When we use the term management, it may be for any organization, not only for profit making organization, but the same principles can be applied to a not profit making organization means when NGO, hospital, educational institution, any organization we can apply the management principles మాయాస్ని నియా ప్లిల్నాస్నినిని ని఩ మిసిసానియూనిని నినాస్ని మిసాందరి క౿ంది సిషిాలిలాసి. There is no variation in the nature of management. All functions can be applied to any organization. So, let us start with the first function of management, number 1 that is planning. Let us start with the function of planning. So, in management we have planning, then number 2 we will discuss. Number 3 is stuffing and then directing and lastly the controlling function of management. All these functions we will discuss now. So, let us start with the first one that is planning. So, in a very simple way we can define the plan or the planning. Means it bridges the gap between the present and the future. Where we are today and where we want to go in the future is linked by this planning. Means we have to plan the future course of action to achieve the objectives. The objectives that we have set for the organization. So, in the planning aspect or the planning function we have to set the objectives. Break down the objectives into goals and for achieving this we have to formulate the strategies. These are all part of planning. Means a manager have to set the objectives for the organization. And accordingly you have to set the strategies for the achievement of these objectives. So, in this aspect strategies may be different. Means we have different options to achieve a particular set of objectives. Now the manager job is to select the most efficient strategy to achieve the set objectives. In terms of time, may be in terms of cost, may be in terms of organizational resources available etc. So, these are the various factors that a manager considers while formulating a plan. So, planning also involves decision making. So, in our daily life we often make some plans. For example, suppose in the evening we have a plan to go for a movie. So, that is a very simple kind of plan. But in case of a very large organization consider an M&C where the planning purpose take a very high degree of time of a particular executive, particular manager in framing the objectives, framing the goals and strategies for his organization. So, this function is very important from managerial aspect. So, it is a first function. And on the efficiency of plan, on the effectiveness of plan the whole organizational success depends to a great extent. Because in planning we have to consider both external as well as internal factors. And accordingly we have to move with the plan, with the strategies that we have set. So, now let us discuss the second function of management. It is organizing. So, we use the term organization in this way. So, if we use the term organization it refers to an entity. Organizing is a process. The continuous process involves various steps. Then again it is a group of people. Means if there is an organization there are some people working in the organization. And with these people the whole organization will run. And thus structure. Structure means there is an organizational structure. That organizational structure is for the flow of authority and responsibility. So, organizing is a process of dividing the whole organization into some sections or some divisions or departments or brands. Means the total organization is divided into some small sections so that the work can be divided. Means the application of principle or division of labor. So, the whole organization has been divided into some sections. Somewhere that may be known as departments, somewhere that may be known as divisions etc. So, by dividing the whole organization we are dividing the whole line of activity, whole the objectives and assigning each part of the work to a particular department or particular sections. So, this particular section will have people, this particular department will have some other people. So, each person will be responsible for his particular work. And if that particular person performs his work carefully then all other works can be united together. And the objectives that we have set in the planning process can be achieved by the organization. So, organizing simply is the division of the whole organization dividing the organization into small groups. And accordingly the work is assigned to each individual and departments and like that the whole organization work are done and the objectives are going to be achieved by that particular organization. So, let's start the third function of management. So, we have discussed planning as a function of management. Next we have discussed organization, organizing and the third one is stuffing. It is concerned with the human resource that an organization has. So, definitely it includes certain aspects like HR plan. So, at the beginning we have discussed planning as a managerial function. Then again here we are doing the planned planning that is HR plan, human resource plan. So, we have to calculate the inventory. Inventory means the stock items that we have or the stock item that we are going to place order. In case of HR planning, HR inventory means the people we have, the skill we have and what type of skill we may need in the coming future. So, this have to be calculated and we have to make a plan. So, it is the planning for the human resource, the resource that we are getting for the organization. Then some other aspects covered are job analysis, recruitment, selection, etc. All these aspects will be covered by the stuffing aspect. So, this is particularly important because if we have a plan, if we have an organization means all the physical resources are available, the organization has been properly divided but if there is no human being to run the organization, how the organization will achieve these objectives. Considering this thing, the stuffing is very important because in stuffing function the manager have to deal with his superiors, the manager have to deal with his subordinates and the dealing must be in the proper form so that he can achieve the set objectives. So, he have to motivate his subordinates, he have to provide a good leadership providing good leadership, he will be able to move the human resources of the organization and accordingly the main team of the management that is getting things done by others can be performed by the manager. So, next we will discuss number 4 function directing. Here a manager have to direct the human resource, direct his subordinates. He have to provide the guidance, how to do the work, how to achieve the objectives of the organization. So, in planning the set objectives in organizing, he organized the whole organization by dividing into departments, into sections, stuffing, he recruited people and in directing function he have to provide the guidance because without guidance how his subordinates will move for the achievement of the organizational objectives. So, this particular function of management is concerned with the guidance means he have to provide the leadership, he have to motivate, he have to in the light of organizational objectives he have to guide all the human resource that he have recruited for the organization for the achievement of the organizational objectives. So, this is important because it is also concerned with directing of human resource as well as directing of the physical resources of the organization. So, these are the four that we have discussed and we have another important aspect functions that is number 5, number 5 function of management that is controlling. So, we have discussed some other functions like planning, organizing, stuffing, directing and it is time to discuss about controlling. So, controlling is an important function of management and if we have a plan we must have control. So, if we are planning for a particular target, we are formulating a particular strategy to achieve a particular objective, we must have some control. Control means how will detect any deviations from the planning. In planning we set the objectives and we formulate the strategies. Whether these strategies are performing well to achieve these objectives at the same time this have to be calculated, this have to be compared. So, that is connected with controlling means in the mid of performing our task we have to see whether we are performing well, whether we are performing in terms of the achievements to be achieved, whether we are formulating these strategies properly. So, these are the certain aspects that will be covered in this important function of management that is controlling. So, controlling is concerned with four important aspects. So, I can now please now related aspects that we have talked about. Number 1, establishment of standards. Standard means the objective that we have set in the planning stage. Number 1 means we have set the objectives, we have established the standards how we will perform what we are going to achieve. Then number 2 is measurement. Measurement of performance means we are continually measuring our performance. We are evaluating our performance. We are acting on the base of these standards and at this moment we are seeing whether we are performing according to the same standards or not. So, we are measuring our performance on the base of these same standards. And number 3, now you compare. Number 3, compare. Compare between the same standards and the performance. So, it is a comparison. So, controlling is comparing. So, if there are results of the comparison, so that there are some deviations from the set standards, set objectives, then we have to take some corrective actions. So, corrective actions. So, within this particular functions that is controlling, the completion is pertaining to the set standards of the organization. Same standards means the objectives. The targets we have given to the subordinates. The targets we have given to our production department. We are reviewing the assessment. If it is according to our set standards, then the organization can run smoothly. And it is going on to achieve the target. If there are some deviations, then the job of manager is to take the corrective action to correct the deviation. So, that we can achieve the long term objective, the organizational strategies. So, this is all about controlling aspect of management. So, it is the important function because if we have a plan, if we have the organization structure, we have the organization. If we have the people, if we have properly directed them, then why we will not be able to achieve the objectives. So, that is important and we have to continuously monitor our resources, our functions, our performance. So, this is connected with the controlling function of management. So, these are the main functions of management that we have discussed. So, let us quickly summarize the things. Today, our topic of discussion was the functions of management. Where we have discussed planning, number one. Number two, organizing. Number three, staffing concerned with human resource. Number four, direction. And number five that we have just discussed is controlling aspect. So, these are the five functions of management. So, today our topic of discussion was functions of management. We are closing it today. And we will discuss some other topics in some other day. Thank you very much.


Let's say there are two major parties in your city. Imagine that you like one better than the other, so we're going to call them the good party and the bad party. Here's the good news. The good party has a 10-point advantage in your city and wins most elections. The bad news is that your city uses plurality voting. And the upcoming election for mayor has three candidates. And you really like the independent candidate this time. Even though he's your favorite choice, you know you can't vote for him. If he takes too many votes away from the good candidate, that would cause the worst candidate to win. Wouldn't it be great if your city used a voting system that didn't have this problem? How about instant runoff voting? Then you can vote for your favorite. With instant runoff, when your ideal candidate gets eliminated, your vote moves over to help the good candidate win. That's great, right? But what happens when your ideal candidate does even better? What if he actually beats your second choice and your second choice gets eliminated? Unfortunately, that puts us completely at the mercy of these voters that we have no control over. Those who voted for the good candidate. And who did they put for their second choice? It would be nice if they had all put our ideal candidate second, but they didn't. It takes only one-fifth of them putting the bad candidate second for him to win this election. What happened here? Doesn't instant runoff eliminate the spoiler problem? It turns out that putting your favorite first in instant runoff is only safe when your candidate is very strong or has no chance at all. In between, there's a good chance he will have to face your least favorite candidate before he's ready. In this way, putting your favorite candidate first can cause your least favorite candidate to win. Ouch. In fact, if you and some of your fellow idealist supporters had forgotten to show up, then your favorite candidate would have been eliminated, but your second favorite candidate would have won. Does this problem happen in every election? No. This does not happen in every scenario. It doesn't happen this way when the third candidate pulls supporters from both of the major candidates equally, but it does happen whenever he pulls mostly from one and not the other. Hmm. To me, that sounds like a lot of the three-way elections in America. What about later no harm? Instant runoff advocates are fond of quoting the later no harm principle. Adding a second choice, third choice, or more to your ranking will never hurt your first choice. Guess what? This is completely true. But note how carefully it's worded. It never says that it's safe to put your favorite candidate for your first choice. With instant runoff voting, your first choice has to be a safe candidate. Someone who can beat your least favorite. Putting your favorite candidate first might cause your second choice to get eliminated and your third choice to win. So later no harm is great, but it's not a promise that it's safe to put your favorite first. Be careful voting for your favorite with instant runoff voting. You might eliminate the strongest candidates and cause your least favorite candidate to win. If you want a voting system that avoids this problem, then you care about the favorite betrayal criterion. The favorite betrayal criterion says, voters can never get a worse result by expressing the maximum support for their favorite candidate. Approval voting is one system that passes the favorite betrayal criterion. Look for more information about this criterion and about approval voting in a later video.


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Hello and welcome back to the craft box. My name is Brent and today We are looking at the best ways to get amber and it was a better one. Amber is probably one of the rarest Reagents to find and the way that I get most of mine or all of mine really is through King Parsley's as you can see I have a Bad not not a big size, but like a decent King Parsley farm and it is expanding Every single time I harvest things because we get extra we've already got eight Double double Dudley double gardening rewards helps as well You can get extra seeds and extra stuff and that also goes for make evil magma peas and catch potatoes, which I haven't planted again But yeah, I was gonna hope I was hoping that I could really harvest them in this video But some of them have two hours left So yeah, we're not gonna be able to do that But one of the best ways that people recommend is to get a King Parsley farm King Parsley's You're kind of difficult to get You can sometimes get them from mobs and the other way is through I believe just a ground shop from memory Yeah, just a ground shop You can get them from a whole bunch of things that drop them as well. So Yeah They cost how much do they even cost like that is a great question catch potatoes King Parsley 75 750 crowns for one. So I mean, it's not bad. It's not bad 750 for one plant It's better than evil making peas and catch potatoes. That's for sure But you can also get a couple just randomly. I originally started off with I think three two of them are over here now Dead for my catch potato farm rip As you know, only one of them. Oh, I must have harvested the other one only one of them and Then I just plant the rest and I've slowly grown a Collection of them and it is growing Slowly each time. Hopefully. Well, I know these guys will be ready by the time double guarding finishes So get more they are extremely loud But that is not the only way to get amber That is just a great way to do it. You also get gold and other things like Other reagents as well, which is useful But the other way to do it is in Wizard City if you head over to Aquila I was really hoping that I had a teleport or somewhere, but I don't think I do right that is to chrysalis Yep, that's chrysalis So yeah, it's gonna take a wee while to get there, but I'll explain the other place that people tend to farm for amber is Cronus and gladiator Cronus is in Tartarus and gladiator is in Mount Olympus I think they're both the same sort of level from memory. Let me just check that real quick for you Gladiator Is not there But I'm just a second just a second No way, wait, wait, seriously, where is it? Where is it? Let's just show all of them. Oh Yes Where is gladiator gladiator is all right right, I Can't find him Interesting, but gladiator Demetrius. I believe also drops Amber as well But Cronus, what am I even thinking of? Cronus yeah Cronus and Tartarus not Cronus and dragon's fire is a cheating boss who is Kind of difficult I'll probably do a video just about him, but he also drops the alphan omega and Blade of the Fel Titan is that correct? I think it is Yeah, blade of the Fel Titan he drops exalted mastery amulets and He doesn't drop the alpha omega But he drops a bit blade of the Fel Titan Gladiator drops alphan omega I believe I believe that's how it goes one of them drops one and the other drops the other I'm I can't remember, but I'm pretty sure that is but they also drop amber It's quite a rare drop, but it's useful. How much currently I have quite a bit of amber I've got two already on this character. I've got about four in my shared bank and then a couple on my death wizard and Amber is actually one of the Well, probably the hardest reagent to get because you need it to craft spells Which is why it's very important to have it Especially for when you're about to craft spells obviously Which is why I'm collecting it currently at the moment because I'm currently looking to collect To craft a whole bunch of spells so gladiator is in Mount Olympus up here I Can probably show you where he is in here. Actually not take too long, but he's in there He's underneath The wee little area where eras golden apple is I think that's her name pretty sure that's her name We have to play the chess game You don't have to play the chest aim You don't have to do any of the dungeon just go right through through that area and into the wee little Doors at the back and you get to the pit of Nox I which is where he is and then there's also Cronus and Tartarus. I haven't done Tartarus on any of my wizards So I'm not a hundred percent sure where he is, but he's in Tartarus somewhere. He's hiding. He's hiding in there So yeah, that's something you can farm for Amber. There's also a transmute I believe which costs a Thing called Amber dust yeah five amber dust five nose whisker fifteen Sunstone and ten gold pearl and you can get that from Shane to make goldman and Avalon so Yeah I'll have videos on the other reagents mentioned there like golden pearl Sunstone amber dust and nose whisker In the coming days when I kind of figure out the best way to get some of those Amber dust will probably be next since I like to go through alphabetically But yeah, anyway, I'm gonna end off this video here. I don't want it to be too too long But thank you for watching room to like and subscribe and if you've already subscribed press the wee little bell So you know exactly when I post another video and remember craft outside the box


A number of artificial sweeteners have been FDA approved in North America, including aspartame and sucralose, sold as splinda. But there are also natural high-intensity sweeteners found in plants. The global market for non-nutritive sweeteners in general, these non-caloric sweeteners, is in the billions, including all the artificial ones, and two natural ones extracted from plants— stevia and monk fruit. I've done a video about stevia. What about monk fruit? Fruits of Luohanguo, monk fruit in Chinese, have evidently been used for hundreds of years as a natural sweetener in folk medicine. The non-caloric sweet taste comes from magricides, a group of cucurbitane-type churipine glycosides, make about 1% of the fruit, and are like hundreds of times sweeter than sugar. The mixed magricides have been estimated to be about 300 times sweetest table sugar, such that an 80% extract was nearly 250 times sweeter than sugar. If you read reviews in Chinese natural medicine journals, you'll see pronouncements like this. Monk fruit has been shown to have anti-coffing effects, anti-asma, antioxidation, liver protection, blood sugar lowering, immunoregulation, and anti-cancer.  A natural food sweetener with anti-pancreatic cancer properties? Monk fruit may be used for daily consumption as an additive in foods and drinks to prevent or treat pancreatic cancer. Yeah, maybe in your pet mouse. And the anti-proliferative activity of monk food in colorectal cancer and throat cancer was on colorectal and throat cancer cells in a petri dish.  Look, our digestive tract could be directly exposed to these compounds if we ate them, but what's missing? Right, they didn't test it against normal cells.  I mean, the whole point is to find something that kills off cancer but leaves normal cells alone, something that they weren't able to show here. Are there any human studies on monk fruit? No, until now. Owing to the rapidly growing popularity of natural plant-based sweeteners, they thought it would be of interest to determine whether natural sweeteners would be a healthier alternative to sugar or artificial sweeteners. So, they randomized people to drink an aspartame sweetened beverage versus monk fruit sweetened, versus stevia versus table sugar. And then they measured blood sugars over 24 hours, and there was no significant difference found between any of them. But wait a second. The sugar group was given 16 spoonfuls of sugar, the amount of added sugar on a 20-ounce bottle of Coke. So, the other three groups consumed 16 less spoonfuls of sugar and still had the same average blood sugars? But table sugar caused a big blood sugar spike. Here it is, I'll show you. Drink that bottle of sugar water with its 20 sugar cubes worth of sugar, and your blood sugars jump 40 points of the next hour. Whereas you give an aspartame sweetened beverage or a monk fruit or stevia, and nothing happens, which is what you'd expect, right? I mean, these are non-caloric sweeteners, no calories. It's just like you're drinking water, right? So, how could your daily blood sugar values average out the same? I mean, the only way that could happen is if the non-calorie sweeteners maybe made your blood sugar spikes worse somehow later in the day? Look what happens when you give people Splenda mixed with sugar water. You get a greater blood sugar spike, a greater insulin spike chugging the sugar with sucralose than without, even though Splenda alone causes no spike of its own. So, does aspartame do the same thing? At the one hour mark, they fed people a regular lunch, and so the blood sugars went back up and down as they normally would after a meal, not spiking as high as drinking straight sugar water, just a gentle up and down. Okay, but that was in the group that drank the sugar an hour before. In the group that drank the aspartame, even though their blood sugars didn't rise at the time, an hour later at lunch, they shot up higher as if the person had just drank a bottle of soda. Okay, but what about the natural sweetener stevia and monk fruit? Same thing, same exaggerated blood sugar spike to a regular meal taken an hour later. So you can see how it all equals out in terms of average blood sugars, even though in these three non-caloric sweetener groups, they took in 16 spoonfuls less sugar, at least in part because they ate more after drinking a diet coke.  In fact, so much more that the energy saved from replacing sugar with non-caloric sweeteners was fully compensated for at a subsequent meal, hence no difference in total daily calorie intake was found. The sugar sweetened beverage led to large spikes in both blood sugar and insulin, whereas these responses were higher for the three other beverages following the lunch later. So when it came to calorie intake or blood sugars or insulin spikes, they were all just as bad.


g else um i'll just say that i am appreciative of everything that's been said um we've talked about this i think before um i don't see anything in here that's changed other than what we've asked for um totally here we were coming from and i've just really restate that i think that i'd like to move this forward and at the same time have the conversation about what we do with building height and let the project that's coming down down the road that fortunate enough to have coming from cc crpc um help us with that and if we could talk about whether we try to push that forward with our planning commission but we haven't we haven't as i said before we haven't really engaged the community hasn't been part of this conversation throughout the process for this land development code it's almost two years now um so i've i'd feel uncomfortable adding in at this point without that engagement and when marcus was talking everybody was talking i was thinking of you know auspicing the change in the system and we haven't had a chance to even have the conversation so while i understand completely the importance i think we need to respect the community's ability to also get there um and help them there um understanding that we may not get them there but at least we we uh put the time in to to do that so if nobody has anything else and if being late i'm going to see if anyone has a motion um if if we're feeling like we want to move this forward tonight or if anybody still has burning questions that um or issues that they want and one thing we haven't done yet because there were interviews and we haven't had an opportunity but is there anyone in attendance or anyone online that has a comment or question on this that wants to offer that now sir come on if you could just say your name for the word uh steven willy petnos um i think andy you mentioned a study a parking study in 2019 out of curiosity did that take into account winter versus summer parking because the rules are different i want to see if it flows out of the document tonight okay okay and it occurred to me that um daytime parking is good for business but overnight parking is good for residents so you know we if we don't have overnight parking you know it's the winter rules that matter because that's the most constrained thank you thank you racy you have your hand up and changing line hi thank you okay it sort of applies but sort of doesn't i'm curious if there is a deadline timeline whatever on building and construction permits once they're approved did that approve the losses for perpetuity or is there some sort of if it wasn't done within a time frame they're looked at again so the zoning permits themselves uh typically they have a one-year expiry although if construction is ongoing uh renewals are are possible extensions are possible um a lot of uh you know we have we have projects which seem to take forever out there where where uh the approvals are given one year and several years down the line it looks like nothing's happening uh sometimes what's happening is uh is act 250 um and environmental remediation uh that can take years um in some cases um but we do follow but yeah in terms of uh permit expiries there are there are certainly um expiries that are um that's uh that are applicable uh they're in the land development code thank you okay i don't see anyone else online or in the room so what are people feeling no Andrew's already expressed his opinion okay Marcus are you ready for that because the option was to i i think i was prepared to wait until the next week for what i i think i think because of the fact that i think there's some of this discussion needs to be gooseed up a bit to be honest i don't understand this like i want to hear more from the community on this while we got feedback on the survey i have not heard a lot of community and i know that this is probably your experience typically is to not hear from more than about a dozen people there are issues like the height which have have in the casual discussions that i've had with residents seems to really get them fired up but i don't know that we've put a focal light on some of these things publicly i know that and i mean that from up i don't maybe i need to put a facebook post out there and go i'm looking at putting 10 stories in the middle of the village center in order to try to get some more thoughtful public discussion i'm just also trying to find that middle ground from what i think you were saying earlier about on a topic like that trying to again use the planning commission to through our strategic planning to help guide us into that place um to the middle ground about making a call tonight and i'm you know can i just ask the question yeah go ahead i don't understand yeah this if we improve this package as is now today it makes the building tonight's in the village center the same it just stays at four nothing changes so and like andrew pointed out that there aren't any buildings in the village center that would be impacted by that automatic bonus for extra so we're we're talking about approving all of the changes that we're not touching building night at all right now is that correct correct okay so i think it's correct so yeah the bonus height is in but it's it's it's basic it's based on the uh if you meet the state requirements so it's definitely not applicable to us right now it could be a new applicant could take advantage of that okay right but we but again we've been told that's what we will do right so that really isn't a question so it's sort of a move right and and well the difference there is it's a matter of time we could that doesn't have to kick in until December of 24 we're choosing in this right now if we did this tonight to make that now um but again a project would have to come forward to qualify right so i just want to i i completely understand what you're saying about wanting to have robust community conversation around the building but i'm not seeing making the connection between approving this approving this package and not having a conversation because if we approve the package the heights just is status quo and then we can proceed to have a robust conversation with the community as part of our strategic planning process about building and so i'm not sure why um we would want to hold this up because there are timing issues with it and we could also still have that conversation it's just not this time i think for me right now because of how i'm feeling and i'm thinking about this i would like to see it changed in this current ldc i mean i would say i will i want to accept this ldc but with the add-on that it's six stories not forced like i'm right now how i feel that's where that's modification i'm going to change um and again that's why i'm slightly hesitant to insist on that in this particular moment versus putting that out there saying that and then seeing if there's any feedback and i don't know and amber i don't want to put you on the spot but you know i think i know where two of us sit and i know we're the other i well let's hold on for that maybe i'm wrong but um you know the response i would have to that is it's all the respect that's written um and i actually go where you're coming from you're asking about more public input but you want to put it in without and skip the two the one we're spending money on um this this fall summer and fall that process plus one we're getting a grant to engage community and the public and the administration to explore more specifically in the city where a lot of that would be appropriate and how it would look um so we've got opportunities that we both got grants for and those are paying for to drive that engagement and get that thoughtful purposeful intentional conversation going with potentially you know examples and mock-ups um versus you know this and if if the board had intended the pc to to look at building height two years ago or two and a half years ago we would have said please include this and that i can guarantee would have brought people to the pc which they probably would have appreciated that's not my recollection of what happened and my understanding is that they didn't do it because they thought we would say no or something like that i'll speak for that but it didn't come up it didn't come it didn't come up in the sense that we don't see it i guess that's the only thing it's um so i understand what you're saying you know there's a builder that's asking us to to pass this but they're not eligible in that project for that extra story because they're outside the center district um that's actually that's for the extra if you don't have an extra story from not for affordable housing right but for just just the general extra extra space yeah it wouldn't impact that project i suppose it could impact the one that's coming on napal but i would actually have a problem with putting an extra story on that based on what's right around it but so you know and so with a lot of the community i think based on where that's being tucked in so you know this is where it's not so simple to say just do it because we've got a lot of these little tiny piano key lots and is that what we want nobody's had that conversation it wasn't part of the sort of it wasn't part of the average street dog so get it doing this tonight we have another set of weeks we can put it off it doesn't preclude us from ramping that conversation and prepping the community for engagement or asking the pc to to add it to their list you know for their meetings to kind of say here's what we would have said if we knew it was a priority for you um so we had that background and then finish it that's my that's my input on it i don't know amber what are you thinking i don't know i guess confused and you all know could be that it's not a very good night too could be could be i guess my question would be what is the downsides to not approving it tonight are there any and leading to that next hearing and trying to have some public some additional public comment on the right um the downside is just that there are when we're in a position of two um ldc's the actual one and the warned one it's just more work on the community development office to um work people through those two different um two different ldc's um and just more uh time and effort on your agendas for this topic what we've got other topics but outside of that um no major downside and i guess i'll mention it's it's effort but it's also there is a you know there is a slight implication on on applications going through uh and during this period between uh the the final approval like between the proposal and final proposal approval we have to evaluate everything on the tougher of the two standards uh the more restrictive of the two standards so um yeah you get none of the benefits but uh but uh all of the additional costs um as an applicant going through right now yes if you had the if you had a preference if we were to approve this tonight but then have a discussion at a later time a month from now two months not from now whatever to revise the height um what would be your position being would it be that it makes more sense to just wait a month and have that discussion and then adopt it or adopt it now and then have a other discussion and adopt and amend again in six months or three months or whatever happens to me well i can tell you the whole amendment process if you start from the beginning does take uh yeah it takes a long time and uh there are many layers to it um you know an an additional public hearing at this point isn't isn't all that onerous in terms of like a staff time and and uh evaluating um yeah these existing proposals based on the tougher to i think it does change uh you know the position uh the the uh the the conversation going forward like for example if if the if we're talking about six stories and if this uh you know the village center and this goes forward the TOD study is still going to be uh you know helpful um in that we're talking about how how you know how density can be laid out through uh you know out in the uh five main corridors and uh how the how policy can be further refined to shape what's uh what is built in terms of uh uh what are zone future zoning bylaws and perhaps form based code might might allow um i mean i i i'm not in a position to really give an opinion here but and yeah i'm i i think we can work with either options as staff can i jump in for a second member yeah i think chris touched on something that has come up in a couple conversations um and that is it's well for me it's becoming increasingly concerned that we don't have a lot of say over how and we saw a lot of that in the comments we don't have in our even in this lbc rewrite all of the i'll call it control but that's not quite the right word that we may want in terms of how these buildings look and how they go together and where they're placed and they look like you know and i think i worry that if we put this in there without having some guardrails and some of that ability to say yes please build six or seven stories and please have it fit into our community this we still want to make sure the developers can do it and and do it in a way that might actually make sense but we also as a community have i think a right to say that we want this is how we want to take a look and there's given take there but right now i'm not confident that we have all of that and i think i read a lot of that in the comments you know first mentioned a couple you know but if you're going to put people in boxes you might as well make them look good we don't have a lot of ability right now to make them look good even with this rewrite we don't have a lot of ability to do that and if we say go put six stories up without also taking the opportunity to say and please make them fit into our community this way or layer them from the boundary into the middle and then layer them back down again the next boundary then i think we're going to probably be sorry and we can wait on this i don't think that anybody in this room in June and July where the holiday in the middle is going to really have time to do any significant engagement this issue i tell you i will have enough at this point to do that kind of engagement so i'm not trying to convince people against the story thing i'm just not sure what the i'm not sure i just don't agree with putting it in this particular situation i'm completely welcome to conversation jen real quick though the drb has designed overlay authority with the build center correct they already do this right so we have the capability to tell developers and to have some say on the design that's our drb right but we don't have it to the point i think that we could and that's the level of my knowledge on it so i will stop but the way it's been explained to me is there's a difference between what we have and i'll stop there maybe maybe you want to kind of try to explain a little better so design review we have in the village center and it has worked well it is what we are expanding out to the trunk routes but it is incredibly subjective there really are not a lot of standards in there and it's difficult for new staff and a new drb to figure out how to really use that subjectivity in a good good way um form-based codes as examples in other communities um really bring uh can sort of get some of that subjectivity out of there and you can much better define what you actually want to see um and those kinds of tools can really help um think about the impact that you might have when you start to go taller so i think it's a better tool that we will have it is through the chitin and county regional planning commission transit oriented development project it is uh two years out for sure and that is a lot of time so it's tricky this is a this is a tough this is a tough situation um because we will we won't have that quickly and it'll be two years of time um and the unfortunate thing is our survey no offense how the survey was done it's not well intended only reached or only had seven percent of respondents being renters yeah wouldn't we have a community that is 41 percent rental renters yeah and i'll mention that too yeah well uh the TOD study the completion of that being being probably two years out uh means that if there are policy changes uh that come out of that it will take even longer in the space of time that we have to wait for that study to be initiated initiated and completed and we still have community conversations and stress and focus groups you know whatever it is we decide to do just to talk about this this question we can still do this yeah and i think the first whole year of the project art is that that's the real engagement and visioning and then this second part of the year is creating that into whatever code you want to see it implemented so that work is then presented to the pc and they can either accept it modified a little bit and we know yes that process takes a while but we managed to deal with the cannabis and too much so if they produce a mostly ready made template it needs not going to speak for the PC they're careful review it's not going to probably be a whole year especially if they're engaged on it we don't want to be rid of repostulating i mean no idea so um i think i'm really great now to it going fast yeah if so i'd like very much like to i you know it's it's getting of course close to ten and we're halfway through the night so why don't we who wants to we'll either table it or i'll take a motion we'll see how it goes um i'm not gonna worry too much about um we can do a straw ball marcus i think i would like to wait until the next week all right a lane uh i'm happy voting on it tonight okay my decision to change other way amber i'm happy to leave oh goodness all right so just a just a nobody gets candy so just to point out on this direction um waiting with the intention of an edit we need staff direction tonight um if we get direction next meeting about what amendment you want we are uh hitting up against the time frame where this kicks all back to the planning commission i'm not sure if the benefit of waiting is to be we're we're not we're not asking staff to do something right i don't know we're gonna wait for that's fine all right well why don't we call the question anybody has a motion i'll move that the city council approve the full package of land development code amendments including the additional minor changes described in this memo and us any seconds i'll second it okay thanks amber um without further discussion we'll do this by roll up as amber's online um andrew name uh marcus name elaine hi hi amber hi and roge is hi so that carries three to two the motion is passed um great so it looks like we've approved the amendments um it sounds like what we want to do is to keep a conversation going find a structure for that conversation around our options on on increasing building height again we talked about a lot of them tonight and i think we should come back to it sooner than later to see if the board wants to wait or find another avenue to to get that moving i don't think that's settled i think we should keep talking about it yes i would just also request that staff as you hear from developers and potential developers about the the build center if you would please let them know about this kind of conversation that we just had about the transit oriented development grant that's coming down the line and ask that as the pressing connector comes through if they'd be willing to wait and to see how this process plays out on those buildings coming up they're going to last 70 plus years so it's when it comes in it should be done right and if they want to not just add to that if they want to engage in any way um that i think that would be welcome um i think and that goes for any of them you know there are questions or concerns i think we should hear them um and talk about them all right um 60 discussion and consideration of park ordinance amendments all right we got brad here let me share what i've marked up version of the difference between what was evident you know it's completely different so it wasn't even possible we didn't even build off from the old ones they were kind of built off from the town ones so as you could see if you if you read the current ordinances they're um very much out of date they still reference the superintendent of schools and that's junction school district and so we really need to update them as you may recall there's been a few things going on with rec over the past few years there was a draft uh the the ones that are submitted before you today with some very minor changes were submitted to the joint um municipal administration in 20 it's either september of 2018 or 2019 and for a variety of reasons they never became they never came before the board but but our department and sx parks and recreation and the sx police department developed these back in 18 or 19 they were submitted um in the fall of one of those years we resubmitted them to the administration again in the fall of the next year and that's was fine the administration at the time was just prioritizing and there was a lot going on and they chose not to try and focus on shared parks ordinances so the village at the time kind of got left in the dust on that because with our change from school governance of parks and recreation to back to municipal management um we really didn't update ours so there was the town updated there's um their ordinances back in in 2019 so just it went through that whole process prior to these ones being updated we did inform greg and the police and sx parks and recreation that these were going to be coming before you obviously there's great advantage to pd to having ordinances that that blur the lines of the two municipalities because it's difficult for their officers to remember that certain parks you can do this and in certain ones you can't do that and so um so we informed them that these were coming forward greg said that he appreciated it that sx parks and recreation pd we're going to review the towns ordinances i also sent them this version um we haven't heard back from them so i don't know where they're at in this process i looked at their last few agendas i haven't seen anything that's come up um so all of that is um part of your conversation and decision as to how to move forward so elaine just to your point if it's okay raj so i think the big things as i look through i highlighted you know maybe four or five significant things um that i think would be noteworthy number one 301 defines the actual parks so before they weren't enumerated now they are 303 10 animals there's now an exception for dogs currently dogs are not permitted in city parks this proposal is to allow them to be in city parks it gives some discretion to the parks and rec department in part f in 310 to post signage around certain areas where we don't want dogs so for example we would put those around playground areas we would put them on enclosed baseball field areas we would put them at the pool so there would be certain areas where yes you're coming to maple street to watch a little league game a football game you can walk on the path to get there you can sit in the bleachers to get there but you can't actually go into the playground area with the dog or you can't go into the baseball field that has gates that you can close and treat as a dog park and those kinds of things so i think if any you know there are certainly pros and cons to this and we can have that conversation if you want i think the reality that we see at maple street park is people do bring their dogs so we have two choices we can we can put our foot down and say this is really where we stand as a community which is fine you all have the right to do that and that would just change our mindset over there as to how we have to enforce that of course there's not staff on all hours of the day or every weekend and so inevitably there are days and times that people come with dogs and and there's nobody there to enforce that other than calling the police so this is our proposal and obviously we stand behind number 314 smoking prohibited if you actually look back at the current regs there's nothing about smoking in there surprisingly yes let's just talk because we're going to try to move through this a little bit let's talk about if anybody has any questions about anything so far yep i'm earlier well the list of parks right at the top the city city of xx junction and ejrp and we've got tree farm in there without a delineation boundaries and tree farm yeah parking so i don't know how they're going to feel about that because we don't i mean are we going to do we need to pull tree farm out and say it's jointly owned or are they going to well that i think that's part of your conversation my recommendation certainly is that it should be listed as a public park it's municipally no i mean as the public park but it seems to be listed under the city only well i don't think we have the right to list a town park um so i listed you own 50 acres of property on the on the tree farm recreational facility and your choice i think is to name it as a public park and therefore let it be governed by these the the rules that you imagine for all parks or to exclude it from listed as a public park i think then it poses a question as to what does govern it yeah i mean i'm not i'm not i that agree completely i'm just curious how well i want to pull it out as it's as it's a as a section a and say this this is also a public park but it's jointly owned so who knows we'll see how that goes sure and you know again just when these were originally drafted they were drafted with the three parties pd or epr any jrp we all agreed that it should be treated like a public park we all drafted the same ordinances so that when pd was on that property they wouldn't need to figure out where the boundary line yeah and the public park is isn't like you know absolutely it's for park well there's a finer point on the same question is so it says um it's all facilities the many parking lots and grounds within park boundaries except the boundary of the tree apartment there's is that including the parking lot even though that's in the town uh part of the parking lot is in the town and part of it is in is in the city oh okay thank you yeah this is not tree farm related um 301 a rh talks about trails and open spaces do you really want the open spaces i'm thinking about right near my neighbor right in my neighborhood on brickyard road there's a defined open space that's trails that have been put through there by people in the neighborhood that's i'm going to be on edrp to maintain there are the trails over by the widcom neighborhood um that's uh then you would be responsible need your responsible for maintaining i'm happy to take it out to be honest that that was a town added thing they they have lots more trails and open spaces and that was a an update that that they wanted to make um i if we don't want to cite that in the city i'm more than open to that well especially since it's not defined in the past um there had been a discussion at this table about the trails behind the widcom neighborhood and now the dunbar neighborhood and it was fairly contentious and it ended with the village wanted nothing to do with maintaining those trails so i think if that stays in here then there might be some assumptions in that neighborhood that oh these trails are going to be careful who wants to land yeah it's not an area for the comments i mean if we own it the majority of the ones that i've seen so far are not owned by the city they are owned by the in common by whatever development it was associated with it's it may be worth going back to that discussion from 2014 i'll say there was a there was a conversation about an easement and about whether ricky and pw should take care of should take care of that so there might be some documents somewhere but that then leads to the so who then does make sure that the trails and the open spaces are habitable and are what they are we don't even have a conversation today maybe somebody else could yeah i mean i think it's two different issues right the maintenance of them and then um the ordinances that govern them so those are probably some legal questions it's whether or not we can even impose those ordinances on property we don't own um and certainly not to answer the former part them we have no interest in yeah maintaining trails on somebody else's property um another question on 303 301 actually i have one last thing on 301 so again the west street dog park again talking about perceptions about whose land is what and who maintains what i can say as a person who used to dog park all the time i would like to see some updates some things that could really improve that space but as i understand it it's not owned by us therefore we don't we can't easily do much so i don't know if it's appropriate here or if that needs some other language that expresses yeah i mean is there is there an agreement with the does the state on that land we just have a park on it and we we have an agreement i'm assuming yeah we lease it um and we maintain it um so i think the the dog park itself um is a public park in my view we maintain it we lease the space and therefore the rules here would be enforceable and something that i would govern the property um but the parking at least definitely the parking lot's not so i mean i get that but again i guess it comes back to the point about is our exception reading this document about who has the controlling interest or stake or response for profit i think we should not just in the dog park but in the parking and that okay so with uh 303 we're going to move on from that is the the desire that a permit would be necessary for private uh the word use is in here in a fair environment that is so on the second line that any group six or more persons including organizations and teams who desire to use the various areas that they would then need a permit is it that they would use it or just to have private use and i'm only thinking of that can be home school their child we brought a group of students and met or met a group of other people that was much larger than six would have thought we would try to get a permit because we were going to then go and use this all together at the time not for our private doing sure yeah it you know it's a a bit of a tricky balance so if you if you guarantee if you want to guarantee your access to space then you are best served by reserving it in advance and we see this all the time you know so-and-so is going to have a birthday party in the small pavilion on saturday at one o'clock another family was also going to have a birthday party at 12 o'clock they got there before them they didn't reserve it the one o'clock people did reserve it it creates conflict and so we always you know when people call to inquire we always encourage them to to make the reserve the paid reservation to ensure that they have a document that says that they can access that it's the same for groups that are using fields and those kinds of spaces i think the tricky piece comes in is and i don't think we see this a ton per se but when groups are figuring out when certain spaces are available and avoiding those rental fees and utilizing space potentially utilizing resources whether it's chewing up grass or creating extra waste and garbage or whatever and you know intentionally basically using athletic fields and facilities without paying for them um so that's i think the intention of trying to catch this uh as to whether an immerse should be six or undefined um i think it's a valid question but it's more so for the physical structure if you want to use one of the pavilions if you want to use the baseball field for your use that's correct that's not necessarily if you and a group of eight people want to go play in the playground together they didn't need to call the crowd to get a permit i thought i just wanted to make sure that no yeah another question till 313 uh i'm after that i could go all right i in 313 for c and e if we could just use uh non-binary pronouns so just follow there these are written in 2019 314 um we could just prohibit all tobacco products instead of you know and i'm thinking of tipping coaches in the little league field um for instance um if there's going to be a tobacco ban or a cannabis or an alcohol ban just outright vape chew all product from the it's a i think it's the the the use of the smoking of you've included them all in in there but it's the use it's the smoking is the it's the the method uh needs to be adjusted a little bit um so that's all semantic adjustment i think that was it for me did you want to point out any other seconds brad i think the only other ones i was going to highlight as we were going i think i stopped at 314 315 give some leeway to permit beer and wine related events which was strictly prohibited previously 322 addresses drones were which weren't thought of previously and 323 addresses metal detectors which weren't addressed previously i don't think anything else is um will release significant what would be an instance where you would say no to a drone request uh it's just asking for permission i'd like to say no if there's somebody's absolutely yeah yeah um but like pd recently asked if anybody was flying drones in the parade uh as a safety kind of concern issue so not relevant per se to the public parks but just as an example you know if there are large events pd wants to know if something's supposed to be flying up above in the air or not um also no it's just they it's obviously we want to know yeah and we've had it at the park in the summer too like a parent comes in and says hey there's a drone flying you know at least we can say yes we're aware of it we have the person's information and this is what they're doing with it and all that stuff really appreciate the thoroughness of this yeah so your options are i'm just rolling back right but i was from the sea if if we've made my question first was we've made significant enough but asks that we need to revisit this um or it sounds like we're also waiting still on review from the sound ed and you know others so well we do need legal review um but we can incorporate that on the 28th uh brads already asked claudine for review about these um i think if we could still have it come back at another point in time where it's not 10 10 at night yeah but that might be beneficial why don't we do that yeah um i think the next meeting is the next meeting is um 28 if there's room that's fast um yes i think that's fine um if anybody in the room or online that has any comments about this item change again the park ordinances yes but sir one quick sure um you have to go to 314 yes um and regina which reminds me that just hours ago i said i would send what ubm had written up for their tobacco free campus policy which covered the and i did not send it so i'll send it to regina tomorrow um that included that thank you i do not see anyone with the hand raised online so we'll see this again when we can yes so well the timeline with legal and everything else work out sure the staff are comfortable with that with what we've suggested and the timeline works for you yeah i don't think anything was too complicated to edit i don't think so perfect if that's the case when i want to make a motion it's on page 101 of the agenda of the packet it's the second one but i can do it so i've got in front of me so i move that we want a public hearing for june 28 for the public parks ordinances uh rather on one i move that the city council warrant a public hearing on june 28 2023 is 6 30 p.m to receive comment on the following changes to the sx junction minister ordinances update chapter three regulation of public parks in its entirety with proposed chapter three regulation of public parts as described with the uh with the amendments tonight and these overview right with that it's from this evening and pending labor any discussion seeing none all those in favor say hi hi hi very number that passes unanimously great thank you brad bro 60 60 discussion and consideration of local option tax policy so um the sorry i'm scrolling here so essentially the capital program review committee met in the beginning of june's the first time they met in two years since you know we've had a lot of things going on and one thing that came up with that group is just a policy around how the local option tax funds could be used going forward um and um also just to let folks know um Jess did send me there is a 2010 village policy on local option tax uh spending so there is a starting place there it's about two paragraphs right we have one we had no idea yeah um and it essentially says that the um that the it should be used for capital um so um basically what this memo is suggesting is that if the council would like to ask seek input from the capital program review committee on what that policy uh could look like um this is there's a motion in here for you to do that um it is with as time allows so the capital program review committee again they haven't met in a while they've got a lot of things on their plate um a lot of different inventories that that will be pulled together to try to help um with the capital plan going forward um so um that hope is that if it can get to it and give you some guidance to prepare for the FY 25 budget that would be great um but just know that that may not work out timing wise but Amber anything you want to add no I think you captured it all I think it's just really just a shot across to say what's the council's position on a policy do you want one if you want one do you want the capital committee to take a stab at doing one to bring it back to the council for review approval just throwing it out there to Regina's point you're not meeting in July because of the holiday so August would be the first time we need again and we do have a couple projects except on the agenda for August so it might not even get picked up until September and you would need it for FY 25 September October to consider it really or maybe maybe November um fold it in I mean the the building of the budget depends on the needs that we have in the capital program those needs aren't going to change so it's it's really a little bit less about the development of the budget and more about how we allocate the use of those of that revenue um a little further on the back end um I first think we absolutely should have a policy on how to spend those funds and I'd be curious to look back to the discussion amongst the village trustees at the time of the approval of the lot as to what the goals were at that time and I know that there had been discussion about using a portion of those funds for economic development purposes what does that mean what would they be so I do think that this group needs to have a conversation about what we want to do with that because we keep saying oh it's for capital and that can mean so many things so I do think we have to and I don't think that asking capital to do this prohibits or prevents us from exploring other ways to oh no not at all be great if they could start the ball rolling and then we can edit a set an example that would be terrific totally agreed the only thing that I would just add to that is and I think I mentioned it's either the last meeting or the meeting before if it could also just be inclusive of a sidewalk replacement fund proportion of that to replace the sidewalks yeah great so do you need a motion Regina I've got one for you up there okay I'm just going to do it I move the city council asked the capital program committee to recommend a lot local option tax policy for the council for council consideration as time allows second second is any discussion no all those in favor say aye aye aye all those post I all the posts I know great passes the next item is executive session so we'll move on to the consent agenda I have a motion to approve the consent agenda I'll move the consent agenda second great any discussion no all those in favor say aye aye aye great passes real file um anyone have any comments I'd like to reset a five page poem awesome make it comfy I have a lot of updates but I can get very fast there's a community fair at the library this Saturday from one to four Juneteenth is happening on Sunday the 18th from one to three at the last meeting we talked about Champlain Water District and our seat and membership on it and what the process will be we talked about having a town wide vote it city wide vote in 24 to get the seat and then in 25 having the member because we're not an expansion of the boundary we were all we are only going to have to have a member up for election in 25 so we don't have to do that city wide vote which is helpful um we have a I think some people know about the Super Sucker 5000 yes we now have a replacement Super Sucker 7000 we do skip six skip six seven it does say 900 on it so don't be confused if you actually see it out and out and about uh it still needs to be registered um but it's pretty fantastic so you shouldn't see it out about yeah let me see incorporated yeah Ricky has a plan that of like yeah well big enough because there's a knob space yeah I have pictures but we don't have time um very good good news uh on the Crescent Connector project there was some discussion about how much cost share we would have to have on the soils contamination um and VTrans and VHWA have come to the conclusion that they will be covering 100% of those costs which is super awesome um in the reading file there's the governor's executive order on um housing and so just so folks know um I'm sure you are aware the hotel programs are coming to an end um a lot of that is changing rapidly as the state's trying to figure out how to add some more time to the various different eligible groups um and for the last four Tuesdays I've been meeting with other um Chittenden County municipalities with Sarah Russell who is the chair of the Chittenden County Homeless Alliance um and I'm spacing right now I'm very sorry Carrie uh at AHS um and talking about just trying to keep each other posted trying to figure out what um issues are happening in the community and what could potentially be done um there has been some asks about the communities outside of Burlington thinking about potential spaces for congregate shelters um that's pretty tough and challenging because all the resources are in Burlington but these conversations are happening also more immediately um Bridget and Lori have updated that tri-fold community resources document and Ashley is helping finalize that and get it printed and out and about so I think that that will be a big help um also EJRP had a very successful Essex Pride Festival and the Memorial Day Parade as everybody just faded thank you um ADL PE classes and elementary school groups have been swimming at the Maple Street pool sometimes nice days sometimes not I guess so far um and EJRP has hired nearly a hundred employees for the summer day camps pool and maintenance this summer so that's it could you just very briefly explain the community fair yes the community fair um the library is hosting this and a number of organizations in the community will have a table that describes what it is that they do um so people could come and find out different organizations that they might want to get involved in um so yeah should be great all right um so I close my laptop which was silly we need an executive session motion two motions in front of me excellent I move that the city council make the specific finding that general public knowledge of pending or probable civil litigation or a prosecution to which the public body is or maybe a party would place the city at a substantial disadvantage I move that the city council enter into executive session to discuss pending or probable civil litigation or a prosecution to which the public body is or maybe a party pursuant to one vsa 313 a1e to include the city council city manager and parks and recreation director and you also have another um that's one executive session we've got two executive sessions um you're looking for page 67 yep okay uh I move that the city council enter into executive executive session to discuss appointment but public officials pursuant to one vsa 313 a3 to include the city manager I'll second all that great Andrew second this mark has made the motion stop any discussion all those in favor say aye hi great both pass um we will not be reporting out after correct correct so we will be this is it been a meeting um thank you all for coming appreciate it you stayed late this is impressive thank you all have a good night we're seeing you I think we'll


I'm Alan Gingel from the Crawford School here at the ANU and I'm delighted to be here with one of our guests for the Crawford Australian Leadership Forum, Bill Schneider. There is probably no more eminent political commentator in the United States than Bill, who served for about 20 years as the Chief Political Correspondent for CNN and is now a Professor at George Mason University and a visiting professor at UCLA.  Let's begin with a question on everyone's mind. What accounts for Donald Trump's appeal? Trump is the un-Obama, the un-Obama. This is not unusual in American politics. When Americans are, for any reason, dissatisfied with the performance of any president, they look for someone who is completely the opposite. That's how Obama got elected. He was the un-Bush. Bush was not particularly thoughtful. He was reckless. Obama's not like that at all. People who wanted a more serious, thoughtful, informed president voted for Obama because they couldn't stand Bush. Well, a lot of Trump people are voting for Trump because he seems like a guy who can get things done. And the criticism you hear about Obama all the time is he's thoughtful. He's serious. He knows what he's talking about, but he's just ineffectual. Trump is seen as a guy who gets the job done. Where do Trump's views about foreign policy come from? Is he part of a longer tradition in American policy, or is he something entirely new? Obviously, he's attracted the attention of America's allies in this part of the world. He is very much in line with a long tradition in the United States. It was always called isolationism. He doesn't like that title, so he grabbed an even more controversial title. He said, I'm an America firster. Without realizing that America first was an isolationist movement to try to keep the United States out of World War II, they didn't want to fight fascism. Well, he says he's an America firster, but what this is is consistent with the avoidance of involvement and responsibility in world affairs that characterized the United States for its first 150 years until after World War II when the threat of communism emerged and the United States assumed leadership of the free world because Britain, which had always had that role, could no longer assume that role. Trump is an isolationist, period. He calls into question commitments, alliances, security arrangements. He says it's too expensive for the United States. We can't afford it anymore. He says if other countries like Europe and countries in Asia like Japan and South Korea want us to protect them, they're going to have to pay us more. Hillary Clinton said, well, that means he's turning alliances into a protection racket. But he says he will renegotiate all our agreements. Does he speak to a growing constituency in the United States, do you think? I don't think it's growing because Americans are becoming better educated, more knowledgeable about the world. But it's a constituency that is always there, and it's never gone away. A lot of Americans believe that what we do for the rest of the world is expensive, pointless, unappreciated, and often blows up in our face. And they look at the Vietnam War, they look at the war in Iraq, and even the war in Afghanistan as ventures which cost American lives and a lot of American money and didn't really work out. So a lot of Americans are very skeptical about the mission of the United States to save the world, and Trump is very much in line with that tradition. In the campaign so far this year, we've of course seen the Democratic Party divided between Bernie Sanders on the left and Secretary Clinton on the other side and the Republicans all over the place. Is this a transformative period to think you sometimes hear people saying this is the end of the Republican party, the coalition that bound it together can no longer hold and we're going through a through a sort of step change in U.S. politics. Do you hold to that view or not? Well, certainly the Republican party is in a crisis. Donald Trump is a hostile takeover of the Republican Party. It's being taken over by people who threaten conservatives. Trump is not really a conservative. He'll say a few conservative things. He has no ideology. He has no principles. He'll change his views on any issue, any time. It really is a hostile takeover of the Republican Party, and that could split the party. If Trump were somehow, and I wouldn't expect this to happen, but if he were elected president, it's not impossible. I just say it's unlikely. If that would have happened, the Republican party would split wide open, which is why a lot of Republican conservatives secretly say we'd rather see Hillary Clinton become president because the minute she takes office, number one, Trump would be obliterated from history. And number two, conservatives would be completely united and so would Republicans against Hillary Clinton, and that would reconstitute the Republican Party. Great. Bill Schneider, thank you very much for joining us.


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Hi guys, welcome back to my channel. Today's video is going to be all about trying to find your motivation to get started on your workout journey or just working out in general or maybe just being a little bit more active, especially during this quarantine Self-isolation time. It's starting to get lifted. Florida is in phase one, but wherever you are I know that things are gonna be starting to open up soon for you. I'm also probably gonna get a bike That's a little update that I want to share with you guys. I don't know yet But I've just been contemplating. A lot of you guys have commented or messaged me saying that I've help inspired you to get Started working out or help you continue your workout journey or have motivated you and that really means the world to me So thank you so so much. I'm so happy that I've touched your life in that way about being healthier and just having that motivation I couldn't be more thankful. So thank you so much. Hopefully these little tips today will also help you be even more Motivated to work out. Also by the way guys I showered. So I just kind of let my hair air dry. Sorry It's not it's not looking that cute today So the first tip I have is look at someone else's success. So that could be me that could be someone else I actually have a friend on YouTube her name is Annie Annie du bae and she I don't know if she watches like half Of my videos or not, but I mean I watched some of her videos and I've known her for quite a while But she has had a lot of success and it's really inspiring I might have inspired you maybe other people on the internet have inspired you but just look at someone else and say wow They have come that far. I can do the same thing because it's true You can the next little tip I wanted to share with you guys is just have the mindset.  It's only 30 minutes or an hour out of my life You have like 24 hours in a day. So if it's just half an hour in the grand scheme of things It's not that long and probably your TV show or movie is that long? And so maybe turn on the television start a YouTube video. Maybe listen to a podcast That's 30 minutes do your workout and then it's done You can get it over with the mindset that you have to have is just like oh, it's only this amount of time It's not you know four hours where you have to be working out and everything Also, maybe this isn't the healthiest tip But it works for some people and it has worked for me at times Look at a photo of someone you think has a really good body So I have a lot of friends not a lot actually I don't have like that many friends to be honest but some of my acquaintances friends whatever you want to call them people that I have in my life have some really good looking bodies They're healthy. They're strong. They have curves some don't but just take some inspiration You could even pick a model. It doesn't matter who the person is but just use them as kind of like some inspiration Maybe it could be your favorite fitness blogger or youtuber or trainer. You can pick anyone I would suggest so picking someone that kind of has your body styling because you don't want to strive for something That is unattainable for yourself. So just be like realistic But that's one way you can kind of get motivated to start working out another tip I have for you is thinking maybe there's an outfit you really want to feel confident in so this could be a Dress this could be jeans. This could be a shirt or a blouse that you want to wear It could be a bikini. It could be a one-piece swimsuit Just pick something from your closet and just be like I want to look good in this and I'm gonna feel confident and kind of Just declare that that is going to happen to you and it will with your hard work And you have some motivation to push you and get your workouts in and probably also eating clean because Just working out will not change you overnight as you can see with me It's taken a while, but you know, we're getting there The next tip is kind of similar to my last tip, but it is an event coming up You want to have more confidence at so for example?   Keep yourself accountable. You could take this any way you want to but for me filming myself really helps Documenting it maybe writing it down in a log. See here is my log I'll show you guys So this is my log and I just have it in the format and the way I speak and I can read and understand it But just keep a workout log to keep yourself accountable film yourself Maybe you and your cousin are doing workouts So text each other be there for one another and that can also help you Get some motivation because you know that you're gonna have to do this for a video for your cousin for I don't know your grandpa. Who knows but if you have someone to keep you accountable have something Maybe you're doing a bullet journal and you want every day to have its own like colorful beautiful page of when you worked out I don't know but just have something to keep you accountable and Then you'll definitely be motivated because you're like, oh, I got a film that today or oh, I got to do this So that's also another tip that I wanted to add in Another tip I have you if you have anxiety or like anger management issues or maybe you're depressed or something working out really allows you to release a lot of emotions It could be happy emotions. It could be sad emotions. It could be all types of emotions I just feel like it really helps just release all of that as well as if you're in school And if you have like a lot of tests or if you're in college university trade school, whatever you're in it does help with memory I don't know where I heard that. Okay, probably some sketchy website I have no idea but I heard that working out really helps with your memory And I kind of find it to be true because I will in general have a very good memory But I think working out could also help with that This is kind of a superficial reason of why you should want to work out But I just thought I would add it in the video Maybe you want to impress someone maybe at school work the gym on Instagram Maybe you want to impress someone so it could be a guy or a girl, you know You want to get a relationship or something? Maybe you need to take more tender profile pictures or bumble or whatever dating app you use and you want to look hot for that That'll really get you moving. So Yeah, maybe you want to press someone that's also something to think of like, oh, I really want a boyfriend I'm gonna kick ass and get a really killer body for that person The last and final tip that I have for you guys is you will at least have done one thing productive if you've worked out that day So it's kind of like the saying make your bed Make your bed Some people say to make your bed because at least you have done one Productive thing in my head if I've had like a really lazy day Or I don't have a lot of things to do on a certain day Working out could be that one productive thing. So if I just wanted to sit on the couch all day and eat chips Comment down below if you know where that's from But if you want to just be lazy or whatever do a 10 minute workout Do like the abs or like arms or something and then you've done at least one thing productive So you can feel good about yourself and just move along and then literally pick out the rest of the day If that's what you want to do because you've at least done one thing that has been productive again You do not have to be perfect. I am not even close to being perfect at this as you can see I have my teriyaki Tuesday. I had corn last night So don't think that I'm as perfect over here cuz I am not I love food Food. Oh my gosh. If you just take one step, then you could definitely See improvements in your life and the way you feel. So yeah And that my friends is pretty much all for my tips if I think of anything else I will let you know in the comments or the description box but those are the things I could think of of how to get motivated and inspired to change your lifestyle and Want to work out eat healthier just lead a healthier lifestyle in general If you guys have any other questions or comments leave them down below Don't forget to subscribe and I will see you guys in my next video. Bye


All right, you're good at this time. Back off again, stopping that day for one second. Day one second, all off. Set it back down gently. Making sure the glue is upright. All right. Hey, John, do you think it's safe to react to it? Can you do it? I'll see you like that. Yeah. I'm not going to say it, but you're not going to say it. I'll be right back. I know. And then we don't got tape. Do you want to get the same thing right for the back one? The ground's complete. Yeah, then you're going to inspect the board. Yeah. That's what you're expecting, huh? In the greater we'll say it's clear. Nice, clear? Yep. Please go back on fire. Okay. So you're here, right? Now place it on safe because you're no longer using your weapon. Drop the magazine. Inspect it to make sure it's good. All right. Now ride the bolt forward. Place on semi. Fire. Close it up. Close this. I'm done. Like you said earlier, you can talk out what I call for your message is... Oh, okay. Yep. Oh, yeah. That's open to the right. Groundland. Yep. Close it up. Place it on fire. Now it's... Maintain... Fine position for two minutes. Yep. Load new rounds. Load a new round. There's the heat all over it. Definitely nowhere near as fast as you would have.  There's a lot of differences that you can recognize between a soldier who earns their expert infantry badge and does not. The first thing that you can tell is that they're able to receive information, process that information, and then execute in a perfect manner. Of course, there is an extreme amount of pride to earning your expert infantry badge. It takes 30 different stations. Not only here at medical, but you have medical patrols and the weapons, all 10 stations each, and you got to run through each session perfectly. It's a tough objective. But when you earn that expert infantry badge... We're at today and what's going on. Okay. Today we are doing land navigation. It is an EIB task. The purpose of it is to assess the individual soldier's ability to navigate from one point to another on the earth using a compass mapping protractor. It's a skill level one task, like I said. A soldier that has their expert infantry badge as opposed to one who does not. The difference between soldiers who have their EIB or their ESB, in my opinion I believe that they are more capable of conducting their skill level one task. Like I said, all it is is just an assessment of their basic soldier skills. You can count on a soldier who has their EIB or ESB to be able to get things done without too much direct oversight, too much direct guidance. It seems like it's a good evaluation of people that are able to pay attention. I definitely recommend to all my soldiers that they actually try to get their EIB or their ESB, I suppose. Because it is an assessment to show how much you actually care. It's an assessment to see how competent you are to see whether or not you're capable of leading soldiers in the future. There are pros and cons to doing this, but at the same time it's a great assessment to see whether or not you can handle things from like what we're doing today. Land navigation, can you move from one point to another in a tactical environment or in this case a semi-tactical environment?  Can you treat a casualty for a head wound, that sort of thing? Can you operate the radios that we all use? It lays the groundwork for the basic soldier. It's a weight off your shoulders. It's definitely a weight off your shoulders because you go through minimum two weeks of train up and practicing with the test conditions and then when you finally get it, it's the relief that you don't have to do it again, which is always positive.  Sure. And would you say that when you see soldiers that there's a little bit more pride in what they do? I would say yes. I would say that you can definitely tell, especially in the months preceding or excuse me, the months following your EIB testing, you can see that they kind of hold their heads a little bit higher. And it's a recognition from those around them that they know what they're doing and they earn what they got. Excellent. Do you have anything else you want to add? I got nothing.


All right, I told you about vaccines. We talked about this a couple of days ago. We talked about vaccines. We talked about the fact that why don't, instead of doing, in a sense, 30,000 people in phase three clinical trials, why not use the entire, or as many people as they can vaccinate right now, as much supply as they have, get as many people vaccinated, go into production, start vaccinating everybody. Some of the vaccine will work, some of them won't. People have to sign up because there's risk involved. One of the risks involved in this is that some vaccines will actually make you react more strongly, potentially, more strongly. Bad vaccines can make you react more strongly to COVID. So for only give it to people who are willing to take the risk or willing to do it, don't give it to the elderly, for example, give it to younger people, see what happens, and run the phase three trials on hundreds of thousands or maybe even millions or tens of millions of people. I think that would save a huge amount of time. It would get the economy going again. It would get people, much more activity could be engaged. We'd get rid of a lot of the obstacles that US economy has right now. And phase two is to secure its safety, that you're not gonna die from it. You're not gonna get really, really hurt badly. And the vaccines passed that. Now what's interesting is this was proposed in an op-ed, I can't remember if it was New York Times or somewhere else, by a scientist who said let's vaccinate as many people as we can and use that as the phase three. I think it was a Forbes article. Sorry, it was in Forbes, right? He did it in Forbes, not New York Times. Basically got a huge backlash, huge massive backlash. People wrote to him, scientists, everybody wrote to him and he today retracted his statement. He said, no, I made a mistake. It's actually riskier and there's not enough production and basically wimp. I say go for it with all the risks, with all the challenges. If you don't, if it's too risky for you as an individual, I mean, it would have to go with education, about the risk and have to go with people signing a liability waiver, but I say roll out the vaccines. And then today I noticed this interesting story about this group of scientists in Boston, scientists at Harvard and MIT who are like, we don't have time to wait for this vaccine. This disease is bad.  So basically they formed a group, RadVac, they're calling it RadVac, they formed a group and basically some of the grad students in this group have developed what they think is a vaccine. They haven't tested it. So they think it's a vaccine. They're basically using, in a sense, elements of the virus itself. And it's a nasal spray, you know, right now in development, there are 199 different COVID vaccines, 199. Five of which are nasal sprays. Anyway, they have a nasal spray. There's a whole theory about this. I'm not gonna get into the science of it. There's a whole theory of it. And they basically have a mailing list of like 70 people who've agreed to take this. And they're not charging anything. And this grad, these, I guess it's scientists, grad students, I think it's scientists, putting the vaccine together and mailing it to people. And then the person doesn't actually get the vaccine itself yet, they have to mix two substances, shake it, I guess, and then spread it into their nose. And they don't know how many of the 70 people have actually done it. And many of these are prominent scientists at MIT and Harvard. So these are big time names, not trivial. And the question is, is that legal? And they don't know exactly, right? The idea is because they're doing it themselves, then it should be legal according to the FDA. But because they're distributing it, maybe not.  If these guys want to create a vaccine and if somebody, if they give it to their friends, I don't care who they give it to, they produce it, they get to decide who gets it, because they're all these ethical dilemmas. Well, but they're privileged, quote, that anti-concept, privileged, because they have a talent, ability, and a lab, and they can create this and we can't. So we're at a disadvantage. Fine, so what? If you have an advantage, why not take it? They're not doing it at my expense.  And they're giving it to their friends and family. Great, good for them. Now I don't know if it'll work and there's risks involved, but these are all smart people. Why would anybody object to this? But of course, people are going to in an egalitarian world in which everybody has to get everything at the same time. People are gonna object to this, just like they're gonna object to whatever mechanism we have to distribute vaccines. There will be objections to it because not everybody will be able to get it at the same time. And I think it's pretty cool. I think it's pretty cool that scientists can figure this out. They've got the genome of these all biologists, the genome of the vaccine. They figure out quick, make it home, kitchen variety vaccine for the virus and they're injecting it. And they're taking this whole phenomenon seriously. So they're taking the whole COVID thing seriously, not like some people. And as a consequence, they want to get vaccinated. So they are. What we need today, what I call the new intellectual would be any man or woman who is willing to think. Meaning any man or woman who knows that man's life must be guided by reason, by the intellect, not by feelings, wishes, whims or mystic revelations. Any man or woman who values his life and who does not want to give in to today's cult of the stare, cynicism and impotence and does not intend to give up the world to the dark ages and to the role of the collectivist, bro. All right, before we go on, reminder, please like the show. We've got 163 live listeners right now. 30 likes. That should be at least 100. I figure at least 100 of you actually like the show.  But at least the people who are liking it, you know, I want to see a thumbs up. There you go. Start liking it. I want to see that go to 100. All it takes is a click of a thing whether you're looking at this. And you know the likes matter. It's not an issue of my ego. It's an issue of the algorithm. The more you like something, the more the algorithm likes it. So, you know, and if you don't like the show, give it a thumbs down. Let's see your actual views being reflected in the likes. But if you like it, don't just sit there, help get the show promoted. 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