Sa dami-daming option sa PC building, gusto mo lang ba may magsabi sa iyo ito-going mo? In 15 seconds, ito-going mo. PSU, not-core-sare, MOBO, not-oros, CPU, AMD, GPU, not-AMD, AIO, NO, RGB, Techno, wireless, everything wireless except for one thing. But if you need to have cables, get them cost-off. Hey person, click that thumbnail. If you're intercomputer hardware, there's definitely one thing you can't avoid. Ano mo sa toto lang? Balakalan we shop na yan. Saan mo ba naanap yan? Oh, nakita ko sila kasi sa YouTube. Na-hanap mo sa YouTube. But ka tumatingin sa YouTube? Other people's opinion.  But these are my personal choices. Starting with my choice where I got my Windows activation key. Well, lucky you! Pinakabago mo na sa CDKoffers.com. Windows 10 and Windows 11 activation codes. Legit, safe, at pinakamura. Madadilo mo morder. Hanapin ang Windows version na gusto mo. Piliin ang preferred Playpen Seton di purchase ko. But now, I found a log of my life. Dati, ing-resin walang purchase ang life ko. But now, I'm a world-class Zuba instructor. So, web developer ako and content creator for a YouTube channel. And ngayon ganun pa rin ako, pero activated na yung Windows ko. Kayakon nag-hanap ka ng legit. At original software. Okay, first up, in no particular order, I really like wireless. If there's an option to remove a wire, I will take it. So my personal preference is that my mouse always needs to be wireless. Currently, my keyboard is wired. But the keyboards I've been trying out lately, particularly from ASUS, have convinced me that my concerns about latency, about lag, are unfounded. And my keyboard is pretty old now. So probably maybe in a year or two, I will get a wireless one. My headset is also wireless. And if you're getting a headset, I would seriously advise you to make sure it's wireless. Time to cut the cord. Anything that can go wireless, I generally try to make it wireless. Next up, a big one in the PC space. To RGB or not to RGB. That is always the question. But as you can see behind me, I am a no RGB kind of guy. Yes, the GPU has a little RGB. It came with a GPU. I don't particularly care about it either way. I've never tried to customize it. The motherboard has some lights. The cooler I'm using has a little bit of light. But overall, I've never done the RGB aesthetic. I made no effort to kind of synchronize the lights of my PC behind me. And don't get me wrong, RGB can be cool. But it gets old fast. And personally, I've noticed the RGB setups that I like are the ones that don't use all of the colors. You can set them to monochromatic, let's say all white or all blue. Or just like a dual color scheme. So using or getting more with less. Where the PC looks cool but because of the edges of its parts. Because you know that it's running good hardware. Because you know it's running optimized. Like you got the latest drivers. You made sure you kind of tweaked a little bit the settings of the RAM and the CPU and the GPU. It looks good because you know it's running well under the hood. So for me, not an RGB guy. But if you like RGB, that's no problem. RGB is of course just for aesthetics. I think an under-appreciated aesthetic touch is getting custom cables. A while back, Cable Mod sent us. Like not just me but basically everybody in the shop. The option to have custom cables. And the one I chose was for my rig. And you can choose them like the individual strands of the MOBO and GPU power connectors. So I chose like a gray, blue, purple kind of scheme. And they still look very good. And for me, they're a subtle but clear sign that pinikisipan mo yung computer mo. Hindi pang karaniwan yung custom cables. Now you don't necessarily need to go full customization like the ones from Cable Mod. There are a lot of cable extenders that are colored. So if you just want all white for your wires or like a criss-crossing blue-black, blue-red design or things like that, there are options available. Next choice which a lot of people have different opinions about is whether you're a water bender or an air bender or are you using air cooling or are you using an AIO. Now I've tried both and long time viewers will remember how successful my mounting of a 360mm rad AIO on my current case was. And if I may say so, that was a brilliant design choice on my part. So hanggan dito si GPU, obviously datama siya sa radiator. That's why inangat ko siya. And even though... Lampas na sa case radiator. But that's okay. It'll do its job. But I have had different AIOs to 40, 360, different models, different brands on my computer. But I'm liking my current look the best. I'm using a deep cool AK620 digital. I love the digital. I love the concept that you can just take a quick glance and see basic information without having to pull up a window, without having to click anything. Just turn your eyes and the information is there. Now you can have that with an AIO of course, again with the digital line from Deep Cool and other models from other brands. But for the aesthetic of my computer, I think bagay yung AK620 digital. It's kind of like a skyscraper sprouting, rising dramatically from the motherboard. And this is really subjective. AIOs have gotten to the point where they're not that much more difficult than an air cooler. Mounting a rad is pretty straightforward. Mounting the fans onto the rad. Mounting the CPU block. It's basically as straightforward as mounting an air cooler. Maintenance also, there is no appreciable practical difference. You don't add water to an AIO. Some people do ask us about it. That's why I'm mentioning it in the video. That fluid inside the AIO is already self-contained. You don't need to add anything. So the maintenance is just like an air cooler. So you brush out the dirt that gets trapped in the radiator. The same way that you would brush out the dirt that gets trapped in the tower of an air cooler. An AIO from a good brand doesn't leak. I guess, point of failure, there is a higher chance of an AIO pump breaking compared to the fans of an air cooler breaking. And if they do break, they're much easier to replace. But again, on a practical level, we haven't seen a higher RMA rate for AIOs compared to air coolers. So this is a purely subjective opinion. I guess I'm just old school and I still prefer an air cooler if there's nothing super special about an AIO that would attract me to it. And on performance, it's not true that you need an AIO for the latest and the greatest or to keep very hot CPUs cool. I'm currently running a Ryzen 9 5900X with a two-tower air cooler and I haven't had any problems.  I like patronizing the underdog and in CPUs, I know they're kind of similar already but AMD was an underdog for such a long time that I still associate them with that position. I really appreciate that they developed the heck out of Ryzen. I mean, AM4 was such a golden age. You could get Ryzen 1000 AM4 and then technically just upgrade the CPU all the way up to the Ryzen 5000 and it would probably still be compatible with that motherboard. I mean, the AM4 ecosystem was, you know, it has so much value. It still has a lot of value now. So I really appreciate AMD for that. Unlike Intel, which likes changing up its sockets every two or three generations. Performance nowadays, they're sort of neck and neck with AM5 prices around the same as the Intel 14th gen. AMD was nicer before because, you know, they were a clear price to performance advantage but now not so much. So I admit that a lot of the reasons why I like AMD are in the past. They're not currently true anymore, at least for AM5 versus Intel 14th gen. But that's not true for GPUs. For GPUs, I prefer Nvidia. I appreciate the performance and the innovations that Nvidia is trying to bring to the space whether that is AI upscaling, the whole RTX thing in general. I mean, Nvidia is really the leader. AMD just tries to follow and perhaps unfairly because I know their drivers are better now but I was really traumatized as someone who owns hardware sugar back in the day with the 5,000 series cards ng AMD. Sobrang gulo ng mga yan. The drivers were not great. So we had customers coming back to us, complaining how come their games were crashing. And it's very hard to tell a customer but we're sorry. There's nothing we can do. The hardware seems to be fine.  So I'm still traumatized by that. In general, Nvidia drivers are still more stable. And Nvidia really tries to swing for the home run. The 4090 is still top dog. AMD has nothing that can touch the 4090. Its latest 7900 XTX is more comparison to the 4080, the one step down card. And it has nothing that can currently touch the 4090. So I don't have the budget for a 4090. I have never bought the 90 series yung pinaka top end. But I appreciate that Nvidia is trying to push the space. For PSU, I had a Corsair for a long time. It died on me but I appreciated that I was able to use it for multiple generations. So Corsair is a good brand but actually there are a lot of other brands now that are cheaper and have the same good quality. Currently, using an FSP, we've had good experience with deep cool PSUs in the shop. Csonic is another brand that usually comes to mind for PSUs. Ok naman sila. Super flower is still underrated, still a bit under the radar. But our shop experience with them has also been very good. So there are a lot of good PSU brands that you don't need to pay the premium prices like for Corsair but you're still getting very good quality. I feel like the PSU is one of the things that people like to over complicate. I mean, they're the PSU tier lists. They have to look at specific models. For me, that's a level of OC that I don't really want to expend on a black box. As long as it's stable, as long as it's reliable, that's all I really need. An 80 plus gold fully modular PSU from the likes of Deep Cool or FSP, Super flower, buy it, stick it to your computer, forget about it. It will last longer than that computer. And the last topic for this video is another confession I have that I don't really pour over the reviews too much for my own personal build is the motherboard. Generally, I've had good experience with Gigabyte stretching back to my previous Intel build. So for this current build, I just got an X570S ultra-durable from Gigabyte. Gigabyte in general, okay naman siya for motherboards. Like, I'm not unhappy with it. For sure, the other brands are quality as well. MSI, ASUS, we sold a lot of them in the shop, generally without any problems. But personally, I just prefer Gigabyte because ultra-durable does seem to mean ultra-durable at least in my own personal experience. Now, a lot of people delve into VRM temperatures and how many chokes and how many layers. And when I review motherboards, I do find all of that stuff kind of interesting. But as an end user, a lot of the time, as long as you get a good quality board, doesn't necessarily need to be top of the line, but three-fourths towards the top of the line. Don't scrimp naman, but get a good quality board. And the build takes care of itself. I haven't had any problems with this particular build. I never had any problems over the years with my previous Intel build that also had a Gigabyte ultra-durable. And that's not even the top of the line of Gigabyte. I mean, they have the Oro sub-brand for that. I do admit some of the newer motherboards now from other manufacturers look a bit cooler. Like, in particular, ASUS always has these little nice touches which only, like, real enthusiasts so have to get their hands dirty installing things into the motherboard, mounting it into the case will actually appreciate, but I appreciate that they're there. So to be honest, this was a very stream-of-consciousness video. I just set out the topics I wanted to talk about, but I had no script for what I said about those topics. If there are any other things like you want to know about my build, what I think about brands, just feel free to ask in the comments and maybe I'll do a follow-up video. On your end, personal click that thumbnail. I hope you're happy with your PC choices or you're happy with the choices that someone else made for you when you went to the shop and asked them, hey, I need a build for gaming. I don't know too much. Can you help me? If you got it from hardware sugar, I'm almost, like, I want to say 100%, but nothing's ever 100%. If you got it from hardware sugar, I'm 99% sure that you're happy with the parts we chose for you because we really try as much as possible not to use our opinions, but to get the opinion of the user on what they will be using the PC for, what their budget is and what we can work with for that budget na quality na maasahan na di ka kakabahan sa computer na binilimog galing sa amin. Thanks for watching. Paming saan may nagtatanong kumikilala ba kami ng computer shop na trusted yung hindi ka lolo ko hin? Actually, meron kami. Full service PC store ang hardware sugar. Nagbabenta kami ng PC components. Nagbabenta rin kami ng fully assembled rigs. We clean computers. Kasama na rin yung excellent cable management namin and CPU cooler repasting sa cleaning. We also clean and repaste GPUs. Na sa makati yung physical store namin and you can also buy www.hwsugar.ph na 100% palaging up to date yung inventory dun. Kung instock yung item sa amin available yung sa site. We also ship nationwide. Thanks for watching and maybe one of these days maghita tayo sa shop.


Mladne prezidenti, sekretari generačnih, spesialnih vsi, ljudi in ljudi. Dobro. The video you just saw is meant to honour those who fight crime in the field, in the service of justice every day, no matter where. They are the very reason Interpol was created, and they will always be at the heart of our mission. Each operation, each seizure, each arrest helps change the world into a safer place. Interpol duty is to ensure that this change is lasting and able to impact on the maximum number of people globally. You may not realize it, but communications is also a law enforcement important tool. Communication says a role to play in making sure these police results are meaningful and have continuing influence and value. This is where Turnback Crime, Interpol first communications campaign, can make a difference. Turnback Crime supported the operations you saw, in turn these operations helped to promote the campaign. We all know that law enforcement cannot function in isolation. Turnback Crime can create a real link between police, the private sector and the public at large. The priorities of the campaign are to highlight for civil society the achievement and value of police, to enable law enforcement to better ensure global security, to establish trust of a citizen in their police, to engage the private sector in modern day policing, and finally to educate people on the role they can play in preventing terrorism and in fighting organized crime. In other words, the campaign can promote a global alliance crime against crime to turnback crime. Communication is a powerful weapon. Terrorists and organized crime networks learned and know this very well. Strategies of fear, disinformation and the psychological warfare are used by terrorists and criminals to destabilize communities and governments. The effects of terrorism are amplified through fear. The fear of crime is almost as harmful as crime itself. The terrible crimes are inflicting on the world. Crimes that are screened directly into our homes, bringing us all closer to these horrors. Images are shared through modern technology and social media spreading fear and panic. Think of the Westgate Center attack in Nairobi. Think of the horrific beheading of charity workers and hostages in front of cameras. Think of the matter of innocent by standards when the car bombs detonate. It is clear that this complex reality is one of the most innovative tools to fight and prevent crime and terrorism. As Einstein said, our mind is like a parachute. In order to work, it needs to be open. Today we have a panel of speakers who will bring the turnback crime concept to life. We hear from France and from the UK about the experiences of conducting awareness campaigns to counter violent extremism. In April this year, France set up, for example, a hotline for people to report concerns about friends or family becoming radicalized. By the end of October, the hotline had received around 600 calls from the public and about 100 of these were to report people living in the country to go and fight abroad. This reporting mechanism creates a new dialogue between the public and law enforcement around a very sensitive subject like terrorism, violent terrorism. In addition, the UK campaign called Prevent aims to stop people becoming terrorists and supporting terrorism. This campaign works with a wide range of sectors where there are the risks of radicalization. You will recall how at the ministerial conference the ministers just Tuesday reminded us of how counterterrorism and organized crime is a shared responsibility between police, government, private sector and the public. The turnback crime campaign communicates directly with each of these components. For example, with regard to the general public we need to speak a language that people can relate to. We need people to want to play a role in tackling the threats. We need them to understand the achievements and value of police. We need to develop a culture of illegality. We need our citizens to fear less and to understand more. In the past, Interpol has seen the value of public appeals. Operation Vaiko was a successful global appeal that identified, located and arrested a suspected child abuser in less than 48 hours. Public tip-offs sent to Operation Infrared have led to hundreds of arrests of fugitives worldwide. Fugitives wanted for mothers, child abuses, drug trafficking and money laundering. These public appeals are powerful. They demonstrate how the public believe in our mission. And they trust our brand. We now need to take this trust and develop it through turnback crime. Now let's consider the way in which private sector can get involved. Take the example of a critical infrastructure which in many countries is largely owned and operated by private company. For instance, maritime and port security. Many countries depend on maritime trade for their economy and businesses. Yet the threat of piracy undermines these infrastructures and very often law enforcement are getting involved just at the end of the process once the incident has happened. Do ship owners and companies note that there are steps that can be taken to prevent such incidents. They can help with the preservation and collection of evidence on their ships. They can provide invaluable testimonials to the court along with insights to support investigations and analysis. The turnback crime campaign could help in building bridge to raise awareness in fighting maritime piracy. Interpol can also help protect private enterprise and therefore it means protect economies, social frameworks, workforces and the communities that such enterprises support. But in order to do so we need engagement from the private sector itself. What better example than ICHEKIT to illustrate this commitment? Yesterday, you voted in favor of ICHEKIT resolution. This tell me it's clear to you that cooperation with the private sector is valuable for police work and to help make the world a safer place. You have also seen already how in a very visible show of support our partner Eresha has painted one of their planes with the turnback branding. I think you will agree this plane is set to become one of the stars of the campaign as it travels around the world. Talking of stars, the campaign has attracted many high-profile supporters and ambassadors in different areas. These stars bring a touch of glamor to the campaign, but that's not why we need them. We need them in order to reach their followers, to reach millions of passionate people who will listen to a message from someone they admire and act on that message. And it's important to bear in mind that all our supporters and start have done this for free. The popularity of some of our supporters on social media is just outstanding. Formula One Scuderia Ferrari team has more than 3 million fans on Facebook. The actor Sharukan has an amazing 10 million followers on Twitter. And the actor Jackie Chan reaches more than 63 million fans on Facebook. Yes, 63 million. This is the real value they can add. Remember, every tweet share, every phone call, every person can make the world a safer place. Today we will also hear from the director of a Vatican gendarmerie on how it is important to develop a dialogue among different components of a society, which goes across borders, across languages and across cultures. I want to remind you that this campaign was successfully launched in June this year. It means only five months ago on the international anti-counterfeit day around the topic of illicit trade and has been used widely in support of operations like the one you saw in the video. Today Interpol is seeking to enlist the support of a law enforcement community to support your support. We would like you to see the value of using turnback crime in your day-to-day work. This means incorporating campaign messages into your operational activities. In this way we can add a new dimension to crime fighting. In Nigeria, for example, NCB officers wore turnback crime t-shirt and hats while repatriating a wanted terrorist and member of OCO ARAM from Sudan to Nigeria. By linking turnback crime to this high-profile event and NCB Nigeria highlighted the fact that law enforcement is a collective and global effort. I urge each of you to help us drive the campaign forward by being the next to join the campaign, by giving the resolution your full backing. Together the possibilities are endless. Together we can turnback trafficking, exploitation, terrorism, fear. Together we can turnback crime. Thank you.


Summer is here and the 12 mini deal just got even hotter. The iPhone 12 mini is now one penny with a two year contract. Visit an Appalachian Wireless Retail location or go to AppalachianWireless.com to view this amazing deal. We are you, we are Appalachian Wireless. A declaration was signed on Monday in Floyd County, deeming this week, Healthcare Heroes Week. I spoke with Floyd County Judge Executive Robbie Williams who says that healthcare workers were heroes before the pandemic began. This week is what we call our Healthcare Heroes Week. We've signed a proclamation to recognize our healthcare professionals and the essential services that they've been providing all the time, not just during the COVID, but the essential services that they've always been providing, the fact that they've been there for our community. They are our frontline workers and they're the folks that are out here putting their lives on the line every day to protect us. Local doctors, nurses, therapists, office staff, all who could have chosen a different career path, but instead chose to help others. We're, you know, you get no pushback from these folks, they do their job, they don't complain, day in and day out and they get the job done and it makes life so much easier for us to know that we have those professionals out there putting themselves out front to protect us on a daily basis. Williams adds that healthcare workers deserve more credit and he hopes that businesses, industry, faith and educational leaders will join in on showing their appreciation for these heroes. They not only go out here and put in a nine to five shift every day, a lot of them are working 60, 70 hours a week dealing with this, but the emotional toll that it's taking on them, day in and day out. I don't think folks realize that they see healthy 35 year old people getting the COVID and passing away or, you know, we just had someone here a few days ago, 41 years old, a healthy individual pass away. I don't care what your profession is and how well your training and background is, that's something that you're gonna take home at the end of the day. Healthcare Heroes Week in Floyd County runs from August 23rd until August 27th. Judge Executive Williams is asking the public to show your appreciation for healthcare workers during this time. A lot of times you don't get the appreciation that you deserve. I do wanna thank them for everything that they do and we certainly appreciate your efforts. Reporting from Mountaintop News, I'm Jeremy Justice.


The previous speaker mentioned that we should know our audience, and so I know my audience. I'm speaking to WordPress enthusiasts. At the same time, I'm also speaking to planners, to people who work in the field that I'm looking forward to being a part of when I graduate from Rutgers. So, let's see how this goes. I had to qualify what I'm going to say. So that's where the introduction came from. Last year, I presented at WordCamp US on how I engage my community on planning issues through blogging on WordPress. At the same time, I took a course in public participation in the planning process. It was a natural step for me in my education. I learned what government agencies must adhere to when engaging with the public on their planning efforts. Government agencies with planning departments need not fear using WordPress CMS. In fact, they can embrace it. They can easily integrate the custom tools created in-house and still fulfill the legal requirements they must follow to engage the public. Let me share with you my lessons from the classroom. Planners, we can enhance our effectiveness by using WordPress CMS in our public engagement efforts. I'm not here to sell your product. I'm here to share with you how to use a powerful digital tool efficiently and effectively. The Bloustine School encourages us to pursue internships in our concentrations. My interest is in transit-oriented development, and both my internships have been transportation-related. I can only speak to what I know. The course I took last year was focused on a group project. Our client was a regional metropolitan planning organization. We were tasked with writing a new public participation plan for them and asked to create two unique public engagement activities to engage millennials and a group of our choice. We were taught to identify our goals and to know what we're legally mandated to do for activities. Now, the U.S. Department of Transportation legally mandates that transportation agencies follow specific involvement guidelines. Here are several. Events must be held at physically accessible locations for people with disabilities. Materials should be translated into other languages for those with limited English proficiency. Events must be open to the public and held at convenient times and locations. Public information should be electronically accessible. We were asked to pinpoint sources of inspiration, and I drew from mine. My group activity involved going to a college to speak with millennials about how they access their classes. I decided that I would create a WordPress blog as a deliverable for our project. When we were on campus, we asked the students that we engaged with how did they get to their classes. We found out that students actually use Uber not only to get to classes within the towns that they live in, but to actually access classes from other counties. It's important for us to pinpoint the sources of our inspiration, and mine was WordPress. We're told that we should look internally for best practices when we engage the communities that we serve. One method for internally looking for best practices is to decide what projects have worked effectively in the communities that we serve. These aren't necessarily projects that other agencies have used. They're projects that we have used and we've been able to reach larger groups of people. We have been able to get people to comment on the projects that we're working on. It's important for us to have a standard communication strategy that's approved. A lot of planning agencies have communication departments. They're specific languages, rather they're specific terms that we should use. There's language that we should keep in mind, and so when we create our activities, we're not starting from scratch. It's important to do more than just collect public comments. When we do our public engagement projects, we're there to share the information that we know, educate the public about the transportation options they have, and empower them to know how to access the resources and to know what we're there to do, which is to serve them. Now, how can we do this? We can use WordPress CMS, content management system. WordPress can be simple. It's quickly intuitive, and it's software that we can use for digital content online. WordPress has powerful analytics. We can use it to understand the people that we serve, and WordPress is highly customizable. It has a vast repository of themes and plugins to quickly tailor how you visually display department projects. In this room, we have developers, we have people who create themes, and we have people who create plugins. We know as a community what accessibility means. We create themes and plugins that people with disabilities can access, and as planners, the projects that we present also have to be accessible to people with disabilities. At the same time, I think that a lot of the projects we present online need to be responsive. We have to get responsive. By that I mean when we put our surveys online on a WordPress website, for example, we should choose responsive themes. Now, within the planning field, we engage underserved communities, low-income individuals, as well as upper-income individuals. And many of us know about the digital divide. There are lower-income individuals who have access to smartphones, and they can access planning information. We have upper-income individuals who have tablets, and they can also access the information that we have to share. And most people have access to a desktop, whether at the library or at home. So I think as planners that we should extend how we communicate information outside of just meeting ADA requirements, but to also consider providing content on sites that are responsive so that we meet the needs of lower-income individuals and we also meet the needs of people who can access everything that we have to share easily. Now, let me talk about why I think WordPress is so great. I created a blog to engage residents in my community on planning issues. And on my site, I used WordPress software with surveys to ask residents about how they use transportation locally. WordPress allows us to embed documents. And though I didn't do that for my blog, the site that I created as a deliverable for the course that I took had a pamphlet on it, and it had information about the Metropolitan Planning Organization. Now, not only can we embed surveys and documents, but we can also embed really effective programs that explain and show the projects that we work on. Currently, I'm working at an agency looking at how to use street design methods to decrease crashes that happen with pedestrians and cyclists on the road. We use these methods as a means of protecting people. And many of us use StreetMix in order to show ourselves within the agencies and the people that we engage what streets can look like, how we can increase roads, how we can add bike lanes, and really just to provide a visual that makes it possible for the people that we serve to see how we can improve the environment that they walk around and bike in. Okay, I know this is a little boring for those of you who might not be interested in the field of planning, so bear with me a little bit. In WordPress sites, we can also embed Google Maps. Google Maps allow us to share information through crowdsourcing. Individuals who come to our sites can leave comments, for example, on a particular road that they traveled on where they almost got struck by a car, a crash that they saw happen. And so not only can you embed surveys and pamphlets and images of what safer streets look like, not only can you embed maps that allow for crowdsourcing, but you can also embed maps that show where concentrations of crashes happen, for example. On WordPress, it's very easy to add different types of media. It's very easy to add images, pictures, videos, surveys. We can add icons for our social media accounts, and we have developers here who create plugins that make it possible for us to show information on the social media feeds that we use. WordPress itself integrates not just content that's created through images and videos, but what we're sharing on social media. Now, planners use different programs to reach the audiences that we serve. We use AutoCAD to design streets so that what we create on the ground actually meets specifications that are outlined by the federal highway administration so that the curbs that we design are accurate so that when we suggest that we do a curb extension, a truck can easily pass through the streets and at the same time we can make it possible for people to get from home to school work safely. AutoCAD is one software that we use and it has an extensive community of people who share the information that they know to help us design street improvements that are accurate. Planners also use Adobe Creative Suite. We use Photoshop to design simulations. We use InDesign to design documents that share the information that we'd like to educate people with, information that can empower people to make safe transportation choices. We use Google SketchUp and SketchUp allows us to create massings that allow people to see how we can redesign and envision safer streets. We use AutoCAD, we use Photoshop, we use InDesign and we use Google SketchUp and we can also use WordPress. WordPress has a large community that shares the information that it knows as each of you do. We use WordPress.com, we use WordPress.org, we ask questions, we offer advice, we offer each other solutions and best practices. We show people how to use our plugins and our themes and we recommend how people can become better bloggers. And so planners should not just utilize communities for Autodesk and Adobe Creative Suite, even SketchUp, they can also utilize the WordPress community to share the content online that educates and empowers the people that we serve. Thank you.


I'd like to call to order the meeting of the Arlington Redevelopment Board, both being transportation relating, and then we have an item on reviewing warrant articles, and then just approval of minutes. So we have TAC here, Transportation Advisory Committee, to give us a report on, I think first the Summer Street intersections and the optimization of the traffic signals. And then we're going to talk about the Minuteman 5-trill intersection at Mill Street. So if you guys want to come up, introduce yourselves. Ready for it over here? Next to us, from the TAC, also on the former Sims property working group. Thank you for coming. I'm Rich Turka, the co-chair of TAC. Nice to meet you, Rich. Hey, Rich. How are you? Good. And I represent you and planning department on TAC, Laura Wiener. So I don't know if you want to give us a summary of your recommendation, but we've all had the report, I think, to be a brief summary to get us up to speed on what TAC's thinking. Sure. We have a meeting with the working group members, and Jake is here with him and his consultant, who prepared the analysis of the intersection on some of the Sims road. We're going to come up through Grattle Street, the coordinating intersections. And they evaluated existing conditions as well as determined future timing and phasing improvements with that intersection that can be made. And a couple of things, existing conditions they found. Was it operating well? Was the signal detector loop on the Summers Street southbound approach? Was being detected essentially every cycle, whether a vehicle was there or not, which means it will always be timed in the intersection, which needs to be repaired or fixed. And when that's fixed, you don't have all that lost time in the intersection to be made more efficient. Besides that, the identified signal timings that would be different than are out there now. It runs on a 130-second cycle length, sorry, 114 in the morning. I recommend that you go to 130, give extra time to the Summers Street eastbound westbound approaches, which would essentially reduce the delay to that traffic. So if you go through there now, I understand some significant delays, which really should be there. And with those changes, you have to improve level services related. The traffic engineers give two intersections, like a report card, A, B, and the best, an active failure. So the condition would improve from level service E, which is a congested condition and common around here. But it would improve to level service D, which is fairly significant. And also, the timing changes can be improved for the off-peak hours. So the off-peak would experience benefits of those changes. There's a couple other minor things. There is some lost time, all the clearance time that can be eliminated in the intersection, which they recommended, which would also improve the time for vehicles to give more green time to vehicles on Summers Street. But those improvements, the intersection would actually, like I said, improve the level service E in the morning and then afternoon improve from the level service ESC, so it would be a one-grade change, which is, like I said, pretty significant. The one thing they were going to check was a potential right turn on red coming out of Sims. If it works on a right turn on red, so if the vehicle stopped momentarily and made a right turn on red, it wouldn't trip the signal for that approach. So if you come down waiting at Sims to make a right turn, if you can go after within five seconds or so, that phase would be actuated. So it would help operations. It would keep Summers Street going. If you had to wait more than five or ten seconds, whatever it's set at, then you'd get the actuation. That's one thing the engineer was following up to look at that operation. So if there's two or three cars waiting, then it would. You'd get that phase. Anything at Mill Street? Really not. There's a very minor change in the yellow time from 43 seconds, which is very minor. There's some optimization of timing, mostly in the off-peak hours, I think, than the peak hours. There were some minor changes. It would improve, but it's not going to be that noticeable. It wouldn't change the motor service grade at that intersection. There are some minor changes, but they're not as significant as in Sims. So the working group endorsed these recommended improvements. If we have any questions. Jeff, could you... The first thing that you talked about was the loot detector. Is that right? Seeing cars that aren't really there. Sure. Right now, is it seeing the traffic or the known traffic on Summer Street and causing that light to go along? It was on Sims, which is the side street. So I was seeing cars that weren't there and giving that green time to Sims, although it may not be known to me. So that's pretty inefficient. Could you just describe the write-on, Brad? Again? It is legal to make a write-on read, but if you don't have this delaying detection, it'll detect that read car that can make a write-on read. So if one car comes out and makes a write-on read, it would detect it and give that phase, even though it may take that write-on read before you get the green light. So again, that's another form of kind of wasted time, if you don't have that delay. So it's just another form of detection. It can't help operations. And Andy? No, I think I'm all set. Just in the memo, is it the recommendations are in the front and then also in the end? Yeah, let's see. I have a report dated the 17th, January 17th. They have the ones from January 28th. Okay, so I think they have the recommendations from the final report also. It's also the same thing. I'm just trying to move the me to the front so you don't have to read through all the descriptions. That's what I did, but I want to make sure I didn't miss anything on the second floor. It's great that they could jump from a E to a D. Yeah, that's pretty good. And a C to a C. So that is significant. It's good. And everything's being done just with the signals. There's nothing other than fixing the loop detector that's under the pavement. Yeah, there's no geometric changes to talk about for my pavement, but no physical, rather, no geometric changes to the roadway. Okay. So I'll just, I just want to review for people what the condition said, and this is a change from the way the condition was written. This is under phase two. Follow the issuance of a CO. This was how it was supposed to, how we conceived of it early on, that after the COs were issued for 100 units, the developer would provide $40,000 later credit to be drawn on by the tab to fund follow-up survey of traffic conditions. So this is, we had decided due to some complaints of neighbors and also the fact that there was one piece of it that was very clearly malfunctioning the loop detectors that it made more sense to just do it now using projections for the traffic. And so this if you accept this, the idea is that that $40,000 letter of credit would never come into being, that this condition would be being satisfied. And I think any future changes would not be expensive to make, they would just be minor changes to the traffic light itself. The engineering report is paid for by the developer and these kind of changes are not very expensive, the town can handle this in the future. When will the changes be made? Will you accept your recommendation? I don't know the schedule to come through right away. Right away? Thank you, Jake. It was pretty fast. It's going to snow tomorrow. So Carol, should we be making a vote? Taking a vote? Making a motion to approve? I think you ought to, given that the condition is a little different. Just to be clear and so the record will show the board considered and voted on changing the condition. No brainer. Before we talk about a vote though, in terms of the recommendations that the working group that Jeff has headed up has given us, the costs for those, are those paid for by the town or are those coming out of the $40,000 set aside that was going to go into the letter of credit? Because there was no set aside. It was never made, the developer's paying for it. The developer's paying for it. In order to get there on approval. So the town's not paying for anything. Jake? Jake, do you want to introduce yourself for the people at home?  Jake Upton, developer at Sims, at Cashwoods, I address now, Sims Circle. So this was prepared by Sobel with your review. How did you review it? Well, we met twice. First we met with him before he did it and told him what we wanted to see. And Jake was there too. We met with him with his recommendations and made just a few tweaks. So this represents your recommendation as well? Yeah, we endorse the recommendations. That's what we were expecting. There's new data collected for this evaluation also. So if there's no more questions I could entertain a motion, which it looks like. I'll move that the board accept the traffic mitigation recommendations for the Sims Road, Summer Street intersection, and the Summer Street, Mill Street intersection. And that we release from the original Special Permit conditions the requirement of a $4,000 letter of credit. Carol, can you use the full intersection name? I know it's Summer Bridal Hemlock Sims. Let me come back to that. Release the conditions. The $40,000 escrow. And I'll just take it from the two headers. I'll copy it from the two. And that beginning just prepared by Green International. Right. And the date. Okay. Do you get all that? Almost. All in favor? Hi. The next item is also a bit with tack. And we have recommendations from you for the intersection of the Minuteman bike path and Mill Street. So there's a few working group members who are joining us. Stuff on Miller and Chris Tonkin. But hey back. Thank you. So we met before six weeks ago or so and gave you an update of the operation of the Flushing Beacon crossing. And the Flushing Beacon is still being evaluated with TPW. And the contractor and installer is still being evaluated with TPW. The contractor and installer is doing some tests to see if the battery power is under the communication between the two signals is appropriate. So we don't know the results of those tests yet. But TPW is looking at that and expects them to find it shortly. Okay. So that's the part of the operation of the Flushing Beacon itself. And you asked us to identify any type of amenities that might help with the safety and operations in addition to that. And we came up with a list of measures that really consistent with the recent study that was done by a tool engineering of the entire path of Benford Lexington, Arlington. They came up with these type of measures to make the crossings more consistent throughout the entire trail. And we used that as a guide and added a few things to that as well in addition to that. I'll just go through this list and we can talk about any of these in more detail. A lot of these are payment markings and a lot of them are typically familiar with them. There's some attachment in the photo also. The first one is place advance stop ahead signs on the trail as you mentioned last week. So there are stop signs where we don't have an advance stop ahead sign on the trail. Install, like I said, there are stop signs on the trail reflective link tape on the stop sign poles. It's a fairly new addition to the MUTCD. You may see this in some communities. I don't think they have an Arlington right now. But the pole itself, you now are allowed to put reflective red tape on the pole. So it's a visibility benefit. You can see this from further away. Sometimes you can see the pole, these are the sign where you are. There's a middle street sign missing on the top of the westbound approach on the trail. That's informational. It would be good to have. Paint stop bars on both approaches. So the trail is a middle street and pedestrian crosswalks. We think that would be a good visual cue, especially with the bicyclists. This is coming up real quick. This is the intersection. It's a white line. Install, maintain, two ground-mounted plastic reflective ballers. It's essentially what's used there today. I've got a color picture. You thought those are good because it's really good. It's good because it tends to help slow especially the bicyclists down as they're approaching the intersection. You can see those had some wear and tear. That one's in the picture. So we were suggesting those on both approaches, but also a supply of those also. I'm not sure how long they last. But there is another short. Inside them. They're supposed to be break-away. They're not supposed to have sand on them. They're supposed to have them break-away. Not create any type of object that would be a hard fixed object. Along with that, there's really no payment marketing associated with that now. You can see the photo. There's a center line and some faded arrows. This was attached. I have this if you want to see it. They call it a structure payment marketing. There's something ahead. We have some consistency along the path at other locations. We thought that was a good idea. Repainted directional payment marketing arrows. You can barely see the faded arrows. It shows the direction just to make that clear. It's supposed to be on the right side. Installed signage on both trail approaches. So it's not hard and fast what the law actually is with a bike and a crosswalk if you have to dismount. I brought these to show you which is actually on the Cape Cod trail. We're not suggesting that sign exactly right now. That's one type of sign that says have to dismount. We're not actually sure that if a bicycle is at a pedestrian crosswalk, they have to dismount. If it's at a trail, it's not clear. So we're not sure if the sign is the correct sign that we would use. Another one may be bicycles must stop. That type of sign might be more appropriate. I'm not suggesting the actual language right now. Until we have further discussion about what the best sign should be. We feel there should be some signage there. That's probably not the right one, but it's one example. Some other folks in the state had. Chris or Stefan, do you want to add anything to that? The bollards, they're there partly to prevent or cast driving up the bikeway, which has been known to happen if there have to be one there. However, they are drivable over by emergency vehicles and they can be removed for snowplows and things like that. That's why they're not more solid. How do they remove them? They're screwed, so emergency vehicles could do that. That's why you want to get 100 or a certain quantity of extra ones. Exactly. There was an emergency vehicle back in the fall that I saw. It does happen. That's one of the reasons that we didn't really consider a permanent tight barrier there because we understand Lexington is removing theirs but that's one of the reasons they're doing that. They're gates. Do we have bollards at other intersections on the Arlington portion of the bike path? They're supposed to be. The problem is that the DPW runs over them and destroys them and then they're not replaced. When we originally put the plastic ones in they were supposed to have bought a supply. I don't know whether they have them and they're not putting them in or they don't have them. Do you have any idea how frequently they get run over? It doesn't take long after they put them in. We go through them at a quite a pace. If we could get the vehicles that are driving up and down the path to remove them instead of running over them they would last a lot longer. From what you're able to determine this is the damage that you see here is not so much bicycle is running but it's other vehicles. Bicycle wouldn't make that much damage to that pole. Originally when the bikeway was first built there were actually metal poles at all these intersections and I think there might be one remaining at the Sunrise Assisted Living. It's a ramp that goes on there. They had keys for them so they could actually take them out of the emergency vehicle because they were supposed to have keys but they were a hazard to bike up a little bit and if you hit one of those things you're in a bike or even running or anything it hurts. It was solid metal so it had no given it. So the reflective plastic is softer it's replaceable. It's also a visible thing because it has a reflective panels on it at night or in the evening because if you have lights on your bike or cars you can see it. It's much more easily. The crosswalk that you have at the top of the page here, paint, pedestrian, crosswalks or cross the trail at sidewalks on both sides. So is that going to go perpendicular to the road crosswalk basically? It's going to go in line with the sidewalk? If you look in that photo you can right across the sidewalk sides. Did the working committee look at the reconfiguration? That's a lot more expensive but while we have an escrow we're going to do anything. Big there. It was an idea of creating a band, a chicane that had to go outside the right way of the bypass so we didn't put that much consideration into it. But the right of way it would go into would be the altar programs. That couldn't just be an easement through that properly. Because we all, I think last time we met in December we all thought that was a worthy design modification to look into. It has some benefits. It's a little more complex obviously. It's a little more complex. We would have to approach the property owner. If we tell them this is one of the solutions we can extend this deadline end of March. Didn't we decide that last time? It's a deadline but it's our deadline. There's no reason why the board couldn't extend this. It's their money and the condition said for a year. I'm sure they would do it. I'm not even sure who to talk to about it. But I'm happy to make that happen. I'll start with Addy and then she'll tell me who to talk to. And if that's still worthy, I know it complicates things but if we're going to complicate it that would be the time. Is that the only easement you think would be needed to consider that? I can't say. We didn't look at any kind of detail. Property lines or so forth. We'd have to do a layout. Maybe if we could do a layout and get an estimate? On the other side of the intersection there is no room at all to do anything. We'd only be able to do it on one side. There's a fence hard up against it and there's a driveway hard up against the other side. There's absolutely no wiggle space at all. But at least we could do it on the one side. Is that the worst side out of the two? Well the issue I think is you have people coming downhill so we have some momentum but on the other side going westbound there's no visibility until you actually get to the intersection because of the hedge on the building on one side. So I think that's not much you can do there. On the westbound side there's just not much room. Who owns the trees there that are so overgrown? That could be crammed for visibility. We don't know. Might be another consideration is to include some tree pruning as one of the recommendations and approach the property owner there to find out if it's their tree. If you look at the property line where it falls if there's any kind of topographical survey we can see those trees. It's easier to just approach them and ask them. It's a contractor. I think that Tyler would have a right to maintain any vegetation that needs the tree. Looking at this picture that looks like if visibility is really poor coming up hill there that could definitely be done. The hedges could be pruned down lower if they're impeding visibility. They probably aren't though. They're pretty low already it looks like. So Jeff are you continuing to explore what the right sign language is for the Massachusetts law for pedestrians and bicyclists portion of the recommendation? We have to do that because we have to extreme it what that should be. Like I said it's a green area and Massachusetts and some of these things are pretty standard. You could say there's a lot of variation at different locations in the state so does it just a minivan trail so you could do the same thing that the Cape Cod trail does? Same size. What did the tool report tell you on that? Did they tell you anything? They actually recommended that at smaller streets with very little vehicular traffic that the stop sign be put for the vehicles and the bicycles have to throw away and at major streets it'd be the opposite. That bicycle stopped but that's just the recommendation. We don't have any major streets. So the sign could just say state law. It could just have the stop sign and say it's a state law. We've got a stop sign, we've got a stop bar, we have a flashing red. Right. Red on the post. Making bicycles get off and walk that's not clearly the state law. We're a little bit concerned about that one because we just don't think it's going to happen. Are you very against putting any signs up that I'm not going to be followed because then the ones you want to be followed like stop. Why should I stop? If you can get them to stop that would be great. Getting them to stop sounds like a major thing. By casual observation, Steph and I have gone out and watched this intersection. Most people stop. Like most cars stop. There's always the ones that don't but they're the ones who tend to get reported and seen but most cyclists do stop. Is this your cane? We haven't discussed it in any kind of detail. They use it anywhere else on the path or if there are some kind of conventions that are getting, you mentioned the Lexington Avenue and other areas, Lexington, town of Lexington I should say. Is it falling to any category that way? The person who knows most about this can't make it tonight, he's down in DC. He knows what the regulations are but I think there was a reconfiguring of the intersection, one of the intersections in Lexington that kind of made it less obvious straight across It's on Woolburn Street but it was configured to decrease the length of the crossing. It was a diagonal crossing for the bicycle path which was very long and so they made a right angle in the path to make a perpendicular and it definitely works to slow you down. But they got a lot of space to do it there Well they took away a cycle. That's the only precedent on the trail currently. Would Taffy be willing to look into the working group? Look into what that layout could be whether it makes sense to do it on just one side versus both sides? I mean we can look at it as a concept. How much of an easement maybe we'd need to give? We're not like designers per se. It's the concept level to show what the layout would be and what the impact would be to Jason property. And even whether you feel it would be worthy after you look at the layout. I can tell you it hasn't gone much than Scott Smith drawing this. There's an idea. Do you have base plans and things of what you need to try to do a concept sketch? I don't have a base plan right now. I guess you could use an aerial photo. We can talk to DPW. Google Maps is pretty amazing. We're still waiting on the flashing yellow to find out more information there. What that might end up costing. That all comes out of the 40,000. Any changes like this would come out of the 40,000. I mean line painting is pretty inexpensive. The ballers I imagine are fairly inexpensive. It's not big to go on. Unless the change to the flashing yellow is a substantial price there may be enough money to do a reconfiguration if it's found to be worthy. There's no point in doing it if it's not worthy. I just want to understand. You're asking us to look into the idea of a chicane for the eastbound approach. What the benefits may be and what the impacts may be to the adjacent property. Any other requests? Give us your final reading on what Massachusetts law requires with that approach to intersection signage. Everything else seems like it makes a lot of sense and could help even if the chicane isn't found worthy. These things can help. Each one helps to some degree. Can someone find out from the DPW whether they have more of those plastic things and if they're just not replacing them and maybe if they can start to remove them rather than drive over them? Wayne would be over that I would think. It's probably not Wayne that's hitting me. Wayne could talk to whoever's in charge if whoever's in charge. With this additional concept, what type of schedule would you like this to be on? If we can extend this other schedule, do we know how long, much longer the flashing yellow would take? Maybe once both of those are kind of done? We should know soon. I don't know exact schedule from Wayne. I know he's tried to schedule another site meeting. It's in the works. We don't meet again until March 3rd or 5th, the first Monday in March. I don't know if that's too early? It may be too early for us to get together. There's school vacation. As a group we can come up with a concept. So maybe our next meeting would be a few weeks after that probably. I think two weeks after. I'm pretty sure the board meets twice in March. So we could shoot for mid-March, mid to late March. You're like, yeah. So the 17th we can... The extra funds expire at the end of March, 2014. I think we'd have to look into whether or not we can extend that deadline. I'll do that right away. We may have to force a decision on ourselves earlier. I'll let Wayne know too. Since he's looking into the flashing yellow, there may be a deadline. He knows that there's a deadline. As you look into that, will you also find the contact of who we would contact if we wanted to pursue that? Great. Thank you so much. Looking hard on this one. Thank you also for coming back right there. Thank you very much. It's an important intersection. It really is. I'm there all the time. I'm usually walking. I still don't want to get hit. Thank you, Lord. I think it would be great. Not that exciting. You know what it is, right? It's my virtue. Our next item is the 2014 warrant articles relating to the zoning bylaw. I think Harold's going to speak to us about that a little bit. You recall that there is a need to have a zoning bylaw amendment to fight medical marijuana treatment centers. Right now we do not have dispensary, but we do have to adopt a bylaw amendment because we had a moratorium meeting last year that anticipated that the board, rather that town meeting would adopt something once the state issued its regulations, which it did do last year. The zoning enforcement officer and the town manager and the director of health and human services for the town and town council and I met to discuss how what zoning district and so on how to be handled. I suppose that the language for the boards vote add a definition for medical marijuana treatment center and locate the use in the B-3 and the B-5 district. Would you mind bringing that board back up, please? I can show the board where B-3 and B-5 are. B-3 is the Brown districts and that's village business. Carol, is the one on the wall bigger? Or is that old? No, that's not old. Maybe the camera could zoom in on that. Sure. B-3 and B-5, so B-3 is the dark brown that's village business district so it would be the heights, the center where you see the brown, the dark brown and here as well as B-5 which is the dark I call it the bow tie of Arlington center. See the bow tie? Or a propeller but in any event it's the dark central business. That's right. The central business district is just right here so that's where we're contemplating having the districts where they would be allowed by special permit through environmental design review through the board. So this is Marathon basically Mellows and Marathon through Capital District Capital District, Arlington Center and Arlington High. The three main commercial centers. Carol, in last year's version of this there was only one district, that was B-5 and I'm trying to remember if that was B-3 or B-5 or I think it was B-5. It was my recollection. It was all in one area and all the B-5s in the center, right? That's right. So why two districts is here? They're commercial districts. The idea is not to limit the use and not to restrict it. These are also these are the commercial areas. It's unlikely that we would have more than one in Arlington. I think last year there was some feedback that by having it in only one district and one one zoning district and one commercial district that it seems restrictive. So this way there's one in each center also. And in other respects it's very similar to what was proposed last year. Special permit environmental design review through the ARB. And this would, the public hearing is the first meeting in March. So you're going to send us all the language before then? Tell me again who was on the committee. Or tell us again. The zoning enforcement officer. Christine Bonjarno. The director of health and human services for the town. Town council. Town manager. Input from Chief Ryan. And myself. What was Chief Ryan's input? How did he feel about the B-5 and the B-3? I can't remember verbatim. He wasn't, I think he gave input but was not at the last discussion that the group had. He's not happy about it because it's still against federal law. It's still conflicts with federal law. And it really poses a challenge for a contradiction for law enforcement. But he recognizes that it's state law. As far as the location, is he happier to have it in B-3 and B-5 versus just B-5? Are there reasons safety-wise that that makes more sense? Or he wants it in the centers and in the commercial areas. He recognizes that it's better to have it in an area where there's activity rather than having it in an industrial area. Several years ago when the law changed about how adult entertainment could be cited, people thought, well I know, we'll put it in an industrial district and hide it. But thinking is different with this. At least we thought it shouldn't be treated that way. It normalizes that the Massachusetts regulations were very carefully drafted in my opinion. I think they had the benefit of learning from California and Colorado. And I feel encoded in their regs are ways to make it, or to keep it from being glamorized. And to keep it from becoming a recreational commodity. And to keep it as the law intended which is for medicinal use. And it was felt that to have it in commercial districts is consistent with that. Just reading through the signage requirements that the state has. Remember last time we all looked at the signage requirements and decided we didn't need to draft any new ones for Arlington. They were able to go much farther than zoning could ever go. Right. And controlling the signage. They were really controlling it. That was impressive. I agree. I thought the regulations were quite thoughtful. So do you anticipate that we'll be seeing it draft? Draft both. By our next meeting? Yes. And the warrant closed Friday. I do not have additional zoning bylaw amendments if any were filed. The zoning bylaw amendments are supposed to be submitted to the board of select and the board of select is supposed to convey them to the ARB. So as soon as that happened I don't know what else was filed. I know you saw an early draft of a 10 registered voter article from John Belskis increasing the amount of affordable housing in our inclusionary bylaw. I believe that he did submit a final version of that. I don't have that. That would be part of the hearing. That's right. You would have to have anything that was submitted before the warrant closed. The way the zoning bylaw amendment you'd have to hold here. You'll have draft language from us on anything that was submitted. Okay. And John will be there too or somebody will be there to represent their warrant article. I'm saying yes. I don't know if he, I think I gave him the date. I know I gave him the date of the public hearing. Any other? This may be an obvious point but I think at times when it's not a warrant article that was being sponsored by the ARB, the public or the sponsors may not understand that they really need to make the presentation. I don't know. Maybe, I guess last year I was thinking with the affordable housing. I guess the sponsor did speak. I think there's a perception that if we're all having a hearing that we are a sponsor of it which isn't necessarily the case. But with the add-on to the housing. Correct. Well last year I was giving the example last year about the accessory. Make sure that the sponsors understand that. That dynamic. I'm sure they get it. It's always good to mention it. The board deserves that. So our last agenda item I think now is the approval of minutes. We have the January 13th, 2014 minutes. So this means we're up to date, right? Yes. It's kind of hard to believe. Wonderful, wonderful. So I don't know if everybody needs a minute to read these, if you saw them. Email before you can. Did everybody get to see them once? Okay. Do you want to start first? I have two things. At the top of page two, where the vote, where it says that I move to approve the draft article to condition that the chair or director made later the title. And I think that should be made, change the title. To include registered marijuana dispensary. Okay. And then my other comment is really a question on page one. Maybe a three quarters down page. We're talking about the escrow for the conservation stewardship at back the $30,000 escrow for conservation stewardship to the land disposition agreement. And I think it would help to have a little bit more context unless it relates to the paragraph right above it. I don't know if it does. To check if the escrow can be released back to the town and then add back the $30,000 escrow for conservation stewardship. Those are two different escrows aren't they? Because the first escrow, the paragraph right above it with the LSP is for the environmental damage with the oil at the site. Right, and that was a significant escrow that couldn't have come back to the town. To be released to the town. Yeah. And then the $30,000 escrow for conservation stewardship will probably know this better than I do, but is that for the oversight of the conservation area in the Sims woods? Yes. The annual walkthroughs, check the boundaries, check the signage. And then there's another $10,000 added onto that. Okay. So I'm wondering why this is in here because I didn't think that had ever gone away. It hadn't. Okay. I was just looking through the notes from the meeting to see the context for that. We were looking through the matrix when we went over all these items. Maybe it was missing from the matrix. Oh, the line, right. The line was missing from the Excel spreadsheet. I had an old copy and I saw it online. So you want to add the row back into the matrix. That's what you meant. Yeah. Okay, that makes sense. Add the row for the $30,000 escrow for conservation stewardship to the LDA back into the matrix at the missing row, maybe you could say. Okay. Perfect. That's all I have. And how about if we go down two more performance bonds to completion escrow? That's kind of hanging there too. Do we say something about that on the matrix? Whether there were two, we were talking about whether there's two performance bonds or one, and that was up above. I know we talked about the affidavits that everybody has to sign. Maybe that was supposed to be there. We talked about the... The notes just say performance bond to completion escrow. I was hoping someone might have some contacts for that. If it was really important, one of us would remember it. And we're coming back to the matrix. I would suggest striking it. I'll check the matrix and if I see something I'll let you know. If it was something you were supposed to check on. Okay. There's a typo just below it. Board then moved... Well, maybe not. Then moved to the proposed draft order. There was a typo on the very top, absent. And Andrew was not absent. It's also correct because I was not absent. Andrew was here. In fact, he actually abstained from the vote later. That's how I realized who was absent. From the meeting I was absent. Which we got right last time, I think. Did you see anything else on that, Andrew? Just on the... About halfway down the page, just as Jay got to New Arlington 360, discussed the performance bond placed at the closing. Would it make sense to have placed actually changed to put in place at the closing? My next Andrew. Do you see anything? I think I'm a little sad. Somewhere in here and I can't find it now. We were going to learn something and I thought that word was a little bit hard to understand. It's on page 2, the large sentence, the board asked Miss Kowalski to learn from the town engineer the plan in full budget. To the board asked Miss Kowalski to find out. Yeah, that's what I was thinking. From the town engineer. Do you see where we are, Carol? That's the only other thing I saw. And that you had encouraged the board to attend the ALT meeting. You could have that, but it's not very substantial. But since you have that I encourage the board to attend the January 16th presentation of the land use, I think you also encourage the board to attend the ALT annual meeting for the Community Preservation Act, which was a great meeting by the way. Very informative. Most of them were good. And there is one more. I can make a plug for the land use working group. Or for the master plan committee there, again having a land use discussion, land use working paper discussion. What's their big discussion as a committee this Thursday at 7 o'clock. So if anybody wants to sit in on that for a discussion, it's a shame those aren't televised. Well, the land use one, the presentation was recorded for later playback. Was it? Good. So you could watch that if you didn't make it to that one. And the public facilities working papers expected this week. So that's one to one to four. Great. I'm interested to see the committee's discussion on the land use paper. It's an important one. It is. It's a shame it's the first one that came up in a way. I know. They'll have to revisit it once the other elements are available. I think so. Okay. So, entertain a motion to approve the minutes. I'll move to approve as amended. Seconded. All in favor? Aye. Okay. Would you like to say aye also? Yeah. One technicality. Okay. So, I think that's all our business. Let's somebody have something else they want to bring up. The next meeting isn't until March. We're not having the February 24th meeting. At this moment, we do not have February 24th, but try to keep it open. Okay. Thank you. Okay. One last motion. I'll move to adjourn. Second. All in favor? Aye. Okay. We're adjourned.


It's like my head is hurting. The government got us into this mess, yet people are celebrating. Well, not everybody, but a lot of people are celebrating these bailouts. In Canada, we just got some bailout package. A lot of businesses, depending on this, very obscure. Always, always beer crackings make the most obscure things possible where they're giving up to 75% of your employee salaries that's under 58,000, but you have to have a loss of income up more than 30% within, like it's the most ridiculous thing, both the United States and Canada, and people are applauding. Oh, oh, oh, thank you. Thank you so much. Oh, please let me have my breadcrumbs. What? Ah, they got us in this mess. They got us in this mess. We could have been like South Korea or Japan. Like, think about this. The virus affects people who are immune-compromised, autoimmune, and a very, very rare group of people who don't have those issues. And the death rate for the most part is below Italy here in North America. It's not 3%. We could have just tested everybody and said, hey, you. Yeah, yeah, you have it. You go over there.   This is what the government understand. Majority of small businesses, their margins are like this and their runway is two weeks. We're past all of that. Goodbye, runway. Goodbye, margin. It's not simply, well, here, we're gonna give you some money right now and we don't know yet if it's cash injection or if it's a tax break, which is even dumber, cash injection so much better. It's not simply, well, we're gonna hire employees back, hire to do what? I've lost business.  Who's buying from me? What products am I selling right now? What service am I selling? You know, this really hurts my head. They got us in this mess. They're like, man, on Twitter, I knew about this in January and it's not like I'm in the know. It's not like I'm just like, oh, I know everything and I'm in this secret cabal.  That's why I found it about it. Seeing people drop in China, seeing the stuff happening in Iran, but we're over here, our leaders.  It's gonna be okay. Do, do, do, do, do, do, do.  Here we are. Here we are. Extending April, it is, it's a write-off. April's a write-off. Forget about it. Like all of April is in quarantine mode. None of the businesses are gonna probably start till probably June, to be honest with you. April's off by the time businesses start and by the time when people feel to go back into these areas. Like the zeitgeist is here. You know, Randy Rajar's memetic theories. The memesis right now is set in a fear. It's set in a ready. The software is there. It's gonna take a very long time and a tipping point to reverse the zeitgeist into a positive aspect so people have a positive connect, a positive emotion to go back out into restaurants, to go back out and congregate with people. People aren't congregating. People are fearful right now. And you don't just snap back the economy. It doesn't work that way. But here we are, people. Oh man, God, we have the best leaders. I'm gonna get some money. Bah! Man, I just wanna slap people in the face. It's our fault though. It is our fault. We have allowed the leaders to be in power because we voted them in power. That's it.  That's it. We need a better, we need a system that's done better. None of this centralized. We need more decentralized governance like city-states.  None of these like crazy bureaucrats.  It is insane, the type of leaders we have.  But you know what? It's no one else's fault, but our own fault.  And I'm not religious. I just use that saying.  We do. We do. And I'll leave it at that, guys. Remember, they got us in this mess.  Peace out.


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What a precious, precious opportunity we have as we open our hearts, open our minds to the love of God. And that's it. Jesus is calling us and we happily answer. We happily say yes to the call. There's a section in the manual for teachers of the Course of Miracles that talks basically answering the question, what is the real meaning of sacrifice? And Jesus defines sacrifice as the giving up of what you want. And then he turns it and he says, you have been called by God to the most holiest function that there is. Would you sacrifice the call? So you might think of it as you just have these intuitive nudges that are calling you to wholeness, calling you to completion, calling you to the Kingdom of Heaven within. And those little nudges, those little prompts, that calling goes on all the time, even though it's covered over by a lot of darkness, a lot of pursuing idols and pursuing illusions and images. And you know, the mind is very powerful, but you can't serve two masters. You can't serve the God of love and follow Jesus in the Holy Spirit and serve the greed and the desire for profit and possession and collecting things and ownership and all the different forms that illusions can take. Because if you follow them, then you're not following your inner promptings, which is to forgive the world and wake up. So today's workbook lesson is another big step in the direction inward toward the light. And today's lesson is lesson number nine. Yes, that's right. We're here on Tuesday, January 9th. We're on the ninth day of the year. Lesson nine is I see nothing as it is now. This idea obviously follows from the two preceding ones. But while you may be able to accept it intellectually, it is unlikely that it will mean anything to you as yet. However, understanding is not necessary at this point. In fact, the recognition that you do not understand is a prerequisite for undoing your false ideas. These exercises are concerned with practice, not with understanding. You do not need to practice what you already understand. It would indeed be circular to aim at understanding and assume that you already have it. It is difficult for the untrained mind to believe that what it seems to picture is not there. This idea can be quite disturbing and may meet with active resistance in any number of forms. Yet that does not preclude applying it. No more than that is required for these or any other exercises. Each small step will clear a little of the darkness away. And understanding will finally come to lighten every corner of the mind that has been cleared of the debris that darkens it. These exercises for which three or four practice periods are sufficient involve looking about you and applying the idea for the day to whatever you see. Remembering the need for its indiscriminate application and the essential rule of excluding nothing. For example, I do not see this typewriter as it is now. I do not see this telephone as it is now. I do not see this arm as it is now. Begin with things that are nearest you and then extend the range upward. I do not see that coke rack as it is now. I do not see that door as it is now. I do not see that face as it is now. It is emphasized again that while complete inclusion should not be attempted, specific exclusion must be avoided. Be sure you are honest with yourself in making this distinction. You may be tempted to obscure it. So I see nothing as it is now. That is the first step in opening our mind and just admitting that we do not understand. You would not expect a child to understand at birth or a little one-year-old or a two-year-old toddler. But in terms of spiritual awakening and enlightenment and self-realization, you cannot presume that you understand already because as we just read, it is a prerequisite that you acknowledge that you do not understand. Because when you say, I do not understand this, then you also include in your prayer, but I am willing to be shown the way. You can start with, I do not understand this. I do not understand anything. I see nothing as it is now. That is just an acknowledgement of fragmented perception. Maybe this wacky world of differences, of duality and multiplicity, of war and disease and pestilence and conflict and competition. Just maybe, oh maybe, that is not the way things really are. You could even start by saying, I am seeing a world that is fragmented and perhaps I am delusional. That is an opening. That is a little opening. Because then, if you admit that you are delusional and that you do not see things exactly as they are right now, then you are willing to be shown. You are open to be shown. And that is a crack of an opening that the Holy Spirit needs. And there is that see word again. I do not see. I see nothing as it is now. That basically means I perceive nothing as it is now. Because the perception of a fragmented world is not what is now. It is what is past and what is future. It is what is the veil that is covering over the light of truth. It is what has been perceived. I see nothing as it is now. It is basically an acknowledgement of that. Do you see how important it is? In fact, as you go through the workbook, understanding will not come until there is this consistent and lasting sense of peace. Because peace and understanding go together and cannot be found apart. I think intuitively that is understandable. Or at least the hint of it is something that resonates. That peace and understanding go together. If peace is reality and understanding comes with the awareness of reality through forgiveness, through letting go of illusions and false beliefs and false ideas and concepts, then you can see that the understanding will seem to come when the peace comes. So if you could say honestly, I am peaceful. I am consistently peaceful. Then the understanding is coming in very strong. So today I thought I would support our lesson with a reading from the text in chapter 12. And this is going to be section 6, The Vision of Christ. As I mentioned before, when we look at the course and the mind training, Jesus is basically saying, be still. Lay aside all thoughts you have about the world, all beliefs, all concepts. Empty your mind. Open your heart. And basically the vision of Christ is the light in which you truly see. And I mean see not with the body's eyes or perceive not with the body's eyes or ears or nose or touch or tongue or taste. It's not involving the five senses. The vision of Christ is light. It's the pure light that you may get a glimpse of in a revelatory experience which goes way beyond the perception of this world. As the Buckman Turner Overdrive song said, you ain't seen nothing yet. And then here's something that you're never going to forget. That's the vision of Christ. Because this whole world is based on the denial of love. That's pretty obvious. This world is based on the denial of eternity because time and eternity can't coexist. The time, linear time is a denial of eternity. And the present moment is the closest approximation of eternity that this world offers, Jesus tells us. So you can see that the present moment would take you into the light of Christ and the vision of Christ. The holy instant we'll call it. The present moment is the goal. So let's go through chapter 12, section 6, the vision of Christ. Because this is going to be backing for opening your willingness to basically claim lesson number nine today. I see nothing as it is now. We need a little context for this because he says you may be able to accept it intellectually. It is unlikely that it will mean anything to you as yet. But understanding is not necessary at this point. So here we go. The vision of Christ. The ego is trying to teach you how to gain the whole world and lose your soul. You see that reference from the Bible. The Holy Spirit teaches that you cannot lose your soul and there is no gain in the world. For of itself, it profits nothing. To invest without profit is surely to impoverish yourself. And the overhead is high. Not only is there no profit in the investment, but the cost to you is enormous. For this investment costs you the world's reality by denying yours and gives you nothing in return. You cannot sell your soul, but you can sell your awareness of it. You cannot perceive your soul, but you will not know it while you perceive something else as more valuable.  He is perfectly aware that you do not know yourself and perfectly aware of how to teach you to remember what you are. Because he loves you, he will gladly teach you what he loves, for he wills to share it. Remembering you always, he cannot let you forget your worth. For the Father never ceases to remind him of his Son, and he never ceases to remind his Son of the Father. God is in your memory because of him. You chose to forget your Father, but you do not really want to do so, and therefore you can't decide otherwise. As it was my decision, so is it yours. You do not want the world. The only thing of value in it is whatever part of it you look upon with love. This gives it the only reality it will ever have. Its value is not in itself, but yours is in you. As self-value comes from self-extension, so does the perception of self-value come from the extension of loving thoughts outward. Make the world real unto yourself, for the real world is the gift of the Holy Spirit, and so it belongs to you. He's giving us a hint of how to experience the real world, the forgiven world, the happy dream. Make the world real unto yourself, and he just told us you have to extend loving thoughts outward. Just radiate and extend loving thoughts, thoughts that come from God, from the Creator, via the Holy Spirit and Jesus, and that's how you come unto the real world. You make the world real unto yourself. You come into forgiveness by forgiving all the thoughts and beliefs in your mind, extending only thoughts of love, the real thoughts, and then you see what is called the real world or the happy dream as a transition to remembering the Kingdom of Heaven within. It's the stepping stone. It's one of those steps that you must go through. All prophets, all saints, all mystics, all avatars, all what doesn't matter what culture, what theology, all have to go through a forgiven world or a happy dream in which there's no judgment, and that was the basic teachings of Jesus, judge not lest you be judged. Judge not so that you can see the real world is basically what he's saying. Judge not so you can see the happy dream, the interpretation and the perspective of the Holy Spirit. It's very high, but what else is there to go for, except that merge or that joining with the Holy Spirit's perception of the world within. Correction is for all who cannot see. To open the eyes of the blind is the Holy Spirit's mission, for he knows that they have not lost their vision, but merely sleep. He would awaken them from the sleep of forgetting to the remembering of God. Christ's eyes are open, and he will look upon whatever you see with love if you accept his vision as yours. The Holy Spirit keeps the vision of Christ for every son of God who sleeps. In his sight, the Son of God is perfect, and he longs to share his vision with you. He will show you the real world because God gave you heaven. Through him your Father calls his Son to remember. The awakening of his Son begins with his investment in the real world, and by this he will learn to reinvest in himself. For reality is one with the Father and the Son, and the Holy Spirit blesses the real world in their name. When you have seen this real world, as you will surely do, you will remember us. God, Christ, Holy Spirit, you will remember us, yet you must learn the cost of sleeping and refuse to pay it. Only then will you decide to awaken, and then the real world will spring to your sight, for Christ has never slept. He is waiting to be seen, for he has never lost sight of you. He looks quietly on the real world, which he would share with you because he knows of the Father's love for him. And knowing this, he would give you what is yours. In perfect peace, he waits for you at his Father's altar, holding out the Father's love to you in the quiet light of the Holy Spirit's blessing. For the Holy Spirit will lead everyone home to his Father, where Christ waits as his capital self, his real self. Every child of God is one in Christ, for his being is in Christ as Christ is in God. Christ's love for you is his love for his Father, which he knows because he knows his Father's love for him. When the Holy Spirit has at last led you to the Christ at the altar to his Father, perhaps perception fuses into knowledge because perception has become so holy that its transfer to holiness is merely its natural extension. Love transfers to love without any interference for the two are one. As you perceive more and more common elements in all situations, the transfer of training under the Holy Spirit's guidance increases and becomes generalized. Gradually you learn to apply it to everyone and everything, for its applicability is universal. When this has been accomplished, perception and knowledge have become so similar that they share the unification of the laws of God. What is one cannot be perceived as separate and the denial of the separation is the reinstatement of knowledge. At the altar of God, the holy perception of God's Son becomes so enlightened that life streams into it and the Spirit of God's Son shines in the mind of the Father and becomes one with it. Very gently does God shine upon himself, loving the extension of himself that is his Son. The world has no purpose as it blends into the purpose of God, for the real world has slipped quietly into heaven where everything eternal in it has always been. There is the Redeemer and the redeemed join in perfect love of God and of each other. Heaven is your home and being in God it must also be in you. So how beautiful that is giving us the incentive for our lesson today. That's our context. I see nothing as it is now. It's like a little child reaching up to a parent saying, I don't understand and I don't really understand what I'm seeing. But guide me, lead me, show me, illuminate me, illuminate my mind. That's what we're praying for. Illuminate my mind. So God bless you. Have a beautiful day. Remember this is a day to be dedicated to awakening. It is the day that we give to Jesus and the Holy Spirit and we started out by saying I see nothing as it is now. And in our hearts we're saying show me. Show me the way. Show me the way. Lead me. God bless you.