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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 of our Tennessee Bay School.
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So today was a slightly chilly day.
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We had our mandatory announcements where I mentioned the fact that at school meeting
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last week we agreed upon having the returning staff elections on Tuesday, June 1st, and
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that we'll need to have the group that runs it kind of figured out and elect it hopefully
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tomorrow in school meeting.
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Need at least four people to run the polls and one person to kind of oversee it all.
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I'm kind of hoping it'll be a bunch of fully vaccinated school meeting members, campy staff
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of course, and I guess we'll see about it tomorrow.
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Let's see, what else.
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We're having the yearbook photo shoot the cover on Thursday, so be sure to be there
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I guess at 12 we're doing that and I guess there's if people want to do creative writing
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stuff they can submit that to the yearbook as soon as possible and I guess out in the
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field plenty of ball playing and swinging and running and biking and all the wonderful
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good things out here.
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Pretty gentle day, had a nice JC I assume, I wasn't able to attend but seemed to go okay
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and yeah I guess it's Millions Monday so I thought I'd just do a quick thing on cicadas
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so how many cicadas can we expect to come out well and we'll just stick with you know
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well we'll just explore that so I don't know how many eggs a female cicada will lay into
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a branch but most insect populations lay a lot of eggs so let's go with 100.
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So 100 eggs and maybe half of those will survive per tree well there might be multiples per
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tree so I don't know let's just say 100 per tree will kind of come out so if you had 100
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per tree and just looking around one two three four five yeah we have lots of little young
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trees that will no doubt be useful to the next generation of cicadas but the ones that
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have been actually around are mature that we didn't have to cut down I'm not sure what
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happens to the ones where the tree disappears in the middle of their life cycle but so that
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might be a thousand cicadas coming out just like right now in our field seems a bit high
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but probably between a hundred and a thousand seems quite possible and then there's like
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lots of trees around every place so let's say the number of houses say in Baltimore
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well houses with yards but so it's about 600,000 people three per house so 200,000 houses say
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half of them are cement locked so maybe 100,000 yards it's a lot of yards and if you had a
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hundred cicadas per yard that would be something like 10 million cicadas which already seems
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like a heck of a lot of cicadas I have no idea on the reasonableness of those numbers
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I feel like a hundred per yard well I don't know maybe it's reasonable but it's a lot
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so cicadas are coming and I mean their strategy is supposed to be huge amounts of numbers
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so that the their predators get filled up and can't actually eat any more of them so
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that kind of speaks to like hundreds upon hundreds of them but imagine these current
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conditions it's a lot of effort to a lot of likelihood of bad things happening to them
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during their 17 year sleep cycle or growing cycle I don't know anyway that's the podcast
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for the day have a good one and I will see you when I see you