range of awards that can be thank you so so you can see that the different ranges that qualify so it could be a lower percentage for a longer period of time or a higher percentage for a shorter period of time I'd suggest that one half of the 6 years which is kind of right in the middle from a half from 5 to 7 years or a third for 8 to 10 years while we're asking questions of the city on that question of living wage jobs what number are we using to determine the living wage state it's indexed to but it is Ashley you said it is the state numbers I think it's like 13 25 digested the policy multiple times yet if someone satisfies the criteria is the applicant entitled to the abatement or is this purely discretionary discretionary the goal is to have the guidelines of the criteria of the expectations yes Brzee I would just I agree that I think this policy could use some work I want to change the expectations for an applicant midstream there's a lot of things I would like to see in this policy going forward I think we've all had some conversations about that I would encourage the staff to move forward with helping us with that my family has been residents for 20 years and so I'm not I'm pretty knowledgeable about all the operations of the city and the fact that we have a high tax bill but I can assure you that tenants when they're looking at that who are non-residents it is part of the criteria that they certainly focus on okay well I think we should move on so we need to close the first public hearing assuming that no one else has comments the public you have to have a second one I think this would probably be the time if anyone had concerns about reservations about approving and fear technically whether you close the public hearing or whether you continue it to another date then you have another one we have to set the second one and then next meeting so I assume we need a motion just at the second public hearing I don't know if you have to the policy just says there will be two we set this one without a motion well then we'll have a second public hearing on this on May 9th thank you all for your time what does that mean May 9th do we need to actually close I don't think so while this is on I did want to note and it sounds like some of you reached a similar conclusion this policy was written in 2003 reflected reflected values at that time and was something that I had actually passed on to the development corporation last year when Joe came on and said you know it would be nice for you folks to weigh in since it's supposed to be attractive for development it would be nice to get that perspective but also a chance for the council to put its values so whether it's wage rates or types of jobs or what environmental things that I'm certainly protecting housing was a big deal that would continue so I think that would be something we certainly ought to look at the other thing we danced around this with every application we require they have to have permits in order to qualify but then we also say you wouldn't have done this project without this well to get permits you have to hire engineers to go through every applicant is sort of caught in this position of trying to demonstrate a but for after having already invested in going forward and I think I'll say it on camera I think the council at the time just didn't want to do this and so tried to set up a bar you couldn't meet so I think that's just it's a tension point every time we look at this and I think either we say that's it and we should do this before you get the permits or something might be the set a couple of key criteria that we need is the barrier of entry we need to get in the queue I think there's a lot of things but I certainly heard put it on the list of things we'll talk about maybe in our strategic plan okay awesome we are up to the public works presentation and they're still awake and alert and energized thank you as fast as you wanted you know just always worried when you say that hopefully we've gotten out a lot of our questions on the tours wonderful I allocated an hour we'll try not to make this too painful and it was late Phil's checking the Red Sox scores so good evening I'm Tom McCartle to my rights Kurt Modica, system director and city engineer Zach Blodgett staff engineer Corey Lines project manager so decided we would bring I would bring my support group so this is really a team effort in our office and throughout our department first slide is just a breakdown we have within the department we have five divisions and then we're kind of off to the side city hall employees so total is 36 and a half employees so I won't bore you with all of this but the support group that I turned to is a professional association called the American Public Works Association and their nonprofit national organization tremendous support for public works professionals interacting, training so public works is a combination of physical assets management practices, policies, personnel government sustained structures services essential to the welfare and acceptable quality of life for its citizens and believe we are highly we know we are a highly regulated professional at least a dozen laws to comply with just the environment alone the regulations grow across the economy every year so we'll speak more about that as we move along so under under the public works we are only three pillars of sustainable infrastructure what we are all about we are try to be good stewards of our infrastructure and the environment we are tasked with managing many multiple assets and we have to develop and prepare and use the financial planning to take care of all those assets so it's kind of a picture graph of all the various things that we take care of street signs traffic signals everything really you walk out the door this building everything you look at step on drink everything the roads is somehow related to public works management and maintenance we are producing about a million gallons of drinking water we treat about two million gallons of wastewater so annual daily figures and maintenance of storm water systems we operate a district heat system extensive fleet of vehicles that you all saw during the tours and I'm really grateful we were able to do that and take a look at all that before you hear me and this group talk so we know what it is we're talking about and what it takes to manage all these assets we also have some facility maintenance responsibilities this building as well as our own facilities and our group we are administrative and engineering and we provide oversight of all our divisions we do permitting, project management we staff committees we manage and oversee engineering studies we develop operating project budgets minister accounts receivables payable department payroll and then some so it keeps us busy and so how do we make it all happen is responsible for operation maintenance we have fleet management to take care of and the way we do all this is we assemble a highly competent dedicated knowledgeable and credentialed staff both Kurt and Zach are professional engineers and we have licensed operators and treatment facilities and licensed mechanics so it does take professionals beyond the labor it's a top to bottom performance we have IT skills and you saw quite a bit about the SCADA system that we use we are involved in civil several aspects of engineering civil geotechnical, water resource, transportation engineering not much in structural so there are fields of engineering we do have to go outside as a staff for but mentioned we have projects, grants, studies support construction projects so our operations first and maintenance primarily our primary function is operating and maintaining our facilities and infrastructure we have seasonal obligations in winter summer is obviously construction season for us and we do an awful lot of maintenance and then we have a lot of year round operations that take place we'll do design work we have fleet work CSO monitoring and traffic signals is a year round operation and we also something that maybe some people don't know is we participate in the dig safe system which is a great program we mark our utilities to protect them for excavation administrative and engineering we are here to support the council management goals we provide development support homeowner projects issue permits those that we administer and regulate we provide site plan review we support monthly or live recreation, parking cemeteries, facilities mapping and budgeting and this we believe is really important to know and maybe a lot of people don't know and Bob, Chief Cowan's just left but we also believe we are always there as the APWA model says we are always there we are first responders and the last responders emergency response includes floods, winds, snow, ice storms water main breaks anything that breaks we're there to fix it this is gallison hill in 2011 we were there and had a temporary road built and we were there long time before the emergency has taken place this is a lot of paperwork this particular event was the federal highway under the ER program emergency response program a lot of paperwork a lot of design development and we had the road back and a temporary road within a couple weeks in the project new culvert installed and we were there to make that winter so we take that very seriously that we are always there 24-7 one way or another there is a way to contact us go through this briefly because we touched on a lot of it already but stewardship is really the definition of supervising or taking care of and again that touch our everyday life project management is from conception through completion that is when we believe projects work the best if we get involved at the ground level and are able to see it through to completion project development and project delivery provide the engineering services much of that is done in-house now although we do it always will have to use outside consultants there are permits and regulatory compliance a good example is northfield street project where we have both construction permit obligations and operational permits under storm water so there is a lot of evaluation has to be done daily for erosion prevention and sediment control master planning and studies is really necessary to define projects to obtain funding support for grants and it's a something that some people say an awful lot of studies conduct a lot of planning and that is true but it is very absolutely necessary first step in doing anything to really define what you need to do what you hope to accomplish and then that leads to engaging the public early and often and throughout the project to completion is a valuable and necessary part of what we do and it's time consuming but if we don't engage early and often we're not as likely to succeed in what we're trying to accomplish you guys want to jump in and by the way if you want to ask questions at any point go ahead you don't have to save them to the end it might keep you awake as well so project development timeline is something that's difficult for a lot of people to understand what it takes to develop a project and there's a lot of different things but that can influence and affect project delivery and completion but the first thing you do through those studies and evaluations is to define the project and what is the problem, why do we need to do it what are we hoping to accomplish and what we don't have here is oh yes is it a desired improvement or is it a maintenance project again we talked about the feasibility studies preliminary engineering we have to identify the project constraints right away environmental those are two of the often time consumers time trainers you never know where that's going to lead you particularly on the right away side of things and it's always best to look at your alternatives one alternative that should be in every evaluation is to do nothing and so you can compare the selected alternative to just leaving it the way it is not investing at all there's God's benefit what are the maintenance demands I think is a lot of frequently overlooked it's only new for the day you turn the key over after that it requires maintenance and an ongoing maintenance commitment so what is the level of maintenance that we're obligating ourselves to do the shared use path is one such obligation where it's another mile and a half of path and we'll be maintaining that asset for a long long time so think about that materials, access all of those things need to go into your consideration in developing your project final design getting to securing your final permits you're pitting it, that's the fun part pitting the project finally after all that planning and then you're scheduling we are Vermont, we have seasonal limitations we have to decide whether or not we're going to inspect the project ensure specifications contract documents are followed or if we're going to use somebody outside to do it give you an example of three to seven years is not uncommon for project development longer if right-of-way environmental permits are required the coming street bridge which will start this fall did have a right-of-way snag just trying to secure that because these projects do have significant impacts on people's properties so that is why the right-of-way is so difficult to resolve but that coming street was begun in 2012 will start construction in 2018 and finish in 2019 so that's pretty typical these guys somehow managed to put together the Northfield Street project from deception design to completion next year and three years that was driven mainly by trying to coordinate with the state paving project and so we didn't have right-of-way we moved through the environmental piece and went pretty quickly so what drives or influences our decisions and how we move forward again we have the regulatory things we have to consider one of the policies and goals the asset management piece and our master plan recommendations we have a few master plans out there now for say bike and pet or water sewer streets environmental influences can drive decision making that might mean we do something now or differently and certainly public opinion what is the desire of the community what is the preference of the community and under the regulatory world an example there is we have a water main master water system master plan change in regulations and serving fire hydrants no longer allow six inch water mains everything has to be an eight inch so that drives a decision it may be a still functional water main but we have to allow that to drive our decision and get approval from the state when we're going to make those changes CSO clean water act Americans with disabilities act safety improvements all of those pieces in the regulatory world will impact our influence our decisions on when we do it and how we do that certainly policy goals here particularly city council level the steady state infrastructure our desire to reach 70 PSI for our roadways public opinion public opinion certainly comes into play on things that they deal with everyday roads sidewalks and you know the service expectations we have under the public opinion side of things even construction materials and aesthetics are things that are important to people what are we building this sidewalk is it asphalt or concrete walkability bike friendly again all factors we have to consider making these changes or improvements every street we pave today is under the Americans with disabilities act considered a substantial alteration and so we have to bring everything into compliance with our standards so we are going to touch on asset management in the later slide but asset management is really what drives our master plan recommendations we use asset management to really identify where our systems are and what the cost is and then we then use that to make long term master plans so there are ideal times when we should maintain or replace cycle all of those aspects within asset management another influence that we should be paying attention to such as resurfacing streets or applying a preventative maintenance treatment before they get beyond that and require more money and more effort so that's an asset management strategy again influencing our decisions I think this is in fact put this slide together and it's really I can find it on my sheet it's very telling of you know just the breakout of where these funds are coming and how they're but if you look at capital improvement on your far left compared to the amount of grants we have currently outstanding and active it's small but it's still a significant amount of money in the capital improvement plan over a million dollars is invested in how that in maintaining our infrastructure but that also is used to leverage grant money and match so within that grant fund is five million dollars on the bike path for for Taylor so there's significant dollars that are leveraged from through the grant grant programs and we have currently and this is a little sad because we don't sometimes have to count them 17 active grants one way or the other right now several of them storm water a couple of shared use paths actually a third of those have come out since since the Clean Water Act was approved Tom can you spend a second talking about but how does the staff time work on grants do you guys actively go after a grant or do you have a project and you say okay how are we going to fund this what are the relevant grants and then I assume you spend time writing them and I'm just curious how that all works or if you see a grant announcement come out and you say what can we apply that to so no grant is created equals they all have different requirements application side of things I talked earlier about planning studies master plans some of the storm water things came from the storm water master plan there were recommendations within those within that plan to address chronic problems I see the Clean Water Act as a great for the clean water world but having dealt with a lot of disastrous flooding events this helps also to build resiliency so we go after these grants for for that side of things so driven guided by the master plan personal experience or professional experience and dealing with some of these issues for a long time few of these grants we received gain assistance from the Friends of the Winooski great partnership with that group the conservation commission is getting involved in that so there'll be recommendations there and helping actually with the grant application and a couple of them are doing that we have the bike and pet master plan and a few grants related to that do we have our higher grant writers or do we do all that in-house unless we have a partner well yeah we haven't had to really we did work on that complex we did get some help with the roof drain grant rarely we do anything that can help a couple of the V-Trans grants are really quite straightforward they're very competitive the class two town highway and the structures grants are pretty straightforward they streamline on those the environmental side of things and then the new stormwater stuff some of the new grants that they put out are much easier than some of the bigger ones like the ERP which we're talking about industry project so some of the smaller stormwater grants they've kind of designed so that it's much easier to apply for an application they're encouraging this pushing and we get emails and plus so this last application around there was 350 applications that they had to review and we did not get approved we've got a few outstanding so I wasn't terribly disappointed the planning department also will apply for grants that buy subsistence one of the grants that we applied for that we weren't successful in getting was a college streets grant for stormwater management because we're paving that street this year so we did get some grants for northfield street stormwater which was a nice match because we're doing that project and we had to deal with additional impervious area that we were developing Corey's got a couple on transportation alternatives program and we heard a lot and saw a lot of them talk this winter about Barry Street in that quarter study that's taking place going to speak to that Corey in that whole just in terms of the grants transportation grants they're pretty straightforward did you get closer to the mic Corey just touched on the revolving loan funds that's so late for northfield street those are state administered loan funds at low interest so the city still has to bond for those but we just sort of broke it out because it is a lower interest what we can get on the open market but right now northfield street is our only current project that's utilizing those those funds but it is out there for both water and sewer that's right it's for utility improvement clean water or drinking water under the CIP for FY19 we'll talk about that in the next slides so it's a little more than a million dollars under the bonds that were approved in March a little more than a million each for water and sewer and one for the bike pad here but also Taylor Street included in that it was two 1.3 million dollar bonds one was for some bike for Taylor Street and then the other bond was directed really to do water and sewer to do other operating funds to help support projects but just the overall package this is how it's all paid for some of the grants we do want you guys to notice that sewer operating budget is by far the biggest operating budget in the city just over four million dollars it's a pretty big part of our just as they were talking about earlier with the energy we got a lot of that that's to do with the Septuagen Leachate receiving it's a pretty significant revenue source for the city which we're looking to build on with the project we'll talk about next time May 9th we'll be talking about that on that beyond your agenda so the importance of assets and we have tracked assets we have managed assets and so it's really responsible for where is it how old is it what has to be done to it and how often how much will it cost when do we need to do it how important is the asset and is it a priority we prefer that our approach to this is planned, predicted and consistent and not reactive we have been working on improving our developing and integrating asset management tool to help us with that and Zach has he's going to just develop his own software or what but he's pretty skilled at this working with the our existing ESRI mapping and using manager plus so if we had time tonight to show you what he's done it's pretty neat clicking on your asset he can jump right to the next one so of all these these are just the statistics of what we take care of but within so some of the asset management program for example sidewalks really consist of 24, 25 miles within that there's 500 assets and 4,000 assets within that so there are water valves or fire hydrants there's gates pump stations so it really doesn't tell the full story of what we're actually managing and I think one that maybe people aren't that aware of is we have both for street lighting we have both an inventory of leased lights but we also own several lights of the downtown and on the bike path around about all our city owned lights so our projects on the CIP plan upcoming projects for the season continue to work on northfield street this is phase 2 we have in the bond a slope stabilization project complete on legue quite a bit of work in that particular neighborhood at the end of state street the paving program for this year includes Liberty street Sherwood drive and college in legue college is from Woodrow to east state so all these are within that million plus of the CIP plan the pavement mark is crack ceiling then we have the Taylor street project some funding from that from the bond we just got word on the shared use path Winooski east is from granite street out to gallison hill that our act 250 permit is finally coming through which allows to get our core of engineer permit and finally we'll get authorization to go to bed great news big milestone finally ready to go with that the summers what's the pedestrian path I know you've been saying shared use but we still end up with bike path on a lot of places shame on you but you have pedestrian path at pool so that is actually something that we worked on with the rec department they needed to regrade their driveway but it's really pedestrian walkway is that the one that goes around the front? it's wide enough because it also needs to be a fire lane truck student we started it last year it was going to be a simple paving job then we found some not just for paving so we put it off and we'll just excavate it and replace it and do it right so others stormwater work a biggie that we're kind of excited about I'm sure the school isn't anybody on main street happy to see we'll be replacing that water main on main street finally so that has been notorious for breaks broke on us again this winter so finally get that taken care of and also the work is done on the calisthenia spirits project the water main replacement we talked about that a little bit the old water main on berry street that's the first piece the river crossing was done back in the 70's now we're up to the roadway so we've covered a lot of this just some active projects that are going on the actual grants the design work that's working that we're working on in our office I won't go through them all, you have the list but if you have any questions about those so we have a very full play we've made a lot of commitments we've been applying for these grants there are deadlines there's quite a bit of reporting that we have to do potentially another project we talked to you on the 9th about the wastewater project what's Winooski east and what's the second share use path it's Winooski west so that's the connection through the one cali law two separate projects east and west side of town somebody came up with that the planning office years ago so other parts of this we do have new demands that come up and we have to have some capacity to take those on we do have we talked about the asset management when things should be replaced we have some things that are problematic that we have to move and bump up in front of other things so some recent changes that we've built and tried to work into our management with the existing resources that we have the heat district heat system the complete streets law and the transportation committee is working on that I see the climate extremes and our stormwater resilience that is really a thing that we have to be prepared for and I talked about the use of the queen water funds and really developing some resilience we are a flashy town as far as flooding goes it's one of the major very flashy in a lot of ways but in stormwater world it's they're flash floods so we're very hilly steep terrain and it comes down these stream channels quickly and very erosive and so it causes a lot of problems I don't worry so much about the main river although that's a bigger threat in the winter time from our perspective the stream channels that are flashy where we have the biggest problem so we have the queen water act and we have the municipal roads general permit that will have to be covered by this summer still haven't seen the permit come through yet but that's coming quickly I think we're in really good shape with a lot of help from the regional planning commission on that net zero is a policy that's ongoing and now we've heard about TIFF tonight and the economic development support that a lot of infrastructure development that we need to consider and to work into our operational so we have some impacts to our service deliveries some decisions that are made that benefit the community but they do affect how we operate what we have to do one of those major ones is the winter event the decision to have an event based parking rather than full time we're managing it but it has changed how we go about our business it really limits us sometimes just to clear snow banks off the street we have to somehow get those cars off the street so we're still not fully keyed in on how to do it well and it has been a major change for how we operate we understand the importance of it the need for it still haven't fully adapted to doing it right and doing it well with cars parked on the street we have diversified our staff from simply operation and maintenance to doing a lot more construction it's really a financial necessity a lot of things that we can do ourselves are very expensive to have a contractor do so we do a lot of project support or we'll do smaller projects on our own again we can design, get to the order supply permits and can build Harrison Avenue it was one such project and one of the work in the drive, Gaylord will be done by DPW rolling that in but also being mindful of the maintenance obligations that we can't lose track of we got a little bit out of ourselves last year so trying to find that right fit and that balance being construction is a commitment it's a necessity to make the master plan work really financially we have the equipment, we have the staff we have the engineering, the project management people to do it so working at it questions? you got to throw other questions Rosie, yes so not tonight but at some point and it could be a written update I would be really interested we had our goals last year to get down the low cost high impact recommendations from the storm water and I would love to know where we are on some of those but again, not tonight low cost, high impact that big, the low hanging that I've read that whole plan and I'm interested in all of those and the conservation commission we just met with them the other night they're looking at that as well about half of the stuff in that master plan is private property so they're encouraging property owners Friends of the Manuska is going to do a lot of public outreach that's what they do and they educate the public on that side so actually along those lines unless you had something you wanted to add I'm just going to say three of the active grants that we have now are projects that were identified as the low hanging so on that no, one of the things I was interested in is in the email that you sent us I mean you got the PDF of the projects over time that you all are working on this massive spreadsheet of yeah, that thing and I appreciate that it's broken down in the different sections but one of the things that I would find useful and I think this maybe gets at Rosie's point is you know from master plans like the storm water or from the Montpelier in motion plan there are projects that are identified in those documents and where do they, I mean probably wants those projects to be fit into here somehow even if it's just as an aspirational you know because I mean that's a choice that a council would make to fund an additional project or not and recognizing that that's an increase but if that really is something that we have as our master plan it seems to me that we ought to be laying that out in this context right because this is when I see this giant spreadsheet this looks to me like the list of all the things that you know more or less DPW is going to tackle is that a fair assessment it changes but this is this particular spreadsheet is the actual working document on how to fund each of these projects and where the money is coming from the old spreadsheet that we still use is the there was a seven year plan this is a five year plan is really the identifying what that project is trying to come up with a dollar amount an estimate and but it's a placeholder and so I hear what you're saying that's what it's for but sort of plan is for and how you're going to finance it as Corey we were talking tonight about you know we really don't have some dollars I got a lot of questions about what is this stormwater master plan that are going to cost I have no idea same with the bike I don't know but start to break it out into some sort of launch of a dollar increments and put them out there but realize that the most accurate set of figures is in the first column everything else is so one hypothesis is that the Montpelier in motion plan should have its own section here another possibility is that those really should be divided up into the sections that they belong in terms of sidewalks or transportation I'm not sure there's what is what funds it so Montpelier in motion has a different funding mechanism than sidewalks so sidewalks are generated through specifically the CIP sidewalk but you wouldn't fund something that was proposed through the Montpelier in motion and plan from the sidewalk fund like if it was a new site it could be not just bikes I guess what I'm saying is I would love to see that to be built into this graph somewhere either called out as its own section or integrated into the rest of it if it's a sidewalk and it's under sidewalks and maybe even tagged with something like this is a part of the Montpelier in motion plan or if it's from the stormwater master plan does it belong under stormwater probably but again it could be as simple as putting SWMC next to it there is a budget query does for the MTIC transportation infrastructure group so part of my hope in talking through our strategic plan is thinking about how we are tracking those other documents and just to see where we are with those things and even if we're not getting them done that's obviously not the goal but even if we're not getting them done just having a tracking mechanism so that we know where we are with them I think would be helpful on the transportation side specifically the Montpelier motion it can be difficult to put it in a spreadsheet like this because a lot of it is dependent on grant dollars and not knowing if you're going to get those grant dollars it's hard to put it in a spreadsheet like this or what the actual cost it's in the plan as as part of these larger projects as we go pay the street we look ahead and say well there's a grant for this can we do this so it's in there but it's not called out but complete streets like the ADA like code compliance it's an alteration and we actually have to do reporting now say that we consider that other modes of transportation we do so when we pave College Street we will fill out the review and that's because we've done the analysis we have the master plan that guides us another thing to think about is projects are frequently linked and we have to keep those connections clear to us a water main project should follow it's a critical path sort of thing water main project should follow the paving that I've built before it and if you're doing this sidewalk you want to do the sidewalk to expand and curve it before you pave it so we put them in different categories but we can never this one should follow this one or it should go with this one if we had those separate categories but then crosslink that makes sense to me and I also want to respect that some of these projects that are in these plans are really difficult to enumerate like how much are they going to cost we don't really know and some of them I guess I would assume that some of them we do know there's a range or there's it's easier to guess anything to help us track that would be useful because one of my fears is that if it doesn't show up on here then it doesn't get dollars and it doesn't get done which I hear you that like you're doing the ADA thing and complete streets but particularly with this storm water like if I can't see it I don't know I want to be able to see it and know that it happened yeah it was Tom I was impressed on the tours like your staff they're like Swiss Army knives you know they could do anything and I like seeing in the presentation that by like diversifying their duties it looks like you might be reducing your reliance on contracting and I guess the question is is there any thought actually increasing your staff as a cost savings measure to sort of further that just for the next budget you saw the nods right the increase really has been within engineering project management so we added a staff person recent graduate so he's a good field person under Northfield Street under project inspection that one project of what was it 4.2 over $300,000 in project inspection services being done by Zach and Ryan and we brought in a retired guy to help us too so from that side of things we're always going to need bigger contractors that specialize in heavy construction so I think we'd be at a limit you know we lease an excavator we really doesn't make any sense at all but I hear what you're saying I appreciate that I think we're kind of moving towards more of that oh just an example of a paving contractor adjusting the elevation of a little or gain value true up to the surface you have a little out chance to take care of all the hardware and the prices we get we can do it ourselves and we do so that's something we can do we're going to add it but it's a coordination piece we get their schedule that we're going to jump so there's a lot of that I do want to also just say that there's Berlin, New Hampshire they've recently moved to HDPE and they're doing HDPE is a type of water main but they are doing in-house construction as well and they do hire out temporary only for the summer just to get projects done that is something that we would consider maybe in the future we certainly could do it we don't have profit margins to worry about it's just like that we have staff to take care of when we do that we're not paying for that side of the equity thank you for sticking with us well and likewise we do a lot of work alright so moving on to council reports we have a pool oh yes Donna do you want to Donna you pulled it I did I pulled the committee term time timing of terms and the staff recommendations are a couple are on the 15th of the month one is on the first one is on the 27th and I either felt like we should do everybody the first of the month and then make sure that the month before it expires we're advertising instead of people's terms expire but they're still serving because we're late in advertising and maybe the committee of committees wants to talk about this I don't know but it just seemed people should start the first of the month then everybody is doing May noon on all the committees I would suggest we refer this to the committee okay I'm fine with that I don't have strong opinions other people gosh what is our formal action there are we just we pulled it off the consent agenda then okay so we'll just bring it up for a future meeting that's fine alright so now I think we're at council reports so I forget where we started last time I think we started over there so start Rosie we went to emergency management training regional planning commission and it was wonderful it was three hours Sue was there and I was asking Bill to get everyone this booklet and this little hand and it's really worth reading the slides this is the whole slides to get an idea of what an incident command station is what the flow of responsibility it was very impressive when you get those emails try to grab a couple of those workshops they're really worth it the other thing we may have a special council meeting but I am going to be gone I fly out on Thursday actually tomorrow morning yes I knew it was going to be a late meeting and come back on Tuesday Tuesday night so I would hope if you end up with a special meeting for the farmers market Paul said Mayor I'll say again what I always say in council reports I'll be at open hands cafe tomorrow 8 30 to 9 30 to talk about anything that anyone would like to talk about last week it was a great conversation we talked about transportation and trees among other things and Lynn Wild of the tree board handed me something to show everyone in council reports photos like this one are going to be up in the Kellogg Hubbard Library for Tree City which is a month long exploration of Montclair's unique trees this one is my favorite tree in the city it's the Ginkgo on Barry Street and it is incredible keep an eye out for that display and other tree city actions for the month and yes see you tomorrow at open hands cafe Christchurch Parish Hall 8 30 to 9 30 every Thursday great so I just wanted to mention Greenup Day again is Saturday May 5th I'm pretty excited for that and then there's going to be a bioblitz in I believe it's in July with the North Branch Nature Center so keep your eyes open for those things they're going to be great and besides that I have nothing further to report yeah just what do I want to mention that the meeting discussing the potential of non-citizen voting in municipal elections was bumped to May 1st which is Tuesday so I just would note that we're going to have Dan Richardson there to talk about you know the implications in the context of Vermont and also going to be skyping in a fellow named Doug Chapin it's a really long thing of the program for excellence and election administration at the Humphrey School for Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota so we'll be there just dropping by will that be on orca I don't know the other one was going to be I haven't actually brought that up with this one I almost have mixed feelings about it because orca goes to so many communities and it would be nice to keep the discussion here in our community because there was a recording I won't be able to make a meeting but I would love to see a recording well maybe you can talk to those folks and see what happens and that'll be here yep next Tuesday so I'm jumping back in so one of the things I just wanted to check in with you all about I know we're going to have a lot of time in our strategic planning session to talk about directions that we want to go we might have some traction is the possibility of a plastic bag ban in Montpelier and so I just wanted to check in with you all is that something that you're remotely interested in yes and straws can I just shout out to Bev Alan who brought this up before the council some work was very serious on it about going to go and a lot of folks I love on that council but they didn't even give her the time of day so it's great to hear that it's going to be at least taken seriously oh yeah okay cool I just wanted to take the same picture on that thank you Red Sox 4 Blue Jays 3 Bruins 7 Maple Leafs 4 Bruins 1 before we go into executive session we are members of EC Fiber which is a community internet service sort of based down at the upper valley we've been members since the inception I think we've understood that it was unlikely we were going to be served by them at any time soon if ever given the fact that we're not even contiguous with them plus we already have a lot of service we're going to reach the underserved areas and as you know we recently joined the center for the internet two part question one the question keeps coming up whether we should remain a member and I think that's probably a conversation that we shouldn't have right now but I think we should have I got a call from the chair of the board today basically our terms are representative terms are expiring at the end of the month so they have to be appointed before May 1 so our current rep is John Block who has not been attending he's been ill our alternate is Rob Chapman who attends sometimes I think he's recently moved out of the city but this guy recommended he said just appoint Rob as your rep and then if you want to advertise and replace him but at least you had a rep in time for the person and check with him and see if he wants to do it and then we can take that up or have a conversation whether we even want to stay in but if we were going to appoint him we would have to do it or somebody else so unless anyone here is interested in being the EC5 or rep I know you suggest that we don't talk about whether or not we should keep somewhere in there but I'm just as inclined to let that term expire the question that's I'm not sure why we need to stay in either and maybe we are just going to do this but I would think we don't need to have a full discussion of whether we stay in members anybody opposed to just letting that lapse there's no I did speak with a long conversation with the chair today and I said is it going to hurt you if we pull out he said no he said we were helpful when it started and they're going and our folks haven't been that active so it sounds like they could take it or leave it whether we stay I'm not sure what we're getting out of I think the one thing we may get out of it would be whatever we can learn from them whatever CVI can learn from them about how to do it but that's really up to them to do so fine I'll just tell them we're going to initiate separating okay and then we do have two items in the executive session which hopefully will be fast so I move that we enter into executive discussions well not that fast to discuss the two matters yeah and they're it's the real estate statute yes I copy so I keep the coordinates with the one DSA section 31332 beautiful I'm just going to put in accordance with statute you'll stay that's not one that we have all in favor of two say aye


Don't let me drown It's Saturday being complete cunts with me because of my YouTube channel Like, oh you just took my laptop I don't know, there's been like crap with this as well That's not fair, you can't treat someone like crap just because they make YouTube videos That's not fair, like, you can't do that So, you know, today I tried to put my phone in the bathroom I'm going to get out of the shower now, but it's a story The story just kind of looks like what happened today I don't know if you could hear me or if I tried to tell myself You can literally see it on the camera, I can't hide it I, there's nothing I can do to hide it I'm sorry if it triggered you I really can't hide it though Um, it's pretty hard to explain what happened this morning Because I thought I'd mention of it I kept dissociating, I kept my flashbacks And then I would have had a load of twerk and stacking I was originally having my house built with you today Um, before judgment, the choosing to do social media was like a hobby Julia, whatever you want to call it, this is how I get my paycheck And I just get too much stress, I don't quite know why Because I was dreaming yesterday, things got pretty out of hand And I didn't know how to deal with it I was already having a little game because I'd been looking for photos I have a new friend and things got really wrong And I don't do that, as you usually do But it's not hard, and apparently yesterday I was supposed to have it Just CPA things, like discharge it And I was feeling really bad yesterday So I didn't end up talking about it And I don't know what happened I just wanted to say that you are wrong Thank you And these I guess today just wasn't a good day


Hi, I'm Zor. Welcome to a new Zor education. I would like to start a new topic. It's called mattresses. Well, let me start from certain philosophical considerations. In many aspects of real life, we deal with certain elementary objects. And then we combine them together in a bigger object. For instance, we can deal with individual bricks and then we consider a house, which is built from these bricks. Now, we basically can stop thinking about individual bricks if we are talking about features of the house, like what's the price, what's the size, location, etc., etc. In mathematics, we do exactly the same thing in many cases. For instance, we can think about certain elementary objects, like points and lines on the plane, and then we combine them together into something more sophisticated, like a triangle, for instance. And triangle has its own properties. It's a bigger object, it's a complex object which contains some elementary ones. But we abstract out the elementary aspects of it and concentrate on the properties of the bigger complex object, like what's the area of the triangle, for instance, or what types of triangles exist, etc. So, in this case, very recently, we were talking about vectors. Now, vectors is just one step into a more complex world from the real number, let's say. So, the vector can be considered as an ordered set of real numbers, and it obviously has its own life, its own properties, its own characteristics. If a real number has basically only one important characteristic, its magnitude, whether it's a value or a quantity or something like this, vector has also a direction. So, this particular property makes it a little bit more complex. Matrices, which we are talking today about, are just another level of complexity which we build upon other more elementary objects. Now, let me go back to vectors, and in one particular lecture I was talking about independence of the scalar product of two vectors from the system of coordinates. So, if you remember, if we had a system of coordinates and one vector u was represented as two coordinates, let's say u1, u2, and another vector v was v1, v2, then there's scalar product, which is u1, v1 plus u2, v2. This expression, or dot product, this expression is independent if we are changing the system of coordinates. Now, changing the system of coordinates, let's say we are turning this system by an angle five. Now, my new coordinates, so instead of u1 and u2, I will have, let's say, p1 and p2. So, p1 would be equal to u1 cosine phi minus u2 sine phi, and p2 would be equal to u1 sine phi plus u2 cosine phi. Now, correspondingly, q1 and q2 would be exactly the same, but instead of u, I will use v. So, p1, p2 are new coordinates of the vector u and q1, q2, new coordinates of the vector v. And I was talking and actually I proved that this transformation of coordinates doesn't really change this expression. So, p1, q1 plus p2, q2 would be exactly the same, u1, v1 plus u2, v2. And that basically multiplied whatever is necessary, whatever the coordinates, transformation requires, and came up with exactly the same thing. Now, let's think about this particular transformation, transformation of coordinates, a rotation by the angle five in this case. Now, what's important? How can I characterize this particular transformation? And on the same token, I can probably think about any kind of a linear transformation where my old coordinates are participating with certain coefficients to transform into the new coordinates. Well, in this particular coordinates, transformation of coordinates, I can say that coefficients cosine phi minus sine phi, the sine phi and cosine phi, these four numbers presented in this table-like format basically define my transformation. So, what I can say is that my transformation, linear transformation in this case from one system of coordinates to another, is defined by this particular table and this particular table is called a matrix. In this case, it's two by two matrix, two rows, two columns. So, it's two-dimensional square matrix, square because it's a square, two by two, the same dimensions. So, this is basically a definition of the matrix. So, matrix is a little bit more complex entity than, let's say, vectors. I mean, vector is just a set of two, in a two-dimensional case, it's a set of two coordinates arranged in proper order. Matrix is a table of, in this case, two by two table of certain numbers which basically characterize the transformation. So, in this particular case, I'm using matrices as a way to describe the linear transformation of coordinates. I mean, that's not the only way matrices are used, but this is one of the, let's say, maybe first or maybe one of the original ways to view the matrices. So, matrices help us to define the linear transformation of coordinates. So, that's basically my first kind of introduction into the concept of matrices. Okay, fine. So, what's next? There are some other transformations of coordinates and something which is significantly simpler than this one. This is a rotation, right? And it's described by this particular matrix. Let's talk about a little bit simpler transformation of coordinates, which is scaling. So, let's talk about scaling. Now, if I have a vector, let's say, two-dimensional space, it's easier. And we have a transformation of scaling, what does it mean? It means that every coordinate actually is scaled by some factor. So, this is transformation of scaling. Now, what's the important properties? Well, there are actually quite important properties about transformation. First is it's distributive versus the coefficient of scaling factor. So, that's this, right? It's like this. I mean, it follows from the definition. It's also associative relative to scaling. So, instead of first multiplying by a scaling factor of L and then multiplying by a scaling factor of K, the result of the first one, I can actually multiply scaling factors and apply to a original vector. Obviously, we have something like one, scaling of one. So, it doesn't really change. Well, we also have a scaling of zero, which converts into a zero into a null vector, right? So, we have certain nice properties of this particular transformation. It's also linear transformation. So, my point is that as soon as we have defined a new entity called matrix, it would be nice to define certain operations with these matrices, certain rules which these operations should actually adhere, etc. And this is a model. This is a good transformation. So, I would like to have any linear transformation defined by a matrix I was talking about before, to have certain analogous properties, nice properties, if we are introducing a new object and certain operations with this object, but operations are in some how not natural and these I consider to be natural. So, if they're not natural, people are not used to basically deal with these type of operations. Then nobody probably would need these type of new objects. Matrices were introduced not just to conveniently record this linear transformation, also certain operations with matrices are needed and we will define them all. So, I would like to present this as a model. This is a goal which we will try to pursue by introducing certain rules of operations with matrices. So, what we would like to do is, we would like to multiply, to be able to multiply matrix by a vector. We would like to be able to add two matrices together. We would like to have some associative law when we are applying one matrix on the vector and then another. So, all these, we would like to have a matrix which after operating in the vector doesn't really change the vector or converts into a new vector. So, these are all properties which we would like to define somehow. And then one more thing to basically complete the picture. Here is what I mean. And that's a completely different area of mathematics which seems to be completely different. But using these matrix operations it would probably be very nicely falling into this category. Let's consider a system of linear equations. Well, let's have, let's say two equations with two variables. So, b1 is equal to a11x1 plus a12x2. I have two variables unknown, x1 and x2. a11, a12 are coefficients for the first equation and the second equation would be like this. Notice the indexing. It's actually a very convenient way to have double indices where the first one signifies the number of equations and the second one identifies basically a coefficient with x number in exactly the same way. This is x1, so this is a11, this is x2, this is first equation, second variable. This is second equation, first variable, second equation, second variable. So, consider this. Now, it actually represents the right side of it. It actually represents the linear transformation of the vector x1, x2 is linearly transformed using a matrix which can be presented in this tabular form. So, this is my matrix. I'm using two double lines on left and right to signify that this is a matrix. And it's transformed into b1, b2. Right? We have x1, x2 as one vector, so to speak. Now, we apply somehow this linear transformation defined by this particular matrix. Let's call it a. So, this is matrix a which is applied to this vector and we got b1, b1 vector, right? Another pair of coordinates. From one ordered pair, x1, x1, we got another. Now, let's talk about scaling. Remember, if we have v equals to k u, I can multiply both, considering k is not equal to 0. I can multiply both by k to the minus 1 which is 1 over k, right? And that would be equals to u, right? So, I basically resolve the u from v reversing my scaling. From k, I reverse to 1 over k. Well, that would be great if I can do the same thing with vectors. So, if my vector b is a result of acting by the matrix a on my vector x, and I use the dot here, although I did not really define what this is. It's an operation, so to speak. It's a matrix a applied to the vector x in this particular fashion. That's all I'm saying. But it would be great if I can apply to both sides of this equation another linear transformation, which I call a minus 1. And I will have the vector x. Now, why is it important? Well, very important because this is x now a solution of this linear equation. So, if knowing the matrix a, I can actually come up with another matrix, which in some way is an inverse to the matrix a, and apply this inverse matrix to the left part of my equations. I will get two variables. So, in inversing the matrix is equivalent to solving this equation. And if I find out that there is some standard procedure how to invert the matrix, then I can solve these equations very easily. So, instead of solving them using some relatively straightforward, but quite primitive and long way. Okay, let's resolve this for x1, then substitute it into this, and then I will have an equation only for x2. That's how I find x2. Now, what if it's three equations with three variables? Well, it's three steps. Well, instead, I'll just invert the matrix, which might be a challenge by itself. But at least it's one operation, invert the matrix. And then I apply this inverted matrix to the left part, and I will get my right part. So, this matrix notation helps to resolve linear equations, as you see. It's a completely different area. The algebra seems to be completely unrelated. So, the abstract level of introducing matrix and operations on the matrix, including inverting the matrix, for instance, might help in a completely different area. So, that's what real mathematics is all about. When we are dealing with a problem and we don't really know how to approach it in a nice way. And then we invent a whole new theory. And from the viewpoint of that theory, we take a look at our old problem, and all of a sudden it seems to be like some particular case of something which we, in that higher level theory, have already resolved in a very nice and convenient way. Well, that's what abstract mathematics is all about. So, this lecture is an introduction into matrices as just a new entity, which might, if we will properly define all the aspects, it might be very useful in many different cases. In cases of vector analysis, because it's basically a linear transformation of vectors, in case of solving the systems of linear equations, and many others as well. So, this is an introduction, and I just wanted to basically present you this new concept. Matrix is a new entity, and then we will learn about basic operations with matrix, with matrices and other cases. Well, that's it for today. Thank you very much, and good luck.


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The world has been telling me my whole life that whenever I encounter a trial or something hard, that my response should be to put my faith in myself, that I can handle this, that I'm enough, that I can make it through on my own. I lived that way for so long and I was exhausted. But here's what Jesus says in John 14. Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God, believe also in me. Friend, when your heart is troubled, our tendency is to look inward, to revel in introspection, to cling to a sense of self-sufficiency. But today, God is calling you to believe in him, to believe that he can handle this, to believe that he's working all things out for your good and his glory. This is the good news that you don't have to bear the struggle alone. Every time it wells within you, just give it back to God. This is the prayer that I've been praying. God, I give this to you. If you want me to do something, please make it clear. Otherwise, I'll simply rest in gratitude and faith.


just pulling in to me old mate any time fitness. We're gonna smash some back. We're gonna smash the last workout, the last weight training session for me before the show. It's Wednesday, Wednesday night, quarter past 11 as you guys saw. And I'm just gonna get in there. I'm gonna go over to the deadlift rack, put some weight on there and just start wrapping it up because there's no other way. I just gotta get it done, this last workout for this week anyway. I'll be back into it as of Monday, of course. In fact, Sunday after the show, I'm planning on finding a gym somewhere in the Gold Coast and smashing a workout as well. If my tan isn't too embarrassing. But we'll see about that, but yeah. For now, let's go. Back day, baby. Let's get into it. What is going on guys? Jake here. Now, we're talking in the past tense here. I'm two weeks post comp. If you guys had watched my other video, little update, I would have told you guys that I lost a lot of my footage during three days out, two days out.  So this was the last workout of this entire prep.  Like, this is it, this is the end. My body is absolutely beat. My mind is beat.  So I started off with deadlifts. I didn't exactly know how the workout was gonna go, but we got some good volume in. The first set was with 60 kg, second set with 100, and then I did three working sets with 140.  I'm telling you guys, this was like crazy, but this is a set at 140. I'm not sure what number this was. I think it was the first one, but yeah, we got it done. We got it done. I was so, so close to not doing this workout, but I was driving past any time fitness on the way home, had the flight in the morning, and I was like, no, there's no way. I can't, I can't miss it. I haven't missed one workout that I've planned in this entire prep, and this was the last workout. So we did it. Now as far as the show goes, I'm not gonna tell you guys exactly how it went. Some of you guys might know if you're following me on Instagram. So after deadlifts, I was pretty fucked, but what we did is we went, we stayed on that rack. I just left it with 60 kgs on, and I went into a bent over row, which you're gonna see. So I did three or four sets of that, 10 to 15 reps. After that, we did some lat pull downs, which you won't see, and then following that, the last exercise was some bicep curls, which I'm gonna show you one set of at the end. This was three days out, so this is what I'm looking like. I still wasn't as lean as I really wanted to get, but it's okay. The next video you see will be all of the footage that I've got before show day, and then I'm gonna do a show day footage, and I'm gonna show you guys some stage footage and my stage shots and everything as well. Thanks for tuning in, guys. I'm just gonna leave you with a track now to run it out, and I do talk to the camera again at the end, so if you wanna tune in, stay to the end of the video. It's about seven minutes long, and you'll see what I say. Three days out from the WBFF 2015 Gold Coast Australia. That is me, that is me done. Deadlifts for back, deadlifts for rows for back, and again, you saw what I did for biceps, I don't even know, man.  Running through my pose routine to see how I'm looking. Yeah, here we go. So that's my shit, we're getting it. Can't wait. Peace.


Good afternoon everybody and welcome to this session entitled e-learning best practice based on individual student profiles similarities and differences between full-time and part-time students and their needs for ideal online learning our Presenter is Jasmine Sarah and I'll hand over to her now. Thank you Thank you very much and hello everybody. Thank you very much for joining this session this afternoon My name is Jasmine and today. I'm presenting on behalf of the city of Vienna competence team for the digitalization of communication at the FHW University of Applied Sciences for management and communication in Vienna so the health conferences theme is shared experiences different perspectives and There are different subtopics amongst them inclusive practices so the city the competence team Decided to This competence team has been working on topics around the digital digitalization of communication since 2019 and when the COVID pandemic and started the competence team decided to focus on COVID-19 and its effect on students experiences So obviously there are different student profiles and we decided to look at full-time and part-time students and we wanted to know how these two groups have dealt with the pandemic so Under the subtopic of inclusive practices the title of our study is e-learning best practice based on individual student profiles similarities and differences between full-time and part-time students and their needs for ideal online learning so we also thought about how to define full-time and part-time students and It's interesting because at our university we differentiate between these two groups, but there is no real definition So we decided to focus on at least part-time students and to look into literature and how part-time students are defined there It was interesting to see that there are no universally accepted definitions of what constitutes part-time study At least in the UK and also we didn't find any for Austria What we know is that part-time students a different age Also in life circumstances in their personal values and also in their motivations for studying We do know that added learning has the potential to bring enormous benefits in terms of self fulfillment health family functioning civic participation also social attitudes We are also aware that part-time studying brings structural constraints Constraints such as also providing for living and child care and that part-time students need flexible study opportunities It might be that during the part-time studies there are no economic benefits to see but there is Evidence that for a better and longer perspective. There are benefits for part-time students So to come back to our study We actually conducted two different studies the first one was conducted at the beginning of the COVID pandemic in March 2020 and the second one was conducted in March 2021. So one year after as a follow-up study Their methodology used was an online survey and a total number of 561 students participated in this study These students actually study very different programs and There were students represented from all ten bachelor programs and eight master programs Which are all related to management and communication at this university So as I mentioned before and we were looking at different student profiles and to look at the numbers 52.5% were defined as full-time students and 47.5% were defined as part-time students Talking a little bit more about the demographics of the participants. I earlier mentioned the percentage of full-time students and It was interesting to see that the average age of full-time students was 21.8 years While it was 26.4 years for part-time students. So a little bit older The distribution of gender was quite the same So it was 69.6 percent female and 30.3 percent male participants for full-time students and 68.8 percent female and 31.2 percent male Participations for part-time students So I'm now gonna present you the results of this study And we started by asking our students about their student profile preferences We differentiated between synchronous studies and asynchronous studies for distance learning and the results showed that both Full-time and part-time students preferred the synchronous study mode Even though part-time students have a slightly bigger tendency towards asynchronous We also focused on the study content in our survey and For example, we asked our students and what they think about the clarity of the purpose of the digital teaching and learning materials so Roughly 50% of both full-time and part-time students have positive feelings About the clarity of the purpose Whereas part-time students slightly strong at this degree at all to those The distance learning activities are related to tasks and clear tasks and goals This question was also asked to the students and there was generally positive attitude amongst full-time and Part-time students, but also we could see that part-time students were more likely to rather disagree or Disagree at all We also asked students about the provided material and if it was sufficient to be able to process the tasks There was a very positive attitude amongst full-time and part-time students here but again part-time students were more likely to rather disagree and disagree at all to full-time students We asked students about teaching content if it was clear and understandable and And generally there was a very clear and positive attitude here and no extremes could be found when we asked students about distance learning offers and if they are Carefully incompetently created there was a strong rather agree from both full-time and part-time students and it was also striking to see that Part-time students partially agree or disagree at all a little bit more. We asked students if the tasks that are To be processed for distance learning are well suited for distance learning and Here the totally agree was not striking but the rather agree was dominant Also, there was a tendency to partially agree rather disagree and disagree at all from part-time students when we asked students about the learning material and if it was updated regularly and If it was up to date the total agreement and rather agreement between full-time and part-time students was Between 65 and 70 percent And it was interesting to see that part-time students are more likely to only partially agree or disagree at all We also asked the students about How they feel and also looking after students so when we asked the students how Well, they felt looked after during the distance learning The numbers seemed quite balanced, but we could see that part-time students Only partially agree more often than full-time students and Interestingly more full-time students say that they rather disagree than part-time students We also asked the students about the workload and whether lectures correctly estimate the workload for independent assignments and we could see that Part-time students rather disagree or disagree at all than full-time students and In general the tendency was not only positive here When we asked students whether the quality of distance learning offers varies from one course to another The agreement shows that the quality of the courses are not balanced and they very much vary from one course to another We also asked a question if using 100% distance learning make students deal with the content more intensively and Full-time students said that they clearly disagree that dealing with the content makes them We are distance learning makes them study more intensively And we could see that part-time students had a little a small tendency here When we asked students Whether 100% distance learning makes them learn more independently they said that Part-time students more often totally or rather agree than full-time students and Full-time students more often disagree than part-time students we also asked a question about the learning progress and if 100% distance learning helps them to check also their learning progress and the results were Not so positive here. I would say even rather negative and especially part-time students Rather disagreed to this question So talking about the general distance learning agreement We could see that between 45 and 60 percent showed a very positive attitude here but part-time students show Rather disagreement or disagreement at all We also talked about the quality of the content and if the information provided in this course helped students to stay attentive and here we could see a rather positive attitude in general We also talked about the distance learning motivation and we asked students if they were able to stay motivated even when the editor wasn't online all the time and The responses were quite positive But we had a stronger disagreement at all from part-time students When we asked the students if online tools helped to stay alert There was a general positive answer, but also The rather agreement and partial agreement was stronger from part-time students Another very important topic within our service was distance learning attention and we asked the students whether their attendance has Become more or less the same during 100% distance learning So the general tendency was to have the same amount of attendance, but part-time students were more likely to attend Classes more often as well as more likely to attend less often So we could see that the changes were bigger for part-time students and for full-time students They also asked our students if they found it challenging to manage their presence themselves during 100% full-time 100% distance learning and both groups that they Did not agree to that it is challenging Another question was if they founded the benches as to be able to monitor their land learning progress themselves And there was a clear tendency especially from the part-time students to see advantages of distance learning and for individual monitoring A further question was by suspending the compulsory attendance I can better reconcile my studies and work and here we found very clear positive Tendencies from part-time students and more balanced answers from full-time students We asked the same question so by suspending the compulsory attendance I can better balance my studies and private life and again We could see a very positive tendency from part-time students and a more balanced answer Pattern from full-time students. All right, so after presenting you The results of our study We came to some conclusions so first of all We could see that part-time students have a slightly bigger tendency to prefer asynchronous study modes than full-time students Which makes sense because they have other things to do and in general there is a Neat to be more precise and also careful when preparing and Explaining study goals and tasks and also providing learning material and this again is especially important for part-time students also We found that is really important to update learning material because students notice and Yes, so also there is a great need to look after students in a more Not maybe not so academic way, but just to check in really and in particular for part-time students Also, we found that it's really important to adapt the workload because there are great differences between different courses and That is a great need to be consistent. And again, this is very important for part-time students Finally, we made the conclusion that self-management of time Is has been found to be very positive And it shows certain benefits also for part-time students And at the end of this presentation, I also wanted to share with you some recommendations that we have So for the future, it is really important to work out flexible forms of studying and I know that's very difficult Also for logistics, but it can be very helpful for part-time students again To be very precise and also clear when it comes to and study content and study goals Also, it is highly recommended to work out the exact measurement and also rules of workload for Lecturers and Finally also to understand the results of the study and try to implement them into new study programs Thank you very much for your attention If you have any questions comments or queries, please contact me under this email address and Yes Thank you very much Thank you very much indeed Jasmine for you know Really interesting presentation with so much detail and quite a lot of Interesting results that that sort of drew out. So we've got time for some questions and there's one from Luke I think the question will go up on the screen so you can read it yourself if you'd like to or I can read it out Yes, it's a bit small, but Of course the same course as the tradition course If so, was it adapted from traditional to distance learning? It may explain the workload expectations Yes, so I think we have to differentiate between different courses and because the first year when the server was done, obviously most of the courses were just Transitioned to being online so there was not a lot of time to really adapt the study content to Distance learning content The second year it was adapted to distance learning so Yes, sorry, I don't see the question anymore, but Okay, okay, so let's continue with the next question probably, huh? Okay, are there any factors that might help explain why part-time learners were less positive about the quality of the materials ability to complete tasks currency of material or any Hypothesis, thank you Yes, so What we could see from the results is that because part-time Learners and they're already dealing with Many difficulties in their work life, which also was transitioned to online very often They might not have had the same capacities to keep up with the demands of the lecturers So it would have been necessary to provide more time really to to give extra time for tutorials Are just a time to to ask questions for part-time learners and also to give them the feeling that they are being heard Thank you for the question Is there a correlation between? Okay, is there a correlation between instructions preparations of management improvement in students Did you test this? No, we have not that's a very interesting point. Thank you very much for the comment We will take this to the next study Okay, and there's one part. There's another question there. Sorry. Okay. Yes I can see it's the main finding the responses of both groups were very similar, but studying online still more challenging to part-time students um actually, I Was thinking about this for a long time and I think it is Similar in many ways, but the extremes are the interesting parts that make us see that it is actually helpful for part-time students to do distance learning and It might be very like the difference. It's might not be very big, but I think they're very relevant and We need to focus on these also to improve also study life for part-time students Thank you for the question Okay, do part-time students. Yes. Do part-time students get less involved in asynchronous group discussions? Um, so I'm from from the concept of how we understand asynchronous group and Asynchronous study modes there is actually actually no interaction between students and lecturers because very often in asynchronous Our lecturers give tasks to the students and then within a certain time frame students need to answer those So the discussions There are no Discussions in that sense because it's not at happening at the same time if this is what you mean There's one last question, I think that we've got one more. Thank you Okay, from my experiences, they're not less involved but have less opportunity to be become involved Here my Idealistic self will will will scream and say oh no, we have to try to like involve them as much, you know I think that's very important. It's tricky, but it's really important that should definitely be a focus of ourselves in Distance learning. Thank you very much. I think that's all we've got time for Thanks again Jasmine for a fascinating presentation and for addressing all of these questions and thank you so much Thank you very much indeed. Okay. Bye. Bye. Thank you for joining


haha just walking to a cobweb but I've got to style it out for camera don't look at the camera but style it out don't fall over keep it cool Rodney trigger he's kind of eerie there's plenty of bones kicking about I've uh I've not I've not camped here before I'm there's sort of a clearing up in up there so I might get some stars it's not as thick as everywhere else it gets pretty thick and this pine wood and also it's littered in bones mate littered with bones a few decent sized ones there can make some out of that so I'll keep them in camp just to make it a little bit a little bit more weird a bit a bit more eerie she's nearly halloween in it so bang this lad on a stick or something staring into camp for halloween vibes I mean hammock first time in a long time in hammock so let's get that whistled up and and then get a fire going bag's leaking bag's got a leaking it mate dad jokes jokes not bad home sweet home I give a look around it just the dd super light tarp free by 2.8 or 2.9 something not not perfectly square the dd frontline hammock just a few um just a few bones really that's all just to keep it keep it real um it's quite good actually I've just uh been able to tie it off on these trees because all the trees are so close together these back free it was like it was made for it and then I just tied one down to a stick into the ground there so all the water will just run off this way and it affords me to be able to look 360 degrees around me which is perfect for the morning so I've just got pretty well since I've shown me hammock set up because it doesn't focus there's no point yeah I've got these am steel super like carabiners they get caught a little bit so I'm probably going to look at doing something else with these I've had these for years man absolutely years tree yoga um quick release knot with a toggle to hit down bungee cord attached to the bug net my little porch this does everything with me this I even use it at work I use it recently I forgot my knee pads at work and I just had that in my truck and there you go ideal in here we've got the ceta summit pillow the alp kit pipe dream I think it's the 600 they do keep forgetting so apologies for that me army softies they just had an extra layer and underneath all that is me neo air extra large ex therm and then my bag look and there she is the dangler and I shall be dangling within it and also got a little gap up here look so I can see twinklers and lamoon if she comes out if she well she'll be out but I don't know if she'll pass over that eye this time of year well I might go out and see what we can find later on billy can nice resting piece mate resting piece it's been used and much loved it will continue to be used and much loved until a day I can't use it and love it anymore get some carats in there I like them chunky I just like to get them in chunky if I'm slow cooking it 30 don't bother peeling it just get big chunks in garlic art messing about crush it up but I'm putting a full bulb in yeah you do you smash it up to get all the flavours out I don't bother taking skins off just eat skins when you slow cook it or if it bothers you take them off or take them off when it's cooked but whatever that's it in with the marinated pork simple bit of salt bit of pepper just a little bit of time is all it takes dad gags dad gags it's been raining pretty heavy everything's soaking so I'm just taking everything that's well as much as I can from the from the trees that's just been caught on its way down and not not been lying on ground and the canopy from the tree will keep it pretty dry still a bit damp like but the rest of a bad bunch here there's my buzzard friend it's going to get he's going to kick off later in it fill a few of these gaps so so the shavings don't disappear get some little bits itty bits they're gone you flying oh this wood is so wet so I don't want to don't want to smother it he says smother in it but just gradually and it'll dry out go on it's been soaking wet of late torrential rains in the UK for anyone who's stumbled across this video by accident first of all I apologize and yeah I'll groan you mate I'll groan you and also I'm in the UK for those that don't know the accent there's my mate the buzzard lab buzzard l buzzard l buzz can you hear him there he is screeching away it is gaff though innit it is gaff I'm just a guest here so they can screech all he wants mate there you go have you missed me doing all this crapped at camera look there you are there I am right she's a smoky what she's too much you think she might be too much abort abort quick shout out to uh milled fruit Matt Morgan Matty Morgz give me his uh fiel ravens because they don't fit him properly so he kindly gifted me them and I'm you I'm using them they're getting they're getting proper abused they've been at sea they've been on multiple overnighters brilliant brilliant stuff so if you're watching thanks Matt uh I'm going out with Matt to Wales soon so stay tuned for that one I'll make a little video of it right yeah dirty weird noises kicking off mate you just want a little glug in there because mainly because you want a bit of it yourself there that's that and then I'll top that with water as well which I'll do now while I'm on water cover it all with water there you go and that's like put on peripheries peripheral always on outskirts for now all right smoking everything's so wet get my noggin out that road for the love there you are cheers to you salute um eggy Shakira absent friends six percent that is dirty dirty I did have one of my unbears two uh popping me stew but I met a nice young lady at the at the farm shop shout out to you who said that her and her boyfriend watched my video so I gave her a beer to give to her boyfriend so if you're watching mate there you go you're welcome you're welcome mate tuba's giving it all this to camera and took my game I've been doing a lot of barefoot walking and I'm training to do the three peaks barefoot for charity um I'll leave a link below so you can have a look but I'll talk a bit more about it in the future because I'm not doing it till spring but you can have a look link below if you want cheers let it reduce a little bit I'll just pop it in in lid oh stew is served all right let's have a go on it that is that's delicious a bit of carrot don't sleep on the carrot perfect wow I'm just going to get stuck into this and then maybe have a little glass of rouge and hopefully catch some stars in this little in this little gap some bad noises kicking off right I'm going to put you away and just enjoy this fire and have me tea and maybe catch some stars bon appétit reach owl little screechy owl if you didn't know what it was you'd shat it wouldn't you anyway fire because if you can see fire background it's all but out I'm about to jump in dangler and hit the hay so unless some mad or sad happens I shall see thee on the morrow ciao for doubt but I've said it before but the greatest thing about sleeping in a hammock is waking up in a hammock it's so comfy sorry that light but let's see let's turn this off and see if I can show you what I've worked up to I'm going to do a quick quick tidy up I've got stuff to do today everything's soaking and it rained in the night everything is drenched as far as wood goes so would be a bit of a chew I think to get a fire going to get this hammock squared away how are we going to do this that's this will be mixed up right near the fire it should be dry enough yeah I'm using the lighter sue me there she is oh no look at that tragic tragedies happen look oh no dude I was just trying to it's not even that big a piece there's no real knots in it or anything but look oh dude chaotic that is heartbreaking look at that she's dead she's a dead I've killed it there it is look yeah oh that is a shame a true shame but I will keep that now like obviously it's not use no use to me now as a knife but I'm going to keep it I'm going to have I'm even I'll give even put it on my shelf on at home as a little memento because that is just an ornament now it's been fruit wars mate it's got a story behind it anyway from me being gifted it and the way it was made and the person who made it and then the person who at mcq bushcraft lee from lb custom knives it's just mate a good weep but mate I got a lot of use out of this I got a lot of use out of this mate I hammered it hammered it served me well and if it's got to go out here like this then that's how it's got to go and that is just an ornament and a memory and I'll still I'll still treasure it forever its last task was to give me warmth to make this breakfast so let's get that on so long old buddy I had a little forage yesterday found some amethyst deceivers and some hedgehog mushrooms pretty purple which you would normally think alarm bells but they're actually safe and I'm gonna get a specimen of the hedgehog the font of bits a little bit this is the hedgehog mushroom and you can see by the you probably won't be able to see but the gills out so much gills they're like little spines like little that's why it gets the name hedgehog mushroom under there you can't really say but um so anyone who's new to this don't just go around picking up mushrooms I shouldn't have to say it because there are some absolute units out there that'll take you out of the game they'll log you off permanently and in a horrible way never mind the ones that just get you make you terribly ill there's ones that can actually log you off forever and you will not remember your password you'll be gone game set and match mate so just pick the shrooms that you know 100 to be the shrooms that you're targeting and that are edible been grafting I've been landscaping quite a bit um just finished a nice quarry tile path in a like a Victorian style front garden with the the rope edging and the and that sort of a thing just put some dark paving to match the quarry tiles I'll let you have a look right this is all dried now this is late just needs cleaning up and pointing I've put this concrete reinforced concrete padding um it's about 150 mil and just shut it off with timber and timber here and then I'm going to tile that I've left this low enough so that the difference in the tile will come up to meet flush with the paving and then I'm going to put some edging in around here clean it all up and that'll be a job done so stay tuned there we go at the end of the day um I've got to put more edge I've got to put more edging down here because the wall shot me out so my pad ain't big enough so I have to fill that in so that I can get this level down this um sorry me edging all the way down and then cut this off in here seal it grout it clean it down seal it again jobs are good and traditional quarry style path with the dark paving cut around here and some rope so a traditional rope edging some planting in here so crown lifted so it's not taking out any of the the view to the house there we are job done there you go that's the day job that's the day job but things are slowing down a bit now because it is you know it's getting into winter it's coming into winter so things are slowing down a little bit so hopefully I'll have a little bit more time to get out and make some videos do a bit of camping and stuff just have a little scout of at mushrooms make sure there's no soil going in or or whatever not too bothered about bugs I'll eat them but no one needs any grit no you don't need grit any breakfast oh it's got so dark man real dark and it's raining atmospheric bit with my hands a couple of eggs and then we've got a salt and pepper I can't forget my skull and the bones skull one bone not taking them all I'm not a maniac just like skulls and bones things of that nature nature right nature come on there we go come here no trace that I've been here it then isn't it come on let's be gone wonderful good spot that's first time I've camped here I appreciate it good little sight that right let's go how do I get out down here the forest floor is littered littered with mushrooms man seem better days like same better days but there's just so many stacked it mate stacked it I'm asleep a bit oh I'm staying here forever that's me stick a fork in me I'm done see uh lol there you go the cat like reflexes let me down stacked it right come on call these shrooms I don't actually have time to dunk the junk things have taken a bit longer than things have taken a bit longer than expected so just a nice little splash of the old face aroo it's a stunning day I've got stuff to do boring stuff boring stuff to do I was a lovely camp that it's a shame about the knife but I'm gonna I'm gonna just put it in a display and put it on the wall gone but not forgotten that's me gotta go and pick up some furniture from my dad's house I mean I'm in big wagon I got furniture in there right I'll be back I'll be back soon as I say I'm I'm putting more more stuff on Patreon as I go through the winter just to make it worth everyone's while thanks to everyone who already supports over there I'll leave a link below and give the video a thumbs up if you want it helps you know just that just going like that going down there and going like that helps I'd appreciate it look after yourselves keep fighting the good fight and I'll see you soon if you see me stumble if you see me tumble just the way