Good afternoon everyone. Myself Piyusha Shedgarh. We will see the rectangular waveguide. These are the learning outcomes for this session. At the end of this session, students will be able to explain the characteristics of rectangular waveguide. They will be able to derive the expression for different field components of wave in rectangular waveguide. These are the contents for this session. Let us see the characteristics of waveguide, cut-off frequency. The lowest frequency at which the wave will propagate through the rectangular waveguide. So, the cut-off frequency decides some threshold value. Above this value, the wave will propagate through the rectangular waveguide. Critical wavelength, lambda c. It is the wavelength through which the wave is travelling through the rectangular waveguide. Phase velocity. It is the velocity at which the wave changes its phase. Generally, the phase velocity having the value is greater than the group velocity. Phase velocity is the ratio of omega by beta that is angular velocity by the phase shift. Group velocity. The velocity is considered for the group of the wave is given by the rate of change of angular velocity with respect to the phase shift. So, generally, Vg having the value is between the c and Vp where c is the velocity of light. Vp and Vg both are related by this equation. Vp into Vg is equal to c square where c is the velocity of light. Propagation wavelength in the waveguide that is lambda g. It is also known as guide wavelength which is considered with respect to the travelling wave travels in the waveguide. Waveguide characteristics impedance Z0. It is the impedance considered with respect to the cutoff frequency in turn which in turn determined by the guide dimensions that is breadth and width of the rectangular waveguide. Generally, the characteristics impedance is greater than 377 ohm. Now, before going to the further slide, you can pause video here for a second and tell that what are T and Tm modes in rectangular waveguide because you have to define the different field components for these modes. So, you must know what are T and Tm modes. Yes, as you know that in T mode electric field is always perpendicular to the propagation of the wave that is Z component of electric field is equal to 0 because you are considering that the propagation of the wave in Z direction and HZ is not equal to 0. Opposite of that in T mode, Z component of the magnetic field is equal to 0 while the electric field is existing. Now, you know the different Helmholtz equation. Helmholtz equation can be defined for T wave as well as the Tm wave. For T wave, EZ component equal to 0. Therefore, del square HZ is equal to minus omega square mu epsilon HZ and the second equation is del square EZ equal to minus omega square mu epsilon EZ. So, these are the Helmholtz equation. In Helmholtz equation, del operator is there. Del operator is nothing but the partial differentiation with respect to axis. If the wave propagation is considered in the rectangular coordinate axis, thus the partial differentiation is with respect to X, Y and Z and thus the del operator can be defined with respect to X, Y and Z axis. So, here dou by dou Z square can be replaced by the gamma square and this bracket which having the all constant values. So, all these constant values can be replaced by a single constant that is H square. So, if you know these two equations. So, by putting H square here, you can get this equation for T wave as well as for the Tm wave, where in this case you are putting dou by dou Z square is equal to gamma square and gamma is the propagation constant given by alpha plus j beta, where alpha is the attenuation constant and beta is the phase constant. Now, consider the general Maxwell's equations. So, here the two Maxwell's equations del cross E bar equal to minus j omega mu H bar and del cross H bar equal to j omega epsilon E bar. Now, consider the Maxwell's first equation here del cross E bar is nothing but the curl operator and this curl operator can be written with the determinant form like this. Again, the wave propagation is in rectangular coordinate axis and therefore, the differentiation is with respect to X, Y and Z, whereas the right hand side as it is. So, solve this determinant for this X, Y and Z component. So, this is the equation number 3 for the X component. Similarly, you can write the equation for Y component and the Z component thus you are getting the equation number 4 and 5. Now, consider the second Maxwell equation. Again, you have to solve this second Maxwell equation by curl operation of H bar. Again, you can write the equation for X bar, Y bar and Z bar component and give that equation number 6, 7 and 8. Now, from the equation number 4 which is written already in previous slide. So, here in equation number 4 the Y component of magnetic field is existing. So, from this equation you can find the equation for this Y component of magnetic field by transferring this j omega mu at the LHS side. So, here this is the equation and you can give that equation number as a 9. Now, you know the 9th equation which having the Y component of magnetic field and the 6th equation which having this H Y you can put this value of H Y from 9th equation in equation number 6. So, by putting this value getting the equation number 10. Now, in this equation number 10 you can rearrange this equation number 10 thus you getting again at the RHS side this bracket which having the constant. Again, this constant can be replaced by H square and rewrite that equation. Here, E X bar component can be find by transferring this H square at the LHS side thus you getting the equation for the X component of the electric field. Similar to this you can find the other components field components for magnetic field and the electric field. So, these 11 to 14 equations give the general relationship for the field components within the waveguide. Now, by putting the values of E Z and H Z we can find the old field components. So, by putting the values of E Z and H Z for the different mode of a propagation. So, first consider the more transverse electromagnetic wave where E Z as well as the H Z both components are equal to 0. So, by putting this E Z and H Z equal to 0 in above equation all field components becomes equal to 0 that is wave cannot propagate through the rectangular waveguide for T M wave. For T E wave that is transverse electric wave E Z component equal to 0 and H Z is existing that is the new electric line is in the direction of the propagation. While in case of the T M mode H Z equal to 0 that is no magnetic line is in the direction of the propagation of the wave. And the combination of both that is H E mode all components are existing. Now, represent the T E and T M mode consider the rectangular waveguide the width is placed along the x axis and the height is placed along the y axis with the dimension B and this is the dimension A. Now, the mode is considered with respect to this T E and T M mode can be defined at the subscript M N where M A is the number of half wave variation of the electric field intensity along the width while the N is the number of half wave variation of the electric field in the height that is B direction. What is dominant mode the wave which has the lowest cutoff frequency and having the greater value of the wavelength is known as the dominant mode. In rectangular waveguide generally T E 1 0 mode has the lowest cutoff frequency and therefore, T E 1 0 mode is called as the dominant mode of the waveguide. Dominant mode if the T E 1 0 that is one half cycle variation along the dimension A and no half variation along the short dimension that is at the B. Modes with the next higher cutoff frequency are T E 0 1 mode and T E 2 0 mode which having the cutoff frequency twice than that of the dominant mode that is T E 1 0 mode. So, this is the T different mode configuration for the T E wave for in figure A and B there is a variation with respect to the wider dimension that is A dimension and there is no any variation along the dimension B while in case of C and D there is the half wave variation along the A as well as in B direction. So, here this is a T E 1 0 mode and T E 2 0 mode. In T E 2 0 mode 2 half wave variation and therefore, it is known as a T E 2 0 mode. These are the references for this session. Thank you.


Yes, there's both the Vota Apathy, no doubt. However, I believe that there are many more people who want to come out to express their franchise, but the overwhelming presence of security men and the lockdown of the city, if I were not the governor, I'm not sure I get to my polling unit. I mean, the lockdown is extreme, so I'm appealing that it be relaxed while security adequate measures are taken to monitor and police people's activities, but not prevent people from getting to their polling units. Right now, people are being prevented or they've been deterred from going to vote. Was that not based on the Praveille report or their presentation that this election we know, so we're saying there should be some balance. This is extreme. You can see that it's a totally different mode today compared to what happened February 25th. That was an aberration. Today, people will come out and express themselves based on the local issues, not national issues. I'm the governor of Edelstays.


Good afternoon, everybody. I'm Tommy O'Brien, coming to you live from TFN headquarters in St. Petersburg, Florida, 1 p.m. Eastern time on Tuesday. Three hours left to go on the trading day, and we got markets pretty much around flat territory, seesawing in both directions. We got the S&Ps right now, positive by six points, trading at 3,012. We got the NASDAQ, negative by four points, trading at 81.58. Dow Jones, positive by 89 points, trading 26,917. Oil catching a bid today, up 84 cents at 54.15. Gold contract, basically flat at 14.8720. Notes and bonds pretty close to flat as well, a little bit of volatility, but you got the 10-year right now, negative one tick at 129.18. The 30-year, positive three ticks at 159.17, and the dollar index, positive 51 ticks at 97.379. We got a vote coming up on Brexit, one hour from right now, 7 p.m. London time, that is 2 p.m. Eastern time. You're going to get that vote. We'll see how that hits the currencies, the pound, the euro. That come up in one hour, as we said. Jumping over to the charts, we'll start things off with the indices, we'll start it off with the Dow, and as you can see, right up there near session highs, 26,874 right now in the December futures contract. We were briefly higher within the last half hour, reaching a high of 26,890. NASDAQ 100, little bit of a different story, getting a pullback, 79.40 right now in the NASDAQ 100. S&Ps, up there near highs as well, 3,012. We were up there maybe a point higher, one, two points higher, 3,013 being the intraday high, just within the last hour. Crude oil contract catching a bid actually made a high at about 11 a.m. of $54.77, you got crude trading 54.27. There's your gold contract pulling back a bit over the course of the trading day. Gold December contract trading at 14.88, and the euro US dollar right now trading at 1.1143. So as I stated, one hour from right now, Brexit looming. We'll pull up the headline and there it is, as you have Boris Johnson threatening to pull the deal and seek an election. If that does not pass, whether he has even the ability to seek an election, he can seek it, whether he will get it, that's a different story. And as the quote says, the moment of truth coming at around 7 p.m. London time should be interesting. We'll be live on the air for that. We got our man Steve Rhodes coming up live right now with the trader's edge. Dave White live at two o'clock with the power trading hour and Tom O'Brien live at three. We'll be waiting for that Brexit vote. Markets kind of see song in both directions. Stay tuned folks. Steve Rhodes coming up right now. We'll be right back.


What is going on guys welcome back to the channel and I appreciate you being here today I am back with another destiny 2 video and today I'm going to be going over a few of the important parts Well important in my opinion from last night's weekly update the trap from Bungie Some seriously interesting questions put forward to Bungie via their late stream I'm going to cover them with the best answers But hey people don't forget leaving a like on the video truly helps me out and if you take a second to do So I would love you forever. Okay, so on to the video question in regards to time to kill It's a pretty popular opinion within the community that the time to kill should be decreased Do you have any plans on looking into this issue further the sandbox update was called the go fast update? Will the next update be called their kill fast? Thanks for listening Josh We know this is one of the big items the community would like to see we're already coming at it from a few different angles With update 1.1.4 We wanted guardians to feel more powerful and to get more chances to showcase that power These changes included making weapons more lethal the next big sandbox update comes with season 3 as We buff a good chunk of the exotic weapons these changes will be a direct response to Exhaustics don't feel exotic enough Some of these weapons are getting damaged buffs that can have a direct impact on the average time to kill for an encounter Question what vigilance wing be allowed to rain supreme in a crucible or will there be any fine tuning in the near future? Josh we are not planning an outright nerf to vigilance wing at this time We don't believe slowing vigilance wings time to kill in a world where players are asking for a faster time to kill Is the right call instead? We should be adjusting more weapons up to a level where they can compete I believe you'll find a few retuned exotics that can do that in the season 3 exotic update Question when will we get the stream for expansion 2 in season 3 like in the go-fast update so far excited to see What's next stage we will be back on stream later this month to talk about the next content updates for destiny 2 We'll show you where you're going next who you'll meet when you get there How you'll share new activities with your friends and what you'll be able to chase in the crucible to prove your poise Question I really wish D2's weapon system returns to primary special and heavy. It was better than the current one Is my wish reasonable? Josh we know that you want more control over your loadouts You can expect weapons slot changes in the future of destiny 2 We are actively working on a new system right now and we will have more to show and tell this summer Question when can you tell us about your solutions for the loot system like random rules perks mods Death to weapons and armor and stuff like that Josh I'm no investment designer, but I can tell you that we as a team know that you want more reasons to play We know you want to be excited about the possibility of any given drop again We know you want to look forward to hopping on night after night for a shot at something You want to get your hands on and that you look forward to the adrenaline rush when it finally happens We are actively working to get there together We'll talk more about our plans when they are in the playable states that we think is stable Question are there any set plans to introduce new elements classes subclasses or weapon types in the game in the near future Josh yes to some of these from my desk right now I can look around and see new hotness and several people's screens We'll be showing off a lot of the stuff in the months to come that sounds absolutely epic I cannot wait Question how did the Crucible team decide on random game modes instead of letting players choose what mode they want to play Like we had in D1 Kevin the biggest driver of that conversation was trying to improve matchmaking times and connection quality Additionally it allows us to better supply certain moods as you've seen the 1.1.4 We've reinforced these moods quick play is now delivering the 4v4 low intensity that we intended for that playlist Competitive is now driving further the 4v4 high intensity The biggest driver is connection quality and connection times more people in the pool means more good connections In May private matches are coming at any point when you want to get a game of control together You can do that in terms of players asking to make room or permanent We've absolutely heard that feedback to be more specific We've heard that we understand that and we've been having conversations every day since the launch of 1.1.4 about that Hopefully we'll have more to say soon Question are you looking back at destiny one for inspiration or are you trying to find a new way forward? What do you currently consider to be a high priority for PvE and PvP any hints for random rules or a special slot? Pretty please Josh destiny one and destiny two are two unique and helpful data points Neither game is perfect both have plenty of room for improvement It's hugely helpful to be able to directly compare and contrast the two and see what worked and what didn't Ultimately the goal is just to make destiny two to be the best destiny we've ever made Question why can't the mobility stat increase sprint speed? I'm a hunter. I need to ninja Josh Our goal with 1.1.4 was to get back to more of the destiny one style of movement Especially the movement you're working with mid-combat sprint speeds weren't changed for D2 and therefore It wasn't crazy high priority to hit those that being said we called it a go fast update for a reason And it was absolutely one of the potential changes to test with on our list as we dug into making changes to it We ran into some technical challenges that kept it from being possible to get up in time to test with It's something we will continue to consider in the future though What I can tell you is we buff standard movement quite a bit Fun fact any mobility value over five after 1.1.4 is faster than a max mobility base speed values in D1 We also returned increased acceleration back to its D1 values as well To me though playing destiny PvP after the 1.1.4 update being a hunter I don't really feel a change in speed at all I mean it could be just me the change could be in place, but for me I feel as slow as ever. Let me know what you hunters think down below within that comments section I'm looking up as a hunter. I'm seeing warlocks flow across the sky Titans fly across the sky and there's me crawling along the floor. It amazes me how hunters should be the fastest class But yet again as it happened in D1. We've now become the slowest class. How is that people someone explain it to me? Now we're going to move on and on to rumble changes and I am banner quoting bongo right here last week update 1.1.4 introduced the weekly crucible playlist for the first game type rumble served up some eight player free for combat Where players had to watch their own backs because no one else would Monitoring feedback throughout the week We noted quite a few pledge reporting that the mod felt a bit crowded We've tracked down PvP design lead Derek Carroll to give us some feedback on the goals of the weekly crucible playlist And what we can expect moving forward quoting Derek right here with a weeks worth of update 1.1.4 in the wild The PvP team can take a step back and see how we did One thing we like about the new rotating weekly playlist is that it gives us the ability to add things and make changes without shaking up the core of the crucible We'll be using that playlist to try out new mods and events in the future Rumble came to Destiny 2 in a big way and depending on your tastes. You may have found it too big We tend to agree so the next time rumble rolls around you'll find a bit more room to breathe We're lowering the player count to six and altering the spawning policy behind the scenes in an attempt to keep players more evenly spaced out These changes are the first steps towards an even better player experience that we expect to drop when season three begins So everybody who complained about rumble being overcrowded with eight people. It's now been reduced to six Iron banner's next appearance is an exciting one for us in conjunction with the sandbox tweaks We've made changes to the version of control You'll be playing in destiny 2 to increase intensity and give players more choices during gameplay Right off the bat You'll see that there are no zones held by either team at match start with six players on each team You'll have more flexibility to decide your opening moves Once you're capturing you'll notice that the more players you have up to three in a zone the faster it switches sides There's a risk reward here as supers are more prevalent in version 1.1.4 And you don't want to be caught with all your eggs in one basket if you participate in a capture You'll get more super energy yourself So grabbing zones is a great way to power up for your next big play until the iron banner is lit next week Please enjoy the art chaos of mayhem now with 25 more super powered insanity We've update 1.1.4 iron banner now features 6v6 action All season 2 iron banner weapons will be available from lord saladin through either reward packages or direct purchases using iron banner tokens Iron banner begins Tuesday, April 10th and ends Tuesday, April 17th. The game mode is control So that's something I do look forward to 6v6 back in destiny Gonna feel weird at first but it's something I definitely look forward to experiencing Now dig does go on in the update to mention the following which is quite big news to be honest If you follow all the conversation that ricochets between the leaders of the destiny community And why wouldn't you you may have heard that we've invited some of them to visit our studio later on this month We're hosting a community summit right here at bungee now that our guests have a chance to break the story We want to let you know what this moment means to us So a bunch of content creators are going to see out a usa to give feedback on destiny to going forward Yes, in my opinion is something they should have done a while back It's also great news for the game.  I couldn't have gone anyway due to being a father and so forth But if you guys have been watching me over the downfall of destiny to you guys know I haven't held back on what I've said. Yes, it comes out of love for the game But in my opinion what I've said has needed to be said and you guys know I don't care if I get blacklisted I've said this numerous times in the past. I probably am blacklisted. It is what it is I will continue to speak the truth when needed and that's what I've been doing Now what bungee doing here though is smart on both parts. I think most will see it I mean your game's damn amount and everyone's moved on including most content creators who help build the community You invite them to a free trip to Seattle to play the game early and spread their enjoyment to their audience This in turn helps bungee massively with their game. I just hope they spread the truth I like most of you guys will be waiting to hear feedback on the future of the game So let's hope the truth is said and it isn't overhyped on that note guys. I am out Thanks as always for stopping by if you enjoyed the video leaving a like really helps me out again Thanks for stopping by and hopefully people I will see you on that next one


Um, the committee is all here. We can introduce ourselves. We'll start with Brian. Yep. Senator Brian Collin more representing the Rutland District. Senator Rue Hardy from the Addison District. Uh, Bobby Starr from Orleans, Essex County. Chris Pearson in Chittenden County. Anthony Flea to Weston County. So, uh, thanks for calling in. And, uh, could you, uh, give us a little bit about yourself and we'll start right in with the testimony. Yes, Mr. Chairman and members, Judy Belair. I'm representing the Vermont Chapter of the Sierra Club. And, uh, I'm going to volunteer with the chapter, but have a background in, um, with the Minnesota Chapter of the Sierra Club. That's a lobbyist for 13 years. Um, and so I would like to say that as the Sierra Club, the Vermont Chapter strongly supports this legislation. And I hope we can agree that less pesticide use should be our goal. As we all know, pesticides are poison. They can contaminate the environment and harm people. They can and do kill beneficial insects along with the small, very small percentage of what we consider to be crop pests. And by killing insects, pesticides have impacts of the food chain. Also, many of them are toxic to more than just insects, birds, amphibians, mammals, and humans can also be at risk. So, as we agree that less pesticide use should be our goal, are we doing anything about it in Vermont? When the pesticide advisory council was established decades ago, a main focus was to assess the use of pesticides and recommend reduction strategies. Unfortunately, that focus was lost, and that's why we need this legislation. This legislation, I believe, will help us reduce pesticide use in Vermont. S272 includes the definition of integrated pest management. If this policy were implemented, it will lead to the reduced use of pesticides and reduced resistance in insect pests because it establishes the policies that pesticides are only used as a last resort. Currently, pesticides such as neonicotinoids are applied to plants and crops whether or not a pest problem exists. The Pollinator Protection Committee, which was established by this legislature, as you know, recommended in its report that, quote, pesticides used in Vermont should be based upon need, not used prophylactically, unquote. Eric Boir, a member of the committee, and then president of the Vermont Treat Group Growers Association, said, quote, integrated pest management should be the foundation of any grower program regardless of crops. Demonstrating a need for a pesticide application does not have to be some great endeavor or burden for a grower. They should be able to articulate that need and have a record of their specific pest pressures for that growing year. The Pollinator Protection Committee voted 8 to 1 to pass the recommendation of no prophylactic use. And I believe the agency voted to oppose this recommendation, so it would be interesting to find out the agency of agriculture's opinion on prophylactic use. I would also like to mention one prophylactic use in Vermont that could easily be eliminated, the use of neonicotinoid-coated plug-in seeds. Six years ago in 2014, the EPA's Biological and Economic Analysis Division concluded that, quote, which data indicates that in most cases there is no difference in soybean yield when soybean seeds was treated with neonicotinoids versus not receiving any insect control treatment. Still quoting, in comparison to the next best alternative pest control measures, neonicotinoid seed treatments likely provide zero dollars in benefits to growth, unquote. So the question is why we are still allowing this use in Vermont. It just doesn't make sense. The concept of ITN has been around since the 1950s. It was formulated in the national policy in the United States in February 1972 when Nixon directed federal agencies to take steps to advance the application of ITN in all relevant sectors. But how much ITN is actually being practiced in Vermont? The University of Vermont extension does have an ITN program, but it appears to deal mostly with specialty crops like apples and grapes. We're not aware that the agency of agriculture has focused on implementing ITN in our state. However, Kerry Jager and a PowerPoint presentation on Munich last year did lay out a pest scouting method to determine whether grubs or wireworms were present at levels requiring the use of treated corn seeds. So that was a good thing. I also wanted to point out that about five years ago on Kerry who adopted rules requiring farmers to document a need to use corn and slugging seeds treated with neonix. They laid out the scouting protocols and also required the feed dealers advertise that untreated seeds were available for purchase. Now, according to 2018 seed sales data, two-thirds of the corn and slugging seeds sold in Ontario were untreated seeds simply by requiring IPM. In short, IPM works if it's implemented and if we want to prevent a disaster in the making, we should implement it without delay. We are seeing more and more headlines about precipitous drops in insect populations. Most recently, a study published in the proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences showed that NAIC lies declined in the Northern Mississippi River Basin by 52% from 2012 to 2019. In the Western Lake Irrigation, from 2015 to 2019, the reduction was a shocking 84%. Another study found that toxicity to insects in agricultural areas has increased 48 times not 48%, 48 times in the past 20 years because of the use of highly toxic neonics. Entomologists in Germany documented a 75% loss of insects in the natural area over the past 20 years. The data continues to mount in study after study. We certainly can't rely on the pesticide companies to protect us from harmful effects of pesticides, nor can we rely on the environmental protection agency. Historically, the risk assessment of pesticides, which the EPA requires, does not fully evaluate sensitive species. It doesn't look at ecosystem or habitat impact. It doesn't look at secondary or non-target impacts on sub-lethal or low pesticide doses or pesticides registered under conditional registration of the poll for a pesticide to get registered before all studies are done. So now the chickens are coming home to roost and it's up to us to act because Vermont is not immune from the impacts of pesticide use. If you're wondering if we're really losing insects, when was the last time you remember having the clean insects off your windshield? If we need to fully monitor pesticide use in Vermont, that targets for pesticide use reduction and implement IPM, help farmers get off the pesticide treadmill and hold the agency accountable for pesticide use reduction. So I urge your support for this legislation and I'd be happy to take any questions. Yeah, thank you. Before we get too far into it, could you send us a copy of your testimony so we can refer back to some of the material? Yes, I will. Yeah. And Linda can take care of that for you. Thank you. Yeah, are there questions? Yeah, Senator Pearson? Thanks for being available this morning. You know, you make a sort of straightforward argument that we should be using less, but one of the discussions we've been having this year is around glyphosate. And very clearly its use has been increasing in Vermont and there was a bill in front of us to ban its use. And as we explored the wisdom of that, you know, I would say for myself, it has some appeal to slow down pesticide that is whose use is on the increase. But banning it would likely we've been informed mean that people switched to a much more toxic pesticide and herbicide. And so, you know, to me, I feel a bit stuck and maybe in this case something that a lot of people are worrying about. Glyphosate is the quote-unquote better option and I do feel sort of stuck by this dynamic, but I'm curious to me that would be a scenario where maybe we do tolerate that herbicide because the alternative is sort of worse. Do you have a thought on that sort of dynamic? Well, most of my work has been done with units. So I know, you know, the research I've done, them, their numbers studies show they definitely work. So, but I fall back on the integrated test management idea and just looking at other options first. And I, you know, if we did that, I don't know what the other options are to be replaced using glyphosate, but there must be something. Well, atrazine is one of them. I mean, the, yeah. No, I'm talking about alternative to the use of any herbicide. Yeah. The alternative to herbicide use.  I don't know what it is, but I think in whenever we use a pesticide we should look for alternatives first. Yes, this is Senator Starr. Are you, do you live in Vermont or do you have some connection to us? Yes, I do live in Vermont. Right now I'm in Walden. Okay. So you know that we've really been pushing our landowners and crop growers to do using cover crops to prevent runoff from the fields. And from our testimony that we've taken, there is an alternative to spraying this pesticide on those crops in the spring too so they can get other crops in. But it's crimping and rolling, I think they call it, of the plants that are on the fields, but it, it hasn't been developed well enough so it works yet. And every, from what testimony we've received, as Senator Pearson stated, the alternative in pesticides is worse than what we're using. And you know, I don't, I don't know if we've gotten here yet to have a good alternative and not use any pesticides. I mean, there isn't, there isn't anyone on the committee that, that I know of, unless they're holding back on me, that supports using more pesticides. We're, we're trying to, to reduce them. And, and we're working to, to get there, but we, and we have had some successes. As far as the bill goes, we also have had testimony in regards to the make up of the, of the members and we, in the bill it says that they'd like to move it from agriculture to the Department of Health. Well, in recent years, I think we had testimony to the effect that the Health Department wanted to get away from, from this crew. And I can verify that through our, looking back through our testimony. But it seems to me as if we've heard that in some of the testimony that's been presented. And we also had testimony that, well, they should, it should be moved and the make up should be changed because they never meet. And I think we found that to be false as well. But anyways, just a few comments in regards to what we're facing to try to balance all this. Senator Polina has a question. Let's hope when you could talk a little bit about neonic treated seeds and what happened up in Canada. I presume there was a lot of resistance. I shouldn't presume, but I guess I'm asking whether I would expect to do a lot of resistance to the restricting the use of the treated seeds and how that's gone over, how people are doing now dealing with it. And I also wonder whether there's been efforts in other places around the world to, I'll use the word ban. I don't stress that that's the right word, but restrict the use of neonic treated seeds. Well, in Canada, they, they established rules five years ago for planting treated seeds and the rules required that farmers dig holes in their fields and put potatoes or something in it would attract us to verify that there were pests. I know the grain farmers weren't happy with the rules. They, I think they went to court about it and lost. But they were planning to effect. And I've been checking the seeds, they're required to report their seed sales, whether they're used or untreated seeds. And as I mentioned in my testimony, now five years later, two thirds of the seeds are untreated. I've been trying to get more information from Canada about the availability of treated seeds, but there apparently isn't a problem. And so I haven't, other than that, all I know is what I can find online. I have tried talking to folks in Canada, but I'm not getting a lot of feedback. I should also mention that Quebec has now put regulations in place, again, also requiring a demonstrated need for using neonic seeds and requiring a prescription from an agronomist before you can buy neonic seeds in Quebec. So, and as far as Europe, the 28 countries in the European Union have banned the sale of, and the outdoor use, banned all outdoor uses of neonic seeds, and that includes the seeds. That includes what? Or the seeds, is that the last thing? That includes the seeds as well, yes. So 28, the 28 countries of the European community? Yes. And they're still growing food? Just start, I know. Just one check. Other questions? Well, I guess, Carrie, do you have any questions? I guess that's it on questions, and if you could send your testimony into Linda Lehmann, we'd appreciate that, so we'd have it dig into as we alter the bill or move forward or whatever we're going to do. So thank you very much. I'd be happy to get that. Yeah, and thank you very much for your time and your testimony. Thank you. Thanks. Thank you, and I'll continue to listen in. Oh, okay, good. So, that's Nate, and you know, you heard of Sandra Duce ourselves, so we moved right along. Good morning, thanks for letting me come talk to you on this beautiful, snowy day. Here's a copy of my testimony for each of you. My name is Matt Shamblah, I live in Berlin, Vermont. And I'm a retired pesticide chemist for the Vermont Agency of Agriculture, where I work for 30 years, ever since 1986, when the agency first started doing pesticide monitoring as the environment, I was hired to develop the analytical part of that question for the agency of ag 30-something years ago. And you've been in before? Yes, I've been in before talking about pesticides and tile drinks and a couple of times over the last few years. So again, I've been involved in pesticide issues in Vermont for ages. Like I said, I helped set up the analytical end of the environmental monitoring program for pesticides for the agency of ag. I was involved in starting up the surface water monitoring program for the agency of ag in 2000, when they all did that. Yeah, well it was because of the deformed frog problem way back then. So D.E.C., Milbury College, and us at the ag department got a grant to look into the deformed frog issue and look at pesticides and whether they were contributing to it. I don't remember this one, what is this? 2000, about? No, it was just before. 1999, something like that. Was that the campaign that had bounty on them for kids collecting them? Yeah, so the result of that was we didn't find any evidence that pesticides were related to the deformed frog issue, but we did discover that atrazine in particular was present everywhere all the time. So we could find atrazine in Lake Champlain samples in the spring. So before planting, before spraying, so it was left over from the previous year, we were finding atrazine in Lake Champlain from top to bottom, so 300 feet down we could detect it, so it is there all the time. And that expanded on to things like golf course monitoring, surface water runoff railroad monitoring, and neonicotinoid monitoring. It's always nice to hear the update from the agency yesterday on Neonix and what they've been doing lately. I'm interested, I'll be happy to talk about that a little bit at the end if you want me to discuss what you did yesterday.  Definitely a concern I'll be talking about that a little bit more later on too because what I'm here to talk about today is the need for the agency of agriculture to update their pesticide regulations and to reinvigorate the pesticide advisory council and V-PAC. Two issues that I've been paying attention to for a long time, whenever I had the opportunity I went to V-PAC meetings because part of my job was to find out what problems were out there before they became problems. So I paid attention to pesticide use data for 30-something years and went to V-PAC meetings to find out what their concerns were before it became thrown at me so to speak as a chemist. Were you the rat from the agency on that board? No, I just went as an employee just to observe and be there to answer pesticide questions. And that's usually like back early that was Phil Benedict and Jim Leland? Exactly. So you were working with them all through the years? Oh yeah, yep. Phil hired me way back when. So yes way back when it was the Vermont Department of Agriculture before it came to food and markets or the agency or anything else it was just the plain old Vermont Department of Agriculture in those days. Okay so on the first page of my testimony in blue is the preamble to the Vermont regulation for the control of pesticides from the Ag Department agency's webpage. So I won't read the whole thing but this is the intro to the regulations that agency uses to regulate pesticides and it specifies that the department will use integrated pest management in a way as to make sure that pesticides used in an environmentally responsible way. So it's right there in the preamble that they want to use integrated pest management. Integrated pest management as you probably know focuses on pest prevention and only using pesticides as needed. Unfortunately if you actually read the regulations, integrated pest management is not defined anywhere in the regulations and not even mentioned anywhere in regulations. So how can you regulate pesticide use if you're not even defining what it is or integrating into the rules? So again these regulations were written in 1991. It's way past time for the agency to bring these into the 21st century and require integrated pest management as their preamble implies that you only use pesticides when they're needed and that has been subsumed by their other issues. Part of that is according to statute the Vermont Pesticide Advisory Council's duties. So their duties are listed in green. I won't read any of that but essentially the function of BPAC is to advise state government on using pesticides safely and recommending policies to reduce the use of pesticides and BPAC is currently not doing that because they are again subsumed by the day-to-day issues of regulating permits that they are responsible for of course and regulators and mosquito control and so on which are important issues but they aren't policy and BPAC was set up to advise state government the legislature the governor and everybody on policy issues for pesticide use in the state. It's been around since 1970 but it's gradually been it's duties have been like I said taken up by these permanent issues are required to do by statute but it takes up more time than it should because they should be working on policy issues not the details of what's permanent for what which suite of both section of the railroad track whatever. BPAC current membership is made up primarily of professionals D.E.C., Fish and Wildlife, Orson Parks, Ag, V-Trans are all agencies that have representatives and they all use or regulate pesticides in one way or another. I think BPAC should be reinvigorated and expanded to include more individuals with expertise in minimizing pesticide use and the environmental consequences of pesticide use so I suggest you expand that to include a representative of NOFA and a representative of the Rubenstein School at UVM and also to stop and reassess the members of whether the current individuals are the appropriate ones for looking at policy rather than technical issues and that's up to the individual actual agencies to decide of course. The Rubenstein School is that the College of Ag and Life Sciences? No, it's environmental. That's not currently in the bill right now. So BPAC needs to concentrate on the big picture questions of what it's supposed to do according to statute and not get buried in the details of individual permits so that should be part of the rewrite of the pesticide regulations in my opinion. The third issue I want to address is the pesticide use data that the Agriculture Agency collects which you've been hearing a little bit about in the news over the last few weeks I think the BT Digger article and so on have talked about the new pesticide use data that the AG agency posted online not too long ago and so both agency of AG and BPAC need accurate pesticide use data to be able to make policy decisions and currently that has not been available so. Well yeah it dragged for a while right? Quite a while. But that report you you sat in on our meeting yesterday yes that I thought that report that was quite thin yesterday's report from minor and. Yes yes I have a few questions I'd love to ask Eric or Kerry about that but yes it was great to hear but it wasn't really talking about pesticide use issues which is what I was talking about what they've been finding as far as environmental monitoring but if I won't keep going. Okay so the data that has been available is has been questionable for quite a long time and slow to be published and that's you know it's intricate detailed data they're trying to collect and complicated I understand it's you know very time consuming especially if you're doing paper copies of everything but nobody can make good policy decisions don't have good data so that figure on the middle of page three the line in orange is the atrazine use data on corn that I accessed from the agency of ag web page in 2018 when I was looking at pesticide use so accessing the data on their web page in 2018 it looked like atrazine use on corn was decreasing by about four thousand pounds per year so that's great yeah I didn't pay much attention to it again until this new data came out where new and improved data shows that it's actually increasing by upwards of 2,000 pounds per year statewide for the last 10 years so again that's an issue that somebody should be paying attention to but they either be packer agency of ag but you can't if you don't have that data so nobody can perform their role on policy issues without good data so I think it's imperative that agency bags theater held the fire a little bit to make sure that they get this data out and that it's accurate within 12 months at the end of the year when did you leave the agency uh 2016 so if you look on your chart 2016 we were at the low point are almost to the low point probably in 15 well if you look at the orange line but the orange line is inaccurate that's the wrong data that's the data they had on their web two years ago but it's wrong the blue line is what they're publishing now and they hopefully are it's better data than what was published two years ago what uh but we'll we'll check that out so here is a chart I don't have this in your information but this is a chart again the orange is the old data that I had from for atrazine use uh from 1985 when I started looking at this data all the way up until 2018 most current data so the orange line you can see there was a general trend down and then you know out the year 2000 atrazine you peaked and that's when EPA regulated atrazine more because it was showing up in the environment a lot and Roundup ready corn came on the market which mean meant that they were using more glyphosate to control so that's where this drop off is by 2007 atrazine use had dropped a lot and because glyphosate was taking over and atrazine was being discouraged um the blue line again is the most current data that act partner is showing which shows that it's going to back up again atrazine use so even though the intent of uh Roundup ready corn was to discourage the use of the traditional corn herbicides like atrazine and replace it with glyphosate it happened for a little while but now they both are increasing so here's a chart the line across the top is acres of corn in Vermont the blue is atrazine use and the orange brown whatever it is is glyphosate use so again in around 2007 there was virtually no glyphosate used on corn because Roundup ready corn had not become common for field corn has been increasing steadily ever since until now a large percentage of that herbicide on corn is glyphosate but atrazine is not decreased so um you know i i continue to express this feeling of being trapped i really do feel trapped and and i'm not sure what we're about but um so it's this room the uh the first linear chart that has a big dip because like when like corresponding to glyphosate coming toward a mature in the work then i'm going to guess that that stopped working as effectively and people said you know what i like better with that i mean is there but so so try it and so something changed except like say it's still well that's what that's my question is so but it seems as if they decided to double up exactly and that's what i mean your research you know do we have a better explanation uh well the in the d t digger article it was mentioned that atrazine is cheap and so but whether but it's not replacing glyphosate it's on top of glyphosate so again what i want to uh emphasize is that these sorts of issues v-pack should be doing that's their job to look at pesticide use or should be their job look at pesticide use look at trends and figure out how to minimize the use and risk of pesticides and right now nobody's doing that yeah the agency bag isn't doing that and the bag isn't doing that well somebody's doing it because we have carry in twice a week here and you know to talk about pesticide use and what's good what's bad uh what we could do to reduce the consumption the use of that and and i mean but it isn't happening on the ground as far as i can tell you know uh there is nobody saying to farmers uh how can you use less pesticides it's we don't think you should use this one atrazine for instance but it's not how do we do without as much herbicides is it possible and how do we do that because you remember the atrazine and glyphosate do they do the same thing the glyphosate is a universal herbicide it kills everything atrazine is more selective okay um so um well i have a question and then just a comment i mean i mean i i feel similar to senator pierce but what in addition to that sort of feeling trapped i i'm really frustrated that what we do in our six months here with pesticides seems sort of scattershot it seems like okay this is the one that has made the news so we're going to focus on that and so we have a bill on glyphosate and then you know we're continuing to hear about neonics and so we have another bill on neonics and then you know we have one on chlorpyrifos because there's that's been in the news and then i see the data and i you know i saw the data when carry presented us to originally and not my question was what hey what about atrazine what the heck is that and is that bad should we be focusing on that and then yesterday i don't know if you were in the room you were in the room and i saw the data and i was like well should be looking at varroa sides we're using those a lot and and so it seems really scattershot that we as legislators are not experts so what we're not getting is a really comprehensive look at use of pesticides and herbicides so we can track it and and really focus on the ones that we should be focusing on and trying to prevent the as you say the increase in pesticide pesticide use um so you know i don't even know if we're looking at the right ones and and so then my question is is that who chairs this committee and can we get the b-pack and can we get them in here to testify i thought we had carrying already on our do you chair do you chair it we've solicited a chair the last chair from the department of health retired um because there's a lot of issue here but as the health she was asked the health department being um designated by the health department commissioner they asked to step down his chair the so there's no chair that's the so the b-pack is the b-pack is supposed to be advising us and you carry is not on b-pack right you're not okay so okay but you're not the chair i mean it seems to me that that this isn't an entity that's supposed to be advising the policy makers on what kind of policy and the regulators on what kind of regulations and so i i i don't know why we haven't had somebody besides carry in from that not that i don't appreciate members were in the room when you when this came up okay the andy shyly was sitting in the corner well we haven't had somebody in that chair saying i'm from v-pack and this is what we're doing so part of what i am suggesting in my testimony is that uh in addition to reinvigorating v-pack that staff member be hired to be a staff person for v-pack so working for the chair rather than working i mean an employee of the agency bag of course but under the direction under the direction of yeah they've only added about 40 people over there in the last three years like that one more one so you haven't gotten through your testimony so no i have and i don't want to control the whole time because i have to go soon but uh so uh i would offer the suggestion that you up the pesticide rig registration fees a little bit in order to hire a full-time staff member to work at v-pack whose job would be to take the data that agency of ag gets and interpret it and do the research necessary that the that v-pack requires to make policy decisions make presentations to you and the house ag committee and anybody else who needs it or wants it at least once a biennium an official report and presentation which v-pack used to write a report to the legislature which uh was not paid attention to so uh require actually a presentation to you all on how that what they're doing to minimize the risk and use of pesticides one of the ideas that surface i'm intrigued by curious on your quick take is you know there there's a permit process you know you have to apply to have permission to use this pesticide you have to be certified applicator but there's no point in that chain where anyone has to even say that it's required that and it's the term that is pointed to me is prophylactic right and that does seem troubling to me it's you know if we have to accept these chemicals as part of the business surely we would agree that it just shouldn't be automatic it would should be a reaction needing the technology what if you know maybe we could fall short of getting a staffer but what if we just simply require people to assert that this wasn't necessary is that even worth entertaining or is that just going to be a box against check it's i think it's a excellent idea it would require i think they'll be right at the pesticide regulations that i suggest if needed to be done uh but you would you need to figure out a way to make sure it's not just a box that gets checked to do this for example that's what they need the treated seeds that's how it's dealt with in i mean it's Ontario or Ontario they have to show that there's evidence that they need to use them or if they're going to use them they can't prove they're using and that's what the the neonic bill that's on the wall would do the same thing i would say that you can't use it unless you show a need that you let's you show that you need it and that should be inherent in all of our regs for pesticides use as far as i'm concerned you you shouldn't be using them unless there's a problem when they aren't recognized as places or economic places they certainly are how many people use poison at any time they want well i mean how this all got started and used really bad was because there weren't any bingos and we don't hear the horror stories of our food crops and what happened back in in the 30s and in the 40s and that's why DDT came along was to because we couldn't even beat ourselves because we didn't have anything to protect our soils and it got carried away well that's a longer conversation and we were feeding ourselves pretty well with we were not treating it eating feeding ourselves that we were doing it without causing as many cancers before we started using a lot of chemicals so well you didn't have evidence that chemicals are what kept us from you didn't get back into the dust bowl days and you see those people out from the middle west and i wasn't there but i i'm pretty sure that we were feeding that ish so prior to that neo nick treated seeds my understanding is i wasn't paying a lot of i'm not a farmer but my understanding was that they would broadcast spray the field with an insecticide if they had a problem so it wasn't automatic every spring field corn was sprayed with insecticides oh i mean i grew up on a farm and uh freaking that resin truck came every that's an herbicide i'm talking about insecticides which is what the neo nicks are for you know work well and wireworm and so on so uh but neo nicks we you sat there and heard that report yesterday not a vet found in the water streams of either runoff waters or the tile drainage water can i you don't respond to that uh so if you look at the data they find the neo nicks all the time in time they reported yesterday have not found neo nicks at levels above acute toxicity levels but they are finding them above that chronic toxicity levels so my question for you all is how what proof do you need that there's a chronic problem so the chronic numbers are based on a 21 day average right we're not finding those averages for 21 days if you look at your neo nick data that we generated in 2015 for jewel brook which is a very highly ag impacted stream uh we looked for neo nicks over a one month period eight times and detected one of the neo nicks eight times seven of those above the chronic level so the the chronic level for clothe anodin is 0.05 parts per billion and the average of those eight samples over a 30 day period was 0.15 so three times the chronic level so uh i was just at jury duty the other day so uh they keep talking about burden of proof and probable uh whatever they call it so in my view there's clear evidence that there is a possibility or probability of chronic problems in highly impacted streams but you can't prove it unless you try hard to find it um yeah um trapped i think have you got more testimony uh you can read what up the details and we still have uh one more we have one more person so i just want to ask one quick question on the bill are you suggested that that one that rep from nova and rubenstein or gond were there other specific suggestions you have on the language in the bill or uh i don't uh think that it's highly important that it gets moved over to the health department okay you don't no i think it's more important that accountability be built in to both the agency of that yeah carried back to get it moved like that well thanks for your time yesterday as well as today of course and i think we have mike are you on the phone yes sir yeah um we've got a few minutes here to work you into our discussion and um so has did you hear the introductions of our members i did okay so why don't we get the rolling and um floors yours thank you sir um i do have some uh i'm calling in from home um i'll introduce myself first yeah michael ball calling in from royalton vermont i'll give you my my job description qualifications in just a second but i did have thoughts on senator hardy's question on why there's such a scatter shot array of bills and legislation year after year and then there was also a question about roller crimping and effective alternatives and so forth um i guess i would ask you uh chairman star would you rather hear my thoughts right now or go straight into testimony well we've got about eight minutes before the bell rings uh for us to go onto the floor so which maybe give us your thoughts first who are you and where are you from a royalton yeah tell us a little bit about yourself michael we'll do thank you um okay so i'll just say good morning thank you for the opportunity to testify my name is michael ball i'm self-employed i'm the founder owner of an invasive species company called dot weed and i've been doing the work on at this point thousands of acres throughout new england and this is my tenth i'm entering my tenth growing season again as a sole proprietorship i managed terrestrial plants with non-chemical methods over extended timeframes i also prune apple trees and i garden i do not claim to farms i know plenty of farmers um but i garden and i prune apple trees which i've already begun for the season um i believe those are my qualifications to speak today and i've also got written here i have attended numerous d-pack meetings since perhaps the 2013 timeframe solely for the purpose of educating myself at my own expense i have listened to those meetings and i have occasionally submitted comments so that's who i am and where i'm coming from mike mike just so i understand senator pierce and what is an invasive species company what is it what is now he said terrestrial not aquatic terrestrial invasive species i do buying shrubs trees and basis plants and you're trying to mitigate them i am doing everything from suppression to eradication yeah people ask me what i do and i tell them i transition landscapes so they i i invite them to tell me what their vision is where they want to be and then i make no promises to do anything within 30 days i tell them i will get you there this is the program that will accomplish what you want thank you um yeah thank you for the question um well let me since you had the question on the on the roller crimping you can look up rodaleinstitute.org rodale is spelled r-o-d-a-l-e rodaleinstitute.org roller crimping and you can read about how important timing is and some of the considerations with how to how to roller crimp a field that you're trying to know till i did have an organic farm and tell me once atrazine is for people who don't know how to farm i thought that was i thought that was a pretty clear statement um i'll continue now here with my testimony um i want to acknowledge that the membership of the v-pack does operate professionally and can be proud of worthy accomplishments i have said in the past however that the overall performance of the of the v-pack is still a mission fail this leads to my overriding point today the failure of the v-pack does not rest on the shoulders of the council alone but rather is a reflection of the national fascination with better living through chemistry when v-pack was created the stated goals were a fit for that moment in time no member of the public then could have known that herbicides would become such a profit maker with more and more uses identified and recklessly promoted the desire for ever more profit has driven us to this day in age where our usage is exponentially more than what's even conceivable in earlier times the global warming scenario offers a parallel example immediate profit ahead of common sense and scientific integrity so we sit here today facing not only a massive increase in annual usage but also an unknown toxic legacy resulting from decades of untracked pesticide usage we may have tracked select quantities over select time spans but we have not tracked or explored cumulative effects that may contribute to declining soil health so the urgency today is real very real much more so than in previous decades i'm going to skip a point about public participation i know we're pressed for time yeah i got about three minutes on mine all right thank you uh i would love to i did share these notes with linda leeman there so you have them yes we do have your testimony okay i'm going to move on my my the point that i'm skipping is public participation public engagement is absolutely broken in the world of attending meetings and getting getting public engagement it's a broken piece of the equation i'm going to carry on now v pack talking about the council not getting the information it needs to empower its decision making consider 2016 the summer of 16 brought essentially no range of the southern reaches of the state and central max this severe drought condition equates to major stress on all types of vegetation as well as on soil microbes there were also at the time three species of exotic past beetles in the immediate vicinity so you know about hemorrhagic woolly asian longhorns and emerald ashwood why would any in 2016 why would any regulatory or advisory body permit the use of pesticides or toxins under such drought conditions in a climate so today with more disturbance events and huge swings in water table and ground conditions why would we seek to introduce yet more stress into that landscape that never comes into the conversation we even have power companies doing test runs on new pesticides in southern vermont how does this happen where are the universities and the scholars and the stewards we know that beetles are seeking out weakened trees and if the drought were not bad enough why is there no discussion of cumulative effects long-term health i was at that meeting and it felt to me a member of the public to recommend to the power company that they might wish to coordinate with their county forester if nothing else it's experimenting with herbicides in a stressed situation anyone that does maple sugaring knows annual sugar production traces back through the years and depends on many contributing factors so we cannot just operate in a bubble i want to say as well that pesticide usage is now an environmental constant like acid rain once was and like migrating passenger pigeons once were the annual application of tons of pesticides is an environmental stressor that will kill off some species while forcing others to evolve as survivors and those survivors will require yet stronger chemistry to suppress them and rather than functional soil and healthy plant communities we will pursue ever more powerful and profitable synthetic toxins yeah we the bell is ringing and we've got to go up to the senate floor so we're going to have to excuse ourselves and we have your testimony and sorry we didn't have more time for you but we'll read through your testimony and you can follow what we're doing on the bill on our web page very good thank you yeah thank you


Good afternoon. Today, we'll be talking about Markham Ranch pump station and ground storage tank and construction activities related to this job for city of Fort Worth. The agenda includes introductions. Of the team members project overview project area, and we'll touch upon some of the frequently asked questions. The picture shows a sender range pump station, which is one of the existing pump station and this new pump station will be very similar to. This one in the picture project team includes myself. My name is Farida. Good area. Once again, number phone number is<PHONE_NUMBER> email is Farida. Good area at Fort Worth, Texas dot gov. I have a team of inspectors. The main inspector is Ivan Roka. His phone number is<PHONE_NUMBER>. And he can be also reached that email. I won dot Roka at Kim Lee. One dot com. I have also another inspector Ronnie Cardenas. He's an alternate. His phone number is<PHONE_NUMBER> and his email is Ronald. Cardenas at Fort Worth, Texas dot gov. The team also includes engineering design consultant. And their name is Kim Lee horn and associates. The lead team members are John Atkins and Josh Karcho. The contractor on this job is question constructors in. And the main lead person is Ryan Glance and site super superintendent is Chris Sonnenberg. This light shows the project area as well as the location. Of the pump station and the ground storage tank. The project site for the ground storage tank and the pump station is sitting on side in the Markham Ranch area. It's just south of I 20 near I 20 and Markham Ranch exit. This is in the city of Fort Worth. Extra territorial jurisdiction west and south of Fort Worth council district 3. Why are we doing this project? Of course, the main reason is the growth growth within West Fort Worth area and is requires continuous improvement to the water distribution system. In order to provide and maintain reliable reliable water service to existing and proposed developments. Within the West side 3, West side 4 and West side pressure plan. So basically this pump station and ground storage tank is going to serve 3 pressure plans within the city of Fort Worth. The. The ground storage tank would be located in the West side 3 pressure plane in the pump station are for the West side 4 and West side 5 pumps. Areas together they provide the additional storage as well as the pumping capacity and allows us to move the water from 1 pressure plane to another pressure plan. In the West side area. Okay, what does this project include? In a nutshell, this project includes a 5200 square foot pump station building. And which will have a space for 7 pumps. 6 will be installed with this construction and 1 will be installed in the future. And we'll also include a 3 million gallons concrete storage tank. Once again, the picture shows a sender around from station and ground storage tank. And this new pump station will be very similar to. The 1 in the picture. I have some more photos. It showed the back of the building with some piping layout. And also show the electrical room with MCC and switch gear. A lot is included with the pump station in the ground storage tank. Okay, why or what is the purpose of the pump station. In is simply a pump station can transport water from 1 elevation to another via piped water distribution system. In this case, the pipe, the is a city of Fort Worth water system. Of course, like I said pumps are used to move water from a starting point to your home businesses, any other entities via service lines with enough pressure behind it to overcome any resistance. It can also move water from low point to high point. Against the gravity when the development is occurring in an area, the water pump station is used to increase the water pressure as well. Wherever it is required. And the picture shows 1 of the other pump station in our city of Fort Worth water system. How does a ground storage tank work. So ground storage tank are mainly to maintain water service pressure. But that's not all it also provides an emergency storage supply, especially during power outages. And the tank plays an important role in meeting the demand as well. During the peak hourly demand or peak day of the time. How will this construction impact area businesses. For most part the construction is not going to impact the surrounding area. The construction is slated for a site just west of business area, which includes manufacturing masonry tracking a truck stop and an indoor golf club. Both the pump station and ground storage tank will not connect directly to the water services in the surrounding area. And there should be no interruption for water services. To customers timeline. The construction activities will begin April 4. 2022 and the contractor is Crescent constructors Inc. The ground storage tank and the tank is part of the same contract. And the construction will take almost 21 months and is expected to. Complete by December 2023. Again, the picture shows the pump station. Of one of an existing pump station we have within the city of Fort Worth water system. Okay, where can I get more information? Anyone can go to our website and the information will be updated on the website regularly. And the link is given below. You can also go to our main website www.fortworth, Texas dot gov and put the project number. 103010 in a search bar on at the home page. The link to this meeting video, the project map and the project summary. As well as the frequently asked questions will all be linked to this project page. You need more information. Please feel free to contact myself. I am a project manager and my name is for we the good area. Once again,<PHONE_NUMBER>. And the email addresses for we the dot good area at Fort Worth, Texas dot gov. My inspector team includes Ivan Roka.<PHONE_NUMBER>. As well as<PHONE_NUMBER>. You can also reach him at the email. Ivan dot Roka at Kim Lee horn dot com. Another inspector is Ronnie Cardenas<PHONE_NUMBER>. Ronald Cardenas at Fort Worth, Texas dot gov. How do I report an emergency or non emergency? You can always go to our website. And report any emergencies. For example, water main breaks who are back up. And it's open and available 24 hours a day. The phone number is<PHONE_NUMBER>. And you select option one on a automated voice message system. You can also reach our water call center and for non emergencies during business hour, 7am to 7pm Monday through Friday. By calling<PHONE_NUMBER>. Please note the offices or live person will not be available during city holidays as well as on the weekend. You can also download my Fort Worth app from the app store or Google play. 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Five, travel and recreation. Yes, men, choose the career that offers all five. Find out about the five keys to a successful future at your nearest U.S. Army and U.S. Air Force recruiting station. Now once again, your host, C.P. McGregor. The curtain rises on act one The teacher had a principal starring Mona Freeman as Marsha Gray. When Marsha Gray was studying to become a teacher her dreams of the future were concerned only with instilling in her students a desire for knowledge. Then Marsha graduated from teachers college and learned that there were more problems in the teaching profession than appeared on the blackboard. Young, attractive and definitely whistle-bait Marsha resented some of the restrictions imposed upon teachers by such unenlightened communities as Hillsdale. And right now at a special teachers meeting called by the principal, Mr. C. Howard Jones Marsha is in a rebellious mood. Ladies, please, Miss Gray. Yes, Mr. Jones. Will you please give me your attention for just a moment? This won't take long. Well, I hope not. There are other cards to make out. I appreciate that, Miss Gray, but they'll just have to wait. This is a matter of grave importance. Oh. Mr. Watson, our physical education and manual training instructor and the coach of our athletic teams was seen entering the pool hall. Well, aren't you shocked? I certainly am, Mr. Jones. In fact, for a moment I was shocked speechless. However, now that I've recovered, I would like to say just for the record that I think Mr. Watson's action was most disgraceful. Thank you, Miss Pickrick. I was sure I could depend on you. Do any of you other ladies have anything to say on the subject? I have. Yes, Miss Gray. What's so disgraceful about Mr. Watson going into the pool hall? Every other man in town goes in there. The fathers of our students, even the members of the school board, I know I've seen them. That's very different, Miss Gray. Those other men are not teachers. Mr. Watson is. Look, Jones, I told you that I only went into the pool hall to get a couple of my basketball players. I appreciate that, Mr. Watson, and I personally am willing to accept your explanation, but that is beside the point. Townspeople, our employers, if you please, who saw you going into the pool hall, do not know the reason you entered. They will feel certain that you went in there to waste your time playing pool. Why should they think that, Mr. Jones? If I visit a friend in a maternity ward, that doesn't make me a mother. Please, Miss Gray, maternity ward indeed. I still don't understand all the excitement, Jones. It was Saturday when I went in there. If I wasted any time, it was my own. A teacher has no time of his or her own, Mr. Watson. I'm not going to go into the wrongs to the community. Then why do our contracts just call for a five-day week? That clause is merely a legal technicality, Mr. Watson. What about the clauses which state that we can't get married or have babies without losing our jobs? Those are not technicalities, Miss Gray. Those clauses were designed to protect the school and us teachers from any influence which might divert our interest from our work. Surely you understand that? I think we'd all be better teachers if we had children of our own and let at least semi-natural lives. I would like to talk with you after I've dismissed the other teachers, Miss Gray. We assembled here to discuss Mr. Watson's error in conduct, not your philosophical approach to pedagogical profession. Please, Mr. Jones, don't talk like an educator. I'll settle with you later. Now, Mr. Watson, I feel that you owe it to the rest of us to remove the stigma which you laid upon us in that pool hall. Okay, Jonesy, what do you want me to do? Why don't you write, I won't go into the pool hall again 500 times. Miss Gray, this is too much. All right, make it 250 times. The rest of you are dismissed. I'll take the matter up with you later, Mr. Watson. Okay, Jonesy. And please stop calling me Jonesy. As for you, Miss Gray, I'll see you in my office immediately. Really, Miss Gray, I can't understand your attitude. If you don't like teaching, why are you a teacher? But I love teaching, Mr. Jones. I think that with the possible exception of medicine, it's the greatest, most satisfying profession in the world. Well, I'm certainly happy if somewhat surprised to hear you say that. I also think that some of the restrictions imposed upon teachers are absolutely archaic. Really? Exactly. We're supposed to teach children to take their places in the world as normal human beings, but we're not permitted to live normal lives ourselves. Oh, this is getting us nowhere, Miss Gray. I asked you to come to my office because of a statement you made concerning marriage and baby. Well, I'm in favor of them both, and I think they should go together. I also believe in the American home and the American way of life, and I'm more than willing to sign an oath of loyalty to this country. Miss Gray, have you been thinking about marriage? Certainly. It's perfectly natural, isn't it? Just what have you done about it? Well, nothing concrete. Just hope. Well, I'm certainly happy to hear that. Why, Mr. Jones, are you proposing? What? Certainly not. But I have been informed that one of our teachers, whose name is as yet unknown, has secretly married and is in fact the mother of an infant. I'm very happy to learn that you are not that teacher, Miss Gray.  Indeed I am. Except for your slightly radical attitude toward a public educator's duties to the community, I consider you one of our finest teachers. Well, thank you. Yes, it would have pained me deeply to have been forced to ask for your resignation. But you'd have done it. I would have had no choice. I see. Well, let me tell you something, Mr. C. Howard Jones. If I ever find a man who'll marry me and who wants children, I'll accept him so fast that he won't know he said I do till the first baby's three years old. And if for any reason he can't afford to support us, I'll keep right on teaching until some long-nosed snooper complains. Good afternoon, Mr. Jones. But I'm not through talking, Miss Gray. Well, I am. I'm going home. I wonder who that could be. I'm coming. Miss Gray. Oh, Miss Randolph. Won't you come in? Thank you, Miss Gray. I hope I didn't interrupt anything important, Miss Gray. Oh, not at all. I was just finishing my dishes. Oh, you can be thankful that one person doesn't use many. Well, that isn't much consolation for living alone. As a matter of fact, I let them stand in the sink for three days. Just to make it look as though a man were living here. Won't you sit down? Thank you. When Mr. Jones dismissed us this afternoon, I didn't get a chance to tell you how much I admired the way you stood up to him and defended Mr. Watson. I certainly congratulate you. Oh, please don't. I was probably wrong. And I'll undoubtedly pay heavily for that little free speech. But I just can't stand injustice. Teachers can't go into pool halls. Teachers can't get married. Teachers can't even have babies. I wanted to talk to you about that. Which? Babies, marriage, or pool halls? Babies. Well, I'm afraid I don't know much about babies, Miss Randolph. I don't even know anyone who has one. I have one, Miss Gray. Well, I think that's wonderful. I think that's wonderful. Miss Randolph? Mrs. Randolph, Miss Gray. I use Miss only to keep the school board from cancelling my contract. Oh, well, yes, of course. Phil, Mr. Randolph is just completing his law course under the GI Bill and helping to support his mother. So it's absolutely necessary that I keep my job until he gets back on his feet. Oh, naturally. Well, I knew you'd understand, Miss Gray. It was deceitful of me to accept this teaching job knowing how they felt about married teachers and babies. But, well, I had to do something. And it hasn't hurt my teaching. Of course it hasn't, Miss Randolph. I wish you'd called me Helen. Well, I'd like to, Helen. My name's Marcia. I know. Oh, this is a terrible imposition, Marcia. And, well, if it weren't for the way you expressed yourself this afternoon, I wouldn't have the nerve to ask. But if you would keep your secret... Oh, my dear, I wouldn't tell us so long. Oh, I'm sure you won't. But that isn't really what I had in mind. Well, Phil and I haven't had a chance to go out together since school started. And this is our third anniversary. I wonder if you'd take care of the baby for us tonight. Well, I'd love to. Where is it? Out in the car. Let's go get him right away. Marcia, please don't call him it. He's terribly sensitive. Here, Marcia. Isn't he a great big boy? Well, he certainly is. What's your name, young man? He's Phil, Junior. Say hello to Miss Gray, Philzie. Oh, dear, don't you like me, Phil?  It's just that you're strange. What did you say? He hasn't seen anyone except his father and myself since school started. Well, here's his bottle. I just heat it in a pan of warm water about 10 o'clock. Thank you, loads. Helen? Yes, Marcia? Well, didn't you forget something important? Well, not that I know of. Isn't Philzie apt to need a spare or something? Oh, you mean his... Yes, yes. Of course, I'll fill you up. I have them right here in my purse. Is there any special way? Well, I always use the square fold. But if you're more accustomed to the triangle, well, that's perfectly all right. Well, I'm sure everything will work out.  Oh, well, thank you again, Marcia. You've been a lifesaver. I know. You can tell by the little round hole in my head. Perhaps next time I can do the same for you. Yes. What? Marcia, if you have any visitors for heaven's sakes, don't tell them whose baby Phil is. If it got around town and Mr. Jones learned about it... Oh, now don't worry about a thing, Helen. No one will learn anything from me, least of all, Mr. Jones. I knew I could depend on you, Marcia. We won't be too late. All right. Good night. Well, Philzie, how do you like staying with your Aunt Marcia? Well, maybe you'd like to have me sing to you. Rock-a-bye, babe. On the treetop. Don't you like my singing? You charming child. Now see what you've done.  Just a second, Helen. I'll be right there. Now you stay right there on the Davenport, Philzie, until I let your mother in. I said to make sure that the baby... Mr. Jones. Good evening, Miss Gray. What was it you were saying about a baby? Why, a baby? Did I say something about a baby? Oh, you must be mistaken, Mr. Jones. Really? Well, of course. I wouldn't know a baby if I saw one in my own house. In that event, Miss Gray, I'd better come in and identify an infant for you. We pause briefly for my story. The teacher had a principle starring Mona Freeman to bring you an important message from our government. Women in the medical profession. If you served in the U.S. Army during the recent war, here's important news for you. Nurses, dieticians, physical therapists, or occupational therapists who served in the Army Medical Department in World War II may now qualify for a regular commission. That's right. A new law making this possible has just been passed. And here's an important part of that law. If you were separated after May 12, 1945, you will be credited for the time between separation and your appointment to the regular Army. Appointments will be made through the grade of captain. Yes, for you women who served as nurses, dieticians, physical therapists, or occupational therapists, this is your great career opportunity. Your application must be in by November 15. Like today for your application to the Office of Surgeon General, Department of the Army, Washington, 25 D.C. Certain rises on Act II of the teacher had a principle starring Mona Freeman as Marsha Gray. When Marsha Gray left Mrs. Randolph's crying baby on her Davenport and hurried to the door, she expected to meet the baby's mother. Instead, she found herself face to face with her school principal, Mr. C. Howard Jones, who, at the request of the school board, was trying to discover which of his teachers had violated her contract by marrying and having a baby. Really, Mr. Jones? It's awfully nice of you to drop in and very thoughtful, but, well, I'm really not prepared to have any guests this evening. I can readily believe that, Miss Gray. Where's the baby? Baby? Yes, Miss Gray, baby. The infant I heard crying a moment ago. Oh, you must be mistaken, Mr. Jones. I don't hear any baby crying. Neither do I. Now, but I certainly did when I was standing outside the door. Well, are you sure it wasn't the radio, Mr. Jones? Positive, nor was it a television set. Well, are you going to invite me into your living room? Are you going to keep me standing in this hallway all night? I told you I'm not prepared to receive any guests. I appreciate that, Miss Gray. Nevertheless, as principal of the school, I must do my duty. Please stand aside. I'd like to see the baby. But I told you it was just the radio, Mr. Jones. I prefer to trust my own eyes. This isn't a radio, Miss Gray. Well, for heaven's sakes, what is it? A baby, and there it is on your Davenport. You see, Miss Gray, I know a real baby when I hear one. I could never be fooled by a radio actor pretending to sound like a baby. Oh, you know so much. And you keep out of this, you stool pigeon. Well, Miss Gray, I shall expect to find your resignation on my desk in the morning. Resignation? Naturally. You know that your contract forbids any teacher to be married or to have children while employed by the school district. But, but, Mr. Jones. I'd like to speak to your husband, if I may. My husband? Yes, the father of this little contract breaker. But I'm not married, Mr. Jones. Not married? Oh, Miss Gray. Mr. Jones, please. I'll be all right. I'll be all right, Miss Gray. I just fainted from the shock. Not married. Really, Miss Gray, this is too much. I don't blame you, my child. I don't blame you. Just a second, Mr. Jones. This is not my baby. Then whose child is it? Well, I can't tell you that. But it belongs to a man and a woman. I believe that is a not uncommon occurrence. What are the names of this man and woman? Well, I told you that I just couldn't say. I see. In that case, Miss Gray, I can only assume that an alleged man and woman are figments of your imagination, and that this child is indeed yours. Well, he's not. How are you, Philzie? You see, I'm just taking care of him for the evening. You mean the child's parents will return to pick him up later? Well, of course. In that unlikely event, I shall wait and meet the parents. But you can't do that. And why not, may I ask? Well, because you just can't. Perhaps that's the child's parents returning. Oh, well, I'm sure it couldn't be. We'll see. That is, if you'll answer the door. All right. But you wait right here. And you keep an eye on him, Phil. Why, Mr. Watson? Oh, won't you please come in? I just dropped by to thank you for a distracting old pickle-puss this afternoon. Oh, dear, I'm afraid I don't know what you mean. Oh, sure you do. The way you jumped in with that baby's and marriage routine made Jonesy forget all about me going to a pool hall. You're quite mistaken, Mr. Watson. Oh. I shall go into the pool hall. That is, the matter of the pool hall at some other time. At present, I'm concerned about a much more serious affair. Oh? He's referring to the baby. Baby? She's kept her secret very well, Mr. Watson. But Miss Gray has a baby in the other room. What's more, she isn't married. I told you that child isn't mine. Of course. And in the same brazen breath, Mr. Watson, she refuses to divulge the identity of the baby's parents. And they also told you I can't do that. Of course you can't. Why can't you tell her, Marsha? Well, because they... Well, just because. I see. Well, I guess we can't keep it a secret any longer.  Of course, Marsha. Mr. Jones, that baby is mine. Mr. Watson. Yours? Well, Mr. Watson, first you're seen going into pool halls. Then I discover you have a baby. I suppose as a last straw, I learned that you're married. Mr. Watson, I shall expect to have your resignation in the morning. You'll get it. Mr. Watson, please. It's all right, Marsha. You can call me Wally now that old vinegar-fizz here knows. Knows? About us. What about us? There's no point in attempting to continue your deception, Miss Gray. What are you... What's anybody talking about? I should have suspected that there was something between you two, and Miss Gray defended you so ably this afternoon, Mr. Watson.  I don't suppose you told Jonesy when we were married, Marsha. Married? Oh, so you are married. Naturally. I come from a long line of married people, Jonesy, and I expect my children to be able to say the same. Just when and where were you married, Mr. Watson? Well, since I'm resigning tomorrow, this is none of your business, but just so there can't be any gossip about Miss Gray, my wife, that is, we'll be remarried sometime this week before we leave town. Married? Oh, Mr. Watson, if you can only cook. Well, now that everything is understood, I might as well be on my way. Don't bother to show me out, Miss Gray. Mrs. Watson, I mean. I can find my own way. Mr. Watson. Did I leave you alone, Miss Gray? Well, I don't... Oh, yes, you did. I was forgetting that thing. Marthea? Phil and I decided we just couldn't enjoy the show because of worrying about our baby. Mr. Jones. Yes, Miss Randolph. Am I to understand that this baby is yours? What? Really, Mr. Jones? I don't know what to say. Well, I do, Helen. Who are you, young man? Phil Randolph, and that baby is ours. You want to make anything of it? I was as proud as a pup when that baby was born, and I'm not ashamed of him now. But my job would depend on that. I'll find some way to take care of you if you lose your job. I'm afraid that's quite certain, Mr. Randolph. Your wife has violated her teaching contract on two accounts. One, she is married, two, she has a baby. Her dismissal is, of course, automatic. I don't think so. What you think makes no difference, I'm afraid, Miss Gray. We'll see about that. If Helen Randolph loses her job, I'm going to write every paper in the state and tell them what you and the local school board have done. I'll tell them about her husband being a combat veteran, studying under the GI Bill, and obliged to support his mother, and that the only reason she's teaching is to hold their family together until he's able to complete his education, which was interrupted while he fought to protect you. Hysterical threats will get you nowhere. No, Marsha, keep out of it. This is our problem. It's my problem as much as yours. More, maybe. More? If you hadn't come in when you did and upset everything, Wally, Mr. Watson was going to marry me. I suppose you want my resignation, Mr. Jones. No, Miss Gray. After consulting with the school board, we have decided to eliminate the clauses banning marriage and babies. What do you think of that? Well, I think it's wonderful, Mr. Jones. But what about Mr. Watson and the pool hall? I'm coming to that. You see, I, uh... I'm not really as unreasonable as you seem to think. Oh, I never thought you were unreasonable, Mr. Jones. Really? Well, of course not. I may have thought you were a stuffed shirt and scared to death of the board, but I never thought you were unreasonable. Oh. Well, I...  I... I was just wondering if I might have the pleasure of your company this evening. Why, I think it's a marvelous idea, Mr. Jones. I hoped you'd think so. In fact, I went ahead and reserved a table. That sounds terribly exciting. I haven't had a table reserved for me since I started teaching. Where are we going? To meet Mr. Watson at the pool hall. I reserved table seven. The technical calls and the final act that the teacher had a principle. Our star, Mona Freeman, will return for a curtain call after this timely message from Wendell Niles. High school graduates, before choosing any career, check up on the excellent opportunities which the United States Air Force offers you. Now you can actually chart your future step by step. You know exactly where you stand and what to expect of the future. It works like this. After you enlist in the U.S. Air Force, you'll have given special placement tests which determine your aptitudes and abilities. Next, you're interviewed by highly skilled career counselors who help you select the job for which you are best suited and have the best chance for success. Then you start a definite career plan, combining on-the-job training with technical schools and maximum use of the skills you've learned. At all times, your future is clear and assured. Learn how you may enjoy these advantages as an airman in the U.S. Air Force. Inquire at your nearest Air Force base or U.S. Army and U.S. Air Force Recruiting Station. And I'll once again your host, C.P. McGregor and our star, Mona Freeman. It is set of Hollywood. It is the place where the unbelievable happens. Well, instead of casting our star as a teenager as she is known to the motion picture audiences, we asked Mona Freeman to portray a schoolteacher. I think you were grand, Mona. Oh, and I loved it, C.P. Of course, I didn't object to the whistle-bait description as you opened the story. It sort of established the teacher. If there ever was a star in Hollywood that didn't need establishing, you're her. Oh, thank you. But, of course, I really took the casting cue from one of your latest Paramount pictures branded. Well, I'm quite grown up as a Texas rancher's daughter in that one. That's right. And then in Paramount's still unreleased, Copper Canyon, you were also a young lady. That's right. Of course, you know Copper Canyon is a period story where I play the young wife of a Civil War soldier. Well, since both branded and Copper Canyon have you as a young woman in her early 20s, I know our listeners will find you just as delightful. Oh, thank you. But now I hear that there's another picture on fire for you, a sequel that will put you back in the teenage part. Well, I'll be a little older. You see, the first picture, dear Ruth, has a sequel called Dear Wife. Well, you were slightly older. And the next one, although it isn't written yet, may be called Dear Mom. And I'm likely to be a very old woman in that. Oh, yes, 18 or 19 at least. Well, I know we'll be looking forward to seeing you. And by the way, having you back here with us again. Well, I'd love it.  So please tell me who's starring next week. Well, next week, Mona and ladies and gentlemen, we're going to bring you one of Hollywood's most popular actors, Phillip Reed. He will star with us in a romantic play called Thank You Miranda. I know you'll find our star at his dramatic best. Don't miss it. Oh, that's supersonic. Pat and I will be simply wedged to our loudspeaker. Be seeing you. Do that. And we'll be seeing you again soon. Goodbye, Mona. Be sure to join us next week, ladies and gentlemen. And Phillip Reed stars in the romance Thank You Miranda. Until next week then, this is C.P. McGregor saying thanks for listening and cheerio from Hollywood. Mona Freeman appeared for the courtesy of the Hollywood Coordinator, Betty, which arranges for the appearance of all stars in this program. Scripted by Bill Hampton with the music Betty Dunstead. This program was transcribed in Hollywood for release at this time. Wendell Niles speaking.