Good afternoon. Welcome to an episode of Business in Hawaii. My name is Retsuchi Yama, and we delve into many topics, often about Hawaii, but sometimes about global issues and places all over the world. Today we have a special guest, Kanzo Nara, who is the past president of the Hokkaido Club Hawaii, and we're going to talk about our favorite place, aside from Hawaii, which is the island, the northern island of Hokkaido. I think many people in Hawaii have heard about Hokkaido. Some from Hawaii have visited Hokkaido as tourists, and others are looking at Hokkaido for possible business opportunities. Welcome to the show. Thank you, Retsuchi Yama-san, and I'm very happy to be here. I'm Kanzo Nara, as mentioned, from the Hokkaido Club Hawaii. So what is your relationship with Hokkaido? Oh, well, I was born and raised there in Hokkaido, and I moved here in 2000. So interestingly, I spent half my life in Hokkaido and half my life in Hawaii now. Well, you're a young man, so it's going to be more and more in Hawaii pretty soon. So let's geographically position Hokkaido where it is, and how it's unique compared to the rest of Japan, how most of the world or Americans look at Japan as a very crowded place with lots of big cities or urban areas. What is Hokkaido, and where is it, and seasonally, how does it differ from the rest of Japan? Well, Hokkaido is the most northern island of Japan. It's north of Honshu, so the long main island. It's at the very tip of that. And interestingly, it's only 26 miles south of Russia. So we're actually closer to Russia than we are to Tokyo. And we have very distinctive seasons. The winter gets cold enough to be minus 40 degrees Celsius, which right now, February, early March, is right around that time. So we're having a very cold winter this year with a lot of snow. And Hokkaido statistically has about 5.5 million people. And of course Tokyo itself has 10 million people. So half of Tokyo can fit into Hokkaido very easily. And with 22% of the lab mass in Japan. And let's see now. So how is Hokkaido different historically than the rest of Japan? Because from my family's history, my ancestors came from the northernmost tip of Honshu called Aomori. And that's where I was also born by coincidence. And they left Aomori to land in southern Hokkaido in the Hakodate area. In the 1720s, what we would call the Genroku period, they were part of the Matsumaya plan or Matsumaya Han. So we are very early settlers in Japan, I mean, from what is Japan currently, but actually it was Honshu and a very small clan at the tip of Honshu, the Matsumaya clan. And then they kind of went north and my family settled in an area called Esashi. And in fact, the village is Kaminokuni. And that's where they were to this day from the 1720s and 30s until today. And they're mostly farmers or fishermen with herring and sardines of the niching of that area. So we've been there for a long time, but until the Meiji period of the 1860s, there was a line that they could not cross over. And the rest of Hokkaido was called Ezo, which was populated by a distinctly different ethnic group called Ainu. Could you just comment on this? Yes. Well, the Ainu people are indigenous to Hokkaido, much like the native Hawaiians or the Inuits or the Mongolian tribes of northern China. They were there for centuries. And they had their own culture, but much like the other indigenous tribes is, they didn't have a written language. They passed down history orally. They had a lot of animism. They practiced animism. So a lot of animal sacrifices. That's right, the worship of the bear or salmon. The bear, salmon, mountains and rivers. So they were in large numbers around early 1500s, 1600s, and that's when the first Japanese settlers started moving into Hokkaido. And the Japanese weren't called Japanese. They were called Wajin in Hokkaido, which means like the Oriental people. Interestingly. But of course when you say Oriental people, even today, there are some Ainu people with blue eyes or with brown hair, and they're different physically than what we would call Japanese. Yes, that's correct. So yeah, ethnically speaking, yeah, they're not of traditional Japanese DNA. They probably have more of the like northern Mongolian side, just like southern Russia has Ainu too, like I was mentioning. So your family side, where are they from in Hokkaido? Interestingly, they're the same from where you are, Aomori. My great-great-grandfather moved to Hokkaido in the late 1800s. Wow, okay. Yeah, late 1800s. So that would be probably the mid-Meiji period from northern Aomori to just like you mentioned southern Hokkaido. And that was a period of great immigration in Hawaii too, from Kumamoto and Yamaguchi. At the same time, people are moving toward Hokkaido as a wave coming to Hawaii. Yes, just like I mentioned, I mean last year was the 150th anniversary of the Ganen Mono. Interestingly, Hokkaido was celebrating its 150th anniversary of becoming Hokkaido. Hokkaido became Hokkaido in 1868, and prior to that it was called Ezo, like you mentioned. So a lot of immigration happened during that period, and a lot of, I guess, people in the northern part of Honshu moved to Hokkaido. And also the clans that lost in the war of the Meiji Restoration ended up in Hokkaido. And a lot of the southern clans like, you know, Choshu, Satsuma ended up in government positions. So people who weren't able to join the federal government kind of ended up in Hokkaido. But you know, it's an interesting point. As you know, the French supported Bakufu, the Tokugawa shogunate. And there were several French mercenaries assisting the Bakufu army. And they had a Republic of Ezo for a few months. They kind of fled out the Hagodate, and then the Meiji Navy and army conquered that fort, and that was the end of the Bakufu forever, and the Meiji government took over. So interestingly, there was a confluence of all kinds of groups. But let's move on to the first photo, please. Oh, where is this? This is Bie, which is pretty much the very center of Hokkaido. Yeah, so it is close to Furano, where the lavender is very famous. It's about an hour north of there. And it's also close to where the blue pond is, the Aoi Ike. And this is right around November, so you can see the colors changing in the trees. And if you look at the mountain, it's already snowing there, but it's November. That's right. So as our viewers can see, it's as if they're watching, seeing something in Washington State or British Columbia, rather than in what they feel is Japan and crowded areas in the islands. But this gives, I think, viewers an indication of how different Hokkaido is. It's a very nature focused place. Yes, that's correct. Like you mentioned, the population is 5.5 million for the entire island, but 2 million of that lives in the center part of Sapporo. So basically, if you leave Sapporo, you're pretty much in the countryside and nothing's out there. Next photo, please. Oh, and this is still winter. Go ahead. No, this is actually November. It's the same season. This is very close to the first picture. This is the blue pond. This is actually a new place you could visit. I've never really heard of this place before. So this didn't exist, I would say maybe 20 years ago. It wasn't there. What happened was they made reservoirs of water nearby in case of mountain eruptions. So they had water reserves. So that changed the water flow and turned it into a natural water reserve. Very beautiful. Unbelievable. Almost looks like Northern Europe. That's right. Or like Finland or Sweden and so forth. Very much. Next photo, please. Oh, what is this? This is one of my favorite places. This is in Yoichi, Nika, which is about a half an hour east of Otaru. Many people know of Nika Whisky now because of the popular TV show. Very, very big. The Scottish woman who accompanied the spouse, Tokaido. Yes. So Mr. Taketsuru who went to Ireland to study, I'm sorry, Scotland to study whisky making, you know, returned back and he was looking for the best place to brew Scotch and he found Hokkaido Yoichi. That was right on the turn of the century and he started making Taketsuru Nika. Anyway, the barrels you see in the picture are actually over the 50 years and they haven't, they're not opening it yet. So I'm waiting for them to open at the drink of 60 year old Scotch. You have to go there immediately. But this is interesting because, you know, when you think of Japan, you don't think of whisky, which is very European. But there are many things about Hokkaido that are Western or not, you know, traditionally Japan because when you go to Kyoto, there are places there that are a thousand years old or a thousand more than that. In Hokkaido, there's nothing really new.  In fact, really, some parts didn't grow as suburbs of the city until after the war, Sapporo itself. And so, but in the 1870s, when the major government wanted to modernize Japan, they invited a very famous professor named Dr. William Pluck and he was from the University of Massachusetts, what became the University of Massachusetts, where I'm a graduate of. And he introduced modern agriculture, dairy farming and all kinds of other farming to Hokkaido. And that really launched agriculture in Hokkaido. And as we know, Hokkaido is famous for melons, strawberries, white asparagus, potatoes, really great potatoes. Dairy, I mean, cheese, milk. What else is there? Well, dairy is a very famous one, especially the milk and cheese was very new to the Japanese people at the time during the major restoration. But the most significant thing about Professor Clark is he was only there for six months. So his time teaching was very short. But the biggest contribution he made was the people that followed him. So he would introduce his former students to go to Hokkaido and teach things like Horace Kepler, who designed the first iron stove for Hokkaido. He had another apprentice of his who moved from Massachusetts to Hokkaido. And he stayed there for actually a good 10 years, I think. He's the one who brought the first cows. So it's a Clark who initiated a lot of these programs. But the people that followed him afterwards were the actual ones who implemented it last week. And I've heard that the city of Sapporo, which is the capital city of Hokkaido, was laid out a master plan by an American architect. Is that true or some design? Yes and no. There was a Japanese architect included too. But it is true that Sapporo is the only planned city in Japan. So it is very easy to find streets in Sapporo because the streets go north, one, two, three, four, five, east, one, two, three, four, five. And you can basically spit out an address and find it. Again, that's so different than Kyoto or Tokyo. You have to carry a map. You have to carry a map exactly where you're going or ask people or the coal bond, the policeman, where you're going. Because this is so, so difficult, the address system in Japan. But Hokkaido, very different. It had routes from Western modern design. So we're going to take a break right now and return with Nara-san to really delve even more into tourism and business in Hokkaido. Aloha. I'm Yukari Kunisue, the host of Konnichiwa, Hawaii, Japanese talk show on Think Tech, Hawaii. Konnichiwa, Hawaii is all Japanese broadcast show and is streamed live on Think Tech at 2 p.m. every other Monday. Thank you so much for watching our show. We look forward to seeing you then. I'm Yukari Kunisue. Mahalo. Hi, I'm Rusty Komori, host of Beyond the Lines on Think Tech, Hawaii. My show is based on my book, also titled Beyond the Lines, and it's about creating a superior culture of excellence, leadership, and finding greatness. I interview guests who are successful in business, sports, and life, which is sure to inspire you in finding your greatness. Join me every Monday as we go Beyond the Lines at 11 a.m. Aloha. We are back with Nara-san in another episode of Business in Hawaii. We are talking about Hokkaido, the northernmost island of Japan, a vacation wonderland, especially during winter, but especially in summer. Skiing is really, really big in Hokkaido, which we will talk about even more, but it has some world-class skiing destinations. Of course, it was the venue for the Winter Olympics going back to the 70s, which also launched many, many new tourist destinations throughout Hokkaido, including world-famous Niseko. Niseko is so popular that it has attracted in the early days, in the 90s and 2000s, Australians and New Zealanders, now people from Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan. So again, there's a lot of global interest in Hokkaido. Next photo, please. Oh, we're continuing with Nika Whiskey here. Yes, that's inside the Museum of Nika Whiskey, and that's their first design bottle. And I'm sure a lot of people have seen the picture of that, because that's the main picture when you go to Sosukino. That's right. I was just going to say that. It is an iconic, it's kind of like a king or Henry VIII. His nickname is actually the uncle with the red beard. Well, you know, he must be very happy sipping Nika Whiskey. But again, this is a whole area of products that I would not have realized would happen in Hokkaido when I was a child, which was a very different place. Next photo, please. Oh, wow. Yeah, this is the Sapporo factory, which was initially the beer factory for Sapporo beer, but was converted to a large shopping mall back in the late 80s. So right now it's called Sapporo factory, and it's a large shopping mall like Aomono shopping center. And of course, this is fall, right? Yes, this is fall time. And you can see the brilliant colors. You can see the star market at the top of the building, and that's the Sapporo beer icon. Yeah, yeah, that's right. And wasn't Sapporo the earliest beer introduced to Japan? I think it might have been the earliest domestic beer. I think the first one brought in was, I think it might have been Kirin. Okay, right, right. So again, Western things came through Hokkaido. Beer, whiskey, dairy farming, milk. I even remember, you know, trap-up, smunk candies, and sausages, and there's many, many things that you would think are Western, but really rooted in Hokkaido for the past 150 years. So Hokkaido is a very unique place. And tell me about what's been happening with Hawaii and Hokkaido, the history of what evolved to be a sister-state relationship. Okay, well, we became sister-states with Hawaii in 2017, May. But the process to that took quite a few years, actually, but it started with the Hawaiian Airlines first flying to Chitose. Then both lieutenant and vice governors meeting here in Hawaii to celebrate the first flight coming through and so on. And then we started getting exchange students. There's a few programs of local schools here. We had the Hokkaido Technological Institute do exchange program here with the local high schools, and so on. So following that, we've had new businesses move into Hawaii, like, you know, we have bakeries, restaurants from Hokkaido now. In fact, Brug is from Hokkaido. Yes, that's correct. And the Tonkatsu place called Tamafuchi is from Hokkaido too. And there's a ramen place called Santoku. Yes, Santoka, and also Baiko, Ken, and Waikiki. Oh, wow. And your friend has Jinbo Udon. Yes, Jinbo Udon. He's from Hokkaido too. And he's from Furano, I think. He's a near Furano living from Akabira. Okay. And, you know, I love that Furano Obihiro area because it's flat. It's like a plane living in Kansas City, and it's so unlike the rest of Japan. Again, but on the other hand, there are seaports like Otaru, or Hakodate, Kushiro, Oshamanbe, very good seafood. Yes. And I think that's why a lot of tourists go to Hokkaido because the quality of the seafood and the amount that you get in restaurants are quite different than compared to Tokyo or other places. Yes. Well, Hokkaido, just because of the shape of the island and also the seas nearby, the currents that bring it in, especially like the Aleutian Islands and so on, you get a really rich seafood life. And it's a very prosperous place for fishermen to be for generations. So there are some analogies or comparisons with Hawaii because Hokkaido's economy is quite dominated by tourism. Yes. Yes, Hokkaido is a very popular tourist location, especially during the February, during the winter festival. It's the largest snow festival in the world. And it goes on for quite a long time too, so it's very popular. I hear last year we had about 2 million visitors during that time. So we had the entire population of Sapporo being there twice during that period of time. That's great. Next photo please. Okay. So this is, as you can see, this is a ski resort in the summertime. This is a good example of optimized tourism. You can't go skiing in the summertime, so what they did was they noticed the scenery at the top of the mountain was so beautiful. It's called the Sea Mountain Terrace. So you buy a ticket, go all the way up the mountain, and you get to see the sea clouds. The catch is you can't see it every day. But it's still a beautiful location. What part of Hokkaido is this? This is in Tomamu, which is about two hours northeast of Sapporo. Interesting.  They have Ainu roots to the words, much like in Hawaii. So Muroran, Sapporo, many, many words come from the Ainu language. Again, another analogy with Hawaii. Next photo please. Oh, yeah. This is also near Tomamu. This is actually a famous station that was used in a movie with Kenta Kakura. Yes, I remember that. It's about an old train station coal mining city. It has a lot of Hokkaido history in it too. And this is where they filmed the location of the film. Well, you can see how Hokkaido was like up till the 70s and 80s. Many of the houses were made of wood and had a, you know, a stove inside. It was very cold. It was very cold. And I was reminded during our previous conversation that there's a train stop or a between station between Sapporo and Chitose Airport called Kita Hiroshima. Yes. And of course that was named for migrants from Hiroshima that came to Hokkaido during the major period. So again, Kita meaning north, you know, North Hiroshima. It's as if there was, you know, Minami Hiroshima, a place named in Hawaii. But again, another analogy to Hawaii's history in Hokkaido. So the future of a Hokkaido-Hawaii relationship, what do you think? There's been more interest by tourists visiting Hokkaido from Hawaii, people from Hokkaido coming to here, business opportunities. Well, I would say the greatest thing we would like to focus on now is probably, you know, product import export, especially like in the field of agriculture. You know, both Hokkaido and Hawaii have agricultural that it kind of shares like we both make onions, tomatoes, things like that. And because, you know, the extreme and weather conditions, you know, we have, you know, different sides of the same kind of product. And I think exchange and product would be import, export would be something of the future we would like to, you know, focus on more. And I think businesses are starting to pay more attention to. Well, that's fantastic. You know, my family has been in agriculture in such a communicable area for many, many years. And about until about 20 years ago, the rice growing in Hokkaido was not that good. Recently, it's number one. And it's sake brewing, of course. It has implications for many, many things. But even white asparagus, many products that used to be ranked lower than in Honshu now have come up. And Hokkaido has really become an agricultural center for quality products. Yes. Right now, Hokkaido's population, about 5% of them are involved in agriculture. But interestingly, that 5% produces 22% of entire Japan's food agriculture. So the farmers are very rich right now. They all have Mercedes and Audi's. And again, you know, being in Hokkaido is being not of Japan because my cousins and so forth eat corn on the cob or grill. They eat strawberries. They eat a lot of yogurt, cheese and lamb, which is lamb in Jijisukan, which is a unique kind of grilling dish in Hokkaido. Lamb isn't eaten that much outside Hokkaido. That is correct. Lamb is not very popular outside of Hokkaido. And then Hokkaido, it's called Jinguiskan, just like the historical character Jinguiskan. It's a very popular dish. I would say most families probably eat it once or twice a month. Right. Right. So again, the natural that even today, to before, you know, 50 years ago, nobody from Tokyo would go and live in Sapporo. But Sapporo has gained a great reputation for being a livable place. And there isn't that much mass transit compared to other cities. So a lot of my cousins and so forth use cars. It's much more like the U.S. in some ways, in the suburbs. Yes, I would agree. It's a lot more like the mainland. You would have to have a car to get around.  I mean, when we talk Hokkaido Island, we say island, but really we're talking about Kyushu and Shikoku combined together. So it's almost like one-third of Japan actually. And when you look on it on a map, it doesn't seem that big. But if you look at the per square mile, it's pretty big. It's huge. And it's a livable place, Sapporo. And there are vast areas of the city that are on the ground. And people go to their workplace without coats sometimes. They just go inside and come back. Oh, yes. They put a lot of effort into developing the subway. They connect several subway stations around the central part of Sapporo. So wintertime, you can walk underneath the city. And if you have your coat on, you actually start sweating. It's so warm down there. It is a unique place, again, because it looks like a New England town, commons in the middle, a beautiful tower. It's not that overpopulated. I mean, there are some places in towns like Kushiro and Nemono where houses are like a third of a mile apart. And people have space, a lot of space, whereas in Tokyo and in the Kansai areas, it's very, very tight. So we're wrapping it up for another episode on Hokkaido. We hope this will promote Hokkaido to Hawaii and to the world. This is Ray Tuchiyama, another episode of Business in Hawaii.


to sign this today here in here in the legislature historic day for for us historic day for the first first nation providing that that longer-term economic future for them something that will be a great benefit to their community it means now that we can have long-term planning for for the woodlock license that we have we don't have to piecemeal things together and hope we have our people working next month and and what's going to happen in the spring and we now sell to local mills and create more jobs for our people and for the amount of wood that we have now I can say we probably end up employing from 70 to 100 people it means work it means being able to generate wealth from the forest and and it means that you know we can manage a forest in a sustainable way especially out in our area after our signing of our treaty it's it's very instrumental and it's a good way to showcase to the youth that there will be jobs in the future for them since this will benefit their community will benefit their families so very clearly aligned with the overall provincial objectives with our BC jobs plan and our focus on making sure that we continue to support jobs and families in British Columbia


Hey guys welcome to SSINI Tech Succeed Decide and this is continuation of Power BI Tutorial. So today we are going to discuss about the slicers. So what is the slicer? So this is a very important topic in the Power BI because by using these we can filter the data for the visualizations. So go to on the Power BI desktop and we will see in the practical. So this is our project by which we are currently working on. Let me add a new page. So we can click on this plus symbol and here let me add few visualizations. So first I am going to use the column chart. So this is our column chart. Let me make it bigger and next I want to use a line chart so we can click on that. First unselect that and now let me click on column chart here put it on right side. Next I want to use a table so we can use this table make it on right side. Now we can little bit adjust all these. So little bit smaller I guess now it looks fine or we can set it on the top side like this and like that and we can make it bigger like that and this as well so we can set and make it bigger. So here I am going to use these three visualizations. First is the table, second is the column chart and a line chart. Let me add the fields on this. So first I am going to use the country name, second city name. Next I am going to use the order date so we can drag and drop. So here you can see it is having the data in the hierarchy but I am going to use exact value so we can click on that and here we can select the order date so it will have date value. Now next I am going to use the order quantity so we can drag and drop and let us make it some so it is already some. Now we can make it smaller like that. Next we can select this line chart and let me drag this country name on axis and order quantity on the value. Next select that column chart and country name in the axis and order quantity in the value. Now I am going to use a slicer so here you can see inside the visualizations this slicer is available so we can click on that. So this is our slicer so first I want to apply the filter for the country so we can drag and drop the country name on the field for the slicer. Here you can see it is displaying data like that so these countries are available so we are having all these countries. Here in the right top you can see this down arrow so we can click on that as of now its displaying as list we can make it as drop down so we can click on that and here it is converted in the drop down. If we want to format this then we can go on the format and here you can see slicer header if we do not want to see this so we can off this and here in the title we can add that so this is the country so we can call this as country and here little bit down this is our font color and this is our background color so let me change my background color with orange after that the font color that should be white so this is white so that looks good so we can do the formatting as you want. So this is our first slicer and here let me filter for US only so we can select United States so here you can see data is filtered for United States and here we do not have option to select all so we want to see that option as well so again select that slicer go to on the format and here go to on the top here you can see the selection control so in the selection control you can see select all so we can on that now you will be able to see select all options so we can click and we will see all these values and next I wanna filter only data for these two visualizations not for the tables like if we will select here for United States then the data on the visualizations will be changed not in the table so how we can do that that is also very important so I have already discussed about the interactions so we can select that slicer go to on the format and here you can see edit interactions so here this is our table so in the table we do not wanna put the filter for this so select the slicer and here in the top side you can see option for none so we can click on none so it will not be filtered anymore now you can check as we have selected United States so here we are having data for all countries only these two bottom visualizations are filtering next I wanna add one more slicer so we can click on that and this is added this time I wanna use for date slicer so here you can see the order quantity let me add this in the field so this is our date slicer so here it is gonna use the between like it will forget the data between these two dates but if we want only the data after any date or before any date then we are also having that option here you can see on the right top click on that here you can see the before after list drop down relative date relative time so here let me add between as it already so here if will use the before then will have only after date and if will have after then will have only start date and list so it will display the data in the list and if will select the drop down then will have this drop down so we are having all these options we can choose according to our requirement so this is our slider so we can slide this and the data for the slicer will be changed according to this slider so this is for the slicer so guys thank you so much for watching this video if you like this video please subscribe our channel to get many more videos don't forget to press the bell icon to get the notification off newly uploaded videos thank you so much see you in the next video


Yeah With the kids He's playing I was looking under here and I was going, where's the butt? You know, I can't binge them enough apples. They said to me, so I said to them, What were you all doing then? We were watching. I mean, we have people coming up here. I was a little nervous. Yeah. Oh, yeah.  I tell that one guy down there all the time, Why don't somebody walk through here? You go cover me. Yeah, they know you. I told him, I said, you got lucky today. But next week, next month, I want you in the room. Oh, they're coming. Yep. We'll be up there. So three up. One over there, put one over there. Two back there. I called the mayor. He made protection. Where's he setting up? Oh. Yeah. Let's knock this out. Good afternoon. We will call to order the September 2018 city of Columbia planning commission meeting. At this time, I'd like to welcome all planning commission members, staff, and guests. We would also like to ask for everyone to turn their cell phones and PDAs to the silent or vibrate mode. The administrator will now proceed with the roll call. Mr. Tupper. Here. Ms. Medell. Ms. Hartz. Here. Mr. Cohn. Here. Mr. Stiggemeyer. Here. And Mr. Weitz. We have forum. Thank you. We have a brief review of the meeting format. Applicants with requests before the planning commission are allowed at a presentation time of 10 minutes. This time shall include but is not limited to an overview of the project case history and any pertinent meetings held regarding the request. This time also includes all persons presenting information on behalf of the applicant, such as attorneys, engineers, and architects. This time limit does not include any questions asked by planning commission or staff regarding requests. Members of the general public are given the opportunity to address their concerns in intervals of two minutes. The administrator has a timer and will make presenters aware of when their time has expired. The planning commission reserves the right to amend these procedures on a case-by-case basis. The consent agenda. Planning commission uses the consent agenda to approve non-controversial or routine matters by a single motion and vote. Examples of such items include approval of site plans, annexations, and street names. If a member of the planning commission or the general public would like to discuss an item on the consent agenda, then that item is removed from the consent agenda and considered during the meeting. The planning commission then approves the remaining consent agenda items. The administrator will now read the consent agenda. Your consent agenda this evening consists of the approval of the August 6, 2018 minutes, as well as two site plan reviews. Those are for 7,435 Monticello Road, which is a request for site plan approval to construct a 43,000 plus or minus square foot building at Columbia International University for Business School. And item number three, which is at 331 Harbison Boulevard, which is a request for site plan approval for the installation of an automatic teller machine within that plan unit development. And if you choose to approve both of those, we just ask that you approve items two and three subject to the staff comments contained in your reports. Okay. Do any commission members or guests today wish to have any items on the consent agenda removed and placed on the regular agenda? Not. I'd like to have a motion to approve the consent agenda. Mr. Chairman, I'd like to make a motion to approve the consent agenda as presented, inclusive of staff comments. Drive second. Any further discussion? All in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Anyone oppose? Consent agenda is approved. We will now proceed with the regular agenda. The regular agenda this evening consists of a map, a minor map amendment to a plan unit development. This is item number four on your agenda, which is a real rose circle. It has a number of addresses. This is a minor amendment to the plan unit development. You did see this recently, but there was some changes that were required from SCANA, essentially, and therefore it does require to come back for a minor amendment. Any questions for staff? Does the applicant need to come forward? They don't have to, but if you'd like them. Essentially, the building had to shift. All the power lines in the original approval were to be buried. SCANA has provided this letter that says that the one line cannot be buried. Because the building has to be a certain distance from the power line, the building had to shift on the site. Any other? Drive a second. Second. All in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Anyone oppose? It's approved. Item number five on your agenda has been deferred at the applicant's request as of yesterday, and we do not have any other business. And I'll make a motion to adjourn. Okay. Done. Meeting's adjourned. Did you time me? Did you time me? I don't know how many seconds. I don't know how many seconds. Evening. Were you here for Drear? Oh, okay. Good thing. Just as much unsure why I'm here is you're unsure as well. We thought you were here for Drear. No, yeah. We realized that I got deferred. Okay. Thank you. We'll walk you out. Yeah, I know, right? Yeah, I'm sorry if I get to feel a minute away every time. I really like, you don't have any specific...


When I did a special episode a couple of months ago about science fiction anthologies, I went online afterwards looking for some series that I had not read and I had heard or read about Stellar, which is edited by Judy Lynn Del Ray, wife of the famous writer and editor Lester Del Ray. When I mentioned this volume one a few reviews ago, I said that I was about halfway through volume one and was unimpressed with it. Well, the second half of the book picked up and I liked it quite a bit. Volume three I liked pretty much all the way through in the same with volume six. I recommend them. These are what you would call old-school science fiction. The list of authors as you can see is quite impressive. I particularly want to point out that Clifford D. Simac has a story in each of these books, all three. In volume three in particular, there's Auk House, which I recommend and also in volume six there is Bite Your Tongue, which I also recommend. Volume three, the first story in the book is the first story ever written and ever published by Jack L. Chalker. I was also impressed with this story here in volume three called We Hold These Writes by Henry Melton. That's an author I'd not heard of, but an excellent little story. I want to show you what Judy Lindell Ray had to say in the introduction. There's an excerpt from the solicitation letter she sent out to authors asking for submissions. She says in part, I don't want mood pieces without plots. I don't want vignettes. I don't want character sketches, and I don't want obvious extrapolations of current fads and newspaper stories. These yarns should have beginnings, middles, and most important ends exclamation points. I want writers to solve the problems they postulate and not pawn off implicit endings as great art. If that doesn't sell you on this series and Judy Lindell Ray in general, then I don't know what could. She obviously has a particular fondness for a certain type of story, which I would call a procedural, meaning extremely detailed examinations of what the characters are doing and how they're doing them, like a police drama or medical drama that you see on TV. The point of the action is what the police are doing, what the doctors are doing, and in the first volume there's a There's a Howe Clement story, the logical life, and Howe Clement is a perfect example of the kind of thing I'm talking about. So that's what you're going to get with the Stellar series, and I recommend it. You can support 30 Seconds Sci-Fi and my other projects by becoming a patron. There's a link in the description below. And visit the 30 Seconds Sci-Fi Tumblr. That's my headquarters. In addition to my videos, I publish links and updates there every day.


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Good afternoon everyone, hopefully you're all still with us after having a big hearty lunch there. As Greg said, I'm with Ducks Unlimited, I've been with them since about 2014. We do a third party wetland mitigation program. I'm going to take you through some of the things that we look at when we're pursuing projects and there's going to be a heavy influence for mitigation on this. We also do a lot of general restoration private land work with producers throughout the state. But mitigation is actually a fairly small part of what Ducks Unlimited does across the country, but it's kind of a growing industry and a growing part of DU. So a little bit about Ducks Unlimited. I can serve, restore, manage wetlands and associated habitats for North America's waterfall and these habitats also benefit other wildlife and people which will come into play later. DU started in 1937 in the middle of the drought. For about 40 or 50 years, all the money that was raised in the United States was sent to Canada to the Prairie Pothole region where they worked north of the border. It wasn't until 1984 when they opened the Bismarck office and the first Ducks Unlimited project was actually at Lake Arena northeast of Bismarck in 1984. This office is the regional headquarters for seven states, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Montana, Colorado, Wyoming. So we have about 35 employees in Bismarck and then a few satellite offices in those other states. Prairie Pothole region as most of you probably know is high priority. We kind of have the everything you could ask for when it comes to wetland resources. And we have a gradient across the state from east to west, you go to the east and we have way too much water you go to the west and they say that they don't have enough so pretty interesting landscape that we get to work in but these are some of the other areas across the country that Ducks Unlimited operates in. So that's the wetlands ecosystem services that they provide floodwater storage, water quality, groundwater recharge, nutrient capture, wildlife habitat, all of these ecosystems functions that are provided by wetlands. When you take those away bad things start happening downstream and typically what happens is that the public picks up the tab for those problems and the take home message there is that we should be trying to conserve wetland resources to the best of our ability. Wetland mitigation restoration enhancement, creation and or preservation of a project that serves to offset unavoidable wetland impacts required as a condition of a permit of federal state law. Most people aren't doing well in restorations just out of the, the goodness of their own heart there's usually a requirement for jurisdiction to meet no net loss or various regulations that are on the books to conserve wetlands, some of those being swamp buster jurisdictional structures of the US. Some states, I can't remember what presentation it was earlier talking about some states have premises and they actually have stricter regulations over their water resources than the federal government. What we do at the US we focus on large scale offsite wetland restorations we accumulate or we take a cumulative approach to fractional wetland impacts, we pool those funds and we go and we build large offsite wetland mitigation properties. Where, you know, we will take the liability the long term responsibility of offsetting the wetland impacts from various projects in that watershed. Small onsite, typically creation when you see something that more looks like a fish pond in a Walmart parking lot. Those sometimes can pass the smell test but it's usually part of their permitting process to maintain a wetland resource within that footprint of the property that they have a control over. And part of that is because with the wetland mitigation program there's a lot of requirements long term monitoring and things that go with that that can be pretty cumbersome. If you're going to do wetland restoration, you first have to identify impaired wetlands so I'm going to go over some of the main things that we see in North Dakota I won't go so much into the spill of spills that we see in Western North Dakota the remediation that goes on with some of those but a lot of these have to do with land conversion. Surface ditching is probably the most common and really took off in the 1950s in the Prairie Pothole region. This is an area north of Devils Lake North Dakota this water is all going south, eventually into Devils Lake. You can see the pretty elaborate ditching systems that have been put in place and it's interesting that these properties where you do see wetlands intact are either owned by the federal government as waterfall production areas or are under Fish and Wildlife Service wetland and grassland conservation easements so those wetland resources those landowners have been paid not to drain those wetlands moving forward. Filled. You know we see a lot of this around municipalities are putting in new housing developments.  A lot of the agricultural lands that we have they've been farmed for somewhere around 100 years and a lot of that sedimentation is getting in those wetlands and slowly filling them in their losing capacity. And a lot of the times with the erosion that we're seeing in some of these systems, riverine systems, riverine corridors. All that sediment drops out in those in those pothole, depressional wetlands that are near these wetland resources. This is kind of what it typically looks like when they're getting filled. We do mitigate for a lot of this work through our program. Pumped. This is a rare occurrence but it does happen there is situations where we find wetlands being pumped it's expensive to annually pump wetlands and just to fight the same fight every single year. Most times there's other solutions that are typically put in place but for short term solutions for landowners a lot of times they will set up pumps and pump wetlands dry. This is a fairly large semi permanent wetland that is Northwestern Cask County. This landowner wanted to convert this land and start cropping this site and that's a wetland that if you ask me if you know how you're going to get rid of it it's a closed basin this is a terminal basin there's no outlet. Looks like a pretty hard sell to try and get rid of that water but that's what it looked like after they install the pump and they pump that for about 10 or 12 years. They're actually still in the process of working with us to try and decommission some of these things but they spent a lot of money and a lot of investment in putting in a large scale pump they moved that water up to the Northwest and out of the property drain tile something that's very common. Iowa Minnesota it's been there for a very long time, but it's moving west at a pretty rapid pace and very expensive to install, but with the price of land these days most producers are seeing the benefit of installing drain tiles a cheaper option to increase productivity on their acres, rather than go out and buy new land. Pattern tile drainage that'll what that's what it looks like when they're done. There'll be an outlet on one corner of this field and send most of that subsurface and surface water downstream. So here you got wetlands you're going to try and generate some lift as I said earlier there's jurisdictions they all credit these things differently depending on the practices that you employ. And the main ones we're going to focus on today restoration enhancement creation and preservation they all have different crediting mechanisms, and you'll see a recurring pattern here as to which one is the best or the one that we think is the most viable option for doing something, although there's scenarios where all of these have their have their day in the sun so. Restoration is returning hydrology to a previously impacted historical wetlands so essentially just turn the water back on just put that water back where it was. We have a lot of data that shows historical seed banks in North Dakota persist even in sites that have been farmed for a very long time. Usually it's a matter of just holding that water back again and your wetlands will restore function over a matter of time. Ditchfugs linear ditch fills and dams earth and construct work is really what we focus on for our restoration projects. They're not fancy they're not glitzy they're not what everybody thinks is big engineered water control projects, but they're resilient and they last a long time and frankly the agencies typically prefer these over some of the other. engineered options that we can do and I think it was the first speaker today that said they may be more attractive they may be new but they're unproven they're more expensive and typically they don't last as long. Issues to watch out for there's some pretty big like golden rules that we deal with that if you're going to waste time on some of these issues usually you're better off just finding a new site to work on but walking out for property boundaries. Working with landowners or restore wetlands isn't what I would call the easiest thing in the world to convince people to put land back take it out of production. Hold water back on their land usually financial compensation is a pretty big part of this equation. You cannot backwater on somebody else and if you have a wetland you know a lot of times we find great suitable wetlands but there's two three four wetland landowners and getting all those landowners to agree. Most of those neighbors don't agree on things on a weekly basis let alone restoring wetlands that are going to impact. All of their property so not all wetlands can be legally stored without neighboring consent flood easements and things like that. Sometimes it's pretty tricky or deal to coordinate all those things. This is an example the wetland. Up here. One ditch that leads into this stream fairly straightforward restoration plan but as you can see the property boundary splits that if ducks and limited were to restore that wetland we there's the drain. We block that off with a ditch plug in a linear ditch fill. You get water across the property line and you'd be in violation of the law unless you had consent to do that so a lot of the times you know we can identify these drain wetlands but I'd say 50% of them are over property boundaries and those conversations typically don't lead anywhere. Fixes for filled wetlands. You're really the only option there is for excavation and it's extremely expensive. So, frankly those usually there's houses built on top of them there they're in neighborhoods where you're not going to be going in and tearing down infrastructure.  You do have the potential to restore those but you're still going to be going in bringing out material and increasing capacity in those basins. An issue that you may have is where are you going to spoil all that material if the producer doesn't want it on their farmland or if it's in grasslands you may not have many options for moving that it's extremely expensive to truck it down the road. Pumped pretty inexpensive to restore as you just tear the pump out pull the piping the water comes back and you're done. But as I said earlier these are fairly rare they're kind of a unicorn when it comes to getting restoration acres out of something like that drain tile breaking lines. You're going to have heavy equipment out there you're going to be digging up some of these lines are 10 to 12 feet deep and locating them. Some of these old systems were never mapped so trying to locate which lines to hit you could just draw a line across the field and break every line.  So unless you have a really good map or recently tiled field that has GIS information which if somebody has invested that much money recently they're typically not going to be tearing out their drain tile. And this is an example of one wetland that would be tiled just a shot of how that would go into a county main you could break if you knew exactly where that line was you could dig it up break it. Bentonite clay is used a lot of time to plug these up. But you want to make sure you get them all. Or you spent a lot of money for nothing. Take home message on restoration earthen embankments. A lot of time that's what spoil material that they dug out of those ditches is nearby they haven't moved it and they pile it on one side kind of gets to the compaction talk that we were talking about earlier. A lot of times you can push that back in, dress it, reseed it and you'll be good to go but it's the highest rate of success you know that surface ditches moving water downstream you build a dam you fill the ditch everybody's happy. Your hydric soils will be saturated again your seed base is still within those wetlands and really it's the most bang for your buck. Establishing a baseline in North Dakota we use Army Corps wetland delineations the Great Plains manual it's dependent on hydrology soils and vegetation and we combine that with the NRCS scope and effect determination where we do a linear measure of drainage for surface ditching. Some of these other mechanisms we would have to quantify the drainage by other means but with surface ditching where we have most of our focus we're using these two methods. To determine exactly how much lift that we can generate and part of that is determining exactly what your baseline is what resources are on site before you do your project. How much credit can be received for the program of work. So these are the ratios that are widely accepted for wetland work. There is variations by state throughout our region we have quite a few manuals that we have to abide by by the state jurisdictions but frankly when you come down to all the credits that they use it really comes to a one to one for restoration two to one for enhancement. Two to one for creation 10 to one for preservation so some of these projects you may have a combination of each of these on on any given site. But really your restoration is what you want to focus on creation high risk. You may not have the soils appropriate to get hydrophytic vegetation or hydric soils to gravelly sandy you may have seepage through the bottom of the wetland you may not store any of the water that you think that you're going to we don't want to be in the business of lining anything so you're only getting half credit pretty high risk but there is a time and a place for for each one of these. This is from that same general area from earlier north of Devils Lake, just to show you guys what what what we go through as far as getting a mitigation plan by the approved by the Army Corps of Engineers. Can you guys see that is it too dark. There's the drainage system on the left, although potholes that had been drained and on the right is the crediting scenarios and mitigation plan, which we had approved by the Army Corps of Engineers. The pink in the middle is classified as creation and that's because of our wetland delineation we had problematic soils in that area that were very close to being hydric but did not quite meet the official definition for the core so those were credited as creation at two to one all the red were drained restoration. The blue is preservation 10 to one those were existing wetland resources you can see up here on this map. And enhancement is this little green they call it the egg method that's the yolk and the egg that wetland was not fully drained. It was only partially drained. So you get two to one enhancement for the wetland that was still existing because you brought the original hydrology back to it and then you get one to one for everything on the outside that was fully drained. This is what that site looked like after construction we had not seated it yet. But versus our plan and one year it feels like as soon as you start working in wetlands no matter how dry it is the next spring they're underwater and that's the risk of getting your work done in the year that you would plan because otherwise you can be left with quite the mess to clean up in the spring when everything is wet. This was a fairly large construction job just to do this earth and dirt work I think final bill was somewhere around $300,000 to do just the construction on this and this was 160 acre parcel that was placed under easement with the landowners.  This was in the fall we were working when it was dry but all this water was moving downstream and that's what we had after we were done with our construction. This is in Montreal County. We're doing aerial imagery of you can see these linear features here are pretty indicative you can see the shadows these were very large ditches that had drained these wetlands you can see how flat they look. You can see this in Topo survey. We also use WebSale survey which was spoken about earlier NWI will take LiDAR data available and check out these areas but you can typically see these flat wetland bottoms pretty well. In the left in the left picture they were fully drained and in the right was the spring after construction and you can see that this was actually in native prairie, which is rare to have wetlands drain and native prairie like that that was never converted. But that was what as best as we could tell these were drained somewhere in the 30s and 40s for livestock consolidation during a drought to get that water down to this larger semi permanent wetland to keep drinkable water down there. There was somebody running around Montreal County in the 40s and 50s with some really big equipment because that was one of the ditches and there's a in this typical area there's a lot a lot of drained wetlands that are like this impassure land that are all the same size have the same dimensions and they're all night pre 1957 imagery that that we can find so somebody was putting water on water way back then so I think you could drive to pickups do this this ditch. This is the same site looking north Googler shot prior to us doing a restoration and that's what it was like after we were done. This is another one of our say it's just to show kind of how we do some dams and mixtures of earth and ditch plugs and things like that drainage network this is north of Carrington along highway 281. This is one of the first ones we did back in 2014. On the right you can see kind of where we cut off those ditch systems and impounded water and did some excavation to bring that wetland complex back erosion controls one of the, you know, biggest things that we struggle with. For the most part we use emergency spillways when we have the topography available to us but sometimes we have to run water over the top of the dike and over down the dam. And when that happens, as I said we're holding water back and it seems like it always starts raining as soon as we're done with construction. We like to see our well and fill up but when they start running over we get nervous. So we use erosion control bank blankets even are probably pretty liberal with some of those because going back and fixing these things a year later because once they're vegetated they pretty much take care of themselves but we've had some blow out events where we just had high flows and we've had to go on bare dirt and it just it doesn't end well but pure Matt flex Matt concrete woven blankets textiles seed beneath those if you can get a year where you don't have erosion concerns you're you're pretty much in the clear. The enhancement practice improvement of an existing or impaired wetland sediment removal it's one of those practices partially drained wetlands, adding water to an existing wetland additional hydrology. We typically don't like to just put water on top of existing wetlands for the sake of it, but it is possible to do creation shallow swells with sufficient watershed and hydrology. As I said earlier so it was going to be problematic and their higher risk higher risk of failure, you spend a lot of money on construction. And what happens if three or four years later the regulatory agency that you're doing this for says that it's not sufficient or you didn't meet your performance standards, you're going to have to do something all over again. We've got dams borrow sites construction borrow sites. A lot of times will get deep water habitat that are pretty good at raising fish but not good for shallow water wetland habitat. This is a photo of one of our sites, you can see the water at current elevation that's the natural well and elevation that was delineated we hit groundwater. We got restoration one to one credit for this, but you can see the dozers down here peeling back, and we're actually expanding that wetland and expanding the size of it. And everything outside of this line was credited as creation two to one so to date it is functioning well. These were these areas on the previous plan. We didn't go all the way back but we said that we had borderline soils. We hadn't knew we had a really high likelihood that the wetlands would function there so preservation is placing a restrictive easement on naturally occurring and existing wetland resources that have not been altered. You can see in this image. This is a project but this large wetland in the bottom we only get 10 to one you place an easement on it it's not going anywhere but it doesn't provide much lift or any new additionality. That's that wetland after that project after construction. There's a theme here. Most of our agencies prefer us to use natural infrastructure versus active and I'll speak a little bit more to what I mentioned earlier. I love these dams earth and spillways longer lifespan, more resilient and just less problems overall and they're cheaper. You get into stop log structures, whistle tubes culvert cheap pile weirs. You're going to have higher construction bills. Frankly, in North Dakota where we have water and freezing ground and if they're not installed perfect the shortens the lifespan on them structures rust out. As I said, do you came to North Dakota in 1984 and a lot of our original engineers have just retired in the past five years. And it's kind of interesting because a lot of the projects that they did for BL and in Montana, and some of the stock dams that they built in Western North Dakota back in the 80s are now reaching their lifespan and they're starting to blow out all the structures are starting to rust out and we're going back and redoing them. And even they admit that they could have done it differently at the time and saved everybody around 230 years later. Wetland suitable for restoration correct topography and no boundary issues willing landowners. So I'll restate if you don't if you're going to mess with property boundaries just don't just move on because you're not going to get people to agree you don't want to end up in court later it's not worth the fight. It's not worth it has a wetland on their land that's, that's, that's right for restoration surface ditch, and you're going to be time and money ahead and willing landowners. It's not worth barking up the wrong tree for too long because it's probably not going to lead anywhere. If you get told once maybe try one more time but after that move on. And then these sites is really aerial imagery review and areas that we're interested in working in. We'll also check on auctions and classified ads for sales that are on the market. There's a lot of website resources for that now. But the benefit to that is you already have a landowner who's interested in doing something with their property and you're not just cold calling or soliciting people. It's not a great review. It's fairly easy to see you can throw a dart at a map and find drained wetlands in a township for the most part in North Dakota. And some of those landowners are interested in doing things so smart so to this group and the audience that we're speaking with today company own land is one thing that takes care of a lot of this if you don't have to worry about landowners that's, that's really great to look at the property that you do have access to and see if you can make something work there. Farmland owners off of local land values, obviously that varies widely from east to west. Red River Valley farmland is a lot more valuable than let's say stuff on the state line of Montana. But you deal with some of the fatigue that has come with the development over the last decade out in Western North Dakota and trying to talk about doing anything is sometimes difficult as well. As I said, most of the time you're doing this for a jurisdiction, they're likely gonna require that there's a term on this project, whether it's a five year, 10 year, 30 year deal, they're gonna say that you need to replace wetland resources. Maybe it's just while you're doing work in a certain area, but you typically need an agreement at a minimum. And some of these need to be defensible if you were to challenge them. Otherwise everybody's gonna be upset that nobody's stuck to kind of their obligations. So de-districtions, agreements, they're hard to enforce, but they're better than nothing. Conservation easements, you can get different term conservation easements. We typically do 99 year or we work with the Fish and Wildlife Service on perpetual easements. So a lot of these wetlands that Ducks Unlimited works on won't be ever taken back and put back into production. And largely determined by the goals of your regulatory agency and your obligations. Some of the monitoring and management. So for our wetland mitigation projects, we have a mandatory five year monitoring period where we have to prove that the wetlands are doing what we said they would do in our initial mitigation plan. That can and does go longer depending on how the site is behaving. Site inspections, performance standards, vegetation management, getting that vegetation up to where it needs to be with a acceptable amount of weeds. We do native grass restoration seedings where we do 30 to 40 species. We try and put in as many as much diversity as we can, but that's there's a limiting factor there where you put five more species in and it doubles the cost of the seed mix and it's just not worth it. So we do what we can knowing that a lot of these lands aren't gonna ever be tilled up and receded again. We also have to put a fairly large endowment with each property. They've been running in the six figure neighborhood for required endowments to go with that property to make sure that if there's any catastrophic events or management in the future that there's funds to take corrective actions. To summarize what we've talked about today. So these are some of the big considerations when we were looking at wetland restoration sites not just for mitigation, but in general. Site selection, your due diligence that you're not gonna have issues down the line where you're gonna end up in court. Can you negotiate and acquisition, survey design, engineering? Your permitting is usually ongoing throughout that process. Construction, meeting performance standards, site protection instruments like agreements, conservation easements and long-term management funds. Is there any questions? Yeah. So how do you, for seasonal wetland or semi-permanent wetland or temporary wetland, how do you feel different? Yeah, that's a great question. It's something that's not fully accounted for. They haven't got the regulators don't say, well, you impacted a temporary we're gonna make you replace a temporary. There is a factor of consolidation that goes on with the wetland mitigation industry. So you hope that you have a robust wetland complex that you can work in like some of these properties we did have semi-permanence on them. We had temporary seasonals. But as the exchange goes you're not always gonna get a temporary for a temporary. If you're doing out-of-kind mitigation let's say you're impacting a stream for a road project what the core is doing right now in North Dakota is they're making you do because there isn't stream mitigation projects we don't have a lot of blue ribbon stream trout streams in North Dakota. So rehabbing streams is kind of an unknown thing and not unknown but something that nobody has jumped on completely.  So they imply ratios as well if you're going too much out-of-kind or too far away from the impact site.


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Signal gasoline.  Yes, you do go farther with signal. The signal oil company and your neighborhood signal dealer bring you another curious story by the Whistler. Tonight, a pattern for terror. I am the Whistler and I know many things for I walk by night. I know many strange tales hidden in the heart of men and women who have stepped into the shadows. Yes, I know the nameless terrors of which they dare not speak. A kaleidoscope is a simple instrument, a toy, made of a tube with a few mirrors and bits of colored glass, nothing more. Yet when you revolve it slowly, an unending series of complicated patterns appear. Always changing, never the same. On this midnight of December 10th, 1944, the mind of Ted Stratton as it struggles for consciousness is like a kaleidoscope. One of the patterns is this. Hello, darling. Norma's party at her house, high on the hill in Marin County looking down on San Rafael and San Francisco Bay, and Larry Craig, handsome, talented Larry playing Chopin waltzes on the piano. A pleasant pattern, Ted. Bright reds and yellows sparkling cheerful and with Norma at your side, complete. But the designs starting to change. The reds and yellows are fading.  Ridiculous, my foot. This is the first time, Norma. I'll get a little tired of it. What are you trying to say? I'm simply suggesting that your relationship with your virtuoso friend in there is slightly more intimate than pupil and teacher. Ted. It's been going on for weeks, hasn't it? You know what you're saying. Sure. Why don't you tell me? Why don't you come right out and spill it? It was all a big mistake getting engaged. That's me strattin' the mistake. No runs, no hits, one error. Ted, you're drunk. So what? What else can I do? Can't play the piano like Mr. Craig gotta do something? You have to shout. Yes.  Yes. Why don't you do it upright? Make a real party out of it. You know, that's an idea. Pattern Ted, deep blues and purples in the green tinge of jealousy mixed with the sound of party talk and the taste of champagne.  Norma's party for you. There she is again, the Ted side gazing at him like a crooner struck Bobby Soxer as he plays. The pattern turns red.   Can you hear me?  Except for the monotonous moan of the fog going down at the point near Saddon Quentin Prison. Cool, peaceful. The fog has turned to a drizzle and it feels good on your head. Clears your mind, takes away the nagging ache. Open your eyes, Ted. Look around. Swirling fog, everything black. It's almost raining. You're wet and cold.  A hot knife jabs it. Breathe in that cool air and try again. That string of yellow lights over to the left, wavering like a clothesline in a high wind. Finally settles into... Yes, Ted, you must have stopped here on the way home from Norma's party. Party? Yeah, party. What am... what am I doing here? The car, who's...? Larry's. I'm in Larry's car. Ted, alone in Larry's open convertible. Remember Larry? You could kill him. It's just what you said, wasn't it? You could kill him. Where's Larry? I've got to find Larry. Go back to Norma's. Wait a minute. I have Martin Ellie's Roadhouse. You can call her from there. She'll probably laugh until you Larry is pacing the floor, wondering what happened to his car. What'll you have, mister? Why don't I use your telephone? Yeah, go right ahead. Sorry, around the corner to the right. This is the house phone. Oh, okay. Where's Larry? What do you mean? He left? Tell me exactly what happened, Norma. That's not important now. Norma, will you please tell me what happened? I must have seen him down by the highway. For instance, Signal Oil Company sponsors the Whistler. In addition, for 14 years, the name Signal has stood for the finest petroleum products that money can buy. 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Back to the whistler. Ted Stratton stands in the telephone booth of the Road House for over a minute, receiver in hand. Staring Dully at the phone dial, trying to think. Trying to remember what happened after he left Norma's party. Nothing, no dice. Just the red rage at Larry before he walked out, then blackness of blank. Until he opened his eyes and Larry's car parked at the edge of the highway. Norma says, I left Larry left right after me.  Possible I couldn't have. But that's not what you told everybody, is it Ted? That's the one thing you do remember. You could kill him. That's only your reflection in the big mirror on the wall. The one that they jumped when you walked into the bar.  Larry must have been tougher than you figured.  Better get out of here. I know. I don't know what he looks like, but... Call you back.  Yeah, thanks. Uh, just a minute. You look like you could use a drink. Thanks, no, I... Hello? That's Rose. Things with the band weekends. Maybe I can set you both up, huh? Oh, that would be a swell idea, miss. Sorry, I'm in a hurry. Oh, don't be that way. He's just playing hard to get. Come on, pal, I feel generous. This one's on the house. He doesn't do that for everyone. How about... I got to go, I tell you. Oh, just one. Get out of my way, let me go. You better push me. What are you doing? Let the air out of the tire. Trying to stall me. No time to fix it later. I gotta go. Already, you're sure of it. You can see tomorrow morning's headlines. Barney found on highway attacked by unknown assailant. Police searching Marin County for murderer. That's why the bartender was wise, tried to stall you. Lucky you caught part of that phone call he was making. Thought that flat tire would stop you, did they? Can't go much farther, though. It's in shreds already. Look, the service station down at the junction. Got to take a chance. You're lucky. No customers. Got a flat tire. I got to change it in a hurry, could you help? Sure. Got the dolly right here. I'll help you. I'll get the tire. Good. Let me see where it is. There it is on the floor under steering wheel. Must have been using it tonight, huh? Yeah. I guess so. They get up there familiar, isn't it? Part of that hazy pattern in your mind. You have used it tonight, positive. You can feel it in your right arm, swinging the iron bar hard through the air, landing with a sickening thud on someone's head. There's no doubt anymore.  Good one, too. Bloody a tread left. Ain't fit for the junk heap now, though. I was alone on the highway. I didn't have a jacket. Yeah, alone? Couldn't have waited long. Every cop in the county's on the road tonight. They'll give you a hand, you know. What did you say? My cops. Must be a thousand of them tonight, passing by the station. Won't say nothing about what's up, but I can tell they're looking for someone. They're looking for someone, huh? Yeah, a lot of like tonight to escape over San Quentin a few years back. Yeah, maybe so. Can you hurry a little? Yeah, sure. Hey, where you going? San Francisco. Good. I'll ride across the bridge with you. Hello. I'm sure you're just fixing up the man's tire. Be ready to shake. It doesn't mean to scare you, buddy. McGregor, State Patrol. Left my partner around the corner in the car. I've got to pick up another one in San Francisco. Okay? Well, I don't know. Well, you said you were going to San Francisco, didn't you? I meant that I... Okay. I'm going to San Francisco. For ducks. Yeah, kind of wet. You would have bused loose with some real rain any minute. Say, you ever thought of putting that top up? Huh? Oh, yeah, the top. This is one of them fancy automatic ones, isn't it? Yeah, automatic. Well, how about putting it up? Well, it doesn't work. It's broken. Oh. Hey, pull out of that tow plaza for a second, will you? I want to check with the boys. Yeah, sure. Guys, give me a ride into town. Left Charlie with a patrol car. I'm going to pick up another one at headquarters. I see. Come into the toll room a second, will you? Something I'd like you to look at. Sure. I'll be right with you, buddy. You can see them in the glass and closed toll room looking at a paper, then at you arguing about something. Maybe you can run for it. That motorcycle cop up in front. He's looking at you, too. And there must be five of them behind you all waiting. Well, don't sit there and shake. Do something. Wipe the seat off anything. Or to be a rag in the glove compartment. Oh, here's your coal. Get that blanket out of the back seat. Cold, then, races like a trip hammer. There, under the blanket in back, huddle on the floor, is a body, a foot with the gray suede black leather shoes sticking out from under the blanket. OK, seen in an hour or so. Come on, buddy, let's get going. Yeah, yeah, OK. Sorry about that last. Eddie's a new man. Eddie? What do you mean? Well, the guy at the plaza. New guy. Got the jitters, you know. Oh, yeah. Seems like everybody's got the jitters tonight. You, uh, you stopped at Martinelli's about a half hour ago, didn't you? Yeah, I had to make a phone call. Martinelli's got the jitters, too. Called headquarters about you. Me? I'll come. Well, he happened to know we were after a big duck tonight. Thought you were it. So, Eddie, just like I've been telling the chief, you only ask for trouble when you tip off the amateurs. Here, say you're after someone? Yeah. Who? Well, just saying that don't pay to tip off the amateurs. Now, pick it up a little, will you? I'm getting wet. Eh, maybe there's blanket in the back. Wait a minute, no. What was that? Nothing. The other blanket on top of the seat, remember? And he didn't look down. It can't last much longer, Ted. You're ready to drive the car off the road anything, but you haven't a chance on the Golden Gate Bridge. Cups at both ends and 200 feet down to the water on either side.  Huh? Hurry up, that car he must have been doing 70. We can catch him at the toll station. That's good for 30 days. He's got a swap for the toll station. He's going right through. Follow him. We might catch him at the signal. You'll get him out of the car anyway while he's writing out the ticket. Your luck's holding out. Look up there. He's tangled with a truck at the intersection. Slow down.  I better get out your side. Up against the pole. Here. Stick around. Who's the driver of this car? Mingle with the crowd for a minute, two minutes, three. He's busy now taking names and numbers, writing out citations. And don't argue with me. When you passed us on the bridge, you were doing 70. You're plenty lucky nobody was killed. Why, just as soon, hang 20 years for manslaughter on your next flight of flight. I don't give you any more backtalk. You can save it for the judge. He's forgotten about you, Ted. He's back toward the car now. He can't see you with people crowding around him. There, you get everything ready. Once you step on that starter, you'll have to move fast. Okay, the switch. The keys. Where are the keys? I had them. They're gone somewhere, buddy. No way.  Jerry. Yeah, man. Take over, will ya? I gotta get down to the station. Okay. All right, get going. Here's the keys. I don't play hunches very often, but when I do, I'm usually right. Start the car. Listen, I'm late now. It'll be funny late tonight, brother. You know, there could be a million reasons why you got an egg on your noggin, black eye, torn clothes. It might even be a reason why you ain't got a registration on the steering wheel. Maybe it ain't back from Sacramento. Maybe you just bought the car. Maybe you lost it. Okay, so I pass them up. Listen, officer, you're right. It isn't my car. It belongs to a friend of mine. Girl in San Rafael, Norma Schaefer. I bought it.  I ain't finished. And I ain't saying I'm right. Listen, you can phone her.  All right. So I pass up the black eye and the torn clothes and no registration. Figuring you got good reasons. But there just ain't a good reason for a guy riding around in a rainy night with a top down. I said it didn't work. Maybe it doesn't. I can be wrong. Give it a try. Well, where? I don't know. You don't know how, huh? She didn't tell me. It's very simple, pal. All you gotta do is this. And up she comes. I was right, wasn't I? Listen, I can explain. You don't have a chance to explain. Don't worry. Only it looks to me like maybe you didn't want to seem too strange to the car where the copper's sitting next to you.  You seem to know all about it. I'm still guessing.  But I ain't above hauling in the car snitcher on the side. You may as well give up. Spill the works.  You're in a locked room at the station now and the car is safe in the garage downstairs. It's only a matter of time until someone looks under the blanket on the floor in the back.    Find out from her that it's Larry's car. The same Larry Craig they found on the highway. Huh? We finally reached her. Norma? Yeah. Okay. Tell me, Stratton, why did you give me the bum steer? Why? Why did you tell me it was her car? She told us who it belonged to. I thought she would. What next? Just a little friendly advice. Next time tell the truth and you'll save yourself a lot of trouble. What do you mean next time? Next time you pick up a carp in a borrowed car. Okay, you can go. You mean I can leave? Sure. Unless you want to spend the night here. Come on. Hey, what's the matter with you? Oh, I... On the stairway here to the garage. Here's your car. Say, Mac, would you hold it a minute? I didn't get this baby lugged. I thought you were going to be here longer. Yes, so did I. I got the motor number and description. I got to check the luggage compartment. Just a second. Pretty silly, but these things are important sometimes. Now the back seat. There's nothing there. Just checking. Blanket. No, not the... What about with him? He passed out. What's under that blanket? Nothing. Whistler will return in just a moment with a strange ending of tonight's story. Meantime, a word about a way you can add actually thousands of miles to the life of your aging tires through a service offered by signal gasoline dealers. I'm talking about scientific tire switching. You see, tests prove that the right rear tire gets almost three times as much wear as the left front, and the left rear gets 50% more wear than the right front. That's why tires should be switched at least every 4,000 miles, or often if you drive on bad roads. Your signal dealer knows the proper method of crisscrossing tires to get maximum wear from each one, including the spare. And while the tires are being switched, it's an ideal time to have them thoroughly examined so any small injuries can be found and repaired before they spread and perhaps ruin the tire. Here again, your signal dealer is completely equipped to give you the finest in modern tire repair, whether it's a small patch or a full recap. You see, those friendly dealers displaying signals, yellow and black circle signs, are much more than just a place to get signal go farther gasoline and find signal lubrication. Each signal dealer has a complete line of automotive services and fine accessories to help your car run better, look better, and last longer. And now, back to the whistler. There's too much, Ted, too much to take right from the start. You were hanging by a thread from the moment you opened your eyes at midnight on the highway. You welcomed the sea of blackness that engulfed you when Wilbur lifted the edge of the blanket in the police garage. It was rest at last and peace.  The first thing you see is a pair of shoes underneath the bed next to you, the black and gray suede shoes. Remember? Sure, he just needs a good rest. Norma? Ted? Norma. Oh, Ted. Oh, I'm so sorry about everything. It was my fault. Norma, those shoes. They're keeping them in the next room. There's an officer with them all the time. Your brother, when you slug them, they stay slugged. He's got a fractured skull. Oh, Larry, come on in. He's awake. Hello, hero. How do you feel? Larry, I was just checking our victim. Oh, what? Okay, so he's your victim. I softened him up for you. You must have done the trick with that tire, Anna. I don't know what you're talking about. The convict, dear. Don't you remember? No, convict. Hey, he doesn't remember. Maybe that's why you were playing games with me. Well, in case you don't know it, Ted, he would have killed me if it weren't for you. He had me on the ropes down at the car when you came up from behind. The last thing I remember is you shoving me into the bushes and taking him on gun and all with that tire iron. Oh. And maybe you don't think you made a monkey out of me riding into San Francisco with a guy tucked away in the back seat all the time. He must have come to and crawled out when we stopped at the accident, I guess. But Jerry nailed him before he'd gone a hundred yards. But, Ted, dear, why in the world did you have to try to take him in by yourself? Why didn't you come back to the house and telephone? Wait a minute. I remember.  I started to pass out, pulled over on the shoulder. But, darling... Don't ask him why, Norman. You may as well get used to the fact that the guy just likes to do it the hard way. Monday at 9 o'clock, the Whistler will bring you another strange tale. The Whistler is broadcast for your entertainment by the marketers of Signal, gasoline and motor oil and fine-quality automotive accessories and by your neighborhood signal dealer. This program, directed by George W. Allen with tonight's story by Harold Swanton, music by Wilbur Hatch, is transmitted to our troops overseas by the Armed Forces Radio Service. This is Marvin Miller speaking and suggesting that you let every traffic signal remind you that you do go farther with Signal, gasoline. 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