May 9th, Governing Board meeting for CBFiber is now called into session at 6.03. Are there any additions or changes to the agenda? Hearing none. Is there any public comment? Hearing none. Okay. CBFiber, year five, I just wanted to put this up here in recognition of the fact that we are now entering year five. Fingers crossed and toes. We will have subscribers in our fifth year, many of them. And I can't possibly thank people enough for how much work they've been doing. We are blessed to have the talent and the people that are willing to work so unbelievably hard on this team. It is absolutely amazing. I want to thank everyone. And if anybody else wants to say something briefly right now, let's do it before we get into the business. Oh, Jeremy, Matt, hey, I'm just up. All right. Yeah. So, sort of in honor of this, I prepared a few statistics. This is the 81st Governing Board meeting that we've had since we started. In total, the total number of hours is 142.95 hours of Governing Board meetings. That's almost six days continuous of Governing Board meetings. If you multiply that by the number of people in each Governing Board meeting, that is 1,959 hours, like person hours of work, or 81.63 days of people work. So and that is the Governing Board meetings only. This is not committee work. This is not anything else. This is not all the work that people have been putting in. So, you know, it's just an incredible amount of work. And you know, everyone should be proud of all the work they're putting in and just wanted to say thanks to everyone. Maggie's got her hand up. I just wanted to say that I have never worked with an organization where I have seen such dedicated people and I'm blown away. I'm looking right now at the individuals that are volunteers that have already shown me. I can't even imagine how many, it can't be hundreds. It has to be thousands of hours. They have poured into what has happened already. I'm looking at you, Linda and you, David and Jeremy and Chuck. And I don't see you, Jerry, but I know you're there. And I haven't had the opportunity to get to know the rest of you quite as well, but I'm sure that I will. And I'm very, very amazed by all of you. Thank you, Maggie. Alan, you've got your hand up. Yeah. So I actually went back and I found the minutes from the first meeting of May 8th, 2018. I'm not sure if they are they up on the website, Jeremy, I'm not sure. But one of the things that's interesting is I didn't realize that Jerry, you started out as an alternate that first meeting. You were not a member of a full delegate at that point, which I thought was interesting. So you were in with Stephen Whitaker and several other interesting folks. And when you read these meetings, these meeting minutes, and you get to stuff, here is an agenda item from the first meeting. Meeting scheduling and location. Discussion included desired frequency dates and location of meetings. And it makes you realize how we really started from absolutely nothing. I mean, there was there was nothing except a bunch of statutes from the from the state that said, this is what a CUD is and here's what you have to do. And here's how you put it together. And after that it was all on us and I don't is is Jeremy Hansen on the call tonight. I don't see him there. I don't see him. He said he was going to be in Europe and he may not be able to make it. But let me tell you, starting from nothing, Jeremy Hansen standing in my driveway with a clipboard looking for signatures to get on the meeting, you know, meeting day town meeting. To that end, all the presentations, Jeremy Hansen did to select boards. I helped him with a couple and they were a lot. Yeah. So on those first few meetings. Oh, I'm sorry. I can't see. Yeah. So on those first few meetings Alan, that first meeting where we're trying to figure out just where to meet. It was two hours and 40 minutes long. Of the first. Of the first 10 meetings, there are one, two. Two of them were the, or the average length of those first 10 meetings was two hours and 44 minutes. We, we've had only I think one meeting that long in the last two years. Yeah. It's so we're not looking for scapegoats I'm sure on this. I'm not looking to do it tonight either. I don't remember how long it took us to do our mission statement. How many meetings that span. Thank you, Jerry.  So we focused on stuff we thought we could handle like a mission statement. And I mean, we kind of handle it, but it's a, if you go back and look at it now, it sounds pretty quaint. I'll tell you. Well, anyhow, I didn't mean to bring up bad memories, just good ones. I thought it was interesting and congratulations to everybody for still being around five years later and actually having some fiber being strong as we speak and we'll be speaking for the next couple of months and years. It's a, it's really impressive and it's all about people power. So thank you all. Oh, thank you, Alan. Thank you. John, are there any more hands up on this one? No, my hands are up, but lots of applause is coming across the screen. Okay, great. Well, we all deserve it. Thank you. So I'd like to move on to the election of officers. We've, we've had a number of folks identify that they, they wish to be, or they would be willing to be an officer if so chosen by the board. I would like to hand this over to Janiel to just to run this part of the meeting because. Siobhan is an officer that, that is willing to continue. I'm an officer willing to continue. So it, I think it would just be easier if Siobhan ran, excuse me, if Janiel ran this part of the, of the show. Is that okay with everybody? Chuck's hand is up. I'm going to wait. I'm going to go in for a minute longer. Oh, okay. Chuck is saving his action. It's your role, Jerry. Do you want it? Yeah, that's fine. Go ahead, please. Sure. Thank you. Sure. So we will appoint chair, vice chair, clerk and treasurer. So I'll open it up in that order. Are there any nominations for chair? I nominate Jerry D. I'm in TDs for chair, Siobhan, para cone for vice chair, Jeremy, Matt for clerk and Lori Beth Putnam for treasurer. Is that your comment, Chuck? Yes, it is. Okay. Any other, any, any seconds to that motion? Second. And with that RD. Yep. Yep. Okay. Any other nominations? We just got to keep the meeting to under an hour, right? Under, under a while to get in. Okay. Hearing no more nominations. We have a nomination for Chuck Burt. Or we have a nomination from Chuck Burt. We have a nomination for Jerry D. I'm in TDs as chair, Siobhan, para cone as vice chair, Jeremy, Matt as clerk and Lori Beth Putnam as treasurer. That has been seconded by RD, you know, any further, any further comments or discussion? Hearing none. All those in favor, say I or raise your hand. Hi. Hi. I think Linda's actually frozen that. Yeah, I think Linda's frozen. Usually, Janelle, what, what you do, because there's only one nomination. A lot of times the person running the meeting just instructs the clerk to cast one vote for each candidate. Because there's only the one. So I'm not sure we can do that because you're the clerk. And this is a vote about the clerk. So, I mean, okay. And I hear no, not a problem. Okay. I hear no opposition. So it looks like this was passed unanimously. Yep. Well, thank you, everyone. Unless there was to be clerk. I hope we can all live up to the challenge here. Thank you. I'd like to move on to the committee chairs. And what, what, what I would like to do is ask each of the, someone to speak for each of the committees. To identify who is there. Who they've nominated for chair. And then I think we can make a single motion. To, to, to ratify, if you will, all of these chair people. Does that make sense to folks? Yes. Yep. Chuck. Chuck's hand is up. Okay. Okay. Communications committee did not have a chance to get together to do an election. How would folks like to handle that? David Healy's hand is up. No, I'll wait. Okay. I didn't know if he was responding to that. No. We can appoint you temporary. Until, until you have that meeting. And then we can come back and it'll be a, an item for the next governing board agenda. And you, you can certainly be in the position, you know, temporarily, if you will. We do tech. I'll just call out. We do technically have a quorum of the communications committee present at this meeting. If that somehow changes the, the math, but happy to do it that way. If that's what people prefer. I defer to Alan. Yeah. The way the rules. The way the rules are procedure work is that if a person is not chosen tonight, the person who has been chair stays chair until there is a recommendation from the committee of who should be the, the new chair or the same chair, whatever you want to say. So there's no reason to do anything other than just wait till the next meeting. And put you in there. It's no big deal. Sounds good. And David Healy has his hand up. No. Sorry. Go ahead. Now the planning, the operating and planning committee has put forward David Healy as chair. Thank you. Is there anyone to speak for the finance committee? Not seeing any. Alan's got his hand up though. Yeah. The policy committee is put forth me. We're all so excited about these victories. The hard campaigns. And Tom Fisher's hand is up to, I'm sorry. Go ahead, Jerry. No, I was going to ask if Tom Fisher was, was, was attending. Yes. Yeah. And we put forth Ray for the chair. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I don't know if Tom Fisher was, was, was attending. Yes. Yeah. And we put forth Ray for the chair of the finance committee. Does he know? He was president. I think he did. Oh, good. Okay. I don't see any more hands, Jerry. I think we just covered all the committee committees. So. I, I, I will move that the governing board, except the nomination of. Alan at the policy, Alan Gilbert for the chair of the policy committee, Ray Pella chair for the chairman of the finance finance committee and David Healy for the chair of the op some planning committee. Second that we will. Second. Perfect. We'll wait for, for Chuck for the next, for the communications committee for the next meeting. And I heard a second from our D. Yep. Is there additional discussion? Any hands up, Siobhan? Nope. All right, then. Hearing none, are they, are there any opposed to the motion? Hearing none, the motion passes unanimously. Congratulations, folks. Congratulations. We got the hands back together. My condolences. All right. Well, even though Maggie spoke for a few minutes there, there is a. There is a slot in here for Maggie to introduce herself. To the governing board. I don't believe Maggie was here for our last governing board meeting. So Maggie, you want to take just a couple of minutes, please? And introduce yourself a little bit.  So please take the floor there. Hi, everybody. For those of you who have not met me yet. And I see a few of you that I haven't had the chance to get to know yet.  Sorry. I'm so sorry. I am laughing at what check just did to my comment. Maggie tech sour. I do know my name. Right now I live in Vernon. And I just signed the contract and sold our property. And I'm moving to Randolph in two weeks. And I am extremely excited to be here with all of you. My background has been in marketing and communications for a couple of decades now. I was in the military. I have raised four sons and they are out of the house. So I'm also celebrating that this year. I have a lot to celebrate this year. So I'm going to be in a really good mood for 2023. We moved to Vermont three years ago during the pandemic. And we built a little log cabin here. I'm 50 acres. And so it's bittersweet to sell it. So my philosophy for marketing is to meet people where they are. And that is something that I feel like all of you take very seriously here at CV fiber. And your mission and your purpose really spoke to me because it is really important to me that everyone have a fair chance at education and everyone have a fair chance at building a better life for themselves. And I think that knowledge and an opportunity to get knowledge is how we do that.  And I am super excited to be here. And I welcome all of your ideas. I ask that you don't pull a ray on me and send me 30 emails at four o'clock in the morning to share your ideas with me. Maybe one consolidated email would be super great. I'm just kidding, Ray is not here to defend himself. But I seriously do welcome all your ideas. And I'm very excited about every one of you volunteering to come to the events in your community with me this summer. And for every one of you to hit up your select board for all that ARPA money if you haven't done it yet. That's my sales pitch. Thank you. I didn't realize the military aspect what branch if I may. Um, I did army and Air Force reserves, I did army. And then I went to the Air Force and I hated the Air Force and I asked them if they would put me back in the army.  And I said, yes, sir, but they did it in any way. So I went back to the army and that's where I finished. Okay. Got it. Coast Guard here. I'm always looking for old coasties. That's all. Sorry. So I'm going to, I'm trying to log in here. Shavon, this might actually work. But let's let's move on to the meeting minutes approval while I'm while I'm trying to get online, please. Thank you. Thank you. I have a motion to approve the April 11th, 2023 meeting minutes as drafted. Second. All right.  Is that correct? Yes, sir. All right. Beautiful. Are there any discussion? Any opposed to the matter. Any abstentions? Thank you very much. We have some approved meeting minutes. Excellent. Is Lori Beth on the line? I see 21 participants. That's wonderful. I'm down at the bottom. Well, let's get you right up to the top there, Lori Beth. And if you, if you would walk through the treasurer's report, please, that would be fantastic. Sure. I sent out copies of the balance sheet, which is a summary of what we've done in the past year to date, profit and loss. And also a detail by vendor. Of the expenses that we've had so far. It is a summary. A couple of times in the past, when we've discussed the finances, they've asked what are the prepaid expenses. And it actually is four items that are journal entered. The accountants come in, they journal entry it, anything that's been paid ahead of time deposits on things. In this particular case, there are four of them for BKB and they totaled that 826,000. Now, at the end of the year, the accounts will come back in again. And as part of the closings for the year and make new entries and reverse any of these that have been used to be paying some of the bills. So that you probably will see these amounts go away, but there are probably going to be others that replace them. So there's usually always some amount in that column. It's rare that you end up with no prepaid invoices, especially when some of the big companies ask for deposits. And that's where those deposits show up. I'm not sure if there's any other questions. It's pretty straightforward. Unless someone has a particular question. Hearing none. Thank you, Lori, Beth. Excellent. Let Janiel and. Lucas, could you, could you, however you want to do it among yourselves, give us a construction update and an outlook for where we're going in the next few weeks. And I specifically put outlook in this agenda here because we usually just give an update of where we are, but we are, we are pivoting hard here. So I want to make sure that folks, not only understand where we are, but where we plan to be in the next few weeks before we, we get together again. So Janiel, I'll hand that over to you and take it as you will please. Okay. Yeah. I'm going to, I'm going to say Lucas, I would be happy to hear from you first and then I can fill in anything that, you know, after you have a chance to speak, do you want to, you want to start this conversation about where we're at with construction and where we're going with construction. Sure, absolutely. So we added another crew this week to call us. So we're not running three crews. And from what I've heard in two days of it, they are full board and they are very caffeinated and ready to go. So we're getting a lot more done already. So that's the good news. We're hoping to add another crew here any day, any week. Once we can free up more guys. So last, last numbers we had were 16 miles of fiber and 21 miles of strand. I'd expect in the last couple of days that's, that's upped by a little bit. So that's where we're at mileage wise. We received our A and R permit for the callous substation. So we're going to begin construction on that OLT any, any day now we're just waiting to get the underground crew on site. And we'll be immediately following that with getting electronics and lighting it up. So things are looking good and callous for sure. And in addition to that, we're hoping to get going on the run the area very soon, get that scope of work approved and get crews going on that. We're told, you know, back to the outlook, I guess, we're told that that is a much cleaner run. So we're hoping to be able to move a lot faster there. So, you know, with any luck, we will have a lot of miles behind us here in the very near future. Anything you want to add to that? Just that we are our contractors looking at a lay down yard that will be exclusively CB fibers in the next couple of weeks. And so we'll be able to kit up to a month's materials at a time. And so when we get the crews going, they'll be able to get direct kit from the warehouse to the lay down yard and work a lot more efficiently and quickly toward getting first strand and then fiber laid down. Yeah. So things are, things are looking very good in both the construction and in the process to get the construction going. Alan, I see your hand is up. Sorry. Sorry if I didn't have my mic off. I've been wondering if it might be a good idea that when we move into a, to a new area, there couldn't be some briefing for the delegate in that particular or delegates in those particular areas because so much of this is theoretical and abstract to us. We haven't really seen the work that's, I haven't seen the work that's being done in Calis. I don't know where it's going. I actually don't know how the construction is going to proceed in my town. And I think Worcester is in the, is in the, the, the middle sex area. So there's going to be a lot happening here. I'm getting more and more questions and it makes me a little bit nervous that I don't know more about how the system is going to run, how, where it's going to be built, what kind of crews are going to be around soon. I'm getting lots of questions about conduits and drops and that sort of thing. So I just wonder if other delegates are beginning to feel that way too, because this has become real and, and I feel like up to now it's been easy to sort of sit back and answer the few questions you get on the internet, but it's really picking up speed quickly. And I find myself not knowing as much as I'd like to know about what's going to happen in my town. Well, Alan, we're in luck because this is one of Maggie's major tasks is to help us through this, this process. So Maggie, go for it, please. I'm so glad you asked that, Alan. I was hoping somebody would ask that. I'm glad we talked about it. I'm glad we talked this afternoon. Yes, yes. So what we would like to do is offer some delegate and other volunteer training and really catch everyone up to speed on, you know, exactly what the technology and the operations looks like so that when you are approached by someone in your community, you can speak of the technology and feel comfortable doing so and have answers to their questions. In addition, I'm forming a task force of individuals that is going to help answer some kind of canned responses to what we're seeing is very common questions asked after we have done some kind of media blast or an article comes out that they, you know, pick up on. We get emails and many of the questions are the same. So we're going to form a task force and put all of the brains together to come up with responses. And then what we're going to do is we are going to form an on call group. You're welcome to volunteer for that, Alan, as is every delegate and because we don't want anyone to burn out staff or volunteer alike. And that individual would have call for one week. That might mean answering maybe eight, maybe one, maybe 12 emails, but we're already going to have most of those emails prepared and you're just going to plug in one or two words. And if the question gets super complicated, then you're going to say this is what I know of the situation, but on Monday, I'm going to have our operations manager, Lucas, reach out to you. If you're talking to someone in person in your town and it, again, it feels like it's more than maybe what you feel comfortable answering. You're going to be able to do the same thing.  This is what I know, but I'm going to have Janiel or Lucas contact you, but we are going to have trainings very soon. And if it were up to me, we'd have at least 40 seats available. That would be every delegate and every alternate. See what I did there. We're getting alternates too. Good idea. The one thing that I would warn you about is we're slowly wandering into the most difficult time of the year to gather people together for meetings. I mean summertime is when everybody sort of escapes or shuts down or whatever. So I think the planning of when meetings will be held and getting groups of people together, we've got to be ahead of it so that people know when things are going to happen and they can as much as possible try to plan their time around being able to get to those meetings. That's good, Alan. Henry, before I go to you, let me make one statement. I saw Tom Fisher put in the chat. Maggie, please include select board communications in that plan that you're developing to let people know where we're working and where we're going. It'll be important for the select boards to be aware. Henry, please go ahead, sir. Yes. I think it would be really helpful at these meetings if we had a map of the CLOs and our progress along those lines so that we can see every month from a visual map point of view how we're progressing. Thanks. Good point, Henry. I like that. Janille, did you get that? Kind of a progress map? Yeah, a progress map is something that NRTC has been toying with the idea of offering us so that we have a visual for where the crowd is or where the construction is happening and where it's going to be happening next. Yes, it would be. It would be very good there. I'd like to add just one thing on the construction update just for the governing boards awareness. This isn't necessarily a problem at all, but again, it's just for awareness. We're finding that it's a little bit more expensive doing work than was originally anticipated, not by a tremendous amount, but we have been approached to negotiate a minor uptick in the rates that we're paying in order to get the work done. And it's something that we will be considering in the future as we're working with our contractors. Things have changed, prices have increased. So I just wanted to put that out there for the governing board just for your awareness. It won't require governing board action, but again, it's just for your awareness. But that's not necessarily a bad thing. That's doing business and things are really moving forward. So I'm looking forward to having the same discussion next month to see where we are. Anything else, Janiel or Lucas or anyone else on the construction update? I'll just add in the meantime, to make it get something rolling, if there's any questions you have, feel free to give me a shout and I can update as best I can. I'm available all day and always happy to talk with you. Thank you. Fantastic. Thank you. I'm going to shift now to a website marketing update that I'm looking forward to. I'm going to talk about the website marketing outlook. And my intention here is not just the website, things are really coming to a head. So, you know, we've started by separating out construction. We separated out the website. We had separated out marketing. And now we're really finding that these things are blending together more all the time. So what we're trying to do is really blending into operations because they're setting up operations in a somewhat similar manner that construction is setting up operations where all these things are blending together to make a unified CV fiber presence. So I don't want the kickoff of our actual operating to be looked at as a sidebar somewhere. So I'm going to start with Chuck and all of this, and especially in our website and marketing update. I think I'll start with Chuck and Chuck. I'll let you pass that around to whomever you're ready to as the chair of the communications committee. I'll have you start off. For another month anyway. I will start by asking. Or whether she would like me to start for this month and then have a gentle ask to her to take this over going forward. What do you think, Maggie? You want to take a stab at it? Well, I'm not going to lie to you. I was answering RDS question and I can't listen and type at the same time because I've trained myself to ignore four sons. So can you repeat the question? Website progress status update. Website status progress update. Well, I can tell you that thanks to you and Linda. We have made enormous progress in the last two weeks and we did a test on Monday. And from what I understand and I'm going to pass the wand here to Linda in just a second. From what I understand, compared to the first test, there's absolutely no comparison to what people had to say. It's so close to being the live launch. And I'm really, really excited for everyone to see it. So, Linda, would you like to share the good news? We did two rounds of testing so far. Round one was computers and laptops. And round two was mobile devices, phones, tablets. In between the two, we took the input from the round one and we incorporated it in. Maggie and I incorporated it into round two. And the difference was amazing. Just listening to the feedback from round one. And now we went through for round two. And we didn't find any bugs that we knew bugs that we didn't already know about in round two. And this is really encouraging the way you decide when you're ready for launch is you are minimizing the number of new bugs that you find. I think we have three outstanding bugs at the moment, which is very good. Chuck says yes. That would get us to launch. The next round of testing is called crash testing. We are going to ask for volunteers to come and try to crash our app. It's better that we crash it than having our customers crash it. So please give your names to me or Janiel because we really need eight or 10 volunteers. And I hate to keep asking the same people to be volunteers. So please volunteer for the next round of crash testing. Thank you. I would just like to add on to what Linda said there with a quick explanation of crash testing. It's not nearly as scary as watching one of those dummies careening into a wall as it sounds. What you try to do is you actually put on your crazy hat and try to enter the most bizarre information you can think of as you're going through the flow to see what happens. Email addresses that don't look like email addresses. Phone numbers from China.  You do it and you see what happens. I will tell you one thing we know for a fact doesn't work very well is the back button. Unfortunately that's something that's not in our control and that's holy and crowd fibers control. You will break the application if you do a whole lot of forward and back. So just warning you right off the bat that that is the case. But aside from that, see what you can find. It's kind of fun to put on the creative hat and see what you can do to make things not work the way you would expect.  I just wanted to clarify. Linda, you said app. Do you mean like a phone app that's downloaded? Or do you mean the web application? The web. The website. Okay. Thanks. Yeah. Okay. And I see Henry. Yeah. I just wanted to know folks that want to volunteer for this. Who do they contact? Okay. Okay. And then I'll, I'll get back to you, Linda. Go ahead, John. And I see Henry's hand is up. Go ahead, Henry. Right. So in the category of crash testing. A big part of my career was in performance testing. So when you announce something. And then all of a sudden, you know, 100 people are at the website. Does it. Is it scalable? So that's something I'd like to throw out there. I no longer have access to my performance testing tools. So I can't do it for you, but you know, what we did. You know, when we didn't, when we couldn't use performance testing tools was to arrange a time when everyone would go on the website at the same time and try to break it that way. So we could, you know, have a performance testing process and then crash party and all sync up at the same time to hit the website and see what happens. Thanks. I want to speak to that a moment just to clarify for you, Henry, because this is a third party hosted application, they are responsible for performance and availability and uptime. And I will tell you, they have customers who are much, much bigger than we are already on their platform that today. So I, I, it's always possible that, you know, there's something different about our instance that, that makes it less performance than other instances, particularly since we've customized the theme of great deal at this point in time. But I will say that even if we did find an issue there, there's not anything we could do about it. So, you know, the focus will really be on kind of breaking the, the interactivity and, and breaking the theme that we've put together, not so much on the performance and scalability because that is managed by crowdfiber. But, you know, certainly open to ideas if you have. Linda, before I go to you, let me ask John if he has a follow up because I see his hand is still up. John, do you have, do you want to follow up? Sorry, no, I thought I had put my hand down. Oh, okay. No problem. Thank you. All yours. I am more worried about people with very slow internet who cannot load our pages to sign up. Okay. That is to me, to me more of a worry. We spend quite a bit of time at the beginning trying to optimize our code to make it so that it would be a lot faster and a lot easier for people to just load the pages. But that, that's more of a worry than having too many people on the site at once. That's a problem I'd love to have to tell you the truth. Okay. And also, Linda, maybe you can speak to the webinar that we had discussed that would be very specific for our, our delegates and it would be open to the public, but it would very much be for the delegates to be able to see the website, how it works, what it's doing and kind of to walk everybody through how the website works just so that you have a better understanding whenever you speak to someone in your hometown or anywhere else that's interested in CV fiber. We're looking to do this sometime in towards the end of the month, where we would have this webinar and get everybody or as many delegates as are interested to be up to speed to understand what our website is doing and its capabilities. Linda, do you want to add to that? Just that it's really important that you be able to understand the website enough to talk with your constituents. So alternate delegates, you know, whoever is interested in the way I've seen the website, how it works, I think that's really important. So thank you for offering this webinar. Thank you. Any other discussion about our website marketing update? This for me, this flows right into the next item, the services or fees. Yeah, go ahead, Chuck. Somehow an ask about outlook was added into the next agenda item, but I don't know why. Maybe you can elaborate on that. Absolutely. The same as with the construction, where we plan on going in the next few weeks. My sense was that we were talking about that, where we're going in the next few weeks with having the webinar ready, additional testing. So just kind of looking forward what's happening between now and our next meeting, June 16th or 12th or whatever it is. Thank you. In my mind, I got that conflated with outlook, the application. So thank you. Oh my gosh. No, we're not even going to go there. Thank you very much. Okay. So. Again, everything. Everything is coming together here very quickly. And when you're, when, when, as, as I've come to understand, because this is nowhere my field of expertise in the slightest, but, but what I've come to understand is that as we're pulling everything together and especially as we're pulling the website. Together where we need to make information available. We've been finding that there are bits of information that we don't have. And that there are decisions that need to be made that we haven't made. And, and that as we're moving forward, we're going to have to make some decisions on the edge. If you will. It's going to keep popping up for us. And certainly it's going to come up in the next. Three weeks, let's say four weeks where we're really getting ready to go live. And then as we learn. In future where we may need to tweak things on the website. Those decisions again are going to have to be made. And what we've, what we've. Been doing is we've always asked. For authority to make decisions at the various levels that, that we operate. And what, what, what we have now is we have the authority with the, the, the, the governing board and the executive committee. We've established our rate structure and, you know, our basic service plan and our rate structure. But we, we haven't really finalized some of the things along the edge that, that, that we're, we're still working out like with weights field. So for example, if somebody wants telephone service. Or, and they need wiring in the house. You know, how does that, how does that get addressed on the website? You know, what's the, what's the fee for that? What's the, you know, what, how does that, how is that going to work? These, these kinds of items that we don't want to keep coming back to the governing board to decide. We, we, the finance committee in their, in their most recent meeting recommended that these kinds of things come to the executive committee instead of the governing board because the executive committee meets every couple of weeks. The, the executive committee is a smaller quorum. If we need to make a decision, because the things on our website, we don't want it to be wrong or blank, you know, as, as, as, as we, as we learn these items where we need to fill the gaps. So I've put together a motion that is in, in, it's a, it's a pelleteer-esque motion that basically lays out where the authority has come from and is, is requesting that the authority to make these decisions rest with the executive committee so that we can be, we can be fluid enough and that the, the governing board is notified of these decisions. And of course the governing board can always say, hey, wait, we didn't like that. But the idea is, is that we, we get the fluidity and we're able to go back and forth with Watesfield and, and whoever else we may need to talk with about making these decisions without having to come all the way back to the governing board and certainly do not have special, special meetings. I don't think these decisions necessarily need to be at the governing board level, which is why I'm going to bring forward this, this motion. I'm going to put it in the chat. So bear with me because I am, I'm not going to type it. I am a one finger typist, but I, I, I have it here in the chat. Bear with me a second. Second. That's very good. That's, that's, that's very good. Okay. So I'm just doing select all. Okay. And now I'm going back to the chat. Please excuse me as I fumble through this. It's how you paste, right? It didn't go. Why not? You have to hit enter. Hit enter. No, I am looking for. You have to copy the selection. I did. Well, I did select all. Oh, now control C. I'm sorry. Oh my goodness. Don't embarrass yourself. You know, I'm beyond, beyond embarrassment. Let me tell you. All right. Let me read this. Please. So whereas on the 9th of November, 2022, the executive committee approved the CV fiber subscription rate plan dated 9 November, 2022. And recommended that the governing board ratify the CV fiber subscription rate plan dated 9 November, 2022. Whereas on 11 November, 2022, the governing board ratified the CV fiber subscription rate plan dated 9 November, 2022 and authorized the executive committee to oversee the publication of the plan at such time and in such manner as it determines to be appropriate. Whereas the CV fiber subscription rate plan dated 9 November, 2022 was available to the public in the webinar dated 16 November, 2022 and is currently available on the CV fiber website. Whereas the executive committee approved the outline of subscription terms and conditions dated 22 November, 2022 and notified the board of the same on 13 December, 2023. Whereas during the development of the CV fiber website and in consultation with Watesfield telecom and other CUDs, the need to determine ancillary services and associated fees has become apparent. Whereas the finance committee on the 4th of May, 2023 recommended that the governing board be made aware that determination of ancillary services and associated fees is necessary and that exploration of such services and fees is being performed as a component of the website development. It is moved that the governing board authorize the executive committee to set and publicize such ancillary services and fees as may be required after consultation with the finance committee, Watesfield telecom and others and to notify the governing board after determinations have been made. Second. I think that was Jeremy underneath Chauvin's exuberance. He's closer so the electrons didn't have to go as far. Seconded by Jeremy, is there any discussion on this? I tried to make it transparent. The whole point here is to be transparent and accountable and make sure as I had discussed earlier with some folks, we have two types of trust that we rely on here. One type of trust is internal. Vertically through the association, through the governing board and the committees and the executive committee, there's a trust among all of us there. There's also a trust with the public that the public knows that we're transparent and that the public trusts that what we say we're doing, we're doing and what we've done, we've actually done. So I think it's important to be transparent and have this kind of authority very specifically be allowed for the governing board. Is there, Alan, please. I'm having just a little bit of a problem with understanding what the very end of this motion is asking. And what I'm confused about is what after determinations have been made. I don't know what that means. It makes sense, the beginning of this last paragraph makes sense. People are notified about what we're doing. But I don't know what it is to notify the governing. What is the determination? The determination that this service is going to be available and the fee will be so much after having worked this through with weights field to make sure it fits in with what we're doing and consultation with typically other CUDs to make sure that we're all on the same page and understand what each other is doing. So that the determination would be to say that we're going to do these services at this fee and publicize it. We're going to put it on the website. That's the determination. And that the governing board needs to be notified. Okay. So it's not a system of how we're going to set these fees or whatever. It's every time that we do engage in setting a fee for something that's come up, the governing board is going to be notified. Is that correct? That was my intention in this, yes. And I apologize for not making that clear. Okay. I think we have Maggie and then I believe Tom also has a stand-up. And I'm kind of with Alan. I'm slightly confused by the wording at the end. I'm just curious as to, I do understand, given we're talking about finances, why the finance committee would have involvement with this, but we're talking, as you said, about trust both within this organization and with the public. And so I'm curious why consultation with the communications committee wouldn't be able to bring this to the executive committee's attention. And then at that point, if the executive committee felt that it was important enough to take forward, they could do so. I don't think the communications committee would do anything untoward that was going to hurt the organization any more than the financial finance committee would. And please, talk amongst yourselves and explain to me. It's not about doing anything untoward or hurt. The idea is really anything that has to do with fees really should have the finance committee's consultation. The finance committee needs to know that. That's all that was intended there. We're talking about fees. The finance committee needs to know and be consulted. And Tom Fisher. So first, I have no problem with the way this is written. I think the key verbs there are set with the executive committee is free to set the ancillary service and fees. Also that it mentions finance committee, WCVT and others. I think others is possibly including other committees. It probably depends on the particular topic that is at, you know, executive committees at their table. I did want to ask if at that finance committee, we had not long ago, Thursday, that the major debate at the time was whether or not minor like dollar, single dollar changes to rates could be, could that alteration be made by the executive committee in order to better potentially outreach with marketing and so forth. So I just wanted to make sure that this motion is covering that need or if there's been discussion at the executive committee and this is where we've landed on fine with that. Just want to make sure we didn't miss anything. Well, it was not missed. Actually, it's, it's purposefully not a part of this, this motion to, to be able to change the rate, the rates that we already have that are, that are, that are out to the public. That, that is something that still goes through the executive committee and ratified that, that our rate structure, our main rate structure that, that is, comes from our business plan and is, is, you know, works towards the, the, the bulk of the fees that we're going to be collecting that is, that hasn't, that's the authorization for that has not changed and is not addressed in this. Chuck, give me one second. Okay. Tom, do you want to, do you need, do you want to respond to that? Nope, I'm all set. Okay. Thank you. Okay. Chuck and then Linda, please. Question, which is, if there were a determination made in the communications committee and or by Maggie and or in partnership with a marketing firm, something like that, that it would behoove us to introduce like short-term discounting or, you know, limited time discounts or, or, you know, promotional pricing and periods and things of that nature. Do you perceive that sort of thing as falling under the jurisdiction of this as well? I do. I do. Thank you. I think that's, that's, that's probably a good example. David supports the motion, but he has to leave. Jeremy, are we going to still have quorum? Yeah, we had, we have 12 people on. So now we're down to 11 with David leaving. And if we lose one more, then we cannot conduct any business. Okay. Linda, go ahead, please. So last, we had Crawford giving us some advice, but not necessarily on pricing. And now, so we, we haven't had a good marketing plant, I'm going to say, to the prices that we chose to begin with. I think it's really important in the future that we take the marketing research and the marketing opinion into consideration on pricing, not only on descriptions of our price, of our product, but also on pricing because the way people perceive us through the pricing is very important. We are trying to build trust with our customers. And if the pricing looks sleazy, then the customers are going to think that we are not trustworthy. So I think it's really important to keep these kind of aspects in view even with the previous voting that we had last, last year where we didn't have marketing consultation on these issues. Point taken. I think that's an important point. We are, we are certainly learning as we move, as we move forward. Additional discussion. Shall we go to a vote on this before we lose anybody else? Hearing no additional discussion. Are there any opposed to the motion? I would just suggest that instead of specifying a committee, why can't we say, I mean, we're being so broad, right? We're saying and others. So maybe with the appropriate committee or committees, we're talking about services and fees, right? We're not just talking about fees. So it's silly to say one committee versus a committee or committees or, or even just leave out committees and because we have weights field and others. Well, I had finance committee in there. As I said, because I don't know why this would mess, I could foresee where the communications committee would be as important to a decision about services and fees. Right. We're talking about services and fees. Right. We're not just talking about fees. I said, because we specifically talk about fees, I can say with, with CV five with the appropriate CV five or committees, plural. I can do that better because it, we have, we, we shouldn't assume that services and fees would take out policy committee or planning and, you know, operations and planning committee or communications committee. I think all of the committees are equally important in deciding on services and fees. I'll go with that. I will take that as a friendly. Amendment. So I've, I've changed. Um, I have, I have changed the, the, the wording now to say after consultation with the appropriate CV fiber committees. That's some parentheses. Um, and then it continues. And so no longer mentions the finance committee. It includes all committees and I like that better. Yes. Does, uh, who seconded this? Did that, does this. Make a motion. I just. Does it change the second for you, Linda? No, I like the, I like the amendment. Okay. I like the amendment. Very good. So any other discussion. So let's vote on the. Um, let's, let's vote on the motion. With the, including the friendly amendment. Are there any opposed. To the motion. Are there any abstain abstentions? The motion passes unanimously. Thank you. Um, I will. I think I'll, I can, I can copy this and put it back in the. Put it back in the chat. Um, with the, with the change. Um, Um, Okay. Where are we now? Financial services support. Okay. So I think this one, this one is, is, is for me to, uh, just provide some information. There's no action. Required here. The CUDA. Has. Um, Come to terms and, and hired a firm. P F M. That is a. Financial advisor in a fiduciary sense. They are the folks that would. Provide information and support. To anyone that any, any, um, CUD that wants to go to the bond market. Or maybe wants to go to the bank. Or maybe he's looking for any other vehicle. Where, um, We could get some funds. That would be a loan of some type, a note of some type. Um, and V CUDA has hired these folks. They, I use the term fiduciary because they definitely would work for the CUD in the CUD's interest. They're not an underwriter. Who is just basically, You know, You know, They're not a middleman that pulls everybody together and makes it happen. These folks work in our, Would work in our interest if they were working for us. Um, The CUDA has, um, Has a, uh, A task order with them and we have started talking with them about what the possibilities are. What information we need to provide. What, what, what would they need to help steer us in the right direction to look at the market for funds that would be available to us. Um, Exploratory at the moment where we're learning about what we need. Um, in order to enter this market. And, you know, Part of this, of course, Is to fill the funding gap that we need. But the VCBB is also working on the funding gap. So, you know, We don't know how that gap is going to be closed, But we're moving forward on multiple fronts. Um, Including alternative grants to do that. Um, And. The alternative grants. We are also looking at alternative grant application support. We are also looking at, um, We are also looking at alternative grant application support. We are also looking at the possibility of having a contract that that could would be done at the executive committee level. But we are looking at the possibility of having a contract to support us in fulfilling our grant applications that, that we additional grants that we're looking for from the federal government. Um, So, We are looking at our information intensive time intensive. We just don't have the wherewith. We really don't have the wherewithal to do this in a timely manner. And if, if, uh, well, I won't speak for him, but. But David knows what it takes to pull together all the information for a federal grant. And it's a lot. So we are, we are looking at. Uh, A colleague team. Uh, Another, uh, Consultant that they work with. That focuses on getting getting applications into these federal grants in a timely manner. We are talking about that with them. We're still identifying grants where we're talking about options. Um, We came close at one time to pulling the trigger. Um, And then we found out that there was some preliminary information and found that. It just, it, it, we, we, it wasn't going to fly. We couldn't, we couldn't meet the criteria that were needed for the grant. Uh, Jeanille, do you have anything that you'd like to add to, to the couple of things that I just, I just listed here. Yeah. So in, in, in looking at long-term viability, um, and how to, how to get a better take rate and, uh, we're, we're talking with weights field about strategy for how we sell the, um, services to the consumer and looking at competition and thinking about the top line as well as, um, grants. So we're taking a more, um, we're taking a broader look at all of the funding options, including grants and going to the bond market and other creative, um, charity type, um, situations as well as, um, leveraging local organizations, um, and, and top line marketing and increasing revenue. Um, so we're, we're looking broadly at this and discussing this with, with the, with the CUDA as well. Um, and among other CUDs. So we're taking a quite a broad perspective of long-term sustainability. If, if anybody is wondering my, my 30,000 foot perspective on this is, is quite simple. The less we need to borrow to complete our universal service obligation, the lower our fees will be to our subscribers. And the more folks that we have the higher our take rate, the, the, the better opportunity to lower our fees or to have funds that we can use in other ways for the benefit of our subscribers. So those are the, those are the, the, the two things that we're, we're working on. And, you know, now that we have Maggie on board, it's, it's, uh, it's something that doesn't all, you know, we're, we're, we're spreading the load with folks with expertise in these, in these areas. So, um, my, I, I really would like to see our fees lowered in the, in the long-term. But that's, that's, that's just so you know where I am. If there's any, any question about that, there shouldn't be any additional discussion on, on this in general. Happy five years. Well, hearing none, I recommend that we adjourn at 715. Siobhan, you're in control of the, uh, recording. Could you, could you please email the recording to, um, Sybil in the morning and Jeremy Matt, please. All right. The meeting is adjourned at 715. Thank you, everybody. And I'm going to add the, the change in the chat right now.


What's up guys? I'm Brian Sakawa.  So I'm sure you guys have heard of Uniqlo before but if not they are a Japanese brand known for making very high quality clothing at an extremely affordable price point. Personally over the years I have been a huge fan of Uniqlo sweaters. I have several of their turtlenecks, a couple cardigans and I honestly look forward to pulling those sweaters out every single fall and winter. I was actually just recently in the store and ended up buying one of their ultralight down jackets because I did not pack as I should have but when I was in the store I was looking around and I said man I would love to try on some of the other things that the brand has to offer other than sweaters. So I ended up ordering a little over $500 worth of stuff and this box has been sitting here for about a week so I am very eager to finally open it up and try this stuff on. Let's see what we have here. Red plaid flannel shirt, cotton cashmere cable knit sweater, brown corduroy button-up shirt, kind of like an orangy t-shirt size small. This is sweatshirt hoodie size small. Pajamas size small. This is a black down coat size small. These are sweatpants or joggers. I had to get another sweater. This is a brown cardigan, an extra fine merino wool. This is a Glen plaid scarf, a pair of gloves, cashmere. This is a long sleeve turtleneck t-shirt in brown. Obviously I like brown. Slim fit chino flat front pants. I've always been curious about the Uniqlo pants so I'm going to try these on and a light down puffer vest also size small. Let's try this stuff on. All right first we have this v-neck t-shirt. It's size small. I already knew it was going to fit really well. I have several of the same t-shirt in white that I'll wear under sweaters or just around the house. I wanted to see how this orangish color would look and I think it looks pretty good so this is definitely a keeper. Next is this buffalo plaid button-up flannel shirt. This fall and winter have actively been seeking out pieces that I can add to my casual wardrobe and I thought this shirt would be a really great addition especially for this time of year. The fit is really nice. Shoulders are perfect. Sleeve length is great. The length of the shirt itself is perfect. I could tuck it in. I could wear it untucked either way it's going to work. This is definitely going to get home in my closet. Next is this long sleeve turtleneck t-shirt which I thought was very interesting and I wanted to try because I really do love turtlenecks. They call it a soft touch fabric and I can totally feel why it's very very soft. Feels very nice. I love the color. They call it brown but it's got a little bit more of a walnut kind of hue. What I like about this is it's very casual, very comfortable and as you can see the fit is really nice as well. All right more brown. This is a corduroy button-up. Again I have really been looking for shirts to fill out the casual side of my wardrobe and I obviously couldn't pass this one up. Fit is exactly the same as the buffalo plaid shirt. Everything from the chest, the sleeves, the shoulders is impressively perfect for an off the rack shirt in my opinion. Little sentimental value here too whenever I go home for the holidays my dad always wears a corduroy shirt so it just feels right. So I picked this next sweater because I like cable knit sweaters and of course it's light brown so you know I had to. For some reason I ordered it in a size extra small and I don't know why. I think I just wanted to see the difference between small and extra small but I think this is a little too tight for me. I think maybe I could pull it off but I don't like to wear form fitting clothes like this and because it is so tight I really would not be able to layer it over a button-up shirt or anything like that so this one is going to go back. Hey look more brown. This is the fine marino cardigan. I have a few cardigans in my closet but not a brown one. I do like to use cardigans as layering pieces especially under a blazer so I do like when I can find ones that are thinner like this. I'm a little unsure about the fit here both around the midsection and the sleeve width which you can see I keep fussing with it. I did check the size of the gray version of this sweater that I have and it is a size small so I don't know if there was a manufacturing issue or if they just started cutting them bigger. I don't know I'm not super sure about this one so we'll keep it in the maybe pile. Next is this really nice glen plaid scarf. I love the glen plaid pattern and price was very good. It's a little thinner than I was expecting but it's not terrible you know I think this is a great versatile and classic looking scarf so it is going to stay with me. Navy puffer vest I've always been a fan of the navy puffer. I actually have one from American apparel that I bought like 10 years ago but I really hate how it fits and it's not that warm. This one on the other hand fits great I like that it buttons instead of zipping feels very warm great casual hour piece I like it I'm keeping it. Next is this black seamless downcoat. I've wanted a coat like this for a long time I actually don't have a sort of you know just need to run out of the house quickly coat other than like this humongous Woolridge parka which is just sometimes a little too much. This coat however I really like three-quarter length is nice it fits really well. The only thing I don't like is that it is now on sale and when I bought it it wasn't so oh well. Alright the chinos now these were the item that I was probably the most curious about. It's hard to find like that perfect really good fitting pair of chinos and I have my fingers crossed here. Waist seams to fit really well this is the slim fit not the stretch slim fit but the fabric does seem to have a little bit of a give to it. They're long but all Uniqlo pants seem to come with a 34 inch inseam so I would definitely have to have them tailored. I don't know I think these chinos might be a little too tight for my taste they're very tight around the thigh maybe like five years ago I would go for them but for where I'm at now I'm not really feeling the fit. Alright since Robin and I bought the house about a year ago I've really been embracing sort of like the casual comfortable sort of leisure approach to being at home and just sitting around so a nice pair of joggers fits very well into that compartment of my personal style now these are pretty comfortable they've got the zip pockets great price sold. Next is this dry stretch hoodie goes pretty well with the joggers I think as I've come to expect from everything I've tried on so far it fits really well it's very comfortable it's great for walking around the neighborhood walking to the gym running errands good simple easy casual piece that's all I have to say about that one. Alright this is what I'm talking about flannel pajamas I saw these on the website and you know you have to have a couple good pairs of pajamas and definitely a flannel pair these are awesome the fit is great just the right amount of looseness and they are extremely comfortable. Last is this pair of cashmere gloves I've been looking for a pair of nice versatile gloves like this and the only thing I was worried about was the sizing they come in one size only my hands aren't small but they're not big either so I was expecting them to fit a little on the big side but as you can see they fit like a glove so I'm gonna be hanging on to them overall this was a super good haul I'm really really impressed with not only the quality of all the items but also the fit and when you consider the quality and fit along with the price Uniqlo is just very impressive leave your comments below thumbs up if you liked this video please subscribe to the channel and until next time thanks for watching and stay tailored


Good morning everyone. Myself Piyusha Shedgar, Assistant Professor, Valchan Institute of Technology, Solapur. In today's session, we will see the Helical Antenna, one of the type of Antenna. These are the learning outcomes for today's session. At the end of this session, students will be able to list the features of Helical Antenna. They will be able to explain the working of Helical Antenna. These are the contents will be discussed in today's session. So before going to start, the Helical Antenna, you can pause the video here for a second and recall that the basic function of an Antenna. Yes, Antenna is a transducer which converts electrical power into electromagnetic waves and vice versa. So whenever the Antenna works as a transmitter, it transmits the signal and at the receiver side, it converts one form of energy into other form of the energy and thus Antenna works as a transducer. Now let us discuss the overview of the Helical or Helix Antenna. Helical Antenna is also called as Helix Antenna. So Helical Antenna is an example of the wire Antenna. So there are the different types of the Antenna. So one of the Antenna type is the wire Antenna. Helical is the example of wire Antenna. The shape of the Helical Antenna is, forms the shape of a Helix. So that means the conductor is having the shape of the Helix structure and therefore it is called as a Helical Antenna. So it is a type of broadband Antenna and it is also the very high frequency and ultra high frequency Antenna. This Antenna is used in the range of the frequency about 30 MHz to 3 GHz range. This Antenna works in very high frequency and ultra high frequency ranges. Now these are the example of the Helix Antenna. This figure shows the Helical Antenna. So this is the Helical Antenna. From the first figure you can observe that these are the arrays of the Helical Antenna. So number of Helical Antenna are connected to form a single element. Thus the array of the Helical Antenna is formed. In the second figure you can observe that this is the Antenna conductor which having the Helical shape and thus form the Helical Antenna with the ground plate is connected to the feed point. Now actually the geometry of the Helical Antenna denotes with this figure. So in the first figure you can observe that this is nothing but actually the coaxial input is applied here. Metal ground plane is connected here and here the Helical conductor is placed. Okay so from this figure you can observe that this is the Helical shape the conductor which having the Helix shape with the tubular or the solid metal. This small denotes actually the diameter of the coil. This is nothing but the length of the one loop one turn is denoted with the capital L. S denotes the spacing between the number of turns. So you can take the number of turns of that conductor to form a Helical structure. This is another figure used for the Helical structure. Here you can observe that the conductor which having the Helical shape with the total length denotes with the letter capital L. This is nothing but considered as the diameter of the Helix and this is connected to the ground plane. At the ground plane the field point is mentioned here. Now let us discuss the structure of the Helix. So it is the structure of the Helix so this is again the Helical shape of the conductor is shown with the center point is called as the Helix axis. This total length is denoted with the capital A. So capital A is nothing but the axial length of the Helix. It is given by N times S that is N multiplied with the S. So N is nothing but the number of turns whereas the S is the spacing between the turns. So for designing of the Helical antenna some of the elements are required. So these elements are nothing but actually the diameter of the Helix turns spacing between the center to center point length of the complete turn along with the pitch angle. So the important element for the Helical antenna is the diameter of the Helix. It is given by this letter capital D letter. So when you says that this is nothing but the diameter of the Helical antenna capital D is the diameter of the Helical antenna it decides the circumference of the Helix. So circumference of this Helical antenna is given by pi times D whereas the D is the diameter of the Helical antenna. So from this figure if you are considering a single unwound turn of Helix. So if it is unwound turn of Helix with the total length denotes with the capital letter L this is the spacing between the two turns whereas this is nothing but the circumference. Circumference is given by the equation pi times D. So these two are perpendicular to each other and the angle formed by this perpendicular and the normal to the Helix axis is denotes with the letter alpha. So this alpha is called as the pitch angle. So from this figure you can calculate the L, S, C parameter. These are the elements important to design the Helical antenna. So by using Pythagoras theorem you can define the equation for this L. L is the length of the Helix. So it is given by under root S square plus C square where S is the spacing and C is the circumference. And from this figure you can observe that the alpha can be calculated by taking the tangent value of this alpha. So tan alpha can be calculated by the opposite side upon the adjacent side. So tan alpha can be written as S upon C. So you know that C is the circumference given by this pi times of D. So it can be written as tan alpha equal to S by C. So we have to find out the equation for the alpha. Alpha is equal to tan inverse of S by C whereas C can be replaced with pi times of D. Thus you can observe that the alpha can be calculated by using tan inverse of S and S by C. That means the alpha pitch angle depends on the element the spacing between the two turns of helix. Now there are the special cases of the helical antennas for the pitch angle. Whenever the pitch angle alpha is equal to 0 the meaning of this is whenever the space alpha is equal to 0 the spacing between the two turns becomes equal to 0. That is the S element becomes equal to 0. So as there are a number of turns meaning of this is the number of turns are overlapped to each other. Whenever these number of turns are overlapped to each other it forms the multi loop structure of an antenna. So when the alpha is equal to 0 S becomes equal to 0 and it is loop antenna. For the case 2 when alpha is equal to 90 degree in that case the diameter becomes equal to 0. So meaning of this is S is the spacing between these two becomes infinite. So whenever this becomes infinite that means it acts as a single line. So whenever the alpha is equal to 90 degree it is an linear antenna and when the alpha lies between 0 to 90 degree then it is a helical antenna. Now how to define this peach angle? Peach angle alpha is the angle between a line tangent to the helix wire and the plane normal to the helix axis. The radiation of the helical antenna depends upon this element the spacing diameter and the peach angle. Now this is the construction of the helical antenna. So conductor is wound with this helical shape with the central support is provided and this is connected to the reflection or base or the ground plane and the coaxial cable is connected here and the spacers are provided for as a support between these loop. Helical antenna or the helix antenna is the antenna in which the conducting wire is wound in helical shape and connected to the ground plate with the feeder line with the inner conductor and the outer conductor. It provides the circularly polarized wave that means for the helical antenna circular polarization is obtained that is EM wave having the vertical as well as the horizontal components. It consists of a helix of thick wire, steel or brass wire wound in a shape of a screw thread. It is used as an antenna in conjunction with a flat metal plate called the ground plate. So one end of the helix is connected to the center conductor of a cable and is the outer conductor is connected to the ground plate. So the impedance of a helical antenna depends on the number of parameters. So these parameters are coil diameter, coil loop pitch, coil length and the frequency. These are the references used for today's session.


Welcome to the ITU studio in Geneva for the occasion of GSR 2018, the Global Symposium for Regulators. I'm very pleased to be joined in the studio today by Urs Gasser, who is the Executive Director of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University and also Professor of Practice at Harvard Law School. Urs, thank you very much for joining us today. Thanks for having me. Now, I'd like to talk to you a little bit about a project that I know you've been recently involved with. You really launched AI for Development Series. Perhaps you could tell us a little bit about that, some of the key findings, perhaps some of the recommendations that come from this. Happy to do so. So, we wrote the paper as a contribution to this series focusing on setting the stage for AI governance. So, everyone is talking about artificial intelligence and its many different applications, whether it's self-driving cars or personal assistance on the cell phone or use of AI in health. And it raises all sorts of governance questions, questions about how these technologies should be regulated to mitigate some of the risks, but also, of course, to embrace the opportunities. And in this paper, what we do based actually on a series of conversations we've had with global policymakers over the last year is somehow distil a few core themes that we've heard and help policymakers to chart the pathway forward, which is actually quite challenging and that can expand a little bit more if you're interested. Yes, sure. That'd be good. I mean, how can AI help development? I mean, there are many, many enormous benefits where this combination between large data sets that we have available and really advanced algorithms can shape outcomes in terms of how we treat diseases or, you know, how we give care to patients or how we make transportation more efficient. So, there are many, many positive uses also in the context of the sustainable development goals of the UN. But yet again, there are also real challenges for policymakers. And just mentioning three that we cover a little bit in our contribution. One is really about the complexity of the technology. If you look at it, there is actually a relatively small group of people who understand the technology and there are potentially, you know, a very large population affected by the same technology. And so the same applies to policymakers. Many of these technologies are developed in private companies. And yet policymakers, you know, are wondering how to regulate or govern these emerging AI-based technologies. And so there are massive information asymmetries. And how do you bridge them? What can we also learn from past cycles of technological innovation? So that's one core theme to bridge information asymmetries and look at some sort of the instrument in the toolbox for regulators how to build internal capacity. Because regulators are very much just seeing the tip of the iceberg really. They're not seeing all of the research and everything else that's going underneath. And they're also not seeing perhaps some of the mechanics and some of the elements that are really contributing to the functionality of AI. Exactly. And there is also a big gap that we need to bridge and quite urgently so between the technologists and the policy people and people talking about the social impact of technologies. And so it's really a hard institutional question but also again going back to disciplines, going back to education, how do we train the next generation of leaders who are fluent enough to speak both languages and understand engineering enough as well as the world of policy and law enough and ethics importantly to make these decisions about governance of AI. So this is kind of one big topic and if I may just mention another one that is more kind of substantive. Well the first one is a little bit more procedural in a way and that is one of the key challenges obviously is also how can we make sure that this next generation of technologies is benefiting all people in the same way. And that's a real challenge too because in some ways AI based technologies are also following a past dependency. To give an example that stuck with me, take autonomous vehicles, tremendous potential to increase efficiency in transportation but it relies for instance on Google Maps or any sort of mapping infrastructure. Now there are big areas in cities, take the favelas in big cities in Brazil, they are unmapped and so in a way you can make the argument that in places where the technology will show the most benefit because these are digital have-nots to begin with, these populations, they are now disadvantaged yet again with the next generation of technology. And so this problem of inclusion is a really, really big one and in our contribution and in our work more generally of course with many others we're thinking hard at how can we close these divides and digital gaps both at the infrastructure level when we talk about broadband infrastructure and the like but then also looking at data because as I said at the beginning AI systems heavily relay in very large data sets so what kind of data common can we create that is also representative of very different people. And avoiding bias. Exactly, avoiding bias all these issues exactly. And then also at the top, what does it mean for the types of literacy, digital literacy we need to have as users to be able really to use these technologies to the benefit of our societies. So lots of channel inches, I think it's fair to say we're relatively early stage. It's a learning process yet the technology is developing rapidly and the hope is that through our work and also the gathering here in Geneva we can have a productive exchange of what do we know, what are the unknowns yet and how can we work together to really embrace what I think is pretty much a revolution ahead and use it for the good and avoid some of the pitfalls. Yes, I was going to ask you here about the gathering here in Geneva obviously what are the chances that the regulators are going to be able to get up to speed quickly enough I mean we're talking about here new regulatory frontiers is the byword for this particular conference and obviously as I say there's a lot of emerging technologies here, a lot of technologies that are fast advancing. Are they going to have to have technologists working with them side by side in order to be able to regulate and to be able to develop policies that make any sense at all? Absolutely, I mean you hit on one of our core recommendations to experiment with new ways in which policymakers can bring in technological experts. Now this is not entirely new to be fair. So there is precedent and there are experiences how to do that well but also as you point out the speed and scale by which the learning has to happen is a very different game and if you look at our world and decision making among public policymakers it's not well known for speed right now which occasionally is also a good thing but that's one of the key challenges. How do we synchronize some sort of the speed of advancement in technology with the speed of being smart about regulation that to be sure also supports and enables the innovation but yet also addresses some of these fundamental challenges including inclusion that I mentioned before. You mentioned learning from the past to be able to regulate for the future but I mean how can you compare let's say a steam train with an autonomous vehicle because there are so many variables I think within that as opposed to something which is running along very straight tracks. Yeah that's a big discussion actually still in the community as to what extent is AI really different from previous technologies and my personal assessment is it really depends on the altitude like if you take a very high altitude well it looks like yes a new technology we know how to deal with new technologies but if you go a little bit down and have a finer granularity I think it's pretty different from previous technologies and I think the most important one is perhaps not so much in the technology itself but really how the technology will be used by humans and what I mean is you see some sort of a gradual shift in autonomy decisions that were previously made by humans are now moving towards the machine and that the extent to which the scale at which this is going to happen I think that's unprecedented and therefore we are really only at the beginning of all of this so this will keep us busy for a while. Absolutely we'll need to keep our eyes and ears open we hope to catch up with you again in the future hopefully one which won't just be me as an AI speaking to you. I hope not, I hope not. And that's another topic altogether but thank you very much indeed for being with us in the studio today. Thank you my pleasure. And do join us on the ITU YouTube channel and the ITU SoundCloud channel and our social media to catch up with all other footage and information and podcasts and other videos that we're producing on the subject. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you.


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with you. I also curate the awards for the Indian Digital Media Marketing Awards and of course the Maddys and of course the News Broadcasting Awards and a couple of others but whenever it comes to website we always have a dearth of creative people so I don't know what it is considering the fact that digital and mobile and all of that is really a burgeoning industry and so much innovation happening but what really becomes of the basic factors as far as websites are concerned because juries always flummoxed with the kind of entries that come in nonetheless we're moving on to our next category which is channel media strategy let's find out who the shortlisted nominees are. This category we are looking at use of social media we were trying to understand and establish clearly which brand or which company has used social in a great innovative way for any of its campaigns or objectives. So I mean of course almost every brand does social these days and every campaign also has a social leg to it. It was important for us to clearly establish if the campaign was tailor made for social or had big legs on social where a critical pass of the entire strategy rested on social so that's where one of the one of the campaigns one of the ideas in the one of the contestants in the category had a piece which was carried over entirely through social and when we're talking social we don't just mean one-way communication we don't just mean posting a video on the Facebook page we do mean a two-way communication a campaign which gathers space with more people coming in and giving impetus to it. So that's what that's what the winning entry had and that's what we were looking for actually. So there is no silver or bronze trophy to be given away in this particular sub category let's find out who the highest medal goes to.


Hi everyone, I'm Brian DeMers and today I'm going to show you how to build a Maven plugin. I'm going to use IntelliJ but you can use your favorite IDE. I also have a blog post for this example if you'd like to read that instead and cut and paste the code. There's also a GitHub link in that post, you can check that out as well. So first up I'm going to create a new IntelliJ project and it's just a basic Maven project and I'm going to use Java 1.8 and I'm going to call the group ID com to octa.example and the artifact ID is important. The structure is going to be some identifier. I'm going to say example dash Maven plugin and it's the dash Maven plugin at the end. That's the important part. I'm going to clean up this directory name a little bit to keep it the same as the artifact ID and I've built this a few times so I'm going to give it a new directory. This is your pretty standard Maven project creation screen. Nothing new yet. So here we go. So we have a basic empty Maven projects and I'm going to enable auto imports because I'm going to change some of the palm information and I'm going to add some other standard attributes.  In my case this is the example Maven plugin and an even simpler description. I'm also going to define some common properties. So I'm telling the source and the target of the compiler to be Java 1.8 and I'm setting the encoding to UTF-8. So next up I'm going to define a dependency block and I'm going to define my dependencies. In my case I'm using the Maven plugin API because I'm building a plugin. Maven core is also pretty standard and then I'm also defining the plugin annotations. These all have a scope of provided.  The last thing I need to do is add some plugins. Since I've already defined this project as a Maven plugin I just need to tweak a few of the versions of the plugins that I'm using. So the Maven plugin plugin is the Maven plugin that builds plugins. How about that for a mouthful? So I'm going to bump the version to 3.6 and I'm also adding the site plugin here while I'm here. So that's it. So just a few simple dependencies, a few simple plugin tweaks and again I'm using plugin management here because the plugins and the goals that are used are already defined based on the project type which I forgot which is packaging Maven plugin. That is important. So next up I'm going to create a new package. I'm going to call it com to octa example, a class. So I'm going to call mine the git version mojo. So a mojo is a Maven term, a Maven plain old Java object just the same as your pojo. So I'm going to extend an abstract mojo and it's going to make me implement one method which is execute. So that's where all the logic for my plugin is going to go. So I could do something incredibly basic right now, get log, info, cool, a Maven plugin. Alright so this is almost done but I need to add an annotation to this class. So Maven knows it's a mojo. So I'm going to call mine version. So the mojo name is the name of a goal, a plugin typically consists of one or more goals and each goal runs at some phase during the life cycle. In my case I'm just executing command in the command line. So I want to do this early on in the Maven life cycle. So I'm going to say it's initialize. And we also need to provide Java doc. And obviously that's important everywhere but in our case it'll get used for the documentation later on. So I'm going to cheat and spit out some preform out of doc. So that's it. So I could run this right now and it'll spit out this bit of text. So let's do that. So first I need to build the plugin. So Maven install, great. And then I'm going to execute the plugin. So plugins are executed with the standard format of group ID which in our case is com to octa.example. Then artifact ID which is example Maven plugin. And then the goal name which in our case is version. So there we go. Cool. A Maven plugin. That's not much more useful than a hello world example. So let's let's add something useful to our plugin. So back in our mojo class, I'm going to define some parameters. So first up, I'm going to say I have a string called command, oops, string command. And we're going to find this as a parameter. I'm going to give it a property name of git.command. And then the default value, we're going to say it's git rev parse short head. Not overly complicated. But what this is doing is this is saying this command is a parameter. You can either pass it in through the command line with a dash D git.command notation, or you can use it in an XML file just by using command. And the default value, if you don't specify one is going to be this, this git rev parse. One more thing, I'm also going to inject the Maven project itself. So private Maven project, Maven project, let's just call this project. I'm also going to annotate this field with a parameter and its property is project. And it is read only. So we're also missing some Java doc. So let's add that as well. This is the command used to get current revision easy enough. So now that we have a command, let's do something with it. So I have something ready to go. So I have this method called git version, which takes a command and just executes that with a Java runtime. So just executes it, captures the output and returns it as a string. So from our plugin, we can do string version equals git version command. And then we can use the Maven project. We're going to get all the properties and then we're going to add a new one. So we're going to put example version, and we're going to set the version right here. And I'm also going to print something useful to the log, which is git hash version. All right. So that's our quick Maven plugin. So I'm going to build this again and then run it. All right. So let's run that the same way we did before. Well, this project isn't a Maven repo. So I'm going to git, git init, git add, the palm and the source directory, git commit. Not super excited. Let's do that again. There are. Here's our git hash. Excellent. Now, if I want to change the command of the command line, I could do that with dash d git command equals git rev parse head. And then it will be the longer hash, no longer the short hash. Look at that. Cool. So we have a plugin, everything's crammed into this single class, which is fine for basic examples. But often you want to break up your code into modular chunks to make it easily testable. I'm going to show you how to do that right now. We're just going to pull out this git version method into into a new class and then inject it into our plugin. So we go back to our example package, I'm going to create a new class, a new interface sorry, I'm going to call this version provider, and then I'm just going to lift the method signature from this class here, the mojo itself, keep things nice and simple. And then I'm going to create implementation of this interface. I'm going to call it run time XE version provider. And of course, this implements our version provider. And I'm going to lift this get method right from the mojo itself, paste it over here. So the only thing left to do is annotate our class. So using the standard at inject or JSR 330 annotations, I'm just going to do at named and then at singleton. So if you're a spring fan, this is the equivalent of using the component annotation. So back in our mojo, I need to just inject the version provider using the standard at inject. And then version provider calls version provider, and then fix our new compiler error here. And that's it. So once again, I'm just going to build the plugin and execute it the same way I did before. Sorry, maybe an install. There we go. And then I'm going to execute it once again. There we go. So executed the same, our code is just broken up into chunks. All I had to do is add some standard annotations to my components. And now my execute method is literally just three lines. Very nice. All right, so typically, maybe plugins are defined in your palm dot XML file. So let's create an example that uses our new plugin. So we'll cheat a little and we'll define a new palm right within our project. Oops, new file, put in a director called usage example. Palm dot XML. And I have one ready, I'm going to call this example palm. This is just so you don't have to watch me type all of this. And it's just a simple example palm with a definition of our Maven plugin, the example Maven plugin. And I'm setting the command to a very short hash less, less useful, but it still illustrates the point. And I'm also using this echo Maven plugin to print out the new example version property of defined. This will simply print out the project version is version, which in our case is 1.0 dash snapshot dash, this very useless short hash. So if we run this on the command line, we have MVN package. And we say it's dash F usage example palm. And there we go. So we have the hash as reported in our plugin, right here. And then the echo plugin also uses our new property to print this line. Great. Well, that's cool. So now we have a plugin, we've used the plug in both on the command line directly and in another palm file. So the only thing left to do is to show you how to document your project. So if we go back to the projects that plug in palm file, we're going to add a few things here. So all you really need is a reporting section. So if you use it once again, the Maven plugin plugin and define the report as report, that is all you need. But because we're good developers, I'm also going to add some more metadata to my palm. So let's do to find the organization. So give it the great name of example, Inc. And we'll use this Google search URL. And then I'm also going to use some prereqs, which in our case, I'm going to say the lowest version you should use with this plugin is Maven 3.5. So now if I run the site build, which is just MVN site, this will take a couple seconds because it's building the project and generating a bunch of reports. There's some there's some ways to to speed this up. But that's outside the scope of this video. So it should be almost done here. And then I'll open the page in my favorite browser. So just open target site plugin info, which is the the generated HTML file. And here we go. So we have our name. We have the version. We have the description from our Java doc. We have our Maven version here, which is 3.5, which I just set the example version goal. And that has the information pulled from the annotation and the Java doc. So as you can see, the default value is get rev parse short head. And then the user property, like we used before, was get doc command. So this is one of my favorite things about Maven plugins. All of the documentation generally looks the same. It's really easy to navigate because due to the consistency. That's it. I've showed you how to build a Maven plugin, how to break it up into components and how to generate the documentation. Be sure to check out the description below for the link to the original blog post that has all the code and everything you need to copy and paste this example. If you like this video, click that subscribe button. We have new videos coming out weekly. And check out our blog for even more content. Thank you.


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