About 50% of Iran's ballistic missiles failed to take off or did not reach their targets in Israel in the April 13 attack, Fox News reports citing an unnamed American official. According to The Wall Street Journal, Iran fired 115 to 130 ballistic missiles at Israel. U.S. officials indicated that only half of the missiles fired were intercepted, with the rest missing their target. It is noted that roughly 50% of the ballistic missiles fired by Iran failed to launch or crashed before reaching their target, three U.S. officials said. So much for the vaunted ballistic missile capability of Iran, said a U.S. official. Recall, on the evening of April 13, Iran launched drones and missiles towards Israel, calling it a response to numerous crimes, including an air attack on the consular section of the Islamic Republic's embassy in Damascus. In light of the attack, the Israeli War Cabinet conducted deliberation for over three hours but did not reach a unanimous decision over how the country would respond to the Iranian attack. An official source from the Israeli Prime Minister's office said that while the Cabinet is certain that, there will be a response, they are waiting for the Israeli Defense Force to, present options. The source told that the Cabinet unanimously favors a retaliation against Iran but continues to remain divided over the timing and scale of any such response. Russia's strategist and troll army wages in for war against U.S. support for Ukraine. The Washington Post reviewed a trove of internal Kremlin documents obtained by a European intelligence service and found proof that a Russian propaganda operation is aimed at weakening American support for Ukraine and discrediting Ukraine in the public eye. The operation poses a grave threat as U.S. support is now crucial for Ukraine's ability to defend itself against Russian aggression. However, Congress has stalled the aid package with over $60 billion for Ukraine for over six months. Without this aid, Ukraine has no choice but to retreat as per Ukrainian President Zelensky. The Russian propaganda campaign seeks to fuel anti-Ukrainian sentiment by encouraging American isolationism, heightening concerns over U.S. border security, and exacerbating economic and racial tensions. The campaign, which intensified in January 2023, involves the creation of thousands of fake news articles, social media posts, and comments by Kremlin-linked strategists and troll farms, according to the Washington Post. The metadata from many of the leaked documents points to their creation by a team working under Ilya Gambashidze, the head of a Moscow-based PR firm called the Social Design Agency. Last month, the U.S. sanctioned Gambashidze for his role in a sustained and malicious foreign influence campaign orchestrated by the Kremlin. This campaign, which Western officials have dubbed doppelganger, involved setting up websites masquerading as legitimate European media outlets. More than 100 leaked documents spanning from May 2022 to August 2023 provide insight into the scale and tactics of Moscow's efforts to weaken support for Ukraine, not only in the U.S. but also in France and Germany, one tactic involved creating a fictitious American character who opposes military aid for Ukraine. The character argues that the government should instead allocate the funds to secure America's borders and claims that he sees that Biden's policies are leading the U.S. towards collapse. The Washington Post reports the Kremlin's strategists recommended numerous ideas for articles and social media posts, including one comparing homelessness levels in the U.S. and Russia, suggesting that the United States increasingly resembled a third-world country. Kremlin-linked strategists send out written proposals for social media posts, comments and YouTube videos that would inflame racial and social tensions in the U.S. and highlight themes of widespread poverty, high inflation, economic stagnation and the potential loss of jobs for white Americans while suggesting that colored and degenerate people and invalids receive special treatment. The Defense Intelligence of Ukraine has reported that Russia is sending personnel of the Russian Pacific Fleet and the 11th Air Force and Air Defense Army to the war in Ukraine to replenish sanitary and irrecoverable losses. According to the decision of Viktor Lina, the commander of the Russian Pacific Fleet, rotations to Syria have been completely stopped, and all personnel are being sent to the combat zone on the territory of Ukraine. We are talking about 2,000 Russian servicemen from the Primorsky and Kamchatka cries of the Russian Federation, intelligence reports that about 400 more soldiers from the military units of the 11th Air Force and Air Defense Army, stationed in Russia's Khabarovsk cry, will patch up the hulls of the Russian 155th and 40th Marine brigades, which are understaffed due to huge losses. Part of the personnel from the military formations of Russia's Far East will join the new motorized infantry. Brigade, which is being formed in Voronezh. Ukraine reported that these Russian military formations have not been directly involved in hostilities against Ukraine before. According to the decision of the commander of the Pacific Fleet of the Russian Federation, Viktor Lina, rotations to Syria have been completely suspended, and all personnel are being sent to the combat zone in Ukraine. This includes 2,000 Russian military personnel from the Primorsky and Kamchatka regions of the Russian Federation, the main intelligence directorate reports the agency also pointed out that about 400 soldiers from units of the 11th Army of the Air Force and Air Defense, stationed in the Khabarovsk territory of the Russian Federation, will patch hulls in the 155th and 40th brigades of the Russian Marine Corps, which are engaged in combat operations against Ukraine and are understaffed due to serious losses. A portion of the personnel from the military units in the Russian Far East will join a new motorized rifle brigade of the aggressor state, which is being formed in Voronezh. The main intelligence directorate stated Russian forces suffer significant losses daily in the war against Ukraine. The Russian Army loses dozens, if not hundreds, of units of military equipment daily. The count of combat losses of personnel of the aggressor country also reaches into the hundreds.


The form may not be in your old mind. May I ask you a very important question, have you ever come across this in your life? If so, then let me be the first person to tell you that this is the one and only known image of the Nickelodeon chainsaw logo that was ever seen once on Nickelodeon, but thanks to the controversy of it scaring kids around the country, I can only assume other parts of the world as well. This piece of media is considered lost and would stay lost until further notice, with the only known photo of this logo surfacing a forum page which was where it was originally found. This forum page can no longer be accessed because of financial issues which I won't bring up or go into details as it's irrelevant. The page would talk about shows that people grow up with or still watch to this day and they like to talk about media that was not found but only slightly remembered thanks to a burning memory they had for a long time. This was something known as lost media for those who lived under a rock or had no access to cable or the internet. The people who know about it say that it was one of the pioneers of lost media forum pages which range from either famous lost media or non-famous lost media. One stood out in between. Something that sounds crazy but at the same time, not so far-fetched. Now Nickelodeon is obviously known for making great, if not, the best cartoons ever. They are also known for having a million varieties of logos that Nickelodeon would love to brainstorm and or get creative with these said logos. They range from elephants, frogs, race cars, you name it, but it usually sticks to the Splat logo, the most iconic logo for Nickelodeon. One recalled a logo shaped like a chainsaw for Halloween at the end of a Chalk Zone episode in 2002 and that person claims to remember it as if it was yesterday. He was in the living room watching his favorite Nickelodeon shows home alone and his favorite episode was coming on but since he didn't have a tape recorder anymore that his parents got rid of to make way for DVD, he had no choice but to record it from his family's camcorder. It was dark in the living room at the time so the screen was visible to where you know it's comprehensible. He claimed that episode gave him a bad feeling despite knowing that the episode was in no way different than any other episode he has seen. He watched as the TV glowed and shined around his face like a fly staring at a UV light trap. It was all fun and games until the end credits came on and rolled through and the company logos played. The infamous chainsaw logo appeared on the screen and if it worked for the random chainsaw grinding noises in the background, he would have not cared with no further thought. The memory was bouncing around his head like a pinball, so he tried to look it up everywhere. YouTube, Facebook, 4chan, he even tried Googling the image from his camcorder to no avail. It was strange how this one logo that appeared on TV is nowhere around on the internet or even claimed by Nickelodeon that they made it themselves. It was like if it didn't happen, but how? When other people on the forum page read his message, they didn't take it seriously and speculated that he made it up for shits and giggles. Jokes and laughter soon turned to paranoia and people freaking out. It came to some of those people's knowledge that they too have seen it before.  There isn't any other way of figuring out this mystery nor analyzing the footage he recorded, that's if he is willing to share the footage.


Hello everyone, I'm Phil. This is Makayla. We are developers from the Government Digital Service. You might know us first and just keep the noise down over there please. That's good. Right. You might know us for things such as computers that don't respond. It's always the way. There we go. That's how slides go. You might know us for things such as Gov.uk. I've shown you hands. Who knows about this? There's a few people, maybe about a third of the room. This was us celebrating their third birthday a few months ago. This is what some of us look like. You might also know us for a data.gov.uk. Who knows about this? A similar number of people. Today I'm not going to talk about either of those things. We are going to talk about what we're working on, which is registers. To get into that, I'm going to start by saying let's talk about countries. Does this look familiar to anyone? A few nods. I pulled this from a data set from Companies House. Companies House is a UK organisation that deals with setting up and disbanding companies. In that data, there's a field for countries. This is some of the values that you get for Scotland in that field. There's Scotland and Scotland and things like that. I could have taken it from any number of data sets. I'm not picking on Companies House here. The point here is that friction caused by badly curated data makes it hard to build digital services and do analytical work. A lot of what the Government Digital Service does is around building digital services. Good data, clean data matters to us. If we want to fix this, we need to decide what form is correct. To do that, we need a canonical list of valid names. Let's try to find one. I went ongov.uk and there's a page to apply for these application fees. There's a list of countries and territories. Then I go to getting married abroad. Here I need to choose which country or territory I want to get married in. It's not actually the same list. It's a PDF of ISO country codes that I found, which has a list. Again, it's a slightly different list, which also seems to think that the internet is a foreign country. These lists don't even agree on the number of countries, let alone the right spelling for these countries. It turns out that one of the lists published ongov.uk was authoritative. One of them had weight behind it. It was published by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, which promotes the United Kingdom's interests overseas. Supports our citizens and businesses. They lead on the government's list of approved geographical names. They've been publishing a range of country-related lists ongov.uk for some time. It used to be published like this, which was a page rendered from a CSV file. You'd always have to remember to check whether or not there was a new version available. The same list was also published by another related group called the Permanent Committee on Geographic Names. There was another URL for the same data. There were several versions of the truth. This is what we've built. This is the new country register. Let me see if I can get that away. It's curated by the FCO. It's provided by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. This is the list of countries according to the UK. There is no other list now. This is the canonical one. You always know you've got the latest information, and I'll show you why that is in a moment. But this is what registers do. Each record in this register is a country. If you go to this URL at the bottom, this is the record for the Gambia. Within that record, there are fields for useful things, such as the word you should use to refer to citizens of that country, the official name for that country, and then the official short form, the standard short form for that country. In this case, we've got the Islamic Republic of the Gambia and the Gambia. There are date fields too, because countries change over time. The record for East Germany has an end date. The record for the Federal Republic of Germany has a start date. The next day. The data is available in different formats, because people who consume data have different needs. Here's the record for Germany in JSON format, and here's a bunch of countries available in CSV format. We recognise that different users have different needs. JSON and CSV are just two that I've shown you, but we also provide YAML, we provide tabs-operated values, we provide RDF in the form of turtle. The country register is being put to use on the e-petition service. Another show of hands. Has anyone heard of this? It's worth talking about a little bit. The e-petition service is something that any UK resident or British citizen can sign a petition, and you can see there's a few popular petitions listed here. When you sign a petition, you need to write, tell the petition service where you are. You get asked for your location in a box here. This used to be a hard-coded list that they had within their app somewhere, and now they have a nightly job which loads the latest data from the country's register, and therefore it will always be up to date. There's some interesting things as well, you can ask me afterwards where you can get data about petitions and see signatories but broken down by country. The way we have created these registers is by talking to lots of people, working out what their needs are, trying to come up with characteristics of what makes a good register, and we've written them down in a blog post. I won't go through all of them, but I've talked about a couple of them, but they're live data, but I'm going to dig into that a bit more now. It's not a file that gets updated once a year, and that gets out of date progressively more and more throughout the year. It's a service you can go to all the time and see what the latest authoritative information is. So the page for a country here is the latest data. You can also sit and watch for updates. As new changes come into the register, there's a single URL you can go to and see new entries being made. You can see all the entries all the way back to the beginning of the register. In principle, if you wanted to download the whole register, you could just go to the entries page and replay every single entry in order. This gives you all sorts of other properties too, and once only can you have a download that you can keep up to date. You can also have a data set that is historically aware, and you can say what was true at a given point in time rather than what is true today. When a record gets changed, if a country gets renamed, a new entry is added to the end, but the old entry is still available. So Phil has described something that already exists. The country register is out there. You can access that. I'm now going to talk to you about the things we want to do next, some of which I can't go into too much detail, and that's because they mainly are still ideas on our wall in the office in post-it notes. So what's next for registers? Well, we want to build more of them at the moment. We have just countries. There are many, many other data sets in government that are all held and maintained quite differently. They may already be open, but how accessible are they? If you're a service that needs three of these data sets, one that's only available in CSV, one that's only available as HTML, that's quite difficult, and it's difficult if you have to build bespoke software to access each of these data sets. So we want to build more of these as registers so that they're available in a more standardised way. It should help everyone to build better services, cheaper and faster, and across the whole of government. So we started to think about registers for local authorities, schools and businesses, but this is just the beginning. Hopefully there will be more. Data in individual registers is also linked to each other, so a data in a register should reference data from another register. This reduces duplication and spaces for error. Linking the data is possible because registers use standard names for their fields and standard data types, and each entry in the register that you saw earlier has a unique and stable identifier. An example might be a register for food hygiene ratings of if a local authority goes to a restaurant and gives it a rating on how hygienic their food preparation is. We might need a register for that, but they might want to link to the register of companies so that they don't have to maintain their own version of a restaurant company and maintain that twice. So technical standards are definitely something we require to link between the registers, but more importantly for these links to work, there needs to be trust between the organisations and services that are producing these lists. For the registrar, or authority creating the food hygiene ratings register, they need to be able to trust that data in the register for companies, otherwise they won't want to use it, and they'll duplicate it. Trusting a register means that you must be able to trust that the list will be kept up to date, as Phil discussed earlier. It's not going to disappear and it's not going to change shape either. We must also be able to trust that the authority we said created that list genuinely did create it, and that what they said this data means is what it means. So what we want to do now is build a layer of proof, what we're calling proof mechanisms on top of our registers. So I'm now going to describe three of these proofs that we think there's a new to four. Each of these proofs will allow us to verify certain property of a register. So the first of those is what we call an audit proof. It allows us to verify that a single entry in the register genuinely does come from that register, so it was created by the Food Standards Agency, for example. And if someone has given me an entry from a register, I can prove that that hasn't been tampered with, that it genuinely is that copy. We should then be able to take this entry that someone has given to you and give it to someone else, and they should be able to prove that that is a genuine entry in the register and that they can trust what you are saying. For example, here's a picture of the window of my local pub. The sticker on the right is what a food hygiene rating might look like in the UK. So this is telling me as a customer that my local pub restaurant has a food hygiene rating of five out of five according to our local authority, according to the Food Standards Agency. But when I look at that, how do I know that that's specific to that restaurant? There's nothing specific on that sticker to that restaurant. They could have actually bought this on eBay because that has been possible at one point. But what if the food hygiene rating sticker looked more like this? So it's specific to whatever the restaurant is. There's a machine-readable fingerprint on it that allows someone, a potential customer for a restaurant, to be able to check that and say, okay, that genuinely did come from the Food Standards Agency. It's not just what my restaurant wants me to think they have. That's that one. So the next one is a consistency proof. This one allows us to check whether a registrar or authority has rewritten history. So if they issue, if an inspector or a restaurant issues a new report for a restaurant, they want to know that the history of this register is still, as it was, and the history hasn't been rewritten and that the registrar is not going back on their word. On the list of properties of the register earlier, one of them was that a register is append only. So you never ever, even if you update a record, it's always appendage. You never lose that. This proof allows you to verify that property of the register. And finally, we have what is called the register proof. So this would allow you to download the entire register, store it somewhere else, take it away, do something, use it. But you could then later prove to someone else that its entire content is a genuine register and it's not being tampered with since you've had it. So how are we going to provide these proofs? We plan to use something called a Merkel tree. It looks a bit like this. It's a cryptographic concept, which allows us to verify these three properties that I just mentioned quite efficiently and securely. I'll come back to this in a minute. But I'm going to mention a project by Google called Certificate Transparency, who we are working with using a lot of their ideas. They are using Merkel trees at the moment in something that they've called a verifiable log. So a certificate transparency, what is this? The aim of the certificate transparency project for Google is to fix some of the flaws in the SSL certificate system, so the cryptographic system that underlies all of the HTTPS connections. So how are they going to do this? Well, they've got what they call a verifiable log, so it's a list of all issued SSL certificates. It makes it possible to identify any certificates that have been mistakenly issued by a certificate authority or maliciously acquired. So, for example, if you were Google, you could look up the list of authorities that have issued certificates for Gmail, for example, or us as GDS, we could check the certificates issued for the country register. So, although we're not actually storing certificates in our registers, there's quite a lot of ideas around transparency, that certificate transparency project that we can borrow and steal. So, now I'm going to explain what certificate transparency concept of a verifiable log, which we are borrowing, how that works. So, suppose that we're building a register of restaurant inspections. First, we collect some data. We've got five entries here in that register of inspections for five different cafes. We then compute the secure hashes for each of these individual entries. You've got here A, B, C, D, and E. We then combine these into a Merkle tree. So, G is a hash of the concatenation of A and B. H is a hash of C and D, and you go up all the way up to M, which is the Merkle root hash. So, this root hash signature here, this M, that is actually the register proof that I mentioned just a minute ago. If you were to download this whole register and later want to prove that it's genuine, all you'd have to do is take your individual raw entries and rebuild this root hash and prove that they're the same thing, and that is your register proof. As entries are added to the log, to the register of the log grows, so it's equal in size to the size of the register. Now, I'm not going to go into too much detail about how an audit and consistency proofs actually work, because it's a bit of a rabbit hole. If you want to go into lots of detail into that, there's a link down the bottom to a blog that will give you more information. There's one thing I'm going to mention there about the verifiable log. The structure of the verifiable log allows you to do an audit proof or a consistency proof without downloading the whole register, which could be huge. For example, if we're looking at just one entry, the last entry, Roy's Rolls, all you need is to verify that this is an entry in the register. You just need to know the value of K, which covers the whole, which you need to know all siblings as you go from the path from the entry in the register to the top of the Merkle Root hash. For this case, that's just K. For an audit proof, if we've got the original tree here and we add one more entry, so F, Prima Donna there. F is the new hash of the new entry. All you need to prove that this tree and the previous tree are consistent is that you need to prove that the first five entries in this tree are exactly the same as the first five entries in the previous tree. To do that, you just need to know the value of K and E, because K and D cover the whole of the first tree and they cover the first five entries in the second tree. There is more detail than that, if you want to see it, go to that. I think that's there. I'm going to mention one further proof that we might consider implementing. This is something, a verifiable log that comes from certificate transparency can't give us. This proof is a record proof, so is the data I have fresh? The audit proof I mentioned earlier, so if we go back to the example of the food hygiene rating in my local restaurant, the audit proof is useful, but being able to prove that this is a genuine entry in the register is not useful if there is a more recent version where this entry has been downgraded from five star to one star. The record proof verifies that this is the most recent up-to-date entry and there hasn't been a later inspection that's changed that, but as I say, the verifiable log can't give us that information. If we're going to implement the record proof, how do we think we might do it? There is another implementation of a Merkle tree called from certificate transparency again. This is called a verifiable map rather than a verifiable log. It's... similar in that it's both, again, another Merkle tree. However, this Merkle tree, rather than growing in size with the size of the register, it's a constant size and it's absolutely huge. If you have a hash in the algorithm of, say, SHA256 so that your unique hash is always 256 bits long, then the size of your tree is 2 to the power of 256 so it's, like, unconceivably big. But the thing that makes it really efficient is that because your entries are in leaf positions addressed by that hash, most of them are empty values and it's really sparse. So that's what makes creating, calculating a record proof, proving that you've got the latest entry and verifiable map. And this is where I ask for some feedback. We want to know if you can think of any times where you've checked this kind of integrity of your data or can you think of times when you wanted to be able to check the integrity of your data but you've not been able to. Would you like to be able to check that you have the latest entry or that this is genuinely an entry or that history hasn't been rewritten by any type of data? Please let us know what you think. You can provide any feedback generally at this beater banner at the top there, the feedback banner. Or please come find us later for drinks or on Twitter. You can hunt us down. Thank you very much. Any time for questions? This is all great. Fantastic idea. One registry I'm dealing with is the WHO list of clinical trial registers. And it's compiled from one from every group of countries. I wonder if you have any plans for collaborating where you've got a few people a few organisations putting stuff into a single register or allowing your register to interoperate for something comfortable in another organisation or international body. Or is this only something that can work as a self-contained author by a single person? Shall we take this one? I think the main answer is I don't know. The models we've been working with have been around. We work in central government where there often is a single identifiable authority. While I recognise the problem you're dealing with it's not one we've had to look at yet. That goes enough to come in at the same time. Otherwise Germany doesn't exist. Do you have any system to deal with the fact that you might need to for example remove East Germany and put Germany in and those who kind of have to be an atomic need to work transaction? I mean other than the fact that we wouldn't publish the register with the intervening entry there and I think that's the main way we're dealing with it at the moment. I think a lot of this is still in flux. We're still evolving and iterating our model and that is a very interesting question that we need to think about. The country registry is a new came here of existing countries. Different countries have different views of what countries exist. So there may be disparate parts are making any attempts to sort of map that to other countries so I think the most interesting answer I've got to you there is if I go away back in the slides and stop responding again so the name of this record you can see is GM and that is the ISO country code so we're using standards to deal with that. There are issues with that which I can talk to you about afterwards but where there are existing data standards we want to use them. The country field in this is GM is the ISO country code. I certainly hope that that sort of analysis would be possible and ideally without us having to even be involved as long as we've published the data then anyone can take it and I'm not aware of the open refine API so maybe we can talk about that afterwards. At the moment the model we're working with is that all registers will be flat mappings of fields to values and if there is any hierarchy it will be through a link as Michaela was talking about from one register to another register. I think what we're going for here is definitely a lower bar than the full link data thing we're not looking to link to arbitrary data out on the internet where these registers link only to other registers within the UK government so I think that's the main difference I would add to that I'm sure other people are more expert in link data than I am and can do an interesting analysis and that said we do make the data available as territorial if people want to use it that way and I think that's all the time we've got for questions but thank you very much.


Like I heard you talk about kite surfing. Like how do you decide when you just want to go kite surfing for a day? Like is that just if you don't have anything going on or do you set aside time or what do you do? Well, like right now I've got options, right? Because like I've been doing this for 20 years and I've built my business up to the point where like I know how the game works. I've got my clients, you know, built up me and my assistant, we've been working together for eight years. We've closed, I've closed 100 deals a year ever since I've had her for eight years straight. And so we know each other front and back in terms of business, how to, how to do the transaction, what the process is, like what her role is, what my role is. So we have this down to a fine tooth, like all the way down as far as you can get it in terms of a very simple system. And so like you're not there yet, right? And so like when you're in the building your business phase, trying to like figure things out, we go out there and build your business and create those systems and see what works for you and see what doesn't work for you and stuff like that. There really is no fun time. You know what I mean? Like when I was, like when I was coming up in the business, bro, I was working 15 hours a day for 15 years until I figured this thing out. And like there were moments that I would go through phases where I didn't even work out. I didn't go to the gym at all because I was just so focused on my business. I wanted every waking hour to be building my business. And then I would get to a, I would get to a good place in my business and then I would start working out again. And then I would hit another place of growth where it's like, wow, here's this opportunity. I got to go get this. And I would go through the same thing. I would do nothing but work every waking hour until I got to another good place. And it's like you hop from place to place.  Like hop from one to the other, you know, through life, you know, based on kind of what gets you excited because like people get in the business, they're super excited about real estate, you know. And then once they, you know, put a good five or 10 years in and figure that thing out, they kind of get like a little complacent and stuff. And at that point, you either ride life out right there or you find something else to pour fuel on that fire again to get you excited with that next thing. Like there's always another thing. There's always another level. There's always something else out there that you could be doing to take your business and take your life to another level. It's just, where's your ambition level? You know what I mean? Some people don't have the ambition to actually go to that next stone. So to answer your question, man, like when you're, when you're building your business and stuff, like for me, there wasn't no fun time. There wasn't a downtime. No, but like, but when I was coming up though, I would take about a week. I would do like a week long vacation towards the end of the year. Every year I would try to like hang out on Sundays kind of thing. But like I was working Monday through Saturday, every day, all day long. And Sundays, a lot of Sundays, I would be showing property and doing open houses and stuff. So I don't know, man. Like it just depends on what kind of business you want. I just turned 21 years old, man. So it's like, you know, they go, all my buddies are like, yo, let's go do this. Let's go do that. I'm like, well, hey, I'm trying to do this thing now. So and I've been good about it. But it's like, you know, I want to do something with you. I don't want to just be like, never see my friends again, you know, type saying, I'm just, I'm worried about that. Which is, you know, I don't want to be worried about getting busy or anything.  I mean, sometimes like, like, I don't, like, I don't know you. I don't know what's going on, you know, what your situation is. But like, if you want to do like big things, you can't like have both. You know what I mean?  You know what I mean? For me, it's like, yeah. And so like what I did is I just switched my friends. You know what I'm saying? Like I just, I went from like, you know, like, look at your friends. Okay. And whoever your friends are and wherever they are in life in terms of business and success, that's where you're going to be as long as you're hanging out with them.


There's history here. And here. There's history there. History is everywhere. My name is Mackenzie. I'm the registrar here at SOHS. Let's start in the 1920s. This is circa 1923. It's actually a Janssen, one of their original wool swimming suits. They started selling these in about 1915 in their catalogs. So this was designed by Carl Janssen, one of the owners of Janssen, obviously. It was originally a design that he made for his rowing team, who needed something warm to wear in the cold Willamette River. It was not common to wear such a form-fitting suit back then. But they started selling them, and they became very popular right away among men and women. They actually, Janssen's actually credited with coining the term swimming suit in their advertisements. Before then, it had only been called bathing suits. So interesting. And this is a 1930s swimming suit. It's a lot like the 1920s. It still wasn't super popular at the time to have to wear something in public that was so form-fitting. But there are quite a few celebrities at the time who loved them, and Marlene Dietrichs famously owned one in every single color. So it became very popular after then. Here we've got... This is a... Our record show is a 1940s bikini, but I'm thinking it may be a little later than that. The bikini came out in 1946 in France. It wasn't wildly popular, though, until the 1950s. And then we've got a 1940s suit that's probably a little more typical. During this time, they started becoming a little more reflective of regular dress fashion. So there's a lot of ruching and a lot of structure in these suits. Can you turn them? Oh, you want to see this. And it does have convertible straps, so you can go strapless if you wanted to, to prevent the tan lines from happening, which was still a concern at the time, apparently. We've got a 1950s bikini. They got a little skimpier then, and 1953-ish, when Bridget Bardot wore her bikini at the Cannes Film Festival on the French Riviera, kind of took off and became wildly popular then. I love the tiger stripe. And the bust is still very structured, and it is padded, so the ruching is still very popular as well. And the bottoms are still pretty high-waisted compared to what you would see in contemporary times. It still wasn't everyone's favorite, though. So this is another 1950s one-piece suit, probably more typical of what people would wear. Marilyn Monroe wore a white suit, similar to this in one of her photos. It's got a deep plunging back, though, and the very structured padded bust area. Still common. This one is actually designed by a fairly well-known designer named Oleg Cassini. These, the gold lame, and the belt seem very appropriate for that time. Still very structured in the bust area, and deep plunging back with the zipper closure. Belts, from what I understand, were only popular for not too long in the 60s. And then in the 70s, you get kind of Farrah Fawcett in her deep plunging red one-piece suit. And a little sportier in the 70s, and then in the 80s, you get kind of high thigh-cut suits. And then in the 90s, you see the triangle bikini that shows the world everything. And then contemporary, it's more about body positivity and finding the suit that's right for each individual woman.


What's up everyone, Takedown here. Welcome back to another Flipping for Profit video. Today we're gonna be checking out a lot of 240 video games that it did purchase. I got a great price. I paid a dollar each, $240 for 240 video games. Everything from Xbox, Xbox 360, PS2 and PS3. So let's check this out. So sort of for the lighting for the tote here, but we did get a full tote of video games. So just quickly go through them here. We did get some Xbox 360 games. So they're right here and a row right here. We do have some PS2 games that go here. Underneath the PS2, there is a row of sports games. I'm not expecting much for those. And then underneath the Xbox 360, it's the original Xbox games. We also have over here. I set them over here for now. The PS3 games, we haven't gone through them yet, but here's a glimpse of what's in there. We do have some more games over here. I think this is all sports games. Another snack, PS3. Some other games that I just have not gone through yet. So yeah, I think I got a really great deal on everything here, $240. Now my prices usually are for these ones. Typically it's $5 each is what I sell them for, or $5 for $20, and that equals out to be $4 each. So I only paid a dollar. So if I get $4 each, that is a great profit. So I'm expecting around $600 profit just on that alone. But I do also have these ones over here, which I did take out and separates. I did look up some of the prices on these, and they sell for anywhere from $10 to $20. I think one of them might be a $40 game somewhere here. So these ones will have to be cleaned up, listed on my eBay or Facebook Marketplace and priced individually. But I do have to clean them up first. But games like Twisted Metal Black for the PS2, Ghost Rider, a whole bunch of different games in here. I do have them just separated from the rest for now, so I don't have them mixed up. These games here are gonna be selling for a little bit more. So for just the other games, aside from the sports games, because I don't expect much for those, I'm expecting around $600 profits. For here, these are gonna be my extra, so hopefully a lot more. I'm hoping around an extra one or $200 profit from these. So in total, maybe $800 profits. Now we did sell some games already. These ones here, I did have somebody message and he wanted the original Xbox games, all of the Splinter Cell games. So one of each that I had. He also wanted Halo 2, the Steelbook, which he probably could have been able to tell from the photo that it's all rusty outs and the fact that I'm listing it and selling it for $4. But yeah, it's in terrible condition.  But hopefully he does, because that rate there is $20. I already sold five games for $20 as well. Those games, one of them was for Xbox. It was Cold Fear, which I had a bunch of people messaging, so I looked it up and that's a $20 to $30 game. I sold it for $4. I can't remember the condition. I'm assuming it was in rough condition. That's why I sold it so cheap, just to get a couple sales in. But the guy did message back. He wanted a list of everything else that I had, so he's buying this stack right here. So he got Dead Space 2 Limited Edition for PS3, for PS2, Jack 2 and 3. Fallout 3 Game of the Year Edition. Fallout's New Vegas Ultimate Edition, Red Dead Redemption Game of the Year that includes Undead Nightmare, Skyrim Legendary Edition, SmackDown vs. Raw 2007, Oblivion and Call of Duty Black Ops 2. So he bought all of these. I give him a deal since he bought for me already, so he offered me $40 for the 11 games. I decided to take that. That's basically $4 each and you get one free, so why not? So so far I sold $80 and I sold only 20 games. So I have a ton left, but I should definitely be making my profits for these. So comment down below what you guys think. Do you guys think I got a really great deal on these? Personally, I do just on these alone. Hopefully I'll be coming close to making my money back. And then I have about 200 other games here. So definitely excited to see what I can do with all these and how much money will be made. So like I said, most of these games are gonna be sold on Kijiji and Facebook Marketplace, at least the ones that I'm selling for $4 to $5. All of the ones that are $10 to $20 that I did share that I do have separate, those are gonna be cleaned up and I'm definitely listing them on eBay, but also listing them on Facebook Marketplace and whichever sells first. I'll just take them off the other platform. But hopefully we are gonna be generating a lot of sales. So far I've only listed the Xbox games and what ended up happening is people message for some of those. I mentioned that I do have Xbox 360, PS2 and PS3 as well. And that's where some of the sales did happen from. So I don't have the PS2 games listed, the PS3 games listed or the Xbox 360 games listed yet. That's what I'm gonna be working on today. Hopefully I can list all of that. And my other project for today is to clean up all the other games and test them. The ones that are gonna be sold individually on eBay, take photos of everything and list everything today. That is my goal. Hopefully I can get it done. But definitely profit to be made. The one thing I do want to mention is I do list on Kijiji as well. But lately I've had a problem with Kijiji where I can't make new posts. It actually happened about a week or two ago originally. And I ended up contacting them and they said it's a glitch in the system and they fixed a couple of my ads. I went to post today the Xbox games and it won't let me post them. So I do have to contact them again. Hopefully they can get it fixed. Kijiji doesn't generate a lot of sales for me but it does have an extra couple of sales a week that I do get from it. So why not add it to be able to get more sales and hopefully they can get it fixed for me. But most of my sales do come from Facebook Mercplace lately and then eBay, hopefully I can get that a lot more inventory on it. But hope you guys enjoyed this video. Hopefully I will be doing more flipping for profit videos in the future. Comment down below if you guys wanna see more and I'll see you guys in the next video. Please take care, peace.


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I have two things I wanted to bring tonight. First one's a question. What I share with my technical classification was with the town, if I was part-time or part-time temporary or part-time seasonal, or what the technical classification of that was, and whether or not that included any kind of holiday I know that it doesn't include benefits, but I wasn't sure if it included holiday or not. Just a curiosity question. No, you're temporary. With no benefits. So that would be the holiday, no vacation. Well, that answers that piece. And then my second question was, is it possible that we start walking the gate right out here because, since I've been walking, there's a lot of wheel tracks when people are turning around and driving out on the fields and I don't want to see them end up with ruts and stuff, I don't want to make it a lot more difficult and time consuming to do the mowing. Yeah, definitely. It should be locked at night so long. I think the Art Creation Committee has the key, so we'll get a key so that you can unlock it when you need to mow and stuff. So it is definitely a plan to have it locked though. Yeah, it should be. I just said he put some of the minutes that just came up. Yes, every 20 minutes they just talked about it. All right. Well that answers everything that I was looking to hear. So that's easy enough for this part of the public to comment. Okay, anything else? I don't do that. Excellent. Quick and easy. Okay, good. Thanks. Okay, time administrator report. No dog signs have been taken down by the recreation committee out here or they will be taken down. They're not already down. And we'll be following the animal control ordinance as far as dogs running at large and whatnot. So we'll need to let our animal control officer know that he should be aware that the no dog signs have been taken down. Should we replace that with some signage that says that dog should be whatever the rules are? They said they're going to post down from porch forum that it's changing and then they're going to put our animal control ordinance in the bulletin board back here. That's what the recreation committee said that we're going to do. Okay. But no physical sign outside? No, because it's be a long big sign. It's not like a clear sentence you could put into one second. I don't think. What do we count ordinance says? There's a leash law? There is a leash law. There is a leash law. Well, that doesn't make that easy. So we have the money from the school that was overpaid. If you remember in New York County for $50,000 and $3 was added in as an asset for money that we were going to collect to school. Remember, every year I argue with the CPA that we're on a modified cash basis. Why are we counting for money that we don't have until we get it in hand? That's what a modified cash basis is. You spend the money that you have if you don't have enough of your work.  We're not allowed to carry it over unless it's highway funds. So having said that, we only received $45,788. So because the asset, the difference was claimed as an asset and deducted from our deficit. We will need to add $4215 to the taxes that you're going to figure in the tax rate. And why did we dirt the lower amount as opposed to the full amount? I don't know where he got his figure. I'm trying to look in the audit category. And the audit report today, I believe that is only an estimate. I did look and see why we got what we did and then copy it to someone if you want to read it over. Everything looks fine to me. It's just a difference in the school rate from last year to this year, creating what they need for their first half of the year. Because we're on a year end. They're on June 30. So at the time of the audit report, it does not have the school rate? No, it's not ready yet. Did you want to look at this or anything? I will take over. Sure. So there's a new law as far as the penalties for late filing. The person who gets the tax bills are done and they're sent. The taxpayer only has 14 days to file for a refund of any penalty that's on that tax bill. That's for late filing. So when we get the request, it will go to your current tax collector, which is the treasurer in our case. She will make a recommendation to the select board whether she feels that they've she'll know if they filed 14 days, which is the law. And that the amount is correct. The penalty will be 3% on the amount of education tax that they had to pay. So there's no penalty assessed onto the tax part because this is all state-involved. If the person is requesting a refund of penalty because they filed for a homestead and they're not homestead, then they get charged an 8% penalty and we should not be giving them back that money. So I mean, I'll go over that with you again as the tax bills go out, but that's something to keep in mind. They only have 14 days. Is that statewide? Yeah. It is. And the fourth thing is on the business, I don't know how much you're going to get into the new business for the town hall remediation. We don't have a thorough clean suggestion as to what needs to be done in the cost and everything. Katrina has contacted KD Associates. We do have an air quality test. The upstairs is fine. The downstairs mold is contained really downstairs in the kitchen corner by the closet. So their first response was they think that only the cabinets in that corner will have to be pulled out and will have to be removed, pulled out. What about the drywall? Yes, the wall. He said down on the drywall in the closet he'll just go 40 inches up, but he's going to pull out the corner where the fridge and the cabinets which is where I took the pictures out and if that drywall is fine he won't have to pull out the rest of the cabinets. They'll just have to take the cake boards off and clean underneath them. So he thinks it's better than what we thought that not all the cabinets would have to be taken out. But he was out of town so his report should come in this week with his recommendations. But the work probably won't happen until mid-June because they just had two big jobs come. So what's his estimate for the work? We don't know yet. This week. We'll get this report. How are we getting any other estimates? Depends on what his is I guess. I mean it will cost us. If it's over $5,000 we should be getting more estimates. I'm pretty sure it's over $5,000. We went to Pearl Clean because they're the ones that the insurance company has to. But they're not paying now. It's a good start. They made the decision not to pay. They made the decision that they will not pay because when the rain event they should have been notified at that time when the rain event happened and there was problems so they can't go back that far. It was in September and October and the phone was mopping so much according to his time sheets so we missed the bowl on that. So from now on we have to call them every time it rains? Every time we get flooded like that but that shouldn't happen again. Another thing is it came in through the foundation. And that won't happen anymore? That won't happen anymore. It's fixed. It hasn't happened again. So when water comes in through the foundation or something like that so they may not have paid anyway. So you've got time for the next meeting to approve what we get for bins anyway. So I don't have to do anything with that tonight. It's about all that I have unless you want to read the I think you were given the KD's report for the for the KD associates. You were given the air quality report anyway. Yeah, I'm more than that. Okay. Just so I don't forget a sometimes useful step in mold remediation is after we do the replacement of the material in the vacuuming it sometimes pays if you have the option of shutting the place up for a few days to run the removal machine in there as well. Run the removal machine? I think that was part of what you talked to me about. Okay. No, no. This is just the air quality people. They're not people that would do the work.  I would expect that would be part of the remediation plan. A couple more I'm sure. Okay. Ray, do you have a report on Doveville? Actually, I do not. I was waiting for a rainstorm when the rain on the weekend wasn't available so I didn't tell Deb the day that it rained and I would make the trip up there. I mean, that really needs to be looked at when it's raining, I think. Yeah, that's true. I did talk to Deb and she was good with that. Okay. Anything else on the other? Well, I went to the Oh, that's right. Yeah. Which is a good report. You know, I really feel I'm not sure what my role as a sophomore member is when emergency arises, but that's what I know. Yeah, that would be at the time. Okay. You know, on that chart that we made out with John and Tom and Steve that at that time down on the lower rockets would be set up, you know, whether you'd be the traffic or the heavy equipment or something like that and Jason would be permitting or, you know, something like that. So, online is the ICS-100 test. It's a test for the training. Once you have that ICS-100 test that Jason, John and I and I think Tom, did you go to that a couple of years ago? Mm-hmm. We're set as far as, you know, having to go into the trainings for that for probably another five years or so. It's good. It's a recommendation now that we've had. It's a recommendation that we go again if they offer it. That's the ICS-100. That one's online. It's online for a while. If you want to take it again. They said it's online for a certain amount of time. Yeah. They're going to make a discount to do that. So, do you have more time? No. But that's the training that everyone should have for us to get the grants from FEMA. Is the ICS-100. Yeah, during this class he implied that FEMA is cupping the requirements. Yes. Oh boy, are they. And you need, I think 100, 200, 300. I don't know exactly who needs all three of those. We said some people do but everyone needs 100. Yeah. At least, yeah. But we have to make sure that somebody has the higher levels too. I think I have one and two. Yeah, I think anyone who went through Firefighter 1 and or Firefighter 1 and 2 have 200. Yeah, that's part of that. It should be Steph and Steve, Jeff. Great. I can't remember who else. They should all have it. That one was also online but I don't know if it still is. And no one has 300? Steve, I think Mike has 300. Mike, I'm not on this anymore. I remember there was a deal with the Fire Chiefs having something along those lines. But the town only needs ICS-100 for our grant funding.  I know that we only need 100. Yeah. Because he said that your FEMA grants may be in danger if you do not have all three votes in the town. I don't know who else to have it. Yeah, that's not the same answer that we got from somebody else. But if they're online, we'll take them. Ellie, Ray, is that what you heard as well? That's not what I meant. Because he recommended doing 200 and everyone having 200. He recommended it but everybody has to have 100. You don't have to have about 300. And the other ones are recommendations that you do. And then he said 300 would be good but 400 you didn't need. So if anyone can get on there and take ICS-100 again. Do we have to? You don't have to but John should and Tom should. So because they're making new things and new things are available all the time. I'll send you guys the link to it. Okay. I'll train them and I'll do it. Because I need to know new stuff for financial. Do you want a copy of that from Oslo for your director? Yeah, I just wrote down to email you guys about it. Okay, Ray, anything else? Good. Okay. One item. I had read an article in Seven Days on composting facilities and tickets. So I sent that link to Cheryl. I looked pretty directly applicable. I don't know what impact it has on us. It sounds like something has changed in your favor. Definitely. So that was back in March that that changed. I sent that to Ron Shams so he'd know if someone called him what the board was talking about. Yeah, I thought that was really interesting. It's frustrating. It's very frustrating that it's still happening. Okay. So I've got some correspondence from Dwayne Pearson regarding the Tennis and Recreation Court Maintenance Project final update. Let's see. Three bids for request proposals for maintenance works to be completed on the Recreation Courts. New England Tennis Courts was given bid from Montana Tennis Courts 7200 8974 including Resurfacer Vantage Tennis 7974 and E360 includes Resurfacer. Let's see. In consulting with Ray Dago HOU SD Facility Director and members of the Recreation Committee yielded a recommendation to award the project to Advantage Tennis. They weren't the little bidder. Were they? Yeah. They were second ones. They were 600 under on that one and almost 800 more on the other. So the first number Cheryl is the Tennis and then the Rec fields? No. Really the only numbers that matter when you look at it how each person gave two numbers. So it's not those together. It was this is what it was plus resurfacing total this. Okay, okay. So in other words, okay. So the E360 is the lowest? Okay, so E360 Okay, I'm going to spread that. So the channel would be responsible for half of that? Okay. And what's your budget for that? It works. Is that for? I hate to say it, but net. It's a chance for resurfacing. That's the whole thing. The rest of the money about sloping around to make the ditch any better. Water. They're doing something this weekend. Oh, yeah. I got to stop. It's very, it's all very important. Okay. Efficiency Vermont last decade has seen dramatic improvements in the opportunities available for businesses to reduce their energy costs. We now know that almost all Vermont businesses can save money by making specific but crucial energy saving updates. That's why this spring efficiency Vermont is offering to assess no cost with no screens attached. I'd love to have the town where I assessed. We know this building is zero. Area is fine. We should have the town hall done too. I know we had it done last time when we blew in insulation in the walls. But I mean if we're getting a lot of gloss now out of our windows, we may want to consider getting windows. I mean we'll offer a grant after a grant after that and say, you know, I know it's a historic building but you can get historically correct windows. We can get historically correct windows out there like for about $1,500 a piece like we're getting one from Allen Rumber. But it's historically correct in having to replace that one where the walls washed out. But we think it help if we had the energy assessment to historic preservation grant. If it's alright with you then we'd like to do the town hall and the town garage. Doesn't hurt to ask. Yeah, it's great. Yeah, exactly. Stuff? Also, our cool thermal engine camera we played around in the fire department and it shows a little bit of the heat of the stuff in the middle of the winter. I think you guys should have the fire department that too. It would be a huge problem if there was something that you could do there. Can the heat blast there be dealt with by plastic film on the windows? What was the meanwhile? When it was built by the look of what we could see it looked like in the peak in the front maybe there wasn't an inflation put right to the corners because you can see the coal all the way up that never got covered in the front and all the insulation has fallen out of that over the years so it's a coal being right to the roof material so it's constantly coal and it's up in the ceiling so I'm sure that there's an immense amount of heat escaping out of that. How long has the insulation been out of it? I've been slowly piece by piece falling over the last since 2011. I've only been on for 11 years now and then a piece will come out and another piece. We'll get them all done all done in this building. Okay, a memorandum from Central Mont Regional Planning Commission regarding proposed amendments to the 2016 Central Mont Regional Planning. Curious what they are trying to introduce this mention is free Okay, so the in regard to the Central Vermont Regional Planning Commission amendments to the Central Vermont Regional Plan amendments being considered include updated land use elements updated energy elements and inclusion of the regional energy plan by reference. Okay, and then why did the chicken come close to you? Two clean water things, and I think what I'm going to do is as I go to these things in the follow up because I always receive some follow up I'll just forward it over to Cheryl so you can share it with the board. Yeah, sure. Okay. Let's take care of the Lawrence. Exactly, exactly. The school grade is still higher than the Vermont residential. Do you know what I mean at the point? For Martin? Yeah. Not that I know of unless Tom did you want him in for I'll wait to talk to Tom. Okay. Nothing major, let's see. Oh, and I also have the got this from Poundy Andrea the final of the corridor plan. So that'll be while I'm here. Cool. Just make a note of you received it. The ones we have on the wall. Katrina's currently working on the grant to help people attend this course. Hopefully we don't have to pay anything for it. I'll try it again. I hope we get something.  Did the historical society have any reaction to the green trim on the top of the window and not around? Nope, she just said green trim it is. It's not going around. Just the top, yeah. You all saw the email from Jennifer Hill? I answered all of her questions I think that she had. That was the librarian asking now. Okay, so John Conte is doing 645. So let's take a look at old business. Employee review form for the road show. That was a show I gave you last time. She didn't know if you had anything else to add to it. Anybody? No, I didn't spend the money. I didn't look at it. I pulled it out and then didn't bring it. So I guess I would say just review it. Anything else? And social media policy? Yeah. I didn't look at the policy but I really haven't had any doubts that I would support in Facebook. I just think that I just don't think it's necessary and I think there's going to be more time spent on it by you that we really don't need to spend on it. We have a website I don't see really the benefit of it. I think it could end up spending a lot of time on it just trying to monitor it I think we could use it and share it with you. Yeah I mean the only reason to go on it is to post something. Can you share it with me? I get emails. I just get emails that say what the post is and then I just approve it or unapprove it. I just I don't know I just can't see where it's really necessary. I'm going to be with you for different reasons not disagreeing what you said at all I think this is a good time to stay away from Facebook until things settle out. Well last meeting you agreed to Facebook could go live on June 1st and you were just overviewing social media policy to make sure that was good enough for any social media. And we're talking about Facebook because we didn't review the social media policies so I guess I mean do everyone live with it because you have to approve a policy. You have to approve a policy and you have to appoint an administrator. And that Katrina has already volunteered. So I guess one more put it up for one more meeting I know that Facebook is really making an effort and they're clarifying a lot of things and so on so they're working hard to get everything under control. People to get updates constantly where front porch far only comes out in the evening once a day or something was updated that was coming through they could see it morning real time. Right. Okay Move it where I want. I did have no questions. About the review form is that is that then going to go to Martin to get looked at and figure it out about implementing it and how that's going to work? I would think so. Yeah. I mean thinking about it and maybe how he wants to implement that when he wants to do it if he wants to do it all at the same time or space them out for dates of hire or select board wants to do it on and all. I mean there's a lot of things that need to be worked out. Me, I would think that Martin would give them to each one of these guys to do a self review and then like I did Katrina some good things came out of it. Yeah. And something between the board and Martin that you guys have to figure out but if it was me I would think that that was very beneficial and if you guys have questions that's a time to ask for it but more than part of it I like the idea of having it done in the spring and before they start plowing so that things of safety can be gone over. A guy can never have too much safety thinking about safety when he's out there in that truck and I just think it would be beneficial to have something brought forward. Maybe if you could pull him in for a select board meeting and have it in there and just say okay this is the plan this is what it looks like when you think and then he can say what he likes or doesn't like and then everyone can agree on a solid plan and then it's all set and stolen. Do you want me to send it to him before the next meeting so he can come into the next meeting? Yeah. Now the safety review before the plowing season does seem like a very good idea. Oh yeah. And then again in the spring there's a whole different side of it. There's a whole different safety from getting glue in the eyes from putting in that cover or putting the cover together what you do. It's probably a different job. If you have an accident again if you have an accident you've got a number that you call and you can get tested right there you don't have to go the people won't come to you and it's just great and I think it's just been great reminder. Not so much a review of what they do what they do good, what they do bad if they did anything bad, whatever but it's a review for safety and what's coming up. Really? Do they do that periodically to boys? We have like an annual safety meeting in April and we review everything but that every job has its own safety needs every week to review just the what's going on in that particular job. I have no idea what they do but it just seems it just seems like a great idea for their safety. Yeah, it's kind of not really a thing. If the only accident we had on Northfield Street last year is we moved the quarter party too close to the road and somebody came out of the quarter party and walked into it. I thought you were going to say the car with the quarter party. Was someone in there? You came out of the quarter party and walked into the tractor backing up? Oh man. The only answer we had I mean when you think about it that is one of the things that could happen when you put it around and a simple thing like put the quarter party too close to the road. So I shouldn't say it was too flush to the road. Okay, so minutes of five then. There's a couple of things on here. I think the motion to enter into executive session the first two times didn't really give a reason. Just to clarify the premature general public knowledge would clearly place the public body or a person involved in a substantial disadvantage. That's basically after you've made that specific finding. But you also need to state the reason okay? And I believe the reason for the first two was the appointment or employment or evaluation of a public officer or employee provided that the public body shall make a final decision to hire or appoint a public officer or employee in an open meeting shall explain the reasons for its final decision during the open meeting. Now what's interesting about that it specifically says the appointment or employment or evaluation of a public officer or employee but it then talks about a final decision to hire or appoint. Now our final decision is to review the pay for Cheryl Nint and so but that still would be the reason and the same reason with Katrina which you did state correctly. So I think that should show and because we also went then down below we went back into executive session with Cheryl Nint it was invited to state Do you think they all should say for the evaluation of a public officer or employee? I think so. That was the intent. It was clear in context but it doesn't read that way. And let's see then under reports and communications I think it wasn't fireworks it would have been tree wardens and put down tree wardens and then also I hadn't I had not attended the clean water advisor committee meeting yet it was the following Thursday Will also attend Yeah Oh hi John Take a seat No No And also under reports and communications it was both Tom and I were at the center tonight I knew that I know I went to the pestle room and commented on the minutes from someone who was using the website and reading them and he said that sometimes they lack context that doesn't mean that you have to write an entire story every time sometimes these things need a little reminder so people can tell what they are There's a very fine line about the laws and rules about writing minutes for media and about directly quoting people and not you know what I mean I understand what you're saying I don't want to step over the line I'm not available for writing stuff I'm not supposed to write Anybody else Do you mean more like a background of what has happened previously? No and you're right I can't do that because it's not what people said I mean an example this isn't a strong example but there's all that I had there when there's talk about a permit for a curb cut this isn't where it is so people would have some idea of what Oh on the things that we're signed off on Yeah that's not a very good example I'm just trying to say that adding a little bit of detail so that an external reader can hold up what they're talking about Gotcha Alright Unfortunately you can't put it in the past background because of something I'm trying to do It doesn't really matter I don't know if we're online I think I'll make a motion to approve as amended Second Any more discussion? All in favour of approving the minutes Say hi Alright that's John Come on Here we go Good, thank you John Holdenboom Jason Ronowitz I'm Katrina Brackett Cheryl Brown Great to have you Catastria John's here for the auditor position Yes Tell us about yourself Sure I've been a more time president since 2017 I guess the past three or four years but I was from River Road and I'm working with the field right now in the sales rep and talking past a year or two about getting more involved in the community and many other ways to do that and I saw this and it was interesting and I also just signed up for a some Champlain online courses for accounting and certificate to move on their batches to get through that so hi Asafo kind of hand in hand way to kill a few boys one stone Good, thanks for this You're welcome So pretty much the conference is still to come Yeah Certainly do need I haven't heard yet the one and only auditor and I don't have any experience the previous auditor taught me And you're currently the thumb forward for a time of thumb forward form for that I said if you know I want to be a good member do all of our own personal finances that kind of thing The fun part is putting together the time before That's what I enjoy doing not the job Very good That is an important piece Yeah So is most of the work for the auditor at the time of your time Other than that it's once a month I can't do it alone so once I have someone we have all of the beers to catch up on So can you describe what you would do with two auditors Does it open the bank statements so we reconcile the bank statements to her accounting So she has a book of all the different seven different accounts and we compare the bank statements to her accounting which has also gone through you and Sasha already So we're the fourth person to check So that's what we do once we're caught up it takes ten minutes of time Is it seven accounts? I think it's seven accounts I work mostly with the general fund account that's the account so the warrants side that are going and what I would love to see the auditors do is take your bank statements take a couple of checks randomly go to the accounts payable file make sure that the checks match the invoices that you have checks for invoices that match your warrants and things it's a great checks and balances it's something that we're lacking the CPA hasn't said anything like that but me, I feel myself that it's a great checks and balances for the protection of the town for the protection of the treasure for me it's just a good checks and balances and then putting together the town reports so you need to be organized so the reports will come in from different departments from you you check the grammar check the spelling things like that put together the town report with Katrina she's great, she's organized she's got a system going now for doing that but it takes two people you can't have one caught at her I mean it's just not legal Do you know what VLC team has for training for downloaders? it's a handbook like what to select for again and that's it that's it once here there is a training unfortunately it's already gone by through Mr. Hall he works for for VLCT and he's worked for the state what that training is pretty beneficial but what it really is is more of a gathering and you sit with other auditors and you say what happens in their town which may not necessarily be what happens in more town they may have a fiscal year end of June 31 not on a cash basis like what we are anything so you're going to get more experience by hands on the way that we're set up on a cash basis if we have cash respect if we don't we have to borrow I mean that's a modified cash basis which is really what we have in our house I mean if you've got to have that study you pay the bills if you don't you have to borrow that's kind of some of the reports you have to do a little more in depth on but most everybody's reports are good to go as soon as you get them everything that comes from the treasurer obviously is things that come from me for grants for insulation you should go to that account where the expenses are make sure that all the reimbursements have been sent in so that we get the reimbursement that we are due back that's pretty important too it's not a lot I was an inventory manager so I would review your order stuff invoice to come in you kind of match that if you received what was on the package to come in it's pretty nice it's a lot different it's pretty self-explanatory but it's great to have two of time flexibility during the day a little bit I kind of work so we travel here in the air but it's flexible time so how many hours you say once a month for the standard really in December and January is the bulk of it and I mean Rita and I we met two or three times a week but we only met for one or two hours at a time so at least a full day a week in those two months the command to see what comes in for reports but a lot of it you can do at home too if you and I talk email about the town report a lot of it you can do at home reports would get emailed to me I'd say at home I'd read them and then send them in I'm the assistant administrator so I'm here anyway so that's why I do it when I'm here but all the the physical paperwork I was going to say yes which is reports when it comes to the town report you can do that at home in one of the hours that the office is open seven to three thirty one to three one to three this will be just be my second year and I only actually did the actual auditing for like two months before the end of the year so we didn't have any other auditor and then one came back out of retirement but she won't do that again this year she said no one died she said that the year before yes true I can advise you we have one of her I've auditioned since the seventies and I've been here for twenty years she's the only one and when it gets on board right away why don't you read this to me for next time no that was just us we looked at the camera wrong no like I said we haven't been able to do anything since the start of the year so there's a ton of things to go through so you're going to catch up yeah to catch up and then we just once at the end of the year we kind of have to we didn't have to catch up and then we'd have to wait because they don't get it done the day it's so they're like almost a month behind so you have to stay a month behind them so Sherilyn reconciles her big statements from online she can see the big statements online so she doesn't open the big statements at all that come from the bank so you would be opening those the same goes a second party called NIMRC they reconcile online as well so there's a second Sherilyn reconciles for her own sake NIMRC reconciles to be legal and then the auditors would open the big statements and you'd in a sense reconcile again and that is something that we would like so what's the accounting certificate at Champlain you're going to go for right now it's just a basic you know just basic accounting accounting, managerial accounting there's like five courses I believe so those are the first two so financial managerial yeah and I think it becomes I think they're federal they have something to do with federal and I think they're through outside my neighborhood so I'm just getting into that and then is there any obviously risk or liability on my end as far as obviously everyone's confidential that stands as like yeah I know there's just some liability on my end as far as fine rules or special as long as you're appointed to the position by the town's insurance as an officer okay it's interesting it's kind of a way to get more involved and also to kind of further further this and next one any more questions for John well we have one more auditing left if you want to drag in a friend and our conversation is it volunteer or not okay 16 of one an hour it's been so long yeah we have time sheets so we can fill out we can either wait until the end of the year once that's what we did share our conversation to it every month every week or two weeks how many hours is that in here like 40 total like between the two of us yeah depends on the time report it's our first it would be our first time doing it alone so it might take us longer this year so are we looking for three hours or are you stepping no we're looking for one more there should be three total okay so we all all three audit the same same or you can't put it up read an idea together because she was teaching me we should do it together right and like I said randomly because we we have a review every three years and then the fourth year we have a full audit but we have a review by a CPA every year but what that CPA doesn't do is the CPA doesn't fill bills in the bank statements like that he checks the funds and the expenditures within the funds but he doesn't physically go and do stuff like what I would like to see the time out as soon as whatever is there is correct for those people another comment which you've been a bookie for about many years I've always been nine hours back so no more questions I'll make a motion that we point John as a new auditor second any final discussion all if they ever say aye aye okay you're in and the paperwork is in place yes it's where you get paid so you'll have to fill out a paperwork like that Katrina will email you until you can swap the information back and forth and then you can get your heads together and have an organizational meeting at some point figure out when you want to come back and then you're on your own unless you have questions you work independently does the Amiga Speed town have an e-book yeah it's online it's online vlct.org yeah I'll leave that to you tomorrow and you can figure out the schedule okay thanks a lot welcome a lot of salaries here for you was or not yeah that was good very good thank you John we appreciate it we're all settled there a couple things came up while sitting here we're going to talk about this the bridge meeting oh yeah it's going to be in 2020 it is yeah they're going to re-line it a little bit they've changed the plan a little bit they're going to re-line it a little bit but they aren't going as far as Pony Farm Pony Farm Road is not going to be a detour it's not going to be a signage on the other end of town so it's not going to be a detour but they have agreed that if we get a lot of traffic on Pony Farm that we can put in we can submit for cash reimbursement for having to grade it and whatnot like that so there really wasn't much difference when J.D. McCarthy was here and gave just a couple things that changed their alignment a little bit they're going to need a permanent easement from the town that's on the other end of the bridge that will involve the cemetery but not where the cemetery is being used and the cemetery commissioners were here two of them, three they were happy with what's going to happen they want to do that easement so that they can put big rock there and the big rock will hit that the wire will hit the big rocks before it goes on under the new bridge they're going to replace the whole bridge they need to they say on the bridge they will be told how they work one month, two just a month most of it's all offsite did they say what month they're thinking of after school and they should have the bridge everything complete and out of there by September they're hoping that they're thinking the bridge is only going to be closed for a month two months to build one month closed they build a bridge offsite and then they put it on there they guaranteed me that it wasn't a suspension bridge like what happened in Florida they also said that that was wrong what happened down there it should have never happened the way that they were doing it we had a question ahead with us have we been able to do a change for this it's on next year's budget next year's budget we don't have it we're getting quotes for next year's budget do we know how much they are? no you don't we don't have to quote you in the future we'll get quotes for in front of my cop over is one of the quotes from warboard no I think the cards were there well I wonder if this we can't just add something yeah I'm thinking of just the regular pull down shades it costs nothing we can put it would probably be just or cheaper to put a temporary curtain up there and you don't have to mess with screwing in or anything do something like that all of your quotes we want to do a new office what's up? anybody else have anything? I'm sorry it's so quick that's efficiency it's a short agenda wait till next time that's fine we need a five we need a five at the logic site and then you'll be back here for the public hearing the congress will be here because there has to be a written agreement so your distance will be light because that will be until just so I have it in the same place what's the date of the project 6.04 back here thank you everybody welcome to your arms second bye