All righty, what's going on everybody got Kyle and Shawn here with late sports car from 1 box 2023 Bowman draft jumbo This one is for Simon. Good luck. Mr. Simon s See what we got. I believe this will be the last one of the day here guys I'm moving one more box or so if anyone wants to get it going, but if not, we'll sign off here We'll let a let force come in get ready for a Sunday fund it And guys got a 20 box mixer tonight. We got some flawless serial numbers. There's a triple case or definitive Bowman draft choice and tops chrome black That's some really good stuff tonight. There's a green paper. Nice started Ricky Bradfield Good prospect for the O's on the green paper to 99 That's true can't wait if you don't play that's true. Yeah There's a Paul Skeens Refractor parada and refractor Spencer Nevins on the rookie first and might have got a little overconfident thinking we were gonna beat him even together There's one hole where you're playing so bad. He you got to the green you like drove the green and went and sat on all you just sat on the green for like 15 minutes We're supposed to get there This ain't going good Just looking at us. There's a Tommy Troy. Nice one there on the refractor to 250 On the draft picks and prospects refractor right Langford to Paula and Homer Bush No, we were playing on We're playing best ball We're playing best ball or one of the something like that. Yes, scramble scramble in trying to catch him and it didn't work Didn't work. There's a Max Clark Got Xavier Isaac and first you Hackenberg all four of us were taking each shot and couldn't beat him That's that's not fair. That's a little fair shady. Actually, that's a little fair Tyreeka takes a lot of the offense when he's not there it kind of flows a little more maybe There's a Carson Rocco Forte on the first to 71. It's also the Jets. I feel like They're not having the best defensive day the rest of the year. They've had really really good defense There's a Carson Rocco Forte to 71 Like they're kind of slacking today on defense Carson or a Grayson hit and Watts Brown Going Yeah, this will probably be the last one today guys. I'm seeing the order come in. Um So we'll do a trash list after this then we'll get out of the way for Forrest Sunday fun day today. So you want to pull the 499 first aqua There's a Brayden Taylor go race on the draft insert Spencer Jones and Dylan Campbell first refractor Any linky guys the break schedule here tonight? You guys can check it out Forrest starts at five o'clock with some bowman dropped jumbo kisses Jaker make it on the list. No jaker's good Jaker wouldn't do that jaker's been good recently I can't speak for jacus Oh, that's shady there's a brady house to 250 cover that yesterday. That's a good one. I was shady No, we were all brady house to 250. No, I was convinced it's jake white lanford. Oh, yeah first refractor kindle george. It's jake He was on typing on his phones every time He was giving he was giving off hints when we're like forest chain Maybe maybe I'll do on lunar glow first redfield wants it. No, or nanda's shan solo then But shady Like a sickie, huh Like a sick. Oh, yeah, there he is Is it real thick shady or shady jay? Dick shady. All right. All right. He did he did change.  Yeah, that was acting like the real get sicky really good imposter Acting like the real get sicky there. Haha. That was good.  Yep There was a white lanford bowman glass. Nice one there ranges First menachi and tommy chore refractor. I think I gave him the 24 just because I couldn't gritty You gave the sickie the 24. I think I did I didn't like his gritty style.  That's easily 24 Right, okay, you see There's a yellow ranger arias at 75 at least you get to come back. He says uh, he goes.  I did I did dude. I was too scared for luck shot One more thought you were jake and one and banga sickie three times come on man Can't banga sickie. Hey, that was good. That was good, dude. Can't banga sickie. There's a light blue hunter owen first the royals Jackson holiday delgado and mike bow v refractor. But who was gisicki? shady shady was shady. Yeah Got us pretty good because we thought I thought it was sam for sure I thought it was jake dude every time that shady talk was you every time jake was Yeah, we're time to do that. Yeah You say that No, I was jake. I thought it was jake. I do what I have the energy There's a mawiyahuna first thought out for the giants close it out yesterday Matt Shaw holiday and nolyn mclean on the first refractor. It was really good shady Alrighty there mr. Simon that'll do it for another box of bowman draft jumbo appreciate you my man We'll get those right out to you as always Look sir, I believe that we'll do it for today guys. Don't know if another order come in We'll do a quick trash list here and then we'll get out of force way We'll do some uh sunday funda. I did link the break schedule there for you guys and just uh, um, we'll start in about an hour Um start the stream in about an hour from now. So um, check it out guys. See what we got going on Let's do a uh do a little trash list and we're out of here The mac jones of breaking. Oh boy. Yeah, I can see why sam might not like that. That's awesome You call the mac jones of breaking Let me update that or upload that one real quick for simon Recording still going uh-oh Uh-oh I'm gonna keep it going


Bemidji Mayor Rita Albright hosted the Mayor's Monarch Festival at PSU's American Indian Resource Center for the community to learn what can be done as a whole to help increase pollinators. The Mayor's Monarch Pledge was signed in 2016 and guests heard the city's progress with pollinators in the area, including the three gardens planted in the community. Pollinators such as bees are critical for the foods we eat. During the summer Monarch butterflies migrate to the area for their summer habitat and have several life stages. Attendees also learned about ways they can contribute. What I would encourage people to do is just take a piece of their yard that maybe is difficult to mow. Maybe you don't really use it for any other purposes and let it grow into native plants. So that's a really simple thing to do. Any little bit helps and you'll be amazed at how little of a space can make a difference when it comes to pollinator habitat. Guests received milkweed and native seed plants to help improve conditions for pollinators. If you've enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax deductible contribution to Lakeland Public Television.


So, Ted, you know all those things you see in the sky. Can you tell me more about them? I want to know all about the stars. Of course. First of all, stars aren't all the same. They can be big or small. Some are hot, and others are not as hot. They change throughout their lives, just like we change as we grow older. Stars start out life as clumps of gas and dust. This then comes together to make a baby star called a proto-star. The star gets hotter and grows into a normal star, like the sun. It spends most of its life like this. Then, if the star is big, it changes into a red giant, or if it's really big, it turns into a red super-giant. It lives like this for a little while, and then it explodes. We call this a supernova. The star throws most of itself out into space in a big explosion that only lasts a few seconds. The star stuff explodes out at millions of miles per hour. This is tens of thousands of times faster than a racing car. Is that going to happen to the sun? Oh no. Sun is a pretty small star, so we'll turn into a red giant, and then into what we call a white dwarf star as it gets older. So the sun won't explode? No. Only the big stars explode and make supernova remnants. What's that? Supernova remnants are the bits of star that were thrown out into space. So is that the end of the star's life then, when it explodes? You'd think so, wouldn't you? But even though the star explodes, not all of it is thrown into space. The very middle of the star gets left behind and becomes either a neutron star or a black hole, depending on how big or small it is. We're interested in looking at these things in space. I'll tell you all about them, but I'll save that for another time. Time for me to get back to work, I think. Lots to be looking at.


Alright boys some mutt news has come out. They've dropped a lot of info on mutt. You know, I'm more of a gameplay sway I know how to play the game. I need mutt help I need to watch this stuff need to dial it in always need help from the YouTube comments Of course, which is opening myself up for a nightmare and always need help from my twitch chat So let's take a look at the mutt news I still have a CFM to finish up if you guys have been following along we're closing in on the playoffs one last For the year still playing a couple mutt I have a couple more rookie premieres to get in the next couple days So I'll keep putting those gameplay videos out as well. Are you guys excited for Madden 24? I know I am Let's take a look at the Madden 24 ultimate team deep dive. Here we go. I looked at it briefly You know and you know some things that I like some things we hate and we'll talk about that for sure If you guys like me talk about Madden you can head over to my podcast We do it every Tuesday night on the twitch channel I also have my own podcast YouTube where we talk about stuff like this most of the time with the guest as well this week I'm excited because we're gonna have problem the goat of Madden on the show So I'll get to talk with him about all this stuff and Madden 24 launch and everything like that Good morning man stream. I don't really watch those. Maybe I should maybe I gotta dial in for the most part, but you know Anyway, man. All right, so ultimate league for the most part We're live event hub Here we go Over the course of the year Madden ultimate team puts out a lot of new players programs and challenges for new players It can be a little difficult to know exactly where to go. So this was though The live event hub will filter the content only to show things that are relevant to the program That way you can try to find if you could see the entire what you can call it You can see the item catalog You can see the cards like all the Thanksgiving promo. What cards are you missing? What cards are out there? I know we use mutt gg mutt gg is a friend to the program here Mutt gg is probably paramount as far as Organizing cards and looking up cards and things like that But now you can do it in the game. Look here. You got a couple owns You need to go find that Kyle Hamilton and you need to find that I can't even say that name But you know you got to find those guys because you already have hurts and sauce and you got Minka So you need to find the ones you don't have, you know, so that's pretty dope cross play. I Have been I don't care about cross play. I didn't Hope it works great. It works good and at every other game We have that I play at least between MLB work fine this year or I think it was a couple years MLB's been cross play It's worked pretty well And obviously warzone apex fortnight Perfectly cross play works great. So it should work on Madden, you know, so I'm excited about it now economy changes across the Across the I mean, I remember that man. Maybe I need to go to English class, but I didn't really understand this As a gameplay experience continues to diverge between game generations. Oh It is no longer feasible to have a man ultimate team economy that is shared across console generations Separating the economy will allow us to include new features like cross play in the manultime. So this means ps4 and ps5 Ultimate team economy that is shared. So that's how it was like the So like everybody was buying the same cars that were on ps4 and ps5, I don't know This is pretty irrelevant for me, you know, I've been on next-gen for like four years now Let's get with the program boys But if you're not you really haven't missed much unless you're playing in tournaments If you're just playing Madden and you're having fun, you didn't need next-gen.  Maybe let me know in the comments. I'm here. We go All over there 84 overalls for rookie premieres I'm telling you that rookie premier team is gonna be pretty good. It's gonna be pretty good The overall start for champions is 87. I don't know who the champions are You know, we'll see maybe I don't know competitive pass now This is where you start to realize the biggest news of the day Once again, there is no weekend league so per per reading per looking It looks like we're back to competitive pass. It looks like we're back to much champs and head-to-head There is no leaderboard. There is no To keep it fresh there'll be a competitive pass specific daily weekly and season-long objectives I mean, I didn't mind the pass. I didn't it's like a battle pass anything else I didn't I didn't really mind that for us, I just like The the good thing about weekend league was that one it had you ranked yourself amongst your peers to you ranked yourself amongst yourself About what's my best finish if your best finish was 15 wins and next week You might want to try 16 if you never got 25 and oh and you've been winning 22 24 Maybe you can get 25 and oh, you know, it's all about one comparing yourself to other people But it's also about you know comparing yourself to yourself. You're like, can I beat my best mark? Really? Weekend league was different. It was a grind is what sweats that played a game love It's what grinders love not even you don't gotta be a super sweat But if you like just grinding video games out grinding head-to-head out weekend league was awesome, dude It really was so I Mean for me, it's disappointing because I think we've all been asking for we can leave back the entire community for about nine Months now at least maybe more and to not have it is like are you listening? You know But I've said this before to go back on your old like essentially They've made this decision that we can leave will no longer be a thing and to go back and say that was wrong after one year Took a lot of pride. I mean, oh, what do you call it took a lot of like Humility essentially because these guys that come up with these ideas and what's good for the game have pride And they don't want to say they were wrong, you know So for them this to bring back we can leave one year after they removed it would be Completely admitting they were wrong and people don't like to do that Especially people that have been successful in video games. They don't want to admit they were wrong and one of the biggest things that I mean You can do man if you've made a mistake Like your pride go man because you know we can leave was one of the best things man ever put out And we've been saying it all year all of this so disappointing that there's no we can leave you know Exclusive player items Much ham structure here. We go. I didn't really read this so we'll see if it changed a little bit This year much chance will not require a token.  I Honestly it good because it was just a little annoying spending 45 seconds putting it in a set and playing but anyway It was there on the same weekly cadence boo All right, so because like people like I want to play all week the thing that made Weekendly good. It was like a rush. You had to grind, you know, so well, I don't have time to grind Then you're not a grinder. It's okay, dude Now in my opinion, I feel like we could have much chance that goes all week and then a sweaty weekend league Don't and you could have both. I don't see why you can't have both My point is like we can leave was you know for people that really wanted to grind madden if you didn't want to play 25 games in four and a half days then Did you really love it? Like it was really something you wanted to do or you just wanted your rewards to build your team You gotta ask yourself that you know for real so let me know you guys think about we can leave the sweats to play all week everything like that like for me for the most part it's like You know, let's get these games in and out Let's let's bang them off You didn't want to grind madden and you didn't really want we can leave you know And and another thing to me is like if you weren't playing 25 games in four days Are you playing 25 in six days? Is that extra two days making you want to finish all 25 games? Like are you like scheduling it out perfectly? Like are you able to play for three hours every night to schedule it perfectly? you know, I just I Just felt like I know I get to play all week. I can finally do it those guys weren't gonna win anyway They're not gonna play anyway. It's not even about winning. It's about playing Champion sets this year in order to make champion sets more accessible. I don't really know what champion sets are We've changed some of the choirs any non B&D players Given overall rather than acquiring heroes in that program the first program this change was headliners Blah blah blah blah our MCS the man champions of series is running to ultimate team for the man 24 season Now is your chance to take your mud team? Okay Competitors will be able to earn red zone muck packs for each MCS tournament.  It's popping Which I mean juice the stats. This is literally juicing the stats right here. That's what this is You know juice the books so The mcs twitch drops program will be in your turn.  Oh no, we got more we got more I think I guess not That's it. So at the end of the day the end of the day is there is no weekend league How about my wallpaper? I think that's a massive dub. Look at the get look at the stars the lighthouse The dusk and the house This is just the boardwalk the grass You got like a foreground background middle ground. You guys don't know But anyway, no weekend league super bummer, dude Absolutely super bummer for all of us involved in man agree or disagree


In this case, most of the principles were out on bail. It put me out on a limb. This is another in the Adventures of America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator, Johnny Dollar, starring Charles Russell. At insurance investigation, Johnny Dollar is just an expert.  Expense account, submitted by special investigator, Johnny Dollar, to Max Krauss, Krauss Bail Bond and Insurance Agency, New York City, New York. The following is an accounting of my expenditures during my investigation of two of your clients, or witness, witness, who's got the witness? Or, he said give me liberty or give me death, and got both. Expense account, item one, one dollar, one cigar, to replace the asphyxiating stoke you were smoking when you arrived, unannounced at my Hartford apartment door. My name is Max Krauss, here's my card. Krauss Bail Bond Insurance Agency, state, federal, immigration, all forms of shorty bonds and insurance. Got it. I got it. Well, I got a job for you, to the tune of saving me $50,000. Okay, okay, you can come in. But you'll have to tie up that cigar outside. Okay. Here, better yet, give it to me. Hey, hey. Thanks. Come on in. What's the idea of throwing it out the window? That was an expensive cigar. Oh, can you think of a better way to get rid of us? It was killing me. Here, have one of these. Oh, well, not to follow the abuse to you understand, but much obliged. Forget it, they were a gift. Maybe I won't even charge you for it. If I go to work for you. Oh, shall we find out if I will or not? Sit down. What do you know about Leo Persson? Yes, what I read in the paper. Did you put up his bail? I wish I had. Well, the bonds I put up were for two prosecution witnesses. Know what I mean? They either took a run out, jumped from one of the bridges, or some of Leo's men put them out of the way, get me? Uh, vaguely, they're gone. Yeah, that's right. And unless I can prove they're dead or find them, you understand, before the trial, which is a week from today, I forfeit the $50,000. 25 a piece, see no problem? Yeah, man. Tell me something, Mr. Kraus. Why don't you come to me? Well, I'll tell you why to the police. These witnesses are only two names on a long list of missing persons. You up with me? Uh-huh, yeah. And as for private detectives, I could never be sure that one wouldn't make a deal with Prisino and make more money not finding them, then I'd be paying to find them, get the point? Yeah. Well, what makes you think you can trust me? Oh, well, you were mentioned by one of the insurance companies I sell for. They tell me that you're straight, except for padding your expenses here and there. Hey, now, that's an insult. Ah, well, that's a little padding. I used to do the same with my old man when I was in grade school, that kid stuff. You'll find out. What's up? I said, uh, I'll find out what I can. Who are these lost trade or stolen witnesses? Nippy Coppin is one. Real name is Glenn, you hear? Glenn. Yeah. The other is Dan Patterson. I got their addresses next to Ken, you know what I mean? What else do you need?  Ah, that's pretty steep. I've only got a grand with me. It just so happens that I'm a grand person to do business with, Mr. Krauss. I'll take the thousand. 45, train fare, Hartford to New York. The big city at the same time, 4 p.m., to be exact. So I set storm canvas and tacked Crosstown toward 81st between Madison and 5th. One of the bits of information that had come with that $1,000 bit of paper was the fact that one of the missing witnesses, Nippy Cochran, had a sister, stage name Mona Doyle. She'd been born in Hell's Kitchen and she'd worked out her own little recipe consisting of brains, beauty, and cheesecake to cook up her own version of heaven on earth, including angels, Broadway type. 21st Street Brownstone, a delivery boy was buzzing his way into the building, not wishing to argue with Mona over the intercom system on the buzzer panel. I waited for the boy to come out. Caught the door before it closed, thanks, Bob. Went in and up to a second floor apartment. I have some news about your brother. Oh, this is news you have about Nippy. Oh, the guy who put a bail for Max Krauss has hired an insurance investigator to look for him. Oh, well, what am I supposed to do about that? Ask me to sit down. I'm the investigator. Well, you're awfully clever, aren't you? No, I hire a couple of radio writers to work these things out for me. Well, please do sit down. Thank you. Why did you do it this way? Did you think I'd let you in if I knew what you were? Well, lots of people are allergic to what I am. Well, I'm not. That helps. Do you know where your brother is, Mr. Oil? No. Now, could I fix you a drink? Does that mean that this is the end of our little discussion? Mr. Dollar, I don't know when Nippy is. Believe that or not. I haven't seen much of him the last few years. He doesn't approve of me, and I don't approve of him. But that doesn't make any difference. What does is that if I did know where you could find him, I wouldn't tell you.  That way? Are you holding out for a choice? Hey. That was a nasty thing to say.  Don't you know what would happen if you found Nippy and brought him back? I've heard that Leo Porcina has some quaint habits with people he doesn't want around. Something about wrapping their feet in a concrete block and lowering them into any handy river. But the law give them protection until after the trial? What difference would that make? Even if Leo were convicted, don't you think he'd leave orders behind to take care of Nippy? Well, that could probably be worked out, too. Well, look, I wasn't hired to worry about that. I was hired to find your brother, so my client won't lose his money. Well? This is a lousy way for two people to meet, isn't it? I wish it were different. What's that supposed to mean? I'd like to ask you again to have a drink with me. That wind has my nerves jumping. And you haven't helped. Be a good guy, won't you? With what she had to back up that invitation, I defy any guy, good or bad, to come up with anything but an acceptance. Unless he was crowded at 70 and had a car double parked outside and was married to a suspicious wife who was waiting in the car. So I stayed. And we learned to know one another. 20 minutes later, we were close friends. I knew it had to end, and it did. The door buzzes sounded, and Mona bounded over to the little button that controlled the lock on the downstairs entrance. Don't be shocked, Johnny. I brush off a lot of my admirers this way. The only thing I admire about you is the act you put on. It's a good one.  There was one thing I forgot to tell you about my brother. I can hardly wait. I'm all ears. He gave me everything I have. Without him, I'd have none of all this. And is it Nippy who's on his way up here? That isn't what I mean. All Nippy did was introduce me to Leo Porcina. That's who's on his way up. Yeah. Well, blood may be thicker than water, but where you're concerned, it isn't thicker than champagne with ermine on the side. Johnny Dollar, an insurance investigator, hired by Kraus to find Nippy. Well, you've got to say for yourself. Matt or Harry, there, said everything there is to say, except that I'm also looking for the other missing witness, Dan Connors. Yeah, yeah, I assume that. Very apt, Mr. Dollar, that we should meet this way to man interested in the same subject. The subject was more interesting before you came in. You'll ignore that. Natural, what I meant was that I, too, am quite anxious to find Nippy and Pattis. Can I mix you a drink, Leo? No, no, leave us alone, Mona. Go in the bedroom. And close the door, please. Now, man to man, Dollar, how do you propose to go about finding Nippy and Pattis? What would you suggest, Porcina? Dragging the rivers? Now, see here, Dollar, there's no need to take such a pessimistic view. I realized that an unfriendly press has endowed me with a reputation for violence. I hope you aren't bucking to be canonized. St. Leo, Porcina. Quite a sense of humor, Dollar. But my motives are honorable. I'm not afraid of the testimony of those two men. I want them back because their disappearance makes it look bad for me. It's the kind of thing that sways public opinion against them. I'll believe that when I see the three of you enjoying a nice, friendly game of billiards. Well, have it your own way. I thought we could form a combination, you and me, to find the boys, but a combination's no good if I trust you and you don't trust me. Go ahead, Dollar, bullet through alone. And good luck to you. Thanks, Leo. I've enjoyed your pack of lies, no end. So I put on my top coat, picked up my hat, and left. He didn't shoot me while I was on the stairs, so by the time I felt the sidewalk underfoot, I also felt fairly safe. But not for long. The chauffeur in a limousine parked at the curb took off his uniform cap and put on a hat with an eye-hiding brim. I looked up at the lighted window of Mona Doyle's apartment and saw Leo's figure just slipping out of sight. As I started down the street, the chauffeur was no longer a chauffeur. At a signal from Leo, he had turned into a man who was following me. Grabbed a cab on Madison, and by the time our zigzag trip to Patterson's address was over, I felt reasonably sure that I was no longer being followed. Mind-shaft and smelled worse. Four doors down the right, I found the number of Patterson's apartment. Who bid me enter was still wearing the hat with the eye-hiding brim. But something new had been added to his right hand, 45 caliber. Leo Porcina's chauffeur hadn't followed me to Patterson's address. He beat me there. Close the door. I don't like to ask foolish questions, but what are you doing here? I live here, or I dead. Patterson. Oh, great. I'm looking for you, and the way I do it is to try and get away from you. Like, take the lure of your right hand. Well, I want to talk to you. Sure, but not here. Let's go someplace. For me, that someplace was out. But before I got there, I had time to pass myself a question. What better place for a missing witness to hide than the employee of the guy he was supposed to testify against? Then I found a hiding place of my own. It was nice and dark, but the only person I was hiding from was me, Johnny Dollar, America's fabulous insurance investigator. Fabulous indeed. In just a moment, we will return to the second act of Johnny Dollar. But first, a battle to the finish, and no holds barred as far as words and opinions are concerned. That's only one of the entertaining elements of People's Platform, a Sunday daytime feature on most of these same CBS stations. Attack and defense and attack again. Politicians, labor leaders, statesmen, farm leaders, men and women from all walks of life find themselves going from the frying pan into the fire many times in each Sunday half hour session. You'll enjoy People's Platform every Sunday on CBS. Now, with our star, Charles Russell, we return to the second act of yours truly, Johnny Dollar. The plane started the trip back from unconsciousness. I thought at first I had passed out in one of the tunnels. The air, what there was ever, was thick with a smell of burned gasoline. It was still dark, and it seemed like cars were going past me without headlights. Then I noticed that the tunnel was moving. It took me a long time to figure out that meant it wasn't a tunnel. It was a car, and I was on the floor in the back seat with a blanket covering me. It took two hands and all my strength, but I managed to lift the blanket away from my face. The first thing I saw was one of those old-fashioned speaking tubes that sometimes are used between a limousine's rear and driver's seat. It was hanging down, the mouthpiece a few inches from my head. But what was coming out of it was not noise, but that smell of burned gasoline, carbon monoxide. I didn't have to try them to know that all the doors were locked from the outside and that all the glass was unbreakable. From there, it took me only one short mental step to realize that speaking tube was connected to the exhaust pipe, and I was in the process of being executed in laughing Leo Porcina's private gas chamber. There's nothing so exhilarating as being slapped in the face with death. I wrestled a handkerchief out of my breast pocket, twisted it up into a stopper, jammed it into the tube, and clamped my hand over the mouthpiece. It didn't help the air any, but at least it wasn't getting any worse. Then I settled back to wait, trying not to breathe, Commissioner Dan Patterson. Opened the rear door. When we came to a stop, waited a few seconds for the wind to clear out the fumes, then reached in, grabbed me under the shoulders, and dragged me out. I managed to stay limp until we got a few yards off the road and into the brush. Then I dug my heels in on heat. It was surprise more than strength that toppled him, but it was no time for niceties. I picked up a handy rock and bashed him one on the head. He'll catch your death of coal lying on this damp ground. Oh, dollar. Yeah, dollar, which probably makes you feel like two cents. Listen, I couldn't help what I did, but Leo would either do what he tells you to or get it done to you. I'll save that pitch for the jury, will you? I want some answers. First, where are we? A new chair's here, about 40 minutes off from the city. Listen, give me a break. I'll help you all I can.  And save your time and effort. There's nothing in our shoulder, hoster, your hand is moving forward. I've got it. Now, do I use it or do you tell me where Nipi Coffrin is? I don't know. I swear I don't. You've got to believe that. If I knew I'd sell the information to Leo for plenty, he'd want some bad. Yeah, dream boy. I'll just bet you would. Okay, get up. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. What are you going to do? I was hired to find you and I found you, and now I'm going to put you away where you'll keep. Come on.  Listen, maybe I do know where Nipi is. Why don't you and me? Paterson, I'll have to stop you. I'm not a fire, but I had to and fast in the darkest. Paterson was next to him possible, but I shot low.  Paterson was alive when I got to him and alive and conscious when I left him in the hands of the nearest police doctor. Score, one up, one witness found and one still missing. Expense account, item four, 50 cents, toll, paid to get Leo Porcina's lethal limousine across the George Washington Bridge and back into New York City. Expense account, item five, five cents, phone call soon after I got there. This is Dollar. Let me speak to Leo. Oh, Johnny. Yeah, sorry to disappoint you, but I'm alive and almost well. Johnny, I don't know what you mean and I don't care what you think of me. You got to help me. With what? Nailing my casket together? Nipi is in town. He killed Leo. Oh, well, if it's true, that's a switch. All over the country, defendants are knocking off witnesses, but when I show up, the witness knocks off the defendant. I repeat, if true. It is true. I was with Leo when we went from here to hit the middle of a knife. You got to help me. I don't know what to do. Well, it's generally a good idea to call the police. Did you?  Probably. Where is Leo's apartment? Do you have to go over there? Why not? All right. Pick me up here. I'll take you over. Goodbye. She was asking me or telling me she was right. I must be crazy. I gave myself ten to one odds that my journey would end in a trap, but I've been wrong before. Leo Corsina was in his apartment all right, ungracefully spread out on the floor in front of a not quite clean white leather chair. What are you going to do? Knife wound, left side of chest. No signs of struggle. Where were you? I was in the other room. You didn't see it happen? No. I hardly heard anything. I didn't even hear Nippy come in. The radio was on. I heard a mumble of voices that didn't mean anything, and then Leo screamed Nippy. I ran in there and Leo was just falling, and Nippy was watching him go down. I wish I knew whether you were bawling because you're grief-stricken or because you're scared. I wish I knew a lot of things about you. Come on. Let's go back to your place, and maybe I can find out. Johnny Walker for Johnny Dollar. Thanks. Would you also say it's Johnny on the spot? I don't know why I thought I had the right to ask you to help me. Well, I didn't have anyone else to turn into. Oh, you ought to improve your dialogue. I'm not trying to be clever, Johnny. I'm petrified. Nippy knows I saw him. I'm the only one that saw him. He could just stay with me until I could get out of town or until they... until this is cleared out. If I could keep my eyes closed, I'd say you weren't worth it. What you're trying to tell me is that you're afraid Nippy will show up with his dandy little carving set and go to work on you, is that it? It's an awful thing to say about my own brother, but that's right. I'm afraid he'll kill me. He hates me. He blamed me when Leo kicked him out of the combination. Was he right? Of course not. I couldn't make him believe me. He swore he'd pay us off. He did. He sold the information that got Leo indicted, and now he's killed him. You know, that's an interesting point.  Why would he do that? Dude, I don't know. What you started to say was to make it look as though you killed him, wasn't it? Yes. He'd do anything to hurt me. Johnny, if you only knew... Hold it. Hold it. Never mind the dust in my eyes, gorgeous. To frame you, Nippy would have to supply you with a motive, unless you already had one kicking around someplace and your silence says you probably have. Johnny... Leo was nailed on tax evasion because it turned out that he had undeclared income deposited in various banks under various people's names. How much is in your account? You're smart. Not very. Doesn't take a wizard to add two and two and come up with a motive. With Leo out of the way, there's very little chance that you will be dragged into court as an accomplice. And I'll mention in passing the bank balance you didn't deny having. I know it looks bad, Johnny. I'd be in big trouble if the police found out about the account. But do we have to? According to all the rules, yeah.  I'd like to. You've got to, darling. Don't you think it'd be worth it? There's the money. And there's me. Oh, Johnny. Get away from me! Well, Johnny, what's wrong? In this case, everything. I've been slugged and gassed. I had to shoot a man. I missed my dinner. But the worst of all is you.  Well, that might work with a human being, but I'm not human. I'm an insurance investigator. What are you going to do? I'm going to turn you in for murder. That's what I'm going to do. Operator, operator, get on this thing before I change my mind. Mona didn't really turn on the tears until two men from homicide ticker and tucked her into a squad car. And I didn't warm up to my story until the press arrived. In print in a very early morning edition that hit the stands at 12.01 a.m., it looked even better than it sounded. Headline? Insurance investigator records confession of murderous. Lead. Police late last night booked Mona Doyle for the murder of Leo Porcina, a racket boss. In an exclusive statement, Johnny Dollar, Hartford, said he was able to record the voluntary confession of the shapely knife killer by means of a tape recorder and a microphone concealed beneath a sofa, thus lifting the suspicion from her brother, Glenn Nippy Cochran, who has been sought for the slaying. The man was dying, and so was I by the time I got back to my hotel after making one stop at an all-night drug store for expense account item seven, $1.79, adhesive tape, which might be classified as an odd item. Since I didn't, as yet, have any broken bones. In my hotel room, I put the tape and the two telephone books, one classified, one general, to what I hope would be good use, slipped on a dressing gown, and sat down to wait. More than 10 minutes later, it turned out that I'd waited long enough. I can't say much for his originality. Wait a second, I'll slip on a robe. This is hardly the way to deliver a telegram, is it? I've got a message for you all right, but it's not an envelope. I'm Nippy Cochran. Well, hello, Nippy Cochran. That confession you coaxed out of my sister's and what the tape is recorded on is Foley. The police seem to like it. And nuts, I kill Leo Portino. Oh, that's your story, and it could be Foley. Look, I'll tell you why the police like Mona's better. Leo died from a knife wound in the left part of his chest. There were no signs of a struggle. That means he was probably killed by somebody who just walked up to him and pushed, someone he trusted, a friend.  I've got the answer to that. It says in the paper that confession is the least I can do is take it off her. And you know how that's done. It's a little late for guesswork. I like killing the same way with the same knife while she's alibi'd by the police. That'll clear. What's it gonna do to you? And if you get close to me, you can believe me. There's gonna be signs of struggle this time. I don't have to get close to you. The knife came from the usual place in his collar behind his head. His aim was perfect. I felt the shock just over my heart. But the telephone books I taped to my chest called his number.  Then I found something to throw. Something I could aim just generally, a chair. He stumbled back from the impact, and before he could collect his wits or his balance, I let him have a barrage. A bail bondsman doesn't know the right people. Expense account item 8. $15, Dr. Fee. If it wasn't worth it to you, it was worth it to me to get that adhesive tape off by using alcohol instead of violence. Expense account item 9. $28.50. Replacement of hotel room furniture broken in final brawl. And expense account item 10. If you don't mind. $367.25. Sea enclosed bar, café, and theater receipts. Buying my way back into the favor of the magnificent Mona. Oh, and you may ask me how I was clever enough to know that she was innocent all that time. I didn't. But I could hope, couldn't I? Expense account total, original retainer, not returnable. $500.71. Signed yours. Truly, Johnny Walker. I mean, dollar. Johnny Dollar is produced and directed by Gordon T. Hughes and stars Charles Russell. Script by Paul Dudley and Gil Dowd. Featured in the cast were Ed Mack, Paul Dubov, Sidney Miller, Jim Nusser, and Georgia Ellis. The special music is written and conducted by Wilbur Hatch. Be sure to be with us at this same time next week when another unusual expense account is handed in by yours truly, Johnny Dollar. It's fascinating, it's challenging, it's something unusual in radio fare. Yes, that's what folks are saying about CBS's popular Sunday program, Invitation to Learning. You'll renew old acquaintances in literature. You'll make some exciting new ones. 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A lot of times, I think if we're honest, we start to realize that we have had intimacy associated with communication. Anybody who's been through relationships, friendships, family, and everything, where there feels like there's open sharing and open communicating, hey, how you doing, there's this sense of communication. We feel connected when there's communication going on and when there's no communication, there's a sense of dead space, or we could say, has anybody had the experience where somebody that you're really close to just disappears from your life, either through death or they move away, it's not so much if they move away and you're doing Skype chats and you're talking and you're emailing and this and this, you're texting each other, they're over on the other side of the planet, you're still getting text messages and everything. It seems like the intimacy continues even when the bodies are apart, as long as there's communication, but when there's no communication, hey, how so is it doing? I haven't heard from them. Well, when was the last time you heard from them? Two years ago. They haven't written or spoken to me for two years, it's as if there's a break in the intimacy, a break in the connection, and you know what that is, is that in the egoic mind, the communication is seen again between people in the horizontal realm and that can be broken pretty easily through death, moving away, or you name it. Somebody has hard feelings, feels offended, insulted or something, well, that's it, I'm not going to talk to them, some of us have heard those words again, I'm never going to speak to you again, how does it feel when a loved one says to you, I'm never going to speak to you again, you know, that's like the death of the connection, the death of the intimacy, but it's only because we've associated egoically communication with words and with the horizontal plane. And what I find with the Course in Miracles is it's saying, well, yeah, that's a problem, but it's not a real problem because God is with you wherever you go.  It's just so gracious and loving and the way that we get in touch with that voice, which is the voice that ultimately when we want to hear, is we have to let that voice speak to us and speak through us, we have to teach what we would learn. We have to give it away to keep it. We have to let that Holy Spirit-inspired communication come in us and through us. How does it feel when you write a love letter from the heart? Whoa, your heart is exploding with love and joy. You're just pouring it out in an email where you're communicating with somebody, you're doing a Skype chat, you're sharing on the phone. You feel the love just pouring through you and you feel completely filled up and just engulfed in love and intimacy. And when there's a sense of a block, a sense of hesitation, a sense of doubt, a sense of fear, a sense of holding back, withholding, it feels closed down, it feels contracted. It's almost like your heart is turned in the way where it starts to feel contracted instead of expansive and open. So that's why one of the workbook lessons is my happiness and my function are one. When you're in your function, when you're in your Holy Spirit-given function, you are guaranteed to be happy. And when you seek for happiness through external means, I'll be happy when my life looks this way, when I have the right partner, the right this, the right that. Whenever I get all the right pictures and the right conditions in the future sometime, I'll be happy. And then it's almost like a dream you chase that never works out. Even, I was just in Hollywood and the thing I love about Hollywood is the lessons are so apparent. In Hollywood, the rest of the world, you know, the rest of the seven billion is trying to survive. And in Hollywood, survival's, you know, not on the mind that much. There's a lot of money. There's big cars. There's big mansions.  All the things that the world would say, just do these things and you'll be super happy because you have all the right things. You hit all the right buttons and then depression and suicide. Wow, does that drive home the point? Why is it the people that have the most of the things that the rest of the world is looking for are not happy? That brings home the lesson that you're not going to find it in the things of this world. We just watched The Great Gatsby. Jay Gatsby, that's a great movie. We actually stayed in the apartment where, what's his name? F. Scott Fitzgerald's apartment. And we were doing a gathering. They said, this is the mental piece where he died. He had a heart attack. We were on the spot. But we had just watched The Great Gatsby and Gatsby had it all, you know, in terms of the world. Massive parties, massive wealth, you know. You talk about, if you could find happiness through party making and social things, he was having these huge parties, you know. And yet, as you go on, you see there's a deep sadness in a sense of an emptiness. And it's so strong in him that he is actually using all the parties and the mansion across the bay from Daisy, his fantasy. And as long as he believes he can have his fantasy, he pours his whole energy almost like in a huge way to draw her attention. And when it doesn't work out with Daisy, you know, it's absolutely devastating. And he ends up, you know, getting shot. And so it's really great to start to see it played out on the big screen or out in Hollywood because the faster you get the lessons, like people, a lot of people I know, they don't like Lesson 128 in the course. They like a lot of the lessons in the course, but they do not like Lesson 128. In fact, I did a gathering years ago. I went to Lexington, Kentucky, and a friend of mine was in the symphony at the violinist, and I opened it up to questions. And he said, he raised his hand and he said, well, I have to say I'm not doing the workbook lessons of the Course in Miracles anymore. I said, oh, you're not. What happened? He said, well, I got to Lesson 128. And I said, well, what happened? He said, I read the lesson. I said, okay, what happened then? He said, something inside of me went, no, no. I do not agree. I object. This is not where my mind is going. This is not where my life is going. And I closed the book. That's the last lesson I did.  He said, what's 129? And I said, beyond this world is a world I want. And Lesson 128 is the world I see holds nothing that I want. He shut the book on 128. He never did make it to 129. Beyond this world is a world I want. Jesus never leaves us hanging. He never takes us to a point of desperation to, you know, it's not going to work out. It's always like he's going right to the root of the ego and saying, here, let me help you all get the root of the weed out of your mind, the alien. And here's the soft place where this is all heading. He always gives us lots of pep talks. Sometimes he shakes the ego right to the roots. You feel like you're just totally devastated when you're doing the book, doing the workbook lessons. And then he comes in with this soft message to lift you up and say, you deserve so much. Your problem is you don't ask for too much. You ask for far too little. You don't believe you're worthy of divine love and you keep praying and asking for a little, just a little bit of this and I'll be happy. Just a little bit of that, I'll be happy. So it's, you know, you can see where this is going. We have to really open our minds up beyond the past, beyond the familiar, into a new way of being, a new way of looking at the world.


Good evening, everyone. Welcome to the City of Montpelier Development Review Board for Monday, December 17th. My name is Daniel Richardson. I serve as the chair. The other members for my right are Rob Goodwin, Meredith Crandall, staff, Kate McCarthy, Tom Kester, Ryan Cain. First order of business is the approval of the agenda. Does anybody have any additions, changes, or a motion to approve the agenda? Mr. Chair, I'll move. We approve the agenda as printed. Second. Motion by Kate, second by Tom. All those in favor of the approving the agenda as printed, please raise your right hand. We have an agenda. So the comments from the chair are going to be a little bit more expansive tonight. And Kate, do you want to help? So we're going to stand down here. So why don't we go? So tonight, we have three former members of the DRV that we're honoring for their service that have long, I think collectively, probably more years of service than we've had zoning in Montpelier, or somewhat close. Modern zoning in Montpelier owes these three gentlemen a huge debt, that they have brought the DRV to the body that it is today. They have overseen a great deal of the development that the city has undertaken over the past 15, 20 years. And if you like the way Montpelier looks today, you owe each of these gentlemen a debt of gratitude because it's their hard work, their determination, their fairness, their employees, and practice that have brought us to the city that we have today. And we're really fortunate to have had their service here on this board. I've enjoyed serving with all three, and I felt very strongly that they all needed to be recognized for their service. This is a volunteer board. It's a thankless job. You get pushed on the street for appearing on TV and making a decision somebody doesn't like. There's no rewards. There's no pension system. It's just simply giving to the community. And these three members that we're celebrating tonight are exemplars of that community service. So it's really my pleasure. I asked them to come up. So Roger Kranz, Jack Lindley, Phil Zalinger, we have for you a commemorative map of the city of Montpelier with your names. Roger, this is yours right here. Oh, wonderful. So, Phil, I have one for you. Jack, Meredith has yours. So, yeah, we're good. All right, well, I want to thank each of you. I don't know. And Phil? I want to face these distinguished individuals. So I've heard that all of her predecessors that zoning is the worst job in city government. And that's because, you know, the firefighter leaders of the heroes, they come and save you and they come to, you know, the ambulance and all that. The police come and help you, but sometimes they give you a ticket.  So, you know, they're kind of a mixed bag. Zoning, you can ask permission to use your own property. So even on a good day when someone gets a permit, they're still a little grumbly about it. And I think the only thing worse than being paid to do zoning is to volunteer to do zoning. And I think you folks have really given to this community for a long, long time. And I, as a staff person who's also been here for a long, long time, have appreciated the efforts that you have put in on behalf of the city. And in particular, not to sing anything else, but Phil, you know, Phil predates me on any of these boards. When I got here, you were, I think, chair of the ZBA and has been a long period of time. So I have a little special something for you. I'm going to give you a key to the city. And the astute amongst you will observe that it doubles as a bottle opener. So double 100 for use after the meetings.  We do really appreciate everything that you've done. Thank you. I would just say a few words. I've worked with every zoning administrator the city has ever had. Mike Jones was the first zoning administrator. And so he still served in mid 80s when I joined the zoning board of adjustment. So I've worked with every zoning administrator the city has ever had. They've improved exponentially. No, the administration zoning is exponentially in the last 30 years. And when I left, it was still improving. And I expect it will continue to improve. People take the job seriously. They dedicate themselves to understanding the ordinance and applying it evenly and fairly, staying on the reservation when it comes time to make decisions. Being judicious and being fair. So I don't expect that it won't continue to improve. And ZB, I think the DRB is a good answer. But thank you for the recognition. We never did it for the recognition. Wow, I was going to say it's a bad deal if it was for the. I can also tell you that the administration of our meetings changed dramatically when they became televised. It was just as west of the Pecos before the TV cameras started to run. But I think it's been positive for the city as well. Everybody can watch the administration of the DRB. Thank you very much. He came from the zoning side. I came from the planning side. And Mike Jones also took care of planning at the time when that was started with our good friend, Alan Blake. Alan and I came over. So he's the zoning guy and I'm supposed to be on the planning side. I'm happy to tell members here that service on this committee is probably the most important thing you can do for the city. And we should have a good time doing it. Don't let it get you down. There's going to be some tough times. But if you have Dan as the chairman instead of Phil, I'm sure he can get you through there. Good luck, Phil. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. Merry Christmas to all and all a good night. Merry Christmas to all and all a good night. Why don't we take a five minute break if we can? I don't think we have enough members to approve the minutes from December 3rd. Which is the next thing on our agenda. Maybe next time. There's always next time. So let's go forward to the fifth item, which is the first item of actual business. That is the final subdivision plan review for 155 Northfield Street. The owner applicant is National Life Insurance Company. Chris, you're here to testify if you would actually first state your full name for the record, please. Chris Gerentkopf. And you're here on behalf of the applicant. Here on behalf of National Life. So if you raise your right hand. Do you solemnly swear or affirm that the evidence you're about to give for the matter under consideration shall be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth under a pain and penalties of perjury. I do. Please go ahead. As I think all the members are present, we'll recall we were here for a sketch plan review about a month ago for a subdivision of a two-acre parcel surrounding the existing preschool and apartment building located at 155 Northfield Street. Owned by National Life. National Life is subdividing this parcel to donate to the Waldorf School. The school has been renting slash leasing the facility for their preschool purposes for a number of years and National Life is going to convey them the property. On this parcel, which is an aggregate 17.85 acres, exists the preschool with the apartment overhead, a solar farm, and the community gardens. The parcels to be created are 2.05 acres with the preschool and the attendant accessory structures and development, play area, etc. And then the remaining 15.8 acres with the solar farm and community garden. The total area of 17.85 acres is demonstrated as a succinct individual holding of the National Life Insurance Company that has been merged for tax assessment purposes, but is a standalone individual parcel of land that they acquired in 1968, I believe. As we discussed the sketch plan review, the board seemed to be comfortable with it. The original parcel had been surveyed when National Life acquired it in 1968. We have not at this point endeavored to resurvey the entire property and have only surveyed the 2.05 acres in accordance with state statute and surveyors' board rule requirements. You don't believe that a boundary survey of the balance of the property is necessary to demonstrate compliance with the ordinance and unless directed so by the board. We don't intend to do so. I think Meredith's summary and staff comments pretty well addresses everything that we have to offer. A couple of things that the board did request at the sketch plan review that we have added to the plan. As mentioned in Meredith's comments, we're addressing the riparian and water buffers. I imported the VCGI LiDAR contour data and did my level best with that data to determine a top of bank. It's not, the data may be good, the data may not be good. The definition of the top of bank in field is my wonderment and my query and I took what I believed to be a very conservative top of bank to describe as the feature from which these buffers are measured. As Meredith noted in her comment, if anybody needs to, if anybody either national life for the remaining, for retained parcel lot number two or the Waldorf School will want to endeavor to do any further development on the plot, it's going to require a much more site specific analysis of what those, where those bank really are. But at least everybody's on notice that those potential development issues exist and since no development's proposed, no additional development's proposed at this time, we believe that's sufficient. The one area with Meredith's comments regarding the language of the easement to be reserved, there's a current access serving the solar farm that runs right through the middle of the project and we're intending to reserve it that national life will reserve that easement through the property. Of late this afternoon we were provided some, as part of our application package we were provided some draft language for that easement. Late this afternoon we were provided some additional language that we believe further addresses the concerns as to the maintenance responsibilities and abilities of individuals to not have a bunch of copies unfortunately. And the red change of what was submitted that further flashes out the ability of the school to maintain the area within this right way allows them to do whatever is necessary to maintain that area as long as it doesn't impede national life's use, to use the access to get back to the solar farm. In addition we would really like to be able to do, to reserve this easement as part of the final exchange of the deed, of the drafting of the deed and conveyance to the Waldorf schools as opposed to a separate easement. So we would ask that the condition that the draft language, if we provide the draft language to staff, which at this point we have, that we could get the condition modified such that the language appear in the final deed as opposed to a separate document agreement that would have to come prior to the issuance of the permit. We'd like to get the permit issued so that we can draft the deed and do this in one document so that those rights remain vested in national life as opposed to having two different documents that, although the potential is slim, that may not always align if it's everything's contained in one document, it's all going to be on the table in one place for everybody to understand the rights and responsibilities of that right away. So the idea would be to take this draft easement language and slip it into the deed. Yes, exactly. Before we go into that, I just want to make sure we check off a couple of boxes. Sure. So this is served by City Water and Sewer. Yes, sir. And the current building has the Waldorf School in the first floor and is the apartment on the second floor, residential, rented. Correct. And those are the only two uses on the property. Yes. On the two-and-a-half acre law one. Right on the law one. The two-and-a-half acre law one, yes. The parcel to be split off and actually split off. I note that just in looking at the staff comments that the current subdivision reports with density, lot size, frontage, and setback requirements, and that the actual buildings inside are within any of the existing setbacks that would be created by this new lot. Although the survey itself doesn't indicate that, but just measuring the distances would indicate that the buildings are within the setbacks. Yes. So we're not creating an inconsistent or nonconforming lot. Correct. I'm satisfied, personally, and just one member with the threat of stream illustration. I think that's just important to indicate to the, to future owners that there is this large feature that will obviously be any type of additional development. Yes. Then the staff findings are also the two lots of division without further development changes. And use will not cause a disproportionate or unreasonable burden on cities' ability to provide community facilities and utilities, not an undue adverse impact on traffic, and that a lot of arrangements are met. I think at this point, then, unless anybody, does anyone have any questions as far as the layout?  No. No. So I think this whole question really then comes down to, do we want to fold the condition about the easement with the deed? And actually, there's a two-step part to that question. First is, and this is the staff comments about, you know, seeking, and I think this comes from public works, seeking clarity, does the revised deed clarify which parties have responsibilities for maintaining the road access, road over the access to easement, and including a condition that the easement be recorded? Wow, that's the second part of the question. So I think that the additional language touches upon that maintenance point that the national life would have the right to maintain the easement, the road to make for its own access purposes. Right. Because beyond being a driveway, lot one, it has no other need for that access. No. No, it's not required to provide frontage or, you know, it's not the primary access to the remaining block two by any means. But it is an accessory. But again, the school would have free run of it as long as they didn't do anything to obstruct national life's access through there. No storage containers in the middle of the road. No plate. No plate bends. Right. As far as where the easement deed goes, I'm satisfied that it be a representation that or a condition that any deed transferring lot one contain the easement language. And, you know, I think we've always been not inclined to tell people how to write their easement deeds because of legal formalities of it. I think the language that's been included, not going to give a legal opinion on it, but it certainly meets the areas that we had raised from a zoning perspective and from a city perspective. So I don't have a problem with the condition just simply saying that a road maintenance agreement similar in form with the elements shown in the sample be contained in the deed transferring lot one. That's... Makes sense to me. There's no reason to require a separate easement document. I think it should just be in the deed transferring the property and I think it's appropriate just to condition the approval on that. Okay. I guess I would say that we just say it needs to be recorded regardless of how it's recorded. That doesn't have to be necessarily in that deed or it could be a separate. Yeah, we can just simply record it as part of either a separate agreement or as part of a deed. I mean, I don't feel as if we need to tell the applicant how to do it. Right. No, I think that's a fair point. Okay. So I think there's a general consensus. Does anyone have any other questions about this subdivision? I just...maybe you could summarize. I know you've been back and forth with the Public Utility Commission and maybe not getting an answer at National Life Fest too. Nationalized lawyers have been back and forth. Okay. They have reviewed the approval for the sole affair. Okay. And the answer from them, and I believe it was provided by email, by the Attorney Frank, one turk of it, two Meredith, I do not have a copy of that handy. Their review says there's no issue. I don't know that bearing some sort of formal application in front of the commission that we would have a formal answer from them in any fashion. But the feeling of the attorneys that have reviewed it on National Life's behalf is that this doesn't, in any way, impact that approval. I mean, my sense for that issue at least is that becomes incumbent upon National Life, which is if by selling this parcel and not including certain language in an easement, they come to violate their certificate of public good, it's, you know, they can always come back and ask for an amendment. And I don't think that's necessarily anything we need to condition it on. Yeah, I would tend to agree. I don't, I mean, I think, I mean, we can give zoning permission and it can turn out to be, you know, completely counteractive to the PUC CPG, in which case then it's incumbent upon the applicant to then figure out a way forward. Yeah. Absolutely. Absolutely. And they've had, at this point, ample titles. One of the first things I brought up when they first brought us the project on about doing this was that just want to make sure. Actually, though, I do want to ask one question at least. Do the utility lines for the power of that solar farm, do they stay on lot two where they cross over a lot one at any point? I have not the foggiest idea. It seems unlikely that they would have come down between the buildings there. The utility pole where, I shouldn't say I don't have a slightest idea, that's not completely true. The utility pole where the risers are is over here on the frontage where the conduits run up the pole. How they get there, I don't know. We didn't see any evidence of a trench. I think that it would be behoove them unless they have some as-built information which hasn't been provided to us. I would agree that it would probably behoove nationalite to make sure that that is covered in language. I mean, I think that's, again, that sort of easement language that doesn't necessarily affect our review but may down the road be something that they want to pay attention to before they have to ask for it after a transfer. Any other questions? Yes, Kate. I noticed a red highlighted comment from staff on page 13 which says regarding landscaping. It says the final plan does comply with section 3506F landscaping requirements. But the comment reminds the board that we may just consider and have the option of requiring additional planning between the community garden access road that we'll both found for Lot 1 and the preschool play area. So I'm flagging that as a staff comment that we've been invited to consider. What's the feeling of the board? And to picture the space between the playground and the community garden. It kind of goes up a little like this, right? Yep. It's up from what I think this play area was actually a horse cow or something. But it actually does rise up from here up to that field right there. It's unmaintained primarily. It just appeared to be the annual bush hogging, unmaintained field. I know that the landscape requirement says that one of the justifications for additional landscaping is to maintain and provide privacy both for adjoining property owners and between the lots within the subdivision. But looking at this and what you just said, we've kind of got topographic screening already on the Lot 1, between the western part of Lot 1 and New Lot 2. Did I have that right? Yes, Lot 1 and Lot 2. And then we have existing screening in the form of big tree on the other Lot line. So I think it's satisfied. The wooded gully certainly is separating it from the other residential uses to the east. Yep. It's helpful for me to know that we have the option to think that through if there's more benefit to be had that meets the zoning requirements. But my rate of it is that the benefit of additional landscaping would be marginal and that I would not ask for more. Yeah, I would agree. I mean, especially given that, you know, it's a community garden. I think if development were proposed additional development on either of these lots, then it might be more appropriate to consider additional screening for that development. But yeah, like you say, screening a play area that's already at a different elevation from a community garden doesn't seem like something that we should be requiring people to do. And aesthetically, I think it's pleasing the way it is teamwork. Good. Thanks. Any other questions or any other issues? Hearing none, I will entertain a motion if someone wishes to make it. Sure. I'll move to approve application Z-2018-0143 for two lot subdivision as presented in the application dated November 21st, 2018 in the support of materials. Subject to the following conditions within 180 days of the decision and prior to issuance of a zoning permit, the applicant shall record a final survey plot in the Montpelier Land Records for the procedures detailed in section 4405 of the zoning regulations and record with the city, either in the deed or in a separate agreement, an agreement moralizing the location rights and responsibilities associated with the access easement. I may have made a slight typo. I'm just suddenly questioning whether or not the recording of the subdivision plot, that's after the permit is issued. I think that was a typo on my part, but I can't remember for sure, to be honest. I just suddenly am totally questioning what I wrote in there. So it is recorded in the agreement? There's still need to record a final plot. Yeah, they still need to record a final plot, but suddenly my brain is going, wait, is that supposed to be after the permit or before the permit? 4405A says, after the Development Review Board approves the final plan, the applicant shall file a final subdivision plot for filing in the city's land record within 180 days. After approval of the project. Correct. So it's after approval, but I mean it's... So I would just strike the prior issuance of a zoning permit? Yes, thank you. Drafting too many garage decisions. So yeah, a condition to get a within 100 days final plot and then somewhere, whether it's in the deed or whether it's a separate agreement, have some language memorializing the easement and the rights and responsibilities of the parties over it. Yep, absolutely. Alright, motion by Ryan. Second. Second by Tom. Any further discussion? Hearing none, all those in favor of the motion, please raise your right hand. Alright, you have your subdivision. I appreciate it. Thank you. I appreciate it. I expect school will. I expect the little children will be cheering. We're going to learn the word subdivision at circle nine. Some children who attended that knew before. Alright, that concludes any of our application business. I'll just note that tonight is the last meeting of the DRV for 2018. Our next regularly scheduled meeting is Monday, January 7th, 2019. But I believe, Meredith, as of today, do we have any applications in the pipeline? We have no applications for January 7th. So if unless you all want to have a meeting to do some training or some other board activity, it should probably be canceled. The next meeting would be January 22nd, a Tuesday. I think for the best way to, we can obviously discuss it, but my recommendation or at least since would be, let's pull the board. Obviously, I've had time off from because of the recusal of the garage. But I know you guys have been working really, really hard on a number of extra meetings. You may want a breather. And in which case, because it's not just the 7th, but it may be the other meeting in January as well. Technically, we don't have an application right now for January. There is one I know of that if they meet the deadline could be on for the 22nd. So one thing that we could do, and we've done this before, is in the winter when it's slow, we've gone to one meeting a month and just simply made that the mid month meeting. And we could, if we had an agenda, you know, obviously either do some training or discussion of other issues as they arise. But I think it may make sense to have that sort of by pull the whole board, have Meredith send out an email to each of us. And what I would encourage is not for us to discuss that, but to give Meredith our feedback as to what we thought. She could then compile it and, you know, basically see if there is a consensus for some type of training meeting or to have the 7th off or because I think we'll get a cut at this in February is my sense is that we'll probably have a meeting, a short meeting in January, the second meeting. And then February, we're likely to have the same situation where we may have one or two applications just because it's the winter. But there would certainly be time at that point. And it is the holidays, people may have plans or vacations. Certainly open to how people want to proceed. Mr. Chair, your idea sounds good to me. Maybe you can add to that by suggesting that when Meredith surveys us, you collect ideas of the kinds of things would like to be trained on, not necessarily so that staff can scramble to train us by the 7th, but so that there's a running list of things we might be interested in. So if these do come up again, there's actually time for us to make a reasonable request for some training. And that way you can kind of have in the pipeline some information for us. So that even if it's six weeks from now, we have a little bit of time. It won't be unreasonable to ask you to tell us more about open meeting law or whatever we're excited about. Yep. Nope. That's Mike and I had a very similar discussion earlier today. Excellent. Thanks. Good. That's a general consensus. Yes. Anyone have any other new business or any other issues they wish to bring over here? All right. Hearing none, I will take a motion for adjournment. So moved. Motion by Tom. Two seconds. Seconded by Rob. All those in favor, please raise your right hand. We are adjourned. Thank you all very much. Have a happy new year.


NASA's lead study suggests we may not recognize extraterrestrial life when we see it or vice versa. With all the hype about the heralding of the modern space frontier, we are questioning many different perspectives and top of the list is the age-old subject is, of course, alien life or more specifically, intelligent life that is not human. Some of NASA's leading space boffins have spoken out about the possibility alien life on other planets looks nothing like that on Earth. Exploring the concept in a series of papers published in the scientific journal Astrobiology, NASA experts in astronomy, biology and geology re-evaluated the markers indicative of alien life. Until now, scientists have primarily scanned the stars for atmospheric signs of oxygen, a key element in the development of life here on Earth. But what if alien life forms thrive in low oxygen atmospheres? Wait to hear this. We're moving from theorizing about life elsewhere in our galaxy to a robust science that will eventually give us the answer we seek to that profound question. Are we alone? The assessment comes as a new generation of space and ground-based telescopes are in development. NASA's James Webb Space Telescope will characterize the atmosphere of some of the first small rocky planets that it observes. Other observatories such as the giant Magellan telescope and the extremely large telescope both in Chile, by the way, are planning to carry sophisticated instruments capable of detecting the first biosignatures on far away worlds. Through their work, scientists aim to identify the instruments needed to detect potential life for future missions. The detection of atmospheric signatures of a few potentially habitable planets may come sooner than we could ever have anticipated, although whether the planets are truly habitable or have life will require humans to actually go there. It makes you wonder, does it not? What's the point of searching for places we currently don't have the technical ability to reach? Wouldn't it make more sense to develop warp drive or light speed or space jumps? Whatever you want to call it. Doesn't it make sense to have the means of travel first? Well, what if they do? It really is no major secret that the government has been plowing trillions into these types of projects for decades. For all we know, they already have an arc ready to evacuate the Earth and go to these far away places. We always wonder about the whole Orion correlation concept. Could this type of evacuation have happened before? The last cataclysm and the Orion markers are the arrow to where they went. Since we won't be able to visit distant planets and collect samples anytime soon, so they say. The light that a telescope observes will be all we have in the search for life outside our solar system. Telescopes can examine the light reflecting off a distant world to show us the kinds of gases in the atmosphere and their seasonal variations as well as colors like green that could indicate life. These kinds of biosignatures can all be seen on our fertile Earth from space, but the new worlds we examine will differ significantly. For example, many of the promising planets we have found are around cooler stars, which emit light in the infrared spectrum rather than our sun's high emission of visible light. We have to be open to the possibility that life may arise in many contexts in a galaxy with so many diverse worlds, perhaps with purple-colored life instead of the familiar green-dominated lifeforms of our own planet. Rather than measuring a single characteristic, scientists argue that we should be looking at a suite of traits. A planet must show itself capable of supporting life through its features and those of its parent star. We won't have a yes or no answer to finding life elsewhere. What we will have is a high level of probability that a planet appears alive for reasons that can only be explained by the presence of life. Is it really that important to leave the Earth in the future? Will our civilization even survive long enough to do so? And is the work simply the foundation stones to future space travel? Consider the age of the universe, the age of the solar system, and indeed the age of the Earth. Us humans have popped up out of nowhere in the grand scheme of things, and there was a long period in time where humans or indeed aliens and possibly any form of anything whatsoever never existed. If aliens or the gods created us, who created them? And before the creation of the creators of the gods, who created that civilization? It goes all the way back to a single starting point of everything, right? But how long did the period where there was nothing stay dormant? And how did it become dormant? If there was a period of nonexistence of anything, then surely there must have been something even before there was nothing. And before that, what was there and what is the universe and what exactly surrounds the vast vacuum? What's going on? Anyway guys, what do you consider the truth to be? It's below and as always, thank you for watching.


I remind members that if the amendment in the name of Miles Briggs is agreed, then the other amendments will fall. The question is that amendment 2158.2 in the name of Miles Briggs, which seeks to amend motion 2158 in the name of Richard Lochhead, on the UK Shared Prosperity Fund and the UK Government's levelling up agenda in Scotland, be agreed, and members should cast their votes now. The vote is now closed. I call Rachel Hamilton for a point of order. I would have voted yes. Thank you, Ms Hamilton. We'll ensure that it's recorded. The result of the vote on amendment 2158.2 in the name of Miles Briggs is yes, 29, no, 89. There were no abstentions. The amendment is therefore not agreed. The next question is that amendment 2158.3 in the name of Rhoda Grant, which seeks to amend motion 2158 in the name of Richard Lochhead, on the UK Shared Prosperity Fund and the UK Government's levelling up agenda in Scotland, be agreed. Are we all agreed? No. The Parliament is not agreed, therefore we will move to a vote, and members should cast their votes now. The vote is now closed. The result of the vote on amendment 2158.3 in the name of Rhoda Grant is yes, 23, no, 94. There were no abstentions. The amendment is therefore not agreed. The next question is that amendment 2158.1 in the name of Willie Rennie, which seeks to amend motion 2158 in the name of Richard Lochhead, on the UK Shared Prosperity Fund and the UK Government's levelling up agenda in Scotland, be agreed. Are we all agreed? No. The Parliament is not agreed, therefore we will move to a vote, and members should cast their votes now. The vote is now closed. The result of the vote on amendment 2158.1 in the name of Willie Rennie is yes, 23, no, 95. There were no abstentions. The amendment is therefore not agreed. The next question is that motion 2158 in the name of Richard Lochhead, on the UK Shared Prosperity Fund and the UK Government's levelling up agenda in Scotland, be agreed. Are we all agreed? No. The Parliament is not agreed, therefore we will move to a vote, and members should cast their votes now. The vote is now closed. The result of the vote on motion 2158 in the name of Richard Lochhead is yes, 65, no, 51. There was one abstention. The motion is therefore agreed. The next question is that amendment 2158 in the name of Richard Lochhead, on the UK Shared Prosperity Fund, be agreed. The final question is that motion 2190 in the name of George Adam, on approval of an SSI, be agreed. Are we all agreed? Yes. The motion is therefore agreed. That concludes decision time, and I close this meeting.


There are a lot of myths about reporting somebody missing. One of the misconceptions is that you have to wait a certain amount of time in order to report somebody missing. You don't have to wait 24 hours. You don't have to wait 72 hours. You don't have to wait for them to miss work. Basically, if you are concerned about them and you want to report them missing, you can. In a lot of cases, it's a lot easier for us as law enforcement to find someone if we get a timely report. We hear people saying, well, I didn't want to bother you, so I waited a week to report somebody missing. And at that point, it becomes harder to track people down. Evidence disappears over time. Video recordings don't last forever. Sent trails, if we use tracking dogs to try to get a scent, if somebody's wandered off into the forest, the sooner the better. If you feel that your loved one has gone missing, then you should call local law enforcement immediately and report them missing. Without any delay, you don't have to wait even 10 minutes.


Hey, investor and telereaders, I'm here today with George Glacier, founder, CEO, President and Director of Western Uranium. So George, there's a new found spark of optimism in the Uranium market. What are your thoughts on this? Well, again, I think the announcement by Cameco that they're going to cut production next year, close one mind, certainly can't be bad. Now whether that relates to higher prices in the near term, eventually the supply is going to come into balance and the more production that's cut or withdrawn from the market, the sooner the price will come into balance or increase so that production levels can be justified. Right on. And you guys also recently redived back into the Vanadium market. Can you comment on that and share a little bit of like what direction you're going in? Of course, your Vanadium prices have recovered fairly significantly in the last year. And so we're at a level now where the Vanadium in our properties, some of these mines actually exceeds the value of the Uranium. So in the past, Vanadium has been a secondary product, but it's almost now the primary product for production out of these mines. Cool. And I know the last time you were here, we were talking briefly about your Appalachian technology. Did I say that? Appalachian. Appalachian technology. Has that further developed? Have you been using it a lot on your Vanadium and Uranium property? We've done testing on it, definitely. We've tested on the Vanadium and it works well for the Vanadium. So that's the other plus, the technology is ready to go as soon as the prices recover or justify production, which are getting closer all the time. And also, I was reading one of your recent news releases and I know you partnered recently with an oil and gas company on one of your properties. Can you like share a little information about this? Well, we're not in the oil and gas business, so there is oil and gas possibilities for some of the properties. So since that's not our specialty, we basically did enter into an arrangement with a company to develop the oil and gas on that property. And what was the inspiration behind that partnership? Well, obviously, we don't want to expand out into a commodity that we don't really specialize in, and they do. So again, to recognize values for the shareholder was best to turn the oil and gas interest. Only the oil and gas interest on that property. There's still Uranium and Vanadium on it, but only the oil and gas interest would be basically developed by the experts in that area. Right on. And what do you think shareholders can expect to hear in the next coming quarters or the next few months of what's going on with Western Uranium? Well, you know, if the market continues to move in the direction that it's moved in the last week, I think there will be some announcements of when we plan to start production. We need to reach a certain level of Uranium and Vanadium prices. Vanadium's already there. So now if we reach a certain level of the Uranium price, then you could expect maybe an announcement of our plan to start up our first facilities. That could be announced in the next quarter to the next six months. Perfect. Well, thank you, George, for joining us today. And for our investor intel audience, please feel free to comment below in the comment section and let us know what you thought. Thank you.


The political and economic system is stacked against everyday people. Here's a few reasons why. Labor will make more money charging interest on your hex or student debt than they will off their new taxes and oil and gas corporations. While house prices, rents and mortgages continue to skyrocket, they are handing out hundreds of billions of dollars in tax concessions to property investors and landlords. Labor continues to support Israel as it carries out a genocide in Gaza, refusing to even call for a permanent and immediate ceasefire and pausing aid funding for Palestine. People are being crushed under the weight of bills, whether it be groceries, whether it be rents, mortgages, health care costs. Meanwhile, corporate profits continue to soar. It is easy to lose hope in that situation, but the thing is that's exactly what the political establishment wants you to do. They want you to turn away from the horrors in Gaza and lose hope that we can help win peace together. They want you to believe it's impossible to scrap student debt and make uni free again, even though so many politicians in this place have got uni for free themselves. They want you to believe that we can't tax the super-profits of big corporations and use that money to give people the things they need to live a good life—a good, affordable home, free health care and education. They want you to feel powerless and that you can't change anything yourselves. But here's the thing. We know the power of collective organising. We know the power of everyday working people coming together and fighting for a better future, and it's time we show the political establishment what that looks like.


Hello, everyone. Thank you for attending this lightning session on Confirient Canary Deployment to production with STO. Today, I will be sharing a case study or the use case of using the STO service base at our financial platform, Oyster Financial. So I am Raju Dawardi, Site Rediivity Engineer at Oyster Financial and a Google Developer Expert in Cloud, as well as building JBox and the Cloud native community in Kathmandu. So talking about briefly on Oyster Financial, so we are a Mexico-based fintech startup, which is mostly targeted for the freelancers, startups, and small and medium-sized businesses so that they will get a banking account and a debit card within a few days. And we recently raised a large street down in Latin America and were distributed in multiple time zones of the US, Mexico, Nepal, and India.  So starting from the early days, which was late 2018, we started with five services, which had grown up to 18 in the span of more of one and a half years with both GRPC and the SCTP services. And from the early days from the day one, we started adopting STO service base. We set a lot for managing the traffic routes between those applications, keeping our cluster and the services secure, communication between them using the MTLS or the ingress gateways, ingress gateways, and also with the integration of the application load balancer of AWS, we gained more security in terms of the firewall as well. So talking about the deployment and the releases, we created a new, we triggered a new build of the Docker image when you create a new Git tag and role. Any of those services, whether it be GRPC or the SCTP, run inside the STO service base. And there are multiple naming spaces for managing each of the tenant of those applications. But they can communicate, but we still keep it secure by using the policies between them and have a very good health-seeking mechanism for taking the liveness and the readiness probes. And there are two cases, like for solving the internal users and for the live users, for getting us more confident during the release time. And for that, in the early days, we built two stacks of our application, one for the live users, which is called green, and another one for the internal users, which is called gray. So that means we had two instance of the same service, one for the live users and another for the internal users, the green and the gray. That was not quite of solving things for us, because we had to run two stacks of our application that was not only the resource consuming, but also we felt like we are dealing with them in this way, and though we were following the microservice architecture. And even by testing in the gray segment, that didn't give us more confidence for releasing to the live users. And also, it felt like we were using a kind of staging environment. It would have been better if we can plug in any of the new service to the green environment. So for that, we started applying the studio virtual service routing based on headers so that before releasing the app to the green users or the live users, then the internal user can test the rest of the green version of the services, but can also use the specific gray version. So in this case, we can see the internal user can test the gray version of the user service along with the green version of the rest of the services. So we can directly plug in any of the test version of our application without impacting the live users. And when we are confident, then we release that. And also further the integration of the third parties or our partners that used to work mostly with the dev and the staging environment. But that was not too expected for in that way to run inside the production environment. So we had to do a lot of digging to get the proper response from the third parties or the partners. So in that scenario also, by testing the endpoints for the internal users before releasing to the live users that gave us very much flexibility and confidence in us. So for that, we use the Istio routing rule of the virtual service and the destination rule. The virtual service basically with the mobile apps sending the header. So in this case, that they need gray B1. So the header will be sent from the mobile to the API and to all of the services. And based on that, the routing will be done with that to be sent to the gray version or the green version. And for the destination rule, we have the two deployment with different label with the instance that will separate that will be the green or the gray release of the app. So when the internal user do the testing and we're really good to go, we don't release the version to all of the live users. But we split the traffic to 30%, 70% or 25%, 75% and we gradually roll out to the rest of the users based on the error rates and the monitoring matrix as well as our own golden signals of the business metrics. So for that also, the virtual service with the integration or the user combination of the header logic as well as the weightage of the traffic to be splitted that helped us for not releasing the whole of the stack of the application or the full version application to all sets of the users. So during this transformation, we faced few of the challenges because the header has to be sent from the mobile to the API and to rest of all of the services. But in some cases, while doing the GRPC call, in some of the asynchronous calls, some services didn't send the header to the unknown service and we handled that very nicely. And we started adopting the event-based services. So let's say if one of the services has to subscribe to Kafka topic or publish to Kafka topic, then if that has to be rolled out to the gray segment, then we started creating two topics for the one purpose, one for the green and one for the gray topic so that the gray version of the service will listen or subscribe to the gray topic and another to the green. So also, let's say there was a case like the gray version of the event-based service has to call to the gray or the green version of the unknown service. So in that case, the event-based service inject the header based on the inherent variable presented in it. Also, the syncing with the mobile app team because the mobile has to send the header and we need to be in sync with the mobile app development team as well as the back-end development and the operations. So from that, we started keeping all of the configuration to the version control so that we all were in a very good sync. And for gaining the extra confidence, we made a very good use of Kiali, which is present as an add-on in Istio as well as Yeager and Prometheus. So with the use of Kiali, we are able to scan our Istio configs if they are outdated or if they are not good or if there is any problem in those configuration. And also, the routing things like service is calling to a service and what is the latency? What is all of those traffic handling between those services? Though that is for a small depression of the time offered by the Kiali. And also for keeping traces of our application, we used Yeager and by using the Yeager as Istio add-on we didn't have to implement all of those tracing lines to each of our microservice, which are very good overhead. And so that took us a lot of engineering resource also, the time and the resource, both. So and for the monitoring part, we built a central monitoring dashboard with the use of Grafana and pulling the Prometheus metric from the cluster itself, but also from the service mesh or from the Istio service mesh. And by setting the threshold of the monitoring, we get a very good alerting things to our on-call system PESA duty as well as Slack. So that will be proactive in terms of the error response or the latencies and those golden metrics of the business logics as well. But while doing these things, there was a lot of yamls. There were the yaml file or the manifest file of the Q&A days as well as the Istio routes and all of those things. And it is very hard to keep them centralized. So we started using Helm for managing all of the Istio configuration as well as the application, the deployment service and all of those things so that we are confident that either all of those configs are applied or none of those are there. And also development team started taking the ownership of adding the in-marlin variable or tweaking a few of those configuration inside the Helm. So that took us a very good path to our DevOps model. So that all obviously centralized all of the resource control for the Q&A days part or for handling the resources of the Q&A days. So by the use of Istio, we're really fast enough for serving our business requirement and getting it done at a very small span of time and without impacting a lot of customer at once. So that is a very cheering point for us. So that's it for now. Okay, bye-bye.