Hello, hello writers! I'm Christine Kiefer, author of fantasy fiction and creative writing resources, and you are listening to the Well-Sturried podcast, where I share insights, encouragement, and actionable advice designed to help you craft sensational novels and build your best writing life. Always in 30 minutes or less, so you can get back to writing, of course. Ready for the show? Let's get talking! Hello writers, and welcome or welcome back to the Well-Sturried podcast. I'm your host, Christine Kiefer, and today is March 14th, 2018. Today's episode is titled Three Powerful Ways to Brainstorm New Story Ideas, and if you'd like to read along as you listen in, simply visit well-sturried.com-brainstorm. Now let's dive in. Many of our best story ideas come to us at the most unexpected times. In the shower, while we're driving, when we aren't thinking about much at all. These moments can be exhilarating, but they aren't so easy to duplicate when we're in desperate need of inspiration. Often, it seems the longer we work to devise the concept for our next great novel, the more distant our muse becomes. A lack of inspiration can lead to mounting frustration that keeps us from picking up the pen. How then can we overcome this form of writer's block and begin generating new story ideas like the ever-inspired writers we long to be? Today I'm going to break down three powerful brainstorming methods that can stir your muse to life in no time. But first, let's take a moment to explore what the muse really is. Where do new story ideas come from exactly? In ancient Greece, the nine muses were goddesses of inspiration. To carry a muse was to excel in one's art, which in ancient times not only included creative arts such as music, dance, and poetry, but also the fields of science, mathematics, and geography. Though the ancient Greek religion has fallen into myth, the reality of an inner source of inspiration yet lives on within us. As humans, we're creative by nature. As evidenced by our arts and crafts, our critical thinking and resourcefulness and our desire to change the world, each other, and ourselves. Unfortunately, it isn't always easy to call upon this inner source of inspiration. Or is it? In a moment, I plan to share three of my favorite mental exercises that can help you generate new story ideas. But first, to truly make the most of these methods, it's important to understand how all of those unexpected ideas come into being. To do so, allow me to share this excerpt from Build Your Best Writing Life, my self-development book for writers. Quote. Creativity blossoms in what's called a meditative state. You don't have to physically meditate to enter this state, though that's certainly a valid approach. A meditative state is simply a situation in which there are few or no demands on your mental energy and attention span. Just as you can experience growth without intention, you can benefit from a meditative state without seeking it out. Maybe you can even recall some of the times you've experienced this. Consider the many fantastic story ideas you've had while showering, driving a familiar route, or drifting off to sleep. In those moments, you were relaxed, calm, or even bored. And so, to entertain itself, your mind began to create. This is what occurs in a meditative state. You free up space for your imagination to run free. And suddenly, without any active work, you tap into your full creative potential. End quote. Pretty awesome, right? Working with intention can help you develop new story ideas. But if you're feeling well and truly stuck, carving out a little time and space for your brain to simply be, and in being to generate new ideas, can prove the key to unlocking your muse. In fact, I recommend using the following brainstorming methods as a way to both develop new ideas directly and to provide fodder for your subconscious to use in quiet meditative moments. Three powerful ways to brainstorm new story ideas. You've finished your latest story and you don't know what to write next. Your well of new ideas has run painfully dry. You're feeling frustrated and may be even afraid. How long will this dry spell last, you wonder? What if I can't come up with a good idea? What if I never write again? Okay, maybe your situation isn't all that dramatic, or maybe it is. Either way, the good news is that inspiration lives within you. It's something you can call upon and it's something you can create. So let's break down three ways you can begin feeding your well of inspiration ASAP. Method number one, steal like an artist. Popularized by creative Austin Cleon in his book of the same name. To steal like an artist is to acknowledge that all stories and by extension all works of art are a product of tributary influences. When nothing is truly original, everything becomes a fair source of influence and inspiration. By actively seeking inspiration in the stories we consume, as well as in our life experiences and in other sources of interest, we can cultivate creative influences to inspire our work. To steal like an artist, consider what you do and don't love about the stories you consume. What aspects of a good story would you love to explore in your own? What negative aspects would you like to avoid? You may also wish to cultivate influences from other interests in your life, such as history, sports, or people watching. What concepts and ideas can you take from these interests that may make for an interesting story idea? Method number two, the question game. At the heart of storytelling is the question, what if? What if a galaxy were ruled by a corrupt empire? What if a wealthy aristocrat fell for a woman who loathed him? What if a third world African country was secretly the wealthiest nation on earth? Brainstorming what if questions can be a powerful way to generate concepts for new stories. All you have to do is unleash your curiosity. With your own interests and experiences in mind, how many what if questions can you ask? Once you've developed an extensive list, choose or combine the ideas that most excite your interest, then challenge yourself to write a new story based on each question. Method number three, the emotional roller coaster. Emotion is at the heart of any good story. As writers, the stories we're most passionate about telling are often the ones with which we have the most powerful emotional connections. These stories are also the ones that readers are most likely to connect with themselves. Brainstorming new story ideas with emotion in mind can therefore be a great way to develop new concepts that excite and inspire you. Consider the specific hopes, fears, joys and pains that impact you most deeply. Can you think of any ways you might translate these emotions onto the page? If you aren't sure how, consider combining these emotions with interests and ideas from the other brainstorming methods. For example, let's say you have a deep fear of dying alone, a love for soul-searching adventure memoirs like Wild by Cheryl Straad, and a morbid sense of curiosity about what you would do if you were lost in the wilderness. Can you see how easily the first tendrils of a story can come together? It's important to note that the purpose of actively brainstorming new ideas is to develop a concept for your story, not a core plot. Just because you're excited about an idea doesn't mean it possesses the narrative potential to become a fully developed story. So be sure to test the strength of your new story idea before diving in. There's an article and podcast episode that covers this idea in depth, this idea of testing the strength of your story idea, so be sure to check that out. If you already have tested the strength of your story idea and know that your idea has the power to carry a complete narrative arc, then congratulations! It's time to begin developing your story in earnest. Check out the many episodes in the podcast archive or download the Pruitt Project, Wild Story's best-selling workbook, to get started today. Links in today's episode transcript. Whatever resources you choose to use, I wish you all the very best in developing this brand new story idea writer. Congrats again! Thank you for listening to today's episode of The Podcast Writer. I hope you found it helpful to your writing journey. If so, make sure to subscribe to the podcast so you never miss a new episode and to give the podcast a quick rating or review. Doing so goes a long way toward helping the podcast reach new writers and lets me know that you're enjoying what I'm creating. You can also give me a shout-out directly on Instagram at christen underscore keeper. 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The simple mistakes most poor people make that makes them poor. Three years ago, a man read my book. Then he called to ask for my help. According to him, he had written more than 20 books, but had sold very few copies. How is that possible? I have written few books and have made thousands of dollars from those books. Something occurred to me then. I realised knowing how to write a book isn't the same thing as knowing how to sell the book. Jared Joyce is the founder of Five Minutes Furniture. About three years ago, he appeared on Shark Tank to raise investment for his furniture business. When one of the sharks asked him, have you made money before? His answer was no. However, he argued that he had 80 inventions. OK, I get it. 18 inventions is a big deal. Yet, he didn't make any money from those inventions. That makes no sense. Yet, that's what so many poor people do. They work so hard to know how to do stuff, to become a professional to invent or become an expert. So many people in the world believe that if they are good at something, they will get rich doing it. This is not true. Knowing how to do stuff isn't the same as knowing how to sell them. An African proverb says, before you learn how to fight, learn how to talk. Meaning, after the fight, you'll have to talk to defend yourself. You'll have to explain to your listeners how you're right and the other person is wrong. Thus, if you know how to fight but you don't know how to talk, you'll lose your case when people want to judge you. This is applicable when trying to become rich. You have to learn how to sell before you can learn how to make a product, service or build a skill. If you don't know how to sell, it doesn't matter how good your skills or products are. You'll be poor. A step away from millions. I know some people who are very intelligent. These people are so smart, they shouldn't lack money. Yet, they have never made serious money. In his book, Rich Dad, Poor Dad, Robert Kiyosaki told a story. He said he often asked his audience to raise their hands if they think they could make better hamburger than McDonald's. At this question, most people raise their hands that they could. Then Robert would ask them, if you can make better hamburger, why aren't you rich? Again, it's not what you can make, but what you can sell. But then I get it, selling is synonymous with salespeople. When we hear the word selling, we imagine someone trying to sell some products or services. But really, we are all sellers, whether we are business people or we are scientists or inventors. Some time ago, I watched the video of a soldier who became a national hero. When I thought about his efforts, I observed something else. Although he is a soldier, he's a great salesperson as well. Here's what he did. Like most of us, he has social media profiles. But unlike most soldiers, he took his smartphone to the battlefields to show his followers what was going on there. So, if you followed him on social media, you'd see what is happening on the battlefield real time. Since an average civilian has no clue how difficult wars can be, seeing a soldier going through what he's going through makes you adore him. You simply want to follow him. Though this man is a soldier and is doing exactly what other soldiers are doing, he becomes the hero because he shows his followers what soldiers go through during battle. If he decides to run for president in his country in future, his exploit will speak for him. When he becomes the president, the reason would not be because he's the most qualified or the best person. The reason would be because he's the best salesperson. Thomas Edison was a great inventor. Unfortunately, what we don't know is that he wasn't necessarily the best inventor in his generation. Instead, Edison knew as much about selling as he knew about inventing. They are countless people who were great inventors. They invented great and valuable things, but since they did not know how to sell, they died poor. In fact, at a point, Thomas Edison only concentrated on commercially viable inventions. What this means is that Uncle Thomas was doubtful. If he had a doubt that certain inventions would not make him profit, he'd not waste his time trying to invent it. Someone would ask me, is life all about money? Do we live only to pursue money? What if someone is doing something great and doesn't make money out of it? Do we call such a person a failure? Well, let me answer you. Money is an amplifier. It helps us to do more, reach more people and be a blessing to the world. Think about this for a moment. This channel you're watching now was watched by 2.1 million people last month. Yes, 2,100,000 people from more than 70 countries in the world. Thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of people, have been blessed by our content. But guess what? It costs us a lot of money to achieve that. As I've told you before, we have a team of people who wake up every day to make videos for YouTube. All of these people have bills to pay. They don't work for free. So do the math. They wake up every day to make the world a better place, because they know their bills will be paid doing so. Now, if we don't make money from this channel, our team will not be able to work. Our content may impact millions of people every month, yet we will not be able to produce more videos, because our team isn't getting paid. So, here's what I think. Even if you want to impact the world, you still need to know how to make money, because it's expensive to do great things. Don't be poor. Here's the summary of this video. Most people are poor not because they are not hardworking. Most people are poor not because they are not intelligent. Most people are poor not because they are not professionals, or they do not have good products. Most people are poor because they do not know how to sell themselves or their products. Don't forget the proverb I shared with you earlier. Learn how to talk before you learn how to fight. Learn how to sell before you learn how to make or build a skill. Read a lot of books about marketing, selling and negotiation. Use every opportunity you have to sell something. Either your idea, getting people to do something for you, or selling a product and service. Again, it doesn't matter how great you or your product are. It matters whether or not you know how to sell. Thank you for watching our videos. Don't forget to like this video and to subscribe to our channel. We love you.


We are going to call a meeting to order for the Colchester Planning Commission, 704. So the first thing we have tonight is the public comment on items not on the agenda. I think we're good to go on that. So the next rate off is our NBI wastewater project. I'm looking like a work session for commissioners. So what you have in your packets is an amalgamation of a variety of things that were sent. I really appreciate the time effort everybody took in submitting. It's a very, very rough draft. I think there needs to be a lot more formatting to it. I know Sarita couldn't be here. She sent some comments. I'd like to get some overall comments tonight, not so much word smithing. I think what my intent is to hopefully walk you guys through a little bit of the formatting structure tonight and then have your next meeting be that sort of final word smithing, choosing words with a presentation early November. So that's a little bit about where we're at and I know people were sending emails sometimes out to the whole group so they got to see it before it got put in. Sometimes it just came directly to me. So thank you all for your hard work on it. So and before you, you have Sarita's comments. I print it off too. So do you want to go through it section by section or what is your pleasure? Yeah, I think section by section. So I'll start with the first section and just say that I think we could reformat this a little bit more into like an executive summary and restate at the very beginning a sort of collapse form of the spreadsheet. I think that would be helpful to start. I think I have the spreadsheet in the appendices and we'll leave it there as well but also sort of staying it in paragraph form a quick summary at the beginning would be useful to sort of do an executive summary. If we break it out into an executive summary and then maybe moving that first paragraph into sort of a problem statement in terms of peers overall what we did here's why we did it and then sort of lead into how this sort of came to the playing commission. And then a quick couple paragraphs about the public process involvement and talking about the kickoff to sort of break this down into more discrete sections rather than it's a very long narrative and then segue into the review of the different options with the land conservation option being the first. Did anybody have anything on the first page or so the overall summary? Trying to jump back into. Yeah, it's pretty straightforward. But we did it and how we did it. I think Serita had a first paragraph of an intro beginning with effects those along the bay as well as larger community and joyous recreational opportunities. I think it'd be helpful to add a reference to the community strategic plan which is the heritage plan. Was her comment so we can most certainly do that. All the public workshops, all comments were about journal pollution to the bay, not wastewater. I think there's some confusion that we're trying to look at cleaning up the whole bay and it's what this whole issue is and our charge is just the wastewater. Just wondering if we should say something in here that this isn't like one project out of many that there's other projects out there to address the other water pollution sources. Anything else on the intro? Let's look into land conservation. Thank you, Nick for pulling this together. It was interesting. I left everything, I tried to reformat things to serve have everybody match. I tried to leave everything as much as possible and it was an interesting point he brought up about relocation funds and we do not need to worry about providing relocation assistance if we were to trigger some sort of a local program here. So I think that relocation assistance could be able to come out. I think the other thing that might be useful of clarifying as well, we did have our intern Marty looking to grants. There is no ready grant source that would cover the full amount. Full amount meaning all 126 parcels. Right. The only other thing that I was thinking of adding was even if it's a portion of, which I don't even know what the definition of that would mean, does that mean three? Does that mean five? Does that mean a quarter of those properties? What true impact would that have of reducing wastewater into the inner bathhouse bed? So I think that's an important concept. Even if it's a portion of or added to one of those other options, is it truly an impactful way of reducing waste water? Not until you get to year 50. Which I think is really important to say in that. Even on the 126 parcels, I mean even if there's half of those, even if all of them are purchased, there's still a total of 289 in that, that contribute potentially, and that contribute are in the high risk area. So is that truly a viable option? In some of these we don't know until we get onto the property and knock the place down and find out, oh, where's the septic that we have to backfill? Well, there wasn't one. Oh, okay. Cross that one off the list. Yeah, I haven't had time to read all this, but this doesn't involve a minute domain. This is buying properties as they come up on the market. It's looking at purchasing all the leak from properties over a period of 50 years. And the hope would be that you would do as many as you could through consenting sellers and willing buyer. But if you were going to, there might be a few holdouts that you might have to pull out all the stops for at the end. Is there room in this discussion for a footnote about, I think a very good point was made that there used to be a fund that perhaps bought a few opportunistically and maybe put a footnote that it's a recommendation of doing this study that the town should consider having such a fund again, so that if a distressed property that had all the other features that you make it want to conserve, perhaps being open space for recreation, that the town could do that. It might be past the scope of this letter, but we're talking about it. I think we can add in, maybe not necessarily a footnote about recommendation that the town can serve such a fund in the future for those sorts of opportunities. You know, I think it's good, those that don't know the past are doomed to repeat it, but I'm not sure going into too much detail about the past program would be helpful in looking at a solution. I think the point that you're trying to make is that if there was a land conservation fund, it could be used in a variety of different ways, moving forward in terms of potentially addressing this situation or future situations. That's a good point, but how far does that fund go, right? So the fund would be to acquire the parcels, I assume, probably demolition costs, but what about loss in property taxes to the town? I think that's an important aspect to a lot of what-ifs, I know, but to purchasing all of these properties. The benefits, of course, of removing the source, but then the drawbacks, only purchasing, removing in the loss in property tax. And I'll bet you one of the reasons that that funding stopped was they realized the potential of actually having enough money to purchase those expensive properties that are gonna get up and up in value each and every year. Probably wasn't viable in the long run. It was subject to voter reauthorization. I think Jack Scully did an excellent job at providing some of the history to it. It sounded like they took the main, held it for a while, and so there wasn't something going on that perhaps people felt like they could get behind. It did result in the purchase of the properties right adjacent to Lower Bayside Park. So it helped the park. I'm not sure that helped water quality, but... I wouldn't be opposed, though, to adding some language of what Mark was saying. If this were to be a procedure, if this is going to be looked at, that some sort of funding source through this land conservation fund needs to also be looked at just in a broad term. Mm-hmm, any questions or anything else that's are struck people about land conservation? Serita had a comment under paragraph one, creating a priority list of parcels for purchase based upon ways for our risk is not feasible. Add due to, I think it's important to cite or explain the state regulations and our code and why it's not feasible for Colchester to test some more septic systems without their permission. There's still some community members who don't understand why Colchester can't locate the offending sites that are contributes to equal and hold them responsible. You guys okay with incorporating Serita's thought? I agree, I think there is that misconception. I think it should be kind of called out. Anything else on land conservation? You can go through the wordsmithing next time. But thank you, Nick. I think you did a comprehensive job at capturing. Yeah, but I think you had the most experience about it. I don't want to have the most experience. Community septic. Bob, thank you for typing this up. I think we had a really good amount of information given to us by the hydrologists too. I tried to pull that in sort of the intro. I think what we can say in some of that intro, it's sort of hesitated about this because I think while we found the possibility of additional capacity, we'd have to do a lot more additional study to find out the exact amount. Serita had in her comments about community septic as a Colchester citizen very concerned about adding 100,000 gallons of wastewater a day might do to de-stabilize the slope. I would want a slope stability analysis to be completed before this option move forward or the cost be necessary to stabilize the slope. I don't know how far into the weeds we want to get into this option. I don't know how much a slope stability survey would cost. I think we could maybe just leave it at the fact of under that sort of second paragraph at the end, reworking that a little bit to say that there are many issues that would need to be addressed if this option was to move forward, including slope stability. And she also was concerned about impacting the opportunities for the community. So maybe more explicitly reference the park plans that are going on for it. Anything else? Thank you. You provided some really good bullets. I flushed out a little bit more. I just want to reserve that between now and the next meeting that I can read it a little bit more closely and get back to you if there's anything more. I want to get you a product that you can read a little bit more closely too. I remember from the town planning you were my good wordsmither. Well, I mean, just beyond the wordsmith, I mean just reading it in general, that's it. Had other things on your plate. I know it's time. Yep.  Huh?  It was too much fun on our path for the last three months. Let me just ask a question. In that table, we didn't have the land purchase. Should we add the land purchase to the table for the cost of? Because it's a sunk cost. This is incremental cost. Hey, then I don't understand why we should include it again in this. So we purchased the land with the intent of using it for a park for $1.1 million. I don't believe it's fully paid off yet. That was brought up. We would most likely need to have some sort of approval. That's the diluted waste water on that too? I don't believe we need approval from the voters to do the testing. But before we went to construction, if you look back at that whole process with the purses of Bayside and Hazelette, it was implicit that it was gonna be bought and used for some sort of recreational purpose. The idea was that we'd go back to the voters because we need approval or funding to do anything on it. And at that time we'd ask for their approval in terms of was it going to be a community center or park or something of that nature? I think if we went out to the voters to build a waste water treatment plant, we'd be asking for use of the park as well as the authorization for funding. That makes sense. It's definitely a cost. Yeah. Let's talk about that. Anything else under community septic? This is only a partial solution as well, correct? This is about 100,000 gallon capacity versus the 120, 120, 120. Right. It could be more or less. It was within that range. Does this include good sale point as well? Well, that's one of the things that you'd have to take a look at is once you got through tens of thousands of dollars or more study to find out what the specific size of the system was that you could accommodate, you'd have to take a look at what all the options were. I think one of the things that we talked about under community septic, I don't think we talked about generally about looking at good sale point area and it was not enough potentially yield from their green area to accommodate their flows. It's like 3,000 gallons at best. It's hard to say. It costs the 200,000. That's mostly for additional staff. Yes. Hired by the town. We currently do not have wastewater operators and we'd at least need to hire two. Does that also include any liabilities associated with that like pension or anything like that? Yes, it would have to include all that when I sort of floated those numbers to Gene, although he's a private facility and couldn't tell me the cost. He thought that that was a pre can survey number, he could only go up. Senator, do you know what I was going to say? You could probably look to contract. I think Charlotte was part time. I think we'd be in need of something more significant given the size and requirements of the facility. It's like hiring contract employees versus your own employees and how many do you go through and assure the training and we'd be at the end of the day responsible for the testing and having a 100,000 gallon facility on the shore of East Lakeshore Drive. We might want those to be our own employees eventually. But I think each one of these we could have gone into four or five pages on, but I think in terms of keeping a report that people will read, it was very succinct and got to the points on each issue, so. Community septic, anything else? People need to have cookies and get some sugar in their system. Somewhere in the red up to, you had something about, I don't know if it was for the community septic or just a regular septic, but maybe both. But Confer locations on that area or even the tree population in that single parcel let's say we did get the approval from the loaders. We did get everything in place. What happens to the actual land? What does that look like? Those trees are removed guys. It depends through the two different possible options. One was more traditional each field, what we saw up in Sugar Rush. The other is a drip irrigation where they have to do some tree removal, but they use sort of a ditch which and run it readily shallow-y through the trees so you could possibly preserve some of the trees with that. Right. There's also the, what can you put on top of it? I think what we saw in Oren is you can put some types of playing fields on top of a traditional each field system. I don't know that you can do that with the the shallow irrigation system. Should that be, does that mention it here that the recreation opportunities would be limited? It's there. Absolutely. You can make sure that we more clearly address that. Does this still have the failure rate maybe less so as a normal septic system? Should that be? There's a lot more monitoring and testing involved to be able to detect failures. I think what you saw with the Sugar Rush system is they alternate their different leach fields. So. It would minimize any type of failure and then there's redundancy. Everything mechanical fails. But the amount of oversight that Gene Martin was showing us at the Sugar Rush facility that they have over it and automation and all the bells and whistles that go off really are something that you would never see on a traditional septic system in terms of being able to indicate when things are starting to go wrong and being able to take corrective action. Do those costs incorporate any of the, those estimates incorporate any of the piping or pump stations that might be required to get to them? So the sewer collection system, the 8 million was pulling the pipes in the ground along the roads and the collection pump stations that would be needed to bring it to a facility. The waste fire treatment facility itself was somewhere around $4 million, $4.4 thereabouts. And then once you're looking at the leach field, $250,000 was what we estimated. It depends if you're going with the irrigation or the traditional. I think we were looking at more of a traditional system. Any other questions, comments? I don't think Sarita had, I think she had, it was a separate email where she sort of went through all the different, playing commission looked at the viability of the community's septic system that would provide solutions in the ongoing pollution amounts. They do the faulty and or failing septic systems, integrated of our resources management plan provides information on how an integrated system could be used, possible locations, conditions necessary to support such a system. And then she sort of goes through what we did sort of early on about Lake Shore Drive, Goodsell Point, Heaslet, Property. I think a lot of what she has written here is incorporated into the existing document, but we can look to, I'll look to try and marry in some of her specific comments. Because I think what she did was she went more into, and we didn't go into this about Goodsell Point. I think we simply stated up on the top about task or the integrated water resources management plans stated that the community septic system, community septic was perhaps viable along the non-Lake side section of East Lakeshore Drive at one location, the Goodsell Point area, no community septic areas were deemed viable within the West Lakeshore Drive area using this information, the hydrologist evaluated the possibility of using the Bayside Heaslet Town Owned Property for community system. I think Suriya is a bit more specific in her comments about the survey that was done and what have you. So I think my only question to all of you is how specific do you want to be? Do you want me to try and include the majority of her comments detailing Goodsell Point, East Lakeshore Drive? I would say no, also. Yeah, that's for the sewer. So that's conflated a little bit. We weren't that specific about the community system. Yeah, there's a few things I don't, I guess I would need to ask her on-site staff don't need to be on-site 24-7. The property would need to be bought back from the town at current value, I'm not sure what that means. It means that the property was purchased for 1.1 with the intention of using it for a park and would we have to buy it back from ourselves? Right. But I don't think we can clearly state that it'd have to be 24-7. We would definitely have to have that meandered monitored. Oh, I know details, we'll get back to you. I'll work with Sarita on this and just try and include some generalities, but the operating costs that she has listed here are the ones that are associated with the sewer project. She has the concern about the odor. I thought that was in there. It was in there. I don't know, I thought it was, but I don't know. I was reading her, is that good? In there too, right? Chains of malfunction as well as smells associated with operation could have negative impacts on the character of the neighborhood. Even when they were just lodged or something. Yeah. Okay, all ready. Yeah, you didn't have it in the findings, that's where it was, the chance of malfunction. I don't quite understand what Sarita was saying when the property would need to be bought back from the town. I'm not clear on that. I don't, that's nothing that's been determined. I think she was getting at the issue of the property being purchased for 1.1 with the intent of using it for a park, and that the cost of it should be factored in. That would be something that we'd have to seek legal advice on in terms of whether or not it was, it hasn't been paid off, so I'm not sure that we can buy it back, and I'm not sure that I would. The town owns it. It would just more be a voters consent to change plans. Right. Yeah. Just out of curiosity, how was that purchased? Was that a bond? Yes, general obligation bond. Just that chunk of property that you think would be viable for the septic solution by the houses that were going to use as a community septic. That's a good question. Actually, somebody has to pay for that. It's the houses that are using it, it's part of their cost, right? Maybe that's where she's getting to. Maybe. I'll see if I can clarify with her. I think she'll be back shortly. Everybody ready for sewer? Jump in feet first. Winky goes up. I have all sorts of sewer or septic puns that I can use. Well, that one's pretty straightforward. That's just kind of restating the whole process we went through. Right, I think, I was thinking about this after the last meeting about the dispute in whether or not things would impact value. And I think this is true for potentially the community as well as from the sewer is recognizing those camps right now that are stuck, that can't convert, that might be able to convert. After they go through that whole conversion process, there is the possibility of realized value there. And so perhaps we do add that in as a line. I agree that the property values probably go up. Which is not a bad thing for a cactus. It's a bit of a carrot to get people because right now, if you don't know what you have for a septic energy season, it seems to work. One cent of do you have to upgrade? Versus if you want to go year round, you have to upgrade. So thank you, Prisha. You rocked this. You pulled some stuff together last minute. I think it was looking at standardizing too is I should probably spell out like 100,000 as opposed to 100K in the annual. It was one of those standardized things I missed out. Anything else from anybody on this? Serita. Inclusion, let me say implementing the sewer system in the project area is like the most conclusive thing in the whole, no, but I think, I mean, you took a stand, I don't know that anyone else did. Good job. That is true, she didn't take a stand on that. There's nothing wrong with that though, but yes. And actually, for myself personally, I would think that it's time to take a stand on the final results of what we think here. It's probably that time. I personally think sewer just, we're top dog and we try to find something that can take it down. We just couldn't do that. All the findings and all the work we put into this that's the best way I look at it personally. But that doesn't mean that has to be the final say. Did you mention upfront that this was an option put towards the citizens and it was voted down? Was that mentioned before? Or should it be mentioned here? I don't think that's our deal. No, but it's, you know, it's in everybody's mind that. It's mentioned in the do not. Some people think it's a dead issue that we shouldn't even be looking at it, so. So do you want me to add in a contextual intro? I think so. I think we have to. That'd be back at the beginning. Uh-huh. It is one of the reasons why we're doing it. Yep. I think Sarita had, it's a correction to the chart about sewer, but I don't think she had anything under this. Anything else?  It's been a long ride. Yes, it has, but Pam brought you cookies, so you should be sugared up and all right, do nothing. Thank you, Mark. You pulled this together and, I think perhaps what I was looking at this and thinking that maybe we add in about the number of years the Integrated Water Resources Management plan and the amount of money that that costs at the beginning when we talk about previous work. During the course of the commission's outreach, there are calls to conduct a general study in the scope, maybe somewhere in there mentioned, similarly to how we did in sewer that that was something that was brought to the voters and was turned down that there's this Integrated Water Resources Management plan that took almost a decade and millions of dollars and despite that, there are calls to conduct additional studies. I think it more polly conveys because I think people are aware of it, but still have questions. And my bullet points, I thought of one other one. Concerns about negative impacts of increased development. And that was a big one. We spent the whole thing about the build out study, trying to wrap our heads around the way. I would like to note here at the findings, the last one before the bullet points that that's a separate kind of, kind of gets washed in there the way some public sentiments, I think it almost should be a heading above the bullet points. Okay. Yeah, exactly. There should be a line above that, the bullet points there. So it kind of runs together otherwise. So move it to more of a header. Yeah. Yeah. Serita had under better enforcement, efforts to ID and whole polluters accountable. She said, again, need to set regulations, state statute that limits Colchester's ability to hold polluters accountable. I think what Mark was doing with the bullet list was saying some of what we've heard. I don't know if that goes below in that paragraph. Yeah, that's the reason for the sentiment, but it's just a list of sentiments. Yeah. You always, I'm thinking that somebody will seek findings and it'll jump right to the bullet points. They won't read the little paragraph. Oh, yeah. You know what I mean? They'll go, oh, findings, just take all the... Yeah, those weren't our findings. Those were the sentiments of the phone. I'm trying to explain in the context of do nothing is essentially what was voted on when the sewer was voted down. So it's trying to... It's funny over the time that their process of this... I spoke to a lot of people who told me they just don't have enough information and they weren't informed enough to make a decision. I found that very interesting through the course of the last couple of months of people telling me that. And I thought we've done a pretty good job trying to provide that. I'm concerned if I do read this about the better enforcement efforts could identify and hold polluters accountable. I mean, that's an ideal world but we don't mention anything that right now we cannot do that. Well, I think that was part of Cerrito's in that paragraph. These are, I think, correctly stating some of the public sentiments that were erred to the commission, but sort of rebutting some of it in the next paragraph. She says, again, we need to say regulation and or state statutes that limit Colchester's ability to hold polluters accountable. And then she recommended adding to the final paragraph the Montenegro act 64 clearly states that the statutes require municipalities that are responsible for adding pollution as the lake takes steps to restore impaired water and come into compliance with the act. The goal of the federal EPA is to continue to monitor Lake Champlain, all the surface waters in Vermont to ensure I address impaired water. So I think I can take some of that that she's offered and when you put it right in the cost of an action that's considerable paragraph. Question about the Clean Water Act. Does the act specify how soon a municipality has to take action in order to incur consequences? No. It talks about, so under the Environmental Protection Agency there's the total maximum daily load which is specifically looking at phosphorus for Lake Champlain, a timeline for the state to clean it up. I think it's, I'll work with Sarita on this because I'm not sure that act 64 is specific to our problem, but I think the intent of stating that the state as a whole is holding municipalities accountable for pollution is a good thing to put out there. Anything else under the do nothing? I just have a question. Has, were there more beach closings this year than last year or is there any trend? Because we make the statement that it'll continue to get worse, which I don't doubt but is there facts of that? Beach closings are interesting. They're a symptom of the problem. They're not the sole symptoms. So I don't know about the over-alliance upon that. We could look into those numbers and possibly include them, but you know, I don't know the numbers off the top. I had to be very honest as I'm sitting here tonight. I'm trying to recollect I don't have the numbers. However, what I would say, which has sort of been fascinating to me, is when we talk about the area being a high-risk area with twice the rate of failures as the rest of the community, the fact that we saw four to five systems fail just over the last, hasn't even been five months within the area and now we're looking at triple or maybe we're even at quadruple the rate for the rest of the community. In terms of looking at different symptoms, there are a variety of ones that we can pull out and extrapolate and I worry about putting an emphasis on any particular one. Properties that everything's high and dry, there's no problem, great, but the minute you get a lot of rain on that piece of property, that small piece of property, they have washes a lot more into the lake and we've been very fortunate this summer that we didn't have a whole lot of heavy storming and stuff once we got through the wet season. But I think that might be why I don't know the numbers either compared to previous years but I do know that makes a big difference. Somewhere in this report, should it be mentioned about what you just said about the last five months that we've had this increase in failures? Sure. It was so hard at this. Anything else on do nothing? It was a very wide ranging category and I think Mark did a really good job at distilling the essence of it but I'm sure that there are things that we've missed or any other thoughts? While I move on to the chart, the chart needs reformatting. I think when Sarita was looking at it, they clipped it when it changed into a PDF. It's a chart in a word doc. It's never good in terms of fitting all the words in. Sarita had a comment under the purchase and conserve effect on property values, that the removal of properties from cultures whose grand list would add additional tax burn to taxpayers. I think she didn't say where she wanted that but she goes on to say a revenue source for funding to purchase properties at fair market value as the land on the open market if they ever do would need to be created. So I don't know if she was looking at estimated cost and then potential funding sources to add those in because we do have under property tax values and taxes we have production values do the removal of improvements on properties and increase townwide to compensate. That kind of covers it. I think to Mark's point too about we would need to create something to fund it. Well, boy, maybe that's needs to be mentioned under funding sources. Yeah, I agree. Under sewer, Sarita had the South Burlington facility provide a high degree of what operation performance management will have you. I think that cut off on her. I think it was under reliability. It was supposed to be high degree of reliability with continuous automated monitoring and trailing to wastewater professionals. Anything else under sewer chart? Sarita had a comment under community septic under neighborhood character, possible odor, especially during sledge removal would impact nearby homes and possible property values. So we add odor under neighborhood character. Anything else? Can you septic rolling through do nothing? She did not have any comments. Anything else going once, going twice? Looks good. I think you're doing a great job of rough draft first round. Yeah, I was very impressed with what everybody wrote. Thank you. Yeah, absolutely. So for their next meeting, we'll have that flanking. Yep. Sounded off. I'll try and get into the Dropbox early so people can start their word smithing and we'll go through word by word if we need to at the next meeting and get cleaned up. Are we going to have a conclusion paragraph or executive summary? Well, I think we are going to try and reformat that intro paragraph to have an executive summary and restate the spreadsheet in a paragraph form. So this is more information to give the select board. It's not really a viewpoint of giving a recommendation. It's just looking at what the options are. Must be a recommendation, isn't it? It can. I think you do that under the sewer. As you said, that was the only one that really had a sort of stronger point to it. So we can look to try and encapsulate that into an executive summary, pull some of the wording from the sewer section. The reasons why. Yeah. Look at the world. All good. And you thought you were done with the town plan and drafting things. Where's Zach? Your minutes? Yes. I need a motion. My favor. All right. That's your discussion. All right. Packet information. So you have in the packet information a couple of things I want to call your attention to. There's some correspondence from Brian Castello. He have follow-up email that he asked I share with you. That's before you tonight. I'll get into the packet later for the sake of making sure that you saw it tonight. There is also correspondence from Jack Scully about the odors, as well as correspondence from Amy McCrellis from Stone, providing some additional information. As to, I think it was recommended in odor mitigation, you could plant trees, and you can't plant trees on top of a septic tank. And she provided the whole sort of Warren system information in case anybody really wanted the very thorough read on that. Thought that was great. And I think it was great, too, that Jack Scully looked into this issue that arose that some people had odor issues and investigated it. So it's all there if you want to read through all of it. South Burlington is amending their development regulations. There's a nose of hearing on that if anybody had questions on that. There's also our work plan for the year. Feel free to not read all of it, but go back to the very last page of it, because that's where the sort of planning commission stuff kicks in. When we're taking a look at those last two pages of what our department's doing for the year, a lot of this is taken right from the town plan in terms of what's on our to-do list. And you can see there's stuff in the land use chapter that then hits the development regs. There's some stuff in the energy chapter that gets into the development regulations, too. But really, when you get down to these sort of discretionary projects, that's where a lot of these smaller, more sort of discrete projects like rezoning requests kick in. And there are several, I think, we're up to 32. So I think what I'm going to be asking more specifically from you at your meeting by sort of wanting to what your appetite with this was, we can start pulling out some of these and taking a look. These have been sitting around for a while. There are some folks that have been waiting for rezoning for the better part of the year so that they can do a boundary line adjustment and build a garage, hopefully before winter. I'd really love to get going on some of these. So I think you're going to have a lot of wordsmithing at your next meeting. But I'd like to try and pull together some of these. That might make sense to try and hit with a quick supplement first. East Lakes Road Drive is high in your priority list to take a look at. I'm not sure that we want to keep some of these folks that just need these quick fixes beholding to what will be a much larger project of East Lakes Road Drive. So if it's all right with you, I'd like to pull out some of these things on this list that could be addressed rather quickly. And you get a quick win with your zoning supplement and fixing the development regulations and then move into East Lakes Road Drive and some of the more substantial stuff. Sounds good to me. I think people have been very patient with us. Great. We're into the 40s now. I know. Time flies when you're having fun. Oh, good. Yes, sir. The emotional journey. I can make emotional journey. I'll second. I'll fifth. All right. Thank you. You're very good. Thank you.


We have an amazing collaboration and construction update for you on Zadra over at Energylandia. So we're going to be collabing with testing attractions, moving forward who is able to fly his drone over at Energylandia and has a close relationship with the park. So we're super excited to bring you some construction updates on Zadra. So hopefully you guys really enjoy the construction updates that are going to be coming. Huge thank you again to testing attractions. I'm going to link them down below to their Facebook group. Definitely go follow them. They have some amazing content and I really mean that with testing attractions. Definitely some amazing pictures, vlogs and drone updates on various actual parks. So this is super exciting. Anyways, the footprint of this coaster is absolutely impressive. It's so cool to see how they build an RMC too if you see those little roads underneath like and in between the support columns and footings. And I could just picture how the crane is going to get in there and start lifting pieces into place. So this is just super cool and the footage is absolutely amazing. The lift hill structure is going up. I can't wait to see this coaster in a more completed state. You can actually tell what those beams kind of the sharp turns it's going to take. It's got some load of the ground elements and it's going to definitely have some high ground elements above the ground elements. Sorry, as well. Anyways, I know a lot of you may not be familiar with some of the European parks content that we're going to be posting, but it is going to be a huge part of the channel. And this is one of those coasters you are going to want to watch be built because RMC, especially of this magnitude are very impressive. And I'm really looking forward to this. So hopefully you guys are as excited for Zadra as I am, even though I won't be riding it in 2019, some of our influencers and team members will. So super excited for them to get on a world class RMC. Anyways, I hope you enjoyed this quick construction update on Zadra from Energylandia. Don't forget to hit that like button, subscribe if you haven't and share this video for others to enjoy. Thanks so much for watching, guys. Have a great one. Bye.


Hello friends, I am Sanjay Gupta. In this video I am going to demonstrate you how you can print reverse of each number which is available in array. Before starting, you can note my information, you can visit or subscribe my YouTube channel through the URL that is youtube.com slash sanjaygupta underscore tech school. You can download my programming app TechMS which is available on Google Play. Now coming on to the topic, here you can see I am going to implement a code in C programming. I have already implemented some part of that code, header file, main function, then some variables including array, then printf statement is available which will display enter elements, message on console, then this for loop and scanner statement will receive 10 elements from user. Now second loop which is also repeating 10 times. Here I am assigning a particular element of array inside n, then as variable is initialized with 0. Now after receiving a particular element from array into n, I am going to calculate its reverse. So for that purpose I am applying the logic so that I can calculate reverse of a particular number. Here I am implementing that logic a equals to n modulus 10, then s equals to s into 10 plus a and n equals to n by 10. With the help of this while loop, I am going to calculate reverse of the number inside s variable that can be displayed on console. So I have displayed value of s which is containing reverse of a particular number. So every time when this for loop which is available at line number 9 will be repeating, it will assign element of array into n and then n will be reversed and the result will be assigned into s. Using s the result or you can say reverse of the number will be displayed on console. So now I am going to execute this code. Sorry I have not declared a that's why it is showing the error. Again I am executing this code. Sorry name of array and this temporary variable is same. So I am using t instead of a. Now it will work properly error semicolon. Now it's working properly. It is asking for 10 numbers. So I am entering 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119 and 120. You can see the reverse. First is 111, second one is 211, 311, 411 and so on. All the numbers which are entered is printing in reverse order. Last number is 112. So it's reverse is 21. So this way you can see I have implemented the code which is printing reverse of each element which is available inside array. So here I have implemented the combination of nested loop. First fall loop is providing particular element inside n variable and using while loop I am going to calculate the reverse of the number which is available inside n variable and s is printing the reverse on console. So this way you can print the reverse of each number which is available inside 1D array. I hope you have understood this concept so that you can implement this code at your own. If you want to watch more programming related videos you can follow or subscribe my YouTube channel. So this URL youtube.com You can also download my programming app TechMS which is available on Google Play. So keep connected with me. Watch more and more programming related videos if you want to become a good programmer. Thank you for watching this video.


Why why is statistics important? If you want to know how you're doing statistics tells you tells you how you're doing that is the basic of information describing the the society. Well, we live in a global globalized world, I would say and we definitely have a lot of phenomenon that go beyond border any borders borders of a nation or a union and It is good to understand what is happening in this the global world. I would say According to the users of our data, there are things that should be measured more. I would say here we have heard about ICT, but then the the environment environmental issues which are very definitely very global and not very local They they should be measured. We need a lot of information regarding the environment. I think they these things go hand in hand when you have they are both based on mathematics and when the people value statistics, they value basically numbers and mathematics and logic and ICT is strongly a logical science so to say Finnish people very much like machines. I would say not not only men women also Well, ICT is not the interest within ICT is not equal with with between men and women women even in Finland even though we're very very equal in many respects You see that more much more male are interested or into ICT business wise professional and even hobby wise so maybe this has to In doing building an equal society we want to include everybody using and benefiting from the ICT


Monster banana? There's a monster banana out here? Okay, where's this thing at? Oh god! He's floating! Oh my god, it's a floating banana! Hey guys, real estate gaming here. Oh my god, it's a building in the background. And today we are playing natural disaster. But it's a mob so it has like a killer and it has a natural disaster going on. And hold on guys, before we start this video I want to show you guys this awesome package that Roblox sent me. I like some socks that you guys can see here. You probably can't see these because they're blue and they have a blue screen. And then they sent me this limited builder man jingle edition. Which is pretty neat. He has like a little mug of nog and he has a hammer and he's dressed in like Christmas clothes which is awesome and I'm also wearing a pair of socks. You guys can see them there. They're pretty neat. So shout out to Roblox and also guys it is my birthday today so... So if you guys go follow me on Instagram I am going to be giving some codes away some Roblox codes so if you guys follow me on Instagram and send me like a direct message I'll be choosing some people tomorrow so more people can have a chance to do it and I will be sending you guys a Roblox code. So make sure to do that if you want some Roblox. Alright so let's begin with this. Oh my god, okay so who do we got here? Ow, something just hit me. Like a pirate. Like a pirate wearing. Oh god.  So how crazy is this? It's like a killer survival and a natural disaster both in one game. Oh god, let's go guys. Oh my god, we got the whole squad here. We got Aguilas Blazer, Carly, Cool Guy Tristan, Cringely, Hamaza, Leo, Pirate, Slender Boy and Spider-Man. Oh and VYGO, what's up guys? Oh! Dude the tornado just bombed right on us. You gotta be kidding me. Oh god, look at that whole thing is getting destroyed. Alright let's go see if we can get a better look from up here. I didn't see if they had any game passes. They probably do. Oh my god, those people are up there on the building and the tornado is there. You guys better get down from there. Oh man. And where's the killer? Oh, I think the killer disappeared. Look at all these people here. Oh my goodness. Dude, that tornado destroyed everything. All right, so a new monster spawned and his name is Stomedy. Kind of sounds like a killer clown or something. Dude run for your life! Oh my god, is it gonna take him or not? What's up bro? Oh my goodness. Oh, they fell into the tornado.  At its finest. Oh my goodness. They're like literally obliterated the whole building. There's nothing left. Dude, why are people jumping out? Oh gosh. Alright, so as you can see this is pretty hectic already. And it's just the first round. I'm gonna get Blazer. He's the pinhead boy. Oh man, let's try to drop somebody. Let's see if we can push somebody off. No we can, okay. Oh like the killer's chasing someone.  Dude, the killer's talking. You guys hear that, right? What? What is he saying? He's like gibbering. Dude, that guy just walked off the map. Alright, so are we gonna like... This guy's just controlling me and pushing me off. Oh man. Alright, so when are we gonna spawn back in the plate? Like in the plate. This tornado just seems to keep going. It doesn't stop. Like, when are you gonna stop, bro? Okay, finally. Jeez. So as you can see, nobody survived this. Alright, finally. Let's go over here. Oh no, the killer's down here already. Okay, so we have to be careful with this guy. Dude, he's just running at everybody. Oh god, he has like an afro going on or something. Could catch up mustard. Where is this guy from? If you guys don't let me know in the comments. Oh god, okay. It seems like there's gonna be acid rain or something. Oh my god, let's go up here. Alright, let's go over here. Let's keep going up. Oh god. Where is this guy at? I just hear him screaming loud and I can't find him. Alright, whatever. Let's keep time. Oh god, I think there's floating. I mean, there's meatballs flying from the sky. I just saw an explosion over here. Okay, oh, there's lightning. Okay, we gotta be careful. I think we're safe inside of the building. Oh look, the next killer coming in five seconds.  What? What in the world is that? Okay, let's go see if we can see the killer down here. Oh my god, we went to like the very top of this thing. This should be like an elevator for this. Oh, okay, we gotta be very cautious. Okay, so the killer seems to spawn down here, did he? I don't see him anywhere. Okay, let's just go run out here. Wait, I think I see something over here. Is that the killer? No, it was just the laser over there chilling. Okay, so where is this killer at? I guess he didn't spawn in this round. Oh, that was so close.  Oh, there he is. No, he's running right at us. I thought he was like a normal person because he has like that sparkle effect. Uh oh, he just got VY. Okay, I think we're safe when we go back in here. Let's go have a look at this guy. Oh no. All right, so we survived this round. Okay, where is this back here? It says bye now. Do we really want a boombox? Oh look, we can get a hoverboard. Can we buy it? Okay, let's just buy it. Hopefully we don't have to rejoin. Maybe we have to reset. There's a VIP too. Okay, dude, it's just a shirt. Okay, why don't we buy the natural disaster horror mod? VIP? Okay, whatever. I don't know. Let's just support the game because I like it, man. Oh, look, there's admins. What? There's an admin command. I have no clue.  It's a handsome face killer. Look, there's a creeper. That's a pretty cool outfit. All right, let's go inside. Oh no, the killer's in here. Nope, I am out. No, let me out. There's so many people trying to go in there. Oh my goodness. Dude, how'd you get on? Oh, there's a second floor. Let me go down the slide. Nope. It doesn't work. Oh, you can climb on the roof over here. Okay, I think we'll best be safe if we climb up here, guys. Nope, that's not going to work out, okay? Let's go up. Okay, sweet. Dude, there's so many people up here. No, how did we die? We fell from that drop.  The giant tsunami wave is coming at him. Do you guys think they're going to survive this or not? Oh God, okay, let's see. And there it goes, everybody. They're just jumping on the rooftop. Oh man, there goes the house. Dude, it's breaking the house. It's pushing it backwards. Oh God, everybody, brace yourselves. Oh my God, it got super laggy. Yo, oh man. Dude, look at the house. It's like nothing there anymore. No, I'm trying to push me off. You guys keep trying to push me off, man. Oh God, poor house. Oh no, somebody just died by the killer down there. Alright, so that's the end of that house down there. So much for a nice, robloxing house. It's all destroyed now. Dude, look at this guy. He has like one arm and like one small, regular arm and a giant arm. It's like a Frankenstein or something. Oh, headless nightmare. Oh God, he's right there. How does he know where to walk? He doesn't have a head. Like, how? That is so creepy, yo. Creeper's demand.  This one is a little harder to survive the disasters since you have to like survive the killer and you have to survive the disaster. Like two things coming at you at once. It's so crazy. Hey, do you follow her? What's up, yo? Dude, he's just walking among. Okay, refinery. These guys keep trying to push me. They're such trolls. Okay, let's go over here. Hey, what's up, y'all? Oh my God, how many people have been here? Oh! Oh my God, okay, let's go up here. Because the killer is loose and he is killing everybody. Spider-Man, run for your life! Oh, oh my God. Oh, he got my boy. Let's go follow the killer even though we should be trying to run away from him. Dude, he climbs so fast. Oh my God. Oh no! What? He managed to fall back on there. Uh-oh, he's coming for us. Okay, good, he fell. This guy is so cray-cray, man.  Hey, you know what?  Hopefully, we'll be safe up here. And it's not like a tornado or something. I don't know if we should climb up. It's like risky, you know? Oh no, it's a flood, okay? So I think we'll be safe up here. Hey, what's up, did we say it? Oh gosh. Okay, let's just sit here and enjoy the view. Oh no, the tower is going to collapse. It's going to fall. It's wobbling. Oh, this is not good, okay? Let's not go too high up because then we're going to fall and die. Dude, he's down there killing people in the water. This guy is a madman. Oh no, this thing is tilting. This is not looking good for us. It's like barely holding on. Am I the only one? Oh no, my boy VY is over here. Hey, what's up, man? I think it's just the two of us out here, brother. Oh my God, look, he's down there. Okay, you know what? I'm going to climb up to the top because why not, right? So we can get a better view of this beautiful disaster and then the beautiful people over there. Dude, I'm going to just fall. All right, let's go up here. Oh, we didn't get to make it. Oh my God. So that killer was jumping all around the map. He's getting everybody. Only two survivors? Wow. Dude, he's still right there. Oh, he fell. Well, there goes the killer, you guys. I don't know what to say about that, man, but he definitely was crazy. Okay, let's see. Oh, the sunny ranch. Hopefully we get some Minecraft pigs there or some Minecraft cows. There's no animals. Uh-oh. Okay, let's go around this way. And I did join it earlier and I got like Darth Vader as the killer. That was pretty cool. Are you pooping me? What? Nobody poop you, man. Okay, let's go. Wait, can we go up here? No, we can't. Oh, yeah, we can. Well, can we drive the tractor? Monster banana. There's a monster banana out here. Okay, where's this thing at? Oh, God. He's floating. Okay. Oh my God, it's a floating banana. Dude, why did you stop? Why is it doing monkey noises? No, get away from me, banana. Oh my God, I'm out of here. What? What is this dog?  This is so weird, man. All right, whatever. I mean, it's already as weird because the killer is a banana. And he has a body. Oh, hey, a banana. Dude, what is up with this thing? I like how it does the monkey noises. He's hilarious. Oh, God. Uh-oh, the barn is on fire. Oh my God, the whole thing is catching on fire, actually. Let's get out of here. I don't want to burn. No. Oh, we died from that. You've got to be kidding me. Look at the barn. It's all catching on fire from this side. Oh my God. Well, the banana's floating over there. Wow, you guys. This was the master disaster for Mon and Roblox. It's a pretty interesting game because it's just so random. I think I say the... Dude, that guy just flew past by. I say the best games in Roblox are like the random ones, such as these, because they take like the popular game and then they add some randomness to it and it's just crazy overall. Thank you guys for watching. Thank you guys for making support. If you guys enjoyed the video, make sure to slap the like button. Here's the channel. Make sure to subscribe and turn that notification bell on. And I will see you guys in the next one. Bye.


Russia invasion prognosticators are like cult leaders repeatedly predicting the apocalypse. Back in November, the Military Times published a Ukrainian intelligence claim which was picked up and repeated by numerous other mainstream publications, alleging that Russia was going to invade Ukraine by the end of January. Then in late January, when the calendar debunked the Military Times' incendiary headline, Russia preparing to attack Ukraine by late January, that same outlet ran a much less viral story with the headline, Russia not yet ready for full-scale attacks, says Ukraine. This past Friday, the deputy director of the Atlantic Council's Eurasia Center, Melinda Haring, tweeted the following, Putin has big weekend plans in Ukraine.  Two, then install pro-Russian president and three, resort to full-scale military invasion if Ukraine doesn't give in. And of course, none of these things happened. The weekend came in wait, Haring issued a sheepish admission that she got it wrong, then immediately turned around and proclaimed that Putin may strike on Wednesday, then later pivoted to, we've been so focused on Russian troops and tanks that we missed Moscow's strategy, strangle Ukraine's economy and sap the resolve of its people. On January 14th, we were told by NBC that we could expect a Russian invasion of Ukraine within a month's time. On February 14th, the prediction was as unfulfilled as the wishes of a Jordan Peterson fan on Valentine's Day. Then British outlets, the Daily Mirror and the Sun, told us that the Russian invasion of Ukraine was to come at precisely 1am GMT on Wednesday, citing American intelligence agencies. This prediction, whose frightening dawn raid presentation likely gave sales a bit of a boost, was again debunked by the hands of the clock. The 3am time, 1am GMT, when US intelligence sources suspected a Russian attack came and went without incident last night as Putin continues to keep the West guessing, the Sun's updated online article now reads. Last week, the US President told US allies that Putin may invade on February 16th, a prediction Ukraine's President Zelensky made fun of in a widely misinterpreted joke. This claim also has been discredited by the clock. And now we're being told that nobody seriously believed Russia was going to invade on the 16th, and that February 20th is the real invasion date. The prospect of a Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 16th was always overhyped, Politico tells us. The timeframe to really keep an eye on is what happens shortly after February 20th. Radio evangelist Harold Camping famously predicted that the apocalypse would occur on September 6th, 1994, then again on September 29th of the same year, then again on October 2nd. In 2005, he revised his claim and said the real rapture was coming on May 21st, 2011, and then when that failed to pan out, he said it was happening on October 21st of that year. Whenever he got a prediction wrong, he'd just do some more magic Bible math and move the date into the future. Camping was one of many exploitative Christian cult leaders who falsely predicted the second coming over the years, amassing thousands of followers with an early form of tabloid clickbait. The difference between the Harold Campings of history and the Ukraine invasion prognosticators of today is that Harold Camping died disgraced and disdained instead of being elevated to lucrative positions in the most influential news media outlets on the planet. Today's Harold Campings will invent all sorts of justifications for their shameless participation in a transparent government psi-op designed to advance the unipolarist geostrategic agendas of the U.S. hegemon once their war forecasts fail to bear fruit. The most common justification will be to claim that the Biden administration's hawkish posturing and strategic information warfare is what deterred the forcible annexation of Ukraine into the Russian Federation. As we discussed previously, this claim is logically fallacious. We're already seeing this We Stopped the Russian invasion narrative circulated by unscrupulous pundits like Tom Friedman of the New York Times, whose spectacularly awful career differs from a stopped clock only in that it is wrong two additional times per day. If Vladimir Putin opts to back away from invading Ukraine, even temporarily, it's because Joe Biden has matched every Putin chess move with an effective counter of his own, writes Friedman. Putin could just as easily have launched a virulent propaganda campaign claiming the U.S. is about to invade Mexico any minute now and threatening severe repercussions if it does and then taking credit when the invasion fails to occur for his bold stance against the Biden regime. It would have been the easiest thing in the world, just copy the Western script, replacing each instance of Ukraine with Mexico and each instance of Crimea with Texas. We're also seeing a new narrative in the oven which claims of a Russian cyberattack against Ukraine, which as an invisible attack whose evidence is classified would serve the imperial face-saving effort with the added bonus of justifying further economic warfare on Moscow. This is such a transparent scam, journalist Aaron Matei recently tweeted of the hacking claims. The warmongers crafting new U.S. sanctions on Russia have repeatedly said that Russian cyberattacks could trigger them. With no invasion happening, this is plan B. The Ukraine invasion that never arrives is showing us once again that when it comes to Russia you really can just completely ignore all the so-called experts in the mainstream media. Just dismiss a hundred percent of everything they say, because any random schmose best guess would be better than theirs. Looking to the mainstream media for truth is like looking to a prostitute for love. That's not what they're there for. That's not their job.


Okay, good morning. I'm going to get myself started at this. I hope we're all settled in. So welcome indeed to the first app developer con in Europe. It's amazing to have you all here. Fantastic. So I'm going to be your host today. My name is Mark Fussell. I'm one of the program chairs of app developer con. I'm also maintainer on the Dapper project for CNCF. And I'm also the CEO of Diagram. And I hope we have a very exciting lineup for you today. The premise of this talk and why are we here is about a year ago, we went to CNCF and said, look, there are all these people at turn up that want to talk about developers and how you build applications. And we need a forum to talk about this. And in fact, if you actually look at the CNCF stats themselves from the last two coup cons, you'll see that over a third of the people that turn up are developers like yourselves, architects as well. And there's a lot of discussion around infrastructure and option environments and how we build the distributed systems. But how much do we talk about the applications design themselves? How do we talk about the business that has to be built by you as a developers by architects? And how do we have a forum to discuss that? And in fact, if you dive into those numbers, you know, a large number of people turn up like yourselves here wanting to talk about full stack development or back end distributed systems. So that's the premise of app developer con. You meet like minded developers. We talk about architecture. We talk about the application design themselves. I'd like to kind of introduce you as well to the other people in the program committee. And I was trying to look out for them if they were here, but Roland Savita or Valentino are here from Red Hat. They, along with myself and Mauricio from Diagrid and Paul from IBM formed the program committee. We were lucky that we had 150 submissions, which is a huge number to go through. We go through a range of different topics. We try to kind of spread across the spectrum of everything from development tools to deployment to how you do patterns for design, the use of libraries, serverless, venting based paradigms. Certainly we're interested still in migration. There's plenty of that still happening today. And we have one of those great talks that covers that. I wish it was a little bit more AI in some of the CFPs that were submitted in terms of how it's actually being used today. We had a few of them, but not as much as I expect to have. And then we always try and do a little bit of future looking stuff. This is a sort of idea of the talk. We welcome you that will hopefully hold this again. In fact, we will be holding this again in North America. And of course, all the subsequent app developer cons and coupons from now on out. So I encourage you to submit CFPs themselves about for talks that you would like to hear of these. So thank you for the committee. Thank you for those people going through these. It takes a lot of effort and a lot of energy. Hopefully we've inspired you by picking a set that will help you think about your application design and take this forward. So if we dive in a little bit more about what does it mean? I thought I'd just draw out a classic cloud-native architecture, the combination of externalizing some APIs, using that through policies and API gateways in order to make sure that you have external APIs exposed to your end users. Typically, of course, increasingly, we see that built upon sort of platform APIs around service discovery and identity. And then particularly, of course, the application architecture itself. What are the architectures application? How do we put those patterns together? And how do we take advantage of backing services, all sort of stitched together effectively with the CITD pipelines and deployments and all the things you need to actually get your code in place. And what that means is diving into architecture discussions. Yes, we can talk about the bonnet. It exists. It's a great application design. But this is CNCF. We like to break those things apart. We like to build it into other architecture designs, certainly the rise of microservices, the de facto pattern, a venture of applications, and putting those all together. So this is kind of a celebration of that and how we put those together. And then when you look inside the application itself, what are some of the patterns that put the applications together? How do we think about messaging? How do we think about building stateful, long running, durable applications and sharding, building resiliency with throttling retries and circuit breakers? And certainly how you then put together other patterns that put you in the place of the application developer thinking about how is it you design scalable systems? Certainly one of my favorite I see all the time is we talk a lot about distributed applications, but the coordination across them and how you actually build distributed systems where you actually make sure that you deal with compensation and failovers and the recovery from them, the saga pattern around those. We see a lot of this where people simply write their code and then have to fall into place about how they stitch all those applications together. So I see a lot of that happening. I'd love to hear from you about do incorporate workflow engines into your design, how you put your code together. And so this is captured in sort of the talks that we do. But building these systems is complex. In many ways there's complexity in two angles. There's complexity of the business itself. I mean, we shouldn't be scared to say that enterprise applications are complex, but then there's sort of complexity of the technology and how we put it all together. And it makes our job difficult. But the challenge for us as developers is that we love to build abstractions on top of complexity. And in fact, that's exactly what we should be doing. So as we evolve these distributed applications, we should be looking for abstractions to help us not reinvent the pattern. There is so much time that we rebuild things and rebuild platforms when we really should be building on the business logic itself. So let's think about those abstractions. How do we make things easier for ourselves in the sea of complexity? At the same time, let's not stifle innovation. We have to have innovation. We want to build new things. We want to build new technologies. But along with innovation, at some point, you have to get to some agreement around things. In many ways, sort of Kubernetes has became an agreement around what you do at the hosting level. For me, I think the agreement around open telemetry that happened over the last five years where we went from a diversity of different monitoring, diagnostics, tracing tools to a single protocol has helped enormously in terms of how we think about designing systems. And I think we should do that in other places as well, where we can, given the fact that there's a complex world of different technologies that we have to put together. So with that, I just thought we'd just do a little kind of exploration about what the audience was like, who we are today, and where have you all come from. So I'm going to ask you a few questions and let's kind of discover a few things about where our background is. So first, I'd love to ask you, you know, let's talk about languages, because that's the easy one. So how many people here programming Java? Oh, good number of hands, I expected that. How many do JavaScript? Okay, Python. Oh, C sharp. Now the sea of hands rust. Oh, go. Oh, all right. Any language I should have said? Okay. Yes. All right. Actually, that was a pretty good mixture. How many use more than one language? Oh, wow. Yes. Okay. That's that's what increasingly I'm seeing as well, like the combination of languages, putting them together. All right. Okay. How many of you are involved with a platform engineering team or are a platform engineering team? Oh, okay. Just a few hands. Okay. Yes.  How many of you deployed to more than one public cloud? Okay. So I shouldn't use this. How do many of you just use a single cloud? Okay. So most people still use a single cloud. Okay. I mean, it's just a good feeling for what, you know, the type of things that we build, the challenges we face and kind of hearing, you know, from you. So, you know, for me, you know, I put out a few trends that I think are interesting. You know, we tried to reflect these in the session. I think there's a whole interesting world of security out there where we're pushing security back into the application, the whole shift left movement, you know, not only just scanning software and infrastructure's code, but what is the application secure as you know, what is the lockbox inside the safe inside the locked room inside the castle behind the moat? You know, we all care about the moat, but getting inside the castle, you could still steal all of your crown jewels that were. So, you know, we got to look at the application security itself more in depth than how is it that we make sure that we do security between services themselves. I think there's a lot to explore around observability and sort of chaos engineering space. How is it that we understand the end-to-end system and see the diagnostic? I mean, effectively, observability is a lifeblood.  So, understanding how we incorporate that into our application design is important. Working with those platform development teams and internal developer platforms, effectively, we see more and more now that most organizations having two or more of something. So, consolidating those around and providing that abstraction layer around them. And then I think there's a strong will of like the multi-platform, multi-run time and multi-language emergence. There was a world where, you know, a lot of the cloud providers said, here's the platform or the paths that will run all your code. Turns out it doesn't work like that. And, you know, typically you have to choose the platform as the best choice for where you run your code. You have to choose the runtime as well. And as you just demonstrated, you know, a combination of languages put it together. And so, there's this world now with, you know, multi-paths platform and multi-run time and multi-language and how we shape that and put that together in a way that doesn't breed that complexity and also doesn't breed that deployment nightmare I think is something interesting to explore. That leaves on to sort of cloud portability. I asked a multi-cloud question just because increasingly both through legislation and lack of vendor lock-in and the idea that you can move your code around, you know, cloud portability, whether it's on-premise to the cloud or multi-cloud is increasingly emerging. And finally, you know, I wouldn't be behoofed to say that, you know, AI is affecting many of the roles that we're building inside applications themselves and in fact the blending together of building small and more discrete models and putting that with procedural code I think is an emerging topic and I'd love to hear more of that in terms of discussions that we have here in the future. So, if you put this all together, I think we have an amazing lineup of sessions covering across sort of polyglot application development, across, you know, bit of migration and developer tools and, you know, hopefully you get from this a wealth of knowledge and things to take away. I thought I'd just pull up this one little fun example that I came across the other day of a sort of the use of observability as I call it in power transmission and this company called Hymdel, you know, they looked up power systems and from where the energy was generated and to where it was distributed was complete lack of observability. They had no idea what was happening on the power lines and it turns out that if you simply know the temperature at each of the power line points along the whole distribution, you can actually effectively optimize how you distribute the energy, including shutting down in power power lines because you can approach more energy down through a particular cable because the cables as they get warmer, sag more or as they cooler can take more energy through them.  And I thought it was an interesting example of putting together, you know, IoT observability and thinking about sort of, you know, how you see what's happening inside your systems. So, with that, you know, I'm going to close this out. I deeply want to thank all the sponsors for this. Sponsors are an important part of getting these co-located events running. I want to thank our diamond sponsor Heroku and along with that are two platinum sponsors, Diagrid and Dagger. They all have tables outside. I encourage you to go visit and have a conversation and find out about them. I've been asked to make sure that you're aware of making sure that we treat others with respect in the code of conduct of CNCF and there are snacks outside at the end of this event. There is actually a co-located event that happens on level 7.1 that you're all welcome to attend and apparently there's little signs outside that you can write. I'm a Java developer on and you can go and find other Java developers and rush around. And finally, I want to leave you with a survey. We're going to try and improve these things. We're going to make them better. Either visit the Bitly link at the bottom there or scan this QR code. But please, please, we'd love to hear from you. What is it important for you? What is it you want to see at future events like this? How is it we can make this better? In the end, you know, application developers, I believe are the heartblood of cloud-native computing because if you don't build an application, what do you sell to make money? So here we are gathered together and hopefully you've been inspired by today. So thank you.