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Welcome to ANI In the Air, Under the Tent and Around Baltimore, your daily podcast briefing
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of all the goings ons, ins and arounds, arts and ideas, Sudbury School.
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Today we're jamming out to some sounds from the workers working on this house.
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They've been working on it for like five years.
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It's pretty epic.
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But today I'm happy to announce that we are under the tent again.
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We raised the tent over the weekend on Saturday.
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It was a beautiful day.
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Lots of people came out for sledge hammering and ratcheting and lifting and moving.
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So we are now under a beautiful, beautiful tent again.
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There's some tennis ball throwing going on underneath the tent right now.
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And there was some gaga ball playing earlier and some other, I think there was a lot of
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tennis balls or frisbee stuff earlier in the day.
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Lots of stuff happening outside.
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We had our announcements in the parking lot and then afterwards we all moved the stuff
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under the tent.
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We moved this big table and then also all the chairs and we also started to lay some
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mulch on the muddy areas to try and deal with that.
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So that's all cool.
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Tomorrow for school meeting we expect to have quite a number of items on the agenda.
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So that would be a really great school meeting to attend and see what's going on.
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I want to change a few things here and there and yeah, it could be exciting.
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Let's see, I don't know, probably a whole bunch of other things which I am, oh, we also
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had our assembly meeting on Friday night in which we pass updates to our medical policy
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basically pointing to the CDC guidelines.
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All right, we also have a visiting student this week and we plan to have a couple of
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visiting students for each of the next few weeks.
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So things are looking pretty good in that respect.
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All right, so for Millions Monday I thought I'd be inspired by the tent.
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Just how much weight are we talking about?
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Well, the tent is an area of approximately 30 by 50, so 30 square feet by 50 square feet.
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Now I don't know exactly how heavy one square foot of the fabric is, but if it was one pound
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and you know, it's fairly heavy weight fabric, so I don't know, could be, then that would
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be 150 pounds for the tent covering.
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The other heavy items, well, let's see, there's 24 ratchets, no, is that right, 24?
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I think so.
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And you know, they're pretty hefty, so I don't know, let's say a pound for a ratchet, so
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that's 24 pounds.
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And then there's the poles, we've got, I guess 20 poles, let's say each, well, plus the center
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poles.
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Let's see, each of those might be say five pounds, so maybe a hundred pounds there, so
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what are we up to, 250, 275.
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And then there's the rebar, each one is a little bit heavy.
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Let's say, I don't know how long they are, they might be like three feet, and let's say,
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I don't know, two inches, well, maybe three inches is a pound, let's say, three inches
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is a pound.
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And so with 12, yeah, 12 inches and a foot and three feet, then that would be 12 pounds
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rebar.
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So holding two in each hand, or is it one in each hand, I think I was doing two in each
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hand, yeah, so that would be 20 some pounds in each hand, which sounds about right, they
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were heavy but not undoable.
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So again, there's 24 rebars, 12 pounds, so 12 times 12 is 144, and 10 times 2, 248, did
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I do that right, 24 times, let's just say 10 pounds each rebar, 240 pounds, really?
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Wow, okay, so they're quite heavy.
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So yeah, we're talking the whole thing in total being perhaps, yeah, like 400 pounds,
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400 or 500 pounds, so yeah, that's the weight we just moved.
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So that was fun.
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The tent cover we actually wheel out, and that was pretty heavy to do too.
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Then yeah, carried up all the rebar and the ratchets and the poles, and over to the tent
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thing.
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So all right.
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Oh, and there's also the fire extinguisher, we have to have a fire extinguisher because,
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you know, tents, outdoors, fire, I guess.
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Anyway, we have that and no smoking signs.
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I guess they must have had some tents that went up in flames, I suppose it must have
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happened somewhere.
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All right, well, that'll be all for today, have a good one, and I will see you when I
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see you.