Welcome traders to another Tick Mill Earnings season preview with me, Patrick Munley. Before we jump into today's presentation, as always, want to adhere to the risk disclaimer. A most pertinent to today's content is the fact that the views and opinions expressed by me are solely mine, they are not addictive or representative of those held by Tick Mill UK or Tick Mill Europe. Limited. Let's jump into today's report. We are looking at Apple. Apple is set to announce earnings after the close of trade in New York today. We're looking for a consensus earnings per share of $1.26 on revenues of $90 billion. During the same period a year ago, Apple earned $1.24 a share on sales of $83.4 billion. Last quarter, Apple didn't provide official guidance for its Q4 2022 earnings. Apple has had a strong showing against Android competitors in the past three years. Smartphone shipments have stalled lately, though, first amid COVID and lockdowns, and now from higher inflation, recession and layoffs as consumers choose between food or fuel. Nevertheless, over the past 11 quarters, Apple has increased its share in the global smartphone market. Unit shipments tend to have a cyclical peak in Q4 following iPhone introductions in the September-October period of each year. More importantly, Apple's share of the smartphone market has increased at greater rates. On a yearly basis between 2019 and 2021, Apple has significantly increased its unit share of smartphones versus the Android handsets. Apple achieved record June quarter services set to revenue of $19.6 billion, up 12% and including all-time revenue records for music, cloud services, Apple Care and payment services. Apple now has more than 860 million paid subscribers across the services on its platform, which is up more than $160 million during the prior 12 months alone. The main question going forward for Apple is the performance of the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Plus Generation 1 and Snapdragon 8 Plus Generation 2, which will be formally announced at its annual Snapdragon Summit event in mid-November of this year. Chinese smartphone sales have been stymied in the past year due primarily to COVID lockdowns, but also because of the underperformance of Apple's made at Samsung's factory foundry in China. The move by Qualcomm to move to the Samsung foundry, which is the same foundry making the Apple A16 Bionic Processor. This could be a strong headwind for Apple in that region. Let's take a look at some of the statistical training patterns around Apple earnings releases. Apple shares a moved lower in the immediate aftermath of earnings, 7 out of 12 previous reports. On average, stock moved up 0.6% in the first day of trading after the company's reports in its earnings. Based on the previous 12 earnings releases, Apple is more likely to trade higher one day after earnings for an average gain of 0.3%. On average, the stock has moved higher by 2.4% one week after earnings. From a volatility perspective, options traders are pricing in a 4.6% move on earnings, and noteworthy that the stock has averaged about a 3.5% move in recent quarters. Moving to a flow and sentiment perspective, there has been notable buying of 58,645 contracts of the bullish 155 call expiring on Friday. In general though, options order flow has been bearish. Apple's share price has drifted down, a negative 8% post its prior earnings announcement. Using the last 12 quarters of days, the average drift between earnings is about 10.2%. Let's pull up the Apple chart here and see if we can identify any near-term trading opportunities. From a technical perspective, we've obviously been in that down-draft prior to the last earnings release. Put in a decent bottom up just below 135, got some nice divergence here on the 4-hour timeframe. That set up a technical bounce, and we've achieved or came just shy of the target there at 152.73%. For me at the moment, whilst 145 holds a support, I would be looking for longs through the 153 handle, initially targeting a move up into the 156.79 area. If we can get through there on a closing basis, then attention moves to the 160 handle, and we do have a gap above there at 163. Any loss of the 145 handle is bearish development, immediately looking then for a test down to 140. If we take out the 140 on a closing basis, we look for a retest of prior cycle lows at 134. I would highlight on the weekly timeframe, we do have a technical objective on the downside versus the 176 swing high at 123, and that also coincides there with the weekly high volume load. There are some levels to keep in mind if the earnings report does significantly miss expectations here, and if we do see more weakness in terms of general market sentiment as well, those are some downside targets to have in mind, but for now constructive above 145, looking for 155 and then on to 160. As always traders, plan the trade, the plan, and most importantly, manage all this. Until next time, thanks very much.


I'll be talking about some of the changing paradigms for management publication and sharing, which ultimately is really leading to what I would refer to as open science. In the next few minutes, I'll be covering several things. One, I'll start off with some brief definitions. Talk about some of the benefits of data sharing, which will probably be intuitive to most all of you. Then I want to focus some examples on data sharing in ecology in the United States and provide a brief history in terms of what's happened there over the last few decades. Then I'll talk about some of the challenges and solutions to open science and then conclude with some best practices for promoting open science and then also what we have in store for the future. Without further ado, data sharing is pretty obvious in terms of what the definition is for that. This comes from Wikipedia, but I think we've all agreed that this is a fair definition. It's just basically making data available for use by other investigators. So that's a simple definition. If we look at a more comprehensive and useful definition today, this one that's put forth by the Open Knowledge and the Open Definition Advisory Council in October of 2014 I think is a really good starting point. They define an open work that supports open science following the three key principles. The first one is there's an open license, such as a Creative Commons license that's associated with the data product. This includes the freedom to use, build on, modify, and share the data product. Secondly, refers to accessibility and this is the data product should be ideally available via download from the internet without any financial charge for that. And then lastly, and I think an important one for us to think about, is the open format side of it. And this refers to the fact that data should, again, ideally be machine readable, available in bulk, and then provided in an open format. Or at the very least can be processed with some kind of open source software tool. And again, this promotes the open science and open work type environment. So with respect to data sharing, I think, again, we're all probably familiar with a lot of the benefits of data sharing. The most commonly cited one is that it's for the public good. So data are valuable products of the scientific enterprise and they should be treated as such. Secondly, is public trust. And we've seen a lot of examples, the literature, the last few years that have focused on things like Climate Gate and other real challenges to the scientific environment about misuse or misinterpretation or, in some cases, fraudulent data that have been produced. So this, again, creates a need for enhancing the public's trust in science. A third key component is one of the benefits that we've seen documented in several publications, including some by Heather Biobar, are the increased credit that scientists get from sharing their data products. In this case, if you make your data available as a product, then it's more likely that your publication is also going to be cited more than those publications that don't include or make available the data. And then lastly, there's one that's been appearing on the international radar screen lately, which is association with human rights. And this is that sharing data or availability of scientific data is considered a human right by the UN and other international bodies. But from my perspective is an environmental scientist's background is that by sharing data, we can more easily and readily tackle some of the grand environmental challenges that we face today. And that's simplified by all of these different magazine covers from Time Magazine, the Economist, Science, and Science, and others, again, that focus on many of the challenges like climate change, energy usage, and so on that we're faced with now and will be for the next probably many decades. So if we step back and think through how data sharing has evolved in ecology, I'm going to use the United States as an example here. One, I'm more familiar with it. And secondly, there have been some advances there that have been adopted internationally that touch upon briefly. First of all, if we go back to the international biological program, this was like the first decade long, large scale international program focused on ecosystem science. And this was done in a number of biomes around the world, forested, grassland areas internationally. You can see the example from the stamp on the lower right, the government of Canada created a stamp recognizing the importance of the international biological program. And again, it's been implemented in many countries around the world at different pace, but all during that one decade. Dave Coleman wrote a book on called Big Ecology that focuses on the international biological program and many of the subsequent programs that evolved from that. The thing about IVP that was interesting was it was really geared from the inception as being a program that would facilitate modeling and synthesis of data across all of these different biomes internationally. And to have that as one of its goals, it was interesting that John Porter and Tom Callahan in a 1994 analysis looked at that program and reported that data policies and protocols were never elaborated nor even agreed to in principle under the IVP program. There were some major successes coming out of IVP and that was largely due to a number of smaller working groups or synthesis efforts that individuals contributed their data, but it was done in more of an ad hoc type fashion. And I think arguably most of the data that were collected under the IVP program are no longer readily accessible for use by scientists. So that was a first sort of stepping stone into this whole concept of open science and how do we support that type of an effort. And it was not necessarily a big success. If we fast forward a couple of decades in the U.S. from the mid-60s and 70s up to the 80s, then we had the inception of the Long-term Ecological Research Program in the United States. This started in 1980 with I think six initial sites that were funded. There are now roughly two dozen sites in the Long-term Ecological Research Program in the U.S. The first decade there were no real specific guidelines with respect to how data were managed within and across sites and that created some real challenges that were recognized by both the National Science Foundation that funded the program as well as many of the researchers that were involved in the projects themselves. This led to in 1990 LTR guidelines for site data management policies and this came out again in 1990. The challenge with it was it laid down some guidelines but every site was sort of given lots and lots of leeway in terms of how they implemented those recommendations. So there was again a bit of a lack of consistency with respect to how data were managed and shared across the network. By 2005 this was recognized as being a challenge and all of the site principal investigators got together and came up with a much stronger policy that required that data standards data requirements be standardized across the entire network and that was approved by the LTR Coordinating Committee in 2005 and then under the caption the figure caption there you can see that since then we now have about 20,000 data packages that are readily available freely downloadable through the LTR data web portal that have been created by the LTR program. So that has been a huge success and it's led to lots and lots of synthesis efforts subsequently. There have been some external factors as well that have influenced data sharing and data management policies in the U.S. The first one steps back to the National Science Foundation which in 2001 released its policies for data sharing and they they had the expectation that investigators would share data and other results of the scientific process within a reasonable time and at incremental cost. Under the Bush administration in 2007 we had the America Competes Act which required procedures be put in place to facilitate data exchange across all the different federal agencies in the U.S. and that was recently strengthened this year in fact about a month ago with the NSF Public Access Plan which describes the implementation schedule for sharing both publications and data in public repositories. These are all expected to go into full effect in implementation by 2016-2017. In addition under the Obama administration in the U.S. we've had the last few years a big focus on what's called the Open Government Initiative and this also was recently updated just a week ago with some of the formal guidelines there that require different levels of access and openness to both data and publications. There are two major studies that have looked at data sharing across the scientific community. This is one from Wiley Publishers that was just released fairly recently and then about four years ago we had another study that was completed by one of my colleagues in the data one project Carol Teneper and several of her colleagues and that one focused on the environmental sciences community in particular and I'm going to share some results from both of those studies so first of all with respect to the Wiley study I think one of the really interesting results there was if we look internationally at data sharing we've passed sort of the tipping point where most scientists now agree with the statement that they are quite happy and interested in sharing their data. Ten years ago this would not have been the case and I think we're five years from now we'll probably see even a much higher percentage that agree with that sentiment. There are of course some differences across countries and some differences across disciplines as well. Some of the reasons that researchers are hesitant to share their data are highlighted on the right side of the chart here but I'm going to go into a little bit more detail in this slide here and group some of those challenges together and recognize that there are really four major impediments to data sharing. One is researchers want to make sure that they receive proper credit and attribution for creating the data products that they do. Secondly and I think a challenge that is by and large still with us is the fact that many of the tools that investigators have access to for managing data such as metadata management tools have not been particularly user friendly or necessarily readily available and I will highlight one particular exception to that later in my talk. Education has been another key area where I think most researchers would argue that they need better education about several things. One is best practices for managing data. Secondly and I think this is universal probably all of us on this webinar would agree that it's very difficult to fully understand legislative responsibilities and other issues associated with intellectual property rights confidentiality and ethical aspects. The legal jargon can be quite convoluted and in fact there are real challenges when we cross international boundaries what may be legal or appropriate in one country may not necessarily be legal or appropriate in a Jason country so we definitely need much better education respect to that. The third sub example here under education is perception and clearly in the past a lot of scientists have felt like well if I share my data I'm likely to be scooped, be misinterpreted, some of them misuse my data. One that really got me was about 10 or 15 percent of the Wiley respondents so that they felt their data were not relevant and I think if I were in particular seeking additional research funds from a sponsor I would probably not admit that my data are irrelevant but anyway I think education has gone a long way to help flip the tipping point about the perceptions for Lastly incentives and disincentives and encouraged data sharing that's clearly recognition that for things like the tenure promotion process and so on we need to make sure those incentives are in fact there to support researchers for sharing their data. I wanted to highlight a couple of figures here just to emphasize some of my prior comments and amplify those to a bit. So we look at the upper left panel on the quad chart here we see something refers to the long tail of orphan data and one of my colleagues Brian Heidhorn proposed this several years ago and I think it really makes sense in that most investigators when they really try and deposit their data or manage their data they recognize that there are some big well-known repositories out there probably some of the more commonly known ones are GenBank and Protein Data Bank for sequence data and protein structure data in particular and communities have rallied around those and now it's a status quo to deposit your data in those particular repositories. Many researchers though have not had access to similar type repositories although that is changing and those that have not in many cases archived or attempted to preserve their data on their own laptops or desktop machines or possibly in a university or some other location. In many cases those sources are not secure for the long term and we know what data being orphaned and ultimately being lost over time and this is also amplified by the figure in the upper right which is a figure from a paper by Tim Vines again one of my colleagues published this in 2013 and it's a really great story about how data undergo entropy over time how they're lost over time. He and his colleagues surveyed a large number of data publishers of journal articles to determine whether or not the data were still available and they found that over time in a fairly rapidly drop-off the data were lost again over a 20-year period a large percentage of the data were totally unavailable after a 20-year time frame and there is a fairly steep gradient in terms of the loss of information over time. I think another point that really amplifies the need for education is illustrated in the lower right bar graph which is from a colleague of mine Carol Teneper who was published in PLOS 1 about four years ago and she was able to document the fact that most researchers did not use a metadata standard for creating their metadata. The second highest response rate was that researchers said that they used a metadata standard that they created in their own laboratory which arguably is not necessarily a community-wide standard and then only a much smaller fraction used some of the main community-wide standards like international standards organization in 191.15 for geospatial data EMLs for ecological metadata language and several others there. And then lastly the picture of the smokestacks in London industrial period highlights the fact that most scientists if they are interested in discovering data really have very little idea about where to go. There are many many repositories out there a lot of them are small as indicated by the tiny smokestacks there. A few of them are quite large like maybe the gym bank smokestack and a couple of others but it really is difficult to find data that have been archived or preserved in many of these smaller repositories. So in the next few minutes I'm going to talk about some of the solutions to these challenges and first of all I'll highlight the fact that with respect to credit and attribution many scientific journals especially the big name ones like PLOS nature science ecological monographs and others now require authors to share their data that are that underlie articles in those specific journals. And also importantly there are quite a number of new journals that are emerging that are called data journals and some examples there include the geoscience data journal giga science for extraordinary large data sets nature publishing groups scientific data and then one that I've been involved with for the last decade thereabouts is the ecological archives for publishing ecology data papers. In addition to data journals there are some important data repository solutions out there one of which many of you have probably heard of is the dryad digital repository. This is geared towards publishing data that underlie scientific publications they're roughly 75 or so major journals now that are members of the dryad consortium plus there are roughly another 100 journals I think that have had their data published in dryad by the authors. This provides a mechanism for again linking providing access to the data for the long term and then linking that to the publication and I'll show you how that works in the next couple slides. So in dryad an author when they're submitting a manuscript to a journal they are requested by that journal to also submit the data to dryad and then dryad makes a passport available to the reviewers of the manuscript so the reviewers can look not only the manuscript to see whether or not you know the findings are well described but also they can look at the underlying data as well via dryad. If the paper is in fact accepted for publication then the data are made available at the same time and importantly there's a recommended citation for both the data and the paper as well. So what that looks like is this if you in the upper left square gray box you can see there's a journal paper that's in Systematic Biology and the data and metadata files are in a package that is below that which you can easily access and then importantly dryad the repository links back to the journals as well so that someone looks at the data they can also go back and read the journal article and see where the data came from and get more information that way and importantly dryad provides again that recommendation for citation for both the paper and the dryad data package so that authors are essentially getting credit for both the papers that are produced as well as the underlying data products and this is what it looks like in the literature so here's a paper by Joseph Mascaro and colleagues and they're citing a data product in the dryad digital repository by Xan at all that's accessible through that digital object identifier and the dryad citation so in the next little bit I'm going to cover some of the tools that I think are instrumental in helping promote open science more broadly and I want to cover a few elements of the data lifecycle that's illustrated here going from data management planning through collection assurance preservation analysis and so on so with respect to planning there's one tool in particular that's proven extremely valuable in both the US and the United Kingdom and that is the DMP tool in the UK it's a web accessible version in the US it's a downloadable package that you can access and this is what it looks like here at the front end web page for the DMP tool and what it does is I've signed in as myself through the University of Mexico here you don't need to belong to any particular university in order to do this it's easily downloadable and what this does is it steps you through the process of creating a data management plan that's now required in the US and UK and by many funding agencies including private foundations such as the Wellcome Trust and Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation and others in this case I showed the National Science Foundation its requirements for the Biological Sciences Directorate and you can see in the lower right there's an open blank space where an individual would create their response to a set of questions about data collection formats and standards and the University of Mexico above that provides some guidance with respect to the answer that is provided for this particular template so the DMP tool steps you through all the basic requirements for a good data management plan that would satisfy a large number of different funding agencies then this can be published and you can in fact share this data management plan with your colleagues and others as well so some other tools that are very important morpho for supporting metadata creation and management this is a package that can be downloaded and is used by anyone is great for in particular dealing with ecological environmental many other types of observational data what it looks like is this this is just one example of the resource screen and you can type in the name of the submitter for this the creator of the data set other information such as an abstract keywords using the Saurus such as maybe the NASA's global change master directory the temporal coverage for the data set spatial coverage and so on and then you can upload the data file as well in addition morpho provides access to a number of other screens where you can go into much more detail about the data that is provided and as part of the metadata and it can be updated easily updated or revised over time so it's a very useful package in that respect under the preservation umbrella I wanted to highlight a couple things or one in particular here to start off with the re3data.org again many researchers are not sure what public repositories exist worldwide this is a great resource for that it's a constantly growing this is a couple weeks older maybe a month or so older in terms of when I uploaded this slide at that time there were about a thousand reviewed repositories I'm sure it's much higher now but you can do a quick search here for under maybe a variety of keywords you might enter and it'll point out those repositories that meet those particular needs and you can or you can just browse through the entire catalog if you so desire this is a great way to discover what data repositories exist for different scientific domains and fields with respect to discovery on this is where I want to point out a couple things there are you know clearly a number of approaches one can follow in discovering data using things like Google or Bing or other search engines but quite often they don't lead to the types of data that you're looking for so I want to introduce data one this is a project that I'm associated with in the US it's an international program to federate across data repositories and we have three components to the data one infrastructure one is what we call coordinating nodes and these provide a lot of the the broad services for replication other network wide services the indexing and search tools are available through the coordinating nodes and essentially metadata from all the associated data repositories that are part of the federation are searched as part of data one services the what we call member nodes are all of those different data repositories worldwide now that we have a couple from Australia that will soon be made available through data one infrastructure as well including the icos web portal and these are again all the different repositories worldwide that have actually host the data but they have shared their metadata with the data one cataloging and indexing service there's a third component what we refer to as investigator toolkit and these are a variety of different tools where we in most cases provided a direct linkage to the data one data resources so a tool like one are connects data one with the our statistical analysis program allowing researchers to easily access data one data data that are held in any of the data one affiliated repositories do their analyses and possibly generate some new data that then might be uploaded to again one of the affiliate repositories so this is what the website looks like feel free to check it out it's data one dot org basically you might click the search button at the very top and then that would lead to a more advanced tool search here which in this case I've just typed in the word tree I could have specified a narrow range of dates or specific countries or typed in a bounding box typed a state within the US for example and it would have narrowed down the search based on those criteria so looking at this broad response and I got back this next screen which listed a number of data sets at the very bottom counted at all on growth mortality of tropical tree species in India and lots of others and I could using the fasted search tool above do some additional constraining on the responses by focusing on data from a particular repository or by a particular author or even add in some additional keywords so it's a very effective way to identify and get access to scientific data and in this case we're looking at the metadata for the content at all paper I mentioned previously on tropical tree species in India and if we read through the if we scroll down and looked at the entire metadata record here we may actually decide we want to download the data and we can do so by clicking the download button or download both the data and the metadata that are associated with the data files so this is what it looks like these are the various data files and metadata records associated with that particular data set again we can download the entire package and have ready access to that on our laptop or desktop machine so with respect to data one we're now have about 30 large national international repositories that are part of this and we're now hitting roughly half a million data products that are associated with the data one repository another area that is really helping facilitate open science is in the area of analysis and visualization and I wanted to provide a couple of examples here there are a number of tools like kepler de verna and vist trails that make it possible to create workflows or scientific workflows that string together a lots of complex analyses that we can then share that workflow with others people can possibly repeat the same set of analyses we've done or modify those workflows change them to their particular needs and then possibly upload the workflows again to another site where they can be downloaded reused so this is one of the workflows I just wanted to mention in case you're interested in some advanced visualization tools this one is called vist trails it's an open package that you can easily download and use it to create some quite sophisticated visualizations that's depicted on the right side of the panel here and in addition vist trails does some really nice add-on services that collects provenance data for how the data products are in this case the graphics were generated so it's easy to look back and see the sources of the data that went into that and so on and then there's a nice tool that's been created through carol gobel and david war in the united kingdom this is called my experiment and it's a great way to upload your workflows from a whole variety of packages including taverna kepler vist trails and others and in this case we see a paper or a workflow that was created by paul fisher there's an abstract about the workflow but it does there are ratings by the community that have rated 4.6 out of 5 and you can see how many times the that workflow has been viewed and then it's also been downloaded 1600 times and you can if you care you can critically click the green arrow on the right side and actually download that workflow attempt to repeat you know rerun the same workflow or again modify it and upload it back to my experiment for others to use training has been really key as we've been again moving into this open science framework we've done a lot of training through data one and there are lots of other groups that have been involved in supporting training as well one of the things we've done in data one is also make an addition to hands-on training which we do at various professional society meetings in the u.s. and elsewhere but we also have created what we call best practices database so you can either click on one of the elements of the data lifecycle that shows up in orange the bottom of the screen so if you were interested in you know what are some qaqc mechanisms you can click on assure and it will bring up some best practices with respect to that there's also a you can search entering in your own keywords for various best practices and then importantly in the center there there's a thing called the best practices primer which we created this in response to the community requested that there be a more or less a data management a very simple data management guide that could be easily read and digested and they could immediately start to manage their data better so we've created this primer on data management it was nine pages long very short you can download this share it write it to your students in your classrooms and so on and it goes through all the best practices with respect to the data lifecycle there are pointers links in the document to additional tutorials and other information about managing data you can access as well so i want to conclude with a couple things first are just some basic rules for basic best practices for data sharing and contributing to open science the first one is to i think it's very important to create a data management plan and if you have access to a tool that allows you to publish that data management plan do so this really helps formulate a good solid practices for managing the data before a project gets underway and what you're doing is basically stating how you're going to manage data during the project and then after the project is completed secondly is to use some of the tools like morpho to document your data to the maximum extent possible and this means creating the additional descriptions about the data so that someone that's not familiar with the data can understand interpret it use the data correctly so this requires again lots of details about the methods that were employed where the data are located formats lots of other information and morpho is a great tool for helping you step through those requirements for developing a good solid description of your data and then lastly is to preserve the data in a ideally a community repository and then if you follow all those steps then you've created a data product that should be ready and sufficient for data sharing discovery and reuse by others the third recommendation is to publish your data metadata in either a data journal or something like dryad which is an open digital repository so that you and others can easily go back to the data that are associated with publications and then possibly reuse and continue to build science based on that earlier data set fourth in addition to data it's quite important that you and others be able to understand the methods that went into creating that data set and possibly analyzing and interpreting it so this is where the aegis of the fourth recommendation here which is to publish your analytical workflows and software workflows can easily be published in my experiment and then many scientists now use additional repositories like github to archive their software code for the long term and share that with the community as well and then lastly I would argue it's important to publish results in open journals with lots of them out there now plosperon ecosphere that provide free access to the publications that the scientists created so where are we heading in the future I want to highlight just a couple future directions in the open science movement the first one and I think this really encapsulates a lot of information here so I'll step through it from the top down the very top we see a generation of ideas that's sort of the first step in the scientific process and a lot of scientists nowadays are getting ideas from places like science blogs twitter feeds and others and then on the right side it shows you know what is your generating ideas we want to share those you can in fact do so via something like an open laboratory notebook of which there are many on the market many free and open source solutions as well and you might in fact do this as you're developing a research project create an open lab notebook and share that information with the folks that are working in your laboratory or close collaborators or others the second step planning or research and writing proposals again you can get lots of great ideas from literature that you might discover through mendeley or research gate other locations and then as you're developing your proposal you may in fact do that through somebody can open up to your colleagues like google docs which is how I've written I think the last five or six proposals that I've written in terms of undertaking research and then going through that whole data lifecycle there are a lot of tools that you can take advantage of and then lots of places where you can deposit the products as well and share those so on the right side for example we see the DMP tool github for depositing code associated with maybe organizing and managing data quality assuring the data KNB is a repository for archiving the metadata and the data products and then workflows again can be archived in my experiments which were derived from let's say our Kepler distrails or other workflows on the left side and then when we go to disseminate results there are lots and lots of places we can do that nowadays we can share our posters via things like fixed share our point presentations via slide share code versus github reprints via peer j for example is on others then publications the open source mechanisms like plus and then data metadata through a variety of different public repositories now in data one we're doing a couple things to help promote open science in the future one is working on a provenance tracking system now and the way this works is we're looking at historical CTD data from an oceanographic cruise these were data that were collected in 2014 we can actually look at and download the data via data one and on the left side it shows the sources that might have gone into creating that particular data set this is a product that will be released in another year or so so it's not finalized yet and this is part of the usability testing we're doing but this is more or less what it might look like so we see the sources for that particular data set on the left side and then that data set historical CTD data from the Gulf of Alaska may be used by two publications subsequently and those will be highlighted and clickable on the right side so this is again one example of being able to promote that reproducibility of science and being able to document where data sets were derived from and how they were subsequently used and then lastly I think another key activity that we're involved in is creating semantic annotation tool and this is for data originators as well as others that may have used a particular data set and want to come back and add in some some notes to that so in this case we see an example where several people are adding in different comments about the data set and this may help amplify some of the methods that were used by the the data creator or then there may be a couple red flags that were identified and questions that were identified by users that could then be responded to by one of the data originators for example so this is the equivalent of adding post-it notes to data products so they can continue to be used and gain value over time the last slide I had here was on the this whole topic of alt metrics again I think this is really helping lead that trend towards open science and that there are mechanisms now like impact story and this is a creation of Heather Pivar and some of her colleagues so it's an enterprise where it tracks the contributions of researchers in a whole variety of different areas that will highlight for example the number of papers you've had the number of downloads of those papers number or the number of citations of those papers the number of tweets that you've had on your twitter account and so on and then lots of other ways of documenting scientific productivity being this alt metric approach so again this is something that I think we'll see more and more of a focus on alt metrics over the future and I'll conclude with just this again this is our website data one dot org these represent a lot of the communities that we've tried to work with over the last several years of creating data one the top left there's a senior scientist associated with global change research program the bottom left is a librarian associated with the University of California that is interested in providing education resources for faculty members and associate with the library and then on the right side is a young investigator associated with the lake by collar research program who's interested in their reproducibility as well as providing tools to her colleagues on the project and your attention thank you


Today I have the pleasure of speaking with Dawn from Avalon Advanced Materials. How are you today, Dawn? Just fine, Tracy. Good to see you again. It's nice to see your volume is picking up, your share price is starting to move. It appears that the shareholders out there are appreciating the outstanding news that you've been putting out lately. What do you think? Well, I think the news release we put out years ago on the LOI with Rock Tech Lithium on our plans for collaboration on a battery materials facility has got quite a bit of attention, actually. Of course, there's still lots happening in Rare Earth World too, and everyone knows us as a Rare Earth story as well. But certainly that news release was the catalyst because this is now the fifth media interview I've done to talk about that news release. Well, Dawn, obviously this collaboration with Rock Tech Lithium is garnering a lot of interest, but we like the good stuff. Can you tell us how you both met and what brought this deal together? Well, Rock Tech and Avalon have both been long-time aspiring producers of Lithium from resources in Northwestern Ontario. So we've certainly been aware of what we've been trying to do there. And I met with the chairman, Dirk Harpicki, at PDAC earlier this year, and we began to have a conversation on how we might be able to work together. And I discovered that we had sort of a shared vision for how this centrally located processing facility would make a lot of sense to collaborate together on getting that established and be able to adapt to different market circumstances in terms of the types of Lithium products and be able to serve different markets. They have good connections in Europe. Their management is based in Germany, and they're developing markets there. So it makes a lot of sense to work with a company that has their own ideas on markets to collaborate with us with the North America market and be flexible in terms of product output and be ready to grow the business over time. With that facility. So with that in mind, for those of you out there at investor intel, you may have missed the news. Avalon and Rocktech Lithium just recently signed a letter of intent to collaborate on the development of a Lithium process facility. So I think in part, Don, this news has inspired interest because the Lithium market is heating up. So if you wouldn't mind answering this question with a two-fold answer, start by telling us more about what this collaboration deal actually means. And then we'd love to know what you think about the Lithium market. Well, as everyone knows, the demand and interest in Lithium battery materials is escalating, including here in Canada, with the announcements on plans to establish EV and battery manufacturing capacity here in Ontario and the recognition that we can create those supply chains. So how do we do that? And the vision that we've had, and we've got a lot of experience in Lithium, as you know, is that should try to put a processing facility in a central location close to transportation infrastructure to give you good access to the infrastructure you need to get it started and access to markets for the product, which could be a global in their scope. And in northwestern Ontario, the major transportation hub is Thunder Bay, and that makes a lot of sense as a central location to an area with a large number of known Lithium occurrences who become kind of a hub for Lithium battery materials production in northern western Ontario. And of course, further to the Lithium process facility, you do have a history and a wide array of critical materials, but I want to get your expert opinion because we just did a headline story about how Lithium is basically the comeback kid for the battery materials sector. Can you tell us if you agree with that or if you have anything else you would like to add about that? Well, it's the interest is building all the time and it's just accelerating recently with government policy now in Canada and elsewhere starting to push for more rapid adoption of electric vehicle technologies. So that's obviously creating new demand and government is now providing incentives to industry to get these facilities started and the supply chain started. So opportunities obviously knocking for companies like us to take advantage. And of course, speaking of opportunity knocking, we've seen a lot of PR and a lot of volume happening with vital metals.  Can you give us an update on Nechilacia, please? Yeah, they are trying to move ahead there. Obviously, the pandemic has slowed things down for them too, but they're pretty well ready to go. And now it's a matter of being able to get on the ground when the other conditions are right, working in the far north there. And the idea there all along is for them to take advantage of that relatively small, easy to process resource called the T zone to get something started there. Once you get the production started, get that supply chain started, then perhaps be in a position to scale it up and ultimately bring our resource, the Basel Zone that we did all that work on 10 years ago, back into the picture again on a collaborative basis. And of course, we'd like to congratulate you on this collaboration. It's our understanding that Jeff Atkins was head of operations of bringing Linus into production. So you have one of the few senior members out there with real experience getting a project to production in the rarest sectors. Is that correct? Yes, he has that experience and knows the sector and has aspirations for building on that experience, both here and in other locations. And of course, you have additional projects. We'd like to talk to you about your tantalum project and how that's bearing. Yeah, we've had that tantalum project for 20 years now. And when we first explored it 20 years ago, there was a big bump in interest in tantalum that allowed us to access capital from a tantalum capacitor manufacturer at the time to explore it and try to get it developed. And we did that program. Fortunately, tantalum prices fell after that and we couldn't carry on. But the interesting outcome of it was in exploring these lithium, cesium tantalum, pigmentite dikes, we found a bit of tantalum, but we actually found way more cesium than we found tantalum. And we remembered that and it was a matter of being ready to move when there was new interest in cesium. And we're seeing that now with this global shortage of cesium.  So thank you so much for that. And I know you're incredibly busy, Don. Can you share with us anything that we should anticipate as shareholders in the next quarter or two? Well, we did a small work program there this fall, basically went in and collected a small bulk sample of the cesium bearing ore there, so we could basically design a process to concentrate the cesium mineral polyacyte. The way it occurs there is kind of unusual. It's sort of disseminated through the entire pigmentite and that's unprecedented from my experience. So we need to figure out how to efficiently concentrate it. And that's what we're going to do over the winter. And once we get that figured out, we'll go back into the field and start to figure out just how sizable a resource we have. And of course, Don, it's a pleasure to get an update on Avalon Advanced Materials. Thank you so much for joining us today. Stay tuned for more Lithium News.


Hey, this is Brett, and this 2015 Chevy Silverado 2500 Double Cab Long Box is stock number 12522Z. We are here at Summit Automotive in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, near New and used heavy-duty truck headquarters. This 2015 Chevy Silverado 2500 has the 6-liter V8 gas engine. This truck has been fully-safetyed and inspected by our service shop per the state of Wisconsin inspection process. It has a fresh oil and filter change, all the fluids have been checked and topped off, and this truck is 100% ready to go. We're going to go all the way around, inside, underneath, start it up, check out under the hood in this video. Brownstone metallic is the color, and we shoot all of our videos in 1080p, 60 frames per second. If you have HD capabilities on your computer, tablet, smartphone, or television, I highly recommend turning them on right now because it is your best way to check out the quality, condition, and options of the truck before seeing it in person. If you like the video and how we do things here at Summit Automotive in the upper right-hand part of the screen is a subscribe button to our YouTube channel. Click that, and then click the bell notifications, you'll get updates every time we do videos here at Summit Auto of our new and used inventory. This one comes with the 18-inch chromed alloy rims, and it has Goodyear Wrangler SRA LT265-70 R18 tires. These tires are brand new, we put those on in our safety inspection, you can still see the little wear knobs there, and the frame and underbody is in really nice shape. Does have the Z71 off-road suspension package, so you get those rancho shocks. Front fender is in excellent shape, it does come with the projector lamp headlamps, and the factory fog lights. The bumper is in great shape, I didn't see any dents or dings on that, headlight lenses are nice and clear, and the grille is in nice shape. No dents or dings on the hood, does come with the cab lights up top, and the passenger side front fender is in excellent shape as well. Passenger side rim, no scuffs or scrapes, and as you go down this side of the truck, take note of how clean the body is, how reflective and mirror-like that paint is. We take these HD videos, so if you are far away, or even if you're close by and just cannot make the trip down, but you're still interested in purchasing the vehicle, you can see the truck, hear the truck, and have confidence in the vehicle that you're looking at before you even get here. So when you do get here, there's absolutely no surprises, and you can make a smart and informed buying decision from wherever you're at. And if this video helps you make that decision, let your salesman know that you saw the video, that it was helpful, and that Brett sent you. Very clean down that side, this back room is in nice shape, and the back tires are just about as new as the front tires. I don't think they're brand new, but these are probably 70% back here, frame and under body, other than a little bit of dust on there, very little to no corrosion. Just like that, all the way underneath, see the body, how clean that is. Cab corners, lower rockers all look really good, didn't see any corrosion on them, and it does come with the factory chrome step bars. Very nice down that side, coming around to the back, the rear bumper is in great shape, no dents or dings on that, does have the backup parking sensors, full towing package, which includes the receiver hitch, four pin and seven pin wiring. The tailgate is in excellent condition as well, has a locking tailgate backup camera, comes with a, I believe it's a raider, soft, roll up tonneau cover, I didn't see any rips or tears on that, looks like it's in pretty nice shape. This does have the shock down assist tailgate, so it's never going to slam down on you. Spray in bed liner, LED bed lighting right up there, beds in really nice clean condition. It's got that spray in bed liner onto the tailgate as well, and as we come around the driver's side just as clean as that passenger's side, no dents or dings on the box, and for full disclosure this back rim is in excellent shape as well. Coming down the rest of the side of the truck, driver's side doors look really good, no dents or dings, does have the built in directional signals, LED side lights, they tell the scope out like so, they also fold in, nice camper mirrors on there. Inside the LT1 package gives you the black cloth interior, there are no rips, there are no tears on the seats, they're in really nice condition, power driver's seat, factory all weather floor mats, auto headlamps turned out four wheel drive, tilt and telescopic steering wheel, and it does have the factory brake controller, power windows, power locks, power mirrors, and you get the Z71 trim on the door there. Little hop inside, check the miles, radio and everything that this truck has to offer on the interior. You can see that this one has 27,448 miles, you do get the digital speedometer and the Z71 instrument cluster and that is very nice and clean, comes with the leather wrap steering wheel, Bluetooth and information center controls on the right, cruise controls on the left, this one does come with the six speed automatic transmission with the optional tap shift, it does have the Chevy MyLink radio, AM FM and Sirius XM radio capabilities, this one does have all your other apps right there, this is also where your backup camera shows up, vehicle has to be on for that to work, CD player, dual climate controls, you do have power pedals, stability control, that's for your cargo lamps, it's also for your LED side lights and LED bed lighting, parking sensors, you can turn those off and on, and your down hill assist control, you do get a 12 volt power point and a hundred and ten volt, 150 watt plug in right there, carpeting and passenger side format are very clean as well as the passenger side seat, no rips or tears on there and the headliner is an excellent condition as well, you get map lights up here and this indicates that you have the snow plow prep package on star and SOS buttons in the rear view mirror, we'll take a quick look at the back seats and then we'll start it up and take a look under the hood, back seats are just as clean as the front seats, no rips or tears back here, it does have the latch child safety system, fixed glass rear window with the built in rear defrost and you get the all weather floor mats back here and carpeting is very nice, side curtain airbags and the bottoms of the doors all look really good, you get the LED side lights on there, we'll start it up, take a look under the hood, starts right up, no check engine lights or anything like that, and this is where your backup camera shows up, that's working nicely, I would personally like to thank you for checking out the video today and hopefully from this HD video, you'll been able to verify just how clean this truck is all the way around inside and out under the hood with the 6 liter V8 gas engine, engine bay is very clean, runs very smooth, once again this truck has been fully safe and inspected by our service shop has a fresh oil and filter change, all the fluids have been checked and topped off and this truck is 100%, we're ready to go, headlights are working nicely as are all the other lights and I would highly recommend this truck to make quality and condition standpoint and to see more pictures of this truck or one of other 450 new and used cars, trucks, SCVs, minivans, Wranglers, halftones, three-quarter tons, one tons, you name it we got to go to that website right there www.summitauto.com, full pictures and descriptions of every single vehicle from two locations all at www.summitauto.com and if you'd like to check out more HD videos you can go to www.youtube.com slash www.summitauto.com remember to like, subscribe and share on this video and all the videos that you see there click the bell notifications you'll get updates every time we do videos here at Summit Auto in fact in a second you will see a link to subscribe to our YouTube channel in the upper left links more Chevy Silverado 2500 truck videos like this one the upper right link to this vehicle on our website in the lower left and only to one of our latest YouTube videos in the lower right click those checks out we're super excited to help you with this ultra clean 2015 Chevy Silverado 2500 double cab a long box LT1 in brown stone metallic thanks again for checking out the video remember to like, subscribe and share


Hello everybody, welcome back to another vlog. I was gonna say, is this the beginning of a vlog? I'm pretty sure it is. Hi, welcome back. I have been just like getting myself out of a mental health funk today. I woke up and was just like I had interrupted sleep.  I tried to fall back asleep, I laid in bed for a really long time and I mean, I feel so fortunate that I was able to like carve out some time in my day to try and do that. However, I did not fall back asleep. So I was like, let me like push back some things. Let me cancel some meetings. Let me just like have a me day and try to reset as best as I can. So I'm trying to turn this day around and so far it's actually working I think. Turns out, unfortunately, that if you move your body it actually gives you endorphins and makes you feel good. So I did that this morning, check.  So I'm going to, I always feel better when I have like a bunch of content filmed. So I've just filmed like I think two or three reels, a bunch of little bits and pieces for other videos, other main channel videos. I'm starting this vlog and I'm also about to go film a fitting room video because I haven't done that in, God, I don't know the last time.  I don't know, it's been a long time. It's probably been at least six months. So I asked on Instagram, the people have spoken and I'm going to go to Old Navy. But in the meantime, I wanted to show you my very red outfit because why not? I actually filmed this for real. I'm not sure if it'll be up yet, but if not, it will be soon. But everything's thrifted except the t-shirt that's from Hollister and my shoes are from Adidas though the Gazelle platforms I think. And I love it. And then I just have my cute little silver earrings on and also these new red glasses that I got are from iBuyDirect. I've been buying a lot of glasses from there cause they're cheap and I can put my prescription in them and I can actually see. And I feel like 2024 is just definitely the year of the glasses and I'm loving it. So I actually included a link in the description box. It's gonna always be there in all of my vlogs for all of my glasses. Make sure to check down there cause I'm gonna do, like I'm gonna update things. I'm gonna update links that I get questions for all the time, like my most worn things, outfits from Instagram, my Amazon storefront, things like that. But yeah, anyways, all that's gonna be down in the description. I'm gonna head outside. It actually completely changed climate this morning. Or I guess it's the afternoon now but it was like cloudy, cold, chilly and now it is like beautiful and sunny. So I'm gonna go outside, get some fresh air, get some vitamin D, get some work done and we're gonna continue to turn the stair around. So let's do it. Just finished up in the fitting room. Honestly, that was like the chillest fitting room experience ever. It was so easy. Nobody messed with me. Nobody checked on me every two seconds. It was like, do you need anything? Do you need anything? Like they could not care less that I was there. And that's how I prefer it. Cause I'm really just there to like, you know, investigate and be as low profile as possible. So I got my couple little things. I got like two basics. I'm gonna pay for my parking and then we're gonna head home. I already feel so much better than I did this morning. I literally have nowhere to put you so I just need to set you down for a second. Four dollars? So we're here for like an hour. Oh, am I right? All right, it is the next day and I'm actually, it's like literally, oh my God, it's three PM. This day has gotten away from me. I have been on my computer, like literally have not taken a break since about eight AM or like seven, three, something like that. I've just been doing random computer work things, like, I don't know, updating links and updating description boxes and setting up storefronts and like setting up a link tree, like just so many different things. I've been doing it all day long, editing, having notes for my main channel editor, et cetera. I don't know why I'm telling you all this.  But it's now three PM. I simply cannot look at a computer screen any longer. There was one point where Drew came over to me around noon and he was like, have you eaten food yet today? And I was like, no. My fellow neurodivergent ADHD people, you understand once you hyper fixate on something, like, I mean, truly nothing could break my attention span. I was just like so focused. So I feel really good with the amount of work I got done, but I have a couple errands I want to run and I really wanna enjoy the beautiful weather. It was super cloudy and overcast all day today. Now all of out of nowhere, the sun is out. It's beautiful. So I think I'm gonna do my errands but like walk to them. So I have some returns to drop off at the post office. I have to go to the UPS store. I have to go to Whole Foods because that's where like the Amazon returns drop off is. There's like a little kiosk. And then while I'm sort of in the area, there's an Erwan nearby and I've been really, really curious about the like Haley Bieber. If you're not up to date with that kind of thing, you don't see it on TikTok or whatever. Haley Bieber has for the last like year or two has had a smoothie collaboration with Erwan which is like this strawberry glaze smoothie. It's fricking delicious. It's $20 but it's delicious. They have had it like probably four or five times. It's so, so good. It's definitely expensive but it's like worth the hype kind of. And anyway, she recently released a soft serve version of that so it's like an ice cream. And I'm like, yeah, I'm gonna try that. So I'm just gathering all my things that I'm gonna need. I have all of my returns ready to go in this bag. I also have my water because I will be walking.  So I'm listening to Scamanda. I talked about it before, but in case you missed that, it is so good.  Kind of crazy. I'm gonna bring my watch so I can track, you know, my steps and all that good stuff.  It's gonna be the Friday afternoon edition at 3 p.m. and it's about to start getting really busy in this neighborhood so I don't really know what I'm doing, but we're just gonna follow our heart, follow our dreams. So yeah, returns, walk. So we're gonna do like exercise, habit stacking. I think that's what it's called. When you like do one thing at the same time as another thing and then you get like multiple things done. I hate the way this walks looks with this outfit by the way, I just need to get that out of the way. But this is just my walking outfit. This is my spice girl shirt. My, what are these called? Wrapper on sunglasses, my girlfriend collective leggings and my, I don't know what these shoes are, ASICs I think. Okay, let's head out and do this. Talking about an eating and trying. So we're gonna try it. Soft serve, I think I have coconut milk, I believe. Strawberry glaze, chocolate chips, and peanut butter dressing, I'm pretty sure. And then I think like maybe a tomato with cream. Really like tart so it just has like a roll on the thing so it won't just crunch. This thing was $15, I will say. But it's, I mean, to me, worth every penny. This is delicious. I was like fully ready to be like, I don't know about this, like I'm ready to give full honest opinion, but I mean. The people that were sitting by me left. They were probably embarrassed for me. It's okay, they were very nice, didn't look at me, they bothered me. What more could you want? This is so good. They might take some of it home plunge or try it, but if you're in LA and you wanna check it out at Erewha, relatively healthy as well, but also it deserves some cares, but I mean, damn. Preheated oven, I just got out of the shower. It was lovely, I feel refreshed. I got a Poshmark package in, so I thought I would open it because I am addicted to Poshmark. I am on there all the time. I think I'm actually gonna do like a main channel video where I do like a thrift haul because I just love thrifting stuff from there. It's my favorite. So this, oh, this is exciting. This is so fun and nostalgic for me. Oh my God, the way that this is folded is perfect. And this is, hey, this is a, I said vintage, but this looks brand new, but either way, it's a Titans crew neck sweatshirt. It's gonna see Titans, my home state, and yeah, I just thought it would be fun to have like a gray sweatshirt because I have a lot of white ones. I wear crew necks like every single day. It's like what I feel the most comfortable in. And I actually made a decision to put, to shelve some of the ones that are a little bit tight on me at the moment. I don't like the way they fit. So took them out of my closet and just like put them away and decided to get a couple more in a bigger size. That's way, that way it's like more oversized and comfy too. I'm gonna add this all-belongerette. We will wash that up. That's so exciting and cute. It is like just before five o'clock, I'm preheating the oven to make some dinner because we're making spaghetti squash. I'm trying to see what things really trigger my SIBO at the moment because it's just gotten so bad. So I think, I think like gluten, carbs, grain, all that kind of stuff like pasta, bread, et cetera does kind of upset my tummy, sadly. So we're doing spaghetti squash tonight. Drew's having regular spaghetti and I gotta roast that. It takes a really long time. So we're preheating the oven now. We're gonna have just like the coziest weekend. It's supposed to rain tomorrow I think and maybe even tonight, it's been the weirdest weather today. It was like perfectly bright and sunny and then when I was on my walk, it was like slightly overcast, but either way, I'm so excited for this weekend. I just wanna do nothing. I'm definitely still in like a phase of life at the moment where I'm just in hibernation mode, like I don't wanna do anything. I don't wanna see anyone. I just wanna chill in my house. So that's what I'm gonna do. All right, dinner is practically ready. I was gonna turn on the other lamps in here, because we finally got the right bulb. So this is the one that we were waiting for. And this just makes it so cozy. I freaking love her. That is the cutest lamp ever. And then Drew and I are also really big fans of this one, which unfortunately is right next to our modems and stuff, but that's like, you know, we have to put them up high. And this one, so great. If you're in like a slump with your living room or if you feel like it's just dark, but you don't like big lights, honestly recommend getting like multiple lamps. Made such a difference. We went from one to three and we actually have one more that's on back order that's coming. So we don't know if we're gonna like end up keeping that one, but it's just made. You can't say that. You can't, I can't keep that. I feel a lot of living with you. Oh my God, he's trolling me. Anyways, we're gonna eat dinner now. There we have it, looking beautiful. Yes, I did just put half a pound of Parmesan cheese on here.  And now we're gonna sit on the couch, watch our shows. It actually just started. So we're gonna enjoy that. And I'm probably gonna end this vlog here. So thank you so much for watching. Thanks for being here. Thanks for hanging out with me. And I will see you very soon in the next vlog. Bye.


A big weekend for the Eagles. Yeah, no. I mean, the Eagles are underdog by the equivalent of a touchdown, which is rather more because you should be having to give Atlanta four. But let's forget about the line for a second. There's a very good video, if you share my enthusiasm for the team that is on the Eagles website. This is a team that has now gotten motivated by the line. Now, what do the Falcons have? They have Julio, who is with Antonio not doing that well. Maybe a guy who just simply can't be covered. And in the last four weeks, their defense got very, very stiff. So you have Matt Ryan, you have a team playing over its head in order to get back into the Super Bowl to win this time after the embarrassment against a very lunch pail team that obviously lost its MVP quarterback. And as a quarterback that played well, Nick Foles against the Giants. He played well against the Rams, and then has been horrendous. The best third down conversion. Now the worst third down conversion.  And what they're gonna have to do is open the game with passes to Nelson Aguilar and to Alshon Jeffery, not to anybody else, including Ertz as much as I love him. But certainly not to Tori Smith. Get that, get the jam up in the box in order to be able to make it so that they can then do run and then just give the ball to Oshahi. There's the game plan that I have. I've shared that with Matt.


Calling to order the meeting of the Arlington Select Board. This is May 15th, June 15th rather, 2020. So the first item on the agenda is the Executive Order on Remote Participation. So I'm gonna read the preamble. All right. So first of all, let me permit me to confirm that all members and persons anticipated on the agenda are present and can hear me. Members, when I call your name, please respond in the affirmative. Diane Mahan. Yes. Joseph Currow. Yes. Steven DeCorsi. Yes. Len Diggins. Yes. Staff, when I call your name, please respond in the affirmative. Adam Chapdeline. Yes. Yes. Douglas Hyme, Town Council. Present. And Ashley Myers, participating remotely. Good evening. This open meeting of the Arlington Select Board is being conducted remotely consistent with Governor Baker's Executive Order of March 12th, 2020 due to the current state of emergency in the Commonwealth given the outbreak of the novel coronavirus. In order to mitigate the transmission of the virus and reduce risk of COVID-19 illness, we have been advised and directed by the Commonwealth to suspend public gatherings. And as such, the governor's order suspends the requirement of the open meeting law to have all meetings in a publicly accessible physical location. Further, all members of public bodies are allowed and encouraged to participate remotely. The order which you can find posted with agenda materials for this meeting allows public bodies to meet entirely remotely so long as reasonable public access is afforded so that the public can follow along with the deliberations of the meeting. Ensuring public access does not ensure public participation unless such participation is required by law. This meeting will not feature public comment. Even if members of the public do provide comment participants are advised that people may be listening who do not provide comment and those persons are not required to identify themselves. For this meeting, the select board is convening by Zoom as posted on the town's website identifying how the public may join. Please note that this meeting is being recorded and that some attendees are participating by video conference. Accordingly, please be aware that folks may be able to see you and that take care not to screen share your computer. Anything that you broadcast may be captured by the recording. Please also take care to adjust your screen or device name if you would like to speak. In order for us to recognize speakers appropriately and develop accurate minutes, it is helpful for participants to see your full first and last name when calling upon you rather than a nickname. All of the meeting materials for this meeting, except any executive session materials are available on the Novus agenda dashboard. And we recommend the members and the public follow the agenda posted on Novus until the chair notes or otherwise. Now go over some meeting ground rules. We're now turning to the first item on the agenda. Before we do so, permit me to cover some ground rules for effective and clear conduct of our business and to ensure accurate meeting minutes. I will introduce each speaker on the agenda, after they conclude their remarks the chair will go down the line of members inviting each by name to provide any comment, questions or motions. Please hold until your name is called. Further, please remember to mute your phone or computer when you're not speaking. Please remember to speak clearly in a way that helps generate accurate minutes. For any reason, please wait until, for any response, please wait until the chair yields the floor to you and state your name before speaking. If members wish to engage in caliloquy with other members, please do so through the chair, taking care to identify yourself. Finally, each vote taken tonight will be taken by roll call vote, all right? So now moving to item two and three is our consent agenda. We have a request for a contractor drain layer license for milestone excavating and landscaping LLC, 104 Lancaster Road, Shirley, Massachusetts. In a request for a contractor drain layer license, KB Aruta Construction Inc, Cambridge, Massachusetts. So I will call on Mr. Coro if we have a motion. I know the approval of substantial conditions are set forth. And I will call on Mr. D'Corsi. Second. Have a second. All right, and then any comment, Ms. Mahan? Any comment, Mr. Diggins? No. All right, so I have a motion by Mr. Curl, seconded by Mr. D'Corsi, Attorney Heim. Mr, I'm sorry, folks, my audio and video are a little bit wonky, hold on one more. Ms. Mahan? Yes. Mr. Curl? Yes. Mr. D'Corsi? Yes. Mr. Diggins? Yes. Mr. Heard? Yes. And then Ms. Vogue? All right, we are moving on to item number four on the agenda. So this is a vote to authorize the use of new voting equipment and discontinue existing voting equipments pursuant to mass general law chapter 54, section 34. Do we have anyone to present on this, Ms. Mahan? I'd like to move that as required by mass general law chapter 54, section 34, we hereby vote the use of the image cast precinct optical ICP tabulator of the presidential election on November 3, 2020. And thereafter, at all primaries preliminary elections and elections held in the town of Allenten until otherwise ordered by vote of the Allenten Select Board, said electronic voting system shall be used in those polling places designated by the Select Board and further that the town will discontinue the use of the AcuVote optical scanner in any and all elections held in the town of Allenten after September 1, 2020. Second. All right. Mr. DeCorsi, any comment? No comment. And Mr. Diggins, any comment? No comment. All right. On a motion by Ms. Mahan, seconded by Mr. Curl, Attorney Heim. Ms. Mahan. Yes. Mr. DeCorsi. Yes. Mr. Diggins. Yes. Mr. Curl. Yes. Mr. Hurd. Yes. unanimous vote. All right. Next is item number five for discussion and vote. Notice of Board of Registrar's vacancy. Attorney Heim. Thank you, Mr. Chair. The law in short of it is that there is a vacancy on the Board of Registrar's. The law requires the registrar's to maintain and essentially even balance with the members of the registrar's equally representing each major political party. You're not allowed to have more than two members of any given party. To my understanding, at present, the town clerk is a registered Democrat and serves on the Board of Registrar's. And the other appointed registrar currently serving Mr. William Logan is also registered Democrat. Mr. John Warden is a registered Republican. Therefore, according to the general laws, the Board should formally ask the public and town committee to convene and provide a list of folks that they want considered for the appointment. If they fail to provide a list, believe it's within 45 days, you can appoint someone regardless of what that list says. But it still has to be someone who is not enrolled in the Democratic Party because, again, you cannot have more than two members of one party on the Board of Registrar's. So all I'm looking for tonight is a vote to send an official notice to the public and town committee, which the Office of Select Board can do on your behalf, that we need a list and preferably as soon as possible. While they have all that time, to my understanding, there's a possibility that folks may submit a recount petition with respect to the recent election. And accordingly, it's important that we have a fully staffed Board of Registrar's. Thank you. Mr. Chair, I move to submit the request for a list to the public and town committee as outlined by town council. Thank you. And do I have a second? Second. I think I got Len for a second. Ms. Mohan, any discussion? No, just that it's my understanding that the Zoom meeting was gonna happen sometime this week with the Republican town committee. That's my understanding. Mr. DeCorsi, any comments? No comment. All right. So on a motion by Mr. Karo, seconded by Mr. Diggins, Attorney Hyme. Ms. Mohan. Yes. Mr. DeCorsi. Yes. Mr. Diggins. Yes. Mr. Kuro. Yes. Mr. Hurd. Yes. Mr. unanimous vote. All right. Moving to item number six, request for approval modification to design review committee membership in scope. All right. Tom Andrew, Ms. Chattelain. Thank you, Chair Hurd. So we talked about this item last week. This is in regard to the design review committee that the board established for the intersection of Mass Ave and Appleton. Very sadly, there was another serious accident at that intersection last night, which only further underscores the need for us to act hastily on this matter. But the modification I wanted to request was twofold. We received some good suggestions that unfortunately came in after the board's meeting last week. One of them, or at least one of them is addressed in correspondence received to the board tonight. So I'm asking for the board to make two, I think very straightforward modifications to the design review committee makeup and scope that was adopted last week. In regards to makeup, it was suggested that we should include a representative of the Otison School on the committee, which I think makes perfect sense and was an oversight not including them from the start. And then in terms of the committee scope, I think looking at the portion of the corridor that the design review committee sees as most appropriate to effectuate the safety concerns should be what we're looking at. So in general terms, I'm thinking that we're probably starting at the foot of the rocks where Lowell Street intersects with Mass Ave and going all the way down to where Mass Forest and Burton intersect. I think looking at that stretch of corridor in its entirety makes sense to that whatever improvements we make are looking at the corridor from a usability point of view and making sure that we're making the right improvements to make it as safe as possible. So I would appreciate it if the board would consider a favorably approving both of those modifications. Okay. And Mr. DeCorsi, I'll start with you for comments or motions. Yeah, just a quick comment. I appreciate the modifications being proposed there and unfortunately, the town manager said that there was another accident there. So we're hoping that once the committee gets going that these improvements can be done quickly. I didn't quite hear everything that the manager said just because of problem with the sound. So I don't want to bring the motion because I may have missed part of what he said but I did talk to him about it earlier and I support these changes. Mr. Chairman, could I just interrupt? I'm getting a few texts from people who are watching ACMI at home and they say they can't hear any of us. I apologize for interrupting. You're welcome. I have a few of those texts as well. I would put it to, is there anyone from ACMI that can comment on or? Yeah, Sean is, Sean Keen is on the call. I guess we'll keep going until we're recording, right? Mr. Chair? Correct. Yes. Thank you. While we're interrupted, can you all see my video? Mm-hmm. Yeah, I've lost video. So I'll just keep going without video rather than log out and log back in. So it's okay, cool, thank you. Okay, all right. Ms. Mohan, do you have any comments and motions? I'd like to, as long as Attorney Heim says I can do them both at the same time to modify the design review committee membership to add a representative from the honors of school and to modify the design review committee scope to include Lowell Street at Mass Ave, Mass Ave at Forest and Burton and of course, Mass Ave at Outlet. Second. Motion and a second by Mr. Karo. And Mr. Karo, any further comments? No, I think these are wise modifications and I look forward to expeditious action on this. And Mr. Diggins, any comments? Well, I support them, I mean, I am a little concerned, I mean, I like comprehensive solutions and approaches to things to me, but I think we have to expect that as we widen the scope. The actions probably going to take longer and certainly cost more. And I just am concerned about the effect that might have on a quicker remedy, even if it's temporary and low cost on the main intersection that's the problem now, and that happens in Mass Ave. Mike, Tom manager wants to comment on that? Yeah, if that's okay with Mr. Chairman. Yeah, no, I think that's fair. I guess, I think sitting here right now, I can say that I'll make sure that broadening the scope does not slow down short-term actions. It's certainly, you're not wrong that looking at more would cost more and potentially take a little more time for a longer-term action. But I don't think that broadening the scope to look at the wider corridor for long-term improvements should or would short-circuit a short-term fix to the Mass Ave. Appleton intersection. I think we can work through that challenge as you've described it. All right, thank you very much. Appreciate it. Of course. Yeah, and I would just follow up on that, you know, clearly with what's happened the past few months in this section shows that there's some improvements that need to be made. And I don't anticipate that this group will just come to us one time with one broad set of recommendations. It will be a series of recommendations, some in the short-term and some in the long-term. So, all right, so. ACMI has just said that the audio should be fixed. Okay, thank you. All right. I'm getting texts about effects. They can hear us now. Sorry. Just in time. All right, so we have a motion by Ms. Mahan, seconded by Mr. Carl, Attorney Hyde. Ms. Mahan? Yes. Mr. Corsi? Yes. Mr. Diggins? Yes. Mr. Curo? Yes. Mr. Herd? Yes. So, moving on to correspondence received. We have a request for quick improvements to Intersection of Massachusetts Avenue in Appleton from Phyllis C. Finander, Charlie Proctor's aunt. Charlie Proctor, of course, is the gentleman who unfortunately passed away back in May at that intersection. Request for safety improvements at the intersection of Massachusetts Avenue and Appleton Street for Cat Zealer, 17 and a half Lakeview Street. Requesting improvements to Massachusetts Avenue, Appleton Street, Appleton Place Intersection, Sarah Mai Conway, Charlie Proctor's cousin, and suggestions for the Design Review Committee, Scope of Work and Membership, and LaRoyer, 12 Pear Street, which I believe we will refer these all to the Design Review Committee. All right. Receive. Second. All right, so we have a motion to receive by Ms. Mahan, seconded by Mr. Curl, Attorney Heim. Ms. Mahan? Yes. Mr. Corsi? Yes. Mr. Diggins? Yes. Mr. Curl? Yes. Mr. Herd? Yes. unanimous vote. Now we will remain correct in open session for town meeting. Do we have a motion to do so? Mr. Chair? Yep. I'd like to move that the select board meeting of Monday, June 15th, hereby is suspended and we will reconvene at the start of our town meeting on June 15th, 2020 at or around six to 6.30 p.m. and that we will remain in session and that the adjournment of this select board meeting will coincide with the adjournment of our regular town meeting. Thank you. Second. Second. All right, so we have a motion by Ms. Mahan, seconded by Mr. Curl, Attorney Heim. Ms. Mahan? Yes. Mr. Corsi? Yes. Mr. Diggins? Yes. Mr. Curl? Yes. Mr. Hurd? Yes. All right, thank you all. We'll see you soon. See you all shortly with your masks. All right. With your hands.


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