculation of awakenings and with this fruit I have to say that it's entirely possible. We've already seen its results in the big father transformation I say this because from the minuscule amount We know of paramesia awakenings they tend to flip the core abilities of the devil fruit on its head For example going from being able to conjure something from your body to being able to conjure it from your environment So in the case of the shura shura me its most basic abilities have to do with shrinking things for use within your miniature castle So a natural awakening to me would be the power to flip that and expand your body instead However should big father still be a basic ability of the fruit then we may have some crazy things to think about Such as the idea of the user being able to create miniature strongholds and other objects outside of their own body Or perhaps even being able to absorb parts of their environment into their castle dimension Some other miscellaneous things to consider when becoming a castle human one large weakness that exists particularly for those stationed within the user Is the idea of any kind of smoke inhalation as whatever the user breeds in will be spread throughout the stronghold interior Now unfortunately for the fire tank pirates base just happens to be a heavy smoker So this happens frequently however it could be far more troublesome if the user were to encounter a chemical based weapon However the shura shura me also presents some nice potential in that it is capable of making your enemy smaller And it is even possible to trap them within your castle self Which would be a fairly devastating outcome for many rookie or intermediate combatants Particularly because within their castle the user was able to manipulate its environment to craft various weapons and traps But what we have here is an incredibly useful fruit It has a strong degree of utility simply through being granted space and space is such a wonderful thing What you do with it really is up to the creativity and practical nature of the user But there is no doubt in my mind that any person who ate this fruit would benefit from it to some degree As for what that is well, it's up to them But it's not a power that serves a specific purpose Like say the bomb and bomb on me, which you can't really do a whole lot with except destroy stuff So in the end it is a splendid fruit with a ton of potential and highly recommended And with that we are going to commit the shura shura no me to the devil fruit encyclopedia And just a note on the devil fruit encyclopedia going forward There are going to be quite a few fruits that appear during sabotearch that I will not be covering immediately Pretty much all of which belong to members of the worst generation This is because many of them are unnamed and those that are have yet to display their true potential So I feel like covering them in the encyclopedia won't really be doing them justice in any way And I've chosen to wait until we've experienced the true breadth of those devil fruits before I submit them As a result next week, we will be jumping straight into amazon lily in order to examine the devil fruit held by the pirate empress Boa Hancock known as the meromero no me If you enjoyed this video and the content this channel produced in general Then please do consider donating to the grand line review patreon because the support of all of your amazing people Is what continues to make this channel possible And if you'd like to see more videos like this but applied to other anime manga series Then please do check out my second channel new world review for all of your wider needs And if you'd like to join the fun at any time then please do head over to my discord server Where a wide array of shenanigan retakes place on a daily basis and finally Please do comment with your thoughts on the shura shura no me. This has been the ground line review and I'll see you next time Also just a little fun fact here. Capone gang base just happens to casually possess all of the infinity stones And appears to be able to wield them without a gauntlet like the stout boss he is


Navratri. Happy Navratri, everybody.  I'm Corbin. I'm Rick. And you can follow us on Instagram and Twitter from all Tuesday content. And, uh, thank you also to Patreon and follow us on official Twitter account. And, uh, the celebration started yesterday. It's true. But the, uh, this, it's not Durgaputra. Durgaputra is specific to Calcutta. And then, but if they take place at the same time, this is, um, I forget what part of India this is from, but this is their celebration of it. Yes. Which I actually think they're linked because Durgaputra officially begins October 4th. Yeah. But there's a pre thing that starts. Well, I know that. I know they're kind of linked, but they're not the same. No, they're not the same. I was told at the beginning of the, like I was told specifically that these two are not the same thing. No, they're not. So Durgaputra and that one. So this one we're reacting to is, um, say it for me again. So don't mispronounce it. Navratri. Navratri. Yes. Um, and so we're going to do a little video on this. Um, cool.  So this is not something I just picked out of random. Good. Here we go. This should give us a little... Yeah, because that didn't teach us a thing about the festival. It was pretty, but obviously it didn't. And I, we still don't really know what's going on. I was thinking about this happens at the same time as the beginning of what's going on in Calcutta, which is Malalia. Malalia starts the beginning of the festival season leading up to Durgapuja, which is your starts October 4th for all of you Bengali brothers and sisters. And that's what I was, I was thinking about that when we were looking at the name and got confused between the two. So forgive me. They're done the exact thing. At the same time. At the same time. They're different. Correct. Totally different. Totally different cities and totally different festivals. Yeah. Related to what's going on. Because in Calcutta it's for the mother goddess, which is depicted actually a khani that has done the end of khani. She's the mother goddess with the eight arms is being walked down the streets. And that's what's coming up. So there. This is a long description there, everybody. You better grab a fresh cup of chai. Garba is a form of dance, which originated in the state of Gujarat in India. The name is derived from the Sanskrit term garba, womb. Many traditional garbas are performed around a central image or statue of the goddess Durga, also called amba, or a clay lantern with a light inside called a garbadeep, womb lamp. Traditionally it's performed during the nine day Hindu festival of Navarati, nava, nine, ratnahtri, meaning knights. The dancers honor amba, the feminine form of divinity. The traditional clothing for men is the kiryu, while the traditional clothing for women is beautiful. Beautiful. Is the chani achori. Garba is performed in a circle as a symbol of the Hindu view of time. Cool. The rings of dancers revolve in circles as time in Hinduism is cyclical. As the cycle of time revolves from birth to life to death, and again to rebirth, the only thing that is constant is the goddess, that one unmoving symbol in the midst of all of this unending and infinite movement. The dance symbolizes that goddess is the only thing that remains unchanging in a constantly changing universe to God. Got it. Cool. Yeah. That is... So yeah, that makes a lot more sense. I probably should have read that before. But you know...   Obviously we don't know what we're seeing until we see it. Yeah, but it was really pretty. Obviously it just didn't give us what they're doing a why. Yeah, right. That did in the description. But obviously some other ones that we've shown kind of explain almost in the video. Yeah, I learned more about the United Way than I did actually in the festival in the video. I thought that they're involved in making things. If this is not a great video to explain the festival, I'm sorry. I didn't pick it. I just...  But it was really pretty. No doubt. Yeah, it looked fun and outlawful it is. From what I hear on Twitter is that like people say like for nine days they just dance. Dang. Constantly. Like non-stop, like a dance-a-thon? Yeah. Something like that. We've got those, you know, dance-a-thons. You could see it, especially back in the 1950s and 60s, it was like this big deal. And Israeli dancing. Ashley and Harrell have done that.  Like you don't sleep, you just dance. I like that. Dancing is a lot bigger in a lot of other cultures. Like in terms of like... Hardcore dancing. Community dancing. Community dancing, yeah. Community coming together and doing dancing. We have nothing here in the United States other than Friday nights at a club. Or literal like festivals. Or weddings. Weddings would be really the only cultural thing where we have collective dancing as a community. Yeah. That I can think of. And then like those big old festivals, like what are they called? Running Man or Burning Man and all those kind of things. Yeah. Those kind of stuff. Right. But those are like specific for music people. I've got to say, we really don't have a lot of culture and art involved in our holidays. Yeah. We really don't. I mean, we've got fireworks on the 4th of July, which are always fun and beautiful. Well, it's a thing. A lot of other cultures, they have a lot of like, a lot of one type of either religion or obviously it's not India's state of a thousand religions. Right. But America, since it's such a melting pot, is not one that really dominates. True. The most dominant one obviously is Christmas. But that and that one for me is the most favorite in terms of its art expression, because that one has so many songs and music that is done. And there's so many things done expressively through light. Yeah. It's a really, and that's the largest one here, which you guys all know about that. But yeah, I agree with that. Halloween's huge. But again, there's no dancing in the ball. It's also not really a season. No. People will celebrate Christmas literally from Thanksgiving sometimes before all. All the way up to New Year's Day. New Year's Day. Halloween celebrated basically one day. But yeah, that's happy. What have you said again? I hope I'm not butchering it. I think it's Navarate. Happy Navarate. I'll look up to see if there's any festivals going on here in LA. I would love to. I would love to find out if there was that and particularly if there was coming out, if we could find a Bengali community that's celebrating Durga Pooja and doing it. I mean, they're not going to do it the way they do in Calcutta. I'd be astonished if they came even close to them. No, they would have to have pandals built and all this stuff. You bet I didn't know about that, did you?  Cool.


Hello, dear learner friends. Welcome to today's presentation. I am your English teacher, Dr. Pallavi Gugoy of Krishna-Kananda Handics Theatre Pen University, Guwahati. The title of my presentation for you is Appreciation of Poetry. This is for learners of semester two and four of BA English Program of the University. Now let's come to the content of the presentation. It is structured as follows, introduction, something about poetry, prescribed poems for BA English learners of semester two, prescribed poems for BA English learners of semester four, appreciating the prescribed poems, tips to study prescribed poems, conclusion followed by references. Now let me begin with a quotation by Khalil Gibran. Quote unquote, poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder with a dash of the dictionary. Another quote by Dylan Thomas. Quote unquote, poetry is what in a poem makes you laugh, cry, prickle, be silent, makes your toenails twinkle, makes you want to do this or that or nothing, makes you know that you are alone in the unknown world, that your bliss and suffering is forever shared and forever all your own. Let us come to the introduction now, poetry. Poetry is a creative expression that both enraptures and captures the human heart. The sheer beauty and power of poetry makes it one of the richest forms of literary and creative expression. There's certainly something about poetry that makes it so special. In fact, there are various elements and aspects of poetry that makes it a literary tradition of its own. Have you ever pondered or come across this thought that poetry can be so engaging and soul-staring? Or do you find it difficult to comprehend or make sense of poetry? Have you tried and felt it is certainly not your cup of tea? Well, it is too early to tell, at least without trying a little bit harder. And with a little more focus, you can do wonders. Only when we try to delve into the core or depths of poetry, deciphering or unraveling its meanings, can we relate to it better and thereby appreciate it all the more, which is the central purpose of this particular presentation. The presentation titled Appreciation of Poetry intends to encourage all learners, whether avid poetry readers or writers or even those who struggle with a literary form, to study and appreciate poetry with a fresh perspective and develop a keen interest. After all, poetry opens up a new world of meaning to us and the treasures of poetry is all ours to explore. Poetry. Poetry encompasses a range of human experiences and provides glimpses of the world around us, thereby opening up a plethora of meanings and fresh perspectives on the wonders and mysteries of life. Poetry means different things to different people. It may mean the pouring of one's feelings, expression of one's thoughts, creative scribblings of one's immediate observations, a way of reflection, narration, a way of protest even, and certainly a way of reaching out through the power of articulation. Poetry is that inner voice that none can suppress. It always finds a way to flow like a river flowing to the seas to finally meet the oceans. Poetry is often thought to romanticize reality, but it is not necessarily so for the treasures of poetry or even literature is so much more than that. Even on the most saddest or glumiest of days or the most joyful of experiences, poetry has a power to add or rather sprinkle a sense of wonder and meaning to our everyday experiences. Poetry makes us thoughtful, steals our sensibilities, sharpens our thoughts, enriches our perspectives and enlivens us to everything around us. Poetry is even therapeutic or in other words has the power to heal. Now coming to our prescribed points for BA English learners of semester two, here in front of you you can see what is prescribed for elective English. The first table is of block one and the second table is of block two. Similarly, the prescribed points for BA English learners of semester four are listed as follows. English major, English poetry from medieval to modern, that's the name of the paper and the first list is of block one, the units in block one and the second list is of units in block two. Appreciating the prescribed poems. One, to begin with the reason we delve into the life and works of a poet or poetess is to familiarize ourselves with the glimpse of his or her life journey and wild experiences as they tend to leave certain traces on influences on his or her literary work or writings. Two, the reason we try to figure out in which century a poet or poetess wrote is to gain a better insight into or rather a better understanding of the context and background of a poem or the background in which a poem was originally written. In terms of thematic content, poetry can capture anything unless on. In fact, it does cover multiple aspects of human lives, experiences, emotions and concerns of the surrounding world. Four, poems are saturated or filled with deeper or even symbolic meanings and are always open to new interpretations. It is not confined to just one particular perspective or way of interpretation. Five, there are various political styles, genres and literary devices that are used in writing poems. Poems can be written or penned in free verse or even in the lyrical form with certain musical or rhythmic quality. For a moment of thought, what are songs but poems set to tones and rhythms of music? Coming to your tips to study prescribed poems? First, do read all the poems in your self-learning material one by one simply for the joy of reading and gaining a vague idea of what each poem tries to convey or express. Write down your first impressions of the poems or initial responses after reading only the text of poems. In a step-by-step approach, do pick up the first block of the poetry paper to study the units in a systematic order. Then move on to the second block of the poetry paper in the same way. Try and recall about the life and literary journey of each poet as if you were simply making a new friend whom you would gradually get to know better. Now you will do well to read and reread the given summary or explanation of the prescribed poems of each unit. Try to figure out the main thematic concerns that are reflected in the poems. You may come up with your own additional thoughts on the same. Reread the poems and then try to match it with the descriptions provided in the Style and Language section of each unit. Check out the questions provided in and at the end of each unit and see if you can answer them in your own words. Notemaking and even highlighting important portions of each unit shall help you to prepare well for your examination as well. Also refer to the glossary or a dictionary at all times. In conclusion, I would say the representative poems that are prescribed in your syllabus for BA English Semester II and IV are also some of the widely anthologized poems and some of the most freedom friendly poems. Do make it a point to read the text or rather the lines and stanzas of the poem and all the given explanations in the self-learning materials which will guide your way. Poetry gives one the scope to try and decipher the meanings at its core. Every poem has a message. Try and capture that in your own words too. Meanings in a poem are not always apparent or evident on the surface level and requires informed readings and original as well as justified interpretations. Thus, both the appreciation and interpretation of poems are important for it can add a new dimension, new perspective or approach, a new dash of meaning and provide a whole new insight. Try to relate what a poem tries to convey or express and create a mental picture of the descriptions, explanations in your imagination. You may access good reference books, articles and web sources judiciously, but at the end of the day, this should only supplement your reading. You must spend down your own spontaneous and genuine thoughts, feelings and impressions from your own complete readings of all the units. This will help you to find a sense of clarity in your understanding of each poetry unit. Here are the references of their self-learning materials. These are also available in their electronic form as ESLM. You can just go to our website and find it available there. The significance and relevance of poetry cannot be denied. It is an interesting way to engage in unraveling the symbolic meanings of poems. The poetic vision of poets and thoughtful reflections that stirs our emotions, conscience and consciousness. It makes us realize that we are all bound by both the common aspects or other commonalities and the differences of human experiences. We may just about appreciate the thoughtfulness and remarkable dexterity with which poets of all ages have captured the entire world in capsules of poems and the beauty of measured words. Give poetry a chance to cultivate a love and appreciation for poetry. Always. Thank you.


Alrighty, so if you're starting this video probably already know what my review of steel curtain has been So steel curtain on my top 10 new for 2019 roller coasters in North America Has been max force max force was my number one Followed by steel curtain and number two and I always did say they were very interchangeable So we've learned quite a bit more about steel curtain. In fact, I don't even think we really learned more I think our eyes were just somewhat opened up I feel like a lot of enthusiasts kind of knew some of these facts already and then some you know us less Enthusiasts like less hardcore enthusiasts didn't really know all the details. So I definitely for some reason I don't know why did not know it didn't it didn't have over the shoulder restraints The train design by the way is absolutely stunning. I know a lot of people hate it, but I love it I'm not a football fan at all, but I absolutely love this train design. I don't know what it is I love the football seats. I love the black on yellow. In fact, everything about steel curtain has extremely grown on me. So Steel curtain features lap bars I feel like a lot of you already knew that and maybe a lot of you on my channel including myself did not know that So I'm here to tell you that my new number one for 2019 is steel curtain. I am so excited for steel curtain. It looks absolutely amazing The color scheme has grown on me. I don't know when or why but it has absolutely grown on me I actually really like it especially seeing the support structure going up in person. It's a lot darker and more It's got more of a shine to it than the POV kind of makes it look so it actually will stand out more And it doesn't look as dull So I'm super pleased with that and I mean this thing is going to be impressive Imagine going through all these inversions airtime hills that height the deacouts The close calls with all the support beams and the support structures with a lap bar. Okay, this thing is going to be Impressive this thing's going to be Amazing and I'm not even trying to hype this up. Okay. I'm so excited. I now This is I get I just said this is my new number one max horse is still up there And again, these are very interchangeable rides But I have to give it to steel curtain now just because it's got kind of you know Similar kind of aspects to max force again, you guys are probably like well max force is a launch steel curtain is a lift hill I know that but I'm talking about in terms of like, you know, the tight turns the inversions at high speeds That they're very similar. So I have to give it to steel curtain now. It's a longer ride. It looks Really unique. So I'm gonna have to say steel curtain is my new number one max source is going to be my number two But I'm still really excited for both those rides those rides definitely come above anything else including you con striker even though I love you con striker and it's definitely going to be one of my favorite rides I'm just that I hold close to my heart Just because it was kind of the birth of the channel but I'm definitely looking forward to steel curtain and max force more and I'm so excited. What do you guys think of steel curtain in that new flyover POV and The train design I want to hear from you down below comment down below what you guys think Where does steel curtain rank on your list now with a few of these details kind of coming forward again? I know some you probably already knew the lap bars thing and I think a lot of you know that watch my channel I'm not like one of those enthusiasts that count credits and know all the details about things and I've never pretended to know that I've been very honest to my videos that I'm I'm learning still But I definitely love roller coasters, and I love theme parks. They're my Favorite thing in the world, but I'm definitely not one of those people that are like you asked me a question about a roller coaster somewhere in China And I know it so I'm still learning And I have a lot to learn and I'm excited to learn and I'm excited to travel next year in 2019 And this is definitely one of those parks that I hit up and I'm super excited to hit up Anyways, hope you guys really enjoyed this video. I wanted to update you guys on my thoughts on Steel curtain and how I feel about the color scheme now and the train design now and the name and everything I actually really like it and I'm liking that parks are actually reaching out And co-branding with brands out there It actually makes coasters like this more affordable for smaller parks And then it makes bigger parks be able to afford much larger attractions than they currently can Anyways, comment down below your thoughts. Thanks for watching guys Hit that like button subscribe if you haven't and share this video for others to enjoy. Have a good one guys. Bye