Here is the three o'clock clock on a given Monday with Melody Lindsey, who was in East Booth Bay, Maine. Hi Melody. Hi Jay. Happy New Year. Yeah, I want to ask our friend Alexa. Alexa, what is Bigelow Laboratory? Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences founded in 1974 is an independent non-profit oceanography research institute. She got it. She got it right that time. Yeah. She got it right that time. Yeah. Good for you, good for you, Alexa. Thank you, Alexa. Don't ask her what a microbialite is though. No, I won't do that. Microbiolite.  Is that the one? I mean, that's funny. I mean, you might, you may find them in an environment such as the Red Sea, but I don't know if they established any roots in another land mass there after their accident. I want to help people remember that word, microbialite. It really is a wonderful word. Yeah, well, actually, today we're going to talk about the microbialites in Great Salt Lake. And Melody's going to tell us about her research, but let me tell you about Melody first. Well, she's a local girl and graduated from, uh, what, Elani, but also went to Punahou. And then she took a PhD ultimately in Montana State University only a couple of years ago and her thesis was focused on how hydrogen from water-rock interactions can fuel microbial. Is that word again? Microbial primary production in Yellowstone, hot springs. You're all about that. Hot water. You're in hot water, actually, Melody. Yes. And I was doing her work in Eric Boyd's geomicrobiology lab, but she learned about enigmatic microbialites in Great Salt Lake. She worked on several projects investigating microbial, like microbiology of microbialites and how they contribute to the GSL food web, which GSL, Melody. Great Salt Lake. Sorry. I shouldn't have known that. She was still intrigued by these unique microbial, microbially built mineral structures and wants to see them in person again soon. I guess you have a relationship with the microbialites then, eh? Yeah. Now, sadly, it's long distance now.  It's a little, it's a little bit far, although not quite as far from Hawaii. But yeah, this, this, I did research on these microbialites kind of as a side project during my PhD, but it ended up having some really interesting findings that we published in a few journals, and it even got turned into a museum exhibit at the National History Museum in Utah. And so there's, there are just these really cool structures that have astrobiological implications. And so you talked about like water rock interactions and hot environment. So it's kind of the same thing, except in sort of hot environments, it's now a super salty environment. So if we could look at micro... Did you say astrobiological? Astro, that's from the stars, isn't it? Yeah, that's another tack on to biology there. So instead of microbiological, astrobiological. Yeah. And actually I was thinking, you know, what, what to say. But for, you know, topics for, for this discussion. And one of, one of the coolest implications for what we're, we're calling microbialites is that they represent the oldest evidence we have for life on earth. And so there's these really quite simple. Oh, here we go. Yeah, thank you. This is a slide showing some Archean microbialites. And you can see in the left hand inset picture, there are these lumpy structures that look like domes with mats or with lines in them. And those are actually layers upon layers of microbial mats. So something that, you know, is, is you can see when you go to the beach and it's on the rocks, that kind of green algae substance, that is a microbial mat. And so when those build on top of each other, they form these mounted structures in certain environments, not in all environments, but in the Great Salt Lake, they can form these mounted structures. As we can see on the pictures to the right. And so they're rare on modern day earth. They only happen in a few places. Unfortunately, Hawaii isn't one of them, but they do occur in Australia and also Great Salt Lake and also the Bahamas. Why do we care about microbialites? Yeah, that's a good question. It gets back to the astrobiological implications. And so as you, as you know, as the audience may know, of course, NASA just landed a new rover on Mars in Jezero Crater in the lakebed in this ancient lakebed. And so one of the goals of this new rover is to search for signs of life that could have been present on Mars back when there was water in this area on Mars in this lakebed. And so one of those could be microbialites, which tend to form in, you know, flat lake areas. And so that that is one one way to look for life elsewhere in the universe is to look for these microbialites. So finding astrobiological structures, what is that thesis about astro? And what is that thesis about microbiology? Yeah, so, yeah, astrobiology is a little bit of a funny term because we don't have any evidence for astrobiology yet.  And so by studying Earth based structures such as these great microbiolites out of Great Salt Lake, we can infer what may occur on other planetary bodies such as Mars. So it informs on the search for extraterrestrial life while also helping us to understand our home planet of Earth. Yeah, is there any, you know, I mean, I did read about that as one of the one of the mission factors, you know, of the trip to Mars. But is there any evidence up to this point that there has been life on Mars? Yeah, that's a good question. There I mean, obviously there have been missions and people much, much better versed in extra planetary stuff. I will know way more about this, but it's your brother Christopher. Christopher will help you on it. Yeah, exactly. Footnote to that is Christopher is an astronomer. Yeah, he's a Yale now. Yes, yeah, he's in grad school at Yale, so he's he's doing good. But yeah, my my general goal that I haven't told him about is that he'll find the planet and then I'll find the life on the planet. Right on. Perfect. But oh, gosh, yeah. So there have been studies looking specifically for life on Mars specifically. And I think that and this is controversial. But the closest I think we've come to saying, oh, yes, this is some evidence of life is on one of the Viking missions. They did a study with radio labeled carbon. And so they had a sample of the Martian soil and they added this radio labeled carbon and they were able to measure what they inferred was possibly microbial breathing or respiration of this carbon. And that didn't happen in the sample that they killed. And so, you know, something living in the other sample was changing the form of this carbon. Could that be microbial? I think that's one of the one of the more famous and possibly controversial evidence for life on on Mars. Well, so it's so interesting about that. And let me preface my question with with a lesson that I learned here on Think Tech, and that is that the table, the periodic table of elements is the same all over our solar system. You're going to find an element on any planet that's that's outside of the periodic table of elements that's really quite something. And therefore, well, this is my question, really, if we find life, OK, on some other planet, what does that mean? What does it mean to a scientist? How exciting is that and why? Yeah, I mean, it means we're not alone, right? That's the that's the grand question of humanity, I'd say. First of all, but, you know, if we if like going back to your point on the different elements and or not different elements that we all everything within the universe would share this common set of elements, whether or not we've discovered them or not. But everything shares that common set. And so there have been microbiological studies looking at organisms that instead of phosphorus, phosphorus is a really common building block of humans of life on Earth. You need phosphorus in your DNA. You need phosphorus in other parts. But there was work that tried to look at, say, you know, instead of phosphorus, maybe life could be arsenic based instead of phosphorus based. And so that was something that was investigated a couple couple of years, decades ago, I'm not quite sure. But it ended up the study maybe failed a little bit. But could there be arsenic based life on another planet? Maybe, you know, the possibilities are almost endless. But yes, you would be bounded by the laws of that would be so interesting to to get to one of these planets one day and find this life. And really, it's not just human life. But that's that's too that's too science fiction. Life at all life at all. Somehow there's a kinship between life here and life there. Any life is related to all life. Am I right? I mean, that's the most remarkable thing about it to me. Yeah, and I mean, that that's also a one of the theories for how life may have ended up on Earth. Did did our very ancient ancestors come here on a comet from another area? Or did it originate on Earth?  But you bring up a good point and there's a reason why you've said the word microbial so much, and that's because microbes are able to do a whole heck of a lot more than, you know, your standard human or any of the animals or any of the plants. Microbes make up the majority of biodiversity on Earth and not just, you know, genomic in your genes, biodiversity. But they can not only, you know, breathe oxygen like we can, but they can breathe breathe methane. They can breathe sulfur. They can live off of rocks at the bottom of the ocean and in hydrothermal vents like they can. If if any if anything is out there, it's going to be microbes. Wouldn't it be fair to say that microbes are our ancestors long time ago? I would say that that all life has a universal common ancestor. It's known as the last universal common ancestor. And that last universal common ancestor was likely a single cell. Yeah. And when you say microbe, we're excluding. Are we excluding both virus and bacteria or just virus? That's a good question. And that brings the question of are viruses alive? But when I say microbe, I do specifically mean either I mean a single cell organism and usually that consists of bacteria, the kingdom of bacteria, the kingdom of archaea and then also some single cell eukaryotes. So eukaryotes generally include all mammals, include all plants and fungi, but they also include some single cells. But and also bacteria and archaea are also microbes. Microbes are everywhere. So while you say they're the biggest factor in in the diversity of our planet. So, you know, I think we have to respect them. You know, we have to see them as living in a in a what do you want to call it an environment with us? We have symbiotic relationships with microbes. Am I right? Yes, for sure. In fact, the majority of the cells that are in a human body are actually microbial. They're not human, but microbial cells are much smaller. So there's that. But in terms of number of cells, you are mostly microbe. You're mainly microbe, as the saying goes. Some mornings, I get up a few. I feel a strong sense of that. Most of them are there to help you. Most of them are very friendly, but some of them are not. Absolutely. It's it's those mornings when I feel they're not friendly. Anyway, so let us not tarry. You had a number of other slides we should cover. Oh, yes. Yeah. So I'll I'll preface this by saying I'm right now. I'm at Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences. But yeah, this was with the work in the slides is all work that I did back when I was a PhD student looking specifically at Great Salt Lake. So I don't I don't really go out there anymore, which is why I'm sad that I don't get to see the microbialites. But if you want to bring back the slides, it's fine, but either way. Let's let's let's move forward. One of the one of the things that that interests me are people from Hawaii who do research, scientific research, especially.  And the question is, why don't you do that here? Why don't you do that in Manoa? Why do you why do you have to go to East Booth Bay, Maine? Yeah, that's a good that's a good question. So so really, especially in this day and age, lots of things can be done anywhere in the world. However, this this isn't this is an academic, mostly academic research position that I have right now and what I had for grad school. And it's really a matter of where can I get a job with the projects that interest me. And so actually, we have currently and prior to we have collaborators in Hawaii. And so it's like, could could I do that with them, perhaps? But I'm here to work with the people that I'm working with at Bigelow. So it's really, you know, it's a bit of a give and take there.  This was pre-COVID and I really wanted this job at Bigelow. So I'm really lucky to be here to work with the people that I'm working with and to work on the projects that I'm working on. But nowadays, like moving forward in my career, I will have, you know, it'll depend on where I can get a job if I can get a job in academia, because it's a tough market out there. Why is the job at Bigelow Laboratory in East Booth Bay so precious and valuable? Why isn't it special? Why did you aspire to it? Yeah, so at Bigelow Lab, I'm a postdoctoral scholar. And so I'm not quite, you know, the head of a lab or anything like that. I don't do a lot of, you know, driving grants and proposals such as such like that. But I came here because I really wanted to work with two scientists in particular, who are both my postdoc advisors, Dr. Beth Orcut, who specializes in deep biosphere research. And so she, her focus, a lot of the times, she has other projects, of course, too. But she has a lot of expertise and projects to work on that involve the microbes that live underneath the bottom of the ocean. So getting into these hydrothermal fluids that go through the ocean crust. And so I really wanted to learn from her there and gain expertise in that area. And then my other advisor is Dr. David Emerson, also at Bigelow. And he is a crackerjack, microbial ecologist. And so he knows a lot about microbes, what they can do and their metabolisms.  So I really wanted to work with both of them. And also the project that I'm working on is a multi-million dollar NSF funded grant to look at how microbes function across all sorts of challenging environments. And so that ties into what I have been interested in from my PhD, what I became interested in when I was a college student, which is these interesting microbes and what they can do in all sorts of different environments. So that's, that was the impetus there. People I wanted to work with and the project that I could be involved with as a postdoctoral research researcher. I have so many questions for you Melody, but one of them is NSF, you know, you mentioned you're not in the grant department, but somebody has to be. And every scientific career has to involve grants and NSF is a big source of grant money. Has that been affected by the Trump administration? Trump administration was not wild and crazy about science or maybe they were wild and crazy, but not about science. And the question is, you know, how important is NSF? And, you know, has NSF been, shall I say, actively interested in your area of research? Yeah, so I'll back up a little and say, so I'm a postdoc and so while I'm not, you know, I just can't be a principal investigator on these grants. And so that has to be somebody who has their own lab and is set up to do that. But I can certainly help with writing them and such. And they'll have grad student and postdoc funded grants that I can tap into too. So basically I'm getting trained to do all of that eventually. But to answer your real question, yes, NSF and NASA and the EPA and all the NOAA and all these places, I think were affected, you know, to different, to differing degrees. Like I'm speaking out of ignorance here, but NASA for example, maybe did not have as many budget cuts because it was seen as, you know, something cool and, you know. Maybe closer to military research, you know, have national purpose there. But climate science and environmental protection science, all of those were severely impacted by the last administration. And things have already changed so much since January of this year. Tell me about that. Yeah, I'm not an expert in it, but the people have been hired back at these institutions. The money that is available for grants, I think has largely been unfrozen from what it was a year ago. And, you know, I get emails on this from Bigelow every so often from folks at Bigelow, but that are reporting on, you know, the NSF's policies are changing or this new pot of money is now available for applications, for grant applications. And so in general, both the morale and what seems to be available is increasing greatly. Oh, that's great because that ultimately will help you in your career. Because your career depends on those grants, you know. And job openings. Job openings, right? Well, jobs for organizations that have grants. Somebody has got to write the check. So just also to put it in perspective. So you have Bigelow and according to Alexa, Bigelow is a big deal, but what other big deal? Ocean Sciences Research Laboratories exist around the country. Can you name some that are famous? Yeah, for sure. So Bigelow is actually, I mean, Bigelow is very famous for many different reasons and it's a great institution full of wonderful scientists who do great work and they publish a lot and they get a lot of grant money. But as you say, it's definitely not the only oceanographic specific institution out there. And so I can think of a couple and there are some that are tied to universities and some that are not tied to universities. Bigelow has agreements with some other universities, but is maybe not a part of a university, but something like the Scripps Oceanographic Institute in San Diego is closely tied to UC San Diego. Huey, which is the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, they are a very, I would say, a larger ocean laboratory than Bigelow is and they actually run, like for example, the Alvin submersible, the Alvin submersible, which is a human-occupied submersible that found the wreckage of the Titanic, for example. They run that out of Huey and I can, there are others that are tied, there are many others, but I'm just listing a few off of the top of my head. There's ones that are tied to UH Manoa in Hawaii and there are certainly lots of labs there who are doing wonderful oceanographic research on all parts of the ocean. So there's a lot out there. There was more than I thought coming from a terrestrial hydrothermal ecosystem background going into ocean sciences. What about overseas? What about Asia and Europe? Do you find laboratories focused on this area there too? Yes, for sure. There's a whole lot out of England and other great Britain, I guess, Germany has a lot, Denmark has a lot as well. Those are just some of the European countries that I personally know people who have come from, so I'm saying those countries out loud, but a lot in Asia too, Japan, China, all over the place. It's a fair to say that the United States is a leader in this kind of oceanography research. The United States definitely has a lot of funding towards oceanographic research. I mean, it is one of the, I would have to be a diplomat, to put it diplomatically, it is one of the leaders. But for example, if you want to say, oh, who's the leader in scientific ocean drilling? Well, then you'd really have to think, is it the USA or is it maybe Japan? Because Japan has an incredible program if you wanted to drill something at the bottom of the ocean and look at these cores coming out. I am from the US, so I'm biased, but Japan is maybe where I'd put that, but yeah. What's great about ocean research is that the ocean doesn't belong to anybody, or rather it shouldn't. There are some exclusive economic zones now that have been popping up here and there where countries lay claim to it and they, for mineral resources basically. But in many of the ocean endeavors and ocean science endeavors, it really is a collaborative process between different countries. Just as an example, I'm scheduled, it may not happen, but I'm scheduled to go on a drilling expedition this summer to the ocean around Iceland. And that is through the Integrated Ocean Discovery Program. It used to be called the International Ocean Drilling Program, but they changed the name to better focus on what. Drilling is such a negative word these days. Yeah, I mean, they do ocean drilling, but it's to look at, you know, past climate, science, past climates of the earth and environmental, things like that. And also cool hydrothermal microbes maybe. But that is a cooperation between many different countries. And so that what's great about ocean science is it is so collaborative. Yeah, that'll be a great trip. I went to Iceland a couple of years ago. I found that it was very interesting. You know, the apartment buildings are heated and the water is heated by thermal installations all over Iceland. They just pick it up out of the ground and they don't have to heat their water. Very interesting. Yeah, that's pretty cool. Yeah, they recently had some rumblings there. So maybe if our expedition ends up going, it's currently a little bit up in the air, so I hope it goes. But maybe we'll see the volcano go off or something. Well, Matthew, that was my next question to you, Ashley Melody.  And if so, whom? Yeah, so I'll say very, this is only one example, but on the project that I was directly hired to work on, so that NSF, EPSCOR funded project. And so EPSCOR is basically a part of the NSF that focuses on states of the United States that typically don't have a lot of research funds coming in. So for example, Massachusetts is not an EPSCOR state, but Maine and New Hampshire are EPSCOR states. For example, Florida is not an EPSCOR state, but South Carolina is an EPSCOR state. So it's just states that don't have typically a lot of funding through universities and such like that. So the project I'm working on is funded by NSF EPSCOR and we work with scientists from University of New Hampshire and through the Desert Research Institute, which is based out of Nevada, which is also in those are both EPSCOR states. So just that is what we collaborate on back. And I'll say for a project I was involved with when I was an undergraduate student, we had collaborators in South Africa. When I was in grad school, we had collaborators from New Zealand and also from Iceland. So that was kind of cool. So really all over the world and all across the US. That's great. That's a plus for a scientific career. Yeah. And I was also going to ask you, how do you spend your day? I mean, there's all these students out there, Melody, who are looking at or will look at this video and try to figure out whether they want to be a scientist and in what area.  Yeah, well, it differs from day to day, especially during the pandemic. We were fortunate at Bigelow to never lose access to the laboratory, so I was able to go in. But yeah, it varies wildly. I'd say, I'll give an example, for example today, you wake up, you have your coffee, you go into lab, you meet with somebody, if they're there to meet with you or they need advice or you need advice, and then you go into the lab for a couple of hours, maybe more than a couple of hours, you come back out, you sit at your computer, you run into your emails, have a meeting with your collaborators, which happens about once a week or more. I have about five Zoom meetings a week, I'd say. But really that's a typical day, but it can vary wildly. And back when I was a student, it would involve getting in the car and driving to my field site in Yellowstone when I was a grad student. And so I got to hike around Yellowstone all day for a couple of weeks worth of time during grad school, or it could involve getting your research ready for a conference, it can involve meeting with school children to teach them about what you're doing, or it could involve me chatting with you right now on Zoom.  But what about keeping current? I mean, we live in a very complex world and science is more complex than the world of most of us. And you have these people, collaborators, and otherwise in the same area of scientific research all over the place, and it's your job, isn't it, to keep current on what they are doing and to know everything, I mean, everything that is happening in the entire planet in your area, you have to know the last thing that happened like yesterday. It's like doctors, they really have to know. So my question to you is, how do you keep current in your daily life and routine? How do you keep current? Yeah, I'd say you have to be reading all the time, whether it's emails or grants or papers, mostly papers, the world of science and the currency of science is really in your journal published articles, what you can write. So you have to be a good writer in order to be a scientist or at least a decent writer. You have to be able to communicate your science so that other people who are close to you in the field who have the same goals and knowledge, they can be appraised of what you're doing at any given time through your journal articles. So I'd say reading, reading is the most important thing and there's email clients that will gather all the relevant journal articles and send it to you and stuff like that to make it a little easier. But really, if you search for something, you'll find the journal article and then you should read it if it's interesting and written well. And one last thing, I wanna know from you how you envision your career. Now, how is it going to unfold? And how would you know whether it's successful? I mean, how successful can you make it? How successful is it likely to be? Not in terms of financial success, but in terms of the intellectual success, the reason you went to all this training in school, the reason you joined Bigelow. What kind of success do you hope for? Yeah, I mean, yeah, success in academia, especially is not quite measured in monetary gain but definitely in what you can impart. So you have all this knowledge and you run these experiments to test these things but it's worth nothing unless you can communicate it. So really the measure of success is how can you get your knowledge and what you have found out asking questions, running experiments to the general public and to everybody else in the scientific community. So really, again, writing papers and doing outreach events like this or working with schools and other teachers is really important in science, I think. And that's how I would hopefully measure my success. Right now, in my stage of the career, my measurement of success is if I can get a job when my postdoc ends. But after that, it becomes communicating all of this. I mean, all the time it's communication but especially after that it's communication. So, you know, back in my own career path, I was looking at science and it was one course. It was in statistics back in a long time ago and I really didn't like it at all and that course turned me off. And so then I went into social sciences instead. But maybe it was a mistake. I'm not sure, I'm not sure yet. Social science and science too. Yes, thank you for that. That's quotable. But my question to you is, you know, here, we only have a minute left and what would you say to students who are at the same point, the juncture of making a decision as to what path they will take in terms of studying and career, in terms of the rest of their lives. What would you say to them? A message to leave with them?  If you're interested in the subject, we're always happy to answer emails, particularly from students.  But really some advice, you know, for high school or college student is if you take, if you're interested in something and you take a class in it that you don't like, maybe drop that class and take another one. For example, statistics. I did not like statistics. However, I scraped my way through with a C and went on to take other classes. But my advice- I wonder if you had the same teacher I had. Yeah, statistics will turn you off of anything, I think. But yeah, take something interesting even if it seems really out there. If you're interested in it at all, if you're interested in astrobiology and aliens and take a geology class or take a microbiology class. It expands your consciousness and improves the quality of your life. It's so important to do what you like doing. It's that simple, isn't it? And if you think you're meant for one thing, but you really think something else is interesting but something's keeping you from it. Yeah, there's no harm in trying it. And looking into it a little bit. Yeah, and you can have multiple chapters. It's another great lesson. And it's a great luxury actually, in our world today, that you can do that. You can go from one lily pad to another and improve it all the time. Well, thank you so much, Melody. I do wanna follow your career. I wanna come back again and learn what projects you're working on and how your career is unfolding. Melody Lindsay at the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences in East Booth Bay, Maine where it is now about nine o'clock at night. Yep, thank you so much. Thank you, it's a pleasure. Yeah. I love you, Melody.


Well, we're presenting our project to conduct some improvements on Hanley Drive. My name is Lisette, and I'm the program manager for the mobility infrastructure group in TPW. Also, with the city, we have our public communication specialist Jeffrey Allen, who works really hard to make these meetings happen. And our assistant director, Lauren Brewer. I'm going to provide a brief overview of the status of all the projects in the area at the beginning. And then I'm going to turn it over to the project manager, Shweta Rao, so she can provide a brief description of the project and here's some information with regards to the schedule of the project. So on Hanley Drive, we have recently completed a street reconstruction from Lancaster to Meadowbrook that we completed this earlier this year in June of 2020. And also Lumber, Hunter, Rout, and McKee, these streets were completed in December of 2019. We currently are working on Halbert and Craig streets. We're doing the design and those are going to go to construction early. Estimated to start our summer of next year. And so with that, I'm going to turn it over to Shweta so she can cover in detail the improvements that we're going to be completing on Hanley Drive. Thank you Lisette. Thank you all for joining the presentation today. So today we are presenting a community meeting presentation on improvements on Hanley Drive from Normandy to Brentwood Stair road. And our engineers are on the call. Our engineer on this project are Chris and Nikhil. So this is a brief agenda of the presentation. I'll be going over the project background, the project schedule, and some frequently asked question about the side work projects and the point of contact for our contractor as well as the city. So coming to the project background, the Hanley Drive side work improvements project mainly focuses on improving the walkability around the city of Fort Worth and providing accessibility to pedestrians and providing a safe path for pedestrians to get along different corridors. So this project includes pedestrian access elements such as sidewalks and AD ramps at the intersections. And this was a location that was prioritized high for 2014 bond funds but due to other locations being prioritized. Meanwhile, this location was pushed to a 2018 bond and so this location was considered as a high priority for our 2018 bond sidewalk year one program. Coming to the project location, the limits on this project are on Hanley Drive from Brentwood Stair road to Normandy road. From Ellis to Brentwood Stair road, we would be filling up the gaps on the existing sidewalks and providing AD ramps at all the intersections. And from Ellis to Normandy, we would be reducing the roadway section from four lane to three lane and also installing the new sidewalk back of curb. The total length of sidewalk for this project is around 1300 feet, around 9000 square feet of sidewalk. So the section that I spoke about earlier on Hanley Drive between Ellis and Normandy, we had a few grown trees and we didn't want to remove those trees to install the sidewalk. So it was proposed to us to reduce the lane width from four lane to three lane and that won't be impacting the traffic flow as such but it would help us install the sidewalks without affecting the trees. So the new configuration for that roadway would be one lane going southbound and two lanes going northbound. The pavement markings will also be installed to provide smoother transition between on north end of Ellis and on the south of Normandy. So these are the trees that I'm talking about. We have some large grown trees between Ellis and Normandy that were in our right of way and it would have been difficult for us to install a sidewalk without impacting the trees. So it was proposed by our arborist to have at least a four feet distance from the trunk of the tree to the sidewalk. So this is the proposed section between Ellis and Normandy. So we will be reducing the, we would be changing the roadway alignment from existing four way four lane road, two lane southbound, two lane northbound to one lane southbound and two lanes going northbound. And we would also be installing sidewalk back of curb. So this is the transition from Ellis coming southbound. So the inner lane would be same as usual as existing and the right most lane would be right and only when we reach the intersection of Ellis and handling coming to the project schedule. We are currently under utility relocation and easement acquisition phase right now. Atmos is almost done with their relocation and we are almost 50% done with our right of way acquisition for the section between Ellis and Normandy. So we are anticipating to start construction early November and the cost of construction is around $350,000 and the duration of construction is around four months. Coming to the frequently asked questions. So the general questions that we get on a sidewalk project is what's the typical width of the proposed sidewalk. So according to ADA American Disabilities Act, the typical width of the sidewalk is five feet when it's away from the curb and it's six feet when it's back of curb. So in this location for some cases where we are going around the trees, we are reducing the sidewalk width to around four feet just to reduce the impact on the route. The next question is, are we impacting driveways on this project?  So the drivers need to meet the cross flow criteria to be walkable. So we would be replacing them to meet the ADA criteria. But during construction of those driveways, we would be providing continuous access to the property. Our contractor would be replacing one panel at a time so that the resident would have continuous access to the property. The next one is, will any existing trees be removed? So we are not planning on removing any trees as a part of this project. All the existing trees would stay as they are. The next one is, will traffic lanes be temporarily closed or detoured? So yes, we have some detour as a part of this project. For construction between Ellis and Brentwood stair roads, only the outermost lane would be closed during construction and it would be moved along with the construction, wherever the construction is going on. But there would be a short term detour for the construction between Ellis and Normandy where our contractor needs to locate some strong drain and do some strong drain work. So I'll be showing you the detour plan shortly. So this is the detour plan that's suggested when the construction will be going on between Ellis and Normandy. So the southbound lane would be going as it is. But for the northbound lane, for the northbound traffic on Handley Drive, it would be detoured around Normandy Road towards the frontage at 820 and then come back to Ellis Road. And then it's detoured on Handley Drive again. So we just have a detour for the northbound traffic and the construction for this part won't take more than two weeks. It would be 5 to 10 days construction. So we would have this detour for around 5 to 10 days. Coming to the next question, will existing irrigation system or grass be impacted? So, yes, we would have some impacts on the existing irrigation system and the grass, but our contractor would be responsible to put back the irrigation system as it is and also replace the grass before the project ends. So everything would be back to as it is before construction. The next one is, will the construction materials and equipment be left on site during construction? So, yes, we will have our contractor will be leaving the materials and equipment on site during construction. So once the construction is, the contractor is done with their work on that site for that day, the travel ends would be open to traffic again. And also our contractor would be cleaning the site at the end of every day's work. So Fane Group is our contractor for this project and Noel Sanchez from Fane Group will be the point of contact. So here is his phone number and email ID. And I'll be the point of contact for City of Fort Worth and I'm the project manager on this project. And I have my phone number and email ID over here. That is all I have. Just let me know if you have any questions. Carrie. Yes. The main reason why I wanted the neighborhood to see this is because of the brief reduction of a lane for those trees. And I think the best thing you can do is communicate that to Judy so that the neighborhood will be aware. It's not the entire length of the street by any means, but I just thought that that was significant and people needed to know. Right. Yes, ma'am. I took notes and pictures. Okay. And Jeffrey, if you can share, you know, whatever you can to Carrie, because I think you have some good photographs in there of the trees, is that possible? Absolutely, we can share that. Okay. If you send those to me and Sandy, we'll get them to her. Okay. I think she's going to be a real big help to Judy on the ground, especially when it comes to things involving technology and stuff. And Carrie, the, I think Judy knows the Buddhist temple is going to give you guys mask for the, the litter stomp. Did you tell you that? Yeah. No, she didn't get back to me after y'all spoke. Well, I'll put you in touch with the monk to that way. He'll give you as much as you all need. Okay. Wonderful. You got the questions. I'm not the one who can answer anything, but these people on the call can help. And I think you see their, their contact information. That way, if you need any follow up, and they're real good at coming out. If you guys, you know, need them to have a meeting when we get back out. I know Judy is not doing public stuff, but they're really accessible to you. Okay. Yes, ma'am. I grabbed all that information. Thanks so much. And Jeffrey, you send it to me and we'll, we'll get it to Carrie and everybody will be happy. Yes, ma'am. We'll do. Thank you. Thank you so much. You all have a great evening. Bye bye.


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Buck and Tregors to have a techno weekly market outlook for week commencing the 15th of August with me Patrick Munnerley Okay, let's check out what we've got on tap in terms of data this week starting in the US on Tuesday July industrial production month of month last time 0.3 consensus now is for 0.2 2 prints with some out is actually expecting a negative 0.2 print for July industrial production then we move to Wednesday and We have retail sales in the US Headline US retail sales are expected to rise 0.1 percent in July calling from June's 1% print While the ex-auto's metric is seed declining 1% from the prior 1% gain the retail control will be used to help gauge initial expectations for Q3 GDP after the two consecutive quarters of contraction this year as it seems a good gauge of consumer spending a large component of GDP with retail sales being reported on a nominal value Slowing price declines could act as a headwind in July after the call of an expected July CPI Reports after the June retail sales were supported by higher prices the Atlanta Fed GDP now Model is tracking Q3 growth at 2.5 percent This will likely change throughout the next week as we get the inputs from retail sales housing data and industrial production also on Wednesday, we have the FMC minutes to FMC lifting rates by 75 basis points to 2.2 to 2.5 cent as expected Taking rates back to neutral for the first time since 2019 the only major tweak to the statement was its reassessment of the economy the Fed now Acknowledges that the recent indicators of spending and production have softened This change will be expected to be given the softening in many key Macro indicators the statements offer no clues about what the Fed will do is at its September meeting However, during the press conference that chair power abandoned concrete forward guidance and said decisions will be data dependent Unless we look into the minutes to see how my Henry participants agreed with this approach Since the meeting plenty of Fed speakers have been using the data dependent line for the next decisions But it's clear appetite is for another 75 basis point hiking in September or a slower 50 basis point hike market is now pricing Lean towards the 50 basis point after the latest CPI Report but the minutes will not incorporate that data So there is a risk of a minute sounding more hawkish But it is also it will not have incorporated the hot July jobs Reports given the hot jobs report and cool CPI since the latest meeting the minutes may be deemed quite stale given the Fed's data dependent starts They're moving into Thursday. Obviously initial claims may have started to creep up to two six five Was the last print looking now for a two six two print in the week ahead continuing claims 1428 we also get July existing home sales looking for a five point one two Print there and that runs out the data in terms of the US next week So let's take a look at the charts from technical perspective I'm looking for the dollars do a double correction here ultimately We are looking for a test of the one oh two sixty from now I'll be watching for bullish reversal patterns to reengage on the long side Looking for another push higher to tag this 110 target at this stage It would really take a close back through monthly projected race for our one oh two 18 To suggest that we have more meaningful high in place and with them looking back to the one oh one twenty six level To the downside moving to the Eurozone in terms of the data for the week ahead kickoff things in Eurozone Tuesday and get June total trade balance looking for a negative 26 print there versus the negative 24 print last time out We also get the Germans any W survey Analyst forecast expectations to remain below pre-pandemic levels Overall business sentiment remains depressed amid major concerns about the energy supply in Germany and the ECB's announced interest rates hike Pandemic disruptions in China may also hurt the economic outlook We also then get on Wednesday Q2 flash estimate GDP looking for a Point set a zero point seven print there and then on Thursday We get July CPI looking for that to print in line with the last Reading which was an eight point nine print there in terms of CPI in the Eurozone so from a technical perspective You're a dollar has tested the descending trend line resistance and we did see some supply coming to the market on Friday, but as we hold the pivot here at one oh two I'm looking for a test of one oh four eighteen, which is the quality objective versus this current swing structure Now it's gonna get interesting here because if we if it said it does develop the bearish Reversal pattern there look to move back down into the pivot this pivot test here at the one zero zero Nineties gonna be key if we get through there I'm anticipating roll over take out the current swing lows and make a move to EMS three down to the 97 70s However, if we hold the pivot similar to the setup in terms of the dollar index We could see a double correction that juncture I'd be looking for us to test the high volume Oh one oh five twenties and once you get there again I want you to bearish reversal patterns to be engaged on the short side ultimately looking for that 97 70s Yearly history to get tested Moving to the UK and Got the data coming out in the UK in a week ahead on Tuesday we have the June IOL unemployment rate looking for Looking for a 3.8 print there and the employment change to come in at two nine six Analysts at Investec forecast a 240k gain in employment and combined with high participation rate This should have kept the jobless rates steady at 3.8 percent base effects should bring down the rates of pay Growth after one-off boost last year where many workers returned to full-time work from reduced 80 percent furlough pay and then on Wednesday we get UK CPI Consensus forecast headlines CPI rising to 9.7 percent From the 9.4 percent the core is seen hold set it holding steady at 5.8 percent again unless the investex say the easing in supply chain issues may contain the core rate But higher food prices should boost the headline the latter is expected to rise above 12% in the early Q4 and remain elevated Then ran up thing things on Friday in the UK with UK retail sales Expectations are for an unchanged headline print and Core reading at negative zero point four percent the two bank holidays may play have it with the data Analysts see no relief for the rest of the year and start of 2023 as the economy heads into Recession it's from a technical perspective Sterling this is the current swing load that we have here just above 120 I'm looking for an equality test up to 125 50s From there watch for bearish person happens to re-engage on the short side However, we did close pretty weak on Friday. We're holding above the pivot cluster here But if we take out that that 120 pay on the downside then I'll be looking for a new test of the price cycle lows 170 on route to a 115 test Moving to Japan in terms of data. We are on the light side there next week. We have Do we have here So the only real data of note Coming this week on the 18th August is Japan's CPI inflation for July This could start to top out and face downside pressure much of the run-up to date has been driven by oil prices And obviously a week again both of which have softened of late WTI in terms of USD terms It's fallen from its peak at the 122 about dollars per barrel This prior run-up erroneously led some market participants to argue that the Bank of Japan would have to adopt some form of tightening measure And perhaps its 10-year JGB yield target was vulnerable The problem with that narrative was always that this isn't the kind of inflation that the Bank of Japan wants It is inclined to view the effects of inflation derived from higher oil prices and a week again as a transitory and hence unlikely to deliver the medium to long-run 2% inflation goal Bank of Japan has Estimated that one standard deviation move in the end roughly 4% adds about 0.1 to 0.2% to inflation Over the next two to eight quarters before subsiding further the same paper estimated that our one standard deviation In oil prices of roughly 15% would add 0.1 0.3 per cent To inflation before subsiding Japan has been experiencing Relative price shock as commodity importers with a weakening currency But these influences may be waning and the second round effects in the context of soft wage gains could be more Disinflationary in Japan and elsewhere so from a technical perspective the dolly yen did hold that 135 50 tests and we did see some some set off last week, but we Consolidated Thursday and Friday So there's the potential that we do a double correction here and retest the 136 30s before heading once again to the downside But as well whilst we hold the pivot here at the one 3550s I'm looking for a 126 88 quality test before looking to re-engage on the long side for the next move to the upside and Rounding out things down under in Australia really the Focus next week is going to be on the RBA minutes on Tuesday The RBA will release the minutes from the August 2nd meeting where it hiked the cash rate target by 50 basis points to 1.85% As expected while it reiterated that the board expects to take further steps in the process of normalizing monetary conditions And is committed to doing what is necessary to ensure that inflation in Australia returns to the target over time But noted that it's not a preset path furthermore It reaffirmed its view that inflation is expected to peak later this year and then decline back towards the two to three percent range and Stated that a key source of uncertainty continues to be the behavior of household spending The announcement by the RBA immediately pressured you the Aussie dollar given the lack of any major hawkish surprises while the RBA's quarterly statement on monetary policy released last week Showed that meeting was met with muted reaction as it's largely stuck to the script Regarding expectations of taking further normalization steps and the central bank's reference to not being on a preset path And we round out the week in Australia on Thursday with the Australian jobs report The July employment change is expected to show the addition of 25,000 jobs versus a previous 88.4,000 while the unemployment rate and participation rates are seen steady at three point five percent and sixty six 8% respectively unless at Westpac Expect a plus 50k metric for the employment change with the rationale being the business surveys consumer sentiment surveys and job Vacancies all point to continuing solid demand for labor weekly payrolls for July did reveal some weakness But these are not seasonally adjusted and the ABS noted higher than usual absences for illnesses and holidays Which affect ours worked rather than employment from a policy perspective the RBA's priority for the time being is inflation in the latest Statements second of August government low suggested employment is growing strongly Consumer spending has been resilient and an upswing in business investments is underway The board is committed to what is necessary to ensure that inflation in Australia returns to target over time So from a technical perspective, I've got a nice set up developing here I'm watching now for a test of the equality objective versus the 68 69 learn looking for a 72 28 tests Now from there, I'm watching for bearish reversal patterns to fade that move looking in for a pullback into Pitchfork support back into that 60 860s and from there once again looking for bullish reversal patterns to re-engage on the long side But then taunting a test of the descending trend line resistance and the midpoint of the pitchfork up to 74 60s As we round things out as always Let's take a quick look at Bitcoin and see how we're trading over the weekend here We have tested once again at 25 level butts found some supply again I'm ultimately looking for Bitcoin now to test this Descending trend channel resistance 28,120s and from there I'm gonna be watching for bearish reversal patterns to engage on the short side still looking for that 12,185 tests at this stage really see it weekly close through the down trend channel here to suggest We have a more meaningful learning place And that concludes the weekly market outlook for week commencing the 15th of August as always traders plan the trade trade the plan and most importantly manage all this until next time. Thanks very much


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