Welcome back to the breakfast. It's time for off-the-press and let's quickly go to the punch new supers and see what stories we can find over there Should bring your screen in just a few seconds. There you have it. It says on there's insist on slot 17 governors demand 2023 South presidency governor's fault removal of electronic Transmission of reelection results from electoral act PIB passage forum rejects 3% for host communities in strong terms Also on the punch oil hit seven seven dollars a daily petrol subsidy rises to 6.07 billion naira PFN and can tackle federal government as bandits abduct 140 students in fresh Kaduna raid a position mounts as National Assembly transmits PIB to Buhari next week Still on the punches morning Nigeria spends 60 billion our annually to repair vandalized pipelines and We can also see here My party members are Nigerians battling hunger unemployment and poverty says former president of Lushegma Bason Joe Says is done with partisan politics once again still on the punches morning if I RS secretly recruited 2,000 workers agency on the financial pressure says the NCSU and Minister slumps about event lands in trauma center Legos Maritime Union members in three-day gone battle over money Wow, and police and hunters comb bushes as gunmen kidnapped or shun and a door travelers And of course you can also see a picture from the southern governor's meeting yesterday on the punch Let's turn now to the Guardian newspaper pretty heavy stories here the headline reads sovereign governors want power shift Rejects 30% sheer for frontier basins the riders reads Order member states to promulgates anti-open-grazen law by September 1st Security agencies must inform governors before any operation in states Haneza Indigo demands presidency for Southeast a feniferead don't commission others hail resolutions also the Guardian newspaper stop pursuing Igboho Apologize to him. Sheen car tells federal government Traincouser says there will be uproar if the truth about an amdicana's arrest comes out Also the Guardian newspaper Honorable Tony adokie says why it's a bit difficult for any governor to beat governor week his achievements in reverse state Panda 6 reversal of PIB insist on 10% for hosts communities Nigeria's constitution discourages economic diversification says more galoo also Christian association of Nigeria Where you are called for a revised resignation of a kidnap of 26 students All right, and now on the daily son newspapers Southern governors draw battle lines with presidency It also says here Apply same speed using arresting canoe to end banditry and other crimes showing cartels for the government Says exposure on how IPOB leader was arrested will cause uproar Still on the daily son, of course on the same southern governor's story The southern governors insist on open grazing ban sets a set September deadline for promulgation Of course of the law in 17 states say the south must produce president in 2023 reject removal of electronic election results transmission Abbas and Judd denies forming new political party and Anambra PDP primaries or concord act supporters to wait for next line of action Again bandits abduct 140 in Kaduna school Clark inc reject past PIB describe it as satanic unjust and provocative Good morning. Once again. Mr. Chris one do thanks for joining us Morning to you. Let's start of course with the second southern governor's meeting and the reactions to its sum have described it as Taking sides against Nigeria and an attack on, you know, president Muhammad Ubario of some sort What's your reaction to their resolutions? Well, the that reaction you mentioned is narcissistic about In every sense of it and doesn't make any sense anybody's name that Doesn't know what he's saying and he's just speaking for a myopic self-centered Perspective What we are seeing is a total political realignment On the part of the southern leaders of southern governors are seen As you may see This have not happened for a long time. Don't forget that over the years what we've been seeing how effective and how unanimous United the northern governors are You always know that always have the northern governors for Meeting every now and then and they come out with all sorts of resolutions political statement economy or the economic issues social Issues and rest of them and then I don't talk about those period the body especially from this have come out to condemn the activity of the northern governors if The southern governors are not working on their So in trying to unite among themselves and saying that when there is the need for them to pursue a common good irrespective of Political leaning that to me is a work of love meant very very German So, uh, I can only commend them. I think this is the second order. I think these have taught me and that they have you didn't Within the past few months And if you look at the relations that came up and between you will realize that there are journals Some of these should be those one um, that You can see that in power shift The unanimous irrespective of the political Parties and races saying that power must shift from the north to the south And that is not saying whether it's vdp or apc abgar or any political party Power must shift to the to the south what they are saying is that if you decide to feud a Presidential candidate from the north in any of the political parties You can rest assured that the governors from the south will not support you. That is what they are saying That is one then they also spoke about the issue of pib and The 3% and 5% That is accrued to host communities and the assisting that it was 5% And that is why I will have a little challenge. What the members of this house in the house of Representative what was your thought and what's what really when we are passing the 3% For whose community good enough the senate passed 5% I was thinking that there would be a harmonizing Committee between the house and the senate to be able to agree on That 5% then also spoke on the issue of Greasing and said that effective from the first of september There is no going back. They are looking the northern governors eyeball to eyeball that irrespective of whatever you say We are going ahead to implement this and that to me is a very good There are also other issues that we are they came up with and don't forget. You should have said that before any kind of security In-road in terms of arrest and the rest of them will be making a maid in their state There as the chief secretary of officers of those states should be put in the known rather than just The gliders die way among us that them secret agents have been going about their business So for me is a positive way to go Okay So when we look across these three papers we share the Guardian daily son and the Nigerian punch We see the common thread about an interview that was granted To a news station by Professor Wally shrink and a noble laureate and he bear his mind about The issue of the raid on Sunday boohoo's house and other national issues basically saying that you know, the federal government needs to Apologize to Sunday boohoo He went on to say it's not a criminal offense for anyone to want a separate state for anyone to desire self-determination He also said it's going to cause an upro if the details of how the federal government And her security agencies arrested and I'm the canoe comes comes to light So, um, what do you think? Are you on the same wavelength with wally shrinka? regarding apologizing to Sunday boohoo and You know giving people the freedom to agitate for a separate state the noble laureate is entitled to opinion and Just like every Nigeria is rooted their opinion on issue on national that On national matter issues as it were But secondly before that, um, I totally agree with the fact that a protest or agitation is a legitimate way of putting across once views on issues don't forget that That it is gone. It has gone to be sacred court where the supreme court has ruled that Every Niger has the right to protest It has it has been decided you don't need any police permits to protest in Nigeria In fact, what the What the law says if you are going to test the Niger police should give you Protection kind of make sure that it was the that protest was not hijacked by hoodlump It is only where you're not getting violence that you cannot say Then you can be arrested So, I personally have not seen any of the protests that have been held by the whole school so It is their right to protest but don't also forget that we also have the mental issues in terms of security Um, it is the fundamental right of the government to also make sure that every life is protected in Nigeria Uh, irrespective of whoever wherever they are um, if you look at some of those catch catches of Allegedly There have been some Which were not very far to say that some of those Arms that were the excess which I leave from From an end of three years, but they say have not come back home But if you go to catch how that kind of arm from uh, Sunday, don't forget that also that He also supposed to abide by the law Did they acquire those arms legally because before you can have an arm in Nigeria? You need a permission from the Niger police So if you didn't get those arm legally then it has questions to answer There are some some instances where Uh, Sunday go have been invited current agencies, which I think it lists out there about and invited about once or twice and he refused to Um, attend to that Invitation that to me is also part of law and snippets. Generally. Um, I do I support the not already It's a large extent. So every Nigerian has the right to protest Identification is also part of our Engagements on the daily sound that same story Showing cat told the federal government that it should apply the same speed That they used to arrest an amdicano to end banditry and other crimes And how do you tie that to this breaking news that bandits has again abducted 140 students in Kaduna state Parents are angry. They're demanding the state of emergency. That's on the daily sound So showing K is saying that while this crimes fester Um, the federal government is instead focusing on on, you know, persons of interest. So how do you come in? Yes, we'll be saying that time and time again I don't forget if I that Over the years over the months being high level of banditry kidnapping, especially in the north And um, in the last country we have over for help of close to 500 students That are in in capital activity in the in bush now And I've been saying that there's need for the group The security agencies to also apply that level of swiftness in asking some of the people that have been Fingered engaging in banditry. But what are we having instead of doing that? They are engaging them and some of the leaders from the north are even saying that They are not They are not criminals. They are just bandits that need to be This is a discussed going to discussion with and the rest of them There's often a tiny video some some days back. We are one of the bandits was even boosting before I think we was deputy governor one of the top hierarchy of from the government of that he killed several Soldiers, and he was laughing about it. I'm sure he must have seen that video. Yes. So that in his Um, he tried to give some kind of imbalance We are some people see themselves as sacred cows It's when they have some from some part of the country and rest of them even a high highly placed A person like the governor of cardinal states Um, I remember he met me three days ago where he was comparing iPod and bandits and kidnappers and And Boko Haram. Some of these statements, they have not been a goomy. We were told By the DSS that he was invited for questioning and the man came out and said no, I was not invited And that was a statement from the DSS from the supposed person of DSS And since then the DSS did not come back to to reaffirm the fact that he was invited So if you look at all the language and the rest of them, let's go to show that But that's what some people feel that what we're having now is a systemic parking of the kind of Yes, it's security going on in the in the north where that of the agitations in the south has been crushed Now look at it from the world. Although we don't know how authentic it is that some parts of Bono I've been taken over by I swear who is not going to ask some people to pay taxes and the rest of them That is a big challenge for us. So I think that we should be holistic And see government should see itself as the government of Nigeria not government of any particular part of the country We are the issue of insecurity agitation and all sorts of malice that Is going on has to be handled In a more prosperous manner to make sure that nobody feels like a second-class citizen in the country We call Nigeria. All right. Let's also go back to the Resolutions, but now from a reaction rather to the PIB The bill Edwin Clark, you know, I also made his own statement saying that he they totally reject the 3% or 5% to host communities And 30% to frontier states. They described it as a satanic and provocative Um, what would you what would you say is your Are your thoughts concerning the 30% to frontier states? They haven't been clearly stated. Which states are the frontier states? But what do you think the government is trying to achieve here? The frontier states basically frontier-based state and normally The state there are certain states in the north If you go to buy you see the state I think they have a seven or there about That to me is good that don't forget the as I said earlier The southern governor service that and the reject that totally so What uh, Edwin Clark is not saying anything different for what the governors of the southern Southern Nigeria have said so To me whether 5% 3% 1% or 10% as it were for host community is not much of a concern to me Because what are the problem is that the ones that we have already given that has been Given what we're days for you have don't forget that There's always been the derivation funds that's accrued to this some of these communities Don't forget that the government also set up a ministry for for the Niger data. Don't so also forget that we have a A price data that That was also set up for this For the Niger data and what have we seen corruption and corruption out the way You see one at the Ndc the probe and the level of embezzlement have been going on and nothing practically on ground to to show for the billions and billions of nerd has been voted to Elevate these sufferings of people from this region the cleaning up of Ogoni land and most of the Niger data communities I'm supposed to have them reach a high level By now, not it seems to have been done. Don't forget also stop the The agitation or part the Yes agitation Was it Was it a very just yes in the community the issue few days ago and the threat so for me I think that The people of Niger data should raise up and make sure that whatever phone is released is used optimally and the people should also question and call their leaders and make them accountable for this fund So I said they do this if you like give 50 percent or 40 percent of whatever if the money voted is not being used Is not getting to the communities and the people that are supposed to then it will be as good as Not being there. So my own is that let us find a way of making sure that people are accountable people of this region The leaders i'm talking about now the leaders of religion who collect this money on behalf of their people All of them are stickingly rich, but if we go to the community, they have nothing to show How are we making sure that this money that has already been voted in the past? Or the water is going to is going to get to the people and that is I think those are the questions we should be asking Okay, all right. Obviously the people of the Niger Delta have a lot of work to do To also redirect their questions not just to the presidency but also to their leaders at the local and state level But I also want you to quickly speak on the Elections and of course the removal of electronic transfer of results to INEC from the electoral bill Some people have described this as dubious and you know, like they they have a sinister plan Do you agree with that or do you agree with their reasons for taking that out? I totally agree with them. I totally agree with them. They are that screen room for For rigging and I don't know the reason for that And maybe there's some sinister plan for 2023 Um Good enough the also the southern governor said that We should stick to the norm to the Transmission, the electoral transmission. What he means that once you vote your vote goes directly into the pool at INEC and hits INEC Um, we've seen that in the past. Don't forget the problem we always had in the past Where we see Ballot balls snatching as the nation you remember what what what used to be the past Yes, where people just go use talks and rest of this not ball of buses Tia papers and the rest of them. Those are all ways of getting us. We are in the 24th century The 21st century where we're even taking up electronic voting where people should even sit in the comfort of their home Um And that should just be a plus to be just really within break period. Um through progress You can just quickly log on just cast our vote and still continue with our with our job As it is done in most countries of the world nobody declares public quality because we want to go People go to work and during big time they just walk in and just vote and go Those are the issues we'll be looking at and are taking back to the KTK way of things. Oh, so I today agree That's to be really voting and traction should be the way for I also include diasporas in people in diasporas or the opportunity of voting where many people Remember in this A All right, I think we can wrap it up here. Thank you very much Chris one do for joining us this Tuesday morning We wish you a very interesting day ahead. Thank you


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And then they can keep their own currency, withdraw it from the game, trade peer to peer, or do whatever they want with that. So essentially what you're saying is that the currency you get from playing the game can actually be used outside of the game. Is that the idea? Potentially. So it's an experiment to see what happens. Do you think he is Satoshi Nakamoto? The reason why Adam is not Satoshi is because Adam is actually a very skilled cryptographer, a play cryptographer. And Satoshi actually made a lot of rookie cryptography mistakes. Hello, hello, hello. What's up YouTube? My name is Jackson. I am your host and journalist at Cointelegraph. Today I'm going to be talking to Simpson Mao. He is the Chief Strategy Officer at Blockstream and he founded a gaming company called Pixelmatic. We're going to be talking a bit about how Blockchain fits into the gaming industry and we'll also touch upon some more or less recent community drama in which Adam Back was named as potentially being Satoshi Nakamoto. So, Samson, how are you doing today? I'm doing great. Thanks Jackson for having me on. So first I'd like to hear a little bit about how you first got into Bitcoin and how that interest in Bitcoin coincided with your interest in gaming. Right, so I think it was back in 2013. I first read about Bitcoin. I believe it was TechCrunch. It was an article about mining basically and that kind of got me down the rabbit hole. So I started reading more and more about Bitcoin, reading white paper and trying to understand what it was. At the time I was actually working on games and I've been working on games for quite a while. And for games you build these online economies and you have to create syncs when there's too much currency. So Bitcoin was really interesting for me because it kind of existed outside the purview of any company or entity and it just kind of produced itself and self-sustained. Whereas in a game typically someone is managing that economy just like governments manage the fiat economy. Cool, so I'm interested to hear what drove your interest towards gaming economies. Most people when they're into games they're looking at the flashy graphics, the intense storyline or the deep mechanics of the game. So it seems a little different that you were drawn more towards the economy side of game development. Well it probably came from also playing games. So I was a very hardcore MMO gamer back in the day so I played lineage 2. That's actually where I got my handle, Exelion from. We were playing lineage 2 on the Leona server and I actually worked with a friend to create a gold farming operation back then. So we were farming gold and he was selling it and I was helping him to purchase and maintain the accounts. But yeah, like after that I think I joined the game industry and that was when I actually started having to build online economies for online games. And you actually have quite a bit of experience developing games. You were a director of production at Ubisoft for around two years and you are now creating a game called Infinite Fleet which is a massive multiplayer online game which according to your website is leveraging blockchain technology to create a new token based economy. So could you just explain a bit how blockchain is fitting into the game you're currently developing and how blockchain fits into the broader gaming industry as a whole? Right, so there are a lot of different companies doing a lot of different things. With Infinite Fleet we're really focused on using a crypto asset for the game currency. So imagine World Warcraft if you had a crypto asset instead of WoW Gold. So you know secondary economies will always build up in MMO games. People are going to buy, sell, trade currencies or items if they can. And I think they'll find a way to work around the systems of the game. So in World Warcraft you know you come into the game, meet the guy that's selling you the gold and you do a trade in game. Or they sell you the whole empty account with some gold on it. But even though it's against the terms of service people will still do that and you have these secondary economies. What we want to do with Infinite Fleet is kind of just be okay with it because it will evolve anyways and we want to make it a safer, smoother experience. So instead of having a game currency that is in the database and bound to accounts we want it to be separate from the game itself. So we're using the liquid network which is a Bitcoin sidechain to issue this currency. It's going to be called INF and players will be able to earn that by doing social activities in the game and then they can keep their own currency withdraw it from the game trade peer to peer or do whatever they want with that. Interesting. So essentially what you're saying is that the currency you get from playing the game can actually be used outside of the game. Is that the idea? Potentially. So it's an experiment to see what happens. They could possibly use it for doing other things too. Like they could buy and trade with other games if they have crypto assets as well. But the sky's the limit. And you asked earlier what other games are doing. This game called Light Knight. They're actually doing NFTs which is interesting too. They're tokenizing different game assets and they're also on the liquid network. So because INF will be on liquid and Light Knight assets are also on liquid you could technically trade INF currency for a Light Knight asset with someone too. Yeah I think that's some really interesting ways to use blockchain. I've been to some events and conferences and I see these booths that are advertising games on blockchain and it seems like people are just there to kind of take advantage of the hype of blockchain games and they make blockchain the defining feature of their game. So I'm curious to hear you know how you see games avoiding this and what your game specifically is doing to differentiate yourself and not fall into this trap of making blockchain the only valuable aspect of that game. Well I would like to think that we're doing it in a smarter way. As you mentioned a lot of games are trying to incorporate blockchain technology at a very low level and I've seen some card games they want to create their card using a smart contract and that card is quote unquote immutable it can't be changed anymore. That has its own set of issues but if you kind of like use the blockchain for computation and you try to embed a lot of game logic into that chain one it'll bog down the chain we've seen that with things like crypto kiddies where they just killed Ethereum because people were trading digital cats and now they're migrating off into their own blockchain. For those games that are trying to imbue assets so that they can't be changed well you come up with a new set of problems so if it's a card game typically these card games they will rebalance every so often and change the values so if you cannot change a value then how can you rebalance or even tune the game if you have some card that's OP or overpowered then you're kind of stuck and then you maybe issue a new card to replace it but then at that point what's the point of owning the card or the asset. So what we're doing is just using the crypto asset for trade so it's to make things easy for players so they have their game currency because liquid is a bitcoin sidechain we have the benefits of all bitcoin supporting ecosystem aspects so you can create a multi-sig wallet with INF and store that with your guild members you could use a hardware wallet with it too to secure it but it opens up a lot of avenues to kind of let players do different things with their assets if you take EVE online as an example people have infiltrated guilds to earn trust and then stolen money from the guild too and that kind of would be avoidable if you had a multi-sig wallet storing your game currency Yeah those are some really interesting ideas so do you think that blockchain is going to begin spreading out and more into the mainstream becoming a part of bigger titles or do you think it will still remain sort of on the fringes as like a niche part a niche sector of gaming So I think ultimately the technology has to support the game there are a lot of games that are trying to build on top of a blockchain but you come with a lot of barriers when you do that you have to download this plugin or download some wallet and you have to buy some cryptocurrency to make your transactions those are all big barriers for players so the approach we're taking in infinite fleet is the game currency is secondary what we're building is a AAA MMO RTS game or strategy game and that is the first and foremost thing and we've put together a team of AAA developers that worked on Age of Empires Homeworld, Company of Heroes, like big blockbuster type games so the game is the most important thing the currency is secondary and we don't want to force it down players' throats from the get-go so, you know, you earn INF but it's going to be in your in-game account unless you choose to withdraw so you could say we're operating on kind of an exchange type model where you withdraw the crypto asset and you deposit it but you're not forced to use it if you don't want to use it Yeah, thanks for all those insights I really think that blockchain gaming has a lot of potential and I'm really curious to see how things evolve over the next couple of years I'd like to switch topics I mentioned before that you are the Chief Strategy Officer at Blockstream and a little over a month ago a YouTuber named BarelySociable came out with a video that essentially pinned the name of Satoshi Nakamoto onto the CEO of Blockstream, Adam Back and Adam Back quickly responded on Twitter to deny it, of course saying that he is not Satoshi Nakamoto but since you work very closely with Adam I'm curious to hear what your thoughts are on this finger pointing and answer the question, you know, do you think he is Satoshi Nakamoto? The reason why Adam is not Satoshi is because Adam is actually a very skilled cryptographer applied cryptographer and Satoshi actually made a lot of rookie cryptography mistakes so basically Adam is overqualified to be Satoshi and if you talk to his peers in cryptography they would go, yeah, you wouldn't have made that mistake it's like, you know, cryptography 101 but if you just look at the early cypherpunks you could easily argue any of them is Satoshi because they have the same interests, right? They're interested in eCash they're interested in privacy they're interested in, you know, ways to let people opt out of the system and create systems that are not prone to manipulation so if you look at them and you look at what they're writing at the time their thoughts, their philosophies you could pick any of them you could pick Nick, you could pick Wadi, Helfini, Adam Back they're all candidates because they all share that common background and common interests so it's really, if you're choosing to look for Satoshi you can find Satoshi, it's very easy but I think judging from Satoshi's writings like you said, I think it is one person because he's very, very coherent if anything, Satoshi has got a very... how can I say it? he's got a very directed and coherent voice in everything he's talking about it would be very hard for a group of people to maintain that kind of level of solidarity or coherence, I think and also looking at Satoshi's upset, you know he did a really good job of obscuring his tracks and I don't think that he would do that come back one day and basically throw all of his work away masking his identity Gotcha, so given that Satoshi Nakamoto's identity is still unconfirmed do you think it's better that his identity remains a mystery or do you think it would actually be more beneficial at some point in the future for Satoshi to come out and reveal himself? I think it's definitely better he remains unknown because if you have a known figurehead for cryptocurrency that is kind of an attack vector that can be lobbied, you know, people can go after them or threaten them and it just makes it much less of a decentralized project whereas Bitcoin had this virgin birth it was just created by Satoshi and it kind of grew on its own without any interference and now it's maintained by hundreds of Bitcoin Core developers so there's no leader if you have Satoshi coming back then suddenly you have this person who you can ask questions or they might direct the project in a certain way I think right now the way we have it is much better with Satoshi being anonymous and the project actually being really decentralized Awesome, so thanks so much for taking the time to talk to me today I thought we covered really some really interesting topics there I'm especially excited to see if there will be a point where an in-game currency can be translatable into the real world so I'm really keeping my eye on where things go in the gaming industry over the next few years so thanks again for coming on and I really appreciate it and I learned a lot Yeah, it's great, let's do it again sometime And guys, thank you everyone for tuning in to watch the show That was Samson Mao who is the Chief Strategy Officer at Blockstream and he founded a gaming company called Pixelmatic My name is Jackson, I'm your host and journalist at Cointelegraph and if you enjoyed the show please hit that like button and subscribe to our channel so you can watch more great crypto content


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All right, so what you're witnessing right now at the top of behemoth if you look very closely You can see a maintenance worker kind of taking two steps at a time up and then spending about 30 seconds Analyzing the track the chain anything that has to do with behemoth This is what they do right before they're about to do a test run So this is gonna be behemoth's first cycle of the season This is the third year in a row that I've been here to see its first cycle So I'm super excited about this But yeah, basically he's gonna check that and then what he's gonna do is gonna walk down the staircase And they're gonna transfer on the trains if they're not already transferred on I'm assuming they're not because what they're doing is a track walk. They're checking for anything That could have gone wrong over the off-season Then they're gonna test the motor on the lift hill and Then they're gonna send a train up the lift hill slowly and then they'll let it release it And if it makes it back all right, they'll continue to test the ride So far they've done flight deck today and now it looks like they have trainees over there running It's like 50 cycles per train and now they're working on behemoth. This is something they actually do Every single morning before the park open So a lot of people are very scared of roller coasters and they think they're unsafe when in reality It's probably one of the safest activities you can do out there every time you see a video on six buzz or one of those Instagram or Twitter accounts or even now tick-tock showing a train stopped on the lift hill or a ride stopped high in the air That's actually its safety feature working properly and it's a really good thing that it does that So if the sensors on the ride sense anything wrong or if the trains get too close together or Anything any little thing like even a fly lands on a sensor or a bird flies by the sensor the ride will stop These rides are super safe And I just wanted to show you guys a quick little thing of a little what they call PM preventative maintenance And that's what he's doing right now. So if you can see up there He's getting close to the top and then he's gonna walk all the way back down and then we'll start testing this baby But yeah, I'm here filming. I got some power left in the drone I was filming other rides testing this morning I didn't think they were gonna do behemoth and then I went to the other side of the park to film a crane over by dragon fire But I saw them on the lift hill for behemoth. I'm like, oh, wow, they're actually gonna run this thing So 30 in a row being here for the first test run of behemoth So super excited about this, but I'll cut scene to behemoth actually running Just wanted to inform you guys of what was going on. So what they just did is they blared the horn on Behemoth so either the train is starting to slowly make its way towards the lift hill And then it's gonna send the lift hill while he's up there so he can make sure nothing's going wrong with the train Or that just means they're turning on the ride Different horns and the blasts of the horn mean different things to maintenance So it's very difficult for me who doesn't work at the park to know which horn that was But I can confirm they turned on the ride at minimum So we should see some testing shortly again. I'm here. I got the drone ready and I got my camera ready for you guys Alrighty so as you can tell by the footage right here Wonderland started testing some of their rides The other day so this footage is from June 7th And I was there for about four hours and that was probably the dumbest thing I could have done in my entire life I got my second dose of vaccine and what do I do on the first day? Well, my body is in probably the worst state of possibility I go stand out in the hot heat hot sun directly on me and I get sunburned and then dehydrated and Yeah, things did not go well last night at all So I'm feeling much much better today. Thank goodness And yeah, I'm recording this video. So I have a lot to go over. First of all, you saw our video yesterday I rushed it out and then I reached out to the park We got a response. So what's going on with riptide riptide is going under a bearings replacement So the bearings on riptide are being replaced And this is an extensive slash Pretty frequent in the last five years kind of project So it is kind of normal But for those of us that don't work at a theme park or work in maintenance seeing a ride being torn apart Obviously raises the red flag of is it getting removed and then with my trauma of orbiter being removed without an announcement I just assumed that the ride was most likely being removed But I did go over the possibility that it could be maintenance and that is exactly what that is So riptide should be back in operation for the 2021 season And to be honest, I think this is just like a couple of weeks A lot of people don't know this but wonderland does a lot of in-house repairs and in-house Construction projects some of which I can't talk about that are going on right now and some that a lot of you know So a lot of the frontier Canada theming and stuff like that was built in house Which is pretty awesome. They have a wood shop They have a paint shop and they actually do a lot of metal work in house as well So it's pretty insane what wonderland does and the people they have working for them As you can tell as I'm talking right now rides are testing So vortex tested yesterday Swings the century tested yesterday flight deck tested yesterday They removed riptide for bearing replacements I believe thunder run tested yesterday along with I'm trying to think if there was anything else testing in that area I know today I tried to go fly but it was raining and storming and then I didn't see anything testing so There was no point As I said in my previous video what they do is they'll test one ride Get it ready for the season. They'll test it like three times And then they wait for the training weekend essentially for the rides who get its cycles in Which allows them to open up more rides quicker So as you know stage one starting this friday, which is super exciting because technically With the math wonderland could technically open around july 2nd july 3rd that weekend a little bit earlier than proposed I do know that wonderland most likely will probably open july 5th unless we see training fast tracked a little bit So training goes up until it's usually a four week thing as we saw last year It was four weekends in a row So i'm assuming it's four weekends in a row this year as well and based off of what i'm seeing The ride groups are exactly what they were last week last year. So it's going to be four weekends As well, it's literally the same ride groups as last year that they're they're running and cycling so What's super exciting is wonderland will definitely probably opening july 5th with no setbacks and training will be done It's the same time frame And uh, yeah, they have the possibility of opening that weekend earlier or we can just rate before july 5th So we'll see what happens. We'll keep an eye on it. We'll let you guys know if we see anything being fast tracked or anything But yeah, just a lot going on at the park. I'm probably just going to keep all my footage unedited I'm just going to upload it here so you can watch what's going on. There's lots of trucks driving around Merch stocks restaurant stalking And in the corner of the park, you can see them playing around with whip tide kind of like removing it slowly throughout the day So yeah, you can watch that. Um, I'm don't have much else to talk. So I'm going to talk for the next like 10 minutes 12 minutes however long it is But if for those of you that are really interested in what's going on wonderland I'll upload this raw footage for you to kind of just watch it for an extra 10 minutes And see how the park is getting ready and progressing Um behemoth did not test. I know at the beginning of the video. I was kind of recording that in the park Um, it looks like they were actually spraying the chain down with oil. I would assume Um, they went over and did it to leviathan immediately after I literally sat there in the heat waiting for it to test And I feel like I wasted my time but nonetheless Uh behemoth probably will not test this week and if it does it'll be literally the once per train And then it's waiting for the training weekend, um, which I'll let you guys know about if I figure that out based off of last year Um, but yeah, nonetheless Thank you so much for watching our video Sorry for the Panic of riptide being removed. Again, it is not being removed. It's just having bearing replacement. So calm down I did not realize so many people would be triggered over riptide I it's a great ride because the water but outside of that it's pretty predictable I don't think it's going to last very long at canada's wonderland. It's Had a lot of maintenance problems over the years I think again, this is their third time having to replace the bearings in like a five year period It could be wrong again. Don't hold me to that But I think this is the third time second or third time definitely two times Minimum, but I think it's three. Um, but yeah, thanks so much guys. Um, and yeah, I don't think there's anything else I'm out of it. So I apologize for the disorganized videos yesterday and today Um, thanks so much. Have a good one guys. Bye You


Hi guys this is Jason here from the Nathaniel School of Music and in this lesson let's learn how to pretty much play any chord progression given to you on the piano in the most professional sounding way where all the notes feel very connected with each other as well as a super efficient way or I would say the easiest possible way which we learn on the piano called as chord inversions. So let's get started right away by forming a chord progression. So the chord progression which I am going to choose is 1, 4, 1, 5. So chord progression when we write it with these Roman numbers as we find is that can work on any scale. I think let's do G major, G major has one sharp, F sharp. So the first thing I like to do when building chords within the scale is to first write it down in a neat round circle so that you can easily form your triads. You can look at the circle and if you don't know your triads you can easily figure out right. G major chord is G, B, D and how do you get that? You skip the A and then get the B then how do you get the D after the B you skip the C. So it's a lot more visually understandable by writing it in a circle. After you've written down the notes of the scale in a circle you could write down all the available chords. The available chords of any major scale are major, minor and diminished. The major chords in any major scale are 1, 4, 5 and why we write them in Romans is because any major scale this sort of holds good. So the 1 of the G major scale happens to be G major because it's a 1. The 4 of the G major scale is the C, G, A, B, C which is the 4 and then the 5 will be D, G, A, B, C, D and now you want to find the minor chords. The minor chords are built with the 2 degree, the 3 degree and the 6 degree. The 2 degree happens to be A minor. We call it minor because it has a different interval relationship and thus a very different tonality or a different emotion. So A minor is the 2, B minor is the 3 if you're counting B is the third of G and then E minor will be the 6 because it's the 6th from G and then you have the lone diminished chord which we seldom use but it's good to write it and keep it waiting for us that's the F sharp diminished chord. So for today's class we're going to do the 1, 4, 1, 5 chord progression. In other words just the major chords. So let's write down the major chords of the G major scale under the Roman numbers. What are they? G, C, G and D, G major, C major, G major, D major. And what I'd also like you to do is write down the notes of the chord. You could write down the notes of the chord again in a neat round circle. G, B, D and then you have the C major chord which is C, E, G then you come back G, B, D and then you end with D, F sharp A which creates the chord progression cycle. Normally in a normal world you'd find the chord G, B, D on the piano and it'll look really symmetric.  The right hand has to go even higher here and all the three notes have to change. Your fingers change position and it also does not sound good. Instead of doing that you could figure out an easier way to play the chords which I'm going to show you. So to form the chord inversions as we say, what we need to do is just figure out all the ways in which you can play these chords. So you have G major which is G, B, D. So one way you could play it is G, B, D in the order of occurrence of the note. So you'll have G then you'll have B and you'll have D. However, you can also play it as B, D, G where you start with B, D, G, this creates another shape. But the same vibe it still sounds major and then you do D, G, B. And with all of these positions or shapes as we call them you would need to play G in your left hand. Otherwise mentioned that closes the sound. That's what a major chord will sound like. So you could adopt the same process now to write down the other chords. Let's do that together. So you have C major which is C, E, G, the default shape as we call it you can also go E, G, C or you could go G, C, E or if you like playing it higher G, C, E. And then after that you come back to the original chord where you started which is G, B, D then you have the shapes B, D, G and then you have D, G, B to play the G major chord. And lastly you have the five chord which is D major which is D F sharp A, let's build the shapes together D F sharp A which is D F sharp A and then you go F sharp A D which is this and then A D F sharp. With all of these chords you need to play the bass note keeping the root of the chord in mind. So G major bass is G, C major bass is C, D major bass is D. Whichever shape you play on the piano the bass remains exactly the same. So now why do we have all these shapes? We have these shapes so that it's going to make it super easy for us to shift between our chords. So I'm going to just start with G, B, D on the piano. Now as I discussed earlier going from G, B, D to C, E, G is a lot of a challenge. You have to shift a lot so we need to find a way to shift better. So the trick which I have for you guys is to figure out or plot out which is the common note between the two chords. Between G major and C major if you observe the common note is G. You have G, B, D. If I start here then this shape becomes useless. G, B, D, C, E, G this shape becomes absolutely useless. So instead what I could do is try out some of the other shapes. So if I do G, B, D, E, G, C that's also too far away or if I play it here also it's a bit tough. So that leaves us with G, B, D, G, C, E and then you come back. So this is your shift. So just try to get used to this shift. Try whichever finger works for you, you could try 1, 2, 3 and 1, 4, 5 or whatever works. Just muscle that in and in the left hand you need to play the roots of each chord. It's pretty much it. Okay, so I do G, B, D, G, C, E back to G, B, D and now let's follow the trick to go to D major. What is in common between G major and D major? You'll find that D is in common. So whenever the D is in common it's quite obvious that you don't want to change this finger which is on D. So just keep the D and find a shape which has D at the top end of the chord which happens to be F sharp A, D. Okay, so you'll have to sneak your thumb in there or maybe use your index finger if you think that works. So the chords are G, B, D, G, C, E, G, B, D, F sharp A, D, G. Now you may think you know I am done job over but actually you can consider the other starting point. So instead of doing G, B, D you could also start with the other option. Before we do that let's just map this out. So G, B, D going to G, C, E back to G, B, D and then D is in common. So you put a shape where D is at the top end F sharp A, D and then play it together. So now what if I start with B, D, G okay which is here on the piano. So earlier we played this shape G, B, D now we are playing this shape. So if I start with the B, D, G shape again G is in common. So you go C, E, G then B, D, G, A, D, F sharp this is actually a lot easier if you ask me C, E, G, B, D, G, A, D, F sharp this is actually a lot easier than starting with this thing G, B, D right. So you need to figure this out by writing it that's very, very important. So you go B, D, G, C, E, G, B, D, G because G is still in common and last chord A, D, F sharp because D is in common and D was in the center okay so that's B, D, G, C, E, G, B, D, G and then what do we do last A, D, F sharp and that's the second pathway the left hand stays the same. So I quite like this a lot better than the last one where you do and this feels a bit squishy to put the thumb in there. So now if I do D, G, B this would also be quite easy if you ask me D, G, B, E, G, C because the common notes in the center right D, G, B, D, F sharp A super easy right D, G, B, E, G, C, D, F sharp A and so on and so forth. So what's happening now is you figure out a way to connect any chord together using the idea of having a note in common. Now if there is no note in common no problem just figure out the easiest way to shift between them okay so I hope this is done and dusted on G major for all of you and just to sort of revise and capture all that I have talked about in this lesson instead of me summarizing it let's just do it on another scale shall we let's do it on the key of F major. So F major we have written it down in a neat round circle as always the major chords the minor chords and the lone diminished chord okay let's plot them out major one F major one fourth B flat that's also going to form major fifth C major the two minor G minor three minor A minor and six minor happens to be D minor lastly you have the E diminished which is the seven these are all the available chords on F major you are given any chord progression you can crack this okay coming back to one four one five what is one four one five all the happy major chords right so that's F major B flat major F major C major so again let's write down the notes of these chords in another neat round circle or at least in a circular manner F A C B flat D F F A C and lastly C E G as always we play them with the bass note or the root note in the left hand and as always we figure out by playing it this way it's an absolute nightmare for you the player and the listener right because it sounds completely disconnected so you write down all the available inversions or all the available shapes so F major we wrote it in a round so you know it's F A C and then A C F C F A okay then the B flat chord where you do B flat D F D F B flat F B flat D and then come back to F major F A C A C F C F A and finally we have the five chord which is C G E G C G C E and then you make your connections between the chords for highly efficient playing so if you start with F A C F A C F B flat D right I did not want to go here for obvious reasons so I did I move from here to here so I've done F B flat D then obviously I come back to F A C and how do I end C is in common E G C and then you do this with all the other chords all rather all the other starting points of the same chord so A C F B flat D F so you connected there come back to AC F which is the same thing and then you do G C E and then you go on and then you do C F A which is the next starting point for the F chord running out of colors but you get the idea C F A D F B flat C F A C E G I think for F major everything super easy to play C F A D F B flat C F A actually like this the best also sounds very assertive right that's pretty much it so we've looked at the one four one five chord progression on two scales and before you play the chord progression you're going to need to write down the scale of interest figure out all the available chords and now if a person tells you play one five six four or one six two five or one two three four or some weird progression whether it's diatonic or not you just have to write the chords connect them together figure out the most efficient way to move and job done so the things you need to do with chord inversions is first of all don't treat it like a brand new chapter in your life when you learn chords when you learn chord progressions for the first time also bring them all together don't think that chord inversions is a new chapter or a more advanced chapter it's actually there to make our life easier on the piano right so I hope you guys have found this lesson useful and if you did please consider subscribing to our YouTube channel and more importantly turn on that bell icon which you see somewhere for notifications whenever we release a new video you will be updated immediately and also share the video with all your fellow musician friends and give us a comment tell us how you thought this lesson was and give us some suggestions as well for something we could do in the future right cheers as always this is Jason here from the Nathaniel School of Music signing off


London is one of the most popular cities in the world. It has many attractive places to go and things to do. One of which is to watch musicals in the West End. Today, we are going to the West End to find out why the musicals are loved. My favorite musical is Ain't Misbehavin'. Lomia and Juliet. Matilda. Remuselavo. The Lion King. There are so many musicals loved worldwide. The West End is playing around 30 musicals today. Among the many musicals, which one is the most popular? That's Lemizorabla, which is the longest-running musical in the West End history, with over 13,000 performances since records started. It was first performed in 1985, based on a historical novel written by the French author Victor Hugo. This is a story about people struggling during the French Revolution. For what reasons does Lemizorabla attract people? I like One Day More the most. I like that song the most, so I was most moved by it. It was my first musical. I was able to think about the background of the French times, so I thought it was a very deep musical. Yeah, or the costume. I like the bit where I cry the most is the ending, when Jean Valjean dies. I've seen the movie as well, and I really wanted to come see it on stage. It is my favourite show, and this was the best one I've seen. The stage, the choreography was incredible. I have seen it about 30 times, and I love it. I've seen it twice before, and it's such a fabulous story, although heartbreaking. All the singing was beautiful, and I think the scene, just before the end of the first half, when they're marching, and they seem like they're marching towards the barricade, that really kind of gripped me that part as well. They're wonderful voices. All the cast, just now, very great voices. Lemizorabla has captured so many people's hearts as the longest-running musical in the West End. But British musicals of modern times, such as Machudo, representing the continuous evolution of Western musicals, has also made a hit since 2011. It is highly popular among children, which contributed to the expansion of audience. This musical is based on a novel written by the British writer Roald Dahl, and the novel is widely known among European children. Machudo is an intelligent girl who has magical powers. She stands against evil adults such as her parents and the school mistress. I really wanted to go, and I liked the book. I really liked Revolting Children. It was just such a great song and really great choreography. It was really good. I liked the book, and I've seen some other shows, and I thought it would be really good. You've read the book, haven't you? Yeah, I read the book. He's read most of the books, so we thought we'd come and see the musical to see what it was like, didn't we? Yeah. Yeah. Do you like the best? The end, where everyone came on to stage on Scooters. He loved the Scooters. It was good that it all turned out right, didn't it? She found our true mummy, didn't she? Yeah. That was wonderful, wasn't it? Yeah. What about the alphabet? Yeah, it was good. Where we climbed up the alphabet. Yeah. Yeah. You had a really good time, I think, didn't you? Yeah. The chocolate cake scene was hilarious for the songs, the music. They were so funny, really well written, so I enjoyed that part. There are many other musicals in the West End. As people mentioned in interviews, the most popular features of West End musicals are dramatic stories, music, costumes, and stage settings. From old ones to modern ones, West End musicals are loved by people around the world.


This program is brought to you by Cable franchise V's and generous donations from viewers like you Good evening, and welcome back to byline. This is our public affairs show here at Amherst media and We pulled the show together with the help of the Amherst League of Women Voters who helps us with our programming they of course were the Generators of this show along with Amherst media last year, and it's part of our effort to help our friends and neighbors here in town Understand and follow the transition we're going through from our old form of town government to our new form of town government as a result of the charter that was approved not so many months ago and We bring in guests from town government and others Sometimes who are working on things that intersect with town government and today we have the chair of our transportation advisory committee TAC for short TAC for short and Aaron you're no stranger to town politics and an engagement You've been around the track a few times. Yeah, well, it's it started with an invitation to provide technical support to the planning board many many many years ago and that of course lasted for seven years and little stint in town meeting and the select board and The course of being well in all of course of all of that I'd maintained an interest and I was working with what when those days started out as a pedestrian and bicycle committee And became the pedestrian a bicycle and some other things committee So alternatives to our cars alternatives cars specifically it was an advocacy group. We were we were interested in assuring that the the needs of the for bicyclers and walkers were also being recognized in You know the workings of was a part of the government or people outside of the government tried to influence it It was a part of the government was it was a it was a committee. We had open meeting law and all the rest of it We had appointments from The town manager at the time and the select board. I can't remember exactly what the makeup was. It's been a while But yeah, so we were and we were working in parallel with the public works committee Whose focus was pretty much on things public works the roads the bridges and everything else and As time went on this is now. This is all before pre charter, of course. Yeah, and at some point it was understood that the work of the two committees might be more effectively handled sort of in one place and and and the idea that That new committee that newly constituted with expanded scope committee could advise The the owners of the public way at that time. It would have been the select board and today It's the town council to it give advice and try to figure out how to solve all the problems regarding The transportation along the public way specifically it's of course so this one group is now trying to integrate all the thinking and the policy making around Transportation in general whether you're talking about motorized vehicles of various sorts or bicycles Yeah, and but you won't your only advisory you don't have decision-making power Well, we we'll make decisions, of course But no decisions about the advice that we would give to and so you do decide things and when you decide them Somebody else has to say we'll go along with that or we're going to do it. Yeah, exactly. We're changing got it so the so backing a little bit up is that there are In forming this committee and doing all the work. There's a transportation study Which is more or less our guidebook. It's it's on the web. You can see it underneath the transportation advisory committee Did you do it or did somebody else do it? I can't remember the name of the consultant, but they worked very closely with a Group that was formed out of the pedestrian and bicycle committee and public works was a working was supported by the town was supported by the town and ultimately presented to town meeting and so it is it is a report that kind of identifies issues with transportation in town and I always refer back to page 44. There's a very nice matrix there that shows all of the issues and suggested timelines for fixing them How old is that document? Many years or four or five years now. Okay, so it's still it's still vibrant. It is still vibrant and it's certainly something that we think about Since then subsequent to that there was an add-on a realization that while we were had a good understanding or a sense of a good understanding of transportation issues in town there was no good mechanism for Moving off of the the ideas Into you know real plans and we're planning sort of action to what are you going to do? Yeah, how are you going to budget for how are you going to take decisions about what goes next? And that's that is where the the transportation advisory committee was formed the That's so to take those ideas in that study those planning elements and turn them into Things that could be actionable and you act things that would be acted upon by somebody in town who had the authority to act on them Exactly, and there are there were several different models that we looked at Our problems in Amherst are not unique You know all of the other towns in the country in the world are dealing with these things the question Really is how to do it here, you know given You know Given the government given the values the values of the town and the people in the town Yeah, what are the goals for the town each town has a different way they're going So the Eventually there was a little advisory committee that said this is the model Transportation advisory committee is the model that seems to fit Amherst the best and so and so here we are and Since then You know as we've been doing our work and you're gonna ask me about that in a second We have realized my mind. It's funny how that happens. Yes We realized that we really weren't talking about the two networks that everybody thinks of everybody thinks about cars and not cars yeah, and in fact in trying to untangle the issues and solve the problems of How to deal with the roadways? There are five networks that we are that we're thinking about and have to be accommodated There's the you know cars of course and that's most of us interact with our transportation network in our car going from here to there Related to the cars are and just basic transportation is mass transit So a bus stop is a significant thing a bus You know accommodating a bus a bus a bus route Stop these are all important things that you really do need to plan for and think about when you're changing a road There's also commerce The trucks that are delivering, you know our groceries or our you know laundry or whatever it is Downtown they need to be accommodated as well and their requirements are different than People parking for to go in and visit a store their parking is you know any event And then there is the bicyclers and bicycle lanes and you know, that's how they're accommodated and last but not least are the pedestrians and So in developing thinking about all of those networks You know we Understand and I'm hoping that we're forming our advice In understanding the relationship between them so One of the the projects that we've completed and presented to the the town council last year was a complete streets policy and so our work Now explain what a complete streets Policy is about well, where did that term come from the the complete streets? concept is Actually, there's a federal there's a national understanding of complete streets the state Massachusetts has a complete streets program that offers assistance to towns who want to adhere to that Complete streets concept a complete street is one that accommodates now. They really integrate the transportation needs of all five all five of them They really consider four but in creating which one do they leave out they leave out commerce They leave out the trucks just just people you know sort of mix that in with but So The state says if you're going to be a complete street Town and you are eligible for the the support to do these kinds of projects. You need a policy. Well Okay, you know we can we know to put that draft together and so we We spent a number of months Understanding what the state required because we really do want to make sure that whatever we came up with Satisfied the state of course But as importantly and really where most of our work was It was in interpreting those requirements to Amherst Amherst is not It is unique in many ways I mean we have some very special challenges here as far as transportation is involved out Something about a large school down the street that doubles our population during the school year Being a significant part of that which is unusual and unique to us But every community has their unique aspects and and elements. So yeah, yeah, and and maybe it's a little bit We have yeah, you've highlighted at least one of our Situations and there are other communities in the state that have large college populations So they might have some of the same and you know while I I do so it's not a pejorative It's not yeah, yeah, it's not a pejorative It's it's it's the reality of our community and how it's it's comprised And and who's here and when they're here and how they and then the values that undergird the community Well exactly and that's that's reading my mind now Okay, the the others about the other part of the complete streets policy and and this these ideas Really get into everything that we do at some point our complete streets policy includes recognition for Conserving open space and you know natural resources, which is not a requirement, but something that we certainly value about that It's something we're value Handicapped access trees. I mean, you know, we really do want to you know We understand we appreciate the support that the Public Shade Tree Committee gets and Want to be part of that so that's that was one project that that we've done that kind of folded all of those things in another thing that we're working on Is a Tool trying to create a tool that will help us guide Our advice our advising We one of our the functions that we're trying to encourage trying to you know grow is Our engagement with the public so, you know ideas concerns observations that You know our neighbors would have about Transportation, you know, we're really anxious to get them and and you know To develop our advice based on that So in receiving those You know letters comments if people are invited to the meeting, of course do come on Wednesdays once the evening We've been working on Don't want to be too use so many buzzwords, but we're gonna matrix so that if we have a Project we have an idea we want this We wanted to be able to understand How valuable that is compared to all of the other things that might be in the queue and so we could rank it and say Prioritize you know Guilford. This is next you know do this one next town council. This is a big one do this one So this one Is that let's focus on Sidewalks all across town or let's focus on crosswalks or is it focusing on one particular sidewalk or one particular Crosswalk for some reason that you should prioritize this one at this time This tool is for this piece of sidewalk for that crosswalk. Okay There are other projects that we're trying to that we're working on Like understanding what all of the side what what? Sidewalks do we need and where in the existing sidewalk network other deficiencies? Where is it missing? Where is it poorly maintained? where Do people really use it and would use it if it was repaired or existed? So we try that's a different sort of long, but there's the short term. You know, hey, I need and so those Individual short-term projects can inform the broader policy in that particular category because you start to see patterns of Where people are looking for sidewalks or crosswalks or the types of problems that have been consistently communicated with regard to the Viability of how our site our crosswalks are constructed Etc. Etc. So those small pieces you can fix one thing at a time But while you're doing that you're also aggregating the information that helps you figure out what the town's well Overall vision or policy should be for that area. Is that a fair way to that's a fair way or summarizing it and and the idea is that This little piece Becomes a priority if it's really moving us in the direction that we want to go Okay, I mean some things might be valuable in and of themselves, but it helps if they're part of a bigger piece like, you know like a fund request or you know grant request Or hey, you know this this little piece in the sidewalk will make it easier for students to walk to this school I mean, this is a you know It becomes a priority in the long range of things So and so people bring you these ideas all the time and you're trying to create a portal for them to Know exactly where to go to bring you these ideas. Is that part of what's going on there exactly the idea So one of the exciting things about committee work And I'm not sure how many people can get excited about committee work because it is hard work But it's very it can be exciting and very engaging is that when these things come to us We are we're in a very good place and and every committee in their own way has the same place We're in a very good place to understand Well trends sort of sort of assemble community values and and really begin to make our give our advice Sort of you know that will move us in a good direction and one of the things that we've noticed is that And it's this is you know seems very simple to say it but it's I think it's not said enough is that where Things are changing The transportation network has to change Okay, duh The and and what has been recurring in our meetings is that where there are Where there is new development where there are new houses there now there are Students who are going to school from a new place that there where there hadn't been houses before and so now we need to begin to think about Is this the right place for the bus stop should there be a crosswalk there or a light or a roundabout or something else? so that's all that's exciting that's kind of it's it's interesting to watch that and To engage my colleagues on the on the committee in Figuring it out and then and then again with anybody who said anybody who comes to our meeting of course We try to engage you guys spend a lot of time with maps We spend a lot of drawing things and we spend a lot of time with with with graphs and matrixes and And we spend some time with the engineering manuals for Roadways AASHTO AASHTO and all of sign regulation and all of that kind of stuff and trying to pull it together ultimately to prioritize You know so again those ideas that I come to us how what what's one goes first and why and that's the why is very important because You know really you know fact-based sort of fundamental understanding of what we need is And so in in in most towns when you see a pothole and you're really ticked off about it you either call The town administrator that you call the mayor or you call your town council or So like people are calling you saying can you fix my pothole? Not quite not quite now. So I Just want to say to everybody if you have a question for the transportation committee Just to you know to send a note to the public works group I think I don't know our email address. I have to apologize for that. They could find it online. They can find it online Yeah, and our website Basically, you know, we're happy to address any note that we get the vast majority of them really don't need us They're not appropriate for us. Yeah potholes. No, we don't know potholes. Not our department not not our department But a stop sign might be a stop sign might be and it turns out stop signs are much more complicated than One could imagine it really is a safety device and and But if somebody calls you about a stop sign What what you're doing is looking at it thinking about blah blah blah blah blah blah And then you go and you talk with with the DPW Because ultimately it's not your decision whether they should be at stop sign But you might have some valuable input for the DPW As they consider the competing requests for stop signs and and I'm relying on the DPW to You know help this note and say this is a pothole. We're not going to bring that to the meeting. Yeah Oh, this is a stop sign. We need to think about this. Here's a report of speed. Is your committee staffed? You know, I am very appreciative to the town manager for the staff that we get we have Guilford mooring sits with us and Chris Bestrup sits with us and I think that's a recognition to good people to great people and also You know, I'm right. You know appreciate the recognition that Transportation does affect sort of the daily operations what public works is doing not the potholes specifically but where the curb is going to be installed and repave this piece of road and As the town grows and changes it really is there are planning aspects And so both of them bring us, you know, very valuable resources to help us understand and to Prioritize projects and to create these guidelines. So yes, if you have a crosswalk, this is how you do it Where does the tack fit into with regard to the discussion on parking and parking garages? Not easily so parking. Are you in that picture in that debate? We're not really There's while our charge includes parking Our sense is that does not include parking downtown because that's very separate. That's not a transportation issue so much as a logistics commercial issue sort of beyond the boundary of The downtown and and maybe out of outside of the town centers We imagine that there would be a role for us to talk about parking and in fact I hope to engage in that a little bit Where especially we're parking interferes with bicycle routes or or a pedestrian. There's some some tension there But so yeah, we're we're that sets a little bit beyond us So you're on the edge of that conversation But you're not you're not like avoiding it completely you realize there's some connection Yeah, we're looking we're watching not it's not your it's not at the heart of your work You have something just you can have something to say about it along the way and we may and you may because it does affect our ability to integrate our transportation Networks as you call them at the beginning the five so in the few minutes we have left can you I know this is probably gonna Be hard, but can you pick? One or two things that you think are the most critical things that We need as a community to think about in relation to our transportation because you know a lot of people are saying you know Climate change we got to get rid of those cars. We got to get rid of those Things that are polluting our atmosphere and there are choices to be made, you know Electric buses are a great idea, but not all buses are electric All right, well the so the transportation side. It's a little bit difficult To engage with the environment side really it's about getting from point A to point B and yes But there are values inherent in that conversation Very much and and in any way that we can support for instance keeping a tree alive In with a design change. That's that's good or you know improve the amount of time it takes to cross an intersection That's you know, we're all for that and I certainly support the idea of converting to electric vehicles or even making a way for shared devices bicycles for instance Excuse me have some water. Oh, that was a good idea but I Know our viewers think it's vodka, but it really is water You were not supposed to give The our number one our number one concern is Safety is the safety of of the networks not only for The individual for that the car or the bus or the trucker the bicycle pedestrian, but also where they cross and so That's that's paramount and then then comes Very close There's also the utility of it, you know, it really does need to do What we need it to do it needs to make it easy for us to get from here to there Whether we're walking our dog doing something recreational whether we're walking downtown Because we'd really rather leave our car at home Whether, you know, we're gonna hop on a bicycle and and you know ride this stretch on the bicycle instead that that's all very important and we a Big part of our at our work is advocacy for improving and making more attractive the Non-automobile transportation bikes and walking really if we can do that We solve a lot of transportation problems, you know bikes take up much less room than cars You know now we have room for other things in that that way So and that would be an environmental thing. It's also it turns out a huge health benefit You know in this day and age when we're worried about our health and obesity and all to have a Place that encourages walking to go for about your daily, you know chores That's very valuable. So that's not a lot of bicycling both of which are good for your health and Sort of as a side benefit to that if if it's a good place to walk or ride your bike It's probably going to be handicapped accessible. So people who have limited mobility Should be able to use those as well and if they're well-designed, you know the handles can be done everybody. Yeah Great, we really are interested in getting everybody out. So we got a little over a minute left Do you have a final point that you would really like to drive home that? We haven't Emphasized enough for you. Oh, yes hundreds of them. No really in short, you know keep your cards and letters coming Do be in touch with us come to our meetings Join committees now it's it's committee work can be exciting and Are there any openings on your committee if anybody wants to do that not at the moment There are plenty of other committees any rotation coming up. Yes, it will be in June Like I don't remember exactly if it's okay to start three slots. Okay, so if you're interested You could a lot of application and and who knows you might find that one of the existing committee members is That they're ready to move on to something else and and so they may be a vacancy or two There you go. Well, that'd be great. Well, thank you so much for coming on and and sharing your enthusiasm for transportation thinking and planning here in town and You know who thought it could be so exciting and so engaging well Thank you for making it so well keep up the good work. Well, thanks for joining us