Good evening, everybody. Thanks for joining us. This meeting is just for your information is being recorded for those who are in the tenant tonight will be available on the website. So, just so for your information, my name is Bradley Radovich. I'm part of the Fort Worth department transportation, public works and capital delivery team. I'd like to talk a little bit tonight about this project, this upcoming project city for being done by the city of Fort Worth. I'm the project manager for this for this upcoming improvements at the intersection of. University drive and West 5th street. Thank you for attending this meeting. We hoped that this will be. Almost as good as being at a live presentation. So, we'll try to make it our best. In order to make it clear as possible for everybody, please. We can hold the questions to the end or I'll open a time for question and answer at the end. And you can also use the chat function. To ask questions during the presentation, my colleagues are going to be monitoring that. And we'll address them as well after this formal part of the presentation, which should only take. And 10 to 15 minutes or so at the most. It's very short. So. See, I don't Jeff, I don't see. Ms. Beck, so I'm going to introduce some of my colleagues tonight. The lead engineer for the project is Ganesh Gopalan. He is with us tonight. He's a professional engineer from incorporated in Dallas. The consulting engineer Raul Lopez. He's my boss, my associate, my program manager for the arterials in the transportation and public works department. And last, but not least is Jeff Allen. Jeffrey Allen of TPW's communications specialists. So. He's the one that makes all this possible for for me to be here tonight. So. Hopefully, everybody can see the slide. Let me know if you can't. So, this the agenda for tonight, this is this presentation is meant to provide information for the public for you about the scope of the project. And it's currently this project's currently advancing through the design phase. We're going to also talk touch on the schedule and budget. The primary objective of the project is to signalize the intersection. To optimize the traffic operations and improve safety. For the motoring public and pedestrians in this site. So. Pretty simple that 1, so this is a overview of the site project location. This project's located at the intersection of course of West 5th and university drive again. It's about 2 miles west of city hall in the Linwood area. The traffic conditions exist currently at the site and include a stop condition. For West 5th street in each direction. University drive is a through traffic. It's through traffic in the north, south direction 2 lanes. 2 through lanes on a left turn in each each direction. West 5th street is a single lane in each direction currently and will be at the end. This project basically will address safety and traffic flow locally at this at this intersection. So currently there's the 2 stop signs are indicated here. So, I just wanted to point that make sure. So the project is going to improve the traffic flow at this intersection primarily by the installation of traffic signals. And primarily they will protect the left turn movements. From West 5th street on the university drive. In each direction, and it will also give signal protection to left turns on to 5th street. From university drive in both both directions. This this signalization will greatly improve the safety of all turning vehicles. Particularly those turning left. Onto the busy university drive thoroughfare there. So, from each direction of 5th street. We're also upgrading the pedestrian facilities with crosswalks per ramps. Destin signals and making this intersection fully accessible. All elements of the design, of course, will address applicable codes for the new construction of public facilities. I think I'm primarily more familiar with a day, perhaps you are as well. So. That's for pedestrian access. This is an overhead view of the proposed new layout. Of the intersection, the turn lane capacity of university drive. It's going to be is being evaluated and calculating the length needed for left turn lanes to store store turning vehicles. The lane lines, the stop bars, crosswalks, I'll be restriped in this project. Pedestrian ranch and crosswalks will be installed. There will be only 1 walk across university as shown. Here on the north side. The north crossing of. If there and this is the standard usage based on the usage levels of. Best 5th street, we only really need that 1 crossing there. Each corner is going to have push button activators for pedestrian crossing.  I would bet you've seen these typical. Pedestrian push button activation. Signs and buttons, so these will be installed at the site as well. This is just an engineering. View of the same layout, pardon the. Quality of the it's I really wanted just to show that there will. Mass times will be extending here that hold the signal heads. So you'll see, I just wanted to show those locations. It's kind of I understand it's hard to see. I'm sorry. But for indications for say, he's found, you'll see that there's a mass time here with these indicators. So they're pretty visible and they're very it's very common. The locations of these, it's nothing that will confuse anybody. It's just. I just wanted to show it because it's part of the construction and. You know, we have to drill case that's the 1st supports for the foundations. And so. When you see the amount there, I just wanted to make sure that you knew that that was part of what they were doing. So. It shouldn't be an issue for any driver. Well, it's a little bit about the funding it's. It's funded primarily by the 2018, well, totally by the 2018 bond program. The overall budget is $770,000, which includes the engineering. Real estate services, utility coordination, city administration costs, and the construction budget, which we estimate at this point is $400,000. So it's, it's got a little bit of a contingency in there. So, but overall, that's our, our funding for this project. We're currently, as we said before, in the design phase, we're nearing pre final. Design level other activities that are continuing include the utility investigation and the right away. Acquisition process for any real estate that's needed to construct the. The facilities there, we expect to be ready to procure a contractor and start construction by late summer of this year. We expect that construction to take 6 months in total. Ending in January of 2023. We don't anticipate like major impact to traffic patterns during construction, but, you know, there'll be some periodic lane closures associated with the work. We'll work with the contractor to minimize the impact to traffic during construction, of course, especially during rush hours peak hours. As we go forward, that would, that's part of our task. So, and then I told you it was short. So, if it seems short, it seems short to me, but we are excited about the project and implementing these improvements at this location for the citizens. This is my contact information. It's also on the website. We're going to continue to update the website as we move forward with the project. And we appreciate your taking the time with us tonight. So, I'm, I'm open to questions now. And along with my colleagues, perhaps, let's try to answer any questions that you can have. This is Mark Smith. I live in Linwood. Yes, my question is, how is this intersection being signalized going to interact with the unsafe condition that the city put in place when they change the lanes that no one still. Understands at 6, right? So unsafe condition you created already. How is that's going to interact with that? We are aware of the tapering lane coming northbound from West 7th.  Yes, we are going to forward that concern to our profit management staff. So they can look at the condition and restrike or provide additional signage if necessary. It seems like it's only a block away from what you're doing here. You think you'd include it. I understand that will this light yet another light that goes red to university and stays that way until someone sits on the intersection at 530 in the morning when they're trying to go to work like the ones at trail and Lancaster. Right, are you talking about trail driving Lancaster? Well, both of those just recently, after a year, finally don't make you sit on a red every morning at 530 in the morning because they had it set to traffic coming when people are trying to go to work. This one needs to be green to university until someone sits on the signal on 5th and off peak times like that to not create yet another impediment to getting to work. Everybody understand correctly the one at trail and Lancaster has been correct. It finally got corrected after a year. So I'm taking notes so that we can forward these to our traffic management faults. Yeah, let them know I finally, it's super excited that they finally listened. It took a year just like they left the unsafe condition. Just, oh, yeah, the unsafe condition was even more unsafe when they had it strike the other way and they changed it after a week when they figured out they were about to cause deaths. It would just get the feedback. This is, this is the purpose of this meeting so we can learn about things that are going on in addition to that. Are you going to invite more people to use 5th street by making it easier to get on to it? No, the purpose of this project is to allow, there was a study done and 11 accidents occurred within just a single year, the purpose of the signal is to allow gaps for people that are fit to be able to safely turn north on our southbound. Which could increase traffic on 5th street. There is a possibility. Yeah. Just checking. I've got a question, please. Can you hear me? My name is David Dodge and I live at 2913 Mary Mac. I am the zoning chair for the Wood neighborhood association and the West 7th neighborhood alliance. And I guess I have my 1st question is, where did this project even come from? We never heard about it. Until it showed up in the mailbox and on the internet, you know, in the last month and we never had a chance as a neighborhood to weigh in on it. And I think any effort to create more traffic on 5th street is a huge mistake and it's going to back traffic up at Carroll Street, which is already a horrible intersection. And 5th street is in horrible condition. There's speeders on it all the time. And this is going to increase traffic on 5th street. It's also going to increase traffic, cutting through windwood, turning on Templeton, turning on Mary Mac, and cutting through to the apartments. And to me, the correct way to solve the problem that you've got with the Rex is to put bollards out there like 6th street ass. Where you can only turn right into it as you're headed northbound and you can only turn right going out of it on University to head northbound and you can't cross it. But we've already got an arterial at 7th street 2 blocks away. We've got another one at White Settlement 6th blocks away. And we've got a pedestrian walkway 2 blocks away at Bristol. And I don't understand why we're spending 3 quarter million bucks or half a million bucks, whatever it costs to do this. I mean, we got a whole lot bigger problems than this intersection here. And I don't, you know, where did this come from? So, precisely, this meeting is to let public, you know, present the project. This is just the beginning. This is the first meeting that we have. And the signal, this is a signalized product or signal intersection or intersection signalization project. So, the scope of the project is basically signalizing the intersection and then making ADA compliant for pedestrians. That's why the budget is so low and typically signalized intersections, those products are basically a list of intersections, and they're not highly publicized. So, that may be why it's the first time you hear about it. When we have arterials, you know, that are in the bond program, those are those are publicized more than the intersections or signalize signalize intersection intersections is. Regarding traffic increase, I cannot tell you whether this is going to increase or not. It will improve safety. We have shown that there's been 11 accidents within the year. And the purpose of it is, you know, first and foremost, we've got to think about safety. And how many accidents did you pause when you changed it at six? I wouldn't be able to tell you that. So, we'll look at that. We'll forward that to our traffic management falls, traffic engineers division. We'll then have to look at that. I have a, may I speak? Absolutely. Okay. I'm Eva Bonilla, and I'm the media past chair of Linwood neighborhood. And when we were trying to get a signal light at 5th, and Carol, y'all with traffic told us that it was too close to the signal light on 7th street. And to me, it is more, I guess it's more of a casualty to have it at 5th and university than it would have been to have it at 5th and Carol. And so we got a four-way stop sign at 5th and Carol.  I mean, that intersection at university, all at Camp Bowie and all of those, that's worse than just having the 7th street signal light. So may I ask you a question, Ms. Bonilla? You categorize it as worse. Can you elaborate what you mean by worse? Is there more backup or is it safety related as you go northbound? Okay. You said, if everybody says that the signal light is, you know, and now we're talking about the northbound on university for a long time, as soon as it turns green, it's like a speedway. Everybody guesses it to get out, to get over there. And so the speed is increased twice followed this at 7th street and Carol. And the signal deterrence is speeding because you have to watch whether it's yellow or red. So that's one of the deterrence that's because there's no signal, there's no impediment from West 7th all the way to white settlement. That's why people speed that's that's one of the reasons why we will speed by putting the signal on a crosswalk across the road that will make people, and I'm not saying everybody, but that will catch the attention of people and slow down because they know there's a signal coming up and they'll have a red ball at the approach. So you're telling me that the signal at 5th is going to be synchronized with the signal on 7th and university? No, I'm not saying that I'm saying if you if you pass the signal at West 7th, there is a chance that you may not get a red on 5th. Therefore, you'll have to slow down. You won't be able to speed like you do today. Therefore, improving safety. The longer the stretch of road without any impediments, the more people will speed up. Well, people speed because they're frustrated. And all this is going to do is this is going to create a tremendous amount of frustration and people are going to dive down 5th street. So they don't have to wait on another traffic light to take them to 7th street to sit in that left turn lane while it goes through Bailey, Camp Bowie and 7th street and finally allows them to turn left. That you're not solving a problem.  And if you don't repair 5th Street and put up a stop sign or speed bumps. I know you don't like speed bumps. So let's talk about a stop sign at Curry and at Foch. Just to get the traffic to slow down on 5th Street, you're making a huge mistake. And then when they get to Carroll Street, there's parking on both sides of the street at that intersection. And one car can't, two cars can't get through it. So if you're coming out of Montgomery Plaza or you're turning left on Carroll, if there's a car sitting there, you have to wait.  And if you deny it, I mean, we're going to be out there in a year talking about it. But this needs more study. This is not correct. And you're not solving a problem. You're creating a problem. And we appreciate the feedback. And this is precisely what these meetings are all about, about hearing feedback from you all. And I realize this is the first time you hear about it, because we haven't done anything yet. We're in the design phase. So I'm going to forward all this feedback to our traffic engineers for us to talk about it and consider these other options that you're talking about. And you say a stop sign or some sort of return at Kerry and Folk Street would be helpful. Yeah.  And it's going to turn into a drag strip when people that normally go up to 7th and then go left. And so you're going to have to slow them down somehow. But there's already a stop sign, but it has to be like a four-way stop sign there or a three-way, a four-way stop sign. Because there's one on Kerry. And there's one on Folk Street. Yeah. And on Foch. But it's got to be a four-way stop sign for that intersection to stop everything. And then on top of that, I would have you, I would have rather had used the bond money to repair 5th Street because 5th Street is terrible. Nobody repairs it. It's always terrible. 6th Street, 6th Street too. Yeah, 6th, 5th and 6th Street. 5th and 6th Street, I agree. They're both awful. Unfortunately, this is 2018 bond. So that has passed all those, you know, all of that has been you know, voted on 2018. So this, this is the red not until the 2018 bond, I should say. On the 2022 bond, we have a number of other segments. I don't believe that 5th and 6th are there. But again, you know, I'm taking note of these so that we can put them through our, the folks that are do, do the product programming so that we can put them on the list. Right. So what you have now is a fate of complete by only presenting this when it's already gotten to the point where the funding is already allocated to it. Yeah, this was correct. So we can't stop you. Well, I'm not saying, I'm not saying you can't stop it. If we look at it and if it doesn't make any sense, we might do something else. We're getting the feedback and we're going to look at it. Now, putting the signal or not putting a signal doesn't have any impact on whether the street in that shape or not surface wise. But those are two different things, whether that's going to increase traffic or not. We'll have to look at, we'll have to look at traffic patterns and see if it is likely that's going to increase traffic patterns. Let me ask you. You, you know, I'm confused why you wouldn't have done a traffic study before you started the project. I'd have to talk to our traffic management folks. They created the project. I'm sorry. I don't have those details. I don't know. I've raised my hand for a long time, but I don't really know how this worked. It sounds like we just need to start speaking. But what I'm hearing is basically very logical information from the people who live in the area and travel that road daily multiple times and illogical information from the people who don't. I do travel down that road multiple times a day. And I'm in complete agreement with what other people have voiced. Putting a traffic signal there, especially if it's not going to be synchronized, will be a really bad idea. There used to be three lanes on university and now those shrink to two exactly at fifth. And a lot of cars go to the far right lane to cut it to the person in front of them. So if there's a traffic light there, there is going to be all those people on the right lane who all they want to do is cut in front. But that's going to be causing more accidents. Also, I don't see why if the concern is that there are vehicles making left turns onto university. I don't see why putting a sign that says no left turn on both sides of West Fifth wouldn't solve the issue. That seems a lot more logical. And if the issue is that there is money allocated to the something here and you feel like you have to put some sort of control between Seventh and White Settlement, it seems like the best way to do that would be to maybe change that signal at Bristol and make that a traffic light, at least then you're still breaking up the flow, but not two blocks away from a major intersection. Well, I apologize. Somehow the application just kicked me out of the meeting. So I missed all of that. Can you repeat? I apologize. No, no, that's okay. What I was saying is that I've been listening to what you folks have been saying on both sides and I'm in complete agreement with people who travel that road daily. Unless you travel it daily, then you wouldn't know all the issues that we encounter.  And when the university was changed from three lanes to two lanes, right at Fifth Street, that's where the three lanes end. And a lot of vehicles will move onto that far right lane and then cut in front of traffic. Just like Eva was saying, because they're just rushing through. So if there's a traffic signal there and it's not synchronized with the one at the major intersection, there's going to be a line of vehicles in the far right lane that all they're wanting to do is cut in front of the people who are positioned in the correct lanes. And that is not safe. So to me, the most logical solution would be to have signs on West Fifth that say no left turn. You're not allowed to make a left turn onto university period. Then that solves the issue of the accidents, because having a traffic light two blocks away from the major intersection just doesn't work. If you have money and you need to do something in that stretch between West Seventh and White Settlement, it would make more sense to change what's currently just the pedestrian signal on Bristol and make that a traffic signal. If you have to spend the money on something and you can't be on refinishing the roads, they're terrible. Let me ask you this. If you put that as a traffic signal on Bristol, aren't you inviting people to drive straight into our neighborhood instead? Well, what I'm saying is if the answer to the question, aren't you, instead of making people drive along the bottom edge of our neighborhood, have them drive straight into it? So, as I was trying to say, if their argument is that they have money that they need to spend on some sort of traffic signal on that stretch, then it would make more sense to put it there. But what I- It would make more sense to put it there and then have them drive straight into our house. But like I was saying, what would be the ideal situation is to just put signs on West Fifth that says no left turn. And I agree with you and I hope that they don't listen to the second part of it. And that they certainly don't put a traffic signal on West Fifth. That's just- that doesn't make any sense, safety-wise. So, I appreciate the feedback again. I'm taking notes and I'm looking at the map. Or was it Kerry and Foch? Those are the last two cross streets before we get to University. Oh, when you speak to the- I think you said the traffic signal people? Our traffic engineer and his group, yes. Okay. If you talk to them, tell them an easy fix would be that at the intersection of University and Seventh, heading North, make both lanes on the extreme right turn only to the right onto Seventh Street heading downtown. Right now, the one in the middle that I'm talking about is the one that goes straight or can turn. And unfortunately, it should just turn and that's the one that's causing the problems to get into when they cross over and cut people off. So, if they would make that, the two lanes heading North at University at Seventh, make them both turn right to downtown, it would stop that problem. Well, I have to disagree with that. It makes them turn on the Sixth Street. My business is on Sixth Street and it's pretty easy for them to move right up and turn right on Sixth Street.  No, because that lane would go straight there. It would be like no lane. That would be a two lane wide lane and they could turn on to Sixth Street without being killed. Right now, they're being run over. I don't agree with the traffic pattern that's there right now, but I don't really in favor of two right hand turns when people are sitting there trying to make right hand turns onto Seventh Street from University. I think those two lanes dedicated to right hand turns is not a good idea. Agreed. I don't think it's a good idea to go straight either. Well, let's put it back to the Sixth Lanes that it was when it was when it worked proper. I will put that option again. I mean, will we bring that option on as well? I know this is just recently converted from Sixth Lanes to the 2 of 3. Or 5. Yeah. The problem you see on that turn to that right hand turn onto Seventh Street is if you're on the right hand side or the inside lane and both lanes turn right, some people take that turn to go a wide and it's really tough on the second lane to try to make the right. I think it's a dangerous two dedicated to right hand turn. So I stated that once. I'm sorry to repeat, but sorry. If you don't know the comment, if you I mean, if you ultimately end up doing this, even after the comments that are made here and you put this light in, I cannot understand why you would not make it sink with Seventh Street. That looks like to me, if you go ahead, which I disagree with the use of that area of spending the money to do that. But if it gets done, it makes no sense that it's not synced as far as I'm concerned, but you can have all this traffic flowing north that's not going to be synced on Fifth. You need to let all that traffic get on going down the road. And with the fact that they've caused this problem that stacks traffic up on two lanes instead of three, you probably could have it back up from Fifth all the way to Seventh. Oh, yeah, absolutely would. There's no question about that. It would certainly do that. You would make the Seventh Street, Camp Bury, Bailey, that intersection will become even worse. Yes. Ganesh, do we have a queuing analysis? We don't have the numbers at the moment. But again, coordination is something that would be accomplished with the West Seventh Street is required. And it is required based on the proximity of that location. But what we have noticed again, based on the current traffic patterns, which again, there's a possibility that that can change. But given the current volumes on West Fifth, you know, we don't expect that to take a lot of the green time away from university. So the queuing shouldn't be bad. Again, the main issues that were observed at this intersection were during the peak times, again, achieving those gaps for the left turns, getting out of West Fifth Street was an issue leading to the crashes that Raul mentioned. So, you know, again, during the peak times, the traffic volumes are still not heavy on West Fifth Street, but we're just trying to provide the goal is to protect the few cars that are making that left turn. During the peak times when, you know, university does have quite a heavy flow. And again, as I mentioned, the coordination signals would be coordinated to make sure that, you know, you're not hitting a red once you cross Seventh Street going north or south. And during the off peak, sorry, and during the off peak hours, you know, they would be actuated by a need. So if there's traffic on West Fifth Street, you know, only then there will be a green time provided to them, or otherwise university will stay on green. So off-peak will be steady green unless there's traffic on West Fifth trying to get across. Gordon. Who do we send information to that the, it was mentioned earlier, the trail drive and university intersection and those lights. I travel that way three times a day. They don't work right. They're not synced right, especially the westbound on trail hitting university to make a left hand turn or go straight. They don't work. Who do I call to get someone out there to fix the problem on getting left hand or straight? I can explain it, but it's not the point to do today right here, but it doesn't work and do it five, three times a day. So can you just quickly tell me in what direction? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. If someone's coming from the stock yard area coming east and there, if no one's there and I pull up to make a left hand turn, sometimes that gives me a left hand turn. Sometimes it doesn't. And when it does, it's only like two cars time to get through it. But if you're, if you're, if you're not, if you miss the left hand turn, the green never comes on for you to go ahead and proceed. The green stays off. So I can sit there, miss the left hand turn and I ought to get a green, but I don't get a green because no one was in the right lane to go straight on trail. My point is the left hand turn signal part from trail going west to university is the part that's this screwed up. The new segment of trail drive going west and university. I mean, going, yes, turning west to turn left down to university. That's right. Okay. I'll pass that along for a traffic engineer. Thank you very much. Yeah. This is David Dodson. Am I speaking again? Yes, David. Go ahead. Okay. So I want to go back to solving the problem without a signalized intersection. And Linda's idea of no left turn works great. People can, if they're coming down Fifth Street, they can take a left on Norwood, they can go over the seventh street, take a right and they're at the intersection. They can go anywhere they want to from that intersection. We don't need to signalize it. It would be much better either no left turn or putting bollards out there just like Sixth Street has so that people can't turn left into it as they're headed southbound or can't as they're headed westbound, turn southbound on university. But you are missing the mark so much if you think that this is not going to double the traffic on Fifth Street. And it's also going to increase traffic of people cutting through Inwood period. And I feel like that we need to concentrate on keeping traffic where it was designed to be. And that's on the major streets, White Settlement University, 7th Street. And we don't need to be creating cut-throughs inside of that parameter forum. That makes no sense. Solve the problem by changing the way people react to that intersection. But we don't need to encourage people to take a left because they're frustrated. And that's what's going to happen is people are going to, you know, as they're coming down university headed south and they stop there, they're going to go ahead and make it their habit every time they come to that intersection to turn left down Fifth instead of going up to seventh and turning left. But I don't know how we can go about having another meeting on this, but I'm sure going to reach out to Elizabeth back on it. And, you know, I think that this bears way more study in than what we've given it. It sounds simple to you guys. People that live here, it is not simple.  And the intersection of Carol and Fifth is a quagmire already and it's going to exacerbate that. So it's important to me that we have more dialogue on this. The brakes need to be tapped. And I'm going to reach out to Ms. Dick back tomorrow and find out, you know, how we can go about doing that. So did I agree? Did I hear you right, Mr. Did you say on 6th Street, we put Bollards or something, or we put a no left turn sign? I'm trying. Yeah, there's Bollards out there in the middle of university where you can't turn left. You can't turn east on Fifth Street as you're headed south on university. And you can't cross university. Exactly. As you come out of 6th Street, you have to turn north. There's a median university. There's a medium. It's called a medium. Yeah, you can't go over that medium. Yeah. Yeah. It would be so much less expensive if you extended the medium to Fifth. And that's a lot of problems. That's a lot. We wouldn't do Bollards. We would do a median. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, I wanted to ask another question because we've been asking for a traffic study for our neighborhood for years. They keep promising there's going to be a traffic study. No one has ever done a traffic study for our neighborhood. Well, we can prove the cut through traffic and the inconvenience. And what happens on 5th and 6th? How can we get it? I mean, there's money to put a signal life and no money for a traffic study. Again, I will pass that on to the traffic engineer. I apologize, guys. We deliver the products that they give us. So I'm not a traffic engineer. They say, this is a project. Please deliver this project. So I'll pass that on to Mr. Raj Gupta who's our traffic engineer. And Rajesh Gupta. Do you PTA? Yes. I know him well. Yeah. Okay. So, okay. So we're, you know, we're throwing the idea out there of basically prohibiting left or movements on West, I mean, West 50. Whether it's by sign or by physical impediment, like a median or something. I think that would solve the problem. Okay. Sounds like there's sort of a consensus on that, right? Agreed. Okay. That's good to hear. This is what these meetings are all about. You know, we start with sign, and I wish we would have had an earlier meeting. But with COVID, you know, it just made it a little more difficult. But we'll take this into consideration and we'll talk to Rajesh. And then we will cite for another meeting within the next, I want to say, three months or so to bring you back information. Or we, if you want, actually, if you want to copy everybody put their email address, all those that wanted a copy of the presentation. Yes. Yeah. And we will do a summary of the Q and A questions and answers and provided to put it on the website or email it to those that provide the email address. Anonymous wants to speak. Oh, thank you. So I didn't realize I was anonymous. I'm Nancy Tuff and I'm in the so seven area and do a lot of walking. So I'm very interested in this topic. And I just want to say that I think the idea of a traffic study is excellent because I've noticed a big increase just since the white settlement bridge has been open. So I think you're going to see a lot of different traffic patterns as more people realize that that bridge has is now completed. And especially as more and more apartments are being built in the general West 7th, Linwood, Arlington Heights area. So I love the idea of a traffic study. Okay. That makes sense. And that is correct. You know, with the new white settlement bridge, yeah, a lot of people may not have realized that is that is open. And that's another option for mobility in the area. But thank and thank you for allowing everybody to share their opinions. This was really helpful. That's what these spinning meetings are about getting input. So I just want to double check. I have Eva's email address, Jeff Miller, Don Mackenzie and my Kenji Kitchney, Jill Freer and Esquattro. Anybody else I missed? I haven't entered mine yet. Just take the dots and I'll get mine in. Okay. Take your time. Can you hear me? Yes, we can. Hi, my name is Stacy Shores. I'm the president of Linwood Neighborhood Association. Sorry, I could not point y'all webex because I'm on the road to Tombow. But would you please email me for any information for Linwood? Because I'm on the board. I'm sorry. Yeah, we will email you the presentation if you can maybe still out your email. Stacy, this is Jill Freer. We got you covered. We'll make sure this gets out to the neighborhood. Okay. Because I heard other people but not anybody on the board's email. So I just want to make sure that the board is getting everything. Sorry. I'm in Tombow or I don't know where I'm at. So I'm spotting reception. So just make sure everybody gets the information. Please. Thank you. Thank you. Appreciate it. Thank you so much. Thank you. Yeah. And Raul, I have board member emails. That's not an issue. It's people that aren't on the board that we would need emails for. Okay. Yeah, this is Brenda Vanley. Can you hear me? Brenda, we can hear you. Okay. I work in the building on the corner of fifth and university. And it does seem like in recent times we've had very few accidents. I don't know. The traffic is lighter and the accidents just don't happen during work hours like they did before. But any of the solutions are going to make it very hard to get in and out of those businesses close to that intersection. And I'm. That is the other side of the coin. Yes. Yes, very, very hard to. Especially, I mean, we're like, what, 100 feet from there? And it's not easy now to get out of our parking lot. And it's going to make it very difficult. But the median would be easier to get out of the parking lot.  And my email is j.punnerpal. I've entered it. I don't know if you have it there or not. At Gmail. So what is your email again? at j.punnerpal at gmail.com. Thank you. We'll just give it a few minutes to see if anybody else has any questions or anybody that joined late. I've got a lot, a lot to talk about with Raj. Sounds like we don't have any more questions. So we appreciate everybody's attendance and this great input. Again, we'll site for another meeting within the next two to three months and then we'll post, we'll send this presentation to all those that provided the email address. We'll post the the recording on the city's website. We do have a project site, right? Right, Jeff? Yes. We'll post it there and then we will provide questions and answers or post the question and answer right up for everybody to look at and review. Thank you very much and have a good evening. Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you. Jared. Good night, everyone. Good night. Thank you.


Hi everyone, this is Jason here from Nathaniel and in this lesson We are going to look at what I call as displaced octave arpeggios a nice technique to take some commonly used arpeggio patterns like This and make it sound very unique and develop a very original vibe If you will to suit like a hook which you could make in your song Okay, and make your arpeggios really stand out and be rememberable So this particular lesson is part of an entire lesson series If you will on how to make arpeggios unique original Professional and whatnot. So check out the description There's a playlist and a lot of links to show you other lessons which I have done on this subject I love talking about arpeggios and there are a lot of lessons Which we've done and which I want to keep doing, okay? And if you haven't already it'll be great if you could turn on that bell for notifications and Subscribe to our channel if you haven't already it'll be awesome to have you on board. Okay, so let's get started with displaced octave arpeggios So if you take four chords in this exercise, I'm taking E minor G major D major and A major okay four chords Now commonly used approach which you will find to play arpeggios would be just played in a cyclic loop starting from the bottom. It'll be something like In this case L M H M L M H M L M H M So it's a very commonly used arpeggios style, right? And I have taught the commonly used stuff as well in the check out the description and all the links are there for you to Watch. Okay. The whole point of this lesson is to make the arpeggio pattern sound unique and Original. So now if you take the same thing L M H M L M H M So what I mean by displaced octave arpeggios is where you take the bottom note or the top note of the chord and Instead of repeating it at the same point in this case the bottom point So that'll be L M H M Low middle high middle instead of repeating that again. We can keep it a bit interesting by Repeating it an octave above.  So E G B G E G B G It's still E G B G E G B G But E G B G E G B G That's a displaced octave as I'm calling it. So you have E G B G E G B G Yes, it appears as though there are four notes, but there are only three unique notes The fourth note is a repetition of one of the notes. So E G B G E G B G Why don't you play it along with me and keep four fingers ready for this arpeggio? You need four because there are four notes one got to be displaced here. So thumb index middle and the pinky thumb and the pinky are important while playing octaves of any form So you go L M H M L M H play along L M H M L M H M L M H M Okay, so that's E minor then we have G major which I'm playing like this using the inversion So that's D G B. So you need to again copy the D up top Okay D G B G D So let's do the two chords E minor and G major G major E minor again G major Get used to the grip and then change over to the other chord D major. This is the normal shape Okay, so if I do L M H M L M H M tends to sound a bit redundant or repetitive. So H M L M H M I play the top L, okay Lastly a major I'm playing E A C sharp and again take the low note find its octave E E and you get yourself a displaced octave arpeggio So let's look at all our chords again E minor Get used to the hand hold and the fingers G major I'm using my ring finger here G major Now D major A major Okay, so for some chords I need my ring finger for the third note for some chords I need my middle finger for the third note. Let's put it all together and play along if you can E minor G major D major A major G major A major little faster and count one and two and three and four And one and also put in some expression one way is obviously volume can keep changing Get louder get softer Also, you can use the pedal The pedal creates those overtones You could also highlight the drum kit you can look at accentuating the snare drum Play the snare hits whatever you imagine as the snares a little harder And yeah, I've also done a separate lesson on this on how to make your arpeggios go from nice good sounding to Pro level so check that out as well in the description Okay, so this is about an octave displaced arpeggio and we've displaced the Note at the low point or in the left or the bottom note Let's now displace it from the top note or the high note if you will so I need to re-angle my fingers a bit Taking B there and I can do start with the high note high middle low middle high middle low middle Now this sounds nice Doesn't sound very unique So to make it unique take the high note find its octave What is this note B find B here and try to? Displace the B every alternate time. So B G E G B G E G B G E G B G E G right another interesting sound Then and then Those are your cards, so let's try and play this up to speed Right so for the most part you could take one of the notes of your chord L and create a unique arpeggio by Taking that note and playing it up an octave or you can take the top note and put that down an octave right or if you just take the bottom note and take it up an octave and you know alternate that that itself should sound very unique and very interesting it creates a very guitar like or a banjo like or a finger style kind of chord arrangement pattern right because these instruments like the guitar or the banjo or a mandolin They have a lot of strings and people play them with three or four fingers And they are able to look at all sorts of finger permutations and when we play chords again, it's three or four notes So it's important to just get accustomed to things which you would find string players do and this whole technique Pretty much came from what string players do right you would observe guitar players doing this bread and butter for them. It's just a standard pattern and We just try to play it. We just try to follow them and create a unique sound and I think this approach is very logically Understandable because it's the same note is just copied up and that makes it unique because the pitch gets displaced Right guys again. This is Jason here from Nathaniel. Thanks a ton for watching this lesson And if you haven't already, please make sure to subscribe to our YouTube channel turn on the bell icon for Notifications and share the lesson with all your friends. Cheers


It's wonderful to be here in Illry once again, and wonderful to be with friends who many of I've known for a very long time. I want to give a little bit of an overview of some of the questions and some of the challenges that we face in this area that we've come together to discuss, just to set the scene for the workshop. As we all know, over the last decades there have been huge investments in trying to address disasters in the dry lands of eastern Africa, or the Greater Horn. You only have to travel around Northern Kenya, as we have been doing in the last few weeks, to see signs of numerous projects that focus on drought, on livelihoods, on social protection, on resilience, and many more. Indeed, under Kenya's Vision 2030 program, the government laid out an ambitious plan to end drought emergencies by 2022. But of course it's 2024 now, and as Bonnie mentioned, the region has been through one of the worst droughts this century and is only beginning to start the process of recovery. So what's gone wrong? Or what's going wrong? Our policies and practices that we have been pushing seem not to be making their mark. There seems to be, as Peter mentioned, a disconnect. So maybe we need to rethink how we go about these processes of early warning, anticipatory action, humanitarian response, and resilience building. Everyone uses those words, but what do we mean by them? And how do we rethink them in a way that actually they might have some impact? As has already been mentioned by Rahma, the workshop brings together three different projects all at the early stages of implementation, and all are committed to interrogating this disconnect from different angles. And this workshop, as Rahma said, is an attempt to try and link this. The projects make connections, but more importantly, make connections with all of you as other researchers, policymakers, NGO practitioners, and others, so that we can work on this together. There's a joint effort, because I think the task is urgent. Millions of dollars are spent each year on humanitarian aid and emergency responses alongside the many development projects, building early warning systems, developing insurance products, planning irrigation schemes, implementing countless resilience projects. But we have to ask together, as a community, honestly and openly, if these efforts genuinely are building resilience in the drylands, so that people are building their capacities to avert disasters, sustain livelihoods, and rebuild after inevitable shocks arise. So I think there are a number of challenges that we all must face, and I hope we can discuss some of these in this workshop. First, I think we need to ask, what is the system we're working with? In the drylands, this is often pastoralism, a complex system involving mobile livestock, as we all know, often involving connections with trade, with agriculture, and other activities. But rather than us thinking of what's sometimes called alternative livelihoods, getting out of pastoralism, as some of these projects aim to do, how can resilience be built within this system with pastoralism at the core? Because pastoralism is central to most people's livelihoods, even if it fluctuates in its importance for different people at different times. And this will be the case for the foreseeable future. The end of pastoralism has often been proclaimed, but pastoralism persists. Pastoralism is an important livelihood, even if the form of pastoralism, as we know, changes. So we need a better understanding, a better knowledge of fast changing pastoral systems and to banish forever some of the myths about pastoralism that are plagued policymaking in the drylands since the colonial era. And that, those myths and misperceptions, I think, affect the way we frame projects and frame interventions in the drylands and result in some of these disconnects and some of these failures I talked about. Second, I think we need to think about how droughts and other disasters are seen on the ground and from the ground. These aren't just single events that can be predicted and managed as risk, but they emerge from complex systems. They're always uncertain. We don't know about the probabilities or the outcomes of any particular combination of events. And they're always compounding and combining. Disasters and emergencies are seen very often from the offices as singular, as moments where an emergency response must be organized. But if you sit on the ground and you look at emergencies, then the time and the framing of these looks very much different. And of course, they combine. Some people just work on drought. Some people just work on conflict. Others work on diseases.  A drought is much worse if there is conflict, excluding your capacity to go to a certain range land. Livelihoods are much more constrained in certain areas if land is being grabbed and so on. So rather than assuming that we can develop a simple technical fix, a satellite early warning information system, an insurance product, an irrigation scheme or whatever, we need to think how such interventions work in the system that we're thinking about in context. The same goes for humanitarian and emergency relief. Of course, there are key moments when external support through cash transfers or food aid is essential. But especially when programs persist over time, as many do, we must ask how they can link to longer term development and build not undermine resilience as they too often do. And third, we need to ask how reliability is generated in such variable uncertain settings so that disasters are averted on the ground. Droughts, floods, conflicts, diseases, market crashes and combinations of all of the above are not going to go away. And with climate change, of course, variability will only increase. So as we learn from other studies of so-called critical infrastructures where the supply of essential goods and services must be assured, it's the professionals in the system and their networks that are the heart of making sure reliability is assured. But too often there are disconnects. Again, arise because external experts arrive, donor agencies, relief agencies, NGOs, government officials and others and think they have the solution. But actually reliability can only be generated by working closely with the women and men on the ground who continuously must manage grazing, ashore water supplies, keep the peace, transport products to markets, supply emergency fodder and so on. All of these activities are essential, but understanding how this is done by whom, when, through what relationships with which resources is vitally important for building resilience from below. And further, we must ask how such practices can be supported, shared and extended rather than overlooking these practices and imposing alternative solutions that don't mesh with a system that we're trying to support. So we should avoid arriving at another resilience project, another alternative livelihood project, another emergency intervention that diverts the energies, the focus and unnecessarily takes up people's time and focus on building reliability at the center of people's systems, building resilience from below. So those three things are challenges. There are many more, but I hope our discussions today, we can begin to unpack some of the policy practices, practice disconnects in early warning, anticipatory action, humanitarian response and resilience building, but particularly the connections between all of them, and get to grips with why we have so often failed. But perhaps more importantly, think together how we can do better in the future. So thank you.


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Hey everybody, it's Brian. Welcome to the 15th Flutter Tutorial. We're going to continue on our learning curve of Dart. We're actually getting towards the end of this here. If we go ahead and jump into language and then do a tour of Dart, you can see that we've covered pretty much all of this. Today we're going to backtrack a little bit and go back into classes a little bit here.  So let's just go ahead and crack this open. We're just going to call it stat, like that word stat. So if you are from another language, you're probably rolling your eyes going, I already know how this works. There are some minor caveats. If you're brand new programming, this may completely blow your mind. And I apologize in advance.  And the first thing we're going to do is we're going to make a new class here. And we're going to call it counter. Now in the counter class, we're going to make a private variable here called static and let's call it count. So what does a static mean right here? Static is a keyword. You can tell it's a keyword because it's highlighted in bold. Really, what it means is it exists throughout every instance and non instance of that class. And we'll really get into that here in a second, but just understand that it means it always exists. So what we're going to do is we're going to say int, get, we're going to make a getter and setter for this. I swear my phone is dying. It just made the weirdest noise. Now, why am I making a getter and setter? We really don't have to. I'm just doing this to show you that, you know, you can have this as a private member variable, but also have it static. Some people get a little confused and think that just because it's static, it has to be public and it really doesn't. So now we're going to make some static methods here. So we're just going to increment and decrement respectively. And then we're going to make some non static methods here. And actually, we can just shorten these up as well. I don't know why I was going to do it this way, but so we can add, remove 10 respectively. And then we are going to just print the count out. Now you may be looking at this and asking some questions. What is static? Why is it all scattered throughout this? And how come we're using count and not the getter and setter? Remember, getter and setter are primarily used for outside of your class. Well, you're in your class, you have the inner scope, and therefore you can access this internally. Everything outside of this, because this is a private variable, will not be able to access it. So you have to use the getter and setter. And now we're going to go over to our main file here. We're going to endpoint the oops. That was a major fail right there. That was kind of embarrassing. So first thing we want to do here, let's just say counter. And you notice how if we just type the class name counter, we have the decrease increase in print count. And if we look at the class again, you can see that increase, decrease, and print count all have static. That's what it means is we don't have an instance of this class, yet we have those functions, or I should say those methods. And we can actually work with those. So we don't even have an instance of this, but yet still it works. We've gone from zero to one. And we can actually increase this a few times if we want. Now, one thing you should notice is we don't have access to the non static fields. And that is simply because they're not static, meaning you have to have an instance of that object. All right, so we're going to say counter, obj, just short for object. You notice how now we have access to the non static fields, but we do not have access to the static fields. So we have access to add 10, but we don't have access to increase or decrease. Boy screwed that one up. And this is why we're using our getters and setters so we can access those. And we're going to dereference that object. And once again, we're going to print the count. So what we're going to do here is we're accessing the static fields. And then we're going to make an instance of that object and modify it with an instance of that class, instance of that object would then make any sense, we're going to make an instance of that class, mean we're making an object. And then we're going to modify it using the non static fields. And then we're going to actually print the count out again, and we can see how the count actually increments. So we've got zero to because we've gone from zero plus one plus one. So there's our two. And then we have gone to 12 because we've added 10. And then we've set it to five. So there's our five. And then we've set it to null. And we set our object to null. But yet we can still print out five. And if we made another instance of this class, let's call this OBJ two. So we know it's a completely different object. Let's get rid of that. Right there. You can see that it stays at 15 because now we've added 10 to the five. And even though we've set this to null, it still stays there. So that in a nutshell is static fields. Now, one thing you should know is you don't always need static. A lot of people think I need to convert this to static and that to static. You really don't. Many times what you would actually need to do is persist this off to a storage device somewhere rather than actually holding it in memory. For a counter, it would actually make sense. Like let's say you're we're building a like a humane society that houses animals and you want to know how many animals are in there. Every time an animal is added or removed, you would increase the counter. But for normal lists and things like that, static really does not make a whole lot of sense. What is a good use case for static? Well, this right here actually, if you want to make a what's called a utility class or class that has a lot of functions in it or methods in it that you would just use throughout the day, rather than having to actually build an instance of that object, you can just say class dot whatever it is, and then you've got all your built in functionality. There's actually a lot of libraries that do that. So that's a good use case. That's all for this tutorial. I hope you found this educational and entertaining the source code for this and all other tutorials will be out on voidroms.com. And you just click on GitHub and it takes you right out to the tutorials. And there is a Voidroms Facebook group. The link is out here in the contact tab. And we've got 1700 plus and counting other programmers out there from all different languages that can help out.


What's up everyone, I just wanted to let you know before the show that Corecast is now available on iTunes, Google Play, and Stitcher as a real deal podcast. I'll provide links in the video description below. Also just a heads up to my For The Minions fans, the show will be on Friday this week instead of the normal Thursday. Hello everyone and welcome back to Corecast, the podcast that talks about Core, the game produced by Metabuff. I am one of your hosts, Mangus, the other one from Twitch TV. It's Nato Cristo. How are you doing Nato? Hello, how are you doing my Mangus? How's it going? I am doing great. I'm about four Guinnesses in and I'm not a heavy drinker, so I'm feeling pretty good right now. That is awesome, that's how I was last night, but one of us will be in the clearhead tonight then. Thank God for that. What we're going to be talking about this week, there's a lot of uncertainty about Core. We all thought that the April 27th was a hard date for the Alpha and turns out they weren't ready in time, so they had to push back that back, which is fine, but there's a lot of things that we don't know about Core, but there are some things in their Frequently Asked Questions that they provided very solid answers to, so that's what we're going to talk about today. We're not going to talk about what we don't know, we're going to talk about what we do know about Core, the game. So let's kick that off. One of the Frequently Asked Questions, will there be any kind of deck building with the new item system? In their answer, a very solid, there will be a builder for the item system. What do you think, Nato? I really do like the idea of being able to do that, of seeing the effects, the stats, the numbers, especially for those people that really like something, the numbers, people out there, being able to critique and tweak your deck before having to test it out in like four different games to really see what you're doing. I think that's a great thing to do, and I'm excited for that, honestly. I'm very much excited that they're doing that. That was a lot of the fun I had with Paragon, was actually building my deck and then trying the deck out to see how it worked in game.   But you can go in, get some cards that can possibly counter that ADC, and I think that's really good. That's another important thing I want to say, like, they're calling them items or artifacts or whatever they want to call them, but my buddy, Sakaap, kind of summed it up. You know, an item card, it's pretty much the same thing.  It's not that big of a difference. It's all, it's all semantics, really. Yeah, it really is. And I think I think what the big thing there that everybody did want to know was if we were going to have to go into a game with pre-built decks or, you know, whatever sets of items, however you want to do it, because that was kind of what they did different, like, yes, it was cards and that was different than items from like League of Legends or something. But the only real difference between them was just the fact that you had to build your deck prior and you couldn't see it in action, you know, until you were in the game. And if you were in the game, there was no way of changing it if you made any mistakes to tweak, fix, you know, anything like that. So, yeah, I mean, it really is like it's literally just taking an item and putting a rectangle around it. Yeah. I mean, well, the guard system in Paragonia, they did kind of the unique thing where you would upgrade the cards with different slots for each card. But I mean, that's kind of somewhat similar to what you could do in other games. But I don't know, I really like having the pre-built system, even if it's not a deck as it were, because a lot of times in game, it's just you want to make snap decisions as soon as you respond. You want to get back into the action and having a pre-built item system allows you to do that. I would kind of like to see them take it a step further and be like Smite, where you can actually pre-build your ability level ups so that they automatically go off and then you don't have to think about it at all. I don't know how many times I've been in the middle of a fight leveled up and didn't even want to think about trying to level up any of my abilities because, you know, I'm by the skin of my teeth trying to try to duke it out in a fight and it would be nice if it would just level it up for me instead of me having to do that. Yeah, that is something that I did like when I'm for the period of time that I played Smite. I really like that because there were a lot of times where, you know, I'd finish a fight in Paragon or, you know, I'd lose or something.  You know, so having that and it does make it more kind of focused on play. Like you're only worried about you have one objective.  It's going to buy this item at this time. It's going to level up this ability this time. And like, you know exactly what's going to happen. That's it's very much set for people who have a mains and they know exactly how they want to play them. There's no deviation to that.   And you're just like, oh, what do I do here? I've done that several times, not realized what level I was. It is my ultimate. That's such a silly thing to do. But yes, I have done it and I've done it multiple times. It's also a good way to min max. I mean, a lot of people, it's just, you know, it's a small thing. But people love to minimize their disadvantages and maximize their advantages. And having a prebuilt deckbuilding system is one way that they can do that. Right. Yeah, exactly. It like the difference between somebody who's going to be picking their own abilities and somebody who just has it set to doing that, like in Smite, for example, it's it's it's it, you know, it's very it's marginally. It's like a small margin of difference there between those players. But for some people that makes the world of difference, not having to worry about it.  I want this ability. You know what I mean? Having that it really is just peace of mind. And it's just all around just, you know, that's a fan service thing. Just make the game as as fun and easy as possible for you.  And so I do love that they're doing it. I think it's great. Yeah, for for fans that for fans that really wanted this, it's going to be there. So everybody rejoice. Let's move on to the to the next one. That's will be differentiation between energy and physical damage be realized. And the different their answer was the difference will be realized. Now, I did an entire video about this earlier this week about the difference between energy and physical damage. This one, I'm a little iffy on. Overall, I liked the idea of the energy versus physical damage thing that Paragon did. It didn't end up working out for Paragon. I don't know if it'll work out for core. I think this might be something that they're imposing on themselves that they don't really need to at this point in time. Yeah, I like I feel like it didn't really serve a purpose besides just another word to read.   It was just a matter of, you know, this character uses energy, this character uses physical. So realistically, in the grand scheme of things, it didn't change anything. So I feel like just adding the fact like just adding that in there is just kind of adding an extra step that isn't necessarily needed. But, you know, if that, you know, there are people who did really, you know, genuinely love seeing that difference.  Or, you know, thinking about how builds can happen just based up what cards are energy, what cards are physical. And, you know, so it's interesting that they're doing that. I don't I'm pretty in the middle on that. I could, you know, I could care either way. The cards, the items are going to be the same, realistically. A little bit. I mean, it did force some meaningful decisions in the draft. Like the example I gave, you know, if somebody picked Twin Blast for Carrie, and then they picked like Chimera for the jungle. That's two major sources of physical damage. When you're thinking about your your caster, you might want to definitely pick an energy caster in that instance so that you can deal a different type of damage. Otherwise, the enemy team will just be able to build physical armor and counter your team, especially if you take Countess, which was a physical physical caster, then all they would have to do is stack physical armor. And that's that's kind of the main thing here is the different types of armor. Right, right, right. I see that that was that was something that I always had to make you with was especially maybe it was only because of the way the decks were built. It really sucked going into a game, having a deck built either for physical or for energy and not being able to utilize it properly because, you know, the rest of my deck is set for a good match as Chimera, for example. But the armor portion of that is, you know, everyone's on the other and on the enemy team's energy and I have a bunch of physical built. And I forgot to maybe switch it out or something like that. So I think it would might actually it might be more interesting if they did it with an item, you know, like that was like the item system and I can just choose what I want. And, you know, I see the other team like, OK, I'm getting bullied right now by this physical, you know, this physical damage hero. So let me just start building into physical. I don't worry about having the preset deck. So maybe maybe that's where my my skepticism kind of comes from on that. Right. And then with them not having the the card system with the upgrades, like Paragon, there was a lot of cards in Paragon that where you could upgrade them with either energy or physical armor. So you could take that card and attach, you know, six different cards to it, you know, three physical armor cards, three energy armor cards and then deal with it that way. Whereas with the core, they're not going to have that. They're going to have a more of a traditional item system. So you will have to go off the beaten path. If you did have a prebuilt deck that was prebuilt to counter physical damage, then then the enemy team has a whole bunch of energy damage. You're going to have to go off that beaten path. You're going to have to cancel out that prebuilt deck that we all love so much and go off the beaten path and grab some items to help you counter energy damage. So I don't know. It's a big risk for them. I have faith in them. If they can make it work, they can make it work and it'll be cool. But I just don't know how they're going to make it work. Yeah, yeah, it's going to be interesting to see, you know, all this stuff is very much kind of up in the air, obviously. Yeah, I get what you're saying with all that. I think it'll be interesting. I like I'm really hopeful for the whole item system. I've been playing some other other mobas and seeing just having all the items available does make it more fun. It does make me want to look at other builds, but it also does feel sometimes overwhelming. So it is it's going to be an interesting kind of kind of take on it. Now, I'm really I'm really curious to see how it works out. Oh, yes, that is very overwhelming for new characters, whenever for new players. When you come into a game with the full item system available and you're trying to you're trying to pick a card back at back at the fountain after you've been obliterated by some smurf. Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. Yeah. Yeah, it does. It does feel like that. But then at the same time, on the other hand, it was kind of off putting having a new person play the game. And I experience, you know, having experienced a few times and, you know, when I introduced my friends to the game showing them how decks are built and stuff like that. And then they build a deck and then they don't have that kind of instant gratification. Now it's just like, OK, I have a deck built. How do I know if it's like if I like it and like, oh, well, now you have to go suffer through a like a possible 40 to like hour long game and see if you're OK with this deck.  So it was so it's going to I think it's going to be a good thing that they're doing that with the whole deck building system.  They kind of ping off of each other, which is really cool. Yeah. And then actually, the third question kind of pings off the other two as well. And that is, will items be locked? And their answer was no, all items are available to all players equally. No item advantage based on account progression. I think this is absolutely fantastic. 100 percent the way to go out of all of these answers to all these questions. I like this one the best. Yeah, me too.  I like I can't imagine doing it like locking any items or anything like that just because somebody's played a little bit longer. I really feel like that's just a weird thing to even think about. Like I didn't even that was even a question for me. I just like to assume that, you know, that's just how games were made. I did I feel like the last iteration of Paragon had had something similar to that, didn't it? It was like the gems and all that Paragon always had this. Paragon never had all of the items available to everyone. You always had to unlock. Oh, yeah, that's right. I know because I really wanted to play Murdoch, but I didn't have cast tokens. All I had were strike tokens. I had five strike tokens, zero cast tokens. And I really wanted to play Murdoch. And it's a it to be good enough in the early game. You had to have those cast tokens on him. Right. That's yeah, I forgot about that. See, I sometimes forget these things, because unlike everyone else in the Paragon community, I literally never made a snarf account. So I was just like, I made my first account. I, you know, I got all the cards or whatever that I would need to have. And I just, you know, always played with that. So yeah, shoot, I completely forgot that you went to like unlock cards and stuff as you went. That's yeah, that's an insane thing. I don't know why I don't know why anybody thought that'd be a good idea. One of the things that contributed to the fall of Paragon, I believe. Yeah, I can I can absolutely see why. Yeah. That's that's insane. I'm really glad that, you know, going back on this positive side of this. I'm really excited that core and, you know, everyone on the Metabuff team has decided that all items will be unlocked. I think that's great. I don't see any reason I don't see any benefit whatsoever of making any items locked or anything like that, unless you were going to include some kind of paywall. And then even then, that's kind of a whole disgusting thing on its own. Yeah, I can't see why any and why anything would be would be locked. And I'm really glad that that's a question that is being brought up and that people are asking and they're answering. And it sounds very positive and very fan friendly. Yeah, I've been having a pretty interesting conversation with one of my subs lately about pay to win. I personally think that Paragon, especially towards the end was kind of pay to win because not all the items were unlocked. Now, yes, you could grind out and get all the cards you needed to be successful for with whatever hero. However, that costs time and not everybody has time. I'm very busy in my job. And then when I get home from my job, you know, I work on YouTube as well. That doesn't leave me with a lot of time to actually play the game. And if I have to grind out to get cards, then the only feasible way for me to get those cards is to spend real money to get them. So I think I really do think that Paragon, especially version 42, was kind of pay to win. If they would have balanced the cards a little better, maybe it wouldn't have been, but they didn't. So I think it kind of was pay to win. But if you have all the items available to every player equally that completely eliminates any kind of anyone ever thinking that it's paid to win, because it brings it to a level playing field. Everybody's equal. Everybody has an equal chance to win. And it brings it down to skill. So really, yeah, and yeah, exactly. And like the only thing that I could think about maybe locking would be, you know, eventually down the road for core, like how Paragon, some of the characters were locked for like the first five levels. I thought I thought that was weird, but I understood it because some characters were a lot more advanced than others.  That's honestly the only thing I could think of that I'd be like, I'd be like, OK, I can see why they did that. That'd be the only thing that I could see. I'd be OK with locking. But even then, you know, it would and it would it still wouldn't be an unfair thing because everyone in those first couple levels would only be able to play with other people who have those items locked or, you know, something like that. I don't know. Yeah, I don't, you know, I'm not saying that's what they should do, but that's like the only time that I could really see something like that, that being OK, because there were cards in in core, I mean, a paragon in like the later builds of it that were like they were just complicated and they were just like hard to understand.  Like it's too much for you right now. Don't even worry about it. Just like worry about damage and like attack speed and just have fun for a little bit and then worry about that stuff. Yeah. So yeah, that's that's the only thing that I could really think about, honestly. I think that's I think that's good for will be on the block. Let's move on to the next question, which is will core have mirror matches and their answer actually answers two different questions. The answer is in casual. Yes, in ranked, no. So that answers two questions. We know that in, you know, the mirror matches will not be in ranked, they'll only be in casual, but we also now know that they will have a ranked mode, which is very exciting and something I think they need. So very cool stuff there. Yeah, I'm really excited for that. And I like how that one kind of busts down two questions at one. Yeah, no, I really like that.   And I think rank needs to just be based on skills. It would suck losing, you know, rank status because because of some, you know, cheap, not cheap, but some cheap mechanic that is built in the game that somebody was able to exploit over me and my team having better skill, but, you know, number wise, we legitimately can't do better because they have something that we don't. Right. Um, but I love just right off the bat today that ranked that the ranking is going to be ranked is going to be is confirmed. And there'll be no mirror matches allowed, which is going to be awesome. Um, I really do like that. I'm excited for ranked. I always wanted a ranked mode. I, you know, I focused a while on my elo and then obviously towards the end, I kind of realized it didn't matter at all.  Like I never thought about not having mirroring. I always thought it was fun to be the dominant chimera or be the dominant Gideon or whatever. But, you know, there, I can, I can definitely understand how there are, you know, to people that really does matter. And, um, you're in a ranked match that, that, you know, that could really be the change of it. And I like that they're doing that, you know, they're, they are, they're catering to everybody, which is great. I, I, I do very much love how so far every question and answer does feel like they're very much catering to everybody.  And if you have mirror matches, that kind of eliminates the need for that. But if you have the ability to take away somebody's pick, to take away, you know, certain picks from the other team, then you're bringing in the skill of being able to draft well. And, um, that kind of also, you know, bleeds back to the physical versus energy damage. You need to be able to draft well and know multiple heroes. And, um, that's especially the case. If there are no mirror matches in rank. Yeah, exactly. And, and, and like you said, you know, that brings a whole extra skill too. Cause, you know, I could, you know, my team could be going up against your team. And I could be like, okay, you know, I, I know Mongoose is an amazing, you know, let's say Gideon and I, I know that I might not have a mid laner who I'm as confident with as you are with your Gideon. So if I'm for you or, you know, however it works, I can pick Gideon mainly because I know that I can kind of play him. But now I know you're crippled a little bit because now you're not playing that character that I know that you're amazing as.  You know, obviously again, just an example. But, um, you know, that brings a whole another aspect to the game. And that does make it a lot of fun too.  Because a lot of times you did know who you were playing against and who they were good with. But just being able to cancel out an enemy team's, um, abilities to counter you. Like I would say Richter was definitely a hard counter to Countess. Like Richter countered Countess like big time. So if you wanted to play a, um, a composition that included Countess, then you could possibly pick Richter for your own team as the tank or off-laner or whatever, just to remove Richter from the enemy team's picks so that you could play that Countess and then roll over them. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Yeah.  I'm, I'm excited to experience that part of, of the game as well. Cause like, you know, it's not something we got to experience because Count, you know, mirror matches were there. So I'm excited to really kind of, to feel that extra sort of excitement in there and have that, I'm really excited for it. And kind of also tying into this is, will there be team ranking? Their answer? Yes. Very simple. Yes. Yeah, very simple. I talked to Apollos about this a little bit, hip-hop eponymous as I like to call him. He was saying that not only will there be team ranking, but the higher your team ranks up, you'll be able to unlock various cosmetic things like icons for your team and stuff like that. So if you do have, you know, your crew that you love to play with, you know, form up a team, enter the team rankings and the core is very, very focused on the competitive side of things and trying to make, they're trying to bring PCL back, the Paragon Competitive League, I guess it'll be the CCL now, the core competitive league, but they are very, very focused on that. And I think that's a very good thing. Yeah, I actually really liked that. I think that'd be cool.  I really liked that. That's a really cool thing. Yeah, yeah, that's really cool. And then, you know, people can gain fame like that amongst the community.  You can build like them and try to be like them with their, with their character. It creates heroes. It creates heroes amongst the community and that builds a stronger community in my opinion. Exactly. Yeah. No, it definitely does.  And this is how, you know, Mungus builds him. You know, this is how Brittig builds him. And, you know, he's really good with him.    So, yeah, it's going to be really cool. I'm excited about it. Like I said, I'm just really excited about team and, you know, the ranking and all that stuff. And just team, you know, ranking and team ranking are two different things. And they're both, they both are very exciting for me. I'm excited to do that. Right up front. If you're looking for a gameplay hero, somebody to look up to, look up to Briddick, not me. Briddick is way better than me at the actual game. Yeah, no, if you guys are really looking for some, though, Nato, Chris is your guy. There you go. There you go. We're going to catch the fans, see who's core dropped, Briddick. Catch them chains. Exactly. Moving on, final question. Last one that we're going to be talking about today. Will core be updated with new modes such as 3B3 and 1B1 with fresh maps when the player base can sustain it? So this is a little bit of a devilish question. You know, when, you know, when the player base can sustain it, but they do, but yes, the answer is yes. They do plan to introduce new modes. We just got to wait a little bit on this one to see how many people are in the game and if they can actually sustain this sort of thing, like the, what do you call it? It's my arena, arena mode, I guess is the 3B3.  So you can actually do that now in core once the player base is large enough. Yeah. And, you know, like I can't, I can't think of any good reasons why this wouldn't happen. Again, this also, this does come from us as the community. You know, we do have to kind of step up here as much as Metabuff is doing everything for us. So we have to do everything we can for them.   You like to scan and buy it, support them.   You know, as much as we want to know if they're going to do smaller modes and different maps, you know, is legacy going to come back? Are we going to see another model of iteration? Are we going to see new maps or stuff like that? It's like, yeah, if we're playing, you know what I mean?  You know, they're not getting anything. All of a sudden, throwing numbers up there. I don't know how, you know, what that would come out to, but, right, you know, the player base has to be there. If we want to see changes, we have to talk to the devs.  I'm not going to play it anymore. No, we got to, you know, fight through it, find out what's wrong with it, tell the devs, you know, they've been really good about listening.  You know, they're listening to us and, you know, they're giving us the things that we want. These aren't just, you know, questions that we want answered. These are answers that we want to hear, you know, and they're giving it to us. So we do, we have to play a part to here as the community to make sure that we're given back in some way, you know, by feedback, by constructive criticism. Kind of the best that I could say to that. Yeah, you brought up a good point. Somewhere in the middle of all that, you were talking about the monetization portion. That's the only drawback I see to the 3D3 and 1v1 is that you're going to have to have a separate server which costs money, each server costs money. And if you have servers that are supporting 5E5, that's 10 people that you're supporting. It's going to cost the same for a 3D3, which is only six people that you're supporting. It's going to cost the same for a 1v1, which is only two people that you're supporting. So the more money they're making, the more feasible it is for them to actually support these servers that have a 3D3 1v1 mode on them. So, yeah, like they just so eloquently put, you know, your best bet for getting these modes into the game is to support core to play the game and to, you know, give your honest feedback, but keep playing and keep trying to find that, you know, just keep supporting them really. Yeah, exactly, yeah. And like, you know, every time you talk to somebody, everybody's favorite thing to do in Paragon is exchange those war stories of how much money we got back from the refunds. You know, all that money that everybody was so, just like no one had hesitation for like, when that steel skin dropped like that Aztec one, I had no hesitation about that. I wanted to support them, I wanted more skins like that. That Gideon skin drop, that Paragon, no problem dropping 15, you know, 15 bones on that because it was a dope skin, like, you know, stuff like that. You know, if you like a skin, support them. You know, there's no reason not to.  It's, you know, it's going really to a good place.  No, like we got a, you know, we, like, this is our part, we have to, we have to dish out money so that they can fund those servers, just like you were saying, a server is going to cost the same, whether there's 10 people on that or six people or two people on that server. So, you know, we do, we play a big, big part in that. So if you guys want to see that, you guys know where your money's going, you know? Yep, I think that's good. I think that's good for all the questions. What's sort of wrapping things up? Nato, do you got anything you want to plug for this week? No, I mean, just keep doing what everybody's doing. I see everybody active in Discord, you know, check out your favorite streamers.  That makes sense. Yeah, just keep checking out, you know, your favorite streamers stuff and support the content creators, support the devs, you know, chat it up in Discord, have good conversations. I mean, everybody's already doing that now. I think, I think Core is going into a good place. We just gotta hang tight and be ready. Right on, dude. For me, I think I'm going to actually start doing live streams, there'll be gorilla live streams. I never, I will never know what I'm going to do then. But I'll be doing live streams from my job.  It's pretty gross. I will warn you right up front. Almost all the houses I do are absolutely nasty. So. That sounds fun, though. It should be fun for everybody. I hope it's fun for everybody. But anyway, I think that's going to be it. Thank you so much for coming out and listening to the Core podcast. This should be, by now, up on your favorite podcasting network. So if you could, if you want to support us, go out there and give us, you know, give us a good rating, give us a good review and, you know, keep the love going. But for now, this is Man Goose and NATO signing off. You guys have a good one. Bye.


Okay, so no impact on the financial statements from that, so how do I track it then? Well, we're facilitating transactions with a vendor now, so we're going to go into the vendor center, I would call it under the expenses area, and then you've got your options up top. Now note that if you're in the business view, by the way, then it would be under the paid and paid area, and we're looking at the vendors down here, you've got your vendors, and you've got your bills on down here. It's a little bit different over here because you've got that added tab of the expenses, which is a nice tab, so let's go up to that one actually first to find that one. In the business view, they put that under the bookkeeping, so you can go under bookkeeping, and then you've got your transactions up top, and then your expenses tab to the right, so it's a little bit different location on that one than you might expect on the transactions. So we've got, if we go into our expenses, I'm going to close this out, it'll give us the filter of transactions up top, and we might filter this by the purchase orders, so this is one way we can look at the open purchase orders. It'll have all status, you've got your date ranges, and you've got your payees, and your categories, if applicable on down below, I'm going to say apply, there's our purchase order. Now, as we accumulate more purchase orders, we could then say whether the purchase order is open or closed, obviously it is open, so there's the open purchase order. If I said the purchase order was closed, the purchase order would disappear. We don't have any closed purchase orders, closed meaning we have received the shipment, and that's going to be the next step in the process, so the next step from the purchase order is we're going to basically make a bill with it, right, typically, because we'll get a box of guitars with a bill in it, and then we'll enter the bill possibly populating the bill for the information of the purchase order. Okay, let's open this back up again, go to the expenses tab, and then we're going to go down to the vendors, this is another way we can kind of track the information, close up the handbookie, up top you got a nice little sort field, I can sort my purchase orders, that'll give me the vendors which have the open purchase orders, there's the purchase order, or I can go into just by vendor directly, and if I'm communicating with the vendor, I can go in here and say, okay, yeah, we've got this purchase order that is an open purchase order, I can then hit the dropdown, and I can copy it to a bill, so we'll make a bill of it next time, and I can send the purchase order if I need to from this area, so the next step, of course, again, is going to be that we're going to receive a bill, we'll talk more about that in a future presentation. For now...


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