And obviously we talk about the old game this Saturday, quick turnaround but do you use that confidence that you know the energy levels that you've got from last night and just kind of supposed to sweep straight into Saturday's game? Yeah definitely everyone's fit and flying at the moment, Nick's working on us, he's got to fit this up where he's just topping up on it as we go through the week but there's not much more we can do at the moment obviously with a Wednesday game going into Saturday we're all fit, we've done a recovery this morning, we're all going to be fighting fit again on Saturday and it'll be a big game for us I think. If we've been picking up, keeping the playoffs and kicking a little run going again but as I said we're playing well at the moment, we're mixing that game up, back four have been great, both keepers Ben and Pickers have been there and we've still got another great keeper in Matting as well so we're doing well at the moment and we're a strong squad so hopefully we can go there Saturday and get the three points. And that's sort of the main thing that everyone's going to be saying from the camp is obviously Yoval is Saturday it's to I'm guessing you know put any thoughts of Chelsea in other games to one side obviously just take one game at a time. Yeah definitely I think Chelsea's just going to be a great day out for everyone at the club, everyone and the staff, the players we're going to enjoy that when it comes but we've got to get this one out of the way first and we're looking to go there and win the three points and I think if you said we want to go beat Chelsea or we want to go up in this league I think everyone in the club would say we'd want to go up so I think we focus on that and the main thing and we're going to try there and try and go there and win the battle and then play our good football. We've been playing at the moment, Barrage going into Hanson, going into Steady, run us off him and then we can go from there but we're all flying at the moment and everyone even though we lost the other week we had a nice little run and I think we deserve it so everyone's working hard to put a nice little run together again but Chelsea would be a nice break from the league but we're focusing on the league and we're all focused on Saturday.


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You and I last talked at the end of January. You've done a lot since then and the September 29th press release is evidence of that. Long holes, good mixes of numbers, tell us about that. Well, yes, we've been very busy this year. We have a drill program underway. We have 25,000 meters planned and are now well into it with around 21,000 meters. And you're funded for it, right? That's a very important point to highlight. We are fully funded and we have a similarly sized program planned for next year and are well funded for that as well. So we won't have to go back to the market for additional cash anytime soon. We have 10 million in a treasury. Nice. Sorry, interrupted you there. You said a 25,000 meter drill program. I got excited about the money. Yeah, it's a very important point in these markets. So, yeah, this year, 25,000 meters, of which we have already drilled 21,000 meters around about. We've had the second batch of results today. The first one was in July. And so today, we released some more holes from the gate zone and near the gate zone where we made our first discovery. And we're very pleased again with what we were able to drill. The headline hole intercept was a long hole mineralized over 734 meters and .34% copper equivalent. So just to put that into perspective, that's just about or a little bit higher than the grade that's mined next door at the mine near us. And very importantly, this long hole had also a long high grade section in the middle of 117 meters of more than 1% copper, 1.03% copper equivalent. So we were very pleased with that. Was the drill trace relatively straight or did it bend on you? It bent on us as they always do. As they do. But you know, you plan with that. So numbers are numbers and the geologists will tell me what it means.  Drilling continues to demonstrate a strong correlation between the copper and soil anomalies and the underlying bedrock copper mineralization. I like that. Yeah, that's right. That's very much what we see where we have copper on the surface. We hit copper in drilling underneath. And that's obviously very, very important for targeting at our new targets, at further targets where we are drilling now. Because until now, most of our drilling was at the gate zone where we made the initial discovery. But MPD from all we can tell what our data tells us is a multi centric porphy center just like copper mountain next door and many other porphy mines. And it's really all about finding these other porphy centers. And we have several historically drilled areas where we have already mineralization, shallow mineralization, lower grade mineralization from the historic work. And to find the sources and the high grade zones that go together with these lower grade, with this lower grade mineralization that we have already, that's really what it's all about. And we have several really high priority targets. Dillard is where we're drilling now. It's a very large target three times the size of gate. And we then have man we have targets down in the southern part of the property and acts all previously drilled. And we will essentially replicate the approach that successfully led to the gates on discovery at those targets as well. So should be very exciting. We really have the potential to make one or several more discoveries on our property. And you probably took copper and soil testing at those other targets in addition to the historical drills. Yes, very much. So we have soil data already we did more this year because we saw how helpful it was with our drill targeting. And that's one of the important tools we use for our drill targeting. It's a very well written press release. I often get, I get pained by poorly written press releases. Whatever team of people wrote this did an extremely good job, including the respectful nod to Canadian First Nations for Truth and Reconciliation Day. Thank you. It is well done. So he deserves that. So you're going to carry out another 4,000 meters of drilling. Does the property have to shut down for the winter? It doesn't have to. What we generally do is we drill the fastest in the summer when we have the best conditions and get the best productivity. And then spring and autumn, a little bit more, a little slower pace. So we've just gone down from two to one drill. And typically over the worst weather periods of December, January, February, we do all the other work. We do the cutting, the logging of the core, et cetera, but don't drill. So our VP operations calls it making hay while the sun shines. We drill so we get the most bang for our buck. Now that makes sense to me. Look, I appreciate the update. It's a well written press release. Thank you for your time. And I'll be watching for the results from the next 4,000 meters. Thank you.


What American thing have you always wanted to try? This I asked my social community and you have responded and it's very interesting what you've come up with. So today I'm going to respond and share what people wanted to experience in America. If you don't know me, I'm Kiwi Americans. I have moved my family of six from the US to New Zealand and have been here for eight years. So I have a very large community and you might be surprised that most of them are from New Zealand. It's my largest community in Australia. So I've asked them what it is that they've always wanted to try in America. I can give you some insights on what things people find interesting or peculiar or different and you're going to love this. So let's dive in. Okay, first up American McDonald's. Yes, you're going to want to try American McDonald's. It will be very similar. I don't notice a huge difference in taste except we're not going to have a Kiwi burger. Our shakes are going to be delicious. You're going to have a much broader variety of lizards out there than you have here and it's going to be so good and there's going to be different things on the menu. I can't think of them offhand but the core of the McDonald's menu is oh actually the McDonald's breakfast. So much better in the States. You don't have biscuits. How do you not have biscuits? Okay, moving on. Someone says everything ma'am. Peach cobbler, buffalo wings, natural hot chicken, pastrami sandwiches. So you're getting a trend. Everybody is interested in trying the food as you should. Peach cobbler, you can make that here. The peaches in New Zealand, so good. The buffalo wings. You can get the buffalo wing sauce. I've seen it at a couple new worlds and that's so good. So you could make those. Pastrami, do we not have pastrami in New Zealand? I don't think I've ever noticed that and never really like thought about it. Like do we not have pastrami sandwiches in New Zealand? A crawfish boil. Yes, you should definitely try that. I'm not from the south so I can't speak to that too much but you should definitely try the crawfish boil. Okay, key lime pie. If you go to Florida Keys, you need to try the key lime pie. Really just try the key lime pie anywhere because it's so good in the U.S. and it's a very common pie and just so you know, pies are sweet not savory. So if you go wanting a pie and you want to meet pie, you're not going to find it. It's going to be up in like the boondocks. Michigan has some of the pasties. You're not going to find it. You're not going to find me pies. Pies are sweet not savory. Okay, American barbecues. Let's talk about this. Are they different? Yes, they are different and they just have like I think more varieties of meat maybe. The sausages are different. The American hot dogs are different and tailgating. They don't really have tailgating here. So tailgating if you don't know is when you kind of eat and drink out of the food or trunk of your car before a game.  And so you're basically at the game like three hours before it starts and that's kind of the best part. Like when I go to baseball games, I don't actually go in. I'm just there for the tailgating. It's definitely a cultural experience if you haven't had it. Another person put Matthew McConaughey. What American thing did you want to try Matthew McConaughey? That's hilarious. That got the most likes on my Instagram and I am with you on that. A foodie tour. Chicago style pizza. New York bagels. Seafood in Louisiana. Real Tex-Mex. Crack beer and West Coast wine. Now let's talk about this. I have lots of thoughts on this one. Chicago style pizza. The best. And Luminati's being my favorite of the three main ones. And you can go actually on my recipe book. I'll link it up here and you can get that and I have figured out how to make real Chicago style pizza here in New Zealand. So you're going to want to check that. New York style pizza. Totally different style. Equally as delicious. The bagels. I've never really bought a bagel here because I mean when I have it's been horrible. So I haven't bought it since is what I should say. And so I haven't found good bagels here but that doesn't mean that there isn't because I just haven't really tried it here in New Zealand. Real Tex-Mex. You're going to want to try it. It will not disappoint. And let me just say a little something about West Coast wine. We'll not compare to New Zealand. You're good with New Zealand wine here. So good. New Zealand, Australia, Europe I would say all are better than the West Coast. Tour 52 states. Yes. You should definitely go through and tour. We did a 35-day tour once when we did all around kind of like the West Coast and up and so many national parks. And I'm going to put a plug for Glacier National Park. It's my favorite. Now we went to five of the main ones like Yosemite, the ones in Utah. Not going to remember them all but like Glacier National Park is underrated and is stunning. What does this say? The second amendment followed by claiming the fifth amendment. So if you don't know the second amendment is the right to bear arms and the fifth amendment is the right to a fair trial. So yeah that is one thing you will see in the states. You are going to see guns. People carrying them. The average Joe, the open carry, concealed carry depending on the state.  We have iHop and Twinkies. Okay, let's talk about this. If you don't know iHop, international house of pancakes. It is a very cheap breakfast place. I think it's like $3.99. You get the grand slam and it's like eggs, bacon, sausage, like a muffin or a toast. Like it's 16 different things. And then unlimited coffee for like $3.99, $6.99. I don't know what the price is, but it's so cheap. But it is low quality food. But it is an experience. I do like it. And what's really cool about iHop is the different, sorry I keep hitting the table, syrups. They have like the blueberry and the regular and like a strawberry syrup and that's so good. Because it's the international house of pancakes and Twinkies. You could skip it. Don't even bother with the Twinkies. Okay, Dairy Queen Cheesecake Factory in and out and driving on the right side of the road. Okay, let's talk about this. Dairy Queen overrated. There's so much better custard in ice cream because I think it's because it's just ice cream. I don't know. Dairy Queen is okay. There are certain the peanut buster. Is it the peanut buster parfait? Excuse me. I haven't lived there in a long time. So good. But like get the custard at Culver's. So I mean the strawberry shake at Culver's. Really anything. Anything at Culver's you will not be smart. Try the cheese curds. So good. Cheesecake Factory go there every time I go home. Just so you know, if you are a New Zealander or an Aussie, if you go to the Cheesecake Factory and there's four people in your family, you only need to order one meal.  Honest to God, you can take my word for it. I order for two people an appetizer and it's I can't finish it. Like it's like that. So you get one meal for four people and then you order a couple cheesecakes for dessert. You're welcome. Let's see. Driving on the right side, yes. And driving in general, people are going to drive fast compared to what they do here. In my opinion, New Zealanders drive slow and timid and you cannot be that. If you're in Chicago, LA, you cannot be timid. Smores and proper graham crackers. Yes, you're going to want to try this and you're going to want to do it when you're camping and you got to have a proper camping fire because I don't have camping fires here many places in New Zealand. Yeah, just for fire danger, which makes sense. But like literally the fire at camping is the best part of it and then having this smore there as well. So you can get graham crackers here in New Zealand at the American stores. There are supplements that aren't quite the same. The digestive biscuits are quite similar. But the problem is the marshmallow. You will have to get the marshmallow and the Hershey's bar at an American store because the marshmallows have to be big and they're different. The way that you make your marshmallows here are different. I don't know what the difference is. I'm not a marshmallow maker, but they're different. So you're going to want to do that. And they're better here in New Zealand. It's just that you can't roast it. That's my opinion. Okay, we have another person says Monterey Jack Cheese. Yes. Thank you Costco, Auckland, because they can get you can get a big block of Monterey Jack Cheese there. And I got it last time I was there and I should have got to. I can't describe to you the taste of this cheese but it melt. It's like perfect for like enchiladas like a lot of your Mexican food. None of your cheeses taste at all like it. You're going to need to try that. Teen years in America. I had a couple of these. If you don't know like on Tic Tac it's quite a big trend right now talking about what it was like being in high school, being a teenager in America. And so yeah, you should check it out. It is quite different. Let me highlight some of the differences that I really kind of wish my teenagers would experience cultural things that they do in the US that they just don't do here like the American football games on Friday nights you go from school you get ready for the American football game you go there if you if you have a boyfriend or whatever playing in it you're wearing their jersey and then there's like a dance afterwards. It's a whole thing. It's a whole cultural thing. It's great. You get homecoming pep rallies. You just what you really notice when you come here and maybe it's because I'm not in like the most popular sports in New Zealand is that like whole schools will come out and watch basketball games baseball games track and field American football but like you just don't get many people on the stands here. It's not like this whole event. You don't have cheerleaders or pom-pom or you know mascots running around. It's not like a whole event. I really miss that. That's really really great. High schools have lockers in the US. They have cafeterias. That was a big talk. Like there is just cafeterias like in New Zealand it's like in a college they'll have like a canteen or like a cafe within it but they don't have like full well most people bring their own lunch. So cafeterias in the US a very real thing. Food can be quite iffy but hey it's hot hot food cooked for you. I would take it all day long as a mother of four. Let's see real southern fried chicken and meeting a Native American Indian. Yes and understanding their culture. Yes yes yes go check it out go study it go visit and meet and you'll be shocked at how horrible we have treated the American Indians. Another high school in the US oh summer camp. Someone put summer camp yes if you have not gone to summer camp. So in the US summer is three months in New Zealand it's six weeks and so it's not uncommon for people to go to summer camp for four to six weeks at a time and you're like away from your family. It's a really fun experience. I don't think I've ever gone that long I think I've only gone to the week long ones but I used to be a counselor at them and so I would be there all summer and you'd have different students every week and it was great a great summer experience at summer camp that's a really good one. Grits a lot of people said grits it's like a very southern like I don't know I don't think they just eat it with breakfast but it's like cream of wheat but real gritty you gotta try that. The Star Wars experience at Disney yes you're gonna want to try that I've not seen the newest version of that I have the old version I've been to Disney when it was you know not all the upgraded stuff and now they've taken down like I think the Harry Potter stuff and they're upgrading that so you're gonna want to go and see both of those when they're ready because Disney is you know just a magical place. Biscuits and gravy no one has explained them to me is what this person has said so clearly you don't watch a lot of my content because I've talked about this so many times. Let's review. Biscuits and gravy looks disgusting to a New Zealander trust me that you have to try it you won't be disappointed a biscuit is not the same as a scone whatever it's not the same it's like layers of flaky buttery red biscuit I don't know it's a biscuit it's so good and they have them at KFC and they're so much better than whatever the heck you're serving here biscuits and gravy you will try it someone said eggnog how do they not sell these on the holiday here you need to try eggnog I have to make it myself because you know they don't have it pizza New Zealander pizza is not good and I'm going to Italy next month and so I'm expecting it to be amazing but the American pizza is so good you guys have to try when you get there and all the different kinds just order a lot of pizza you won't be disappointed okay someone says literally nothing I'd rather live in Canberra for the rest of my life well there's that okay and then I will leave you with this last comment I went there five times first when I was 16 last when I was 59 America can only sell you dreams from Disneyland to being the best country in the world and there we have it folks they're not wrong anyway I hope you enjoyed this video and I will see you next week


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Tässä on se, että haluaisimme tekemään teille, että ... ... ottaa.  In CSE, like just mentioned, they have billing units that basically tell how much virtual currency you have to run inside of the machine. In Aalto we don't have that kind of like a cost attached to computations, but there's like this kind of a priority cost in the slurm itself. Basically if you run stuff in the queue it will lower your priority so that other people have there, they can run stuff as well. And how do you usually want to do it is that you want your resource request to match what you actually want to do. So that then the slurm will, like slurm will assume that you will use the resources that you are. Like when you're queuing slurm will assume that you will use all of the resources you are requesting. But after the job has finished your, like your cost is calculated based on what you actually used. So let's say you put like a 10 hour job of 100 CPUs running your priority. You go through the queue and your priority will be because like you have this huge job running there. And because you're basically like using already a lot of resources. But if that code finishes in 10 minutes or like in an hour when you requested like five days you will, the priority will jump again. So you will get like this wave emotion into your priority calculation. So you're not actually like utilizing the resources efficiently. So you will be penalized because oh you will get less stuff through the queue if you have bad resource. Like if you have missed the allocations are not specified correctly. So the more you run the less you can run in the near future. So that tries to make a dynamic system to balance everything out. And in the end the more efficient your stuff is then the more you can run long term or something like that. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, but do leave us feedback. So hopefully you enjoyed the course and hopefully you get your stuff running. Yeah. Yeah, I mean it was great sharing this time with you. Hopefully you're inspired about the kinds of things you can do. And maybe the most important thing to get out of it is that we are here for you. Like you're not alone. Yeah, it's all about being on the like spectrum of different scientific computation. Like nobody is like, in Finnish they're saying kukaan ei ole seppä syntyjä sen. So nobody is like a smith when they're born. Like nobody like is a professional when they are like when they start something. Nobody like becomes a master of things immediately. And that's why we are definitely no masters in like no masters of the universe. So it's important to realize that okay, I'm here. I can do this. I want to do this. I want to move to us this direction and make use of the resources available to you so that you can get the best out of the systems and best out of the like learn the most while you're working. While you're working on your project. Because that's a very university. And in ways like you're supposed to learn things here. So try to utilize the resources and the materials to the best experience for you. Well, let's see. Are we getting any more questions coming in? Ah, here's a question. S run.m go. I think this is University of Helsinki PGPU. So I think you are asking for the partition, but you're not asking for the resource. So I think the error is because of that, I would guess. But this last line to me makes me think that NVIDIA SMI, the command cannot be found. Like the exact call of NVIDIA SMI itself doesn't work somehow. Yeah, this is something you should discuss with the support staff at Helsinki. Yeah, I think we have tried to make it a bit general. But of course we see it from our point of view, because we deal with our system constantly. So we don't often, we don't know how everything looks on the other side of, well, in different places. But we, like the generalities are that usually you need to request these general resources. Either this with this grace flag or maybe in the future with the upcoming like GPU flag from Srum. But basically you need to request for the resource. Then there's specialities for different sites that are, of course, well, they are different for each site. But like anyways, like I would say that it's a good idea to check or like if something, if you felt like you understood what we were talking about. And you look at documentation in your own site, outside of Finland, for example, if you have, if your site is somewhere in completely different place, you might still like try to find the general information that is that this is how they are usually handled. So the flags might change, the names of the systems might change, stuff like that might change. But yeah, usually stuff is very general. And like, like what you said earlier, once you get into the habit of using these HPC systems, then skies to limit usually like you can start moving to different directions using their different systems and translating your code to different systems. It might require some time to get the correct flags set up for different systems. And you might have different scripts for different systems. But usually it's like, like once you know how to do it in one system, you can translate the information to other places as well. I just got some pictures of my setup here. Okay, anything else in HackMD? Okay, well, maybe we should say goodbye. And thank everyone again for attending. We should thank all of the instructors on day one and three. So you see Ancovara, Enrico Glirion, Samantha Whitkey. Who else was there? Okay. Yes, and also remember to check out like different affiliates like Code Refinery and CSC and all of the different training material like usually like if somebody tells you one thing, one way, somebody else can tell it another way, which suits your style of learning better. So keep that in mind and look for information from our affiliates and people who we work with because they do a good work. Okay, I guess we can hang up. So see you all for our next course or in a garage or maybe never. Bye.


Welcome to the first annual possibly Portland Trails 15 by 15. Tonight we're going to hear from nine people who are doing some great work in Portland related to land conservation, trails, active transportation, and generally increasing the health and sustainability of greater Portland. Here's how it works for these nine brave people. They each have 15 slides that change every 15 seconds. That's just under four minutes for each presenter. Most of them have done nothing like this before. So be a little generous in terms of your face. We'll hear from five of them and then we'll have a 15 minute intermission. Intermission is the time for you to get a drink and discuss what you've just heard and seen with the other attendees. After an intermission we'll hear from the other four presenters. Here's your job during the next piece of the evening. Cheer wildly for each presenter before and after their presentation. Listen attentively during. You can make some appropriate cat calls or noises and stuff during the presentation, but don't interrupt them because they have a certain mojo going and timing to keep on their rhythm. Please discuss these presentations passionately during the intermission afterwards and also in your daily lives afterwards in the next 30 to 40 years of your life. So if you haven't already, please silence or turn off the ringers on your cell phone. They'll be very distracting if we get some Jay-Z ringtones going off during the presentation. So please don't. The presenters are going to ring this bell to start their presentation and then it's going to go on autopilot. So please welcome the first presenter. I'd also want to remind each of the presenters to speak pretty closely into the microphones. These are being recorded for some use afterwards. We get to be determined, but we'll figure that out. Our first brave presenter is Jessica Burton. Jessica is executive director of the Southern Maine Conservation Collaborative. She has worked in conservation and nonprofits for many years. In the late 90s, after working for the Chihuahua Foundation, Jess had the good fortune as many of us did to work with Alex Hopkins here at Portland Trails.  The close community, ease of outdoor adventuring and lack of driving took her to the island and she finds the schlep of island living reminds her of her childhood in New York City. Jess loves museums and books, thus making one of her favorite books of all time the mixed up files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, which is about two kids who hide out and live in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Here is Jess. Thank you for having me. The first thing I want to say is that the slides that you'll be seeing are really representative of our themes, the themes that we represent and work toward achieving. The words I say will not be necessarily tied to each slide. So you'll see slides that represent collaboration, teamwork, nature, farming, land use, recreation, fun, education, future, our vision, efficiency, and gatherings. So the Southern Maine Conservation Collaborative was founded at the beginning of last year. We are one year old and we now have seven member organizations. We are a membership based organization that provides services to conservation organizations in New York and Cumberland County. Our members are Portland Trails, Oceanside Conservation Trust of Casco Bay, Shevegan Cumberland Land Trust, Scarborough Land Trust, Sacco Valley Land Trust, Przomskiet Land Trust, and Three Rivers Land Trust. We have two advisory members, Maine Coast Heritage Trust and Maine Island Trail Association. Together we protect over 4,000 acres of farms, trails, forests, shorelines, wetlands, and in over 25 communities. Through collaboration we strive for efficiency. Our governance is provided from our members.  We provide opportunity for sharing best practices and networking. And our staff, which is two, myself and Doreen, are dedicated to providing efficient and professional services. Always looking for shared needs and opportunity for joint programming. The community impact of our work is clear that stronger organizations provide better conservation. All of us, all of these organizations, share the goal to protect these lands in perpetuity and as such the organizations need to be here to do so. And we at the Southern Maine Conservation Collaborative are committed to sustainability and to working with our member organizations to achieve sustainability through all of their practices, both in their stewardship and conservation work, and administrative and policy work. Teamwork, that's why. Portland Trails is dedicated to connecting communities through trails. It's dedicated to connecting people to the outdoors through trails. And we see the collaborative as a pathway to that sustainability and to a vision for our region for really great and strong conservation that will last forever. So thank you very much. Thank you very much, Jess. That was outstanding. Great start for the evening. Our next presenter is Jamie Parker. For many of you, he needs not much introduction. Jamie grew up following in the footsteps of his Finnish quarry worker ancestors walking the trails of Cape Ann, Massachusetts. Being the rabble rouser that he is or still wants to be, he wrote his first letter to the editor at age 16 protesting the attempted closing of the historic Atlantic path along the shore of Rockport by the new owners of a trophy house on the shore. For his bachelor party on Martha's Vineyard, Jamie and his friends completed an overnight trek using as many modes as transportation as possible. Bicycling, hiking, swimming, kayaking, skateboarding, hitchhiking, and public bus. When not planning or building trails for Portland Trails, Jamie enjoys exploring the rest of Maine with his family. There's usually hiking involved and some other things as well. You have to be named. Give it up for Jamie. Thank you, Bruce. Thank you all for coming. I've compressed my usual monologue about Portland Trails accomplishments for the year and plans for the coming year into the 15 by 15 format. So here's two years worth of work compressed into less than four minutes. 2012 was a very productive year without too many BSPs. In lieu of the big, sexy projects, we did a lot of maintenance improvements and signage, including these four city trail kiosks. Nonetheless, we did create three miles of new trails, including the final leg of the Subego to the Sea Trail. We made major improvements and repairs at the Four River Sanctuary, the Stroudwater River Trail. We continued our partnership with the city, including work at Presumskirt River Preserve shown here, as well as Baxter Woods and Evergreen Cemetery. In our continued attempts to work smarter and not harder, we used our assets as best we could, including our fabulous AmeriCorps intern Leo Mayhew, shown here making good use of our candycom machine, moving a 14 foot bridge along the Presumskirt River. The bridges campaign allowed us to make major upgrades to bridges. We built around 1,000 feet of boardwalks and bridges in 2012, including this one in the Presumskirt River Preserve, shown during the spring flood and then in more stable conditions later. And this one in the Four River Sanctuary, which is our largest land holding and creates some of our biggest maintenance obligations. With numerous bridges, miles of trails, and lots of invasive plants to remove, the sanctuary keeps us busy. Much of that work is done by volunteers. And I want to thank our volunteer coordinator, Charlie Baldwin, who had a very busy year mobilizing the many, many people that came out to help Portland trails. And thank you to the volunteers. Some of you are in this room and some are shown here, there. Thank you all. As I mentioned, we worked a lot on city property, including this project at Baxter Woods. We built new trails and a platform for school children to access the trail during science class, the pond during science class. We also worked with the South Portland Land Trust on several projects, including this bridge and trail that we installed at Trout Brook. Which is pretty exciting, as you can see. And I plan to do some more projects with South Portland this year. Thanks to the School Ground Greening Coalition, we continued our work on school grounds, including Lyseth, Longfellow, Reiki, among others, and we have some new projects lined up for 2013, including Breakwater School, Ocean Ave, and East End Community School. Here is Fort Sumner Park on Monjoy Hill. This is another civic project, which is largely complete and should be greening up just in time for the Friends of Eastern Promenade tour concert series, which has been moved to Fort Sumner for the year. We continued our involvement in urban planning with an emphasis on walkability, placemaking, and complete streets, consulting with the city as stakeholders on civic projects, such as the Spring Street redesign and the Boyd Street trail. And thanks to Bruce Hyman for making Portland the first city in Maine to have a complete streets policy. And of course, we've been planning for 2013, which requires a lot of site visits and a lot of very, very hard work, as you can see here, involving skis. 2013 looks to be swinging back towards a big trail construction year, continuing with our bridges work, both large and small, some major trail extension projects, mostly into Westbrook. In fact, we can call it the Year of Westward Expansion. And we are moving into Westbrook on two fronts, extending both the Stroudwater and the Przemskat River trails. Fortunately, the City of Westbrook is welcoming these incursions and even helping to fund some of these projects, both which are long-awaited priorities for Portland trails. I think I've shown these pictures at every annual meeting for the last five years. And we still do plan to build a bridge to access our land on Brickyard Point. Tom Farmer has been working diligently to get us permission from MDOT for this. And hopefully next year I'll be able to show you some new pictures of a new bridge in this location. And some pictures of some other projects that we'll be involved in, including, and I know I'm past my 15 seconds here about it. Cancow Woods Trail Improvements, Boyd Street Trail Construction, School Ground Greening, Neighborhood Byways, Libbytown Streetscape Implementation, Tukey's Bridge Trail, Franklin Street Phase II, Extension of the Bayside Trail, a pocket park at the Oldport Festival, new trails off of Ledgewood Street and Falmouth, trails to the waterfront at Wayne Fleet Fields, works with the Parks Commission, including Congress Square Redesign, West End Connections to Commercial Street, Trails and Pays in Park, Havity Woods Trails, Thompson's Point, Martin's Point and Riven and Charlie Park. Wish us luck. I do want to extend our incredible thanks to Charlie and Jamie for the day-to-day work that they do, especially with all the trail stewards. That's a very important program that's ramping up these days in terms of folks adopting a trail and taking ownership for it. And just Charlie and Jamie do incredible work with lots of support from the office staff and Kara. So please echo that with some love. Our next presenter is Sashi Meisner. Sashi works with Portland Trails in their mission to transform school grounds into rich learning spaces. Her favorite childhood memories take place in the acres and acres of woods and fields near her home that she claimed as her own. She explored creeks, climbed trees, scaled barbed wire fences, built fires and was once chased by a farmer's bull. Fortunately for her, the words property line, liability and trespass were not yet quite part of her vocabulary. So let's welcome Sashi. Right, so the work that I do with the Portland Trail School Ground Greening Coalition has really been about introducing a new idea or a new vision for the way school grounds look and the way that they function. Our approach is really based on understanding the child. Children are unique creatures. They are not many adults. They have very specific needs and some of them are drastically different from adults' needs. If you think about a person's lifespan, childhood is this brief window of time where there's just this intense amount of growth and development that takes place and there's no other time in your life where there's this potential for learning. So it makes sense that the environments we provide for children during this very critical period of learning should be rich with experiences. Ones that really support whole child development. What we currently provide for is mostly gross motor skill development, physical fitness needs. While these are important, it's a really narrow vision for the potential for school grounds. When you consider that these school grounds have a captive audience of between four and five hundred kids each day in these spaces, the environments really have the potential to be rich and offer lots of opportunity for learning to support what goes on inside the classroom. Motivation is the driving force behind learning. These spaces really need to be interesting. They need to be dynamic. Children learn through play. If they're outside playing, it's a learning opportunity. We rarely engage children in the ideas about a sense of place. That's a huge opportunity that's missed. Children are very capable of reading a landscape and understanding complex concepts like stormwater, natural processes, the idea of community and ecology. These are all stories that could be represented in the school grounds. We want children to interact and engage with a space on multiple levels. So that as they grow, they're going to be in the space between kindergarten and fifth or sixth grade. So it's a lot of time. We want as they grow that their comprehension grows and increases. And so we want these spaces to continue to engage children on multiple levels as they grow. Instead of giving children fixed equipment, standardized equipment, with little to no unknowns, there's no mystery in standardized equipment, we need to entrust children with the ability to have movable parts to manipulate their play space to create their play experience, to experiment, to build things. You know, these are all just qualities and experiences that children need and the school grounds should be able to support. You know, this space is for our kids and it's also for teachers. So our, for my part of this, their mission has really been to help expand the idea on what a school ground is, what it looks like, what it could be. And if we aren't only looking at kids' physical needs, the ability to run around and expend that energy, you know, it's very short-sighted. School grounds should be rich, they should be diverse, and they should support children's full potential for learning. So I'm very happy to be part of the School Ground Greening Coalition. Thank you. Thank you, Sashi. Our next presenter is Tom Farmer. We won't hold it against him, but Tom was born and raised in New Hampshire by the light about 20 years ago and moved to Maine. Tom has a deep appreciation for all things New England, the seasons, the coast, the mountains, and the recreational opportunities, the seafood, you can find him at Jay's Oyster Bar nine days a week, and the numerous micro-brews that we find here in Portland we're blessed with. Tom lives in Falmouth with his lovely wife Darla, who's here tonight, and their two daughters, Lydia and Abby. Tom is a registered landscape architect with Terrence J. Dewan and Associates that's based in Yarmouth and serves on the Portland Trails Board of Trustees. As a landscape architect, he's been involved with numerous projects that support Portland Trail's mission, including bike and pedestrian design, land conservation, active transportation, placemaking, and community engagement. Let's give a welcome to Tom. I think Bruce said it, but what I'll be presenting tonight is what we as landscape architects do to help support the core mission of Portland Trails. I'll start with the Bayside Trail, our beloved Bayside Trail. What you see in these images is the frosting on the cake, but it's the cake itself that required months of planning and design. Contaminated soils from the old industry and railroad was used as landscape forms and cap for protection, permeable surfaces that flow to bioengineered rain gardens, and thanks to the support of Portland Trails and volunteers to help plant the dogwoods and trees. Another example of what we do is cross sections to help portray, wear trails and sidewalks and ped and cyclist experience within the roadway corridor. We also use a software program called Photoshop where photos in 3D can be projected. These are extremely helpful and informative at the public and community presentations, and that's a photo simulation of what the North Boyd Street connection to the Bayside Trail will look like once constructed, and we just got word this morning that that's funded for construction. West Commercial Street we worked with Woodin and Curran on a feasibility study to extend the multi-use trail from the Casco Bay Bridge west to the Four River Parkway, a critical link in the Portland Trail system. This is currently waiting for funding and this is a photo simulation of what it might look like along the star building complex and I can take a little break now because the photo sims help shared use path bikeways amenities, pedestrians and this is, a lot of people don't know here but it's an old arched granite railroad tunnel. Unfortunately the bridge put abutments right in front of it but this is a potential connection for the shared use pathway. Hopefully that's underneath the connection coming off of West Commercial Street. Oh, a little out of order. Jamie wasn't able to show a picture of the bridge but I can and this is Brickyard Point coming from Tidewater Farms in Falmouth over to our land locked land and and this is, he said that we're working with DOT so we're waiting for permission from DOT to access their land with the touchdown of the bridge and the trail to get to Brickyard Point which is an amazing piece of land. Longfellow School in Portland we work with Laura Newman as a school yard greening coordinator and the fifth grade students of Longfellow to transform a really worn out barren space into an outdoor classroom including the shade structure and trees, vegetable garden the habitat pond that you saw et cetera. On the other side of the school we worked with Portland Trails and Jamie had a photo of this as well and that's him and Charlie down there in the lower left to create this outdoor amphitheater salve, salvage granite curbing from the city stockpile and last but not least the last two slides are our friends in south Portland a big part of our work involves design of parks and open space elements that include passive recreation preservation of scenic views playgrounds gardens botanical parks and last but not least trails. Thank you Tom, I've had the privilege of working with Tom on multiple projects and and say he's got that unique combination of vision, practicality, let's do it and let's get something built that is invaluable in many, many projects and I know he's been a great addition to the Portland Trails Board and a go-getter for the organization. Our fifth presenter that will close out this portion of the 15 by 15 is Samantha Hadrick. Samantha is an educator and freelance designer based in Portland. Currently she is an assistant professor of graphic design at Maine College of Art where she teaches courses in professional practice, visual identity systems, information design and independent publishing. Her work focuses on connecting students with the local community and her classes have partnered with Maine Audubon, the Portland Pirates and Portland Trails. She also serves on the board of AIGA, Maine as director of education. Samantha holds an MFA, master of fine arts and graphic design from the Yale School of Art and a Bachelor of Fine Arts and Communication Design from the Carnegie Mellon University. Let's welcome Samantha to the podium. Being as nimble as I am, we are going to leap ahead to Peter Monroe. Did you know this Peter? I'm so good. Okay, good, okay. I've also had the privilege of knowing Peter for many, many, for a couple of decades almost. Peter is designed, built and overseen construction of walkways and cities, towns and natural areas for master plans, residences, cemeteries and parks during his 25 year career as a landscape architect. He first wrote about walking in a 1993 article entitled Paths and Their Design while president of the board of Portland Trails. He blogs at designforwalking.com and I would encourage you to go to that site. It's a very, very enriching and you can just feel the passion that oozes out of Peter for this topic and I'm sure he'll ooze for us up here as well. Thanks very much. Oozing mood, all right. Yeah, Portland Trails used to be all lawyers. It looks like it's now all landscape architects. This is great. Now that more than half of all humans live in cities and now that we know that livable cities are walkable cities, to design for global impact, we should design for walking in cities. And we should wait for the next slide. We should also increase walking to mute the global climate change. Any distance you walk saves 99% of the energy and pollution you would have used driving. To reduce your carbon footprint, increase your real footprints. Being on foot generates place-based community as we know here. Face to face means foot to foot. Portland Trails, First Friday, Farmers Market, all of them create social democracy and economic development and vibrant cities. Paz are so important now that New York City has spent $100 million a mile to convert the old elevated railroad into the High Line in Lower Manhattan. It's proved it's worth by generating $2 billion in new development and $4 billion in four million visitors a year. Last spring I spent my entire spring in Luca, Italy, Tuscany, a poster child for walkable cities. You can walk on top of these walls which surround the downtown for four kilometers. The streets are almost all shared, true complete streets. If you wanna see what it looks like, here's what it looks like. And because the cars and everybody have to travel at people's speed, there are almost no accidents. The plazas in Luca used to be car parks, but now they have been car-free for 20 years and children can play in them all day long and they do. The city has also designed the areas outside its walls. Those used to be parking lots, gravel parking lots as well, and for the last 20 years, they've been a green belt around the downtown. Here's a triathlon being held above and below the walls. It's an incredible experience to be in a city that's designed for pedestrians. Of course, some local folks here in Portland have done the same sort of thing, converting a car space to a people space, guess who? Complete with Wi-Fi last September, just for a day. But the same kind of conversion can be done permanently as here on the Champs-Élysées where Paris has put a service road underground, parked the cars down there, and this is one of the most attractive promenades in the world now because it was devoted to people. Part of Times Square in New York City has converted to car-free areas, put out tables with food vendors, music, sun. Thousands of people go there every day. This was in October. London is still busy downtown but quiet because they've got congestion fees for cars and they put out 8,000 rentable bikes at 500 docking stations. It's incredible to look to the left but look out for bikes. It's really, it's quite an experience. The other Portland in Oregon has converted streets and car lanes to pedestrian ways, rain gardens, bike racks because they have great transit downtown that's very cheap or free, had been free. And the future too is foot-based. Here's a plan to link Stockholm, Sweden to cities to the north through a green artery in the center of a new campus with transit and everybody else on foot, gardeners, walkers, cyclists. It's a resilient people-friendly green future. To learn more about the growing global conversation about walkable places and a livable planet, do go to my website. Read, enjoy, and please comment. Thank you. Thank you, Peter. That was indeed, it was delicious. Thanks. Let's again please give a round of applause for our first five presenters before our intermission. All right, well, we have a spectacular next presentation and this is one of my favorite families in Portland of all time. We have Sarah Cushman, Rob Levin, and Cedar. Rob, Sarah, and Cedar are Manjoy Hillites who pedaled out of their driveway on May 1st of last year in 2012 and biked a grand loop across Maine, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, Quebec, and back into Maine. And we have to just go, I'm just tired thinking about it. It's wonderful. Rob is a non-profit attorney who serves on the Portland Trails Board. Sarah is a transportation planner and consultant working with the Bicycle Coalition of Maine who's now based and has their main office in Portland. So please visit them on Preble Street. It's a great location and we're really excited to have Sarah and the BCM have their home base in Portland and she also works with the Maine Department of Transportation. Cedar, who was five and two-thirds years old approximately when the trip started, is currently unemployed, we're working on that. But she spends her time in kindergarten at the Friends School of Portland. Let's give a great welcome to this wonderful family. Cedar said we had to wear our vest and our helmet. Flashing parts the whole time. But, okay, we won't put this on the, I'll go first actually. Okay, so it wouldn't be Portland Trails without starting with a map and some statistics. So 2001 human-powered miles, 25 miles a day, three months and three weeks, one state, four provinces, and most important, 147 playgrounds. How did you carry Cedar? Everyone asks. It's called a wee-hoo, good for peddling, sleeping, coloring, snacking, reading, laughing and listening to dad's stories. Up flies and hills stay away. No sunrise on this day. Canna map, we're coming your way. Some of the trails we cycled, Andrewsgog and River Bike Path, Downey Sunrise Trail, St. John Harbor Passage, Saltmarsh Trail, Sheerwater Flyer Trail, Kaylee Coastal Trail, The Root Verde, Carabasset Valley Nargage Path, and last but not least, Eastern Prompt. So much fluorescence in sprawling earth tones. Americans head north. Our friend John did some haiku for us. Nanaimo Bar, so tasty, it smiles back at me. Red leaf on cheeks, maple flavored patriotism. 113 days on the road. 113 ice cream stop. Ice cream for breakfast, ice cream at night, ice cream on the left, ice cream on the right, cones, sundaes, floats and shakes. There's another dairy bar, time to hit the brakes. Our Cabot Trail motto, there's no shame in walking. Attention bicyclists, the mass of hill you are now climbing is a warmup. The mountains begin in five kilometers. Newfoundland, like Maine, but more so. Newfoundland, the way life used to should have been. Newfoundland, the black flies are nothing here compared to Labrador. Family of three, three arches, one sea. Okay, choppy aqua seas, a boatload of green stomachs to reach blue ice.  One of the questions we fielded before the trip, other questions, but won't Cedar get bored? Sitting on a bike all day? Will you stop and let her out once in a while? Quebec, where art and agriculture share a field and French flavored cycling in Labelle Provence, croissants, poutine, pâté, le hot dog, and of course creme glacé. Then came lunch. It takes the day to day love of close family, lifelong friends, and complete strangers to make a trip as rich as this one. Thank you so much. We're blessed next to have Cara Waldrick who's the executive director of Portland Trails. Cara's gonna be sharing 15 slides with us, keeping with the format. Cara grew up in a much warmer place where life happened outside. At age seven years of age, her favorite hobbies were climbing trees and having picnics with her dog in the backyard. Things have not changed much in 30 years. Riding bikes, kayaking, trail running, cross country skiing, they are all vehicles to experience the natural world firsthand. For years, Cara refused to get a newspaper subscription or watch the news on TV because most news was sensationalized version of one societal tragedy after another. Here's the type of news that she likes to learn about. Cara? I can't believe I'm the one that put the program together and I put myself after that one. They've all been fabulous, so thank you. Ready? What if we made the intentional choice to share good news and inspire each other? At Portland Trails, we work with amazing and generous people. They serve not only as volunteers, project partners, advisors, members, donors, but also as our inspiration every day. Here's what inspires us. Grunt matches. Grunt matches are fun, competitive events that channel athletic energy into productive labor and accomplish real good in the world. Trail work makes for a fun grunt match and grunt match makes for a quick trail work. Every Wednesday, May through August, the main running company holds a 5K race on the Back Cove Trail for 250 people. These events provide an opportunity for all types of runners and walkers to get outside for health and fitness and all proceeds support trail maintenance. 11 local schools are supported by the Schoolground Greening Coalition to create school yards that are healthy for students, families, neighborhoods, and the natural world. Your long support results in incredible projects like you saw in Sashi's presentation. 1500 volunteers contributed approximately 5,000 hours of service towards Portland trails in 2012. What an honor to work in this community. One year ago, 12.75 acres of forest and wetlands along Canco Road went up for sale. Neighbors, many of whom purchased their homes in the area because of the access to green space for their families, immediately took action. They sought out local expertise and partners and created a nonprofit. In only 10 months, they had raised the $200,000 to purchase and protect the land forever. If ever there was an example of Margaret Mead's quote, the Friends of Canco Woods is it. Portland trails volunteers and the Friends of Canco Woods are truly an inspiration and they're an extraordinary group of people but all of us can be that inspiration. We just have to shift the way we think about things. What if each one of us commuted by bike, bus, or feet to work, school, or at least just to run errands? One of our members bike commutes daily from East Bayside to his job at paths on Allen Avenue. 90% of his daily commute is on trail. What if neighbors work together to create healthy wildlife habitat with native plantings? Portland trails is removing invasive species from our four river sanctuary. Having adjacent landowners create healthy habitat in their yards would essentially expand the sanctuary. Have you seen all the walkers on Baxter Boulevard since they closed it a couple weeks ago? What if we did that every single Sunday so that families could bike and skate and reclaim the public space for human recreation? If Cambridge, Massachusetts can do it, so can Portland, Maine. What if Portland, Maine had a bike share program where visitors and residents alike could zip around town on bikes that they pick up and drop off at various kiosks? What if Portland was connected to Falmouth and Westbrook and South Portland by trail? And what if tourists explored our community on running and bike tours so they could experience how truly awesome it is to live here? In 2013, Portland trails will be working on all of these projects and more. What if you joined us as a member or a volunteer or a supporter? Together, let's make the intentional choice to inspire each other daily to connect people, neighborhoods, schools, and ecosystems. Thank you, Kara. That was a great supplement to what Jamie talked about in terms of what Portland trails has accomplished and is working on in the next year, five years, 10 years to accomplish. Our next presenter is Erica Beck Spencer. And when we asked for bios, Erica wrote a great little piece for us and I'm gonna read her, read what she wrote. Erica writes, during my childhood summers, my family camped all summer long. Our property was set back from Pawtuckoway Lake in New Hampshire and after climbing out of our tents in the morning, we'd spend the entire day swimming, daydreaming, playing in the sand, picking blueberries and eventually learning to boat. I hoped to one day buy some land and give my two children the gift my parents unknowingly gave to me as a child growing up outside. Between the ages of 16 and 26, I taught sailing lessons to children every summer. Now I race J24 and Etchwell sailboats here in Maine and hope to do some frostbiting on the new J22s at Sail Maine. I'm a former teacher and currently a science curriculum specialist. My favorite beer is anything handed to me after finishing a few sailboat races. I've never met Erica, but I like her already. Please welcome Erica to the podium. Thanks very much. I have to say, I don't have a second to spare in here so you can't applaud. Until the end, especially to my mother-in-law who's here who is one of my biggest fans. Okay, I will. Hi everyone, I'm honored to be here tonight to share a bit about my blog, everydayoutside.com and the 365 Everyday Outside Challenge. I'm a full-time working mother of two incredible children and when my kids were little, we'd get outside often. A lot during the summer, not as often in the winter. Here they are posing for me for a work picture with cardboard clipboards. I'm an outdoor educator and a curriculum specialist and hyper-aware of the fact that kids don't go outside the way we probably all went outside as children. My work is largely around inspiring educators to get outside with the ultimate goal of connecting children to the natural world. I live near Evergreen Cemetery in Baxter Woods and when my kids were little, it was so rare and such a special treat for me to go on a walk in the woods alone. On many, many walks, I'd think, why don't I do this more often? I'd wonder, if I'm so committed to getting children outside, why am I not getting outside every day? On January 1st, I was staying at, on 2012, I was staying at a house near the ocean and I heard screams of delight outside and I knew people were taking a polar bear swim and I looked at my husband and we both knew it was time. So I threw on my most bathing suit-like underwear, went to the beach and took the plunge into the freezing cold water and I also took the plunge into my challenge of going outside every day for at least 30 minutes for the entire year. No matter what the weather, no matter the temperature or how I was feeling, at least 30 minutes and I was gonna blog about it. I set some rules for my outings for myself. I could miss 12 days per year about once a month. Everything outside counted, except walking to and from my car. I also didn't count work time since I do work outside. Going on walks, watching my kids outside, gardening, running on trails, skiing on trails, walking on trails, ice skating, eating meals outside and even sitting outside, drinking wine at night with my husband counted. Most days, getting outside was easy. Who wouldn't wanna be outside during the summer in Maine? Other times, a day would get away from me and I'd have to walk at 11 p.m. under the streetlights. The hardest days to get out were on long travel days or when family came to visit. Now, my extended family just comes with me outside. Most times when I was sick, I figured out a way to get outside anyway. I went outside for all but eight days for the entire year of 2012. Most of my outings were on walks on our very own Portland trails. For two of the eight days, I just forgot to go outside. On December 31st, I ended a year of getting outside with another swim at the East End Beach with the Natural Resource Council of Maine. It was so freaking fun and such a great way to end the year of getting outside. And now in 2013, I've opened up the challenge for others to take. There are between 20 and 40 people, young and old, from Portland, Maine to the other Portland who have told me they're taking the challenge and there are few, even, who have committed to the challenge in this room. So far, I've gone outside every day this year and it's so much easier than in 2012. Now, it's just what I do. Thank you, Portland trails for making it so easy for me to find nature so close to my Portland home. I hope you'll follow along on my blog. But more importantly, I hope to see you on the trails. Thank you. This is gonna be one of those pregnant pauses here in the proceedings. So let's take this opportunity. I was gonna, I've got a long list of thank yous at the end to go through, but I would like to just have us before everybody departs to give a very rousing thank you to all the fantastic work that the Portland Trail staff does throughout the year to make all of this wonderful work happen. So please, please give it up for the Portland Trail staff. Okay, I guess I don't have to improvise anymore. We're ready to go. I previously had introduced Samantha. And I, what, say again? Okay, then Peter showed it. Well, it worked out pretty well. So Samantha Hadrick, she still is an educator and freelance designer. She's still an assistant professor of graphic design at Maine College of Art. It hasn't changed yet. Okay, hasn't changed in the last 45 minutes. And Samantha is going to bless us with her presentation. She's done lots of collaborative work with Portland-based organizations, Maine Audubon, Portland Trails, Portland Pirates, and I won't read her biography again. Please welcome Samantha. I shouldn't admit that here though. There we go. All right, so every fall, Maine College of Art offers classes for incoming students that are called FYN. They complement the studio classes and are centered around a component of public engagement with a local community organization. So last semester, I taught an FYN class called Portland Walking Library. The idea for the class was inspired by an interview that I read with Jamie. He had talked about his role at Portland Trails and their vision for a more walkable and connected city and community. The main goals of this class were for students, one, to get outside, which is a real challenge, to observe and to start to see the city as connected to their studio experience, and two, to document our walks through the art of zines. This is from Thomas Clark's poem in Praise of Walking. The word zines derived from magazine. They're printed publications made using inexpensive production methods and in small editions from as little as 10 copies to maybe as many as 1,000. So a student used this trails map to trace walks we took as a class and some walks that students took on their own for projects. During the semester, we took six walks together on the trails, and for the most part, this was all new territory for the students. We started the semester by making instant books, which is a very simple technique. When you make a book using one piece of paper, fold it and cut down, the students experimented with using different types of papers, writing short narratives and illustrating stories of different walks that they took. We then learned how to make zines with both the computer and the photocopier. These images are from a workshop with Anthony Smersky, who is the co-founder of a zine called MegaWords based in Philadelphia. We made a few group zines where each student contributed one spread. They made by hand and we photocopied it. During the semester, Jamie visited the class. He led us on a walk through the Eastern prom, pointed out his favorite spots, talked about the history of the city and the process of building and maintaining trails. We also walked the West End and Jamie showed us the site of future trails. The prompts I gave my students were to look in all directions, to visit and to revisit places, to pay attention to the smallest details and the passage of time, the weather, to consider the natural environment, the built environment and the confluence of the two. I think that the structure of a publication has a natural relationship to the structure of a walk. It has a beginning and an end. The narrative has a pace and a rhythm. Or as Rebecca Solnit writes, stories are travels and travels are stories. At the end of the semester, we were part of an exhibit of all FYN classes and we were lucky enough to have the Zan Gallery, which faces Free Street. We installed the library of zines and each student made 10 copies, which were all free for the taking. Here you can see the display case up close, which contained a sample of the student's handmade books along with some objects collected during our walks. Some of these things like the netting and shells students experimented with photocopying and including in their zines. Outside the gallery space in the hall, students assembled a collage of photographs, illustrations and graphics that were pulled from individual zines. The display itself created a kind of trail of experiences from throughout the semester. All in all, the library grew to about 60 different zines authored by 19 different students. My hope is that the library may continue to grow in the future and that I can continue to find ways for students to document the city in which they live and work. I am grateful for Portland Trails. Whoops. I'm grateful for Portland Trails for partnering with Maine College of Art and wanna especially thank Jamie for taking the time to be our guide to the city. Thank you. Thank you, Samantha. Great example of how Portland Trails connects people with places. Well, that's our nine fabulous presenters tonight. We'd like to give them a round of applause, please. We'd like to also thank you all for coming tonight and sharing your time and taking part in some of the experiences that we were very pleased to share with you tonight as well. We wanna thank the Space Gallery for hosting us this evening. There are a few ways, thank you. There are a few ways that you can get involved in projects that you've learned about tonight. Check out the fabulous Portland Trails website, www.trails.org. Join us for one of the great discovery treks so you can learn about some of the trails and green spaces that you've made not explored yet. You can go to the events page on the website. We're having the great, great, great bash that happens the last Friday in April, April 26th. The Happy Trails, Big Bash and Silent Auction, a great time. The 10K Trail to Ale is September 22nd. And as I mentioned before when I wave the envelope, please become a member of Portland Trails if you aren't and stay in touch. You can visit the back table to get more information. And thank you again very much for coming tonight and it was a great night.