So I guess first sort of business is to approve the meeting minutes from October 14th. I know I just sent that out to you guys only a few hours ago, but there's definitely a chance to review that taking place in formal meeting minutes. Okay. Yeah, before we get that to you, I think that an hour and a half ago. Yeah, guys, I thought I was coming in. Give it a hand. Yeah. Yeah, that's fine. So today, well, not everyone has kind of made it through. There's a lot of topics just at the meeting. So I just blew through all of the sustainability issues. So congratulations to all of us on that. So today, we're talking about social equity, trying to keep a focus on kind of the theme of the sustainability, even though social equity kind of, you know, crosses all the spectrum of our state. Oh, sorry. Also, by the way, on the call, we have Kyle Harris on the TV, Stephanie Smith, Billy Costner, Jacob Hollister, Gina Kramingel, and Jeffrey Gallows from the from any TV and the many and then joining us as a topical expert community member is Ram. I am not going to try to pronounce your last name, but with the world for a month.  So, you know, open open forum on this. I guess a star and Gina, how correct you wrong, but you guys have now agreed upon the definition of social equity, which includes BIPOC, though, black indigenous people of color and disproportionately impacted by probation. And did you guys put in a poverty or sort of economically disadvantaged possible? No, we put it in as someone who was incarcerated or, you know, was arrested due to the war on drugs or their family number. Okay. Yeah. And I think just just adding quickly to Gina's comments, you know, there was a proposal or discussion on including folks that live in opportunity zones. Economic opportunity zones in the state of Vermont to be eligible for social equity applicant license and the board just felt based on where those zones are in Vermont that they could invite some folks to take advantage of the program that otherwise should be directed towards the traditional application process. And so we felt that we could really work with low income poverty folks in different ways to kind of make accommodations and other parts of our program. So that was a decision that the board did make. And I just want to add just one more thing I think is good, a bit of table setting for this conversation. And I've said time and time again to this committee that we can't, we're tasked with doing a lot to help small cultivators accept the one place that we can't make any exceptions for small cultivators is in the environmental context. That being said, that language isn't the same as it relates to social equity. And so how in the environmental context for social equity applicants, how can we do more than just wait fees by providing business and technical assistance? I saw some of your agenda, Jacob like accelerator programs, other type of thoughts and ideas that we can help folks from an environmental justice perspective. I think it's really important and I'm glad that we're talking about it here today. Thank you.  I think that I'm keeping that in mind. So I guess getting right into it. I was thinking like technical supporting guidance. So how does that kind of thing about this and reviewing, you know, what's out there on social equity and you know, what I've seen in the industry is, you know, specifically from like, all the social advocacy applicants, I think there's going to be a lack of resources, a lack of institutional knowledge, potentially lack of cultivation knowledge. And so anything that the ACP can do to support getting them into the system. So like actually having real opportunity and then having real, you know, participation, I think it's going to be really important.  And then in specific states, I think it was like Illinois, and there's like the, I don't know how to put it right, but very few under a dozen, you know, applicants have actually gone through the process and been awarded a license. And so I think there's definitely a barrier just within navigating the system. So how to fill out the application, legal support, you know, what complicate it looks like as it's been out of this system for so long. I think, you know, that's kind of what I was wanting to explore with everyone on that. And then just kind of technical, you know, expertise on like whole patient and manufacturing. I'm realizing that they most likely haven't been doing that. And for the recently incarcerated or just incarcerated or, you know, the ones that act on the warren drugs, you know, that definitely affects employment.  So it is just a lack of knowledge. Um, yeah. So if anyone has any thoughts or anything to kind of add to that or get a little bit more granular. So Jacob, both are definitely things that were considered with the social equity subcommittee. And one of the major things that we thought that would be really creating hits for educational courses. I mean, we've already been in talks with cream flour. Um, as you know about the certificate courses that they have for cultivation, but also extraction.  Um, and I know that that is something that brings all the months in charge to make available for the state of Vermont. Great. Yeah, I know. I think, um, that's what I was thinking about with, like the workplace I've received support, like the traditional training. Um, and then, and then also doing co-ops, we're just focused about that, um, has been recommended to the subcommittee as well. So I didn't know what we'd be discussing today. Personally, yeah. And I wanted to explore the co-ops and how Vermont is kind of viewing that, um, uh, 70 Billy. I don't know if green flour is necessarily, so maybe it would be, you know, share a little information about them, but I also know that in the state of Vermont, um, we do have some educators that educate on cultivation. Um, they may be affiliated with, um, schools that otherwise might stay or may not be able to, um, provide educational courses specifically for the cultivation of hemp due to some, you know, restrictions, but, um, but I guess I, I wanted, you know, in addition to what resources may be available outside of the state, I also want to encourage you to be able to look at what resources are available within our state, um, so that, you know, we're growing organically using the people that currently reside here. And maybe, maybe they do, um, this, this organization. Um, who do you have expertise in this area? Quickly. Yeah. Just, uh, wait, sorry. No, Jacob, you're on, you're on the shelf. Sorry. Go ahead. No, wait, all right. I was just going to say, on, on that point of, um, how I use robots, um, is the agricultural extension services in, in Vermont and the master grower stuff to be able to, um, essentially take on some of this. So I, I, I'm not going to speak for museum extension, um, but, uh, and Heather Derby could certainly weigh in on the CCD can reach out directly to her. Um, but my understanding is they may not be able to provide classes and cultivation of cannabis specifically due to funding, um, courses. Uh, VGC has also offered, um, classes and cultivation. Um, Kyle's actually, uh, known, uh, has attended some of their sessions, uh, as well as I have relative to him specifically, but, um, but there are educators. So, uh, VGC is the other school that comes to mind. Um, and it's the new state school that, um. Yeah. Yeah. Very, very quickly because one of the first things I did when I took this job on was starting to reach out to our in-state business and technical assistance providers. So I've spoken to Heather, um, you know, nobody was exactly sure. And I got a follow-up as we move, you know, we pivot towards the program standing itself off to kind of gauge where people are. I think Intervail is another, um, service provider. I talked to them, um, and they felt that they could kind of compartmentalize their funding to be able to help, um, folks in this industry, which is very encouraging. Um, I haven't made contact with, um, and I see Graham's hands up and he's going to have a lot to say here because I know he knows all these folks as well. Um, I've spoken to VTC, they seem excited. Um, again, just need to, need to follow up. I have not reached out to the Vermont Housing and Conservation Board, um, because I feel and I've heard that their funding is so internally inclined to federal resources that it just might be futile, um, to figure it out. So, so we have made contact in the state, Jacob, to see what's here and Jean off to see what's here to help folks. Um, everybody's a little bit unsure that it's kind of uncharted waters. Um, but, um, you know, time's coming to kind of reach back out and see, see what else is, uh, see, see what progress folks have made. Just, um, um, Kyle, on the Vermont and Conservation Board, you know, they managed the Vermont Farm and Forest Fire Building Program. That would probably be the most relevant here, providing technical assistance, marketing and things like that to enterprises. I think a lot of that money does come from the state. I know they have some federal funds, but I think a reasonable part of their budget is state funds. Yeah, they may not be totally out of the picture. They have a, they have a state appropriation. It's just getting us lined up with their agenda and appropriation and making sure we can slide in without, you know, other funding that's already taken up that time. Um, also the Working Lands Enterprise Board who, you know, is a, is a joint venture between Forest Parks and Rec, ACCD, the Agency of Agriculture, um, on getting money and support to folks that, that are operating on the working lands. I think I used to help manage policy decisions at that board, my time at Ag, and we were working to get him into that, into that program. Um, and I know the director fairly well as the Stephanie. Um, so hopefully when the time comes, um, you know, we can work to to insert this program into there and get, get, uh, grants and forgivable loans to folks that want to make improvements, um, at their business. I know Graham probably has a lot to say and a lot of thoughts here, so I want to acknowledge his hand is up. Yeah, definitely. Graham, real quick, I just want to really, what was the name of that, uh, department? Uh, it's the Vermont Farm and Forest Buying Ability Program. That's part of the Vermont Housing and Conservation Board, uh, which Kyle has alluded to. Thank you. Uh, Graham, what are yours? Thanks all. Um, yeah, it's a few thoughts to share. I think, I think the director of the conversation that Kyle's pointing is important to me and our organization. You know, I think that there's, I think that there is a difference of expertise in our growing community, the breeding community, here in the state and the farming community. And I think we can draw from all those folks who are still keeping their heads down to be the experts to teach it. It's another opportunity for those folks to be, to be drawn into this, right, to be given opportunities to provide their technical support to other folks. And people are doing that, um, they're just doing it in different ways right now. So I think, especially when it comes to outreach cultivation, given the really unique climate of Vermont, those folks are really important to bring on board. Um, I can't speak to this, but Kyle and Stephanie and folks are getting used to it, but I think I'm really glad to hear that you've reached out to those folks. Kyle, um, you know, as a farmer who works with the intervail farm viability program, I think one of the ways they're a little different from Extension is in that they, you know, they're not just going to solve your problems or they're going to keep you up with people who can work on your problems with you. And that could be someone's going to help on you and your branding, someone's going to help in your business, someone's going to help you on your greenhouse cultivation, someone's helping on sourcing. So part of the work that's done with CCB for these are making a state for those experts to sort of show themselves to become more available to the community. That's something to think about. And just to back up for a minute, you're asking more broadly about some of the ideas around social equity and programs and such. You know, in our recommendations, we're going to go through them all right now, on the next phone, give them a huge big daughter. Um, but we get into um, we definitely get into a incubator type program as you mentioned. I do know that I think capital can actually might have a campus facilitation program in the south of the college to reach out to and Jeff would be the telemarker organization who's in touch with those folks and they might be worth reaching out to. But certainly, you know, incubator program um, we also talked about, you know, programs that have access, which is really critical. Um, you know, some of our programs are often broken up by communities. So you can put a lot of food included in social equity definition. And I think it might be worth spending some time including resources to, you know, how different people in the category are treated differently perhaps. Um, for example, we broke out, you know, a whole piece on specifically for eligible black individuals based on racial equity, you know, apart from the broader social equity category. So different communities have different needs and different histories that result in them getting stuff in that social equity program category. I think the last thing I would say in terms of, you think how the small farmers is where you aren't allowed to make differences from the environmental sustainability perspective. Yeah, let me clarify that, Graham. 164 says we can make special accommodations for those considered small cultivators. So the 1,000-square-foot indoor and outdoor cultivators. But the exception to that accommodation is that we cannot make special environmental sustainability considerations for that class of cultivators. So that's written in statute. Right. And, you know, and that's a how-called stated view, not in the view that's not your task, but I think that is a really erroneous idea and to include in that view, you know, we have scale-appropriate regulations all throughout agriculture. And, you know, whether it's, you know, with a requirement for a retail store where you're only selling your own product on your farm or just a retail store in the community, or, you know, whether it's the energy requirements for, you know, building, you know, when you're working with an agricultural structure or you're working with an agricultural structure, and I think it's really important to keep in mind the functionality of folks and how those situations really have different needs.  Well, Graham, I have a question for you. More like on the point of thinking like how you're, you know, a small farmer potentially coming into this industry and what concerns, hesitations, kind of do you have already without even knowing the layout as far as, like, application and client getting in an application that would be beneficial to have resources for? Yeah, I think that's a really great question. I totally neglected to mention part of that, but if you look at our recommendations that we submitted at the CDP we certainly have the type of legal support. I think the legal side of this is really unique, you know, clearly from other industries and it's a, even if you've negotiated starting your own business, selling applications in the past, there's so many aspects that I think are still unclear a lot of us and opposite the legal support in particular for communities who are economically disadvantaged who, you know, for racial equity purposes, et cetera are really important for all producers. I think about legal in particular, and I think the capital side would be really interesting depending on how easy it is to produce outside the whole process is, but, you know, as a farmer who's worked, talked with, you know, the Interval Extension, et cetera, we know that the developing community is a required agricultural practice of developing communities, we heard over and over again just that depending on the farmer you're talking about, like, they might not even know what that means, so, like, the real in-person support available to help support people through online processes or otherwise, you know, those processes, even if they seem simple to some folks, can be really challenging to others and we have our goal is you want to see where you can have farmers do a thing, as you're saying, Jake, of the particular positionality, even on the thing that a lot of farmers have in the country that's negative $1,400 national average income for farmers. If they wanted to add a small bit of consideration to their income on the side, you know, the ability for farmers to be able to negotiate the application process with legal size of it will be really important. I think it's a whole other thing to get to the black-owned business side of things. And for there, we need even more support. And Mark, Mark really emphasized that in our work, you can see that in our recommendations as well. I mean, and another, you know, one of the primary concerns I have, as someone who would be thinking about getting into this, you know, basically I just question whether or not it's worth getting into it. It's just someone who's already doing this. What is in it for you to get into it legally right now?  I think people are going to feel like, how am I coming into this for other reasons, which are sort of part of this review of this meeting for half. But I think the stuff you were talking about, making sure that there's very big support for application for legal support, et cetera, it's going to be really important. Thank you. Yeah. I even before starting to do this one document file, I mean, I had mentioned, you know, one of the best things I think that Denver has done with the last couple of years was to have a specific kind of, I would say, like, cannabis industry and government liaison because, you know, regardless of how all of this rolls out, there's going to be so much gray areas and having an advocate to speak just from the government side to help facilitate these things is going to be really important. Just for the highlight, some of you have said also I think it's important is, you know, outreach to the individual categories of social equity. I think it's going to be really important because it's just in, you know, local newspaper on the CCB website, most social equity applicants have not ever found that information and so I think reaching them where they're at is going to be really important as well. Anything else to add real quick before we move on to the next item? So Jacob, the committee is recommending the Social Equity Board and one of their responsibilities is going to be doing community outreach and education about the program that will be set up by the Vermont Canada Control Board. And majority of those candidates actually are coming from those communities that are having the most impact on the warm drop. Ah. Thank you, Erin. Kyle, you talked about the Working-List Enterprise initiative in the state of Vermont. These dollars that go to farmers and forest product manufacturers. They also include the technical assistance piece, but it's not just the businesses but you can apply for technical assistance money to help others in the business. I just wanted to share that particular piece. I do think that they set priorities every year, maybe or every other year with respect to what they're going to fund. And so people potentially could apply to the Working-Land Board to get funding to provide technical assistance to those that are interested in entering the market. And that technical assistance can be specific for any crucial people as well. Thanks, Stephanie. I'm clearly blank on that specific grant that the Working-Lands initiative does offer because I've reviewed those applications myself. Yeah, I would say on a note of funding and below our review, I would just encourage it to be even possible to try to get Vermont to use some of the cannabis tax dollars that are being generated to fund some of these initiatives. I think that would be fantastic. So I'm just throwing that out there. I think next is kind of access to appropriate land or infrastructure using, you know, the actual availability to get a piece of land to farm or a building to lease to do it. It's going to disproportionately affect social equity applicants. So some of the things that have come up have been like do not require pieces prior to approval. I think that's really important for social equity applicants because a big issue in a very financial barrier is for most states you need to have property under contract before you submit your application and they can wait anywhere from three months to over, you know, a couple of years and where is that money coming from? And so I think it's a huge, you know, burden. And then also, I forgot to mention as well, like what Graham was talking about and considering kind of this industry and the application process from experience, we're not even playing touching, but, you know, once we started meeting inroads in the cannabis community, you know, all of our baby counts got shut down. And so I think, you know, even after putting the application it could have detrimental effects to, you know, all of that stuff. So I think any kind of speeds of order guidance on that with the local banks, you know, have a lot of success with community supported banks and, you know, insurance stuff, I think would be really important as well. And then I wanted to ask you, Kyle, I don't know if we're there yet, but are there requirements on the application process for renting, leasing, land or buildings? No, there's not any requirements. We can talk about additional baseline requirements or how to, you know, thread that you know, I guess towards the end of this meeting on that part of the agenda because I'd love to hear perspectives. I'm likely going to be making some recommendations to my fellow board members on additional baseline application requirements on Friday. So getting a sense of what we think is prudent to ask as part of like an application checklist when somebody does submit their information and their application for a license, what do we need to see at the time versus being overly burdensome in perspective. But getting back to your comments, I know I heard the word co-op mentioned at the beginning at some point during our conversation. I know that, you know, various board members, myself included, have done some outreach to folks with expertise in farmer co-ops in and around the state. There's a lot of different models out there and I will say that our exploratory committee, which we'll be convening today for the first time, has a lot of different special license types to explore, but one of them is a cooperative style license and that likely will be included a recommendation on how to make that work will be included in our January report. It's my understanding to the legislature. Got that. That's good to hear. I was going to say I would just say for looking at requirements, having social equity applicants, the most flexibility when coming and when dealing with securing property, et cetera, that needs to be really important. You know, we see it kind of in every state where there's always this like, cannabis tax that goes into place, you know, in most leases, at least in Colorado, we're kind of like five years and then one sec teams up everything, such as the roof, and it really impacted the not so well off applicants, especially because most of the funding capital you're going to be able to read is going to be coming from individuals, private investors and you don't have access to standard thinking. So just keeping that in mind that I think a lot is going to change on the ground and being able to have a flexibility which I would imagine from a disability indoor or at least more urban environment is going to be, you know, limited zones, so limited areas actually to be able to conduct business. Yeah, and just, I hate to belabor the point of our exploratory committee because I don't want it to seem like it's a laundry listed on your most miscellaneous kind of committee, there's stuff we haven't gotten to yet but I know the cannabis, and Stephanie will be on this committee is my understanding, right, Stephanie, but the cannabis tax and that specific circumstance that you're alluding to, Jacob, that could happen you know, after the first wave of leases are up and our program is starting to reach maturity and folks having that issue, that is on the list of first things to address for that committee. You mentioned the insurance earlier, Jacob and while I know nothing about insurance, I do know and I don't actually know what it means, but Vermont has a captive insurance like niche I don't know what captive insurance is but there was a comment that was submitted earlier in the formation of the Canada Control Board from someone named Stephanie Nates out of Burlington that participates in the captive insurance industry and she was talking about how they could maybe help out relatives to insurance for cannabis, like it was actually offering a, hey, we can be a part of this. So, I think this individual, Stephanie Nates who needs to be contacted because I know nothing about it, but I just remember the comment and I wanted to remind the board Kyle about this. Thanks, Stephanie, and as it relates to banking and insurance Pepper has been really taking the reins on all of that stuff. We've talked to everybody from BSECU which is the Vermont State Employee Union, other small credit union state chartered banks in the state to kind of gauge their thoughts perspectives on providing financial assistance to those that are interested in this industry. I don't know how far from an in-road perspective he has made in the insurance side of that equation, but I'll follow up with them to kind of see if he's talked to Stephanie. I'm able to close her quite well, so I'm happy, we'll be back out in Berlin next week, so I'm happy to talk to her more importantly about how to choose there, but we'll let Pepper do that but she's a friend in the neighborhood so we'll give her resources. Thanks, Billy. Yeah, I was just saying on the insurance I know way too much about cannabis insurance than I ever wanted to, but a lot of it comes from originally still kind of happening, you think you'll get insurance brokers and insurance underwriters will underwrite there's no insurance related problems because it's really a federal thing but you can get insurance premiums everything else and so they'll tell you a policy, but in that policy you'll say things cannot be made on any federally illegal drugs so there is immediately unenforceable and you can't actually do anything with it, so it's kind of like cheating practices, a lot of that slowly being you know, moved out of the industry out of California kind of created with golden bear insurance so there's just opportunities to be there from the state of Vermont to make sure that insurance companies are actually providing coverage to this industry and you know, helping to facilitate all that that's just kind of what I was bringing that up for. Yeah, I mean that is going to be a huge expense for any social equity candidate so it'll be really interesting to see if there is any state facilitation that can happen with that because insurance or any time you have candidates is double or triple the prices even more and a lot of many times a lot of insurance is not even possible or if so expensive it's better not to have the insurance for candidates and we see that in every factor. And kind of the other reason I was kind of bringing this up is kind of goes into expansion, support as well just realizing that and are going to have you know, a hard time getting any of this financial, legal, insurance, you know, coverage to begin with and then let all of me kind of introduce anything I think the CCD can do to support that it's going to be really important. Okay, I think kind of sorry over a little time to this section I think it's important I wanted to bring up, I can just kind of go into accelerator model mentorship sending incubator stuff but you know there is the last prisoner project that I'll click with but part of that is to get prisoners who have been incarcerated due to the war on drugs be able to when get out of prison, get expulsion and then also get employment in the cannabis industry if that's something they want and you know facilitate and it kind of goes back into the vocational aspect of it but I think it's important to, you know, address that for a social equity applicant as well is that there's probably still a whole bunch of people in jail for cannabis crimes that should hopefully be getting out with legalization and ideally should have an opportunity to stay in this you know industry into thinking that the jail prison system you know is being run as well potentially there is like in prison technical vocational support that can happen as well and preparing people to get into this industry that is an opportunity there to, you know, help correct past issues but also, you know, save the state money by providing these people training and jobs when they get out for or on probation, etc. If you don't have anyone representing the agency of commerce and community development but I believe they have a Vermont worker training program like ACCC was involved in the same in that but they have programs that include worker training and they may have accelerator programs and I don't know where the funds come from they might be submitted but if they're they funded programs then maybe there's the ability to provide training Yes, Stephanie, ACC ACCD the Department of Economic Development does have like an apprentice worker training program and I think a guy named John Young works or runs it I can follow up with him As far as incubator and accelerators, I mean and I'd love for Graham to jump in here there is a lot of ones in the ag sector that really look to foster small businesses and help them rise above that kind of startup level, you know, my mind goes like a matter of food hub and weights field and others there's a lot of folks that are interested in that kind of community aspect how they feel about this emerging market I'm less familiar with because I haven't had those conversations with those specific organizations but there is a robust that kind of sense of community here present in other parts of the act portfolio Yeah, I was thinking of Vermont Businesses for Social Responsibility comes to mind as a nonprofit and then and I'm a sales group that they're mostly focused on ag I don't know what their interest is I mean at food production and I don't know what their interest is I know Ellen fairly well because I did that whole report the future of whatever it's called food and agriculture in the state I can't even remember at this point with her and I know that she's curious I haven't had the conversations with her to see how the farm to play and how they might be be willing to you know help connect the dots or support this emerging industry Grandma know Grandma know Do you have anything to add? Well I would say first of all I'm just really glad to hear you all talking about it and our recommendations because we personally had a doc training program for re-entry in particular and you know I don't I don't know if there's any agricultural program specifically connected with re-entry program I'd be really curious to find that out I think but I think you think about basically criminal justice reform community you know I imagine those are folks working on re-entry reform working on work you know needs of people's needs and they're working with people who are already providing some of the jobs training and re-entry and start feeling out what the opportunity is for either you know providing some training to those folks similar to who is providing training to ag advisors that they can at least be able to they can provide training and to see themselves if they know who to help them up with how to support them finding those people and help them along that process that's the best I have right now and if you think about like you know capital community action as well but I think the criminal justice reform organizations would be big to look into and I'm sorry Marc's not here to be able to address that you might have to mind you perfect thank you and the other thing I was going to where I got inspiration about the accelerator model was when they passed in Denver when they you know realizing that we were still very few of like minority owned and cannabis companies out there they did a whole bunch of social equity work this past year or in 2020 I think it was back to one of them was an accelerator model to get kind of like ease the process to through the application process also pairing of established cannabis businesses with these new social equity applicants and then the established business got a social equity leadership designation which essentially just like had some favorability if there was any compliance issues or whatnot you know I think there might be opportunity as this is you know forming of potentially more established you know community members were applying to read a mentor social equity applicants in exchange for either some kind of application incentive or you know favorability on you know Lucy's moments kind of things like that we just kind of wanted to throw that out there as an idea I don't know if anyone has anything to add to that I would like to kind of move on to home grow absolutely this is getting back you know not in your review but we're talking about insurance we're talking about making my organization the climate council but it contributes further to I would say just larger systemic issues but the case for a state bank in Vermont you know farmers were responsible for forming a state bank in terms of 1900s and I think for a number of reasons a state bank would fund us very well but I'll leave it there and just say that it's something to consider in your broader recommendations of thought now I agree it would be offensive or processing that is always moving the issue with recreational or retail cannabis is finding a processor to actually process the transactions that's when most of everything is cash and that being of itself it's also another burden but I'll just go on that out there home grow I don't feel as much in our purview but some of the things I saw that I thought would be good to bring up is just one you know access to medicine for you know high poverty individuals is going to be important and so having the home grow be able to share a small amount in their community to economically disadvantage people I think would be a really nice thing and then also from a home grow perspective making sure that code enforcement and enforcement in general that's been recommended to be municipal code enforcement officers and not harmful eats so you're not kind of perpetuating the war on drugs system again but anyone have anything to add Gina let's see your hands up so I just wanted to ask this committee because I know one of the major issues that we're going to have with some social equity cash is that they rent their property so they can't necessarily do home grown unless they're allowed by their landlord and so how does the state of Vermont kind of go around that or if it's even that all possible with that individuals that were growing in rental properties they were only allowed to if regardless like that's that owner tenant situation I don't know if it's the state of Vermont actually gets involved in that and that some people were limited being able to cultivate patents which is legal by their landlord so I'm aware of that issue but I don't know that but maybe Graham has a comment I think let's go Edgar I really appreciate you bringing that up Gina I know we talked about that as a coalition and I'm curious to hear that to have the situation but again if this were considered an agricultural product not inside of your ability but in terms of the anyone's ability to say you can't do this because you have the right to grow this agricultural product whether you rent or oh I'll be curious to hear stuff in your thoughts and I'll be in the house situation and the other thing I can say is you know just getting down to Gina's comment you further is going to be heard from both the Massachusetts proportionate enforcement of the law to continue legalization simply because of access to housing the ownership of housing and ownership of land and access to land and I think this is one of the reasons why we've had to look for it to devote 20% of revenue to the social equity program but one of them is the land and housing access program for eligible black individuals which doesn't tie to the cannabis it's just ties to the creator's impact of systemic racism because we know they're going to play out just unfortunately in this coming market so that's one way we can also get about trying to tackle it by promoting response from this to tackling the impact of systemic racism outside of this industry as well Thanks I have a nice comment on each one of those so how to deal with landlord I think that I feel that this situation currently right now as well is I think there is an opportunity for the CCB to put out a decision materials on that and actually what the actual risks are as a homeowner thanks to the benefits are but essentially deal with the stigmatizing campaign around home growing I think it's kind of as far as the state to really deal with that and then on the disproportionate enforcement of crimes etc I think that making sure the CCB is tracking this data and tracking meaningful data on things and like publishing and so you know granted that might not be the purview of CCB but I think the cannabis control board on short get a lead on with enforcement agencies to make sure that data is being tracked so that you know it can come to light if this is going on but I think there is only way to meet meaningful change in a political environment so I think you can kind of you know go along with how many you know so likely out in church was getting how they are actually leading lives in etc I have a couple thoughts comments based on this part of the conversation because I think it's interesting and important and I mean one of my first thoughts to Tina's question right where Graham's head did and it's not some of the cannabis control board specifically has control over which is designated this is a different category of products might give folks in this state with powerful right to farm laws on the books a little bit more you know coverability to do as they wish I mean that's a Jacob's point you know I think what we can do currently as a board is when we get to the point where we're seeking an application and want to to be part of this market I don't know off the top of my head if Vermont has like a landlord's association or some iteration that is you know that looks and feels like you know a formal or informal association of landlords but you know we can certainly have discussions with them make sure that they understand our guidance and our rules and regulations and do what we can to provide a degree of comfort to folks that would be leasing you know commercial or farm or agricultural land to to folks that want to participate here so I mean that's something we can do you know given the way things currently are yeah I think that's a good idea that's fun a few minutes left so I wanted to move on so I guess anyone have anything else to say on this of like Graham's do you still have your hands raised or is that from do I have a question oh so one was you said at the beginning that compliance is a home growth I guess I'm confused about that that makes us a number of plans are you talking about code enforcement with a home growth you know I wasn't the first one to say that a home growth didn't have any regulations around it number one number two the issue for just of course it's important because it's just not regulations around consumption consumption isn't allowed in public places it's only allowed in a detached home or it's only for them to allow you to do it so that's a huge issue but not publicly allowed if you don't own your own home or own land to do it on well the question about enforcement I had one more thing brought to you there from the camera yeah so when I was talking about the enforcement aspect of it I was kind of struggling but there is a plan for home growth yes yeah so that's kind of what I was referring to is that if someone is clear on the entire basement and is growing 20 plans, 50 plans that's not legal so how does that get resolved and ideally swap it or not get involved or police but having it be a municipal code enforcement violation so it's more of a take date to increase the defense by just kind of de-escalating the issue at the beginning so you're not further arresting a marginalized community just legalized cannabis and I was going to Google I can jump for it that's how I was going with that absolutely thank you that's better I know and the last thing I think we have a constituent call in about home growth in particular either food safety across the U.S. during agricultural production standards and he was saying he just had a real issue with home grown cannabis and from a product quality perspective from how people are growing and just recognizing the technical support needs to also reach those on that home growing community in order to both assure that they're growing in an environment sustainable way but also such that they're creating products of space for consumption just know that that's the fourth level for those perfect thank you yeah did you know how they deal with additional patients because there are some additional patients that don't own their own home and obviously for an additional purpose they would need to be able to smoke the product great question if there's any laws around around that right now that's a great question and great point of reference I think for this conversation do you not know the answer on the top of my head with caregivers growing for other patients that are part of the medical program and also those medical patients taking part in the medical program I'm sure that this is not the first time this issue has come up and I can ask Lindsay who runs the medical program how they typically handle this issue and what kind of exceptions are made you know that being said it's medical a medical condition so there might be more of an ability to over roll or override or I'm going to use the wrong term there but the landlord or whoever is owning the property I don't know but it's a good point of reference to start I think maybe some of that structure can be moved down to those who have any candidates who want to smoke in their own homes as well that's a good point I tracked in the room there's one member of the public they did not have a public comment to submit but Gina I don't and remind me because everything's kind of wonky with the subcommittees right now are you meeting with the social equity committee again this week tomorrow yeah I'll run some some questions through my internal processes but if you would bring that kind of proxy as part of this conversation to the social equity conversation on Thursday or at least mention it so I think would be helpful too yeah alright I'm going to skip over the I'm going to say something that sent me I did have some questions on that but I'll connect to you offline about it and we can kind of I think deal with that as we're working on reports I'll give you an opportunity I know you need to start bringing reports to the board and had talked to me and I think Billy was meeting about kind of license application requirements so I wanted to kind of give you the floor to talk about that yeah absolutely and I'll be quick because I know I've reached out to Stephanie and Billy individually at this point as well and just kind of a brief overview of what I'm talking about is you know we'll have our basic application so and everything that you would expect to be in an application we'll be there from physical address, contact info so on financial information so on and so forth and then there's other kind of checklist items that we would look to include as what we're calling these additional baseline items that you would have to include in your application Stephanie I know one of those things that the HEM program does is look for GIS coordinates because in Vermont it can be remote we can have no cell service we want to make sure folks can find these cultivation sites regardless of a physical address recognizing also that these cultivation tiers will have a specific square footage and we need to make sure that we understand where specifically that cultivation site is and how big it is and so and obviously that information would be kept confidential away from public records because there's a lot of security issues that would go into having that information be discoverable but I'm thinking also in terms of and Billy I've talked to you about this we've talked in various different meetings about what letters of support or ability to serve letters would be needed depending on the size and type of your operation from a utility company from local municipal officials for potable water, wastewater you know if you're a big outdoor facility do you need and you need to adjust your permit for your well or your sewer we need to see that type of information and I think at this point I'm kind of gathered I think my thoughts after speaking with everybody here individually but if anything has occurred to you what makes sense what is the direction we shouldn't go I don't want to make this overly prescriptive or overly burdensome but at the end of the day I want to ensure that some I don't want to create this system where somebody's coming to us and they haven't already reached out to their local municipalities then there's this constant back and forth and triangle between the board the local officials and an applicant trying to get them moved correctly through the system so what makes sense to talk about before they come to us what makes sense to talk about you know on the back end at the same time about their viability what their goals are not necessarily a business plan per se or a SWAT analysis but what's the line here to help folks and I'm thinking about this in the sustainability cultivation context so that's why I'm asking this committee to include in addition to those kind of general spoiler plate application materials so Kyle on that I'm going to share my screen real quick so I'll be there for you to figure it out over e-mail thanks Billy and I think we have to do a line later and Kyle I did after our conversations and I did put some specific questions out to the various water wastewater on site and the municipal program needs to get feedback so I asked for that by new scholars so I'll get it to you as soon as I can at that timeline great timeline for me thank you alright so I'm running into a new computer I'm getting access to high veal screen share of the recording but I will send this around so yeah I think what I was planning on doing before you know I think everything was read start reading the reports under do that in teams so we can all collaborate on it and add in this as a specific section for each thing there's some pilot information for you and then right when you get up to call I'll send you this California cultivation plant as it's being created I think we'll provide some insight and I've got a bunch of different needs I'm not up to check with that they're providing to applicants great thanks everybody thank you Graham for taking the time how do you day thank you Graham thank you Stephanie and everyone else for joining thank you thank you yep yes sir we'll meet in a second


Item No. SCP-001 Object Class Keter Special Containment Procedures To date, no adequate containment procedure has been developed to deal with the possible threat posed by SCP-001. This is due, in part, to the controversial nature of the item and debates concerning the necessity of its containment. This controversy is reflected in the item's changing object class and the procedures utilized in its containment. The current administration, despite charges of paranoia, has classed the object Keter while requesting permission for a higher object class to be created and applied uniquely to this item, considering it to be the most dangerous of all known or possible items. The reason for this classification and changing attitudes towards SCP-001 are dealt with in the description of notes. At present, SCP-001 is located in a code-locked briefcase made of a high tensile reinforced polymer. The room and briefcase are monitored at all times by security cameras. The briefcase cannot be opened without unanimous special clearance from all current O5 officers. The briefcase itself is stored in a small, fully lit, single-room off-site building erected in. Class D personnel are posted to guard the building that may not enter without the aforementioned agreement from the O5 officers, under threat of immediate termination. This off-site building exists for the sole purpose of housing SCP-001 and is wired for detonation in an emergency situation. It is the opinion of the current administration that SCP-001 represents the greatest threat to national and global security known to exist. Nevertheless, due to special circumstances regarding its mode of function, further research on the item is disallowed, despite its promotion in the past when SCP-001 was contained in minimum security conditions. In the description, SCP-001 is a simple sheet of papers, stapled together in the top left corner. The top sheet is a covering sheet reading simply, Confidential Report on Special Items classified. The number of subsequent papers stapled to this covering sheet is indeterminate, and have range from 3 to 30. The report is unsigned and its origin is unknown. The first appearance of this report was on ██ when it appeared on the desk of ██ deceased. The report at that time described the living room SCP-002, shortly after reading the report with incredulity ██ was contacted by phone regarding said item. The next time ██ perused SCP-001, it described not the living room but biological motherboard SCP-003 ██ immediately closed SCP-001, thinking it was a different report and searched for the original report on SCP-002. Not finding it, he again opened SCP-001, and this time it described not SCP-003, but the 12 rusty keys in the door, SCP-004 ██ closed the report once more and opened it immediately to read of Skeleton Key, SCP-005. It is not known what the next actions of ██ might have been. At varying times following this incident, the aforementioned items were discovered. Insufficient research exists concerning the correlation between SCP-001 and all other known items. However, it has been established that every event regarding the discovery of a new SCP item has followed a report on that same item appearing beneath the coverage sheet of SCP-001. The current administration regards this coincidence as proof of causal connection. Additional notes, whether SCP-001 is to be regarded as an advanced warning system or whether SCP-001 itself is to be regarded as the creator of the items requiring special containment remains to be seen. However, the distinction is unimportant in the eyes of the current administration. The fact remains, no new SCP items appear unless SCP-001 is open and read. It is for this reason that the current administration refuses to repeat the mistakes of the past, mistakes that have resulted in over 1,000 SCP items coming to the knowledge of the SCP unit. Arguments concerning the non-lethality of SCP-001 itself, its theoretically beneficial use of the SCP warning system, or its use of the progenitor of advanced biological and non-biological weapons, have not swayed the current administration, nor have arguments criticizing the extreme containment procedures employed in respect to an item that displays no deferrous qualities and is not animate as such. Critics are reminded that these procedures are intended not to contain the item itself, but to isolate it from human interaction, which is to be regarded as the true threat. Although the current administration refuses to remove the object from isolation barring special authorization is noted above, past administrations have counseled daily with the item, and future administrations will no doubt counsel similar behavior. Nevertheless, it is the opinion of the current administration that, barring the destruction of SCP-001, it is to be contained until such a time when responsibility for its containment falls upon future administrations.


Hey y'all, welcome to what Chelsea eats. Thank you so much for joining me today. I have a Unboxing for you Let's get right into it. You guys know how much I love three sixty-coque and that's what this is I got a few more pieces and Yesterday and I want to show you What it looks like when it comes out of the box I'm so excited for these two pieces because I've needed them in my in my Kitchen for a while and I finally got them and I'm very excited and Well packed it has Stop high-performance cookware turn the heat down that is one of the benefits for 360 cookware you do not need to use high heat on the on the Food in order for it to cook as a matter of fact it cooks like on this like low to medium Heat so that it doesn't burn your food, but it actually pulls the flavor Out of the whatever you're making pulls it all together so that it's more flavorful So that's one of the reasons why I like it when you buy this you get the You certificate of authenticity this cookware is made in the United States In a manufacturing plant here in I think it's been in with Wisconsin Oh, yes, it's been with what's been with Wisconsin is where it's made and then it comes with a booklet that tells you how to care for your for your For your cookware and it's very important that you read this because This is not Your typical cookware it doesn't you don't care for it the same way you care for other Cookware and you know, I'm always talking about cooking water sauteing they have something called vapor cooking basics and It teaches you how to cook with the water so it pulls the the hydration out of the food to help you actually cook it So you never almost never need to add water to the pan But you you know, you can if you want to but it has a whole a lot of information on What vapor cooking is but let me get back get into the topics But that's the reason that I like this cookware is Because of the vapor cooking system. That's one of the main reasons so this one is Fry pan I got a seven inch fry pan and the reason I got a seven inch fry pan is because Sometimes I just have a small amount of vegetables that I Small Food that I want to cook in the pan 360 cookwares are big. Oh, yes, it's perfect. Look at that 360 and it's It's beautiful look at that it's high quality It has a really sturdy handle on it. I I Love it. I'm gonna be showing you all some recipes with this cookware So there you have it. So this next piece that I'm cut opening is called the loaf pan And what I will be doing here is you using this for is making Meatloafs well, not technically meatloafs Lentil loves vegetable loves things like that and I want it to stay A loaf pan and it has to has handles on the side is so sturdy Absolutely wonderful made in America If you make meatloaf, of course, you can use this for meatloaf But I'm using this for lentil loves and look at that quality. It's just it's nice and sturdy I'm looking forward to creating some recipes in that pan. It's beautiful. So here this this piece is a casserole So I know you guys have never seen me make a casserole on my channel But I got this specifically For Look at that. It's beautiful. Now you can make other things than casserole. So it is a beautiful pan For 360 sick 360 cookware calm made in the United States is three two point three quarts and I will use this pan for making Probably vegetable dishes, but definitely Baking in the oven baking casserole's in the oven that was the point of this and it comes with the lid So that you can cover whatever it is you're cooking in the oven Very high quality love this cookware So these are the three pans that I got the seven inch fry pan the casserole with the lid and The loaf pan if you're interested in learning more about 360 cookware There's a link down in the description box where you can learn more about 360 cookware And if you happen to decide that you're going to buy it I have a discount code for 25% off I have been using 360 cookware for two years now and I Absolutely love it. I love it. Can I just say that and it's one of those Brands that are going to is going to be Something that you use for a lifetime. You won't have to replace it The only thing that would cause you to replace it It's just because you are tired of looking at it and you want something new I mean, that's the only reason like the two years that I have used mine have been absolutely amazing they are great for healthy cooking and If you're on this lifestyle, you need cookware that is going to support your healthy lifestyle You don't want to cook with toxic pans also, I did a video on the first set of 360 cookware that I received and I will put the link to that video down in the description box at the time I had a 20% off coupon now I have a 25% off coupon so you can get an even better deal. So Let me know if you have any questions. I'd love to know your thoughts on 360 cookware If you have 360 cookware, let me know if you've purchased it. Let me know how you feel about it and That's it. Thank you so much for watching And if no one told you that they love you today Chelsea in North Carolina loves you very much and I will talk to you soon Take care


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OnePlus 7T versus the ROG Phone 2, you ask for it, so let's get in. So the OnePlus 7T is a new device that packs in a lot of performance features at just 599. Now we, you guys asked, hey look, compared to the ROG Phone 2 because it packs a lot of performance and we know that's the gaming phone to get this year because of course the ROG Phone 2 has a lot of features and a lot of gaming enhancements that make a lot of sense. So what does the OnePlus 7T have? It's got a 6.5 inch display that is a 90 hertz display which is really nice. We know the ROG Phone 2 has a 120 hertz display, we turn the 40 hertz touch sampling and both displays feel really smooth and fast when you're moving around, you're using it to game. It doesn't matter, it feels really fluid. Both of them really do feel absolutely fluid. I'll tell you how they both feel in gaming pretty soon. Now in terms of performance, the OnePlus 7T has 8 gigs of RAM. ROG Phone 2 goes from 8 to 12. OnePlus 7T and ROG Phone 2 both have the 855 plus processor as well. Now in terms of battery sizes, here's where the big difference is. The OnePlus 7T has a 3800 mAh battery. The ROG Phone has a 6000 mAh battery. I can tell you who will win in terms of battery life. It is the ROG Phone 2 with its 6000 mAh battery. Whether you're gaming or using it as a phone, it will last you for a while. If you're using it as just a phone, it's going to last you at least two days. Massive, great battery life. But which charges faster? That's where the OnePlus 7T wins. It basically hits of course that mark of charging at 57 minutes full charge from 0 to 100. But again, it's got a small battery so just put that in mind. Now both of them of course have gaming power. They have the gaming performance you expect. OnePlus says that look, we can give you HDR plus gaming 60 frames per second on PUBG because they've done something with PUBG as well to do that. But the ROG Phone 2 does the same. Now without even wasting any more time and arguing here, let's jump into some gameplay of both devices and see how they handle PUBG. So gaming is pretty solid on both devices. The OnePlus 7T ran well and in terms of heat dissipation, you're looking at close to about 100 degrees while the ROG Phone 2 did a little bit better on the cooling department. And of course if you use the fan clip, that cools your system a little bit better. Now when it comes to of course extra gaming features, they are game centers for both devices.  While the game genie on the ROG Phone is truly in depth, you can go in to optimize each game. You can of course check out your frames per second on screen. You can of course customize the fan once it's clipped in in terms of cooling. You can customize your RGB colors. So you've got a lot of things to do in there that make it more meaningful. Plus you've got the trigger centers at the top, touch sensing sensors. So again you've got more gaming features and if you're a gamer, that's what you're probably focused on. Now when it comes to the cameras, they both have multiple cameras at the back. ROG Phone has two cameras, a wide and a regular camera. While the OnePlus 7T has three cameras. It's got of course the main camera, also wide and a telephoto at 2x. The both have 48 megapixel sensors which is what a lot of people are using today. Now what do images look like on both devices? Daytime images are nice. The OnePlus 7T has more saturation. The ROG Phone 2 is a little bit more flat. I think the OnePlus 7T kind of does much better here. When it comes to night time photos, this is where the the OnePlus 7T really shines. Night scape does a much better job capturing of course night time imagery than what you get of course on the ROG Phone 2. This is something ROG needs to step up I would say but your OnePlus 7T covers that. Now I think overall you're looking at both devices you're thinking what should I pick, what should I go with and you consider price. You know the ROG Phone 2 is priced at around $570 or so. If you're picking it up in eBay you can pick it up at that price. I'll have a link for you guys down below. The OnePlus 7T is $599. Now they are around the same price and the ROG Phone 2 scales up when of course you get the 12 gigs of RAM, 1TB of storage, you know all that fun jazz in there. But there is a lot to see. Now both of them also have stereo speakers. The OnePlus 7T though has a pretty loud speaker and you know let's take a quick listen to speakers from both devices. Now when it comes to the audio department I think the ROG Phone 2 is still the loudest, one of the loudest speakers we have right there. It's pretty loud, it's sharp, it just hits the mark 108.2 decibels compared to the 106.2 which is still loud on the OnePlus 7T. But I think you got to go with what you want here and that's pretty much it. If you're looking for a more balanced where you're looking at camera and performance, OnePlus 7T is a device for you. If you're looking for gaming, battery life and you know those kind of features then the ROG Phone 2 is a device for you to go with. I think both of them handle games pretty well but the ROG Phone 2 has more gaming features that makes sense while the OnePlus 7T can handle your games for you quite well but will give you better photography. So let me know what you want to pick guys. I know some people ask for this video, I said I'll try and do this as quick as possible so you see what I think between both devices. Is it the ROG Phone 2? Is that what you like or the OnePlus 7T? Leave your thoughts down below guys, don't forget to like and share, subscribe to the channel, check out our other videos as well. We're going to be having more stuff on the while we make 30 Pro and Marion we're doing of course his camera review on that as well as the iPhone so stay tuned, watch more content and always enjoy your entertainment.


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Well don't worry, you're not the only one. Hey there, njroot22.com here with another vlog episode. This one we're going to try and get a couple together called Ridiculous Food Items and it's sort of going to be connected to the low-carb carnivore keto lifestyle and today's product we're talking about is Mikey's. I guess they're hot pockets of some kind and I saw these over at shop right and they're seven dollars for four ounces, two four ounce hot pockets. So that comes out to like fourteen dollars a pound. That's kind of expensive and they in big letters on the front of the package they have paleo-friendly milk and lactose-free gluten-free grain-free soy-free and it's basically plant-based plant-based cheese alternative. I guess people love cheese so much deep inside but yet they've been coaxed or coerced or brainwashed into thinking there's something wrong with cheese but there's nothing wrong with the taste of cheese for some odd reason. So now they have a team of scientists in a lab mixing all sorts of plant-based flowers and all sorts of stuff to make something that sort of tastes like cheese but isn't cheese. I don't know why your food has to be a lab experiment. Cheese is made from a cow, it's easy. It's not a lab experiment. Yes it is a process to make cheese that doesn't come naturally but this is just one of those ridiculous things and I think the plant-based theme is just every there's just too many people that think that plant-based means good okay and plant sounds so harmless but you know here's a couple other things that are plant-based there's a bee flying around that's plant-based. Gasoline is plant-based at least in New Jersey it's 10 ethanol which comes from corn that's plant-based but then you get these people that are weird they love plant-based but then they won't drive a gas car they'll get an electric car which gets fuel from the power plant that either runs nuclear coal or whatever you can't win with these people. Cosmetics are plant-based I don't see people eating lipstick for lunch plus soap shampoo baby diapers are plant-based glue some people must be sniffing plant-based glue to think that this plant-based stuff is just great for you and of course just to clean up the big crappy mess toilet paper is also plant-based made from trees so I really think the plant-based phenomenon or trend or whatever you want to call has gone too far it's it's ridiculously expensive just eat meat eat meat and cheese if you can tolerate dairy meat and cheese and eggs and you'll be fine I have something stuck in my teeth I think it's some meat I had for lunch ground beef and ricotta cheese and cottage cheese mixed with a couple spoonfuls of tomato and some real cheese on top it's my pasta-less lasagna bake I make it once a week it's delicious and it's low carb so that's it I really think this stuff is is ridiculously expensive and by the way it's not any lower carb in fact it's the same amount of carbs per ounce that a hot pocket is and hot pockets at the supermarket when you get them on sale I think they're a dollar a box I think you get four or five boxes of hot pockets which are nine ounces or four and a half ounces each hot pocket and they're like a dollar a box dollar or two at the most when they're on sale so you're paying 6.99 for the privilege of eating a lab created franken pocket and I just don't think why bother making things the way they tasted when they were in their original form you might as well just eat something completely different imitation foods especially that plant-based meat oh my god those franken burgers like I like to call them but they're a veggie what are they even called I can't remember anymore but they those things were awful and they put natural flavors in it which includes MSG and I ate the whole thing like I was going going on a hunger strike for 60 days afterwards ridiculous so just keep in mind that you're paying through the nose for some virtuous feel-good food product which is crap okay just eat meat eggs and dairy and you will be fine have a nice rest of your week


This, so this is a picture from the first Linux conference which actually has our president of engineering sitting in there amongst the various people putting Linux up in the air. But while we have a prestigious history in open source, it's gone a lot beyond the enterprise-grade Linux that many are familiar with. So, you know, you see that box. It would actually was, as soon as I developed the first enterprise Linux distribution, it also developed the first enterprise OpenStack distribution. And by happenstance, it actually has the first enterprise Cloud Foundry distribution, which is the team that it came in through acquisition. But it's not the work that Susan's doing around Cloud Foundry is using a team that's been working with Cloud Foundry since the day it was open sourced. And that's the old part of the active state team. And that, you know, the first version of that distro, you know, congratulations to Pivotal on their IPO today. But we've actually been distributing a version of Cloud Foundry since before Pivotal was a company. So a larger look at what Sousa is today. At the very top, the green part, we talk about Cloud Foundry and application delivery. That is the platform as a service space. However, there's a lot of things that support that. And while our distribution can run on any Kubernetes you want, plug into various enterprise storage systems, you happen to be also get these things from Sousa, in terms of the Sousa container as a service platform for Kubernetes. Obviously, the OpenStack distribution I mentioned. And there's offer of software defined storage, it's SEF, we call it SES, Sousa Enterprise Storage, virtualization, all the various other pieces and management that goes along with. So from the Sousa point of view, we are looking at the much larger platform stack and delivering that in an enterprise grade manner to large and small enterprises across the world. A little bit of a look more at Sousa Cloud Application Platform that is specifically our distribution of Cloud Foundry. I know it's all 100% open source, various people, Troy was how it showed in the demo theater, github.com, Sousa, SSEF. This is a bit larger when you come into the product version, but here's a view of it. An important thing to note, when you're looking in the workloads, that's SLE, Sousa Linux Enterprise, the abbreviation there. So one of the key things that we've done is we've replaced Ubuntu with an enterprise grade Linux. It gets faster updates and much more security around that development style there. Pretty much everything that you have is running in a containerized manner in Cloud Application Platform, running on top of Kubernetes so you can have things that are much more natively integrated, much smaller footprint as well. This also happens to run on Azure at the moment. That was our announcement this week with the update to the Cloud Application Platform. All of this then running, whichever Kubernetes you particularly want, but that could be public, cloud, private, cloud, bare metal, et cetera. So the big hype message here, it's very easy for Kubernetes users. That is our target, or we're making the assumption Kubernetes is the next infrastructure as a service plus platform. It provides you a smaller footprint. It is 100% open source, and it is all based on enterprise grade Linux. So when I talk about being easy, there's four bullet points here. Only two of them are required to actually install Cloud Foundry on Kubernetes. The other two are just watching that everything's coming up because when you do a Helm install, Helm, for those not familiar, the kind of a de facto package manager for Kubernetes, it tells everything to start up, and then you have to wait for your liveness and readiness probes and everything to come in order. So we watch that. But basically, we install UA, we install Susie Cloud Foundry, that's the SCF there, and you're pretty much done and you're ready. And that's the same certified distribution that you would find from all of the other vendors just running entirely on Kubernetes. And a little bit about the other contributions. This is the product, but obviously we're 100% open source company, we believe very much in an open philosophy. We have developers working upstream in the Cappy teams, Routing, Oz Bappy, and the Bosch CPI teams. Another thing that was discussed more at length this week was the contribution of the Stratus UI to the CF Incubator. So you'll find that move from the SUSE GitHub, it's in the CF Incubator, Cloud Foundry Incubator GitHub now, and as well making SUSE Linux a viable OS base, which is something as well, we're working on to provide and then be available via Bosch.io. And thanks to Sanjay at SAP for also mentioning some of the other work streams that we're doing for the further integration of Cloud Foundry and Kubernetes. And that's what I want to talk about today. And don't forget, we're hiring, so if you know anybody interested, we'd love to chat with them.


everyone Shaber 1000 here happy new year just wanted to say happy new year again Shaber 1000 here what I'm going to do today is I'm just going to start from January and go all the way up to today and just throwing some highlight clips of 2020 and so hopefully you guys have a have a better 2021 but it's on how we make it right we had a pretty good year considering you know I just want one until everyone you know to be safe and everything and stay tuned at the end of this video I have a very special shout-out to a very special someone so check out the clips and I'll be back within just a second happy new year first video first vlog of 2020 so now hope everyone's having a great year so far monkey's been very busy her dad's been sick again he's back in the hospital yes so I'll show you how mine started out on January 2nd of 2020 in this clip right here 5.9 miles will be there in 10 minutes is this the planes all the prairie maybe we'll see a prairie dog okay that is pretty that's nice look at the sunrise guys that beautiful it is back there can you see that so there's nothing they can do they can't patch it because the hole around the hole the aneurysm he said is like sales it's just like so there's nothing to attach the patch to won't work they can't go out to the dinners the rest of my life that's it that's it that's all they can do now that's the second opinion I got on that but he's gonna talk to his colleagues because I have a team of doctors on this one in a thousand case or something like that yeah so I have a team of doctors I actually have two teams I got a team in citrus and a team here so he's gonna talk to them but he don't think it can be done physical things that I do I am supposed to once we get some stuff straight now see the country and just sit back I'm just not gonna sit now she wants to go up in a hot air balloon I'm going fuck it just want to see some stuff I wanna film some ghost towns and that's what that's what we're gonna do yeah I can't no question about that she even asked me so so I can't do those things I can't do strenuous stuff so she wants she says she's gonna take me back to Walmart exchange me in I'm not defective I'm a Rolls-Royce with a crack windshield that's all you don't get rid of a Rolls-Royce because it has a dent in it this is more than a dent this one you can't so there's nothing they can do so I am forced into retirement now officially yeah so yeah they said I know work I'm still gonna live I'm not gonna sit back yard sale thing yeah I'm still gonna do yard sale stuff a little nest egg put back we're gone we're hitting the fucking roof that means that we're gonna go grab a bite to eat and then we got some places we're gonna film for you I don't know if I can get into any of them but it's still gonna be interesting all the same so stay tuned for that how we missed this last time we were here but regional general hospital willis and it is closed it's not huge but it is closed we're not sure why it closed or anything like that push call button here tobacco free camp well this is moving back and forth I see something right in there you guys see that I wonder if that's what's causing it maybe there's a stick let's get that stick out of there I was talking about the truck sound like a timing chain slap but I had to check it out first thoroughly this is why you should always check something out first thoroughly okay I'll show you why I listen real close but you're gonna hear this it make that sound again it's so funny what are you laughing at yeah I said the battery's dead in this thing sit on fuck that monkey knew of there's some details about it said he was gonna fix it up or something but I don't know what's going on I see a shitload of mosquitoes up there but I'll put it on the screen here about what it used to be and everything like that horses ran but had you got that somewhat wiped off fucking whipped cream do something a little different we're gonna try out frozen dinner that we have that's made for the crock pot so we're gonna try that out so stick with me and let's see how this turns out there you go she's just sorry she had to take that cold so I'm gonna get off here and say shame bear that she said don't try it I say try it it's fun that's your tongue enjoy the rest of your week bye bye guys take care 500,196 miles on this old truck 2003 Toyota Tacoma SR5 Extendicab the engines never had anything done to it other than tune up maintenance the only big things we've had to do we had to put an alternator on it the stuff like brakes you know tires and stuff like that just normal just normal stuff so there it is guys it hit a half or if she went in she couldn't couldn't get anything nobody let her buy anything everybody was just it was freaking crazy man everybody's going nuts pushing people out of the way I say you know what you know we had to get cat food and stuff so I said look let's go back there she says I won't do any good well I'm not gonna play this game so we walk in I didn't have a problem I didn't have a problem with anything I'll show you what I got though we got the cat food we got some chips some Kit Kat ice cream we got she likes her moist cat food got the cigarettes we got this cat food we got some noodles and some you know but I didn't have a problem I just walked in I said look I'm here to do my shopping and nobody's gonna give me a problem right and they just all let me go and get what I needed I got up the cash register and and the cash here gave me everything for free so you know that's awesome now when when we were leaving you know some people were taking pictures of the truck in the license plate number but you know I mean I just figured there were some big fans but you know if we just want to tell everybody happy Easter thanks for joining us we appreciate it thanks monkey you're welcome basket all right we love you guys and stay safe and we'll chat it you guys soon right now picking up my bark okay so apparently there's seven levels if we keep if it keeps barking it'll go so it gets more intense that's intense I've got my stopwatch ready here and I'm gonna go ahead and start it okay so now I'm gonna start this mist and let's see if it runs continuous you know I mean I've got ice in there and this is probably sat for about 10 minutes maybe 15 minutes it's a lot of spray let's adjust this okay it's getting colder now so it's more like a man when you do that kind of can you see that it's not really a mist so you really got to open it up more I mean if it's not sparing on you really can't tell difference at 91 degrees I'm not supposed to be in this heat anyway but maybe this will help right see what you got there because I poop in balls in golf ball sizes and you have used to so you can go and look for me I need this one that will take you online that's all right your hooks are in okay why do you want oh because of the box it's sitting on the box yeah it's sitting on the box and hang that'll be good good what about this but what it says I got this today at 2 54 p.m. and it says good afternoon I'm a researcher with the production company meeting house working on a show for travel channel called paranormal caught on camera I found this video on your YouTube channel and I'd like to speak to you about featuring it in our show on the travel channel I can't show you this this is I'll put a link in in the description but that's the one it is it was I filmed it a year ago but I'll put a link in the description below case you want to go check it out but it says you know ghost orb caught on CCTV camera and of course it gives the the link to it all right so it says we can offer you X amount of money to license the video you would maintain ownership of the footage the rights we need are worldwide and what is that perpetuity perpetuity and in all media what that means is this allows us to rerun the episode that uses your clip and air it in other countries so mega driving school this was uploaded five hours ago it's got 36,000 views check this out another one of my videos that is cool it all cleaned up and it'll be really nice take the truck across the road like I got a go around and he's tangled up my other line his monkeys got a fish on here on our new whoa look at that catfish my fish in the night I gotta shut y'all for a minute set you down in there cuz look at this this is steep and then I gotta get my bed set up those boards you seen at an angle that's what this is laying on I got a towel underneath it I won't climb in there I don't want my legs hanging over or my head or arms hanging over the boat I'll see any gators but so we should be okay I hope they don't come down here ship our 1000 here special guest star monkey 1000 what are we doing I don't know I think we're might be making fudge what do you think all right we're gonna make two recipe two-minute fudge so I'll show you what we're gonna do hey YouTube two recipes chat you want star no it's your video yeah but you're with me so you're funnier hey YouTube shaver 1000 here and I have a special guest star monkey 1000 yeah monkey 1000 what we what we doing tonight we are going to make brownies with two recipes oh I fucked up one she fucked up twice in the same sorry we are gonna make fun no we gotta stop we gotta stop all over start all over yes we do I said there you go I hope you all enjoyed that because I had a great year got a lot of new subs and and kept a lot of the old one so that's great it's always great having you guys with me that's why like a lot of times even when I'm by myself you know I say we're gonna do this or we're gonna do that or let's go do this and let's go do that I say that because I feel like you guys are with me you know and you guys you guys are special and you know the greatest part of you know this this year is has been you know filming and editing and uploading videos for you guys to enjoy as well because we like to share you know not only the bad things but the fun stuff too mostly the fun stuff but you know sometimes things life happens you know so you got to take the good with the bad but you know that's but that's kind of it I just took a couple clips from each month and I'm starting in January and we're going we're going on all the way down through to December so or I should say we went all the way down through to December so anyway I want to give a very special shout out to my daughter Amberley I call her Bambi she messaged me every morning she says hi daddy I love you ask me how I'm feeling and been a great girl all her life 31 years old wow unbelievable always always been kind of a daddy's girl and daddy's little princess you know she won a couple little misprincess pageants when she was little and very proud that girl she's very beautiful so Bambi I love you and give my grandbabies kisses and hugs for me so that being said I hope everyone has a safe and happy new year drink responsibly and you'll have a good time and let's make 2021 one of the best years ever okay so listen guys I'm gonna get off here now and I'm gonna say she bears admit the man alleged I'm gone for now y'all have a happy and safe and prosperous new year we'll see you soon bye bye


Welcome to Spotlight! I'm Colin Lover and I'm Katie Blake. Spotlight uses a special English method of broadcasting. It is easier for people to understand no matter where in the world they live. During World War II, American and British forces bombed the city of Dresden, Germany.  The bombs also destroyed many works of art, literature and music. A short time after the war, a musician named Remo Giazzotto was in Dresden. He was looking through the remains of old buildings. He found some pieces of paper with notes on them. They were directions for playing music. Giazzotto believed it was music by the famous 18th century musician Albinoni. But Giazzotto only found part of the music. So he looked at the rest of Albinoni's musical pieces. He used these to complete the piece of music he found. Most experts think that Giazzotto wrote the music himself. But people still call the music Albinoni's Adagio. This song became a symbol. It shows that beauty can survive through conflict and war. Albinoni's Adagio became even more famous during another war. In 1992, enemies surrounded the European city of Sarajevo. A musician named Vedron Smilovic played Albinoni's Adagio in the street. He played often, even though it was very dangerous. Today's spotlight is on the actions and influence of the cellist Vedron Smilovic. In the 1990s, the former country of Yugoslavia experienced a terrible conflict. Different ethnic groups in the country fought each other for control. For more than three and a half years, the city of Sarajevo was under siege. Enemy soldiers completely surrounded the city. They blocked important supplies coming in. Citizens could not leave Sarajevo. It was the longest siege in the history of modern war. Thousands of people died during the siege of Sarajevo. They could not get enough food or medical care. Many people were also killed by snipers. Sniper soldiers with guns hid in buildings. They shot people from far away, including children. Bombs also destroyed people's homes and city hospitals. And like Dresden, Sarajevo lost a lot of important cultural property. Before the siege, Sarajevo had many wonderful artists and musicians. One important musician was named Vedron Smilovic. He played a large stringed instrument called the cello. When the siege began, Smilovic was hopeful about peace. He did not believe that the siege would last a long time. But on May 27th 1992, something changed him. It was difficult to find food in Sarajevo at this time. One morning, many people stood in a long line. They were waiting for fresh bread at one of the last working bakeries. Suddenly, soldiers fired a bomb into the middle of the line. It killed 22 people and injured many others. After this tragic event, Vedron Smilovic decided to use his cello to protest the war. Smilovic held the large cello between his knees. With one hand he pressed four long strings. Smilovic's other hand pulled a long straight bow over the strings. He played beautiful music in the middle of the war. The song he played was Albinones Adagio. Smilovic played this song every day for 22 days. Each day represented one person who was killed at the bakery. Albinones Adagio was a fitting piece of music to play. The history of the song was like Smilovic's act. It presented something beautiful in the middle of death and destruction. It was a song of hope. Every day Smilovic chose a different place to play. He played in the middle of a street or in a ruined home or a bombed building. He even dressed up in a formal suit. This was the same suit that he used to wear to play for famous people. Smilovic talked to a BBC reporter Malcolm Brabant. He told Brabant that he wanted to make the world remember these people. I play for the dead people. They are my friends. It is in my city. In my street. It is in my country. I play for my dead friends. And I play for the future. For a better future. It will be, I'm sure. Smilovic did not stop playing his cello after his 22 day protest. He would often play at funerals. In August of 1992, bombs completely destroyed the National and University Library of Bosnia and Herzegovina. This library was the centre of knowledge and culture for the whole area. Smilovic also played his cello in the remains of the destroyed library. In 1993 Smilovic escaped from Sarajevo. But his courage gave many people hope. David Wilde is an English musician. He wrote a song for the cello called cellist of Sarajevo. The song was about Smilovic. In 1994 the world famous cellist Yo-Yo Ma performed this song. He played it at the International Cello Festival in England. When Yo-Yo Ma finished playing, he remained bowed over his instrument. The whole room was very quiet. Then Yo-Yo Ma stood up and raised his hand. To everyone's surprise, Vedran Smilovic walked forward. He had been watching the performance. Musician Paul Sullivan was there. He described it later in Hope magazine. The emotion was unbelievable. Everyone jumped to their feet, cheering loudly, crying, shouting and putting their arms around each other. It carried us away in a huge wave of emotion. And in the centre of it stood these two men holding each other, both crying freely. Vedran Smilovic's example continues to give people courage in times of war and conflict. In April of 2015 a car bomb killed several people in Baghdad, Iraq. It was 20 years after the Siege of Sarajevo. Karim Wasfi is an Iraqi musician. He played his cello at the place of the bombing. We end today's program with Wasfi's moving words. He told the BBC, I want to bring beauty in the life of Iraq now. Music is one of the most important ways to do that. I cannot stop the bombs with my cello. But I will continue to make music to show life is still worth experiencing and living. The writer of this program was Jen Hawkins. The producer was Bruce Gulland. The voices you heard were from the United States and the United Kingdom. All quotes were adapted for this program and voiced by Spotlight. You can listen to this program again and read it on the internet at www.radioenglish.net. This program is called Music in War. Tell us what you think about today's program. You can leave a comment on our website or email us at radio at radioenglish.net and find us on Facebook. Just search for Spotlight Radio. We hope you can join us again for the next Spotlight program. Goodbye.


Alasky, thank you very much Minister Reznikov and thank you for yet again. The latest weapon that the United Kingdom has supported Ukraine in using and indeed acquiring is the Storm Shadow Deep Strike missile, and while it is the first long-range missile supplied to Ukraine by its allies, we supplied it because of Russia's constant use of its long-range weapons to target civilians and civilian critical national infrastructure against all international law and the Geneva Conventions, and despite being requested by me back in December not to do this, they have continued to indiscriminately kill and target Ukraine, people in Ukraine. Ukraine's right under the United Nations Charter to defend itself is indisputable and in that self-defense from an illegal act it has every right to ask for support from its friends and allies, and international law applies to us all, it doesn't just apply to some, and so Russia is discovering that the allies of Ukraine will stand by them in that self-defense and provide whatever support they need from anti-tank missiles to tanks to Storm Shadow and now even F-16s. President Putin must realise he cannot win this illegal war he started, and no matter how many Russian soldiers he sends to their deaths out of his ego and imperial ambition he will not succeed and the international community will only get stronger in their opposition to this aggression. We will always be standing by Ukraine and not only through this war but long afterwards.