Hi, everybody. While I wait for PowerPoint to start up, my name is Anusha Jayanti. I'm working with Dextra as a product in charge. We make Android apps based on personalization and context and some of the things we made are Friday and dial up. What I want to talk to you all today is about creating delightful user experiences. So what I want to focus on are the small things that you can do which take very little effort but have a very high impact. And you end up with the users being delighted, which instantly then gives you a lot of benefits. So why should you focus on creating delightful user experiences? It's pretty straightforward, right? One is instantly you get good reviews because at that one moment, the user has gained something from your app and which will essentially then translate on to the reviews. The next thing that I can talk about is definitely virality, right? So to give you a good example there, let's think about the Android settings. So in every Android version, Google essentially comes out with this one small thing, which is like a game. For example, in Lollipop, we have the flappy bird version of Android. And something like this eventually goes viral. And now we're talking about Google, which is, of course, a big company. So it doesn't really come into picture there. But when you're talking about a small thing and when the user has this whole experience of actually having discovered something which is deep inside your app and gets to play with it, gets delighted by it, wants to talk about it, that's what is one of the recipes for virality. And another great thing to use this for is for upgrading your user. So whenever you want to try and monetize your app, it's always a good idea to try and push this in at a point of time where the user's already feeling really good about whatever you're doing inside your app. To go back to the good reviews part, something interesting that Clash of Clans does is, so Clash of Clans is an app where you get to create your own war base. And you can go and raid other people's war bases and you can win the game or lose the game based on how many stars you get and so on. So what ends up happening there is whenever you win a war, which is when they ask you for a review. So automatically it so turns out that you will go back, even if let's say there's been an error or it's taken too long for the game to load, you'll feel good about it and you'll go ahead and give them a good review. I'm really sorry about this but I just have to check about why this is not loading up. Okay, so again really sorry about it, I know it completely breaks the flow of the talk. So I was talking about onboarding users and it's a really good time to ensure that you can push them on to a plan. For example, there's this app called Todoist, right? It's a brilliant task management app. So what it does is it lets you create as many tasks as you want, put in filters and so on. It also has this little thing called karma rating. So this karma rating is calculated based on how many things have you completed in the time or in the date that you've set for it. At a time when your karma rating is really good and you're doing well and the statistic looks good is when they suggest that why don't you go for the pro option? So now the pro option has a whole bunch more of filters. You can add anything you want and that's a really good tactic, right? You're feeling good about yourself. You think you're doing well with the app. The app is actually letting you be productive and hence you want to go for the pro version which means that maybe you'll be more productive. Maybe you'll use the app for more number of things. So these are some of the instant effects that come up. Some of the places that we can plug this into is what I'll be talking about next. So while I wait for the power button to catch up, I think it's an issue with my laptop. So some of the best places to plug this in are error pages. So to give an example, when you go on to Gmail, and you try to create an ID, and you go into, let's say you put your date of birth as, let's say 2030, it instantly asks you, so are you from the future? Or when you try to create an email ID with too many dots, it says we are good with punctuation but the user IDs won't work. So things like this really help. And error messages are just one kind of micro copy that you can use. Flickr.com changes the language in which it says hello to you every time you log in. Now that's such a beautiful thing, right? It's an instant connect. You get to know how to say hello in a new language and it's a small thing with changes which you notice every day.  So error messages, error messages micro copy is definitely one place that you can focus on when it comes to finding out how to delight users. The other thing is utilizing common gestures. So what I'll do is because this completely refuses to go on, I'll open a fabulous on my phone in the meantime. So pull to refresh is one of the most common gestures we have, right? But it is also true that a lot of apps don't really need pull to refresh because the content is not going to change every time. So what this particular app has done is instead of completely disabling the gesture, they have decided to surface something new when you do pull to refresh. So there you go. So you can see that now, right? So this is how it looks normally and when I pull down, it says pull to make me fabulous.  But the point there is they're using something very simple that everybody knows how to do to make something really interesting to surface a new feature. Now this is not something that you would ideally go into or explore. This is something which would have been hidden in settings which would have been two to three taps away, but they've managed to bring it on right in the surface while making you feel really good about it. So common gestures that we can always use are pull to refresh, slide, because we've all been taught how to use slide thanks to Google and that's definitely one great way to put in features. The other thing I wanna talk about is transitions. So when we talk about transitions, I think material design is definitely one of the best examples we have right now. So what happens is though a lot of the work shifts from the designer to the developer, in the end, the whole app seems very light, feels responsive. The user feels that they are the ones who have initiated the whole change, right? So even though it might take two seconds to move from one screen to the other, because of whatever you see happening there on the screen, you never feel that there's a lag and you always know what's happening. So transitions like these might you know, add a little more work when it comes to the amount of time it takes to bring something one second to the end, but it definitely is one of the greatest things to use. I'll give you a good example. If you open the calculator in Android L, a calculator is a very simple app, right? It's really boring, but with material design, with the way they've put it in, it looks so beautiful and it's such a delight to use. As in when you press on each number, the animation that you see happening, you know, just moving and the whole thing just feels so great. I'll give you another example of how we use animations and transitions and small things like that in one of our own apps. So Nock is an app which we put it in the market about four or five months ago, right? So this is an app which is about communication, which means you need people to be talking and you need a lot of people on the app at the same time, which meant that sharing was really important. It was very important for us that people share the app and people share their IDs on Nock and they invite other people. So what we ended up doing was, so Nock has these little tiny circles and we ended up putting the share button inside one of these tiny circles and making this small animation, which would ensure that the Facebook button just moves around, it just wiggles around. And we saw at least a 10% increase in shares just with that tiny little thing because it's not disruptive, but when you open it up, people see it and it moves and it instantly draws your attention, right? So that was something that, from my personal experience, really helped us. Something else that can be used is small things like, which might seem very superficial, but in the end, users feel connected to whatever you're doing. Adding small things which help you to communicate like smileys. An example that I like to use here is a game called Brain Wars. Unfortunately, it doesn't work on Android L, so I can't use the same display. But I'll tell you what it does. So it's a very small app. It essentially lets you compete with other people. But the good part is, just before you start off on the war, you have these just eight smileys, right? Just eight smileys there and you can tap on each of the smiley and the smiley will pop up and what happens there is you get to communicate with the other person just in terms of smileys without actually doing anything. So forget about the fact that whether you're actually winning or losing doesn't matter, but just that experience of exchanging the smileys and feeling good, it's a really nice thing. And you have these thumbs up smileys, you have these sleepy smileys, which you can just exchange even in the middle of the game or at the end of the game. And that's a really nice gesture. Now, I'll come to how do you figure out what to put each of these where? And to make up for this, I promise I'm gonna put up this slide somewhere where you can refer to them. So the model I'm going to use for understanding where to put up, what kind of mechanism to use, how to use, and what kind of user should be targeting, I would suggest going for a gamification model by Bartle. Now, this gamification model has four categories in it. You have the achiever, you have the killer, you have a socializer, and you have an explorer. An explorer is somebody who will go inside your app who will want to take a look at every single toggle that is there and play around with it. A killer is somebody who no matter what stage he is and he just wants to end the game, go to the end, reach the pro level of the app.  And an achiever is somebody who cares about getting every single start there is to get on every single level. It doesn't matter whether how many levels he's crossed and it doesn't matter if he has crossed the level or has not crossed the level or if coming back to the app version, if he has uncovered a feature or has not uncovered a feature, if there is nothing to gain from it. So going deeper into each of these models and going back to the examples that I talked about, when we talk about the socializer, a good example would be, let's say you have a music app. A single suggestion coming from a friend is what would delight the socializer a lot. Or going back to the brainwash example where I talked about the smileys. Those smileys coming across is what really delights the socializer because they're making friends in some way. They're connecting with the other person. When we talk about the explorer, whatever Google does inside its settings is what delights the explorer. They like to go in, they like to share about each of these things. They like to talk about each of these things with their friends and that is what helps each of these tiny little elements go viral. When we're talking about the killer, the developer options, the way Google has put it in, where you go, you have to tap on it five times. That's the killer. They want to get to the end of everything. And for Achiever, we have so many examples across everywhere. It's about the pages. It's about the number of things you have done and so on. So that's all. And I'm really sorry about that, but in case anybody has any questions, we can talk about it. I can put up this slide later and you're free to message me or ask me any questions about it. Excuse me. Hello. What are some of the resources that we can improve ourselves on this stuff? So one of the things that I did not cover here is when it comes to tutorials and so on. So there's a Tumblr I follow for that. It's a really cool Tumblr. What this person does is she goes into every single startup and tutorial flow and actually analyzes it for the pros and cons. So if you Google for first experiences and the tutorials Tumblr, you'll get it. That's one of the very focused resources. But apart from that is generally going into pttrns.com, which essentially lists down all the screens and everything across all patterns for all apps across iOS and Android. And that's one of the places where I go to pick this up. You know, from where you, I can see all kinds of flows, whether it is faster in our settings or tutorials or throughout. Yeah, sure, I'll do that. Thank you. I'm sorry. Sure, so this is the app I was talking about which is called Brain Wars, which is where you have the smileys, which you can, and you can see all the, you know, sleepy bubbles coming up and so on. And let me see if I can still go through it completely. And we are talking about Easter eggs, which is something that Google does a lot. And so these are the four models and I just have the pros and cons of each of them running through, so I'll put it up. So when you said four kinds of users, you're saying that any app will have those four kind of users, right? Every app will have these four kind of users. It just depends on what section are you looking at. So even if you're looking at a music app, so for example, Google profiles, all the different kind of music that you like to listen to.  So if you're looking at, okay, you know, I have listened to these many kinds of music, that's probably what an achiever would like to look at. Whereas, let's say if you're getting a suggestion from somewhere, or if you a friend shares something with you, that is what a socializer would like to look at, right? Again, something, the pull to refresh, or if you have something hidden like that, things like that are where the explorer would come in. So each app, rather than looking at it from an app level, I would suggest looking at things from an interaction level, at that particular interaction, or that particular screen, what are the kind of players that would end up being there? And hence, what are the things I need to do to encourage them at that particular point of time? Anusha, can I ask a question? Yeah. Yeah, so I'm just curious if you can share with us how you test your designs with users, as in, do you sort of sit down with them and see how they react? Or do you have videos of how they use? I'm just curious how we can sort of look. So there are two ways. One is I do observe a lot of people using the apps. So however, the user base isn't as big as I would like it to be, or as varied as I would like it to be, but I think I get a decent number of, you know, those different subsets of the users that end up using the app. So I do look at what are the steps they are taking to reach a particular end point, right? And is it the same path that I imagine they would follow? I also try to look at what are the features they're discovering and not discovering. And the other thing I do to take user feedback is general mails and Excel, sorry, forms. So videos, however, is not something I use for judging there. But do you think sort of standing behind them and just observing how they use and making notes is actually a good way to test your designs? Yeah, that definitely is a good way to test the design, but there is more. I think it also comes down to how you pick your user base. Yes, so all of this would depend upon what stage of testing you're doing, right? Is it at a concept level, which is where you would try to understand whether the problem statement or the hypothesis that you've created makes sense or not, and is that what, you know, in the end, the user is getting at if he's discovering that it is a solution for the problem statement that was imagined. Let us say if it is at a level where you're doing A-B testing or you're just trying to decide whether it makes sense or not, then you'll have two different kinds of users testing on two different parts and trying to figure out what works out best and are they following the optimum flow there or not? So, yeah, I mean, I guess it would totally depend upon the state of the app that you're in or the kind of results that you're looking for. Thanks.


It's really helped me discover who I am and I know that's really lame and I know that You're going to hear this a million times when people want to study abroad But you know you really find your own feet when you when you come somewhere that seems really foreign to you First of all, I think the academy level is very high It is something that I was looking for when I was in searching different universities and planning to go and study abroad I was looking at in Portugal and in Netherlands and in Poland and also then in Denmark and I was asking some of my former Former managers and they will say yeah Denmark weird. They are in innovation. They are Leading and I was advised that it's a good university and indeed it is since I started my bachelor here a few years ago and Now I'm doing my master. So I'm really happy with my choice. I genuinely love it It's it was a pleasure from the day I came. I can say I love all the opportunities Denmark gives and My studies. I enjoy every aspect of it, which is quite unique I would say the level of teaching is really high and also I learned a lot in the last year My professors have been really really helpful with lots of different things I would say that I've mailed my professors more than I would have ever mailed any professor that I ever had in the US One thing for sure is that you know, they're just there for you if you look around here They're just students as a student city. You have that young feeling the vibe. So that's that's really cool It's a city like a combination of nature. It's close to nature the broadband the lake and also the city life there are many social places in all whose where you can just go during Fridays or whenever you want and Meet other students if just for beer or for chit chat or something else What was my first big lesson was that I learned how to learn it might sound very funny but I think the system is in the way in Romania that you're more used to a Learn by heart what you're doing there and not really learn to think about and how you can actually apply it in real life It's not memory Memorizing the knowledge but also to apply it and to like argue for it There's one very different thing like in China. There's right and wrongs The teacher can say this is wrong not right, but here everything can be right As long as you can argue for it. What I really like here is this kind of study environment I when I say I go through the library in my bachelor was what you're going through the library or you're not cool This is a nerd, but here it's really yeah, nice We are also there and then we exchange ideas. So this is kind of the environment makes a big difference If you come as international students tools in the first place, I think it's no problem to make social context I think it's the same where I live in China or where I live in UK or where they live in Denmark It's the same thing you need to understand the local customs and local traditions And this I think constitutes a big part of your social life some of my Danish friends are very like encouraging and They are quite nice to someone foreign or like new Newly come here. I really like they have those International community where they organize all kinds of activities for international Like students or people works here. Oh, it's very international. So then This is a very good point when it comes to university level because you actually get to to know a lot of International students and this makes a really good Global culture so to speak. I am as a German Very competitive. I always want to win. I always want to be the best one and the Danes are more from the Hofstädter They are more cultural. They're more even winning is not there to team-based That's what they approach is and then we had some class exercises and Then I really noticed that that someday we're just it's not about winning kind It's about the group and how we work together and I was at the beginning Jesus guys What's going on here? But then I noticed that yeah, if if if the group is working together as as one group The outcome is also better. So there's just thought about winning Actually harms at the beginning with when you're working with with Danes together your experience abroad will be what you make of it and That goes from everything from taking trips around Denmark to your life at the university to getting a job Listen as well as share your ideas to actively participate in it Right now. I'm learning and enjoying to learn. It sounds a little bit strange enjoy to learn, but I like it here


been totally overlooked By the development team And then how so many of the other aspects of our neighborhood really I think will be jeopardized By adding the senior housing So those are my comments Thank you for that I did just have a quick follow-up question from mr. Roach. What what is the current Um, do we have current figures through the number of cars that are in this neighborhood on a given day? Uh from what the site's gonna produce or what's there existing or existing? Um For the no-build condition for the no-build condition. Yeah, I don't think they've changed since the original Analysis I gotta pull them up Can I ask you mr. Roach? When was the initial analysis done? um November 2020, but that's just the he's asking specifically about um development of the no-build conditions Um, the no-build conditions is what it would be like I think like five ten years after the opening Assuming that nothing is built right. I assuming the project isn't built, correct Um, so what specific volume of which which road were you looking at? Well, basically we're talking about adding 412 trips to the neighborhood. So I'm curious What the number of trips is currently? Oh, I was just saying I say peak hour trips on the the side streets I think we do an ATR to get daily volumes on lake Street I wasn't sure if you have number specific for the neighborhood that is sort of neighborhood generated trips Well, again, I can tell you what's coming in and out of the side streets on The peak hours But I do not have daily we don't have daily volumes for all the different side streets I think we did it doesn't even look like we do have that either Okay, um, so I don't think we have daily volumes on Those but I have peak hour volumes from the from the counts that we conducted and then Adjusted for co vid and then grown to 2027 if you want little john first street Margaret I have ampm We don't have we don't I'm just trying to get us That's because I a number of people have sort of raised that the question that 412 sounds like a really big number um And so I'm trying to equate that to what the number The number is otherwise to get a better sense. So yeah Like I'm saying I we we did peak hour counts Yeah, right. So we we we only have four hours of counts At the intersections We don't have a daily number for you. What's coming in now what we could do is we could uh Get an estimate of the number of houses That are in the area and and do an it trip generation for single family houses and tell you what that is But I also don't have that in front of me. Hope we lost your idea Oh Well, I think you could also add the number of kids to play soccer at thorn dyke field during off hours And calculate at least one car per kid And then add the number of people who go to the dog park And I would calculate three quarters of them have cars and they're going through the neighborhood And then I would also add the number of people who don't park at the l-wife t station Who park in our neighborhood and I've noticed over the past couple of months that more and more people are parking in our neighborhood Instead of going to the l-wife t station So we're really overcrowded right now as it is Yeah, mr. Chairman, uh, could I make a comment? Um Briefly, but I've got other people I need to get to All right. I just wanted to add a little bit about number one We did think that that 412th number is based on a younger population Uh, which might be driving And I I just think it's really important to keep in mind because we felt that we were making a some real progress by making the senior housing Because it's self regulating, you know people residents that have a choice will not Come and go at peak hours the staff Has a choice they won't come and peak hours Even doctors and and people who come in visits.  We we went there I don't think I don't think anybody's Otherwise, I think we're we're just trying to get a better feel for What the overall, you know, what the You know, is it I think we're just trying to you know, just get a sensory sense as to you know, what it really is But that has nothing to do with You know the efforts the applicant has made to Come up with alternate proposals that have, you know vastly reduced the amount of traffic impact Mr chairman. Yes, please This is pat I I just wanted to I think that there's a certain degree of talking past one another going on here The analysis that's been done so far is focused on the peak hour Where you're talking about some numbers in the neighborhood about of around 25 trips an hour And what Miss griffith is Raising or maybe it wasn't miss griff. I miss oh good. It's raising is something different from that She's suggesting that daily counts matter As much for a different reason and that is that The neighborhood itself has got more traffic in it already than it knows what to do with And adding all of these trips Regardless of the congestion issue But just having more activity Itself diminishes the quality of life in the neighborhood So I think, you know, we need to sort of deal with it We need to focus on the fact that there are two different considerations here One is what are you adding to congestion? And that's what the report that we have really focuses on And the other is the possibility that just increasing the average amount of trips throughout the day Will increase the activity in the neighborhood in a way that the neighborhood would object Thank you, mr. Hamlin. I appreciate that. Um Mr. I meant to do anything further Sorry, I unmuted. No, thank you very much. Thank you. I appreciate that. Thanks for the summary, mr. Hanlon Um next on my list is robin, uh, dodie Thank you chairman Klein This is actually shona gibson of 107 mary street. I'm on robin dowdy's computer I'm the person who's the nurse practitioner who spends um several days a week working over at the assisted living facility at ill wife brook parkway I have just a question and then I just wanted to share um, uh Just a brief anecdote of something that I think is germane my question is Regarding the traffic flow around the proposed a senior living Facility or I suppose around the whole development Entering from little john and exiting onto dorothy. Is is that a one-way traffic flow or or two-way? um Could ask mr. Hessian to confirm but I believe there's there's a single Entrance to the main portion of the building which would be a two-way Um roadway at the corner of little john and dorothy road And then the the townhouses would have their own separate entrances Okay, and so um It will be two-way Going from little john into the The senior living and then able to exit back out onto little john. Yes. Yes, okay, and so In the case of an emergency vehicle and I know we've spoken at other meetings about the fact that there will be A somewhat steady flow of emergency vehicles if we build a senior living facility The it was concerning to me to hear that Just due to the size of something like a fire truck They would be able to drive around the building But I heard a description of them having to perhaps mount a curb Just due to the width of the truck And um also having to back up in front of the building because they um They would get to the to the front entrance but not be able to continue Just due due to the design and I actually think that this whole thing just just actually points to the fact that it's too much Building in this type of space but the the the brief anecdote I just wanted to tell which is um Sadly, it's a true story that happened to one of my patients up at um ill wife is I think um You know, we are talking about folks in their, uh, maybe mid to upper 70s all the way into their 90s and You know at those ages, you know, certain things are just true whether or not you're in relatively good health for your age or not you are older and um Uh one of my uh patients was was very saddling knocked over by a garbage truck And you know Badly injured and hospitalized etc. And I I just want to make the point that That we worry over at that building all the time about um the folks who are the residents of the building Being out and about in front of the building You know, um socializing just hanging out etc But we worry about folks a lot in terms of the traffic that comes up there And this was just a particularly awful thing that actually Ended up happening to this lady But it's it's something that people talk about on a daily basis is so and so safe is so and so Safe to be out there by themselves Um, I know this might sound a little patronizing to people who are not in this line of work It's not intended to be patronizing in any way. It's just a reality of um as as all of us get older Are some of our sensory ability diminishes some of our ability to to move the way we used to when we were young diminishes And sometimes our cognition diminishes. So I worry a lot about that. I worry a lot about Somebody perhaps uh walking on the sidewalk at the back and then not realizing that a fire truck is Perhaps coming around the corner of the back of the building in a hurry Maybe having to mount the curb there and somebody Not having the wherewithal to get out of the way So I just think it's important for folks to realize that stuff like that really happens And just to to just to finally just say I I really wholeheartedly agree with all of my neighbors who who say We understand that development happen happens Uh, we could live with six townhouses on Dorothy road. We would be happy to have new neighbors But uh, this doesn't fit into our neighborhood. It dwarfs us and is going to um Have all sorts of completely unintended consequences um, which we are quite concerned about so Thank you and the rest of the zba for your time And um for your attention to this. I really appreciate it. Thank you Thank you very much I appreciate appreciate your uh your sad anecdote. I do hope that personess is on the mend Um The last name I have on my list is uh, Martha Ingalls Yes. Hi. This is Martha Ingalls at 148 Herbert road And I appreciate your patience. I have two Comments a comment and an idea the comment is that The idea that you're going to have this population of people come and live in this area And once they've moved in they're going to discover that it doesn't make sense to try and go anywhere at rush hour And god forbid they have a heart attack at 5 30 in the evening or eight o'clock in the morning An ambulance would have trouble getting to them That seems like a bait-and-switch situation and I don't think it's kind or fair or moral to Suggest people move into this situation The suggestion that I have Is tangentially related. It's also about traffic Um, one thing that causes the huge number of projected vehicle trips in and out of the neighborhood is the fact That there's no retail at all within three quarters of a mile of the site Every time a resident wants to buy a cup of coffee a bottle of aspirin or some toilet paper That they will either drive somewhere or place an order for it to be delivered by vehicle If it were possible to include a small convenience store within the common space of the development that would cut down on traffic And could benefit the neighbors in the pre-existing neighborhood too Thank you Thank you very much. Appreciate that Okay, um So with that, I'm just going to go ahead and close the public comment period for this evening Um, so I'm interested Sorry, it's just an interesting an interesting recommendation and I have not considered that um So going forward for us we had discussed previously um That uh continuing this evening our continuation date would be september 28 Just want to confirm that that date was still good for um Both the applicant and for uh for Paul havery as well Mr. Chairman, I thought that the hearing was to close by the by the uh 17 in my note I had You can talk October 1st It's October 1st. I believe so. That's it's friday after the 28th Okay, was I was I looking at the prior version then? I think there once was a time when I was thinking Okay, I know I had Okay. Yeah, that makes sense because I think at the last hearing I had I proposed that we closed the public hearing on October 8th But you were but uh applicant had asked that we changed that to the first And I believe that's what we had approved Um, so I need to change that on the on the website because I believe I had the eight to put up on the website um So the board we currently have a hearing scheduled for the 14th Um So we have three we have three regular hearings on the team um And so we were planning to continue to the 28th um Is there a recommendation? possibly move that up to the I think to the I know the To the 21st or had we intentionally moved to the 28th because we were There's a holiday that week that we may have been trying to avoid. Mr. Chairman. Yes, please And I actually deferred to mr. Haverty, but my recollection was that the intention with the hearing on the 28th was to potentially make that the last hearing and the subject matter would be a review of a draft of conditions that would be produced between Between now and then based on everything that we've that we've got So obviously if that's true moving it up is not a very good idea because It puts more either more pressure on mr. Haverty to write the conditions or more pressure on us to figure out what they mean And so I do think it might be worth asking mr. Haverty Whether he still can is can can accommodate that That schedule, but obviously The last hearing date that we have Needs to be a time when the public and when the applicant and when we can begin You know focusing in on the condition so that we understand what everybody thinks about it Before we go into the deliberation phase. So if we don't get to that point on the 28th We I think we need to be looking at some date beyond the 28th because that last step has got to happen Absolutely, and I mind my notes concur with what would you've just said that we were looking to To begin the draft discussion on the 28th Um, so we could have public comment on it. Um Mr. Haverty would does that work with your schedule? Going to be tight getting a decision to you by the 28th I was hoping to Have received suggested revisions by the applicant in advance of that. Okay In particular, there's been quite a number of changes To the plan set that it would be helpful to sort of get that in a narrative form Definitely the 21st is So I think we can shoot for the 28th be discussing draft decision And I'll do my best to get it to you, but Mr chairman If if we got a draft decision on the 28th and everybody else did too There won't be enough time to actually make The hearing hearing on the 28th very useful Now a lot of the purpose of this last business is actually To benefit the applicant and make sure that the applicant has the opportunity to let us know what they think About all of this and I wonder if given the time constraints that even the 28th suggests I wonder if miss keefer has any new thinking about What would be appropriate in terms of us giving her an opportunity and ourselves an opportunity to Think about these conditions before we go into deliberation when as you know, we have to be Blind deaf and dumb and we can't say we're not dumb actually And can't get any new information I'm concerned that everybody has an opportunity To sign off on something they've had an opportunity to address Uh, mr chairman, please If I may respond to mr. Hamlin um I Again, maybe I'm looking at all the information, but I I had anticipated that At one point we talked about um the draft And and paul. I'm not trying to do anything here to put one of us in a bind But I had at being nine twenty three that a draft has to be circulated Is that is that was I looking at and A still an old one when I had that down in my notes That may have been a target date We were shooting more But but again, I haven't The new information just came in in the last couple of days right now. I hear and I haven't seen You know, you're proposed revisions to the earlier decision So right now I would be starting at Point zero in drafting a decision and I'm not sure but that's So if I could ask for a clarification, mr. Chairman, the the the next hearing would just be to review Proposed conditions. Is that so the original intention? I think had been that, you know It's doing the close of this hearing um The seat with the the session of the hearing this evening assuming that we feel that we've gotten You know a good sense as to what the project entails which I think we have um Which is the sort of the intention of the last, you know, four six weeks of work would be that We would try to put together a draft decision that we could discuss at the 28th um But obviously we need to work with with everyone's schedules and to make sure that we have um You know sufficient time to put it together in a in a timely fashion so that we all have an opportunity to look at it before the meeting um and so I think what You know what mr. Havity is saying is that you know absent of You know a lot of comment In relation to all the new changes that have come about since we last started in on a decision that you know having it prepared Between now and the 23rd You know without significant input From the outside is going to be difficult And that you know if we get if we were able to get a draft just in time for the 28th It's really not you know, mr. Handler says it's not going to be really helpful to any of us to discuss it on the 28th If we're only just seeing it for the first time So from the for the board just just so everyone else is aware So tuesday october 12th. We already have a meeting. We have five hearings scheduled for that evening And tuesday october 26th. We already have a hearing scheduled and I believe it's either two or three for that evening I can't recall So if the 28th if the 28th is just too tight I think we could discuss the possibility of going to the fifth Which would give us an additional week To put things together. Obviously if we were to do that we would need to push out the We would need to extend the overall um You know the 180 day hearing We'd need to push that out as well But the 28th is a tuesday. I don't know. You know, I don't know pushing it to thursday the 30th is helpful Art and Gwen, I think I would have to ask for input. Um, it is If you're saying there's a hearing on the fifth if we Push the deadline to the eighth art and Gwen. So we have so the fifth is available Right. Yeah, and so then I am I'm I would ask art and Gwen if you want to weigh in if The apple if you think that we could agree to extending it out to the sixth or the seventh of the eight for the deadline If we if there were a hearing on the fifth to review the draft decision I That's your judgment call really Stephanie. You know, we we know that the The owner is wanting to move Move this along But um, it has to be in a schedule that you can work with that you and mr. Handel on I mean and mr. Havardy and so on can and work with so You make it you make a decision That's fine we we could extend it mr. Chairman until the the seventh or eighth and have a hearing then on the shift to review Mr. Havardy does that extra week help? Yes, it helps tremendously Um, and if I could get the suggested revisions, you know, Probably at least a week before then to give me time. Yeah, that sounds good Okay So so then we would be proposing to extend the public hearing until friday october 8th And then voting to continue to October 5th So if we're going to try to do this final hearing Going through the The draft decision Would it be possible to start the meeting instead of at 7 30 to start the meeting earlier just to give ourselves some extra some extra time The people make 6 30 on the October 5th Yeah, okay, and then with that in mind They being the ninth um we plan on That's on monday or two. Do we have same episode time monday tuesday at 10 where we could just um Have a quick coordination call to make sure that we're on track for getting the documentation together Mr. Chairman, which monday or tuesday would that be? Oh, i'm sorry september 13 and 14 I was saying tomorrow is just a little too quick. So So monday the 13th. I'm actually free pretty much all day tuesday A little more tied up in your monday mr. Chairman Okay, just keep it. Would you be available monday at 10? Okay, see about getting an invite out for that so then Mr. Havity will revise the draft decision To align with the updated proposal or request waivers the revised draft will be released publicly on or before We said um september 28. Does that Work All does that work for you? Yes, okay And then hearing to discuss it will be held Tuesday october 5th at 6 30 p.m And the vote will be taken at the end of the hearing But if we go and then once we need to now expire the hearing on october 8th So I can have a motion to extend the public hearing period for thorn dyke place until friday october 8th 2021 so moved You have a second second Thank you mr. Rourke So a vote of the board. Uh, mr. Dupont Up, I see you mouthing. I okay, mr. Hanlon. Hi, mr. Mills. Hi Mr. Rourke. Hi Mr. Revillac. Hi Thank you for it. Hi Chair votes aye. So we are extending the hearing until october 8th And then if I could have a motion to continue uh, the hearing on thorn dyke place until tuesday october 5th at 6 30 p.m So moved Mr. Hanlon a second second Thank you mr. Rourke Um, mr. Dupont. Hi Hanlon. Hi Mills. Hi Mr. Rourke. Hi Mr. Revillac. Hi, mr. Ford. Hi And the chair votes aye. So we are continued Um on thorn dyke place until october 5th And I will get back to um To uh, mr. Havity and this kiefer And others about setting up a a call from monday at 10 a.m to just coordinate and make sure that we're getting everything together So we can stay on track Um, no just briefly. I meant to have this up already before we adjourn This won't be helpful now because all my dates are wrong. Um, but the Just wanted to bring up the calendar for the board Now i'm gonna have to adjust Okay, so today was thursday september 9th the continues that's done So tuesday september 14th at 7 30 where you have hearings for 2020 a lafayette street 14 nicod street and 53 marathon We are now continuing For Continuation till six Oops until the 5th at 6 3 p.m. And then Friday the 8th is the vote of the public hearing Tuesday the 12th we have hearings for 14 16 edgerton road 18 herd road 125 127 webster street 43 fox metal lane and 24 ottawa road And then on tuesday the 26th we currently have hearings for five chevillette road and 43 cutter hill road So that is our current schedule Moving forward Okay, well, thank you all for your participation in tonight's meeting of the air engine zoning board of appeals I appreciate everyone's patience throughout the meeting I especially want to thank uh rick valovelli vincent lee and kelly linema for their assistance in preparing for and hosting this online meeting Please note the purpose of the board's reporting the meeting is to ensure the creation of an accurate record of the proceedings It's our understanding the reporting made by acmi will be available on demanded acmi dot tv within the coming days If anyone has comments or recommendations Please send them via email to zba at town dot arlington dot ma dot us That email address is also listed on the zoning board of appeals website to include tonight's meeting. I would ask for a motion to adjourn So moved Thank you. Mr. Hanlon has second second So work Mr. Dupont hi, mr. Hanlon. Hi mills. Hi your work Hi, mr. Revillac. Hi the board Hi Chair votes. Aye. We are adjourned. Thank you all very very much Thanks for Good night everyone Good night


Hey, what's going on guys? Patriot Prime here once again with a surprise unboxing or surprise unpackaging if you will. This is a gift that was sent to me by my good Fred Tony, who I happened to have on the Sitrep the other night. And if you have not seen my Sitrep with toast and toys, please check it out because that was the funniest episode I've done yet. We went completely off the rails. It was hilarious. So Tony messaged me a couple days after it airs and said, buddy, I found you something. I want to send it to you. You are going to be so excited with this. So I cannot wait to see what's in this package. The bad thing about this is I got this package two days ago.  I had a birthday dinner to go to. I just enrolled Dylan in Jiu Jitsu class. So I've been pretty busy. So without further ado, let's crack this open together and see what Tony found me. Get my handy-dandy package opener here. I want to make sure I don't catch the package we'll do right up here at the top. Like kid at Christmas. Look at the bubble wrap. Oh my God. I see it. I see it. Oh my God. Open. I'm being gentle. At least trying to be gentle. Tony, this is awesome. Tony found the gears I've been searching for for months. I am so happy to get this. Tony, this is great. Dude, I am so stoked. Now, for those of you that have been following me, I have been hunting gears for a long time. Gears was my very first transformer. Now, I have one of them. I have a G1 over there on the shelf. But when I found out he was being released, I had to get one. I want one in the package just because, like I said, he was my first transformer. He is damn near mint. No creases. Dude, I am so happy. Thank you so much, Tony. Thank you so much. Now, I wonder if I can, I'm going to try something. I'm going to see if I can jump right in to review of gears. If I can quit looking at this guy. I love him. I absolutely love him. So let's try this. Gears was one of the original transformer toys that came out in 1984 as part of the first wave of minibots. He appeared throughout the animated series in many, many different episodes. He's most famously noted for his very grumpy personality. And that came through in one episode where Megatron rewired gears and made him joyful. So I forget how the episode actually went because I'm not researching this history. I'm just shooting it off the hip. But Megatron transformed, transformed. Megatron rewiring made gears a very happy jovial character which led into some sort of adventure. But other than that, Gears was in many different episodes until he disappeared after the 86 movie Never To Be Seen Again in season three. We assume he was a casualty of the great 1986 film Purge. Now in the comics, gears appeared in issue number one. But I remember him most fondly from issue number three. Issue number three of the Marvel comic series was my first experience with the Transformers. That was the first time I even heard of them.  And that was a book I had to get. Gears was featured prominently throughout that episode, even befriending Spider-Man. So Gears and Spider-Man actually rescued Buster's dad, Sparkplug, from the Decepticons. So it was a very cool episode. My first introduction to the Transformers had my very first transformer in it. I remember getting gears either it was either a school gift to get it. I can't talk. It's early this morning. It's six o'clock. I either got gears at a school gift exchange or a Sunday school gift exchange. I remember getting him a few weeks before Christmas. Christmas 84. I got quite a few bots. So, but enough of the history of gears. Let's take a look at the toy itself. Man. And welcome to Patriot Prime Reviews. First things first. Let's take a look at this fantastic packaging. This is such a great throwback to 1984. You've got the fantastic G1 art there on the front. Gears in his vehicle mode. Of course, gears in robot mode right there. Such nice package. I can't get over the packaging on these reissues. This is just fantastic. On the back, you have the Generation 1 art. That famous scene of battle with Optimus Prime with the weird Autobot symbol on his hand, Starscream, all the others. Here's your step-by-step instructions for gears. He's pretty easy. Gears is file card. See if I can focus in on that. That way, if you guys want to read it, you can hit that pause button. And there's the classic stat card. It's done up where you look. It looks like you need the decoder, but you don't. I have a spare decoder. I'm going to see if that actually works. But there's the package. Looks beautiful. It's going to look great on the shelf. Now let's take a look at the figure. Gears transforms into a small little four by four truck. He's very nice looking, very nice molded details on him. Has a chrome grille here on the front. Some molded details. I like the vents there along the windshield on the hood. A little Autobot sticker on top. Not sure what the back is supposed to represent. Of course, that ends up being the robot's feet.  So never really thought of it, but maybe that's what he is. He's a little pick up with a camper top. Nice big wheels and he can roll really, really good. Of course, he's kind of self-transforming right there. But very simple vehicle, like all the 84 mini-bots. Now let's transforming.  You want to take the back, flip around, forming the feet and legs, turning them up, extend the sides. There's the arms. And there is Gears in robot mode. Gears definitely looks a lot different than he did in the cartoon or the comic. And that's because Gears was carried over from the Diaclone line from Japan. Robot mode, robot mode's okay. The head sculpt, very robotic, very 1980s. Mine's a little scuffed up due to the paint or due to the age. This is an original G1. He's lacking an Autobot symbol right there for his belt. He's got molded fists right there at the end of the arms and nice chrome legs. Articulation for this G1. His arms can do, cannot talk. His arms can do a complete 360. So, poseability for this guy? It's not happening. But there he is, guys. There is 1984's Gears. So, do I recommend a Generation 1 Gears for your collection?  Gears is one of the originals. He's one of the first transformers released out now. If you were lucky enough to find him in this beautiful, beautiful reissue. Yeah, I can't recommend him enough. Very colorful figure. Nice Optimus Prime colors. I'm still speechless that I got this. I love this. He is going in a place of honor, Tony. I can guarantee you that. And guys, I want to thank you for watching. If you like what you see, don't forget to like and don't forget to subscribe. I try to put out one to two videos a week. Just depends on my schedule, what time I can get up, and I'm free in the office. Like I said, it's really early this morning. Also, don't forget to check out my series, The Sit Rep.  I'm actually getting ready to post Episode 12. So, it's become a pretty good hit. So, please check that out and get to know some other YouTubers who like to review Transformers as well. Guys, this is Patriot Prime signing out. Hooah! I am so happy. Hey, I really appreciate you guys stopping by my channel. Don't forget to like and don't forget to subscribe. Also, check out some of my other videos that I've done on Generation 1 Transformers, Modern Era Transformers, and Toy Hacks Reprolabel Sets. Once again, this is Patriot Prime. Hooah!


Safeguards are key for Red Plus because they go beyond the carbon benefits. So the social, environmental and governance benefits. And importantly in Cancun, at the COP in Cancun in 2010, a series of safeguards were developed. And these deal with respecting national law, promoting local participation in red, respecting local rights, enhancing environmental and social benefits. So they really make red a much fuller initiative. And they really have, I mean they're key essentially because I think without something like this, the strict carbon focus and a strict financial type transaction focus on something like red could be quite dangerous. Not only for local people but also for the environment. This is an interesting question. I mean basically some countries have advanced in the implementation of safeguard information systems. Some of this advancement has been at the sub-national level. A lot of it has been in conjunction with one of our partners, the Red Plus SES initiative, the social and environmental standards initiative, that really has provided conceptual and technical support to government agencies that are implementing these systems. Well the big topic right now is whether or not there should be additional guidance for implementation of safeguard information systems. And that should actually be decided in the COP20 in Lima. And some countries are asking for more guidance, especially countries with lower capacity. And other countries don't actually want additional guidance because many of them are more advanced and additional guidance could actually negatively affect some of the work that they've accomplished if they would have to then redo some of what they've developed to follow more specific guidelines. So that's a key question right now is how much international guidance will be given to parties in development of safeguard information systems. And then this general balance between too much guidance and not enough guidance while protecting national sovereignty. But by the end of the year some of that should be better clarified. And after that I think come the key questions of who will pay for safeguard information systems, what kinds of technical information are needed, for example what kind of data sets could be leveraged for both social and environmental safeguards monitoring. And some of the more nitty-gritty questions will happen in the near future after this guidance question is addressed.


In this session, we're going to be looking at conditionals. What are conditionals? Well, in simplest terms, we're looking at things we're talking about. If this happens, then that happens. They're commonly referred to as if-sentence structures. Because they often contain the word if. There are a wide variety of patterns that are used depending on the situations that you're talking about. Depending on whether the situation is factual or completely impossible and anything in between those two situations. The patterns we're going to be looking at in this unit are the five typical patterns that are most commonly taught when teaching English as a foreign language. They're the zero conditional, first conditional, second conditional, third conditional and mixed conditional.


And on to sport news, another effort to eradicate violence against women and girl child, 100 women lobby group in collaboration with African Women Lawyers Association, the global 60 days of activism against gender-based violence with an velting march, the ceremonial march which took place at the Campo Square in Allegus, is to raise awareness and call on governments, organisations and people everywhere to speak out against violence in all its forms. According to the National Coordinator, Andrew Women Lobby Group, Felicia Onnibon, they campaigned the same to raise awareness of the negative impact that violence and abuse have on women and children, and also to raise society of abuse permanently. We found it necessary to have an velting march, because out in the year we worked so hard, and we worked with different partners, you know, in different parts of the country. So we thought that we should have something that is out of legal writing, you know, negotiating, lobbying, and also running meetings and workshops for different groups of people. So we thought that we should meet and we should play with some of our partners, and that's why we have the African Women Lawyers playing with us, so that people can just be relaxed. You can see that it's been a relaxed atmosphere since morning, and we are so happy to run around and have some exercise, you know, some serious message to it. Others put it in play, but you can't be reminding people that it's a play matter, there's no cushion, there's no washing, you can't follow a stand-up and continue, you know, and it's been very interesting. Now that this seems 25th of November, to promote 16 days of teens, which is going to end on the 10th of December, that is in my opinion, it's a real violence, of promoting violence against women. And you can see how we have played on the field. That's the rate of sportmanship. You can see the way the women gave their best to show their ability and their various skills. The pressing for equity in every person's life. That women should not be seen as an object. Violence is not inevitable, but it should be preventable against gender. What's the purpose of this? Okay, today we are marking or coordinating the ways of 16 days of activity, and usually it's a program set up for violence against gender-based abuse. So today we are marking the 100 women who have come up with this program too much. This is just a team outside the box.