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Hello everybody, welcome back to another episode of Anabaptist Perspectives. I'm here with Nathan Zook and we're in Washington DC right now. It's a very interesting time because right now the March for Life was just this weekend. Capitol Billions right behind us here, you live here in the city. Something I've had a lot of questions about over the years is a consistent ethic of life. This is a phrase used by different scholars that would identify with different parts of the Anabaptist values. Can you just go into that a little where if we want a consistent ethic of life, how does that apply when it comes to capital punishment, the death penalty? The idea of the consistent ethic of life came about because there was strong opposition to abortion and people, evangelical Christians began speaking out against abortion but not so much against war or capital punishment. So Pope John Paul II, when he was alive in the 80s and 90s, really pushed the idea of being consistent across all forms of killing, opposing killing whether it's the government in war or the government in capital punishment or an individual in abortion. If we're going to oppose abortion on the grounds that it is against human life, what about these other factors? Euthanasia would be another example too. So my question then for you, you're a pastor and as a conservative Anabaptist, how do you respond to this teaching of the consistent ethic of life? We ourselves are called to love our neighbors, love our enemies. That encompasses everybody. And so we as Anabaptists, we as believers and followers of Christ and His Kingdom, we are not to take it for granted. This is not to say that God himself is non-resistant. There have been times where force and war have been condoned if not ordered in the Bible. But we now have been called to love our neighbors and love our enemies. And so on one hand that means we will be consistently as individuals not committing these acts of killing. However, the Bible does give governments other kingdoms leeway to carry out social justice and retribution for wrongdoing and so forth. But that is not our calling as people in Christ's Kingdom. This is not something we individually could be involved in. That makes sense. So how did the early thinkers of Anabaptists, the people who would have started this hundreds of years ago, how did they feel about capital punishment and did they address things like abortion? What did they say? I'm not as familiar with the early Anabaptists' perspective on abortion. I have read some of their discussions on the capital punishment. And I'm not sure how much abortion was a factor back then. It still would have taken place in some ways, but not to the degree it has today. But Felix Montz, one of the charges against him, one of the first Swiss Anabaptists martyr in Zurich, Switzerland, one of the charges brought against him before he was executed was that he had opposed the government's use of capital punishment. Interesting. And the other person who wrote extensively about this was Menno Simons. He mentioned that if a transgressor has repented other sins and confessed their sins and apologized, then why would we kill somebody who has moved in that direction? The other thing, the flip side, though, what if they have not apologized, whether they have not repented in their sins as, let's say, a murderer? Then we're putting someone to death who no longer has a chance to repent of their sins and cut off their chance to confess their sins to God. So those are two very high-profile Anabaptists who took that stance. Of course, at the time they're living, there's a lot of capital punishment being used against Kingdom Christians and early Anabaptists. And so they're not talking as much. Felix Mossman, I've been talking as much about murderers, but Menno Simons talked about in the context of the transgressor, somebody who was doing something that was wrong, not just being a heretic or something. That's interesting because violence, execution, things like that would have been very common in that day. And especially even other church groups would have been doing that for them to, wow, that was bold for them to say that. That hasn't necessarily followed through into all of modern Anabaptists' thought, but that was a stance taken during that time period. Did that stance remain fairly consistent throughout Anabaptist history or was that something more right at the beginning? I think for some people that remained more consistent. For others, it sort of became a pressure once you come to a country like the United States with separation of church and state. It's still the idea that there was religious freedom. And acknowledging Romans 13 that talks about the power of the sword, the Godhead sword, the ministers of the law to carry this out. And so these are not church ministers. These are people in the integrated society. And so acknowledging that the government has that right has led some to advocate in favor of the use of capital punishment. Where I would say, just because the government has that right doesn't mean that we as the church vocally support in that way. We don't necessarily condemn it or speak out against it perhaps. We can't really agree with it. Yeah, it's almost like war too. That's something that's pretty clear in the book of Romans. That's part of the government's job is to defend itself or that whole thing. But we know as Kingdom Christians, that's not something we can be a part of. It's not like we can get out there and cheer for something like that. Right. And the other thing to consider is that if you have, if we believe it is wrong to kill, if we believe we would be in sin, if we committed abortion, if we were part of the machine that carries out capital punishment or part of the war, the military, if that's sin for us, then it's sin for others as well. And so we as followers of Christ, we may not focus on the powers of this world and their responsibilities and rights, but we do focus on the individual. So we as individuals call other individuals to repentance. And so that means there's no one left to put in the needle for lethal injection or to strap somebody down in an extra chair all the better for the kingdom of God because we now have people being called to repentance. So if we knew an executioner, if we knew a soldier, if we knew a woman making a decision about abortion, instead of pushing for political legislation, that's not our business. But what we would do is call that individual to repentance. And first Corinthians 5 talks about the idea that what takes place in this world, we're not called to judge this world. We're called to judge matters inside the church with other believers. But calling people to repentance is part of our great commission. So what scriptures might be used for these views that you're expressing here? Well yeah, so the end of 1 Corinthians 5 emphasizes that we as part of Christ's church don't get involved in things this way, making judgments. But on the other hand, you have Christ's call to love our enemies and to turn their cheek. And so if someone attacks us or our family or abuses their authority to execute somebody, then we would want to forgive. And so just the start of the ballot basically is how we are to live, how we are calling them. If we are calling other people to that call as well, as individuals, not as governments, but as individuals, then that's a strong scriptural reference there. So have you viewed the Anabaptist church? Are they still holding to these values that the early Anabaptists would have had? Have there been some deans from that? I definitely feel that conservative Anabaptists would be pretty uniform in their idea to be wrong to engage in euthanasia, abortion, be part of the military or capital punishment. Where I do see some differences, people sometimes get so focused on government has this right that they almost come across as their cheerleaders for war or for capital punishment. And just like we can't, we're not called to maybe oppose policies, we're also not called to support those policies. That sounds kind of challenging trying to navigate that. Right. Yeah, and I think part of the reason we wanted to do this episode is there is a lot of confusion, people are like, I don't know how to respond to these things. I think it's almost more difficult, what we are called to do is almost more difficult than protest. I spoke to a pacifist book study. This was in Wisconsin a number of years ago. And they were talking about the war with Iraq, the U.S. involvement in Iraq, and they were really opposed to that.  And so I said, now have you talked to your nephews, your cousins, your sons and so forth, or grandchildren who are joining the military during the war on terror and so forth. Well, that was almost more difficult. That was a new thought for them. They were focused on protesting, on protesting government structures and policies, but to actually tell your nephew or your cousin, you know what, we're called to a different calling. It's hard to tell our friend and neighbor, don't sign up for the military. You can join our church instead. Do like John the Baptist and say, do violence to no man.  He doesn't say, Roman is the evil empire. No, he says, do violence to no man. And so that's why I think it's a consistent of his perspective. We focus on the individual, calling them do repentance, calling them the wholeness without getting involved in the governments of this world. You've kind of already touched on this a little, but how would you say the current day Anabaptist church would view matters of life? I think it depends where you are on the Anabaptist spectrum. There's people who are very strongly have sort of gotten in doctrine of the political parties of this country. And so you will find some who would view themselves more as pacifists than are not resistant. They'll focus a lot more on war and capital punishment. Not as much on abortion. You'll get Republican sympathizing Anabaptists who will focus a lot on abortion and not speak up so much about capital punishment or war. Both sides are shaping their agendas perhaps more by political parties than by what do we call to do as scripture-following believers. And so as scripture-following believers we can take the stance that all of these are wrong and we're not caught up in the Republican agenda or the Democratic agenda and saying so we are going to take a stand and say, this is my calling to follow Christ and as part of his church we call you to that as well. And so I think there's been times where people who get so focused on the next presidential election or the next Supreme Court appointment then it becomes easy to choose and prioritize. Well this is more important than that. But in reality we don't see that prioritization in scripture. What we see is that we are to love our neighbors, love our enemies to take care of the vulnerable and the oppressed and that's the infant in the womb whether that's a prisoner on death row whoever is being we're to visit people in prison this is our calling as believers. So I think if we take that stance and remove ourselves from the political party agendas then we will be more likely to really be consistent. I think the world will respect that more they may not agree with us but a big sticking point for secular society is to say well Christians at least we got against abortion therefore they're inconsistent and therefore Christians are being hypocrites and so forth. But I think we as anti-baptists can be removed from that criticism to some degree because we ourselves will not participate in these activities. Does our opposition to abortion connect with capital punishment and how so? How does that work and are anti-baptists making that connection well? I see them as being the same on one hand and different on the other on the other hand you have innocent babies in the womb who have not had a chance to be a transgressor on the other hand you have people in death row many of whom may be transgressors but it is not our responsibility to decide whenever human life ends and that's where we can be consistent whether they're a transgressor or not that's in God's determination and we can determine the church when somebody has done things wrong outside the church that's really in God's judgment we definitely can look at actions and say these are wrong these are sinful but we definitely are called to love and there's no restrictions we're to love our enemies pray for those who persecuted us and so if our persecutor is on death row then we want to pray for him I had the chance in 2001 to be outside the prison in Terre Hoot, Indiana where inside Timothy McBay the Oklahoma City federal building bomber was being executed that night and I saw people protesting on both sides strongly in favor of his execution strongly opposed to his execution and what struck me the most was hearing about a man who had lost a child an adult child in the bombing and he said now I no longer have a chance to face the transgressor face Timothy McBay and forgive him or he was apology in contrast, John Paul II the previous Pope when he was an assassination attempt on his life in 1981 he went to the prison where the assassin was being held and forgave him face to face and people don't have that chance once the death penalty is enacted so even if the person is a transgressor there's still the hope that somebody will seek reconciliation and apologize to the family of their victims or to have a chance to be forgiven by them and I think that's an important part to consider yes they're not innocent like maybe the person in the room but it's still not our call to cause of life to cease it's a human life either way God will call them to his judgment seat some day it's not our turn to say now is when you're going to enter that in his presence well thank you so much for taking the time to be on this episode and playing us come here to Washington DC and do this interview this has been really good and blessings as you continue to pastor your church and study these things out and I appreciate your time


Pursuant to Chapter 20 of the Acts of 2021 and extended again by Chapter 2 of the Acts of 2023, this meeting will be conducted by a review means. Members of the public who wish to access the meeting may do so in the following manner by emailing stevemccarthys.gov. That's m-c-c-a-r-t-h-y-s at mrstma.gov. No in-person attendance of members of the public will be permitted, but every effort will be made to ensure the public can adequately access the proceedings in real time by a technological means. In the event we are unable to do so for reasons of economic hardship and despite best efforts, we will post on the Amherst website an audio or video recording transcript or other comprehensive record proceedings as soon as possible after the meeting. With that done, we'll call the meeting to order at 5.03 p.m. Take a quick roll call of attendance. Here. Here. Gaston. Here. And I am here. So we are three present with two absent. And now we do go into public comment. Is there anyone here? Oh, sorry, Gaston. Just to note, I think it's telling me that we're still in a practice session. Oh, Steve. Oh, yes. You are right. I started recording, but I did not. Thank you, Gaston. Okay. Okay. I didn't see that. I was reading my script. All right. So do we have to go back and redo the whole thing? Yes. Okay. Yeah. All right. Hold on. Hold on. Let me get back to my. All right. Are we out of the practice session? We are. Yeah. I have corrected the issue. And we're recording. Yes. Okay. Pursuant to chapter 20 of the acts of 2021 and extended again by chapter two of the acts of 2023. This meeting will be conducted by a remote means members of the public who wish to access the meeting may do so in the following manner by emailing Steve McCarthy at McCarthy s at Amherst m a dot gov. That's m c c a r t h y s at Amherst m a dot gov. No in person attendance of members of the public will be permitted, but every effort will be made to ensure the public can accurately adequately access the proceedings in real time via technological means. And the event we are unable to do so for reasons of economic hardship and despite best efforts, we will post on the Amherst website and audio or video recording transcript or other comprehensive record of proceedings as soon as possible after meeting. And with that done, we'll call the meeting to order at 505 p.m. and take a roll call of attendance. Pally. Here. Gaston. Here. And I'm here. Three here and two absent. Right. Okay, great. So public comment. Is there anyone here for public comment. And there is no one here at all. So we can just skip on to discussion topics. The first one is marijuana regulation Gaston we had a conversation with Dylan about that last time. Okay, and went over some things. And he was going to go over it again. And I think it was going to go to the town council. Is that correct, Steve? The marijuana regulations. Yes. Oh, here he is. Here's Dylan. Okay. Oh, Dylan. Oh, yeah. Good. How are you? All right. Oh, all right. Weather. Okay. So we are actually, we are, um, we have gone through public comment and calling to order and we're on discussion topic. A, I think marijuana regulation, and I was wondering if you had an update and. Yep, I do. I have, I should have sent this to save my apologies for you guys for review. But, um, I, uh, yeah, I did the changes that we talked about. I can show you guys just the, um, if I can get over to my Google docs here. Share my screen so you folks can see, uh, and then I'll give everybody kind of a chance, um, to actually review it and then we can vote on it next time. But I think it's based on kind of what we talked about, unless I have something should all be here. Give me just one sec. While you're picking that up, I, um, I have a law professor who has become kind of an expert on cannabis law and he presented at UMass a couple of weeks ago. He has a new book called, uh, weed rules. Um, I bought a copy Dylan so I can, I can lend it to you. But, uh, anyway, it's, it was interesting to hear his perspective on how much has changed and how much has stayed the same in the, in the regulation of cannabis. Awesome. Yeah. I'd love to check that out. Um, all right. Where is. Uh, Steve, can you give me the ability to share my screen? Steve, I think you're co-hosting now. You should be able to know Dylan. Yeah. Got it. Awesome. Um, I should have, where is it? So yeah, it's, um, the change I made, I took the authority there. Um, that one I'd actually taken from, um, I was looking through best way to do it. I actually found the Doug's old regulations. So I've taken some stuff out of there as well. So that's what I have for authority. Um, definitions are still the same. Uh, license guidance. Again, changed a couple of things here of just, uh, again, rather than be point to Mass General Law, um, Chapter 138, just saying Massachusetts General Laws. Um, not getting too specific with that because I don't think it's quite there yet. Um, in terms of Mass General Law with marijuana, maybe after reading this book, we'll, uh, might make some amendments. But everything else here is kind of kept the same as what we talked about. I kept measure of record basically same as we talked about before. Um, employees, we, uh, simplified it a little bit there. Um, and then everything else is the same other than just a disciplinary procedure. I'm just not sure how to word this one in accordance with section two of these regulations. Um, like, that's, that's what we like just referring to the authority, I think was, I think the way we decided or that I wanted to go about that unless somebody, uh, had a different approach. I think that makes sense. What do you guys think about that? No, I'm sorry. I'm just, uh, reading it carefully here. Okay. What, uh, the, what, what, the question is how to, whether to refer internally to the authority of the. Yeah, because I know, uh, yeah, I guess, I guess it was, uh, for, um, for alcohol regulations, it, um, it, it cites like specifically, you know, chapter 138 and this and that. This case, we're kind of take more broad authority because everything's, you know, so still so new with marijuana. I don't think it's a very definitive chapter in mass general law. Uh-huh. That I just said, well, we'll section two, because that just refers to kind of the general authorities. Section, section two. Of, of these regulations. Okay. Yep. Which then refers back to just our, our authority section. Um, because typically with, when we see these in, um, alcohol regulations, it just quickly sites in accordance with chapter, uh, 138 of Massachusetts general law, right? We'll say something like that where I think where we should just keep it more broad until there's, you know, Massachusetts chapter section to 57 or whatever that, that refers to how towns deal with, um, marijuana. So you said just, just refer back to the authority. Um, I don't know if anybody has a better way. I mean, I guess if you're, if the sentence is just referring back up to the language, it's above in the regulation, I guess instead of in accordance with, I'd say, as set forth in, um, I mean, it's a minor. That's a, that would be my word suggestion. And then in section two, it's where you're saying in accordance with the general laws or whatever. Right. It's set forth in section two of these regulations before imposing. Yeah. Um, and then, uh, and this is the, the last one there, because I know we were talking about this a little bit and it did. I think it applied more to like something like a restaurant than necessarily a marijuana store, but we decided, um, do we, we did. Do we like this one? This is the one I was trying to think about it again. Like, it seems a little weird, but do we, do we like this one that, you know, you can still operate and just not sell marijuana? I don't know if they still sell CBD oil or something. Right. Paraphragalia. Yeah. Cool. Um, if we like it, then we can just keep it in here. I don't, I don't see a reason for it, but other than that, uh, reason necessarily to get rid of it. But, um, if we like it, then that's, that's pretty much everything there. I'll send it to you guys, uh, this meeting just for review and then make any changes because I just opened it and realized I saw one more area. I missed a 138, but stuff like that. And then if we like it, we can adopt them next week. Does that all sound good? Um, yeah, I think so. So did we, I can't remember from last meeting, were we going to send this by through town council before we? Yeah, I think I was waiting for, um, for some of these updates so I can send them along to him tomorrow. Okay. And, um, and yeah, I think we should, um, yeah, move carefully with this because things will be a very impactful regulation. So, um, we can go bring it through him and, and, uh, have anybody else come, come back with any, uh, any of the board members come back for any other suggestions they have and, um, try to take a really close look at it before we, uh, we move to a vote. But it looks like it's in good shape as it is. Cool. Yeah. All right. Um, yeah. So there we are. I'll, uh, I'll share it out with you guys and, um, yeah, we can go from there. Okay. Great. Thanks Dylan. You got it. Um, next up is hold on. Lunch carts and food trucks on pray street. All right, Steve, how's it going? It seems to be going well. Um, we have been it twice now. The second time was this past Friday. And we again had a rooster's rowing cantina and Lavera Cruz on a present. They, um, you know, seems to be running safely and with no disturbances. Um, first kind of conflicting reports about, um, how much business they're getting and how, how, um, you know, if it's really worth their time to come out. Um, so, um, it will be going again this Friday. Only roosters will be able to go there, but, um, I think we'll be not running it for the Thanksgiving weekend. Um, but, um, for December, um, first or second that weekend, um, I think we may try to do it on Saturday because I've heard that, um, Friday for whatever reason is really not a, uh, a big bar night anymore. So that will be able to get them some more business, but I think this has been a great, uh, proof of concept so far really been no disturbances, no problems at all. Police are totally fine with it. Um, food trucks, um, since you're grateful to be there, although, um, some wish there was a little bit more business and, uh, and, um, yeah, when they say they get positive reports from customers. Fantastic. Sounds good. Thank you for that, Steve. Yes. Um, yeah, one, yeah, thank you for that. Um, uh, I know I've gone over and chatted with those folks, I think last Friday. And yeah, they'd said that that it just hadn't been that busy, but it was particularly quiet in town for a Friday. I was, um, I was surprised. But, uh, so the plan right now with this is it's going to be, um, Fridays and then you're trying out Saturdays after Thanksgiving. Am I correct about that? Yeah, I can't imagine the Thanksgiving weekend will be too busy. So I figured, um, probably not worth the trouble for that one. Um, but then the one after that would be, um, you know, I had to kind of run it by the DPW and the police department to see if they'd be okay with Saturday. Um, and by the time I did hear that we kind of were locked in for this Friday, although only one will be coming anyway. Um, but for the December 2nd, I believe that Saturday would be doing it on a Saturday to see how that works. Okay. And this is successful. We could do it both days, but pilot program for now and seeing how it goes. So how long until this pilot program ends? I don't know if we really have a firm timeline on that. I mean, I know that the town manager is limited with how many days he can close the public way without town council action. So I think that, um, you know, over the winter break for the colleges, um, probably be reassessing and looking at, uh, you know, we want this to continue and maybe with town council action. Interesting. Um, okay. Thank you, Steve. But the town manager has been supportive. He, um, you know, he, he thought it was a good idea and wanted to give it a try. So he did, uh, you know, we had some conversations with the town council members and town manager to use his, um, his authority to temporarily close the public way. And, um, the town, so the, the, the ability to license the food truck slides of the license commission. Um, and for these things has been delegated to the town or the building commissioner as is in the regulations, but for actually the closing of the public way would lie with the town manager, the town council. So the town manager has been using his temporary authority for this pilot program, but should it be successful and we want to continue it would be the town council that would ultimately have the authority to close the public way for an ongoing program. Yeah. And then we just change the, um, send them some new language on that. Um, send to the town council for them to vote on. Um, do we just. I think we have to, I'm not exactly sure. And I think, I think it's just an act they can take they have the authority and they would just have to use that authority to. You know, the, I don't know exactly some kind of vote, I'm sure, but they would just deem the. The road closures ongoing for this program at the specific time. So. Okay. Oh, so I see. So it wouldn't be a matter of, uh, granting us authority. With when that, when the, the, the select board, the kind of the power of the. Got split between the town council and the board of license commissioner. So it wouldn't be rectifying anything like that. It would just be something to do as a separate act. Yeah, the license commission has already been delegated the authority over food trucks. So. Right. Okay. License commission could just say we're going forward, but wouldn't be the best idea with the road wide open. So. Okay. Work with all the stakeholders and try to make it a successful program. I may reach out. It's only been those two who've been interested so far. I thought there would be more interest, but there really hasn't been from food trucks. So I may try to reach out to some neighboring towns for their list of licensees and spread the word so that maybe more will come. I think we were hoping for at least three a night, but it's really just been the same to so far on the two nights. Okay. All right. That would be great. Any other questions about this? If not, thanks again, Steve. That's great. Thanks for doing that. Um, okay, process for chair and vice chair elections. And we talked about this a little bit last time. And. I think the consensus was that we were going to wait till was it June, July. Or. The reappointments are in January. Is that, is that right? I think so. And I, I think, um, I think my, my term will be up in January, I believe. Oh, it is. Okay. I think maybe both of ours, Mary, and I think we were together. Oh, we're January 2024. They were. They were three year appointments. So I guess, I guess they're up and, um, I, I guess I will forecast that I, I, um, I understand I may be getting appointed to the affordable housing trust. And I think I can only kind of carry one thing right now. And so I may, uh, I think I will not ask for a renewal of my appointment. Okay. Oh, well, I assuming that that goes through. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Well, um, well, thanks for letting us know. We're of course very sorry. Sorry to lose you, but, um, I totally understand. Back home. Oh yeah. Thank you for this board. Thank you. Yeah. Well, yeah, we'll have to get, uh, have a get together. Um, uh, And maybe beginning of next year. Okay. All right. I think we said July because I think Steve mentioned. Don't we operate now? I think we're shifting to. Uh, fiscal, like, I think the terms end in June is that why we talked about a July. I think so. So we might have you a little bit longer or you might. Okay. All right. Well, we'll see. I'll keep you guys posted. Okay. All right. Thanks, Gaston. Yep. I think you're right about it all being in June. I think that was supposed to be staggered. Um, Determines were kind of staggered, but I do think they were all in the summer. So, um, okay. All right. I guess we'll, we'll, I guess it's probably on the website. Um, I think we have. It was because the town council was new and we needed to be appointed. So maybe we started earlier. Okay. Okay. I started in June. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. I think you're right about it all being in June. I think that was supposed to be staggered. Determines were kind of staggered, but I think that was supposed to be staggered. I started in June. Yeah. Okay. Okay. I see. All right. Well, Yeah. Um, yeah, me, me too. Um, I, um, uh, but I guess I'll keep you guys posted. Well, let's, let's, uh, figure this out. I guess. Um, the, my appointment was. In January of 21. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The initial members were all in. Oh, the initial. Because it was kind of created, but, um, I see town council went into. I don't, I guess I don't know if I have an email of the reappointment, although I must. That couldn't have been the first one because you were an initial member guests on. And, um, we were certainly around before COVID. Right. So, and if it's three year appointments, I, I mean, I see this memo from Paul January 26, 21. Um, so I don't know. I guess we'll, we'll, we'll figure it out. It may have been delayed due to, um, COVID and everything. Yeah, we'll have to figure it out. Okay. Okay. Very good. But anyway, for elections, I could be remembering wrong, but my understanding was, um, that we wanted to just hold off until, um, all five members were here. Um, yes. And I think we were going to wait until July. That's okay. So we will, I will note that down and we will drop this until July then. Okay. And then when Doug is, when we have all five, we can probably nail it down. All right. So I'll leave it on the agenda for next time then. Okay. Great. I think this Gaston wasn't here. So I think the consensus was last time that. Neither Dylan nor her. Uh, hi, nor Doug wanted to take over as, as chair. And so unless you had a burning design. Yeah. No, no, no. So I, I, we may have had. It's like, um, like seven up. This might be the own election, Mary. Congratulations. Oh man. I think that's why we said, Gaston, that's why we said we would wait. Yeah. Because it is a burning desire. Yeah. Exactly. All right. Um, but if anyone resigns, clearly that. You know, we could do a kind of a working document of when elections are. And if someone resigns, if that's a trigger. Yeah. Yeah. That would be nice. So. Okay. Okay. All right. So that will go on for next agenda. Um, any other questions about discussion topic C. No. All right, licensing fee. Oh, sorry, Dylan. Go ahead. I'm sorry. We're still keeping the election on the agenda for next meeting. I think we're going to talk about it further. And we're waiting for, we're hoping. Oh, in terms of picking when we actually do it. Got it. Right. Yeah. And we're waiting for Doug for all five to be here. So that. Do we. I'm just going to put this out right here right now. I'm going to say in case I can't make it next week. I'm just saying so you guys can continue to discuss without me. Okay. I think elections June. Or yeah, June 1st. First meeting after June appointments happen is when I think there should be an election every year.  I think the term would continue till June. And it would be one year term every year. I think it's going to be one year term. I think it's going to be one year term. I think it's going to be one year term. I think it's going to be one year term. To revoke. So that way, if I'm not here, you guys don't have to kick it down. We know your view. Makes sense. That is my view. All right. All right. Sounds reasonable. So what you're saying is you don't want us to have an election while you're not here. Hey, you guys got four books. You want to go for it. You go for it. Well, you might end up chair. Yeah. Okay. All right. Onto the next one. D licensing fee review. So Steve, this is that we still have a window of opportunity. I believe so. Yep. We're still still conversations with that going on. What really jumps out to me is the disparity between the wine and malt on premises and the all alcohol on premises. Right. With one being a thousand and the latter being 3500. But yeah, if there's anything else that jumps out to anybody. Or Steve, would you be inclined to level up or level down? I mean, I don't think, you know, there certainly isn't any pressure to raise fees or anything. It's not a, you know, the town needs more revenue type of open window is just kind of, I think it's budget season. I think that's what's prompted it. So, so it's just kind of, you know, if anything seems out of whack, it's a good time to kind of get it into whack. One thing I proposed or at least floated the idea of was eliminating the common Vixler's license because it seems like it's really serves no regulatory purpose at all. Maybe in, you know, 1870 when it was written it did, but I think we've evolved past that with food licensing and everything. And if you, I was looking through the statute again, there's some really crazy things in there where if the, the license commission or the board of selectmen approves a common Vixler's license for a licensee that is not in compliance with the regulations, then the board or more selectmen are personally liable for $50 fees for doing so. And for anything in this, in that chapter that the licensee is not in compliance with in chapter 140 also includes like gun licensing and all kinds of crazy things. So, and I think, I think that they're in holders are mandatory required to provide a bed for any traveler who may come upon them if they're a license. So I don't know if no vacancy laws may be illegal, no vacancy signs may be illegal. I don't know. But it definitely seems like an archaic law that does not really any regulatory oversight for and in the interests of trying to streamline things for new businesses and make things easier. It would make sense. And I don't know if we can even choose to not, not issue common Vixler's licenses anymore, or if you have to be a town council action or what would need if it's possible for the town to do it or what would happen. So I'm going to reach out to Brian Riley and I'll send that along with those marijuana regulations. And I'll just, if you can just send those to me, Dylan, just as a reminder. I mean, I would say the only thing the common Vic does is it provides a voice for the community to weigh in. Not that we really hear about it, but weigh in on a new business that the town is going to, you know, because I don't think people, the health department posts, so there's a way for like neighbors to offer feedback. That's just me being playing devil's advocate. No, yeah, that's, that's a good point. It is only public forum for a restaurant that doesn't have liquor, I suppose. And I was just wondering if this may not be relevant at all, but since we have a snack regulation in our alcohol regulations, would that, like can we require that without a common Vic or is it, I mean, one is not dependent on the other, correct? It actually, that's a good point. We should probably review our existing regulations to make sure nothing is contingent on that, but I mean, anything could be adjusted. Okay. I mean, pretty much everybody who has a common Vic would either have a hotel license or a food license or a liquor license. Right. Okay. Any other questions or reactions Dylan? When was the last time we dealt with just a common Vic and we like met the people proposing? I think the most recent one was just a couple of weeks ago. There was the new taco place. I forget what it's called over right by Hazels where Hazels was. That's the other places in Worcester and. Yeah. Oh yeah. That was just common Vic. Yeah. They come up pretty frequently. I mean, any restaurant that doesn't have a liquor would be in that category of, that's the only exposure license commission. Okay. So they don't have live entertainment or something, but usually they would. And Steve, there's there's another statutory category that would apply to a restaurant that we would be able to use instead to avoid the arcade stuff. My completely uneducated guess just by reading the statutes that the common Vic was maybe intended as kind of like a proto health license and maybe like a proto anti-discrimination just in the way it allows for the license to be revoked. And it says, you know, you have to provide for anybody who may come along. So I'm guessing, you know, if Typhoid Mary was cooking up flap jacks at your restaurant in 1890, the select man could pull the license. If everybody was getting sick, but I think all those all those are kind of taken up by the modern health license and, you know, we have certainly have modern civil rights law and things like that. I mean, I guess. Yeah. I mean, I think if, you know, we went through the whole process of trying to articulate what was important for the alcohol licenses, which, you know, we still have it's still hard to identify what would be the valid criteria to reject one of them, but it's clear. I don't could we articulate what are the criteria for a common Vic applicant? I mean, if we can't say what what the criteria are, I think that way strongly in favor of getting rid of it. I think the only one really comes to mind right away is, you know, somebody of a good character, you know, it's a vague one, but it's it's that type of thing. When you see that one was like, God, that's that's what it means when someone isn't a good character. Yeah. Right. But we we have trouble. It's hard to, you know, in retrospect, we we would have been really hard pressed to know that the Porta owner was that character. Yeah. So I kind of see the character requirement as a kind of the opposite of what Steve was saying, which is the like, we keep out quote unquote undesirables, which is whichever group is not welcome in a given town. Yeah. I just see even the purpose of a lot of the regulation we do, both common Vic and even the the alcohol or marijuana, I feel like a part of it is even just to say hello to the people in town here. Yeah. It has that value just like, all right, well, you know, on on behalf of the neighbors of Amherst, where you could be like, all right, so yeah, who are you that's moving on in here? All right. Okay. Kind of a kind of a hello, because I mean, I almost feel like there there isn't a criteria of denial for a lot of these things where I feel like the criteria is, can you in a in a very brief five minute hello with like some local people, can you alienate us all so much that we would vote? No. Yeah. That's that's almost the criteria. So it's more of a hello, I think, than anything else, as long as the fee for something like a common Vic is, you know, reasonably low. I don't have for paying for each time. You know, since you brought it, you did bring up Porta, I just remember after that happened going online and Googling him and filing finding that he had cases pending against him in different states. So, and I don't know if that would have been enough, like if we'd seen, Oh, this is coming up on this next Thursday. And we look this guy up and say, right? What are these, you know, what are these legal cases? It's been enough to turn it down. Well, I guess my reaction is that that is a very interesting thought experiment. But the conclusion of that would be that we have to add stuff to our process. Right. Because we're not doing right background checks. We're not, we're not evaluating. Cases anyone may have against them or their police record or anything. Are we allowed to do that or not? They just take what they get on. Like we just whatever they have on the application, that's what we get. I mean, is that, I don't think it would be illegal to do more, more diligence, like to do a. Yeah, we could. I mean, I think we could do like the deep search on someone and try to find. If we, if we thought it was important and. Have the time and resources to do it. But would that, would that improve. The quality of our, of what we do. I mean, I actually think about not just this deal and something, but welcome to the community. But I look at tools as an opportunity. For people to. I mean, we've never had anybody. So there's that. But like what happens if. A restaurant opens up right next to you and they're loud and. Don't do. Great crowd management. I guess where, where does the community. Go. If there's, you know, because that's not a health. Issue. Not a building issue. I'm looking through the various statues. It's all in chapter 140, but. I guess on that direct point. Chapter 140 section nine says. If in the opinion of the licensing authorities, a licensee is an inholder or a common victor, ceases to be engaged in the business he is licensed to pursue. Before it fails to maintain upon his premises, the implements and facilities required by this chapter, they shall immediately revoke his license. If a licensee at any time conducts his license business in an improper manner. The licensing authorities after notice the licensee and reasonable opportunity for hearing may upon says factory proof thereof suspended revoke his license or impose a fine.  But yeah, it kind of goes all over kind of the. I think the. Oops, I just closed it. I think the chapter that section most. Yeah. Describes it is. Section six is as a common victor's or in holders license may be issued to an applicant. Therefore, if at the time of his application, he has upon his premises the necessary implements and facilities for cooking. Preparing and serving food for trash strangers and travelers in the case of an applicant for an in holders license also has the rooms beds and bedding required by law. An applicant for a license as a common victor in holder proposed to be exercised upon the premises which have not been equipped with the fixtures or supplied the necessary implements and facilities for cooking. Preparing and serving food upon which in the case of an applicant for an in holders license, they're not also right as suitable rooms, beds and bedding for the lodging of his guests shall file with the licensing authority of plan showing the location of counters, tables, ranges, toilets and general. So I guess they did draft after that toilets. In general, the proposed setup of the premises which shall include. I think I skipped around there and where he proposed to have upon said premises and when the license may issue together with an itemized estimate of the cost of said proposed setup and of such fixtures. Now the implements and facilities necessary for cooking, preparing and serving food and of such bed and bedding. And there upon the licensing authorities may grant a common victor's or an in holders license as the case may be upon the condition will be done basically. Yeah, so that's kind of the most clear section I think of what it's supposed to be and what the purpose of any of this is. I don't know. Well, I think it's a long for you guys. I think it's a good. It would be a good thing for to have a task force on sure. I mean, I guess it's something I'd be willing to work on. Like towards the end of December when when I finished teaching. For the term. Yeah, I think your point about being able to greet the community is well taken Dylan, but is that worth charging $50 for? Exactly. Welcome to Amherst. We want to say hi, pay 50 bucks for the privilege. Yeah, I mean, a common complaint about doing business in Amherst is all the red tape and bureaucracy. And I think inspection services were, you know, we've done a decent job in trying to reduce that and streamline things. And we had a case just the other day with that. Where the common Vic was the last thing they needed. And they had, or this is actually a different restaurant thinking of it was the last thing they needed. And they had everything else. They had gone through some tribulations with the food license and the plumbing and electrical and they just didn't weren't aware that they needed a common Vic and they were about ready to open had employees on the site. And then it fell upon me. I have like a last review step with the food licenses where I basically check for common Vic. And I said, oh, they don't have a common Vic. And so they, you know, I generally at this point, if the situation like that comes, I won't say, well, tough luck. You can't open until you go before the board. I'll generally just have them apply and, you know, we'll schedule for the next meeting and call it a day and let them open in the meantime. But, you know, what, what value we are getting out of that. I, I don't, I don't see any. I mean, yeah, I'm fine. I usually go down and check out new places. So, you know, I guess I can do that for the meet and greet. I can go say hello to people and down. Yeah, and we can certainly encourage people to attend if they want. But yeah, charging $50 every year and having, you know, additional paperwork they have to do for another license when they already have to do their food license and certificate of inspection and liquor license. Like something we could do to make it a little bit easier for people. So, I don't even know if it can be eliminated or if it's just a mandatory the town has to do this. But I think it would be good for, I'll send along some of these the sections, this statute and yeah, there's a penalty too. I thought that was the thing I thought was the most crazy. I'll see if I can find an Alderman member of the licensing board or select one who signs license granted contract to this chapter should be punished by a fine of more than $50. I guess it's referring to the license but chapter 140 includes like firearm magazine limits and all kinds of animal rabies vaccines and all kinds of crazy things. And it goes up to section 206 and this is section one. So I'm assuming this is a rather bold provision. It's a lizard brain. Right. Okay, so Steve, you're going to check with Brian Riley about what such a thing can be done. Yeah. And we can put it on the agenda for next time to discuss.  I mean, people are certainly renewing their common vix now but it's something to consider and I think wherever we go with the liquor licenses we'd probably be, you know, raising the line of malt a little bit just to put it in line with somewhat with the alcohol whether that one comes down or not. I don't know but we could probably make up the the when's the deadline for, is there a deadline or they're just going through them? I don't know if there is really a deadline or we don't we'll have to figure that out but I guess the other I mean, I guess I would like to suggest that if we are going to boost the wine and malts we consider phasing it in for current licensees I don't think we'd be hitting them with it this fall I don't know but we could go for current ones we could get there in like five years or something and it only applies directly to new applicants or something yeah it's we can be creative and I'm not saying that has to go up again it's not like with the towns looking to squeeze more revenue or anything but we can all things to look at that just struck me as the biggest disparity okay so we'll keep that on for next time and licensing review and common vic potential removal any other questions on this nope okay annual report I will send out a link to at least that I'll send a link to chapter 140 yeah thank you the first at least a section for fraudulently procuring food at least the first 12 or so 15 20 maybe are related to it so I'd be happy for you to dig it and tell me what you all think because it is it was repealed in 1941 it appears so I'm curious what you all make of it okay sounds good alright thanks Steve okay so annual report everyone got a draft it is basically last year's report with some extra things so Steve I think I know I couldn't remember we didn't do extension of premises this year did we I don't believe we did but we didn't do that so I know that has to come out and the lunch cart pilot program should probably be discussed a little more fully and it's only been Fridays so I can take Saturdays out was there anything else do everyone want I guess it's due on the 29th of November so if you want to review it a little bit more if you have anything to add and you can send it to Steve and you can send it to me sounds good okay any other questions nope okay upcoming meetings and agendas so next meeting is 30th at 5 and after that did we want to talk about December now or December then we need to talk about it then does that sound good if we wanted to because otherwise we'd go from the 30th to the 6th and then to the 20th oh but we thought we might skip and just do the 13th sorry the 14th and the 28th right because it's better to have a meeting at the end of just closer to the end of the year yeah it's good to have one right at the end because people will often have be able to get everything in last minute we want to be able to approve them for to open to be continue to be open on January 1st so it doesn't really matter it doesn't have to be a full meeting we could just have the straggler renewals but something towards the end of that last week I think would be good to have okay great so right now we have the 30th, the 14th and the 28th for our next three meetings and we have some topics for the agendas is there anything else anything new what about that place that was going in where hazels used to be are they almost done with their license there's one thing outstanding so I believe they'll be on for the end of the year and we do have one applicant coming in working through a draft with him for a location where Vici Salon used to be there's an eyeglass shop there and there's Lili's restaurant that's stripped there so he wants to do kind of a high end food and wine retailer oh nice the owner is a former chef so what do you mean do we have licenses available for that he'd be going for a beer and wine yeah so we would have a beer and wine beer and wine package store yeah so he'd be having he wants to have high end fruits and vegetables and cheeses and ingredients and things like that and some wine as well okay I didn't realize we had more of those available yeah no we're at cap for all alcohol but wine and malt we do have available how many I have the list on my desk we have five available nice oh good gotta start pushing wine and malt yeah so is that what reminded you to think about raising that fee so that's not the one I think okay it's the service one that you're concerned with yeah so just to go through the four major categories for all alcohol on premises is 3500 for wine and malt on premises it's 1000 for all alcohol off premises it's 2000 for wine and malt off premises it's 1500 okay I can send you guys the entire yeah 75% fee chart but it's you know we don't have to do anything it's just kind of there's an opportunity that's always jumped out to me is a big disparity whether one goes up or one goes down or they both move or whatever happens it just seems that I don't know if there's we get $2500 worth of extra trouble for hard alcohol being available so hey Gaston didn't you do a comparison chart yeah I gotta look back at that yep okay all right so that would be great okay oh hey Steve when the Garcia's does their renewal can you ask about their manager yeah that'll they'll certainly come up yeah okay all right thanks anything else for the agendas next time no okay four topics not reasonably anticipated 48 hours prior to the meeting topics one thing I noticed and I don't think we can do anything about it but I went to the UPS store which is right next to the new alcohol and premise store we and I don't know if anyone else has been there but you know we were sold on the no nips and classy no signs and I pulled in and there were nips on the parking spot and lots of signs and like I said I did nothing we can do about it but I just thought that was an interesting you know but are they selling nips in the store they are you're kidding he did he did ask me about that a couple months ago and I told him there's no condition damn that's uh I would have voted for the Ping Wai location otherwise thinking yeah but anyway well an interesting observation so that's all um disappointing well I'll share unrelated this we'll share some good news with you folks um I just got a new job I'm going to be working as an associate planner for the town of East Hampton congratulations congratulations thank you I just found out the news today now it looks like I'm going to have a much more regular schedule now rather than having no idea where I am on it every day so I should be able to start regularly making our Thursday meetings um yeah that should be I think they're I'll be serving I'll be like the Steve to their planning board and their zoning board of appeals and I think their planning board is Tuesdays CBA is Wednesday so should be good that's great congratulations Dylan good news excellent thank you fantastic anything um tried to it's hard to follow that up but um anything anything else nope okay well just nothing else uh is there a motion to adjourn so moved thanks Dylan is there a second I'll second let's take a vote Hallie hi Dylan hi Gaston hi and I vote aye and that is 4 to 0 if one absent we're adjourned at 5 52 p.m. okay well thanks everybody have a great Thanksgiving happy thanks thank you happy Thanksgiving see you on the 30th bye bye all right bye thank you bye thank 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From Hollywood it's time now for Johnny dollar Yes, didn't you get it? Attempted suicide by gas Sheldon Forbes FORBES No, no relation insurance investigator. I just found him. Are you kidding? I asked you hide in every weekday night Bob Bailey in the transcribed adventures of the man with the action-packed Expense account America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator yours truly Johnny dollar Expense accounts submitted by special investigator Johnny dollar to the Continental Adjustment Bureau 418 Elizabeth Avenue Hartford, Connecticut The following is an accounting of expenditure is during my investigation of the Forbes matter Sheldon Forbes pleaded guilty to a $4,285 embezzling charge He waived jury trial and was awaiting sentence when he was bailed out of jail went home and turned on the gas 30 seconds after I dragged him from the apartment I called the police emergency squad and a matter of minutes they arrived and a couple of interns were working on floors with a Full motor in that dingy dirty badly-ladded hallway There was no telling how much gas Forbes had breathed in Well for how long a period after he went into his apartment the gas jet had been open hand me that hyper well swab Okay, he uh He alive barely The fellow found a mister. Yeah Hard to say what can happen on these kind a Shot I just gave him should produce some reaction This year place is You know who he is his name Sheldon Forbes Nice-looking guy Now I'll need that Yeah, thanks. I think we're getting somewhere now. Look, can I help? No? Now you better hand me one of those two. I'm gonna be pretty sick if Well, thank good. He's he's catching on. Yeah, let's have a little increase. I'll up at just a little Okay, hold it there The intern and his assistant work quietly and methodically There was nothing I could do but stand and watch After about a half an hour the color of Forbes skin seemed to me a little more close to normal His eyes were still closed though, and he showed no signs of movement Okay, you can kill the full motor and I'm getting some pulse now Respiration to what do you make it? Depends, mister He has any kind of heart condition. It'll be tough We can tell more when we get him into a hospital nothing more we can do for him here Okay, I'll have the boys load him up. Let's get out of here Mr.  He's got you to thank Casey makes it Warley B We'll take him over to Bellevue all attempt of suicides get over there I'd like to talk to him when he comes around Any idea when that'll be no telling better phone in first. Please don't want to talk to you You give identification headquarters when you called in yeah Yeah, that's the third one tonight What is it the weather not for him my job is to handle him, but I wonder why they do it Oh, this guy's got a problem. He's out on bail goes into court Friday to be sentenced and bustling charge Seemed like a nice guy to look at I think he probably is a nice guy Well, I thought you said he was an embezzlement. I did Well Mission calling. Yeah, sure doctor. Thanks the uniformed officers outside the apartment house question me thoroughly regarding the circumstances of the attempted suicide I told them what had occurred and gave them my business address for reference They asked me to arrive over to the station with them and verify the facts. I did All of that took about two hours when I was finished. I put in a call to Bellevue. No change in Sheldon forbes condition Expense account item 9 280 one theater ticket That's what it cost me to see the last 15 minutes of a fairly bad musical play at the Empress Theatre When it was over I walked around at the stage entrance didn't quite get that mr. Dollar dollar Mr.. Dollar well, what can I do for you between 6 30 and 7 o'clock tonight a man came here to the stage entrance And talk to you a lot of people talk to me here. That's my job talking to him one man particular his name is Sheldon forbes Don't remember nobody named for well Maybe didn't give his name. He was a tall man about my size 30 or so dark hair clean cut or a tweed suit Beats me. Did you come here to see somebody in the show? Is that it? He might have I don't know How do you know he came here? I followed him my son. It's a business my business. I'm an investigator Wait now Did he have a hat on tonight? No, no, I didn't short haircut. Yeah, do you remember sure sure? What she done struck me as a nice young fella. He's been around here a lot of times Sheldon forbes. Yeah. Yeah, I didn't recognize the name first. Would you mind telling me why he comes around here? Comes here to see Betsy Walker One of the girls in the show Betsy Walker. Is she his girlfriend? No, don't think so It's like this He comes here asking to see her and she never sees him You get it? Yeah, I suppose. Oh, who is she? Oh? She sings here dances a little pretty girl. Have you ever seen her with forbes? I can't say I guess not is she still here, huh Betsy Walker is she still here? I'd like to talk to her well She wouldn't be here this late. She finishes her bit in the second act Could you tell me where she lives? Oh, I'm sorry boy. I can't tell you there. All right. Well, where can I phone her? Can't tell you that either and now Why don't you drop around tomorrow? It's important tonight. Hey, look, would you do me a favor? Depends. What is it? Would you telephone Betsy Walker? Tell him my business and ask her if she'll see me Well, I suppose I can do that. All right, Mr. Dollars. Take a chair there. I'll see what I can do for you The doorman did all right Expense account item ten two dollars and sixty five cents cab fare I gave up my rented car and had the cab driver find the address Betty Walker had given It was a rather nice apartment and a rather nice part of town and was almost one in the morning when I got there She met me at the door wrapped in a chenille dressing ground with cold cream on her face This Walker You must be Mr. Dollars. Yes Now just wait a minute Do you mind if I see some kind of identification or something like that? Oh, no, they are Parkwood Connecticut You'd be surprised at some of the things some man will try Come in, please. Thank you. I didn't quite understand Frank on the telephone Frank. Oh The doorman at the theater. Yes, I didn't know quite what to make of it Goodness, are you really an insurance detective? Yes, and I'd appreciate you letting me see it tonight, Miss Walker Sit down Can I fix you a drink? No, no, thanks Frank mentioned something about Forbes. You're here because of him. Yes, Miss Walker. I understand that you know Forbes No Not exactly There's some reservation in the way you say that miss Walker, you know his name. Yes I I know the name Can I ask you what this is all about routine investigation? I'm curious How did you get my name? How am I connected with Sheldon Forbes? That's what I'd like you to tell me. Well first about my name Forbes was at the theater earlier tonight asking for you I understand he's been around there quite a bit. Yes I really don't know how to tell you this mr. Dollar I've only seen that man once in my life. Honestly. He's oh, he's really quite impossible. I just Dear this is so embarrassing to try to explain this Maybe I can save you some embarrassment then if you'll answer one question sure why not did Sheldon Forbes ever give you any presence? Yes, what? well That cigarette box on the table there and the lighter to go with it Hmm Tiffany's Pretty aren't they? Yeah, very also expensive What else well? Let me think No, no, that wasn't from him. Oh That was the lamp over there Mm-hmm And a first stole may I see it? I'm afraid I gave that away. You did I gave it to my kid's sister who was visiting me last week I already had one. Oh, I see What else did he give you?  I just Look it started a month or so. I guess I got a card in my dressing room one night asking me to dinner It was signed Sheldon Forbes so Well, I'd never heard of anybody named Sheldon Forbes and I just tore the card up But every night after that I kept getting orchids and the card and Then the gifts started to come The cigarette box first. That's when I saw him.  Dala We had one drink and I told him I had a headache. I see but the gifts still kept coming flowers invitations I Ignored them. I tried to send the things back and I didn't know where to send them Some I gave away and some I've kept I Didn't want his gift. He was nice, but I well I just didn't want anything to do with him when I did meet him He was so different than what I had imagined. I mean, well, gee I've had my share of stage door Johnny's but this man was Well, he just couldn't say a word without stumbling. He had no poise no Sophistication nothing all he had was money. He told you that he didn't have to those gifts Well, he didn't have money miss Walker. He worked for 82 dollars a week as a bookkeeper You must be mistaken. I'm afraid not.  I had to come to you to get this information. He's refused all along to tell anybody what he did with the money Will he go to prison? I'm afraid so. Oh But it's crazy. We had nothing. He's just a name to me. He means nothing to me. Yeah But apparently you mean something to him There'll be another intriguing episode in our story of the Forbes matter tomorrow tomorrow Proof that four thousand two hundred and eighty five dollars worth of unrequited love can spell three years of prison But sometimes there's an angle in this case a rather startling one Join us. Won't you yours truly Johnny dollar? Johnny dollar starring Bob Bailey is transcribed in Hollywood written by John Dawson. It is produced and directed by Jack Johnstone Be sure to join us tomorrow night same time and station for the next exciting episode of yours truly Johnny dollar Roy Rowan speaking


Professor Fartuck has really set the stage up very well for starting the technical sessions of this workshop. So, this is session two and before we begin the actual session, let us briefly look at the goals of this workshop. Let us say the practical goal of this workshop is to improve the chances of getting your conference paper accepted. It is a very material practical goal. However, this practical goal actually serves a much deeper goal and it goes, the deeper goal is something which a number of people have said that writing improves thinking, writing improves research. This should mean that if you write well, if you learn how to write well, you will learn how to think better, you will learn how to do better research. And as teachers and faculty members in educational institutions, these are very important goals for us and for our students. So, learning how to write effective research papers is a skill that goes much beyond simply getting the paper accepted. However, it also gives you the additional benefit that you will be able to convey your ideas more effectively to your colleagues and other people in the scientific community. So, what we will begin by is by looking at what is a research paper and all that we have to say whether me and my colleagues at this point holds equally well for research papers that you might think of sending to a journal or to a conference. For the most part of this workshop, what we say is common to all kinds of research papers. The brief differences we will discuss in one of the later sessions. So, let us begin by examining what is a research paper and we will make full use of A view and the interactive software that we have to try to answer this question. So, here there is a short abstract of a research paper. What I would like all of you to do first is simply read it. And then I will say what to do. So, all of you please read this participants in the remote centers. If you could please raise your hand and vote whether you think this is a research paper or not. Just raise your hand within and coordinators if you could please convey the majority answer through the chat window, we will be able to get feedback here on what the majority of the participants think. So, I am going to switch over to the chat window, but I would like everybody in their centers to just take a guess. It is ok if you are not sure. Ok, we are getting some answers, number of answers. Excellent. So, I have got at least 10 answers so far and most people say that no this is not a research paper, this is not an abstract for a research paper. Most of the majority says that. And the reason is that a research paper is not simply compilation of existing solutions or existing technologies. If you go back to the abstract back here, you will see that this resembles lecture notes. It is a summary of what exists. It is not at all clear here as to what contribution, what key idea has the authors, have the authors try to convey. So, the first point we learn here is that compilation of existing technologies is not a research paper and a research paper should not look like lecture notes or a summary of a book or several books that you have read. Let us look at one more such example and we will do the same thing. Here is another abstract and I would like you to vote, participants please vote. If you think this is an abstract of a research paper and coordinators please convey through chat. Ok, so large number of answers are coming in from the chat window and here again I would say the majority very seriously say that no this is not the abstract for a research paper either. Even though here it looks like the authors have done something and have tried to convey key idea. You are right again the reason this is not a research paper is that what we just saw is looks like a report of your work. A straight forward reporting of your work again is not a research paper. So, that leads us to ask the question if research paper is not simply a report and it is not simply a compilation of what exists. So, what is a research paper? So, what we will do at this point is look at some key aspects that must be present in a research paper. We are not saying that this is the exact order or this is the section in which you must write your paper, but we are looking at the key features key aspects that you all need to have in a research paper. And if you note here I have underlined the word research. So, which means you have to start with an enquiry a problem. So, research paper has to very clearly state what is the problem that you are addressing. However, it is not sufficient to simply address this problem say that this is the problem I am addressing because you have to explain to the reader why this problem is important? Why is it interesting? Why is it relevant for the reader? Who would be the target audience that might be interested in this problem? So, along with stating the problem you also have to clearly articulate why the problem is important. Again it is research you cannot talk in vacuum you have to situate your work in the context of the knowledge that exists. So, you have to talk about what have others done to solve this problem. You also have to talk about how you went about solving this problem. So, you have asked your question here you have said why is your question important what others have done and now what is your answer. And then you also have to convince your reader that your solution is believable why is your solution valid. What we are saying through the slide is these are the bare minimum points that research paper must have and throughout this workshop we will add few more points here and we will also expand on many of these points. However, a paper that does not have any of these will not be considered as a research paper by a scientific community and it is not going to help you improve your research skills. There is a role for writing a paper which is a compilation of existing solutions. If done very rigorously and very thoroughly it can become a good survey paper. But for this workshop we will only be concentrating on research papers for conferences where you have to talk about some work some that you have done. So, let us now look at the main purpose of a research paper that you know what you want to put in it, but in a way we are asking why are you writing this research paper. So, let us do the same thing if all of you could please vote in your respective remote centers here we have more number of choices and all of these could be true. So, I did not put an all of the above right here. But I would like you to think about what is the primary goal of writing the paper. I see a large number of answer ones coming in and a few twos. So, let us actually discuss these two and I am quite happy that I do not see a three or a four yet even though for a lot of us it is important, but you are right that we should not be writing a research paper only to serve purposes three and four. So, our claim is that the main purpose of a research paper is to convey your idea. In the process of doing it, you will need to describe either the technology you have implemented or some new strategy that you have tried with your students or a proof of a theorem that you have discovered and so on. However, the reader may not be interested in this technology, the reader may not even know what this technology is, they may not have access to this technology. So, what you need to do, what you need to keep in your mind while writing your paper is that conveying your ideas are the key thing you need to do. Once you remember this, then the clarity there is a much greater chance that you will be able to convey your ideas more clearly. Professor Fartuck also mentioned this in his session just before that when we are reading somebody else's writing, we do not have them in front of us to guess to ask what they are saying, we have to guess what they are thinking based on what they have written. We do not have their body language to guess at what is going on in their heads. So, the only means, only vehicle of communication between you and the reader is the writing and that should be all that you are focusing on. So, let us look at why you should write a research paper in a slightly different angle and I did mention this at the beginning of this talk that several people, several wise thinkers around the world have said the following things that when we start writing, it forces us to think clearly and I think most of us also have had this experience when we start, let us say when we start planning a paper or maybe even when you start planning your lecture for the next morning. The moment we put pen to paper or fingers to the keyboard, we realize that well there is something that we do not understand and we have to go back and learn it. Writing helps us learn how to learn unknown things, learn how to clearly think through known things and if you are in the game of doing research, writing is an integral part of research. It is how you share your ideas, it is how you refine your own ideas. So, when you think of writing a conference paper, it goes much beyond simply writing it for a given conference. There are several models as to how you should begin writing and when you should begin writing and a traditional model is that you first do the research and then you write the paper which has a lot of truth to it. However, there have been some people who have said that well you start writing the paper and in the process of writing the paper you will realize what research you need to do, what you still need to learn. So, even if you have an idea of what you would like to do, I would like to encourage all of you to start planning a paper and I would like you to take these two days to in fact just put into practice all the skills and the guidelines that you will learn in order to translate that plan into an actual draft. So, let us spend the next few minutes looking at what constitutes effective research papers because that is the title of this workshop. Again there are a number of questions. So, the first question is and we will use the chat window as you did earlier it seems to be working quite well. I received more than 20 submissions for each of the questions close to 30 for the initial ones. So, the first question is when you are writing a paper you can you have to make claims you can make different kinds of claims. So, here are two possible claims. What I would like you to evaluate is which of these two claims helps the reader focus better. So, if you were the reader which would help you read the rest of the paper better? Which do you think is more effective? The answers are coming in and even though I see a mix of A and B's I would see that most people have chosen B. However, there is a huge problem when you write B or let us first look at the advantages of B. It looks like the people the authors who have written claim B seem to have done a lot they seem to have done more than what people have done with A. However, if you write a claim like B the reader or the referee of your paper does not know whether she should focus on the novelty or the cost effectiveness or the fact that it is better or the fact that it is efficient or the fact that you have open source tools and please remember every claim has to be justified and validated this is a very important aspect. So, the reader is left to wonder how you have managed to validate each one of these. If you have not validated some of these the claims are quite useless and your paper is not perceived in a good light by the reader or the referee. So, good piece of advice that referees of important conferences give and people with a large number of years of research experience give is that keep one key focus in your paper. It is a little counterintuitive because two does seem like there is a lot going on maybe you can have two focuses two four side do not spread your reader's attention across multiple properties multiple characteristics that they have to keep track throughout your paper. It is also difficult for the author to write a paper where he is able to address each one of these describe each one of these with figures and diagrams write results for each one validate each one write a sound methodology for each one prove each one it is very difficult for an author to do all of it and also you have you also have a paper length at constraint for the number of words that you write. So, rather than spread your efforts all over the place thereby reducing the reader's attention keep one keep focus and throughout the paper keep hammering at it all sections of your paper must keep talking must keep validating and talking and explaining about the new standard what are its different features and why it is a good standard. I hope that makes things clearer let us look at one more question. So, what I will do here is give you two statements or two sentences and I would like you to judge which you should put first in the paper both might be there, but which should come first a or b ok. This time most of you seem to have the right idea here indeed b should come first because b is talking about the overall idea and more importantly b is talking about an illustrative example. The illustrative example and the overall idea given intuitive sense to the reader of what you are thinking. Once the reader has an intuitive sense she is able to follow what is written in the details. Moreover if the reader cannot follow what is written in the details it does not matter too much so long as they get an intuitive idea of what you are trying to say. So, even though I see a unanimous choice of b you would be surprised at how many research papers that get submitted to conferences actually begin with a. So, when you are writing your own paper make sure that write in the beginning give your overall idea and use an example right at the beginning. You can give a definition, but I would say give your example and then give your definition. This makes the reader happy. This makes the author happy because the author's ideas are immediately clear to the readers. Next we look at two ways of stating your contribution and let us say you are now the referee of a paper and you are looking at two papers with contributions written in two different ways. What I would like you to say is which to you as a reader. So, now I want you to put on your reader's hat which is clearer as a reader a or b. Again most of the answers from the remote center say that a states the contributions clearly. This is supremely important when you write a research paper that the reader should be able to find your key contributions easily. Do not make it hard on the reader to figure out to identify what exactly you have done. You may have done all of two. However, it is not clear by reading this what exactly is the contribution of the actual paper. So, state your key contributions clearly. State them early on. We will come to this especially in the practical session. Make sure that the reader is not left wondering what the paper is about. So, in this session so far we have just looked at a few key aspects that must be present in a conference paper and we have also looked at a few tips on how to write effective conference papers. So, what I would like to do is just walk you through the rest of the day and the rest of tomorrow rest of the workshop where we will be expanding on all these points. We did talk about. So, here are the various points of well written conference papers, well written research papers whether they are for conferences or journals. We talked about a key focus. We talked about a clearly stated contribution. We will come back to that in the practical session. A well written research paper also has a logical flow. The problem must be set up well. The importance of the problem must be explained that is the why. You must say who is the target audience for the problem? Who would be interested in reading the solution? You have to describe or explain what your solution is all about and then you also have to defend it. You have to explain it before you can defend it because unless the reader understands what you are trying to do, they will not be interested in your proof of it. So, again these things my colleagues, professors Gautam Dey and Kandan will talk about it in session 3 parts of it. We will come back to it in the practical session number 5 and in tomorrow's session number 7 which I will be conducting again we will look at how to set up a logical flow. When you are describing your results or your method, graphics are a very powerful tool. So, professor Gautam in session 3 will explain how you should use the most powerful most relevant graphics when you are explaining your methodology or when you are explaining your results. Most referees after they read the first 2 or 3 lines of the introduction will flip through the pages and look for the graphics. So, it is in your best interest to make sure that you have accurate and relevant graphics and well presented graphics in your paper. We already talked a little bit about illustrative examples and the general case and we will be looking at more examples how exactly to do this in today afternoon's practical session. There are some practices you have to follow regarding good writing style, language and formatting and tomorrow's session 8 on writing style by Dr. Mukta Atre would cover these aspects and you may be doing an excellent job in all of these different aspects. However, even if you have accidentally or unintentionally borrowed, that is the strongest word I will use right now, borrowed words from somebody else, your paper will be treated as a fit word playgatherist. You may not have meant it because you may just have borrowed somebody else's words to report what somebody else has done. Unfortunately, that is not sufficient. So, what we learn in session 6, the first session tomorrow morning is how to rephrase, how to paraphrase other people's work because by now we know that we have to discuss what other people have done. In addition to these, we have another very important session on scientific presentation skills. It does not appear on the slide because here we are talking about writing skills, but presentation skills are complementary to writing skills. Most of the times when you write a conference paper, you would also be making a presentation on it. Professor Sunoj will talk about effective scientific presentations at I believe 1245 today. So, to conclude this session, what I would like all of you to notice is that most of these points here do not talk about English. They do not talk about writing. There is a little bit here, but I would say 90 percent of the aspects or characteristics of well written research papers are not about the English. And Professor Fartek mentioned his beautiful experiments. He also gave you a challenge. He spoke at great length about how it is not exactly the language that matters the English, but it is about the ideas and the flow of the ideas and the coherence. So, that will be the focus of this workshop over both of these days. In all sessions, I would like you to be paying more attention to the structure. What should come first? Should you remove something? Have you stated your contributions clearly enough? Should you add something? So, let us focus a lot on the structure. The English or the language is the vehicle to implement this structure. That is the first point I would like to make. The second point I have already made a little bit that all these characteristics of well written research papers are whole true for conference as well as journal papers. And I would say that to a large extent, they would hold true to most disciplines. So far we have not made any distinction between how papers in engineering should be written, how papers in computer science should be written or math should be written or education should be written. But these are common aspects that should be present in most research papers. And that brings us to one uniting characteristic of all of you. You may think that all of you are from different engineering disciplines. So, how can a workshop benefit everybody? But there is one common theme or one common characteristic that all of you share and that is that all of you are teachers. So, what we would do, what I would like to do is have you or I would like to suggest to all of you that set a personal goal for this workshop where you take some teaching practice and learn how to convert that teaching practice or how to convert the idea that you have of either a new teaching practice or a new tool that you have developed into a research article. We will spend a few sessions explicitly doing it, but since all of you are teachers that is the common platform that all of you have and that is also perhaps a passion that all of you share. Plus most teachers that I know have all have all developed some interesting innovative teaching and learning practice teaching and learning strategy or a tool. So, why not take that idea that you have that is your idea and convert it to a research article. Exactly how to do this? We will begin in session 5, this afternoon session. There will be a short homework assigned on this and then we will carry we will we can even decide to carry on this theme of taking a taking an innovative idea in teaching and learning and helping you refine the draft. In fact, we do have a conference coming up it is called technology for education where the theme of the conference is to discuss either technological tools or pedagogical strategies for teaching and learning. So, if you decide to take your idea and convert it into a research article based on all these rigorous characteristics you can even consider submitting your article to the conference. I will give you more details about the conference in one of the later sessions. So, I think I would like to conclude the session for now. Thank you.


Hello everybody! In today's video, I'll show you how to temporarily disable or permanently remove an Instagram account from a browser on your computer or from its mobile app. For so many users, Instagram has become an ever-present element of their lives where they can share freshly taken photos, apply filters to previous photos, find friends, and even start a business. However, quite a number of people are willing to remove their Instagram accounts now. For some users, the reason is too much advertising, where others are fed up with all kinds of bots. In order to deactivate your account, you may waste a lot of time searching the settings, but if you really want to get rid of your page in Instagram, this video is the shortcut to your goal. That's because we will show you how to disable an account for some time only and how to remove it completely. So let's begin. Hello friends! If you need to recover deleted data, view or restore removed browser history, Hetman software products will help you. Follow the link in the description, download the necessary program for free, install it, and analyze the disk. The utility will show you the data you can recover, so you will be able to view it or get it back. In our channel and blog you will find solutions to any problem, from installing an operating system or configuring it to fixing possible bugs and errors or optimizing mobile gadgets. Our specialists will answer any questions you ask in your comments under the videos or articles. There are two ways to deactivate an account. The first is to deactivate it temporarily, and the other suggests removing it for good. First of all, let's see how to disable an Instagram account temporarily. The easiest way to do it is from a computer. Open your page and click Edit Profile. Then click the line Temporally Disable My Account below. In the next window, you will have to give the reason why you decided to disable your account, and then enter the account password to confirm the start of the blocking process. Finally, click the button Temporally Disable Account. A serious advantage of this method is that the account gets enabled again as soon as you sign in from the app. In addition to temporarily disabling, there is one more way which can help you remove your page for good. Removing an Instagram account is an irreversible process, and as soon as you do it, you are going to lose all your photos, videos and other information, including your followers. So my advice is to begin with temporarily disabling your account, and in that case you will be able to restore it. However, if you have made a decision to remove your account forever, well, then let's see how it can be done. After deleting the account, you cannot sign up again with the same username or add such username to another account. Before deleting your account, let's find out how to download a copy of all your information. In Instagram, you can get a copy of all the stuff you have posted. You can do it from both a PC-based browser and a mobile app. If you are using a browser, go to your account and open Settings. Select Privacy and Security. Scroll down until you see Data Download and click Request Download. Give the email address where you'd like to receive the link for downloading data and your Instagram account password. After some time, check the mailbox you have given for an email containing the link to your data. Click Download Data and follow the wizard directions to download all your information. If you are using a mobile app, go to your account and tap on the three lines button. Open Settings by tapping on the gear shape icon below. Then Security. Download Data. Give the email address where the link should be sent and then tap Request Download. Enter the account password and assume you will receive a message to your email address. Click Download Data and follow the wizard directions to download all your information. To remove an account completely, you will need to follow the direct link. In the description below this video. If you haven't signed in to Instagram yet, do it. The removal is only possible by using a browser from PC, and it's impossible to remove your account from the Instagram app on your phone. A bit later in today's video, you will see how to delete an Instagram account from a smartphone. But now, after following the link, you will see an account removal window asking you for the reasons why you decided to remove your Instagram account. Select an item from the list and enter the password to confirm it.   Recently, the tab containing the option to delete an Instagram profile from a smartphone was removed. The app is updated constantly in an attempt to keep the user's attention as long as possible. After all, most of its functions to take, upload and modify pictures is available in the mobile version. In order to remove Instagram from your phone, run the app, open the settings and browse to Help – Help Center. You can change language options below if necessary. Click on Managing your account and then Delete your account. In the next page, select How do I delete my account? And then tap the link Go to the Delete your account page. At this stage, you should select which you'd like to use – the browser or the app. Give the reason for removing Instagram and click Permanently Delete my account to confirm your decision. As a result, your Instagram account will be removed completely and you won't be able to sign in. If you need to remove the application itself from a smartphone, watch another video on our channel, and the link is in the description as usual. If you try to sign in after the account was deleted, you will see this message. The username you entered doesn't belong to any account, please check your username and try again. It means the account is gone and can't be recounted. That is why you should always consider the possible consequences before removing your account. What if you want it back someday? And that is all for now. Hopefully, this video was useful. Remember to click the Like button and subscribe to our channel. Hit the bell button to receive notifications and never miss new videos. Leave comments to ask questions. Thank you for watching. Good luck.