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Welcome to ANI In the Air, Under the Sky, By the Fire, and Around Baltimore, your daily
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podcast briefing of all the goings-ons, ins and rounds, arts and ideas, Sudbury School.
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So last week, we had a student test positive for coronavirus.
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They are doing fine, their family is doing fine, they are in quarantine.
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But in response, we had shut down for the week, and so I did not do any podcasts after
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last Monday.
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So here we are again on a Monday.
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We're back in person.
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The trees along Walther Avenue are blossoming.
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It's a very beautiful site.
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And it's a nice day, a little windy, a little cool, but all in all fairly nice.
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We had some good rain and wind over the weekend, or the week, it's a little hazy now.
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Personally I had something like 50 or 60 gallons of water in my garage, this house I bought
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a few months ago.
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Most rooms where some water comes in, we don't actually have anything in the garage.
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But it's not really in our house, so it's not that big a deal, but yeah, got a wet vacuum,
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and have to vacuum up the water out of there, so that's fun.
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Okay, what happened today, well we had our announcements.
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And our announcements, let's see, I believe Yearbook will be having a meeting about, well,
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our Yearbook clerk Ashley will be having a meeting about the Yearbook on Wednesday and
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kind of putting it out there in terms of deadlines and so forth.
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Something kind of changes, you know, final kind of meeting before we're really launching
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into Yearbook season.
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So if you're interested in that, I think it's 1230 and probably will be hosted on Discord,
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maybe the Office channel, I'm not really sure, just stay tuned, it always gets announced
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on Discord I believe.
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There might also be a virtual reality corporation meeting and maybe some other stuff, there's
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an article club meeting on Thursday, I don't think I know what the item of interest is
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yet.
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But yeah, so that's the stuff.
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What else, yeah, so we announced about what happened at Assembly last week, which was
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kind of a couple hours of really kind of talking about some of our medical policies and trying
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to figure out any changes that might need to be done.
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We tabled it all, so we'll have another Assembly meeting on Friday and hopefully we'll have
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some more consensus-oriented changes because this is a pretty big deal to have everybody
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more or less behind.
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So we're trying to figure that all out.
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If you're interested, the meeting is at 7pm on Friday and if you have any ideas that you
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want to contribute, by all means let us know as soon as possible.
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The COVID numbers continue to rise in this area, unfortunately it is springtime so being
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outside is a really great option right now, we encourage everyone to be outside as much
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as possible while at school.
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So for Millions Monday I was thinking of doing an item in the news, so yes, there was a cargo
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ship that got, or tanker, that was stuck in the Suez Canal last week.
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So the Suez Canal is this really great, wonderful shortcut that goes from, well it allows one
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to avoid going around Africa, to go from the Middle East or China or India or all sorts
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of those points there if you're trying to get to Europe or vice versa.
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And so something like 10 or 12% of the world's goods get shipped through that canal, a very
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busy place, and a tanker ran aground that pretty much blocked the canal.
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And well they just got it free today, about a week it took and it's going to take quite
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some time to unclog everything because obviously everything is kind of on a packed tight schedule.
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So I thought I'd figure out just how much weight was involved because they had a real
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hard time in moving that thing.
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So basically the tankers are filled with these cargo containers and they're pretty big, some
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people actually convert it into places where you can do, like holding some kind of class
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or other thing, it can be quite sizable.
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At one point in our history when we were thinking about our own place, some people were talking
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about cargo container school where we'd have all these cargo containers that we could convert
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and do stuff with that was mercifully not followed up on.
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But you know, that's kind of the size of these things.
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So I heard a factoid that this tanker contains something like 20,000 of these cargo containers.
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I don't know if that's true, but that's what I heard.
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It's very hard to estimate without something, you get the length and width of this thing
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or in depth or whatever, I'm just going to start with there.
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So the basic question is how much is a loaded cargo container, what's it's likely weight?
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Well, so I've never really been done much with them, but I'm thinking maybe you could
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squeeze a hundred people into one, like really pack them in there, maybe put them on top
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because I think they're a little taller than human height, you know, really pack it in
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completely tight.
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I know in pandemic times that sounds like a complete nightmare and even on pandemic
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times that sounds like a complete nightmare, although there are people who sometimes travel
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in these things and it's not pleasant.
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But anyway, so if you put a hundred people in these things and each person say is 200
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pounds, so I'm probably, you know, it's a little bit on the heavier side of average,
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but it's a nice round number.
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Then you get 20,000 pounds per container.
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Now if you have 20,000 containers and 20,000 pounds per container, that's basically eight
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zeros and two times two is four.
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So 400 million pounds, or if you divide by a thousand or so, maybe 2000, it's kind of
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different definitions of tons, probably figure out that because I actually have an answer.
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Um, uh, actually, oh, it's defined to be 2000 pounds.
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Okay.
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I thought it was a thousand pounds, 2000 pounds.
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Okey dokey.
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So um, anyway, if you had 400 million pounds, uh, and then divide by 2000 pounds to put
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it into tons, then you get, uh, 200,000 tons.
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And then if you take, um, uh, I don't know, maybe 10% of that is the weight of the ship
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itself because why not 10% sounds like a reasonable thing to add on top for structural purposes.
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Uh, then that would be 220,000 tons.
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And that my friends is exactly what I found in an article or two about this.
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I have no idea if that's an accurate weight, I have no idea if they actually even, um,
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weigh these things or how they figure that out.
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But um, yeah, 220,000 tons is reasonable.
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Uh, originally when I started this podcast, I thought I was going to be off by a factor
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of two because I was using a thousand pounds and I was just kind of sad about that.
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But then I realized different people use different notions of tons and um, uh, yeah.
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So anyway, actually I think most people tend to do 2000.
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I just have in my head, a thousand, I guess, um, a metric ton is a thousand kilograms and
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then I just apply that to pounds and that's not good, um, any who, other than my competency
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with units, particularly tons, um, that was a pretty good successful guesstimation.
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Of course, some sense I cheated cause I guess the number of, I mean, I heard the number
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of containers and I really have no idea how I'd figure that out without knowing something
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about the ship, but there you have it.
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Uh, so, uh, Oh, I also forgot to mention, and I'll hopefully mention again, uh, we did
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post into discord, a staff feedback survey.
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Uh, if you are listening to this, please make sure to fill that out.
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Um, we want to get, uh, feedback, particularly helpful, um, helpful feedback as to, um, yeah,
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uh, what staff are, what the staff are doing well or not so well, um, and these particular
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times, um, you know, anything, uh, related to the pandemic stuff, I mean, it's all brand
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new territory, so hopefully you can, um, let us know.
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Um, and of course, always happy to hear things in person as well.
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Um, but, uh, if it's easier to just put it on the form anonymously, um, that's what you
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can do.
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Okay.
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So, uh, thanks.
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Uh, I will see you when I see you.